周三，一名志愿者在法国兰通（Lanton）一个被火灾和干旱摧毁的地区搬运水桶。
推高 伊朗战争风险
本文由 Raja Abdul-rahim, Vivian Nereim, Ismaeel Naar 和 Thomas Fuller 撰写。
周三在整个中东地区进行的空袭将更多国家卷入了美国与伊朗之间的战争，结束了该地区几天来的相对平静。伊朗向约旦的军事基地以及油轮发射了导弹。美国和沙特阿拉伯的战斗机瞄准了伊拉克境内与伊朗有关的民兵组织。一次明显的无人机袭击还点燃了埃及一个航运枢纽的两艘船只，其中包括一艘美国所有的液化气存储油轮。自本月美国与伊朗之间的停火协议崩溃以来，该地区与伊朗有关的团体开辟了新战线并重启了旧战线，将沙特阿拉伯、伊拉克、黎巴嫩和约旦的军队卷入其中。沙特阿拉伯参与周三的袭击相当于一次升级。此前，该王国一直避免公开成为美国-以色列对抗伊朗战争的直接参战方。（据美国高级官员称，沙特军队曾对伊朗发动过一些报复性袭击，但这些行动是在秘密进行的。）沙特阿拉伯外交部在周三的一份声明中表示，该国并不寻求升级，但将对侵略做出回应。特朗普总统在周三将伊朗对美国在约旦军事基地的袭击描述为一次突袭。美国中央司令部表示，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（伊朗内部反对通过外交妥协结束战争的主要派系）发射了“多枚弹道导弹”，且所有导弹均被拦截。特朗普先生还暗示，美国将很快针对埃及发生的明显无人机袭击而对伊朗采取行动。“我们将狠狠地打击他们，”他在椭圆形办公室告诉记者，“因为现在轮到我们打击他们了。”在交火之后，全球基准布伦特原油和美国基准西德克萨斯中质原油的价格在周三大幅上涨。本周，沙特阿拉伯的石油设施面临数十次无人机袭击。且
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国际 A4-11 日本地震后的救援 特朗普总统要求提供一份由特勤局特工对前联邦调查局（F.B.I.）局长詹姆斯·B·科米（James B. Comey）进行采访的摘要。 第 A15 页
在周二 6.8 级地震后，人员正全力营救被困在坍塌建筑中的人们。 第 A5 页
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乌克兰的袭击导致俄罗斯占领地区的部分城镇连续数日失去电力供应。 第 A4 页
作者：MARK LANDLER 和 CHICO HARLAN
法国， 波尔多 —— 周日，一层浓厚的黄橙色阴霾笼罩在波尔多上空，遮蔽了太阳，模糊了这座法国城市大教堂的尖顶。旋转的微小灰烬颗粒刺痛眼睛，卡在喉咙里。在城镇以西 20 英里处，一场巨大的森林火灾燃烧得如此猛烈，以至于产生了自身的天气系统。 “我们从未见过这样的景象，” 89 岁的罗杰·佩隆（Roger Peuron）说道。他是一位出生在第二次世界大战之前的退休工程师，被逼近的火焰赶出了家门。
一份母亲给女儿的礼物。 一个幼儿最喜欢的安抚奶嘴。
他每天佩戴的眼镜。 他的结婚戒指，与她的戒指一起保存在盒子里。
去年一场致命火灾摧毁了香港的一栋公寓大楼，居民们于今年春季获准返回，在房屋的废墟中搜寻遗物。他们从该建筑群（王福苑）中带回了浸透着对逝去亲人记忆的物品。第 A6 页。
国家 A12-19 特朗普寻求科米笔记 人工智能的未来 取决于能否为体力要求高的 工作找到熟练劳动力。 第 B1 页
疫苗的大规模撤回 一项针对一所学校的调查， 据称杰弗里·爱泼斯坦曾在 那里接触受害者， 揭露了一场更广泛的丑闻。 第 C1 页
“情况将不可避免地 变得更糟”
他可能代表了整个欧洲 数百万人的心声。 贪婪的烈火。灼人的热浪。 怪异的风暴。2026 年的夏季 已经打破了几个欧洲国家的 气象记录。在这个经历了 数世纪动荡（毁灭性的战争、 致命的流行病）的大陆上， 现在是天气本身让欧——
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商业 B1-6 人工智能寻求技术工人 在纽约的 IMAX 70 毫米电影院， 这部热门电影的需求量极高， 甚至在凌晨 2 点和 6 点也是如此。 第 D1 页
体育 B7-10 在痛苦中寻找意义
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——洲感到接近崩溃的边缘。 在法国和西班牙，这已导致 超过 300,000 人流离失所。 这两个国家现代史上规模最大的 火灾导致了和平时期最大规模的 撤离，村庄被毁，数十万英亩 土地被焚毁。这让数百万人 更加渴望从经常飙升至 40 摄氏度 （或 104 华氏度）的高温中 获得解脱。它迫使音乐会和 节日取消，缩减了环法自行车 赛的最后阶段，并关闭了 卢浮宫博物馆和埃菲尔铁塔。
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投票维持 利率不变
在战争与关税之中
作者：科尔比·史密斯 (COLBY SMITH)
尽管在五年地未能达成央行 2 份目标后，政策制定者之间对于采取更直接手段应对通胀的分歧日益增加，但联邦储备委员会 (美联储) 周三仍维持利率不变。美联储以 9-3 的投票结果决定将利率维持在 3.5 至 3.75 份，这一水平自 1 月起一直维持不变。三名持有异议的成员投票支持加息 0.25 个百分点。这些分歧凸显了美联储及其主席凯文·沃什 (Kevin M. Warsh) 陷入的困境，因为他们正努力应对新的价格压力源，而这些压力威胁到将使一个复杂且长期的通胀问题进一步恶化。
由于伊朗战争处于微妙的僵局，油价在近日剧烈波动。一项旨在结束冲突并重新开放霍尔木兹海峡（全球能源市场至关重要的航运通道）的协议依然遥遥无期。特朗普总统在美联储做出决定后对记者发表讲话，暗示战斗远未结束。他表示，美国将对伊朗发动新一轮攻击。“轮到我们了，”他说道，并承诺将“沉重打击他们”。
战争并非美联储在应对的唯一供应冲击。特朗普先生正在增加新关税，且劳动力市场仍在消化他所实施的广泛移民限制。官员们还在处理与人工智能投资激增相关的产品需求旺盛的问题。供应尚未跟上，导致半导体、计算机芯片和服务器等产品的价格上涨，同时对电工和木工的需求也很高。
美联储内部的争论集中在：随着这些临时因素部分消失，通胀将从此处以多快的速度缓解，以及为了让通胀回归目标，最终是否需要加息。主持其作为央行主席第二次会议的沃什先生对此结果负责。自 5 月接替现任美联储理事杰罗姆·鲍威尔 (Jerome H. Powell) 掌舵以来，沃什先生将自己的名誉押在战胜通胀上。他明确表示，官员们对高通胀“零容忍”，且 6 月份最新消费者价格指数 (CPI) 报告中显示的冷却迹象并不意味着“任务完成”——
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也让自己成为了受害者
在德国联邦议院发表的一场简短演讲进行到一半时，张亚波 (Zhang Yabo) 开始哽咽。张先生曾在新疆担任了 9 年警察，是中国在该地区对维吾尔族人口进行监视、拘留和洗脑运动的执行者。在该运动的高峰期，据估计有 100 万名维吾尔人和其他穆斯林少数民族被关进拘留营。成千上万的警察在新疆执行中国的国家压迫，但张先生是一个罕见的敢于发声的人。 6 月，他在德国立法者和人权活动家面前，将新疆描述为一个巨大的监狱——
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周四时尚版 D1-6 非寻常时间的《奥德赛》 音乐剧《春之觉醒》复排的创意团队正通过公开试镜来填补角色。 C1 页
SoHo 区的卓越之选
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随着福西援引 宪法第五修正案
保罗威胁将 其视为藐视议会 随着纠葛持续
作者：SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
华盛顿 —— 安东尼·福西博士周三拒绝回答参议院委员会的提问，在由敌对的共和党人主导的小组面前，他多次援引宪法赋予他的不自证其罪的权利。共和党人指责他导致了冠状病毒大流行，并暗示他在美国人死去时中饱私囊。
“在法律顾问的建议下，基于我根据宪法第五修正案所享有的权利，我礼貌地拒绝回答，”福西博士在参议院国土安全委员会近三小时的听证会期间，重复了近 100 次这句话。
这次听证会部分像华盛顿的政治剧场，部分像政治罗夏墨迹测试，凸显了围绕福西博士的深刻党派分歧。福西博士曾担任政府最高传染病专家近 40 年，曾为两党总统提供建议，并赢得了两党的尊重，直到他遏制新冠肺炎传播的努力使他成为一个极具争议的人物。
听证会结束时，该小组主席参议员兰德·保罗宣布，委员会将在下周投票决定是否认定福西博士藐视国会，他主张福西博士无权获得第五修正案的保护。
“他的行为是否导致了历史上最大规模的人为瘟疫？”保罗先生在会议结束时问道。“是否因为他的实验而导致数百万人死亡？”福西博士在警察的陪同下，面无表情地离开了房间。
民主党人赞扬福西博士数十年的公共服务，并发表了谴责性的演讲。
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被一面“铁壁”围困。“那道墙不仅囚禁了无数无辜的维吾尔人，”他说，“还囚禁了那些被命令执行禁闭的人的灵魂。”
张先生讲述了参与中国安全机构的压力：无休止的轮班、在办公室睡觉以及对惩罚的持续恐惧。他说，在去年夏天他向德国申请庇护后，中国当局冻结了他的银行账户，称他为叛徒并骚扰他的家人。
他后来告诉我，演讲结束时，他像个“孩子”一样抽泣。他匆忙离开了房间，没有回来。
“他一直承受的所有压力、所有恐惧、所有情绪”似乎……
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以及气候变化的威胁。
作者：克莱尔·布朗 (CLAIRE BROWN)
美国正经历着有记录以来规模最大的环孢子菌病爆发。数千人（其中许多在中西部地区）因胃痉挛和严重腹泻而病倒。当局已将这些食源性疾病与在部分 Taco Bell 门店供应的墨西哥种植生菜联系起来。我在健康版块的同事一直在报道追踪这次爆发源头的进程，而这件事最近出现了转折。7 月 18，美国食品药品监督管理局 (FDA) 宣布，实验室检测已确认来自墨西哥的冰山生菜中存在环孢子菌污染。运营该业务的公司 Taylor Farms 根据其他流行病学证据发布了召回通知，并在实验室检测结果出炉后扩大了召回范围。但随后一天，FDA 表示该检测结果为假阳性。Taylor Farms 仍是调查的重点，召回指令依然有效。
目前尚不清楚气候变化是否在这次爆发中起到了作用。环孢子菌是一种通过人类粪便传播的寄生虫，调查人员很难精确锁定污染源。但专家表示，气候变暖很可能导致环孢子菌疾病增加。罗格斯大学的食品微生物学家唐·沙夫纳 (Don Schaffner) 告诉我，环孢子菌倾向于在春夏季生长，因此更高的温度可能会延长其生长季。在之前的环孢子菌爆发中，调查人员推测，强降雨可能导致人类废物渗入灌溉水，从而污染农作物。无论这次爆发是否与气候变化直接相关，我们都知道，变暖预计将助长多种食源性病原体的传播。而且，在对食品供应进行准确监测的需求日益增加的时刻，此次事件暴露了公共卫生检测系统潜在的脆弱性。
更高温度，更多疾病 根据世界卫生组织的数据，每年约有 600 million 人因食用被细菌、寄生虫或病毒污染的食物而生病。科学家预测，气候变化将导致世界许多地区的病例数进一步上升。 温度升高和降雨增加往往与沙门氏菌和弯曲杆菌等病原体引起的疾病增加相关。部分原因是病菌在较热的天气中繁殖速度更快。一项 2014 年的研究发现，在密西西比州，温度每升高 1 华氏度，沙门氏菌病例数就会随之增加。 海洋变暖也构成了新兴的食品安全风险。一项 2024 年的论文发现，气候变化“不可否认地”导致了一个家族的扩散和流行
一名美国公民删除了手机数据。现在他面临重罪指控。在亚特兰大的海关搜查期间，一名返回该国的美国公民向没收其手机的官员提供了一个胁迫密码（duress passcode），该密码激活了擦除设备数字内容的软件。联邦检察官已指控该男子塞缪尔·图尼克（Samuel Tunick）妨碍公务。Adeel Hassan 报道称，图尼克先生的律师认为他之所以被针对，是因为他的政治活动。
人工智能公司正成千上万地招募电工和木工。美国历史上没有任何事件能与当前数据中心建设的繁荣相媲美。在资金功能上几乎无限的公司推动下，这些巨型项目正以该行业有史以来最高的一系列薪资和奖金，吸引电工和承包商等技术工人前往偏远地区。
马特·达蒙（Matt Damon）在《奥德赛》（Odyssey）那场打斗戏中的二头肌？其实是她的。有些人可能会惊讶地发现，在夏季大片《奥德赛》中，马特·达蒙的特技替身是一位身高 4 英尺 6 英寸的女性——这位男主角赞誉她拥有“我见过的最强手臂”。时尚记者 Alisha Haridasani Gupta 采访了特技演员德文·道尔顿（Devyn Dalton）关于她的工作情况。
专家希望你在中年时期做的 9 件事以增加寿命。心血管疾病、糖尿病、癌症和痴呆症等与年龄相关的疾病之种子是在中年——大致定义为 40 到 60 岁——播下的，因此尽早考虑预防至关重要。Well 的实用习惯清单包括举重和社交。
环孢子虫（cyclospora）疫情被认为与泰勒农场（Taylor Farms）在墨西哥中部的销售生菜有关。
这种被称为弧菌（Vibrio）的细菌，其中最臭名昭著的是食人菌（Vibrio vulnificus）。人们可以通过食用生海鲜或在受污染的水中游泳而感染弧菌。 干燥的夏季和强降雨也分别可能增加病原体的传播。在干旱期间，更多的灰尘会在空气中飘浮，将细菌传播到农场。另一方面，暴雨通过将人类和动物的废物从一个地方传播到另一个地方来分布病菌。受气候变化影响而增强的热带风暴与大肠杆菌（E. coli）感染的大幅增加相关。
对公共健康的担忧
美国食品药品监督管理局（F.D.A.）撤回一项阳性实验室检测公告的情况极其罕见。沙夫纳（Schaffner）博士表示，该机构可能在完成确认检测之前就过早地发表了声明。 “现在他们尴尬极了（egg on their face），而且没人开心，”他说。 在一份声明中，F.D.A. 发言人艾米莉·希利亚德（Emily Hilliard）表示，特朗普政府已对此次疫情采取了强有力的应对措施，并为美国人提供了保护自己的必要信息。
每周一次，在这个版块中，我们将为您带来一个变暖世界的资讯和洞察。 请在 nytimes.com/climateforward 订阅 Climate Forward 通讯。
但这种反复无常让试图了解应避免哪些食物的人感到困惑。撤回并不意味着调查重点已从泰勒农场或生菜转移，但该公司发表声明称“F.D.A. 向我们道歉了”。据新闻报道，该机构表示其并未道歉。 联邦政府削减卫生资金可能在阻碍此次疫情响应中发挥了作用。依赖联邦支持来监测和应对食源性疾病的州和地方卫生部门今年收到的资金不到其申请金额的一半。 直到最近，几个州仍被要求将环孢子虫病例追踪并报告给国家数据库。但去年，疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）将此改为自愿性质。不完整的数据可能使得监测数据库的官员更难识别疫情。
1987年7月30日。据《泰晤士报》刊载的一篇路透社文章，六名男子因在切尔诺贝利核电站灾难中违反安全规定而被判定有罪。1986年4月26日，位于乌克兰北部的该电站（当时属于苏联）的一个反应堆发生爆炸，向大气中释放了大量辐射，导致随后数周内数万人撤离，并造成至少 30 人死亡。电站厂长维克多·P·布留哈诺夫 (Viktor P. Bryukhanov) 及其两名助手 each 被判处 10 年劳改营有期徒刑；另外三名官员被判处较短的刑期。其中部分人员因病以及苏联解体而提前获释。事故发生四十年后，电站周围约 19 英里的禁区仍被认为不适合人类居住。
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美国立法者今年已提出了至少 400 项与疫苗相关的法案，其中 209 项旨在削弱疫苗接种规定或体系，或破坏公众对疫苗的信任。
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alice Waters 于 1971 年开设了这家原初餐厅。Chez Panisse 改变了美国饮食，尽管当你面对四道菜的固定菜单时，其山羊奶酪舒芙蕾现在看来可能显得甜美而过时。
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N.H.L. 在其 109 年的历史中仅有一位黑人主教练：Dirk Graham 于 1998 年 6 月接任芝加哥黑鹰队（Chicago Blackhawks）的教练工作。他在被解雇前执教了 59 场比赛。
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在《宽阔的原野》（Wuthering Heights）首映礼上，Margot Robbie 佩戴了卡地亚（Cartier）的泰姬陵钻石项链。这颗宝石曾属于莫卧儿帝国皇帝沙贾汉（Shah Jahan），他下令建造了泰姬陵。
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Paramount Records 是负责蓝调歌手 Ma Rainey 绝大部分录音作品的厂牌，该公司生产唱片是为了销售留声机，几乎不考虑音频质量，将其压制在廉价的虫胶唱片上。
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根据 Indeed 的一项分析，数据中心的每小时安装和维护工作的薪资比其他领域的类似工作高出 42%。
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乌克兰对克里米亚电网的无人机袭击导致俄罗斯控制领土内的数十万人失去电力。7 月初，克里米亚全境的夜间照明下降到正常水平的 20% 以下。
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读者角落 回应与回复
早报通讯团队经常征集读者关于新闻的问题，然后寻找能够解答这些问题的《时报》领域记者。以下是科学记者 Katrina Miller 关于太空旅行未来的编辑后回复。
我们几十年前就登上了月球。为什么现在再次登月并不容易？为什么我们要重新发明轮子？—— LINDA HOZA，佛罗里达州，湖林牧场（LAKEWOOD RANCH, FLA.）
KATRINA MILLER 主要问题是资金。美国国家航空航天局 (NASA) 正尝试派遣人类重返月球——这一次是为了长期停留——而成本仅为阿波罗计划的一小部分。 当时，NASA 的开发方法——
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加州伯克利 Chez Panisse 的糕点师。这家从农场到餐桌的餐厅于 1971 年开业。
《时报》首席餐厅评论家 Tejal Rao 最近在 Chez Panisse 用餐，这是北加州一家从农场到餐桌的标志性餐厅，重新定义了美国餐饮界。在她的评论中，Rao 女士将那里的一顿饭描述为“美妙地超越时间，且奇怪地停留在时间之中”。她在下方分享了她的报道笔记，包括对该餐厅扩建部分的访问。
距离我上次在加州伯克利的 Chez Panisse 用餐已经过了几年，那是美国最具影响力的餐厅之一。当我听说它在隔壁开设新店进行扩张时，我很想再次光顾。
请在 nytimes.com/food 阅读 Rao 女士的评论。
提供帮助 夏季珠宝护理指南
珠宝能帮我们提升夏季的衣橱造型，但这个季节也让珠宝面临风险。美国珠宝商协会 (Jewelers of America) 的珠宝专家兼发言人 Amanda Gizzi 表示，防晒霜、沙子、盐水、氯、高温和汗水很容易使你的珠宝失去光泽、产生刮痕甚至损坏。但如果你照顾好你的珠宝——尤其是在海滩度过漫长的一天或经历大汗淋漓的冒险之后——你可以延长它们的使用寿命。以下是专家推荐的夏季护理方法。FRANCES SOLÁ-SANTIAGO
了解你的珠宝。没有哪件珠宝是真正绝对适合夏季的，但风险程度取决于其材质。由 14-karat 金（及以上）、坚硬宝石（如钻石、蓝宝石和黄钻/黄玉）以及 {sterling silver} 纯银制成的珠宝，在抵御夏季磨损方面是最稳妥的选择。这是因为它们材质坚韧，不易受空气和水分等因素的影响。 镀金/镀银珠宝——由黄铜或铜等基底金属制成，表面覆盖一层薄薄的金或银层——不建议在夏季佩戴，因为它们很容易被刮花并失去光泽。
尽量减少与夏季“元凶”的接触。无论是 $5 的镀金项链还是传家宝般的钻石戒指，所有珠宝都容易受到磨损。认证宝石学家兼珠宝设计师 McKenzie Santimer 表示，防晒霜和氯等具有磨蚀性的夏季元素会在金属和宝石上留下化学残留物，并且它们可能会渗入难以清理的缝隙中，如搭扣和链环。 Gizzi 女士表示，积聚物会导致表面失去光泽和变色，如果不及时处理，随着时间的推移可能会导致不可修复的褪色。为了降低损坏风险，请尽量限制珠宝与潜在有害物质及场景的接触。
研发适用于月球着陆的火箭和飞行器费用昂贵且由联邦政府控制。现在，该机构更多地依赖 SpaceX 和蓝色起源 (Blue Origin) 来完成大部分工作。这样做成本更低，但波动性也更大。美国国家航空航天局 (NASA) 对设计和时间表的控制力较弱，其登月愿景取决于这些公司是否能兑现某些人认为过于宏大的承诺。
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Bar Panisse 使用相同的食材，但在某些方面，它的技术野心较低（正如其名，它是一家酒吧！）。房间布置简朴随意，菜单简短，每道菜的成分通常很少。
Gizzi 还建议采用“最后戴上，最先摘下”的方法：珠宝应该是你出门前最后一件佩戴的物品，也是你到家后第一件摘下的物品。
养成清理珠宝的习惯。无论你如何保护，如果在夏季佩戴，珠宝可能都需要额外的护理。对于日常维护，摘下珠宝后立即用抛光布擦拭。Santimer 女士表示，如果珠宝接触了过多的汗水或大量防晒霜，或者你在海洋或泳池中度过了数小时，你应该用清水冲洗珠宝。然后将其平放晾干。 对于经常佩戴的珠宝，Gizzi 女士建议每周进行一次深层清洁。首先，将珠宝浸在水和洗洁精的溶液中几分钟；然后，用牙刷轻轻刷洗并用水冲净。对于镀金/镀银和纯银珠宝，请使用纤维素海绵或马毛刷，这些工具对这些表面更加温和。
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令许多居民惶恐 并切断供水
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干涸的水龙头、紧闭的店门、漆黑的房屋，以及在市政厅外露营为设备充电的居民。一场针对克里米亚电网的乌克兰无人机攻势，导致在俄罗斯控制的该领土内，成千上万的人一次性失去了数日的电力供应。“电停了就再也没回来，哪怕一小时也没有，”住在克里米亚北部的奥尔加说道，她与丈夫和婴儿一起生活，这种情况持续了 15 天。他们经常同样没有自来水。“当局已经忘记了我们，这一点显而易见，”她在电话中说道。与本报道采访的其他受访者一样，出于安全原因，她要求隐去姓氏。
在克里米亚（俄罗斯在 2014, 年从乌克兰夺取的黑海半岛）针对能源基础设施的袭击，镜像了俄罗斯多年来针对乌克兰平民能源系统规模大得多的空中袭击，后者导致数百万乌克兰人在每个冬天失去灯光或暖气。打击克里米亚的电网——就像乌克兰袭击炼油厂导致俄罗斯出现燃料短缺一样——旨在增加克里姆林宫谈判和平协议的压力。
但俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·V·普京在公开场合并未承认停电情况。这场密集的乌克兰攻势始于 6 月，主要针对克里米亚北部的俄罗斯军事基地附近的基础设施，该地区与俄罗斯自 2022 年全面入侵以来占领的乌克兰土地接壤。到 7 月下旬，半岛北部的每个主要城镇和村庄都经历了全面停电。但据报道，整个半岛都出现了难以预测的、长达数小时的断电。每个市辖区都受到了影响，甚至在旅游业发达的克里米亚南部也是如此。
停电导致水泵停摆，即便是在受影响较小地区——如南部度假城市雅尔塔，居民也表示自来水每天仅供应三小时。克里米亚官员并未公布停电的具体程度，仅向居民保证他们正在处理。但一名俄罗斯高层外交官告诉国家所有的塔斯社（Tass）通讯社，在单周内，乌克兰的袭击就切断了 1.4 百万克里米亚人的家庭电力，而战前人口为 2.5 million。
根据俄语新闻媒体 Meduza 对卫星图像的分析，7 月初，整个克里米亚的夜间照明度下降到正常水平的 20% 以下。
“人们意识到这不只是停一两天电的问题，”来自克里米亚中部的理发师鲁斯滕说道。他说人们正试图购买发电机、太阳能电池板和电源转换器。他补充道，当地人也“开始考虑是否到了离开的时候，如果离开，又该去哪里”。
许多家庭难以与北部的亲人保持联系，因为那里的停电导致手机信号瘫痪。度假小镇叶夫帕托里亚的当局上周表示，他们安装了公用电话，那是另一个 era. 的产物。
已经在严重的汽油短缺中感到惶恐的一些游客和克里米亚居民选择在今年夏天早些时候离开半岛。但大多数人留了下来。奥尔加，那位与丈夫和孩子住在克里米亚北部的女性，于 2021 年定居在詹科伊镇，她认为自己无法承受另一次大规模搬迁。詹科伊在 6 月底首次陷入黑暗，但电力很快部分恢复。一周后，乌克兰的袭击击中了两个当地的电
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变电站，导致了 15 天的停电。周二，居民们开始每天获得两小时的电力，但电压很高，这对电器来说可能很危险。
24 岁的 Olga 认为自己很幸运，因为她的家人住在乡村小屋而非公寓，可以使用发电机。但发电机无法带动冰箱，限制了食物的选择。她的丈夫通过桥梁长途跋涉前往俄罗斯南部，为发电机购买更便宜的汽油，但运行五小时的发电机费用约为 $20，这对俄罗斯人来说是一笔沉重的开支。
Olga 表示，她仍然期待当局能胜任这项任务，但她也提到了一个大多数俄罗斯人不敢触及的话题。她说，人们不仅需要恢复基本服务，还需要“战争结束”。
即使在克里米亚中部，停电情况较不严重的地方，火车站也关闭了。许多商店也同样如此，门上贴着“没电”的告示。超市货架上的商品并不充足。
停电发生在 Rustem 为顾客理发的中途。但他说，凭借剪刀和电池驱动的剃须刀，“只要窗外有日光，我就没问题”。
克里米亚居民表示，他们认识一些在北部停产工厂中失业或被强制休假的人。官员们承诺向旅游相关企业提供一些经济补偿，但未对工厂关闭的报道发表评论。
乌克兰官员表示，他们袭击克里米亚是为了削弱俄罗斯的军事能力。总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基在上个月的一次演讲中表示，他希望克里米亚人能理解乌克兰的目标并非他们。
但乌克兰无人机部队指挥官 Robert Brovdi 在上周三的一份声明中吹嘘道，要“关闭克里米亚的开关”。他说，在 7 月的前三周，乌克兰在那里击中了 117 个能源基础设施目标。
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克里米亚对这次危机的准备极其不足。在停电的第四周，当地官员仍在承诺为每家医院配备一台发电机。
俄罗斯向停电超过 48 小时的居民提供一次性支付 15,000 卢布（约 $190），但这甚至无法覆盖购买和运行一台小型发电机的成本。
但在克里米亚之外，俄罗斯人可能完全不知道这场危机。国家电视台避免播放停电地区的画面，并坚持认为当地的所有需求都得到了满足。
生活方式博主们发布克里米亚海滩和日落的田园诗般视频，以反击他们所称的乌克兰宣传。
在普京先生本月与高级官员举行的一次会议上，讨论触及了向克里米亚供应燃料的问题，但未提及前一晚导致北部陷入黑暗的无人机袭击。
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本月在克里米亚的叶夫帕托里亚停电期间使用手电筒指路。左图为乌克兰武装部队在该国南部发射的攻击无人机。
研究电视宣传的流亡俄罗斯记者 Ilya Shepelin 表示，向公众揭露问题的全面规模，意味着承认一个克里姆林宫不希望普通俄罗斯人看到的弱点。但在网上，一些克里米亚人一直在发声，在克里姆林宫任命的克里米亚负责人谢尔盖·阿克肖诺夫 (Sergei Aksyonov) 的社交媒体上刷屏，发表表达挫败感的评论。来自克里米亚南部的男子 Alexei 质疑电网怎么可能如此毫无防备，并表示在通信中断的情况下他“不知道该如何继续生活”。他在接受《纽约时报》采访时确认了这些言论，但表示不敢说更多。最近，一名企业主在社交媒体上发出求救信号，请求朋友和同事帮助向北部运送饮用水。协调水资源运送的 Olga Gerasimenko 发布了一段来自
周四对詹科伊（Dzhankoi）的访问显示，数百人（其中大多数是老年人）正在排队领取援助。在来自北部的一份罕见报道中，国有的克里米亚Vesti电视台上周末地播出了数十名妇女和儿童坐在克拉斯诺佩列科普斯克（Krasnoperekopsk）市政大楼草坪上的画面，他们连接着手机和充电宝，通过一台发电机为其充电。报道中并未提到饮用水短缺的问题。“所有这些问题都没有吓退习惯了乌克兰挑衅的克里米亚人，”广播中这样说道。但否认主义是有极限的。在北部完全停电一周后，南部一个由俄罗斯主要国有银行拥有的豪华海滨度假村举办了一场奢华派对，数千名盛装的狂欢者在巨大的LED屏幕、钢管舞者和烟花的陪伴下庆祝。当地居民亚历山德拉·莫罗兹（Alexandra Moroz）在社交媒体上写道，游客们被“从我们腐朽的现在瞬间转移到了童话世界”。随后，一次无人机袭击中断了庆祝活动，导致宾客们抓着手中的饮料，匆忙地逃进地下室。
东京 —— 周二，一次 6.8 级强震袭击了日本西南部的熊本县，造成至少 13 人死亡。周三，日本救援人员紧急赶赴现场，营救被困在坍塌建筑中的人员。随着 200 多次余震继续摇晃日本最南端的主岛九州，救援队伍正努力寻找被困在部分坍塌结构中的人员。其中包括熊本的一家购物中心和一家造纸厂。消防响应团队和警方与 4,600 名军方人员共同参与救援工作。
截至周三下午，已有 10 人从受损严重的购物中心中被救出。据熊本县灾害对策部门官员称，在这组人员中，三人被确认死亡，一人处于心肺停止状态，另有五人受轻伤。在确认法医判定死亡之前，“心肺停止”是日本经常使用的一个术语。据运营该购物中心的永旺（Aeon）公司称，三名购物中心员工的下落尚未确认。
熊本县官员表示，在造纸厂，由于剧烈震动导致烟囱坍塌，有 11 人被困。截至周三下午，五人死亡，两人受伤，四人仍然失踪。
“艰苦的救援行动仍在进行中，”熊本县知事木村隆（Takashi Kimura）在周三的一次灾害会议上表示。“由于情况依然难以预测，我们打算采取一切可能的措施。”
高市早苗（Sanae Takaichi）首相周三告诉记者，地震相关的累计死亡人数已达到 13 人。在简短的发言中，高市女士向遇难者家属表示哀悼，并对“彻夜不懈工作”的救援团队表示感谢。
“仍有人在等待救援，我们正在与时间赛跑，”她说。
周二的地震勾起了人们对十年前熊本一系列地震的痛苦回忆，那次地震造成 270 多人死亡，数千人受伤。在 2016 年的地震之后，熊本的八代宫（Yatsushiro-gu Shrine）大约花了五年时间才重建完成。
“在那次地震十年后，熊本的人们‘正想着恢复进程进入了最后阶段，结果这件事发生了’，”该神社的高级祭司、49 岁的竹原正贵（Masataka Takehara）说。“老实说，我当时的感觉就是：‘等等，为什么？’”
竹原先生描述说，周二下午，他听到地下传来深沉的轰鸣声，随后神社后勤办公室的书架开始倾倒。就在他走出建筑的一瞬间，神社的主礼拜堂开始摇晃，随后坍塌。
竹原先生说，当地居民周三依然来到神社祈祷。第一个到达的人“显然非常激动——眼中含泪，说不出话来，”他说。“我感同身受”
作者：爱德华·王 (EDWARD WONG) 以及 艾玛·布博拉 (EMMA BUBOLA)
乌拉圭，蒙得维多 —— 作为其反移民行动的一部分，特朗普政府已经驱逐了数千名古巴人，将其中一些人送往墨西哥甚至非洲国家，另一些则送回古巴。 现在，美国官员即将确定一个新目的地：乌拉圭。这个南美洲第二小的国家已经拥有相对庞大的古巴移民群体。 据两国官员透露，在古巴移民之子、国务卿马可·鲁比奥的领导下，美国国务院数月来一直与乌拉圭外交部讨论该提议。 一名乌拉圭高级官员表示，乌拉圭参与谈判的部分原因是其需要移民劳工，部分原因是为了赢得特朗普政府的好感。 但就在美国寻找愿意接收古巴人的国家时，它也在恶化那些最初迫使许多古巴人逃离家园的环境。 近几个月来，特朗普政府的经济施压活动封锁了向这个加勒比岛国运输石油的航线，而该岛国此前已因美国多年的制裁及其威权领导者的治理不善而遭受重创。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 国务卿马可·鲁比奥，古巴移民之子，支持总统特朗普的移民政策。
鲁比奥先生表示，美国对距离佛罗里达州 90 英里的古巴有诸多担忧，包括“大规模迁徙的威胁”。 他在上周随行前往马尼拉的记者面前表示，当一个国家像古巴那样深度不稳定时，这“始终是一个面临的风险”。 在乌拉圭，政府寻求将古巴移民合法化，以便他们能找到工作机会并获得社会服务。许多人最初申请的是政治庇护。 官员们表示，一些美国官员认为这有助于确保被驱逐者不会试图返回美国，同时也允许他们生活在古巴境外。 一名官员表示，与乌拉圭签署的书面协议在文本中可能不会具体指明古巴人，但在实践中，他们将成为被驱逐至该国的重点对象。 一名乌拉圭外交部官员表示，一些在美国的古巴人可能在乌拉圭有亲属，两国政府正在讨论家庭团聚的可能性。 与本文采访的其他官员一样，由于讨论敏感谈判，他要求匿名。 古巴政府经常拒绝接收从美国被驱逐的公民，但今年它同意接收几架航班。 特朗普 administration 在 3 月告诉一家联邦法院，它已将 6,000 名古巴人送往墨西哥。
“我自己也有同样的感觉。” 地震的初步死亡人数预计将上升。据熊本府官员称，截至周三下午，有六人在心肺骤停状态，六人受重伤。据公共广播公司 NHK 报道，已有超过 530 人在熊本的主要医院接受或正在接受治疗。 除了动员救援行动外，熊本当地官员还在评估该府内建筑、高速公路、桥梁和历史遗迹的广泛损坏情况。
许多人难以找到工作。该政策还将古巴移民送往非洲，包括原名斯威士兰的埃斯瓦蒂尼，以及饱受战争蹂躏的南苏丹，这些移民在当地被安置在拘留中心。
该政策是特朗普政府的一项广泛推动计划的一部分，旨在寻找愿意接收从美国被驱逐的移民和迁入者的国家。
美国国务院因将一些被驱逐者送往他们毫无联系的遥远国家，或送往有侵犯人权记录的国家而受到批评。
南美洲各国政府一直不愿接收被驱逐者。但巴拉圭去年与美国国务院签署了一项协议，并接收了多国籍的被驱逐者航班。
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（接上文）各国的被驱逐者。厄瓜多尔去年也签署了一项协议，被送往该国的被驱逐者中包括古巴人。
乌拉圭是一个拥有 3.4 million 人口的国家，长期以来一直实行相对开放的移民政策。
“我们有欢迎来自其他国家的人的传统，”该国内政部长卡洛斯·内格罗（Carlos Negro）表示。
他补充说，乌拉圭“诞生于一个移民国家”。大多数乌拉圭人的祖先是来自西班牙和意大利的殖民定居者和移民。
尽管移民权利组织批评特朗普先生的驱逐政策，但一些人表示，对于古巴被驱逐者来说，最终抵达乌拉圭比被送往许多其他国家要好。
今年 3 月，16 年前从古巴移民到乌拉圭的莱迪斯·阿基莱拉（Leydis Aguilera）成为国民议会议员。她描述了自己在乌拉圭受到热烈欢迎的情况，以及她最终如何在当地找到教育和就业机会。
乌拉圭需要扩大其劳动力队伍，以弥补人口规模小且老龄化的问题。公众舆论在很大程度上仍然支持移民，驱逐出境的情况很少见。即使是那些没有签证进入的人，通常也被允许合法居留。
根据联合国统计数据，去年乌拉圭有近 24,000 名来自古巴的寻求庇护者。
美国国务院拒绝就与乌拉圭的谈判发表评论。
“执行特朗普政府的移民政策是国务院的重中之重，”国务院在一份声明中表示。“正如鲁比奥国务卿所言，我们坚定不移地致力于结束非法和大规模移民，并加强美国的边境安全。”
乌拉圭外交部拒绝发表评论。
在冷战的大部分时间里，美国政府欢迎来自共产主义统治下的古巴的人们，并为他们提供了快速获得永久居留权和公民身份的途径。1966 年的《古巴调整法案》迫使历届民主党和共和党政府执行此项政策。
但从克林顿政府开始，美国官员找到了规避或削弱法律要求的方法，试图避免大量移民涌入。
特朗普总统加速了这一进程。他的政府已经……
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作丸清司（Seiji Sakumasu）， 30 岁，在熊本县沿海城市八代市的一家部分坍塌的造纸厂附近经营着一家健身房。
地震发生时，机器倾覆并横向滑过房间，健身房内的镜子全部破碎。
“震动就是那个程度，”
（接下文）作丸先生说。“因为我经历过之前的地震，所以我立刻知道要收拾好东西离开。”尽管如此，他表示仍然担心他的健身房会员，其中好几个人就在邻近的造纸厂工作。
周二地震发生后，
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上图：周二熊本县西南部发生地震后，坍塌的八代神社。左图：救援人员在一家造纸厂内搜寻被困人员。
在区域首府熊本市爆发了火灾，该市人口超过 700,000。在位于市中心的百年地标熊本城，一段石墙部分坍塌。
据永旺（Aeon）称，在周二的初次地震发生后，购物中心内约 3,000 名顾客被立即疏散。不到一小时后，一次爆炸震动了该建筑。
周边地区的人们描述称，他们感受到一股极其强烈的冲击波，以至于认为又发生了一次地震，随后浓厚的白烟笼罩了购物中心周边的社区。据永旺称，爆炸原因尚未确认，但初步评估表明可能是一次燃气爆炸。
据九州电力公司称，截至周三晚上，熊本市有 31,000 户以上家庭受到停电影响。据日本国土交通省称，五个都道府县约 84,000 户家庭失去了水供应。
熊本机场于周三恢复运行，而包括新干线在内的该地区许多列车暂停了在整个九州的服务。该岛主要高速公路的部分路段仍处于关闭状态。
阻断了古巴人获得永久居留权和公民身份的几条路径。
根据美洲参与和倡导中心（Center for Engagement and Advocacy in the Americas）执行主任玛丽亚·何塞·埃斯皮诺萨（María José Espinosa）的说法，该中心负责分析驱逐数据，这使得 600,000 名古巴人面临被驱逐出境的风险。
普林斯顿大学历史教授、古巴历史书籍作者亚达·费雷尔（Ada Ferrer）表示：“曾经有一段时间，因为《古巴调整法》（Cuban Adjustment Act），他们不会针对古巴人，但现在再也没有人遵守该法了。”
她补充道：“如果你在竞选时主张大规模驱逐，那么你就会尝试进行大规模驱逐。但古巴裔美国人原以为他们会受到保护。”
根据曼努埃尔·罗伊格-弗兰齐亚（Manuel Roig-Franzia）撰写的马可·卢比奥（Marco Rubio）传记，卢比奥的一位古巴祖父于 1962 年在没有签证的情况下飞抵美国，曾收到驱逐令，但在获得难民身份后获准留在该国。
国际难民组织（Refugees International）美洲和欧洲区主任雅埃尔·沙赫（Yael Schacher）表示，所有的驱逐计划都是“糟糕的选择”，尤其是那些针对在美国生活了很长时间的人的计划。
尽管如此，她表示，一个“拥有运行良好且安全的庇护体系的拉丁美洲国家，就像是相对最不坏的选择。”
尽管乌拉圭相对宽容，但移民往往仍面临困难。与其他南美国家相比，乌拉圭的消费较高。许多古巴人最初住在寄宿房中，从事外卖或 Uber 司机、护理员和保安工作。
以及废墟中的物品
作者：ANJALI TSUI | 摄影：LAM YIK FEI
去年一场毁灭性火灾席卷了香港七栋公寓大楼，数月之久，该小区一直对居民封闭。 今年春天，居民获准返回该小区——王福苑的废墟。一些家中景象诡异地凝固在时间之中，碗里还盛着食物。在其他公寓里，居民用网篮在灰烬中筛拣，寻找任何幸存之物。 这场火灾造成 168 人死亡，极有可能是由于不法承包商使用了劣质材料。在伤亡数字背后是每个个体的损失，此处通过人们从碎片中带出的物品来讲述。 我们请失去亲人的居民用自己的语言分享他们的故事。以下叙述已由粤语翻译，并为了清晰起见而进行了浓缩和编辑。
她的女儿和丈夫在火灾中丧生。她在碎片中发现了女儿 iPad 的残骸。
每当我路过我们曾一起去过的餐厅，我就站在外面心想：要是她能陪在我身边就好了。我知道这是幻想。她刚从大学毕业——就是她父亲就读的那所大学。 我的丈夫是个好公民。他喜欢唱歌跳舞，没有脾气。他拉二胡，还是一个国乐团的成员。家里为了女儿准备了一架钢琴。这一切都被烧光了。 我用篮子在碎片中筛拣，发现了一些东西：我丈夫的眼镜，我女儿用来画画的 iPad 残骸，一些首饰，以及她在读中学时我给她买的一块手表。那块表大约 240 美元 ($240,)，对我来说是一笔不小的钱，但我希望她能拥有它。
Ng 女士在哀悼她的女儿，Piano Chiang, 23 岁，以及她的丈夫，Peter Chiang, 62 岁。
Lee Chun Ho 失去了母亲、兄弟、侄女以及照顾他们家庭的佣人。他救出了一个由他兄弟搭建的微缩模型。Esther Chan 失去了丈夫、女儿和婆婆。她保留了女儿的鞋子。
我天生患有心脏病，还有很多慢性健康问题。我的母亲对我照顾有加。她是一位出色的厨师，会做蒸鸡、我最爱的羊排、菜心，以及西红柿炒鸡蛋。 她担任老人的家庭健康护理员。她会陪老人去医院看诊，并到他们家中做饭和打扫。为了工作，她需要奔波很远，且收入不高。 在一次去中国佛山的旅行中，我们逛了一条售卖手工陶瓷的街道。我母亲挑了一个陶瓷柚子。她特意选了一个圆润丰满、颜色鲜艳的，希望能给我们的家庭带来平安和好运。我们将它摆在客厅里。 她的遗体是在走廊里被发现的。如果她当时留在家里，我们可能无法找到她的遗骸。我们的公寓被彻底摧毁了。
Luk女士在哀悼她的母亲，Tsang Lai Wah，71岁。
Lee Chun Ho：我的母亲非常聪明。她有很强的直觉——在人们开口之前，她就知道对方想说什么。她在社区中很有影响力，而且思维敏捷。 我的哥哥喜欢制作模型。父母告诉我，我们小时候我经常把模型弄坏。但哥哥从未责骂过我。他是一个好哥哥，也是一个好父亲。那天他在家，因为他在医院上完了大夜班，正在休息。在计划的假期之前，他只剩最后一个大夜班了。我们六个人原本打算一起去台湾。
Esther Chan：回到公寓后，我发现桌上的碗里还盛着他们那天晚上吃剩的食物。Yan Yan那里还有半瓶牛奶——看到那个场景很难受。我开始想象他们最后的时刻可能是怎样的。 在收拾好他们的遗物后，我回到家中躺在床上，周围摆满了我们找到的所有东西。这让我的心情好了一点。 Chun Man极其宠爱我们的女儿。她是他生活的中心。每次出门，她总会自己挑选鞋子和衣服。我们给她买了很多双鞋。
我的祖父中风后，我母亲照顾他。那段日子非常艰难。 后来，我的父亲也中风了，她同样照顾他。她从未抱怨。大约十年前，她自己中风了。她无法再照顾自己，于是我们雇佣了家政工人。 Dina对我母亲很好。她为她做南瓜泥，蒸整条鱼并剔除鱼刺。她晚上会担心我母亲，并且
她的母亲在火灾中丧生。她拿着一件由母亲缝制的牛仔背心。
开始睡在她旁边的地板上。 Darwati 已经在那里住了大约六个月。 我参加了他们在香港一座清真寺举行的葬礼，第二天他们的遗体被送回了他们在印度尼西亚的家人那里。 我发现了一张我和母亲在菲律宾度假的老照片。那是我们第一次一起出国旅行。我们在马尼拉周边观光，还坐木船玩了激流勇进。那次旅行她非常开心。
李先生在悼念他的母亲 Tam Wei Ping, 91。她与她的护理人员 Dina-Martiana, 38 和 Darwati, 48 一起去世，两人均为来自印度尼西亚的移工。
我在一年级时搬到了王福阁（Wang Fuk Court）。我的父亲很少在身边。他赌博，讨债者会来家里。我在中学就读时，父母离婚了。 我的母亲非常勤劳，独立地成就了很多。她是一位单亲妈妈。她独自赚钱抚养我们，支付我们的学费和钢琴课费用。在赛马之夜，她甚至在马会赛马场兼职做收银员。后来，她做了保姆。她还做过办公室文员和清洁工。 退休后，她发现了几条不再合身的牛仔裤。她是那种不愿浪费任何东西的人。她自学缝纫，将牛仔裤改成了牛仔背心。全部都是纯手工制作。当我看到它们时，我说：“这太可爱、太独特了！”她为我做了一件，背面绣着我的名字。
罗女士在悼念她的母亲 Ying Lo, 74。
火灾前大约一个月，我在电梯里遇到了邻居：一位母亲和她年幼的女儿。她们告诉我，每天晚上，小女孩听到我的狗在叫，就会走到我的门前。她会说：“你好，狗狗们！”我觉得这一家人非常温馨。我答应有一天要把我的狗带到她们公寓去，让孩子可以和它们一起玩。然后，火灾发生了。 我的母亲在我很小的时候就病逝了。这个家对我意义重大。它是我和母亲之间的联系。我们相处的时间如此短暂，而那是在王福阁。 火灾后，我从政府那里补办了一份出生证明。他们将其打印出来，我惊讶地发现上面的地址是王福阁王昌楼（Wang Fuk Court, Wang Cheong House）。一直以来，当我住在那里时，我并没有过多地思考这件事。它没什么特别的。但只要我活着，这个地址就会留在我的出生证明上。
张女士的狗分别是 Bom Bom, 8 和 Ungi, 6。
他的妻子在火灾中丧生。他找到了她的手表以及他的结婚戒指。
钻石捕捉到一束光，闪闪发光。我擦掉烟灰和灰尘，发现那是我的结婚戒指。我们的戒指设计完全相同：三颗钻石镶嵌在一条对角线上。我们将它们放在床头一起存放。我没找到妻子的戒指。 我们在一家生产收音机和卡带播放器的工厂相识。她是组长，我是修理工。我们在 1981. 年结婚。她非常节俭。要说服她买东西需要花很多功夫。或者我只能自己买。 我们的生活非常平凡。我们事事一起做。我们总是在一起。在家里，我会看电视，而她玩电子游戏。有时，我们会因为小事争吵打架。她会因为我没把鞋子放好而唠叨我。现在，我没有人可以拌嘴了。 这很艰难。我时刻想念她。 这块手表是精工（Seiko），一个日本品牌。它不是很贵，而且最重要的是，她喜欢这个款式。她不想要太招摇的东西。
他曾协助中国镇压维吾尔人。他说自己也是一名受害者。
出席了张先生演讲的新疆专家阿德里安·曾兹（Adrian Zenz）表示，这就像“一座拦截了大量水的巨大水坝突然崩塌”。
张先生对他身在新疆期间的描述，证实了长期以来关于中国共产党残酷镇压维吾尔人的记录，同时为该记录增加了细节和内部视角。它还揭示了一个追求社会阶层上升的普通人，在协助执行这些镇压政策时，可能获得什么，以及失去什么。
张先生提供了详尽的服务历史证明文件，包括他的警察证件副本、工资单和社会保障记录，以及他在审讯和政治宣传会议上的照片。但我无法准确核实他在新疆具体做了什么或没做什么；我依赖于他的讲述，而有些事情他可能没有分享。
中国政府否认在新疆实施侵犯人权的行为，将这些营地描述为为了打击恐怖主义和宗教极端主义而设立的职业培训中心。政府称这些中心已于 2019 年关闭。
鉴于中国报复流亡公民的记录，张先生挺身而出作为不公正行为的见证人，展现了相当大的勇气。但他寻求的不仅仅是赞扬；他希望自己也被认可为一名受害者——一个在他参与了近十年的体制中的受害者。
一条走出贫困的阴森之路
对于张先生来说，前往新疆，以及后来加入当地警队，提供了一条出人头地的途径。张先生 1986 年出生于一个贫穷的农村汉族家庭，他住在河南省中部的一个村庄，直到他 8 岁时那里才通电。2006 年，他前往新疆读大学，毕业后留在当地的一所农村小学教授数学。他娶了一名来自家乡省份的女性，两人于 2011 年育有一子。2014 年末，为了获得更高的薪水，他离开了教师岗位，在和田地区的一家拘留中心担任警卫，那里约 90 ％的人口是维吾尔人。他的月薪从教师时期的 400 美元增加到约 $650。他说，在近两年的时间里，他的职责包括监控监视录像、分发食物和药品，以及从被拘留者（其中大多数是维吾尔人）那里搜集定罪信息。他听到审讯室里传出尖叫声，看到被拘留者遭到殴打和剥夺睡眠。他在接被拘留者时，有时会发现折断的警棍。他说，当时他接受了政府的说法，认为被审讯的人是恐怖分子和分裂分子。为了追求更高的薪水和更高的社会地位，张先生参加了公务员考试，并在 2016 年末正式加入警队，当时北京正准备加强在新疆的大规模拘留行动。他说，他为自己的制服感到自豪，他的月薪增加到约 $900。2017 年初，新疆新任共产党书记陈全国号召开展一场“粉碎性、毁灭性攻势”，根据泄露的政府文件，这包括拘留任何表现出宗教激进主义或反政府观点“症状”的人。这些“症状”可能是蓄长胡须、学习阿拉伯语或祈祷。张先生
参加了对维吾尔人住家的夜间突袭，没收古兰经和其他宗教物品。“通常是我第一个冲进去，”他回忆道。“我当时认为他们是坏人。那是那时给我们灌输的思想，认为他们全都是坏人。”在 2017 年的大部分时间里，张先生乘坐巴士车队，将数百名，有时甚至是数千名维吾尔拘留者运送到新疆各地的监狱，新疆的面积几乎是加利福尼亚州的四倍。拘留者在旅途中被戴上手铐、蒙上头罩，并被要求使用塑料桶作为厕所。张先生负责分发面包和水。“我的工作就是为巴士上的乘客服务，”他说。2018 年末，当他被分配到一个派出所时，他开始变得沮丧。他说，他的同事们在任何时间都会带回维吾尔囚犯，而他负责搜身并帮助决定将他们送到哪里。他的睡眠经常被中断，上司也脾气暴躁。他很高兴能被短期重新指派去监督大约 3,000 名被派去为汉族农民采棉花的维吾尔劳工。他们凌晨 5 点起床，花好几个小时前往棉田，直到深夜才返回宿舍。对于张先生来说，这是一个不错的休息机会。他的主要任务是确保没有人逃跑或祈祷。他通过中国外交部的声明了解到国际社会对新疆强迫劳动的批评，并接受了政府关于这些指控是虚假且旨在抹黑中国的说法。“我没怎么多想，”他说。“我从未停下来思考这是否属实。”
“我从未停下来思考这是否属实。”
张亚波，新疆的一名警察，负责执行中国对维吾尔人口的监视活动。
在一个废弃的派出所里度过了一个月。 “疫情期间更加痛苦，因为它涉及到了我个人，”他说。 2021 年 8 月，他被分配到尤鲁希凯（Yurushikai），这是一个约有 1,700 名维吾尔人的村庄。村里约 40% 的成年人曾在拘留营中度过一段时间，大约 100 人仍在监狱服刑，这意味着一些家庭仅由孩子和祖父母组成。张先生的工作是在两名维吾尔助手的帮助下，调查有关人们在家里祈祷、缺席每周的国旗升起仪式，甚至跑步或锻炼的报告。 政府的监视系统会对“异常”活动产生自动警报。他说，如果一个家庭的用电量增加，警察就会上门询问是什么让这家人们没有睡觉。
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警察工作给张先生带来了金钱、地位和特权：在医院的快速就诊通道、免费停车。到 2023 年，他的月到手薪资已涨至约 $1,250。 但在警察的等级制度中，他说，他是可有可无的。张先生说，上司经常侮辱警员，称他们为需要鞭打才能工作的驴子。在他进入村庄的第一年 12 月错过一次对讲机呼叫后，一名上司惩罚他在寒冷环境下且没有足够衣物的情况下，在道路检查站连续值班 72 小时。 加班永无止境，而且他长时间与家人分离。自 2017 年以来，他没有和父母一起庆祝农历新年，并且被拒绝请假参加妹妹的婚礼。平均而言，他每月只能看一次妻子和儿子。 此外还有需要完成的指标。
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从 2023 年开始，他被要求每周提供一条可以用来证明拘留正当性的线索。张先生说，他经常无法完成这个指标，因此必须提交自我批评报告，并被处罚执行 24 小时轮班工作。与村民的密切接触开始挑战他此前对维吾尔族人所吸收的刻板印象。尽管他继续执行工作要求的监视任务，但他变得越来越不愿进入他们的家中或搜查他们的私人通信。
自我重新教育
到 2023 年 9 月，张先生离开了他的岗位。 他搬到了中国南部的广州学习英语，希望最终能出国留学。他开始使用 VPN 来绕过中国的互联网防火墙。他搜索的第一批主题是“新疆”和“陈全国”——该地区前强硬派党委书记的名字。他说，他无法相信他曾工作过的那些被他称为“再教育中心”和“职业培训中心”的设施，在网上被描述为集中营。在那之前，他只在关于第二次世界大战的电影中见过这个词。 “我的发现让我感到剧烈的头痛：我脑海的一边在说一种说法，另一边却在说完全不同的说法，”他说。“相互矛盾的描述在我的脑海中搏斗，导致我夜不能寐。” 在 2024 年初正式辞职后，由于感到受创且需要慰藉和力量，他转向了信仰。他在一本读给儿子听的圣经故事书中找到了平静。2025 年 4 月，张先生在广州受洗成为一名天主教徒。四个月后，他与 14 岁的儿子一起参加了欧洲之旅。他已经决定，如果能脱离旅游团，他就寻求政治庇护。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 张亚波，一名中国前警察，已在德国申请政治庇护。他提供了自己在工作期间以及参加政治宣传会议时的照片。
当旅游团进入新天鹅堡（Neu-schwanstein Castle，这座巴伐利亚宫殿是迪士尼睡美人城堡的灵感来源）时，张先生和儿子偷偷溜走了。他们前往慕尼黑，去了世界维吾尔代表大会（World Uyghur Congress）的总部。这是一个倡议团体，张先生在新疆时多次听到过这个名字，但当时被告知这是一个分裂主义恐怖组织。他已申请庇护，目前住在德国南部的一家避难所里，而他的儿子住在附近的一家寄养机构。在一次吃意面的晚餐中，这名 15 岁的少年告诉我，他想念新疆的辣炒米线。张先生的妻子仍留在新疆，夫妻俩已申请离婚。张先生现在将时间花在与学者、记者和人权组织交流，以记录维吾尔族人如何遭受迫害。 “在数百万名中国警察中，他是唯一一个站出来说出真相的人，”海玉尔·库尔班（Haiyuer Kuerban）说道，他是世界维吾尔代表大会的一名官员，一直在帮助张先生在德国安家。他说，他的组织最初对张先生持有深切的怀疑，但在审阅了相关文件后，疑虑开始减轻。钱兹（Mr. Zenz）先生是新疆专家，也是华盛顿非营利组织“共产主义受害者纪念基金会”的中国研究主任，他表示，张先生提供了“我们此前主要通过政府文件、官方媒体报道和幸存者证词所推断出的基层真实情况”。维尔茨堡大学的中国学者比约恩·阿尔伯曼（Bjorn Alpermann）对张先生进行了广泛采访，他表示，张先生的叙述提供了异常详尽的证据，揭示了在群众性关押运动的高峰期之后，压制是如何在乡村生活中持续并变得“常规化”的。但在德国与张先生共事的人们认为
告诉我，我们只能知道他想让我们知道的事情，而且他知道的可能比分享的更多。他清晰地记得自己填写的表格、执行的命令以及所遭受的屈辱，但对最严重的虐待记忆则较为模糊。他描述了听到尖叫声以及在审讯后看到被拘留者的情景，但对于拘留设施中的死亡、性暴力和酷刑提供的细节较少。他坚称自己一直诚实且坦率。他还希望世界能承认他所遭受的痛苦。“我的痛苦与维吾尔人的痛苦相当，或者在某些方面甚至更甚，”他反复对我说道。“为什么你们记者不报道我？为什么你们只关注维吾尔人？”当然，汉族官员没有被强迫放弃自己的语言或文化，而且无论多么困难，他们可以选择离开警队或新疆。他们不会被随意拘禁、强迫劳动或遭受酷刑。他们不会因为打篮球或做俯卧撑而被视为潜在的恐怖分子。“无论你在工作中多么痛苦，你仍然可以回家，吃顿好饭，并想象未来，”维吾尔活动人士库尔班先生说。“你不需要生活在持续的、令人瘫痪的恐惧之中，担心 10 年前说的一句话会让你在明天消失。”尽管如此，阿尔珀曼先生表示，张先生的经历表明了该系统对待其自身人员是多么不人道。而对于张先生来说，离开中国并公开发声本身就是一种对抗该系统的方式。张先生坚称，他个人从未酷刑或虐待过任何维吾尔人。他将自己描述为国家机器中的一个小齿轮，负责填写表格、看守设施和处理后勤。责任在于高级官员以及维吾尔警察助理，他说后者执行了许多最直接且最具有虐待性的任务。他坚称，像他这样的低级汉族警员是无辜的。目前尚不清楚张先生的自我开脱是一种自我保护，还是因为无法承受全面承认所带来的后果，或者仅仅是多年在体制内形成的思维习惯。库尔班先生表示，他不认为这种盲目是故意的。在反复追问张先生后，我也得出了类似的结论：他似乎真的无法在对维吾尔人造成巨大不公正的更广泛背景下看待自己的角色。他的挣扎也反映了他来自的国家，在那里，国家压制了关于大饥荒、文化大革命和 1989 年天安门镇压的公众记忆。德国在经历了数十年对纳粹共犯关系的清算之后，而中国则几乎没有空间进行关于共犯、愧疚和责任的持续讨论。库尔班先生说，在一个虐待性的系统中工作并不会自动让一个人变成怪物。但同样，执行次要职能或没有亲自实施最严重的虐待，也不能消除责任。张先生说，他的信仰告诉他，他现在的责任是发声。“如果你保持沉默，”他在联邦议院演讲结束时说，“你就是问题的一部分。”
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胡塞武装（伊朗在也门的盟友，控制着该国沿红海的大片地区）对沙特油轮的袭击进一步威胁到了石油运输航线，对于严重依赖中东供应的东亚国家来说，可能会产生极其严重的后果。
海事追踪公司 Kpler 表示，周三，包括一艘美国所有权的油轮在内的两艘船只在埃及的一个航运枢纽发生爆炸后起火。首席研究员 Joshua Hutchinson
本报道由 Erika Solomon, Abdi Latif Dahir, Lara Jakes, Jenny Gross, Rich Barbieri, Euan Ward, Pranav Baskar, Shirin Hakim, Zane Irwin, Peter Eavis 和 Eric Schmitt 共同贡献。
作者 ADAM RASGON 和 IYAD ABUHEWEILA
以色列军队周三轰炸了加沙的一座清真寺，指责巴勒斯坦武装组织哈马斯将其用于存放武器。由哈马斯运行的加沙政府媒体办公室回应称，以色列的指控旨在“为其袭击清真寺正名”，且“完全是虚构的”。此次袭击没有报告死亡人数。以色列军队表示，已向平民提供了提前警告，以“降低对他们的伤害风险”。
《纽约时报》审阅的视频显示，周二，在加沙城，人们在两年的加沙战争期间流离失所的家庭帐篷群附近行走。一枚以色列炸弹在清真寺上爆炸，浓烟在傍晚的天空中翻滚。
尽管在 10 月与哈马斯签署了一项由美国支持的停火协议，但以色列在最近几周加强了对加沙的袭击。以色列官员表示，军方一直将目标锁定在哈马斯及其武器基础设施上。哈马斯则表示，持续的袭击表明以色列试图摆脱其在 10 月停火协议中的承诺。
加沙卫生部的统计员 Zaher al-Waheidi 表示，卫生官员没有记录到此次袭击造成的任何死亡或受伤情况。本报的一位摄影师拍下了袭击后的景象——堆积如山的尘土瓦砾以及看起来像是清真寺宣礼塔的残骸。
“那是一种恐怖的声音，”住在清真寺附近的 31 岁居民 Riyad al-Masri 说道，“地面都在震动。”
根据加沙政府媒体办公室的数据，加沙战争期间有数百座清真寺被摧毁。以色列多次指责哈马斯潜伏在平民空间中，包括清真寺、流离失所者营地和学校。
根据加沙卫生部的数据，自 10 月停火以来，加沙已有 1,200 多人被杀，此外在战争期间还有 73,000 多人被杀。其统计数据并未区分战斗人员和平民。
由哈马斯领导的 2023 年 10 月 7 日对以色列南部的袭击导致约 1,200 人死亡，并引发了加沙战争。巴勒斯坦武装分子还将另外 251 人作为人质带回加沙。
尽管以色列军队多次发布公告称其在加沙的袭击造成了人员伤亡，但 [此处文本缺失] 报告称，自 10 月停火以来，人道主义局势已显著改善，并指出食品价格有所下降。
在特朗普政府针对加沙的 20 点和平计划中，哈马斯被要求放下武器。尽管该组织已同意放弃该地区的行政控制权，但它拒绝缴械。
本月，以色列军队副总参谋长 Tamir Yadai 少将表示，如果哈马斯不缴械，以色列将继续推进在加沙的袭击。
“归根结底，这个地方将被去军事化，且不会再有哈马斯，”他在右翼以色列电视台 Channel 14 发布的评论中说道。
Abu Bakr Bashir 为本文贡献了报道。
本文作者为 Zane Irwin, Peter Eavis, Farnaz Fassihi 和 Pranav Baskar。
2 艘船只，其中一艘为美国拥有的天然气存储油轮，在周三埃及一座港口发生爆炸后起火，此事件扩大了中东地区的冲突。
三家船舶追踪公司报告了这一事件。其中一家公司表示，在埃及地中海港口达米埃塔（Damietta）发生的爆炸是由无人机袭击引起的，不过埃及当局或船主尚未对此做出官方确认。
此次袭击可能不会像中东其他地区的袭击那样影响全球能源市场，因为埃及并不是天然气的大出口国。
船舶追踪公司 Kpler 表示，两艘船只均已从达米埃塔港移开，该港口位于埃及地中海沿岸，靠近苏伊士运河。
埃及石油部在社交媒体上表示，目前没有确认的伤亡情况。
另一家船舶追踪公司 Ambrey 的首席商业官 Joshua Hutchinson 在一次采访中表示，据信爆炸是由无人机袭击引起的，袭击击中了至少一艘船。Ambrey 尚未确认袭击来源。
两名在讨论安全问题时要求匿名的伊朗人表示，这次爆炸是……
Ambrey 的首席商业官表示，据信爆炸是由无人机引起的。埃及石油部在社交媒体上表示，没有确认的伤亡情况。
中东地区战斗范围的扩大，似乎使特朗普政府在距离期中选举不到 100 天的情况下，难以从这场不受欢迎的战争中抽身。这还威胁到将加剧全球石油冲击并推高通货膨胀。
美国军方表示，在伊拉克的打击行动是为了报复伊朗代理组织在过去 72 小时内发起的 30 多个无人机袭击。一名美国官员表示，他们的目标是人民动员力量（Popular Mobilization Forces）的成员，这是一个由与伊朗有联系的伊拉克民兵组成的伞形组织。没有伊拉克民兵组织对这些无人机袭击宣布负责。
伊拉克总理 Ali al-Zaidi 称美国和沙特阿拉伯的打击是“不可接受的侵略”。
伊拉克与双方均保持着密切关系。
哈马斯武装分子，通过对加沙医疗官员的采访和医院记录显示，在停火后的九个月里，以色列也杀害了平民。
由美国斡旋的停火协议导致加沙剩余的人质被释放，并使以色列军队控制了加沙一半以上的地区。此后，以色列军队扩大了控制区域，将约 200 万巴勒斯坦居民挤在沿海的一块不断缩小的狭长地带内。
战争使加沙陷入了深重的人道主义危机，出现了广泛的食物短缺和猖獗的饥饿，大多数人口流离失所。许多人仍留在安置营中，目前尚未开展大规模的重建工作。人道主义援助组织表示，许多必需品仍然难以获得，且食品价格往往高于战前。
负责监督对加沙援助的以色列军事机构在一次报告中表示……
这次无人机袭击旨在表明，如果伊朗选择升级行动，全球航运和能源供应可能会受到更深远的干扰。相关人士并未说明袭击是由伊朗还是该地区亲伊朗的民兵组织发起的，也未说明袭击地点。
特朗普总统周三在椭圆形办公室告诉记者，他已收到关于爆炸事件的汇报，并暗示伊朗对此负责，但未提供细节。他表示，这一事件是“同样的套路”，且美国“将对他们进行沉重打击，因为现在轮到我们打击他们了”。
通过袭击地中海的船只，伊朗可以进一步干扰贸易。航运公司将不得不评估使用埃及港口的风险。自从
伊朗与美国之间的战争在2月底开始以来，许多船运运营商一直避开红海和波斯湾。
起火的美国储油轮“Energos Winter”号属于 Energos Infrastructure，一家总部位于康涅狄格州斯坦福的美国公司。Energos Infrastructure 的代表 Jonathan Chia 表示，公司尚无法确定 Energos Winter 号是否被无人机击中。Chia 先生表示，所有船员均已核实，无人受伤。
在社交媒体上流传并经《纽约时报》核实的视频显示，拖船正在达米埃塔港（Damietta Port）向 Energos Winter 号喷水灭火。Energos Infrastructure 的网站显示，该公司由 Apollo Global Management 管理的投资基金所有。
Apollo 拒绝置评。Energos Winter 号目前由埃及天然气控股公司（Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company）租赁，该公司是埃及政府所有的天然气公司。
根据 Ambrey 的说法，另一艘由希腊航运公司运营的液化天然气运输船被至少一架无人机击中。
该船名为 GasLog Salem 号。该船运营商 GasLog 的发言人 Marina Leonidhopoulos 表示，该船在一次爆炸后起火。
在中东两条关键航运路线——波斯湾和红海——发生的船只袭击事件，干扰了油轮的通行，冲击了全球能源
伊朗和美国，并在近几个月经常发现自己被夹在交战双方之间。 组成人民动员力量（Popular Mobilization Forces）的许多民兵组织
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这些部队最初是在 2003 年美国领导的入侵和占领伊拉克之后成立的，这导致了该国广泛的反美情绪。现在，他们似乎越来越多地卷入与伊朗的当前战争中。
一名因讨论行动事项而要求匿名的美国官员表示，美国和沙特阿拉伯的袭击杀死了约 20 名伊朗顾问，其中包括高级技术顾问和来自伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队的联络员。该官员表示，伊拉克的这些地点正是为此而被刻意选为目标，旨在摧毁属于伊拉克民兵的导弹和无人机阵地。
人民动员力量周三发表联合声明，威胁将对此次袭击进行报复。尽管如此，他们表示在周二之前不会采取行动，因为届时将结束正在进行的 Arbaeen 朝圣，届时数十万什叶派穆斯林朝圣者将访问伊拉克城市卡尔巴拉（Karbala）的圣地。声明称：“我们对美国敌人的回应是必然的，且将会到来，如果情况需要，我们可能会攻击其在沙特阿拉伯的工具。”
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上方照片中，巴勒斯坦人在检查一座被毁清真寺的碎片。以色列在周二（左图）对加沙加强袭击期间轰炸了该地点。
市场。 自三月以来，这场战争使得通过霍尔穆兹海峡（进入波斯湾的狭窄门户）的航行变得危险得多。这迫使沙特阿拉伯更加依赖通过红海出口石油，而红海最近也受到了伊朗支持的也门胡塞武装组织封锁的威胁。 这些攻击和威胁已威慑航运公司，使其不敢向该地区海域派遣船只。根据海事数据机构 Windward 的数据，自 7 月 20 日以来，通过红海曼德海峡的船只数量减少了五分之一。通过霍尔穆兹海峡的交通量仍维持在战前水平的十分之一以下。
应用程序创始人提起指控
乌克兰破坏活动 及恐怖袭击
作者：伊万·内切普伦科 (IVAN NECHEPURENKO) 与亚当·萨塔里亚诺 (ADAM SATARIANO)
俄罗斯的主要安全部门周三表示，已指控 Telegram 的创始人涉嫌资助恐怖主义。Telegram 是该国及全球最受欢迎的即时通讯应用之一。此举升级了克里姆林宫限制所有不在其直接控制下的通信手段的努力。
该安全部门（联邦安全局，F.S.B.）在一份声明中表示，已发出国际逮捕令，旨在逮捕出生于俄罗斯的 Telegram 创始人帕维尔·杜罗夫 (Pavel Durov)，现年 41。
该部门指控 Telegram 未能删除“被乌克兰特勤部门、恐怖组织和极端主义组织积极用于在俄罗斯筹备和协调破坏活动、恐怖袭击、大规模杀戮以及网络欺诈活动”的信息。这些指控仅是跨越地缘政治和意识形态分歧的各国政府旨在约束 Telegram 的广泛行动中的最新举措，该应用由杜罗夫先生于 2013 年创立。尽管该应用一直是俄罗斯等威权国家中寻求自由沟通的人们的生命线，但它也成为了全球犯罪活动、虚假信息和仇恨内容的中心。
虽然像俄罗斯和伊朗这样的专制国家已采取行动限制对该应用的访问，但许多民主国家也已
关于意大利的警察
作者：MOTOKO RICH 以及 JOSEPHINE DE LA BRUYÈRE
意大利，博洛尼亚 —— 在博洛尼亚，一名男子在一段台阶上跌跌撞撞。据目击者和视频显示，他躺在地上并反复呼救。两名警员到达后与他交谈，随后陪同他走进一条小巷，在那里，在与另一名平民发生明显的冲突后，警员将他按在地上。一小时内，这名男子，42 岁的阿卜杜拉希姆·法基尔（Abderrahim Fakir），一名大部分生活在意大利的摩洛哥人，死亡，原因至今尚未解释。检察官正在调查警察以及附近红十字会急救人员的行为，红十字会表示正在配合调查。据其律师称，两名警员均按照协议行事，该律师将他们的背景描述为“纯粹的意大利人”。法基尔先生上周的去世在他自幼起就称之为家的这个国家引起了反响。
一些意大利人将身为物流和建筑公司所有者的法基尔先生描述为被一个针对移民的体制所伤害的受害者。另一些人则抓住他在 2000 年代的贩毒定罪记录以及违反缓刑监管的情况不放。更广泛地看，这场讨论已演变成一场关于意大利警察对待外国人的方式及其角色之间更广泛的僵局。意大利是一个移民率很高、依赖移民劳动力，但政府已采取行动驱逐寻求庇护者和无证工人的国家。持有相反政治派别的意大利人利用法基尔先生的死亡——以及随之而来的动荡——在移民与种族主义、警察暴力与群众暴力的问题上展开交锋。
“当我观看法基尔先生被捕的视频时，‘辩论早已转移到了其他地方’，”小说家兼评论员保罗·乔丹诺（Paolo Giordano）在中间派日报《晚邮报》（Corriere della Sera）的一篇专栏中写道。“事件本身已经被击碎，散落在无数次次要的讨论之中，”他补充道。
据他的移民律师芭芭拉·斯皮内利（Barbara Spinelli）称，法基尔先生大约在 1990 年， 6 岁时随家人从摩洛哥来到博洛尼亚，并就读于意大利学校。他幼年时获得了在该国居留的许可，但从未获得公民身份。在青少年时期因一系列毒品犯罪被监禁七个月后，他转向建筑业。由于被定罪，他在续签居留许可时陷入困境，但在 2010 年，当他结
试图使其领导层对其要求做出更快速的响应。杜罗夫先生挑战政府的意愿，日益使他及其公司成为目标。
俄罗斯去年限制了 Telegram 的使用，并推广了一种替代方案——MAX，这是一款由国家支持的即时通讯应用。对 Telegram 的限制还包括试图限制对虚拟私人网络（VPN）的访问，而 VPN 允许人们继续使用该服务。尽管受到限制，Telegram 在俄罗斯仍通过 VPN 被广泛使用，不仅用于直接沟通，还被媒体用来转发未经克里姆林宫批准的新闻和其他信息。该服务在俄乌战争双方的军队中也很受欢迎。Telegram 表示，其在全球拥有超过 10 亿活跃用户。今年 4 月，杜罗夫先生表示，仍有 65 百万俄罗斯人每天使用 Telegram。
杜罗夫先生经常批评政府，称其试图侵犯互联网自由，但他并未直接评论俄罗斯当局周三宣布的指控。然而，在指控公布后不久，Telegram 在社交媒体平台 X 上的账号发布了一张他竖起中指的旧照片。
杜罗夫先生拥有阿联酋和法国公民身份，并永久居住在迪拜。国际逮捕令不太可能导致杜罗夫先生在阿拉伯联合酋长国被捕，但这将进一步增加他国际旅行的复杂性。
在俄罗斯，自 2022. 年该国全面入侵乌克兰以来，Telegram 扮演了独特的角色。当时，克里姆林宫禁止或驱逐了所有媒体
与一名意大利女性结婚后，他再次获得了合法居留权。据其前辩护律师多纳塔·马尔穆西（Donata Malmusi）称，这对夫妇在两年后分居，法基尔先生的许可最终到期。两名朋友表示，他后来在摩洛哥与一名女性结婚。
朋友们表示，近几个月来，他一直遭受恐慌发作的困扰。斯皮内利女士说，他对他申请续签许可感到压力很大，并且在努力维持他的生意。根据《时报》审阅的医疗记录，他在 6 月份曾在一家医院寻求精神科治疗。
7 月 19, 日（周日），居住在该市其他地区的法基尔先生在没有解释的情况下出现在皮拉斯托（Pilastro），似乎处于痛苦之中。皮拉斯托位于博洛尼亚东北边缘，是一个安静的工人阶级移民社区，到处是 20 世纪 60 年代建成的成排宿舍式混凝土住宅楼。法基尔先生就是在这样一栋建筑外去世的。
“救救我”的呼喊
两名接受《纽约时报》采访的居民发现法基尔先生在走下一段楼梯进入一条两旁林立着车库且被大约 40 栋公寓俯瞰的小巷时，正在呻吟并大声呼救。72 岁的帕尔文·阿赫塔尔表示，她看到法基尔先生坐在台阶上，然后慢慢走下去并躺在地上。 “他在说，‘救救我，救救我，谁来帮帮我，’”她说。 随后，阿赫塔尔女士表示，她看到——并听到——一名骑摩托车的路人停了下来并拨打了报警电话。 接下来的情况尚不明确。博洛尼亚警察局表示，其警员在响应一起报告“一名处于暴力狂躁状态的人员”的电话。 阿赫塔尔女士说：“我客观地知道那不是我所看到的。”她补充道，法基尔先生“并没有表现出暴力行为”。 一段视频（《时报》通过确认其周围环境与该地点公开可用图像相符，验证了该视频以及另外几段视频）显示，法基尔先生独自仰面躺在楼梯底部，背景中传来蝉鸣。可以看到他在呼救，要求有人“杀了我”并抓着自己的头。 根据法基尔先生家属聘请的律师法比奥·安塞尔莫分享的视频，一段时间后，两名警察站在他身边，其中一人告诉法基尔先生保持冷静。 随后，尽管原因不明，但视频显示警员和法基尔先生沿着小巷向下滑动了几码。 代表警员的律师加布里埃莱·博尔多尼表示，法基尔先生在警察通过肢体接触制服他之前与两名平民发生了扭打。博尔多尼分享了一段由警员随身记录仪拍摄的四秒钟视频，视频显示另一名警员将法基尔先生从一名身穿白色 T 恤的男子身边拉开，并将法基尔先生推到地上。 该视频并未显示法基尔先生攻击任何人，也没有显示导致该时刻的原因。博尔多尼表示，警员们遵守了意大利关于如何制服“不配合人员”的新指南。指南建议尝试安抚对方，并限制在地面上进行任何制服动作的时长。 另一段视频显示一名警员蹲在法基尔先生背上，将其头部压在街道上，而另一名警员则
其监管范围之外的渠道，并限制了对大多数国际服务的访问，包括 YouTube、Facebook 和 Instagram。结果，Telegram 变成了普通俄罗斯人能够获得未经审查信息的t最关键来源。 它还成为了一种社会现象。用户在 Telegram 上与家人以及公寓楼的邻居维持聊天，手动选择他们偏好的新闻来源，而不依赖算法。 关于俄罗斯现状的大部分讨论都在 Telegram 上进行。 去年对 Telegram 的限制似乎产生了政治影响，弗拉基米尔·V·普京总统的支持率下降到了自 乌克兰 战争开始以来从未见过的水平。这暴露了俄罗斯政府内部的一些裂痕，并导致国家杜马（议会下院）出现了一个罕见场景：亲克里姆林宫的议员谢尔盖·米罗诺夫称那些封锁 Telegram 的人为 “白痴” 且
“无赖。”
关于对杜罗夫先生指控的公告是在克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·S·佩斯科夫告知俄罗斯新闻社 Interfax，当局一直与 Telegram 的领导层保持联系以讨论取消对该应用程序的限制几天后发布的。
一些克里姆林宫分析师认为，佩斯科夫先生发表评论的时间以及随后公布的对杜罗夫先生的指控，反映了俄罗斯政府内部关于是否给予该应用更多自由或限制其使用的斗争。
莫斯科政治分析师伊利亚·格拉申科夫在他的 Telegram 频道上写道：“目前看来，这不像 Telegram 在俄罗斯的最终章，而更像是关于其控制权的另一轮持续斗争。”
具有影响力的俄罗斯军事博主安娜斯塔西娅·卡舍瓦罗娃在 Telegram 的一篇帖子中写道，围绕这款即时通讯应用的局势“清楚地说明了竞争派系之间的碎片化和缺乏协调”。
“昨天，他们还在谈论与杜罗夫先生的缓和，今天，他们就发布了他的逮捕令，”卡舍瓦罗娃女士写道。“这就是为什么公众对政治家和官员声明的信任正在削弱，而这是糟糕的。”
杜罗夫先生出生在圣彼得堡，21 岁时参与创建了俄罗斯版的 Facebook——Vkontakte。该平台的成功使杜罗夫先生被拿来与马克·扎克伯格以及在社交媒体早期成名的其他硅谷年轻企业家相类比。
当时，俄罗斯的互联网更加开放自由，创业公司被视为令人兴奋的工作场所。杜罗夫先生因一些噱头而引起关注，包括从圣彼得堡的公司办公室窗户向外撒钱。
杜罗夫先生表示，随着该平台在俄罗斯的普及，氛围变得恶劣。他曾表示，在与俄罗斯当局就分享数据的问题产生分歧后，他离开了该国。
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（图片说明：一名警察跨坐在法基尔先生的下背部，试图制住法基尔先生的双手。一名便衣男子按住法基尔先生的双脚。）
视频显示，在几分钟内，法基尔先生扭动身体并大声呼救，随后陷入沉默。
视频显示，在法基尔先生停止活动后，警察将他的双腿绑在一起，其中一名警察坐在他的下背部。在整个过程中，两名身着红色制服的医疗救援人员在旁边观看，另有四名便衣男子在场。随后，另外两名医疗救援人员进入画面，帮助将法基尔先生的身体翻转至侧卧，而另一名急救人员似乎在检查他的颈动脉搏动。
[[IMG_XXXX]] （图片说明：7月 20 日在博洛尼亚，抗议阿卜杜拉希姆·法基尔之死的示威者面对警察防线。警察曾将从小从摩洛哥移民至此的法基尔先生按在地上。）
根据博洛尼亚卫生当局的说法，一名医生和一名护士抵达小巷后，宣布法基尔先生死亡。
36 岁的卢比纳·帕尔文（Lubina Parveen）的公寓俯瞰法基尔先生死亡的小巷，她表示自己目睹了医护人员抬起覆盖在死者身上的床单。
她说，他的半边脸看起来血迹斑斑。
“系统性”种族定型
这次死亡引发了一场关于警察行为以及意大利对待移民方式的全国性辩论。
执政联盟中一个极右翼政党的领导人兼副总理马泰奥·萨尔维尼表示，他不想在任何调查之前下结论，但在他看来，制服法基尔先生的警员是“按照协议行事”，且应当被“保护和理解”。
法基尔先生的朋友们表示，他的死亡是一个极端例子，体现了他们一直以来对意大利警察行为所感到恐惧的对待方式。41 岁的穆罕默德·索鲁尔（Mohammed Sorour）是其从小就认识的家庭朋友，他回忆起一次事件，他说警察在拦截并检查他的证件后，将他的双手绑在警察局拘留室的一个挂钩上。
由联合国任命的一组法律专家在 2024 年对意大利进行研究任务后得出结论，种族定型（racial profiling）“似乎继续以系统性的方式被实践”，尽管该小组承认，由于缺乏数据，使得“难以确认……”
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利用 Vkontakte 来组织抗议的用户。杜罗夫先生表示他拒绝了，这最终导致他被迫出售该平台并离开该国。随后，Vkontakte 落入了一家与克里姆林宫结盟的公司控制之下。
自从创办 Telegram 以来，杜罗夫先生一直将这款即时通讯应用像一个无国籍组织那样运营，其驱动核心理念是通信应该是无需审查的。杜罗夫先生表示，这种特质部分受到了他在俄罗斯威权政府下经历的启发，这也帮助 Telegram 在活动人士和其他注重隐私的用户中赢得了 popularity。
但这也使其成为了非法内容的聚集地，引起了政府调查人员的关注。
2024 年，杜罗夫先生在抵达法国时被逮捕，随后被指控在 Telegram 上便利犯罪活动。在被拘留四天后，他被当地当局释放，并被要求留在法国。他的旅行禁令随后被撤销。
在当时的一份声明中，杜罗夫先生表示：“一些媒体声称 Telegram 是某种无政府主义天堂的说法完全不属实。”
俄罗斯联邦安全局 (F.S.B.) 在周三宣布逮捕令的声明中，引用了一个具体案例，称 Telegram 上的一个约会聊天室被乌克兰特种服务部门用来招募俄罗斯人，并诱导他们通过“欺骗和心理操纵地参与破坏和恐怖活动”。
俄罗斯联邦安全局表示，它在俄罗斯全境拘留了 46 人（包括未成年人），这些人是通过该应用被招募的，并“对执法人员发动武装袭击，纵火焚烧交通、能源、通信以及信用和金融系统设施”。
评估问题的全部程度。”意大利政府否认了此类指控。
上周在博洛尼亚的一次社区集会上，38 岁的卡里姆·贝卡尔（Karim Bekkal）表示，一些政客在传播关于移民及其子女的有害叙事，即便这些子女在意大利出生，也不会自动获得公民身份。
“一个在这里出生并长大的人，听到即使是移民的第二代子女，只要行为不端就应该被遣返，他会有什么感受？”他问道。“如果他每天听到的是‘摩洛哥人、暴徒、罪犯、不法分子’，他会有什么感受？”
这些侮辱性词汇是指萨尔维尼先生（Mr. Salvini）用来描述意大利外籍居民的语言。萨尔维尼先生和总理乔治亚·梅洛尼（Giorgia Meloni）在承诺阻止非正规移民进入意大利的竞选活动后当选，意大利是移民从非洲经海路抵达的主要中转地。
在法基尔（Mr. Fakir）先生去世的一天后，数百名抗议者聚集在博洛尼亚市政厅前，谴责对其的处置方式。
在一些示威者向警方投掷瓶子后，身穿防暴盾牌的警员向抗议者发射了催泪瓦斯。警方表示，在冲突中共有 64 名警员受伤，均无生命危险，且抗议者焚烧了两辆汽车。
法基尔先生的侄女约斯拉·法基尔（Yossra Fakir）将她的家人与这场动乱区分开来。
“我们感受到的痛苦是巨大的，”她在一段视频中说道，“但它不能，也不应该转化为暴力。”
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早。它给苏格兰高地带来了森林大火。它导致伦敦的组织者取消了一场关于如何应对极端高温的会议。而且，仅在6月份，欧洲就发生了至少 10,000 起与高温相关的死亡事件——这个数字最终可能会被证明是被低估了。“在气候变化的影响方面，欧洲是‘零点’（核心受灾区），”德国波茨坦气候影响研究所所长、瑞典科学家约翰·罗克斯特伦（Johan Rockström）表示。“2026 年仅仅是个开始，”罗克斯特伦教授补充道。“情况不可避免地会恶化。它会变得越来越糟，直到我担心我们将超过适应的极限。”
当然，欧洲并非孤例。今年热浪席卷了澳大利亚和 日本。洪水重创了肯尼亚和安哥拉。一场暴风雪使 美国 东部瘫痪。南半球的发展中国家在面对气候变化影响时，比富裕的欧洲更加脆弱。然而，没有哪个大洲的升温速度像欧洲那样快，自20世纪90年代中期以来，其升温速度几乎是全球平均水平的两倍。这迫使欧洲人比其他人更深刻地面对气候变化带来的残酷现实，尤其是在夏天，他们曾经温和的时光已被熔炉般的酷热所取代。
尽管欧洲仍比世界其他地区（如美国西南部或波斯湾地区）凉爽，但由于其建筑通常没有空调且设计初衷是为了保温，因此应对能力较低。其山坡和沿海平原上的树种较为单一，且许多树木是在更凉爽、更潮湿的时期种植的，这使得它们在火灾季节极具易燃性。“随着这次热浪和这些火灾的出现，你可以说它开始变得难以忍受了，”苏黎世联邦理工学院的瑞士气候科学家索尼娅·塞内维拉特内（Sonia Seneviratne）表示。
这是否会导致采取激进的新措施——无论是为了减轻气候变暖的影响还是为了适应它——则是另一个问题。在 西班牙，首相佩德罗·桑切斯（Pedro Sánchez）宣布进入“气候紧急状态”，他表示这将需要一项国家协议，以“从结构上解决问题的根源”。在 法国，总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙（Emmanuel Macron）誓言要重新——
Mark Landler 发自 法国 波尔多，Chico Harlan 发自 罗马。Giulia Imbert 参与了来自巴黎的报道。
周三，一名消防员在 法国 西南部工作，在干旱天气和酷热环境下，当地火灾状况依然极端。
但最糟糕的情况可能尚未到来
本文由 Carlos Barragán、 Ségolène Le Stradic 和 Roser Toll Pifarré 撰写。
马德里 —— 法国和西班牙的消防员已设法控制住了波尔多和马德里附近的巨大山火，至少目前如此，两国官员周三表示。但他们警告称，面对接下来的强风和酷热高温，战斗远未结束。
在波尔多地区的法国官员周三上午表示，当地的一场火灾已接近一家协助制造核导弹的工厂六英里范围内，而昨夜情况较为“平静”，几起夜间复燃的火点已被控制。法国内政部长 Laurent Nuñez 周二晚上表示，法国南部其他地方的两场较小火灾已被控制。
西班牙首相 Pedro Sánchez 周三上午表示，针对马德里周边火灾的斗争仍在继续，情况在向“有利”方向发展；这场火灾是西班牙现代史上规模最大的一次。他传达了一种乐观与谨慎交织的信号，称消防员正在扑灭热点以防止在气温激增时再次复燃。
“接下来的 12 小时将非常重要——是决定性的，”Sánchez 先生表示。
几小时后，内政部长 Fernando Grande-Marlaska 表示，马德里及周边地区的部分撤离令正在解除，允许数千人回家。他表示，该地区的山火目前在“技术上已趋于稳定”。该地区其他撤离令此前已被解除。
欧洲森林火灾信息系统表示，法国西南部和西班牙北部部分地区在周三仍将处于“极高火险条件”。该机构表示，部分地区气温可能会达到 42 摄氏度 (108 华氏度) 甚至更高。预计西班牙大片地区在本周剩余时间内将出现极高气温。
在希腊，国家消防局表示，两名工作人员在克里特岛扑救火灾时牺牲。消防局称，火灾于周三下午发生，在强风影响下迅速蔓延，迫使数个村庄撤离。
西欧大部分地区正处于另一轮强热浪的笼罩之下，这是该大陆自 5 月以来的第四次热浪。官员们警告称，一个
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计划将用更适应干热气候的不同树种，重新种植上周在 Gironde 地区被烧毁的大片松树林。
“我们今天所处的局面是我们记录以来最困难的，也是自第二次世界大战以来最困难的，”马克龙先生说。
然而，尽管情况紧急，欧洲减少二氧化碳排放的承诺——科学家称这是遏制气候变化的唯一决定性方法——却面临被削弱的危险。本月，欧盟提议调整规则，允许某些工业在未来更长一段时间内以略高的水平排放污染物。
“净零”政策旨在平衡进入大气的温室气体量与移除量，这已成为批评者（尤其是右翼人士）攻击的目标，他们谴责这些政策在经济增长乏力和能源不安全时期是欧洲无法承受的奢侈品。
rity。而且，无论欧洲如何行动，全球的轨迹都取决于中国和美国——在那个国家，特朗普总统称气候变化是一场“骗局”——以及那些渴望能源的发展中国家。
“我们看到乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩正努力维持目前的承诺，”罗克斯特伦教授说道，他指的是欧盟的执行机构——欧盟委员会主席。“在法国和西班牙发生的事情意味着我们应该提高雄心水平，而不是降低它。”
他说，实现这一目标的一种方法是向公众普及气候变暖与过去一周灾难性火灾之间的因果联系。这场灾难是在一个恶劣但完全符合逻辑的链式反应中展开的。
首先，创纪录的热浪使土壤和植被干枯，而这些植被在潮湿的冬季之后生长茂盛。随后，波尔多以及西班牙首都马德里附近的野火便以这些干燥的植物为燃料而肆虐。
从无人机拍摄的西班牙东部被野火烧焦的土地。瓦伦西亚附近失控的火灾已烧毁近 23,000 英亩土地。
周三上午，吉伦特省的官员表示，火势在夜间保持稳定。但就在消防员取得控制进展之时，新一波热浪威胁要使情况恶化。
早先的高温期暴露了欧洲的其他脆弱性。6月下旬，火车运营商取消了线路，法国暂时停用了几个核反应堆，以避免将过热的水排放到已经很温暖的河流中。随着干旱加剧，多瑙河和莱茵河的低水位导致河流交通陷入瘫痪。
欧洲作为变暖最快的大陆，是天气模式改变及其与北极邻近共同作用的结果；在北极，积雪和冰层的减少导致出现更多吸收热量的深色表面。
该大陆目前的温度比三十年前高出 1.6 摄氏度，即 2.9 华氏度。到本周初，法国已记录到 53
波尔多周边法国地区的省长索菲·布罗卡斯警告说，预计周三和周四会出现“不利”的天气条件，包括强风和湿度下降。此外还有雷暴的可能性，这增加了闪电袭击的可能性，可能会导致消防员一直在奋战的一场大火再次复燃。
这些火灾是欧洲发生的一系列极端天气事件中的最新一次。欧洲是全球升温最快的大陆，科学家表示，化石燃料的燃烧增加了这些事件发生的可能性。
破纪录的高温导致植被枯萎，再加上强风，增加了火势蔓延的风险。西班牙和法国已有超过 300,000 英亩土地被焚毁，导致这些国家在和平时期进行了规模最大的疏散。
在西班牙东部，瓦伦西亚附近的一场火灾已烧毁近，长时间的干燥天气、阵风、极端高温和低湿度的结合，将显著增加野火蔓延及新火点点燃的风险。
波尔多附近村庄 Le Barp 的市长布兰丁·萨拉津周三在社交媒体上表示，消防员在过去 24 小时内已成功控制了当地的三处火情。她警告说：“情况正变得更加艰难，”并敦促人们保持“高度警惕”。
在受火灾影响最严重的法国村庄 Le Porge，市长马夏尔·扎尼内蒂表示，情况依然“危急”。自上周三起火以来，波尔多附近地区共有 240 栋房屋被焚毁，其中 180 栋以上位于 Le Porge。“我们面临有毒烟雾和严重的二氧化碳中毒问题，因此在区域被判定为安全之前，请不要前来，”他在社交媒体上说道。
自 1947 年以来出现的热浪中，有 28 次发生在过去 15 年里。 根据法国国家气象局 (Météo-France) 的数据，波尔多在 1921 到 2000 年间从未经历过气温达到或超过 39 摄氏度 (102.2 华氏度) 的日子。而今年夏天，这种情况已经发生了八次，包括本周三，且该季节甚至还未过半。波尔多的酿酒师们已经深受高温之苦，现在又担心烟雾会污染他们著名的葡萄园。 伦敦帝国学院的德国气候学家弗里德里克·奥托 (Friederike Otto) 表示，“喷流”风模式和高压系统曾经能在欧洲锁定数日“还算不错”的夏季天气。但她指出，由于这些动态与更温暖的气候同步发生，现在却导致了极其痛苦的条件。 科学家表示，欧洲夏季最可怕的一面在于，在回顾时，现在的情况可能显得温和。地球已经处于
23,000 英亩的面积，且依然活跃且未受控制，官员们表示。但该地区一些被要求撤离的居民已被允许返回。 “我们渴望看到自己的家，”来自维拉韦拉 (Vilavella) 镇并在当地市政府工作的玛丽亚·加瓦拉 (Maria Gavara) 周二表示。“我们逃离了狼口——我家里的百叶窗都融化了。” 周三，在附近的翁达 (Onda) 镇，52 岁的塞萨尔·波尔卡尔 (Cesar Porcar) 在一个被国民卫队封锁的环岛等待。他被从路边下一个村庄塔莱斯 (Tales) 撤离，那里地处埃斯帕丹山脉 (Sierra Espadán) 深处。 在道路对面，几股烟柱在森林上方升起，围绕着坐落在岩石露头上的圣芭芭拉 (Santa Bárbara) 隐修院。水轰炸机已经向周围地区洒水
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以阻止其突破 2015 年《巴黎协定》的核心目标：防止地球升温超过工业化前水平 2 度摄氏度，或 3.6 度华氏度。 一些专家表示，变暖的速度不仅没有放缓，反而似乎在加速。法国气象和气候局描绘了一幅反乌托邦的画面，称到 2050 年，热浪的频率可能会增加五倍，而气温可能会达到 118 华氏度。 在波尔多一个巨大的展览中心，数千名撤离者于周日在此避难，那个未来似乎已经到来。然而，51 岁的社会工作者塞林·拉蒂格 (Céline Lartigue) 必须追溯到欧洲的古代历史，来描述她逃离圣-梅达尔-昂-雅莱斯 (St.-Médard-en-Jalles) 郊区家中时目睹的灰烬和橙色天空，那里有生产法国核导弹推进剂的工厂。 “就像庞贝古城一样，”她说。
以阻挡火焰，但烟雾依然弥漫。 与周围的人一样，波尔卡尔先生正在等待警车车队，车队将分批护送居民回家，每次停留 10 分钟，以便领取药品或衣物。离开家四天后，他需要取回装有所有工作工具的面包车。 尽管如此，他说他感到很安心。“我从这里能看到我的房子，”波尔卡尔先生拿着手机说道。 在整个煎熬过程中，他一直通过一个公共网络摄像头实时监测塔莱斯的情况。他一直在关注家人的房子，并知道一切完好无损。 他检查了手机信号并展示了屏幕：上面显示的是塔莱斯上空没有烟雾的晴空。 车队到达后，波尔卡尔先生跑向自己的车，在国民卫队车辆后的车流中向塔莱斯行驶。
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试图撤销 疫苗政策。 结果如何？
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作者：AMY SCHOENFELD WALKER 和 LILY BOYCE
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今年，立法者们向州议会提交了大量法案，寻求废除疫苗接种规定或对疫苗安全性提出质疑，在 34 个州中引入了 200 多项措施。 这些法案挑战了各州用于向公众接种疫苗的系统中的每一个环节，从患者在接种前收到的宣传册，到学校、日托中心和雇主可以实施的要求。威斯康星州的一项提案建议将 10 月定为“免疫接种损伤意识月”。 爱荷华州的一项法案则试图取消中小学的所有疫苗接种要求。 总计今年引入了至少 400 份与疫苗相关的法案。其中许多旨在加强或保护公众接种疫苗的渠道。但据《纽约时报》的一项分析显示，有 209 份法案旨在削弱疫苗接种规则或系统，或破坏公众对疫苗的信任。
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旨在删除或放宽疫苗接种要求的法案
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已引入 亚利桑那州 HB2086
通过两院 通过两院 新罕布什尔州 SB453
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禁止雇主实施所有疫苗接种和口罩要求。
今年提出的许多法案旨在大幅改变长期以来为了确保足够多的人免疫以抵御麻疹和脊髓灰质炎等疾病而制定的规则。没有一个州通过这些提案，尽管亚利桑那州和新
旨在为未接种疫苗者建立保护机制的法案
已引入 亚利桑那州 HB2248
禁止医疗强制令（包括疫苗接种要求），并禁止对因宗教原因拒绝接种疫苗的工人进行歧视。
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一些立法者试图扩大对放弃部分或全部疫苗接种者的法律保护。几个州提出了针对未接种疫苗者的“权利法案”，而其他提案则试图为未接种疫苗者建立反歧视保障措施。 在一些州，随着官员们准备 2026 年的立法会议，立法者对这些措施的支持率很高。 佛罗里达州官员誓言要取消该州儿童的所有疫苗强制接种要求。但他们的提案未能推进，且在白宫向肯尼迪先生施压要求其收缩疫苗议程后，更广泛的势头在今年早些时候停滞，因为白宫担心这可能会疏远中期选举的选民。
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允许高级实践护士和医生助理签署疫苗接种豁免表。
罕布什尔州接近通过。 至少有十几个提案试图删除部分或全部州政府关于儿童在进入日托中心或学校前必须接种疫苗的要求。公共卫生专家
佛罗里达州 SB1756
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禁止基于疫苗接种状态的歧视，并要求父母在孩子接种疫苗前签署同意书。
虽然其中只有少数几项成为了法律，但推动这一立法进程的运动领导者计划在下个会期带着一批新提案回归。 公共卫生专家表示，如果所有法案都通过，将导致疫苗信心和接种率大幅下降，并最终导致更多疾病的爆发。 虽然只有 9 项成为了法律，但这些措施的倡导者表示，他们的活动取得了成功，因为今年许多其他法案已接近终点线。一些政策观察员也认为该运动取得了进展。 “在之前的会期中会在委员会中被否决的法案，现在能通过一个议院，有时甚至两个，”免疫管理协会 (Association for Immunization Managers) 州政策工作负责人 Jack McClure 表示，“它们可能还没有成为法律，但立法者们正将其认真对待。” 支持疫苗的立法者发现自己处于防御地位。他们提出了一系列法案，以使……
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更容易获得疫苗或强调其安全性记录。在联邦卫生官员采取行动限制儿童疫苗接种建议后，有 12 个州通过了法律以维持这些建议。
认为疫苗危险且绝不应强制接种的立法者和其他人士，在卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪 (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) 致力于反对疫苗的努力下倍受鼓舞。他们最新提案的细节为现代反疫苗运动提供了一个窗口，该运动近期将重点转向了更广泛的“健康自由”和个人自由的诉求。
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疫苗批评者将今年视为颠覆各州长期依赖的公众疫苗接种系统的机会。他们在冠状病毒疫情后积累了势头，利用了人们对新冠疫苗强制接种的愤怒以及对新冠疫苗安全性的质疑。
已通过一院 亚利桑那州 (Arizona) HCR2056 增加一项宪法修正案，禁止政府的所有疫苗接种要求。
爱荷华州 (Iowa) HF2171 取消中小学的所有疫苗接种要求。
表示，如果没有强制要求，有些人将不会给孩子接种疫苗——并不是因为他们反对疫苗，而是因为接种需要花费时间、精力和金钱。
已通过一院 路易斯安那州 (Louisiana) HB926 禁止雇主、公共服务机构和企业实施疫苗接种要求，并禁止基于疫苗接种状态的歧视。
西弗吉尼亚州 (West Virginia) HJR24 将拒绝接种疫苗的权利加入该州的《权利法案》。
反对这些法案的人士表示，他们通过提醒立法者大多数公众希望维持儿童疫苗接种规则而取得了成效。 “我们最重要的行动号召之一，就是让立法者知道，他们的选民希望学校保持为一个安全的场所，”美国疫苗家庭协会 (American Families for Vaccines) 的倡导主任詹妮弗·赫里克斯 (Jennifer Herricks) 说道。
削弱疫苗接种规则或获取渠道的法案
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印第安纳州 (IND.) 犹他州 (UTAH) 夏威夷州 (HAWAII) 堪萨斯州 (KAN.) 肯塔基州 (KY.) 俄克拉荷马州 (OKLA.)
宣称疫苗危险的法案
已提出 已提出 俄克拉荷马州 (Oklahoma) SB1484
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已生效 已生效 密西西比州 (Mississippi) HB1637 爱荷华州 (Iowa) SF2180 要求对突然死亡的儿童进行的尸检报告中，必须列出死亡前 90 天内接种的所有免疫疫苗。
少数通过的法案呼应了肯尼迪先生及更广泛的运动中长期存在的观点，即疫苗是危险的。例如，路易斯安那州、密西西比州和俄克拉荷马州生效的法律将要求在婴儿和儿童的死亡报告中列出近期接种的疫苗，而这项政策
针对 mRNA 或新冠疫苗的法案
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已提出 已提出 已提出 已提出 南达科他州 (South Dakota) HB1171 明尼苏达州 (Minnesota) HF3219 新泽西州 (New Jersey) S1149 要求公开并记录接种 mRNA 和 Covid-19 疫苗的情况，并将其纳入献血记录，允许个人要求更换不同的血液。
其他法案则继续多年来旨在专门禁止新冠疫苗接种的推动。其中一些法案将任何使用 mRNA 技术开发的疫苗标注为“大规模杀伤性武器”。另一项提案则建议在献血
更改疫苗接种系统的法案
新罕布什尔州 (New Hampshire) HB1449 内布拉斯加州 (Nebraska) LB203
已生效 已生效 已生效 通过两院 南卡罗来纳州 (South Carolina) H4189 爱荷华州 (Iowa) SF304 要求卫生官员在实施包括疫苗分发在内的健康相关措施之前，必须获得民选代表的书面批准。
另一类法案将改变各州为公众接种疫苗的方式，有时会增加更多步骤，例如要求在某些情况下获得家长同意。
创建了一个小组，在婴儿突然死亡后审查婴儿和产妇的医疗记录，然后将任何疫苗不良事件报告给疾控中心 (C.D.C.) 的登记库。
观察人士表示，这与一种已被揭穿的说法有关，即某些疫苗会导致婴儿猝死综合征。科学研究并未显示疫苗接种与婴儿死亡之间存在联系。
疫苗支持者表示，这些法案旨在播种怀疑，并可能导致部分接种了含 mRNA 疫苗的人群产生犹豫。（尽管目前市场上使用该技术的疫苗很少，但旨在对抗癌症和传染病的 mRNA 疫苗正在开发中。）
“如果你看到这样的法案，你可能会想：我们一定了解得不够多，”赫里克斯博士（Dr. Herricks）说。“但疫苗在很大程度上是婴儿和儿童能够生存到成年期的原因。”
尽管这些法案未能通过，但医学专家表示，这些提案传播了错误信息，可能会阻碍人们获得所需的医疗保健。
这些法案旨在通过某种方式导致人们对某些疫苗产生质疑，或在卫生官员分发疫苗前要求增加新的审批环节。其他法案则涉及改变健康保险公司如何承担疫苗接种费用，或官员及疫苗制造商如何处理疫苗损伤赔偿请求。（疫苗的严重副作用极少见。）
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| W.VA. | 将 mRNA 疫苗定为“大规模杀伤性武器”并禁止其使用。 |
| MICH. | 对卫生机构的结构进行更改，并要求疫苗接种必须签署同意书，其中包含承认疫苗风险的声明。 |
| OHIO | 禁止销售含有疫苗或疫苗成分的食品，除非标明其存在。 |
| TENN. | 禁止学校强制要求接种新冠肺炎（Covid-19）疫苗。 |
| FLA. | 未成年人接种性传播感染或疾病疫苗（如 H.P.V. 疫苗）需经父母或监护人批准。 |
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| Missouri SB1223 | 要求疫苗制造商提供关于未接种疫苗的个体可能接触到疫苗方式的信息。 |
| Missouri SB1362 | 要求源自接种过 mRNA 疫苗动物的肉类和食品必须进行相应标注。 |
| [[SOURCE_CLEANUP_NOTE: 缺失州份]] | 禁止疫苗诊所在学校上课时间内运营，但接种流感疫苗和应急疫苗的情况除外。 |
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作者：SHAWN MCCREESH
华盛顿 —— 这绝非《新英格兰医学杂志》。 当安东尼·福西 (Anthony S. Fauci) 医生的疫情日记在周末被他的共和党政敌公开时，它提供了一个罕见的、未经过滤的视角，让人们窥见这位在领导国家度过危机期间、美国最具争议的公职人员之一的内心私语。一个典型的记录日期为 2020 年 5 月 21 日。该条目首先记录了全球疫情的死亡人数 (234,100)，随后在保留拼写错误的情况下这样写道： “《华盛顿邮报》刊登了一篇关于我的大篇幅头版文章。非常之赞。我的国内外名声处于一种爆发状态，简直不可想象。说今天我是这个国家最出名、被谈论最多的人，也是世界上最知名的面孔之一，绝非夸张。” 这本日记长达 1,100 多页，时间跨度从 2019 年到 2022 年。福西医生的日记读起来像是一部关于社交礼仪的黑色喜剧：一名 79 岁的、向上社交的科学家成为了政府应对大流行的代表人物，随后成为了城中红人 —— 正是这个城市的红人。随着死亡人数的上升，这位医生的地位和自我认同感也随之提升。他结交了一群快节奏的社交圈，并沉溺于自己的公众形象之中。 这就像是萨克雷的《虚荣之宴》与加缪的《鼠疫》的结合体。 在一次又一次的记录中，他记述了自己在华盛顿社交圈中光辉灿烂的岁月。他在那些为他举行的盛大宴会上啜饮着香槟。
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在无需被询问问题的情况下讨论特朗普政府的健康政策。来自新罕布什尔州的民主党参议员玛吉·哈桑（Maggie Hassan）首先感谢福西博士——他在 1968 年开始在国立卫生研究院（National Institutes of Health）担任首份工作——感谢他“为这个国家服务 50 年以上”，并补充道：“知道这次听证会旨在陷害你，一定让你感到非常沮丧。”以保罗先生为首的共和党人将他描绘成一个自恋者，认为他对每一例新冠肺炎死亡病例或疫苗不良反应负有个人责任，并嘲讽他援引第五修正案。 “今天是星期几？”来自密苏里州的共和党参议员乔什·霍利（Josh Hawley）问道，他深知福西博士会拒绝回答。“你戴的是什么颜色的领带？你面前的地毯是什么颜色的？”每一次，福西博士都给出了他的那句统一回应。霍利先生称福西博士为“一个狂妄自大的人和骗子”，随后
指责他通过申请“总额超过一百万美元的现金奖金”，在从事公共服务期间秘密获利。 2021 年，总部位于以色列的丹·戴维基金会（Dan David Foundation）向福西博士授予 $1 million，以表彰他“捍卫科学”，该奖项在当时得到了广泛报道。这次会议是保罗先生（一名专攻眼科学的医生）与福西博士之间多年斗争的升级。这位肯塔基州参议员指责福西博士资助了在中国引发大流行病的研究，随后向国会撒谎——福西博士对此予以坚决否认。在一段简短的开场陈述中，根据传票出席的福西博士指出，在他领导国家过敏和传染病研究所（National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases）的 38 年里，包括新冠大流行期间，他曾在国会作证 200 次以上。 “在那段时间里，我证明了我相信并
尊重合法国会监督的价值，”他说道。 “然而，”福西博士补充道，“鉴于保罗参议员显然执迷于要求起诉我，他对我反复发表诽谤性言论，以及最近他公开我的未经删减的个人日记，旨在让我难堪并恐吓我，我能得出的唯一结论是，他要求我出席该委员会的唯一原因，就是想让我说出某些话，从而证明他多次公开承诺的——用他的话说，让我‘锒铛入狱’——是正确的。”福西博士获得了总统约瑟夫·R·拜登（Joseph R. Biden Jr.）的预先赦免，但该赦免仅保护他免于因在赦免发布之日（2025 年 1 月 19 日）之前所采取的行为而受到联邦起诉。保罗先生告诉福西博士，他不能“两头讨好”，即在受赦免保护的同时又拒绝作证。但法律专家表示，
赦免并不能保护福西博士免于被指控谎
荣誉，并在像 Cafe Milano 这样的时尚场所被人们围住要求合影。 芭芭拉·斯特赖桑（Barbra Streisand）一次次打电话。 朱莉亚·罗伯茨（Julia Roberts）送来鲜花。比利·克里斯塔尔（Billy Crystal）、埃尔顿·约翰（Elton John）、布拉德·皮特（Brad Pitt）和罗伯特·德尼罗（Robert DeNiro）被提及。 在那时——真的已经过去六年了吗？——当大流行袭来，全国都在寻找能够提供答案的人时，安东尼·福西博士一夜之间成为了名人。那是一段可怕的时光，而在这位资历最深、曾服务于多位总统并英勇应对艾滋病危机的医生身上，许多美国人找到了与特朗普总统相对立的镜像，因为当时的特朗普总统建议人们尝试使用漂白剂。 这位医生没日没夜地工作，尽可能出现在任何地方，以传播减缓传播和接种疫苗的信息。 但也有其他美国人对福西博士及其方法、建议和在媒体上的无处不在感到幻灭。对于任何将学校关闭、封锁、他们不同意的疫苗强制令等归咎于他的人来说，这些日记条目证明了他们对这个被他们指责的男人的品格所持有的怀疑。 他当时在寻找乐趣。 小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）是福西博士的主要对手之一。是在肯尼迪先生接管卫生与公共服务部之后，人们在政府服务器上发现了福西博士的日记。卫生部长随即将其移交给福西的另一个敌人，肯塔基州的共和党参议员兰德·保罗（Rand Paul），后者在周末将其公开。周三，福西博士被传唤到国会山，在由保罗先生主持的参议院国土安全委员会前宣誓作证。 通过一名代表，福西博士拒绝就本文发表评论。 我们之中谁不会因为自己的日记被倾倒在互联网上而感到羞愧？福西博士在那些年里记录的条目从未打算
会议在早期就变得激烈，当时保罗先生告诉他，拒绝回答问题将产生“后果”。当福西博士的律师大卫·谢特勒（David Schertler）开始代表福西博士发言时，保罗先生打断了他。 “再多说一个字，你就给我出去！”参议员严厉地说道。 谢特勒先生继续说话，保罗先生随即命令安保人员将律师请出门外。 保罗先生在周末公开了福西博士超过 1,100 页的打字日记，共和党人利用摘录重新审理了关于新冠肺炎应对措施的许多旧争议：mRNA 疫苗的安全性、实验室泄漏论、封锁措施以及福西博士的口罩建议。 “坦率地说，美国人民应该得到一个道歉，”保罗先生在开场陈述中说道。他指责福西博士“公开说一套，私下说一套”——这是在暗示日记的内容。 除来自俄克拉荷马州的共和党参议员詹姆斯·兰克福德（James Lankford）的温和询问外，共和党人的攻势极其猛烈——且带有极强的个人攻击色彩——
以及香槟舞会。
以公开。其中许多记录具有科学性质，确实涉及他对抗病毒的斗争。 尽管如此，窥视华盛顿权力旋涡内部的情景依然令人着迷。 这座城市的精英们——那些邀请安东尼·福西博士参加派对、让他出现在报纸专栏和电视节目中的人们——本周一直在翻阅他日记中那些充满自我意识的篇章，并带着尖刻的快感地发现，这位好医生竟然是个如此热爱派对的人。 “昨晚我去参加了乔纳森·卡尔关于特朗普的新书发布派对”，记录显示该活动在乔治城的 Cafe Milano 举行，日期为 2021 年 11 月 17 日。“整晚我都被那些想要打招呼、握手并与我合影的人们淹没了。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 参议员兰德·保罗（左），参议院国土安全委员会主席，要求将大卫·谢特勒（中上，安东尼·福西博士的律师）和安东尼·福西博士（右）移出听证会。
与安东尼·福西博士在一起。来自佛罗里达州的共和党参议员里克·斯科特声称，安东尼·福西博士一个人就应对新冠封锁、死亡、疫苗伤害以及美国人对公共卫生失去信任负责。 “你发布并强加给美国人的那些缺乏研究、随意且杂乱的信息令人震惊，”斯科特先生说道，并补充道，“你强迫亲人在孤独中死去，破坏了联邦政府在公共卫生方面的公信力。” 这场大流行是一场快速演变的危机，安东尼·福西博士的日记清楚地表明，他以及像他一样的科学家们当时面对的是一种未知的病毒，其科学认知在快速演进。斯科特先生的评论与兰克福德先生形成了鲜明对比，后者承认这场大流行是“未知领域”。 保罗先生质询的核心在于，冠状病毒是像安东尼·福西博士所认为的那样自然起源，还是源自实验室。保罗先生坚持认为，安东尼·福西博士从 1984 年起领导直到 2022 年底退休的美国国家过敏和传染病研究所，资助了在中国开展的危险研究，这些研究失控并基本上创造了导致大流行的病毒。 安东尼·福西博士表示这并非事实。这种被称为“功能增强”的研究，涉及对病毒的基因结构进行微调，以便科学家更好地理解病毒如何演变，并利用这些信息预防未来的大流行。周二，特朗普总统宣布了针对此类工作的新限制。 虽然安东尼·福西博士的研究所确实资助了在中国武汉实验室的研究，但美国国家卫生研究院已多次表示，被研究的病毒
“我无法从中解脱。虽然有些人可能认为被人们像对待埃尔维斯·普雷斯利那样对待是很棒的，但这实际上非常令人不安。”
另一条记录写道：“克里斯和我去参加了我们的朋友露丝·马库斯（Ruth Marcus，《华盛顿邮报》专栏作家）的图书派对”，地点在《大西洋月刊》前所有者大卫·布拉德利（David Bradley）的家中。“派对上的超级A名单嘉宾：参议员马克·沃纳（Mark Warner）、凯莉安·康威（Kellyanne Conway）、安德里亚·米切尔（Andrea Mitchell）、大卫·伊格内修斯（David Ignatius）、大卫·弗鲁姆（David Frum）、齐克·伊曼纽尔（Zeke Emanuel）等等。”
在国家肖像馆的一场盛典上获得表彰后（他写道，“那是你在华盛顿特区能想象到的最高级别AAA名单”），他记录了与维纳斯·威廉姆斯（Venus Williams）、塞雷娜·威廉姆斯（Serena Williams）、克莱夫·戴维斯（Clive Davis）以及名厨何塞·安德里斯（Jose Andres）共处的时光。“何塞邀请我们穿过街道去他的Zaytinya餐厅喝深夜香槟。”
有几条记录涉及他所获得的数量多到惊人的奖项。
在另一天的记录中，他写道：“在过去一年半里，我获得了许多享有盛誉的机构授予的荣誉。遗憾的是，这些荣誉实在太多了，以至于很难完全体会它们的价值，因为它们似乎都在一个非常密集的时间段内堆积在一起。”
另一天，他写到获得了国家意大利裔美国人基金会（National Italian American Foundation）授予的“列奥纳多·达芬奇奖”：“有一组令人惊叹的人物为我发表了一系列精彩的证词：罗伯特·德尼罗（Robert DeNiro）、阿尔·帕西诺（Al Pacino）、莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥（Leonardo DiCaprio）、弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉（Francis Ford Coppolla）……”
使用美国纳税人资金资助的研究与导致新冠肺炎（Covid-19）的研究截然不同。但保罗先生主张，安东尼·福西博士坚持使用一个狭隘的“功能获得性研究”定义，从而未能涵盖其研究所资助的在武汉开展的工作风险。
“美国人民并不要求就什么是功能获得性研究进行一场语义辩论，”这位参议员说。“他们要求的是用常识来判断在武汉进行的这项研究是否危险。”
该小组的最高民主党成员、密歇根州参议员加里·彼得斯（Gary Peters）指责保尔先生发起了一场政治动机强烈的调查，目的是“基本上将一个多年前就得出的预设结论合法化”。
安东尼·福西博士和保尔先生多年来一直互不相让。在 2021, 当这位参议员指责安东尼·福西博士在参议院作证时撒谎时，安东尼·福西博士回答道：“参议员，如果这里有人在撒谎，那就是你。”
安东尼·福西博士的律师舍特勒先生（Mr. Schertler）在声明中表示，他认为这次交锋“触发”了该参议员针对其客户的攻势。但他未能递交该声明，因为保尔先生拒绝让他发言。康涅狄格州民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔（Richard Blumenthal）将该声明的部分内容读入了记录。
“保尔主席持续传播的指控是虚假的且可耻的，”声明称，“我们将探讨所有选项以追究其责任。”
安东尼·福西博士还与卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）发生冲突，后者在 2021 年出版的著作《真实的安东尼·福西》（The Real Anthony Fauci）中，指责安东尼·福西博士与微软创始人兼慈善家比尔·盖茨（Bill Gates）勾结。
那是爱！但爱尔兰人怎么说？ “爱尔兰大使说我在‘爱尔兰深受喜爱’，”另一条记录写道。 福西博士新获得的名声让他进入了电影明星和音乐家的圈子。在 2020 年 10 月 14 日，他写道：“几天前，茱莉亚·罗伯茨给我寄来了一束美丽的花。我给她寄了感谢信。斯科特·阿特拉斯仍在就他的‘群体免疫’问题制造麻烦。” “与芭芭拉·史崔桑进行了一次很棒的通话，”在一段关于美国确诊新冠病例的折线图下的一条记录如此开始。“晚上我又不小心误拨了她的电话，她说她无论如何都要给我打电话，因为她想知道 Moderna 和 Pfizer 的产品之间是否有区别。我告诉她没有。” “芭芭拉今天用手机给我打电话，他们询问我关于她加强针的问题，”另一条记录写道。“能收到她的消息总是很不错。” 2020 年 5 月 11 日，福西博士写道：“一段非常搞笑的视频，比利·克里斯托在特朗普的地下地牢监狱里扮演我，”并附上了该视频的链接。 笼罩在这一切之上的是这场导致一百多万美国人死亡的疫情。 “我明天本该去法国大使家中参加一个规模更大的正式晚宴，”福西博士在 2021 年 11 月写道。“我想我要取消了，因为我不想经历像昨晚那样担心被感染而导致心惊胆战的体验。”
摄影：HAIYUN JIANG/THE NEW YORK TIMES
慈善家，以及制药公司。 肯尼迪先生周二表示，他将日记交给了保罗先生，并补充说这些页面“并非个人日志”，而是“由一名联邦雇员在政府计算机上，于历史上最重大的公共卫生紧急情况期间创建的政府记录”。 彼得·斯特利是一名长期的艾滋病活动人士，也是福西博士的密友，他说福西博士写日记是为了帮助撰写回忆录，他在疫情爆发时已经在起草该书。该书于 2024 年出版。斯特利先生表示，这些个人观察反映了福西博士对他生活中“正在发生的事情感到震惊”。 周二，由 20 世纪 90 年代与福西博士密切合作的艾滋病活动人士组织的一组由 155 名以上医生、科学家和公共卫生倡导者组成的团体发表公开信，为其辩护，并谴责他们认为的特朗普政府对科学和科学家的无情攻击。 虽然该日记并未为围绕实验室泄漏理论的科学争论增加太多内容，但记录中包含的个人观察显示，福西博士对他自己的名声以及他与迅速增加的名人名单之间的关系感到惊叹，这为福西博士的批评者提供了新的素材。他将特朗普总统描述为“ rambling”（胡言乱语）。 周二，特朗普先生反击道，他发布了一段 6 年前的视频，视频中福西博士在一次华盛顿国民队比赛中投出了一个错误的开球。总统宣称，这“绝对是我多年观看开球以来见过的最糟糕的一次投球！”
作者：达斯汀·沃尔兹 (DUSTIN VOLZ)
华盛顿 —— 参议院周二确认了美国驻曼哈顿检察官杰伊·克莱顿 (Jay Clayton) 出任国家情报机构负责人，将总统的一位长期盟友安置在国家安全的高级岗位上，而该职位的重要性在特朗普第二任期内有所下降。投票结果为 51 比 47，呈现出明显的党派分歧。尽管民主党人最初对他的人选持一定程度的好感，但克莱顿在本月确认听证会上拒绝明确表示约瑟夫·R·拜登 (Joseph R. Biden Jr.) 赢得了 2020 年大选，从而失去了这种两党支持。
尽管民主党人反对克莱顿先生，但一些人私下表示，他们对克莱顿接替比尔·普尔特 (Bill Pulte) 掌管国家情报总监办公室感到宽慰。普尔特此前是一名住房官员，一直针对特朗普总统认定的敌人开展报复行动。尽管如此，在投票后的一份声明中，来自弗吉尼亚州的民主党参议员马克·沃纳 (Mark Warner) 对克莱顿先生表示了某种怀疑。
“在他的确认过程中，我对他在关键时刻是否愿意顶住政治压力持有严重的保留意见，”参议院情报委员会最高级别的民主党人沃纳先生表示。“既然他已经获得确认，我衷心希望他能证明这些担忧是没有根据的，因为情报界需要比近几个月来更稳定的领导层。”
作为代理总监，普尔特先生缩减了情报办公室的规模，并在社交媒体上快意地宣布其举措。周二上午，普尔特在 X 上声称，他刚刚执行了“第五轮且接近最后一轮的解雇”，在他短暂的任期内，员工总数减少了 30%，不过现任和前任官员表示，目前尚不清楚其中许多裁员是否真正落实。
几周前，民主党人和共和党人曾协同工作，试图快速确认克莱顿就职，以防止普尔特即使是短暂地接管该职位，因为一些立法者担心他可能会给情报界造成不可逆转的损害。但由于特朗普先生试图向立法者施压以通过一项投票限制措施，不允许克莱顿参加确认听证会，导致该计划破产，进而导致普尔特接管了数周。
民主党人和部分共和党人认为，缺乏任何国家安全经验的普尔特先生不适合这份工作，许多人渴望看到在特朗普先生第一任期内担任证券交易委员会主席的克莱顿先生接替他。
国家情报总监办公室是在 11, 2001, 恐怖袭击后创建的，旨在促进各情报机构之间更好的情报协调。在关键的国家安全决策上，特朗普先生严重依赖中央情报局 (C.I.A.) 局长约翰·拉特克利夫 (John Ratcliffe)，包括 1 月在委内瑞拉的一次袭击以及与伊朗的战争。相反，他利用该办公室有选择性地解密文件，并抚慰他长期以来对被他指控试图破坏他的“深层政府”的怨恨。
据知情人士透露，拉特克利夫先生向特朗普先生推荐克莱顿出任情报首长。预计两人在问题上的立场将比拉特克利夫与图尔西·加巴德 (Tulsi Gabbard) 更加一致；加巴德在 5 月宣布，由于丈夫被诊断出患癌，她将辞去该职务。
在短暂领导该机构期间，普尔特先生监督了人员削减并协助解密
与 2020 年选举相关的文件。但他解雇的人数并未像民主党人最初担心的那样多，且白宫本月发布的关于外国干预选举的文件，在许多情况下已经是已公开的信息。尽管与普尔特先生相比，克莱顿先生被视为一个更为理想的选择，但当克莱顿先生在回答拜登先生是否赢得了 2020 年选举时给出含糊其辞的答复后，民主党参议员们对他失去了好感。在与乔治亚州民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫（Jon Ossoff）的激烈交锋中，克莱顿先生表示拜登先生已被“认证”为获胜者，但拒绝更明确地宣布他是合法的获胜者。奥索夫参议员已被提及为 2028 年总统候选人的潜在人选。
作者：HAMED ALEAZIZ 与 MIRIAM JORDAN
据《纽约时报》获得的文件以及对移民律师的采访，特朗普政府已开始在机场逮捕美国签证过期的外国公民，其中包括美国公民的配偶——这一策略开辟了一个巨大的可驱逐人口新资源池。
移民局探员在办理登机手续的柜台和到达门将目标人员迅速带走，近几周内，至少有 15 个机场采取了执法行动。一些逮捕行动在悄无声息中进行，而另一些则是在愤怒的同行乘客拍摄记录的情况下发生的。
此次逮捕行动似乎是运输安全管理局（TSA）与移民及海关执法局（ICE）之间一项协议的扩展。
《纽约时报》曾在 12 月报道，ICE 官员在航空公司提供给 TSA 的数据帮助下，在机场逮捕持有驱逐令的人员。
现在，通过审查国土安全部的文件，以及对最近在机场被拘留的来自十几个国家的 25 多个人的律师进行采访，《纽约时报》获悉，该计划目前显然将签证过期的人员也纳入其中——这是一个规模大得多的群体。
每年有数十万移民和访客在签证到期后逾期停留。许多签证过期的人处于法律灰色地带，因为他们正在等待签证延期或绿卡，且已被发放工作许可。在过去，除非这些人犯有罪行，否则不会被列为驱逐优先对象，而且他们在等待签证延期或绿卡期间极少被拘留。
但在特朗普总统领导下，情况发生了变化。他的政府开展了一场大规模驱逐运动，并将所有签证逾期行为视为非法。
“本届政府正努力确保非法留在我国的外国人无法再乘坐飞机，除非是飞离我国。”
谢里尔陷入被动
作者：特雷西·塔利 (TRACEY TULLY)
在新泽西州的选民名册中发现多达 6,600 名非公民，使该州的民主党州长米基·谢里尔 (Mikie Sherrill) 陷入了政治走钢丝的局面。而她的平衡之举即将升级。于 1 月接任职位的谢里尔女士在周二挑衅地拒绝了司法部要求该州提交数千名受影响居民个人详情的要求，她将此次事件称为软件错误。在回应特朗普政府要求提供 2023 年 6 月至 2024 年 6 月期间被无意中登记投票的非公民的“全名、出生日期、国籍、居住地址”时，她表示：“该请求没有法律依据。”司法部迅速做出反击。民权助理总检察长哈米特·迪隆 (Harmeet Dhillon) 周二在 X 上表示：“司法部将通过所有法律手段获取此信息！”
谢里尔女士强调，在申请驾驶执照或身份证件时被列入选民名册的非公民没有过错，并誓言将尽全力保护他们。她谴责了特朗普总统，指责他追寻过去选举的幽灵，并将选举“政治工具化”以谋取政治利益。与此同时，这位在党内持温和立场的州长上周暗示，她对“能让我们的选举更安全的建议”持开放态度。她还明确表示，这一错误并非发生在她的任期内，并将责任归咎于提供软件的技术供应商、车辆委员会以及她的前任——同样是民主党人的菲利普·D·墨菲 (Philip D. Murphy) 政府。她在新闻发布会上五次地说道：“不可接受。”她仅仅继承了这一烂摊子，但清理起来可能会很复杂。谢里尔女士表示，自 2023 年 6 月以来，约 400 名被错误登记的非公民投了票。州长表示，她“目前”没有证据表明任何选举受到了影响，但已下令进行独立调查。
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“自行遣返，”国土安全部的一位发言人在一份声明中说道。该机构未确认该计划的扩大。监督美国移民海关执法局 (ICE) 的该部门尚未披露在新计划下，有多少人在机场因逾期停留而被拘留。这些逮捕行动发生在美国白宫敦促 ICE 在全国范围内增加逮捕人数期间，国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马林 (Markwayne Mullin) 承诺要“加大街头打击力度”。为此，政府设定了每天 2,000 次移民逮捕的目标，大约是今年早些时候速度的两倍。对十多名移民律师、倡导组织以及一名航空公司员工的采访显示，目标群体涵盖广泛：一名等待工作签证延期的工程师，几名与美国公民结婚的新婚夫妇，以及一名前互惠生。
旅行者与 ICE 官员接触的视频片段充斥着社交媒体。在一段被广泛传播的视频中，来自厄瓜多尔的 27 岁女子尚塔尔·莫拉莱斯·罗哈斯 (Chantal Morales Rojas) 在 7 月 20 日登上一架从丹佛飞往加利福尼亚州奥克兰的西南航空航班时，被便衣警员拘留。据该家庭称，她当时正与她担任互惠生服务的家庭共度周末。当莫拉莱斯·罗哈斯女士扫描登机牌时，警报响起，登机口工作人员要求她等待。片刻之后，两名便衣特工在登机桥上拦截了她。“他们说他们会尊重她，会很有礼貌，”同航班且拍摄了部分接触过程的该家庭友人艾丽西亚·丹茨克 (Alicia Dantzker) 在接受《时报》采访时说道。视频记录了这些男子将莫拉莱斯·罗哈斯女士围在中间，然后引导她通过侧门向下走去。
走向停机坪，此时丹茨克女士在尖叫寻求帮助。根据其律师的说法，被拘留的人员中还包括一名坐在轮椅上的乌干达女性，她患有镰状细胞贫血且有一项正在办理的避难申请。在另一个案例中，根据美国国土安全部的说法，美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）试图在拉斯维加斯机场逮捕一名签证过期的澳大利亚公民。这一场景被一名旁观者记录下来，其拍摄的遭遇视频引发了广泛关注。警员们为了“缓解局势并确保警员安全”而放他离开，但该部门在声明中表示，ICE 在一天后于他尝试在洛杉矶登机时将其拘留。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 在这张视频截图中，尚塔尔·罗哈斯在 7 月 20 日于丹佛尝试登机时在登机桥内被拘留。
“在我从事移民法执业的 38 年里，我从未见过这种情况，”在亚特兰大执业并代表一名在等待工作许可延期时被拘留的印度工程师的查尔斯·库克说道。“而且我知道这种情况正发生在许多人身上。”
香农·谢泼德是一位移民律师，同时担任美国移民律师协会芝加哥分会副主席，她表示她和其他律师正在修改关于国内航空旅行的长期建议。
“以前我会说，只要你有身份证件，就可以在国内旅行，”谢泼德女士说。“现在我转而建议，如果你正处于变更身份的过程中，请避免任何旅行。”
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ALICIA DANTZKER
多年来，新泽西州没有任何州级或联邦选举的差距小到能由 400 票决定胜负。尽管如此，新泽西州的情况为特朗普及其同僚这些“选举真相追寻者”提供了一个每个人都承认确实发生且存在问题的非法投票案例。“总统已将其变成一个全国性问题，”著名的共和党选举律师本杰明·金斯伯格说道，他此前一直对总统关于选举被窃取的未经证实之主张持批评态度。“而谢里尔州长，”他继续说道，“无论她是否愿意，现在都成为了该问题的代表人物。”谢里尔女士在去年以 14 个百分点的优势当选州长之前曾在国会任职。她成立了一个联邦政治行动委员会，以支持“敢于挑战现状且目光清晰的领导者”，并表示她期望下一任总统来自民主党。
“我希望在很大程度上影响该候选名单，”谢里尔女士在 7 月 20 日的一次访谈中谈到她认为本州成功处理世界杯主办职责的情况。一天后，她举行了新闻发布会并披露，在 2023 年 6 月 12 日至 2024 年 6 月 25 日期间，车管所使用的软件缺陷导致数千名非公民被登记为选民，尽管他们在登记时勾选了自己并非美国公民，因此不具备资格。谢里尔女士表示，该软件已修复，但墨菲政府从未通知受影响的居民，也未将他们的名字从名单中删除。墨菲先生通过发言人表示，他对此漏洞并不知情。蓄意作为非公民登记投票或投票是违法的。随着特朗普政府加强移民打击行动，多达 6,600 人现在处于危险之中。
自去年司法部开始要求提供全国选民名单以来，包括新泽西州在内的超过半数州予以拒绝，从而导致了诉讼。法官们多次判定特朗普政府
[[IMG_XXXX]] 新泽西州州长米基·谢里尔（图中为 3 月在纽瓦克举行的新闻发布会）拒绝了美国要求移交被错误列入州选民名单的居民姓名的要求。
tration，认定各州没有义务向联邦政府提供这些数据。 舍里尔女士周二表示，该州正采取行动，迅速地从名册中删除约 4,500 名受影响的居民。 其余 2,100 份登记记录正被移交给县选举官员。“我们采取这一额外步骤，是因为我们的初步审查表明，这些人中有些可能是公民，”她在声明中说道。“正如我们有义务删除所有不具备投票资格的人一样，我们也有责任保护符合条件的新泽西州公民的投票权，并确保没有人被错误地从名册中删除。” 上周，车辆管理局（Motor Vehicle Commission）开始发送英文和西班牙文信函，提醒受影响者。“尽管您在关于美国公民身份的问题上选择了‘否’，但您的信息已被传输至全州选民登记系统以进行选民登记，”信函中写道。该州还建立了一个信息门户网站，“MVC 系统错误 2023”。 在特朗普先生的第二任期内，移民社区的恐惧感已经很高，而现在更是激增。特伦顿（该州首府）的移民权利组织——拉丁美洲法律防御与教育基金会（Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund）创始人兼前执行主任玛丽亚·胡埃加（Maria Juega）表示。 “气氛不能更紧张了，”胡埃加女士说。“人们害怕得不敢走出家门。” 新泽西州是 19 个既允许无证移民获得驾照，又在车辆登记办公室方便选民登记的州之一。胡埃加女士指出，一个允许用户查询是否已登记投票的网站运行不稳定且仅提供英文，这加剧了移民们的困惑，他们现在担心自己可能在不知不觉中面临风险。 “这简直是一团糟——彻底的一团糟，”她说。 舍里尔女士承诺将保持透明，并致力于追究相关责任人的责任。 “我们继承了一个问题。我们没有隐瞒，也没有否认，”她周二表示。 但这次发现的时机糟糕至极，距离期中选举已不足 100 天。 “她没有时间上的奢侈，”莱德大学（Rider University）新泽西政治雷博维奇研究所（Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics）所长迈卡·拉斯穆森（Micah Rasmussen）说道。 这场争议在新泽西州之外会产生多大反响，目前仍是一个开放性问题。但是
T.S.A.（运输安全局）与 ICE（移民海关执法局）之间的合作始于 2025, 5月，当时这家机场安全机构开始为了执法目的与移民局共享信息。这是一份通过《信息自由法》从政府透明度组织 American Oversight 获得并与《时报》共享的文件中披露的。 ICE 将带有驱逐令的人员名单分享给机场机构，后者将其在数据库中运行，并将任何匹配项报告给 ICE 以便进行潜在逮捕。这与过去的做法形成了鲜明对比，过去联邦政府为了避免干扰国内旅行，尽量避免让 T.S.A. 参与移民执法。 现在，“他们为了拘留而撒下的网要宽得多，”旧金山的移民律师加桑·沙米耶（Ghassan Shamieh）说道。 “被针对的不再是那些有犯罪记录的人，”沙米耶先生说。“你所谈论的是
关于那些拥有合法待审申请的人。”沙米埃先生在过去 10 天内有四名客户在机场被拘留，其中包括两名最近与美国人结婚并正在通过配偶申请永久居留权的女性。其中一名丈夫在妻子于加利福尼亚州伯班克着陆被拘留时就在她身边。周二上午，一名移民法官批准她以 $35,000 的保释金释放。但美国国土安全部 (D.H.S.) 的律师保留了 30 天内上诉的权利，在她获得决定之前，她可能会继续被拘留。据其律师称，住家保姆莫拉莱斯·罗哈斯女士于 2023 年 1 月以 J-1 交流访问者身份合法进入美国，该合法身份允许她工作两年。根据国土安全部的数据，她的签证于 2025 年 1 月 4 日到期。律师劳拉·利希特表示，在交流计划结束之前，莫拉莱斯·罗哈斯女士已向移民当局提交了留在该国的申请。利希特女士说：“在过去的三年半里，莫拉莱斯·罗哈斯在政府知晓其案件待审的情况下公开居住在美国，通过了多次背景审查，并在等待申请审核期间获得了国土安全部的工作许可。”她补充道，“她所追求的程序完全合法。”但国土安全部官员在的一份声明中表示，“她违反了我国法律，逾期滞留。”周二下午，一名法官批准她以 $3,000 的保释金释放，她可能会在周三前离开拘留所。利希特女士已提起诉讼，质疑政府在没有正规逮捕令且未判定拘留具有个体必要性的情况下，逮捕并拘留莫拉莱斯·罗哈斯女士的决定。
她的前雇主劳伦和斯科特·卡尔表示，他们在第一个孩子赛拉斯 6 个月大时雇用了莫拉莱斯·罗哈斯女士。这个家庭建立了深厚的情谊，卡尔夫妇还制作了一本名为《钱蒂和戈多大冒险》的定制相册作为离别礼物，这是莫拉莱斯·罗哈斯女士和他们儿子互称的绰号。“她是一个非常优秀的年轻女性，我们很幸运她的生命能进入我们的生活，”卡尔女士说。“我们一直努力与她保持稳定的联系。”
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特伦顿和华盛顿的共和党人表示，谢里尔女士试图澄清该错误发生在墨菲先生任期内，这种区分毫无意义。 共和党州参议员乔·佩纳基奥表示，民主党应为此负责。“他们当时负责管那个‘鸡舍’（指管理该机构），”他说。 新泽西州民主党的反应则明显低调。 州参议员安德鲁·兹维克是少数在谢里尔女士披露消息后对新泽西州选举给予全力辩护的民主党人之一，他强调涉及的选票在总票数中所占比例极小。 尽管如此，兹维克先生承认，新泽西州的选民登记错误已被“吸纳进”特朗普先生关于大规模非法投票的叙事中。 “这完全令人沮丧，”他说。 选举法律师金斯伯格先生表示，如果谢里尔女士能够建立一个其他州可以效仿的选民名册审核跨党派模型，那么她有可能将这次争议转化为自己的优势。 “对于一个想要登上国家舞台的人来说，这是一个有趣的考验，”他说。“她有机会将一件非常混乱的事情转化为一个机遇。”
手机数据 被指控犯重罪
作者：ADEEL HASSAN
这听起来像是詹姆斯·邦德会使用的东西：一种在落入他人之手时会自动毁灭的装置。但实际上，这是一个可以下载到安卓手机上的开源操作系统。
亚特兰大的联邦检察官正指控一名美国公民妨碍司法。该男子向海关官员提供了一个所谓的“胁迫密码”（duress passcode），该密码激活了擦除其手机内容的软件。
根据 11 月的大陪审团起诉书，当局在去年 1 月 24 日萨缪尔·图尼克（Samuel Tunick）返回美国时，在哈茨菲尔德-杰克逊亚特兰大国际机场将其拦截。当局在允许他入境前没收了他的手机。该案的听证会于上周在亚特兰大联邦法院举行。
这是已知最早的当局指控个人使用旨在在输入特定代码时抹除设备的程序来销毁证据的案例之一。
图尼克先生的律师在上周的听证会上辩称，这次没收是非法的，且他被针对是因为他参与政治活动，反对亚特兰大计划在 1,000 英亩的城市林地中建设警员和消防员培训中心的计划。反对者认为，这个被称为“警察之城”（Cop City）的中心将使警员军事化并破坏宝贵的绿色空间。
指控背后的法令 该项指控所依据的联邦法令规定，销毁证据或转移资产以阻止政府没收，或者向他人泄露即将进行的搜查或窃听，均属于重罪。该罪行最高可判处五年联邦监禁，或处以罚金，或两者兼施。
该法令适用于搜查之前、期间或之后。专家表示，如果调查目标知道搜查或没收即将发生，且采取行动试图挫败该行为，则属于该法令的管辖范围。
为什么数字数据可以被没收 法院长期以来将数字数据视为财产——例如知识产权盗窃——因此，在法律体系中，使用软件抹除数据与冲掉实物证据没有区别。
政府在此处的论点是，物理手机仅仅是一个容器。数据本身是他们拥有合法权限没收的财产，而输入胁迫密码则是导致其被摧毁的物理行为。
“法令明确规定，这必须是为了防止或损害政府的合法权限，”哥伦比亚大学法学教授、美国检察官办公室前检察官丹尼尔·里奇曼（Daniel Richman）表示。“关键在于，他将代码交给了政府，且明知输入该代码会擦除证据。”
海关搜查是否重要？ 此次搜查发生在边境，这对于政府的起诉和辩方的法律挑战都至关重要。
海关和边境当局认为，由于旅客在获得允许入境前并不在美国领土上，他们有权在无需搜查令或法院命令的情况下，搜查并没收入境旅客的数字设备。
图尼克先生当时正从多米尼加共和国度假归来，他及其律师辩称，即便在国际机场，旅客仍享有至关重要的保护。他们表示，他受到了非法拘留，从未被告知其权利，且多次请求与律师交谈被拒绝。
其律师在周二未立即接受置评。
胁迫密码的工作原理 胁迫密码是一项隐私和安全功能，用户此前配置了一个非日常解锁屏幕的次级密码。如果用户被迫或在压力下交出手机，他们可以提供这个密码，而不是那个能解锁手机的密码。 当输入胁迫密码时，操作系统不会解锁手机，而是开始对设备的数字内容进行全面擦除。该过程会保持物理设备和硬件完好，同时删除底层的数字数据。
分歧严重的美联储投票决定维持利率不变
plished.” 该报告显示，6月的整体消费者价格比一年前高出 3.5 百分比，低于5月份 4.2 百分比的年率。
沃什先生在周三的新闻发布会上采取了防御姿态，因为他被要求解释，维持利率稳定而非允许其上升，如何能与他的“价格稳定”承诺相兼容。他在新闻发布会开场时表示，“在必要且恰当的情况下，我们不会犹豫采取行动。”他反驳了美联储在本次会议上处于“暂停”状态的观点，并反复强调美联储的讨论、政策或策略中不存在任何“惯性”。
然而，直到目前为止，沃什先生尚未具体说明他将如何兑现其关于通胀的承诺。在本月国会听证会上，当被问及美联储将如何遏制通胀时，他规定央行将坚定其降低通胀的承诺，对任何未能实现目标的失败承担责任，并研究其可支配的政策工具。
当被具体问及美联储工具的有效性以及更高的利率是否是应对通胀的最佳补救措施时，沃什先生在周三表示，这是一个“很可能成为解决方案一部分的工具，但我不会说它是孤立的”。沃什先生转而将注意力集中在近期金融市场的波动上。
随着布兰奇的提名面临风险，基金开始进行赔付
总统选定的 最高检察官人选
作者：DEVLIN BARRETT 和 ALAN FEUER
华盛顿 —— 在参议院议员原定就推进托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）出任司法部长提名进行投票的前两天，一项针对一名反堕胎活动人士的百万美元赔付方案公布。布兰奇此前称该活动人士是拜登政府将政府工具化（weaponization）的受害者。保罗·沃恩（Paul Vaughn）在 2024 年被一个田纳西州陪审团裁定共谋阻碍进入堕胎诊所，此次给予他的和解金表明，尽管布兰奇先生在公开场合对此退缩，但 5 月宣布的一项 $1.8 billion 基金的目标仍可在继续推进。一个已经存在的发放纳税人资金的渠道，可能使他能够在安抚持怀疑态度的共和党人的同时，满足特朗普总统为他认为被司法部冤枉的人提供赔偿的愿望。沃恩先生的律师表示，他将收到政府的一笔七位数和解金，这使他成为了与政府立场一致并以替代手段获得赔付的人员之一。
自 1870, 以来，司法部一直处理针对联邦政府的民事赔偿请求。此类请求可以通过公开诉讼提出，也可以通过直接发送给该部门的表格私下提出。沃恩先生去年被总统赦免，他坚称自己是清白的，并指责拜登政府滥用旨在确保女性和医疗专业人员能够无障碍获得生殖服务的法律。这笔和解金是由经常代表反堕胎活动人士的托马斯·莫尔协会（Thomas More Society）的律师在 4 月达成的，但直到周二才在一份声明中首次披露，声明称其客户是出于政治原因以及作为政府针对反对堕胎权利者的工具化行动的一部分而被起诉。
该部门无论是否具有正式的基金结构都能进行此类赔付的持续能力，是特朗普政府与共和党参议员在衡量布兰奇先生（现任代理司法部长）提名时的分歧点之一。5 月，司法部宣布将通过设立一个旨在补偿其支持者的基金，来解决特朗普先生要求国税局（I.R.S.）支付至少 $10 billion 的诉讼，这增加了纳税人资金可能被注入 1 月 6 日暴徒手中的可能性。一项相关条款禁止国税局对特朗普先生及其家人的过往纳税申报表进行审计。参议院司法委员会中一名共和党人的单一“反对”票就可能拖延或否决他的提名。两名共和党参议员，来自德克萨斯的约翰·科宁（John Cornyn）和来自北卡罗来纳州的汤姆·蒂利斯（Thom Tillis），在周三威胁要阻挠
美联储主席凯文·沃什（Kevin M. Warsh）将自己的声誉押在抑制通胀上，将一个关键指数衡量 2 percent 的目标作为基准。
市场，最显著的是经通胀调整后的政府债券收益率的上升。他表示，近期金融条件的收紧（捕捉了整个经济中的信贷可用性）给美联储提供了“一些安慰，即我们拥有实现目标的手段和能力”。 当沃什先生讲话时，长期国债收益率大幅上升，30 年期债券接近其 5 月 5.2 percent 的峰值。这是自 2007. 以来最高水平。30 年期国债收益率的上升表明，人们对沃什先生长期应对通胀的能力存在某种担忧。 维持利率不变的理由取决于一个假设
上方为代理司法部长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche），他表示司法部搁置了计划中的 $1.8 billion 基金。 右侧为德克萨斯州参议员约翰·科宁（John Cornyn），他威胁要否决布兰奇先生的提名。
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提名。这对在挑战特朗普先生后失去席位的议员指责布兰奇先生拒绝将他承诺取消协议相关条款的保证以书面形式呈现。对此表达最强烈担忧的科宁先生表示，除非布兰奇先生就基金的终结和税务条款提供书面保证，否则他不会支持该提名。他表示，在周三他还没有“准备好投票赞成”，并要求该部门在下午 4 点前就基金和税务协议提供明确的书面保证。他补充说，投票可能会被推迟。“我们实际上已经向他们发送了我们需要对方删除内容的红线修订稿，他们只需要做出决定即可，”科宁先生说。蒂利斯先生对科宁先生表示支持，但似乎更为乐观，他表示相信双方将达成一项协议，从而为在议会进行确认投票扫清障碍。
“我们只是在努力敲定措辞，”蒂利斯先生告诉记者。“我确实认为这只是一个起草过程。我不认为我们在目标上存在分歧。”布兰奇先生在公开场合为该基金辩护，称其对于“法律战和武器化受害者获得发声机会并寻求救济”是必要的。民主党人则称其为一个厚颜无耻的秘密基金，旨在将巨额纳税人的资金引导给总统的支持者。尽管在公开场合有所退让，但布兰奇先生一直拒绝向法院或国会提供书面保证，承诺该基金不会以某种形式卷土重来。两周前，佛罗里达州南区联邦地区法院的凯瑟琳·M·威廉姆斯法官写道，布兰奇先生在参议院关于该基金的回答令她“感到极其不安”。在五月份的证词中，布兰奇先生告诉参议员们，对于创建该基金的协议，不存在任何法律审查的“机制”。他辩称，相关文件从未提交法院审查，因为该协议源自特朗普先生提起的一项诉讼。
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美联储在采取行动之前可以耐心地等待。许多政策制定者认为，下半年通货膨胀有减速的空间。到 9 月的下一次会议时，美联储将掌握更多两个月的数据。 此外，一系列追踪通胀预期的指标表明，公众尚未对美联储最终实现目标的能力失去信心。沃什先生在周三澄清，价格稳定意味着将以个人消费支出价格指数（PCE）衡量的通胀率恢复到 2 percent。 “这里没有隐含的软目标，在当前委员会的监督下绝不可能，”他说。“这里只有目标，且
关于其税单泄露的美国国税局（I.R.S.）案件已被驳回。 “这个回答充其量是误导性的，最坏的情况则是不真诚的，”法官写道。“在本次诉讼期间，法院随时都可以审议任何当事人的任何诉状。” 另一位联邦法官，弗吉尼亚州东区的莱奥妮·M·布林克玛（Leonie M. Brinkema）维持了一项旨在拆除该基金的诉讼。她表示，该案件依然处于开启状态，因为布兰奇先生和司法部拒绝签署一份在伪证罪处罚下的宣誓书，保证“他们不会采取任何行动来创建或运营”该支付基金，且该基金“不会以任何方式、在任何名称下继续运作”。 布兰奇先生对这类要求进行了回击。尽管他在6月份向立法者承诺该基金已不存在，但表示：“我不会承诺将任何内容写在纸上。” 他还告诉立法者，创建该基金的原因“依然与之前一样重要”。 这场围绕基金的争论，是布兰奇先生自2025.年3月成为司法部二号官员以来，其个人管理风格产生的最深远影响的实例。与前任相比，布兰奇先生在政治敏感案件的关键决策中公开采取直接控制，这经常引发批评，认为他仍然像特朗普先生的个人辩护律师那样行事，而非一名对纳税人、法治和公众负有责任的高级执法官员。 联邦法官们多次点名布兰奇先生，强调他在一系列被法官定性为检方失误的事件中扮演的直接角色。但在某些方面，布兰奇先生通过...
“它是 2 percent。” 但通胀维持在该水平之上的时间越长，这种信心被动摇的可能性就越大。官员们已经明确表示，如果通胀不能尽快回落，他们将准备好提高利率。 然而，使得利率走势尤其难以察觉的原因是，沃什先生倾向于对其看法保持沉默。他表示这种模糊性很重要，这样美联储才能获得关于市场想法的“未经过滤”的视角；而这种模糊性在周三会议前引发了猜测，认为沃什先生可能会出人意料地提高利率。 “惊喜并非目标，但与此同时，我想说我们在进入这次会议时，并不觉得我们面前的所有替代方案会限制我们的选择，”他说。 交易员目前将12月的加息计入定价，并降低了对9月行动的预期。 今年晚些时候的加息无疑会激怒任命沃什先生就职的特朗普先生。总统长期以来一直希望中央银行降低利率。在周三的决定之后，特朗普先生将责任归咎于沃什先生的同事们，他们在政策决策上与主席共同投票。 “我知道他很想看到更低的利率，但他有一个委员会，这是一个政治委员会，他们想要维持高利率，”总统说道。
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反复接手那些通常由下属处理的高关注度案件。
例如，在五月，一名纳什维尔的联邦法官在决定驳回针对萨尔瓦多移民基尔马尔·阿曼多·阿布雷戈·加西亚（Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia）的人口走私案时，将布兰奇（Blanche）先生置于裁决的核心，称其为报复性的“滥用起诉权”。该法官韦弗利·D·克伦肖（Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr.）认为，布兰奇先生主导了一场“被污染的调查”，并寻求起诉并非因为事实和法律需要，而是为了给部门提供“掩护”，以执行其曾声称绝不会做的事：将阿布雷戈·加西亚先生从被错误驱逐至萨尔瓦多的境地接回美国。
次月，一名明尼苏达州的联邦法官也将矛头指向了布兰奇先生，称其针对州长蒂姆·沃尔兹（Tim Walz）及其他民主党领导人的激进言论，为司法部在调查该州选任官员是否干预特朗普政府的移民镇压行动期间，发出大量不当的大陪审团传票铺平了道路。
法官帕特里克·J·希尔茨（Patrick J. Schiltz）指出，布兰奇先生指责沃尔兹先生和明尼阿波利斯市长雅各布·弗雷（Jacob Frey）“鼓励针对执法部门的暴力行为”，并誓言将“不惜一切手段”地阻止他们的“恐怖主义”。
希尔茨法官最终撤销了这些传票。他裁定，这些传票是“一项更广泛的胁迫行动的一部分”，旨在迫使明尼苏达州的官员协助特朗普先生激进的移民议程，且正值政府利用“刑事调查来报复并向总统的政治和个人对手施压”之际。
与科米采访的细节
根据科米先生的律师在寻求撤销一项关于社交媒体帖子的刑事指控时提交的一份新法庭文件，审问前联邦调查局（F.B.I.）局长詹姆斯·B·科米（James B. Comey）的特勤局特工被告知，要迅速将采访的书面摘要发送给身在空军一号上的特朗普总统。这份披露包含在交给科米先生的政府内部文件中，是迄今为止最显著的例子之一，揭示了特朗普先生目前在何种程度上直接主导联邦执法行动。记录表明，他在调查其长期死对头方面有着强烈的个人参与，这与以往总统在刑事调查中保持距离的惯例形成了鲜明对比。
2025, 5月，科米先生在他的Instagram账号上发布了一张海滩上贝壳的照片，贝壳被排列成“86 47”。总统的支持者迅速谴责该帖子为威胁。科米先生对此予以否认，称他认为“86”这个词是餐厅术语，意为驱逐不听话的顾客。数字 47 指的是第 47 任总统，即特朗普先生。司法部在4月提起指控，认为该照片构成了暗杀总统的威胁。
科米先生的律师在文件中敦促法官撤销此案，称这是一次报复性和选择性的起诉，基于总统长期以来对科米先生的个人厌恶；科米先生曾担任联邦调查局局长，直到 2017. 5月被特朗普先生解雇。科米先生还以其社交媒体帖子作为非威胁性的政治言论受第一修正案保护为由，寻求撤销指控。此外，他敦促法官审查大陪审团的程序，以查看检察官是否有误导陪审团成员以确保在该案中获得起诉书的迹象。司法部的一位发言人拒绝发表评论。
该文件提供了更多细节，揭示了执法机构在科米先生分享并随后删除该帖子后数小时内，为了追捕他而采取的极端手段。《纽约时报》早前的报道描述了特勤局如何与科米先生进行电话交谈，在他从北卡罗来纳州的度假屋开车前往弗吉尼亚州时对其进行跟踪，并要求其手机服务提供商向当局提供其位置的实时追踪信息。
文件中引用该日的一条特勤局信息称，司法部的“3 号人物‘想要通过紧急情况请求来 ping 手机’”科米先生。这指的是在快速进展的紧急调查中通常采用的法律程序，因为在这种情况下，法院的命令可能耗时太长，而某人可能处于危险之中。特勤局的信息中似乎没有指明这位司法部高级官员的名字，但该部门的 3 号职位是助理总检察长，当时该职位尚未由经参议院确认的官员填补。
文件称，在那段时间里，跟踪科米先生车辆的特勤局特工曾短时间失去他的踪迹，因为他离开了高速公路去祭拜 1995, 年去世的儿子的坟墓。次日，科米先生同意接受面对面采访。一份政府文件显示，“总统（POTUS）要求获取采访笔记的副本，以便在下午 6 点的新闻发布会上使用。”当时，特朗普先生正乘坐空军一号出行，一名特勤局特工将这次采访描述为“飞机上的热点话题”，并称总统“非常感兴趣”。另一名特勤局官员转达称，特朗普先生就“采访摘要在可用时提供”提出了“直接要求”。
该摘要随后被发送给空军一号上的一名特勤局高级特工。然而，在当天接受福克斯新闻（Fox News）采访时，特朗普先生宣布：“我不会介入。”总统表示，科米先生非常清楚他的贝壳照片意味着什么，并补充道：“那意味着暗杀。”根据法庭文件，与科米先生的这次采访在另一个方面也十分反常。法庭文件显示，国土安全部和特勤局的高级律师以及一名来自弗吉尼亚州的联邦检察官都亲身出席了这次采访。代理司法部长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）表示，检察官在照片之外还收集到了更多针对科米先生的证据，但他拒绝透露这些证据的具体内容。辩方文件列举了联邦调查局（F.B.I.）试图寻找更多定罪证据但均告失败的一系列尝试。特朗普先生及其支持者反复坚称，在黑帮术语中，“86”意味着杀死某人。为了支持这一主张，联邦调查局的调查人员反复搜索调查文件和法院记录以寻求证实，但一次又一次地未能成功。
一名特工在联邦调查局庞大的 Sentinel 数据库中搜索将“86”定义为杀人的记录，根据文件，结果“不确定”。另一名调查员搜寻了一份 33 年前的黑帮审判记录副本（科米先生当时是该案的主检察官），寻找关于“86”的提及，但一无所获。
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前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·B·科米（James B. Comey）在 Instagram 上发布了一张贝壳照片。
曾在纽约处理黑帮案件的退休特工接受了采访，他们也表示不知道“86”这个词被用作杀人的俚语，不过一名退休特工承认，他通常认为这个词的意思是“丢弃东西”。
在某个时间点，一名特工采访了前黑帮成员萨尔瓦多·格拉瓦诺（Salvatore Gravano），他更广为人知的名字是“公牛萨米”（Sammy the Bull），他曾是政府起诉领导臭名昭著的甘比诺（Gambino）犯罪家族的约翰·高蒂（John Gotti）时的重要证人。根据法庭文件，格拉瓦诺先生表示，对于帮派分子来说，“86”意味着“杀死”，尽管他也说他不记得在准备审判期间曾与科米先生讨论过这个词。格拉瓦诺先生表示，他认为科米先生的社交媒体帖子是在号召对特朗普先生实施暴力。
调查人员设法找到了一名在文件中仅被标识为“Person-1”的人，此人声称，鉴于科米先生曾担任高知名度黑手党案件检察官的经历，他一定知道“86”是一个实施暴力的术语。
检察官利用 Person-1 的陈述作为证据，获得了搜查科米先生数字文件的搜查令，但其律师表示，政府从未向签署搜查令的法官透露，Person-1 曾告诉调查人员他希望科米先生被监禁，且多年未与其沟通。
可能危及共和党 在众议院的俄亥俄州席位
作者 ANNIE KARNI 和 ROBERT DRAPER
华盛顿 —— 一场涉及两名来自俄亥俄州的强有力共和党国会议员且持续数年的不堪家庭剧，以及关于家庭虐待的指控，正威胁到在一个对该党已充满挑战的中期选举年里，一个相当稳固的共和党众议院席位。
马克斯·米勒 (Max Miller) 众议员是代表俄亥俄州东北部的第二任共和党议员，其政治崛起得益于他与特朗普总统的亲密关系。他被前妻艾米莉·莫雷诺 (Emily Moreno) 指控对其本人及其 2 岁女儿实施家庭虐待。
莫雷诺女士是参议员伯尼·莫雷诺 (Bernie Moreno) 的女儿，后者同样也是一名俄亥俄州共和党人。她表示，米勒先生通过向她身体泼洒平底锅中的热水，烫伤了她的胸部和腹部；用枪指着她的头；将她推向墙壁并撞击她的头部；以及导致他们女儿锁骨骨折并肩部淤青。
家庭内斗提升了 民主党的希望。
根据法庭文件，他们的女儿曾一度告诉莫雷诺女士：“爸爸杀了你。”
米勒先生不仅否认了所有指控，还对莫雷诺女士发起了反击，在一系列的媒体采访、法庭文件和反诉中提出了自己的破坏性指控，使得这个家庭的个人创伤一直占据头条新闻。他称其前妻精神失常、是个骗子、跟踪者以及一个危及他及其女儿安全的人。
这场法律和公关战在近几周已上升到让特朗普先生的政治运作团队以及白宫官员感到严重担忧的程度。由于他们面对的选举地图显示其面临失去众议院多数席位的风险，因此他们敏锐地意识到每一个席位都至关重要。
三名知情人士在要求匿名的条件下透露，内部讨论认为，他们担心米勒先生正在损害自己的连任机会以及共和党保留该席位的希望。
而最初几乎没有希望夺取该席位的民主党人，现在对在该选区的机会感到乐观，唯一的顾虑是共和党
作者：ERNESTO LONDOÑO
明尼苏达州圣保罗市的警察局长已针对该市市长提起一项性骚扰投诉，声称她在就职后的前几个月里，对其及其他警员的行为不端。
根据《时报》查阅的记录，自 2022 年起领导圣保罗警察局的局长艾克塞尔·亨利（Axel Henry）在 3 月份向市高级官员汇报了一系列涉及市长考利·赫尔（Kaohly Her）的事件。记录中关于这些事件的细节较少。
记录显示，市政府已聘请一家外部律师事务所对市长的行为进行调查。赫尔市长在 1 月就任时成为圣保罗首位女性市长，她拒绝了采访请求。
市长发言人马特·瓦盖尼乌斯（Matt Wagenius）在的一封电子邮件声明中表示，他无法回答关于正在进行的调查的问题。他说：“市长深切尊重市雇员，并对她的行为可能造成的任何无意影响表示遗憾。”
亨利局长也拒绝了采访请求。
代表该警察局长的律师克里斯·马德尔（Chris Madel）表示：“亨利局长将尽一切努力，确保圣保罗警察部门树立并遵循适当的行为规范。”
目前尚不清楚这项此前未披露的调查如何影响市政厅的运作。此次事件发生在圣保罗面临重大挑战之际，该市在今年早些时候曾是联邦移民打击行动的重点，目前还面临预计 $26 million 的财政赤字，以及关于清理大型无家可归者营地的激烈争议。
在 4 月 1 日的一封信中，马德尔先生通知圣保罗市检察官艾琳·高（Irene Kao），亨利局长计划“挺身而出作为一名前-”
据知情人士透露，总统的圈子认为，许多人将他的政治问题视为他自找的，应由他自己解决。根据民主党内部的民调研究，在特朗普于 2024. 年以两位数优势获胜的选区中，米勒先生目前的领先优势仅为 1 个百分点，对方是他的民主党竞争对手布莱恩·波因德克斯特 (Brian Poindexter)。民主党的竞选机构尚未在该选区投入任何资金来强调针对米勒先生的指控，但助手们表示他们计划这样做。“如果所有指控都被证明属实，”波因德克斯特先生在一次采访中表示，“米勒应该在监狱里，而不是担心保住国会议员的席位。”
接近特朗普的共和党人表示，他们看到的私下民调同样让米勒先生的参选前景堪忧。该党众议院竞选机构的一位发言人未对此次选举的评论请求做出回应。
米勒先生竞选活动的发言人艾比盖尔·安格洛斯 (Abigail Angelos) 指出，法院继续允许米勒先生共同监护孩子，这削弱了她所谓的针对他的“令人愤怒的指控”的可信度。她表示，米勒先生将“继续有力地捍卫自己的名誉，反对那些旨在煽动公众舆论而非反映现实的虚假且鲁莽的指控”。
米勒先生并不是唯一一名面临可能影响连任努力的指控和调查的众议院共和党人。佛罗里达州的代表科里·米尔斯 (Cory Mills) 去年因一起袭击女性的报告而受到华盛顿大都市警察局的调查。
警局长阿克塞尔·亨利 (Axel Henry) 告诉市府官员，市长何考利 (Kaohly Her) 对他的行为不端。
……在意识到市长的行为并非孤立事件，而是包括对下属市雇员（包括圣保罗警察局成员）的性骚扰之后，成为针对市长的正式原告。
根据《时报》获得的记录，这项独立审查由 Resolute Law 律师事务所的就业法专家凯莉·基尔伯格-尼尔森 (Cally Kjellberg-Nelson) 负责。基尔伯格-尼尔森女士没有立即回复寻求其调查进展的电子邮件。
瓦格纽斯 (Wagenius) 先生表示，他不知道审查何时完成。在被问及调查结果是否会向公众公开时，他补充道：“我们在决定是否发布报告时将遵守所有适用法律。”
马德尔 (Madel) 先生的信中包含一张短信截图，马德尔先生表示这是市长发送给一名市雇员的。截图中包含一张图片以及一段文字，内容为：“当你给了她一次痛快地‘弄弄’（weiner）后，她把你裹在她的毯子里，”后面跟着两个大笑哭的表情符号。
亨利局长是圣保罗本地人，自 1998 年加入警局以来一路晋升。自前市长梅尔文·卡特 (Melvin Carter) 在 2022 年 11 月任命他领导该部门（任期六年）以来，他一直保持较低的曝光度。
在他任职期间，圣保罗的暴力犯罪有所下降，亨利局长将此部分归功于一项积极调查非致命枪击事件的倡议。
该部门有时也面临批评。去年，在一次移民逮捕行动中，警员对抗议者使用了化学刺激剂和投掷物，引起了市议会议员和居民的反对。
何女士是来自老挝的苗族难民之女，在 1970 年代移居美国之前，她的童年部分时间是在难民营中度过的。
MADDIE McGARVEY 为《纽约时报》报道
在另一个案件中，他的前女友在指控他在分手后威胁要发布其报复性色情内容后，法院对其发布了保护令。他此前还一直受到众议院伦理委员会的调查，他对此坚决否认有任何不当行为。
来自北卡罗来纳州的众议员查克·爱德华兹 (Chuck Edwards) 目前也正因其办公室内的性骚扰指控而受到众议院伦理委员会的调查。爱德华兹先生否认了这些指控。
但米勒先生的案件或许是最令人震惊且细节最丰富的，它涉及一场撕裂了代表俄亥俄州的共和党代表团、并让两名 MAGA 忠诚者反目成仇的家庭剧。
莫雷诺先生对该案件一直保持公开沉默，这在他两人的政治利益（确保米勒先生的席位留在共和党手中）与家庭内斗之间造成了一种尴尬的脱节。
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她从 2019 到 2025 年期间代表明尼苏达州众议院的一个圣保罗选区。赫女士是一位温和派民主党人，职业生涯早期从事金融和非营利组织工作，在卡特先生的第一任市长任期内，她担任过圣保罗市的政策主任。
去年 8 月，她宣布竞选市长，这让该市的政治建制派感到惊讶；这意味着她只有三个月的时间去对抗其前盟友、根基深厚的卡特先生。她创造了历史，成为该市首位女性市长，也是首位当选此职的亚裔人士。
赫女士采取了积极的竞选策略，并为其主张赢得了支持，即该市的问题需要一位更加果断、反应迅速且精通商业的领导者。她承诺将振兴市中心区域，使企业更容易繁荣发展，降低住房成本，并加倍努力保护无证居民免受特朗普政府的打击。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 上面的马克斯·米勒 (Max Miller) 和艾米莉·莫雷诺 (Emily Moreno) 拍摄于 2022 年，在他赢得首次众议员任期后不久。这对夫妇在 2024 年申请离婚。 莫雷诺女士的父亲，左侧的伯尼·莫雷诺 (Bernie Moreno)，在 2024 年赢得了一场参议院选举，照片拍摄于当年在俄亥俄州与唐纳德·J·特朗普 (Donald J. Trump) 共同出席的一次集会上。
莫雷诺先生的发言人里根·麦卡锡 (Reagan McCarthy) 表示，“莫雷诺参议员的首要任务是其女儿和孙女的安全与健康。”
该发言人补充道，“虽然他不会在媒体上诉讼这些事项，也不会回应毫无根据的公开攻击，但他将尽一切努力确保其家人获得公正的结果。”
米勒先生和莫雷诺女士在 2015 年参与马可·鲁比奥 (Marco Rubio) 的总统竞选活动时首次相识，并在多年后重启了关系，当时米勒先生加入白宫担任特朗普先生的先遣团队主任并与总统关系密切，事业开始腾飞。
在特朗普的第一任期内，米勒先生在白宫内部被戏称为“音乐人”，因为当总统心情糟糕时，他负责安排总统最喜欢的音乐剧曲目，包括《猫》中的《Memory》。
他是总统选出的忠诚人选，旨在挑战众议员安东尼·冈萨雷斯 (Anthony Gonzalez)——冈萨雷斯是 10 名在 2021 年 1 月 6 日国会山暴乱后投票弹劾总统的共和党众议员之一。
“马克斯——是个很棒的小伙子，我可以告诉你们，”总统在 2021 年俄亥俄州的一次集会上说道，“他是个很棒的小伙子。”
冈萨雷斯先生随后立即退休，而非寻求连任。
莫雷诺女士离开了竞选政治，创建了一个面向特朗普支持者的交友应用。她与米勒先生于 2022 年在特朗普先生的贝德明斯特 (Bedminster) 高尔夫俱乐部结婚，特朗普先生及亲密盟友出席了婚礼。
两人相隔仅数小时
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周二，佛罗里达州采取了罕见举措，在五小时内连续执行了两名男子的死刑。这是在州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯（Ron DeSantis）第二任期内，死刑执行次数剧增的一部分。
在最高法院拒绝停止执行后，这两名男子在佛罗里达州中北部的佛罗里达州立监狱被注射死刑。两人均在 1980s 被判定犯有谋杀罪。
James Duckett，68 岁，前警察，因性侵并勒死一名 11 岁女孩而被定罪，于下午 1:19 被宣布死亡。Dominick Occhicone Jr.，80 岁，于下午 6:13 被执行死刑。Mr. Occhicone 因谋杀其前女友的父母而被定罪，成为过去 50 年内美国第二位被执行死刑的八旬老人。
这两次执行是今年佛罗里达州的第 11 次和第 12 次死刑，而与此同时，特朗普政府一直在鼓励各州更积极地寻求适用死刑。
今年美国超过一半的死刑执行发生在佛罗里达州，且至少还计划执行 1 次。
Mr. Duckett 因 1987 年将 11 岁的 Teresa McAbee 安置在自己的警车内并将其谋杀而被定罪。他一直坚称自己是清白的。
Teresa 的母亲 Dorothy Tula 在检察官发布的一份声明中表示，她对死刑的执行表示感激。
“我的家人和我很高兴这一天终于到来了——因为这是为了我女儿的正义并纪念她，而不是为了那个偷走她未来的男人，”Tula 女士说道。
佛罗里达州上一次在一天内执行两名男子死刑是在 1964 年，当时使用的是电椅。
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谎言，包括 Richard Grenell 和 Kellyanne Conway 在场。
在一段时间里，这段婚姻看起来像是 Mr. Miller 职业生涯的助力。他的新岳父是一位富有的前汽车经销商，也是一名极右翼共和党人，向他的多个竞选委员会捐赠了数万美元。
Mr. Moreno 在 2024 年当选参议员，击败了民主党参议员 Sherrod Brown。
但黄金时代十分短暂。这对夫妇在婚礼后几乎整整两年之期申请离婚，此后一直陷入相互起诉的循环，揭露了他们私人生活的细节。
Moreno 女士并不是第一个对 Mr. Miller 提出家庭暴力指控的女性。前白宫新闻秘书 Stephanie Grisham 在她的回忆录中写道，她曾与政府中的另一个人交往，对方有肢体暴力行为；她后来承认她指的是 Mr. Miller。
Mr. Miller 否认了她的指控并起诉她，指控其诽谤，并声称她试图破坏他的国会竞选活动。
在最近的媒体宣传活动中，他还设法重启了与 Grisham 女士持续多年的法庭之争。
本月，Grisham 女士起诉 Mr. Miller，声称他在一次采访和一篇社交媒体帖子中违反了他们 2023 年和解协议中的保密协议，他在其中声称她伪造了虐待事实。
据非营利组织死刑信息中心（Death Penalty Information Center）称，自 1976 年最高法院裁决恢复死刑以来，各州在同一天执行多名死刑犯的情况共发生了 11 次。最近的一次发生在 2017 年的阿肯色州。
2014 年，俄克拉荷马州曾计划在一天内执行两名男子，但由于第一名男子的执行过程出现失误，推迟了第二次处决。这次失误导致他在痛苦中挣扎，并死于监狱官员当时称之为的心脏病发作。
反对死刑的团体认为，连续进行死刑执行会增加操作失误的可能性。
“对于这个冒险的提议，没有任何解释或理由，而且在做出决定时似乎完全不顾死刑犯最后几天那庄重且必要的程序，”一个名为“佛罗里达州死刑替代方案组织”（Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty）的团体在声明中表示。
比尔·格拉德森（Bill Gladson）是佛罗里达州第五司法区的州检察官，达克特（Duckett）先生的案件在该区起诉。他在一份声明中表示，许多人已经“长期等待”该案件的结论。
“我办重申，我们致力于正直地寻求正义，支持受害者及其家属，并确保在我们起诉的每一个案件中都忠实地维护法治，”他说道。
在最高法院拒绝了两名男子的最后时刻请求后，州政府官员于周二推进了死刑执行。法院并未给出拒绝的理由，也没有记录任何单独的书面陈述或公开异议。
美国的年执行人数自 1999 年达到峰值以来有所下降，但从 2024 年到 2025 年几乎翻了一番，这在很大程度上是由佛罗里达州加速执行进度所驱动的。
在今年竞争最激烈的参议院竞选之一中，共和党人目前拒绝出资。
这种奇特的动态正在德克萨斯州上演，共和党候选人肯·帕克斯顿（Ken Paxton）的命运将有助于决定哪个党派控制美国参议院。但帕克斯顿先生在筹集资金方面陷入困境，且目前还没有人出手相助。
据与他的竞选活动有联系的十几名共和党人的采访，帕克斯顿先生在参议院候选人中处于一个独特的情况。共和党捐赠者仍对一场残酷初选所留下的积怨耿耿不忘。该州拥有 18 个以上的电视市场，是一个极其昂贵的竞选环境。而且，他的民主党对手詹姆斯·塔拉里科（James Talarico）已被证明是一个非常强大的筹款人。
帕克斯顿先生资金危机的最惊人之处，或许是共和党两个最大的资金委员会及其盟友捐赠者之间正在进行的一场高风险的“胆小鬼博弈”。
共和党人表示，这两个组织——参议院领导基金（Senate Leadership Fund）和 MAGA Inc.——都并不那么隐秘地希望对方能迅速介入，为帕克斯顿先生提供数千万美元的支出支持。但目前这两个组织都没有掏钱包。
“总得有人花大钱，”为帕克斯顿先生筹集捐款的石油高管丹·埃伯哈特（Dan Eberhart）说，“我们将看看谁先眨眼。”
在初选中，帕克斯顿先生击败了参议员约翰·科宁（John Cornyn），一名……
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参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（Lindsey Graham）的葬礼于周三在南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚市的第一浸信会教堂举行。格雷厄姆先生服务了四个任期，于本月去世，享年 71 岁。在周二于美国国会大厦和华盛顿国家大教堂举行的追思会（期间特朗普总统为其致悼词，其他国家元首对其表示赞誉）之后，此次葬礼仪式特意定为简朴。
作者：SANTUL NERKAR 和 MARK SOMMER
一名在刺杀作家萨尔曼·鲁什迪（Salman Rushdie）时捅其十多次的男子，周三被裁定犯有资助外国恐怖组织以及执行伊朗政府指令的罪名。伊朗政府在三十多年前就曾要求鲁什迪死亡。
哈迪·马塔尔（Hadi Matar）是一名对鲁什迪的作品感到愤怒的年轻人，他在 2022 年 8 月在纽约州西部的一次静修活动中冲上舞台，对其进行多次刺杀。鲁什迪在袭击中幸存，但留下了严重的神经损伤，且右眼失明。
马塔尔去年在州法院被裁定谋杀未遂罪名成立，并被判处 25 年监禁。周三，28, 岁的马塔尔被裁定向恐怖组织提供物质支持，并实施了跨越国界的恐怖主义行为。
该裁决由布法罗的一组联邦陪审团在仅经过两小时的审议后做出，这意味着马塔尔可能会在监狱中度过余生。他定于 11 月被判刑。
马塔尔没有表现出任何反应
许多该国及该州最大捐赠者的心头好。共和党提名人仍然缺乏这些捐赠者的热情，这些人曾在初选中资助广告，反复称他为罪犯和好色之徒。共和党人表示，他们的看法在很大程度上没有改变，尤其是随着帕克斯顿（Mr. Paxton）与女友世界旅行的内幕不断被揭露。帕克斯顿也没有得到华盛顿的帮助。国家共和党团体计划在今年夏天和秋天在其他所有顶级参议院选举中投入数千万美元，包括一些著名预测者认为不如德克萨斯州那样具有竞争力的州。他们甚至计划在不具竞争力的堪萨斯州投入更多资金。在大多数州，共和党人的支出预计将超过民主党人——例如在俄亥俄州，共和党的承诺总额超过 $100 million。一名帕克斯顿的顾问
否认了对其竞选资金拮据的担忧。“趋势是显而易见的：支持正在加速，而非减弱。从德克萨斯州的基层人士到大型保守派捐赠者，所有人都在向这次竞选集结，而 6 月份是最明确的信号，”该顾问尼克·马杜克斯（Nick Maddux）说道，他吹嘘上个月帕克斯顿各委员会筹集了 $7 million。此外还有一个事实，尽管在过去几个周期中，该州的民主党参议院候选人在筹款或支出上超过了共和党人，但他们并未获胜。共和党人表示，德克萨斯州每周需要约 $15 million 的超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）广告费才能开展全面的付费媒体宣传，这使得德克萨斯州比那些同样能决定多数席位但成本较低的州更消耗资源。根据媒体追踪公司 AdImpact 的数据，从现在到选举日，计划在德克萨斯州投入的共和党支出金额为：$0。那么，谁应该承担德克萨斯州的账单？首先，有参议院领导-
在那个大理石与木材装饰的法庭里，当裁决书被大声宣读时，他一直低着头，椅子缓缓地左右摇晃。
马塔尔先生的律师内森尼尔·L·巴隆二世（Nathaniel L. Barone II）随后表示，他对这一裁决感到失望，并表示将提起上诉。他认为，当前与伊朗的战争在说服陪审员相信马塔尔先生无罪方面，构成了一种内在的挑战。
关于马塔尔先生在那一天是否袭击了鲁什迪先生，并没有争议。这场为期一周的审判重点在于马塔尔先生的动机：检方必须说服陪审员，他实施的是恐怖袭击，并向一个已知的恐怖组织提供了物质支持。
1989年，伊朗政府因鲁什迪先生的小说《撒旦诗篇》而对他发布了一项法特瓦（fatwa），即宗教法令。书中对先知穆罕默德的虚构描绘激怒了许多穆斯林。
2022年，在法特瓦发布数十年后，拥有黎巴嫩血统的24岁美国公民马塔尔先生感到愤怒。他在多年前的一次中东之行后转向伊斯兰教并过上了隐居生活，他对鲁什迪先生的作品深感愤怒。
共和党的大额捐赠者尚未向该党的参议院提名人肯·帕克斯顿（Ken Paxton）承诺资金。他的对手，民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科（James Talarico），自6月以来已投放了$12 million的广告。
领导力基金（Leadership Fund）是由参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（John Thune）的盟友运营的超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）。它在初选中支持了科宁先生（Mr. Cornyn），但几乎没有接纳帕克斯顿先生。
两名知情人士表示，帕克斯顿先生在6月访问华盛顿期间，在其总部与该超级PAC的官员会面，并告诉他们，他希望这场竞选不会如此胶着，从而无需投入巨额资金。
参议院领导力基金正在为这场竞选资助民调和候选人研究，并告诉捐赠者他们正在关注该州。即便如此，该超级PAC在公布一项涉及其他八个州的$342 million计划时，明显地将德克萨斯州排除在外。盟友们表示，参议院领导力基金并没有数百万美元的闲钱去投资另一场竞选，尤其是考虑到今年波动剧烈的选情地图，包括蒙大拿州参议院竞选的新不确定性。
在桌子对面盯着看的是MAGA Inc.，这是一个由特朗普总统高级顾问运营的超级PAC。
……哈桑·纳斯鲁拉（Hassan Nasrallah），时任真主党领导人，以及最高领袖霍梅尼阿亚图拉（Ayatollah Khomeini）宣读法特瓦的声音。
在审判中，检方展示了他卧室墙上的一张照片，上面描绘了真主党战士艾哈迈德·卡西尔（Ahmad Kassir），以及伊朗前两任最高领袖。在他的手机主屏幕上发现了真主党战士的照片，在袭击当天的早晨还发布了两张。
巴隆先生表示，证据不足以证明马塔尔先生是在恐怖组织的指示下行动的。
“他也有其他T恤，”巴隆先生对一名作证的联邦调查局（F.B.I.）特工说，“你知道他有一件美国队长衬衫吗？那并没让他成为复仇者联盟的成员，对吧？”
在周三的最后陈词中，联邦检察官蒂莫西·C·林奇（Timothy C. Lynch）告诉陪审员，证据表明马塔尔先生是在真主党的指示下行动的，希望成为其“烈士”之一。他说，纳斯鲁拉先生的演讲是一个明确的“行动号召”。
“马塔尔先生是最终要去执行那项法特瓦的人，”林奇先生说，“他希望被永远尊崇为真主党的烈士。”
一个联邦陪审团判定哈迪·马塔尔（Hadi Matar）在执行伊朗政府针对萨尔曼·鲁什迪（Salman Rushdie）死刑的数十年之久的命令中具有罪名。
马塔尔先生从未接触过任何真主党人员。然而，检方辩称，如果没有这项法特瓦，马塔尔先生就不会被驱动去袭击鲁什迪先生。他们展示了他的笔记和练习本，其中频繁提到执行法特瓦的重要性以及他对鲁什迪先生的追猎。在的一本练习本中，他在每条记录前都画了圆点，写道：“我们需要尽快杀死他”，“终于要把这件事了结了”，以及……
拥有高达 $400 million 的惊人现金储备。他在5月决选前一周对帕克斯顿先生的背书，给科宁先生带来了致命一击。一些接近参议院领导基金（Senate Leadership Fund）的共和党捐赠者表示，尚未透露中期选举支出金额的 MAGA Inc. 应当承担德克萨斯州产生的任何账单。
MAGA Inc. 的官员表示，他们与参议院领导基金之间并没有僵局，并声称他们只是在谨慎处理支出计划，且上个月曾表示该计划将“很快”出台且规模“可观”。据两名知情人士透露，MAGA Inc. 的两名高管克里斯·拉西维塔（Chris LaCivita）和詹姆斯·布莱尔（James Blair）在近几周内与参议院领导基金负责人亚历克斯·拉奇姆（Alex Latcham）就德克萨斯州的问题进行了沟通。
“我认为他的政治行动委员会（PAC）应该帮助肯，我无法想象他们不这么做，”道格·迪森（Doug Deason）说道，他的家族今年向帕克斯顿委员会捐赠了 $410,000 以支持特朗普先生。“他背书了。他希望保住参议院。显然，我们不希望民主党人在德克萨斯州的全州选举中获胜。”
而那位民主党人塔拉里科先生（Mr. Talarico）在进入7月时，其主要竞选账户中的现金约为帕克斯顿先生的九倍。自6月以来，塔拉里科先生频繁出现在电视上，投放了约 $12 million 的广告向选民介绍自己。根据《时报》看到的邀请函，他还在积极筹款，包括上周六在芝加哥附近举行的一场高额捐款活动，以及本周末在马萨诸塞州的马莎葡萄园（Martha’s Vineyard）和南塔基特（Nantucket）举行的其他活动。
在某种程度上，全国范围内的民主党人也正经历着与共和党人类似的瘫痪状态。由参议院民主党人控制的参议院多数党 PAC（Senate Majority PAC）上周公布了新的支出计划，但尚未在德克萨斯州预留任何广告时间。尽管如此，塔拉里科先生自身筹集巨额资金的能力，使他较少依赖外部支持。
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“圣战的开始。”
巴罗内先生（Mr. Barone）辩称，检察官并不了解马塔尔先生（Mr. Matar）的动机，律师称这些动机是个人和宗教性质的。巴罗内先生表示，尽管马塔尔先生对《撒旦诗篇》深感不安，但在袭击鲁什迪先生（Mr. Rushdie）时，他并非在执行真主党或伊朗政府的意愿。
“哈迪·马塔尔的行为完全是独立地进行的，不受真主党的任何协调或控制，”巴罗内先生告诉陪审团。
On Aug. 12, 2022, 鲁什迪先生抵达一个文化静修地——肖托夸学院（Chautauqua Institution），准备就流亡作家发表演讲。鲁什迪先生作证说，在他即将发言前，他看到右侧有一个人，脸部被黑色面罩遮住。突然间，鲁什迪先生被推倒在地。
随后，马塔尔先生多次刺向鲁什迪先生，包括他的腹部、左手和眼睛，刺穿了他的视神经。
“我能感觉到疼痛，我大喊：‘我的眼睛怎么了？’”鲁什迪先生说道。
马塔尔先生被在场观众制服并被逮捕。鲁什迪先生被直升机送往宾夕法尼亚州伊利市的一家医院，随后被转至纽约市的纽约大学朗格尼健康鲁斯康复中心（NYU Langone Health Rusk Rehabilitation center），在那里度过了一个月左右。
除了袭击本身，检察官将马塔尔先生描述为真主党的狂热支持者。他们向陪审团展示了马塔尔先生穿着真主党衬衫并敬礼的自拍照；马塔尔先生写的一篇赞扬该恐怖组织的文章；以及他制作的一段宣传视频，其中包含哈桑（Has-）在 2006 年的一次演讲。
比帕克斯顿先生（Mr. Paxton）更依赖华盛顿。此外，上个月，一个致力于支持塔拉里科（Talarico）的超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）收到了技术投资者里德·霍夫曼（Reid Hoffman）提供的 $10 million。据两名知情人士透露，在与捐赠者的私下交流中，参议院多数党政治行动委员会（Senate Majority PAC）的官员概述了在德克萨斯州各种潜在的支出计划，以及这些计划可能在整个参议院选区地图上带来的权衡，这给民主党人留下了该委员会正准备在某个时间点向德克萨斯州投入资金的印象。
所有这些因素使得筹款成为帕克斯顿先生今年夏天的当务之急。然而，他与该州捐赠者的关系依然冷淡，其中包括前总统乔治·W·布什（George W. Bush）在德克萨斯州的人脉网络，而帕克斯顿经常公开批评该网络。拒绝支持的人士包括共和党巨额捐赠者肯·格里芬（Ken Griffin）等温和派，据称他没有帮助帕克斯顿先生的计划，以及像石油业的威尔克斯兄弟（Wilks brothers）和蒂姆·邓恩（Tim Dunn）等长期的右翼支持者。
一名知情人士表示，帕克斯顿先生已就寻求六位数的支票而给一些支持科宁（Cornyn）的捐赠者打了个人电话。但多名共和党人表示，一些科宁的捐赠者甚至拒绝回复来自帕克斯顿阵营的电话。
据《纽约时报》查阅的一份邀请函，帕克斯顿先生将于本周四在科罗拉多州的阿斯彭（Aspen）举办一场筹款晚宴，并在今年夏天晚些时候在怀俄明州的杰克逊霍尔（Jackson Hole）举办另一场。参议员泰德·克鲁兹（Ted Cruz）本月与他成立了一个联合筹款委员会，以协调筹款活动，例如最近在NBA火箭队老板蒂尔曼·费蒂塔（Tilman Fertitta）拥有的休斯顿一家酒店举行的活动。
据一名与会者称，上周三在华盛顿国会山，图恩先生（Mr. Thune）比之前更全面地接纳了帕克斯顿先生，在国际狩猎俱乐部（Safari Club International）为他举办了一场筹款活动，并承诺不会放弃德克萨斯州。另一位共和党参议员，来自田纳西州的比尔·哈格蒂（Bill Hagerty）预测，外部团体将在8月份为帕克斯顿先生投入巨资。他未具体说明是哪些团体。
摄影：AUDRA MELTON 为《纽约时报》拍摄
纽约高层建筑 改造项目
本文由 Mihir Zaveri, Arfa Momin 和 Miles G. Cohen 撰写。
纽约市官员本周告知开发商，由于一座正在被改造为公寓的曼哈顿中城高层办公楼存在结构问题，需暂停部分施工。
建筑局的检查员周二发现，位于 750 Third Avenue 的部分钢柱片段被焊接在一起，而部门发言人 Andrew Rudansky 表示，这些焊接“可能并未出现在提交给该部门的批准计划中”。
Rudansky 先生表示，当被要求提供关于焊接的证明文件时，现场承包商未能提供。
根据该指令，市府随后指示开发商“停止九层及以上的所有结构钢工作”。该指令日期为 7 月 28, 且要求承包商在恢复工作前向市府提供一份“工程师结构稳定性报告”。该建筑高度至少为 30 层。
Rudansky 先生表示，目前不对公众构成危险，没有撤离指令，也没有出现“结构性损坏”。
开发商发言人表示，
作者：ABBIE VANSICKLE
华盛顿 —— 特朗普总统周二请求最高法院介入并推翻一项针对他的 $83.3 million 陪审团裁决。该裁决源于 E. Jean Carroll 撰写文章指控其在曼哈顿一家百货公司发生过数十年前的性侵后，特朗普对其进行了诽谤。总统敦促大法官们拒绝陪审团的裁决，并主张最高法院 2024 年关于授予总统在职期间行为拥有广泛豁免权的裁定，使其在该案中免于承担责任。
“这是我们国家历史上首次由法院因总统的在职行为而判定其承担损害赔偿责任，”特朗普先生的律师在提交给法院的文件中表示，该文件已由《纽约时报》审阅。
特朗普先生的律师坚称，关于他在本案中是否享有豁免权的问题，在“无争议的事实记录中是显而易见的”。此前，一家上诉法院驳回了这一主张。
特朗普先生的律师告诉法院，如果维持原判，将造成“重大损害”，不仅损害特朗普先生，还将损害未来的总统以及国家。
向大法官提交的请愿书是特朗普先生持续否认 Carroll 女士主张的最新进展。他试图避免支付陪审团要求其支付的两项独立货币赔偿，这些赔偿与 Carroll 女士的指控有关，她指控特朗普在 1990 年代中期于 Bergdorf Goodman 的更衣室对其进行性侵，随后在一系列言论和社会媒体帖子中诽谤她。
据《时报》审阅的一份提交给法院的文件，司法部律师也分别请求大法官受理此案。Carroll 女士的法律团队拒绝了置评请求。
6 月下旬，最高法院驳回了特朗普先生的另一项请求，即请求法院审查一项针对他的 $5 million 判决，该判决来自 2023 年的一次陪审团裁定，认定其性侵并诽谤了 Carroll 女士。法院决定不审理该案，这促使审理法院
国际
周三一篇关于西班牙和法国消防员在气温飙升前试图控制野火的文章中，一名法国野火疏散人员的名字拼写错误。应为 Sylvie Blondin，而非 Blandin。
周三一篇关于巴基斯坦管理下的克什米尔地区在地区议会选举前因要求选举制度改革而引发暴力的文章中，误报了拉瓦拉科特与巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰堡之间的距离。该距离为 70 英里，而非 40 英里。
SL Green 表示，该公司在项目的初步准备工作完成后注意到了该问题。据 SL Green 称，问题出在建筑中已有的立柱上，该公司一直在努力更新其改造计划。 发言人表示，该建筑“不存在结构性问题”。SL Green 表示正致力于撤销该指令。
这是自 7 月 7 日以来，至少第三个被市政府完全或部分关停的办公楼改造项目。（建筑部门每年发布约 7,000 份停工指令。）当天，在 42 街原辉瑞（Pfizer）大楼旧址的一个大型项目中，两根钢柱发生弯曲。这引发了坍塌担忧，导致数千人疏散。
该事件动摇了人们对改造项目的信心。此前，公职人员和房地产行业一直称赞这种方式是重新利用旧建筑并解决城市住房短缺的巧妙之举。在 235 东 42 街原辉瑞大楼事件发生后，建筑部门的检查员一直在对改造现场进行全面排查，以确保其他项目不存在严重的问—
E. Jean Carroll 2024 年在曼哈顿。陪审团判定她获得总计 $83.3 million 的损害赔偿金。
豁免权使其 免于承担责任。
法官下令将这笔在特朗普先生上诉期间由第三方托管的资金支付给卡罗尔女士。
特朗普先生的新请愿书涉及 2024 年曼哈顿陪审团裁定的一项金额大得多的判决。在该陪审团认定特朗普先生在社交媒体帖子、新闻发布会以及审理期间通过言语攻击卡罗尔女士且具有恶意后，裁定由特朗普先生支付 $65 million 的惩罚性赔偿金。陪审团还裁定由特朗普先生向卡罗尔女士支付 $18.3 million 的补偿性赔偿金，以弥补其
受到的痛苦。
当时，特朗普先生在社交媒体上称该裁决“绝对荒谬”。
“我们的法律系统已经失控，并被用作政治武器，”他补充道，并承诺上诉。“他们剥夺了所有第一修正案赋予的权利。”
最高法院目前处于夏季休庭期，大法官们可能直到 9 月下旬才会考虑是否受理此案，届时他们将举行年度“长会议”，在会上审议数以千计的待决请愿书——并拒绝其中的绝大多数。
特朗普先生此前尝试通过各种手段推翻该裁决，但目前均未成功。
在 9 月，美国第二巡回上诉法院的一个由三名法官组成的专家组一致维持了陪审团 2024 年的裁决。该专家组驳回了特朗普先生法律团队的论点，即根据最高法院关于总统豁免权的裁定，他免于承担责任。
在一项极大地扩张了总统权力的裁决中，大法官们（分成了党派阵营）认定，在关于他试图推翻 2020 年大选的指控中，特朗普先生有权享有实质性的刑事起诉豁免权。法院的保守派多数席位同意，总统在任职期间作为其官方职责一部分而采取的行动，可以免于后续被政治对手利用。
特朗普先生的律师辩称，他在担任总统的第一任期内就卡罗尔女士发表的言论属于“总统官方声明”，因此不能作为对他施加责任的证据。
上诉法院法官在裁决中驳回了这一观点，写道——
应被针对，而不是朝鲜。
艺术
一篇于 7 月 24 日发表的关于纽约廉价娱乐活动的文章误报了大都会歌剧院夏季高清节日（Summer HD Festival）的日期。它是在 Sept. 2 to 7，而不是 Sept. 2 to 8。
一篇于周三发表的关于剧集《芝加哥》（The Chi）创作者莱娜·威瑟（Lena Waithe）的文章误报了威瑟在电影《女王与斯利姆》（Queen & Slim）中的角色。她编写了剧本，而非共同编写。
由于结构性问题，曼哈顿中城第三大道 750 号的一处建筑被下达了停工令。
问题。 上周，由于屋顶一根水平混凝土梁出现裂缝并经过修复的问题，他们关闭了位于曼哈顿下城百老汇 222 号的一栋建筑的工程。截至周三，该工程仍处于停工状态。
曼哈顿下城该项目的发言人詹姆斯·尤尔斯（James Yolles）表示，“在施工的任何时间点，建筑物的稳定性都没有受到影响。”
建筑部门还因 July 11, 检查中发现的问题（包括使用未经适当认证的设备）而部分关闭了沃特街 77 号的工程。该项目的开发商 Vanbarton 未回应置评请求。几天后，工程获准恢复。
原建于 1957, 的第三大道 750 号建筑目前正被改造成 639 个住宅单元，根据 April 8. 提交的许可证。在周二下达部分停工令之前，建筑部门未记录过任何违规行为。
该改造工程的承包商
DAVE SANDERS 为《纽约时报》拍摄
指出特朗普先生在针对卡罗尔女士的公开攻击中“从未动摇或放缓”，而卡罗尔女士现年 82 岁。专家小组还表示，他攻击她是“一个出于政治和财务动机的骗子，暗示她太没有魅力，以至于他不可能对她实施性侵，并威胁称她会对发声‘付出沉重代价’”。
随后，特朗普先生的律师请求全席上诉法院审理此案，这被称为全席审查（en banc review）。4月下旬，一个存在分歧的上诉法院拒绝受理此案。
在向大法官提交的请愿书中，特朗普先生的法律团队引用 2024 年最高法院关于豁免权的案件，主张上诉法院“即便在法院承认‘总统的大部分公开沟通很可能舒适地落在’该保护范围内之后，仍拒绝适用总统豁免权”。
尽管卡罗尔女士已经获得了 2023 年案件的判决赔偿金，但总统仍然要求最高法院重新审视其 6 月份决定不干预该事项的裁决。总统的律师表示，大法官应将针对这两项判决的挑战一并审理。
最高法院的规则为当事方在法院拒绝请愿后提供了一条请求重新审理的途径。大法官批准此类请求的情况虽然罕见，但并非没有先例。
大法官们没有为其拒绝此案的决定提供任何理由，这在法院拒绝听取请愿时十分典型。
在大法官拒绝此案后，特朗普先生称卡罗尔女士的起诉是“一个假案件”，并在社交媒体上写道，他将“以我所有的力量和强度，继续对抗这个针对我的武器化和法律战案件，包括那荒谬的诽谤指控”。
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sion, New Line Structures，在周三未回应置评请求。
Young Suh 是检测公司 Alan Margolin & Associates 的主管兼总工程师，在建筑部门的记录中被列为负责确保结构工程正确执行的第三方检测员。周三下午通过电话联系时，他拒绝置评，并表示不知道任何停工令。
Alfredo Amaro，31 岁，一名焊工
联邦调查人员称， $597,000 拨款资金被骗
作者：扎卡里·斯莫尔 (ZACHARY SMALL) 与 杰伊·鲁特 (JAY ROOT)
联邦调查人员表示，位于奥尔巴尼的纽约州立博物馆的高级管理人员指示一名下属伪造工时表，导致该州在 2020 至 2022 年期间违规支取了 $597,624 的联邦拨款。在《纽约时报》报道了有关欺诈指控后，美国内政部监察长办公室在的一份调查摘要中公布了这些结果。《时报》在 2024 年末报道称，该博物馆的一名前工资单员工布赖恩·斯莱特 (Brian Slater) 指控一名经理指示他提交虚假的工时表，作为从美国地质调查局骗取联邦资金计划的一部分，并且州高级官员“支持”了这次欺诈。
该调查由监察长办公室与纽约州审计长托马斯·P·迪纳波利 (Thomas P. DiNapoli) 共同开展，重点调查州拨款管理人员是否强迫一名博物馆员工对其在地质调查局测绘项目中的工作进行“欺诈性过度报告”，以获取联邦拨款。
“我们证实了这些指控，”摘要报告称。调查确定，州立博物馆管理人员“指示其员工提交不准确的工时表，反映出在该计划中参与程度被夸大”的情况，并违规重新分配资金用于支付员工工资。
报告称，调查人员已将报告提交给美国地质调查局（隶属于内政部）局长，以便其寻求“可能追回的损失收入以及任何其他被认为合适的行动”。
《时报》获取的记录显示，在此报告出炉前近三年，监管该博物馆的纽约州教育部门在宣布指控不成立后，迅速关闭了自身的调查。该州内部报告称：“无法得出存在管理不善或欺诈的结论。”该州教育部门——
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该项目人员在周三于施工现场接受采访时表示，周二下午他正身处 11 层进行柱体加固，当时工头告诉他的团队停止工作。 他表示，工头告诉他存在“文书问题”，因此团队必须停止焊接。 “他们只是在确保一切有序，”他说道。 他表示，他被告知建筑局的检查员将于周四返回该建筑，且很可能会允许工人继续在高层工作。他补充说，在辉瑞 (Pfizer) 建筑事故发生后，他本周已在现场见过三次检查员。 “他们现在是在尽职地工作，”他说道。 当被问及是否担心建筑不稳定时，他摇了摇头表示并不担心。 “我就是那个焊接钢板的人，”他说道。 31 岁的 Raul Castellano 负责建筑的防火处理，他在周三继续在高层工作，并表示没有人告诉他要避开这些区域。但他也注意到，在九层以上的楼层没有看到石膏板工、木工或焊工。 “这很奇怪，因为我们每天都能看到他们，”他说道。
部门已承认监察长办公室的总体调查结果。教育部门发言人 JP O’Hare 表示，该机构在“整个过程中完全透明并予以配合”，并补充说，官员们“准备偿还最终被认定为缺乏所需州政府配套资金支持的任何拨款资金”。Slater 先生在给《时报》的一份声明中表示，他怀疑州政府官员会更愿意偿还欠华盛顿的款项，而不是直接惩罚涉嫌欺诈的人员。“虽然偿还资金可能解决对美国地质调查局 (U.S.G.S.) 的财务影响，但它并没有解决那些因担心失去工作而被迫参与的博物馆员工所受的伤害，”Slater 先生说道。“更重要的是，允许涉嫌已证实违规行为的人员无需面对任何实质性后果，只会进一步损害员工士气和机构公信力。”州审计长发言人 Matt Sweeney 将有关任何收入追回的问题转交给了联邦当局，但表示他们的联合调查“发现该博物馆在其他项目上花费的员工工时中，不合法地申报了近 $600,000 的拨款资金”。其选区包括奥尔巴尼县部分地区的州议员 John T. McDonald III 表示，教育部门必须找出监管漏洞，以“防止此类事件再次发生”。McDonald 先生表示，这份报告提醒人们该博物馆在破败和官僚管理不善方面达到了何种程度——他认为，得益于州长 Kathy Hochul 翻新奥尔巴尼市中心部分地区的计划，州政府终于在跨越这一章节。Hochul 女士和教育官员们正启动一项 1.5 亿美元 ($150 million) 的博物馆翻新工程，作为
该翻新工程的一部分，McDonald 先生表示，尽管他担心内部问责机制需要加强，但从领导层和基层员工那里听到的情况让他感到鼓舞。“我们正处于博物馆的新时代黎明，”他说道。“你们揭露的这些，我想，实际上是过去的残余。”
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周三，一段恐怖的 911 电话让法庭陷入冰点，Lindsay Clancy 正在接受审判，她被指控在 2023 年杀害了她的三个年幼孩子。 在通话中，孩子们的父亲 Patrick Clancy 被听到在他们位于马萨诸塞州杜克斯伯里（波士顿郊区）家中地下室发现了孩子们的尸体。 Clancy 先生在办完事回家后，发现妻子割破了自己的手腕和喉咙，并从二楼跳下——
落地窗。他告诉 911 接线员他需要“去看看我的孩子们”，然后走进了地下室。 随后是他在发现 Cora（5 岁）、Dawson（3 岁）和 Callan（8 个月大）面朝下趴在地下室地板上，颈部被紧紧地绑着运动弹力带时，发出的接连不断的恐怖尖叫声。 “不，不，不，我的天啊，”克兰西先生在录音中尖叫道。
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“先生？喂？喂？”911接线员在回应道。“先生，地下室里发生什么了？” 克兰西先生的尖叫和抽泣持续了30多秒才回答道：“她杀了孩子们。” 马萨诸塞州普利茅斯市马萨诸塞州高等法院的威廉·萨利文法官在911录音结束后立即宣布休庭。 当陪审员离开法庭时，可以听到35岁的克兰西女士在轮椅上抽泣，她在当晚的自杀企图中导致瘫痪。她的律师凯文·雷丁顿将一只手放在她的肩膀上。 这次杀戮以及随之而来的谋杀指控，重新引发了一场关于法律系统应如何对待杀死子女的精神病母亲的长期争论。 克兰西女士对三项一级谋杀罪名表示不认罪。如果被定罪，她将面临终身监禁且不得假释的处罚。 她的律师在周一的开庭陈述中辩称，她杀死孩子是因为患有严重的产后精神疾病，导致她出现了命令她这么做的幻听。她的丈夫对精神健康临床医生提起的一项诉讼
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他在三个孩子被杀时正在办理杂事。
在杀人事件发生前对其进行了几个月的治疗，指控他们未能监测其对所开药物的反应，“或未能关注其日益恶化的精神状态”。 检察官认为，克兰西女士是经过理智且蓄意地策划了这次杀戮。他们试图将她在杀人案发生前几周的形象塑造为一个正常的、满足的郊区母亲，照顾孩子并陪同他们进行家庭郊游。 在检察官播放 911 报警电话之前，38 岁的克兰西先生作证了
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天气模式显示为今日东部时间正午的预期情况。
一场风暴将继续给今日大部分东北地区带来阵雨。在纽约东部和新英格兰地区，由于降雨量过大，可能会出现持续性洪水。东南部部分地区下午将出现雷暴，并可能引发导致洪涝的强降雨。从俄亥俄河谷到中大西洋地区天气干燥且湿度较低。预计从路易斯安那州南部到上中西部地区下午将有风暴。上中西部的部分风暴将带来冰雹、强降雨以及破坏性阵风的风险。落基山脉地区下午也将零星出现雷暴。从德克萨斯州西部经过沙漠地带到大盆地地区将出现高温干燥天气。
预计西北部将持续干燥，但从周五开始，一个接近的风暴将导致风速增加并提高山火风险。
新德里 94/ 79 0.04 95/ 82 R 94/ 81 R 利雅得 108/ 88 0 111/ 85 PC 112/ 87 S 首尔 90/ 79 0 90/ 77 PC 92/ 78 PC 上海 100/ 82 0 98/ 83 T 99/ 82 T 新加坡 88/ 81 0.02 89/ 80 Sh 90/ 80 T 悉尼 68/ 49 0 62/ 44 S 63/ 48 PC 台北市 94/ 80 0.03 94/ 80 C 95/ 80 R 德黑兰 95/ 79 0 96/ 75 S 95/ 76 PC 东京 93/ 77 0 93/ 81 T 94/ 80 Sh
欧洲 昨天 Ye Y 今日 明日 To T
阿姆斯特丹 90/ 64 0 78/ 63 PC 74/ 57 Sh 雅典 95/ 81 0 92/ 77 W 91/ 76 W 柏林 86/ 59 0 100/ 68 S 86/ 65 PC 布鲁塞尔 95/ 61 0 82/ 61 PC 80/ 58 PC 布达佩斯 91/ 57 0 97/ 67 S 102/ 67 S 哥本哈根 77/ 61 0 80/ 62 S 72/ 58 S 都柏林 72/ 63 0.06 68/ 49 Sh 67/ 48 PC 爱丁堡 72/ 61 0.49 65/ 47 Sh 64/ 49 Sh 法兰克福 99/ 66 0 101/ 65 S 87/ 66 T 日内瓦 97/ 68 0 96/ 66 S 87/ 64 T 赫尔辛基 75/ 54 0 75/ 60 PC 76/ 56 T 伊斯坦布尔 84/ 73 0 84/ 71 W 84/ 72 W 基辅 74/ 54 0 78/ 61 PC 83/ 64 S 里斯本 88/ 66 0 84/ 65 S 85/ 65 S 伦敦 93/ 63 0 82/ 58 PC 80/ 56 S 马德里 103/ 70 0 103/ 71 S 102/ 69 S 莫斯科 64/ 59 0.07 71/ 58 T 76/ 57 S 尼斯 90/ 79 0 91/ 79 S 90/ 77 S 奥斯陆 75/ 57 0 74/ 58 R 75/ 50 S 巴黎 100/ 64 0 89/ 65 Sh 88/ 63 PC 布拉格 88/ 55 0 98/ 68 S 96/ 65 S 罗马 93/ 73 0 95/ 72 S 95/ 71 S 圣彼得堡 71/ 58 0 75/ 61 S 84/ 67 PC 斯德哥尔摩 71/ 52 0 81/ 61 PC 74/ 51 W 维也纳 93/ 61 0 99/ 70 S 102/ 75 S 华沙 77/ 50 0 90/ 66 S 96/ 67 T
北美 昨天 Ye Y 今日 To T 明日 To T
阿卡普尔科 86/ 76 0 92/ 77 PC 93/ 77 PC 百慕大 81/ 73 0.52 86/ 81 T 85/ 79 T 埃德蒙顿 66/ 46 Tr 76/ 52 PC 80/ 56 PC 瓜达拉哈拉 73/ 62 0 84/ 61 T 86/ 61 R 哈瓦那 90/ 71 0 93/ 73 R 94/ 73 T 金斯敦 92/ 82 0 93/ 83 PC 93/ 81 C 马提尼克 90/ 79 0.06 90/ 78 Sh 90/ 76 Sh 墨西哥城 68/ 56 0 77/ 58 Sh 78/ 57 R 蒙特雷 83/ 72 0 99/ 71 S 99/ 73 PC 蒙特利尔 75/ 68 0.57 78/ 63 Sh 82/ 66 Sh 拿骚 91/ 80 0 92/ 80 C 90/ 81 C 巴拿马城 91/ 75 0.01 93/ 76 T 90/ 77 T 魁北克市 68/ 61 0.25 75/ 59 Sh 78/ 62 Sh 圣多明各 91/ 75 0 94/ 76 PC 91/ 74 T 多伦多 79/ 66 0 82/ 61 S 82/ 67 C 温哥华 65/ 57 0.01 73/ 56 S 74/ 61 PC 温尼伯 83/ 70 0 84/ 57 PC 84/ 59 C
周三是庭审的第二天，他描述了在孩子们被杀害那个晚上，那些让他短暂离开家门的日常琐事。检察官展示了视频片段，画面中他正在一家餐厅取外卖，并在距离家中几分钟路程的一家药店停下来购买儿童泻药。
他说，在下午 5:30 左右在药店购物时，他给克兰西女士打了电话，并与她简短交谈，以确保买对了药。检察官询问她当时是否似乎理解他在说什么，以及她的状态如何。
“听起来她很忙，”克兰西先生说。
他说他大约 30 分钟后回到家，面对着一栋死寂的房子，于是向家人呼喊。“我对着地下室喊，但没人回应，”他说。他走到这对夫妇的卧室，发现门锁住了，于是设法将其打开。
“我进去后看到到处都是血，窗户开着，”克兰西先生说道，他的声音有时几乎听不见。
他作证说，他迅速跑回楼下并进入后院，发现妻子躺在敞开的窗户下方的地面上，手腕和脖子上有多处深切口。在 911 报警电话的录音中，可以听到
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今日 ......................... 几场阵雨 最高气温 75。早晨的阴云和几场阵雨将在下午时分让位于部分阳光。气温将比平均水平低约 10 度，但天气将较为潮湿。
60s 60 6
哈利法克斯 (Halifax) H
今晚 ...................... 早前有零星阵雨 最低气温 68。傍晚将有一两场阵雨。夜间大部分时间将维持多云。气温将接近平均水平。风向为北-西北风，时速 3 至 6 英里。
明日 .......... 气温升高，有部分阳光 最高气温 83。虽然下午不能排除有阵雨，但全天大部分时间将是干燥的，伴有云层和阳光。气温也将回升。气温将接近恢复到 7 月下旬的平均水平。
周六 .................. 多云及阳光 最高气温 83。全天无雨，云层与阳光交替。风向为南风，时速 4 至 8 英里。
周日 周一 ................... 周日多云 周日将以多云和潮湿为主，局部地区下午有雷阵雨。最高气温 82。周一早晨的阵雨将在下午让位于几场雷阵雨。最高气温 83。
在中央公园，截至昨日下午 1 点的 13 小时内。
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
周二 昨日
6 p.m.
12 a.m.
本月日平均偏差 本年日平均偏差 与正常值相比 ............... -0.9° 与正常值相比 ............... -0.2°
水库水位 （纽约市供水系统）
昨日 ............... 86% 预计正常值 ............. 91%
太阳、月亮与行星
月相
下弦月 新月 上弦月 满月
8 月 5 日 8 月 12 日 8 月 19 日 8 月 28 日
下午 1:36
凌晨 12:18
日出 上午 5:51 日落 晚上 8:14 下次日出 上午 5:51
木星
日出 (R) 上午 5:47 日落 (S) 晚上 8:12
土星
日落 (S) 上午 11:37 日出 (R) 晚上 11:07
航海
从蒙托克角 (Montauk Point) 到新泽西州桑迪胡克 (Sandy Hook, N.J.)，延伸至 20 海里，包括长岛海峡 (Long Island Sound) 和纽约港 (New York Harbor)。 风向为西北风，风速 10-15 节，阵风最高达 20 节。纽约港和长岛海峡的波高为 1 英尺或更低。海洋波高为 3-5 英尺。阵雨可能会降低能见度。
高潮时间
上午 6 点
大西洋城 (Atlantic City) .................... 上午 8:48 .............. 晚上 8:59 巴尼葛特入口 (Barnegat Inlet) ................. 上午 8:56 .............. 晚上 9:06 巴特里 (The Battery) ..................... 上午 9:35 .............. 晚上 9:36 海文海滩 (Beach Haven) ................ 上午 10:24 ............ 晚上 10:30 布里奇波特 (Bridgeport) .................... 凌晨 12:13 ............ 下午 12:41 城市岛 (City Island) ..................... 凌晨 12:19 ............ 下午 12:53 火岛灯塔 (Fire Island Lt.) .................. 上午 9:52 .............. 晚上 9:58 蒙托克角 (Montauk Point) .............. 上午 10:32 ............ 晚上 10:39 北港 (Northport) ..................... 凌晨 12:19 ............ 下午 12:47 波特华盛顿 (Port Washington) ........... 凌晨 12:21 ............ 下午 12:54 桑迪胡克 (Sandy Hook) .................... 上午 9:06 .............. 晚上 9:12 希尼考克入口 (Shinnecock Inlet) ............. 上午 8:51 .............. 晚上 9:05 斯坦福 (Stamford) ...................... 凌晨 12:12 ............ 下午 12:42 塔里敦 (Tarrytown) ..................... 上午 11:24 ............ 晚上 11:25 威利茨角 (Willets Point) .................. 凌晨 12:24 ............ 下午 12:55
历史 最高 99° (1949)
最高 85° 正常值
下午 1 点 78°
最低 70° 正常值
69° 凌晨 3 点
(1914) 最低 59° 历史记录
日落 (S) 上午 6:41 日出 (R) 晚上 8:58 日落 (S) 上午 7:46
火星
日出 (R) 凌晨 2:18 日落 (S) 下午 5:20
金星
日出 (R) 上午 9:43 日落 (S) 晚上 10:09
背景中可以听到一名女性在哭泣，与此同时，克兰西先生敦促他的妻子保持清醒并继续呼吸。 “看着我，看着我，”他对她说。“琳，看着我，睁开眼睛。” 在他敦促她保持清醒时，她似乎在说：“我害怕。” 周三早些时候，克兰西先生在回答检察官的提问时作证称，从未有人建议过他不要将妻子与孩子单独留在在一起。 他还描述了在杀戮发生后、妻子住院期间接到的一个电话，并针对检察官的提问表示，克兰西女士没有提到他们的孩子。 “她没谈到孩子们，”他说，“她谈到的是她的经历。” 他说他不记得妻子在通话中是否告诉他，在孩子们去世的那天晚上她经历了精神病发作。 在 911 电话录音向陪审员播放之前，克兰西先生被允许离开法庭。
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S S M T W T
最高 最高 实际 预测 范围
最低 最低
昨日 ............... 0.40 纪录 .................... 3.47
过去 30 天 实际 ..................... 4.71 正常.................... 4.39
过去 365 天 实际 ................... 37.65 正常.................. 49.52
最近 30 天 气压
最高 ........... 29.60 1 a.m. 最低 ............ 29.55 5 a.m.
制冷度日
一项追踪当日平均温度高出 65 度多少的燃料消耗指数
趋势 温度 降水量 平均 平均 低于 低于 高于 高于
最后 10 天 30 天 90 天 365 天
图表显示近期温度和降水趋势与过去 30 年趋势的对比情况。
海滩与海洋温度
今日预报
69/62 多云有阵雨 肯内邦克波特 (Kennebunkport)
70/61 潮湿有少量阵雨 鳕鱼岬 (Cape Cod)
75/67 几次阵雨 长岛北岸 (L.I. North Shore)
76/69 几次阵雨 长岛南岸 (L.I. South Shore)
79/67 下午有阵雨 新泽西海岸 (N.J. Shore)
84/66 部分晴天 东岸 (Eastern Shore)
79/66 部分晴天 马里兰州海洋城 (Ocean City Md.)
84/71 绝大部分晴天 弗吉尼亚海滩 (Virginia Beach)
纪录 高温
F S S M
正常 高温
正常 低温
纪录 低温
湿度
最高 ........... 100% 1 a.m. 最低 ................ 81% 正午
色带 表示水温。
Betye Saar 是一位具有开创性的加州综合材料艺术家，她通过梦幻般的纪念盒，以及身披步枪和其他武器的“杰米玛阿姨”（Aunt Jemima）等令人震撼的图像，挑战了关于黑人女性的刻板印象。她于周日在洛杉矶家中去世，享年 99 岁。代表 Saar 女士的洛杉矶 Roberts Projects 画廊的公关人员 Hannah Gottlieb-Graham 确认了这一死讯。
“综合材料”（Assemblage）是指由现成物体组成的雕塑。从 20 世纪 60 年代和 70 年代起，Saar 女士与 George Herms、Edward 和 Nancy Kienholz、John Outterbridge 以及 Noah Purifoy 一起，成为了加州该领域的领先实践者。与男性同行相比，Saar 女士以在其作品中融入与家庭生活相关的精致面料、强有力的黑人女性身体图像以及浓厚的精神气息而闻名。
她 1970 年代最著名的作品旨在对抗并复杂化那些体现在吟游诗人角色或黑人“妈咪”（mammies，指被雇佣照顾白人孩子的女性）形象中的黑人刻板印象。当时这些贬低性形象在收藏品中随处可见，Saar 女士转化这些形象的一种方式就是给它们武装起来。在备受赞誉的 1972 年综合材料作品《杰米玛阿姨的解放》（The Liberation of Aunt Jemima）中，部分受马丁·路德·金博士被暗杀后产生的愤怒启发，她为那个在煎饼盒上闻名的塑料小人配备了扫帚、步枪和手榴弹。该作品融入了黑人权力运动的象征，从一块肯特布（kente cloth）到举起的拳头图像。
在艺术史学家 Kellie Jones 撰写的关于 60 和 70 年代洛杉矶黑人艺术家的书籍《皮科以南》（South of Pico，2017 年）中，她将 Saar 女士的杰米玛阿姨描述为“极其激进，传递着暴力的威胁”。Angela Davis 则将其描述为点燃黑人女性革命的火花。Saar 女士在 2016 年告诉《洛杉矶时报》：“我拥有这个杰米玛阿姨，我想在她的裙子下面放一把步枪和一颗手榴弹。我想赋予她力量。我想让她成为一名战士。”
Betye Irene Brown 于 1926 年 7 月 30 日出生在加州沃茨（Watts），当时该镇刚刚被洛杉矶兼并。她是 Jefferson Maze Brown 和 Beatrice Lillian Parson 的三个孩子中最年长的。两人的血统都较为复杂：母亲一方拥有非洲、美洲原住民和爱尔兰血统，父亲一方拥有非洲和乔克托（Choctaw）血统。Brown 先生在她 5 岁时去世，Betye 随后与母亲在帕萨迪纳（Pasadena）长大。
在 2011 年为盖蒂研究中心（Getty Research Institute）录制的口述历史中，Saar 女士将她的成长环境描述为中产阶级且并非完全隔离。她回忆道，公共泳池和公园是隔离的，但电影院和有轨电车则不是。她的母亲是一名女裁缝，Saar 女士在成长过程中一直热爱制作东西——无论是在学校的艺术课上还是在私下里，经常为亲友制作礼物。高中最后两年，她在帕萨迪纳初级学院（现为城市学院）学习陶瓷、插画、水彩和艺术史。1949 年，她毕业于加州大学洛杉矶分校，主修设计，在开始版画制作职业生涯之前，曾从事珠宝、家居用品和贺卡的设计工作。
Saar 女士将她对综合材料的兴趣归功于两种影响。一种是缓慢生长中的“沃茨塔”（Watts Towers），她小时候喜欢和祖母一起去参观。意大利移民 Simon Rodia 花了数十年时间手工建造这些高耸的结构，将碎玻璃、瓷砖、陶瓷等一系列碎片嵌入混凝土中。
“我对他的方式感到着迷……”
Ash Wu 参与了报道。
2006年，东野圭吾在东京。那一年他获得了直木奖（Naoki Prize），这是一项授予流行小说的奖项。 作者：FRANCESCA REGALADO 和 HISAKO UENO 曾获得埃德加奖（Edgar Award）提名，这是日本作家的首次之举。
东野圭吾，一位畅销推理小说作家，在丰产的创作生涯中出版了 100 部以上的书籍，其中许多作品在其故乡日本及海外被改编为影视剧。他于7月 23 日去世，享年 68 岁。 他在日本的长期出版商讲谈社（Kodansha）在周一的一份声明中表示，死因是结直肠癌。 东野先生是首位获得美国埃德加奖（Edgar Award）和英国匕首奖（Dagger Award）提名的日本作家，这两项奖项是推理与犯罪写作领域最负盛名的奖项。 他在英语世界的突破源于其 2005 年小说《嫌疑人X的献身》的译本。《时代》杂志将其评为有史以来 100 部最佳推理和惊悚小说之一，且该书入围了埃德加奖决赛。
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贝蒂·萨尔（Betye Saar）于 2024 年，当时她告诉《纽约时报》：“我仍然想创作艺术。”她认为自己能拥有这种动力是很幸运的。
使用了瓶盖、玉米芯和破碎的盘子——本质上就是垃圾——来创作艺术，创造美的事物，”她在 2024 年告诉《纽约时报》。在盖蒂口述历史中，她将这些塔比作她小时候喜爱的童话故事中“奇怪的城堡”。
来转化 贬低性的形象。
她说，另一个让她大开眼界的是 1967 年在帕萨迪纳艺术博物馆举办的约瑟夫·康奈尔（Joseph Cornell）大型回顾展。展出的作品是一系列带有超现实主义色彩、充满纪念意义的盒子，其中包含大理石、信件、羽毛等富有诗意的杂项。她记得每个盒子都像珍贵的宝石一样，被戏剧性的聚光灯照亮。
在 2012. 获得了最佳小说奖。该小说已被改编成电影，在日本、中国、韩国和印度上映。 东野先生写了 106 本书，在日本的销量约为 109 million 册，此外还有几部合著作品。根据讲谈社（Kodansha）的数据，他的书籍已在 41 个国家和地区出版，并被翻译成包括英语、中文、韩语和法语在内的多种语言。他的角色通常是普通人，如教师、小孩和典当行店主，他们在其平庸的生活中实施或遭受着隐藏的暴力行为。
KAYLA JAMES 为《纽约时报》拍摄
康奈尔的展览激励她开始创造她经常称之为自己的“神奇小世界”的作品。 居住在劳雷尔峡谷（Laurel Canyon）这个嬉皮士聚集地期间，她开始从当地的庭院拍卖会、二手店、跳蚤市场等地收集物品；后来，她又加入了在尼日利亚、塞内加尔、墨西哥、海地、巴西等地旅行期间购买的物品。 女士手套和胸针、褪色的家庭照片以及刺绣手帕是她作品中反复出现的物件。手和天体的图像也是她的心头好，反映了她对手相学、占星术和塔罗牌阅读的兴趣。当她深爱的姑婆哈蒂·帕森斯·海恩斯·基斯（Hattie Parsons Haynes Keyes）在 20 世纪 70 年代初去世时，萨尔女士继承了一个装满个人物品的皮箱——信件、照片、手帕、小饰品——她也开始将这些物品用于创作。 “我一直觉得旧物拥有一种力量，”她在 2024 年说道。“它们幸存了下来，并保留着前任所有者的气息。”
他的 2009 年小说《新参者》（Newcomer）围绕一名住在东京、看似没有敌人的独居中年女性被谋杀的案件展开，该作在 2019 年获得了匕首奖（Dagger Award）提名。 “我的内心始终存在着一名辩护律师、一名检察官和一名法官，甚至可能还有一名被告，”东野先生在 2006 年接受日本报纸《每日新闻》（Mainichi Shimbun）采访时，谈到了他那种超然的写作风格，这种风格绝不允许任何一个单一角色主导叙事。“这种心态防止了我仅基于单方面的视角进行写作。” 他的作品最早的国际电影改编版本之一是《秘密》（The Secret），这是一部 2007 年由大卫·杜赫夫尼（David Duchovny）主演的英语法语合拍片。它是根据东野先生同名小说改编的 1999 年日本电影的翻拍版。
“她们拥有一种精神。” 到了 1970s，萨尔女士还开始使用真实的窗框来容纳和组织她的艺术作品，首先在窗框中层叠她自己的版画和素描，然后再加入其他物体。 在她的最重要的窗格组合作品之一——《黑女孩之窗》（1969）中，上部出现了星星、月亮和一只代表艺术家星座（狮子座）的狮子，漂浮在艺术家的祖母的一幅银版照片之上。下方的窗格显示了一个女孩脸部和双手的深色剪影，紧贴在窗户上，仿佛她是一位在精神分界线另一端凝视的神秘先知。 这件作品经常被解读为一名年轻黑人女性对祖先的渴望和精神追求——艺术史学家理查德·J·鲍威尔将其称为萨尔女士的“水晶球版本”。 到了 1990s 后期，萨尔女士开始在新作中重新审视她一些具有开创性的主题和意象。首先，她让“杰米玛阿姨”回归，且带着“更新的武器和更强硬的态度”，她在 1998 年的一本目录引言中这样写道。当时的一项创新是她使用复古洗衣板作为画布——这是一种用来探索黑人女性过去和现在困境的象征性材料。 萨尔女士在整个生命周期中持续参展。但直到她进入 80 岁和 90 岁时，她才获得了国际博物馆的关注和学术研究，从而确保了她在艺术正典中的地位。她获得了多项终身成就奖，包括 2018 年由纽约国际雕塑中心颁发的一项奖项。 洛杉矶郡立美术馆策展人 卡罗尔·S·埃利尔
据讲谈社的声明，他的最后一部小说《永恒的记忆》将于 8 月 5 日由总部位于东京的出版商文藝春秋出版。 东野先生于 1958 年 2 月 4 日出生于日本大阪。根据出版商 Vertical Inc. 提供的传记，他的家庭并不富裕，他从小穿着两个姐姐传下来的衣服。 他在 2006 年获得日本大众小说奖“直木奖”时曾表示，他小时候讨厌书。 “我一直想写出即使是当年那个讨厌书的我也愿意阅读的小说，”东野先生当时说道。 他毕业于大阪府立大学（现为大阪公立大学）电气工程专业。不久之后，他开始在一家日本公司 Denso 工作。
左图是萨尔女士的一件著名组合作品《杰米玛阿姨的解放》，创作于 1972，作品中出现了武装版的煎饼盒人物。上方的 1969 年作品《黑女孩之窗》包含了一幅艺术家的祖母的图像。
1988 年的《欲望之守护者》。家庭小玩意、计算机设备和二手店的发现物都为她的艺术提供了素材。
她在 2018 年的一次采访中表示，萨尔女士“远没有达到她应有的知名度，这可能是因为她是黑人，是女性，且在洛杉矶工作——在很近期之前，这三点在艺术界都是对她的不利因素。”她组织了 2019 年的展览《贝蒂·萨尔：呼唤与回应》。 从 1952 到 1970 年，萨尔女士与陶瓷艺术家理查德·萨尔结婚，后者于 2004 年去世。他们有三个女儿。最小的女儿特雷西成为了一名作家，而艾莉森和莱兹利则成为了洛杉矶著名的视觉艺术家，偶尔与母亲共同展出作品。
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她的后代包括六名孙辈。
自 2016 年以来，她的画廊主罗伯茨女士一直与萨尔女士密切合作，共同编纂一部关于她作品的权威卷册，在业内被称为“全集目录”（catalogue raisonné）。
“我仍然想创作艺术，”萨尔女士在 2024 年告诉《时报》，“有时早晨醒来，很难起床，很难重新回到我的身体里并让它动起来。但我做到了。并不是每个人都有起床的理由，或者有他们热爱且能赋予生命意义的事情。我很幸运，我的生命中拥有这一点。”
江户川乱步奖，这是一个由日本推理作家协会颁发的针对未发表推理小说的奖项。这部关于一所女子高中发生的一系列暴力袭击的小说，灵感源自他在大学时的经历以及他前妻作为教师的工作。
东野先生与妻子于 1997 年离婚。关于其幸存亲属的信息暂未立即获得。
2023 年，日本政府授予东野先生紫绶褒章，这是一项授予对艺术和学术做出贡献的个人的荣誉。在领取勋章时，他表示他仍然旨在娱乐读者并鼓励他们阅读。
“这种感觉就像登山一样，”他说，“我相信只要我不断前行，最终会到达顶峰。”
创立首个女性政治中心
作者：杰里·朗曼 (JERÉ LONGMAN)
艾达·施默茨 (Ida Schmertz) 是一位具有影响力的幕后女性主义者和企业高管。她是首个致力于美国女性与政治的学术研究中心的创始董事，并帮助女性在从船坞到企业高管层等多样化的工作场所中获得晋升。她于7月2日在曼哈顿逝世，享年 91 岁。她的女儿莱克西·施默茨 (Lexy Schmertz) 表示，她在医院因肾衰竭去世。
施默茨女士将自己描述为“在知道这个词之前就是女性主义者”，她曾从事民主党政治和枪支管制问题的相关工作，当时她从罗格斯大学的一位院长那里得到消息，得知校园内将成立一个新的研究部门：伊格尔顿政治研究所 (Eagleton Institute of Politics) 的美国女性与政治中心。
1971, 她与罗格斯大学的英语教授鲁丝·曼德尔 (Ruth Mandel) 一起成为该中心的创始董事。该中心被广泛认为是美国研究女性政治的首要研究和教育机构。
尽管当时第二波女性主义浪潮正汹涌而来——部分是由贝蒂·弗里丹 (Betty Friedan) 1963 年出版的《女性气质的迷思》(The Feminine Mystique) 所引发的——但施默茨女士和曼德尔博士知道当时没有其他类似的研究组织。她们表示，无论是她们还是其他人，都不知道除了国会中的十几个女性之外，究竟有多少女性在担任政治职务。
施默茨女士和曼德尔博士表示，当时伊格尔顿研究所的负责人唐纳德·赫兹伯格 (Donald Herzberg) 承担了风险来支持该中心的创建，因为当时许多学者（包括罗格斯大学的部分人员）并不认为有必要探讨这一课题。施默茨女士在 2014 年一段与曼德尔博士关于中心创建的视频采访中提到，关于“女性与政治”的主题“并不存在”，“它在政治学中并不存在”。
1972, 施默茨女士和曼德尔博士组织了首届女性州立法者全国会议。该中心现任主任黛比·沃尔什 (Debbie Walsh) 在一次采访中表示：“她们真正捕捉到了选举政治与女性运动交汇的时刻。其核心在于，‘我们如何改变政治权力的面貌，让女性能够在这些男性主导的机构中发出自己的声音？’”
施默茨女士委任政治学家简·柯克派特里克 (Jeane Kirkpatrick) 撰写了一本关于此次会议的深度研究书籍，柯克派特里克后来成为了美国驻联合国大使。施默茨女士表示，这部名为《政治女性》(Political Woman) (1974) 的著作，“使该主题成为政治学研究中一个合法课题”。
1975, 在离开该中心后，她成为了纽约州州长休·L·凯里 (Hugh L. Carey) 的女性事务顾问。她后来表示，在这一角色中，她参与并成功推动了 1979 年在纽约聘用首批女性码头工人的工作。同样在 1979, 她被美国运通公司 (American Express) 聘用，当时企业界正寻求与地方和州政府合作，在金融危机和城市衰败的时代振兴纽约市。五年后，她成为了该公司的企业事务负责人，成为该公司首批女性高级副总裁之一，并在这个岗位上工作了近十年。
非营利组织“纽约市伙伴关系”(Partnership for New York City) 最近退休的首席执行官凯瑟琳·怀尔德 (Kathryn Wylde) 在她逝世后表示：“艾达是纽约及其他地区商业和政治领域第一代女性领导者的导师和支持者。她是 20 世纪 80 年代美国企业界最高级别的女性之一，自觉地为寻求晋升的女性铺平道路。”
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“在公司阶梯上晋升。” Ida Frederika (或 Frederieke) Schaap 于 2月 24, 1935 出生于阿姆斯特丹的一个中上层犹太人家庭。 该家庭在第二次世界大战初期 逃离欧洲，于 1939, 移居荷属东印度群岛（现印度尼西亚）， 随后前往美国。
在公司职场中 寻求晋升。
他们定居在费城附近。她的父亲阿道夫·沙普 (Adolf Schaap) 是一家雪茄公司的主管，自他们住在荷兰时起就在该公司工作；而她的母亲埃拉·（桑德斯）·沙普 (Ella (Sanders) Schaap) 是一位荷兰花卉瓷砖专家，成为了费城艺术博物馆的策展人。 伊达 (Ida，发音为 EE-da) 于 1956 年毕业于卫斯理学院，获得政治学学士学位，辅修俄语和法语。她后来表示，她早年尝试在 美国 政府寻找海外职位的努力因其女性身份而受挫。 她回忆道，面试她的男性表示，雇佣她将是一种浪费，因为她很可能会结婚并怀孕——而且即使她没有，与男性同事一起前往非洲等地旅行也是不体面的。
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相反，她参与了阿德莱·史蒂文森 (Adlai Stevenson) 1956 年那次不成功的总统竞选活动；曾在中央情报局 (C.I.A.) 短暂工作；并于 1960 年在哥伦比亚大学获得了国际关系与俄罗斯研究的硕士学位，她是当时在该校著名的俄罗斯研究所学习的三名女性之一。 一年前，她曾担任莫斯科美国国家展览会 70 名俄语导游之一。这是苏联境内首次举办的此类博览会，最令人记忆深刻的是在那里发生的所谓“厨房辩论”——即副总统理查德·M·尼克松 (Richard M. Nixon) 与苏联总理尼基塔·S·赫鲁晓夫 (Nikita S. Khrushchev) 之间关于资本主义与共产主义优劣的即兴争论。
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格罗斯曼，玛丽琳 (Grossman, Marilynn)
米格登，西德尼 (Migdon, Sidney)
海勒，弗朗西妮 (Heller, Francine)
萨尔，贝蒂 (Saar, Betye)
萨利文，苏珊 (Sullivan, Susan)
格罗斯曼——玛丽琳 (GROSSMAN—Marilynn)。 纽约犹太联合筹款会 (UJA-Federation of New York) 悼念玛丽琳·格罗斯曼的逝世，其家人对 UJA 和犹太社区的持续承诺提升了我们至关重要的工作。我们向她的子女布鲁斯 (Bruce, 妻子迪安ne (Dianne))、安德里亚 (Andrea)、凯伦 (Karen) 和 达娜·格罗斯曼·利曼 (Dana Grossman Leeman, 丈夫雷夫 (Rafe))，以及她的孙辈、曾孙辈和整个家庭表示最深切的哀悼。 苏珊·F·佩克 (Suzanne F. Peck)，主席； 大卫·H·瓦瑟曼 (David H. Wasserman)，董事会主席； 埃里克·S·戈尔德斯坦 (Eric S. Goldstein)，首席执行官
海勒——弗朗西妮 (HELLER—Francine)，享寿 85 岁，于 2026 年 7 月 26 日在纽约州蒙特基斯科 (Mount Kisco) 的女儿们陪伴下安详离世，她在此居住了 40 年多。弗朗西妮于 1940 年 8 月 31 日出生在纽约州纽约市，是已故的亨利 (Henry) 和西奥多拉·史密斯 (Theodora Smith) 之女。弗朗西妮是一位慈爱且尽职的母亲、祖母和朋友。她曾是查帕夸 (Chappaqua) 贝特尔圣殿犹太会堂 (Temple Beth El Synagogue) 的成员。她喜欢招待亲人并与她的狗陪伴。她的两个女儿梅莉莎·帕韦塞 (Melissa Pavese) 和金·哈维森 (Kim Haveson)；女婿和儿媳约翰·帕韦塞 (John Pavese) 和贾斯汀·莱津 (Justyn Lezin)；以及孙女尼科尔·帕韦塞 (Nicole Pavese) 和阿米拉·莱津-哈维森 (Amira Lezin-Haveson) 幸在世。她的兄弟戈登·史密斯 (Gordon Smith) 以及其他亲属也幸在世。
她对俄罗斯的兴趣集中在其文学上，同时也希望两国关系能够改善。但在一次采访中，她在哥伦比亚大学学习俄罗斯研究时的同学、作家马德琳·G·卡尔布（Madeleine G. Kalb）表示，她也担心冷战以及随之而来的核不确定性。 “这是美国面临的最重要问题，”卡尔布女士说，因为两国都“可能毁灭世界”。 在 1991 年苏联解体后的几年里，施梅茨（Schmertz）女士回到了俄罗斯，这次是去往圣彼得堡市外一个由女性市长领导的小镇。施梅茨女士当时担任投资顾问，她的团队通过为冰箱和小卡车等物品提供微租赁，帮助女性创业。 1994 年，比尔·克林顿总统任命她为罗马尼亚-美国企业基金（Romanian-American Enterprise Fund）的创始主席——该基金后来演变为罗马尼亚最大的非营利基金会——旨在帮助这个前共产主义国家采取市场经济。她协助监督该基金会直到 2018 年退休。
朋友。葬礼仪式将于 2026 年 7 月 31 日上午 11:15 在纽约州霍桑的茂特普莱森特公墓（Mount Pleasant Cemetery）举行。随后将在其位于蒙特基斯科（Mount Kisco）的住所举行小型聚会。
MIGDON——Sidney。 我们深切地悲痛地宣布，我们挚爱的丈夫、父亲、岳父/公公及祖父 Sidney Migdon 已于 2026 年 7 月 26 日平静离世，享年 85 岁。 Sidney 是一位顾家的好男人，一位受人尊敬的律师，也是一名令自己自豪的终身纽约人。他热爱与家人在海滩共度时光，并且是纽约喷气机队、大都会队、尼克斯队和游骑兵队的忠实粉丝。最重要的是，Sidney 热爱他的家人。他的遗属包括挚爱的妻子 Hermine；儿子 Andrew 及儿媳 Michelle；女儿 Nicki 及女婿 David；以及他珍爱的孙辈 Max、Sam、Melissa 和 Matthew。 我们将记住 Sidney 的善良、坚定的爱和沉稳的力量。我们将深切缅怀他，他将永远留在我们心中。
MIGDON——Sidney。 Benenson 家族和 Benenson Capital Partners 哀悼我们睿智的朋友、知己和值得信赖的顾问 Sid Migdon 的逝世。我们将怀念他的善良、机智、才智、幽默与忠诚。
他总是出现在每一个需要他的人身边。他助力 Benenson Capital Company 取得了如今的成功。我们将永远怀念他。我们向他的妻子 Hermine，儿子 Andrew，女儿 Nicki 以及他的全家表达最深切、最衷心的哀悼。 爱你们的，Bill Benenson, Lawrence Benenson, Fred Benenson, Alexander Benenson, Richard Kessler 以及 Benenson Capital Partners。
MIGDON——Sidney A.， Goldfarb & Fleece 家族深切哀悼 Sidney A. Migdon 的逝世，他是一位深受爱戴的管理合伙人、领导者和榜样，是我们所有人的灵感来源。他超过半个世纪的职业生涯以其敏锐的法律头脑、对客户坚定不移的奉献、对律所的稳健领导，以及最重要的一点——他的友谊而定义。 我们向他挚爱的妻子 Hermine，他的孩子们 Andrew, Michelle, Nicki 和 David，以及孙辈 Max, Melissa, Sam 和 Matthew 表达最诚挚的同情和哀悼。
SAAR——Betye： 美国艺术与文学学院（The American Academy of Arts and Letters）悲痛地注意到这位开创性的综合材料艺术家的逝世，她曾是黑人艺术运动（Black Arts Movement）的指路明灯。
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Schmertz 女士在 1990 年代中期被诊断出患有慢性淋巴细胞白血病，并并发两种自身免疫性疾病。后来，她通过作证和撰文，支持纽约州的一项立法，该立法将允许绝症患者通过致命处方结束生命。她在 2019 年为《奥巴尼时报联盟》（The Times Union of Albany）撰写的一篇客座文章中写道：“当一个人死于绝症并在生命尽头承受痛苦时，邮政编码真的重要吗？”
纽约州州长凯西·霍库尔（Kathy Hochul）已于 2 月签署《医疗辅助死亡法案》使其成为法律；该法案将于 8 月 5 日起生效。
Schmertz 女士与公共关系高管 Herbert Schmertz 的婚姻于 1976 年以离婚告终。除了他们的女儿，她的遗属还包括他们的儿子 Anthony、四个孙子以及两个姐妹 Martina Yamin 和 Aletta Schaap。
“我一直非常钦佩她以这种低调、在幕后的方式所取得的所有成就，”Kalb 女士说。“她并不仗势欺人，她不需要这样做。人们只是被她的能量和她卓越的组织能力所吸引。”
SULLIVAN——Susan Catherine。
Susan Catherine Sullivan，80 岁，曾居住在纽约布鲁克林和科罗拉多州丹佛，于 2026 年 7 月 23 日逝世。作为一名虔诚的天主教徒，人们将记住她的乐观、幽默、对家庭的热爱，以及她坚信每个人都应被尊严和仁慈对待的信念。她是已故 Thomas Michael Sullivan 深爱的妻子，也是 Daniel Sullivan 珍爱的母亲。葬礼弥撒：2026 年 8 月 22 日上午 10:30，在圣三一天主教堂举行。
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专栏作家 | 尼古拉斯·克里斯托夫 (NICHOLAS KRISTOF) 我们对爱泼斯坦的愤怒掩盖了什么
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卡尼莎·汉密尔顿 (KANISHA HAMILTON) 以最不幸的方式成为了性贩卖专家，这一切始于她 12 岁的时候。因此，每当她听到关于杰弗里·爱泼斯坦 (Jeffrey Epstein) 案件的讨论时，“这会引发我强烈的心理创伤，”她回忆道。“我早晨醒来，想到与此相关的事情，就会开始无法控制地哭泣，”她告诉我。“因为我知道在那一刻，有成千上万甚至更多的妇女、儿童甚至男性在遭受苦难。而世界上其他所有人却只是照常生活，表现得好像他们无能为力一样。”她说，“这就是像那样的人能够逃避性贩卖罪责的原因。”
当下的一个悖论是，人们对爱泼斯坦及其帮凶感到强烈的愤怒——理应如此——但几乎没有努力去保护那些在全国乃至全球范围内继续被贩运的女孩或男孩。我们理所当然地对权势人物对爱泼斯坦袭击行为所表现出的普遍漠不关心感到震惊，但集体地，我们对各地廉价旅馆中继续展开的捕食行为表现出了类似的漠不关心。结果就是，对女孩和男孩的剥削每天都在以数千倍于爱泼斯坦所为的规模继续进行。
汉密尔顿说，她的这条路径始于她大约 6 个月大时，她那染上毒瘾的母亲被谋杀了。她说，她的祖母随后将她交给一名儿童猥亵者以换取海洛因，在经历了虐待之后，她最终进入了功能失调的寄养家庭世界。她补充说，12 岁时，她加入了她父亲的队伍，其父是一名皮条客，开始将她以及他控制的其他女性出卖。
我们有时想象贩卖者会从灌木丛中跳出，抓住十几岁的女孩并将她们拖入面包车，用链条锁在暖气片上。但我写关于贩卖报道已经超过 25 年了，绝大多数贩卖者捕食的是那些已经处于弱势的女孩。这些女孩需要住房、食物或爱，她们在社会眼中往往是不可见的——但在皮条客眼中并非如此。
“人们对于什么是贩卖、贩卖看起来像什么，存在一种整体的误解，”费利西亚·鲍曼 (Felicia Bowman) 说道，她在 7 岁时被一名朋友的哥哥（同时也是一名毒贩）贩卖。 “人们认为那是白色面包车，是你在 Target 商店车上的塑料扎带。”她指的是一个都市传说，即贩卖者驾驶白色商业面包车绑架女孩，并用塑料扎带标记绑架目标。“我们要如何面对这样一个事实：正是这些我们没有去解决的脆弱面导致了这一切？”她补充道。“因为那样的话，我们所有人都要被追究，我们所有人都要负责，而导致这种情况的许多问题规模太大了。”
鲍曼就拥有这些脆弱面。她说，一名照看她的女性家庭朋友利用了这一点，将她卖去从事性交易。“她强迫我为了换取毒品钱而与人睡觉，”鲍曼回忆道。
我们不仅没有尝试帮助这些孩子，而且通常还轻视他们。我们将他们视为坏孩子、麻烦制造者、逃跑者，而对虐待他们的人却宽容。鲍曼说，当她 12 岁时，一名男子因性侵她而被捕。“他被判定有罪，”她说。“他被判了 30 天。”记录证明了这一点。我问她是否有任何强制报告员——例如教师或医生——看到了她被虐待的证据并向当局报告。相反，她说，本应关注
Madeleine Schwartz 《 The Dial 》总编辑。
巴黎
这个夏天给法国带来了一种特别的地狱体验：不仅有数次最高气温达到 112 华氏度的热浪，还有干旱和森林火灾，其中一些就发生在巴黎附近。在我住的这条街上，叶子已经变褐；曾经郁郁葱葱的草坪现在看起来像烧焦的稻草。在全国范围内，农民们报告称，作物在酷热的条件下已经枯萎。
极端的天气迫使这个国家在瘫痪状态中进进出出。在波尔多附近，一场山火烧毁了约 160 平方英里；超过 220,000 人被疏散。几座核电站暂时关闭；由于路线过于接近火场，部分列车被取消。巴黎的标志性景点，如卢浮宫和埃菲尔铁塔，不得不因为高温而提前关闭，导致游客及其服务业商户们怨声载道。随着一个又一个危机接踵而至，政府给出的应对措施却毫无章法。
一些评论者认为，问题所在（至少在高温方面）在于法国所谓的对空调的排斥，因此解决办法必须是文化层面的。极右翼领导人玛丽娜·勒庞（Marine Le Pen）宣布了一项在全国范围内推广空调的计划，而她的政党一直以来都有反对气候友好政策的历史。在 X 平台上，像埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）这样的右翼外国人嘲讽欧洲人缺乏空调，并暗示如果居民们只要学会热爱它，那么所有
我们很容易挥拳相向。 但面对被剥削的女孩， 我们的帮助却迟缓许多。
Felicia Bowman（上图）和 Whitney Anderson 致力于 帮助俄克拉荷马州的 人口贩卖幸存者。
会好起来。但要为大众带来清凉并不容易，而且这不足以解决该国的难题。随着今年夏天酷热难耐和山火成为一种致命且周期性重复的现实，法国需要更加认真地对待气候适应问题。
直到不久前，法国的天气还相当温和。但气候变化对法国及欧洲其他地区的影响速度非常快。欧洲大陆的升温速度是全球平均水平的两倍多，科学家认为，到本世纪末，极端高温天数将是现在的 10 倍。干旱也成为了一个持续的问题，导致作物歉收和用水限制。
该国随机应变的应对方式在很大程度上让法国民众只能自行负责自身的安全。当今年第二波热浪在 6 月袭来时，许多学校关闭，导致家长在努力让孩子保持凉爽的同时，还必须设法保住工作。
高温对该国的影响并不均衡。富裕阶层逃离城市，前往带有泳池的空调酒店或更凉爽的地区，而密集郊区资源匮乏的人们则在家中忍受酷暑。在 6 月的热浪期间，法国记录的死亡人数比往常至少多出 5,700 人；许多死者是在养老院或过热的公寓中去世的老年人。
法国——以及更广泛的欧洲——快速升温的危机令人心惊，很大程度上是因为住房存量极不适应温度升高。超过 40 的法国房屋没有足够阻挡阳光的手段。巴黎标志性屋顶中使用的锌等材料会捕捉并放大热量，使房屋内部
也虐待她。其中一人被抓获并定罪，但其唯一的处罚是居家监禁。
难怪 Bowman 不信任权威人士。他们所做的唯一事情就是剥削她。
我是通过一家名为 Dragonfly 的令人赞赏的非营利组织结识 Bowman 和 Hamilton 的，该组织为俄克拉荷马州的人口贩卖幸存者提供服务。这些地方性的倡议提供从心理治疗、医疗护理到去除皮条师纹身的各种服务，具有极高价值——但它们极其缺乏资源。当一名女孩离开一个
即使在热浪过后，天气依然酷热难耐。一位专家告诉我的，如果没有其他结构性改进，单靠空调的效果有限——就像向一个漏油的油箱里注油一样。
事实上，对于像巴黎这样稠密的法国城市，甚至对于纽约市来说，空调在提供室内缓解的同时，可能会让夏季变得更糟。气候经济学家文森特·维吉耶（Vincent Viguié）告诉我，室内冷却空气的过程会加热室外，从而加剧这种情况，并恶化所谓的“城市热岛”效应。最近一项来自中国的研究表明，在一条布满空调的狭窄街道上，室外温度可能会升高多达 18 华氏度。
缺乏协调一致的行动可能会将法国消费者推向错误的方向。热浪导致许多人购买小型空调设备，而不是像热泵这样更环保（且更昂贵）的选择。在我所在的巴黎社区周围，现在经常可以看到窗户和门被撑开，而便携式空调的长尾管将热气排向街道。甚至政府也匆忙为医疗设施购买了 30,000 台便携式空调，但由于这些设备不太适合机构窗户，很难想象它们能给患者带来多少缓解。
今年夏天可怕的高温和火灾应当成为相关负责人员认识风险变化速度的动力。然而，法国政府几乎没有处理该问题的规模。即使在推动适应措施的地方，实施过程有时也显得杂乱无章或方向错误。政府正
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皮条客，为她寻找一张床位可能得费尽周折。
当援助到来时，它能产生改变命运的效果。汉密尔顿（Hamilton）和鲍曼（Bowman）现在都生活得很好，并正在帮助其他人口贩卖的幸存者。
“我们的资金不足，而对我们服务的需求极其疯狂，”蜻蜓组织（Dragonfly）的创始人惠特尼·安德森（Whitney Anderson）说道。“支撑我们走下去的是，这些人经历了最糟糕中的最糟糕。他们遭遇了人类绝不该做的事情，而他们现在就站在我们面前。所以，我们欠他们最好的对待。”
如果我们认真对待打击贩卖，我们可以增加对全国此类项目的支持。我们可以关闭皮条客用来为女孩（有时是男孩）打广告的网站，就像检察官此前对一度主导该领域的 Backpage 网站所做的那样。我们可以坚持要求社交媒体平台打击在其页面上使用代码语言招募人员的贩子（如果 14 岁的孩子能听懂，公司同样也能）。我们可以加大力度起诉皮条客。当地地区检察官（D.A.s）可以起诉嫖客，以抑制维持贩子生意的需求。
最重要的是，我们可以做更多工作来帮助家庭和儿童，使他们不进入被贩卖的渠道。寄养家庭中的女孩面临特别高的风险；虽然没有相关统计数据，但在进行了数十年的采访后，如果一个寄养女孩...
面对气温 如此迅速的 上升。
如今 29 岁，她回忆起在接下来的 14 年里，她为许多不同的皮条客工作，而钱总是被他们拿走。他们经常给她分配每日收入指标，如果没达到，她就面临被殴打的风险。她的身体上留有皮条客为了确立对她的所有权而刻的纹身。哈斯班德说，在她流浪街头的那些年里，她经常为皮条客招募女孩。她寻找那些穿着破旧凉鞋，或者衣服、头发不整洁且缺乏自信的女孩。“过来，”她会告诉这些女孩，“我们会照顾你的。”这是对绝望、脆弱年轻女性的情感操纵，但这并不是公众所认为的与人口贩卖相关的那种绑架。“我认为，提高人们对儿童性贩卖的意识真的很困难，”已经戒毒、正在去除纹身并重建生活的哈斯班德说。“因为没有人把袋子套在我的头上，我也没有被强行塞进面包车，不是那种情况。”如果我们真的认为爱泼斯坦是个怪物，那么我们需要做的不是对着他的尸体挥拳，而是真正努力去帮助全国各城市中那些在混乱家庭中挣扎、渴望帮助却得不到任何帮助的女孩和男孩。
我在 2022 到 2025 年之间发表的 10 篇专栏文章，本应披露我与 2021-22 年竞选俄勒冈州州长期间捐赠者的关系。披露说明已附加在以下日期出版的纸质专栏的数字化版本中：2022 年 11 月 27 日；2023 年 3 月 30 日；2023 年 5 月 7 日；2023 年 7 月 30 日；2023 年 10 月 1 日；2023 年 11 月 19 日；2024 年 1 月 18 日；2024 年 1 月 28 日；2024 年 11 月 24 日；以及 2025 年 11 月 23 日。
“依然在应对上一场战争，即我们如何在冬季提高能源效率，”建筑师兼一家可持续设计组织主席斯特凡·柯克兰（Stéphane Kirkland）说道。各项计划在停了又起，让房主们对哪些项目可以获得报销、哪些不可以感到困惑。
应对气候变化进行真实改编的成本无疑是天文数字。气候经济研究所（Institute for Climate Economics）研究员薇薇安·德普（Vivian Dépoues）告诉我就为了使法国的建筑符合其气候目标，改造费用预计每年将达到 $51 billion。而且这还没有将气候准备的其他所有成本计算在内，例如更好的森林火灾管理，以及研究如何增强国家的粮食和水安全。
但坐视不管同样有代价：该研究所的一份 2024 年报告指出，2015 到 2020 年间，与热浪健康影响相关的成本估计在 22 billion 到 37 billion 欧元之间（按今日汇率约为 $25 billion 到 $42 billion）。一家保险公司的一项估计计算出，未来的热浪在接下来的四年中可能会给该国带来超过 $230 billion 的损失。到本世纪末，热浪在整个欧洲造成的死亡人数可能是近年来的 30 倍。
法国在气候变化似乎正淡出政治对话的时刻承受着痛苦。今年夏天，政府关闭了一个关于气候适应的研究单位，并通过了一项被批评者认为可能会加剧干旱的法律。但问题不会在秋天到来时就随之消失。即使法国对全球温室气体排放的贡献相对较小，该国仍需为未来的夏季将比现在糟糕得多这一事实做好准备。
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有些人会告诉你，克里斯托弗·诺兰的《奥德赛》的问题在于它讲述的是现代人，而非古人。我并不这么认为。它确实是关于现代人的，但现代人创作的所有其他东西也是如此。如果你想接触古代世界，你必须翻开一本书。（荷马的作品有多种译本；我喜欢里士满·拉蒂莫尔的译本。）另一些人会告诉你，诺兰先生的《奥德赛》的问题在于他利用古代文本来重新审视自己的痴迷之点：英雄主义、愧疚、记忆以及时间的本质。我并不这么认为。我欣赏不害怕地反复啃食同一根骨头的艺术家。不，对我来说，诺兰先生的《奥德赛》的问题在于其他方面。在于奥德修斯。为了给那些不记得故事且没看过电影的人简单回顾一下：荷马的两部史诗《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》讲述了特洛伊战争的故事，当时美奈劳斯的妻子海伦被劫走，触发了一场巨大的冲突。希腊人围攻特洛伊 10 年，双方损失惨重，最终奥德修斯通过计谋诱骗特洛伊人为城市带入一匹装满士兵的木马，才取得了胜利。奥德修斯在胜利返乡的航行中激怒了海神波塞冬，导致他的回家之路又被延迟了十年。当他终于回到家时，发现家里挤满了追求他妻子佩内洛普的求婚者，他们还密谋除掉他们的儿子特洛摩库斯。佩内洛普通过计谋巧妙地将求婚者拒之门外，但她被一些仆人背叛，无法再撑太久。对于当代阅读荷马的人来说，可能会注意到的一点是，奥德修斯是少数几个动机在今天看来确实合理的史诗英雄之一。他不想在特洛伊；他想回家。他诡计多端且聪明，但并非彻头彻尾的恶棍，而且他通常受好奇心和知识渴求的驱动。然而，在诺兰先生手中，狡黠的奥德修斯变成了一个不同但仍可辨认的类型：半途而废的英雄。他是一个在某种程度上未能尽到父亲责任的人，一个为了更高目标而染污自己，随后却发现那个目标并不值得的人，一个拥有改变世界的力量但最终要么未能实现，要么让世界变得更糟的人。就像诺兰先生前一部电影的主角 J. 罗伯特·奥本海默一样，这个半途而废的英雄似乎在某种程度上被隔绝在自我认知之外，要么是因为有罪的天真，要么是因为盲目的傲慢。例如，诺兰先生笔下的奥德修斯在将希腊人送入特洛伊后，对自己战友洗劫城市并杀害居民感到震惊。他出于体育精神在狩猎时拨动他的弓，当他的船队启航回家时，他决定不从特洛伊拿补给，因为他说，他们已经从这座城市拿走足够多了。正如前文所述，这是一个为现代人而设计的奥德修斯，而现代人在面对“真正的英雄”这一概念时感到挣扎。一个能认定该做什么并迅速执行而没有剧烈内心冲突的人物？那样做有什么意义？这样的人只会让大多数现代观众觉得自己是个失败者。也许当代的观众不再相信一个敏锐、果断的领导者的概念，或者在他们看来，做某事而没有任何负罪感的念头本质上就是反派的。在当代政治中，美国人倾向于在那些告诉我们无能为力的人和那些发誓一切皆有可能的人之间摇摆，而这两类人都以各自的方式令人失望。所以，诺兰先生的奥德修斯，那个
Iryna Mudra, Mykola Yurlov, Taras Semenyuk 和 Mark Ellis Mudra 女士是乌克兰总统办公室副主任。Yurlov 先生是乌克兰资深外交官。Semenyuk 先生是通讯顾问。Ellis 先生是国际律师协会执行主任。
乌克兰，基辅
五月，在摩尔多瓦首都基希讷乌，36 个国家和欧盟签署了一项协议，旨在将针对乌克兰侵略罪的特别法庭变为现实——这是自 2022 年俄罗斯发起全面入侵后不久便开始的多年工作的顶峰。
自第二次世界大战后举行的纽伦堡和东京审判以来，还没有任何法院对发动战争的决定进行裁决。在随后的几十年里，尽管《联合国宪章》有明确的禁止规定，且在法律上约束所有成员国维护国际和平，但侵略行为依然存在，经过调整并重复出现。俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京显然认为，存在一个可以让其肆无忌惮行事的空间。这个新法庭开始弥补这一缺口。它的设立是对一场战争的回应，但它将开创的先例——即侵略将给侵略者带来直接后果——将产生其自身的地理政治影响。
国际刑事法院（ICC）作为全球最高刑事法院，已经就战争罪和反人类罪对普京先生及其部分高级指挥官发出了逮捕令。超过 120 个国家是国际刑事法院的成员，但美国、中国、印度、以色列和俄罗斯则不是。俄罗斯极不可能地将普京先生或任何其他人引渡以面对指控。
我们意识到了对国际法的批评——即当人们在死去时，
在做了一些结果证明是错误的事情后挣扎，这似乎是一个特别引人入胜的人物形象。
在故事中，我们似乎被这些“半吊子英雄”所吸引：那些大致知道该怎么做，但在执行过程中困难重重，而最终的个人觉醒时刻不知怎么地在结尾解决了所有问题的人。在最不精巧的表现形式中，这使艺术变成了一场廉价的治疗环节，你在其中原谅了自己的失败——然后你拯救了世界。
诺兰先生比这更精巧。他的英雄通常是那些制造问题，然后为如何弥补而痛苦不堪的卓越男性。他们是男性这一点并非巧合。他们在男子气概和亲密关系方面的失败，是理解他们的关键。他们并不是传统意义上的“好男人”，即致力于建设更好社会的社区正直成员。而且
问题，随后在如何弥补之路上 苦苦挣扎。
他们并非恶人，也就是说，并非暴力的 寄生虫。相反，他们是半吊子英雄， 富有魅力但内心空洞的人，他们认为 爱最好通过他们的缺席来展现，因为 他们的存在被证明过于危险。 塑造《奥德赛》的问题是，在男人 不在家期间，被忽视的家庭里发生了 什么。那些纠缠佩内洛普要求与其中 一人结婚的求婚者，其人格低于奥德修斯， 而在像奥德修斯这样的男人缺席时， 没有人教他们如何行事。他们所代表的 一代人已经走错了路，且无法挽回。 说这部电影在很大程度上与诺兰先生 对蝙蝠侠的诠释，甚至是对他的《奥本海默》 相似，并不算剧透：他的奥德修斯决定 成为
罪责声明或无人被捕的逮捕令，看起来 就像是空洞的姿态。在快节奏的世界中， 国际正义的推进速度似乎极其缓慢。 一些国家简单地拒绝批准条约，使得 那些同意受条约约束的人看起来就像 是在场边呐喊。我们并不认同。 我们必须继续建立我们作为国际社会 提议遵循的规则和规范，这至关重要。 正义的进程或许缓慢且谨慎，但它确实 在推进。它记录了发生的一切，并防止 侵略者拥有最终决定权。批评者可能会说， 特别法庭过于欧洲化、过于选择性或 过于仓促。他们会说存在双重标准， 并引用 1945. 以来每一次西方外交政策 失败的幽灵。问责制往往取决于谁在 被告席上，而非所犯罪行的严重程度。 这正是建立更多问责机制的原因，就从 这里开始。每当国际社会建立一个运作的 问责机制——无论多么不完美，无论多么 渐进——它都在缩小权力在无需承担后果 的情况下运作的空间。加拿大总理马克·卡尼 在 1 月的达沃斯论坛上表示，“强者 能做其所能，弱者必须承受其必须承受” 的逻辑正被呈现为国际关系的必然回归， 他正确地拒绝了这一逻辑。“我们不应 允许硬实力的崛起让我们忽视这样一个 事实：合法性、正直和规则的力量将 依然强大——如果我们选择共同运用它，” 他在同一场演讲中说道。俄罗斯在 2008 年对格鲁吉亚侵略而未受惩罚，使得 俄罗斯在 2014. 年对乌克兰的克里米亚 和顿巴斯地区的侵略成为可能。2014 年的逍遥法外为 2022. 年铺平了道路。 如果想要终结这种逍遥法外，反击必须 从某个地方开始。
一名“食罪者”，一个为他人的恶行 赎罪的人——他不仅寻求纠正占据 其家园的混乱，还试图为整个特洛伊 战争做出补偿。对于处于他自己与儿子 之间那灾难性的一代人，他的解决方案 与诗篇中一致：奥德修斯杀死了求婚者。 他们是危险的弱者，不足以统治或 展现自制力，但足以恐吓老人、盲人、 妇女和儿童。 在电影中，奥德修斯试图让儿子的双手 不沾鲜血，但他失败了，因此创造一个 真正纯洁的新一代的计划在开始之前 就已结束。但在将所有这些暴力揽在 自己身上后，奥德修斯可以通过再次 撤退并离开，来尝试净化他的家园。 在现实生活中，在电影之外，我们 确实面对许多危险弱者的例子，就像那些求婚-
……们：那些认为成为男人的定义始于且终于能够羞辱他人的人；那些依赖他人劳动而自己毫无贡献的人；那些操纵他人、胆小怕事，却热衷于讲述自身美德的人。当我们试图想象这些人的替代者时，我们想到的是“半吊子英雄”——一个无法阻止危机，但会竭尽全力去收拾自己搞砸的烂摊子的人。正如诺兰先生在另一部电影中的角色所说，“你要么作为一个英雄死去，要么活得足够久，看着自己变成反派”——这句格言同样适用于蝙蝠侠、奥本海默和奥德修斯。
作为一名艺术家，诺兰先生的工作并不是为我们提供这些困境的解决方案，而且在某种程度上，我很庆幸他在《奥德赛》中并没有真正尝试这样做。尽管如此，我带着一种无奈地看完了他的《奥德赛》结尾。也许，套用诺兰先生另一部电影中著名的台词——“不是我们配得上的英雄，而是我们需要的英雄”——半吊子英雄似乎正是我们想要的英雄，因为毫无疑问，他们是我们认为当下需要的。但我们也许配得上另一种完全不同的英雄。
目前没有任何关于乌克兰战争的停火框架涉及问责问题。谁下令发动这场战争，以及这些人是否会为此负责，这些问题在谈判室中均被缺失。乌克兰不会用问责权来换取停火，历史解释了原因。
《代顿协议》结束了波黑战争。波黑塞族领导人拉多万·卡拉季奇和拉特科·姆拉迪奇此前已被指控犯有战争
不会以 问责制换取 停火。
安娜·马利娜 (ANNA MALINA)
致编辑： 关于《第二套房税是纽约的胜利》（社论，7月 26日）： 纽约市的第二套房税并非仅仅是对富裕外国避税者的狭隘征税，它还将影响到许多在市内维持合法第二住所，且已经通过财产税、销售税和其他地方税做出显著贡献的纽约人。 核心问题不在于富裕个人是否能负担得起更多的税款，而在于对房产所有权征收新税，对于一个依赖投资和经济增长的城市来说，是否为稳健的政策。纽约在吸引居民、雇主、资本和开发方面面临着激烈的竞争。决策者应该鼓励投资，而不是将其推向他处。 该社论由于该税项仅适用于相对较少的房产，从而忽略了对经济影响的担忧。但一项税收的重要性并非仅由受影响的纳税人数来衡量。每一项额外的税收都会向投资者、商业领袖和业主发出关于纽约长期竞争力的信号。 最重要的是，这项税收对于解决城市的住房短缺或结构性财政挑战毫无帮助。纽约人将更受益于
致编辑： 关于杰弗里·图宾（Jeffrey Toobin）撰写的《特朗普在期中选举中能做的最糟糕的事情是什么？》（7月28日，嘉宾评论文章）： 在图宾先生出色的文章中，他引用了众议院管理委员会资深成员、众议员乔·莫雷尔（Joe Morelle）的话，称：“总统根本无法摆脱2020年，他每天都在重新经历那段时光。我觉得那就像是高中时代失之交臂的女友。” 虽然我们不能直接评论特朗普先生，但我们认为，人们摆脱过去事件的一种有效方式就是哀悼。我们每天都必须进行哀悼。我们哀悼失去的机会、失去的可能性、失去的时间以及失去的人。在哀悼时，我们承认自己失去了一些东西，将其命名，并允许自己为这种损失感到悲伤。 如果我们无法哀悼，我们就会陷入停滞。我们无法成长。哀悼需要勇气，但这是前进的唯一途径。政治家们可以思考我们的国家如何再次成长，但这必须伴随着哀悼。这是唯一的办法。如果领导者不能哀悼，我们所有人都将被冻结在时间里。
黛博拉·L·卡巴尼斯 (DEBORAH L. CABANISS) 雅艾尔·霍洛希茨 (YAEL HOLOSHITZ) 纽约 作者为精神科医生和心理分析师。
珍雅·波洛西娜 (JENYA POLOSINA)
扩大住房生产并增加税基的政策，而非可能产生意外后果的新税收。
詹姆斯·惠兰 (JAMES WHELAN)，纽约 作者为纽约房地产委员会主席。
致编辑： 你们的社论提到，除了纽约市之外的其他地方——巴黎、新加坡以及像蒙大拿州和罗德岛州这样的州——都增加了对第二套房的征税。虽然这是事实，但每个地方采取的方法各不相同。 在纽约，法律旨在对价值 $5 million 或更高的极富人群的豪宅征税。而在我居住的蒙大拿州，没有价值门槛。所有第二套房无论价值多少，其房产税都会大幅上涨——预计平均涨幅为 68%。因此，价值 $50,000 的小屋与价值 $10 million 的豪宅被同等对待。 显然，蒙大拿州的富裕房主远少于纽约州，但许多蒙大拿人拥有家族传承数代的林中小屋。他们及其子女将难以支付增加的房产税。有些人将被迫出售房产。这些房产很可能会被能够轻松承受税负的亿万富翁抢购。 与这个国家的基调一致，蒙大拿州的法律表面上旨在增加税收，实则通过挤出当地居民，方便地迎合了极富人群的贪婪。
威廉·利法特 (WILLIAM LEAPHART) 蒙大拿州，海伦娜
致编辑： 我对你们认为对富人重税是一个稳健策略的前提持有异议。 首先，我们都知道，最初针对富人的税收最终总是会波及中产阶级。无论你们多么希望如此，富人的数量根本不够多，因此筹集到的资金永远达不到预测值。其次，为什么仅仅因为富人有钱，我们就地对待他们不公？你们声称“该税收解决了某种有害的避税形式”，这看起来更像是对兼职居民的抨击，而非理性的分析。 它所解决的不是避税，而是法律中的一部分，该部分承认了一个现实：兼职居民使用城市基础设施或其他福利的程度不如全职居民，且兼职居民在其他司法管辖区缴纳税款。 如果你不喜欢目前的居住要求，那就将其从 184 天改为 200 天甚至 250 天。
迈克尔·埃克斯塔特 (MICHAEL ECKSTUT) 佛罗里达州，布雷登顿
罪行，被排除在和平谈判之外。代顿协议结束了战斗，但对那些负有主要责任的人实施正义被推迟了。时任南斯拉夫联邦共和国总统兼谈判关键参与者的斯洛博丹·米洛舍维奇，直到协议达成近六年之后才被逮捕。卡拉齐奇先生在 12 年多以后被捕，而姆拉迪奇先生则在 15. 年多以后被捕。这种延迟助长了历史修正主义，并使得族群民族主义增强。设立针对侵略乌克兰罪行的特别法庭需要做出妥协，导致参与者都没有完全满意。但它确实存在。它的存在应该改变战略考量——不仅是对普京先生，而且是对每一个在每个首都看着乌克兰并将“征服可以无需付出代价”这一教训记录在案的领导人。
在 2022, 年 3 月，超过 140 个国家在联合国投票谴责俄罗斯的侵略，但 5 月在摩尔多瓦签署协议的国家仅有 36 个。我们并不要求所有国家都站在乌克兰一边。我们要求他们站在自己这一边。旨在保护乌克兰免遭征服的国际法律架构，旨在保护每一个其他国家。该法庭可能对大国裁量权施加的约束将不会止于欧洲边境。在纽伦堡审判的开庭陈述中，美国首席检察官罗伯特·杰克逊告诉法庭：“我们绝不能忘记，我们今天审判这些被告的记录，就是历史明天审判我们的记录。”那些选择加入或留在该法庭之外的人正在创造他们自己的记录——一个将被未来的受害者寻找先例、未来的侵略者计算风险以及历史学家向下一代解释 1945 年后国际秩序如何维系（或未能维系）时所阅读的记录。
贸易 在曼德海峡和霍尔穆兹海峡 对船只的袭击正干扰着 油轮的通行。
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人工智能公司正招募 数以千计的贸易工人
Juan Amarante 上周在位于密歇根州沃伦的底特律电气工业培训中心的数据中心培训实验室工作，这里约有 850 名学徒在参加课程。
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更多熟练的人员 从事非常繁重的体力工作。
密歇根州沃伦 —— 作为一名在底特律接受培训的电工，Tyler Shelton 每天的大部分时间都花在钻进下水道修复电缆和其他电气设备上。但最近，他的公司将许多员工派往了一个距离此处约一小时路程、刚刚破土动工的庞大数据中心。 “每个人都想要那笔钱，” 29, 岁的 Shelton 先生在每月两次的学徒课堂日午休期间说道。 “我们有工作要做，但我们也因为这些数据中心而失去了大量的人力。” 很快， he 可能会加入其中：据该州称，OpenAI 在 Saline Township 的项目是密歇根州历史上最大的单项投资，需要数百名电工每天工作 10 小时，且一周七天全勤。尽管
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作者：REBECCA DAVIS O’BRIEN
美国州、县和市雇员联邦工会主席 Lee Saunders 于 3 月前往阿拉斯加，会见当地致力于恢复州雇员养老金制度的工会领导人。 阿拉斯加州在 2006, 年因出现数十亿美元的资金缺口而关闭了其公共退休计划。但 20 年后，州政府机构的职位空缺率达到了两位数，这场公共部门就业危机已经危及了安全和服务。 4 月，阿拉斯加州议会通过了一项在两党支持下重启退休计划的法案，旨在吸引并留住员工。但共和党州长 Mike Dunleavy 在 5 月否决了该法案。
作者：LYDIA DePILLIS
这次失败说明了一种张力，而这种张力定义了 Saunders 先生担任该国最大公共雇员工会负责人的任期。 虽然工会重新赢得了公众的好感，但它们正面临来自该国许多领导人的新反对。 一项 2025 年的盖洛普民调发现，65% 的美国人支持工会，高于 2009. 年 48% 的低点。然而在同一时期，加入工会的美国工人比例有所下降，且工会所拥有的权力已被法院和立法机构削弱。哥伦比亚大学的政治学家 Alexander Hertel-Fernandez 表示，这是一个“反映了我们破碎的政治经济”的悖论。
尽管有加班费的红利，Shelton 先生仍心情复杂。 “我希望在未来一年左右买一套房子，”他说道。“所以，我理解这种吸引力，但我也希望在工作之外拥有生活。” 在底特律电气工业培训中心，数据中心的热潮是每个人关注的焦点，约 850 名学徒在这里进行培训，以衔接长时间的在岗工作。这些巨型项目正将熟练的贸易工人吸引到偏远地区，那里提供了该行业有史以来最高的一系列薪资和奖金。 对于那些花费数亿美元以确保有足够的人员建设和运营其数据中心的人工智能公司来说，下一代电工同样是关注重点。 这一承诺包括了这家培训设施，它是国际电工兄弟会与承包商合作支持的 270 处设施之一。作为一项 $50 million 计划的一部分——
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“政策选择削弱了我们的工人运动，”他说道。 很少有人比 75 岁的 Saunders 先生更了解这个悖论，他计划在 8 月退休，此前他在美国州、县和市雇员联邦工会（AFSCME）工作了 50 年，其中包括 15 年担任其领导职务。 保守派长期以来一直将公共部门工会作为目标，称其低效、强制且昂贵。如今，一些美国左翼人士也认为公共部门工会是进步和生产力的障碍。所谓的“丰裕议程”（abundance agenda）虽然没有明确反对劳工，但已经引发了关于民主党是否需要学会说“不”的辩论。
政策 随着特朗普结束拜登时代的补贴，数百万美国老年人明年的药品保险费用可能会增加。
自 ChatGPT 发布以来，商业建筑就业岗位有所上升，而住宅招聘则有所下降
自 2022 年 11 月以来专业贸易承包商招聘人数的百分比变化
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注：数据经过季节性调整。来源：劳工统计局。 LYDIA DEPILLIS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
体育 林克斯队的 纳菲莎·科利尔 是可能在 W.N.B.A. 交易截止日期前被交易的大牌球员之一。
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批评 对 A.I. 权力的 严密控制
Anthropic 和 OpenAI 所采用的方法。
作者：MIKE ISAAC 和 ELI TAN
旧金山 —— 马克·扎克伯格对 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 这两家全球最具价值的人工智能初创公司发起了猛烈抨击，称它们开发 A.I. 软件的方式可能会导致权力集中，从而限制人们获取这一变革性技术的机会。 在周二接受《纽约时报》采访时，这位 42 岁的 Meta 首席执行官没有点名提及 Anthropic 和 OpenAI。但他表示，如果领先的研究实验室想要以一种严密控制的方式开发 A.I. 技术 —— 正如 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 所做的那样 —— 这就类似于在美国技术开发中“放弃我们的价值观”，并会扼杀创新。 “许多其他开发此类技术的实验室发表的言论中，充斥着压倒性的末日论，”扎克伯格先生说。“在这个辩论中，需要有一个或多个声音来引入现实主义。” 扎克伯格先生很少接受传统新闻机构的采访，他的这些言论升级了一场关于人工智能软件应如何创建的争论，这场争论已经分化了硅谷。 像 Anthropic 首席执行官 达里奥·阿莫代 和 OpenAI 首席执行官 萨姆·奥特曼 这样的技术专家表示，当今一些领先的 A.I. 模型过于危险，如果没有严密控制就进行共享和开发将不可行。 但微软、英伟达、谷歌和 Meta 则持有不同意见，认为许多 A.I. 模型
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无惧 A.I. 阴霾
作者：史蒂夫·洛尔 (STEVE LOHR)
首尔 —— 几十年来，内存芯片制造业务在数字领域就相当于开采原材料。生产需要对昂贵的工厂进行巨额投资，而价格则在繁荣与萧条的周期中剧烈波动。人们希望随着时间的推移，好年景能多于坏年景。
半导体行业的魅力和高额利润在于计算机的数据处理“大脑”，而非存储和传输数据的内存芯片。但人工智能 (A.I.) 对训练数据有着近乎无限的渴求，这彻底改变了内存业务的地位和盈利能力，使其发生了认不出来的变化。没有任何一家公司比 SK 海力士更能体现这一转变，它是高速内存（一项至关重要的 A.I. 技术）的领先制造商。
同时，也没有哪家公司比它更直接地暴露在近几周动摇 A.I. 公司的剧烈股市波动之中。海力士已成为投资者担忧的焦点，这些担忧集中在硅谷科技巨头建设 A.I. 数据中心那看似失控的成本，以及对来自中国更激烈竞争的忧虑。如果 A.I. 投资放缓，海力士似乎显得尤为脆弱。
在本周的 A.I. 抛售潮中，海力士的股价遭到重创，较近期高点下跌了约 50 percent。然而，该股今年以来已上涨了两倍多。本月，海力士在美国股票销售中筹集了 $26.5 billion，创下外国公司在该领域最高纪录。
海力士周三公布的季度业绩凸显了 A.I. 热潮在多大程度上带动了这家韩国芯片制造商。其营收增长了两倍多——
业绩 宝洁公司收入增长 预计将在 2027 年放缓
宝洁公司（Procter & Gamble）周三预测，在季度销售额低于预期且利润率在“极具挑战性的地缘政治和经济环境”下下降之后，其 2027 财年的收入增长将有所放缓。 顽固的通货膨胀以及更高的食品和汽油价格迫使低收入消费者削减支出，但消费品公司（主要在美国）也面临着随着高低收入购物者之间差距扩大，而必须提供不同价位产品的挑战。 宝洁公司 4 月至 6 月期间的核心每股收益同比下降 3% 至 $1.43，但略高于 $1.41 的预期，因为较高的原材料和营销费用拉低了该季度的营业利润率。 首席财务官安德烈·舒尔滕（Andre Schulten）表示，第四季度的业绩受到了美国贸易动态的影响，该季度 212 亿美元（$21.20 billion）的净销售额低于预期。路透社
航空 边疆航空押注利润 因精神航空退出市场
边疆航空（Frontier Airlines）周三预测第三季度收益将高于华尔街预期，押注在竞争对手精神航空（Spirit Airlines）退出后，更强的定价能力将有助于缓解由中东冲突引发的更高燃料成本。 边疆航空表示，在喷气燃料成本上升和精神航空清算导致美国整体运力削减的情况下，该公司能够在第二季度将票价提高 50% 以上，从而限制了燃料账单上涨对其利润率的影响。 这家超低成本航空公司的首席执行官吉米·登普西（Jimmy Dempsey）表示，他预计作为定价能力指标的每可用座位里程收入在第三季度将比去年同期增加 20%。
汽车 雷诺上半年收入 增长 9.4%
雷诺（Renault）周三公布上半年收入增长 9.4%，并凭借强劲的电动汽车销量重新实现盈利，同时它在应对欧洲范围内来自既有竞争对手和中国新入局者在汽车价格上日益增长的压力。 雷诺首席执行官弗朗索瓦·普罗沃斯特（Francois Provost）告诉记者：“我们的上半年业绩证明，即使在复杂环境下，我们的战略模型依然有效”，这是连续第三个季度实现两位数增长。 “目前正在发生的竞争格局运力结构对边疆航空是一个巨大的利好，我们正从中获益，这使我们能够缓解目前的石油高价，”登普西先生说。 路透社
这家法国汽车制造商报告称，六个月期间的营业利润率为 5.2%，低于 2025 年上半年的 6%，但高于分析师 5% 的预期。 尽管来自包括比亚迪（BYD）和奇瑞（Chery）在内的中国汽车制造商在欧洲的竞争日益激烈，雷诺仍确认其 2026 年的营业利润率目标为 5.5%，而 2025 年为 6.3%。 雷诺表示，其纯电动汽车的销量较 2025 年同期增长了 47.6%。 路透社
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中东袭击重启，全球油价飙升
作者：劳拉·史蒂文斯 (LAURA STEVENS)
在经历了上周的下跌后，油价在周三反弹，一度突破每桶 $91，原因是中东地区袭击重启，令担忧该地区能源流出的投资者感到不安。
美国和沙特阿拉伯表示，他们打击了伊拉克境内由伊朗支持的民兵组织，而伊朗则表示已向该地区的美国军事目标发射导弹。此外，也门境内由伊朗支持的胡塞武装于周二表示，他们向一艘沙特油轮发射了导弹，这是该组织在宣布封锁红海的沙特航运后发起的最新一次袭击。
胡塞武装试图限制红海南端的曼德海峡的交通，沙特阿拉伯此前将该海峡作为霍尔木兹海峡的替代方案，此举在与伊朗的战争中开辟了新战线。
封锁的威胁曾助力推高全球油价，而本周由于美国和伊朗之间数日未发生全面战斗，油价有所回落。
油价上涨。
■ 全球基准布伦特原油价格上涨近 8 百分比，一度触及每桶 $91。该价格适用于 9 月交付的石油。
■ 美国基准西德克萨斯中质原油价格上涨约 7 百分比，至每桶约 $85。
■ 油价虽从近期高点回落，但自战争开始以来仍上涨超过 20 百分比。
■ 投资者和分析师正关注霍尔木兹海峡航运持续受阻的情况。这条位于伊朗和阿曼之间的狭窄水道是至关重要的贸易路线，通常承载全球多达五分之一的石油供应。
全球股市涨跌不一。
■ 周三美国股市收盘时，标准普尔 500 指数下跌约 1.5 百分比。
■ 亚洲股市涨跌不一，此前由于担心科技公司在人工智能竞赛中过度支出，相关市场出现了抛售。中国指数小幅上涨。韩国 KOSPI 指数下跌 6 百分比，日经指数收盘下跌 1.5 百分比。
■ 在欧洲，追踪该地区最大公司的综合指数 Stoxx 600 小幅下跌。
汽油价格下跌。
■ 根据 AAA 汽车协会的数据，周三汽油价格下跌 1 美分，全国平均价格为每加仑 $4.09。自战争开始以来，与伊朗的冲突使驾驶者的成本增加了约 37 百分比。
■ 汽油价格并不与原油价格同步波动，通常在原油上涨或下跌几天后才有所反应。
■ 周三柴油平均价格上涨 1 美分至 $5.33，自战争开始以来上涨 42 百分比。
各方观点：美联储的新“动态”。
■ ClearBridge Investments 高级投资策略分析师乔什·贾姆纳 (Josh Jamner) 在一份研究报告中写道，在政策制定者投票决定维持利率不变后，金融市场仍在努力应对联邦储备委员会 (美联储) 的领导层更迭。
■ 贾姆纳先生在声明中表示，新任美联储主席凯文·沃什 (Kevin Warsh) 表明，面对央行如何应对局势发展所带来的更大不确定性，价格波动更多是一种特性而非缺陷。
■ 他说：“市场参与者仍在试图理解这种动态，新闻发布会期间及之后的利率和金融市场波动就证明了这一点。”
俄罗斯的一家炼油厂。一项法案将允许政府对俄罗斯能源的买家征收高额关税，但同时也给予白宫发布豁免或免除的余地。
作者：艾伦·拉普波特 (ALAN RAPPEPORT)
华盛顿 —— 本周在参议院推进的制裁立法不仅限于对俄罗斯和伊朗实施新的金融限制。它还赋予了特朗普总统广泛的新权力，可以对来自全球一些最大经济体的进口商品征收关税。
这项由已故的南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆 (Lindsey Graham) 设计的跨党派法案，旨在表明国会统一地希望惩罚俄罗斯入侵乌克兰的行为，并防止伊朗获得核武器。但在该立法中潜藏的工具将使特朗普政府拥有广泛的自由裁量权，可对俄罗斯能源产品的主要买家征收高额关税。
该措施将恢复部分贸易权限，这些权限在今年早些时候最高法院裁定特朗普以国家安全为由使用关税违宪时被剥夺。
如果该法案成为法律，它将允许特朗普对俄罗斯进口商品（主要包括化肥）征收 500 ％的关税，并对俄罗斯石油和天然气最大的进口商征收高达 100 ％的关税。帮助俄罗斯规避制裁的国家也可能面临高达 100 ％的关税。
该政策可能会导致对从中国、印度和欧盟国家进口的价值数十亿美元的产品征收额外税款。
该法案代表了国会将更多贸易政策权力移交给特朗普的最新举动。与此同时，两党对于总统……
联邦医疗保险药品计划的补贴
作者：REBECCA ROBBINS 以及 REED ABELSON
特朗普政府周二宣布，计划终止一项拜登时代的计划。在过去的两年里，该计划一直帮助抑制联邦医疗保险（Medicare）参保人的每月药品覆盖保费成本。
这一决定意味着，在生活成本已成为重大关注的问题之际，数百万 65 岁及以上的美国人明年可能会面临更高的联邦医疗保险药品保费。这对共和党在期中选举中可能会造成政治损害。在 11 月之前的几周里，联邦医疗保险受益人在选择明年的药品计划时，可能会感受到价格上涨带来的震惊。
在 2025 和 2026 年，联邦政府向健康保险公司提供了数十亿美元的补贴，以帮助他们降低联邦医疗保险参保人的药品保费。如果没有这些补贴，数百万人每年可能需要为他们的药品计划多支付数百美元。
联邦医疗保险与医疗救助服务中心（CMS）负责人梅赫梅特·奥兹（Mehmet Oz）博士周二在社交媒体上发文称，取消补贴是因为保险公司不再需要它们。他表示，每位联邦医疗保险受益人仍将拥有低成本计划的选择。
总统对关税挑衅性的使用，已经导致其他国家的报复以及企业的不确定性。
倾向于自由市场的卡托研究所（Cato Institute）贸易专家斯科特·林西科姆（Scott Lincicome）表示，该立法中的一些关键措辞含糊不清，且特朗普已经表明他将挑战其关税权力的极限。
“总统已经多次证明，他愿意利用关税法令中任何允许他征收额外进口税的模糊之处，”林西科姆先生说。“当你与特朗普打交道时，你应该极其不情愿地赋予他新的关税权力。”
尽管在最后时刻进行了修改以减轻关税对美国公司的潜在影响，但该法案仍给白宫留下了诠释谁是俄罗斯能源产品最大买家的空间，这可能会为更广泛地使用关税打开大门。
该立法还给特朗普提供了灵活性——他有时不愿通过制裁来惩罚俄罗斯——他可以通过颁布豁免并向国会解释为何认为豁免符合国家利益，从而不实施制裁。总统辩称，在与其他国家谈判时，他在关税和制裁方面需要灵活性。
特朗普可能获得单方面征收关税之更多权力的可能性，令那些已经在努力应对其贸易议程剧烈波动的行业感到不安。在过去的一年里，特朗普为了在与美国贸易伙伴的谈判中获得筹码，不断地增加、调整和取消关税。
“大多数联邦医疗保险 (Medicare) 受益人的保费上涨幅度将低于 $10，许多人的保费甚至会更低，”奥兹博士写道。 他表示，拜登政府的做法是“不可接受的”，并且该做法“将数十亿的纳税人资金直接交给了大型保险公司”。 但目前尚不清楚有多少人可能需要支付更多费用，以及这将给他们带来多少成本。不同计划的价格差异很大，人们将在今年秋季有机会选择新计划。 联邦医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心 (C.M.S.) 表示，预计将在 9 月公布个人计划的每月保费。 《华尔街日报》此前报道了取消补贴的决定。 根据非营利健康研究组织 KFF 的数据，大约 25 million 美国人拥有传统联邦医疗保险下所谓的 D 部分 (Part D) 药物覆盖独立计划。他们支付的保费平均每月 $36。另有 31 million 受益人通过联邦医疗保险优势计划 (Medicare Advantage) 获得药物覆盖，这是一种面向 65 岁及以上人群的私营部门替代方案。 拜登政府官员在 2024 年总统大选前设立了该补贴计划，以抵消那些会导致 2025 年联邦医疗保险药物保费大幅上涨的变化。
合作伙伴。这使得公司在规划如何采购采购产品以及如何定价时陷入苦战。 在周二格雷厄姆先生的葬礼前匆忙敲定该法案之际，立法者们遭到了游说者的抵制，后者担心会赋予 特朗普 更多的关税权力。 “对来自次要国家的进口商品可能征收新的、广泛的 100 percent 关税，这可能会增加美国企业、工人和消费者的成本，”近两打贸易协会在写给南达科他州参议员、共和党多数党领袖约翰·图恩和纽约州参议员、民主党少数党领袖查克·舒默的信中写道。 “这种规模的关税将增加日常消费品、制造业投入和其他产品的成本，同时为提前数月做出采购、定价和库存决定的公司带来巨大的不确定性。” 这些游说团体包括美国商会、零售业领导者协会和国家对外贸易委员会。他们要求立法者删除法案中的关税权力，并警告说关税是“一种可能会惩罚守法美国公司的鲁莽工具”。 该法案在众议院的命运
取消联邦医疗保险药物计划的联邦补贴可能会在期中选举中对共和党造成损害。
拜登政府官员是对《 l 胀减缩法案》(Inflation Reduction Act) 的影响做出反应。该法案由民主党人在 2022 年在没有任何共和党票的情况下通过，引入了每年 $2,000 的处方药自付费用上限，以及对联邦医疗保险的其他修改。 当时，共和党人对该抵消计划进行了猛烈批评，称其为旨在争取选民的赤裸裸的政治手段。他们表示，这只能给老年人提供暂时的缓解。 数月来，特朗普 总统
目前尚不清楚，因为一些民主党高层已经表示反对赋予特朗普先生更多的关税权力。然而，参议院的跨党派支持表明该法案可能会通过。尽管如此，一些参议院民主党人也表达了保留意见。
“我不认为由美国企业和消费者买单的关税会帮助乌克兰赢得这场战争，”新罕布什尔州的民主党参议员玛吉·哈桑（Maggie Hassan）在投票后在社交媒体上写道。“而且在过去的一年里，人们越来越清楚地看到，特朗普总统将利用任何合法——或非法——的机制，让家庭承担他那些鲁莽的关税。”
一名白宫官员表示，该法案是联邦机构、白宫与立法者之间数月谈判的结果，反映了跨党派的国家安全和外交政策目标。
参议院版本的法案在后期进行的修改旨在限制对美国贸易伙伴的部分潜在影响。只有俄罗斯石油或天然气的前五大进口国才有可能被征收美国关税。采取重大措施减少购买俄罗斯石油和天然气的国家，其关税税率可能会降低或被取消。
最高法院在二月份废除了特朗普先生倾向使用的法律工具，当时法院裁定他利用一项国际紧急状态法来征收关税是非法的，并命令退还约 $160 billion 的关税收入。
本月早些时候，总统采取行动重启其贸易保护主义议程，对来自 80 多个国家的商品征收约 10 percent 的关税。
这些关税是根据 1974, 年《贸易法》第 301 节颁布的，该条款允许总统对从事不合理或歧视性贸易行为的外国国家征收关税。政府援引外国国家未能通过或执行禁止强迫劳动产品进口至本国的法律，称这使遵守此类法律的美国企业处于劣势。
特朗普先生本月还表示，他计划从 2028 年起对进口通用药物征收 100 percent 的关税。
总统已表达出倾向于将关税而非制裁作为经济武器。去年，特朗普先生对印度征收关税，以惩罚其购买俄罗斯石油。然而，事实证明关税在限制印度石油采购方面毫无成效，特朗普政府随后撤销了这些关税。
本·哈里斯（Ben Harris）是拜登政府时期的前财政部官员，曾参与设计限制俄罗斯石油价格的政策。他表示，看到跨党派立法能够迫使特朗普政府惩罚更多俄罗斯影子舰队油轮并加强现有制裁的执行力度，他感到鼓舞。
但由于伊朗的冲突导致能源价格依然波动，且特朗普先生继续对俄罗斯发出矛盾的信号，目前尚不清楚如果总统获得新的制裁和关税权力，他将如何行使。
“到目前为止，特朗普政府在制裁俄罗斯石油工业方面的记录糟糕透顶，”哈里斯先生说。“从一开始，他们的目标就一直不明确。”
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（此处接续另一篇报道） ……一直在宣传他降低减肥药和其他药品价格的努力，称仅凭这一点就足以让共和党在期中选举中获胜。
民主党人周二对特朗普政府的公告迅速做出反应。民主国家委员会发言人肯德尔·威特默（Kendall Witmer）在一份声明中表示，特朗普先生和共和党人“正在竭尽全力让美国人，特别是老年人，无法负担医疗保健”。
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日，Protect Our Care（一个左翼医疗保健倡导组织）的主席莱斯利·达赫（Leslie Dach）指责特朗普政府“取消了一项帮助老年人负担药物费用的关键计划”。
AHIP（一个主要的保险公司贸易组织）表示，正在审查该公告。发言人克里斯·邦德（Chris Bond）在的一份声明中表示：“在处方药成本大幅上涨之际，医疗计划正致力于确保 D 部分（Part D）的承保范围和福利尽可能具有可负担性。”
正蔓延至 石油关键 航线
作者：珍妮·格罗斯 (JENNY GROSS) 与 彼得·埃维斯 (PETER EAVIS)
伦敦 —— 从中东运送能源产品的船只在两条关键水道面临更高的袭击风险，这将进一步扰乱全球市场的石油和天然气供应。
周三，中东地区的战斗仍在继续，美国和伊朗发起了导弹袭击，冲突导致通过霍尔木兹海峡（波斯湾石油运输的主要航线）的交通流量减缓。
现在，冲突也日益干扰通过红海曼德海峡的航行，对于无法通过霍尔木兹海峡的沙特阿拉伯石油出口而言，这里已成为一个关键阀门。
根据海事数据机构 Windward 的数据，自 7 月 20 日以来，通过曼德海峡的船只数量下降了五分之一。
自从五个月前伊朗战争开始以来，沙特阿拉伯通过管道输送大部分石油并在红海（沿阿拉伯半岛西部延伸）装载至油轮，从而减少了对霍尔木兹海峡的依赖。随后，大多数油轮将石油向南通过与也门接壤的曼德海峡运输，这使得这些船只容易受到伊朗支持的胡塞武装的袭击。胡塞武装于 7 月 20 日宣布封锁沙特阿拉伯的红海港口。
据胡塞武装发言人叶海亚·萨里 (Yahya Saree) 称，胡塞武装周二在也门海岸外的红海袭击了一艘沙特油轮，但目前尚不清楚该船是否确实被击中。由英国管理的英国海事贸易行动中心 (United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations)
正在干扰 油轮的通行。
英国皇家海军记录了一份关于红海南部“可疑活动”的报告，其中一名船长报告称听到了爆炸声。该船及船员安全。即便胡塞武装将目标定为与沙特阿拉伯有关的船只，一些中国船只似乎在广播其国籍并自由航行。中国与胡塞武装的主要赞助国伊朗关系密切。据 Windward 称，一艘挂中国旗的船只开启了位置应答器且未进行任何 GPS 操纵，通过曼德海峡前往沙特阿拉伯的港口城市吉达。该船的应答器广播了“CHINA SHIP CREW SUEZ”和“CHINA SHIP CREW”的消息。保险经纪公司 McGill and Partners 的一名高管大卫·史密斯表示，红海船只的保险成本全面上升，即使是对与沙特阿拉伯没有关系的船只也是如此。他还表示，一些保险公司根本不为在沙特阿拉伯港口装货的船只提供承保。尽管周二有 41 艘船通过曼德海峡，高于周一的 39 艘，但船舶追踪公司 Kpler 表示，“流量增加不应被误认为风险降低”。该公司补充说，其中四艘船的位置应答器被关闭，这反映出风险水平升高，因为这些船只可能试图避开探测。根据海事分析公司 Lloyd’s List 的数据，在 6 月胡塞武装发出威胁之前，共有 355 艘原油轮通过曼德海峡，比 2 月份过境的 197 艘增加了 50% 以上。如果胡塞武装能够长期减少使用红海的油轮数量，这将给旨在将大量石油移出波斯湾的努力带来沉重打击，特别是由于通过霍尔木兹海峡的交通量仍低于战前水平的十分之一。根据 Kpler 的数据，周二仅有 12 艘船通过霍尔木兹海峡，方向分布均匀，而前一天为 8 艘。数据显示，其中 10 艘船通过了伊朗指定的路线，另外 2 艘的路线不详。伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队表示，其袭击了三艘无视警告并行驶在“非法”路线上的油轮，但未说明船只被击中地点。
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作者：eBay 团队 结案 金额为 $56 Million
作者：大卫·斯特赖特费尔德 (DAVID STREITFELD)
在 eBay 的安保人员骚扰一对马萨诸塞州记者以试图让他们闭嘴的七年后，这家硅谷公司及其三名前高管同意支付 $56 million 以达成和解。这对夫妇，大卫·斯坦纳 (David Steiner) 和伊娜·斯坦纳 (Ina Steiner)，于周一晚上在他们的网站上公布了条款。周二，eBay 发布了一份声明承认已达成协议。一名 eBay 发言人没有对斯坦纳夫妇的账目提出异议。eBay 表示：“2019 conduct is not representative of eBay’s culture or thousands of employees around the world today，”eBay said。
在一次不同寻常的举动中，和解条款并未被秘密掩盖。斯坦纳夫妇表示，他们将从 eBay 获得 $46.15 million，且该公司将额外提供 $6 million “in charitable contributions to various nonprofit organizations”。前 eBay 首席执行官德文·韦尼格 (Devin Wenig) 和另外两名前同事将向这对夫妇总共支付 $2.55 million。公告称，韦尼格先生还将以伊娜·斯坦纳的名义向一家致力于保护第一修正案权利的慈善机构捐赠 $1 million。
韦尼格先生在的一份声明中表示，骚扰行为是“在秘密状态下且在我不之情的情况下进行的”。他补充说，他很高兴“我的和解金中很大一部分”将用于保护新闻自由。eBay 及其他前高管的律师未回应请求评论的消息。
在一次简短的电话采访中，斯坦纳夫妇表示，此案从未仅仅关乎金钱。他们的目标之一是敲响警钟。他们说，高管们拥有巨大的权力，但通常无需承担任何后果。“公司拥有安保人员大军，而他们可以被武器化，”负责管理夫妇网站 EcommerceBytes 写作的斯坦纳女士说。
自 20 世纪 90 年代末以来，他们一直致力于倡导 eBay 及其他网站上的电子商务卖家权益。在 2019 年春季，eBay 正面临一家激进对冲基金的压力。根据检察官披露的短信，斯坦纳女士发表的几篇文章（包括一篇关于韦尼格先生在 eBay 园区内建立的一家酒吧的文章）激怒了公司高管。
关于跟踪行动的更多细节随后由记者以及斯坦纳夫妇在 2021 年提起诉讼中披露。“把她搞垮，”韦尼格先生告诉他的通讯主管，后者进而指示安保团队负责人“不惜一切代价”。斯坦纳夫妇被大量匿名材料轰炸，包括寄来的活蟑螂和血淋淋的猪面具。他们在线上受到威胁。他们收到的许多资料，包括一个葬礼花圈和一本关于应对丧偶之痛的书，都暗示死亡临近。
安保团队当时正准备强行闯入斯坦纳夫妇的车库并在他们的车上安装追踪器，但该计划随后被挫败。在 2020, Andrew Lelling, who was then the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, 称其为“一场利用一家 Fortune 500 公司的资源，旨在对这对住在纳蒂克 (Natick) 的中年夫妇进行情感和心理恐吓的系统性活动，目标是威慑他们不再在网上撰写关于 eBay 的负面内容”。他和其他检察官起诉了安保团队的七名成员，所有人均认罪。其中几人被判入狱。
但斯坦纳夫妇对此感到沮丧，因为没有一名高管被起诉，尽管这对夫妇表示，是高管们启动了这次活动。在 2024, the Justice Department charged eBay with stalking, witness tampering and obstruction of justice。这些指控在一项延期起诉协议下被撤销。该公司向政府支付了 $3 million 罚金。
近期的一部纪录片《不惜一切代价》(Whatever It Takes) 展示了斯坦纳夫妇的努力。这对夫妇表示，虽然和解方案没有审判那样具有戏剧性，但他们总体上表示满意。“我们想要找到真相，”斯坦纳女士说，“作为受害者，你需要了解真相。”
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必须在很大程度上以开放方式开发，以便人们推进该技术并建立新业务。本月，随着中国人工智能模型的突破似乎削弱了像 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 这样美国公司所享有的领先优势，这种分歧进一步加剧。这些公司一直在游说华盛顿的监管机构，对中国的开源人工智能模型表示担忧。周五，英伟达（Nvidia）首席执行官黄仁勋发布了一封支持开源软件开发的信函，硅谷的其他人士对此响应。本周，黄先生宣布成立一个联盟，致力于研究人工智能的开源安全和网络安全工具，SpaceX 和 IBM 等其他科技巨头也加入了该联盟。包括黄先生和奥尔特曼（Mr. Altman）在内的科技高管本周将前往华盛顿，向正在考虑如何处理这一问题的特朗普政府进一步陈述其主张。
在这场博弈中，扎克伯格先生反复主张，应该让更多人而非更少的人能够接触到人工智能技术，这是对阿莫代（Mr. Amodei）和奥尔特曼先生的含蓄批评。特别是阿莫代先生，他指出了“对齐风险”（alignment risk）的危险，这是一个关于如何以对人类安全的方式对人工智能进行编程的问题。“我认为很多人有一种观念，即如果你构建某种单一的人工智能，你可以通过某种理想化的对齐形式，确保它是对人类仁慈的，”扎克伯格先生在采访中说。“我个人对这条路径持怀疑态度。”相反，他呼吁为每个人提供“个性化超级智能”，这意味着配置人工智能机器人以适应人们的需求和愿望。他认为，一个中心化的“仁慈”人工智能超级权力将是无法维持的，因为人们拥有不同的观点和价值体系。
“我认为，要有一个能同时与所有人对齐的单一仁慈超级智能，在现实中是不可能的，”扎克伯格先生说。Anthropic 和 OpenAI 的代表没有立即回应置评请求。在之前的声明中，OpenAI 表示支持开源软件，并正与白宫共同研究支持人工智能开发的安全方式。在周一的一篇博文中，阿莫代先生表示，Anthropic 专注于“防止强大的芯片落入独裁者之手，停止工业规模的蒸馏，并要求对所有具备足够能力的模型（无论是开源还是闭源）进行安全测试”。周二，来自 Anthropic、OpenAI、Meta 和 Google 的顶级人工智能研究人员还签署了一份
作者：Kate Conger, Mike Isaac 和 Meaghan Tobin
硅谷一直陷入一场关于人工智能软件应当如何创建的激烈争论。一些人认为，A.I. 模型应该是“封闭”的，因为它们过于强大且危险，不能公开开发。另一些人则认为，A.I. 模型必须是“开源”的，以便人们进一步开发这些技术并建立新业务。
在这场辩论中，技术专家们就多少开放程度才足够而展开争论，并提到了“开放权重”（open weights）。什么是开放权重？我们将为你解释。
首先，什么是开源软件？ 当软件开发人员决定将他们的技术开源时，他们会公布所有底层的计算机代码。他们还会根据“开源许可”发布代码，允许其他开发人员在无需支付费用或版税的情况下使用该代码。
使代码公开可用有几个优势。一是安全性。私有代码只能由公司的员工检查缺陷，而公开代码可以由所有人审查，这样会有更多的技术专家剔除可能导致网络安全事件的错误。
另一个优势是创新速度更快。许多公司倾向于利用开源软件来更快速地启动新产品，而不是从零开始编写代码。如今，开源软件支撑着现代互联网的大部分运行。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg），上图为三月份在国会大厦。他主张他的观点，即应该有更多的人，而不是更少的人，能够接触到人工智能技术。 ALEX KENT/THE NEW YORK TIMES
[[IMG_XXXX]] 上周在旧金山举行的一次开放权重游行。技术专家们一直在争论多少开放程度才足够。 LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP — GETTY IMAGES
OpenAI 的首席执行官萨姆·阿尔特曼（Sam Altman）曾表示，一些 A.I. 模型过于危险，无法分享。
一封名为《掌控前沿》（Pacing the Frontier）的公开信，主张通过国际努力开发技术和治理工具，以出于安全考虑放缓 A.I. 的开发。OpenAI 将该信发布在社交媒体上。 （《时报》已起诉 OpenAI 和微软，指控其侵犯新闻文章的版权。两家公司否认了这些指控。）
Meta 自身关于 A.I. 开发的理念一直波动不定。多年来，该公司一直拥护开源 A.I.，并免费提供其 A.I. 模型。去年春天，在 A.I. 竞赛中落后于 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 之后，扎克伯格采取了行动。他向 A.I. 初创公司 ScaleAI 投资了 $14.3 billion，并聘请其创始人亚历山大·王（Alexandr Wang）来重组 Meta 的 A.I. 部门，该部门被重新命名为 Meta 超智能实验室（Meta Superintelligence Labs）。Meta 花费数十亿美元在王先生周围组建一支全明星 A.I. 研究员团队，他们开始开发一个非开放而是封闭的 A.I. 模型。
此举赋予了 Meta 潜在的……
[[IMG_XXXX]] 亚历山大·王（Alexandr Wang）领导 Meta 的 A.I. 部门。在他被聘用后，他开发了一个封闭的 A.I. 模型。
开放权重并没有深入到披露使系统运行的所有代码。一些 A.I. 公司发布了其底层代码，而另一些公司仅发布了权重。还有一些公司则没有披露其 A.I. 模型内部运作的任何细节。
一个 A.I. 模型可以自行学习生成英语。该模型将这些模式存储为被称为“权重”的数值计算。这些数值决定了 A.I. 模型在响应用户提示时如何“思考”。
当技术专家提到开放权重时，他们指的是管理 A.I. 系统的计算方式或规则是公开的。使用该系统的人可以微调这些规则，以将其调整为满足自身需求——例如，将 A.I. 系统集中在医学研究或网络安全等特定领域，或者使其比其他所有信息更偏好某些信息。如果权重不公开，人们就必须按照开发者的设计方式来使用 A.I. 系统。
为什么我们现在关注这个问题？ 归根结底在于人工智能（A.I.）竞赛，以及谁掌握着这项技术的权力。 领先的人工智能实验室 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 已经投入数十亿美元开发尖端的人工智能模型，这些模型大多是封闭的，这意味着这些公司不分享任何
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Anthropic 的首席执行官 Dario Amodei 旨在确保“强大的芯片不落入独裁者的手中”。
关于这些模型是如何创建的。这些模型已在世界范围内被广泛采用。 但这种人工智能权力的集中引起了英伟达 (Nvidia)、微软 (Microsoft) 和 Meta 等科技巨头的担忧，这些公司同样在参与这场竞赛。许多公司认为，分享开放权重模型可以让其他企业在该技术之上进行开发，从而扩大竞争范围。 此外还有一个安全因素。 一些公司认为，发布开放权重模型可以允许更广泛的审查，这有助于公司在漏洞被利用之前修复它们。 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 声称
为了获得更多收入，有必要出售新模型的访问权限。本月，该公司首次开始出售其最新人工智能模型 Muse Spark 的访问权限。Meta 也在继续开发开源模型。 扎克伯格先生长期以来一直认为，人工智能将以尚未被完全理解的积极方式改变社会。本月，Meta 启动了一项全国性广告活动，称投资人工智能工具并广泛发布这些工具意味着该公司在“押注于人”。 《华尔街日报》发表了
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轨迹一直趋向于更 多的开放。”
马克·扎克伯格，Meta 首席执行官。
本周刊登了扎克伯格先生的一篇观点文章，他在文中批评了人工智能权力的“中心化”，并表示他相信“个人赋权、发明和权力平衡”。在文中，他并未点名 Anthropic 和 OpenAI。
在周二的采访中，扎克伯格先生承认关于人工智能的争论具有争议性，并指出与硅谷和华盛顿不同各方的对话富有成效。
“我不知道目标是否是让每个人在每件事上都达成一致，”他说。“几乎根据定义，如果你相信我的观点，你就不需要在每件事上都说服所有人。”
回顾技术的发展历程，他表示技术工具的民主化倾向于最终获胜。
“我认为该行业的总体轨迹一直趋向于更多的开放，将技术的权力交到更多人手中，而不是更少的人手中，”他说。
由于部分技术过于先进，免费提供所有代码可能会更危险，特别是如果这些模型被心怀不轨的人使用。（这对他们的业务来说也很不利。）
发布人工智能模型权重在某种程度上是开源和闭源软件之间的一种妥协。开源软件的坚定支持者认为，开放权重的模型在分享信息方面仍然做得不够。
（《纽约时报》已起诉 OpenAI 和微软，指控其人工智能系统侵犯了新闻内容的版权。两家公司均否认这些指控。）
中国在多大程度上是一个因素？ 中国是这场争论中的一个重要因素。
中国科技产业已将开源作为在人工智能开发中追赶的工具。去年，中国初创公司 DeepSeek 发布了一个性能与全球顶尖水平相当的人工智能模型，并将其大部分底层代码以开源方式公布，震惊了科技界。
自此，中国已成为全球大多数领先开源模型的来源地，包括阿里巴巴、Z.ai 和 Moonshot AI 等公司。本月，中国领导人习近平在一次演讲中也将中国描绘为人工智能开发开放方法的全球冠军。
中国在开源人工智能方面的实力似乎对美国的竞争力构成了威胁，激发了硅谷关于如何前行的讨论。华盛顿也在关注这场拉锯战，官员们在讨论如何或是否应对人工智能进行监管。
数字加密标准中的问题
现代系统不会立即遭遇入侵
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华盛顿 —— Anthropic 公司开发的一款领先人工智能模型在一种被弱化的数字加密标准中发现了缺陷，该标准在整个互联网中被广泛使用。该公司研究人员周二表示，这凸显了不断进步的人工智能软件给全球网络安全带来的潜在风险。
在一次研究主导的测试中，名为 Claude Mythos Preview 的模型能够检测出攻击加密算法的新方法，而这些算法确保了从在线银行交易、私人通信到国家机密的一切信息免受黑客或其他不受欢迎的第三方窥视。
这项研究表明，人工智能有一天可能会挑战互联网运行的核心假设。尽管专家表示人工智能可能会颠覆许多行业，但人工智能系统在编码和网络安全方面取得了尤为迅速的进展。
所识别的缺陷不涉及目前正在使用的加密标准，这意味着现代银行和通信系统不会面临立即的潜在入——
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开发了 Claude 应用程序的 Anthropic 公司一直在测试其新的人工智能工具。
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近几个月来，前沿人工智能模型的最新发布以其强大的能力，特别是在网络安全领域，令包括特朗普政府在内的全球政府感到恐慌。当 Mythos 在 4 月首次亮相时，它在寻找和利用计算机漏洞方面如此精通，以至于 Anthropic 将其发布范围限制在选定的政府机构和组织中，以防止可能发生全球性的数字化灾难。特朗普政府最初对人工智能监管采取放任态度，但现在已转向一种临时性的监督体系。许多美国人工智能公司现在在公开发布模型之前，会先提交给政府审核，而 Mythos 至今仍不对公众开放。上周，关于顶尖人工智能系统能力的担忧再次达到顶峰。OpenAI 承认，其模型跳出了一个被称为“沙箱”（sandbox）的安全测试环境（该环境旨在与互联网隔绝），并成功黑进了一个人工智能技术数字图书馆，试图实质性地窃取用于评估其能力的考试答案。
美国和西方情报官员几十年来一直警告称，如果现有的加密标准被破解，将对数字隐私和国家安全产生深远影响。例如，人们认为中国收集了海量的加密数据，可能是希望有一天能够解码这些信息。美国和中国在构建能够有一天破解现代加密协议的高级量子计算机方面的竞赛，进一步加剧了对现有标准的担忧。除了对加密标准的攻击外，Mythos 还针对另一个名为 HAWK 的数字加密系统组织了另一种改良攻击，该系统旨在防御传统计算机和量子计算机的攻击。HAWK 目前尚未投入使用，但美国国家标准与技术研究院（National Institute of Standards and Technology）正考虑将其设为新标准。针对 HAWK 的攻击是
由其作者验证，且独立密码学家审查了针对高级加密标准的攻击。Anthropic 表示，该公司在发布之前已将其发现与美国政府及行业合作伙伴共享。Anthropic 称，Mythos 几乎完全自主地设计了针对 A.E.S. 的密码学攻击，但在开始之前，它曾因为认为无法改进现有的分析方法而拒绝考虑该问题。但在一些引导之后，这个聊天机器人研究该谜题大约一周时间，随后设计出了其新颖的攻击方案。随后，两名人类研究员工作了近一个月，以验证该方法看来是正确的。加密技术是互联网上几乎所有活动的基础，而目前使用的一些技术自 20 世纪 70 年代以来一直在保护着世界的秘密。基于量子物理复杂特性的量子密码学，是一种理论上无法破解的加密形式。
高级加密标准（Advanced Encryption Standard，简称 A.E.S.）于 2001 年被采纳为政府标准，在当时被广泛认为几乎无法破解。传统的暴力破解代码方法（即计算机通过试错来猜测密码或加密密钥的组合）通常被认为无法击败 A.E.S.。据信，该标准的密钥组合数量几乎与可观测宇宙中的原子数量一样多。但在某些领域，人工智能的进步已经超过了许多鼓吹者在几年前认为可能实现的程度。近期的进展引发了人们的担忧，即无论量子计算如何进步，互联网安全标准的数学核心有一天可能会变得脆弱。
“考虑到我们一直在低估未来模型的能力及其可用时间，我们真的能放心两年后强加密不会受到威胁吗？”美国国家安全局前总法律顾问格伦·S·格斯特尔 (Glenn S. Gerstell) 说道。格斯特尔先生还补充道，他曾参与编写 2022 年的一份关于密码学的报告：“数学家会告诉你，基于目前的计算能力，在任何有意义的时间内破解强加密应该是不可能的。但我不认为在量子计算或量子防破译密码学出现之前的中期内，未来模型的能力在这种情况下的影响应该被视为微不足道。”
顶尖内存芯片制造商 SK 海力士 (SK Hynix) 周三报告了极高的销售额和利润。其营业利润同比增长 557 Percent。
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从前一年增加到约 $54.5 十亿美元，而营业利润则跃升 557 百分比。但这一财务表现略低于分析师此前更高的预测。该公司在首尔股票市场的交易股价下跌了近 10 百分比。韩国另一家内存芯片巨头三星电子的股价也下跌了 5 百分比，而基准 KOSPI 指数下跌了 6 百分比。
在周三的一次电话会议上，海力士的高管们表示，他们没有看到增速放缓的迹象。他们称，来自大型科技客户的订单依然强劲，公司面临的最大挑战是如何跟上需求。
当被问及来自中国、需要更少计算能力的更高效、开放的人工智能模型时，他们回答说，其影响应该是扩大人工智能的采用和使用，而不是减少对人工智能芯片的需求。
到目前为止，包括谷歌、亚马逊、Meta 和微软在内的硅谷科技巨头表示，他们计划在今年增加在数据中心和人工智能软件开发方面的支出，而非缩减。
尽管近期股市出现下滑，但海力士的业务依然
作者：NIKO GALLOGLY
Max Spero 自称是互联网的“AI废话”（slop）清洁工。他是 Pangram 的首席执行官，这是一家人工智能检测公司，已成为辨别一篇报道、一条社交媒体帖子或其他文本片段是由人类还是聊天机器人撰写的领先工具。换句话说，它是否为 AI 废话？随着生成式人工智能继续渗透到越来越多的沟通形式中，总部位于纽约的 Pangram 成为一批新创业公司之一，力争在区分 AI 生成内容与人类生成内容方面做到最好。该公司表示，其 AI 文本检测模型在 10,000 次中能准确识别 9,999 次文本是否由 AI 生成。并且，它最近签约了一些知名在线出版商作为客户。
AI 写作和 AI 检测工具引发了一系列重大且棘手的问题：社会应该如何对待 AI 生成的文本？鉴于像 Pangram 这样的 AI 检测工具即便极少情况下也可能出错，应该如何使用它们？
Pangram 在周三由 Menlo Ventures 领投，ScOp Venture Capital、Haystack Ventures 等参与的一轮融资中筹集了 $9 百万 美元。这家快速增长的公司还宣布发布其最新的 AI 检测模型 —— Pangram 4.0 —— 及其首个 AI 图像检测模型。
Spero 先生及其联合创始人 Bradley Emi（两人均 30, 岁）在斯坦福大学就读本科期间相识，他们在该大学的人工智能实验室学习，并经常在深夜玩扑克。毕业后，他们走上了斯坦福计算机科学工程师的常规道路：Spero 先生去了谷歌，Emi 先生去了特斯拉，并在著名的 AI 研究员兼 OpenAI 联合创始人 Andrej Karpathy 麾下工作。在 2022, 年 ChatGPT 发布后，这两位朋友感到
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SK海力士在美国股票销售中筹集的资金，是外国公司有史以来最大规模的筹资。
SK海力士上季度的营收，较前一年增长了两倍多。
依然异常强劲。该公司拥有超过 $600 亿的现金储备，且第二季度的营业利润率达到了创纪录的 76%。公司高管表示，与预期相比的差距反映了其在保持人工智能（A.I.）芯片制造领先地位方面的投资，这在不久的将来应会带来更高的销售额和利润。 然而，对于海力士来说，通往目前繁荣的道路十分漫长。 多年来，成立于 1983, 年的海力士曾徘徊在破产边缘，并多次变更所有权。2012, 年，它成为了 SK 集团的一部分，该集团是韩国最大的家族控制企业之一。
[[IMG_XXXX]] Max Spero（左）及其联合创始人 Bradley Emi 于 2023 年创立了 Pangram。 该工具能有效判定文本是否由人类撰写。
Spero 先生表示，他们希望构建一个“为了这项技术将带来的世界”的东西。他们认为，人工智能未来的一个必然特征将是大量由 A.I. 生成的内容充斥互联网和其他沟通渠道。 Spero 先生和 Emi 先生于 2023, 年创立了 Pangram，事实证明他们的预测具有预见性。根据数字营销公司 Graphite 最近的一项分析，如今互联网上大约 50% 的新闻文章和博客是由 A.I. 生成的。
提高准确率 Pangram 的界面类似于聊天机器人。该网站提示用户插入一段文本，然后 Pangram 会给出一个判定结果——A.I.、人类或 A.I. 辅助。在这个简单的界面背后是一个强大的模型。Pangram 通过向其 A.I. 系统输入数百万个文本示例进行分析，并询问哪些是由人类撰写，哪些是由 A.I. 撰写的，从而对其进行训练。随着时间的推移，该模型提高了其准确率。 Pangram 已证明在检测整篇文本是由 A.I. 还是人类撰写方面极其有效。一项 2025 年芝加哥大学的研究发现，Pangram 在评估时保持了近乎完美的准确率。
财团。即使在行情好的年份，海力士也一直被规模大得多的韩国竞争对手三星所掩盖。 作为较小的挑战者，海力士寻求通过创新来缩小差距。它花费多年时间开发将芯片垂直堆叠的设计，以便在内存芯片和处理器之间更快地传输信息。早期的尝试虽然有前景，但成本高昂。 当对数据需求无限的人工智能技术开始起飞时，该技术已经成熟。该公司与英伟达（Nvidia）建立了密切的关系，后者的处理器为大多数 A.I. 系统提供动力，并且是海力士最重要的客户。 例如，英伟达的新款 Rubin 处理器将两个大型 A.I. 芯片与八组高速内存堆栈捆绑在一起，每组包含 12 个芯片，而海力士是其关键供应商。 A.I. 热潮已波及更广泛的内存市场，提升了用于智能手机和笔记本电脑芯片的价格和利润。但最受欢迎且最赚钱的产品是进入 A.I. 内存堆栈的高速芯片。 海力士是明显的领导者。在
这些文本篇幅大约在 500 字或以上，其表现优于 Originality.ai 和 GPTZero。该公司的工具在检测较短文本中的 AI 时并不那么精准，因为模型在这些文本中获取的上下文较少。它在识别部分由 AI 生成的文本方面能力也较弱，尽管今天发布的模型旨在提高这些能力。
芝加哥大学的研究反驳了在科技圈及其他领域日益流行的一种关于 AI 检测工具的观点：即这些工具根本没用。在 OpenAI 于 2023 年因准确率低而关闭自己的 AI 检测工具后，这种观点变得根深蒂固。
但随着 Pangram 的效能传开，其用户群开始增长。
Pangram 的大部分收入来自个人订阅，每月费用为 $20。该公司还与一些希望打击 AI 写作的大学和出版商签署了合同。那些希望剔除 AI 帖子或机器人的出版平台也在使用 Pangram。问答网站 Quora 是早期的客户之一。上周，Substack 开始与 Pangram 合作，允许读者选择不查看 AI 生成的内容。
这种客户吸引力帮助 Pangram 的年收入率增长到一年前的 35 倍。该公司拒绝透露具体收入，但表示其月活跃用户数在 6 月份增长到 120,000 人，而一年前仅为 2,700 人。
据 Counterpoint Research 称，今年第一季度，它在所谓的宽带芯片市场中占据了 58 份额。美国的大型内存芯片制造商三星（Samsung）和美光（Micron） each 均占据了 21 份额。
但在去年同期的季度中，海力士（Hynix）占据了 69 份额。分析师表示，三星正在取得进展，而美光最近被认证为 Nvidia 的高速芯片供应商。
如今，大型科技公司担心内存短缺将成为 AI 发展的瓶颈。尽管价格高昂，他们仍试图通过长期合同来锁定供应。在一些科技圈中，人们在讨论一个由需求上升和高价格驱动的内存芯片“超级周期”，这个周期可能会持续数年。
经验丰富的半导体分析师吉姆·汉迪（Jim Handy）对此持怀疑态度。
“在今天的市场中，最大的挑战是跟上需求，”汉迪先生表示，他的研究公司 Objective Analysis 长期跟踪内存市场。“但当 AI 泡沫破裂时，他们将面临相反方向的巨大问题。”
Xinyun Wu 参与了报道。
“认知安全” 该公司新增的 A.I. 图像检测工具——Pangram 声称在检测完全由 A.I. 生成的图像时准确率高达 99.5 lPercent ——将增强 Pangram 为用户提供“认知安全”的目标。Pangram 还计划在今年发布一款 A.I. 视频检测工具。
Pangram 的首席投资者认为，Pangram 正在满足一个广泛且日益增长的需求。“我认为 A.I. 检测是一种每个人都有的普遍需求，”Menlo Ventures 的合伙人 Deedy Das 表示。
不过，有一个巨大的 caveat（警告/限制）：Pangram 并不总是正确。而且人们在应用时也可能不正确。这导致了可能出现错误的关于 A.I. 生成文本的指控。
正如 Substack 作者 Freddie deBoer 最近指出的，Pangram 在准确评估部分由 A.I. 生成的文本时可能会遇到困难。deBoer 先生发现，当他在一段由自己撰写的文字中加入几句 A.I. 撰写的句子时，Pangram 将整段文字报告为 A.I. 生成。在社交媒体的一篇帖子中，Spero 先生表示，新模型能够更准确地识别部分由 A.I. 生成的文本，包括 deBoer 先生分享的那个例子。
接下来的问题是如何处理被 Pangram 标记为部分由 A.I. 撰写（可能是通过编辑或改写）的文本。Spero 先生表示，他认为人们将 A.I. 作为助手是“完全没问题”的，但他指出他个人选择不这样做。
学校、出版商和个人希望如何处理这种模糊的中间地带，仍有待解决。
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来自 Google 的计划，该团体计划在未来三年内，将 Google 选定地点的年度学徒招收人数从 19,500 人提高到 30,000 人。
另一项来自资产管理公司 BlackRock 的拨款将扩大其在德克萨斯州数据中心的培训渠道，这是旨在扩大熟练贸易规模的 1 亿美元努力的一部分。
Tina Williams 被雇佣来管理这些拨款，这些拨款是该联盟首次来自私营部门的资金。
她希望这笔资金能增强劳动力，以满足数据中心的需求，同时不放弃其他客户，比如 Shelton 先生的雇主。
“我们希望引入足够的资源来满足数据中心的需求，同时在这些地区的每个分支机构中维持我们的核心工作，”她说。
人类构建 在美国历史上，目前正在进行的数据中心建设热潮没有先例。这种热潮是由资金在功能上几乎无限的公司推动的，这些公司正竞相供应对其 A.I. 模型急剧增长的需求。这一爆发抵消了其他部门（如办公楼建设）活跃度的下降，而办公楼建设在疫情后从未恢复。住房受到高利率的抑制，离岸风电则被政治反对所击败。尽管如此，对劳动力——更不用说土地和材料——的竞争已经开始对行业的其他部分产生压力。
“毫无疑问，资源非常有限，因此决定建设某项设施会在一定程度上拖累另一项，”在 Oxford Economics 负责建设和基础设施咨询实践的 Mario Iacobacci 表示。
开发商正为工人支付溢价，尤其是在他们建设数据中心的农村地区。根据招聘网站 Indeed 的分析，数据中心的每小时安装和维护工作的薪资比其他领域的类似工作高出 42%。在这种虚高的薪资背后是一场竞价战。在数据中心建设密集的市场（如达拉斯和北弗吉尼亚州），工人可以通过跳槽来获取奖金或更高的日津贴率。
这种竞争促使承包商转向 Aerotek 等人力资源服务公司。“这正在制造一种非常微妙的劳动力紧张局势，”Aerotek 数据中心市场开发总监 Marty Schager 表示。“目前有一个被动的求职者群体，我认为他们正试图在这次一代仅一次的数据中心‘淘金热’中捕捉机会。”
科技公司教人们维护其设施已有一定的先例。微软在 2018, 年启动了针对数据中心技术人员的计划，目前在全球运营 39 个地点，已培训 15,000 人。但 A.I. 时代将科技公司更深地卷入了建筑业务。他们正与社区大学和工会合作设计课程，以便让人们尽快进入现场，即使他们在工作中继续学习。
Tony Qorri 是数据中心开发商兼出租商 DataBank 的建设副总裁。他花大量时间与承包商共同规划未来几年的劳动力战略，要求他们在无法找到并培训足够工人时，放弃其他工作以给他的项目配备人员。
（针对）那些为改善列车服务、加快建设速度、增加住房而设置障碍的工会。
多年来与桑德斯先生共事的人表示，他为工会灌输了两项原则，这在工会面对新挑战时可能会有所帮助。
第一项原则是，通过向广泛的政治信仰和职业开放，从而获得力量。在桑德斯先生的领导下，工会已经淡化了他所谓的“咄咄逼人”的政治立场，转而侧重于工作条件和保障——他表示，这些问题在建立基层基础的同时，也弥合了党派分歧。
“我们代表民主党人、共和党人、独立人士、保守派和进步派，”桑德斯先生在华盛顿办公室接受采访时表示，“我们必须集中精力处理影响我们成员的问题，以及他们为何投票加入工会。”
第二项原则是，公共服务对国家的社会结构至关重要，而提供这些服务的工人应当受到尊重，这是工会在民权运动中所扮演角色的遗产。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 左侧，来自密歇根州白湖市的迪伦·德鲁伊拉德（Dylan Drouillard），以及来自沃特福德的丹尼尔·库兰（Daniel Curran），两人正参加底特律电气工业培训中心的有限能源计划。
“甚至有些高中毕业生，这些公司就在追逐他们，说着：‘我们得培训你——这是赚钱的途径，’”他说道。
在规模最大的一项努力中，社交媒体巨头 Meta 在第一年拨出了 $115 million，称这将是一项多年承诺，旨在培训建筑工人，首批参与者约为 5,000 人。他们将完成为期四周的培训课程（差旅和住宿费用由公司承担），随后在 Meta 的一家承包商工地工作。
该计划部分由非工会贸易协会“建筑商与承包商协会”（Associated Builders and Contractors）运行。该协会正在制定一套针对数据中心量身定制的基础建筑技能课程，希望确保项目能按时且在预算内完成。
“初步目标是，‘嘿，让我们尽可能多地让这些人进入 Meta 的工地，让他们留在内部，’”该协会劳动力发展副总裁乔尔·泰晤士（Joel Thames）说，“如果有人离开并进入另一个领域，或者去了一家不负责 Meta 工地的承包商那里，我们都认为那是可以接受的。”
肖恩·麦加维（Sean McGarvey）是北美建筑贸易工会（North America’s Building Trades Unions）的主席，该联盟代表 300 万名工人。其附属机构每年在学徒计划和其他持续培训上花费约 $2.5 billion。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 左侧，斯塔尔·肖蒂诺（Starr Sciortino），右二，将数据中心的工作比作帮助建设武器工厂。右侧，埃文·德拉斯（Evan Deras）正在处理开关。
“他所坚持的价值观清晰且易于理解，即工人应当在决策桌上占有一席之地，在工作中拥有话语权，并且作为其劳动的回报，应当受到尊严且公平的对待，”美国教师联邦会（American Federation of Teachers）主席兰迪·温加滕（Randi Weingarten）说道，她自 20 世纪 90 年代末起就认识桑德斯先生。
桑德斯先生在克利夫兰长大，1978 年加入 AFSCME 职员队伍，在华盛顿担任劳动经济学家。2010, 年，他当选为秘书长。两年后，他在一场激烈的选举中获胜，成为该工会主席。
桑德斯先生就职时，州政府和市政府工人正处于危机之中。大衰退掏空了全国各地的市政当局。税收收入骤降，而大多数州在法律上被要求维持预算平衡，因此一直在寻找削减开支的方法。
“这次低迷‘导致了对公共部门工人、我们的工作、福利、薪资，甚至我们的工作内容的严重攻击’，”长期担任工会职员并在 2024 年退休的史蒂文·克赖斯伯格（Steven Kreisberg）说道。
教育，由雇主和工会成员出资。麦加维（Mr. McGarvey）先生表示，只要人工智能巨头们早早承诺雇佣工会工人，他的组织可以培训他们所需的所有人员。
OpenAI 在 3 月份做出了这一承诺，保证与工会合作为其项目配备人员。麦加维先生称 Meta 的努力是“一次绝妙的公共关系举措”，并认为一个月的培训无法与教授广泛技能的四年学徒制相媲美。
“归根结底，对该行业的任何投资都是好的投资，但我们现在讨论的是截然不同的两件事，”他说道。
目光看向未来 随着公众对人工智能可能给白领工作带来的影响，以及数据中心对当地社区产生的副作用日益警惕——本周在特朗普总统于底特律市外露面时引发的抗议活动便凸显了这一点——对熟练贸易的大规模承诺具有多重目的。
Meta 在 Facebook 和 Instagram 上铺天盖地地投放了“美国劳动力学院”（America’s Workforce Academy）的广告。它还与国家城市联盟（National Urban League）和美国西班牙裔商会（U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce）合作推广。
该商会主席拉米罗·卡瓦索斯（Ramiro Cavazos）希望人工智能公司雇佣更多的西班牙裔承包商。建立更好的关系与
共和党州长——尤其是在 AFSCME 成立的威斯康星州——削弱了集体谈判协议。保守派捐赠者、智库和政治家推动公共服务私有化，以及旨在妨碍公共部门工会的法律。2018, 最高法院裁定，如果
国家领导人的反对。
他们不想成为工会的一部分。 “当时有一种观点认为，这可能会成为公共部门工会主义的终结，”克赖斯伯格先生说。相反，这迫使工会证明其存在的意义。 桑德斯先生必须管理那些认为工会不应努力服务于不愿缴纳会费工人的工会领导者，尽管法律规定工会必须在讨薪及其他事项中代表非缴费成员。
当地企业，他说，可以帮助 Meta 在持怀疑态度的地区铺平道路。 “我们从自己的社区和小型企业那里听到，他们确实觉得存在脱节，”卡瓦佐斯先生说。“我们支持这些公司的作用，总比完全没有作用要好。” 与建筑贸易工会合作也能带来政治支持。东大西洋州木工区域委员会助理执行秘书兼财务主管安东尼·阿布兰特斯表示，如果当地工会将被安排在该项目工作，通常会支持该项目。否则，他们将不参与讨论。 就像在激烈反对中萎缩的离岸风电行业一样，数据中心开发商需要尽可能获得所有当地的认可。 “那些行业在阻止负面言论和教育社区方面做得非常糟糕，”阿布兰特斯先生说。“这几乎就像我们在为他们做倡导和业务开发。” 建筑工人对数据中心往往也持有复杂的情绪。 斯塔尔·肖蒂诺处于电工工会见习培训的第二年。她热爱排除故障，并刚刚开始参与通用汽车对其莱克奥里昂工厂的大规模改造。但她将数据中心的工作比作帮助建立武器工厂。
“我不同意那样做，”他在采访中说。“我们必须找到方法，不是把他们推开，而是要把他们吸引进来。” 在乔治·弗洛伊德被谋杀后，桑德斯先生不得不面对另一个内部的分歧，当时一部分成员要求将执法部门团体逐出工会。 美国州、县和市雇员联合会是一个自由派工会，但其政治构成非常多样：其在全国范围内的 1.4 million 缴费成员包括密歇根州的护士、纽约州的运输工人、新墨西哥州的惩教官，以及家庭工人、职员、警察和图书管理员。 桑德斯先生认为，将警察排挤出去将是一个错误。 “你要么为工人而战，要么不战，”他说。“你的力量源于你拥有的数量，以及你所代表的分类，而且当人们坐在谈判桌前代表所有这些分类时——那就是力量，而且”
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“我认为没有任何形式的金钱值得牺牲那些对社区有益的资源，”22 岁的 Sciortino 女士说。“无论这种局面持续多久，最终真的值得吗？”
随着建设工作达到白热化，这个问题笼罩在那些即将成为熟练工的学徒们心中。经过全面培训的电工可以转向核电站、公寓大楼或制药厂。但很难想象会有任何项目能达到目前这种规模。
“最理想的情况是，你培训了所有这些技术工人，而就在数据中心开始变得不那么受欢迎的时候，我们迎来一次住房繁荣，”乔治城大学教育与劳动力中心主任 Jeff Strohl 说道。“但这大概不太可能。”
Joe Ottenbacher 已经转换了职业，因为早教行业官僚主义严重且资金不足而离开。他担心，如果电工们从年薪 $200,000 的数据中心岗位大规模流出，可能会压低其他所有人的工资。
“如果此时随着数据中心的建设而有大量工人涌入，那么当建设完成后会发生什么？这些工人将去往何处？”他说。“在占据了所有这些本可以用作其他用途的房产和土地之后，运行一个数据中心需要多少人？”
that’s power（这就是权力）。
由于 Saunders 先生是在工会的华盛顿总部而非地方分会成长起来的，他的批评者担心他可能缺乏领导工会所需的职场经验。而 Saunders 先生所拥有的是如何与立法者沟通的技巧，且其支持者认为他拥有达成协议的公信力。Saunders 先生利用他与民主党领导人的关系，协助制定了 2021 年在国家走出新冠疫情冲击时通过的 $1.9 万亿美元刺激计划。
他说，与面临收入短缺的官员谈判是这项工作中最困难的部分，但公共部门的员工比任何人都清楚政府内部的低效和浪费在哪里。他说，对于那些认为工会“挡路”的论调，他毫无耐心。
“如果人们认为，解决这个国家现有经济问题的办法是攻击公共部门员工的福利和工资，那么他们生活在一个我并不在其中的星球上，”Saunders 先生说。“因为那根本不现实。”
离开《时报》 加入 《60分钟》
作者：本杰明·穆林 (BENJAMIN MULLIN) 与 迈克尔·M·格林鲍姆 (MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM)
《纽约时报》的一位观点专栏作家罗斯·道瑟特 (Ross Douthat) 将离职加入 CBS 新闻节目《60分钟》(60 Minutes) 担任记者。该节目的执行制作人在周二的一份员工备忘录中如此表示。
道瑟特先生是加入该节目第 59 季的一组记者之一，该季将于 9 月 13. 首播。作家塞巴斯蒂安·容格 (Sebastian Junger) 和前 Vice News 记者吉安娜·托博尼 (Gianna Toboni) 将成为特约评论员，此外还包括上个月加入 CBS 的英国记者特雷弗·菲利普斯 (Trevor Phillips)。前《CBS 晚间新闻》(CBS Evening News) 主播诺拉·奥唐奈 (Norah O’Donnell) 也将担任记者。
这是自 CBS 新任总编辑巴里·魏斯 (Bari Weiss) 策划一次大清洗——导致包括资深记者斯科特·佩利 (Scott Pelley) 在内的三名顶尖记者于今春离职——以来，这个长寿的周日节目首次进行的大规模雇佣。
在经历了一段动荡时期后，魏斯女士在最近几周一直试图重建《60分钟》的团队。在一些令节目人员感到震惊的举措中， she 解雇了记者莎琳·阿尔丰西 (Sharyn Alfonsi) 和塞西莉亚·维加 (Cecilia Vega)，以及该节目的高级领导团队，包括前执行制作人塔尼娅·西蒙 (Tanya Simon)。
佩利先生在与管理层发生冲突并抗议这些解雇决定后被解雇；第四名记者安德森·库珀 (Anderson Cooper) 则是自愿离开。
《60分钟》的记者是负责制作深度报道的全职记者，而特约评论员则定期提供分析、观点和报道。
被解雇后成为 一名新记者。
作为一名保守派专栏作家和作者，道瑟特先生的任命是魏斯女士和尼克·比尔顿 (Nick Bilton) 迄今为止最引人注目的雇佣之一。比尔顿先生于 5 月接替西蒙女士担任执行制作人。道瑟特先生曾任《大西洋月刊》(The Atlantic) 编辑，于 2009. 加入《时报》。他主持一个受欢迎的《时报》播客——“有趣时光”(Interesting Times)，并在其中采访了包括副总统 JD 万斯 (JD Vance)、《安多》(Andor) 创作者托尼·吉尔罗伊 (Tony Gilroy) 以及前内布拉斯加州参议员本·萨斯 (Ben Sasse) 在内的重要人物。魏斯女士和道瑟特先生在 2020. 她辞职之前，曾在《时报》的观点版面共事。
《时报》观点编辑凯蒂·金斯伯里 (Katie Kingsbury) 在一份给员工的备忘录中表示，道瑟特先生为“一种在宗教上严肃、在知识上不安分地追求的保守主义”提供了有力主张。“他对某些事情的预判很早就正确了，他对某些事情的错误则很坦诚，而且，他从来没有，哪怕一次，显得无聊过，”她补充道。
奥唐奈女士在上一季《60分钟》中出演了一些值得关注的片段后获得晋升。在 4 月份白宫记者协会晚宴枪击事件发生后，她采访了特朗普总统，而后者对她的某些提问感到不快。此外，她还是对三位罗马天主教红衣主教进行采访的记者之一，这次采访似乎引发了《60分钟》的常客特朗普先生在社交媒体上的猛烈抨击。
《60分钟》在下一季证明其新闻专业能力的压力很大。三名被解雇的记者表示，CBS 新闻的高管试图在他们的报道片段中注入政治偏见。CBS 新闻否认了这些说法，魏斯女士则表示，所谓的编辑干预是她作为总编辑工作的一部分。
魏斯女士请求比尔顿先生——一位没有任何广播新闻经验的技术记者和纪录片导演——将《60分钟》扩展到每周一小时的广播节目之外，并将其更紧密地整合到 CBS 新闻部门的其他部分中。
在给《60分钟》员工的备忘录中，比尔顿先生表示，他希望在不损害使其在近 60 年间成为电视新闻标杆的价值观的前提下，使节目现代化。在周二给员工的一份备忘录中，比尔顿先生表示，他对该节目“无畏、独立且公正报道”的传统持乐观态度。
“我迫不及待地想看到他们开始工作了，”他说。
作者：丹·庞佩伊 (DAN POMPEI) 《竞技网》(The Athletic)
加州圣何塞 —— NFL 最受赞誉的中线卫在去年 10 月 11 日晚上，于佛罗里达州坦帕的一家酒店里，用纸笔记录着生活，他从不把明天或昨天视为理所当然。
在日记中，弗雷德·沃纳 (Fred Warner) 写下了他内心的感激之情 —— 感激他所处的位置、他如何到达这里，以及他在旧金山 49 人队中的表现。他状态极佳，也许是职业生涯的巅峰，考虑到他曾四次入选全明星第一阵容，这已经非常有说服力了。
他感谢上帝让他能在次日下午参加对阵坦帕湾海盗队的比赛。他憧憬着超越帕特里克·威利斯 (Patrick Willis) 成为球队历史擒抱次数最多的球员（他当时距离这一纪录仅差 5 次擒抱），并希望完成本赛季的首次拦截。
对沃纳而言，睡眠是提升表现的手段，因此他拉紧了遮光窗帘，沉睡了九个小时。
第二天，在体育场内，他通过一些呼吸练习来应对挑战。比赛开始时，他感觉状态正佳。沃纳当时如此专注，以至于他
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旧金山线卫 弗雷德·沃纳在 10 月份 右踝关节脱位并骨折（见上图）。 上方图中与他 2 岁的儿子博 (Beau) 在一起。
读出对方进攻战术的速度之快前所未有，并将其化解。
在第一节比赛进行到一半时，他在第一档进攻时预判对方将进行冲球。他正确读取了战术并填补防线，但海盗队的左截锋特里斯坦·维夫斯 (Tristan Wirfs) 挡住了他。沃纳试图将其推开，但维夫斯始终挡在他与目标之间。
沃纳最终没能找到冲球球员。
他当时并未想到会遭遇赛季终结的伤病。自十年前在杨百翰大学大二那年起，他就没有再受过此类重伤。
在他从大学起算起的 11 个首发赛季中，沃纳仅缺席过一场比赛 —— 那是在 2021 年因为腿后肌拉伤。
“当你与弗雷德相处这么久之后，你几乎会认为他是不可战胜的，”49 人队的防守冲球游戏协调员约翰尼·霍兰德 (Johnny Holland) 说道，他在沃纳的前八个赛季中担任其位置教练。
这并不是说沃纳不懂疼痛。他曾带着背部骨折、手腕骨折、神经刺痛、膝盖和脚踝扭伤、脚踝骨折以及
如今他们渴望 取得成效
作者：萨姆·汗二世 (SAM KHAN JR.) 《竞技网》(The Athletic)
进入 2025 赛季前，人们对南卡罗来纳大学四分卫拉诺里斯·塞勒斯 (LaNorris Sellers) 和现就读于贝勒大学的前佛罗里达大学四分卫 D.J. 拉格韦 (D.J. Lagway) 的期待值达到了顶峰。
一年前，一位 Power 4 进攻协调员曾表示：“如果我现在要组建一支球队，我可能会选择 D.J. 拉格韦作为我的四分卫。” 一位大学球探主管称塞勒斯为全美最好的四分卫，“因为我非常看好这些特质，而且它们很难被忽视。”
随后 2025 赛季到来了，而两人都未能接近预期的表现。《竞技网》最新的大学四分卫分级中，两人的排名均大幅下降。去年排名第 3 的塞勒斯现在掉到了第 18 位，而拉格韦在 2025 年排名第五后，现在掉到了第 42 位。
参与今年排名调研的对方教练组人员目前对这两名球员怎么看？为了提供真实见解，他们在匿名条件下接受了采访。
他们在 2025 年的表现引发了质疑。
塞勒斯的传球完成率、传球效率、单次进攻码数、离靶率以及达阵数均有所下降，而拦截率则略有上升。
这终结了关于他能在 2026 年 NFL 选秀中成为高顺位首轮秀的讨论，而这在进入上个赛季前还是热门话题。
“我认为去年他们想让他成为选秀首选，所以他们只想让他通过传球来打球，”一位东部联盟 (SEC) 的助理教练说。“他的精准度不足以支撑他一直后撤步传球。”
一位在 2025 年进入前对塞勒斯评价很高的 Power 4 进攻协调员并不认可
萨姆·汗二世 (Sam Khan Jr.) 是《竞技网》的高级大学足球撰稿人。
来自第一体育页
拇指韧带撕裂。在一次输给 2019 年堪萨斯城酋长队的超级碗比赛中，他带着后来需要手术的拇指伤势拦截了帕特里克·马霍姆斯。这是职业风险。这是中线卫的生活。但他的伤势与他人的伤势不同。沃纳坚信他的耐用性是上天的馈赠。去年的一次 DEXA 身体成分扫描帮助他理解了这一点，结果显示他的骨密度是普通人的 6 倍。“有些人拥有跑得飞快的惊人能力，”他说，“我想，我的惊人能力是拥有厚实的骨骼来帮助我保持健康。”至于跑得快，或者说不算太快，他在 2018 年联合训练营中的 4.64 40 码冲刺成绩在所有线卫中排名第 13。观察他的比赛比看他的 40 码成绩更能揭示他的速度。他被评价为“潜行之快”，但更好的描述
是“聪明之快”。他的教练凯尔·沙纳汉称他为完美的现代线卫，部分原因是他在一些无法量化的方面极具天赋。“他将上帝赋予他的所有天赋发挥到了极致，是我见过的任何人中做得最极致的，”49人队的总经理约翰·林奇说道。“人们问我，在 NFL 中球员之间是否真的存在努力程度的差异。我说绝对有，而弗雷德就是最好的榜样。”在休赛期训练结束时，49人队的球员在训练营开始前有 40 天的假期，并被鼓励远离训练场以充电。但沃纳不会这样做。林奇说，他通常远离训练设施的最长时间是 4 天。如果其他人想加入他的训练营前训练，也可以——但前提是他们必须承诺全程参与。在 2024, 年，跑卫乔丹·梅森做出了这个承诺，林奇认为他迎来一个爆发赛季并非巧合。
“弗雷德带动了我们队里的很多球员，”林奇说。沃纳更喜欢听到 4.64 而不是 32. 他将 4.64, 视为一种勋章，不像是一块耻辱柱，而像是一道伤疤。
他在上赛季的录像中看到的。 “我非常想喜欢塞勒斯，”这位协调员说，“但你只要看录像，就很难喜欢他。他作为一名传球手的表现非常不稳定。他的高光时刻可能和选秀中的任何人一样高。但他的低谷期很糟糕。你看到的亮点不足以抵消你在录像中看到的一些糟糕表现。” 拉格威也经历了类似的退步。他的传球效率、每次尝试推进码数和每回合推进码数大幅下降，而传球失准率上升。虽然他提高了完球率，但失误了 15 次，其中 5 次是在对阵路易斯安那州立大学的比赛中。 “我很难忘记对阵 LSU 的那场比赛，”一名 Big 12 的人事工作人员说。“伙计，他看起来太糟糕了。我甚至不想根据去年的表现给他打分，因为我认为那不是真实的他，但那是他展现出来的样子。我想那里留下了很多伤疤，很难忘记他去年做过的一些事情。” 这位 Power 4 的进攻协调员质疑拉格威的决策能力。 “如果不是人盯人防守，而他需要立即知道球应该传向何处——比如他必须经过传球顺序递进——他经常会让球处于危险之中，”这位进攻协调员说。
他们的天赋依然孕育着乐观情绪。
塞勒斯的身体素质——6 英尺 3, 238 磅，顶尖的力量和动态奔跑能力——依然是令人兴奋的原因。而且我们交谈过的许多人对他 2025, 年的表现持宽容态度，考虑到他所在的进攻线允许的压力率在 Power 4 中排名第三高（根据 Pro Football Focus 的数据为 40.7 百分比）以及其他外部因素。 “他可以用很多种方式击败你，”一名 SEC 的总经理
职业足球
弗雷德·沃纳在尝试安抚队友（左图），当时他在上赛季佛罗里达州坦帕的比赛中被担架抬离球场。右图为五月份的热身场景。
而且他会告诉你，好事 也可以来自伤疤。 他的右脚踝前面有一道大约 一英寸半长的伤疤。那是为了 修复三角韧带损伤而植入 钢丝的地方。此外，脚踝 后面还有一道大约七英寸 长的伤疤。那是用钢板和 足够固定一个小书架的螺钉 修复腓骨螺旋性骨折的地方。
那天，沃纳试图在威夫斯身边 转身避开。接着他感觉到 膝盖下方传来一阵冲击， 将他击倒，他向后摔在 佛罗里达的草地上——那是来自 49人队安全卫吉艾尔·布朗的 误伤。沃纳看着自己的身体， 发现右脚的方向反了。
威夫斯和海盗队接球手 泰兹·约翰逊向边线挥手： 快来！约翰逊双手抱头。接着 看台上响起另一波惊恐的惊呼—— 沃纳想，体育场大屏幕上一定 在播放回放。
沃纳翻身侧卧。 奇怪的是，没有痛感，只有 脚踝和脚部在剧烈跳动， “就像心脏在腿里跳动一样，” 他说道。
医务人员剪掉了他的球鞋， 以确认没有骨折穿破皮肤。 随后，49人队的队医 蒂莫西·麦克亚当斯抓起 脱位的脚踝，将其复位。 当气垫护具被套上，沃纳 被抬上推车时，队友们 像
D.J. 莱格威在佛罗里达大学期间 应对了伤病和教练更替， 但在贝勒大学的新进攻体系中， 他应该会有更好的表现。
说道：“他拥有联赛前三分之一的 能力。只要状态在，他就能 掌控局面。” 这位 SEC 助理表示，他 仍将塞勒斯列为 SEC “前三或前四名”的 四分卫之一。
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葬礼上的哀悼者一样涌向他。 他告诉那些面色凝重的人们， 一切都会好起来的。 “我一直深信，所有事情的 发生都有其原因，” 他说道。“在最艰难的时刻 放弃这一信念是不正确的。”
作为一名担任了七年队长的 球员，沃纳多次与年轻队友 谈论他们共同经历的这段 时光是暂时的。 “我记得告诉过大家，要 珍惜每一场比赛，每一次训练
珍惜每一场比赛， 每一次训练和表现。
以及每一次的单次进攻，因为你永远 不知道这是否会是最后一次，” 他说道。“这就是为什么我在比赛、 训练和会议中投入如此之多 激情和正能量的原因。” 在体育场拍摄的X光片 确认了损伤情况，两天后 斯坦福医疗中心的三位 外科医生完成了修复手术。 在 随后的 不承重 数周里，沃纳并不总能感受到 他在球场上体会到的那种禅定状态。 六周时间像六个月一样漫长， 大部分时间都花在客厅的沙发上， 无法走上楼梯回到他的
Lagway 因其身材 (6-3, 239)、臂力 和机动性而备受赞赏，他在 2025 年 休赛期的很大一部分时间都在 康复伤病，赛季中也同样在 与之抗争。此外还发生了教练变动， 由于比利·纳-
卧室，依赖于他怀孕的妻子 悉尼，而悉尼原本应该是 依赖于他的。 他的无力感有时让他感到绝望。 但这种感觉随之消逝，取而代之的是 他在坦帕湾比赛前一晚感受到的 那种感激之情。 他思考过要走到今天的位置需要付出什么。 他的母亲劳拉是一名单亲妈妈， 在教会和亲属的帮助下勉强维持生活。 有五名线卫在他之前被选中， 部分原因是他的位置有些像外线卫， 有些像安全卫，还有点像镍卫。 “我非常感激能进入 N.F.L.，以至于我 每天都得掐自己一下，”沃纳说。 “如果你认识来自加州圣马科斯的 那个孩子，弗雷德·沃纳，那个小小的 弗雷德·沃纳，没人认为他能走到 我现在的位置。甚至在我自己的意识里， 我也从未认为我本该出现在这里。 我觉得自己一直生活在某种幻想之中。” 在腿部仍然无法承重的日子里， 他询问外科医生该赛季是否还能 再次参赛。医生告诉他，如果采取比 常规更激进的康复方法， 那么就有机会。沃纳尽可能地 采取了最激进的方式。 N.F.C. 冠军赛被定为沃纳回归 的目标日期，但 49ers 在分区赛中 输给了西雅图海鹰队。 沃纳说，如果他们赢了， 他就会参赛。 不过，缺席 13 场比赛也有 其优势。最明显的一点是避免了可能
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皮尔在赛季中被解雇——而且 Lagway 在职业生涯的前两年里， 一直承受着纳皮尔的职位稳定性 与其表现挂钩的压力。 “我认为他一定会比在佛罗里达 大学时表现得更好，这毋庸置疑，” 这位 Power 4 进攻协调员说道。 “我认为他现在很健康。他背负的 必须成为那个五星级救世主的 压力减轻了。” 这位 SEC 总经理在谈到 Lagway 时说： “天空依然是他的极限。”
他们新的进攻 协调员应该会 帮助他们取得成功。
Sellers 和 Lagway 今年将有 新的进攻协调员。南卡罗来纳州 聘请了前德克萨斯基督大学进攻 协调员 Kendal Briles 与 Sellers 合作， 而 Lagway 将与贝勒大学的 Jake Spavital 合作。对手认为这两位 四分卫都非常契合
在他 1 月 3 日面临的决定中，那是他人生中最艰难的抉择。那天晚上，49人队与海鹰队进行常规赛决赛，以决定哪支球队将获得国家美式足球联盟（N.F.C.）的 1 号季后赛种子席位。他的妻子在比赛前进入产程。他在她床边用笔记本电脑观看了比赛。在49人队失利后，贝拉出生了。他很高兴自己不必在两者之间做选择。
“足球比赛占据了我生活的全部，但没有什么能胜过我的家庭，”他说。
悉尼·海塔沃（Sydney Hightower）在 2020 年参加电视节目《单身汉》（The Bachelor）时引起了沃纳（Warner）的注意。他们在午夜的一家 In-N-Out 餐厅进行了第一次约会，随后走向了“无论好坏”的誓言，而他们确信这将导向“永远幸福”。
对于即将于 11 月 19 日年满 30 岁的沃纳来说，这是一个新阶段。他现在有两个孩子，包括他 2 岁的儿子博（Beau）。
沃纳并不畏惧这个通常与衰落开始相关的生日。他深知，人们对一名年老且受伤的球员的预期是退步。但他表示，对于 30 岁，他感觉棒极了。
在过去的 39 年中，霍兰德（Holland）有 35 年时间在 N.F.L. 的线卫周围打转，身份既是球员也是教练。与他共事的人员包括布莱斯·波普（Bryce Paup）、查德·布朗（Chad Brown）和德梅科·赖恩斯（DeMeco Ryans）。
但他从未见过像沃纳这样如此注重自我管理的球员。因此，在他看来，沃纳的情况并不令他感到惊讶。
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拉诺里斯·塞勒斯（LaNorris Sellers）在去年《The Athletic》的大学分级中排名第 3，但在南卡罗来纳大学的赛季表现却完全平庸。
他们的新战术和比赛调度员。“我认为肯德尔（Kendal）会让他跑动得更多一些，发挥他的长处，我认为这将会有所帮助，”这位 SEC 助理说道。这位 Power 4 进攻协调员引用了布赖尔斯（Briles）在阿肯色大学如何根据 K.J. 杰斐逊（K.J. Jefferson）的技巧量身定制进攻方案，将其作为塞勒斯可能适应良好的一点。在 2022 年（布赖尔斯在剃刀背队最后一年），杰斐逊贡献了 3,276 码（其中传球 2,636 码，冲球 640 码），传球 24 次达阵且仅有 5 次被拦截，平均每次传球尝试 8.8 码。“我认为他具备成功的条件，因为这个系统适合他，”该进攻协调员表示。一位 Big 12 的主教练称斯帕维塔尔（Spavital）的进攻比拉格韦（Lagway）在佛罗里达大学时“对四分卫友好得多”，并表示如果拉格韦能有一个好年头，他不会感到惊讶。吉诺·史密斯（Geno Smith）、约翰尼·曼齐尔（Johnny Manziel）、戴维斯·韦伯（Davis Webb）、威尔·格里尔（Will Grier）和索耶·罗伯逊（Sawyer Robertson）都是四分卫，在斯帕维塔尔担任其四分卫教练或进攻协调员（或两者兼任）且单赛季至少首发 11 场比赛时，传球码数至少达到 3,400 码并完成 28 次达阵。“我认为拉格韦与斯帕维塔尔在一起的表现会比人们预期的更好，”一位 Big 12 的人事主管说道。这位 Power 4 进攻协调员表示：“我认为这个系统绝对会稍微简单一点，对他来说更容易一些，可能更接近他高中时期习惯的方式。” 2026 赛季将是拉格韦和塞勒斯的证明之年。“他有天赋，这一点毋庸置疑，”一位 Power 4 的人事员在评价拉格韦时说道。“但他是另一个安东尼·理查森（Anthony Richardson），还是能做得比那更多？我认为人们迷恋的是他的手臂以及他能投出的那些惊艳球。但从他整体的表现来看——那真的是你想要的吗？” 针对塞勒斯，一位 SEC 办公室工作人员表示：“我理解他为什么有那样的高度评价，因为他能做出一些惊艳的动作。但我们要玩多少年‘想象如果他能把所有潜力都发挥出来’这种游戏？”
仍在上升。林奇 (Lynch) 是另一个认为沃纳 (Warner) 仍在进步的人。根据霍兰德 (Holland) 的说法，每当沃纳确定一个想要改进的领域时，他都能达成目标。作为一名新秀，沃纳错失了 18 次擒抢。在休赛期，他致力于协调身体与眼睛的配合，在接触时让双脚到位并冲破持球者。霍兰德表示，这种进步是非常显著的。在这个休赛期，沃纳一直致力于利用针对跑卫的一对一传球冲压机会，而这在过去并非他经常被要求执行的任务。霍兰德希望沃纳在接下来的赛季中能有更多冲压跑卫的机会。沃纳相信，通过提高他本已很高的竞争强度，他在 2026 年将达到一个更高的水平。他谈到要成为球场上更像一个“疯子”，并突破年龄的
障碍。在他看来，30 岁是一个机遇。从伤病中回归也是如此。“你离开了一段时间，人们在某种程度上会忘记你做过什么，”沃纳说道。“你可以回顾我过去所取得的成就，所有的全明星阵容 (All-Pros)、职业碗 (Pro Bowls) 以及你完成的 plays；那些都很伟大。但这与你在未来的表现无关，无论是第 1 周还是赛季的其余时间。”他的下一个篇章可能更多地关乎坚韧而非运动能力。这让我们回到了对阵海盗队的那一天。他当时没有得到他所希望的结果——球队擒抢纪录和一次拦截。但发生的事情让他明白了自己的目标。沃纳一直怀疑他的目标是激励他人。现在他确定了。“我很不愿这么说，但我必须经历这种逆境，以此证明什么是可能的，首先是通过上帝的恩典，然后是通过艰苦的
努力、专注、投入和自律，”他说道。因此，现在沃纳正坚定地迈向 9 月在澳大利亚墨尔本对阵洛杉矶 the Rams 的回归之战——带着目标。
球员与所有者就 “50-50”的含义展开争论
作者：EVAN DRELLICH The Athletic
在棒球运动中，平分收益是一个充满争议的想法。球员与球队所有者之间的正式收入分成是薪资上限制度的核心特征，而美国职业棒球大联盟（M.L.B.）的球队所有者希望引入该制度。“我们的薪资上限和下限提案在确保竞争公平的同时，与球员 50-50 分成棒球收入，这意味着随着收入增长，球员和俱乐部将平等分享，”M.L.B. 代表 Glen Caplin 在给 The Athletic 的一份声明中表示。球员工会反对 M.L.B. 的上限设置有一长串理由。其中之一是：球员目前获得的收入已经“远超”该行业每年 $12 亿总收益的一半。但工会还认为，联盟将该提案描绘成公平平分的做法是错误的。“M.L.B. 在构建其薪资上限提案时采取欺骗手段，将其描述为平等分享，这并不令人意外，”球员工会临时负责人 Bruce Meyer 在其声明中表示。“M.L.B. 并没有提出 50-50 的收入分成。任何相反的暗示都是误导性的宣传。”
当涉及到上限制度中的收入划分时，除了百分比之外，还有至关重要的信息需要理解——即分母。在双方共享的资金池中，哪些会被计入，而哪些会被首先扣除？答案在 M.L.B. 5月 28, 提交的一份冗长提案中有所阐述，The Athletic 对该提案进行了审阅，其中包含 M.L.B. 所称的“棒球收入”（B.R.）的计算方式。其扣除项目不计其数。M.L.B. 每年最多可从当地收入中扣除 17 percent 作为费用，此外还可从全国收入中扣除高达 22 percent。此外，某些领域将没有费用上限，例如球场的建设和翻新费用，包括春季训练设施。MLB Network 将没有扣除限制，并且在 2027 和 2028, 任何球队的当地广播成本也将没有限制。联盟还希望对于其广泛定义的“新项目”可以进行无限制扣除。
“M.L.B. 所谓的收入分成，是在通过所谓的费用和排除项从顶端撇走数十亿美元之后才计算的……”
Evan Drellich 是 The Athletic 的 M.L.B. 高级撰稿人。
作者：JULIAN McKENZIE The Athletic
在 109 年的历史中，N.H.L. 仅出现过一位黑人主教练，且任职时间甚至不足一个完整赛季。作为该联盟首位黑人球队队长，德克·格雷厄姆（Dirk Graham）于 1998 年 6 月接任芝加哥黑鹰队的教练工作。在被解雇前，他执教了 59 场比赛，战绩为 16-35-8。
如果乔尔·沃德（Joel Ward）能如愿以偿，他将成为下一位。而且，这件事早已迟到了。
“我认为在我之前应该有更多的人，”沃德上周表示。“作为一名球员，你会经历这些，但随后似乎因为某种原因，教练这条路对很多球员来说并不是一个真实的途径。”
沃德曾是一名 N.H.L. 翼锋，在效力于四支 N.H.L. 球队的 11 个赛季中，他共打入 133 个进球并获得 304 分，其中包括在圣何塞鲨鱼队冲向 2016 年斯坦利杯决赛期间的表现。作为冰球多样性联盟（Hockey Diversity Alliance）的创始人，沃德利用自己的平台来推广包容性并打击这项运动中的歧视。
今年 6 月，在拉斯维加斯金骑士队组织中担任了六年助理（其中最后三年在 N.H.L. 球队替补席度过）后，45 岁的沃德被任命为美国冰球联盟（American Hockey League）亨德森（内华达州）银骑士队的教练。
他接替了瑞安·克雷格（Ryan Craig）。在金骑士队于斯坦利杯决赛负于卡罗莱纳飓风队后，该特许经营权决定不再留用赛季后期聘请的约翰·托尔托雷拉（John Tortorella），克雷格随后被提拔为金骑士队教练。
沃德表示，能够获得金骑士队的信任，去“领导他们的年轻人并培养球员”，这在组织中是一项荣誉。
冰球
“……决定，”迈耶（Meyer）在声明中继续说道。“在特许经营权的价值增长、扩张费或全联盟球场周边产生的巨额收入方面，也不存在所谓的‘平等分享’。”
虽然这可能令人惊讶，但收入分配可能是工资帽制度中最重要的一部分——甚至比每支球队必须遵守的薪资上限和下限更为重要。这种分配才是真正的薪资上限。
这是因为在每个赛季结束后，球员薪资将进行调整，以确保球员和球队所有者获得指定比例的收入。因此，联盟希望球员每年将最高 10 ％的薪资存入托管账户。
这些会计上的“杂技”对于关注其他运动的人来说可能并不陌生。在 N.B.A. 中，分发资金的资金池被称为“篮球相关收入”。在 N.H.L. 中，它被称为“冰球相关收入”。
“拟议的棒球收入定义与此高度一致……”
在薪资上限联盟中，这可能是一个具有争议的问题。
“采用了在其他联盟中已获验证的方法，”Caplin 表示。“M.L.B. 球员的薪酬增长速度慢于其他联盟的球员薪酬。” 其他联盟允许扣除额，但与 N.B.A.、N.H.L. 以及 M.L.B. 所期望的设置相比，N.F.L. 的扣除项较少。 同样，其他薪资上限联盟都没有与球员分享特许经营权销售收益。尽管如此，N.H.L. 的收入分成仍经常被讨论为 50-50。 但总体而言，棒球工会将 M.L.B. 的提案描绘成一个由其他联盟中最不慷慨的部分拼接而成的“弗兰肯斯坦怪物”。 球队在球员身上花费的几乎每一美元都将计入球员在棒球收入中的份额。这包括从业余签约奖金、退休福利和搬迁费用，直到翻译人员和俱乐部休息室餐饮的所有开支。 “他们提出的薪资上限制度不仅因为我们认为薪资上限制度一直以来都很糟糕而糟糕，”Meyer 在 6 月份表示。“他们实际上成功地拼凑出了所有主要体育运动中对球员最不利的制度，且远超其他制度之糟。” 在薪资上限制度下，另一个关键事项必须经过协商：工会可以要求对联盟办公室和 30 支球队进行财务审计的频率。联盟建议进行 10 次审计，这少于其他薪资上限系统可提供的次数。N.B.A. 球员工会平均每年获准进行 15 次，而 N.F.L. 和 N.H.L. 的工会则没有限制。Caplin 表示，M.L.B. 正在提供“与其他工会相当的独立审计权利和保护”。在薪资上限系统中，即使分成比例不变，资金池的变化也会产生巨大影响。在 N.B.A. 2023 年的最后一轮谈判期间，篮球运动员同意引入“第二层奢侈税线”（the second apron），即一个支出阈值
【注：此处文本在原件中似乎发生了跳跃，以下内容接续关于 Ward 的报道】
该球队顶级的次级联赛附属球队，使他成为 A.H.L. 历史上仅有的第二位黑人主教练。（第一位是 Graham，他在 2004 到 2006 年期间领导马萨诸塞州的 Springfield Falcons 队。） “归根结底，我想在国家冰球联盟（National Hockey League）执教，”他说。 Ward 在 2006-7 赛季通过明尼苏达狂野队（Minnesota Wild）进入联盟，当时他是爱德华王子岛大学的一名未选秀自由球员，是极少数能达到该项运动最高水平的加拿大大学冰球球员。 尽管在接下来的一年里在次级联赛度过，但他坚持不懈，在 2008 到 2015 年期间成为了纳什维尔掠夺者队（Nashville Predators）和华盛顿之都队（Washington Capitals）前场的一名可靠球员，其职业生涯巅峰是在 2013-14 赛季效力于之都队时，打入了 24 个进球并获得了 49 分。 在 2020 年正式退役后不久，Ward 成为了当年 N.H.L. 教练协会（N.H.L. Coaches Association）全球教练诊所的九名黑人参与者之一。到 11 月，在向金骑士队（Golden Knights）负责冰球运营的总裁 George McPhee 发送简历后——McPhee 曾在 2011 年将 Ward 作为自由球员签入之都队——他被聘为银骑士队（Silver Knights）的助理教练。 现在 Ward 回到了亨德森，他可以应用从多位曾共事或在其麾下效力的 N.H.L. 教练那里学到的经验，包括 Barry Trotz；现任金骑士队助理教练 John Stevens；以及 Peter DeBoer，后者在两人共同效力于圣何塞期间就发现了 Ward 的执教潜力。 “我认为在你执教的每支球队中，你总是在观察，房间里总有那么几个人让你觉得，‘天哪，我想那个人会是一个非常出色的'...”
由于其对跨线球队的处罚极其严重，这在一定程度上抑制了部分球员在自由球员市场上的价值。工会现在希望修改该条款。但最初同意该条款的交换条件之一是新增的一项收入共享流。信不信由你，在 2023 之前，除非商品上印有球员的姓名或肖像，否则篮球运动员无法从授权商品的销售中分得一杯羹。例如，一顶印有纽约尼克斯队标志的帽子并不计入球员的份额。而一旦计入，这个“蛋糕”就增长了约 $160 million。在 M.L.B. 中，联盟希望将传统领域的收入纳入这个蛋糕：例如门票销售、商品、广播和啤酒。（是的，包括帽子。）比赛日的包厢销售和座位许可证将计入在内，体育场 80 percent 的命名权也将计入。半径半英里范围内的比赛日停车费也被包括在内。但球员将被很大程度上排除在球队运营的辅助业务之外——这些是球员永远想要分一杯羹，而老板永远试图屏蔽的盈利项目。根据 M.L.B. 的提案，体育场周边的土地销售和租赁将不与球员分成。联盟还正式探讨了它所谓的“球场区”（ballpark districts），即一些球队老板在体育场周围建设的混合用途开发项目。这些项目产生的一部分收入将由球员共享，
右上方的 Joel Ward 将执教拉斯维加斯的顶级小联盟球队。 下方的 Dirk Graham 在 1998-99 赛季为芝加哥队执教了 59 场比赛。
亚特兰大勇士队报告称，由球队建设的 Battery Atlanta 区域在 2025 带来了 $97 million。
但并不多。 联盟的提案将八支球队视为拥有正式区域：亚特兰大、芝加哥小熊队、科罗拉多、匹兹堡、旧金山、西雅图、圣路易斯和德克萨斯。 作为一家必须定期发布财务信息的上市公司，亚特兰大勇士队报告称，其区域在 2025 带来了 $97 million。 这些区域将共享什么？在 M.L.B. 活动期间，球队将全额共享区域内的停车费。此外，球场区及其停车区域内广告牌收入的 20 percent 将计入资金池。 如果某些餐厅和酒吧在球场区仅季节性营业，其收入也将计入——但仅限于比赛日。这意味着老板们不需要与那些全年营业的餐厅分享收益。（M.L.B. 拒绝具体说明目前有多少区域内的餐饮店是兼职运营的。） M.L.B. 和各球队将分享一些与体育博彩相关的收入。但不出所料，纽约大都会队老板 Steve Cohen 计划在球队球场附近建设的新赌场将不会直接让球员受益。
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实体赌场和体育博彩的收益仅在该赌场的业务“主要源自 M.L.B. 博彩”时才计入。（M.L.B. 拒绝说明是否存在此类赌场。） M.L.B. 提案中的某些规定细碎到几乎令人发笑。 付费的吉祥物出场费计入资金池。虽然 M.L.B. 不想分享球场电影拍摄的准入费，但它提议分享 A.T.M. 费用。 对于球队在体育场外销售的广告牌和标志，M.L.B. 提议将 80 percent 的收入计入棒球收入，而非 100 percent。为了符合条件，此类广告必须处于“以本垒板为基准测量”的半英里半径范围内。 如果棒球最终采用了上限和预定的收入分配方式，关于 B.R. 的讨论将永无止境。联盟和工会都需要配备全职人员来监控并处理相关争议。每次谈判新的集体薪酬协议时，B.R. 都会成为一个主要议题。 棒球目前的谈判仍处于早期阶段，这意味着双方都尚未给出最理想的报价。在未来的进程中，M.L.B.
在 Cassidy 四月被解雇后，他们担任了类似的职务，在 Tortorella 依赖拉斯维加斯的助理教练帮助球队重回正轨时，他们与 Dominique Ducharme 一起指导前锋。
Cassidy 曾依赖 Ward 最近的 N.H.L. 经验。
“我没打过多少 N.H.L. 比赛，”Cassidy 说。“所以能有一个经历过且做到的家伙，并利用这一点在更衣室里发挥优势。那是他最大的资产，我认为他也明白这一点。”
像 DeBoer 和 Cassidy 这样的教练在进入 N.H.L. 担任职务之前，曾在小联盟和青少年级别执教多年。他们称赞 Ward 遵循了这条路径，即便这意味着在经历过 N.H.L. 板凳教练生涯后重新回到 A.H.L.。
“这可能是世界上执教职业球员的第二大联赛，”Cassidy 在谈到 A.H.L. 时说。“它确实能让你为成为 N.H.L. 主教练做好准备。我的意思是，看看那些在 N.H.L. 的家伙。我敢打赌，随口一说，你就能叫出其中一半曾是美国联盟主教练的名字。”
事实上，N.H.L. 当前 32 位教练中有 21 位在晋升之前曾担任 A.H.L. 的主教练。其中五位，包括 Craig，是在担任过 N.H.L. 级别的助理教练后才接手这些职位的。联盟中两位最著名的教练 Paul Maurice 和 Mike Sullivan 在 N.H.L. 执教多年后曾在 A.H.L. 重新出现，随后不久又回到了大联盟。
Cassidy 本人则从 ECHL、国际冰球联盟 (International Hockey League) 和 A.H.L. 逐步攀升，最终在 2002-3 赛季获得了他的首个 N.H.L. 工作，地点在华盛顿。
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据推测，他们可能愿意为球员提供一个更好的版本。
“我们准备好在谈判桌上就这个问题进行磋商，”Caplin 在谈到收入计划时说道。
然而，球员工会似乎不太可能就 B.R. 的计算方式发送一份直接的反向提案。
球员们根本不想要工资帽，因此不愿就其任何运作方式进行谈判。
在 M.L.B. 看来，这很糟糕。M.L.B. 指出，在目前的体制下球员们正在遭受损失，因为他们的收入没有正式地与营收挂钩。
“与其他运动不同，大联盟球员的薪酬未能跟上营收的增长，”Caplin 说。“自 2003 年以来，虽然 M.L.B. 的营收增长了 247 百分比，但球员的薪资增长仅为 149 百分比。”
然而，Meyer 并不认为 M.L.B. 实际上在试图帮助球员。
“联盟的提案是要将球员的整体薪酬在现有基础上削减数亿美元，将其锁定，并保证其增长永远不会再次超过营收，”Meyer 说。“如果球员在过去二十年的任何时候同意过像这样被提议的协议，他们的损失将高达数十亿美元。”
在被首都人队解雇，以及在黑鹰队担任过一段时间助理教练之后，他再次通过努力逐步晋升。这一次，他从安大略冰球联盟起步，进入美国冰球联盟（A.H.L.），最终进入波士顿棕熊队的教练席，并在 2016-17 赛季接替克劳德·朱利安担任主教练。
对于沃德来说，有少数几个榜样可以效仿，证明了成为 N.H.L. 教练的路径并非总是线性的。
“他正以正确的方式前行，”德博尔在评价沃德时说道。“他没有在寻找进入 N.H.L. 的捷径。他愿意坐大巴、去小联盟，并作为助理教练去捡冰球。他作为教练时与作为球员时拥有同样的心态，即愿意为此努力工作。我毫不怀疑，最终他会为此获得回报，就像他球员时代那样。”
作为一对来自巴巴多斯的父母之子，沃德深知一名黑人教练在职业冰球中获得任何职位的机会是多么罕见。当保罗·杰拉德（于 2023 年去世）在科罗拉多雪崩队（2002-3）、达拉斯星队（2011-13）和卡尔加里火焰队（2016-18）工作时，他是联盟中唯一的黑人助理教练；新泽西恶魔队的迈克·格里尔（2018-20）也是如此。除了沃德和坦帕湾闪电队的守门员教练弗兰茨·让之外，在 2025-26 赛季，N.H.L. 的 32 支球队的教练组中没有其他黑人成员。
但沃德希望，无论他的旅程将他带向何方，都能激励年轻人追随他的脚步。
“在我的职业生涯过程中，我从许多优秀的教练那里学到了很多，”沃德说。“如果我掌握了所有这些信息却没机会与他人分享，那将是一件非常遗憾的事。”
普拉姆、科利尔及其他 W.N.B.A. 交易截止日目标
作者：安妮·科斯塔比尔 (ANNIE COSTABILE) 《竞技网》(The Athletic)
W.N.B.A. 的交易截止日历史上一直相对平淡，但这种情况是否即将改变？ 这种情况的历史原因有几点，首先是联盟的硬薪金上限，这限制了球队吸收合同的能力。 但 W.N.B.A. 一些最具影响力的球员认为，资金的涌入以及新集体谈判协议中的阵容构建工具——包括最低薪金上限特例，以及可以将受保护的老将合同数量从往年的 6 份增加到 7 份的能力——可能会使各球队在周日截止日期前更倾向于冒险尝试。 过去采取大胆行动的球队已经因此获得了回报。 明尼苏达山林狼队通常是截止日期间最激进的球队，他们执行过诸如 2015 年赛季中期交易中锋西尔维娅·福尔斯 (Sylvia Fowles) 这样的交易，后者随后帮助球队赢得了 2 个冠军并成为了联盟最有价值球员。去年，明尼苏达在截止日期间交易得到了后卫迪乔奈·卡林顿 (DiJonai Carrington)，她的外线防守为山林狼队提供了替补席上的火花。 拉斯维加斯王牌队在 2025 年 6 月截止日之前交易得到了纳莉莎·史密斯 (NaLyssa Smith)，她在球队的冠军冲击之路上最终带来了回报。 在周日截止日期前仅剩几天时间，联盟内部的讨论非常活跃。问题是，这些讨论是否会转化为实质性的变动？ 以下是我在全明星赛期间听到的消息：
到期合同
凯尔西·普拉姆 (Kelsey Plum) 参与了 2025 年的一次三队交易，该交易将她送到了洛杉矶火花队，朱尔·劳埃德 (Jewell Loyd) 去了王牌队，而第 2 顺位选秀权（后变为多米尼克·马隆加 Dominique Malonga）则去了西雅图风暴队。 拉斯维加斯可以说自己赢得了这次交易，因为他们在去年四赛季中第三次夺冠，尽管马隆加现在已成为风暴队的全明星。 在达成那次交易时，洛杉矶和西雅图都需要做更多工作才能成为竞争者，而现在火花队面临着白白失去普拉姆的风险。 普拉姆在自由市场签下了一份 999,999 美元的一年期合同，但根据要求匿名的联盟消息人士（因为他们未获准就此事发表公开评论）透露，这位 31 岁的后卫并不打算作为自由球员与火花队续约。普拉姆及其代理人——来自 WME Basketball 的扎克·米勒 (Zack Miller) 均拒绝就她的计划发表评论。 火花队确保不会白白失去一项宝贵资产的唯一方法，就是在截止日期前将普拉姆交易走。 该球队在本月早些时候解雇了总经理雷根·佩布利 (Raegan Pebley)，助理总经理扎克·诺尔顿 (Zach Knowlton) 和内特·尼尔森 (Nate Nielsen) 一直在临时担任该职务。 根据多方消息，火花队尚未进行涉及普拉姆的实质性交易谈判。
安妮·科斯塔比尔 (Annie Costabile) 是《竞技网》(The Athletic) 的资深女篮记者。
作者：迈克·沃库诺夫 (MIKE VORKUNOV) 《竞技网》(The Athletic)
当勒布朗·詹姆斯上周选择费城76人队作为他的下一支球队时，也许在费城之外，没有人比 N.B.A. 的赛程制定者更开心。就像其他 N.B.A. 球队等待这位传奇人物做出最新决定一样，联盟办公室也在等待。正如 N.B.A. 总裁亚当·席尔瓦在本月早些时候所指出的，在詹姆斯犹豫不决的第 16 天，联盟一直在等待这位巨星选择目的地。
“勒布朗在哪里打球会影响赛程，”席尔瓦 7 月 16 日在 CNBC/Boardroom Game Plan 活动的小组讨论中说道。“我希望他能尽快公布决定，这样我们就能完成赛程表。因为你可以想象，各支球队在给我们打电话，各大网络公司也在给我们打电话，每个人都想敲定赛程。但这将影响我们如何设定赛程，如何设定开赛周、圣诞节等。”
随着詹姆斯在周五选择了费城，N.B.A. 可以开始着手敲定其 2026-27 赛季的赛程了。即便已经 41 岁，詹姆斯依然是联盟广播计划的关键组成部分。据一名联盟发言人称，虽然他的决定推迟放缓了 N.B.A. 的业务，但联盟仍预计将在 8 月中旬公布赛程，与往年惯例一致。
但这次变动似乎至少影响了整个流程。
上个赛季，詹姆斯及其所在的洛杉矶湖队在全美电视转播次数上与另一支球队并列第一。詹姆斯仍然是联盟中最具商业价值的巨星。他也将把 76 人队变成电视明星。
去年夏天 N.B.A. 发布赛程时，76 人队仅被安排了 14 场全美广播转播；预计联盟及其媒体合作伙伴——NBC、ESPN 和亚马逊——将在接下来的赛季中最大限度地增加费城的比赛场次。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 右侧的凯尔西·普拉姆 (Kelsey Plum) 与洛杉矶火花队签了一年期合同，球队可能会选择将她交易。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 左侧的纳菲萨·科利尔 (Napheesa Collier) 在合同到期后可能不想与明尼苏达山林狼队续约。
联盟各队的高层主管。她因伤缺席了过去一个月，这也导致她错过了全明星赛，但预计她将很快回归。 坎达斯·帕克 (Candace Parker)、切尔西·格雷 (Chelsea Gray) 和恩内卡·奥格武米克 (Nneka Ogwumike) 都是火花队的前冠军成员，由于球队持续性的失误，她们在自由市场期间离开了。在几乎十年没有参与球队运营后，控股所有者马克·沃尔特 (Mark Walter) 似乎在采取更积极的方式，佩布利 (Pebley) 在赛季中被解雇以及球队宣布将建设一座 $150 million 的新训练设施（将于 2027 年启用) 便是明证。
如果火花队选择不交易普拉姆，他们将承担巨大的风险，即能否在休赛期采取有效的行动来促使她留在洛杉矶。
山林狼队的球星纳菲萨·科利尔是另一位特许经营球员，由于其合同条款，她必须被视为一个交易选项。
这位连续两届 M.V.P. 亚军的球员整个职业生涯都在明尼苏达度过，球队在 2019 年选秀中用第六顺位选中了她。在被山林狼队核心球员化 (cored) 之后，她签署了一份 2026 年的一年期超级顶薪合同，这样做在某种程度上向外界信号表明，她希望在自由市场上探索自己的选择。
即使没有科利尔（Collier）——她因两只脚踝手术康复而错过了本赛季前 27 场比赛——山 Lynx 队在全明星赛休息期时仍在该联盟的胜场数中领先。这在很大程度上要归功于奥利维亚·迈尔斯（Olivia Miles），这位新秀正凭借表现进入 MVP 的讨论之列。此外，作为今年选秀的第 2 顺位，迈尔斯正走在将其自己确立为球队未来基石的道路上。
“每支球队都会在改善阵容方面寻找机会，”Lynx 队教练兼篮球运营总裁谢丽尔·里夫（Cheryl Reeve）周一在明尼苏达州告诉记者。“每支球队在他们认为需要什么、是否应该采取行动方面可能处于不同的位置。我们当然是一支，引用原话，‘对业务开放’、对讨论中的事情持开放心态的球队。这对我们来说将是忙碌的一周。”
里夫的任务是确定她是否能保证科利尔在赛季结束后会与明尼苏达队续约。这种承诺也可能是相互的。例如，只要里夫能保证，如果科利尔在合同有效期内的任何时候想要离开，球队将配合她实现这一目标，那么科利尔可能会同意签署一份多年合同。
科利尔在 2026 年的首次亮相——7 月 22 日在 22 分钟内拿下 24 分和 10 个篮板——表明她已经康复，并且会让任何希望通过交易获得她的球队坚信，他们将获得一名今后具备 MVP 水准的球员。
Lynx 队作为争冠球队的地位，使里夫处于与 Sparks 队管理层不同的位置，因为留住科利尔将帮助明尼苏达队在本赛季争夺冠军。里夫并非处于绝望的境地。
水星逆行
菲尼克斯水星队（Phoenix Mercury）是本赛季最大的失望之作之一。
在 2025 年打入决赛后，他们在休息期时在积分榜上排名第 12 位，远落后于神秘人队（Mystics），未能获得第八个也是最后一个季后赛席位。
总经理尼克·欧伦（Nick U’Ren）在 2025 年通过一次四队交易获得了全明星前锋艾丽莎·托马斯（Alyssa Thomas）和萨图·萨巴利（Satou Sabally），进行了一次大胆尝试。在这个休赛期，他选择不核心化萨巴利，最终她作为非限制性自由球员与纽约自由人队（New York Liberty）签约。
据多名联盟消息人士透露，在本赛季早些时候水星队遭遇连败期间，曾有过涉及托马斯的交易谈判，但目前这些谈判已经冷淡下来。
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NBA 在制定赛程时投入了巨大努力，这一过程始于其核心日期和夜晚。这些是联盟首先确定的比赛。
“我们会再次生成数百份潜在的圣诞节草案，”NBA 篮球战略与增长执行副总裁埃文·沃什（Evan Wasch）在 2022 年告诉《The Athletic》。“你可以重点展示的不同球队、不同的对阵组合、不同的时间段，然后我们就会开始与 ESPN 沟通。看看他们的想法。努力寻找共同点，通常我们在总体结构上是非常一致的，可能在赛程的一小部分细节上存在分歧，但我们能比较轻松地解决这些问题。”
当然，NBA 会希望詹姆斯出现在这些大舞台上。这些比赛往往是该联盟赛季中收视率最高的比赛，也是其展现最佳风貌的时刻。
就像圣诞老人一样，詹姆斯已经成为了圣诞节的传统，自 2007 年起每年都在这个节日比赛。无论他选择哪支球队，那支球队可能都需要被安排在这一天。
但联盟在确定圣诞赛的同时也会考虑开赛周。NBC 在上赛季的开幕之夜于周二举办了两场比赛，ESPN 接手接下来的两个夜晚，共四场比赛，亚马逊（Amazon）则以周五晚上的两场对决结束该周。上赛季，76 人队……
[[IMG_ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES]] 前锋阿拉娜·史密斯（Alanna Smith）在达拉斯之翼队（Dallas Wings）的表现受到限制。她能否在陷入困境的菲尼克斯水星队找到归宿？
一名可能成为 U’Ren 和水星队在寻求挽救 2026 赛季时瞄准的目标球员是达拉斯之翼队的前锋 Alanna Smith。作为上赛季的年度最佳防守球员之一，她签署了一份价值约为 $3.75 百万美元的三年最高薪合同。虽然之翼队能为 Smith 提供最佳的财务状况，但她在达拉斯的机会有限，在本赛季前半段，她场均仅得到 3.8 分和 2.9 个篮板，且作为替补球员每场出战 14.2 分钟。 水星队本赛季还剩余 $857,740 的工资帽空间，这意味着他们必须向达拉斯发送相应的薪水，或以其他方式腾出空间才能引进 Smith。
自由人之变？
据多个联盟消息人士透露，Betnijah Laney-Hamilton 的名字自赛季开始以来就一直出现在交易讨论中。这些对话在五月和六月期间有所降温，但随着截稿日临近，讨论再次升温。 达成协议的难点在于，许多联盟消息人士认为自由人队总经理 Jonathan Kolb 提出的要价过高，令人望而却步。Laney-Hamilton 在 2025 赛季整个赛季均缺阵，当时她正在从手术中恢复，以修复这位资深后卫在参加 Unrivaled 比赛时遭受的半月板损伤。Kolb 在去年暂停了她的合同以创造工资帽空间并腾出一个名单位置，但此举也让自由人队在自由球员市场上拥有对她的独家谈判权。 本赛季，Laney-Hamilton 的角色受到了显著限制。她持有一份价值为 $400,000 的到期合同，而
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直到万圣节才参加了一场全国转播的比赛，但在即将到来的赛季中，可能不需要等待那么久。詹姆斯和湖人队在揭幕周期间分别在 NBC 和亚马逊上各进行了一场比赛。 任何詹姆斯选择加入的球队所带来的电视影响力都将是巨大的。上赛季，迈阿密热队仅被安排了 5 场全国电视转播赛，而克利夫兰骑士队则被安排了 24 场。这两者中任何一个
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不一定难以交易，但这一切都回到了 Kolb 的要价上。 “作为一个竞争者，作为一个非常努力的人，作为一个长期在组织中工作的人，有时候面对缺乏出场时间的情况会感到失望和沮丧，”Laney-Hamilton 在本月早些时候表示。“但是，你知道，这也是过程的一部分。”
卖家 vs 买家
康涅狄格太阳队在位置重叠、选秀权和工资帽空间（$800,769）方面拥有大量资产。由于已远离季后赛争夺范围，他们处于在截稿日成为顶级卖家的位置。 据多方消息来源，二年级前锋 Aneesah Morrow 已出现在交易讨论中。一个有趣的可能性是将 Morrow 送至自由人队以换取 Laney-Hamilton 的交易。 神秘队可能是截稿日的买家或卖家。与太阳队一样，华盛顿队的阵容中存在大量位置重叠。尽管前场已有 Kiki Iriafen 和 Shakira Austin，该队仍用第 4 顺位选中了中锋 Lauren Betts，因为 Betts 是当时最优秀的可用球员，且是一个有价值的交易资产。 神秘队的表现超出了预期，在全明星赛休整期后稳稳占据了最后一个季后赛名额。他们可能会尝试通过引进 Plum 来加速重建，Plum 将在后场与华盛顿队的得分王 Sonia Citron 形成互补。 神秘队还拥有 $1,836,639 的工资帽空间，这将使引入薪水变得更加容易。
美国职业篮球联赛 (N.B.A.) 在勒布朗·詹姆斯选择新球队之后，才开始着手敲定 2026-27 赛季的赛程。
如果詹姆斯在阵中，这两支特许经营球队将会获得大得多的关注度。
Wasch 告诉《The Athletic》，过去 N.B.A. 通常会等到 7 月上半月才与媒体合作伙伴的高管坐下来，制定出接下来的赛程。然后，联盟依靠优化软件来制定符合所需参数的赛程。在联盟逐步筛选选项时，最初的可选方案数量可能会达到数十亿个。
但是，一名球星——更不用说詹姆斯了——决定加盟某支球队的时间越晚，联盟完成赛程安排就越困难。
“如果这种情况发生在我们的流程后期，那就是赛程制定团队的噩梦，”Wasch 在 2023 年告诉《休斯顿纪事报》，“最糟糕的结果就是超级巨星在 7 月下旬变动。这确实会推迟整个进程。”
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试镜开启，梦想升起
作者：亚历克西斯·索洛斯基（ALEXIS SOLOSKI）
你是否在忍受夏季的倦怠？你是否对人类整体持悲观态度？让我建议一种不寻常的疗法：花几个小时陪伴那些为 Off Broadway 复排版《春之觉醒》而试演的、充满希望的青少年。这部摇滚音乐剧旨在赞颂青少年的爱情与焦虑。 这些有志之士乘飞机、大巴、地铁而来，穿着辫子裙、背心和挤奶女工裙，紧握着个人形象照、文件夹和巨大的水瓶。他们在这个 7 月的周五的目的地是：时代广场的 Studio Seaview 剧院。在黎明前就有几十人加入了队伍。到中午时，已有超过一千人在那里坐着、站着或摇晃着。在剧院内部，每个人被分配一个号码，然后以 10, 人的小组被叫进小房间，演唱他们的 16 小节片段。 当这些希望之辈在大礼堂等待时，他们显得渴望、兴奋且坐立不安——散发出足够的“戏剧孩子”能量，足以支撑几个街区的电力。 23, 岁的尼古拉斯·亚伦（Nicholas Aaron）在高中时期发现了《春之觉醒》。“它帮我走出了柜子，”他说。当他看到试镜广告时，他知道自己必须尝试。“今天早上我醒来时嘴角挂满微笑，内心感到如此充实，因为我知道我正处于……”
描绘 《奥德赛》 神话故事的 艺术品。
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揭露 虐待 行径
作者：格雷厄姆·鲍利（GRAHAM BOWLEY）
位于密歇根州的英特洛肯艺术中心的数十名学生——据称杰弗里·爱泼斯坦在此遇到了他最早的一些受害者——告诉该校聘请的一家律师事务所，他们在 1950s 到 2010s 的多次事件中，受到了教师、工作人员、理事及其他与该机构相关人员的性虐待。 在周二发布的一份报告中，经过近两年的访谈，该律师事务所提交了英特洛肯校友的第一手陈述，他们表示自己遭受了从诱导、调情到性交不等的不当行为。报告称，大约 70 名前学生描述了肢体虐待，并确认施害者为与该中心相关的 47 名成年人。 这份 97 页的报告指出，部分成年人在跨越数十年的多次陈述中出现，但大多数事件发生在几十年前，虐待指控自 2000 年起大幅下降。 “许多校友详细描述了这种行为对他们产生的影响，”这份由总部位于马萨诸塞州的 Sanghavi 律师事务所出具的报告称。“有些人分享说，这些影响非常深远，并在他们从英特洛肯毕业或离开之后很长一段时间内依然存在。” 这家艺术机构成立于 1920 年代，既是一所面向天才少年的全年度寄宿学校，也是一个夏季训练营。它以严谨的教学和位于两个湖泊附近的田园校园内的娱乐活动而闻名，长期以来吸引了一群精选的年轻音乐家和其他有抱负的艺术家，包括曾在此作为青少年巴松管演奏者的爱泼斯坦。 在近年，英特洛肯还因为爱泼斯坦（该校的一位著名捐赠者）回到此处而闻名……
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30 岁时面对死亡的经历 转化为一场关于不安全感的华丽告白。
喜剧演员 Cat Cohen 始终 像是一场某种程度上的恐怖秀。 她塑造了一个极其浮夸、肤浅且渴望名利的形象，是那种会在旁白中随口说道“我跟一个叫 Josh 或什么的家伙订婚了”的自恋者。或者将迟钝转化为笑点。她说道：“我的一个朋友说我太自私，不适合生孩子，但我不在乎任何人怎么想。我想在什么时候做什么，就做什么。” 因此，她那场极具娱乐性的新剧 Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes Lucille Lortel Theater
《Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes》的舞台布置采用了蜡烛、吊灯以及维多利亚哥特式风格的假石墙，这在某种程度上是合情合理的。在由 Derek McLane 设计的这座鬼屋中，Cohen 登场时的样子像是一位千禧年版本的《科学怪人新娘》，演唱了一首忧郁的《By the Sea》（音乐由 Cohen 和 David Dabbon 创作），让人想起《理发师陶德》。 这部新剧是对 Cohen 而言一次突破，对于这位过去十年中最具魅力的音乐喜剧演员之一来说，这标志着野心的提升。Cohen 曾在 Club Cumming 和 Joe’s Pub 等小型场所通过快节奏的讽刺表演积累了忠实的追随者，而现在她正从一种简约的卡巴莱（cabaret）美学转向一种华丽的
不仅是布鲁斯的母亲
Ma Rainey 在一次从档案 和私人收藏中 精选的发行中 重新焕发生机。
在这些录音中， 人们可以听到 拉格泰姆（ragtime）的元素， 甚至是喜剧小品。
作者：EMMA MADDEN
在托马斯·A·多西（Thomas A. Dorsey）成为福音音乐之父之前，他在 1920 年代中期到后期一直担任“布鲁斯之母”Ma Rainey 的钢琴伴奏。据报道，在与她一同巡演后，他后来表示“除了投奔上帝，再无去处”。在录音工业的黎明时期，Rainey 运用一种源自杂耍剧（vaudeville）的新风格，与那些距离奴隶制仅隔一代人的黑人群体共鸣。“她是那个时代的巨星，”布鲁斯歌手 Gaye Todd-Adegbalola 说道，她曾翻唱并撰文介绍 Rainey。尽管她拥有包括《See See Rider》和《New Bo-Weavil Blues》在内的热门歌曲（这些歌曲已成为布鲁斯标准曲），且巡演事业极其辉煌，但 Rainey 在 1939 年去世后，其影响力在记录中并不完整。上周发行的一套新盒装集提供了对 Rainey 录音生涯最完整的回顾。该系列由 Black Swan Records 和 George H. Buck Jazz Foundation 共同推出，汇集了 Rainey 从 1923 到 1928 年的所有录音，包括罕见的试压盘（test pressings）、替代版本以及 118 份原始录音，这些录音是在经过近十年的私人收藏和爵士乐唱片目录搜索后，呕心沥血地整理出来的。这些录音能够幸存下来本身就是一个小奇迹。负责 Rainey 大部分录音产出的 Paramount Records 曾是威斯康星椅子公司（Wisconsin Chair Company）的一家子公司。该公司制作唱片很大程度上是为了销售留声机，几乎不考虑音频质量，将其压制在廉价的虫胶上。该系列背后的格莱美提名工程师道格·本森（Doug Benson）表示，这次的素材是他工作以来最具挑战性的。Rainey 的声音如此强大，以至于当她唱到最高音时，唱片纹路会发生失真。“当人们第一次用带有沉重钢针的 Victrola 留声机播放这些歌曲时，”本森说，“唱针会直接跳过那些部分。”而在新发行的版本中，这些音符可以被听到了。修复工作揭示了隐藏在唱片中的细节。“我们发现了一把小提琴，它没有出现在任何其他唱片目录中，”本森说。由 Leroy Pickett 演奏的弦乐可以在《Little Low Mama Blues》和《Grievin’ Heart Blues》中听到。包括科尔曼·霍金斯（Coleman Hawkins）、弗莱彻·亨德森（Fletcher Henderson）和路易斯·阿姆斯特朗（Louis Armstrong）在内的爵士乐名家也出现在合辑的其他部分，回应着 Rainey 激昂且哀婉的演绎。Rainey 深入参与了那些直接讲述黑人经历的歌曲创作。根据幸存的版权记录，她在本集中收集的录音中约有三分之一被列为作曲家、共同作曲家或作词者，这意味着实际数量可能更高。用 Todd-Adegbalola 的话来说，Rainey 是“布鲁斯的黑人格里奥（griot，西非传统说唱艺人）”。Rainey 1886 年出生于乔治亚州哥伦布市，原名 Gertrude Pridgett，她在原野呼喊（field hollers）、民谣以及美国南方黑人生活的集体叙事技巧传统中，培养了她那浑厚而粗犷的次女高音。她在演艺圈的崛起与 20 世纪 20 年代黑人音乐的爆发以及哈莱姆文艺复兴（Harlem Renaissance）相契合，那是黑人文化和学术研究寻找新观众的时期。Rainey 并不致力于让她的音乐对新人来说易于理解。“她并不想变得白人化，也不想迎合白人的价值观，”Todd-Adegbalola 说。“在 Ma 身上，黑人们找到了一个母亲，而这已经是你能接近上帝的极限了。”Rainey 属于新一代的非裔美国人，即使在吉姆·克劳法（Jim Crow policies）依然在南方制造恐怖的时期，他们仍在寻求更大的自由。在她的歌曲中，她探讨了浪漫关系的复杂性：时而恳求
与一位不愿离去的爱人在一起，而下一首歌曲则在主张她的独立。她 1928 年由 Jug 乐队伴奏的录音《Prove It on Me Blues》依然是后者的最大胆范例之一：“昨晚和一群朋友出去 / 她们一定都是女性，因为我不喜欢男人。”这首歌已成为现代解读 Rainey 遗产的核心，学者们认为它是流行音乐中最早表达酷儿身份的作品之一。但这次新的合辑对近期关于该曲确认了其双性恋倾向的评估提出了质疑。
“并没有太多证据表明她是，”参与编写内页注释的研究团队历史学家大卫·萨格（David Sager）表示，“虽然有关于她在后台与女性进行群交的轶事，但我们无法得知这些是否属实。”
该合辑还展示了 Rainey 在蓝调之外的涉猎。在她进入 Paramount 录音室之前，她已经花费多年时间在帐篷表演、吟游剧（minstrel）和杂耍剧（vaudeville）舞台上演出，涉足各种流行娱乐风格。在这些录音中，人们可以听到拉格泰姆（ragtime）元素、喜剧小品以及这首 32 小节的流行歌曲《Honey, Where You Been So Long?》。
将 Rainey 定位为蓝调艺人是 J·马约·威廉姆斯（J. Mayo Williams）的功劳。Paramount 在 1924 年雇佣这位推广人来监督其种族音乐部门，当时 12 小节蓝调是商业上最成功的黑人录制音乐形式之一。
“我们能捕捉到的每一次她脱离那个‘束缚衣’的瞬间都极其珍贵，”萨格说。
Rainey 在 1935, 年从音乐界退休，回到了她在哥伦布市的家中，那里比舞台更能吸引她。她四年后去世，在黑人新闻媒体之外几乎不为人知，直到奥古斯特·威尔逊（August Wilson） 1982 年的剧作《Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom》在百老汇走红。2020 年由维奥拉·戴维斯（Viola Davis）主演的 Netflix 改编电影为该女演员赢得了奥斯卡提名。
Rainey 去世后最热忱的追随者包括 20 世纪 40 年代的资深唱片收藏家，他们开始收集早期爵士、蓝调和乡村音乐录音的再版。萨格表示，由于她的唱片在那些“将 Rainey 视为权威”的家庭中代代相传，这些努力帮助保存了一批作品。
由于录音沙沙作响且历史记录贫乏，Rainey 传记中的某些部分被神话了。我们确实知道她舞台装扮是缀满金币或珍珠的亮片礼服和鸵鸟羽毛披肩，并涂抹厚重的油彩和粉底。本森（Benson）表示，结合威尔逊的剧作等作品，呈现在数百万人面前的 Rainey 形象与这些录音中听到的女人大相径庭。
“他们把这个角色塑造得更加冷漠且不友好，”本森说，“但仅仅通过聆听这个女人的声音，你就能感觉到这是一个你真正会喜欢的人。”
上方为 20 世纪 20 年代的 Ma Rainey，顶部为她与她的乐队。下方为上周发行的全新套装合辑，是对她多产时期录音的全面收录。
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涵盖多种类型的 13 部小说入围了英国备受追捧的布克奖（Booker Prize）。
作者：ALEX MARSHALL
马龙·詹姆斯（Marlon James）的《消失者》（The Disappearers）是这位牙买加作家在 2015 年凭借《七次杀戮简史》（A Brief History of Seven Killings）获得布克奖后的首部非奇幻小说，此前已是今年最受期待的发行作品之一。现在，这部关于 20 世纪 80 年代牙买加反同性恋仇恨犯罪的小说可能会更加受关注。周二，该书与另外 12 部作品共同获得布克奖提名，其中包括同样获得过布克奖的道格拉斯·斯图尔特（Douglas Stuart）的《约翰之约翰》（John of John），以及普利策奖得主伊丽莎白·斯特劳特（Elizabeth Strout）的《我们从未说出的话》（The Things We Never Say）。
布克奖是一项享有盛誉的英国文学奖，每年授予一部最初以英语撰写并在英国或爱尔兰出版的作品。今年的评审团由古典学家玛丽·比尔德（Mary Beard）领衔，将于 9. 22 公布六本入围短名单的作品。获奖者将于 11 月 9 日在伦敦的颁奖典礼上揭晓。作者将获得 50,000 英镑，约合 $66,500.
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克洛伊·阿里吉斯（Chloe Aridjis）的《物之影》（The Shadow of the Object）：在这部如梦似幻的故事中，一名女子在被狗咬伤住院后，必须将一盏幻灯机还给另一位病人的儿子。约翰·塞夫（John Self）在《金融时报》中写道，这本书具有“一种只能源于作者对素材深耕的浓烈风味”。
艾玛·克莱恩（Emma Cline）的《斯维齐》（Switzy）：克莱恩的第三部小说定于 9. 8 出版，讲述了一位患有退行性神经系统疾病的退休企业高管，在前往苏黎世进行医疗辅助自杀前，拜访亲友的故事。
马肯娜·古德曼（Makenna Goodman）的《无名之地的海伦》（Helen of Nowhere）：作者的第二部小说围绕一名教授展开，他在失业且失去伴侣后前往乡村，希望在那里过上一种他尚未准备好面对的田园生活。乔·哈米亚（Jo Hamya）在《卫报》中称其为“一个适合我们时代的完美童话”。
M. 约翰·哈里森（M. John Harrison）的《万物之终结》（The End of Everything）：在这部背景设定在海滨小镇的科幻小说中，一名海滩拾荒者从沙地里挖掘出一个神秘生物。约翰·塞夫在《伦敦时报》中表示，81 岁的哈里森“50 年多来一直在创作令人困惑且才华横溢的书籍”，而这一部正是其中之一。
马龙·詹姆斯的《消失者》（The Disappearers）：詹姆斯的最新作计划于 9. 1 出版，讲述 20 世纪 80 年代牙买加的 8 名男子响应一部具有公开 LGBTQ 主题剧作的演员招募，随后遭遇偏见与暴力的故事。
卢克·肯纳德（Luke Kennard）的《黑包》（Black Bag）：根据菲利普·沃马克（Philip Womack）在《时报文学增刊》中的评价，这部“古怪且视角幽默的校园小说”在当代学术背景下，重新构思了一次古老的学术实验，即一名男子全身裹在黑包里听课。
克南·奥尔汗（Kenan Orhan）的《翻修》（The Renovation）：一名住在意大利的土耳其流亡者雇佣建筑工翻修她的浴室，结果发现他们竟然盖了一个囚室。MJ 弗兰克林（MJ Franklin）在《纽约时报》中表示，只要得知这个前提就足以让他觉得，“够了，我要读！”
丽贝卡·佩里（Rebecca Perry）的《愿我们喂养国王》（May We Feed the King）：佩里的处女作始于一名策展人将一座旧宫殿改造得符合历史原貌，随后故事跨越数百年，跳回中世纪国王的世界。《卫报》的梅丽莎·哈里森（Melissa Harrison）称其为一部“精心打造的迷宫之书”。
格温多琳·赖利（Gwendoline Riley）的《棕榈屋》（The Palm House）：赖利的最新作讲述了一名高端杂志的编辑和一名撰稿人在一位新高管到来大刀阔斧改革后的艰辛历程。克里斯蒂安·洛伦岑（Christian Lorentzen）在《纽约时报》中将赖利描述为一名“像 J.M. 库切（J.M. Coetzee）或米歇尔·侯赛因（Michel Houellebecq）一样彻底地不感情用事的”小说家。
伊丽莎白·斯特劳特 (Elizabeth Strout) 的《我们从未说出的那些话》(The Things We Never Say) 一名患有抑郁症的高中历史教师在这个故事中发现了一个隐藏已久的家族秘密。该作者此前曾因《噢，威廉！》(Oh William!) 和《我的名字是露西·巴顿》(My Name Is Lucy Barton) 两次获得布克奖提名。玛吉·希普斯特德 (Maggie Shipstead) 在《纽约时报》中表示，这部最新作品“值得反复阅读”。
道格拉斯·斯图尔特 (Douglas Stuart) 的《约翰之约翰》(John of John) 在《沙吉·贝恩》(Shuggie Bain) 作者的最新作品中，一名男同性恋者回到了他位于苏格兰群岛上虐待他的父亲的农场。马克·哈里斯 (Mark Harris) 在《纽约时报》中称斯图尔特的这部新作是一本“动人、充满悬念且完全值得花时间阅读”的书。
贾梅尔·怀特 (Djamel White) 的《他们所有这些狗》(All Them Dogs) 怀特的这部处女作讲述了一名都柏林帮派分子在逃离一场血仇五年后，试图重新回归犯罪生活的的故事。伊丽莎白·曼尼恩 (Elizabeth Mannion) 在《爱尔兰时报》中表示，这部小说“大胆得美妙”，并充满了“街头抒情主义”。
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两名祭坛童子的剧作包含 出色的表演。
大西洋剧团 (THE ATLANTIC THEATER Company) 的非百老汇主舞台是一个由哥特复兴式教区大厅改造而成的空间。当大西洋剧团在 90 年代将该大厅改为舞台时，他们保留了其尖顶木制天花板和沉思的氛围。现在，为了 Bubba Weiler 的剧作《救世主》(The Saviors)，这家小剧场希望再次成为一座教堂。 在 Jack Serio 精心打造的制作中，David Zinn 的布景精确地还原了一个罗马天主教会的圣坛：祭坛、洗礼池、彩色玻璃窗。两名忙碌的祭坛童子——14 岁的 Paul (Julius Rinzel 饰) 和 13 岁的 Michael (Ivan Howe 饰)——处理着琐碎事务，在礼拜前后整理公告并使用灭烛器。尽管穿着长长的白色长袍，但他们并不完全维持一种至圣所般的态度。他们是男孩；一切都被视为比赛。 在他们奔向成年之路上的一个驿站是坚信礼，这一圣礼将天主教徒与教会联系在一起。
The Saviors 至 8 月 15 日在曼哈顿的 Linda Gross 剧院上演；atlantictheater.org。运行时间：1 小时 30 分钟。
Michael 看起来比他的朋友要年轻得多，他不能停止思考如何选择他的坚信礼主保圣人——如果他选 Paul，而 Paul 选 Michael，岂不是很酷？他喋喋不休，激动地想要将自己奉献给上帝，这种近乎浪漫的臣服与他对 Paul 的浓烈情感交织在一起。Michael 的热忱以一种两名男孩都无法言明的方式困扰着 Paul。Weiler——现年 30 出头——在 19 岁时回顾自己担任祭坛童子的经历，写下了《救世主》的第一稿。演员 Rinzel 和 Howe 的年龄与他们扮演的角色相仿，但他们自信地撑起了整个夜晚。（他们是小小的奇迹。）能够摆脱舞台上经常妥协的模仿青春期，而感知到真实、尴尬且深思熟虑的青春本身，是一种解脱，甚至是一种快感。如果没有某种考验，这就不是一个成长故事，于是一个陌生人进入了他们的惬意圈子，一个名叫 Julian (Stanley Simons 饰) 的流浪者。他需要从一场真实的暴风雨中寻求实际的遮蔽，但这个角色一直模糊地趋向于寓言。Julian 也是好客主保圣人的名字，因此我们注意到哪个男孩伸出了欢迎之手。此外，服装设计师 Avery Reed 将 Simons 造型设计得像一个邋遢的耶稣。他是个药瘾者；他是个有麻烦的人。他被遗弃了。Weiler 是一位温婉的作家，有时温婉得过分。他与常合作的导演 Serio 本季度已经在非百老汇舞台上取得了一次巨大的成功，那部名为《好吧，我会让你走》(Well, I’ll Let You Go) 的剧作触动人心，讲述了一位被悲痛击碎的寡妇的故事。在那部剧中，死去的丈夫担任叙述者，在经过一段时期的哀悼和启示后，他登上了——如果你明白我的意思——一座通往死亡的阶梯。已经很久没有剧作家在运用这种诚挚的方式了。
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基督教意象。（想象一下塞缪尔·D·亨特 (Samuel D. Hunter) 那种深情的现实主义，但减少了对现实世界的细节刻画。） 迈克尔 (Michael) 感觉到保罗 (Paul) 在疏远他，他将其视为一场宗教危机。他想把保罗从无神论中拯救出来，而保罗则想把迈克尔从他们教会的恐同情绪中拯救出来。在观看《救世主》(The Saviors) 期间，我偶尔希望剧作的节奏能更快一些，尤其是当韦勒 (Weiler) 描绘这两个男孩笨拙地关心彼此的缓慢冲突时。塞里奥 (Serio) 挖掘出了这些年轻演员极其出色的表演，但甜美与甜腻之间的界限有时非常模糊。 因此，谢天谢地，剧中还有一个第四个角色：朱迪 (Judy，由克里斯托尔·芬 Crystal Finn 饰演)。她紧张地试图领导一个青年小组——结果只有迈克尔出席——这掩盖了内心深处的绝望。芬是下城的瑰宝，拥有一双巨大的贝蒂·戴维斯 (Bette Davis) 式眼睛；她也是目前在传达古灵精怪的温暖方面最出色的演员。她为韦勒的剧本注入了所需的喜剧色彩，以及随之而来的、令人心碎的悲伤。 剧作家如果给角色起名叫犹大 (Judas)，就太明显地揭露底牌了，但天哪，起名叫朱迪 (Judy) 已经非常接近了。在她身上，韦勒塑造了一个具有复杂性的角色。
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顶部，从左至右：伊万·豪 (Ivan Howe)、朱利叶斯·林泽尔 (Julius Rinzel) 和斯坦利·西蒙斯 (Stanley Simons) 出演《救世主》。 上方，左侧为克里斯托尔·芬 (Crystal Finn)，她擅长传达古灵精怪的温暖，与西蒙斯同框。
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秘密
12 像青蛙一样发出声音
15 腿在石膏中时 不说话的人
16 自 2008 年起 独立的巴尔干国家
17 像前足球明星 Mark De Man 的名字一样
18 簇
20 密度符号
21 追求金牌？
22 它可能是
也许是 被填充或被拍打的
23 收到请回答？
25 资深人士
27 代理人
31 改变标志，
33 “太棒了！”
34 阴沉的
35 不自然的，在某种
36 涵盖积分的 H.S. 课程
39 ___ 交易
40 蒸汽
43 播种，例如
前一谜题的答案
K A R L A L F A R A D A R A S E A V A I N I M A G E P L O T P O I N T P O L O S P A R T Y C R A S H E R A N G E L A L Y O N M F A S O D A K E G E L S T B D N O S T R A D A M U S A R E A I R E P O K E K E N J E N N I N G S S E T I T S A G O T A P E S T E G O R E R A N D O M V E N I V I D I V I C I B R A I D L A T E N I G H T R A M B O E D E N E I R E A S P E N D E M S S N E S
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46 黑色和 橙色的鸟
47 绘制过 “快乐小树”的 Bob
50 在《尖峰时刻》中 共同出演的 Jackie
52 半人马的 上半身
53 它们可能是 被抬起……或放下
56 策略/手段
59 拥有红色 巴士的城市
60 大的或坏的 追随者
61 所谓的“百万 象之国”
63 Fripp & ___ (音乐二人组)
64 ___ culpa
65 帮助理解 斜体线索的 沟通辅助工具
70 可能是 移民的科目
71 实验室等的 训练辅助工具
72 平淡的
73 ___ 垫
74 耳机 经常播放的内容
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17
18 19 20
21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34
35 36 37 38 39
40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49
50 51 52 53 54 55
56 57 58 59
60 61 62 63
64 65 66 67 68 69
70 71 72
73 74 75
75 鲨鱼的印记
1 教会领袖
2 令人屏息
3 保持忠诚
4 例如，将 “aisle” 按拼写方式读出
5 它经常向左 或向右倾斜
6 ___-Ball
7 Joel 紧随其后
8 火焰的残骸
9 lump-sucker 鱼卵
10 圣经中的第二
摄影：SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
复杂的背叛关系。Judy 对 Julian 拥有成年人的视角，她与 Julian 之间有一种秘密联系，同时她也对谎言和慈善有自己的看法。我们并不完全确定她是否正确。“你原谅我吗？”Julian 问她。“为了什么？”Judy 说，这句话要么是充满爱意的，要么是残酷得难以忍受。 作为文本的《救世主》（The Saviors）包含其自身复杂的关系：它依赖于其结尾，以一种重新平衡戏剧冲突的方式。有一个（几乎是）最后的姿态，一份 Michael 给 Julian 的礼物，预示了在剧作时间线结束之后将发生什么。这个意象赋予了之前所有事情新的分量；当我思考这部剧时，它似乎从那一刻起向后绽放。 我对这次制作偶尔感到不耐烦，但随着时间的推移，这种感觉已经消失了。我越意识到 Serio 和 Weiler 用青少年的戏剧性来掩盖底层的成年人恐怖故事，我就越佩服我在 Atlantic 剧院度过的 90 分钟。这部剧可能需要被思考两次。而且，无论如何，某个救世主会这么说，对吧？第二次经历一些悲伤，并知道未来将发生什么，这样会更好。
14 地心说 宇宙模型的开发者
19 cash 或 zero 之后的 词语
24 [天啊！/ 恐怖！]
26 组织领导者
28 也许是 精通所有捷径的人
29 击垮 / 压制
30 但丁通往天堂 之路的起点
32 巴拿马的 ___ 国家公园
37 这就是全部的
谜题设计：JOEL WOODFORD
7/30/26
43 《我的世界》和 《魔兽世界》
44 “如果我们运气好！”
45 某个朋友圈子 押韵的名称
48 它不是动作的 主要部分
49 高成就者？
51 拥有 32 名成员的 知名组织
54 坐 (下)
55 傲慢的
57 允许
58 真正地取悦
62 加上
66 它可能是被遗弃的
这座位于中东的博物馆经过长期延期，将重点展出 1960s 之后的艺术作品。
阿布扎比古根海姆博物馆采用了弗兰克·盖里 (Frank Gehry) 结合不锈钢网、缟玛瑙和玻璃的非传统设计，位于该市的萨迪亚特岛 (Saadiyat Island) 文化区，包含 125,000 平方英尺的室内展厅空间。
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与学生们接触，其中几名学生后来表示他们曾遭到他的诱导和虐待。 尽管两名就读于英特洛肯 (Interlochen) 的女孩的家长表示，几十年前他们就告诉学校，他们的女儿对爱泼斯坦 (Epstein) 的关注感到不安，但英特洛肯官员表示，他们手头掌握的记录中没有任何迹象表明在 2008 年爱泼斯坦在佛罗里达州因涉及未成年人的性犯罪被定罪之前有相关投诉。校方表示，在那之后他们切断了与他的所有联系。 在随报告一同发布的声明中，英特洛肯官员表达了遗憾。 “我们代表英特洛肯，对我们社区成员所遭受的伤害深表歉意，并向那些在英特洛肯遭受虐待的人们致歉，”该校校长特雷·德维 (Trey Devey) 和董事会主席巴雷特·罗林斯 (Barrett Rollins) 在给英特洛肯社区的一封公开信中写道。 “我们已将所有被指控有不当行为的人员名单提供给格兰特特拉弗斯县 (Grand Traverse County) 检察官办公室和格兰特特拉弗斯县警长办公室，由其决定是否有可行的起诉途径，或采取其他措施以促进问责，或尽量降低其他机构学生的当前风险，”信中补充道。 爱泼斯坦 1967. 年凭奖学金参加该营地时年仅 14 岁。在 1990 年至 2003, 年间，他以捐赠者的身份返回，向英特洛肯捐赠了超过 $400,000，其中包括用于建造杰弗里·E·爱泼斯坦奖学金旅馆 (Jeffrey E. Epstein Scholarship Lodge) 的 $200,000，该旅馆旨在为访问者和家长提供住宿。
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在葡萄牙发现的一具由 智人与该物种交配产生的 私生子骨骸， 其年代被测定为 27,000+ 年前
欲获取正确答案，请观看 今晚的《危险边缘》(JEOPARDY!) 或在明天的《时报》 此版块中查找。
晚上 7 点，第 7 频道
作者：扎卡里·斯莫尔 (ZACHARY SMALL)
经过二十多年的期待，阿布扎比古根海姆博物馆这座由弗兰克·盖里 (Frank Gehry) 设计的艺术博物馆将于 12 月 11. 开馆。它将成为阿拉伯联合酋长国耗资数十亿美元打造的文化区中最后落成的主要场馆之一。“阿布扎比古根海姆博物馆是我们文化之旅中的一个决定性时刻，”阿拉伯联合酋长国首都阿布扎比文化与旅游部主席穆罕默德·哈利法·阿尔·穆巴拉克 (Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak) 在一份声明中表示。“它为现代和当代艺术带来了新的视角，照亮了来自世界各地的艺术。”阿布扎比古根海姆博物馆专注于 20 世纪 60 年代以来的艺术，是古根海姆全球网络中现有的第四家博物馆，加入了纽约、威尼斯以及位于西班牙毕尔巴鄂那座著名的盖里设计分馆的行列。但阿布扎比博物馆与政府之间的合作伙伴关系是独一无二的。古根海姆方面表示，所有重大招聘决定均与阿布扎比文化与旅游部共同做出；博物馆收购的艺术品归阿布扎比政府所有，该政府在建设这座中东分馆上已花费超过 $1 billion。
“我们的抱负是展示一段新的艺术史，”索罗门·R·古根海姆基金会 (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation) 董事兼首席执行官玛丽特·韦斯特曼 (Mariët Westermann) 表示，并补充说该博物馆将拥有来自中东、亚洲和北非的重要作品。“这座博物馆的建立是为了邀请来自该国、该地区以及全世界的游客。”这座新博物馆将拥有 30 个由中央中庭连接的展厅，以及 10 个雕塑圆锥体，这些圆锥体点缀在盖里由不锈钢网、缟玛瑙和玻璃构成的非传统设计之中。博物馆提供约 125,000 平方英尺的室内展厅，室外展览空间的面积则是其两倍多。但随着博物馆接近完工，
司法部和学校公布的记录显示，爱泼斯坦 (Epstein) 在 20 世纪 90 年代和 2000. 年访问因特洛肯 (Interlochen) 期间曾住在该旅馆中。据已知，爱泼斯坦就是在那些访问期间接触到了他诱骗和虐待的最早一批受害者。该报告包含了三名曾描述与爱泼斯坦有令人不安接触的前因特洛肯学生中的两人的陈述。在其中一个案例中，一名女性告诉调查人员，她去校园旅馆与他见面，报告称，“爱泼斯坦与她发生了性行为，在她的衣服上摩擦她的身体，其方式表明这是偶然发生的。”该女性还告诉调查人员，在她就读期间，爱泼斯坦曾三次出资让她前往纽约拜访他。“她描述在纽约与爱泼斯坦共处一室，他的手在她的身上，”报告称。报告指出，“这位校友表示，在她和爱泼斯坦过马路时，他将手放在了她的阴部。”报告还包含了第三名因特洛肯前学生的额外指控，她告诉调查人员，爱泼斯坦在她毕业后的那个夏天出资让她飞往纽约，她在他的家中为他按摩，而他“可能要求她脱掉上衣”。她的母亲告诉调查人员，她曾致电因特洛肯警告学校爱泼斯坦正在“猎捕他们的学生”，但因特洛肯没有人对此进行跟进。2009, 年，因特洛肯重新命名了爱泼斯坦旅馆，并移除了承认其慈善捐赠的纪念牌。爱泼斯坦于 2019. 年去世。今年 6 月，因特洛肯拆除了该旅馆，以继续努力消除与这位前捐赠者的任何联系。调查报告中讲述的这些事件发生在校园内外的不同地点，包括教师住宅。因特洛肯绝非第一所发布详细描述其雇员或相关人员性虐待报告的私立学校。在过去的十年里，其他学校——
包括位于康涅狄格州的 Choate Rosemary Hall 和 Hotchkiss 学校，罗得岛州的 St. George’s 学校，以及位于新罕布什尔州的 Phillips Exeter 学院和 St. Paul’s 学校——这些学校都发布了类似的报告，尽管其中没有涉及 Epstein。虽然 Interlochen 的报告并未对学校的安全协议做出任何正式结论，但它指出了某些漏洞，例如，这些漏洞允许教职员工与学生单独相处，同时给予捐赠者或校董会成员进入校园的开放权限。学校表示，报告中提到的 47 名成年人目前均不在 Interlochen 任职或与之有隶属关系。报告指出，在指控者出现时，学校当时曾采取行动解雇相关员工。报告还列出了 Interlochen 近年来实施的新协议，例如加强报告机制、改进背景调查以及对校园进行 24/7 全天候监督。在其 1,200 英亩的土地周围安装了约 240 个摄像头。在报告结果公布后，Interlochen 表示将为受虐待影响的前学生提供心理咨询支持。学校还表示，如果被认为有必要，将移除建筑等设施上的命名致谢。学校称，已经重新命名了一栋曾以一名在 1970 到 1999 年间与学校相关的前校董命名的建筑。“今天的 Interlochen 与这份报告中所描述的机构有着根本的不同，”Interlochen 官员在公开信中写道。学校表示，调查人员在审查过程中访谈了约 120 名前学生。自 2017 年起担任 Interlochen 校长的 Devey 将这次广泛调查的触发归功于一名在前学生，该学生在 2024 年就 1970 年代的经历提出了申诉。“这对我们的社区来说显然是一个痛苦的过程，”他说，“但我认为这是一个必经的过程。”
照片由古根海姆阿布扎比提供
JAMIE KELTER DAVIS 为《纽约时报》供稿
一家由密歇根州艺术学校 Interlochen 聘请的律师事务所，在调查校友关于性虐待的投诉时，收集了数十起令人不安的陈述，其中大部分发生在几十年前。前学生指控 47 名成年人实施了虐待。
一些员工注意到地板出现了裂缝。此外，该博物馆还拒绝透露开幕期间将展出哪些艺术作品。“总是有更多工作要做，但除了安装艺术品之外，没有其他特定的重点区域，”Westermann 在一次采访中说道。备受期待且受到高度关注的古根海姆阿布扎比博物馆最早于 2006 年由当时的博物馆馆长 Thomas Krens 宣布，他推广了全球博物馆设立多个分馆的扩张战略。在古根海姆毕尔巴鄂博物馆开馆并成为西班牙的主要旅游景点后，他声称取得了成功。其他项目则未能实现，包括在芬兰、巴西和墨西哥设立的分馆，以及在柏林和拉斯维加斯的合作伙伴关系随后被关闭。在整个 2010 年代，活动人士指责该博物馆在阿布扎比建设过程中让移民劳工处于不安全的工作条件中。
该地。此后，萨迪亚特岛文化区又开设了其他艺术中心，包括阿布扎比卢浮宫、一家自然历史博物馆以及由日本公司 teamLab 打造的沉浸式艺术中心。另一座同样由盖里（Gehry）设计的表演艺术中心正在建设中。曾任纽约大学阿布扎比分校副校长的韦斯特曼（Westermann）于 2024 年加入该博物馆，其职责是开设阿布扎比古根海姆博物馆，她甚至重新调整了基金会的领导结构，以便在运营博物馆的国际形象和筹集资金方面拥有更大的灵活性。尽管美国与伊朗之间的战争仍在继续，许多员工仍被敦促返回阿布扎比的办公室。就在最近的 5 月，伊朗的弹道导弹和无人机袭击曾击中阿布扎比。与此同时，韦斯特曼表示：“无论是在世界上任何一个古根海姆博物馆，我们团队和访客的安全——始终是我们的最高优先级。我上周第一次在 2 月之后回到阿布扎比，能回去真是太好了。”
企图黑客攻击 其内容的行为
Ariana Grande 表示，其相关人员多年来一直被针对。
作者：DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR
Ariana Grande 对匿名黑客提起诉讼，她表示，这些黑客多年来通过一系列账户入侵和网络钓鱼诈骗，窃取、出售并泄露了数十首未发布歌曲、视频片段和私人图像。该诉讼于周一在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶县高等法院提起，诉状称，部分被黑客攻击的资料已在暗网以巨额资金售出，或在社交媒体平台以及 WeTransfer 和 Dropbox 等其他内容传输系统中发布。“被告还使用了多个专门设计用于掩盖身份的账户，以便发布他们非法访问和窃取的内容，”诉讼称。法院文件显示，诉状中未指名具体的黑客，但这位歌手希望利用该投诉来“揭露”相关人员的“身份”。Ms. Grande 的代表在周二拒绝就该诉讼发表评论。
此次起诉正值 Ms. Grande 的繁忙时期。她正在进行世界巡演，本周在蒙特利尔的一系列演出全部售罄。她的最新录制专辑《Petal》将于周五发行。
投诉详细记录了追溯至 2019 年的数字攻击，当时黑客获取了一位曾与 Ms. Grande 合作的摄影师的 Dropbox 账户登录凭据。在那次事件中，黑客访问并下载了未发布的照片。随后在 2020 年，网络罪犯入侵了 Ms. Grande 团队一名制作人的移动设备，下载了未发布的母带、Demo 以及录音现场的片段，投诉称。三年后，黑客再次袭击，窃取并泄露了 45 首未发布歌曲。
诉讼还详细描述了 2024 年初发生的两次事件，当时一名数字技术人员在黑客创建了一个冒充摄影师的虚假电子邮件账户和域名后，成为了网络钓鱼诈骗的受害者。在这些事件中，黑客获取了未发布的照片。
“这种对 Ms. Grande 隐私的恶意侵犯及其对其职业生涯的干扰，给她造成了实质性的且不可弥补的损害，”投诉称，并补充说不应有人遭受此类侵害。投诉称，黑客攻击不仅给 Ms. Grande 带来了名誉损害，还迫使她投入大量资源来调查此事，删除未经其同意发布的资料，并重新录制歌曲。Ms. Grande 寻求陪审团审理，并请求法院下令要求被告交出所有私人资料。
Ariana Grande 正在起诉尚未指名的黑客。
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Cat Cohen：《Broad Strokes》 截至 9 月 25 日在曼哈顿的 Lucille Lortel 剧院演出；lortel.org。演出时长：1 小时 5 分钟。
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……一座阴森恐怖的剧场。你可以感受到 Alex Timbers（《Beetlejuice》）的风格印记，他繁忙的制作中包含了阵阵烟雾、舞蹈间歇和闪烁的氛围感（Jake DeGroot 的灯光本身就具有一种卡通般的趣味），以及大量用于增强 Cohen 笑话效果的音效。
这里最大的转折点有点像个骗局。正如标题所暗示的那样，Cohen 告诉我们她中风了。“这难道不是很富有创意吗？”她说，“如此领先于时代。如此前瞻。30 岁中风，我正在颠覆这个行业。”
这里真正的笑点在于，Cohen 试图讲述一个面对死亡的真诚忏悔故事，结果这反而成了真正的“英雄之旅”的附庸，而她真正要面对的恶魔是：一种潜意识里的怀疑，即她其实有点平庸。她用严肃的语气讲述了一个选角导演描述她的故事……
梦想启航
“你想给他们所有人都一个 他们如此渴望的机会， 而且他们值得这样做。”
史蒂文·塞特 (STEVEN SATER) 《春之觉醒》创作者， 谈及应试者
在由亚历克斯·廷伯斯 (Alex Timbers) 执导的《凯特·科恩：粗笔勾勒》(Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes) 中，这位极具魅力的喜剧演员正从简约的卡巴莱美学转向一个更华丽的死亡剧场。
“甚至能够来到这里，”他在后排说道，在演唱了一段 Panic! At the Disco 乐队的《单身汉之死》(Death of a Bachelor) 后依然面带微笑。这部由邓肯·谢克 (Duncan Sheik) 和史蒂文·塞特 (Steven Sater) 创作的摇滚音乐剧改编自德国作家法兰克·韦德金德 (Frank Wedekind) 1891 年的剧本，于 20 年前在的大西洋剧团 (Atlantic Theater Company) 首演，随后转至百老汇，最终赢得了八项托尼奖，并培养了一代音乐剧人才，包括乔纳森·格罗夫 (Jonathan Groff)、莉亚·米雪儿 (Lea Michele)、小约翰·加拉格尔 (John Gallagher Jr.) 和吉迪恩·格里克 (Gideon Glick)。凭借挑衅性的歌词，其歌曲描述了青少年为了爱情、自由和自我表达而与压抑的社会抗争。这部剧在青少年和成年人中都引起了轰动，经过偶尔的修订，它已成为大学、地区剧院、社区剧院以及一些前卫高中和夏令营的常驻剧目。今年 6 月，官方宣布 Danya Taymor（《局外人》(The Outsiders)、《约翰·普罗克特是恶棍》(John Proctor Is the Villain) 的导演），这位百老汇的“青少年之友”，将执导该音乐剧在 Studio Seaview 的复排。Taymor 在与塞特、编舞塞莉亚·罗尔森-霍尔 (Celia Rowlson-Hall) 及剧组选角导演协商后，决定举行公开试演。对于曾利用公开试演为《局外人》的巡演和百老汇接替演员选人的 Taymor 来说，这个决定既是慷慨的，也是自私的。“并不是每个人都能接触到经纪人、名校或那些被看到的官方途径，”她说，“部分原因是诚实地想要为演出寻找最合适的人，而且不想遗漏任何人。”公开试演不需要申请，不需要预筛选，也不需要任何演员工会 (Actors’ Equity) 的资历——只需要尝试的勇气和胆量。舞蹈试演于 7 月初的一个周四举行，随后是两天的演唱试演。发布在 Instagram 和 TikTok 上的广告吸引了 400 名希望者参加舞蹈试演，以及 2,100 名参加民谣、流行或独立摇滚选段的演唱试演。17 岁的尼娜·费伊 (Nina Faye) 从俄亥俄州飞来，带来了 Goo Goo Dolls 乐队的《鸢尾花》(Iris) 谱子，她在中学时代就迷上了这部音乐剧。“那种焦虑感，能让年轻人产生共鸣，”她说，“太不可思议了，这部剧写于 1891 年，而现在依然能让青少年产生共鸣。”坐在她旁边的是 24 岁的莫莉·哈格蒂 (Molly Hagerty)，她是鲍尔州立大学 (Ball State University) 的毕业生，准备了奥利维亚·罗德里戈 (Olivia Rodrigo) 的《香烟烟雾》(Cigarette Smoke)。她说，她还记得自己 14 岁时第一次听到原声专辑的情景。“现在是复排这部剧的绝佳时机，因为它探讨的是代沟和缺乏沟通，而这正是我们这一代人确实在挣扎的问题，”她说。选角导演之一的哈维尔·鲁比亚诺 (Xavier Rubiano) 被参与人数之多惊呆了。他原以为公开试演可能会收到 500 份申
被定义为“普通女孩”。显然，她从未从中走出来。她的不安全感在于，她可能不是一个绝佳的纽约名伶，而是一个知道如何使用空气炸锅的人。也许一次大胆的尝试足以挽救她。 科恩追随了像科尔·埃斯科拉 (Cole Escola)（《噢，玛丽！》(Oh Mary!)）和杰奎琳·诺瓦克 (Jacqueline Novak)（《跪下来》(Get on Your Knees)）等喜剧演员的脚步，他们同样前往露西尔·洛特尔剧院 (Lucille Lortel Theater) 尝试一些在主题上更连贯且更具戏剧性的东西。科恩在这里进行了一次大胆的尝试。结果如何？有时奏效。这部逃避现实、内容过载的玩具箱般的演出，像过山车一样起伏。而科恩的表现像一个体贴的派对主人，不断地确认（“听着”，“跟着我”），并且绝不让气氛变得沉重，除非用一句俏皮话来化解其分量。（甚至一段关于被强奸的歌词后面也跟着一个滑稽的音效。） 但演出的内容过于丰富，以至于它确实-
不像她早期的作品那样随性或私人化。即便在某些程度上达到了，她处理的也是旧主题。尽管她的口味可能倾向于《爱之岛》（Love Island）和泰勒·斯威夫特，但科恩无需担心自己过于平庸。作为一名不折不扣的演艺圈生物，她能从语言或肢体的怪癖中挖掘出意想不到的喜剧效果。我最喜欢的笑话之一就是她试图阻止一个翻白眼动作，结果却将其变成了一个表演性的沉思姿态。
在一个绝妙的笑点中，她将自己性格的万能钥匙描述为“在年级中显得年轻”，并极具说服力地论证了这一点可能比家庭出生顺序更具决定性。我可以理解为什么拥抱百老汇的戏剧化表达可能是某种提升方式。但她的作品中有足够的温柔时刻，让人好奇如果科恩致力于展现脆弱，拥抱那种被她所戏仿的节目的告白模式，会发生什么。
科恩的独特之处在于她歌曲中的表演技巧。在她这个年龄段，没有多少艺术家拥有如此庞大的真正幽默的曲库。但音乐是最具情感的艺术形式。而她已将基调转变为某种更具探索性，甚至是伤感的风格（参见《Upstate》，这是一首较早且动人的曲子，对成为“平庸之辈”表达了痛苦的看法）。
你在当晚最出色的作品之一《疑病症之歌》（Hypochrondriac’s Anthem）中可以看到这一点，这首歌讲述了生病如何能成为一种正名。
这里有常见的自嘲，但科恩的演唱带着一种深沉的真诚，穿透了笑话，暗示着其他的东西。“担心总是值得的，”她坚定地说，眼神没有游离，“只有在我感觉不完美的时候，我才会担心。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 左图：Studio Seaview 门外的队伍。 左下及右下：试镜期间室内的希望之星。
PHOTOGRAPHS BY GEORGE ETHEREDGE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
伴奏者，最多 800 人。当他看到队伍时，他及其同事匆忙寻找其他伴奏者，以便开设多个试镜室。“我真的、真的低估了这部剧的吸引力，”他说。
《春之觉醒》（Spring Awakening）在一定程度上讲述了渴望被看见、被认可为一个完整的人，而不仅仅是一个女儿、一个学生或一个孩子。因此，试镜团队决定接见每一位前来的人。
泰莫说，她并没有在寻找任何特定类型或音色。“你在寻找个体，”她说，“一个唱起歌来像他们自己的人，一个在演唱歌曲时，让你觉得这首歌就是他们写的人，一个其存在感没有经过过滤的人。” 并非所有人都能做到这一点。一些应试者躲在音乐剧的颤音之后；另一些则唱得太急或情感过剩。少数几首歌反复出现。泰莫最终将它们列成了一个播放列表：《Both Sides Now》、《The Joke》、《Landslide》、《Criminal》，很多杰夫·巴克利（Jeff Buckley）和利兹·麦卡尔派恩（Lizzy McAlpine）的作品，以及奥利维亚·罗德里戈（Olivia Rodrigo）的大部分曲目。但在最令人兴奋的试镜中（通常也是最简单的），具体的歌曲退居幕后，只剩下歌手们，勇敢地展露自我，完全真实。在某个时刻，评审席后的几乎每个人都流泪了。“这就像坠入爱河，”罗尔森-霍尔说，“一旦它真切地出现在你面前，就无法否认。” 塞特对自己感到的情绪波动程度感到惊讶。“当这些人
“年轻人走进这里，他们把自己的未来带进了房间，”他说。“他们用他们完整的人生地貌来打动你。”在 400 名参加试演的舞者中，有 28 人被要求回来。在 2,100 名左右的歌手中，仅有 100 人入选。“要把人数削减到那个地步，过程极其煎熬，”塞特（Sater）说道。这些入选者将与 100 名被选中参加试演的专业人士合并。最终，将聘请 11 名首席演员和两名替演，以及饰演成年角色的年长演员。塞特目前仍处于试演过程中，他希望公开招募中的几个人能最终入选。（制片人预计将在 9 月中旬公布演员名单。）“你想给他们所有人都一个他们如此渴望的机会，而且他们值得，”塞特说。对于几乎所有志在入选的人来说，这次招募是一次积极的体验。“每个人都非常友善，” 18 岁的曼努埃拉·罗德里格斯（Manuela Rodriguez）说道，她准备了《Bridge Over Troubled Water》。“我结交了一些新朋友。我也与在大学试演中认识的老朋友们重逢了。这里一点也不紧张。” 23 岁的洛伦·德莱莫（Loren Delemo）在试演后（演唱了 Lady Gaga 的《You and I》）收拾包袋时，看起来完全很放松。“我觉得非常好，”她说。“通常我在试演后会感到恐慌。但在这里，我只觉得非常自豪且愉快。”
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在艺术作品中 延续
作者：ILARIA PAROGNI
今年夏天，克里斯托弗·诺兰的电影《奥德赛》上映，引发了人们对奥德修斯国王在特洛伊战争后经历 10 年旅程返回伊萨卡的故事的重新关注。
纽约市立大学古典学教授乔尔·克里斯汀森（Joel Christensen）表示，人们之所以持续痴迷于这部启发电影的史诗，部分原因是奥德修斯在其中具有一种接近常人的特质。
“他不是神的儿子，也不是女神的儿子，”他说道，“他没有特异功能——他只是非常聪明。”
洛杉矶 J. 保罗·盖蒂博物馆（J. Paul Getty Museum）的古物策展人肯尼斯·拉帕廷（Kenneth Lapatin）表示，他发现这个故事在如此多媒介中得到体现，这一点非常迷人。
“你在陶瓶上能看到它，”他说，“在银器里有它，在壁画里有它，在宝石上也有，在雕塑中同样存在。”
这些文物所属的社会通过对故事的演绎将其特质地展现出来。“《奥德赛》的故事就像一份重写本手稿，”克里斯汀森说，“它被不断地书写和覆盖，但你可以在其他故事之下看到底稿。”
如果诺兰这部星光熠熠的电影激起了你的兴趣，几家美国博物馆目前正在展出受这些冒险故事启发的图像。以下是其中一部分的详细介绍。
J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM
J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM
大都会艺术博物馆，曼哈顿 在大都会博物馆中，两块公元前五世纪的希腊赤陶浮雕格外引人注目，它们详细地再现了奥德修斯旅程接近尾声时的两个片段。它们最初可能是固定在木箱或墙壁上的。
其中一块聚焦于老保姆欧律克勒亚（Eurycleia）为伪装返回伊萨卡的奥德修斯洗脚，并从一道伤疤认出他的瞬间。
“如果她的面部得以保存——目前该部分缺失——我们会看到她在认出他的那一刻正注视着他，”大都会博物馆希腊和罗马艺术策展人肖恩·海明威（Seán Hemingway）说道。
在第二块浮雕中，打扮成乞丐的奥德修斯走向他的妻子佩内洛普（Penelope），她一直忠实地等待着他。海明威说，她“显得凄凉但坚毅”、“很快她将认出丈夫，并知道他已经回家了”。
他补充道，这类归家的场景强调了家庭和共同经历对于古希腊人的重要性，并指出细节的刻画正是这些作品令人动容之处。
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
波士顿美术博物馆 波士顿美术博物馆馆藏了几件关于奥德修斯冒险的物品：两件来自古希腊的酒罐（pelikai），以及 19 世纪瑞士画家阿诺德·波克林（Arnold Böcklin）的一幅画作。
其中一个酒罐描绘了奥德修斯在冥界与已故船员埃尔佩诺尔（Elpenor）相遇的情景。希腊和罗马艺术高级策展人菲比·塞加尔（Phoebe Segal）表示：“埃尔佩诺尔悲哀的表情以精美的四分之三侧面视角绘制，强迫奥德修斯——以及酒罐的预期观众——去铭记并缅怀所有被留下的人，从而触动了奥德修斯的心弦。”
第二个酒罐取材于诗篇中最著名的故事之一：奥德修斯通过攀附一只公羊，从波吕斐摩斯（Polyphemus）的洞穴中逃脱。塞加尔说，这“也许是最生动、最惊险的情节”，并补充说它“体现了他狡黠的机智”。
她说，酒罐在饮酒聚会中很常见，史诗中的图像“为诗歌朗诵和哲学讨论提供了切入点”。
在酒罐流行数千年之后，波克林在 1896 年的一件作品中也探讨了奥德修斯的逃脱，画中显示波吕斐摩斯正准备向国王的小船投掷巨石。
在博物馆分享的一份策展笔记中，艺术史学家艾米莉·比尼（Emily Beeny）强调了这幅海景图是如何浸透了文学叙事的。她写道：“波克林在画作中对这个故事的诠释，创造了一种恐惧与幽默、幻想与现实之间独特的融合。”
波士顿美术博物馆
洛杉矶的 J. Paul Getty 博物馆 洛杉矶盖蒂别墅（Getty Villa）的几件展品凸显了诗中的瞬间。其中包括一个双耳杯和一盏灯，两者均来自古罗马。 这个双耳杯由白银制成，描绘了奥德修斯访问冥界的一个章节。“它的价值显然要高得多，”拉帕廷（Lapatin）说道，并补充道它可能属于一位富有的罗马人。 此类杯子在饮酒宴会上也很常见。 拉帕廷指出，那盏灯捕捉到了奥德修斯给波吕斐摩斯（Polyphemus）递上一杯酒使其醉酒的瞬间，而它则是一件较不那么“精英”的物品。拉帕廷表示，荷马的作品在当时是流行文化，他的故事应该是广为人知的。 在盖蒂中心，参观者可以看到《在瑟曦宫殿中的尤利西斯》（Ulysses at the Palace of Circe），这是一件 1667 年的作品，由专门从事建筑图像的弗拉芒艺术家威廉·舒伯特·凡·埃伦贝格（Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg）和以描绘动物著称的德国画家卡尔·博罗梅乌斯·安德烈亚斯·鲁特哈特（Carl Borromäus Andreas Ruthart）共同创作。该作品描绘了奥德修斯与女巫之间的邂逅——
《在瑟曦宫殿中的尤利西斯》（1667 年），由威廉·舒伯特·凡·埃伦贝格和卡尔·博罗梅乌斯·安德烈亚斯·鲁特哈特创作，现藏于洛杉矶 J. Paul Getty 博物馆。
从左至右：两块现藏于大都会艺术博物馆的、带有荷马诗篇场景的古 terracotta 泥板；以及一个描绘奥德修斯艰辛旅程的杯子，现藏于盖蒂博物馆。
《尤利西斯的冒险》，这是一块由阿波罗尼奥·迪·乔瓦尼（Apollonio di Giovanni）在 15 世纪制作的嫁妆箱（cassone）的一部分，现展出于芝加哥艺术博物馆。
芝加哥艺术学院
波士顿美术博物馆 波士顿美术博物馆
从左起：约公元前 490 年至 440 年的酒罐；以及阿诺德·勃克林 (Arnold Böcklin) 创作的《奥德修斯与波吕斐摩斯》(1896)。这三件作品均馆藏于波士顿美术博物馆。
喀耳刻在将他的船员变成猪之后，留在她的岛上。 畅销小说《喀耳刻》的作者、作家麦德琳·米勒 (Madeline Miller) 在其网站的一篇文章中介绍了这件艺术品。“这些艺术家捕捉到了原著中喀耳刻故事那种繁茂且诱人的氛围，并将其发扬光大，”她写道。“现在，喀耳刻住在一座凡尔赛宫般奢华的房子里，周围环绕着一群放荡不羁的随从和异域动物，包括一只鸵鸟。”
在艺术学院展出的一块画板是 cassone（一种装饰箱）的一部分，这种箱子通常是文艺复兴时期意大利新娘嫁妆的一部分。欧洲绘画与雕塑策展人丽贝卡·隆 (Rebecca Long) 表示，艺术家阿波罗尼奥·迪·乔瓦尼 (Apollonio di Giovanni) 是 15 世纪佛罗伦萨最多产的 cassoni 制作者之一。 画板展示了奥德修斯被绑在船桅上以抵御塞壬女妖的诱惑；他与阿尔基努斯国王之女娜乌西卡娅的相遇；以及他返回家乡伊萨卡岛。 画作中心是正在家中织布的潘内罗佩。隆表示，这一选择是刻意的：Cassoni 通常与家庭生活和婚姻相关。“这是在讲述女性等待丈夫、保持忠诚的故事，”她说。
一座奥德修斯的雕像安置在楼梯旁的壁龛中，几十年来一直让伊莎贝拉·斯图尔特·加德纳博物馆的游客感到有趣。从内部庭院看，你可以看到他的正面，但如果你站在电梯旁边，他裸露的臀部正对着你。 博物馆副馆长兼首席策展人内森尼尔·西尔弗 (Nathaniel Silver) 表示，这种摆放方式不会被伊莎贝拉·斯图尔特·加德纳所忽略，她是一位先驱收藏家，也是该博物馆的创始人。“她有极佳的幽默感，”他说。 这座雕像是在曾经属于罗马历史学家萨卢斯特 (Sallust) 的游乐园遗址上发现的。 西尔弗说，奥德修斯被描绘成蜷缩的姿势，它原本可能是花园中一组雕像的一部分，或者是山墙（神庙正面的建筑元素）的一部分。 据信，这座雕像代表了特洛伊战争期间、在《奥德赛》故事发生之前的一个时刻；在诗篇中，冲突是通过闪回和人物讲述的故事而被回顾的。西尔弗说，奥德修斯的姿势表明他可能在执行一项秘密任务，且他手中握着一把剑。
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安吉洛·维加 (Angelo Vega)，Anonymous 理发店的资深造型师。这家店经历了 9/11，2008 年金融危机、全球疫情以及其创始人的逝世。
使得纽约的一家电影院在任何时段都挤满了人。
这是对荷马史诗《奥德赛》的改编，正如其导演克里斯托弗·诺兰（Christopher Nolan）所构想的那样：采用 IMAX 70 毫米胶片，这是一种针对细节和规模都进行了优化的格式。AMC 林肯广场（AMC Lincoln Square）四楼的影厅拥有美国最大的 IMAX 屏幕，为了满足激增的需求，该影厅提供了凌晨 2 点和早上 6 点的放映场次。
在全市范围内，仍有大量标准格式的《奥德赛》电影票可供购买——该片在首个周末的票房收入达 $124.5 百万。
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但 IMAX 70 毫米的放映场次几乎全部售罄，这就是为什么大约 450 名纽约人在本该休息的时候，依然坚持前往电影院的原因。
“这绝对是一次盛事，”来自威斯特彻斯特县（Westchester County）的摄影师兼摄像师埃利斯·坦（Ellis Tan）说道。
曼哈顿科学与数学中心（Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics）的学生达什·苏亚雷斯（Dash Suarez）认为这很值得。“我认为在他的叙事中，任何部分都没有妥协，”他说道。
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节目之后的网络聊天揭示了一些截然不同的结论。
作者：MARTINE THOMPSON
《Love Island USA》（美国版《爱岛》）在本月早些时候结束了第八季，它一直不仅仅是一档约会节目。它像是一次邀请，让你将脸贴在一面单面镜上，观察陌生人如何调情、建立联系并化解冲突，而观众则在此时为他们定义依恋类型、识别危险信号，并决定谁值得同情与宽容。第八季中最受瞩目的几段关系成了即兴社会学研讨会和团体治疗课程的主题。观众们剖析了 KC Chandler 和 Aniya Harvey 之间不稳定的浪漫关系，讨论兼容性、情绪劳动、问责制以及有毒的男子气概。Sincere Rhea 对 Melanie Moreno 的对待方式引发了关于不诚实、尊重以及重复背信弃义何时会超过一段关系的潜在价值的讨论。Zach Georgiou 和 Kayda Bosse 的配对则促使观众分析俏皮戏弄与微妙不尊重之间的界限。
但这一季也揭示了，在《爱岛》显微镜下的人并不局限于参赛者。对于许多粉丝来说，他们每集结束后的惯例通常包括每周六次在 TikTok 上观看集体总结，并遇到对同一场景得出截然不同结论的人。某个观众认为残忍的行为，可能会激发另一个观众发布充满激情的辩护。同样，一名观众的分析可能会精准地表达出另一个人感到不适但无法命名的情绪。而且，更多的男性加入了这场聊天，而这个空间此前更多由女性占据。真人秀的男性粉丝群并非没有先例：今年春天，关于《Summer House》男性观众群体扩大的讨论很多。男性在 TikTok 上制作回顾视频并为参赛者辩护。
在《爱岛》中，一个核心问题不断地浮现：观众所目睹的行为是否反映了互联网亚文化（如“男性圈” manosphere 和“红药丸” red-pill 内容）的影响？或者这仅仅是古老的厌女症和父权文化通过 Z 世代的滤镜重新演绎？使得这些对话感觉如此无法逃避的部分原因在于节目本身的形式。每周播出五个晚上——加上该系列的每周配套谈话节目《Aftersun》——《爱岛》将这些赛后剖析变成了节目本身的延伸。
长期以来被英国原版掩盖，《Love Island USA》已经成长为一个文化现象，这一点让 42, 岁的伊利亚·萨德勒（Ilia Saddler）并不感到惊讶，她曾是洛杉矶的一名真人秀电视高管和制片人。“真人秀最擅长的事情之一，特别是当一个节目像《爱岛》一样成为真正的文化事件时，就是给人们一个共同的经历，让他们讨论已经在自己生活中发生的事情，”密切关注第八季并在社交媒体上分享评论的萨德勒说道。
在经过高度剪辑和制作的节目中，很多细微之处是没有展现出来的。数小时的分歧与和解被浓缩到单集节目中，导致观众在仅获得部分故事片段的情况下就对关系进行评估。“这并不意味着观众看到的不是事实，但这意味着它只是一个更宏大故事的一部分，”萨德勒说。“我认为记住这一点有助于对屏幕上的人产生更多的同情心。”
在黑人女性成为故事情节核心的这一季中，解读与现实之间的这种张力变得尤为显著。没有任何一段关系能让观众产生如此截然不同的解读——
山火、蜱虫、细菌及更多威胁正影响着我们所有人，即使是富人也无法幸免。
作者：ALEXANDER NAZARYAN
欢迎来到这个令人沮丧的夏天：这是一个山火与热穹顶频发、街道被淹、天空朦胧、鲨鱼游向热门海滩、响尾蛇出没于徒步路径、草地中蜱虫遍地的季节。甚至连吃一份新鲜沙拉这样简单的乐趣现在也充满了风险，因为发生了环孢子虫病 outbreak。
度假计划被毁并不新鲜。2026 年这个夏天的不寻常之处在于，也许是历史上第一次，即使是有钱人也无法完全逃避那些通常留给没有海滨庄园的人们所面对的危机与灾难。
“这是一个天气预警之夏，”《东汉普顿之星》（The East Hampton Star）的一篇社论如此写道。该报指出，在加拿大山火烟雾将天空染成病态的黄色前约一周半，一场风暴曾给长岛部分地区带来了飓风级别的强风。
“我们都生活在人类的躯体之中，”达特茅斯学院研究极端财富的社会学教授布鲁克·哈灵顿（Brooke Harrington）说，“你无法逃避这些衰败与潜在死亡的力量。”
许多夏季的乐趣是免费或廉价的，但这并不意味着每个人都能轻松获得。截至 2025 年，20% 的美国私营部门从业人员没有带薪假期。约 3200 万人在酷暑和暴雨的户外环境中工作。因此，当富人也被气候变化的残酷现实所困住时，这是一个值得关注的时刻。
“我认为今年夏天标志着奢华旅游最古老的一个幻象的破灭：即只要你有足够的钱，总有一个未受触及的地方可以逃避，”旅游趋势预测员珍妮·索森（Jenny Southan）说道。
“热浪不会在五星级度假村的大门前停止。”
爱达荷州那座风景如画的太阳谷（Sun Valley）度假屋？在俄勒冈州飘来的山火烟雾影响下，那里也许并非良选。在圣迭戈历史悠久的海滨度假胜地科罗纳多酒店（Hotel del Coronado）的海滩村，那间每晚 $4,000 的“小屋”如何？“过量”的流量淹没了附近的一家废水处理厂，导致周边海滩暂时关闭。当地一个环保组织在 Instagram 上发布了一段视频，显示水质浑浊并覆盖着褐色污泥。
马萨诸塞州的马萨葡萄园岛（Martha’s Vineyard）是总统、名人及金融人士青睐的度假地，如今它也成了孤星蜱虫的夏季之家。这种蜱虫的叮咬会导致对红肉和乳制品的强烈过敏，这种状况被称为 alpha-gal 综合征。2024, 一名在新泽西州的 47 岁飞行员在吃完汉堡后昏迷，成为首例与 alpha-gal 食物反应相关的死亡病例。这种蜱虫历史上是美国东南部地区的祸害，而随着它们在全国范围内的扩散，人们正陷入恐惧之中。
“人们真的被吓坏了——这一直是一个热门的话题，”作家亚历山德拉·斯泰伦（Alexandra Styron）说，“每次你去吃晚餐，都会聊到 alpha-gal，因为主人必须弄清楚煮什么，而且每个人的饮食问题都变得至关重要。”
‘热浪不会在五星级度假村的大门前停止。’
顺时针从左上起：ANGELA WEISS/A.F.P. — GETTY IMAGES; ALEX KENT/THE NEW YORK TIMES; ELIZABETH CECIL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
顶部及上方，“Love Island USA”，本季有更多男性参与剧集后的闲谈。左起中心：Sincere Rhea 和 Melanie Moreno；以及 Kayda Bosse 和 Zach Georgiou。
比 KC 和 Aniya 之间的关系更显眼的联系。随着观众在整个季度中逐渐了解 Aniya —— 包括她在格鲁吉亚的童年，以及她父亲作为 NBA 球员的经历 —— 一些人开始将她视为一名寻找童话般浪漫爱情的“黑人美国公主”。
KC 因公开表达对 Aniya 的钦佩而赢得了赞誉，Aniya 是一位有着深厚……
棕色肤色，包括承认肤色歧视在美学标准和约会中可能扮演的角色。观众们在争论他的欣赏是表演性的还是真诚的。 在他们共处的时光里，一些观众认为这是一个年轻女性在寻求关于两人关系的安慰，而另一些人则认为是一个年轻男性被要求承担起不公平地限制了他的体验的情感期待。 但只要滚动浏览足够的剧集后视频，分歧线就变得更加清晰。那些为 KC 辩护的人被许多观众视为在为厌女行为开脱。而要求对 Aniya 给予更多共情的呼声则被认为是对男性经历的漠视。 别墅里的其他男性也成了类似讨论的闪点。 例如，Sincere 不仅因为在与 Melanie 关系期间反复撒谎而受到观众批评，还因为将肤色较深的黑人女性称为“兄弟”(bro)和“大狗”(big dog)。这引发了关于黑人女性通常被期望接受某种随意的男性化称呼（这可能让人感到被轻视），以及尊重（或尊重的表演）是如何根据种族、性别和肤色而演变的讨论。 这些争论并非存在于真空之中，
汉普顿地区的情况也好不到哪去：在乔治卡池 (Georgica Pond) —— 史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格度夏的地方，以及艾伦·阿尔达和詹妮弗·洛佩兹拥有住宅的萨加波纳克池 (Sagaponack Pond) 和梅考克斯湾 (Mecox Bay) 中都发现了食肉细菌。东端 (East End) 的池塘还遭受了蓝细菌的侵害，这种细菌会产生绿色 scum，可能对人类和动物都有害。（与此同时，华盛顿的国家广场也在应对自身的蓝绿藻问题。）这些生物依赖氮元素生长，而氮元素存在于让汉普顿草坪呈现出标志性深绿色的肥料中。同样在汉普顿，随着大批人群挤在出租屋内，污水使化粪池系统过载，渗出的氮和磷进一步促使了蓝细菌的生长。“我在东端已经住了 27 年了，”石溪大学的海洋生物学家、当地水道专家克里斯托弗·J·戈布勒 (Christopher J. Gobler) 说道，“现在这里的人更多了，活动也更多了，这是一个促成因素。”即使留在纽约市的家中也可能是危险的。在曼哈顿的上东区，爆发了军团病（一种严重的肺炎），已导致六人死亡，至少 90 人感染。“人们感觉在新冠疫情期间，超级富豪能够利用金钱让自己远离最糟糕的影响，”描述东海岸精英的小说《凤梨街》(Pineapple Street) 和《洗发水效应》(The Shampoo Effect) 的作者珍妮·杰克逊 (Jenny Jackson) 说道。“富人们可以退回到他们的乡村庄园；他们可以避开商业飞行；他们可以在私人领地远程办公；他们可以在俱乐部打高尔夫，”她补充道，“这个奇怪的夏天的特点在于，金钱无法像之前那样，将人们与新一轮的灾难隔绝开来。”
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尸检/事后分析已成为一种文化现象的一部分。
这就是为什么围绕该节目的话题往往让人感到如此敏感且影响重大。“真人秀只是我们所有人所面对的现实之反映，”40 岁的埃里卡·哈特 (Ericka Hart) 说道。她是一位常驻纽约市的性教育工作者，也是《爱之岛》(Love Island) 的粉丝，她认为这对所有性别和性倾向的观众都适用。在她的著作《肮脏的工作》(Nasty Work) 中，哈特将《爱之岛》作为透镜，审视那些塑造美丽与吸引力标准的种族主义观念。她说，《爱之岛》以及更广泛的真人约会节目中贯穿始终的一线是，“深肤色黑人女性在现实世界中所遭受的对待，与她们在真人秀中所遭受的对待是无法分开的。你看到的只是一个缩影。”她所描述的是“厌女黑人恐惧症”(misogynoir)，这个词由《厌女黑人恐惧症转型：黑人女性的数字抵抗》(Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance) 的作者莫亚·贝利 (Moya Bailey) 创造，指的是反黑人种族主义与厌女症的交集。
这一概念帮助一些观众处理他们在别墅中看到的重复出现行为。“黑人女性所经历的恶毒程度如此之高，当你拥有能够描述自身遭遇的语言时，它会赋予你一种掌控感，让你能够地弄清楚接下来的路以及我们如何真正地去解决它，”西北大学教授贝利说道，并指出这种贬低在其他领域（如医疗领域）同样存在。
在这一季的起伏之中，参赛者之间的友谊往往是具有意义的高光时刻。当安尼雅 (Aniya) 在与 KC 发生痛苦冲突后陷入泪水和沮丧时，梅拉妮·莫雷诺 (Melanie Moreno) 提醒她，世界并不止于别墅的围墙之内——而且她值得一份更契合她本心的爱。随后，凯达 (Kayda) 和特里尼蒂·塔图姆 (Trinity Tatum)（她与男友布莱斯·阿拉凯·德特洛夫 Bryce Alakai Dettloff 共同成为了该节目的获胜者）化解了一场误会，表达了彼此的感受，并重新找回了欢笑。
尽管戏剧冲突很迷人，但对于一些观众来说，看到冲突地展开也可能令人感到疲惫，因为这反映了他们在自身生活中面对的同样压力与不平等。另一方面，该节目也提供了人们在不期待浪漫关系的情况下彼此支持的时刻。看着人类仅仅因为关心而相互扶持，具有一种深深的动人之感。对于 29 岁的阿拉尼·麦加希 (Alahni McGahee) 来说，女性之间的友谊成为了本季最令人难忘的故事线之一。她是一位来自费城的内容创作者，自 2020 年起就一直关注该系列节目。她说：“我真的很享受看着她们在彼此身边，为对方挺身而出，互相帮扶，即使有时是误导性的。你能感觉到那里有真挚的爱和连接。”
麦加希还指出了该节目能够将那些原本可能永远不会相遇的人聚集在一起的能力。她说：“我喜欢布莱斯和特里尼蒂这样的情侣，或者是第 7 季的尼克和奥兰德里亚 [两人最近宣布分手]，或者是卡尔和安尼雅，如果没有这类节目，他们可能永远找不到彼此。”
也许这就是为什么尽管《爱之岛》充满混乱，但依然能引起观众共鸣的原因。在争吵和激进观点之下，隐藏着某种极具人性地东西——渴望被爱，渴望减少孤独感，并希望自己的心能被温柔对待。该节目虽然围绕浪漫构建，但其最令人难忘的时刻提醒我们，情感连接可以有多种形式。
从左上角起顺时针方向： 纽约市的野火烟雾； 反思池中的藻类； 玛莎葡萄园岛上的蜱虫； 以及沙拉绿叶菜。
Laurie Anderson 给她的客人们留下了一段秘密信息
去年，当 Julia Sherman 在为位于下曼哈顿新近扩建的新博物馆（New Museum）内的 Oberon 餐厅制定菜单时，她产生了一个想法：在结账时为用餐者提供一份餐后甜点。就像幸运饼干一样，这些甜点将承载着旨在缓解从博物馆过渡到城市繁忙街道之冲击的信息。Sherman 曾任 Oberon 的艺术家合作伙伴关系总监，在不确定甜点应采取何种形状的情况下，她与共同执行主厨 Ali Ghriskey 一起，向前卫音乐家和行为艺术家 Laurie Anderson 寻求建议。“Laurie 的作品具有一种智者般、预言式的特质，”43 岁的 Sherman 说道。她在罗德岛设计学院就读本科期间便迷上了 Anderson 的作品，并观看了 Anderson 2004 年的个人表演《月亮的终结》（The End of the Moon）。几年后，当 Sherman 为她的食谱《给总统的沙拉》（Salad for President，2017）与艺术家们合作时，她询问 Anderson 是否可以共进午餐。“她带来了最美味的香草三明治，看起来像是一堆杂草和一些面包，”79 岁的 Anderson 回忆道，她随后为这本书贡献了一道食谱。当两人会面讨论 Oberon 的离店甜点时，她们构思出一种薄荷味黑巧克力块的概念——Sherman 说，“有点像 After Eight 或 Andes 薄荷巧克力”——由布鲁克林 Raaka Chocolates 制作，并用印有 Anderson 素描和她日记摘录的纸张包裹。Anderson 从 12 岁起就开始写日记，这些内容也被她用于今年威尼斯双年展的展览《笔记本》（Notebook）。六月，在餐厅开业前夕——以及在 Anderson 重新与 Sexmob 乐队巡演以表演她的新作品《爱之共和国》（The Republic of Love）之前——两人在 Anderson 位于西村的公寓举办了一场午餐会，以标志该项目的完成，席间预演了一些 Oberon 目前提供的以蔬菜为主的菜肴。“我喜欢庆祝那些在做有趣事情的人，”Anderson 说道。在离开时，客人们在装满向日葵花瓣的碗中自行挑选巧克力。共有五种选项，其中一个包装纸上讲述了一个 Anderson 关于一场糟糕的脱口秀采访的梦（她说“我的噩梦”）。另一个则写道：“我在想你。我在想你。我在想你。然后我不再想你了。”
出席者 嘉宾中包括 Anderson 的工作室经理 Jim Cass； Sherman 的丈夫 Adam Katz，一名创意企业家顾问； 跨学科设计师 Minjae Kim，他负责 Oberon 的梣木餐桌和绗缝玻璃纤维灯具； 时尚品牌 Slow and Steady Wins the Race 的 Mary Ping，她设计了餐厅员工的制服； 新博物馆副总裁 Scott Campbell； 该博物馆文化孵化器 NEW INC 的社区负责人 Paul John； 他的伴侣，
据称是由古代伊朗文物制成的 耳环。
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赞达亚（Zendaya）和她的造型师劳·罗奇（Law Roach）以实现不可能的造型而闻名。2024年，赞达亚在宣传《沙丘：第二部》时，穿着了一套来自 Thierry Mugler 1995年秋季系列的银色机器人套装。在本月宣传《奥德赛》期间，她穿着一件奶油色的 Schiaparelli 礼服，该礼服旨在模仿大理石雕塑，且在数小时前才在 T 台上首次亮相。在另一场该电影的活动中，她佩戴了一对由金盘制成的耳环，这些金盘源自古代伊朗。
最后一件如此稀有的时尚单品在考古学和文化保护领域引发了一场争论。一些考古学家认为，将古代文物重新利用为时尚配饰令人担忧，是对其所属文化的不尊重，或者正如考古学家兼创作者 Dr. Z 所说，这是一种“将过去恋物化”的方式，可能会助长文物黑市。此外，批评者担心这些文物的来源，他们认为这些文物是通过抢劫和殖民掠夺获得的。
本月早些时候，以主题着装著称的赞达亚在伦敦宣传她的最新电影时，穿着了一件来自法国品牌 Jacquemus 的象牙色挂脖礼服，并配有头巾。她搭配了一对极具存在感的金钻圆盘耳环，根据专门从事稀有珠宝和宝石的画廊 Barron London 的说法，这些耳环的起源可追溯至公元前一千年；该画廊在其 Instagram 页面上发布了赞达亚佩戴其耳环的照片。
在该画廊的网站上，它重点介绍了
人物、地点与事物
摄影：CHRISTINA HOLMES Julia Sherman 将巧克力 nestled 在向日葵花瓣之上，并提供一份希腊沙拉。
Sherman 和主厨 Vilda Gonzalez 准备的更多菜肴；科学作家 Jonathan Meiburg（居中）。
Laurie Anderson，以及由花艺设计师 April Johnson 设计的中心装饰。
一对 Ziwiye 金奖章圆盘， 据称由伦敦珠宝商 Glenn Spiro 镶嵌了钻石。 在给《卫报》的一份声明中， 该画廊表示其于 2025 年从 Spiro 处购得这对耳环， Spiro 的“旧世界材料”（Materials of the Old World）系列以将古代文物转化为珠宝而著称。 Zendaya、Law Roach、Barron 和 Spiro 的代表 未立即回应置评请求。 据信，这些金盘是在 20 世纪 40 年代从伊朗西北部的 Ziwiyeh 城堡外发掘的，是古代世界其他文物宝藏的一部分。 这些被统称为“Ziwiye 窖藏”的文物目前在世界各地的博物馆展出，包括纽约的大都会艺术博物馆。 澳大利亚悉尼麦考瑞大学的历史与考古学教授 Peter Edwell 认为，问题在于这些“材料在来源方面非常有争议”。 Edwell 补充说，全球发现的数千件文物，特别是这一时期来自中东的文物，情况均如此。 “其考古起源非常模糊，我们并不真正知道发生了什么，”他说。“而且我认为，很可能是发生了掠夺和洗劫。” 近年来，红毯装扮已成为一场名人们相互较劲的体育运动。 造型师倾向于主题装扮，并致力于为客户获取冷门时尚单品以引发话题。但古代文物是一个相对较新的尝试，且具有极强的视觉冲击力。 Edwell 补充说，当明星穿着具有深厚历史的服装时，是为了尝试将“他们直接置于那个世界中，并为那个故事增色”。 这并不是历史文物首次出现在名人的耳垂、颈部或腕部。 在同一场伦敦推广活动中，《奥德赛》（The Odyssey）中 Zendaya 的搭档 Anne Hathaway 佩戴了一块宝格丽（Bulgari）镶钻腕表，表壳采用了一枚古罗马钱币。 在今年《呼啸山庄》（Wuthering Heights）的首映礼上，Margot Robbie 佩戴了卡地亚（Cartier）的泰姬陵钻石项链，该项链曾属于伊丽莎白·泰勒，是其丈夫理查德·伯顿在 1972 年赠送的礼物。 这颗宝石是 17 世纪莫卧儿皇帝沙贾汉（Shah Jahangir）赠给其儿子沙贾汉（Shah Jahan）的，后者下令建造了泰姬陵。 在美国与伊朗战争期间，选择此类珠宝可能被视为缺乏敏感度。 “伊朗正遭到积极轰炸，”常驻洛杉矶的考古学家兼制片人 Annelise Baer 表示，并补充说反弹也可能是由于
H I G H L I G H T S F R O M T M A G A Z I N E . C O M T M A G A Z I N E C O M 亮点
在本月于伦敦举行的 《奥德赛》推广活动中， 据一家伦敦画廊称， Zendaya 佩戴了由 源自古代伊朗的 金盘制成的耳环。
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艺术与文化策略师 Elizabeth Cocco；以及 Flowerpsycho 背后的造型师兼花艺设计师 April Johnson。 此外还有 Anderson 的朋友们：作曲家 Grey Gersten，艺术家 Rosanna Bruno，科学作家兼音乐家 Jonathan Meiburg，媒体艺术家兼音频工程师 Jon Cohrs，以及艺名为 Tiresias 的行为艺术家 Evan Silver。
餐桌 舍曼在安德森位于哈德逊河畔的客厅里的一张大型乡村餐桌上摆放好餐盘。桌子中央是约翰逊布置的一组具有雕塑感且大部分可食用的当地花园采摘装饰——向日葵、葱属植物、南瓜花、花蒜和紫色花椰菜。
食物 “我为我爱的人做食物，希望他们感觉良好，长生不老，”舍曼说道。在常驻哈德逊谷的私人厨师维尔达·冈萨雷斯（Vilda Gonzalez，28 岁）的协助下，她准备了希腊沙拉；煎多尔玛（stuffed grape leaves，酿葡萄叶）；顶部覆盖着烤培根（或如冈萨雷斯所描述的“咸肉片”）的凯撒沙拉；黑莎莎酱虾；以及一款灵感来自加州帕萨迪纳舍曼前住处附近的一家名为 Zhengyalov Hatz 的亚美尼亚面包店所售的香草填充扁面包。至于甜点，约翰和科科制作了黄油山核桃冰淇淋——这是安德森最喜欢的——并在顶端点缀了拉丝糖丝。
饮品 卡斯负责饮品，并保持简单，提供气泡水或来自 Domäne Wachau 的绿威念 (Grüner Veltliner)。
音乐 安德森播放了威廉·巴辛斯基 (William Basinski) 2000 年代早期的专辑系列《分解循环》(The Disintegration Loops) 的黑胶唱片，该系列是通过记录退化的磁带循环而创作的。她为近期重新发行的这部怪诞作品写了前言。
交谈 舍曼试穿了一件由 Ping 为新博物馆 (New Museum) 礼品店设计的厨师围裙原型；设计师希望它也能兼作野餐垫和木材携带袋。Ping 在评价该样本时说：“帆布太重了，”该样本的底部角落设有可兼作锅垫的口袋。“但已经很接近了。”约翰分享了他和科科实验性制作冰淇淋的合作故事，这段经历源于他在荷兰一家艺术家驻留项目工作期间的体会。安德森和布鲁诺讨论了丹麦作家索尔薇·巴莱 (Solvej Balle) 正在创作的小说系列《关于体积的计算》(On the Calculation of Volume) —— 他们已经为此成立了一个读书会。
娱乐小贴士 即使，或者说尤其是当聚会很随意时，至少一次仪式感的点缀也能带来益处。“我一直很喜欢用锣，”安德森说，她用锣来引起大家的注意，以便舍曼进行祝酒。
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种族主义 自从这部改编自希腊史诗的剧组名单公布以来，赞达亚 (Zendaya) 和她的合作演员卢皮塔·尼永奥 (Lupita Nyong’o) 就在承受这种压力。 巴伦在给《卫报》(The Guardian) 的一份声明中承认了紧张的氛围，并补充说，在 伊朗 被透过当代政治视角审视的当下，“我们希望这些耳环也能提醒观众这个国家深厚的文化、艺术和历史遗产。” 在巴伦最初发布的帖子中，一些评论并没有对配饰的选择表示反对。 贝尔就决定在名人造型中加入珍贵文物发表了早期的评论之一。最终，她认为让古代文物主流化是一件好事，这一立场在社交媒体上引发了抵制，促使她禁用了评论功能。 贝尔在这次争论中看到了积极的一面。“我最终很高兴这件事真正地将古物的所有权和伦理问题——来源、掠夺、殖民主义——立即引起了公众的关注，”她说。 历史上许多珍贵的艺术品和宝石都是非法获取的。在 18 世纪、19 世纪和 20 世纪被掠夺的物品，通过殖民掠夺，进入了诸如伦敦的大英博物馆等著名的艺术和历史机构。近期一些国家及其政府响应了归还文物的呼吁，一些机构已开始归还被盗文物。 贝尔主张，这些讨论应当在公共领域进行，而不仅仅是在博物馆的董事会之间进行。“在 21 世纪，”她说，“我们仍在处理 20 世纪所发生事情的影响和后果。”
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AMC 林肯广场影城的粉丝们，该影城增加了克里斯托弗·诺兰的《奥德赛》IMAX 70 毫米胶片的凌晨 2 点和早上 6 点场次，以满足需求。丹尼斯·科拉莱斯（Dennis Corrales，左近）身穿一件纪念 2023 年两部对决大片——格蕾塔·葛薇格的《芭比》和诺兰的《奥本海默》的 T 恤。
苏亚雷兹（Suarez）与五位穿着睡衣的朋友一起参加了凌晨 2 点的放映。其中两人读过《奥德赛》。坐在前排的阿曼达·奎诺内斯（Amanda Quinonez）表示，她也读过《奥德赛》——据她估计是“太多次”了。奎诺内斯第一次读这部作品是在德克萨斯州上高中时，但她不记得是哪个译本。
最有可能的不是由宾夕法尼亚大学古典研究系主任艾米莉·威尔逊（Emily Wilson）所做的广受赞誉的译本，她是第一位出版古希腊诗篇完整英文译本的女性。据说诺兰依赖的是她的译本，这令保守派十分不安，他们对她的翻译以及诺兰的一些选角决定提出了异议，指责他“觉醒”（wokeness）。但这一切似乎在周六深夜抵达百老汇与西 68 街、准备观看周日场次的年轻且多元的观众群体中并无多少共鸣。
林肯广场 IMAX 影院的座位如此难求，以至于许多影迷并不介意抢到这部时长近三小时电影的“ graveyard shift”（深夜/凌晨班）票。（据报道，网络上这些票的转售价高达数百美元。）事实上，有些人甚至将其视为尝试一些不寻常之事的理由。
“我觉得我们成了某种专属群体的一部分，”奎诺内斯说。
即使是一点点稀缺性也被证明是令人兴奋的。
“我很高兴抢票的过程如此艰难，”来自华盛顿、专门前往曼哈顿观看《奥德赛》的大学生什雷亚斯·科特拉（Shreyas Kotla）说道。科特拉通过在当天早些时候小睡了一会来做准备。
短视频或许最终会成为电影的终结。对于那些……
“我觉得我们成了 某种专属群体 的一部分。”
它们像发圈一样有褶皱
一种鞋类趋势希望你 接受这种褶皱感，即便这意味着 要花费四位数之巨。
这些鞋子看起来就像你吃完一整袋 Sour Patch Kids 软糖后的嘴唇。 这种被称为 ruched（或 puckered 或 scrunched，意为褶皱或抽褶）的乐福鞋，在到达鞋头之前看起来就像标准的轻便乐福鞋，而鞋头部分则像需要熨烫的衬衫一样布满褶皱。走进任何一家店员冷若冰霜、羊绒衫起售价高达四位数的精品店，你都能发现这些鞋子，它们蜷曲的鞋头从货架上突出来。 “这在某种程度上是这个 era（时代）的鞋类趋势，”Nordstrom 的男装时尚总监 Jian DeLeon 说道。 Tom Ford 的褶皱便鞋售价高达 $1,190。 Saint Laurent 提供光面皮革和棕褐色绒面革款式，甚至推出了一款可折叠后跟的设计。（两种不可撼动的鞋类趋势合二为一！）这款鞋有男款和女款，证明了鞋类市场中性别界限的日益模糊。初步搜索显示，所有这些褶皱鞋头的鞋子成本似乎都超过 $1,000。 The Row 被公认为褶皱鞋头的开创者。它在几年前推出的这款 $1,290 的 Soft Loafer，其鞋头呈角状倾斜，将所有褶皱处理得像意大利斜体字一样。 “当 The Row 在 10 年前推出这款鞋时，它很棒，”Becky Malinsky 说道，她撰写广受欢迎的购物简报《你应该买的 5 件事》（“5 Things You Should Buy”）。撇开 Malinsky 夸张的否定不谈，这款鞋依然持续畅销。The Row 官网上的棕色鳗鱼皮 Soft Loafer 所有女性尺寸均已售罄。 尽管如此，我也可以理解为什么 Malinsky 会否定这些鞋。它们已经成为了那些穿着方式受网络时尚社区（如 Substack 等）所谓“酷”的定义影响并强化该定义的群体的陈旧“入门套装”的一部分。它们象征着你如此细致，如此关注服装的每一件单品，以至于你的乐福鞋也必须与众不同。并且你愿意为此付费。 但实际上，这种褶皱鞋头到底有什么魔力，能让其价格显得物有所值？ DeLeon 认为，这种褶皱相当于把衬衫袖子挽起来。他说，这为“原本平淡无奇的事物增添了一点戏剧感和视觉趣味”。 我认为这有一定的道理。这种褶皱反映了一种随意感，一种对不完美之美的开放心态，这让购物者感到吸引。这些乐福鞋仿佛在说：“我是不驯服的——即便你努力抛光也没用！”（也许用指甲油刷可以，但这肯定非常耗时。）它们与当前的时尚时刻相契合，这个时刻为那些刻意追求“不对劲”的衣服打开了大门——在这个时刻，破洞牛仔裤再次抬头，而极具争议的宽腿裤（culottes）也回来了。 DeLeon 还有另一种理论：褶皱是奢侈品的标志，表明一个品牌拥有在不使鞋头塌陷的情况下创造这些褶皱的技术能力。他说，这“有点像一种试金石，因为要实现 The Row 乐福鞋那种完美的抽褶效果一定非常困难”。反过来，
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……牺牲了一夜的睡眠，为了看傲慢的求婚者安提诺乌斯（Antinous，由罗伯特·帕特森饰演）得到应有的报应；他们售罄的放映场次证明，电影院是一种笔记本电脑或微波炉爆米花无法复制的体验。 “当人们说电影正在死去时——不，它没有，”Kotla 说道。 Dennis Corrales 手拿着一杯冰咖啡出现在凌晨 6 点的放映会上。他穿着一件庆祝“Barbenheimer”的 T 恤——这是指 2023 年两部截然不同的商业大片同时上映：格蕾塔·格威格的《芭比》（关于那个玩偶）和诺兰的《奥本海默》（关于那个核物理学家）。 Corrales 也在 AMC 林肯广场观看了《奥本海默》。“当时票还没有那么抢手，因为那时还没人真正意识到……
“关于那个格式，”他解释道，指的是当时人们对 IMAX 70 毫米格式日益增长的认知。《奥本海默》被广泛赞誉为一部杰作，但可以说《奥德赛》在视觉奇观和雄心方面已经超越了那部核剧。
“现在的需求太疯狂了，”科拉莱斯（Corrales）说道。AMC 表示，在林肯广场（Lincoln Square）放映点，该片将在午夜后一直放映至 8 月中旬。
“犹太酷儿青年”（Jewish Queer Youth）的创始人莫德凯·莱沃维茨（Mordechai Levovitz）在凌晨 2 点后不久就来到了电影院。他希望能在所有人最后时刻放弃座位的情况下，抢到一张 6 点场（已售罄）的票。他走向电影院空旷的一楼大厅的自动售票机，一个似乎显示有票的界面让他感到沮丧，因为当他尝试付款时，票却消失了。
评论家笔记本 雅各布·加拉格尔 (JACOB GALLAGHER)
几小时后，他再次尝试抢 6 点场的票。
引导奥德修斯（马特·达蒙饰）回到伊萨卡的同一批神灵眷顾了莱沃维茨，一张 6 点场的票突然出现了。这一次没有故障，也没有在关键时刻被反悔。
“这部电影比我想象的要相关得多，”他在电影结束后走进凉爽、辉煌的早晨时说道，“文明、伦理、体制，以及我们所认知的社会的崩溃。”
奥德修斯回家了。而这正是莱沃维茨要去的地方。
“我要去睡觉了，”他说。
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顺时针方向，从左起：香奈儿 (Chanel) 的褶皱乐福鞋；圣罗兰 (Saint Laurent) 的褶皱鞋头；汤姆·福特 (Tom Ford) 的皱褶款式。
一种反映出对不完美持开放态度的外观。
左图：汤姆·福特 (TOM FORD)；上图：圣罗兰 (SAINT LAURENT)
在 SoHo 区，一家旗舰户外装备店在营业 15 年后关闭，购物者们前来表达敬意。
作者：ALISHA HARIDASANI GUPTA
数十人在祭坛前驻足，随后叹了口气，继续前行。一名身穿黑裙、手持黑伞的人在消失于夜色前，进行了 30 秒的告别祝酒。另一名女性在阅读祭坛上的便条时开始落泪。路人之间相互拥抱。根据匿名组织者的说法，这并非葬礼，而是一场为 REI 门店举办的“生命庆典”。该店在纽约 SoHo 区的一栋历史建筑中经营了 15 年，直到上周四晚上永久关闭。在其他城市，这或许不算长久，但在一个商业更替率极高的街区，该公司在市内的唯一门店已然成为了某种地标。
“我在纽约住了 20 年了，所以我记得 REI 出现之前和出现之后的时间，”43 岁的 Chaiwen Chou 说道，她特意来到店里拍最后几张照片，并在祭坛上留了一言。“很巧，我开始更多地参与户外活动的时间，正好与 REI 开业的时间相近，”她补充道，“我会想念它的。感觉像是一个 era. 的结束。”
自从这家户外装备旗舰零售商于 2011 年搬进 Puck 建筑的三层空间以来，在快速变化的市中心街区中，它始终是一个保持不变的空间。它的外立面能为那些走出火车站后感到迷茫的纽约人提供方向指引，路人也能在这里找到一个方便且干净的洗手间。在寒冷的日子里，它是温暖的绿洲；在炎热的日子里，它是填充水瓶的避暑点。这家店还将作为都市丛林中通往大自然的罕见门户而被人们铭记，一个购买登山靴和帐篷的一站式商店。
当 REI 在 10 月宣布决定关闭 SoHo 门店，以及关闭波士顿唯一店面和新泽西州 Paramus 的一家门店时，并未提供细节。一名代表在邮件中提到有“适应变化的市场状况和客户需求的需要”，但未作详细说明。在疫情早期的户外装备热潮之后，该公司一直在努力摆脱数年的亏损。其新任首席执行官专注于削减运营成本并停止扩张，REI 在去年实现了两个季度的盈利。
近年来，SoHo 区不断上涨的租金导致商业租户像“旋转门”一样频繁更换。根据房地产公司 JLL 的一份报告，该街区的平均零售租金在 2025 年徘徊在每平方英尺 $351 左右，比前一年增长了 9 百分比。该建筑的房东 Kushner Companies 没有回应置评请求。
在门店关闭前几天，一名匿名用户在活动邀请应用 Partiful 上创建了一个名为“SOHO REI 葬礼”的活动。邀请函指示纽约人聚集在店外，身穿黑衣，给它一个“应有的送别”。活动计划包含演讲和音乐表演。短短几小时内，数百人表示将参加这场派对，这原本会造成拉法叶街 (Lafayette Street) 和桑巴里街 (Mulberry Street) 三角交汇处的交通堵塞。组织者决定改为设立一个全天开放的祭坛，方便人们随时前来悼念。上周四早晨，在……的右侧
在拉法叶街（Lafayette）的入口处，出现了一块用于写告别信息的标牌，旁边配有一袋便笺卡、记号笔和胶带。
“曾经因为有个家伙想上厕所，我就在这儿进行了第一次约会，”一张没有署名的便笺这样写道。
“谢谢你在我走出 F 线地铁后分不清东南西北的时候指引我，”一张由一位化名为 Uno 的人写的卡片这样写道。
卡特里娜·里利（Katrina Rili）在读这些便笺时流下了眼泪，她走进店里，随后戴着顶新帽子走了出来。
住在街对面的 REI 会员丹尼斯·波多（Dennis Porto）和女友一起来到这里，最后一次感受这一切。
在红砖砌成的、罗曼复兴风格的普克大厦（Puck Building）漫长的历史中，REI 时代相对较新。该建筑建于 19 世纪 80 年代。乡村保护协会（Village Preservation）执行主任安德鲁·伯曼（Andrew Berman）表示，其拱窗和顶部的雉堞甚至早于拉法叶街和地下地铁的出现。
从 1887 到 1918 年，这座大厦曾是该国第一本讽刺政治杂志——
GEORGE ETHEREDGE 为《纽约时报》供图
上周在 SoHo 区 REI 的入口处，顶部，人们在商店最后一天聚集在一起参加一场“生命庆典”，现场提供了一块用于写告别信息的标牌，以及一袋便笺卡、记号笔和胶带。中心左侧的红砖罗曼复兴风格普克大厦自 2011 年起就是该零售商的所在地。店内，顾客们在浏览商品，而上方，同事们在互道离别。
《普克》（Puck，以莎士比亚笔下的精灵命名）及其大约 30 台石版印刷机在此办公。外墙上装饰着两尊这个淘气角色的镀金雕像，它们俯瞰着下方的街道，手中拿着一支笔、一面镜子和一本写有“凡人皆愚”（What Fools These Mortals Be）的书。许多原有的石版印刷石至今仍悬挂在 REI 店内的空间里。
在过去的大约 140 年里，这座建筑经历了许多波折：在被卖给至今仍持有所有权的库什纳（Kushner）家族之前，它曾短暂地成为一个艺术家合作社。它还曾出现在热门情景喜剧《威尔与格蕾丝》（Will and Grace）中。2013 年，特朗普总统的女婿贾里德·库什纳（Jared Kushner）开始将顶层两层及屋顶空间改造为豪华顶层公寓。
2022 年，SoHo 店的员工成为该公司近 200 家分店中首批投票决定建立工会的员工。
“因为 REI 作为一个进步公司的形象，人们在某种程度上希望它会倾听，”该店员工兼工会谈判委员会代表埃利奥·亚历山大（Elio Alexander）说道。该公司由一群朋友于 1938 年创立，是一家由数百万购买会员资格的顾客和员工共同拥有的消费者合作社。
然而，亚历山大（29 岁）表示，在工会投票后的四年里，公司和员工未能就新合同达成一致。该店全部 72 名员工的岗位将被削减。公司否认闭店与工会
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电离努力。 在店面经营的最后几个小时里，店内的气氛十分沉重。员工们表示他们不被允许与媒体交谈，但他们对这家公司表达了失望，而在此之前，这里一直是一个愉快且充实的工作场所。 26 岁的 Benji Kalmanowitz 和 28 岁的 R.J. Tabachnick 站在外面，因为在悼念而身着黑衣。他们在 2021 年在店里工作时相识并成为了室友，经常一起徒步和骑行。Tabachnick 在这家店买了他的第一辆自行车。 Tabachnick 表示，该公司“代表了一种走向户外并在世界上积极活动的精神，而在纽约这样的一座特大城市开设店面，本身就是一种声明且具有影响力”，“现在它要关闭，某种程度上把这一切都夺走了”。 上周四，在时钟敲响晚上 8 点（即关店时间）之前的整整 5 秒，穿着橄榄绿背心的 Colin Herron 抓起麦克风开始倒计时。 “5, 4, 3, 2, 1！”他喊道。周围爆发出了掌声和欢呼声。 在那里工作了三年的 Herron 拥抱了其他员工。 倒计时结束后，就在大门关闭之前，Porto 亲吻了他的女友，以此宣告拥有在 SoHo REI 发生的最后一个吻。 在店外，由于积累了太多的便笺，那个祭坛开始在重量的压力下弯曲。
位于 SoHo 区的 Anonymous 理发店自 40 年前开业以来，几乎没有太大的变化。
作者：STEVEN KURUTZ
在曼哈顿的 SoHo 社区，这里已从艺术家的避风港变成了奢侈品购物目的地，而一家看似平凡的理发店自 the mullets（鲻鱼头）和大卷发风靡的年代起，就一直经营稳定。它占据了位于 Sullivan 街 105 号、Spring 街与 Prince 街之间的一家狭小的店面。恰如其分地，它的名字叫作 Anonymous Hair Salon（匿名理发店）。走过几个街区，你可以找到 Chanel 店内 6,000 美元的 हैंड袋，Hauser & Wirth 画廊中价值数百万美元的艺术品，以及 Matchaful 咖啡馆里“从农场到搅拌杯”的日本冰茶。尽管周围的社区在过去 40 年里发生了深刻的变化，但这家理发店看起来与 1986 年开业时相差无几。唯一的不同可能是店门外人行道上供顾客等待的金属椅子，最近刚喷了一层橙色的油漆。Anonymous 挺过了 9/11 事件、2008 年金融危机以及这场疫情。它在租金上涨和创始人 Patricia Winters-Liotta 去世后依然生存了下来。它能继续营业，部分原因是这座建筑的所有者是纽约极为罕见的类型——慷慨的房东。理发店目前的经营者是 Winters-Liotta 的儿子 Vincent Alfano，他是一位获得过格莱美奖的影视混音师。这位 32 岁的男人温文尔雅，没有任何剪发经验。但他几乎是在理发店里长大的，并在 2019 年其母亲因癌症去世后接管了这里。Anonymous 并不是那种在收取 400 美元剪发和染发费的同时，给顾客提供柠檬片气泡水的场所。这是一个社区小店，常客包括教师、会计师、自由职业者以及来自 Thompson 街 Padua 修道院的退休神父。顾客支付 60 到 100 美元，然后心满意足地离开。在最近的一个下午，Anonymous 的资深发型师 Angelo Vega，55 岁，是最早到达店里的。准备就绪后，他迎接了他的第一位客户 Ron Hester，一位从布鲁克林 Park Slope 乘坐地铁而来的自由摄影师。57 岁的 Hester 在坐上四把旋转椅中的一把时说道：“如果我不能约到 Angelo，我就不去剪发。”Vega 在 30 多年前就在另一家理发店为 Hester 理发。大约 25 年前，Vega 加入了 Anonymous，Hester 也随之而来。“你跟着我多久了？”Vega 逗道，“从你留马尾辫的时候起！”“这是我维持最久的关系了，”Hester 说，“除了我的父母。”
“下巴”Pat Winters-Liotta 是将 Anonymous 凝聚在一起的纽带。她在皇后区的 Howard Beach 长大，并在 20 世纪 80 年代初，当时她才 20 出头时进入这个行业。那时她有一个朋友 Paulette Sconzo，后者的父亲在 Spring 街经营一家理发店。她们在那里一起当学徒。1986 年，她们开了自己的店。最初的位置在向上的第二个门牌号，即 Sullivan 街 107 号。据 Alfano 称，他的母亲将其命名为 Anonymous Hair Salon，是为了让这个名字在《黄页》中排在竞争对手之前。这也是对附近一家名为 Who Cut Your Hair?（谁剪了你的头发？）的理发店名字的一种俏皮回应。久而久之，Winters-Liotta 成为了唯一的业主。长期顾客 Julie Salamon 自 20 世纪 70 年代起就住在这一街区。起初，她对 Winters-Liotta 感到有些畏惧，因为后者有着浓重的皇后区口音和特立独行的个人风格。
“Pat是以一种最完美的方式体现了纽约精神，”曾为《纽约时报》工作的作家兼记者萨拉蒙（Salamon）说道。“虽然我不认为她毫无畏惧，但她给人的感觉就是无所畏惧。”在那个年代，这个社区主要是意大利裔美国人的聚居地。附近的店铺包括 Pino 的肉铺、Canapa 的面包店和 Melampo 三明治店。帕多瓦的圣安东尼教堂（St. Anthony of Padua）在周日吸引着天主教信徒，而许多会众在周六会到 Anonymous 美容院理发。“那时候的社区就像电影场景，但更像马丁·斯科塞斯的《纽约黑帮》（Mean Streets），”萨拉蒙在描述那些年的社区时说道。热那亚犯罪家族（Genovese crime family）的首领、绰号为“下巴”的文森特·吉甘特（Vincent Gigante）就在萨利文街长大。为了逃避起诉，他以装疯卖傻而闻名，经常穿着浴袍和睡衣在街区游荡。他还在
位于萨利文街 208 号的黑帮聚集地——三角社交俱乐部（Triangle Social Club）掌控局面。该俱乐部早已不复存在，取而代之的是萨利文街茶叶香料公司（Sullivan Street Tea & Spice Company），一家销售查加柴菇茶和豆蜡蜡烛的精品店。温特斯-利奥塔（Winters-Liotta）曾为黑手党成员和修道院的牧师理发。当顾客年事已高或体弱无法亲自到店时，她会提供上门服务。尽管她住在皇后区的罗克威海滩（Rockaway Beach），后来又搬到长岛，但她一直是当地的标志性人物，经常睡在美容院后面的朋友公寓里。
“有时在晚上 11 点或 12 点，我走过那里，Pat 还在给别人理发，”布鲁斯·布罗姆伯格（Bruce Bromberg）说道。他是 Blue Ribbon 的共同所有者，这家受欢迎的小酒馆 1992 年开在萨利文街的同一段路 stretch 上。
那些在创意领域工作、支付低廉租金居住在社区阁楼（在之前的纽约，那里曾是工厂）的人们构成了客户群的另一部分。摇滚推广人诺曼·佩里（Norman Perry）、贝斯手雅科·帕斯托里乌斯（Jaco Pastorius）和画家德博拉·费恩（Debrah Feinn）都是常客。在 20 世纪 90 年代，漫画家安·德克尔（Ann Decker）在《乡村之声》（The Village Voice）上发表了一系列名为“发型故事”（Hairstories）的漫画，内容基于在 Anonymous 美容院偷听到的对话。
不断更替的理发师团队逐渐形成了一个固定班底，其中包括：乌克兰理发师伊丽娜·德列夫尼亚克（Irina Drevnyak）；内敛且做事有自己一套方法的伊冯娜·科尔梅纳雷斯（Yvonne Colmenares）；以及维加（Vega），他是在市中心为名流理发师史蒂芬·诺尔（Stephen Knoll）工作期间学到的手艺。
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上方，从左起： 位于萨利文街 105 号的 Anonymous 美容院； 早年期间的一位理发师琳达·伯格霍夫（Linda Berghoff）。
从最左侧起顺时针方向： 美容院创始人帕特里夏·温特斯-利奥塔（Patricia Winters-Liotta），约 1989 年（中心位置）； 1996 年的温特斯-利奥塔； 资深理发师安杰洛·维加（Angelo Vega），本月拍摄；美容院房东彼得·德卢卡（Peter DeLuca）；以及温特斯-利奥塔的儿子文森特·阿尔法诺（Vincent Alfano），他在母亲去世后接管了美容院。
在几个街区外的香奈儿（Chanel）店里，你可以找到 $6,000 的 handbags。
“在赛琳·迪翁（Celine Dion）凭借《美女与野兽》获得格莱美奖的那个夜晚，是我帮她洗的头，”维加说。“但那里的管理糟糕透顶，让我每周哭一次。后来我来到市中心，遇到了我的同类。”
崩溃。到 20 世纪 90 年代末，普拉达（Prada）和拉尔夫·劳伦（Ralph Lauren）开始在 SoHo 区开设店面，阁楼公寓开始以数百万美元的价格出售给对冲基金经理和电影明星。那时 Winters-Liotta 开始感到担忧。她找到了 Peter DeLuca，一位当地的业主，也是附近布利克尔街（Bleecker Street）格林威治村殡仪馆（Greenwich Village Funeral Home）的所有者。他的其中一处房产，位于 Sullivan 街 105 号，有一个门面可以出租——而且很便宜。“因为我喜欢 Pat，所以我给了她六个月的免租期，” 75 岁的 DeLuca 说。他坐在殡仪馆的地下办公室里，灰色的头发与他的西装颜色相称。他补充说，当时没有租赁合同，只是一个口头协议。
2000 年，搬家公司将旋转椅、烘干机和镜子搬到了附近由 DeLuca 拥有的建筑中。搬迁完成后，新址的 Anonymous 沙龙看起来与旧址一模一样。即便在富裕的游客涌入该社区后，DeLuca 依然将租金维持在可负担的水平。多年后，当该沙龙在疫情期间被迫暂时关闭时，DeLuca 没有收取租金，以帮助其维持经营。当被问及为什么没有尝试寻找愿意支付两倍或三倍租金的租客时，他分享了一个私人故事。
在 20 世纪 80 年代，他在 Sullivan 街 177 号经营着另一家殡仪馆，名为 Nucciarone 殡仪馆。他拥有那栋五层高的建筑，并与家人一起住在上面的公寓里。1987 年 11 月的一个早晨，在一次雨夹雪风暴中，一支施工队正在沿地基进行作业。DeLuca 刚参加完一场早晨的追思会回来，就看到建筑突然崩塌并砸在街道上。他 13 个月大的儿子在这次事故中丧生。在悲剧发生后，邻居们团结在 DeLuca 身边，募集了超过 $10,000 的捐款，并提供了情感支持。
“我在人们需要的时候帮助他们，反之，在我失去儿子时，他们支持了我，” DeLuca 说。“我觉得这个社区接纳了我，我欠这里很多。” 他现在依然在 Anonymous 理发。他以前去找 Winters-Liotta，但她拒绝收他的钱。现在 Vega 是他的发型师。DeLuca 与 Winters-Liotta 的儿子也达成了同样的口头协议。“我看到那些店铺缓慢而坚定地不得不离开，” DeLuca 说。“找到能成为好邻居的人很重要。这听起来很老派。但这就是一种生活方式。”
欢迎，克鲁尼们（Clooneys）？Winters-Liotta 以单亲母亲的身份抚养 Alfano 长大。小时候，他会坐在一个书桌前，将美发区与洗发区隔开。他负责接电话并在巨大的日历本上记录预约。“我妈妈过去常说：‘我又交了房租。我不知道怎么做到的，但我又把房租交了，’” Alfano 说。
随着岁月流逝，Winters-Liotta 抵制改变，将这里经营成一家仅限现金交易的店，并保留着破旧的家具和褪色的装饰。当 Alfano 为烘干区买了一把新椅子时，她在医院的病床上责备他：“你不能乱花钱！你会把沙龙搞垮的！” 随着母亲病情加重，Alfano 获得了法律授权代理权，以便管理财务。他说，他和母亲从未直接谈论过在她离世后他是否会接手经营这家沙龙。但他感到对自己拥有这部分责任……
员工和顾客就像家人一样，从更广泛的意义上说，也像对待纽约这座城市本身一样。“我不想成为那些经营了很久的传统企业却最终关门的名单之列，”Alfano 说道。“消失得越多，我们作为一个社会就越糟糕。这就是我的动力。”这个街区依然是旧纽约的一片小绿洲，这里有修鞋店、两家干洗店和一个报刊亭，但新的 SoHo 区正在悄然潜入。一栋联排别墅曾是 John Legend 以及 George 和 Amal Clooney 的住所。街角的一家新意式餐厅售卖 $18 的薯条。对于其员工和顾客来说，Anonymous 简直是一个微小的城市奇迹。“有多少商店，有多少餐厅，它们的租金不仅翻倍，甚至翻了五倍？”由 Vega 理发的 Salamon 说道。Alfano 每周会来店里检查几次情况。厚重的预约簿和一沓沓现金已经消失，取而代之的是预约软件和数字支付系统。但在一个缺乏温情的变革之城中，这家沙龙在 SoHo 区的地位似乎已经达到了极致的永久性。“只要人们继续光顾，”Alfano 说道，“我们就一直营业。”
A volunteer carrying a bucket on Wednesday in an area in Lanton, France, that has been scorched by fires and drought conditions.
Raise Stakes Of Iran War
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Airstrikes across the Middle East on Wednesday drew more countries into the war between the United States and Iran, ending a few days of relative calm in the region. Iran fired missiles at military bases in Jordan and at oil tankers. American and Saudi fighter jets targeted Iranian-linked militias in Iraq. An apparent drone attack also set ablaze two ships, includ- ing a U.S.-owned gas storage tanker, at a shipping hub in Egypt. Since the collapse of a cease-fire between the United States and Iran this month, Iran-linked groups across the region have opened new fronts and reopened old ones, drawing in forces in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan. Saudi Arabia’s participation in the attacks on Wednesday amounted to an escalation. Previ- ously, the kingdom had avoided openly becoming a direct combat- ant in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. (The Saudi military had launched some retaliatory strikes on Iran, but those were done in secret, ac- cording to senior U.S. officials.) The Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday that the country was not seeking esca- lation but would respond to ag- gression. President Trump on Wednes- day described Iran’s assault on U.S. military bases in Jordan as a surprise attack. U.S. Central Com- mand said the Islamic Revolution- ary Guards Corps, the primary faction in Iran that opposes diplo- matic compromise to the war, had launched “multiple ballistic mis- siles” and that all had been inter- cepted. Mr. Trump also suggested that the United States would soon tar- get Iran in response to the appar- ent drone strike in Egypt. “We’re going to be hitting them very hard,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “Because it’s our turn to hit ’em.” Following the exchanges of fire, the prices of Brent crude, the global benchmark, and West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark, rose sharply on Wednesday. This week, Saudi Arabia has faced dozens of drone attacks against its oil facilities. And
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BORDEAUX, France — A dense, yellow-orange pall hung over Bordeaux on Sunday, blot- ting out the sun and blurring the spires of the cathedral in this French city. A swirl of tiny ash par- ticles stung eyes and stuck in throats. Twenty miles west of town, a mammoth forest fire burned so ferociously that it gen- erated its own weather system. “We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Roger Peuron, 89, a re- tired engineer born before World War II, who was driven out of his home by the approaching flames.
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He could have been speaking for millions of people across Europe. Ravenous fires. Searing heat waves. Freakish storms. The sum- mer of 2026 has already shattered meteorological records in several European countries. On a conti- nent that has weathered centuries of upheaval — ruinous wars, deadly pandemics — it is the weather itself that now has Eu-
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rope feeling close to a breaking point. It has displaced more than 300,000 people in France and Spain, where the largest fires in those countries’ modern history have led to their largest peace- time evacuations, with villages destroyed and hundreds of thou- sands of acres incinerated. It has left millions more desperate for relief from temperatures that rou- tinely soar above 40 degrees Cel- sius, or 104 degrees Fahrenheit. It has forced the cancellation of concerts and festivals, curtailed the final stage of the Tour de France cycling race and closed the Louvre Museum and Eiffel Tower
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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday kept interest rates un- changed despite growing divi- sions among policymakers to tackle inflation more directly after five years of overshooting the cen- tral bank’s 2 percent target. The Fed voted 9-3 to maintain rates at 3.5 to 3.75 percent, a level that has been in place since Janu- ary. The three dissenting mem- bers voted for a quarter-point in- crease. The divisions underscore the tough spot the Fed and its chair- man, Kevin M. Warsh, find them- selves in as they grapple with new sources of price pressures that are threatening to compound a com- plicated and longstanding infla- tion problem. Oil prices have whipped around in recent days with the Iran war in a delicate limbo. A deal to end the conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping path for global energy markets, re- mains distant. President Trump, speaking to reporters on the heels of the Fed’s decision, signaled that the fighting was far from over. He said the United States would mount another round of attacks against Iran. “It’s our turn,” he said, promising to “hit them very hard.” The war is not the only supply shock the Fed is navigating. Mr. Trump is adding new tariffs, and the labor market is still digesting sweeping immigration restric- tions he has put in place. Officials are also dealing with a booming demand for products tied to the sharp rise in artificial intelligence investment. Supply has yet to catch up, leading to higher prices on items such as semiconductors, computer chips and servers, along with a high de- mand for electricians and car- penters. The debate at the Fed centers on how quickly inflation will ease from here as some of these tempo- rary factors fade, and whether rate increases will ultimately be necessary to get inflation to re- turn to target. Mr. Warsh, who presided over his second meeting as chairman of the central bank, owns the out- come. Since taking the reins in May from Jerome H. Powell, who is now a Fed governor, Mr. Warsh has staked his reputation on van- quishing inflation. He has been ex- plicit that officials have “no toler- ance” for elevated inflation and that evidence of cooling condi- tions in the latest Consumer Price Index report from June does not amount to “mission accom-
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He Says, Left Him Victim, Too
Halfway through a short speech he was giving at the German Bundestag, Zhang Yabo began to choke back tears. Mr. Zhang had served for nine years as a police officer in Xinjiang, an enforcer in China’s campaign to surveil, detain and indoctrinate that region’s Uyghur population. At the campaign’s height, an estimated one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities were held in internment camps. Tens of thousands of police officers carried out China’s state oppression in Xinjiang, but Mr. Zhang is a rare voice speaking out about it. Standing before German lawmakers and human rights activists in June, he de- scribed Xinjiang as a giant pris-
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WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci refused on Wednesday to answer questions from a Senate committee, repeatedly invoking his constitutional right not to in- criminate himself before a panel dominated by hostile Republicans who accused him of causing the coronavirus pandemic and insinu- ated that he enriched himself while Americans died. “On the advice of counsel, I re- spectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution,” Dr. Fauci repeated almost 100 times during a nearly three-hour hearing before the Senate Home- land Security Committee. The hearing was part Washing- ton theater, part political Rorschach test, highlighting deep
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By CLAIRE BROWN
The United States is going through the largest cyclosporiasis outbreak on record. Thousands of people, many in the Midwest, have fallen sick with stomach cramps and severe diarrhea. The authorities have linked the food-borne illnesses to lettuce grown in Mexico and served at some Taco Bell locations. My colleagues on the Well desk have been covering the race to trace the source of the outbreak, and it recently took a twist. On July 18, the Food and Drug Adminis- tration announced that lab tests had con- firmed cyclospora contamination in iceberg lettuce from Mexico. The company that runs the operation, Taylor Farms, issued a recall based on other epidemiological evi- dence and then expanded it after the lab test came in. But then, a day later, the F.D.A. said the test had been a false pos- itive. Taylor Farms is still a focus of the investigation, and the recall remains in effect. It’s still not clear whether climate change played a role in this outbreak. Cyclospora is a parasite that spreads through human feces, and it’s rare for investigators to pinpoint a precise source of contamination. But experts say it’s plausible that warm- ing could contribute to an increase in cy- clospora illnesses. Don Schaffner, a food microbiologist at Rutgers University, told me that cyclospora tends to grow in the spring and summer, so higher tempera- tures could extend its season. In previous cyclospora outbreaks, investigators have theorized that heavy rainfall might have somehow caused human waste to seep into irrigation water, contaminating crops. Whether or not this outbreak was di- rectly linked to climate change, we know that warming is expected to fuel the spread of a wide variety of food-borne pathogens. And the current episode has exposed poten- tial vulnerabilities in public health detec- tion systems at a time when the need for accurate monitoring of the food supply is only growing more important.
Higher Temperatures, More Illness According to the World Health Organiza- tion, some 600 million people get sick each year from eating food that has been con- taminated with bacteria, parasites or vi- ruses. Scientists have predicted that cli- mate change will drive caseloads higher in many parts of the world. Higher temperatures and more rain tend to correlate with increases in illnesses from pathogens like salmonella and campylobac- ter. That’s the case in part because germs can multiply faster in hotter weather. A 2014 study found that, in Mississippi, a temperature increase of 1 degree Fahren- heit was associated with an increase in salmonella cases. Warming oceans pose an emerging food safety risk, too. A 2024 paper found that climate change is “undeniably” contribut- ing to the spread and prevalence of a family
A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge. During a customs search in Atlanta, a U.S. citizen return- ing to the country gave officers who seized his phone a duress pass- code, which activated software that erased the device’s digital contents. Federal prosecutors have charged the man, Samuel Tunick, with ob- struction. Mr. Tunick’s lawyers have argued that he was targeted be- cause of his political activism, Adeel Hassan reported.
A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands There is no parallel in American history for the boom underway in the construction of data centers. Fueled by companies with functionally unlimited cash, the megaprojects are luring skilled trade workers, like electricians and contractors, into remote locations with some of the highest pay and bonuses the industry has ever seen.
Matt Damon’s Biceps in That ‘Odyssey’ Fight Scene? They’re Hers. Some might be surprised to learn that Matt Damon’s stunt double in the summer blockbuster “The Odyssey” is a 4-foot-6 woman — one the leading man credited with having “the greatest arms I have ever seen.” The Styles reporter Alisha Haridasani Gupta talked to the stunt woman, Devyn Dalton, about her work.
9 Things Experts Wish You’d Do in Midlife to Increase Longevity The seeds for age-related diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and dementia are sown in middle age — loosely de- fined as 40 to 60 — so it’s important to think about prevention early. Well’s list of helpful habits included weight lifting and being social.
The cyclospora outbreak has been linked to lettuce sold by Taylor Farms in central Mexico.
of bacteria known as Vibrio, the most infa- mous of which is the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus. People can get Vibrio infections from eating raw seafood or swim- ming in contaminated water. Dry summers and heavy rainfall can each also increase pathogen spread. During droughts, more dust can float through the air, spreading bacteria across farms. On the other hand, torrential rain can distribute germs by spreading human and animal waste from one place to another. Tropical storms, which can be intensified by climate change, are associated with big spikes in E. coli infections.
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It’s exceedingly uncommon for the F.D.A. to retract an announcement of a positive lab test. Dr. Schaffner said the agency may have made the statement too early, before it completed confirmation testing. “Now they’ve got egg on their face, and nobody’s happy,” he said. In a statement, an F.D.A. spokeswoman, Emily Hilliard, said the Trump administra- tion has mounted a robust response to the outbreak and has provided Americans with the information they need to protect them- selves.
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But the back-and-forth has been confus- ing for people trying to understand which foods to avoid. The retraction didn’t mean the focus of the investigation had shifted away from Taylor Farms or lettuce, but the company issued a statement saying “F.D.A. apologized to us.” The agency said it had not apologized, according to news reports. Federal cuts to health funding may be playing a role in hampering the response to this outbreak. State and local health depart- ments, which rely on federal support to monitor and respond to food-borne ill- nesses, received less than half the money they requested this year. Until recently, several states were re- quired to track and report cyclospora cases to a national database. But last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made this voluntary. Incomplete data may have made it harder for officials monitoring the database to identify the outbreak.
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July 30, 1987. Six men were found guilty of violating safety rules for their roles in the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, according to a Reuters article that was published in The Times. On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the plant in northern Ukraine, which was then a part of the Soviet Union, exploded, releasing an enormous amount of radiation into the atmos- phere and leading to the evacuation of tens of thou- sands of people and at least 30 deaths in the weeks that followed. Viktor P. Bryukhanov, the plant’s director, and two of his aides were each sentenced to 10 years at a labor camp; three other officials re- ceived shorter sentences. Some of the men were released early because of illness and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Forty years after the accident, an exclusion zone that spans some 19 miles around the plant is still considered uninhabitable for humans.
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U.S. lawmakers have introduced at least 400 bills related to vaccines this year, 209 of which aimed to weaken vaccination rules or systems or to undermine public trust in vaccines.
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The N.H.L. has had only one Black head coach in its 109-year history: Dirk Graham assumed the coaching job for the Chicago Blackhawks in June 1998. He lasted 59 games before being fired.
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For the premiere of “Wuthering Heights,” Margot Robbie wore Cartier’s Taj Mahal diamond necklace. The stone once belonged to the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, who ordered the construction of the Taj Mahal.
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Paramount Records, the label responsible for much of the blues singer Ma Rainey’s recorded output, produced records to sell phonographs, with little regard for audio quality, pressing them onto cheap shellac.
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Hourly installation and maintenance jobs at data centers pay 42 percent more than similar jobs in other fields, according to an analysis by Indeed.
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Ukrainian drone attacks on Crimea’s power grid have left hundreds of thousands of people in the Russia-held territory without electricity. Nighttime illumination across Crimea fell to less than 20 percent of normal in early July.
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Pastry chefs at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif. The farm-to-table restaurant opened in 1971.
Tejal Rao, a chief restaurant critic for The Times, recently dined at Chez Panisse, a farm- to-table staple in Northern California that redefined the American food scene. In her re- view, Ms. Rao described a meal there as “wonderfully timeless and oddly stuck in time.” She shared notes on her reporting, including a visit to the restaurant’s expansion, below.
It had been a few years since my last meal at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., one of the most influential restaurants in the country, and I was curious to revisit it when I heard it was expanding with a new spot next door.
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Here to Help How to Take Care of Jewelry in the Summer
Jewelry helps us enhance our summer wardrobe, but the season also puts jewelry at risk. Sunscreen, sand, saltwater, chlo- rine, heat and sweat can easily tarnish, scratch and even break your pieces, accord- ing to Amanda Gizzi, a jewelry expert and spokesperson for Jewelers of America. But if you take care of your jewelry items — especially after long days at the beach or sweaty adventures — you can extend their life. Here’s what experts recommend for summer care. FRANCES SOLÁ-SANTIAGO
Know your pieces. No jewelry item is truly summer-safe, but the degree of risk will depend on the materials it’s made from. Pieces made from 14-karat gold (and above), strong gemstones (like diamonds, sapphires and topaz) and sterling silver will be the safest bets to withstand the wear and tear of summer. That’s because they’re hardy and not as vulnerable to elements such as air and moisture. Plated jewelry — which is made from a base metal, such as brass or copper, and coated with a thin layer of gold or silver — is not recommended for summertime wear because it can easily scratch and tarnish.
Minimize contact with summer culprits. Whether it’s a $5 plated necklace or an heirloom diamond ring, all jewelry is sus- ceptible to wear and tear. Abrasive summer elements such as sunscreen and chlorine can leave a chemical residue on metals and gemstones, and they can slip into hard-to- clean crevices, like clasps and chain links, said McKenzie Santimer, a certified gemol- ogist and jewelry designer. Buildup causes surface-level dulling and tarnishing, which, if left untreated, can lead to irreparable discoloration over time, Ms. Gizzi said. To reduce the damage risk, try to limit your jewelry’s contact with potentially hazardous substances and scenarios. Ms.
ing rockets and vehicles suitable for a lunar landing was expensive and controlled by the federal government. Now, the agency is relying more on SpaceX and Blue Origin to do much of that work. That’s cheaper, but also more volatile. NASA has less influence over design and timelines, and its lunar aspirations depend on whether those com- panies can fulfill what some say are overly ambitious promises.
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Gizzi also recommends using a “last on, first off” approach: Jewelry should be the last thing you put on when you leave the house and the first item you take off when you get home.
Get in the habit of cleaning your jewelry. No matter how much you protect your pieces, they’re likely going to need some extra care if you wear them during the summer. For everyday maintenance, wipe the jewelry piece with a polishing cloth as soon as you take it off. If pieces have been exposed to extra sweat or large amounts of sunscreen, or you’ve spent hours in the ocean or a pool, Ms. Santimer said you should also rinse off your jewelry with water. Then leave them flat to dry. For pieces you wear regularly, Ms. Gizzi recommends deep-cleaning them once a week. First, soak the pieces in a water-and- dish-soap solution for a few minutes; then, gently scrub them with a toothbrush and rinse with water. For plated and sterling silver jewelry, use a cellulose sponge or horsehair brushes, which are gentler on those surfaces.
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Rattle Many Residents And Cut Water Supply
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
Dry faucets, shuttered storefronts, pitch-black homes and residents camp- ing outside City Hall to charge their devices. A Ukrainian drone campaign against Crimea’s power grid has left hundreds of thousands of people in the Russia- held territory without electricity for days at a time. “Power went off and didn’t come back on, even for an hour,” for 15 days, said Olga, who lives with her husband and their baby in northern Crimea. They often had no running water, ei- ther. “Authorities have forgotten about us, that’s clear to see,” she said by telephone. Like others interviewed for this arti- cle, she asked that her last name be withheld for safety reasons. The attack on energy infrastructure in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, mirrors the much larger, yearslong Russian aerial assault on Ukraine’s civilian energy systems, which leaves millions of Ukrainians without light or heat each winter. Battering Crimea’s grid, like the Ukrainian strikes against oil refineries that have created fuel shortages in Russia, was meant to raise pressure on the Kremlin to negotiate a peace deal. But President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has not publicly acknowledged the blackouts. The intensive Ukrainian campaign began in June, mostly aimed at infra- structure near Russian military bases in northern Crimea, which borders Ukrainian lands occupied by Russia since its 2022 full-scale invasion. By late July, every major town and village in the north of the peninsula had suf- fered full blackouts. But unpredictable, hourslong cuts are reported across the peninsula. Every municipality has been affected, even in touristy southern Crimea. Blackouts have idled water pumps, and even in less affected areas like Yalta, a south- ern resort city, residents say running water comes on only for three hours a day. Crimean officials have not publicized the extent of the blackouts, merely assuring residents that they were work- ing on it. But a top Russian diplomat told the state-owned Tass news agency that in a single week, Ukrainian strikes had cut power to the homes of 1.4 mil- lion Crimeans, out of a prewar popula- tion of 2.5 million. Nighttime illumination across Crimea fell to less than 20 percent of normal in early July, according to an analysis of satellite images by Meduza, a Russian- language news outlet. “There’s an understanding that this is not just for a day or two,” said Rustem, a hairdresser from central Crimea. He said people were trying to get generators, solar panels and power converters. Locals are also “beginning to think if it’s time to leave, and if so, where to,” he added. Families have struggled to stay in touch with their loved ones in the north, where power cuts have crippled cell- phone reception. The authorities in the resort town of Yevpatoriya last week said they had installed pay phones, artifacts of another era. Already rattled by severe gasoline shortages, some tourists and Crimeans chose to leave the peninsula earlier this summer. But most are staying. Olga, the wom- an who lives with her husband and baby in northern Crimea, settled in the town of Dzhankoi in 2021 and does not think she is up for another big move. Dzhankoi was first plunged into darkness at the end of June, but power was soon partly restored. A week later, Ukrainian strikes hit two local power
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substations, causing the 15-day black- out. On Tuesday, residents started getting two hours of electricity a day, but at a high voltage that could be dangerous for appliances. Olga, 24, counts herself lucky, be- cause her family, living in a cottage rather than an apartment, can use a generator. But it cannot power the refrigerator, limiting food options. Her husband makes a long journey across the bridge to southern Russia to buy cheaper gas for it, but running the generator for five hours costs about $20, a hefty price for Russians. Olga said she still expects the au- thorities to rise to the task, but she also referred to a topic most Russians fear to broach. People not only need basic services restored, she said, they need “the end of the war.” Even in central Crimea, where black- outs are less severe, the train station is shuttered. So are many stores, with “no power” signs on their doors. Supermar- ket shelves are not well stocked.
Blackouts have caught Rustem at his salon in the middle of cutting someone’s hair. But with scissors and a battery- powered shaver, he said, “As long as I have daylight coming from the window, I’m fine.” Crimean residents said they knew people who had lost their jobs or were furloughed at idled factories in the north. Officials have promised some financial compensation to tourism- related businesses but have not com- mented on reports of closed factories. Ukrainian officials say they are strik- ing Crimea to undermine Russia’s mili- tary capabilities. President Volodymyr Zelensky in a speech last month said he expected Crimeans to understand that Ukraine was not targeting them. But Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s drone forces, bragged in a statement last Wednesday about “turn- ing off the switch on Crimea.” In the first three weeks of July, Ukraine hit 117 energy infrastructure targets there, he said.
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Crimea was woefully unprepared for the crisis. In the fourth week of black- outs, officials there were still pledging to equip every hospital with a genera- tor. Russia has offered a one-time pay- ment of 15,000 rubles, about $190, to residents who lost power for more than 48 hours, which would not cover the cost of buying and running a small generator. But outside Crimea, Russians could easily be unaware of the crisis. State television has avoided showing images from the blackout-hit areas and insists that all needs there are being met. Lifestyle bloggers post videos of idyllic Crimean beaches and sunsets to counter what they dismiss as Ukrainian propaganda. At a meeting Mr. Putin held with top officials this month, discussion touched on fuel supplies to Crimea but made no mention of drone strikes the night before that had plunged the north into darkness.
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Using a flashlight to navigate in Yevpatoriya, Crimea, this month during a power outage. At left, a strike drone launched by Ukrainian Armed Forces in the country’s south.
Revealing the full scale of the prob- lem to the public would mean admitting a weakness the Kremlin does not want ordinary Russians to see, said Ilya Shepelin, an exiled Russian journalist who studies TV propaganda. But online, some Crimeans have been speaking out, flooding the social media of Sergei Aksyonov, the Kremlin-ap- pointed head of Crimea, with comments expressing their frustration. Alexei, a man from Crimea’s south, wondered “how it was possible” that the power grid was so defenseless and said he “did not know how to keep on living” without working communica- tions. He confirmed his remarks to The New York Times but said he did not feel safe saying more. Recently a business owner posted a cry for help on social media, asking friends and colleagues to help deliver drinking water to the north. Olga Gerasimenko, who has coordi- nated water deliveries, posted a video from Thursday’s visit to Dzhankoi, showing several hundred people, most elderly, lining up for aid. In a rare dispatch from the north, state-owned Crimea Vesti TV last week- end showed dozens of women and children sitting on the lawn of the mu- nicipal building in Krasnoperekopsk, tethered to phones and power banks that they were charging from a genera- tor. It did not mention a drinking water shortage. “All these problems do not deter Crimeans who are used to Ukrainian provocations,” the broadcast said. But denialism has its limits. A week into the north’s complete blackout, a luxury seaside resort in the south, owned by Russia’s major state bank, threw a lavish party with thousands of dressed-up revelers, huge LED screens, go-go dancers and fireworks. Visitors were “teleported from our rotten present into a fairy-tale,” Alexan- dra Moroz, a local resident, wrote on social media. Then a drone attack cut the festivi- ties short, sending guests, clutching their drinks, scurrying into the base- ment.
TOKYO — Japan rescuers rushed on Wednesday to save people trapped in collapsed build- ings after a powerful 6.8-magni- tude earthquake struck the south- western prefecture of Kumamoto on Tuesday, killing at least 13 peo- ple. As more than 200 aftershocks continued to jolt Kyushu, Japan’s southernmost main island, rescue teams worked to find people trapped inside partially collapsed structures. Those included a shop- ping mall and a paper factory in Kumamoto. Fire response teams and the po- lice joined 4,600 military person- nel in the rescue efforts. As of Wednesday afternoon, 10 people had been pulled from the heavily damaged mall. Of that group, three were confirmed dead, one person was in a state of cardiopul- monary arrest and five others sus- tained non-life-threatening inju- ries, according to officials from Kumamoto’s disaster counter- measure department. Cardiopulmonary arrest is a term often used in Japan before a death can be confirmed by a coro- ner. The location of three of the mall’s employees could not be con- firmed, according to Aeon, which operates the mall. At the paper plant, 11 people were trapped after its chimney collapsed from the heavy shaking, Kumamoto officials said. As of Wednesday afternoon, five had died, two had suffered injuries and four were still missing. “Arduous rescue operations are still underway,” Governor Takashi Kimura of Kumamoto said at a meeting about the disaster on Wednesday. “As the situation re- mains unpredictable, we intend to take all possible measures.” As of Wednesday, the total num- ber of quake-related fatalities had reached 13, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told reporters. In brief re- marks, Ms. Takaichi offered con- dolences to bereaved families and said she was grateful to rescue teams that had been “working tirelessly through the night.” “There are still people waiting for help, and we are in a race against time,” she said. Tuesday’s earthquake stirred painful memories of a series of earthquakes in Kumamoto a dec- ade ago that killed more than 270 people and injured thousands of others. After the 2016 earthquake, it took Yatsushiro-gu Shrine in Ku- mamoto about five years to re- build. Ten years after that quake, people in Kumamoto “were just thinking that the recovery process was entering its final phase, when this happened,” said Masataka Takehara, 49, a senior priest at the shrine. “Honestly I just felt like, ‘wait, why?’” On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Takehara described hearing a deep, rumbling sound coming from beneath the ground, and then bookshelves in the shrine’s back office started to topple over. Just as he stepped out of the build- ing, the shrine’s main worship hall began to sway, then collapsed. Mr. Takehara said local resi- dents still showed up to pray at the shrine on Wednesday. The first person to arrive “was visibly moved — teary-eyed and left speechless,” he said. “I share
By EDWARD WONG and EMMA BUBOLA
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — As part of its anti-immigrant drive, the Trump administration has deported thousands of Cu- bans, sending some to Mexico and even African countries, and oth- ers back to Cuba. Now, U.S. officials are close to securing a new destination: Uruguay, the second-smallest country in South America, which already has a relatively large pop- ulation of residents who migrated from Cuba. The State Department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, has been discussing the proposal with Uruguay’s foreign ministry for months, according to officials from both countries. Uruguay entered the negotia- tions partly because it needs im- migrant workers, and partly to win favor with the Trump admin- istration, a senior Uruguayan offi- cial said. But as the United States searches for countries willing to take in Cubans, it is also wors- ening the circumstances that have forced many Cubans to flee their country in the first place. In recent months, the Trump administration’s economic pres- sure campaign has blocked oil shipments to the Caribbean is- land, which was already devastat-
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, has supported President Trump’s immigration policies.
those same feelings myself.” The quake’s initial death toll was expected to rise. As of Wednesday afternoon, six people were in a state of cardiopulmo- nary arrest, and six were seri- ously injured, according to Kuma- moto officials. Over 530 people had received, or were receiving,
ed by years of U.S. sanctions and misrule by its authoritarian lead- ers. Mr. Rubio said the United States had many concerns about Cuba, which is 90 miles from Florida, in- cluding “the threat of mass migra- tion.” That is “always a risk that you run when countries are as deeply destabilized as Cuba,” he told re- porters traveling with him in Ma- nila last week. In Uruguay, the government seeks to regularize Cuban mi- grants so they can find work op- portunities and get social serv- ices. Many initially apply for asy- lum. Some American officials think that could help ensure deportees do not try to return to the United States, while also allowing them to live outside Cuba, officials said. A written agreement with Uruguay might not specify Cu- bans in the text, an official said, though in practice they would be the focus of deportations to that country. Some of the Cubans in the United States might have rela- tives in Uruguay, and the govern- ments are discussing the possibil- ity of reuniting families, a foreign ministry official in Uruguay said. Like other officials interviewed for this article, he spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations. The Cuban government often has refused to take back citizens who have been deported from the United States, but it agreed to re- ceive several flights this year. The Trump administration told a federal court in March that it had sent 6,000 Cubans to Mexico,
treatment at major hospitals in Kumamoto, according to the pub- lic broadcaster NHK. In addition to mobilizing rescue operations, local officials in Kuma- moto were assessing widespread damage to buildings, express- ways, bridges and historic sites across the prefecture.
where many are struggling to find work. It has also sent Cuban mi- grants to Africa, including to Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, and war-ravaged South Sudan, where the migrants have been kept in detention cen- ters. The policy is part of a broad push by the Trump administration to find nations willing to take mi- grants and immigrants deported from the United States. The State Department has been criticized for sending some depor- tees to distant countries where they have no connections, or where governments have records of human rights abuses. Governments in South America have been reluctant to accept de- portees. But Paraguay signed an agreement with the State Depart- ment last year and has accepted flights of deportees of various na-
Seiji Sakumasu, 30, operates a gym a short walk from the par- tially collapsed paper factory in Yatsushiro, a coastal city in Kuma- moto. When the earthquake struck, machinery toppled and slid across the room, and mirrors cracked across his facility. “That was the level of shaking,”
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tionalities. Ecuador also signed an agreement last year, and the de- portees sent there include Cu- bans. Uruguay, a nation of 3.4 million, has long had a relatively open im- migration policy. “We have a tradition of welcom- ing people who come from other countries,” said Carlos Negro, the country’s interior minister. Uruguay, he added, “was born as an immigrant country.” Most Uru- guayans are descended from co- lonial settlers and immigrants from Spain and Italy. While migrants-rights groups have criticized Mr. Trump’s depor- tation policy, some have said that for Cuban deportees, ending up in Uruguay would be better than be- ing sent to many other countries. In March, Leydis Aguilera, who immigrated to Uruguay from Cuba 16 years ago, became a
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Mr. Sakumasu said. “Because I experienced the previous earth- quake, I knew immediately to get my things together.” Still, he said he remained worried about his gym members, several of whom worked at the neighboring paper plant. After the quake on Tuesday,
member of the national parlia- ment. She has described the warm welcome she received in Uruguay and how she eventually found ed- ucation and job opportunities there. Uruguay needs to expand its work force to compensate for its small and aging population. Pub- lic opinion remains largely in fa- vor of immigration, and deporta- tions are rare. Even those who en- ter without a visa are often al- lowed to stay legally. Last year, Uruguay had nearly 24,000 asylum seekers from Cuba, according to United Nations sta- tistics. The State Department declined to comment on the talks with Uruguay. “Implementing the Trump administration’s immigra- tion policies is a top priority for the Department of State,” it said in a statement. “As Secretary Rubio has said, we remain unwavering in our commitment to end illegal and mass immigration and bolster America’s border security.” The Uruguayan foreign min- istry declined to comment. During much of the Cold War, the U.S. government welcomed people from Communist-ruled Cuba and offered them a rapid pathway toward permanent resi- dency and citizenship. The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 has com- pelled this of Democratic and Re- publican administrations. But starting in the Clinton ad- ministration, American officials have found ways to work around or weaken the requirements of the law to try to avoid taking in an in- flux of migrants. President Trump has acceler- ated that. His administration has
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Above, the collapsed Yat- sushiro Shrine after an earth- quake struck on Tuesday in the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto. Left, rescue work- ers looked for people trapped inside a paper factory.
fires erupted in Kumamoto City, the regional capital, which has a population of more than 700,000. At Kumamoto Castle, a centuries- old landmark in the center of the city, a stone wall partially col- lapsed. At the mall, about 3,000 customers were evacuated imme- diately after the initial earthquake on Tuesday, according to Aeon. Less than an hour later, an explo- sion rocked the structure. People in the surrounding area described feeling a shock wave so forceful that they thought another earthquake had hit, followed by thick white smoke that blanketed the neighborhood surrounding the mall. The cause of the blast has not been confirmed, but an as- sessment indicated that it was likely a gas explosion, according to Aeon. As of Wednesday evening, power outages affected more than 31,000 households in Kumamoto, according to Kyushu Electric Power. About 84,000 households in five prefectures had no water supply, according to Japan’s land and infrastructure ministry. Kumamoto Airport resumed operations on Wednesday, while many trains in the area, including bullet trains, suspended services across Kyushu. Parts of the is- land’s main expressway remained closed.
blocked several routes to perma- nent residency status and citizen- ship for Cubans. That puts 600,000 Cubans at risk of deportation, according to María José Espinosa, the execu- tive director of the Center for En- gagement and Advocacy in the Americas, which analyzes depor- tation data. Ada Ferrer, a history professor at Princeton and author of a book on the history of Cuba, said “there was a time when they wouldn’t go after Cubans because of the Cu- ban Adjustment Act, but no one is abiding by that anymore.” “If you ran on mass deporta- tions, you’re going to try to do mass deportations,” she added. “But Cuban Americans thought they would be protected.” A Cuban grandfather of Mr. Ru- bio who flew to the United States in 1962 without a visa got a depor- tation order, but was allowed to re- main in the country after being granted refugee status, according to a biography of Marco Rubio by Manuel Roig-Franzia. Yael Schacher, the director for the Americas and Europe at Refu- gees International, said that all deportation plans were “bad op- tions,” especially those targeting people who have lived in the United States for a long time. Still, she said, a Latin American country “with a well-functioning asylum system that is safe is like the least bad option.” Despite Uruguay’s relative tol- erance, migrants often struggle. Uruguay is expensive compared to other South American nations. Many Cubans initially live in boardinghouses while working as delivery or Uber drivers, care- givers and security guards.
And Items From Ruins
By ANJALI TSUI | Photographs by LAM YIK FEI
For months after a devastating fire tore through seven Hong Kong apartment tow- ers last year, the complex was sealed off to residents. This spring, residents were allowed to return to the ruins of the complex, Wang Fuk Court. Some homes were eerily frozen in time, with bowls still filled with food. In other apartments, residents sifted through the ashes with mesh baskets searching for any- thing that survived. The fire killed 168 people, most likely because of unscrupulous contractors who used shoddy materials. Behind that toll are individual losses, told here through what people carried out of the debris. We asked residents who lost their loved ones to share their stories, in their own words. Their accounts below have been translated from Cantonese and condensed and edited for clarity.
Her daughter and husband died in the fire. She found the remnants of her daughter’s iPad in the debris.
Whenever I pass by restaurants that we went to together, I stand outside and think to myself: If only she were here with me. I know it’s magical thinking. She had just graduated from univer- sity — the same one her father had at- tended. My husband was a good citizen. He liked to sing and dance. He didn’t have a temper. He played the erhu and was part of a Chinese orchestra. We had a piano at home for our daughter. All of it has been burned away. I used a basket to sift through the de- bris and found a few things: my hus- band’s glasses, the remnants of my daughter’s iPad that she used to draw with, some jewelry and a watch that I bought for her when she started second- ary school. The watch cost around $240, which was quite a lot of money for me, but I wanted her to have it.
Ms. Ng is mourning her daughter, Piano Chiang, 23, and her husband, Peter Chiang, 62.
Lee Chun Ho lost his mother, brother, niece and the domestic worker who cared for their family. He saved one of the figurines his brother built. Esther Chan lost her husband, daughter and mother-in-law. She held on to her daughter’s shoes.
I was born with a congenital heart dis- ease, and I have a lot of chronic health issues. My mom took great care of me. She was a great chef and would make steamed chicken, my favorite lamb chops, choy sum, stir-fried egg and toma- to. She worked as a home health aide for the elderly. She would bring them to their doctor’s appointments and go to their homes to cook and clean. She had to trav- el quite far for work and she didn’t earn very much. During a trip to Foshan, China, we vis- ited a street where they sold handmade ceramics. My mom picked out a ceramic pomelo. She chose one that was espe- cially round and fat with a vibrant color to bring our family peace and good luck. We kept it in our living room. Her body was found in the hallway. If she had stayed in our home, we might not have found her remains. Our apartment was completely destroyed.
Ms. Luk is mourning her mother, Tsang Lai Wah, 71.
Lee Chun Ho: My mother was very smart. She could intuit things — she knew what people were going to say be- fore they even said them. She was very influential in the community and a sharp thinker. My brother liked to build figurines. My parents told me that when we were kids, I would destroy them. But my brother never scolded me. He was a good brother and a good dad. He was at home that day because he had worked the overnight shift at the hospital, and he was resting. He had one more overnight shift before a planned vacation. The six of us were go- ing to go to Taiwan together.
Esther Chan: Back at the apartment, I found bowls on the table still filled with food they were eating that night. Yan Yan still had half a bottle of milk there — that was tough to see. I started to imagine what their last moments might have been like. After gathering their belongings, I got home and lay in bed, surrounded by all the things we found. It made me feel a bit better. Chun Man was crazy about our daugh- ter. She was the center of his life. When she went outside, she would always pick out her own shoes and clothes. We bought her so many pairs of shoes.
My mom cared for my grandfather after he had a stroke. That was very tough. Then, my dad had a stroke and she looked after him, too. She never com- plained. About a decade ago, she had a stroke. She couldn’t look after herself anymore so we hired domestic workers. Dina was good to my mom. She made mashed pumpkin for her and steamed a whole fish and took out the bones. She worried about my mother at night and
Her mother died in the fire. She holds a denim vest her mother sewed.
started sleeping on the floor next to her. Darwati had been there for about six months. I attended their funeral at a mosque in Hong Kong, and their bodies were sent back to their families in Indonesia the next day. I found an old photograph of me and my mother on a vacation in the Phil- ippines. That was our first trip abroad to- gether. We went sightseeing around Ma-
nila and went white-water rafting in a wooden boat. She was very happy on that trip.
Mr. Lee is mourning his mother, Tam Wei Ping, 91. She died with her caregivers, Dina-Martiana, 38, and Darwati, 48, both of whom were migrant workers from Indonesia.
We moved to Wang Fuk Court when I was in first grade. My dad was rarely around. He gambled and debt collectors would come to the house. My parents divorced when I was in secondary school. My mother was very hard-working and accomplished a lot on her own. She was a single mom. She earned money to support us and paid for our tuition and piano lessons all by herself. She even took on a second job as a cashier at the Jockey Club’s racecourse on race nights. Later on, she worked as a nanny. She also worked as an office clerk and janitor. After she retired, she found a few pairs of jeans that no longer fit. She was the kind of person who didn’t want to waste anything. She taught herself how to sew and turned the jeans into denim vests. She did everything by hand. When I saw them, I said, “That is so cute and unique!” She made one for me with my name embroidered on the back.
Ms. Lo is mourning her mother, Ying Lo, 74.
About a month before the fire, I ran into my neighbors in the elevator: a mother and her young daughter. They told me that every night, the little girl would hear my dogs barking and walk over to my door. She would say, “Hi, doggies!” I thought this family was so sweet. I prom- ised to bring my dogs to their apartment one day so the child could play with them. Then, the fire happened. My mom got sick and died when I was very young. This home meant a lot to me. It was my connection to my mother. We were together for such a short time, and that was at Wang Fuk Court. After the fire, I got a replacement copy of my birth certificate from the govern- ment. They printed it out and I was sur- prised to see the address was Wang Fuk Court, Wang Cheong House. All this time, while I was living there, I didn’t think too much about it. It wasn’t any- thing special. But for as long as I live, this address will remain on my birth certifi- cate.
Ms. Cheung’s dogs were Bom Bom, 8, and Ungi, 6.
His wife died in the fire. He found her watch along with his wedding ring.
The diamonds caught a ray of light and sparkled. I wiped off the soot and ash and saw that it was my wedding ring. Our rings had an identical design: three dia- monds inlaid on a diagonal line. We kept them together by our bed. I couldn’t find my wife’s ring. We met at a factory that produced ra- dios and cassette players. She was a line leader and I was a repairman. We got married in 1981. She was very frugal. It took a lot of convincing to get her to buy something. Or I’d just have to buy it my- self. We had a very ordinary life. We would do everything together. We were always together. At home, I would watch TV while she played video games. Some- times, we would get into arguments and fight about small things. She would nag me for not putting my shoes away. Now, I have no one to bicker with. It’s tough. I miss her constantly. This watch was from Seiko, a Japanese brand. It wasn’t too expensive and, most importantly, she liked the style. She did- n’t want anything too flashy.
He Helped China Repress Uyghurs. He Says He’s a Victim Too.
break loose, said Adrian Zenz, a Xin- jiang expert who attended Mr. Zhang’s speech, “like a huge dam holding back a huge amount of water.” Mr. Zhang’s account of his time in Xinjiang corroborates what has long been documented about the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal repression of the Uyghurs while adding detail and an inside perspective to that record. It also reveals what an ordinary man pursuing upward mobility could gain, and lose, by helping to carry out those repressive policies. Mr. Zhang provided extensive docu- mentation of his service history, includ- ing copies of his police identification and pay and social security records, as well as photos of him at interrogations and political propaganda sessions. But I could not corroborate exactly what he did or did not do in Xinjiang; I relied on his telling of the story, and there may have been things he did not share. The Chinese government denies committing human rights abuses in Xinjiang, describing the camps as voca- tional training centers created to com- bat terrorism and religious extremism. It says the centers were closed in 2019. With China’s record of retaliating against citizens in exile, Mr. Zhang has shown considerable courage in coming forward as a witness to injustice. But he is asking for something more than praise; he wants to be recognized as a victim himself — a victim of the appara- tus he participated in for nearly a dec- ade.
A Grim Path Out of Poverty
For Mr. Zhang, moving to Xinjiang, and later joining its police force, offered a way to move up in the world. Born in 1986 into a poor rural Han Chinese family, Mr. Zhang lived in a village in central Henan Province that did not have electricity until he was 8. He moved to Xinjiang for college in 2006 and stayed to teach mathematics at a rural primary school. He married a woman from his home province, and they had a son in 2011. In late 2014, he left teaching for bet- ter pay as a guard at a detention center in the Hotan region, where about 90 percent of the population was Uyghur. His monthly wages rose to about $650, from $400 as a teacher. For nearly two years, he said, his duties included monitoring surveillance footage, distributing food and medicine and gathering incriminating informa- tion from detainees, most of them Uyghurs. He heard screams from the interrogation rooms and saw detainees beaten up and deprived of sleep. He sometimes found broken batons when picking up the detainees. At the time, he said, he accepted the government’s claims that the men being interrogated were terrorists and separatists. Seeking even higher pay and greater social status, Mr. Zhang took the civil service exam and formally joined the police force in late 2016 just as Beijing was about to intensify its mass deten- tion campaign in Xinjiang. He was proud of his uniform, he said, and his monthly pay rose to about $900. In early 2017, Chen Quanguo, the new Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, called for a “smashing, obliterating offensive,” including, according to leaked government documents, the detention of anyone who displayed “symptoms” of religious radicalism or antigovernment views. Those symp- toms could be the wearing of long beards, studying Arabic and praying. Mr. Zhang took part in nighttime raids on Uyghur homes to confiscate Qurans and other religious items. “I was usually the first to charge in,” he recalled. “I believed they were bad people. That was what had been drilled into us at the time, that they were all bad people.” For much of 2017, Mr. Zhang traveled in bus convoys transporting hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of Uyghur detainees to prisons across Xinjiang, which is nearly four times the size of California. The detainees were hand- cuffed, hooded and ordered to use plas- tic buckets as toilets during the journey. Mr. Zhang distributed bread and water. “My job was serving the passengers on the bus,” he said. In late 2018, when he was assigned to a police station, he began to grow de- spondent. His colleagues brought in Uyghur prisoners at all hours, he said, and he was responsible for searching them and helping determine where they would be sent. His sleep was con- stantly interrupted, and his superiors were short-tempered. He was pleased to be briefly re- assigned to supervise about 3,000 Uyghur laborers who had been sent to pick cotton for Han Chinese farmers. They rose at 5 a.m., traveled for hours to the cotton fields and were not re- turned to their dormitories until late at night. For Mr. Zhang, it was a nice break. His main task was to make sure no one ran away or prayed. He learned of the international criti- cism of forced labor in Xinjiang through statements by China’s foreign ministry and accepted the government’s claim that the accusations were false and intended to vilify China. “I didn’t think much about it,” he said. “I never paused to consider whether it was true or not.”
‘I never paused to consider whether it was true or not.’
ZHANG YABO, a police officer in Xinjiang tasked with enforcing China’s campaign to surveil the Uyghur population.
month in an abandoned police station. “The pandemic was more painful be- cause it involved me personally,” he said. In August 2021, he was assigned to Yurushikai, a village of about 1,700 Uyghurs. About 40 percent of the adults in the village had spent time in intern- ment camps, and some 100 were still serving time in jail, which meant that some households consisted of only children and grandparents. It was Mr. Zhang’s job, with the help of two Uyghur assistants, to investigate re- ports of people praying at home or missing the weekly national flag-raising ceremony or even jogging or exercis- ing. The government’s surveillance sys- tem generated automatic alerts for “abnormal” activity. If a household’s electricity use rose, he said, the officers would visit and ask what had kept the family awake.
VIA ZHANG YABO VIA ZHANG YABO
Police work brought Mr. Zhang money, status and privileges: expedited treatment at hospitals, free parking. By 2023, his monthly take-home pay had risen to about $1,250. But within the police hierarchy, he said, he was disposable. Superiors routinely insulted officers, calling them donkeys that needed to be whipped to work, Mr. Zhang said. After he missed a walkie-talkie call in December of his first year in the village, a superior punished him with 72 hours of contin- uous duty at a road checkpoint in freez- ing conditions without adequate cloth- ing. The overtime was relentless, and he was separated from his family for long periods. He had not celebrated Lunar New Year with his parents since 2017 and was denied leave for his sister’s wedding. On average, he could visit his wife and his son once a month. There were also quotas to meet.
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Starting in 2023, he was required to produce one lead a week that could be used to justify a detention. Mr. Zhang said he had frequently failed to hit the quota and had to submit self-criticism reports and work 24-hour shifts as punishment. Working closely with the villagers began to challenge the ster- eotypes he had absorbed about Uyghurs. He became increasingly reluctant to enter their homes or search their private communications, even as he continued to carry out the surveil- lance his job required.
Self Re-education
By September 2023, Mr. Zhang left his post. He moved to Guangzhou in southern China to study English, hoping eventu- ally to study abroad. He began using a VPN to get around China’s internet firewall. The first subjects he searched were “Xinjiang” and “Chen Quanguo,” the name of the region’s hard-line for- mer party secretary. He could not be- lieve, he said, that the facilities where he had worked, known to him as “re- education centers” and “vocational training centers,” were described online as concentration camps. Until then, he had encountered the term only in mov- ies about World War II. “What I found gave me terrible head- aches: One side of my head said one thing, and the other said something completely different,” he said. “The conflicting accounts battled in my mind, and I couldn’t sleep at night.” After officially resigning in early 2024, feeling wounded and in need of solace and strength, he turned to faith. He had found peace in a book about Bible stories that he had read to his son at bedtime, and in April 2025, Mr. Zhang was baptized as a Catholic in Guangzhou. Four months later, he joined a European tour with his 14- year-old son. He had already decided that if he could get away from the group, he would seek asylum. As their tour group entered Neu-
Zhang Yabo, a former police officer in China, has requested asylum in Germany. He provided photographs of himself at work and political propaganda sessions.
schwanstein Castle, the Bavarian pal- ace that inspired Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Castle, Mr. Zhang and his son sneaked away. They traveled to Munich and went to the headquarters of the World Uyghur Congress, an advocacy group whose name Mr. Zhang had heard many times in Xinjiang, told it was a separatist terrorist organization. He has applied for asylum and lives in a shelter in southern Germany, where his son is staying at a foster facility not far away. Over a dinner of pasta, the 15-year-old told me that he missed Xinjiang’s spicy stir-fried rice noodles. Mr. Zhang’s wife remains in Xinjiang, and the couple have filed for divorce. Mr. Zhang now spends his time speaking with academics, journalists and human rights groups to document how the persecution of Uyghurs was carried out. “Of the millions of Chinese police officers, he is the only one who has come forward to speak the truth,” said Haiyuer Kuerban, an official at the World Uyghur Congress who has been helping Mr. Zhang settle in Germany. He said his organization had initially viewed Mr. Zhang with deep skepti- cism, but that its doubts had begun to ease after reviewing his documents. Mr. Zenz, the Xinjiang expert who is director of China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Washington, said Mr. Zhang supplied “the ground- level reality of what we had mostly inferred” from government documents, state media reports and survivor testi- mony. Bjorn Alpermann, a China scholar at the University of Würzburg who has interviewed Mr. Zhang extensively, said his account offered unusually granular evidence of how repression continued after the height of the mass-internment campaign and became “routinized” in village life. But people who have worked with Mr. Zhang in Germany told me that we knew only what he wanted us to know and that he probably knew more than he shared. He remembers the forms he filled out, the orders he followed and the humiliations he endured in vivid detail, but is fuzzier on the worst abuses. He described hearing screams and seeing detainees after interrogations but of- fered fewer details about death, sexual violence and torture in detention facili- ties. He insisted he had been honest and forthcoming. He also wants the world to recognize what he endured. “My suffering was equal to, or in some respects greater than, that of the Uyghurs,” he told me repeatedly. “Why don’t you journalists write about me? Why do you only focus on the Uyghurs?” Han Chinese officers, of course, were not forced to abandon their language or culture and, however difficult it might be, they could leave the police or Xin- jiang. They were not subject to arbi- trary detention, forced labor or torture. They would not be considered potential terrorists for playing basketball or doing push-ups. “No matter how much you suffer at work, you can still go home, eat a good meal, and imagine a future,” said Mr. Kuerban, the Uyghur activist. “You do not live with the constant, paralyzing fear that something you said 10 years ago will make you disappear tomor- row.” Still, Mr. Zhang’s experience showed how inhumanely the system treated its own operatives, Mr. Alpermann said. And for Mr. Zhang, leaving China and speaking publicly was itself a way of confronting the system. Mr. Zhang insisted that he had never personally tortured or mistreated any Uyghurs. He described himself as a small cog in the state machinery who filled out forms, guarded facilities and handled logistics. Responsibility lay with senior officials and with the Uyghur police assistants who, he said, carried out many of the most direct and abusive tasks. Low-level Han Chinese police officers like him, he insisted, were innocent. It is unclear whether Mr. Zhang’s self-exoneration is a form of self-protec- tion, an inability to bear what a fuller recognition would mean or simply a habit of mind formed by years inside the system. Mr. Kuerban said he did not believe the blindness was deliberate. After repeatedly pressing Mr. Zhang, I had come to a similar conclusion: He seemed genuinely unable to see his role in the wider context of the immense injustice inflicted on the Uyghurs. His struggle also reflected the coun- try he came from, where the state has suppressed public memory of the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution and the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Unlike Germany, where there has been dec- ades of reckoning with Nazi complicity, China provides little space for sus- tained debate about complicity, guilt and responsibility. Working inside an abusive system did not automatically make someone a monster, Mr. Kuerban said. But neither did performing a minor function, or not personally carrying out the worst abuses, eliminate responsibility. Mr. Zhang said his faith had taught him that his responsibility now was to speak out. “If you stay silent,” he said at the end of his Bundestag speech, “you’re part of the problem.”
In Targeting Militias Aligned With Iranians
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strikes on Saudi tankers by Houthi militants, an Iranian ally in Yemen that controls large swaths of that country along the Red Sea, have further threatened oil ship- ping lanes with potentially dire consequences for the East Asian countries that rely heavily on Middle Eastern supplies. On Wednesday, two ships, in- cluding the U.S.-owned tanker, caught fire after an explosion at a shipping hub in Egypt, according to Kpler, a maritime tracking firm. Joshua Hutchinson, the chief com-
Reporting was contributed by Eri- ka Solomon, Abdi Latif Dahir, Lara Jakes, Jenny Gross, Rich Barbieri, Euan Ward, Pranav Baskar, Shirin Hakim, Zane Irwin, Peter Eavis and Eric Schmitt.
By ADAM RASGON and IYAD ABUHEWEILA
The Israeli military bombed a mosque in Gaza, accusing the Pal- estinian militant group Hamas on Wednesday of using it to store weapons. The Hamas-run government media office in Gaza responded by saying Israel’s claims aimed “to justify its attacks on mosques” and were “entirely false.” There were no reports of deaths from the attack. The Israeli military said ad- vance warning was provided to ci- vilians “to mitigate the risk of harm to them.” Footage reviewed by The New York Times shows people walking in Gaza City on Tuesday near clus- ters of tents for families displaced during the two-year Gaza war. An Israeli bomb explodes on the mosque, sending clouds of dark smoke billowing into the evening skies. Israel has intensified its strikes on Gaza in recent weeks, despite signing a U.S.-backed cease-fire deal with Hamas in October. Is- raeli officials say the military has been targeting Hamas and its weapons infrastructure. Hamas says the ongoing strikes demonstrate that Israel was seek- ing to free itself of its commit- ments to the October cease-fire. Zaher al-Waheidi, a statistician at the Gaza health ministry, said health officials did not record any deaths or injuries from the strike. A photographer for The Times captured images of the strike’s af- termath — piles of dusty rubble and what appeared to be the re- mains of the mosque’s minaret. “It was a terrifying sound,” said Riyad al-Masri, 31, who lives near the mosque. “It shook the ground.” Hundreds of mosques in Gaza were destroyed during the Gaza war, according to the government media office in Gaza. Israel has re- peatedly accused Hamas of em- bedding in civilian spaces, includ- ing in mosques, displacement camps and schools. More than 1,200 people have been killed in Gaza since the Octo- ber cease-fire, in addition to more than 73,000 killed during the war, according to the Gaza health min- istry. Its toll does not distinguish between combatants and civil- ians. The Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, at- tack on southern Israel killed some 1,200 people and ignited the war in Gaza. Palestinian militants took another 251 people back to Gaza as hostages. While the Israeli military has is- sued many announcements say- ing its strikes in Gaza have killed
cent report that the humanitarian situation had improved signifi- cantly since the October cease- fire, pointing to the reduced price of food. Under the Trump administra- tion’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, Hamas was required to lay down its weapons. Though the group has agreed to cede adminis- trative control of the territory, it has refused to relinquish its arms. This month, Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai, the Israeli military’s depu- ty chief of staff, suggested Israel would press forward with its strikes in Gaza if Hamas does not disarm. “At the end of the day, this place will be demilitarized and there will be no Hamas,” he said in re- marks published by Channel 14, a right-wing Israeli TV station. Abu Bakr Bashir contributed re- porting to this article.
This article is by Zane Irwin, Peter Eavis, Farnaz Fassihi and Pranav Baskar.
Two ships, one of them a U.S.- owned natural gas storage tanker, caught fire after an explosion at an Egyptian port on Wednesday, broadening the conflict in the Mid- dle East. Three marine tracking compa- nies reported the incident. One of the companies said the explosion, in the Egyptian Mediterranean port of Damietta, had been caused by a drone attack, though there was no official confirmation from Egyptian authorities or the ships’ owners. The attack isn’t likely to affect
mercial officer of Ambrey, a mari- time tracking firm, said the explo- sion was believed to have been caused by a drone. There were no confirmed injuries or deaths, Egypt’s ministry of petroleum said on social media. The expansion of fighting in the Middle East appears to compli- cate the possibility of the Trump administration extricating itself from the unpopular war, with midterm elections now less than 100 days away. It also threatens to worsen the global oil shock and drive higher inflation. The U.S. military said that the strikes in Iraq were in retaliation for more than 30 drone attacks by Iranian proxy groups in the past 72 hours. A U.S. official said they had targeted members of the Pop- ular Mobilization Forces, an um- brella group of Iraqi-based mili- tias with ties to Iran. No Iraqi mili-
Hamas militants, interviews with medical officials in Gaza and hos- pital records indicate that Israel has also killed civilians in the nine months since the cease-fire. The U.S.-brokered cease-fire agreement led to the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza, and left Israeli forces in control of more than half of Gaza. The Israeli military has since expanded its area of control, hemming about two million Palestinian residents into a shrinking strip of land along the coast. The war left Gaza in a deep hu- manitarian crisis with wide- spread food shortages and ramp- ant hunger and most of the popu- lation displaced. Many people re- main in displacement camps, and there has been no wide-scale re- construction effort underway. Humanitarian aid groups have said many essential goods are still difficult to attain, and the cost of food is often higher than before the war. The Israeli military agency that oversees aid to Gaza said in a re-
global energy markets as much as those elsewhere in the Middle East because Egypt is not a big ex- porter of natural gas. Kpler, a maritime tracking firm, said both vessels had been moved away from the Damietta Port, which is near the Suez Canal on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. There were no confirmed injuries or deaths, Egypt’s ministry of pe- troleum said on social media. Joshua Hutchinson, the chief commercial officer of Ambrey, an- other maritime tracking firm, said in an interview that the explosion was believed to be caused by a drone attack, which hit at least one of the ships. Ambrey has not identified the source of the attack. Two Iranians, who asked not to be named to discuss security mat- ters, said the explosion was a
tia group has claimed responsibil- ity for the drone attacks. Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi of Iraq called the U.S.-Saudi strikes “an unacceptable aggression.” Iraq maintains close ties to both
drone attack designed to show that global shipping and energy supplies could be more deeply dis- rupted if Iran chose to escalate. The individuals did not say whether Iran or an Iran-allied mi- litia in the region had launched the attack, or from where. President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday that he had been briefed on the ex- plosion and implied that Iran was responsible, without offering de- tails. He said the incident was “more of the same” and that the United States was “going to be hit- ting them very hard, because it’s our turn to hit them.” By attacking ships in the Medi- terranean, Iran could further dis- rupt trade. Shipping companies would have to assess the risks of using Egyptian ports. Since the
Iran and the United States and has often found itself caught between the warring sides in recent months. Many of the militias that make up the Popular Mobilization
Iran war began at the end of Feb- ruary, many ship operators have avoided the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The Energos Winter, the U.S. storage tanker that caught fire, belongs to Energos Infrastruc- ture, a U.S. company based in Stamford, Conn. Jonathan Chia, a representative for Energos Infra- structure, said the company had not been able to determine whether Energos Winter had been hit by a drone. Mr. Chia said that all the crew members had been accounted for, and that none of them had been injured. Footage circulating on social media and verified by The New York Times showed tugboats hos- ing down the Energos Winter with water at the Damietta Port. Energos Infrastructure’s web-
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Forces first formed after the U.S.- led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, which led to wide- spread anti-American sentiment in the country. Now they appear to be increasingly embroiled in the
site says the company is owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management. Apollo declined to comment. The Energos Winter is being leased by Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company, Egypt’s government- owned gas company. The other ship, a liquefied natu- ral gas carrier operated by a Greek shipping company, was struck by at least one drone, ac- cording to Ambrey. The vessel, the GasLog Salem, caught fire after an explosion, said Marina Leonidhopoulos, a spokeswoman for GasLog, the op- erator of the vessel. Attacks on ships in two crucial Middle Eastern shipping routes — the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea — have disrupted the passage of oil tankers, jolting global energy
Security workers surveyed the site of an airstrike by U.S. and Saudi forces in Iraq’s Dayala province on Wednesday.
current war with Iran. The U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, said that the U.S.-Saudi strikes killed about 20 Iranian advisers, a combination of senior technical advisers and li- aisons from the Islamic Revolu- tionary Guards Corps. The sites in Iraq were deliberately targeted for that reason, the official said, and to knock out missile and drone sites belonging to the Iraqi militias. The Popular Mobilization Forces issued a joint statement Wednesday threatening retalia- tion for the strikes. Still, they said they would not act until after Tuesday, the end of the ongoing Arbaeen pilgrimage, when hun- dreds of thousands of Shiite Mus- lim pilgrims visit holy shrines in the Iraqi city of Karbala. “Our re- sponse to the American enemy is inevitable and will come,” the statement said, “and we may tar- get its tools in Saudi Arabia if the situation demands it.”
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Above, Palestinians inspected the rubble of a destroyed mosque. Israel bombed the site on Tuesday, left, amid its inten- sifying strikes on Gaza.
markets. Since March, the war has made it much more dangerous to travel through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow portal to the Persian Gulf. That has forced Saudi Arabia to rely more heavily on exporting oil through the Red Sea, which was also recently threatened with a blockade by the Iranian-backed Houthi militant group in Yemen. Those attacks and threats have deterred shipping companies from sending vessels through the region’s waters. The number of vessels passing through Bab al- Mandab in the Red Sea has de- creased by one-fifth since July 20, according to Windward, a mari- time data agency. Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains at less than one-tenth of prewar lev- els.
Against the Founder Of the Telegram App
Ukraine Sabotage And Terrorist Acts
By IVAN NECHEPURENKO and ADAM SATARIANO
Russia’s main security service said on Wednesday that it had charged the founder of Telegram, one of the most popular messag- ing apps in the country and around the world, with facilitating terrorism, escalating the Krem- lin’s efforts to restrict all means of communication not under its di- rect control. The security service, the F.S.B., said in a statement that it had is- sued an international warrant to arrest the Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, 41, who is Russian- born. The service accused Telegram of failing to remove information “actively used by Ukrainian spe- cial services, terrorist organiza- tions and extremist organizations to prepare and coordinate sabo- tage and terrorist acts, mass killings and cyber fraud activi- ties” in Russia. The charges are just the latest in a broad campaign by governments across geopoliti- cal and ideological divides to rein in Telegram, which was founded in 2013 by Mr. Durov. Although the app has been a lifeline to people in authoritarian countries like Rus- sia who seek ways to communi- cate freely, it has also become a global center of criminal activity, disinformation and hateful con- tent. While autocratic countries such as Russia and Iran have moved to restrict access to the app, many democratic nations have also
On the Police in Italy
By MOTOKO RICH and JOSEPHINE DE LA BRUYÈRE
BOLOGNA, Italy — A man stumbled down a flight of steps in Bologna. He lay on the ground and repeatedly called for help, accord- ing to witnesses and video. After arriving, two officers spoke to him and later accompanied him down an alley, where, after an apparent scuffle with another civilian, they pinned him to the ground. Within an hour, the man, Abder- rahim Fakir, 42, a Moroccan who had lived most of his life in Italy, was dead, for reasons that remain unexplained. Prosecutors are investigating the conduct of the police officers and nearby emergency workers from the Red Cross, which said it was cooperating with the investi- gation. Both police officers were acting according to protocol, ac- cording to their lawyer, who de- scribed their background as “sim- ply Italian.” The death of Mr. Fakir last week is reverberating across the coun- try he had called home since child- hood. Some Italians have presented Mr. Fakir, the owner of a logistics and construction busi- ness, as the victim of a system stacked against immigrants. Oth- ers have seized on his drug-deal- ing convictions from the 2000s, as well as probation violations. More broadly, the discussion has evolved into a wider standoff over the police treatment and role of foreigners in Italy, a country with high immigration rates that is dependent on migrant labor but whose government has moved to expel asylum-seekers and undoc- umented workers. Italians of op- posing political factions have seized on Mr. Fakir’s death — and the unrest that followed it — to duel over immigration and rac- ism, police brutality and crowd vi- olence. “While I watched the video” of Mr. Fakir’s arrest, “the debate had already shifted elsewhere,” wrote Paolo Giordano, a novelist and commentator, in a column in Cor- riere della Sera, a centrist daily newspaper. “The incident itself had already been shattered, scat- tered into countless tangential discussions,” he added. Mr. Fakir arrived in Bologna from Morocco with his family around 1990, at age 6, and at- tended Italian schools, according to his immigration lawyer, Bar- bara Spinelli. He received permis- sion to stay in the country as a child but was never granted citi- zenship and was jailed for seven months after a string of drug of- fenses as a teenager, before turn- ing to the construction industry. Because of his convictions, he struggled to renew his residence permit, but in 2010, when he mar-
sought to make its leadership more responsive to their de- mands. Mr. Durov’s willingness to defy governments has increas- ingly made him and his company targets. Russia last year restricted the use of Telegram and promoted an alternative, MAX, a state-backed messaging app. The restrictions on Telegram included an effort to limit access to virtual private net- works, or VPNs, that allowed peo- ple to continue using the service. Despite the restrictions, Tele- gram is widely used in Russia through VPNs, not only for direct communication but also by media outlets to relay news and other in- formation not sanctioned by the Kremlin. The service is also popu- lar among the military on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war. Telegram says it has more than a billion active users around the world. In April, Mr. Durov said 65 million Russians still used Tele- gram on a daily basis. Mr. Durov, who regularly criti- cizes governments for what he says are their efforts to infringe upon internet freedom, did not di- rectly comment on the charges announced on Wednesday by the Russian authorities. Shortly after they were made public, however, Telegram’s account on the social media site X posted an old image of him raising his middle finger. Mr. Durov holds Emirati and French citizenship and perma- nently resides in Dubai. The inter- national warrant is unlikely to lead to Mr. Durov’s arrest in the United Arab Emirates, but it will further complicate his interna- tional travel. In Russia, Telegram has played a unique role since the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. At that time, the Kremlin banned or pushed out all media
ried an Italian woman, he ob- tained legal residence again. After the couple separated two years later, Mr. Fakir’s permit eventu- ally expired, according to his for- mer defense lawyer, Donata Mal- musi. He later married a woman in Morocco, two friends said. In recent months, friends said, he had been suffering from panic attacks. He was stressed, Ms. Spinelli said, about his application to renew the permit and was struggling to sustain his business. He had sought psychiatric help at a hospital in June, according to medical records reviewed by The Times. On Sunday, July 19, Mr. Fakir, who lived elsewhere in the city, appeared without explanation in Pilastro, seemingly in distress. Pilastro, a quiet, working-class immigrant neighborhood in Bolo- gna’s northeastern fringe, is filled with rows of dormitory-like con- crete housing blocks that date from the 1960s. It was outside one such building that Mr. Fakir died.
Cries of ‘Help Me’
Two residents interviewed by The New York Times spotted Mr. Fakir moaning and yelling for help as he went down a flight of stairs into an alleyway lined with garages and overlooked by roughly 40 apart- ments. Parveen Akhtar, 72, said she saw Mr. Fakir sitting on the steps and then slowly descending and lying on the ground. “He was saying, ‘Help me, help me, someone help me,’” she said. Then, Ms. Akhtar said, she saw — and heard — a passerby on a motorcycle stop and make a call to the police. What happened next is unclear. The Bologna police department said its officers responded to a call reporting “a person in a violent rage.” Ms. Akhtar said: “I know objec- tively that that’s not what I saw.” Mr. Fakir, she added, “wasn’t act- ing in a violent way.” A video, one of several verified by The Times by confirming that its surroundings matched pub- licly available images of the loca- tion, shows Mr. Fakir lying alone at the bottom of the stairs on his back, with cicadas chirping in the background. He is seen calling for help, asking for someone to “kill me” and grasping his head. Some time afterward, two po- lice officers are seen standing over him, as one of them tells Mr. Fakir to keep calm, according to videos shared by Fabio Anselmo, a lawyer retained by Mr. Fakir’s family. Later, though it is unclear why, the officers and Mr. Fakir move several yards down the alley, ac- cording to videos. Gabriele Bordoni, a lawyer rep- resenting the officers, said Mr. Fa- kir scuffled with two civilians be- fore the police physically re-
outlets not under its supervision and restricted access to most in- ternational services, including YouTube, Facebook and Insta- gram. As a result, Telegram turned into the most vital source of unfiltered information available to regular Russians. It also became a social phenom- enon. Users maintained chats with family members and neigh- bors in their apartment buildings on Telegram, manually selecting their preferred news sources without relying on algorithms. Much of the discussion over what is happening in Russia takes place on Telegram. The restrictions on Telegram last year appeared to have politi- cal ramifications, with President Vladimir V. Putin’s approval rat- ing declining to levels unseen since the start of the war with Ukraine. It exposed some of the internal rifts withing the Russian government and led to a rare scene in the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, in which the pro-Kremlin lawmaker Sergei Mi- ronov called people who blocked Telegram “idiots” and
strained him. Mr. Bordoni shared a four-second video captured by an officer’s body-worn camera, that showed a second officer pulling Mr. Fakir away from a man in a white T-shirt and shoving Mr. Fakir to the ground. The video does not show Mr. Fa- kir attacking anyone or what led to that moment. Mr. Bordoni said the police officers had complied with new Italian guidelines on how to restrain “noncooperative individuals.” They advise trying to calm the person and limiting the duration of any restraint on the ground. Other video shows one officer squatting over Mr. Fakir’s back and pressing his head face down onto the street, while another offi-
“scoundrels.” The announcement about the charges against Mr. Durov came days after Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, told the Russian news agency Interfax that the authorities had been in touch with Telegram’s leadership to discuss lifting restrictions on the app. Some Kremlin analysts sug- gested that the timing of Mr. Peskov’s comment and the subse- quent announcement of the charges against Mr. Durov re- flected an internal battle in the Russian government over whether to allow more freedom for the app or to limit its use. Ilya Grashchenkov, a Moscow- based political analyst, wrote on his Telegram channel, “For now, this appears less like the final chapter for Telegram in Russia than another round in the ongoing battle over its control.” Anastasia Kashevarova, an in- fluential Russian military blogger, wrote in a post on Telegram that the situation surrounding the messaging app had “clearly illus- trated the fragmentation and lack
cer, straddling Mr. Fakir’s lower back, tries to restrain Mr. Fakir’s hands. A man in civilian clothing holds Mr. Fakir’s feet. For several minutes, Mr. Fakir squirms and yells for help before going quiet, according to the vid- eo. After Mr. Fakir stops moving, the video shows, the police offi- cers bind his legs together while one of them sits on his lower back. Throughout the episode, two med- ical responders in red uniforms watch from the side, along with four men in civilian clothes. Later, two other medical responders en- ter the frame to help turn Mr. Fa- kir’s body on its side while another emergency worker appears to check the pulse in his neck.
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of coordination among competing factions.” “Yesterday, they were talking about rapprochement with Mr. Durov, and today, they issued a warrant for his arrest,” Ms. Kashe- varova wrote. “That is why public trust in statements from poli- ticians and officials is eroding, and that is bad.” Mr. Durov was born in St. Pe- tersburg and helped create Vkon- takte, a Russian equivalent of Facebook, at the age of 21. The platform’s success led Mr. Durov to be compared to Mark Zucker- berg and other young Silicon Val- ley entrepreneurs gaining fame in the early years of social media. At the time, Russia’s internet was more open and free, and start- ups were seen as exciting places to work. Mr. Durov gained atten- tion for stunts including throwing money from a window of the com- pany’s offices in St. Petersburg. The mood soured as the plat- form’s popularity grew in Russia, according to Mr. Durov. He has said he left the country after a dis- agreement with the Russian au- thorities over sharing data about
Demonstrators, protesting Abderrahim Fakir’s death, facing a police line on July 20 in Bologna. Officers had pinned Mr. Fakir, who had immigrated from Morocco as a child, to the ground.
Mr. Fakir was pronounced dead once a doctor and a nurse arrived at the alley, according to the Bolo- gna health authority. Lubina Parveen, 36, whose apartment overlooks the alley where Mr. Fakir died, said she wit- nessed medics lifting a sheet cov- ering his body. Half of his face appeared blood- ied, she said.
‘Systemic’ Profiling
The death has led to a national de- bate about the actions of the police and the way that immigrants are treated in Italy. Matteo Salvini, leader of a far- right party in the governing coali- tion and a deputy prime minister, said that he did not want to pre- empt any investigations but that, in his view, the officers who re- strained Mr. Fakir “acted in ac- cordance with protocol” and should be “protected and under- stood.” Friends of Mr. Fakir said his death was an extreme example of the kind of treatment they have grown to fear from Italian police officers. Mohammed Sorour, 41, a family friend since childhood, re- called an incident where, he said, officers tied his hands to a hook in a police cell after stopping him to see his papers. A group of legal experts ap- pointed by the United Nations concluded after a research mis- sion to Italy in 2024 that racial pro- filing “appears to continue to be practiced in a systemic manner,” though it acknowledged that a lack of data made it “difficult to as-
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users who were using Vkontakte to organize protests. Mr. Durov said he refused, which ultimately led to him being forced to sell the platform and leave the country. Vkontakte then came under the control of a Kremlin-aligned com- pany. Since starting Telegram, Mr. Durov has operated the messag- ing app like a stateless organiza- tion, driven by a guiding idea that communication should be uncen- sored. That ethos, which Mr. Durov has said was inspired in part by his experience under Rus- sia’s authoritarian government, has helped make Telegram popu- lar with activists and other pri- vacy-conscious users. But it has also made it a gather- ing ground for illicit content, drawing scrutiny from govern- ment investigators. In 2024, Mr. Durov was arrested on arrival in France and later charged with facilitating criminal activity on Telegram. After being held in custody for four days, he was released and ordered to stay in France by the authorities there. His travel ban was later revoked. In a statement at the time, Mr. Durov said, “Claims in some me- dia that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue.” In its statement on Wednesday announcing the arrest warrant, the F.S.B. cited a specific case in which it said a dating chat on Tele- gram was used by Ukrainian spe- cial services to recruit Russians and engage them in “sabotage and terrorist activities through decep- tion and psychological manipula- tion.” The F.S.B. said that it had de- tained 46 people, including mi- nors, across Russia who had been recruited through the app and “committed armed attacks on law enforcement officers, set fire to transport, energy, communica- tions, and credit and financial sys- tem facilities.”
sess the full extent of the prob- lem.” The Italian government has rejected such accusations. Speaking at a community gath- ering last week in Bologna, Karim Bekkal, 38, said some politicians spread harmful narratives about immigrants and their children, who are not automatically given citizenship even if born in Italy. “Someone born and raised here, how does he feel hearing that even the children, the second genera- tion of immigrants, should be sent away if they misbehave?” he asked. “How does he feel if every day he hears about ‘Moroccans, thugs, criminals, delinquents?’” Those insults were a reference to language used by Mr. Salvini to describe foreign-born residents of Italy. Mr. Salvini and Prime Min- ister Giorgia Meloni were elected after campaigns promising to block irregular migration to Italy, a major transit point for migrants arriving by sea from Africa. A day after Mr. Fakir’s death, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of City Hall in Bologna to condemn his treatment. Officers, wearing riot shields, unleashed tear gas at the pro- testers after some demonstrators threw bottles at the police. The po- lice said that 64 officers were in- jured in the clashes, none of them seriously, and that protesters burned two cars. Yossra Fakir, Mr. Fakir’s niece, distanced her family from the un- rest. “The pain we are feeling is huge,” she said in a video, “but it can’t and it shouldn’t be trans- formed into violence.”
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early. It brought wildfires to the Scottish Highlands. It led organ- izers in London to call off a confer- ence on how to cope with extreme heat. And it caused at least 10,000 heat-related deaths across Eu- rope in June alone — a number that may turn out to be an under- count. “Europe is ground zero when it comes to impacts” from climate change, said Johan Rockström, a Swedish scientist who is the direc- tor of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Ger- many. “2026 is just the beginning,” Professor Rockström added. “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse to the point where, I’m afraid, we’ll be passing the limits of adapta- tion.” Europe is not alone, of course. Heat waves gripped Australia and Japan this year. Floods devastat- ed Kenya and Angola. A snow- storm paralyzed the Eastern United States. Developing coun- tries in the Southern Hemisphere are still more vulnerable than wealthy Europe to the effects of a changing climate. Yet no other continent has warmed as rapidly as Europe, at nearly twice the global average since the mid-1990s. That has forced Europeans to confront, more starkly than others, the harsh realities of a changed cli- mate, particularly in the summer, when their once-mild days have given way to furnacelike heat. Though still cooler than other parts of the world, like the Ameri- can Southwest or the Persian Gulf region, Europe is less able to cope because its buildings are often without air-conditioning and were built to retain heat. The homo- geneity of the trees on its hillsides and coastal plains, many of which were planted during cooler, wetter periods, make them dangerously flammable during fire season. “With this heat wave and these fires, you can say it starts to be- come unbearable,” said Sonia Seneviratne, a Swiss climate sci- entist at the Swiss Federal Insti- tute of Technology Zurich. Whether it leads to drastic new measures — either to mitigate the effects of a warmer climate or to adapt to them — is another ques- tion. In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared a “climate emergency,” which he said would necessitate a state pact to “attack the root of the problem in a struc- tural way.” In France, President Emmanuel Macron vowed to re-
Mark Landler reported from Bor- deaux, France, and Chico Harlan from Rome. Giulia Imbert contrib- uted reporting from Paris.
A firefighter on Wednesday in southwestern France, where fire conditions remain extreme amid dry weather and brutal heat.
But Worst May Be Ahead
This article is by Carlos Barragán, Ségolène Le Stradic and Roser Toll Pifarré.
MADRID — Firefighters in France and Spain have managed to contain the vast wildfires near Bordeaux and Madrid, at least for now, officials in the two countries said on Wednesday. But they warned that the battle was far from over, with strong winds and scorching temperatures ahead. French officials in the Bordeaux region, where a fire has come within six miles of a factory that helps to build nuclear missiles, said on Wednesday morning that the night had been “calm” and that several overnight flare-ups had been contained. Laurent Nuñez, the French interior minister, said on Tuesday night that two smaller fires elsewhere in southern France had been brought under control. Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said on Wednesday morning that the battle against the fires around Madrid, the larg- est in modern Spanish history, continued to evolve “favorably.” He shared a mixed message of op- timism and caution, saying that firefighters were dousing hot spots to prevent flare-ups as tem-
As a wildfire continued to burn in Lanton, in southwestern France on Wednesday, a volunteer raced with a bucket full of water, hoping to help contain the blaze.
plant the vast pine forests that were burned in the Gironde region over the last week with different species of trees that are better suited to a dry, hot climate. “The situation we’re in today is the most difficult we’ve ever re- corded, the most difficult since World War II,” Mr. Macron said. Yet for all the urgency, Europe’s commitment to reduce carbon di- oxide emissions — a goal that sci- entists say is the only conclusive way to curb climate change — is in danger of being watered down. This month, the European Union proposed to adjust rules so that some industries could pollute at slightly higher levels, further into the future. “Net zero” policies, which aim to balance the greenhouse gases put into the atmosphere with the amount removed, have become in- viting targets for critics, particu- larly on the right, who condemn them as a luxury Europe can’t af- ford during a period of weak eco- nomic growth and energy insecu-
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peratures surged. “The next 12 hours are going to be very important — decisive,” Mr. Sánchez said. Hours later, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said that some of the evacuation or- ders for Madrid and the surround- ing areas were being lifted, allow- ing thousands of people to go home. The wildfires in that region were now “technically stabilized,” he said. Other evacuation orders for the area had been lifted earlier. The European Forest Fire In- formation System said parts of southwestern France and north- ern Spain would remain under “very extreme fire conditions” on Wednesday. Some areas could see temperatures of 42 degrees Cel- sius (108 Fahrenheit) or even higher, the agency said. Large swaths of Spain were expected to see extremely high temperatures for the rest of the week. In Greece, the national fire service said two of its workers had died while fighting a blaze on the island of Crete. The fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon and spread quickly amid strong winds, forcing the evacuation of several villages, the fire service said. Much of Western Europe is in the grip of another spell of intense heat, the continent’s fourth since May. Officials have warned that a
rity. And no matter what Europe does, the global trajectory de- pends on China and the United States, where President Trump has called climate change a “con job,” as well as on energy-hungry developing countries. “We have Ursula von der Leyen struggling to maintain the current commitment,” Professor Rock- ström said, referring to the presi- dent of the European Commis- sion, the E.U.’s executive arm. “What’s happening in France and Spain means that we should in- crease our ambition level, not re- duce it.” One way to do that, he said, is to educate the public about the caus- al link between a warming climate and the calamitous fires of the last week. The disaster unfolded in a vicious, if entirely logical, chain reaction. First, record-setting heat waves dried out soil and vegetation, which had become abundant after a wet winter. Then, wildfires near Bordeaux and the Spanish capital,
Wildfire-scorched land in eastern Spain, as seen from a drone. The uncontrolled fire near Valencia has burned almost 23,000 acres.
combination of prolonged dry weather, gusty winds, extreme temperatures and low humidity would significantly increase the risk of wildfires spreading and new ones igniting. Blandine Sarrazin, the mayor of Le Barp, a village near Bordeaux, said on social media on Wednes- day that firefighters had managed to contain three flare-ups there over the past 24 hours. “The situa- tion is getting tougher,” she warned, urging people to remain “extremely vigilant.” In Le Porge, the French village hit hardest by the blaze, the situa- tion was still “critical,” said the mayor, Martial Zaninetti. Of the 240 houses burned in the area near Bordeaux since the fire broke out last Wednesday, more than 180 were in Le Porge. “We have toxic fumes and serious CO2 poisoning issues, so please do not come until the area has been made safe,” he said on social media. The office of Sophie Brocas, the
Madrid, feasted on that kindling. On Wednesday morning, officials in Gironde said the fire had been stable overnight. But a fresh heat wave threatened to worsen condi- tions just as firefighters were making progress in containing it. Earlier hot spells exposed other European vulnerabilities. In late June, train operators canceled routes and France temporarily halted several nuclear reactors to avoid discharging overheated wa- ter into already-warm rivers. As a drought intensified, low water lev- els in the Danube and Rhine Rivers snarled river traffic. Europe’s status as the fastest- warming continent is a conse- quence of both changing weather patterns and its proximity to the Arctic, where reduced snow and ice lead to more dark surfaces that absorb heat. The continent is more than 1.6 degrees Celsius, or 2.9 degrees Fahrenheit, warmer than it was three decades ago. By the start of this week, France had recorded 53
prefect of the French region around Bordeaux, warned that “unfavorable” weather conditions were expected on Wednesday and Thursday, including high winds and falling humidity. There was also a chance of thunderstorms, raising the prospect of lightning strikes that could cause a re- surgence in the major blaze that firefighters have been battling. The fires are the latest in a se- ries of extreme weather events in Europe, the world’s fastest-heat- ing continent, that scientists say have been made more likely by the burning of fossil fuels. Record-breaking heat has led to parched vegetation that, com- bined with strong winds, has in- creased the risk of fires spreading. More than 300,000 acres have burned in Spain and France, prompting the largest peacetime evacuations in those countries. In eastern Spain, a fire near Va- lencia, which has burned almost
heat waves since 1947; 28 of them occurred in the last 15 years. Bordeaux never experienced a day with temperatures at or above 39 degrees Celsius (102.2 degrees Fahrenheit) from 1921 to 2000, ac- cording to Météo-France, the na- tional climate and weather serv- ice. This summer, it has happened eight times, including on Wednes- day, and the season is not even half over. Bordeaux’s winemak- ers, already beleaguered by the heat, now worry about smoke tainting their famous vineyards. Friederike Otto, a German cli- matologist at Imperial College London, said “jet-stream” wind patterns and high-pressure sys- tems once could lock in days of “nice-ish summer weather” in Eu- rope. Now, she said, those same dynamics produce excruciating conditions because they occur in tandem with a warmer climate. The most frightening aspect of Europe’s summer, scientists say, is that it could appear tame in ret- rospect. The planet is already on
23,000 acres, remained active and was not under control, officials said. But some residents in that area who had been ordered to evacuate were being allowed to return. “We were eager to see our homes,” Maria Gavara of the town of Vilavella, who works for the mu- nicipal government there, said on Tuesday. “We escaped the wolf’s jaws — the blinds in my house melted.” On Wednesday, in the nearby town of Onda, Cesar Porcar, 52, stood waiting at a roundabout that the Civil Guard had sealed off. He had been evacuated from Tales, the next village along the road, deep in the Sierra Espadán moun- tains. Across the road, several col- umns of smoke rose over the for- est, encircling the Santa Bárbara hermitage, perched on a rocky outcrop. Water-bombing planes had doused the surrounding area
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course to breach the central goal of the Paris Agreement of 2015: to stop the planet from heating more than two degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, higher than preindustrial levels. Far from moderating, some ex- perts say the pace of warming ap- pears to be accelerating. France’s weather and climate service has painted a dystopian picture, say- ing that by 2050, heat waves could be five times more frequent, while temperatures could hit 118 de- grees Fahrenheit. At a cavernous exhibition cen- ter in Bordeaux, where thousands of evacuees took shelter on Sun- day, that future had already ar- rived. Yet Céline Lartigue, 51, a so- cial worker, had to reach into Eu- rope’s ancient past to describe the ashes and orange sky she wit- nessed as she fled her house in the suburb of St.-Médard-en-Jalles, where factories manufacture the propellant for France’s nuclear missiles. “It was like Pompeii,” she said.
to hold back the flames, but the smoke lingered. Like others around him, Mr. Porcar was waiting for a police convoy that would escort resi- dents home for 10 minutes at a time, to gather medication or clothing. He needed to retrieve his van, which held all his work tools, after four days away from home. Still, he said he felt at ease. “I can see my house from here,” Mr. Porcar said, phone in hand. Throughout the ordeal, he had been monitoring conditions in Tales through a public webcam feed. He had been keeping an eye on his family’s homes and knew everything was intact. He checked the signal on his phone and showed the screen: It de- picted the sky over Tales, clear of smoke. When the convoy arrived, Mr. Porcar ran to his car and slipped into traffic behind a Civil Guard vehicle, heading toward Tales.
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Lawmakers flooded state- houses this year with bills seeking to dismantle vaccination rules or raise questions about vaccine safety, introducing more than 200 measures in 34 states. The bills challenged every part of the system that states rely on to vaccinate the public, from the pamphlets patients receive before getting a shot to the requirements schools, day care centers and em- ployers can implement. A pro- posal in Wisconsin would have designated October as “Immuni- zation Injury Awareness Month.” A bill in Iowa would have elimi- nated all vaccination require- ments for elementary and second- ary schools. All told, at least 400 bills related to vaccines were introduced this year. Many were intended to bol- ster or protect the public’s access to the shots. But 209 aimed to weaken vaccination rules or sys- tems or to undermine public trust in vaccines, a New York Times
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Bills that would establish protections for unvaccinated people
INTRODUCED Arizona HB2248
Prohibits medical mandates, including vaccination requirements, and discrimination against workers who refuse vaccination for religious reasons.
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Some lawmakers tried expand- ing legal protections for people who forgo some or all vaccines. Several states proposed a “bill of rights” for those who are not vac- cinated, while other proposals would have established anti-dis- crimination safeguards for the unvaccinated. Lawmaker support for these measures was high in some states as officials prepared for
analysis shows. Although only a handful of these became law, leaders of the move- ment behind the legislative push plan to return next session with a raft of new proposals. Had all the bills passed, public health experts say, they would have led to a vast reduction in vac- cine confidence and uptake, and eventually would have led to more outbreaks of disease. Just nine became law, but advo- cates for the measures say their campaign was a success because many others got closer to the fin- ish line this year. And some policy observers agreed that the move- ment made gains. “Bills that would have died in committee in previous sessions are now passing one chamber, sometimes two,” said Jack Mc- Clure, who leads state policy ef- forts at the Association for Immu- nization Managers. “They may not be law yet, but legislators are taking them seriously.” Pro-vaccine lawmakers found themselves playing defense. They proposed a slew of bills to make it
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Allows advanced-practice nurses and physician assistants to sign vaccination exemption forms.
Hampshire came close. At least a dozen proposals would have removed some or all state re- quirements for children to be im- munized before starting day care or school. Public health experts
Florida SB1756
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Prohibits discrimination based on vaccination status and requires that parents sign a consent form before their child is vaccinated.
their 2026 legislative sessions. Florida officials vowed to remove all vaccine mandates for children in the state. But their proposals failed to advance, and broader momentum stalled early this year after the White House pressured Mr. Kennedy to pull back on his vaccine agenda, worried that it could alienate voters in the midterms. Vaccine advocates pushing
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easier to get vaccines or to em- phasize their safety record. A dozen states passed laws to pre- serve childhood vaccination rec- ommendations after federal health officials moved to limit them. Lawmakers and others who believe vaccines are dangerous and should never be required were emboldened by Health Sec- retary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ef- forts to oppose vaccines. The de- tails of their latest proposals offer a window into the modern move- ment against vaccines, which has recently turned its focus to broader messages of health free- dom and personal liberty.
What the Bills Say
Vaccine critics saw this year as an opportunity to upend a system that states have long relied on to vaccinate the public. They had built momentum after the co- ronavirus pandemic, capitalizing on anger over Covid vaccine mandates and questions about the safety of Covid vaccines.
PASSED ONE CHAMBER Arizona HCR2056
Iowa HF2171
Adds a constitutional amendment to prohibit all vaccination require- ments by the govern- ment.
Removes all vaccination requirements for elementary and secondary schools.
said that without requirements in place, some people would not vaccinate their children — not because they oppose vaccines, but because it takes time, effort and money to do so.
PASSED ONE CHAMBER Louisiana HB926
West Virginia HJR24
Prohibits vaccination requirements by employers, public services and businesses, and discrimination based on vaccination status.
Adds the right to refuse a vaccine to the state’s Bill of Rights.
against these bills said they found success reminding law- makers that most of the public wanted to maintain childhood vaccine rules. “One of our biggest calls to ac- tion is to let lawmakers know that their constituents want their schools to remain safe places to go,” said Jennifer Her- ricks, director of advocacy at American Families for Vaccines.
Bills to Weaken Vaccination Rules or Access
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Bills that promote claims of vaccine dangers
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Requires autopsy reports for children who die suddenly to list any immunizations adminis- tered within the 90 days before death.
A few bills that passed echoed longstanding claims by Mr. Ken- nedy and the broader movement that vaccines are dangerous. For example, laws enacted in Louisi- ana, Mississippi and Oklahoma will require recent vaccines to be listed on the death reports of in- fants and children, which policy
Bills that target mRNA or Covid vaccines
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Requires the receipt of mRNA and Covid-19 vaccines to be disclosed and included on blood donations, allowing individuals to request different blood.
Other bills continued a years- long push to ban Covid shots spe- cifically. Some would have labeled any vaccine developed using mRNA technology as a “weapon of mass destruction.” Another proposed labeling blood dona-
Bills that alter vaccination systems
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ENACTED ENACTED ENACTED PASSED TWO CHAMBERS South Carolina H4189 Iowa SF304
Requires health officials to get written approval from elected representa- tives before implement- ing health-related measures, including vaccine distribution.
Another category of bills would change the way states vaccinate the public, sometimes adding more steps to the process, such as requiring parental consent for cer-
Creates a panel that reviews infant and maternal medical records after the sudden death of an infant and then reports any vaccine adverse events to a C.D.C. registry.
observers say is connected to a debunked claim that certain shots cause sudden infant death syndrome. Scientific research does not show a link between vac- cinations and infant death. Vaccine proponents say that these bills are intended to sow doubt and that they may lead par-
Designates mRNA vaccines as “weapons of mass destruction” and prohibits their use.
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tions from those who have re- ceived vaccines containing mRNA. (Few vaccines using the technology are on the market, though mRNA vaccines de- signed to fight cancer and infec- tious diseases are in develop-
Makes changes to the health agency's structure and requires a signed consent form for vaccinations, with a statement acknowledging vaccine risks.
tain vaccinations or requiring new layers of approval before health officials can distribute vaccines. Other bills would change how health insurers cover the cost of
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Prohibits the sale of food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material unless its presence is labeled.
ents to second-guess vaccines, when scientists and doctors say they are safe. “If you see a bill like that, you might think: We must not know enough,” said Dr. Herricks. “But vaccines are in large part respon- sible for babies and children liv- ing into adulthood.”
Prohibits schools from requiring Covid-19 vaccination.
ment.) Even though these bills did not pass, medical experts say the proposals spread false infor- mation that could prevent peo- ple from getting the health care they need.
Requires the approval of a parent or a guardian for a minor to receive vaccinations for sexually transmitted infections or diseases (such as the H.P.V. vaccine).
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Missouri SB1223
Requires vaccine manufacturers to provide information about any ways that individuals who did not receive the vaccine might be exposed to it.
Missouri SB1362
Requires meat and food products derived from mRNA-vaccinated animals to be labeled as such.
Prohibits vaccine clinics from operating during school hours, with an exception for those administering influenza and emergency vaccines.
By SHAWN MCCREESH
WASHINGTON — The New England Journal of Medicine this was not. When Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s pandemic diary was made public over the weekend by his Republi- can nemeses, it provided a rare, unfiltered look at the private thoughts of one of the most polar- izing public officials in America as he led the nation through crisis. A typical entry is one dated May 21, 2020. It begins by noting the global death toll from the pan- demic (234,100) and continues, ty- pos intact, this way: “Big front page article abut me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really un- imaginable. It is not hyoperbole to say that today I am the most fa- mous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable peson in the world.” More than 1,100 pages long and dating from 2019 to 2022, Dr. Fau- ci’s diary reads like a black com- edy of manners in which a 79- year-old social-climbing scientist becomes the face of the govern- ment’s response to a pandemic and then the toast of the town — the toast of this town. As the death toll rises, so too does the doctor’s status and self-regard. He falls in with a fast crowd and becomes consumed by his own image. It’s like Thackeray’s Vanity Fair crossed with The Plague by Ca- mus. In entry after entry, he chroni- cles his glittering years on the Washington party circuit. He sips champagne at galas thrown in his
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the Trump administration’s health policies without asking him ques- tions. Senator Maggie Hassan, Democrat of New Hampshire, be- gan by thanking Dr. Fauci, who took his first job at the National In- stitutes of Health in 1968, for “more than 50 years of service to this country,” adding, “It must be enormously frustrating to know that this hearing is designed to en- trap you.” Republicans, led by Mr. Paul, painted him as a narcissist who was personally responsible for ev- ery Covid death or adverse vac- cine reaction and mocked him for invoking the Fifth Amendment. “What day of the week is it to- day?” Senator Josh Hawley, Re- publican of Missouri asked, know- ing Dr. Fauci would refuse to an- swer. “What color tie are you wearing? What color is the carpet in front of you?” Each time, Dr. Fauci gave his one-line response. Calling Dr. Fauci “a megalo- maniac and a liar,” Mr. Hawley then accused him of secretly prof- iting from his public service by ap- plying for “cash prizes totaling over a million dollars.” In 2021, the Israel-based Dan David Founda- tion awarded Dr. Fauci $1 million for “defending science,” an award that was widely reported at the time. The session was an escalation of a yearslong battle between Mr. Paul, a physician whose specialty is ophthalmology, and Dr. Fauci. The Kentucky senator accuses Dr. Fauci of funding research in China that sparked the pandemic, and then lying about it to Congress — accusations Dr. Fauci vehemently denies. In a brief opening statement, Dr. Fauci, who appeared under subpoena, noted that he had testi- fied before Congress more than 200 times during the 38 years he ran the National Institute of Al- lergy and Infectious Diseases, in- cluding during the Covid pan- demic. “Over that period, I proved that I believe in and respect the value of legitimate congressional oversight,” he said. “However,” Dr. Fauci added, “given Senator Paul’s obvious ob- session with calling for my pros- ecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something that could vindicate his repeated pub- lic pledges that I end up, in his words, ‘behind bars.’” Dr. Fauci received a pre-emp- tive pardon from President Jo- seph R. Biden Jr., but the pardon protects him only from federal prosecution for actions he took through the date it was issued, Jan. 19, 2025. Mr. Paul told Dr. Fauci that he “can’t have it both ways,” by refus- ing to testify while under the par- don’s protection. But legal experts said the pardon would not protect Dr. Fauci from being accused of ly-
honor and gets mobbed for selfies at sceney joints like Cafe Milano. Barbra Streisand calls and calls. Julia Roberts sends flowers. Billy Crystal, Elton John, Brad Pitt and Robert DeNiro are mentioned. Back then — has it really been six years? — Dr. Fauci became an overnight celebrity when the pan- demic struck and the nation looked to someone who could pro- vide answers. It was a terrifying time and in this most credentialed doctor, who had served many presidents and valiantly battled the AIDS crisis, lots of Americans found a foil to President Trump, who was at the time suggesting people play around with bleach. The doctor worked around the clock, appearing anywhere he could to spread the message about slowing the spread and getting the shot. But there were other Ameri- cans who became disillusioned with Dr. Fauci, his methods, his advice and his media ubiquity. To anyone who blamed him for school closures, lockdowns, vac- cine mandates they disagreed with and more, the diary entries have come as vindication of the suspicions they held about the character of this man they fault. He was having fun. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of Dr. Fauci’s primary antagonists. It was after Mr. Kennedy took over at the Department of Health and Human Services that Dr. Fauci’s diary was discovered on govern- ment servers. The health secre- tary promptly handed it over to another Fauci foe, Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, who made it public over the week- end. On Wednesday, Dr. Fauci is
ing under oath. The session became volatile early on when Mr. Paul told him there would be “repercussions” for his refusal to answer ques- tions. When Dr. Fauci’s lawyer, David Schertler, started to speak on Dr. Fauci’s behalf, Mr. Paul cut him off. “Another word and you’re gone!” the senator said sharply. Mr. Schertler kept talking, and Mr. Paul ordered security to show the lawyer to the door. Mr. Paul released more than 1,100 pages of Dr. Fauci’s typewrit- ten diary over the weekend, and Republicans used excerpts to re- litigate many of the old controver- sies about the Covid response: the safety of mRNA vaccines, the lab leak theory, the lockdowns, Dr. Fauci’s mask recommendations. “Frankly, the American people deserve an apology,” Mr. Paul said in his opening statement. He ac- cused Dr. Fauci of saying “one thing in public, and another in pri- vate” — a reference to the diary. With the exception of gentle questioning from Senator James Lankford, Republican of Okla- homa, the Republicans were bru- tal — and brutally personal —
being called to testify on Capitol Hill before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which Mr. Paul chairs. Through a representative, Dr. Fauci declined to comment for this article. Who among us would not be mortified to have their diary dumped onto the internet? The entries Dr. Fauci jotted down dur- ing those years were never meant
mandates and champagne galas.
to become public. And many of the entries are scientific in nature, and do concern his fight against the virus. Still, what a fascinating look in- side the Washington whirligig they make. The town’s elite — the people who invited Dr. Fauci to their par- ties and put him in their newspa- per columns and on their televi- sion programs — have been pick- ing through the ego-splattered pages of his diary this week, mor- dantly amused to see that the good doctor turned out to be such a party boy. “I went to a book party last night for Jonathan Karl’s new book about Trump” at Cafe Milano in Georgetown, reads the entry on Nov. 17, 2021. “I was totally swamped all night by people wanting to say hello, shake my hands, and take pictures with me.
Senator Rand Paul, left, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, had David Schertler, center above, the lawyer of Dr. Anthony Fauci, right, removed from the hearing.
with Dr. Fauci. Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, claimed that Dr. Fauci alone was responsi- ble for Covid lockdowns, deaths, vaccine injuries and Americans’ loss of trust in public health. “The haphazard information you released and pushed on the American people with little re- search is appalling,” Mr. Scott said, adding, “You forced loved ones to die alone, destroyed the federal government’s credibility when it comes to public health.” The pandemic was a fast-mov- ing crisis, and Dr. Fauci’s diary makes it clear that he and scien- tists like him were dealing with an unknown virus in which the sci- ence was evolving quickly. Mr. Scott’s comments stood in stark contrast to those of Mr. Lankford, who acknowledged that the pan- demic was “uncharted territory.” At the center of Mr. Paul’s inqui- ry is whether the coronavirus originated naturally, as Dr. Fauci believes, or in a laboratory. Mr. Paul insists that the National In- stitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which Dr. Fauci ran from 1984 until his retirement at the end of 2022, funded dangerous research in China that spun out of control and essentially created the virus that led to the pandemic. Dr. Fauci says that is not true. That research, called gain of function, involves tinkering with the genetic makeup of viruses so that scientists can better under- stand how they evolve and use that information to prevent future pandemics. On Tuesday, Presi- dent Trump announced fresh re- strictions on such work. While Dr. Fauci’s institute did fund research at the Wuhan lab- oratory in China, the National In- stitutes of Health has repeatedly said the viruses being studied
I could not get away from it. Al- though some people may think that this is great to have people treat you like Elvis Presley, but it was really very unnerving.” “Chris and I went to a book party for our friend Ruth Marcus (Washington Post columnist)” at the home of David Bradley, former owner of The Atlantic, reads an- other entry. “Super A list at party: Senator Mark Warner, Kellyanne Conway, Andrea Mitchell, David Ignatius, David Frum, Zeke Emanuel, etc., etc.” After being honored at a gala at the National Portrait Gallery (“it was the highest level of AAA list you could imagine in Washington DC”), he writes about hanging out with Venus and Serena Williams, Clive Davis and the celebrity chef Jose Andres. “We were invited to go across the street by Jose to his restaurant Zaytinya for after hours champagne.” Several entries concern an ap- parently overwhelming number of awards with which he was fes- tooned. “I have received a lot of honors over the last year and a half from a number of prestigious organiza- tions,” he wrote on a different day. “Unfortunately there are so many of these that it is very difficult to fully appreciate them as they all seemed to pile up in a very intense time frame.” Another day, he wrote about re- ceiving the “Leonardo Da Vinci Award" from the National Italian American Foundation: “There was a wonderful series of testimo- nials to me from an amazing group of people: Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Leonardo DiCaprio, Francis Ford Coppolla . . . ”
with American tax dollars were distinct from the one that caused Covid-19. But Mr. Paul asserted that Dr. Fauci had stuck to a nar- row definition of gain-of-function research that did not capture the risks of work his institute had funded in Wuhan. “The American people weren’t asking for a semantics debate over what is gain of function,” the senator said. “They were asking for common sense over whether this research was dangerous in Wuhan.” The top Democrat on the panel, Senator Gary Peters of Michigan, accused Mr. Paul of waging a polit- ically motivated inquiry to “basi- cally legitimize a predetermined conclusion that was reached years ago.” Dr. Fauci and Mr. Paul have been tangling with each other for years. In 2021, when the senator accused Dr. Fauci of lying while testifying before the Senate, Dr. Fauci replied, “If anybody is lying here, Senator, it is you.” Mr. Schertler, Dr. Fauci’s law- yer, said in statement that he be- lieved that exchange “triggered” the senator’s campaign against his client. But he did not deliver the statement, because Mr. Paul refused to let him speak. Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, read parts of the statement into the record. “The accusations that Chair- man Paul continues to propagate are false and disgraceful,” the statement said, “and we will ex- amine all options to hold him ac- countable.” Dr. Fauci has also tangled with Health Secretary Robert F. Ken- nedy Jr., whose 2021 book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” accused Dr. Fauci of colluding with Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and philan-
That’s Amore! But what about the Irish? “The Irish Ambassador said I was ‘beloved in Ireland,’” yet an- other entry reads. Dr. Fauci’s newfound fame put him into the orbit of movie stars and musicians. On Oct. 14, 2020, he wrote: “A FEW DAYS AGO, Ju- lia Roberts sent me beautiful flower arrangement. mailed her my thanks. Scott Atlas still caus- ing problems with his ‘herd immu- nity’ issue.” “Had a great call with Barbra Streisand,” begins an entry be- neath a line graph of confirmed covid cases in the U.S. “I acciden- tally butt called her later in the evening and she said that she was going to call me anyway since she wanted to know if there was any difference between the Moderna and the Pfizer product. I told her none.” “Barbra Called me on my cell phone today and they asked me questions about her booster shot,” another entry reads. “It is always good to hear from her.” On May 11, 2020, Dr. Fauci wrote: "Hilarious video of Billy Crystal playing me in a Trump dungeon prison,” with a link to this video. Hovering over it all was the pandemic that would leave more than a million Americans dead. “I’m supposed to go to an even bigger black tie affair at the home of the French ambassador tomor- row,” Dr. Fauci wrote in November 2021. “I think I am going to cancel out since I don’t want to go through the nerve-wracking expe- rience that I did last night worry- ing about having gotten infected.”
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thropist, and pharmaceutical companies. Mr. Kennedy said on Tuesday that he gave the diary to Mr. Paul, adding that the pages were “not personal journals,” but rather “government records created on a government computer by a fed- eral employee during one of the most consequential public health emergencies in history.” Peter Staley, a longtime AIDS activist and close friend of Dr. Fauci’s, said that Dr. Fauci kept the diary to help write a memoir, which he was already drafting when the pandemic hit. It was published in 2024. Mr. Staley said the personal observations reflect Dr. Fauci being “astonished at what was happening in his life.” On Tuesday, a group of more than 155 physicians, scientists and public health advocates, orga- nized by AIDS activists who worked closely with Dr. Fauci in the 1990s, issued a public letter de- fending him and condemning what they considered the Trump administration’s relentless at- tacks on science and scientists. While the diary does not add much to the scientific debate around the lab leak theory, the en- tries included personal observa- tions in which Dr. Fauci marveled at his fame and his relationships with a rapidly growing list of ce- lebrities, providing fresh fodder for Dr. Fauci’s critics. He de- scribed President Trump as “ram- bling.” On Tuesday, Mr. Trump punched back, posting a 6-year- old video of Dr. Fauci throwing out an errant first pitch during a Washington Nationals game. It was, the president proclaimed, “by far, the worst throw I have ever seen in years of watching first pitches!”
Confirmation From Senate As Spy Chief
By DUSTIN VOLZ
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Jay Clayton, the U.S. at- torney in Manhattan, on Tuesday to oversee the nation’s intelli- gence agencies, installing a long- time ally of the president into a top national security post that has waned in significance during the second Trump administration. The vote, 51 to 47, was along party lines. Though his nomina- tion was initially met with some good will from Democrats, Mr. Clayton shed that bipartisan sup- port during his confirmation hear- ing this month after he refused to clearly state that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had won the 2020 election. Though Democrats opposed Mr. Clayton, some have privately expressed relief that he will take the reins of the Office of the Direc- tor of National Intelligence from Bill Pulte, a housing official who has pursued campaigns of retribu- tion against President Trump’s perceived enemies. Still, in a statement after the vote, Senator Mark Warner, Dem- ocrat of Virginia, voiced some skepticism about Mr. Clayton. “I came away from his confir- mation process with serious res- ervations about whether he would be willing to stand up to political pressure when it matters most,” said Mr. Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Com- mittee. “Now that he has been confirmed, I sincerely hope he proves those concerns unfounded, because the intelligence commu- nity deserves steadier leadership than it has received in recent months.” As acting director, Mr. Pulte has downsized the spy office, making gleeful pronouncements of his moves on social media. On Tues- day morning, Mr. Pulte claimed on X that he had just executed a “5th and Near Final Round of TERMI- NATIONS” that totaled a 30 per- cent staff reduction during his short tenure, though current and former officials said it was unclear whether many of those cuts had actually taken place. Weeks ago, Democrats and Re- publicans were working in tan- dem to quickly confirm Mr. Clay- ton to the post to prevent Mr. Pulte from taking the job even briefly, as some lawmakers feared he could engineer irreversible damage to the intelligence community. But that plan fell apart when Mr. Trump did not allow Mr. Clayton to appear for a confirmation hear- ing as he sought to pressure law- makers to pass a voting restric- tion measure, leading to Mr. Pulte’s weekslong stint. Democrats and some Republi- cans viewed Mr. Pulte, who lacked any national security experience, as ill-suited for the job, and many were eager to see Mr. Clayton, who served as chairman of the Se- curities and Exchange Commis- sion during Mr. Trump’s first term, succeed him. The Office of the Director of Na- tional Intelligence was created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and was intended to facilitate better intelligence co- ordination among spy agencies. Mr. Trump has leaned heavily on the C.I.A. director, John Rat- cliffe, on key national security de- cisions, including a raid in Janu- ary in Venezuela and the war with Iran. He has turned to the office instead to selectively declassify documents and nurse his long- standing grievances against the “deep state” he has accused of try- ing to undermine him. Mr. Ratcliffe recommended Mr. Clayton for the spy chief job to Mr. Trump, according to people famil- iar with the matter, and the two are expected to be more aligned on issues than were Mr. Ratcliffe and Tulsi Gabbard, who an- nounced in May she was stepping down from the post after her hus- band was diagnosed with cancer. During his short tenure atop the agency, Mr. Pulte oversaw staffing cuts and helped declas- sify documents related to the 2020 election. But he has not fired as many people as Democrats had initially feared, and documents the White House released this month concerning foreign elec- tion meddling were in many in- stances information that had al- ready been made public. Though seen as a far more fa- vorable option relative to Mr. Pulte, Democratic senators soured on Mr. Clayton when he supplied evasive answers about whether Mr. Biden had won the 2020 election. In heated ex- changes with Senator Jon Ossoff, a Georgia Democrat who has drawn mentions as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, Mr. Clayton said that Mr. Biden had been “certified” as the winner but declined to more explicitly declare he was the rightful winner.
By HAMED ALEAZIZ and MIRIAM JORDAN
The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports, including spouses of Americans, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with immigration lawyers — a tac- tic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. Immigration agents have whisked away targets at check-in counters and arrival gates, with enforcement actions in at least 15 airports in recent weeks. Some of the arrests have occurred quietly, while others have happened as angry fellow passengers filmed the encounters. The arrests appear to be an ex- pansion of an arrangement be- tween the Transportation Securi- ty Administration and Immigra- tion and Customs Enforcement.
extended to people with expired visas.
The Times reported in December that ICE officers were arresting people with deportation orders at airports with the help of data pro- vided by airlines to the T.S.A. Now, through a review of Home- land Security Department docu- ments and interviews with law- yers for more than 25 people from more than a dozen countries re- cently detained at airports, The Times has learned that the pro- gram apparently now includes people with expired visas — a much larger group. Hundreds of thousands of im- migrants and visitors overstay vi- sas each year. Many with expired visas occupy a legal gray area, as they are awaiting visa extensions or green cards and have been is- sued work permits. Such individu- als were not prioritized for depor- tation in the past unless they had committed crimes, and they were rarely detained while waiting for visa extensions or green cards. But that has changed under Presi- dent Trump, whose administra- tion has undertaken a campaign of mass deportation and views all visa overstays as illegal. “This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to
Sherrill on the Defensive
By TRACEY TULLY
The discovery of as many as 6,600 noncitizens on New Jersey’s voter rolls has thrust the state’s Democratic governor, Mikie Sher- rill, onto a political tightrope. And her balancing act is about to intensify. Ms. Sherrill, who took over in January, on Tuesday defiantly re- fused the Justice Department’s demand that the state turn over personal details about the thou- sands of residents affected by what she has called a software er- ror. “The request had no legal ba- sis,” she said in response to the Trump administration’s request for the “full names, dates of birth, nationalities, residential ad- dresses” of noncitizens who were inadvertently registered to vote between June 2023 and June 2024. The Justice Department quickly pushed back. “DOJ will get this information through all le- gal means!” Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said on X on Tuesday. Ms. Sherrill has stressed that the noncitizens placed on the vot- er rolls when seeking driver's li- censes or IDs were not at fault and has vowed to do what she can to protect them. She has chastised President Trump, accusing him of chasing ghosts of elections past and weap- onizing elections “for political gain.” At the same time, the gover- nor, a moderate in her party, sig- naled last week that she was open to “suggestions that make our elections more safe.” She has also made it clear that the mistake did not happen on her watch, casting blame on the tech- nology vendor that supplied the software, the Motor Vehicle Com- mission and the administration of her predecessor, Philip D. Mur- phy, a fellow Democrat. “Unacceptable,” she said in a news conference — five times. She merely inherited this mess, but cleaning it up could be compli- cated. About 400 of the wrongly regis- tered noncitizens have cast bal- lots since June 2023, Ms. Sherrill said. The governor has said that she had no evidence, “at this time,” that any election was swayed, but has ordered an inde- pendent investigation. (In recent
self-deport,” a spokesperson for the Homeland Security Depart- ment said in a statement. The agency did not confirm the expan- sion of the program. The department, which over- sees ICE, has not disclosed how many people have been detained at airports as overstays under the new initiative. The arrests come during a period in which the White House has pushed ICE for more arrests across the country, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has pledged to turn “up the heat on the streets.” To that end, the administration has set a target of 2,000 immigra- tion arrests a day, roughly double the pace from earlier this year. Interviews with more than a dozen immigration lawyers, advo- cacy groups and an airline em- ployee reveal a broad cross-sec- tion of targets: an engineer await- ing a work-visa extension, several newlyweds married to U.S. citi- zens, and a former au pair. Footage of encounters between travelers and ICE officers have flooded social media. In one widely circulated video, Chantal Morales Rojas, a 27-year-old from Ecuador, was detained by plain- clothes officers as she boarded a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Oakland, Calif., on July 20. She had been spending the weekend with the family for whom she had worked as an au pair, according to the family. When Ms. Morales Rojas scanned her boarding pass, an alarm sounded and the gate agent asked her to wait. Moments later, two plainclothes agents inter- cepted her in the jetway. “They said they were going to be respectful, that they would be polite,” Alicia Dantzker, a friend of the family, who was on the same flight and filmed part of the en- counter, told The Times in an in- terview. The video captures the men encircling Ms. Morales Ro- jas, and then ushering her through a side door and down steps to the tarmac as Ms. Dantzker screams for help. Also among those detained was a Ugandan woman in a wheelchair who has sickle cell anemia and an active asylum application, accord- ing to her lawyer. In another case, ICE attempted to arrest an Australian citizen who had overstayed his visa at the Las Vegas airport, according to the Department of Homeland Securi- ty. The scene was recorded by a bystander whose video of the en- counter drew wide attention. Offi- cers let him go “to de-escalate the
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years, no statewide or New Jersey federal election has been close enough to have been decided by 400 votes.) Nevertheless, the New Jersey situation has given Mr. Trump and his fellow election truthers an ex- ample of unlawful voting that ev- eryone agrees happened and is a problem. “The president has made it a national issue,” said Benjamin Ginsberg, a prominent G.O.P. elec- tion lawyer, who has been critical of the president’s unsubstantiated claims of stolen elections. “And Governor Sherrill,” he continued, “whether she likes it or not, is now the face of that issue.” Ms. Sherrill served in Congress before being elected governor by a 14-point margin last year. She has established a federal political action committee to support “cleareyed leaders who are un- afraid to challenge the status quo,” and has said that she expects the next president to be from the Democratic Party. “I want to be influencing that ticket very heavily,” Ms. Sherrill said in a July 20 interview about what she considered her state’s successful handling of its World Cup hosting duties. A day later, she held a news con- ference and disclosed that a flaw in software used at motor vehicle offices between June 12, 2023, and June 25, 2024, had resulted in thousands of noncitizens being registered to vote, even though they had marked that they were not U.S. citizens and were there- fore ineligible. The software was fixed, Ms. Sherrill said, but the Murphy ad- ministration never notified af- fected residents or removed their names from the rolls. Mr. Murphy, through a spokesman, has said that he was unaware of the breach. Knowingly registering to vote or casting a ballot as a noncitizen is illegal. And as many as 6,600 people now stand in harm’s way as the Trump administration intensi- fies its immigration crackdown. Since last year, when the Justice Department began demanding voter rolls nationwide, more than half of the states, including New Jersey, have refused, leading to lawsuits. Judges have repeatedly ruled against the Trump adminis-
In this screen grab from video, Chantal Rojas is detained in the jet bridge as she tries to board a flight in Denver on July 20.
situation and for officer safety,” but ICE ended up taking him into custody a day later when he tried to board a flight in Los Angeles, the department said in a state- ment. “In 38 years practicing immi- gration law, I had never seen this,” said Charles Kuck, who is based in Atlanta and is representing an In- dian engineer who was detained while awaiting a work-permit ex- tension. “And I know it’s happen- ing to lots of people.” Shannon Shepherd, an immi- gration lawyer who is vice chair for the Chicago chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said she and other lawyers were revising longstand- ing advice about domestic air travel. “Before, I was saying, As long as you have an ID, you can travel domestically,” Ms. Shepherd said. “Now I am turning around and saying, If you are in the process of changing status, avoid any trav- el.” The original collaboration be-
Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey, shown at a news conference in Newark in March, has refused U.S. demands to turn over the names of residents mistakenly listed on the state voter rolls.
tration, finding that states were not obligated to release the data to the federal government. Ms. Sherrill said Tuesday that the state was moving to quickly delete about 4,500 of the affected residents from the rolls. The remaining 2,100 registra- tions are being referred to county election officials. “We are taking this extra step because our initial review indicates that a number of these individuals may be citizens,” she said in a statement. “Just as we have an obligation to remove everyone who is not eligible to vote, we also have a responsibility to protect the voting rights of eligi- ble New Jersey citizens and en- sure no one is improperly re- moved from the rolls.” Last week, the Motor Vehicle Commission began mailing let- ters, in English and in Spanish, alerting those affected. “Notwith- standing your selection of ‘No’ to the U.S. citizenship question, your information was transmitted to the Statewide Voter Registration System for voter registration,” the letters read. The state also set up an information portal, “MVC Sys- tem Error 2023.” Fear in immigrant communi- ties, already high during Mr. Trump’s second term, has soared, said Maria Juega, a founder and former executive director of the Latin American Legal Defense
tween T.S.A. and ICE began in May 2025, when the airport secu- rity agency started sharing infor- mation with the immigration agency for enforcement purposes, according to a document obtained via the Freedom of Information Act from the government trans- parency group American Oversight and shared with The Times. ICE shared names of individu- als with deportation orders with the airport agency, which would run them through its databases and report any hits to ICE for po- tential arrest. It was a remarkable shift from past practices, when the federal government avoided in- volving the T.S.A. in immigration enforcement for fear of disrupting domestic travel. Now, “the net they are casting for people they want to detain is far wider,” said Ghassan Shamieh, an immigration lawyer in San Francisco. “It’s not people with criminal records” being targeted, Mr. Shamieh said. “You are talking
and Education Fund, an immi- grant rights group in Trenton, the state’s capital. “The atmosphere couldn’t be more tense,” Ms. Juega said. “Peo- ple are scared to death of leaving their houses.” New Jersey is one of 19 states that both allow undocumented im- migrants to obtain driver’s li- censes and make it easy to regis- ter to vote at motor vehicle offices. A website where users can look up whether they are registered to vote is cranky and in English, Ms. Juega noted, fueling confusion among immigrants who now fear they may unwittingly be at risk. “It’s just a mess — a total mess,” she said. Ms. Sherrill has promised transparency and committed to holding those responsible ac- countable. “We inherited a problem. We didn’t hide it. We didn’t deny it,” she said Tuesday. But the timing of the discovery could hardly be worse, with less than 100 days until the midterm elections. “She doesn’t have the luxury of time,” said Micah Rasmussen, di- rector of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University. It remains an open question how much the controversy will resonate beyond New Jersey. But
about people with legitimate pending applications.” Mr. Shamieh has four clients who were detained at airports in the last 10 days, including two women who recently married Americans and are in the process of obtaining permanent residency through their spouses. One of the husbands was with his wife when she was taken into custody after they landed in Burbank, Calif. On Tuesday morning, an immi- gration judge granted her release on a $35,000 bond. But D.H.S. law- yers reserved the right to appeal within 30 days, and she is likely to remain detained until they decide. Ms. Morales Rojas, the au pair, entered the United States lawfully in January 2023 as a J-1 exchange visitor, a legal status that allowed her to work for two years, accord- ing to her lawyer. Her visa expired Jan. 4, 2025, according to D.H.S. Before the exchange program ended, Ms. Morales Rojas filed an application with immigration au- thorities to remain in the country, said the lawyer, Laura Lichter. “During the last three and a half years, Morales Rojas lived openly in the United States with the gov- ernment’s knowledge of her pend- ing case, passed repeated back- ground checks, and received work authorization from D.H.S. while waiting for her application to be reviewed,” Ms. Lichter said. “The process she’s pursuing is com- pletely lawful.” But homeland security officials said in a statement that “in vio- lation of our nation’s laws, she overstayed her visa.” On Tuesday afternoon, a judge granted her re- lease on a $3,000 bond, and she is likely to leave detention by Wednesday. Ms. Lichter has filed suit chal- lenging the government’s deci- sion to arrest and detain Ms. Mo- rales Rojas without a proper ar- rest warrant and without an indi- vidualized determination that detention was necessary. Lauren and Scott Cahr, her for- mer employers, said they had hired Ms. Morales Rojas when their first child, Silas, was 6 months old. The family formed a deep bond, and the Cahrs created a custom photo book titled “The Adven- tures of Chanty and Gordo,” the nicknames Ms. Morales Rojas and their son called each other, as a parting gift. “She is an amazing young wom- an who we were so lucky to have in our lives,” Ms. Cahr said. “We have tried to maintain a consis- tent relationship with her.”
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Republicans in Trenton and in Washington have said that Ms. Sherrill’s effort to make clear that the error took place on Mr. Mur- phy’s watch is a distinction with- out a difference. Joe Pennacchio, a Republican state senator, said Democrats were to blame. “They were in charge of the hen house,” he said. The Democratic response in New Jersey has been notably muted. State Senator Andrew Zwicker was one of the few Democrats who offered a full-throated defense of New Jersey’s elections after Ms. Sherrill’s disclosure, stressing how small a fraction of the total vote was involved. Still, Mr. Zwicker acknowledged that New Jersey’s voter-registra- tion error has “been sucked up into” Mr. Trump’s narrative of widespread illegal voting. “It’s utterly discouraging,” he said. Mr. Ginsberg, the election law- yer, said it was possible for Ms. Sherrill to turn the controversy to her advantage, if, for example, she were able to create a bipartisan model for auditing voter rolls that other states could emulate. “It’s an interesting test for somebody who wants to be on the national stage,” he said. “There’s a chance for her to turn something really messy into an opportunity.”
With Felony For Purging Phone Data
By ADEEL HASSAN
It sounds like something that James Bond would use: a gadget that self-destructs if it falls into the wrong hands. But it’s actually an open-source operating system that can be downloaded onto An- droid phones. Federal prosecutors in Atlanta are bringing an obstruction charge against a U.S. citizen who gave customs officers what is known as a duress passcode, which activated software that erased the contents of his phone. The authorities stopped Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta resident, at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Inter- national Airport as he returned to the U.S. on Jan. 24 last year, ac- cording to a November grand jury indictment. The authorities seized his phone before allowing him to enter the country. A hearing on the case was held last week in fed- eral court in Atlanta. The prosecution is one of the earliest known instances of au- thorities charging a person with destroying evidence with a pro- gram designed to wipe a device when a specific code is entered. Mr. Tunick’s lawyers argued during the hearing last week that the seizure was unlawful, and that he was targeted because of his po- litical activism against Atlanta’s plan to build a police and fire train- ing center within a 1,000-acre stretch of urban woodland. Oppo- nents argue that the center, known as Cop City, would milita- rize officers and destroy precious green space.
The statute behind the charge The federal statute underlying the charge makes it a felony to de- stroy evidence or transfer assets to keep the government from seiz- ing them, or to tip someone off about an upcoming search or wiretap. It carries a penalty of up to five years in federal prison, a fine, or both. The act applies before, during or after a search. If the target of an investigation knows that a search or seizure is imminent, and that person acts to thwart it, they would fall under the statute, ex- perts said.
Why digital data can be seized Courts have long treated digital data as property — think about in- tellectual property theft as one ex- ample — so a software wipe is treated in the legal system no dif- ferently than flushing physical ev- idence. The government’s argument here is that the physical phone was just a container. The data it- self was the property that they had lawful authority to seize, and inputting the duress code was the physical act that caused its de- struction. “The statute says explicitly it has to be for the purpose of pre- venting or impairing the govern- ment’s lawful authority,” said Dan- iel Richman, a law professor at Co- lumbia University and a former prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office. “The key is he gave the code to the government, knowing that the entry of this code would erase the evidence.”
Does it matter that it was a customs search? That it was a border search is cen- tral to both the government’s prosecution and the defense’s le- gal challenge. Customs and border authorities believe that they have the right to search and seize incoming trav- elers’ digital devices without a search warrant or court order be- cause travelers are not on U.S. soil until they’re authorized to enter. Mr. Tunick, who was returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic, and his lawyers argue that even at an international air- port, travelers retain vital protec- tions. They said that he was sub- jected to an unlawful detention, was never read his rights and was repeatedly denied requests to speak with a lawyer. His lawyers were not immedi- ately available for comment on Tuesday.
How a duress passcode works A duress passcode is a privacy and security feature in which a user has previously configured a secondary passcode that is not their usual code to unlock the screen. If the user is forced or pressured to hand over their phone, they can provide this pass- code instead of the one that un- locks their phone. When the duress passcode is entered, rather than unlocking the phone, the operating system starts a full wipe of the device’s digital contents. The process leaves the physical device and hardware intact while erasing the underlying digital data.
plished.” That report showed that overall consumer prices were 3.5 percent higher in June than a year earlier, down from a 4.2 percent annual rate in May. Mr. Warsh, at a news confer- ence on Wednesday, was on the defensive as he was pressed to ex- plain how keeping rates steady, and not letting them rise, was compatible with his “price stabil- ity” pledge. He opened the news conference by saying that “where necessary and appropriate, we will not hesitate to act.” He pushed back on the idea that the Fed was on “pause” at this meeting, and he repeatedly said there was “noth- ing inertial” about the Fed’s dis- cussion, its policy or its strategy. Up until this point, however, Mr. Warsh has not specified how ex- actly he will make good on his in- flation pledge. When asked at con- gressional hearings this month how the Fed would tame inflation, he stipulated that the central bank would assert its commitment to getting it down, take responsibil- ity for any failure in doing so and study the policy tools at its dispos- al. When asked specifically about the effectiveness of the Fed’s tools and whether higher rates were the best remedy to tackle infla- tion, Mr. Warsh on Wednesday said that this was one tool that “could well be part of that solution, but I wouldn’t say it’s in isolation.” Mr. Warsh instead homed in on recent gyrations in financial mar-
President’s Choice For Top Prosecutor
By DEVLIN BARRETT and ALAN FEUER
WASHINGTON — Two days before Senate lawmakers were scheduled to vote on advancing Todd Blanche’s nomination to serve as attorney general, a mil- lion-dollar payout was announced for an anti-abortion activist he has called a victim of government weaponization by the Biden ad- ministration. The settlement given to Paul Vaughn, who was convicted by a Tennessee jury in 2024 of conspir- ing to prevent access to an abor- tion clinic, shows how the goal of a $1.8 billion fund announced in May can continue, despite a public retreat by Mr. Blanche. An al- ready existing avenue for disburs- ing taxpayer money could allow him to assuage skeptical Republi- cans while fulfilling President Trump’s desire to pay people he believes were wronged by the Jus- tice Department. Mr. Vaughn will receive a sev- en-figure settlement from the gov- ernment, his lawyers said, mak- ing him among those aligned with the administration who have re- ceived a payout by an alternative means. Since 1870, the Justice Depart- ment has handled claims for civil compensation against the federal government. Such claims can be filed through public lawsuits, or privately through forms sent di- rectly to the department. Mr. Vaughn, whom the presi- dent pardoned last year, has in- sisted he is innocent and accused the Biden administration of mis- using a law meant to ensure wom- en and health care professionals have unobstructed access to re- productive services. The settlement was reached by his lawyers at the Thomas More Society, which often represents anti-abortion activists, in April but first disclosed on Tuesday in a statement that said their client had been prosecuted for political reasons and as part of a govern- ment weaponization effort against people who oppose abor- tion rights. The continuing ability of the de- partment to make such payouts with or without a formal fund structure is one of the sticking points between the Trump admin- istration and Republican senators as they weigh the nomination of Mr. Blanche, currently the acting attorney general. In May, the Justice Department announced that it would resolve a lawsuit from Mr. Trump demand- ing at least $10 billion from the I.R.S. by establishing a fund in- tended to compensate his sup- porters, raising the possibility that taxpayer money could be fun- neled to Jan. 6 rioters. A related provision barred the I.R.S. from pursuing audits of past tax re- turns of Mr. Trump and his family. A single “no” from a Republican on the Senate Judiciary Commit- tee could stall or sink his nomina- tion. Two Republican senators, John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, threat- ened on Wednesday to block the
Kevin M. Warsh, Fed chairman, has staked his reputation on tam- ing inflation, using a target of 2 percent as gauged by a key index.
kets, most notably the rise in yields on inflation-adjusted gov- ernment bonds. The recent tight- ening of financial conditions, which capture the availability of credit across the economy, pro- vided the Fed with “some comfort that we’ve got the ability and ca- pability to deliver,” he said. As Mr. Warsh spoke, longer dated Treasury yields rose sharply, with the 30-year bond closing in on its May peak of 5.2 percent. That was the highest lev- el since 2007. The rise in the 30- year Treasury yield suggests some worry about Mr. Warsh’s ability to tackle inflation in the long run. The case for leaving rates un- changed hinges on an assumption
Todd Blanche, top, the acting attorney general, said the Jus- tice Department shelved a planned $1.8 billion fund. Senator John Cornyn of Texas, right, threatened to block Mr. Blanche’s nomination.
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nomination. The pair, who lost their seats after defying Mr. Trump, accused Mr. Blanche of re- fusing to put his promise to kill as- pects of the deal down on paper. Mr. Cornyn, who has voiced his concerns the loudest, said he would not support the nomination unless Mr. Blanche provided writ- ten assurances about the end of the fund and the tax provision. He said he was not “prepared to vote yes” on Wednesday and gave the department until 4 p.m. to produce clear written guarantees on the fund and tax deal. He added it is possible the vote could be postponed. “We actually sent them a red- line strikeout of what we need, and they just need to make a deci- sion,” Mr. Cornyn said. Mr. Tillis expressed solidarity with Mr. Cornyn but appeared to be considerably more sanguine, stating he believed the two sides would reach an agreement that would clear a path for a floor vote on confirmation. “We’re trying to work just to get the language,” Mr. Tillis told re- porters. “I really do believe it’s just a drafting exercise. I don’t be- lieve that we’re apart in terms of the objective.” Mr. Blanche has publicly de- fended the fund as necessary for “victims of lawfare and weap- onization to be heard and seek re- dress.” Democrats called it a brazen slush fund meant to steer huge sums of taxpayer dollars to the president’s supporters. Despite his public retreat, Mr. Blanche has resisted providing a written guarantee to the courts or Congress that the fund will not come back in some form. Two weeks ago, Judge Kathleen M. Williams of Federal District Court in the Southern District of Florida, wrote that she was “ex- tremely troubled” by Mr. Blanche’s answers to the Senate about the fund. In testimony in May, Mr. Blanche told the senators there was “no mechanism” for a legal re- view of the agreement creating the fund. He argued that docu- ments had never been submitted to a court for scrutiny because the case from which it emerged, a law- suit Mr. Trump filed against the
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that the Fed can afford to be pa- tient before making a move. Many policymakers see scope for infla- tion to decelerate in the second half of the year. By the next meet- ing, in September, the Fed will have two more months of data in hand. Moreover, the public has not yet lost confidence in the Fed’s ability to eventually reach its goal, as evi- denced by a range of metrics tracking inflation expectations. Mr. Warsh clarified on Wednesday that price stability means return- ing inflation, as measured by the Personal Consumption Expendi- tures price index, to 2 percent. “There is no soft implicit target, not on this committee’s watch,” he said. “There’s only a target, and
I.R.S. over the leak of his tax re- turns, had been dismissed. “This answer is, at best, mis- leading and, at worst, disingenu- ous,” the judge wrote. “The court was available to review any plead- ing by any party at any time dur- ing this lawsuit.” Another federal judge, Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern Dis- trict of Virginia, has left alive a lawsuit seeking to dismantle the fund. She said the case remained open because Mr. Blanche and the Justice Department had refused to file an affidavit under penalty of perjury “that they will not take any action to create or operate” the payout fund and that it “will not proceed in any manner, under any name.” Mr. Blanche has pushed back against such demands. Even as he promised lawmakers in June that the fund was dead, “I’m not com- mitting to putting anything in writing.” The reason for creating the fund, he also told lawmakers, “re- main as important as they were before.” The fight over the fund is the most consequential instance of Mr. Blanche’s singular manage- ment style since he became the No. 2 Justice Department official in March 2025. Far more than his predecessors, Mr. Blanche has publicly taken direct control over key decisions in politically fraught cases, often prompting criticism that he continues to act like Mr. Trump’s personal defense attor- ney, rather than a senior law en- forcement official with responsi- bilities to taxpayers, the rule of law and the public. Federal judges have repeatedly singled out Mr. Blanche by name, highlighting the direct role he has played in a wide array of what judges have cast as prosecutorial missteps. But Mr. Blanche has in some ways invited the censure by
it’s 2 percent.” But the longer inflation stays above that level, the more likely that this confidence is rattled. Offi- cials have made clear that if infla- tion does not retreat soon, they will stand ready to raise rates. What has made the trajectory for rates especially hard to dis- cern, however, is Mr. Warsh’s pref- erence to keep quiet about how he views the outlook. That obscurity, which he said was important so that the Fed could get an “unfil- tered” view of what markets think, had fueled speculation ahead of Wednesday’s meeting that Mr. Warsh might deliver a surprise rate increase. “Surprises are not the objective, but at the same time, I would say we didn’t come into this meeting feeling constrained by the full range of alternatives we had in front of us,” he said. Traders are now pricing in a rate increase for December and have dialed back expectations for a September move. A rate rise later this year would no doubt anger Mr. Trump, who tapped Mr. Warsh for the job. The president has long wanted the central bank to lower rates. Fol- lowing Wednesday’s decision, Mr. Trump laid the blame on Mr. Warsh’s colleagues, who vote alongside the chairman on policy decisions. “I know he’d love to see lower interest rates, but he’s got a board, and it’s a political board, and they want to keep rates up,” the presi- dent said.
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repeatedly taking on high-profile cases that would typically have been left to subordinates. In May, for instance, a federal judge in Nashville put Mr. Blanche at the heart of his decision to dis- miss a human smuggling case against the Salvadoran immi- grant Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia as a vindictive “abuse of prosecuting power.” The judge, Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr., found that Mr. Blanche had led a “tainted investigation” and sought an indictment not because the facts and law demanded one, but rather to give the department “cover” for doing what it said it would never do: bring Mr. Abrego Garcia back to the United States from his wrongful deportation to El Salvador. The next month, a federal judge in Minnesota also took aim at Mr. Blanche, saying that his ag- gressive statements about Gov. Tim Walz and other Democratic leaders had paved the way for the Justice Department to issue a raft of improper grand jury subpoenas during an investigation into whether elected officials in the state had interfered with the Trump administration’s immigra- tion crackdown. The judge, Patrick J. Schiltz, pointed out that Mr. Blanche had accused Mr. Walz and Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, of “en- couraging violence against law enforcement” and vowed that he would stop their “terrorism by whatever means necessary.” Judge Schiltz ultimately quashed the subpoenas. He ruled that they were “part of a broader campaign to coerce” officials in Minnesota to help with Mr. Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda, coming when the admin- istration had used “criminal in- vestigations to retaliate against and pressure the president’s polit- ical and personal adversaries.”
Of Interview With Comey
Secret Service agents who questioned the former F.B.I. direc- tor James B. Comey were told to quickly send a written summary of the interview to President Trump on Air Force One, accord- ing to a new court filing by Mr. Comey’s lawyers seeking to dis- miss criminal charges over a so- cial media post. The disclosure, included in in- ternal government documents turned over to Mr. Comey, is one of the most glaring examples to date of the degree to which Mr. Trump now directs federal law enforce- ment actions. The records suggest his intense personal involvement in investigating his longtime nem- esis and a sharp break from past practice in which the president re- mained removed from criminal in- quiries. Mr. Comey posted a photograph of seashells on a beach arranged to read “86 47” to his Instagram account in May 2025, and the pres- ident’s supporters quickly de- nounced the post as a threat. Mr. Comey denied that, saying he had understood the term “86” to be restaurant jargon for expelling an unruly patron. The number 47 refers to the 47th president, Mr. Trump. The Justice Department brought charges in April, deeming the photograph a threat to assas- sinate the president. Mr. Comey’s lawyers, in their filing, urged the judge to dismiss the case as a vin- dictive and selective prosecution based on the president’s long- standing personal loathing for Mr. Comey, who served as F.B.I. direc- tor until Mr. Trump fired him in May 2017. Mr. Comey has also sought to have the charge dismissed on the grounds that his social media post was protected by the First Amendment as nonthreatening political speech. Moreover, he has urged the judge to scrutinize the grand jury proceedings for any indication that prosecutors misled members of the panel to secure the indict- ment in the case. A Justice Department spokes- woman declined to comment. The filing offers more detail into the lengths law enforcement agencies went to pursue Mr. Comey hours after he shared, then deleted, his post. Earlier reporting by The New York Times described how the Secret Service spoke to Mr. Comey on the phone, trailed him as he drove from a vacation home in North Carolina to Virgin- ia, and asked his cellphone service provider to give the authorities real-time tracking information about his location. One Secret Service message cited in the filing from that day said that “the # 3 guy at DOJ ‘wanted to ping the cellphone’” of Mr. Comey using an exigent cir- cumstances request, referring to a legal process typically deployed in fast-moving emergency investi- gations where court orders may take too long because someone could be in danger. The Secret Service messages do not appear to name the senior Justice Department official, but the No. 3 position at the depart- ment is the associate attorney general, a job that was not filled by a Senate-confirmed official at that time. During that time, the Secret Service agents following Mr. Comey’s car lost him briefly be- cause he had turned off the high- way to visit the gravesite of his son who died in 1995, the filing said. The next day, Mr. Comey agreed to be interviewed face to face. One government document said that “POTUS was requesting a copy of the interview notes to use in his 6 p.m. press conference.” At the time, Mr. Trump was traveling on Air Force One, and a Secret Serv- ice agent described the interview as “a hot topic on the plane,” say- ing that the president was “very interested.” Another Secret Service official relayed that Mr. Trump had made a “direct request” for a “summary of the interview when available.” That summary was then sent to a senior Secret Service agent on Air Force One. Yet in an interview on Fox News that day, Mr. Trump declared, “I’m not going to get involved.” The president said Mr. Comey knew exactly what his seashell photo meant, adding, “That meant as- sassination.” The interview with Mr. Comey was unusual in another respect, according to the court filing. The top lawyers at the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service attended the interview in person, as did a federal prosecutor from Virginia, according to the court filing. The acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, has said prosecu- tors gathered more evidence against Mr. Comey beyond the photo, but he has declined to say what that evidence is. The defense filing recounts a litany of ways in which the F.B.I. tried and failed to find additional incriminating evi- dence. Mr. Trump and his supporters have repeatedly insisted that “86,” in mob parlance, means to kill
someone. Trying to bolster that claim, F.B.I. investigators repeat- edly searched investigative files and court records for confirma- tion, only to fall short again and again. One agent searched the F.B.I.’s vast Sentinel databases for refer- ences to “86” that meant killing, and the results were “inconclu- sive,” according to the filing. Another investigator scoured a 33-year-old transcript of a mob trial in which Mr. Comey had been the lead prosecutor for references to “86” and came up empty. Re-
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James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, posted a photo of seashells on Instagram.
tired agents who had worked mob cases in New York were inter- viewed and they, too, said they did not know of the term “86” being used as slang for killing, though one retired agent conceded he generally thought of it as meaning to “get rid of things.” At one point, an agent inter- viewed the former mobster Salva- tore Gravano, better known as “Sammy the Bull,” who became a major government witness against John Gotti, who led the no- torious Gambino crime family. Mr. Gravano, according to the court filing, said that to gangsters, “86” meant “to kill,” though he also said he did not recall ever dis- cussing the term with Mr. Comey in preparing for the trial. Mr. Gra- vano said he believed Mr. Comey’s social media post was a call for vi- olence against Mr. Trump. Investigators managed to find one person, identified in the filings only as “Person-1,” who claimed that Mr. Comey must have known that “86” was a term for commit- ting violence given his history as a prosecutor on high-profile mafia cases. Prosecutors used statements from Person-1 as evidence to ob- tain warrants to search Mr. Comey’s digital files, but his law- yers say the government never re- vealed to the judge who signed the warrants that Person-1 had told investigators that he wanted Mr. Comey to be jailed and had not communicated with him for years.
May Risk G.O.P. Hold On Ohio Seat in House
By ANNIE KARNI and ROBERT DRAPER
WASHINGTON — A sordid, yearslong family drama involving two powerful Republican mem- bers of Congress from Ohio and al- legations of domestic abuse is threatening to put a fairly safe G.O.P. House seat at risk in an al- ready challenging midterm elec- tion year for the party. Representative Max Miller, a second-term Republican repre- senting northeast Ohio whose po- litical rise was fueled by his close relationship to President Trump, has been accused by his former wife, Emily Moreno, of domestic abuse against her and their 2- year-old daughter. Ms. Moreno, the daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno, also an Ohio Republican, has said that Mr. Miller scalded her chest and stom- ach by throwing hot water from a skillet at her body; held a gun to her head; pushed her against a
family feud raises Democrats’ hopes.
wall and hit her head; and frac- tured their daughter’s collarbone and bruised her shoulder. According to court documents, their daughter at one point told Ms. Moreno, “Daddy kill you.” Mr. Miller has not only denied it all, he has gone on offense against Ms. Moreno, making damaging accusations of his own in a series of media interviews, court filings and countersuits that have kept the family’s personal trauma in the headlines. He has called his former wife mentally ill, a liar, a stalker and a dangerous individ- ual who has made him and their daughter unsafe. The legal and public relations war has in recent weeks risen to the level of a serious concern to Mr. Trump’s political operation, as well as to White House officials, who are keenly aware that every seat matters as they stare down an electoral map that shows them at risk of losing their House ma- jority. They worry that Mr. Miller is harming his re-election chances and Republicans’ hopes of pre- serving the seat, according to three people familiar with internal discussions who spoke about them on the condition of ano- nymity. And Democrats, who initially had little hope of flipping the seat, are newly bullish about their chances in the district, tempered only by a worry that Republicans
By ERNESTO LONDOÑO
The police chief in St. Paul, Minn., has filed a sexual har- assment complaint against the city’s mayor asserting that she be- haved inappropriately toward him and other members of the po- lice force during her first months on the job. Chief Axel Henry, who has led the St. Paul Police Department since 2022, told top city officials in March about a series of incidents involving Mayor Kaohly Her, ac- cording to records reviewed by The Times. The records provide few details of the incidents. The city has hired an outside law firm to conduct an investiga- tion into the mayor’s conduct, the records show. Mayor Her, who be- came the first woman to serve as St. Paul’s mayor when she took of- fice in January, declined a request for an interview. Matt Wagenius, a spokesman for the mayor, said in an emailed statement, that he could not an- swer questions about an ongoing investigation. “The mayor has deep respect for city employees and regrets any unintended im- pact her actions may have had,” he said. Chief Henry also declined a re- quest for an interview. “Chief Henry will do everything to ensure that appropriate con- duct is modeled and followed in the St. Paul Police Department,” Chris Madel, a lawyer represent- ing the police chief, said. It was uncertain how the inves- tigation, which had not previously been disclosed, was affecting business at City Hall. It was un- folding as St. Paul, a focus of a fed- eral immigration crackdown earli- er in the year, faces significant challenges, including a projected $26 million deficit as well as highly debated efforts to clear a large homeless encampment. In an April 1 letter, Mr. Madel notified Irene Kao, the city attor- ney for St. Paul, that Chief Henry planned “to step forward as a for-
may intervene and replace Mr. Miller on the ballot before an Aug. 5 deadline. Mr. Miller angrily disputed the notion that his seat was in jeop- ardy in a series of text messages in which he threatened to block a reporter’s number for seeking comment about the matter. “Texas is turning blue like I’m losing my seat,” he wrote in one text. “Take a hike. After I win by more than my district, don’t both- er ever contacting me again.” Mr. Miller added, “You’re disgusting,” noting that his child was involved, and saying that any such story was “trash.” He has continued to rage at Ms. Moreno publicly. In a recent interview with Spec- trum News, Mr. Miller said that his former wife “sadly isn’t all there.” In court, he has accused Ms. Moreno of making “repeated false reports” to child protective serv- ices, medical professionals, law enforcement and others. He has filed a defamation lawsuit against Ms. Moreno, saying she was run- ning a smear campaign against him. He has claimed that Ms. More- no has untreated bipolar disorder and said that she is stalking him and trying to damage his reputa- tion. He has told the court that he fears for his safety because of Ms. Moreno’s “vindictive and unpre- dictable behavior,” asserting that she owns at least one handgun, and claimed that their daughter’s collarbone injury was caused by Ms. Moreno’s reckless driving. Ms. Moreno’s lawyer, Andrew Zashin, has said that she does not own a handgun, and Mr. Miller has not specified what kind or where it is. Her lawyer has also said she does not have a diagnosis of bi- polar disorder. (Mr. Miller has sued Mr. Zashin.) The recent conduct of Mr. Miller, who was once close with the president as well as Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, has become a source of frus- tration in the president’s circle, ac- cording to people familiar with their thinking. Many of them view his political problems as ones of his own making, and his to fix. According to internal polling re- search by Democrats, Mr. Miller appears just one percentage point ahead of his Democratic chal- lenger, Brian Poindexter, in a dis- trict that Mr. Trump won by dou- ble digits in 2024. The Democratic campaign arm has yet to spend any money in the district high- lighting the claims against Mr. Miller, which aides said they planned to do. “If all the allegations prove to be true,” Mr. Poindexter said in an in- terview, “Miller should be in jail, not worried about retaining a seat
Police Chief Axel Henry told city officials Mayor Kaohly Her behaved inappropriately toward him.
mal complainant against the may- or after becoming aware that the mayor’s conduct has extended be- yond isolated incidents and has in- cluded sexual harassment of sub- ordinate city employees, includ- ing members of the Saint Paul Po- lice Department.” The independent review is be- ing conducted by Cally Kjellberg- Nelson, an employment law ex- pert at the law firm Resolute Law, according to records obtained by The Times. Ms. Kjellberg-Nelson did not immediately respond to an email seeking information about the status of her inquiry. Mr. Wagenius said he did not know when the review would be completed. Asked whether its findings would be shared with the public, he added: “We will honor all applicable laws when making the determination on the report.” Mr. Madel’s letter included a screenshot of a text message, which Mr. Madel said the mayor had sent to a city employee. It in- cluded an image, along with a message that read, “When she
in Congress.” Republicans close to Mr. Trump said they had viewed private polling that was also alarming for Mr. Miller’s candidacy. A spokes- woman for the party’s House cam- paign arm did not respond to a re- quest for comment on the race. A spokeswoman for Mr. Miller’s campaign, Abigail Angelos, noted that the court has continued to permit Mr. Miller joint custody of his child, undermining the credi- bility of what she called “out- rageous accusations” against him. She said Mr. Miller would “contin- ue to vigorously defend his repu- tation against false and reckless allegations designed to inflame public opinion rather than reflect reality.” Mr. Miller is not the only House Republican facing allegations and investigations that could compli- cate re-election efforts. Repre- sentative Cory Mills of Florida was investigated by the Metropol- itan Police Department in Wash- ington last year in connection with a report of an assault on a woman.
wraps you up in her blanket after you gave her a good weinering,” followed by two crying laughter emojis. Chief Henry, a St. Paul native who rose through the ranks since joining the department in 1998, has kept a relatively low profile since former Mayor Melvin Carter appointed him to lead the department in November 2022 for a six-year term. During his tenure, St. Paul has seen a drop in violent crime, which Chief Henry has attributed in part to an initiative to ag- gressively investigate nonfatal shootings. At times, the department has faced criticism. Last year, City Council members and residents objected after officers used chem- ical irritants and projectiles against protesters during an im- migration arrest. Ms. Her, the daughter of Hmong refugees from Laos, spent part of her childhood in a refugee camp before moving to the United States in the 1970s.
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In another case, his former girl- friend was issued a protective or- der against him after accusing him of threatening her with re- venge porn after their breakup. He has also been under investiga- tion by the House Ethics Commit- tee and has vehemently denied wrongdoing. And Representative Chuck Ed- wards of North Carolina is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee regarding allegations of sexual harassment in his office. Mr. Edwards has denied those al- legations. But Mr. Miller’s case is, per- haps, the most shocking and de- tailed, and it involves a family drama that has ripped apart the G.O.P. delegation representing Ohio and pitted two MAGA loy- alists against each other. Mr. Moreno has remained pub- licly quiet about the case, which has created an awkward discon- nect between both men’s political interest — keeping Mr. Miller’s seat in Republican hands — and the family feud.
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She represented a St. Paul dis- trict in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2019 to 2025. A moderate Democrat who worked in finance and nonprofits earlier in her career, Ms. Her served as policy director for the city of St. Paul during Mr. Carter’s first mayoral term. She surprised the city’s political establishment by launching a run for mayor last August, leaving her only three months to campaign against her former ally, Mr. Carter, who was well established. She made history as the city’s first fe- male mayor and as the first Asian person elected to the role. Ms. Her campaigned ag- gressively and found support for her message that the city’s prob- lems required a more assertive, responsive and business-savvy leader. She promised to revitalize the downtown district, make it easier for businesses to thrive, lower housing costs and to redou- ble efforts to protect undocument- ed residents from the Trump ad- ministration’s crackdown.
Max Miller and Emily Moreno, above, in 2022, shortly after he won his first House term. The couple filed for divorce in 2024. Ms. Moreno’s father, Bernie Moreno, left, who won a Senate race in 2024, at a rally with Donald J. Trump in Ohio that year.
A spokeswoman for Mr. More- no, Reagan McCarthy, said that “Senator Moreno’s top priority is the safety and well-being of his daughter and granddaughter.” The spokeswoman added, “While he will not litigate these matters in the media or respond to baseless public attacks, he will do whatever it takes to ensure a just outcome for his family.” Mr. Miller and Ms. Moreno first met while working on Marco Ru- bio’s presidential campaign in 2015 and rekindled their relation- ship years later, after Mr. Miller’s star took off when he joined the White House as director of Mr. Trump’s advance team and be- came close with the president. During the first Trump term, Mr. Miller was known internally at the White House as “The Music Man,” for his role in queuing up the president’s favorite show tunes, including “Memory” from “Cats,” when he was in a foul mood. He was the president’s loyal choice to challenge Representa- tive Anthony Gonzalez, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him after the Jan. 6, 2021, mob attack on the Capitol. “Max — great guy, I can tell you,” the president said at a 2021 rally in Ohio. “He’s a great guy.” Mr. Gonzalez promptly retired instead of seeking re-election. Ms. Moreno left campaign poli- tics behind to create a dating app for Trump supporters. She and Mr. Miller were married at Mr. Trump’s Bedminster golf club in 2022, with Mr. Trump and close al-
Within Hours of Each Other
By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS
Florida took the rare step of ex- ecuting two men within five hours of each other on Tuesday, part of a dramatic rise in the carrying out of capital punishments during Gov. Ron DeSantis’s second term. The men died by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in north- central Florida after the Supreme Court declined to halt their execu- tions. Each had been convicted of murder in the 1980s. James Duckett, 68, a former po- lice officer who was convicted of sexually assaulting and stran- gling an 11-year-old girl, was pro- nounced dead at 1:19 p.m. Domi- nick Occhicone Jr., 80, was execut- ed at 6:13 p.m. Mr. Occhicone, con- victed of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents, became the second octogenarian put to death in the United States in the last 50 years. The executions were the 11th and 12th in Florida this year and came as the Trump administra- tion has encouraged states to more aggressively pursue the death penalty. Florida has accounted for more than half of the executions in the United States this year, and at least one more is scheduled. Mr. Duckett was convicted of murdering Teresa McAbee, 11, in 1987, after placing her in his police cruiser. He had maintained that he was innocent. Teresa’s mother, Dorothy Tula, said in a statement released by prosecutors that she was grateful the execution had taken place. “My family and I are glad this day is finally here — because it’s about justice for my daughter and remembering her, not the man who stole her future,” Ms. Tula said. The last time Florida executed two men in one day was in 1964, using the electric chair.
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lies, including Richard Grenell and Kellyanne Conway, in attend- ance. For a moment, the union looked as if it would be a boon for Mr. Miller’s career. His new father-in- law, a wealthy former car dealer and hard-right Republican, donat- ed tens of thousands of dollars to his various campaign committees. Mr. Moreno was elected to the Senate in 2024, defeating Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat. But the golden era was short- lived. The couple filed for divorce almost two years to the day after the wedding and have been stuck in a cycle of competing lawsuits revealing details of their personal lives ever since. Ms. Moreno is not the first wom- an to level domestic abuse allega- tions against Mr. Miller. In her memoir, Stephanie Grisham, the former White House press secre- tary, wrote that she dated some- one else in the administration who was physically abusive; she later acknowledged she had referred to Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller denied her allega- tions and sued her, alleging defa- mation and claiming she was try- ing to ruin his campaign for Con- gress. In his recent media tour, he has also managed to reopen his years- old court battle with Ms. Grisham. This month, Ms. Grisham sued Mr. Miller, claiming he broke their nondisclosure agreement, part of a 2023 settlement, in an interview and in a social media post in which he claims she fabricated the abuse.
States have executed multiple people on the same day 11 times since the death penalty was re- instated by a Supreme Court rul- ing in 1976, according to the non- profit Death Penalty Information Center. The most recent was in Ar- kansas, in 2017. In 2014, Oklahoma had planned to execute two men in a day, but put off the second killing when the first man’s execution was botched. The error led him to writhe in pain and die of what pris- on officials said at the time was a heart attack. Groups opposing the death pen- alty had argued that carrying out back-to-back executions would make it more likely that they could be mishandled. “There was no explanation or reason for this risky proposition, and it was seemingly made with no regard for the solemn, neces- sary process of the final days of the condemned,” one group, Flo- ridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, said in a state- ment. Bill Gladson, the state attorney in Florida’s Fifth Judicial District, where Mr. Duckett’s case was prosecuted, said in a statement that many people had “long awaited” the case’s conclusion. “Our office reaffirms our com- mitment to seeking justice with in- tegrity, supporting victims and their families, and ensuring that the rule of law is faithfully upheld in every case we prosecute,” he said. State officials moved ahead with the executions on Tuesday after the Supreme Court denied last-minute requests from both men. No reasoning was given for the denials, and no separate writ- ings or public dissents were noted. The number of annual execu- tions in the United States has fall- en since its peak in 1999, but nearly doubled from 2024 to 2025, driven in large part by Florida’s accelerated pace.
In one of this year’s most com- petitive Senate races, Republi- cans are refusing to spend money — so far. That peculiar dynamic is play- ing out in Texas, where the fate of the Republican nominee, Ken Pax- ton, will help decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. But Mr. Paxton has struggled to raise cash, and no one has stepped in yet to help him. Mr. Paxton finds himself in a unique situation among Senate candidates, according to inter- views with a dozen Republicans with ties to his campaign. Republi- can donors still hold grudges from a bruising primary. The state, with its 18-plus television markets, is
may hinge on Paxton’s fate in November.
an epically expensive setting. And his Democratic opponent, James Talarico, has proved to be a partic- ularly strong fund-raiser. Perhaps the most striking piece of Mr. Paxton’s money woes is the high-stakes game of chicken that two of the Republican Party’s big- gest money committees, along with their allied donors, are play- ing. Both of those groups, the Sen- ate Leadership Fund and MAGA Inc., are not so secretly hoping that the other one swoops in to boost Mr. Paxton with tens of mil- lions in spending, the Republicans said. Neither group has reached for its wallet yet. “Somebody is going to have to spend big money,” said Dan Eber- hart, an oil executive who is rais- ing contributions for Mr. Paxton. “We’ll see who blinks.” In the primary, Mr. Paxton de- feated Senator John Cornyn, a fa-
Lauren McGaughy contributed re- porting.
The funeral service for Senator Lindsey Graham was held in South Carolina on Wednesday at the First Baptist Church of Columbia. Mr. Graham, who served four terms, died this month at 71. The services were deliberately modest after Tuesday’s memorials at the U.S. Capitol and Washington National Cathedral, where he was eulogized by President Trump and celebrated by other heads of state.
By SANTUL NERKAR and MARK SOMMER
A man who stabbed the author Salman Rushdie more than a doz- en times was found guilty on Wednesday of aiding a foreign ter- rorist group and carrying out the orders of the Iranian government, which had called for Mr. Rushdie’s death more than three decades ago. Hadi Matar, a young man who had been enraged by Mr. Rushdie’s work, rushed onstage at a retreat in western New York in August 2022 and stabbed him re- peatedly. Mr. Rushdie survived the attack, but was left with se- vere nerve damage and blind in his right eye. Mr. Matar was convicted of at- tempted murder in state court last year and sentenced to 25 years in prison. On Wednesday, Mr. Matar, 28, was convicted of providing ma- terial support to a terrorist group and committing an act of terror- ism that transcended national boundaries. The verdict, which was reached by a federal jury in Buffalo after just two hours of deliberation, means Mr. Matar could spend the rest of his life in prison. He is set to be sentenced in November. Mr. Matar showed no response
vorite of many of the country’s and state’s largest donors. The Re- publican nominee still lacks en- thusiasm from these contributors, who financed ads in the primary repeatedly calling him a criminal and a womanizer. Their opinions largely haven’t changed, espe- cially with the continuing drum- beat of revelations of Mr. Paxton’s world travels with his girlfriend, the Republicans said. Mr. Paxton is not getting help from Washington, either. National Republican groups are slated to spend tens of millions of dollars this summer and fall in every other top-tier Senate race, includ- ing in some states that prominent handicappers think are not as competitive as Texas. They even plan to spend more in noncompet- itive Kansas. In most states, Re- publicans are expected to out- spend Democrats — for instance in Ohio, where the G.O.P. commit- ment totals over $100 million. A Paxton adviser disputed con- cerns about his campaign’s finan- cial straits. “The trajectory is unmistak- able: Support is accelerating, not softening. Everyone from grass- roots Texans to large conserva- tive donors are consolidating be- hind this campaign, and June was the clearest signal yet,” said Nick Maddux, the adviser, touting what he said was $7 million raised last month across Paxton committees. There’s also the fact that Demo- cratic Senate candidates in the state have not won despite out- raising or outspending Republi- cans in the last few cycles. Republicans say that Texas re- quires around $15 million a week in super PAC advertising to mount a comprehensive paid-me- dia campaign, making Texas more a drain on resources than cheaper states that could also decide the majority. The amount of Republican spending planned in Texas from now through Election Day, ac- cording to AdImpact, a media tracking firm: $0. So who should pick up the Texas tab? First, there’s the Senate Lead-
in the marble-and-wood court- room as the verdict was read aloud. He kept his head lowered, his chair swaying slowly from side to side. Nathaniel L. Barone II, a lawyer for Mr. Matar, said afterward that he was disappointed with the ver- dict, which he said he would ap- peal. The current war with Iran, he said, presented an inherent challenge in convincing jurors of Mr. Matar’s innocence There was no debate over whether Mr. Matar had attacked Mr. Rushdie on that day. The trial, which lasted one week, centered on Mr. Matar’s motives: Prosecu- tors had to convince jurors that he had committed an act of terror and supplied material support to a known terrorist organization. In 1989, the government of Iran issued a fatwa, or religious edict, against Mr. Rushdie over his novel “The Satanic Verses.” The book in- cluded a fictionalized depiction of the Prophet Muhammad, which outraged many Muslims. In 2022, decades after the fatwa was issued, Mr. Matar, a 24-year- old American citizen with Leba- nese heritage, was angry. A rec- luse who turned to Islam after a trip to the Middle East years earli- er, Mr. Matar had grown furious with Mr. Rushdie’s work.
The Republican party’s big-money donors have yet to commit cash to Ken Paxton, their party’s Senate nominee. His opponent, Democrat James Talarico, has aired $12 million in ads since June.
ership Fund, the super PAC run by allies of John Thune, the Senate majority leader. It backed Mr. Cornyn in the primary and has hardly embraced Mr. Paxton. During a June trip to Washing- ton, Mr. Paxton met with officials of the super PAC at its headquar- ters and told them that he hoped the race wouldn’t be so close to warrant a heavy spend, two peo- ple with knowledge of the meeting said. The Senate Leadership Fund is funding polling and candidate re- search in the race and has told do- nors it is monitoring the state. Even so, the super PAC conspicu- ously left out Texas when unveil- ing a $342 million plan in eight other states. Allies said that the Senate Leadership Fund didn’t have millions lying around to in- vest in another race, especially given the year’s volatile map, in- cluding fresh uncertainty over the Montana Senate race. Staring across the table is MAGA Inc., a super PAC run by top advisers to President Trump
san Nasrallah, then the leader of Hezbollah, and the voice of Su- preme Leader Ayatollah Khome- ini reading the fatwa. At trial, prosecutors showed a photograph on his bedroom wall that depicted the Hezbollah fighter Ahmad Kassir, next to Iran’s first two supreme leaders. Photos of a Hezbollah fighter were found on his phone’s home screen, and two others were posted the morning of the attack. Mr. Barone said the evidence was not sufficient to show Mr. Matar was working at the direc- tion of a terrorist group. “He also owned other T-shirts,” Mr. Barone said to an F.B.I. agent who was testifying. “Did you known he had a Captain America shirt? That didn’t make him a member of the Avengers, did it?” In his closing remarks on Wednesday, Timothy C. Lynch, a federal prosecutor, told jurors that the evidence showed Mr. Matar had acted at the direction of Hezbollah, hoping to become one of its “martyrs.” The speech by Mr. Nasrallah was a clear “call to ac- tion,” he said. “Mr. Matar was the one who was finally going to fulfill the fatwa,” Mr. Lynch said. “He wanted to be forever revered as a Hezbollah martyr.” A federal jury found Hadi Matar guilty of carrying out the Irani- an government’s decades-old order for Salman Rushdie’s death.
Mr. Matar never contacted any- one with Hezbollah. Yet prosecu- tors argued that without the fatwa, Mr. Matar would not have been compelled to attack Mr. Rushdie. They presented his notes and composition books, which frequently mentioned the importance of carrying out the fatwa and his pursuit of Mr. Rushdie. In a composition book, he wrote, with bullets before each entry, “We need to kill him ASAP,” “finally get this over with,” and
with an extraordinary $400 mil- lion cash reserve. His endorse- ment of Mr. Paxton the week be- fore the May runoff election dealt a death blow to Mr. Cornyn. Some Republican donors close to the Senate Leadership Fund say that MAGA Inc., which has yet to re- veal how much it will spend on the midterms, should therefore be on the hook for whatever bill is due in Texas. MAGA Inc. officials say there is no impasse with the Senate Lead- ership Fund, claiming they are simply being discreet with their spending plans, which they said last month would be “very soon” and “substantial.” Chris LaCivita and James Blair, two of MAGA Inc.’s top officials, have spoken in recent weeks about Texas with Alex Latcham, who heads the Sen- ate Leadership Fund, according to two people with knowledge of the conversations. “I think his PAC should help Ken, and I can’t imagine they wouldn’t,” said Doug Deason, whose family has donated
“beginning of Jihad.” Mr. Barone argued that pros- ecutors had no insight into Mr. Matar’s motivations, which the lawyer said were personal and re- ligious. Though Mr. Matar was deeply troubled by “The Satanic Verses,” he had not been carrying out the wishes of Hezbollah or Iran’s government when he at- tacked Mr. Rushdie, Mr. Barone said. “Hadi Matar acted completely independently and free of any co-
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$410,000 to Paxton committees this year, of Mr. Trump. “He en- dorsed him. He wants to keep the Senate. And obviously we don’t want a Democrat to win a state- wide race in Texas.” That Democrat, Mr. Talarico, entered July holding about nine times as much cash in his princi- pal campaign account than Mr. Paxton does in his. Since June, Mr. Talarico has been up on television, airing about $12 million in ads to introduce himself to voters. He is also raising money aggressively, including a high-dollar event near Chicago last Saturday and others in Martha’s Vineyard and Nan- tucket this weekend, according to invitations viewed by The Times. To some extent, national Demo- crats are experiencing the same paralysis as Republicans. The Senate Majority PAC, controlled by Senate Democrats, unveiled new spending last week but has not reserved any ad time in Texas. Still, Mr. Talarico’s own ability to raise enormous amounts of money himself makes him less de-
ordination or control from Hezbol- lah,” Mr. Barone told jurors. On Aug. 12, 2022, Mr. Rushdie arrived at the Chautauqua Institu- tion, a cultural retreat, to deliver a talk on writers in exile. Before he was about to speak, Mr. Rushdie testified that he saw a man to his right whose face was obscured by a black mask. Suddenly, Mr. Rushdie was thrown to the ground. Mr. Matar then repeatedly stabbed Mr. Rushdie, including his midsection, his left hand and his eye, piercing his optic nerve. “I could feel the pain, and I yelled out, ‘What happened to my eye?’” Mr. Rushdie said. Mr. Matar was subdued by audi- ence members and arrested. Mr. Rushdie was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Erie, Pa., before he was moved to the NYU Langone Health Rusk Rehabilitation center in New York City, where he spent about a month. Beyond the attack itself, pros- ecutors depicted Mr. Matar as a fanatical supporter of Hezbollah. They showed jurors a selfie of Mr. Matar wearing a Hezbollah shirt and making a salute; an es- say Mr. Matar wrote in which he praised the terrorist group; and a propaganda video he created that featured a 2006 speech from Has-
pendent on Washington than Mr. Paxton is. Plus, last month, a dedi- cated pro-Talarico super PAC re- ceived $10 million from the tech in- vestor Reid Hoffman. And in private conversations with donors, Senate Majority PAC officials have outlined various po- tential spending plans for Texas and the trade-offs those might re- quire across the Senate map, giv- ing Democrats the impression that the PAC is preparing to spend in Texas at some point, according to two people briefed on the con- versations. All of this makes fund-raising an urgent priority this summer for Mr. Paxton. Yet his relationships with donors in the state remain frosty, including the Texas net- work of former President George W. Bush, which he has regularly criticized. Holdouts include mod- erates like the G.O.P. megadonor Ken Griffin, who is said to have no plans to help Mr. Paxton, and long- time right-wing backers like the oil industry’s Wilks brothers and Tim Dunn. Mr. Paxton has made individual calls to some Cornyn-aligned givers seeking six-figure checks, a person with knowledge said. But some Cornyn donors have de- clined even to return calls from the Paxton camp, multiple Repub- licans said. Mr. Paxton is hosting a fund- raising dinner this Thursday in Aspen, Colo., according to an invi- tation viewed by The Times, and one in Jackson Hole, Wyo., later this summer. Senator Ted Cruz formed a joint fund-raising com- mittee with him this month to co- ordinate fund-raising events, such as a recent one at a hotel in Hous- ton owned by Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the N.B.A.’s Rockets. Last Wednesday in Washington on Capitol Hill, Mr. Thune more fully embraced Mr. Paxton than previously, throwing him a fund- raiser at the Safari Club Interna- tional and pledging he would not abandon Texas, according to an attendee. Another Republican senator, Bill Hagerty of Tennes- see, predicted that outside groups would in August spend big for Mr. Paxton. He didn’t specify which.
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On Conversion Project At New York High-Rise
This article is by Mihir Zaveri, Arfa Momin and Miles G. Cohen.
New York City officials told de- velopers this week to pause some construction at a high-rise office building in Midtown Manhattan over structural issues at the build- ing, which is being converted to apartments. Inspectors with the Depart- ment of Buildings discovered on Tuesday that pieces of some steel columns at 750 Third Avenue were welded together, which “po- tentially weren’t shown on the ap- proved plans filed with the depart- ment,” said Andrew Rudansky, a department spokesman. When asked to provide docu- mentation about the welding, the contractor on site did not, Mr. Rudansky said. The city then directed the devel- opers to “stop all structural steel work” on the ninth floor and above, according to the order. The order, which is dated July 28, also directed the contractor to provide an “engineer structural stability report” to the city before work can continue. The building is at least 30 stories tall. Mr. Rudansky, said there was no danger to the public, no orders to evacuate and no “structural dis- tress.” A spokesman for the developer,
By ABBIE VANSICKLE
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday asked the Su- preme Court to step in and over- turn an $83.3 million jury award against him for defaming the writ- er E. Jean Carroll after she ac- cused him of a decades-old sexual assault in a Manhattan depart- ment store. The president urged the jus- tices to reject the jury’s award, as- serting that the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision granting presidents sweeping immunity for actions they take in office shielded him from liability in the case. “This is the first case in our na- tion’s history in which a court has imposed damages liability on a president for his conduct in of- fice,” Mr. Trump’s lawyers said in a filing to the court reviewed by The New York Times. Lawyers for Mr. Trump as- serted that the question of whether he had immunity in the case was “straightforward on the undisputed factual record.” An ap- peals court had rejected that argu- ment. Mr. Trump’s lawyers told the court that if the ruling was al- lowed to stand, it would cause “significant damage,” harming not only Mr. Trump but also future presidents and the nation. The petition to the justices is the latest turn in Mr. Trump’s contin- ued efforts to deny Ms. Carroll’s claims and avoid two separate monetary awards that juries or- dered him to pay related to Ms. Carroll’s allegations that Mr. Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s and then defamed her in a series of state- ments and social media posts. Lawyers for the Justice Depart- ment separately also asked the justices to take up the case, ac- cording to a filing to the court re- viewed by The Times. Ms. Carroll’s legal team de- clined a request for comment. In late June, the Supreme Court rejected a separate request from Mr. Trump that the court review a $5 million judgment against him from a previous 2023 jury finding that he had sexually abused and defamed Ms. Carroll. The court’s decision not to hear that case prompted a trial court
INTERNATIONAL
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SL Green, said that the firm no- ticed the issue after initial prepa- ration work for the project was done. The issues were in columns that already existed in the build- ing, according to SL Green, and the firm had been working to up- date its conversion plans. The spokesman said there were “no structural issues with the building.” SL Green said was working to get the order re- scinded. The building is at least the third office-conversion project totally or partially shut down by the city since July 7. (The Buildings De- partment issues some 7,000 stop work orders every year.) On that day, two steel columns buckled at a large project on 42nd Street at the site of the old Pfizer building. It led to fears of a collapse and the evacuation of thousands. That incident rattled confi- dence in conversion projects, which have been lauded by public officials and the real estate indus- try as clever ways to repurpose old buildings and address the city’s housing shortage. Inspec- tors with the Buildings Depart- ment have been conducting sweeps at conversion sites in the aftermath of the incident at the old Pfizer building at 235 East 42nd Street to ensure other projects do not have serious prob-
E. Jean Carroll in Manhattan in 2024. A jury awarded her a total of $83.3 million in damages.
immunity shielded him from liability.
judge to order that the money, which had been held in escrow while Mr. Trump appealed, be paid to Ms. Carroll. Mr. Trump’s new petition re- lates to a far larger judgment awarded by a Manhattan jury in 2024. That jury awarded Ms. Car- roll $65 million in punitive dam- ages after determining that Mr. Trump had acted with malice in verbally attacking her in social media posts, at news conferences and during the trial. The jury also awarded Ms. Carroll $18.3 million in compensatory damages for her
be targeted, not North Korea.
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An article on July 24 about budg- et-friendly entertainment in New York misstated the dates of the Metropolitan Opera’s Summer HD Festival. It is from Sept. 2 to 7, not Sept. 2 to 8.
An article on Wednesday about Lena Waithe, creator of the drama series “The Chi,” misstated Waithe’s role in the movie “Queen & Slim.” She wrote the screen- play; she did not co-write it.
A stop-work order was issued at 750 Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan over structural issues.
lems. Last week, they shut down work at a building in Lower Man- hattan, 222 Broadway, over issues with a horizontal concrete beam on the roof that had cracked and been repaired. Work remained on hold there on Wednesday. A spokesman for the project in Lower Manhattan, James Yolles, said “at no point during construc- tion has the building’s stability been compromised.” The Buildings Department also partially shut down work at 77 Water Street over issues they
suffering. At the time, Mr. Trump called the verdict “absolutely ridiculous” on social media. “Our Legal System is out of con- trol, and being used as a Political Weapon,” he added, and pledged to appeal. “They have taken away all First Amendment Rights.” The Supreme Court is currently on its summer recess, and the jus- tices are not likely to consider whether to take up the case until late September, when they meet for their annual “long conference,” at which they consider thousands of pending petitions — and reject most of them. Mr. Trump has pursued various efforts to overturn the verdict, so far unsuccessfully. In September, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unani- mously upheld the jury’s 2024 award. The panel rejected argu- ments by Mr. Trump’s legal team that he was insulated from liabil- ity because of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity de- cision. In a decision that greatly ex- panded presidential power, the justices — split along partisan lines — found that Mr. Trump was entitled to substantial immunity from criminal prosecution on charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election. The court’s con- servative majority agreed that presidents can be shielded from actions taken in office as part of their official duties that could later be used against them by political opponents. Lawyers for Mr. Trump have ar- gued that his statements about Ms. Carroll, which came during his first term as president, were “official presidential statements” and thus could not be used as evi- dence against him to impose li- ability. In its ruling, the appeals court judges rejected that position, writ-
found during an inspection on July 11, including equipment be- ing used without proper certifica- tion. The developer on the project, Vanbarton, did not respond to re- quests for comment. Work was al- lowed to resume a few days later. Originally built in 1957, the building at 750 Third Avenue is be- ing converted into 639 residential units, according to a permit filed on April 8. There had been no vio- lations recorded by the Buildings Departments until the partial stop work order on Tuesday. The contractor on the conver-
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ing that Mr. Trump “never wa- vered or relented in his public at- tacks” against Ms. Carroll, who is 82. The panel also said that he had assailed her “as a politically and fi- nancially motivated liar, insinuat- ing that she was too unattractive for him to have sexually assaulted her and threatening that she would ‘pay dearly’ for speaking out.” Mr. Trump’s lawyers then asked the full appeals court to hear the case, which is called en banc re- view. In late April, a divided ap- peals court declined to take up the case. In its petition to the justices, Mr. Trump’s legal team, citing the 2024 Supreme Court immunity case, asserted that the appeals court had “refused to apply presi- dential immunity even after this court recognized that ‘most of a president’s public communica- tions are likely to fall comfortably within’ that protection.” Though Ms. Carroll has already been paid the judgment from the 2023 case, the president is never- theless asking the Supreme Court to revisit its June decision not to intervene in that matter, too. Law- yers for the president have said the justices should hear chal- lenges to both verdicts together. Supreme Court rules provide parties a pathway to request a re- hearing once the court has denied a petition. It is rare but not unprec- edented for the justices to grant such requests. The justices did not provide any reasoning for their decision to re- ject the case, which is typical when the court declines to hear petitions. After the justices rejected the case, Mr. Trump called Ms. Car- roll’s lawsuit “a Fake Case,” writ- ing on social media that he would “continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridicu- lous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength.”
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sion, New Line Structures, did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday. Young Suh, the director and chief engineer of Alan Margolin & Associates, an inspection firm, was listed on Buildings Depart- ment records as a third-party in- spector responsible for ensuring structural work was conducted properly. When reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, he de- clined to comment and said he was unaware of any stop-work or- der. Alfredo Amaro, 31, a welder on
$597,000 in Grant Money, Federal Investigators Say
By ZACHARY SMALL and JAY ROOT
Federal investigators said high- ranking administrators at the New York State Museum in Al- bany directed a subordinate to fal- sify time sheets, allowing the state to improperly draw down $597,624 in federal grants from 2020 to 2022. The findings were published in a summary of an investigation conducted by the U.S. Depart- ment of Interior’s Office of Inspec- tor General, after reporting by The New York Times about the fraud allegations. The Times reported in late 2024 that a former payroll employee at the museum, Brian Slater, had ac- cused a manager of directing him to submit false time sheets as part of a ploy to bilk federal funds from the U.S. Geological Survey and that high-ranking state officials had “supported” the fraud. The investigation, which the in- spector general’s office did in con- junction with the New York State comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, focused on whether state grant administrators had compelled a museum employee to “fraudu- lently overreport” his work on a Geological Survey mapping project in order to qualify for fed- eral grants. “We substantiated the allega- tions,” the summary report says. The investigation determined that state museum administrators “in- structed their employees to sub- mit inaccurate time sheets reflect- ing inflated levels of involvement” in the program and improperly re- allocated funds to pay staff sala- ries. Investigators delivered the re- port to the director of the U.S. Geo- logical Survey, which falls under the Interior Department, so he could pursue “the potential col- lection of lost revenues and any other action deemed appropriate,” the report said. The report comes almost three years after the New York State Education Department, which oversees the museum, quickly closed its own investigation after declaring it unsubstantiated, records obtained by The Times show. “It is not possible to conclude that there is mismanagement or fraud,” the internal state report said. The state Education Depart-
buildings and addressing the city’s housing shortage.
the project, said in an interview at the construction site on Wednes- day that he had been on the 11th floor on Tuesday afternoon, re- inforcing columns, when his fore- man told his team to stop working. He said that the foreman told him that there was a “paperwork is- sue,” and the team had to stop welding. “They were just making sure everything is in order,” he said. He said he was told Buildings Department inspectors would re- turn to the building on Thursday and would most likely clear the workers to continue their jobs on the higher floors. He had seen in- spectors at the site three times this week, he added, in the after- math of the Pfizer building inci- dent. “They’re doing their job now,” he said. When asked if he feared that the building was unstable, he shook his head to indicate he did not. “I’m the guy welding the plates,” he said. Raul Castellano, 31, who was working to fireproof the building, continued his work on Wednesday on higher floors, saying nobody told him to avoid them. But he did notice there were no sheet rock- ers, carpenters or welders on the floors above the ninth. “It was weird because we see them every day,” he said.
ment has acknowledged the over- all findings by the Office of Inspec- tor General. An Education depart- ment spokesman, JP O’Hare, said the agency was “fully transparent and cooperative throughout this process,” adding that officials were “prepared to reimburse any grant funding ultimately deter- mined not to have been supported by the required state match.” Mr. Slater said in a statement to The Times that he suspected that state officials would be more will- ing to repay what was owed to Washington rather than directly punish those implicated in the fraud. “While repaying funds may ad- dress the financial impact on U.S.G.S., it does not address the harm done to museum employees who were pressured into partici- pation for fear of job loss,” Mr. Slater said. “More importantly, al- lowing individuals implicated in proven wrongdoing to face no meaningful consequences will only further undermine staff mor- ale and institutional credibility.” Matt Sweeney, a spokesman for the state comptroller, referred questions about any recoupment of revenue to federal authorities, but said their joint investigation “found that the museum had ille- gitimately billed the grant for nearly $600,000 in hours spent by employees on other projects.” John T. McDonald III, a state as- semblyman whose district in- cludes parts of Albany County, said the Education Department must identify any gaps in oversight to “prevent this from happening again.” Mr. McDonald said the report was a reminder of how far the mu- seum fell into disrepair and bu- reaucratic mismanagement — a chapter he thinks the state is fi- nally moving past thanks to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plans to renovate parts of downtown Albany. Ms. Hochul and education offi- cials are embarking on a $150 mil- lion renovation of the museum as part of that renovation, and Mr. McDonald said he was encour- aged by what he has heard from both leaders and rank-and-file employees, even as he worries that internal accountability meas- ures need to be strengthened. “We’re on the dawn of a new era with the museum,” he said. “What you’re bringing to light is really — I’d like to think — a remnant of the past.”
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A horrific 911 call chilled the courtroom on Wednesday where Lindsay Clancy is being tried for the killings of her three young children in 2023. On the call, the children’s father, Patrick Clancy, is heard discover- ing their bodies in the basement of their family’s home in Duxbury, Mass., a suburb of Boston. Mr. Clancy, arriving home from running errands, finds that his wife had slashed her wrists and throat and jumped from a second-
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floor window. He tells the 911 oper- ator that he needs to “go check on my kids” and then heads inside to the basement. That is followed by his repeated screams of horror as he finds Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, face down on the base- ment floor with exercise bands tied tight around their necks. “No, no, no, my God,” Mr. Clancy screams in the recording.
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“Sir? Hello? Hello?” the 911 op- erator says in response. “What’s going on in the basement, sir?” Mr. Clancy’s screams and sob- bing continue for more than 30 seconds before he answers: “She killed the kids.” Judge William Sullivan, of the Massachusetts Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., excused the jury immediately after the 911 re- cording ended. As the jurors left the courtroom, Ms. Clancy, 35, who was paralyzed in her suicide attempt that night, could be heard sobbing as she sat in her wheelchair. Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, placed a hand on her shoulder. The killings, and resulting mur- der charges, have revived a long- running debate about how the le- gal system should treat mentally ill mothers who kill their children. Ms. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. She faces a penalty of life imprisonment without parole if convicted. Her lawyer argued in an open- ing statement on Monday that she had killed her children because she was suffering from severe postpartum mental illness that caused auditory hallucinations commanding her to do so. A law- suit filed by her husband against mental health clinicians who
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a second day on Wednesday, de- scribing the routine errands that briefly took him away from home the night his children were killed. Prosecutors showed video clips of him picking up bags of takeout food at a restaurant and stopping to purchase a pediatric laxative at a pharmacy a few minutes from their home. He said he called Ms. Clancy as he shopped at the pharmacy around 5:30 p.m., and spoke with her briefly to make sure he was buying the right medicine. Pros- ecutors asked if she seemed to un- derstand what he was saying, and how she seemed. “It sounded like she was busy,” Mr. Clancy said. He said he returned home about 30 minutes later to a silent house, and called out for his family. “I called down to the basement and no one answered,” he said. He went upstairs to the couple’s bed- room, found the door locked, and worked to unlock it. “I went in and saw blood every- where and the window open,” Mr. Clancy said, his voice sometimes barely audible. Racing back downstairs and into the backyard, he testified, he found his wife on the ground be- neath the open window, deep cuts on her wrists and neck. In the re- cording of the 911 call, the sound of
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TOMORROW ..........Warmer, some sunshine High 83. While a shower cannot be ruled out during the afternoon, most of the day will be dry, with clouds and sunshine. It will also turn warmer. Temperatures will be nearly back to average late-July levels.
SATURDAY ..................Clouds and sunshine High 83. The day will be rain-free, with a mixture of clouds and sunshine. Winds will be south at 4 to 8 m.p.h.
SUNDAY MONDAY ...................Mostly cloudy Sunday Sunday will be mostly cloudy and humid, with an afternoon thunderstorm in spots. High 82. Morning showers on Monday will give way to a couple of thunderstorms in the afternoon. High 83.
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a woman crying can be heard in the background as Mr. Clancy urges his wife to stay awake and keep breathing. “Look at me, look at me,” he tells her. “Lin, look at me, open your eyes.” “I’m scared,” she seems to say as he urges her to stay awake. Earlier on Wednesday, Mr. Clancy testified in response to prosecutors’ questions that no one had ever advised him not to leave his wife alone with their children. He also described a phone call he received from his wife after the killings, while she was hospital- ized, and said in response to pros- ecutors’ questions that Ms. Clancy did not mention their children. “She didn’t talk about the kids,” he said. “She talked about what she went through.” He said he did not recall if she told him during the call that she had experienced psychosis on the night their children died. Mr. Clancy was excused from the courtroom before the record- ing of the 911 call was played for jurors.
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Betye Saar, the groundbreaking California assemblage artist who confronted stereotypes about Black women through her dreamy memento boxes as well as her ar- resting images of Aunt Jemima armed with rifles and other weap- ons, died on Sunday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 99. Hannah Gottlieb-Graham, a publicist for Roberts Projects in Los Angeles, the gallery that rep- resented Ms. Saar, confirmed the death. Assemblage refers to sculpture made from found objects, and Ms. Saar was a leading practitioner in California starting in the 1960s and ’70s, along with George Herms, Edward and Nancy Kien- holz, John Outterbridge and Noah Purifoy. More than her male counter- parts, Ms. Saar was known for in- corporating into her work delicate fabrics associated with domestic life, strong images of the Black fe- male body and a heavy dose of spirituality. Her most celebrated pieces from the 1970s served to confront and complicate ster- eotypes of Black people that were embodied in minstrel characters or figures of Black “mammies,” the women hired to care for white children. One way that Ms. Saar trans- formed these derogatory figures, which were easy to find at the time in the form of collectibles, was by arming them. In her acclaimed 1972 assemblage “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima,” inspired in part by her rage after the assassina- tion of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she supplied a plastic fig- urine of the character made fa- mous on pancake boxes with a broom, rifle and grenade. The work incorporates emblems of the Black Power movement, from a swath of kente cloth to the image of a raised fist. In her book “South of Pico” (2017), about Black artists in Los Angeles in the ’60s and ’70s, the art historian Kellie Jones de- scribed Ms. Saar’s Aunt Jemima as “incredibly strident, promoting the threat of violence.” Angela Da- vis described it as the spark that lit the Black women’s revolution. “I had this Aunt Jemima, and I wanted to put a rifle and a grenade under her skirts,” Ms. Saar told The Los Angeles Times in 2016. “I wanted to empower her. I wanted to make her a warrior.” Betye Irene Brown was born on July 30, 1926, in Watts, Calif., shortly after the town was an- nexed by Los Angeles. She was the oldest of three children of Jef- ferson Maze Brown and Beatrice Lillian Parson, both of mixed her- itage: African, Native American and Irish on her mother’s side, and African and Choctaw on her father’s. Mr. Brown died when she was 5, and Betye grew up in Pasa- dena with her mother. In a 2011 oral history for the Getty Research Institute, Ms. Saar described her upbringing as middle class and not entirely seg- regated. The public pool and parks were, she recalled, but the- aters and streetcars were not. Her mother was a seamstress, and Ms. Saar grew up making things — at art classes at school and on her own, often creating gifts for friends and family. She spent her last two years of high school studying ceramics, illustra- tion, watercolors and art history at Pasadena Junior (now City) College. In 1949, she graduated from the University of California, Los An- geles, where she majored in de- sign, and found work designing jewelry, home goods and greeting cards before starting her career as a printmaker. Ms. Saar credited her interest in assemblage to two influences. One was the slowly growing “Watts Towers,” which she liked to visit as a girl with her grand- mother. The Italian immigrant Si- mon Rodia spent decades building these soaring structures by hand, embedding in concrete an array of broken glass, tile, ceramics and more. “I was fascinated by how he
Ash Wu contributed reporting.
Keigo Higashino in Tokyo in 2006, the year he won the Naoki Prize, an award for pop- ular fiction. By FRANCESCA REGALADO and HISAKO UENO Nominated for an Edgar Award, a first for a Japanese author.
Keigo Higashino, a best-selling author of mystery novels who published more than 100 books in a prolific career, many of which in- spired screen adaptations in his native Japan and beyond, died on July 23. He was 68. His longtime publisher in Ja- pan, Kodansha, said in a state- ment on Monday that the cause was colorectal cancer. Mr. Higashino was the first Jap- anese author to be nominated for an Edgar Award in the United States and a Dagger Award in Britain, two of the most presti- gious prizes in mystery and crime writing. His English-language break- through was a translation of his 2005 novel, “The Devotion of Sus- pect X.” Time magazine named it one of the 100 best mystery and thriller books of all time, and it was a finalist for the Edgar Award
BETYE SAAR/COLLECTION OF BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, VIA ROBERTS PROJECTS, LOS ANGELES
Betye Saar in 2024, when she told The New York Times, “I still want to make art.” She counted herself lucky to have the drive.
used bottle caps and corn cobs and broken plates — trash, essen- tially — to make art, to make something beautiful,” she told The New York Times in 2024. In the Getty oral history, she compared the towers to “strange castles” from the fairy tales that she loved as a girl.
derogatory figures by arming them.
The other eye-opener, she said, was a major exhibition at the Pas- adena Art Museum in 1967 of the work of Joseph Cornell, with its array of surrealist-tinged, me- mento-laden boxes, featuring po- etic assortments of marbles, let- ters, feathers and more. She re- membered each box being as dra- matically spot-lit as a precious gem.
for Best Novel in 2012. The novel has been adapted into films in Ja- pan, China, South Korea and In- dia. Mr. Higashino wrote 106 books that have sold about 109 million copies in Japan, in addition to sev- eral co-written works. His books have been published in 41 coun- tries and territories, according to Kodansha, and translated into several languages including Eng- lish, Chinese, Korean and French. His characters were often regu- lar people such as schoolteachers, young children and pawnbrokers, who perpetrated or suffered acts of violence hidden by their mun-
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The Cornell show inspired her to set out to create what she often called her own “magical little worlds.” Living in the hippie enclave of Laurel Canyon, she began collect- ing objects from local yard sales, thrift stores, flea markets and more; later she would add items purchased during travels to Ni- geria, Senegal, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil and elsewhere. Ladies’ gloves and brooches, faded family photographs and em- broidered handkerchiefs were re- curring objects in her work. Im- ages of hands and celestial bodies were also favorites, reflecting her interests in palmistry, astrology and tarot-card reading. When a beloved great-aunt, Hattie Par- sons Haynes Keyes, died in the early 1970s, Ms. Saar inherited a trunk filled with personal effects — letters, photographs, handker- chiefs, trinkets — that she began to use, too. “I’ve always felt that old objects hold a power,” she said in 2024. “They’ve survived, and they have a sense of the previous owner.
dane lives. His 2009 novel, “New- comer,” which revolved around the murder of a middle-aged wom- an who lived alone in Tokyo and seemed to have no enemies, was nominated for a Dagger Award in 2019. “I always have a defense attor- ney, a prosecutor and a judge within me, and perhaps even a de- fendant,” Mr. Higashino said about his detached writing style, which never allowed any single character to dominate the narra- tive, in a 2006 interview with the Mainichi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper. “This mind-set pre- vents me from writing solely based on one side’s perspective.” One of the earliest international film adaptations of his works was “The Secret,” a 2007 English-lan- guage French production starring David Duchovny. It was a remake of a 1999 Japanese movie based on Mr. Higashino’s novel of the same name.
They have a spirit.” By the 1970s, Ms. Saar had also begun using actual window frames to contain and organize her artworks, first layering her own prints and drawings in the frames before adding other ob- jects. One of her most important win- dowpane assemblages, “Black Girl’s Window” (1969), features in its upper section stars, moons and a lion representing the artist’s as- trological sign, Leo, floating above a daguerreotype of the artist’s grandmother. The lower pane shows a dark silhouette of a girl’s face and hands pressed against the window, as if she is some sort of mystic seer gazing across a spiritual divide. The work has often been read as an expression of a young Black woman’s ancestral yearning and spiritual longing — what the art historian Richard J. Powell has called Ms. Saar’s “version of a crystal ball.” By the late 1990s, Ms. Saar be- gan revisiting some of her path- breaking themes and images in new work. For starters, she brought back Aunt Jemima with “newer weapons and a tougher at- titude,” as she wrote in a 1998 cata- log introduction. One innovation at this time was her use of vintage washboards as her canvas — a symbolic material for exploring the plight, past and present, of Black women. Ms. Saar exhibited throughout her lifetime. But it was only when she reached her 80s and 90s that she received the international mu- seum attention and scholarship needed to secure her place in the canon. She was awarded several lifetime achievement awards, in- cluding one from the International Sculpture Center in New York in 2018. Carol S. Eliel, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art curator
His final novel, “Eternal Memo- ry,” is set to be published on Aug. 5 by the Tokyo-based publishing house Bungeishunju, according to Kodansha’s statement. Mr. Higashino was born on Feb. 4, 1958, in Osaka, Japan. His fam- ily was not wealthy and he grew up wearing clothes handed down from his two older sisters, accord- ing to a biography provided by the publisher Vertical Inc.. He disliked books as a child, he said in 2006 when he won Japan’s Naoki Prize, an award for popular fiction. “What I always think about is wanting to write novels that even my book-hating self from back then would enjoy reading,” Mr. Hi- gashino said at the time. He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from Osaka Prefecture University, which is now Osaka Metropolitan Univer- sity. Soon afterward, he began working for Denso, a Japanese
Left, a famous assemblage by Ms. Saar was “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima,” from 1972, which featured an armed version of the pancake box character. The 1969 piece “Black Girl’s Win- dow,” above, includes an image of the artist’s grandmother.
“Guardian of Desires” from 1988. Family trinkets, computer equipment and thrift store finds all provided material for her art.
who organized the 2019 exhibition “Betye Saar: Call and Response,” said in an interview in 2018 that Ms. Saar was “not nearly as well known as she deserves, likely be- cause she is Black, a woman and working in Los Angeles — three strikes against her in the art world until all too recently.” From 1952 to 1970, Ms. Saar was married to the ceramist Richard Saar, who died in 2004. They had three daughters. Their youngest, Tracye, became a writer, while Ali- son and Lezley became prominent visual artists in Los Angeles in their own rights, showing work with their mother on occasion.
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They survive her, along with six grandchildren. Since 2016, her gallerist, Ms. Roberts, has worked closely with Ms. Saar on a definitive volume of her work, known in the field as a catalogue raisonné. “I still want to make art,” Ms. Saar told The Times in 2024. “Sometimes in the morning when I wake up, it’s hard to get out of bed, hard to get back into my body and get it to move. But I do it. Not everyone has a reason to get out of bed, something they love to do and that gives their life meaning. I am so lucky that I have that as part of my life.”
Edogawa Rampo Prize, an award for unpublished mystery novels presented by the Mystery Writers of Japan. The novel, about a string of violent attacks at a girls’ high school, was inspired by his experi- ences at university and his former wife’s work as a teacher. Mr. Higashino and his wife di- vorced in 1997. Information about his survivors was not immedi- ately available. In 2023, the Japanese govern- ment awarded Mr. Higashino the Medal with Purple Ribbon, an honor for individuals who have contributed to art and academia. When he received the medal, he said he still aimed to entertain his readers and to encourage them to read. “The feeling is similar to climb- ing a mountain,” he said. “I believe that if I just keep moving forward, I will eventually reach the top.”
Founded First Center For Women in Politics
By JERÉ LONGMAN
Ida Schmertz, an influential be- hind-the-scenes feminist and cor- porate executive who was a founding director of the first aca- demic research center devoted to American women and politics, and who helped women advance in workplaces as varied as the dockyard and the C-suite, died on July 2 in Manhattan. She was 91. Her death, at a hospital, was caused by kidney failure, her daughter, Lexy Schmertz, said. Ms. Schmertz, who described herself as “a feminist before I knew the word,” had worked in
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Democratic politics and on gun control issues when she got a tip from a Rutgers University dean about the formation of a new re- search unit on campus: the Center for American Women and Politics at the Eagleton Institute of Poli- tics. Along with Ruth Mandel, an English professor at Rutgers, she became, in 1971, a founding direc- tor of the center, widely consid- ered the premier research and ed- ucational institution in the coun- try for the study of women in poli- tics. Despite a surging second wave of feminism — set off, in part, by Betty Friedan’s 1963 book “The Feminine Mystique” — Ms. Schmertz and Dr. Mandel knew of no other research organization like it. Neither they nor anyone else, they said, had any idea how many women were serving in po- litical office beyond the dozen or so in Congress. Donald Herzberg, then the head of the Eagleton Institute, took a risk in supporting the creation of the center, Ms. Schmertz and Dr. Mandel said, at a time when many academics, including some at Rut-
gers, didn’t see the need to explore the topic. The subject “of women and poli- tics — it did not exist,” Ms. Schmertz said in 2014 in a video in- terview with Dr. Mandel about the center’s creation. “It did not exist in political science.” In 1972, Ms. Schmertz and Dr. Mandel organized the first na- tional conference for female state legislators. “They really captured a mo- ment when electoral politics and the women’s movement met,” Debbie Walsh, the center’s cur- rent director, said in an interview. “It was about, ‘How do we change the face of political power so that women are speaking in their own voices inside these male-domi- nated institutions?’” Ms. Schmertz commissioned a book-length study of the confer- ence, written by the political sci- entist Jeane Kirkpatrick, who lat- er became the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The volume, “Political Woman” (1974), “estab- lished the subject as a legitimate one for political science inquiry,” Ms. Schmertz said. After leaving the center in 1975, she became an adviser on wom- en’s issues to Gov. Hugh L. Carey of New York. In that role, she later said, she was involved in success- ful efforts to hire the first female dockworkers in New York in 1979. Also in 1979, she was hired by American Express, as the corpo- rate community sought to work with local and state governments to revitalize New York City in an era of financial crisis and urban decay. Five years later, she be- came the head of corporate affairs at the company, making her one of its first female senior vice presi- dents, a role she remained in for nearly a decade. “Ida was the mentor and spon- sor for the first generation of women leaders in business and politics in New York and beyond,” Kathryn Wylde, the recently re- tired chief executive of the non- profit Partnership for New York City, said after her death. “She was among the most senior wom- en in corporate America in the 1980s, consciously smoothing the way for the women seeking to
Ida Schmertz in 2018. She described herself as “a feminist be- fore I knew the word.”
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Ms. Schmertz in the Netherlands this year. Right, Ms. Schmertz as a teenager, left, in an undated photo, with her cousin Frederieke and Martin Sanders, who was her maternal grandfather. She was one of the first female senior vice presidents at American Express.
move up the corporate ladder.” Ida Frederika (or Frederieke) Schaap was born on Feb. 24, 1935, to upper-middle-class Jewish par- ents in Amsterdam. The family fled Europe at the beginning of World War II, moving to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1939, and then to the United States.
seeking to move up the corporate ladder.
They settled near Philadelphia, where her father, Adolf Schaap, was an executive at the cigar com- pany he had been working for since they lived in the Nether- lands, and her mother, Ella (Sand- ers) Schaap, an expert on Dutch floral tiles, became a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Ida (pronounced EE-da) gradu- ated from Wellesley College in 1956 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor in Russian and French. Her early at-
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tempts to find an overseas posi- tion with the U.S. government were thwarted because she was a woman, she later said. The men who interviewed her, she recalled, said she would be a wasted hire because she would likely marry and get pregnant — and even if she didn’t, it would be unseemly for her to travel to places like Africa with male col- leagues. Instead, she worked on Adlai Stevenson’s unsuccessful 1956 presidential campaign; was em- ployed briefly with the C.I.A.; and, in 1960, earned a master’s degree in international relations and Rus- sian studies from Columbia, as one of three women studying at what was known as the school’s Russia Institute. A year earlier, she had served as one of 70 Russian-speaking guides at the American National Exhibi- tion in Moscow. It was a first-of-its kind exposition in the Soviet Un- ion, best remembered for the so- called kitchen debate that took place there — an impromptu argu- ment between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and the Soviet premier, Nikita S. Khrushchev, on the merits of capitalism versus communism.
Deaths Deaths Deaths
Grossman, Marilynn
Migdon, Sidney
Heller, Francine
Saar, Betye
Sullivan, Susan
GROSSMAN—Marilynn. UJA-Federation of New York mourns the loss of Marilynn Grossman, whose family s ongoing commitment to UJA and the Jewish community uplifts our critical work. We extend our deepest condolen- ces to her children Bruce (Dianne), Andrea, Karen, and Dana Grossman Leeman (Rafe); her grandchildren; her great-grandchildren; and the entire family. Suzanne F. Peck, President; David H. Wasserman, Chair of the Board; Eric S. Goldstein, CEO
HELLER—Francine, age 85, found peace on July 26, 2026, surrounded by her daughters in Mount Kisco, New York, where she resided for over 40 years. Francine was born August 31, 1940, in New York City, New York, a daughter of the late Henry and Theodora Smith. Fran- cine was a loving and dedi- cated mother, grandmother, and friend. She was a prior member of the Temple Beth El Synagogue in Chappaqua. She enjoyed hosting loved ones and spending time with her dogs. She is survived by her two daughters, Melissa Pavese and Kim Haveson; son-in-law and daughter-in- law, John Pavese and Justyn Lezin; and granddaughters, Nicole Pavese and Amira Le- zin-Haveson. She is also sur- vived by her brother, Gordon Smith, as well as other ex- tended family members and
Her interest in Russia centered on its literature, as well as her hope that relations might improve between the two countries. But she was also concerned about the Cold War and the nuclear uncer- tainty that came with it, the writer Madeleine G. Kalb, a Russian studies classmate from Columbia, said in an interview. “It was the most important is- sue facing the United States,” Ms. Kalb said, because both countries “could blow up the world.” In the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ms. Schmertz returned to Russia, this time to a town outside St. Peters- burg with a female mayor. Ms. Schmertz was working as an in- vestment consultant, and her team assisted women in starting businesses by providing micro- leases for items like refrigerators and small trucks. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed her as the founding chairwoman of the Romanian- American Enterprise Fund — lat- er spun off into Romania’s largest nonprofit foundation — to assist the former Communist nation in adopting a market economy. She helped oversee the foundation un- til 2018, when she retired.
friends. A graveside service will be held July 31, 2026 at 11:15am at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. A small gathering will follow at her residence in Mount Kisco.
MIGDON—Sidney. It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, fath- er, father-in-law, and grand- father, Sidney Migdon, who passed away peacefully on July 26, 2026, at the age of 85. Sidney was a devoted family man, a respected attorney, and a proud lifelong New Yorker. He loved spending time at the beach with his fa- mily and was a loyal fan of the New York Jets, Mets, Knicks and Rangers. More than anything, Sidney loved his family. He is survived by his beloved wife, Hermine; his son, Andrew, and daugh- ter - in - law, Michelle; his daughter, Nicki, and son-in- law, David; and his cherished grandchildren, Max, Sam, Melissa, and Matthew. We will remember Sidney for his kindness, unwavering love, and quiet strength. He will be deeply missed and forever remain in our hearts.
MIGDON—Sidney. The Benenson Family and Benenson Capital Partners mourn the loss of our wise friend, confidante, and trust- ed advisor, Sid Migdon. We will miss his kindness, wit, in- telligence, humor and loyalty.
He was always there for ev- eryone who needed him. He helped make the Benenson Capital Company the success that it is. We will all miss him forever. Our deepest, heart- felt condolences go out to his wife Hermine, his son An- drew, his daughter Nicki and his entire family. Love, Bill Benenson, Lawrence Benenson, Fred Benenson, Alexander Benenson, Richard Kessler and Benenson Capital Partners.
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SAAR—Betye: The American Academy of Arts and Letters notes with sorrow the death of the groundbreaking assemblage artist who was a guiding light in the Black Arts Movement.
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Ms. Schmertz was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the mid-1990s, com- plicated by two autoimmune dis- eases. Later, she would testify and write in support of legislation in New York State that would allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with a lethal prescription. “Should a ZIP code really mat- ter when someone is dying of a terminal illness and suffering at the end of their life?” she wrote in a 2019 guest essay for The Times Union of Albany. New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, signed the Medical Aid in Dying Act into law in February; it goes into effect on Aug. 5. Ms. Schmertz’s marriage to Herbert Schmertz, a public rela- tions executive, ended in divorce in 1976. In addition to their daugh- ter, she is survived by their son, Anthony; four grandsons; and two sisters, Martina Yamin and Aletta Schaap. “I was in perpetual admiration at all she was accomplishing in this quiet, behind-the-scenes way,” Ms. Kalb said. “She did not throw her weight around. She did not need to. People simply re- sponded to her energy and her marvelous sense of organization.”
SULLIVAN—Susan Catherine.
Susan Catherine Sullivan, age 80, formerly of Brooklyn, New York, and Denver, Colorado, passed away July 23, 2026. A devoted Catholic, she will be remembered for her opti- mism, humor, love of family, and belief that every person should be treated with dignity and kindness. Beloved wife of the late Thomas Michael Sul- livan and cherished mother of Daniel Sullivan. Funeral Mass: August 22, 2026 at 10:30am, at Holy Trinity Cath- olic Church.
In Memoriam
WITENKO—Barbara. Girlfriend, Happy Birthday. Still miss you like crazy. Love, Diana
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COLUMNIST | NICHOLAS KRISTOF What Our Epstein Outrage Has Obscured
OKLAHOMA CITY
KANISHA HAMILTON BECAME an expert on sex trafficking in the most unfortunate way, be- ginning at the age of 12. So whenever she heard talk about the Jeffrey Epstein case, “it triggered me bad,” she recalled. “I would wake up in the mornings and think about something that had to do with it, and just start crying uncontrollably,” she told me. “Because I knew there are thou- sands if not more women, children and even men suffering at that moment. And every- one else in the world is just going about their business acting like they can’t do anything.” “That’s how people like that get away with sex trafficking people,” she said. One of the paradoxes of the moment is that there is intense outrage at Epstein and his enablers — as there should be — but al- most no effort to protect the girls or boys who continue to be trafficked all around the country and the world. We are rightly ap- palled at the general indifference that pow- erful figures showed toward Epstein’s as- saults, yet collectively we show a parallel in- difference to the predation that continues to unfold in cheap motels everywhere. The up- shot is that exploitation of girls and boys continues daily at thousands of times the scale of anything Epstein did. Hamilton’s pathway began when she was around 6 months old and her mother, who was addicted to drugs, was murdered, she said. Her grandmother then traded her to a child molester for heroin, she said, and after enduring abuse she ended up in the dys- functional world of foster care. At 12 she joined her dad, a pimp who began selling her as well as the other women he controlled, she added. We sometimes imagine that traffickers jump out of bushes, grab teenage girls and drag them into vans, to be chained to radia- tors. But I’ve been writing about trafficking for more than 25 years, and mostly the traf- fickers prey on girls who are already vulner- able. In need of housing, food or love, these girls are too often invisible to society — but not to pimps. “There’s just an overall misconception of what trafficking is, what it looks like,” said Felicia Bowman, who was trafficked at the age of 7 by a friend’s brother who was also a drug dealer. “People think that it’s a white van, it’s the zip ties on your car at Target.” She was referring to an urban legend that traffickers drive white commercial vans to kidnap girls, and mark kidnapping targets with zip ties. “How do we hold the fact that it’s all these vulnerabilities that we’re not addressing?” she added. “Because then we’re all account- able, and we’re all responsible, and a lot of the problems that lead to that are so big.” Bowman had those vulnerabilities. A fe- male family friend who watched over her took advantage of them and sold her for sex, she said. “She was making me sleep with people for money for drugs,” Bowman re- called. It’s not just that we don’t try to help these children. Often, we scorn them. We see them as bad kids, as troublemakers, as runaways, and we are lenient to those who abuse them. Bowman says that when she was 12, a man was arrested for sexually assaulting her. “He was found guilty,” she said. “He got 30 days.” Records document that. I asked her if any mandatory reporters — teachers or doctors, for example — had seen evidence of her abuse and reported it to the authorities. On the contrary, she said, au- thorities who should have been looking out
Madeleine Schwartz The editor in chief of The Dial.
PARIS
HIS summer has unleashed a special kind of hell on France: not just several heat waves with temperatures reach- ing as high as 112 degrees Fahrenheit, but drought and forest fires, some right next to Paris. On my street, the leaves have al- ready turned brown; a once lush lawn now looks like burned straw. Across the country, farmers are reporting that crops have with- ered in the blistering conditions. The extreme weather has forced the country in and out of a state of paralysis. Near Bordeaux, a wildfire has burned some 160 square miles; more than 220,000 people have been evacuated. Several nuclear power plants were temporarily shut down; trains were canceled because their route brought them too close to a fire. Paris land- marks like the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower have had to close early because of the heat, leaving tourists and the businesses that ca- ter to them grumbling. As one crisis follows the next, the government has offered only an incoherent response. Some commenters have suggested that the problem, at least when it comes to heat, lies in France’s supposed aversion to air- conditioning and that the fix must be a cul- tural one. The far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whose party has a long history of op- posing climate-friendly policies, announced a plan to roll out air-conditioning nation- wide. On X, right-wing foreigners like Elon Musk mocked Europeans for their lack of air-conditioning and implied that if resi- dents simply learned to love it, then all
our fists at a monster. We’re slower to help exploited girls.
Felicia Bowman, top, and Whitney Anderson work to help survivors of trafficking in Oklahoma.
would be well. But it will not be easy to bring cooling to the masses, and it won’t be enough to solve the country’s problems. France needs to take climate adaptation far more seriously as this summer’s blazing heat and wildfires become a deadly, recur- ring reality. Until recently, France had rather clement weather. But climate change has hit France and the rest of Europe very quickly. The con- tinent is warming more than twice as fast as the global average, and scientists believe that there will be 10 times as many ex- tremely hot days by the end of the century as there are now. Drought, too, has become a continual problem, leading to failed har- vests and water restrictions. The country’s haphazard response has largely left the French in charge of their own safety. When the second heat wave this year hit in June, many schools closed, leaving parents struggling to keep their children cool while also keeping their jobs. The heat affects the country in unequal ways. Wealthier people have fled cities for air-conditioned hotels with pools or cooler locales, while those with fewer resources in the dense suburbs have sweltered in their homes. France recorded at least 5,700 more deaths than usual during the heat wave in June; many of the dead were older people who perished in care homes or overheated apartments. The crisis of rapid heating in France — and in Europe more broadly — is daunting in large part because the housing stock is so poorly adapted to rising temperatures. More than 40 percent of French homes do not have ways to sufficiently block out sun- light. Materials like zinc in Paris’s iconic roofs trap and amplify heat, making homes
for her also abused her. One was caught and convicted, but his only punishment was house arrest. It’s no wonder that Bowman didn’t trust authority figures. All they did was exploit her. I met Bowman and Hamilton through an impressive nonprofit called Dragonfly that serves trafficking survivors in Oklahoma. These local initiatives, offering everything from therapy to medical care to removal of pimp tattoos, are invaluable — but they are starved of resources. When a girl leaves a
unbearably hot even after a heat wave has passed. Air-conditioning without other structural improvements has only a limited effect — similar to pouring gasoline into a leaky tank, as one expert told me. In fact, for dense French cities like Paris, and even for New York City, air-conditioning may provide relief indoors while simulta- neously making summers worse. The process of cooling the air indoors heats the outside, aggravating the situation and wors- ening what are known as urban heat is- lands, as Vincent Viguié, a climate econo- mist, told me. A recent study from China showed how in a narrow street lined with air-conditioners, the exterior temperature could increase by as much as 18 degrees Fahrenheit. A lack of coordinated action may be push- ing French consumers in the wrong direc- tion. The heat waves have led many to pur- chase small air-conditioning units, rather than more eco-friendly (and more expen- sive) options like heat pumps. Around my Paris neighborhood, it’s now common to see windows and doors propped open, and the long tails of portable air-conditioners piping hot air into the street. Even the government has rushed to buy 30,000 portable air-condi- tioners for health care facilities, but since these units are poorly suited to institutional windows, it’s hard to imagine that they will bring patients much relief. The frightening heat and fires this sum- mer should be an impetus to those in charge to reckon with how quickly the risks are changing. And yet the French government has hardly addressed the scale of the prob- lem. Even where it has pushed for adapta- tion, implementation has been at times dis- organized or misguided. The government is
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pimp, it can be a scramble to find a bed for her. When help comes, it can be transforma- tive. Both Hamilton and Bowman are now thriving and helping other survivors of hu- man trafficking. “We’re underfunded, and the demand is insane for our services,” said Whitney An- derson, a founder of Dragonfly. “What keeps us going is that these are individuals who have survived the worst of the worst. That they have seen things done to them that hu- mans should never do, and they are in front of us. And so we owe them the very best.” If we were serious about confronting traf- ficking, we could boost support for these programs around the country. We could shut down websites where pimps advertise girls (and sometimes boys), as prosecutors did with Backpage, which once dominated the field. We could insist that social media plat- forms crack down on traffickers who recruit on their pages using coded language (if 14- year-olds understand it, the companies can as well). We could make much greater ef- forts to prosecute pimps. And local D.A.s could prosecute johns to suppress the de- mand that keeps traffickers in business. Most of all, we could do more to help fam- ilies and children so that they’re not in the pipeline to be trafficked. Girls in foster care are at particular risk; there are no statistics on this, but after decades of these inter- views I wouldn’t be surprised if a girl in fos-
unprepared for how quickly temperatures are rising.
ter care is more likely to end up trafficked than to graduate from a four-year college. Yet instead of helping these vulnerable children, we’re magnifying the risks. Presi- dent Trump’s cuts in social services, such as for mental health and addiction treatment, may lead to more disadvantaged and cha- otic homes and more trafficked children. I’m on my annual “win a trip” journey, in which I pick a university student to travel on a reporting trip with me — this year, it’s Brunella Tipismana of Yale — and in Tulsa, we visited an outstanding pre-K system called Educare serving the neediest fam- ilies. Educare seems to me a tool to build re- siliency, improve outcomes and reduce ad- diction and trafficking, yet America has never been willing to invest in high-quality pre-K for the kids who most need it. In Kentucky, we visited Freedom House, which helps moms overcoming addiction. If we were serious about trafficking we would make such programs much more broadly available. But addiction treatment is under- funded in America, and Trump’s Medicaid cuts next January will make the problem worse. My quarrel with conservatives is that they defund programs that can, imperfectly, reduce the number of children vulnerable to exploitation. My quarrel with liberals is that they sometimes are so nonjudgmental that they favor legalizing sex work in ways that would also permit pimping (anyone who thinks pimps are business partners of girls doesn’t understand the trade). My quarrel with the public is that our fury at Epstein’s friends seems performative if in effect we shrug at children being sold for sex down the street. Consider Cassidy Husband, who grew up in a dysfunctional home and ran away at the age of 13 into the arms of a pimp who said he loved her — and then started selling her. Now 29, she recalled working for many dif- ferent pimps over the next 14 years, and they always kept the money. They often as- signed her daily earnings quotas, and she risked a beating if she fell short. Her body is marked by tattoos from pimps trying to es- tablish their ownership over her. In her years on the street, Husband said she regularly recruited girls for her pimps. She looked for girls with broken sandals, or unkempt clothes or hair, who lacked confi- dence. “Come on,” she would tell the girl, “and we’re going to take care of you.” It was emotional manipulation of desperate, vul- nerable young women, but it was not the kind of kidnapping that the public associ- ates with human trafficking. “It’s really hard to bring awareness, I think, about child sex trafficking,” said Hus- band, who is now off drugs, getting her tat- toos removed and rebuilding her life. “Be- cause a bag didn’t get put over my head. I didn’t get shoved into a van, that kind of thing.” If we truly think that Epstein was a mon- ster, then what’s needed isn’t shaking our fists at his corpse. It’s a real effort to help the girls and boys who, in cities around the country, are struggling in chaotic homes, desperate for help and not getting any at all.
Ten of my columns between 2022 and 2025 should have disclosed my relationships with donors to my 2021-22 campaign for governor of Oregon. Disclosure notes have been ap- pended to the digital versions of columns that were published in print on Nov. 27, 2022; March 30, 2023; May 7, 2023; July 30, 2023; Oct. 1, 2023; Nov. 19, 2023; Jan. 18, 2024; Jan. 28, 2024; Nov. 24, 2024; and Nov. 23, 2025.
“still fighting the last war, which is how do we improve energy efficiency in the winter,” said Stéphane Kirkland, an architect and a president of a sustainable design organiza- tion. Programs have stopped and started, leaving homeowners confused about what they can and cannot be reimbursed for. The cost of real adaptation to climate change is undeniably astronomical. Vivian Dépoues, a researcher at the Institute for Climate Economics, told me that renova- tions to bring France’s buildings in line with its climate goals would cost an estimated $51 billion a year. And that doesn’t take into account all the other costs of climate pre- paredness, like better forest fire manage- ment and figuring out how to bolster the country’s food and water security. But there is a cost to doing nothing, too: As a 2024 report from the institute notes, the costs associated with the health impacts of heat waves from 2015 to 2020 were estimat- ed at between 22 billion and 37 billion euros (between $25 billion and $42 billion today). One estimate from an insurance company calculates that future heat waves could cost the country more than $230 billion over the next four years. Heat waves could result in 30 times more deaths across Europe by the end of the century than they have caused in recent years. France is suffering at a time when climate change appears to be leaving the political conversation. This summer, the govern- ment shut down a research unit on climate adaptation and passed a law that critics say could exacerbate drought. But the problem won’t go away as soon as fall arrives. Even if France is contributing relatively little to global greenhouse gas emissions, the coun- try needs to prepare for the fact that future summers will be far worse than this one.
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B.D. McClay A critic and essayist.
OME people are going to tell you that the problem with Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is that it’s about mod- ern people, not ancient people. Not me. It is about modern people, but so is every- thing else made by modern people. If you want to encounter the ancient world, you have to open a book. (Homer is available in several translations; I like Richmond Latti- more’s.) Other people are going to tell you that the problem with Mr. Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is that he’s using an ancient text to revisit his own preoccupations: heroism, guilt, memo- ry and the nature of time. Not me. I like an artist who’s not afraid to keep gnawing at the same bone. No, for me the problem with Mr. Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is something else. It’s Odysseus. To refresh briefly for those who don’t re- member the story and haven’t seen the mov- ie: Homer’s two epic poems, the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey,” follow the story of the Trojan War, when the abduction of Helen, the wife of Menelaus, triggers a huge conflict. The Greeks lay siege to Troy for 10 years, with great losses on both sides, and finally achieve victory when Odysseus tricks the Trojans into bringing a horse full of soldiers into the city. Odysseus, sailing home in victory, then angers Poseidon, the god of the sea, delaying his homecoming by another decade. When he finally makes it back, he discovers his home is full of suitors courting his wife, Penelope, and plotting the demise of their son, Telemachus. Penelope has cleverly kept the suitors at bay through trickery, but she’s been betrayed by some of her servants and cannot hold out much longer. One thing that may strike contemporary readers of Homer is that Odysseus is one of a handful of epic heroes whose motivations actually make sense to us. He doesn’t want to be in Troy; he wants to be home. He is de- vious and clever without being an out-and- out scoundrel, and he’s generally motivated by curiosity and a thirst for knowledge. In Mr. Nolan’s hands, however, wily Odysseus becomes a different, if still recog- nizable, type: the halfway hero. He’s a man who in some way fails to be a father, a man who dirties himself in the name of a higher cause but then discovers that the cause was- n’t worth it, a man with the power to change the world but who, in the end, either fails to do so or makes the world worse. Like J. Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of Mr. Nolan’s previous film, this halfway hero seems protected from self-knowledge, either through culpable naïveté or blinding arrogance. Mr. Nolan’s Odysseus, for in- stance, is shocked that once he gets the Greeks into Troy, his comrades loot it and kill the inhabitants. He plucks his bow while hunting out of a sense of sportsmanship and, when his ships set sail to go home, he decides not to take provisions from Troy be- cause, he says, they’ve taken enough from the city already. This is, as mentioned, an Odysseus for modern people, and modern people struggle with the idea of true heroes. A figure who identifies what needs to be done and then does it without tremendous inner conflict? What’s the point of that? Such a person will make most modern audiences feel only like failures. Perhaps contemporary viewers don’t trust the idea of a sharp, decisive leader, or perhaps the notion of doing some- thing without feeling bad about it seems in- herently villainous to them. In contempo- rary politics, Americans tend to alternate between people who tell us nothing can be done and people who swear everything can be done, both of which disappoint in their own ways. So Mr. Nolan’s Odysseus, who
Iryna Mudra, Mykola Yurlov, Taras Semenyuk and Mark Ellis Ms. Mudra is the deputy head of the office of the president of Ukraine. Mr. Yurlov is a senior Ukrainian diplomat. Mr. Semenyuk is a communications adviser. Mr. Ellis is the executive director of the International Bar Association.
KYIV, UKRAINE
N MAY, in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, 36 states and the European Union signed an agreement to make the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Ag- gression Against Ukraine a reality — the culmination of years of work that began soon after Russia launched its full-scale in- vasion in 2022. Since the trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo held after World War II, no court has adjudi- cated the decision to start a war. In the dec- ades since, aggression has survived, recali- brated and repeated itself, despite a clear prohibition in the U.N. Charter, which le- gally binds all members to uphold interna- tional peace. President Vladimir Putin of Russia, for one, seems to have concluded that there was a space in which he could act with impunity. This new tribunal begins to close the gap. It is begun as a response to one war, but the precedent it will set — that aggression carries direct consequences for the aggressor — will carry its own geopoliti- cal weight. The International Criminal Court, the world’s highest criminal court, has already issued arrest warrants for Mr. Putin and some of his top commanders for war crimes and crimes against humanity. More than 120 countries are members of the I.C.C., but the United States, China, India, Israel and Rus- sia are not. It is highly unlikely that Russia would ever extradite Mr. Putin, or anyone else, to face charges. We are aware of the criticisms of interna- tional law — that when people are dying,
struggles after doing something that turns out to be the wrong thing, feels like a partic- ularly compelling figure. In stories, we seem to be drawn to these halfway heroes: people who sort of know what to do but have a lot of trouble doing it and whose eventual moment of personal resolution somehow fixes everything in the end. In its least artful forms, this turns art into an ersatz therapy session in which you forgive yourself for your failures — and then you save the world. Mr. Nolan is more artful than that. His he- roes are often exceptional men who cause problems, then agonize over how to make amends. The fact that they are men is no ac- cident. Their failures at both masculinity and intimacy are essential to understanding them. They aren’t good men, in the sense of upstanding members of the community who work toward building something better. And
problems, then agonizes over how to make amends.
they aren’t bad men, which is to say violent parasites. Instead, they’re halfway heroes, charismatic but hollow people who deem love as something best shown by their ab- sence because their presence proves to be too dangerous. The problem that shapes “The Odyssey” is what has happened in the neglected homes while the men have been away. The suitors who pester Penelope to marry one of them are lesser men than Odysseus, and in the absence of men like Odysseus, no one has taught them how to behave. The genera- tion they represent has gone astray, and there’s no fixing it. It isn’t giving too much away about the movie to say that, much like Mr. Nolan’s in- terpretation of Batman, and even his Op- penheimer, his Odysseus decides to become
statements of guilt or arrest warrants that see nobody arrested can seem like empty gestures. That in a fast-moving world, it can seem that international justice moves at a glacial pace. That nations simply refusing to ratify treaties can make it seem as if those who have agreed to be bound by them are simply shouting from the sidelines. We disagree. It is essential that we contin- ue to establish the rules and norms that we, as an international community, propose to operate by. Justice may proceed slowly, and cautiously, but it does proceed. It creates a record of what happened and prevents the aggressor from having the last word. Critics might say that a special tribunal is too European, too selective, premature. They will say there is a double standard, cit- ing the ghost of every Western foreign pol- icy failure since 1945. Accountability has too often depended on who is in the dock rather than on the gravity of the crime committed. That is a reason to build more accountabil- ity, starting here. Each time the international community builds a working accountability mechanism — however imperfect, however incremental — it narrows the space in which power oper- ates without consequences. Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, said at Davos in January that the logic of “the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must” was being presented as the inevitable reassertion of international rela- tions, and correctly rejected that logic. “We should not allow the rise of hard power to blind us to the fact that the power of legiti- macy, integrity and rules will remain strong — if we choose to wield it together,” he said in the same speech. Impunity for Russian aggression against Georgia in 2008 made the Russian ag- gression against Crimea and the Donbas in Ukraine possible in 2014. Impunity for 2014 paved the way for 2022. If impunity is ever to end, the pushback must begin some- where.
a sin eater, someone who atones for the mis- deeds of others — seeking not only to rectify the disorder that has overcome his home but also to make amends for the entire Trojan War. His solution to the disastrous genera- tion that lies between his own and his son’s is the same as in the poem: Odysseus kills the suitors. They are dangerously weak men, not strong enough to rule or to exhibit self-control but strong enough to terrorize the elderly, the blind, women and children. In the film, Odysseus tries to keep his son’s hands clean of blood, but he fails, so the project of creating a genuinely innocent new generation is over before it’s started. But having taken all this violence onto himself, Odysseus can attempt to purify his home simply by retreating and leaving it again. In real life, outside the movies, we are cer- tainly presented with many examples of dangerously weak men, much like the suit-
ors: men whose conception of being a man begins and ends with a sense of being able to humiliate others, men who live off the work of others while contributing nothing, men who are manipulative cowards who love to tell tales of their own virtue. When we try to imagine alternatives to these men, we come up with the halfway hero — someone who can’t prevent a crisis but will try mightily to fix the mess he made. As one of Mr. Nolan’s characters in a different film said, “You ei- ther die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” — an epigram that applies equally to Batman, Oppen- heimer and Odysseus. It’s not Mr. Nolan’s job as an artist to give us a solution to these dilemmas, and in some ways, I’m glad that in “The Odyssey” he doesn’t really try. Still, I watched the ending of his “Odyssey” with a kind of resignation. Maybe, to riff on another well-known line from one of Mr. Nolan’s movies — “not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed” — halfway heroes seem to be the heroes we want, because certainly they’re the ones we think we need right now. But we could de- serve another kind of hero entirely.
No cease-fire framework for the war in Ukraine currently on the table addresses ac- countability. The question of who ordered this war, and whether those persons will ever answer for it, is absent from negotiat- ing rooms. Ukraine will not trade account- ability for a cease-fire, and history explains why. The Dayton agreement ended the Bosni- an war. The Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, who had al- ready been indicted on charges of war
not trade accountability for a cease-fire.
ANNA MALINA
TO THE EDITOR: Re “The Second Home Tax Is a Win for New York” (editorial, July 26): Rather than being simply a narrow tax on wealthy foreign tax avoiders, New York City’s second home tax will affect many New Yorkers who main- tain a legitimate second resi- dence in the city and already contribute significantly through property, sales and other local taxes. The central question is not whether affluent individuals can afford to pay more. It is whether imposing a new tax on property ownership is sound policy for a city that depends on investment and economic growth. New York faces intense competition for residents, employers, capital and development. Policymak- ers should encourage invest- ment, not drive it elsewhere. The editorial dismisses concerns about economic impact because the tax applies to relatively few properties. But the significance of a tax is not measured solely by the number of taxpayers affected. Every additional tax sends a signal to investors, business leaders and property owners about New York’s long-term competitiveness. Most important, the tax does nothing to address the city’s housing shortage or structural fiscal challenges. New Yorkers would be better served by
TO THE EDITOR: Re “What’s the Worst Thing Trump Can Do in the Midterms?,” by Jeffrey Toobin (Opinion guest essay, July 28): In his excellent essay, Mr. Toobin quotes Representative Joe Morelle, the ranking mem- ber of the House Administra- tion Committee, as saying: “The president simply can’t get over 2020, and he’s reliving it every day. I feel like it’s the girlfriend in high school that got away.” Although we can’t comment on Mr. Trump directly, we find that a good way for people to get over past events is to mourn. We all have to mourn every day. We mourn lost opportunities, lost possibilities, lost time and lost people. To mourn, we recognize that we’ve lost something, name it and allow ourselves to feel sad about the loss. If we can’t mourn, we be- come stagnant. We can’t grow. It takes courage to mourn, but it’s the only way to move for- ward. Politicians can think about how our country can grow again, but it has to come with mourning. It’s the only way. If a leader can’t mourn, we are all frozen in time.
DEBORAH L. CABANISS YAEL HOLOSHITZ NEW YORK The writers are psychiatrists and psychoanalysts.
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policies that expand housing production and grow the tax base rather than new taxes that may produce unintended consequences.
JAMES WHELAN, NEW YORK The writer is the president of the Real Estate Board of New York.
TO THE EDITOR: Your editorial notes that other places besides New York City — Paris and Singapore, and states like Montana and Rhode Island — have increased taxes on second homes. While that is true, the approaches in each place differ. In New York the law is designed to tax expensive homes of the very wealthy valued at $5 million or more. In Montana, where I live, there is no threshold value. There is a large increase in property tax — an average projected hike of 68 percent — on all second homes regardless of their value. So the cabin val- ued at $50,000 is treated the same as the $10 million man- sion. Obviously, there are far fewer wealthy homeowners in Montana than in New York, but many Montanans have cabins that have been in the family for generations. They and their children are going to struggle to pay their increased property tax. Some will be forced to sell their property. Those properties will likely be snatched up by the billionaires who can easily absorb the tax burden. In keeping with the mood of the country, the Montana law, while ostensibly designed to raise tax revenue, conven- iently accommodates the avarice of the very wealthy by pricing out the locals.
WILLIAM LEAPHART HELENA, MONT.
TO THE EDITOR: I take issue with your premise that taxing the wealthy heavily is a sound strategy. First, we all know that taxes that start out targeting the wealthy always wind up hit- ting the middle class. As much as you would like it to be so, there just aren’t enough wealthy people, so the money raised is never what was fore- cast. Second, why should we be unfair to wealthy people just because they are wealthy? Your claim that “the tax addresses a pernicious form of tax avoidance” seems more like a swipe at part-time resi- dents than reasoned analysis. What it addresses is not tax avoidance, but rather part of the law that recognizes the reality that part-time residents don’t use the city’s infrastruc- ture or other benefits as much as full-time residents and that part-time residents pay taxes in other jurisdictions. And if you don’t like the current residency require- ment, then change it from 184 to 200 or even 250 days.
MICHAEL ECKSTUT BRADENTON, FLA.
crimes, were excluded from peace negotia- tions. The Dayton agreement ended the fight- ing, but justice for those most responsible was delayed. Slobodan Milosevic, then the president of the Federal Republic of Yugo- slavia and a key participant in the negotia- tions, was not arrested until almost six years after the agreement. Mr. Karadzic was arrested more than 12 years later, and Mr. Mladic more than 15. That delay contributed to historical revisionism, and allowed ethnic nationalism to gain strength. The creation of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine required compromises that left none of the participants entirely satisfied. But it exists. Its existence should change the strategic calculation — not just for Mr. Putin, but for every leader in every capital who has watched Ukraine and filed away the lesson that conquest can be cost free. More than 140 states voted at the United Nations to condemn Russia’s aggression in March 2022, but only 36 signed the agree- ment in May in Moldova. We do not ask that all countries be on the side of Ukraine. We ask them to be on the side of themselves. The international legal architecture that was designed to protect Ukraine from con- quest is intended to protect every other country, too. The constraints this tribunal could impose on major-power discretion would not stop at Europe’s borders. In his opening statement, Robert Jackson, the chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, told the court: “We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.” Those who choose to ei- ther join or remain outside this tribunal are making their own record — one that will be read by future victims looking for prece- dent, future aggressors calculating risk and historians explaining to the next generation how the post-1945 international order en- dured, or didn’t.
TRADE Attacks on vessels in the straits of Bab al-Mandab and Hormuz are disrupting the passage of oil tankers.
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A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Trade Workers by the Thousands
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WARREN, MICH. — As an electrician in training in Detroit, Tyler Shel- ton spends most of his days pop- ping down manholes to fix cables and other electrical gear. But lately, his company has sent many of its workers to a sprawling data center that just broke ground about an hour away. “Everybody wants that money,” Mr. Shelton, 29, said during lunch break at his apprenticeship’s twice-a-month classroom day. “We have work to do, but we’re also losing a good chunk of man- power to these data centers.” Soon, he could join them: Open- AI’s project in Saline Township is the biggest single investment in Michigan’s history, according to the state, requiring hundreds of electricians working 10-hour days, seven days a week. Despite
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Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employ- ees, traveled to Alaska in March to meet local union leaders pushing to reinstate a pension system for state employees. Alaska had closed its public re- tirement program in 2006, after it ran up a multibillion-dollar short- fall. But 20 years later, state agen- cies have double-digit vacancy rates, a crisis of public-sector em- ployment that has compromised safety and services. In April, Alaska’s Legislature passed a bill that would restart the retirement program with biparti- san support, aiming to draw and retain workers. But Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, vetoed it
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in May. The failure illustrates a tension that came to define Mr. Saunders’s tenure as head of the country’s largest public employee union. While unions have regained favor with the public, they are facing new opposition from many of the country’s leaders. A 2025 Gallup poll found that 65 percent of Americans approve of labor unions, up from a low of 48 percent in 2009. Over that same time, though, the percentage of American workers in unions has fallen and the power unions wield has been eroded by courts and legislatures. It is a paradox that “reflects our broken political economy,” said Alexander Hertel- Fernandez, a political scientist at Columbia University.
the overtime bonanza, Mr. Shelton has mixed feelings. “I’d like to have a house in the next year or so,” he said. “So it’s like, I understand the draw, but I also like to have a life outside work.” The data center boom is on ev- erybody’s mind at the Detroit Electrical Industry Training Cen- ter, where about 850 apprentices train between long days on the job. The megaprojects are pulling skilled trade workers into remote locations with some of the highest pay and bonuses that the industry has ever seen. The next generation of electri- cians is also top of mind for the ar- tificial intelligence companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure they have enough people to build and run their data centers. That commitment includes this training facility, which is one of 270 supported by a partnership between the International Broth- erhood of Electrical Workers and contractors. As part of a $50 mil-
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“Policy choices have weakened our labor movement,” he said. Few people understand the par- adox better than Mr. Saunders, 75, who plans to retire in August after 50 years working for the Ameri- can Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AF- SCME, including 15 years as its leader. Conservatives have long tar- geted public-sector unions, which they describe as inefficient, coer- cive and expensive. Now, some on the American left are also calling public-sector unions barriers to progress and productivity. The so- called abundance agenda, while not explicitly antilabor, has set off debates about whether Demo- crats need to learn how to say no
POLICY Millions of older Americans could pay more for their drug coverage next year as Trump ends Biden-era subsidies.
Since ChatGPT’s Release, Commercial Construction Jobs Have Risen, Even as Residential Hiring Has Dipped
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SPORTS Napheesa Collier of the Lynx is one of the big names that could be dealt before the W.N.B.A. trade deadline.
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Criticizes Tight Control Of A.I. Power
the approach used by Anthropic and OpenAI.
By MIKE ISAAC and ELI TAN
SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zucker- berg came out swinging against Anthropic and OpenAI, two of the world’s most valuable artificial in- telligence start-ups, saying the way they developed A.I. software could lead to a centralization of power that would narrow people’s access to the transformational technology. In an interview on Tuesday with The New York Times, the 42-year- old chief executive of Meta did not call out Anthropic and OpenAI by name. But he said that if leading research labs wanted to develop A.I. technology in a tightly con- trolled manner — as Anthropic and OpenAI have done — it would be akin to “abandoning our val- ues” in American tech develop- ment and stifle innovation. “So much of the discourse from a lot of the other labs that are de- veloping this is overwhelmingly filled with doom,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “There needs to be a voice or several voices that are bringing realism to this debate.” The comments from Mr. Zuckerberg, who rarely gives in- terviews to traditional news orga- nizations, escalate a debate over how artificial intelligence soft- ware should be created that has divided Silicon Valley. Technologists like Dario Amodei, the chief executive of An- thropic, and Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, have said some of today’s leading A.I. mod- els are too dangerous to be shared and developed without tight con- trols. But Microsoft, Nvidia, Google and Meta have disagreed, contending that many A.I. models
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Defies Jitters Dogging A.I.
By STEVE LOHR
SEOUL — For decades, the busi- ness of making memory chips had been the digital equivalent of min- ing raw materials. Production re- quired enormous investments in expensive factories, while prices swung through boom-or-bust cy- cles. The hope was that, over time, the good years would outnumber the bad. The glamour and lofty profits in the semiconductor industry lay in the data-processing brains of computers, not the memory chips that stored and transported data. But artificial intelligence, with its nearly limitless appetite for training data, has transformed the stature and profitability of the memory business beyond recog- nition. No company reflects that shift more than SK Hynix, the leading producer of high-speed memory, a crucial A.I. technology. And no company has been more exposed to the wild stock-market gyrations that have roiled A.I. companies in recent weeks. Hynix has been a focal point for investor concerns over the seemingly run- away costs of Silicon Valley tech giants building A.I. data centers and worries over tougher compe- tition from China. If A.I. invest- ment slows, Hynix appears espe- cially vulnerable. Hynix shares have been bat- tered in the A.I. sell-off this week, and are down about 50 percent from their recent high. Yet the stock has more than doubled so far this year. This month, Hynix raised $26.5 billion in a U.S. share sale, the largest ever by a foreign company. Hynix reported quarterly re- sults on Wednesday that under- scored how much the A.I. boom is lifting the South Korean chip- maker. Its revenue more than tri-
EARNINGS P.&G. Revenue Growth Expected to Slow in 2027
Procter & Gamble on Wednesday forecast slower revenue growth for its 2027 fiscal year after quar- terly sales fell short of estimates and margins dropped under a “very challenging geopolitical and economic environment.” Sticky inflation and higher food and gas prices have forced lower- income consumers to cut back spending, but consumer goods companies, mainly in the U.S.,
AVIATION Frontier Betting on Profits As Spirit Leaves the Field
Frontier Airlines forecast third- quarter earnings above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, betting on stronger pricing power after rival Spirit Airlines’ exit to help mitigate higher fuel costs driven by the Middle East conflict. Frontier said broader U.S. ca- pacity reductions amid higher jet fuel costs and the liquidation of Spirit had allowed it to raise fares more than 50 percent in the sec- ond quarter, limiting the impact of a rising fuel bill on its margins. The ultralow-cost carrier’s chief executive, Jimmy Dempsey, said he expected revenue per available seat mile, a proxy for pricing power, to increase 20 percent in the third quarter from a year earli-
AUTOMOTIVE Renault Posts 9.4% Rise In First-Half Revenue
Renault posted a 9.4 percent rise in first-half revenue on Wednes- day and swung back to profit thanks to strong electric vehicle sales, as it withstood growing pressure from incumbent rivals and Chinese newcomers on car prices across Europe. “Our first-half results confirm that our strategic model works, even in a complex environment,” Renault’s chief executive, Fran-
also face the challenge of offering products at varied price points as the divide between high and low- income shoppers widens. P&G’s core earnings per share fell 3 percent to $1.43 in the April- June period from a year ago, but edged past estimates of $1.41, as higher commodity and marketing expenses dragged operating mar- gins lower for the quarter. Results in the fourth quarter, where net sales of $21.20 billion missed estimates, were impacted by trade dynamics in the U.S., An- dre Schulten, the chief financial officer, said. REUTERS
er, the third straight quarter of double-digit growth. “The structure of the competi- tive capacity that’s happening is a big positive for Frontier and we’re benefiting from that, and that’s enabling us to mitigate high oil at the moment,” Mr. Dempsey said. REUTERS
cois Provost, told reporters. The French carmaker reported an operating margin of 5.2 percent for the six-month period, down from 6 percent in the first half of 2025 but above analyst expecta- tions of 5 percent. Despite increasing competition in Europe from Chinese automak- ers including BYD and Chery, Re- nault confirmed its operating margin target for 2026 of 5.5 per- cent, versus 6.3 percent in 2025. Renault said its sales of fully electric cars jumped 47.6 percent versus the same period in 2025. REUTERS
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Global Oil Prices Jump as Attacks Resume in the Mideast
By LAURA STEVENS
After tumbling last week, oil prices reversed direction on Wednesday, briefly topping $91 a barrel, as attacks resumed in the Middle East, jolting investors concerned about the flow of ener- gy out of the region. The United States and Saudi Arabia said they had struck Irani- an-backed militias in Iraq, and Iran said it had fired missiles at U.S. military targets in the region. In addition, the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen said on Tuesday that they had launched missiles at a Saudi oil tanker, the group’s latest attack since an- nouncing a blockade of Saudi shipping in the Red Sea. The Houthis’ efforts to restrict traffic in the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea, which Saudi Arabia has used as an alternative to Strait of Hormuz, has created a new front in the war with Iran. Threats of the blockade had helped push up global oil prices, which eased this week when sev- eral days passed without full- blown fighting between the United States and Iran.
Oil prices rise.
■ The price of Brent crude, the global benchmark, rose nearly 8 percent, touching $91 a barrel at one point. That is for oil to be de- livered in September.
■ West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, rose about 7 percent to around $85 a barrel.
■ Oil prices have fallen from their recent highs, but are still up more than 20 percent since the begin- ning of the war.
■ Investors and analysts are fo- cused on the continued disruption to shipping in the Strait of Hor- muz, the narrow waterway be- tween Iran and Oman that is a vi- tal trading route that normally carries as much as one-fifth of the
world’s oil supply.
Global stocks were mixed.
■ The S&P 500 dipped about 1.5 percent when stocks closed for trading in the United States on Wednesday.
■ Stocks in Asia, where markets have experienced a sell-off relat- ed to fears about tech companies’ overspending in the artificial-in- telligence race, were mixed. Chinese indexes showed small gains. South Korea’s KOSPI index fell 6 percent, and the Nikkei closed 1.5 percent lower.
■ In Europe, the Stoxx 600, a broad index that tracks the re- gion’s largest companies, ticked lower.
Gasoline prices dip.
■ Gas prices fell 1 cent on Wednesday to a national average of $4.09 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club. The conflict with Iran has raised the cost for driv- ers by about 37 percent since the war began.
■ Gas prices don’t move in lock
step with crude, usually trailing increases or drops by a few days.
■ The average price of diesel rose 1 cent to $5.33 on Wednesday, up 42 percent since the start of the war.
What they are saying: A new Fed ‘dynamic.’
■ Financial markets are still wrestling with the shift in leader- ship at the Federal Reserve, fol- lowing policymakers’ vote to leave interest rates unchanged, Josh Jamner, senior investment strategy analyst at ClearBridge Investments, wrote in a research note.
■ The new Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh, indicated that price vola- tility in response to greater uncer- tainty about how the central bank may respond to developments is more of a feature than a bug, Mr. Jamner said in a statement.
■ “Market participants are still trying to wrap their minds around this dynamic, as evidenced by the volatility in interest rates and fi- nancial markets during and fol- lowing the press conference,” he said.
An oil refinery in Russia. A bill would allow the administration to impose steep tariffs on buyers of Russian energy, but also gives the White House leeway to issue waivers or exemptions.
By ALAN RAPPEPORT
WASHINGTON — The sanctions leg- islation that moved forward in the Senate this week goes beyond en- acting new financial restrictions on Russia and Iran. It also gives President Trump broad new pow- ers to impose tariffs on imports from some of the world’s largest economies. The bipartisan bill, which was designed by the late Senator Lind- sey Graham, the South Carolina Republican, was intended to dem- onstrate that Congress is unified in its desire to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and to pre- vent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. But tucked inside the leg- islation are tools that would give the Trump administration sweep- ing discretion to impose steep tar- iffs on major buyers of Russian en- ergy products. The measure would restore some of the trade authorities that the Supreme Court stripped away when it ruled against Mr. Trump’s use of tariffs on national security grounds ear- lier this year. It if becomes law, the bill would allow Mr. Trump to impose 500 percent tariffs on Russian im- ports, which include mostly fertil- izers, and tariffs as high as 100 percent on the largest importers of Russian oil and gas. Countries that help Russia evade sanctions could also face tariffs as high as 100 percent. The policy could lead to addi- tional levies on billions of dollars’ worth of products imported from China, India and European Union countries. The bill represents the latest move by Congress to cede more of its authority over trade policy to Mr. Trump. It also comes amid bi- partisan anger over the presi-
Congress to cede more of its authority.
For Medicare Drug Plans
By REBECCA ROBBINS and REED ABELSON
The Trump administration an- nounced on Tuesday that it in- tended to end a Biden-era pro- gram that for the past two years has helped tamp down the cost of monthly premiums for drug cov- erage for people on Medicare. The decision means that mil- lions of Americans 65 and older could face higher Medicare drug premiums next year, when the cost of living is already a major concern. That could be politically damaging for Republicans in the midterm elections. In the weeks leading up to November, Medicare beneficiaries could experience sticker shock while shopping for next year’s drug plan. For 2025 and 2026, the federal government gave health insurers billions of dollars in subsidies to help them keep down drug premi- ums for people on Medicare. With- out the subsidies, millions of peo- ple could have had to pay hun- dreds of dollars more a year for their drug plans. Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administra- tor of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said in a post on social media on Tuesday that the subsidies had been ended be- cause the insurers no longer needed them. He said every Medi- care beneficiary would still have options for low-cost plans.
dent’s provocative use of tariffs, which has led to retaliation from other countries and uncertainty for businesses. Scott Lincicome, a trade expert at the free-markets-oriented Cato Institute, said that some of the key language in the legislation is murky and that Mr. Trump has shown he will push the limits of his tariff powers. “The president has demonstrat- ed repeatedly that he is willing to exploit any ambiguity in a tariff statute that lets him impose addi- tional import taxes,” Mr. Linci- come said. “When you’re dealing with Trump, you should be ex- tremely reluctant to give him new tariff powers.” Despite last-minute changes to reduce the potential impact of the tariffs on American companies, the bill leaves room for the White House to interpret who are the biggest buyers of Russian energy products, which could open the door to a more expansive use of tariffs. The legislation also gives Mr. Trump, who has at times been re- luctant to punish Russia with sanctions, the leeway not to im- pose them by issuing a waiver and providing Congress with an expla- nation of why he believes an ex- emption is in the national interest. The president has argued that he needs flexibility when it comes to tariffs and sanctions when negoti- ating with other countries. The potential for Mr. Trump to gain more power to unilaterally impose tariffs has rattled indus- tries that were already struggling to cope with the gyrations of his trade agenda. Over the last year, Mr. Trump has continuously add- ed, adjusted and removed tariffs as he sought to gain negotiating leverage with American trading
“Premiums will go up by less than $10 for most Medicare recipi- ents, with many even seeing LOWER premiums,” Dr. Oz wrote. He said that the Biden adminis- tration’s approach was “unaccept- able” and that it “gave BILLIONS of taxpayer money DIRECTLY to Big Insurance Companies.” But it is not clear yet how many people may have to pay more, and how much it will cost them. Prices vary widely across plans, and peo- ple will have the opportunity to shop for a new plan this fall. C.M.S. said it expected to make public the monthly premiums for individual plans in September. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the decision to end the subsidies. About 25 million Americans have stand-alone plans for so- called Part D drug coverage under traditional Medicare. The premi- ums they pay are $36 a month on average, according to KFF, a non- profit health research group. An additional 31 million beneficiaries get their drug coverage through Medicare Advantage, a private- sector alternative for people 65 and older. Biden administration officials set up the subsidy program before the presidential election in 2024 to offset changes that would have sharply raised Medicare drug pre- miums for 2025.
partners. That has left companies struggling to plan how to source the products they buy and how to set their prices. As they rushed to finalize the bill ahead of Mr. Graham’s funeral on Tuesday, lawmakers met re- sistance from lobbyists who are anxious about giving Mr. Trump more tariff authority. “The potential of new, broad, 100 percent tariffs on imports from secondary countries risks raising costs for American busi- nesses, workers and consumers,” a group of nearly two dozen trade associations wrote in a letter to Senator John Thune of South Da- kota, the Republican majority leader, and Senator Chuck Schu-
mer of New York, the Democratic minority leader. “Tariffs of this scale would in- crease costs for everyday con- sumer goods, manufacturing in- puts and other products while cre- ating significant uncertainty for companies making sourcing, pric- ing and inventory decisions months in advance.” The lobbying groups include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Retail Industry Leaders Asso- ciation and the National Foreign Trade Council. They asked law- makers to remove the tariff au- thority in the bill and warned that tariffs were “a blunt tool that can penalize law-abiding U.S. compa- nies.” The fate of the bill in the House
Ending federal subsidies for Medicare drug plans could be damaging for Republicans in the midterm elections.
Biden officials were reacting to the effects of the Inflation Reduc- tion Act, passed in 2022 by Demo- crats without any Republican votes, which introduced a $2,000 annual cap on out-of-pocket spending on prescription drugs along with other changes to Medi- care. At the time, Republicans sharply criticized the offset plan, calling it a nakedly political ploy meant to sway voters. They said it would offer older people only tem- porary relief. For months, President Trump
is unclear, as some top Democrats have already expressed opposi- tion to giving Mr. Trump more tar- iff authority. However, the biparti- san support in the Senate sug- gests that it could pass. Still, some Senate Democrats have also ex- pressed reservations. “I do not think tariffs, which are paid for by American businesses and consumers, will help Ukraine win this war,” Senator Maggie Hassan, a Democrat from New Hampshire, wrote on social media following the vote. “And over the last year, it’s become more clear that President Trump will use any legal — or illegal — mechanism to make families pay his reckless tariffs.” A White House official said that the bill was the result of months of negotiations between federal agencies, the White House and lawmakers and that it reflected bi- partisan national security and for- eign policy objectives. Late changes to the Senate ver- sion of the bill were intended to re- strict some of the potential impact on America’s trading partners. Only the top five importers of Rus- sian oil or gas are eligible to be hit with U.S. tariffs. Countries that take significant steps to reduce their purchases of Russian oil and gas could have their tariff rates re- duced or eliminated. The Supreme Court invalidated Mr. Trump’s preferred legal tool in February, when it said his use of an international emergency law to impose tariffs was unlawful and ordered roughly $160 billion in tar- iff revenue to be refunded. Earlier this month, the presi- dent moved to revive his protec- tionist agenda, imposing tariffs of around 10 percent on goods from more than 80 countries. Those duties were issued under
has been promoting his efforts to lower prices for weight-loss drugs and other medicines, saying that alone should be enough to win the midterms for Republicans. Democrats pounced on the Trump administration’s an- nouncement on Tuesday. Kendall Witmer, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement that Mr. Trump and Republicans “are doing ev- erything they can to make health care unaffordable for Americans, especially for seniors.” In another statement on Tues-
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Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows the president to impose tariffs on foreign coun- tries that engage in unreasonable or discriminatory trade practices. The administration has cited the failure of foreign countries to pass or enforce laws banning the im- portation of goods made by forced labor into their own countries, saying that disadvantages U.S. businesses that do follow such laws. Mr. Trump also said this month that he planned to impose 100 per- cent tariffs on imported generic drugs starting in 2028. The president has expressed a preference for using tariffs over sanctions as an economic weapon. Last year, Mr. Trump imposed tar- iffs on India as punishment for its purchases of Russian oil. Howev- er, the tariffs proved to be ineffec- tive at curtailing India’s oil pur- chases and the Trump administra- tion later rescinded them. Ben Harris, a former Treasury Department official in the Biden administration who helped design its policy to cap the price of Rus- sian oil, said that he was encour- aged to see bipartisan legislation that could compel the Trump ad- ministration to punish more Rus- sian shadow fleet tankers and tighten enforcement of existing sanctions. But with energy prices remain- ing volatile because of the conflict in Iran and Mr. Trump continuing to express mixed messages about Russia, it is not clear how the pres- ident would wield new sanctions and tariff powers if he gets them. “The Trump administration has a terrible record with respect to sanctioning Russia’s oil industry to date,” Mr. Harris said. “It’s been unclear what their objective has been from the get-go.”
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day, Leslie Dach, the chair of Pro- tect Our Care, a left-leaning health care advocacy organization, ac- cused the Trump administration of “eliminating a key program that helps seniors afford their medica- tions.” AHIP, a major trade group for the insurers, said it was reviewing the announcement. “At a time of sharply rising prescription drug costs, health plans are focused on keeping Part D coverage and benefits as affordable as possible,” Chris Bond, a spokesman, said in a statement.
Are Spreading Across Routes Crucial to Oil
By JENNY GROSS and PETER EAVIS
LONDON — Ships transporting en- ergy products out of the Middle East face a heightened risk of at- tack in two critical waterways, further disrupting the supply of oil and natural gas to world markets. Fighting continued in the Mid- dle East on Wednesday, with the United States and Iran launching missile attacks, and the conflict has slowed traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the primary route for oil shipments out of the Persian Gulf. Now, the conflict is also increas- ingly disrupting navigation through the Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea, which has become a critical valve for Saudi Arabia’s oil exports that can’t make it through the Strait of Hormuz. The number of vessels passing through Bab al-Mandab is down by one-fifth since July 20, accord- ing to Windward, a maritime data agency. Since the war in Iran started five months ago, Saudi Arabia has reduced its reliance on the Strait of Hormuz by pumping much of its oil through a pipeline and loading it onto tankers in the Red Sea, which runs along the west of the Arabian Peninsula. Most of the tankers then carry the oil south through the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which Yemen borders, making the vessels vulnerable to attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia, which announced a blockade on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea ports on July 20. The Houthis claimed to have struck a Saudi tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday, according to Yahya Sa- ree, a Houthi spokesman, though it was unclear if the ship was actu- ally hit. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which is administered by Britain’s
are disrupting the passage of tankers.
Royal Navy, recorded a report of “suspicious activity” in the south- ern Red Sea in which a ship’s mas- ter reported hearing an explosion. The vessel and crew were safe. Even as the Houthis target Saudi-linked vessels, some Chi- nese vessels appeared to be broadcasting their nationality and sailing through freely. China has close ties to Iran, the Houthis’ main sponsor. One Chinese-flagged vessel transited the Bab al-Mandab Strait to Jeddah, a Saudi Arabian port city, with its location trans- ponder on and without any GPS manipulation, according to Wind- ward. The ship’s transponder broadcast the messages “CHINA SHIP CREW SUEZ” and “CHINA SHIP CREW.” David Smith, an executive at the insurance broker McGill and Partners, said insurance costs for vessels in the Red Sea have in- creased across the board, even for vessels with no Saudi links. And some insurers are not providing coverage at all for ships that pick up cargo at Saudi ports, he said. Although 41 ships passed through the Bab al-Mandab Strait on Tuesday, a rise from 39 on Mon- day, “higher traffic should not be mistaken for lower risk,” said Kpler, a ship-tracking firm. The lo- cation transponders on four of those ships were turned off, it add- ed, reflecting the elevated risk lev- els because the ships may have been trying to avoid detection. In June, before the Houthi threats, 355 crude tankers passed through the Bab al-Mandab Strait, an increase of more than 50 per- cent from the 197 that made the transit in February, according to data from Lloyd’s List, a maritime analysis firm. If the Houthis manage to reduce the number of tankers using the Red Sea in the long term, it would be a big blow to an effort that is moving a lot of oil out of the Persian Gulf, particularly as traf- fic through the Strait of Hormuz remains at less than one-tenth of prewar levels. Just 12 ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, with traffic evenly split by direc- tion, from eight a day earlier, ac- cording to data from Kpler. Ten of the ships transited through the Iranian-designated route, and the route taken by the other two was undetermined, the data showed. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said it had struck three tankers that ignored its warnings and proceeded on an “il- legal” route, though it did not say where the ships were hit.
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By eBay Team Settle the Case For $56 Million
By DAVID STREITFELD
Seven years after eBay security personnel harassed a pair of Massachusetts journalists in an effort to get them to shut up, the Silicon Valley company and three former executives agreed to pay $56 million to settle their claims. The couple, David and Ina Steiner, announced the terms on their website Monday night. On Tuesday, eBay released a state- ment acknowledging a deal. An eBay spokesman did not chal- lenge the Steiners’ accounting. “The 2019 conduct is not repre- sentative of eBay’s culture or thousands of employees around the world today,” eBay said. In an unusual move, the settle- ment terms were not shrouded in secrecy. The Steiners said that they would receive $46.15 million from eBay and that the company would give an additional $6 mil- lion “in charitable contributions to various nonprofit organizations.” The former eBay chief execu- tive Devin Wenig and two other former colleagues will pay the couple a total of $2.55 million. Mr. Wenig will also pay $1 million to a charity dedicated to protecting First Amendment rights in the name of Ina Steiner, the an- nouncement said. Mr. Wenig said in a statement that the harassment was “done in secret and without my knowl- edge.” He added that he was pleased “a meaningful portion of my settlement” would go to pro- tecting freedom of the press. Law- yers for eBay and the other for- mer executives did not respond to messages requesting comment. In a brief telephone interview, the Steiners said the case was never just about money. One of their goals was to raise an alarm. Executives have tremendous power, they said, but are typically shielded from any fallout. “Corporations have armies of security people, and they can be weaponized,” said Ms. Steiner, who does the writing on the cou- ple’s website, EcommerceBytes. They have been advocates for e- commerce sellers on eBay and other sites since the late-1990s. In the spring of 2019, eBay was under pressure from an activist hedge fund. A handful of Ms. Steiner’s articles, including one about a bar Mr. Wenig had built on eBay’s campus, infuriated com- pany executives, according to texts revealed by prosecutors. Further details of the stalking op- eration were later revealed by journalists and the Steiners’ own lawsuit, which was filed in 2021. “Take her down,” Mr. Wenig told his communications chief, who in turn told the security team leader to do “whatever it takes.” The Steiners were bombarded with anonymous material includ- ing deliveries of live cockroaches and a bloody pig mask. They were threatened online. Much of the material they were sent, including a funeral wreath and a book on surviving the loss of a spouse, sug- gested imminent death. The secu- rity team was on the verge of breaking into the Steiners’ garage to put a tracker on their car when the plot was derailed. In 2020, Andrew Lelling, who was then the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, called it “a sys- tematic campaign, fueled by the resources of a Fortune 500 com- pany, to emotionally and psycho- logically terrorize this middle- aged couple in Natick, with the goal of deterring them from writ- ing bad things online about eBay.” He and other prosecutors charged seven members of the se- curity team, who all pleaded guilty. Several served time in pris- on. But the Steiners were frus- trated that no executives were charged, even though, the couple said, they started the campaign. In 2024, the Justice Department charged eBay with stalking, wit- ness tampering and obstruction of justice. The charges were dropped under a deferred prosecution agreement. The company paid a $3 million fine to the government. A recent documentary, “What- ever It Takes,” showcases the Steiners’ efforts. The settlement does not provide the drama of a trial, the couple said, but they pro- nounced themselves generally satisfied. “We wanted to find the truth,” Ms. Steiner said. “As victims you need to know.”
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must be developed largely in the open for people to advance the technology and build new busi- nesses. The discord heightened this month as breakthroughs in Chi- nese A.I. models appeared to erode the head start that Ameri- can companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have enjoyed. The com- panies have lobbied regulators in Washington, raising concerns about Chinese open-source A.I. models. On Friday, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, posted a letter supporting open-source software development, which oth- ers in Silicon Valley rallied around. This week, Mr. Huang an- nounced a coalition to work on open-source safety and cyber- security tools for A.I., joined by other tech giants like SpaceX and IBM. Tech executives including Mr. Huang and Mr. Altman are trav- eling to Washington this week to further make their case to the Trump administration, which is mulling how to deal with the issue. Amid the battle, Mr. Zucker- berg has repeatedly argued that more people, rather than fewer, should have access to A.I. technol- ogy, a tacit criticism of Mr. Amodei and Mr. Altman. Mr. Amodei, in particular, has called out the dangers of “align- ment risk,” an issue with pro- gramming artificial intelligence in a way that is safe toward hu- mans. “I think a lot of people have this notion that if you build some kind of singular A.I. you can, through some idealized form of alignment, make sure it is benevolent to hu- manity,” Mr. Zuckerberg said in the interview. “I’m personally skeptical of that path.” He instead called for “person- alized superintelligence” for ev- eryone, which would mean config- uring A.I. bots to suit people’s needs and desires. A central “be- nevolent” A.I. superpower, he ar- gued, would be untenable be- cause people have different views and value systems. “I think it is literally impossible to have a single benevolent super- intelligence that is simulta- neously aligned with everyone at once,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. Representatives from Anthrop- ic and OpenAI did not immedi- ately respond to requests for com- ment. In previous statements, OpenAI has said it supports open- source software and is working with the White House on safe ways to support A.I. develop- ment. In a blog post on Monday, Mr. Amodei said Anthropic was fo- cused on “keeping powerful chips out of authoritarian hands, stop- ping industrial-scale distillation, and requiring safety testing of all sufficiently capable models, open and closed.” On Tuesday, top A.I. re- searchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google also signed an
By Kate Conger, Mike Isaac and Meaghan Tobin
Silicon Valley has been embroiled in a pitched battle over how artifi- cial intelligence software should be created. Some have said A.I. models should be “closed” be- cause they are too powerful and dangerous to be developed openly. Others have said A.I. models must be “open source” for people to fur- ther develop the technologies and build new businesses. Amid the debate, technologists have battled over how much open- ness is enough, citing “open weights.” What are open weights? We’ll explain them.
First, what is open-source software? When software developers decide to make their technology open source, they publish all of the un- derlying computer code. They also release the code under an “open license,” which lets other developers use it without paying fees or royalties. There are several advantages to making code publicly available. One is security. Private code can be reviewed by a company’s employees for flaws, but public code can be reviewed by everyone so that many more technologists weed out mistakes that could lead to cybersecurity incidents. Another is faster innovation. Many companies have leaned into open-source software to bootstrap new products more quickly, in- stead of writing code from scratch. Today, open-source soft- ware undergirds much of the mod- ern internet.
Mark Zuckerberg, above at the Capitol in March, has argued his view that more people, not fewer, should have access to artificial intelligence technology.
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Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has said some A.I. models are too dangerous to be shared.
open letter titled “Pacing the Frontier,” arguing for an interna- tional effort to develop technical and governance tools to slow down A.I. development for safety. OpenAI posted the letter on social media. (The Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news articles. The two companies have denied the claims.) Meta’s own philosophy around A.I. development has fluctuated. For years, the company champi- oned open-source A.I. and gave
An open weights march in San Francisco last week. Technologists have battled over how much openness is enough.
A.I. model can learn to generate English on its own. The model stores these patterns as numer- ical calculations called “weights.” These values determine how an A.I. model “thinks” as it responds to prompts from users. When technologists refer to open weights, they mean that the calculations, or rules, governing the A.I. system are public. People who use the system can tweak those rules to adjust it to their own needs — perhaps focusing an A.I. system on a particular area like medical research or cybersecuri- ty, or making it favor certain infor- mation over all else. If the weights aren’t public, people have to use the A.I. system just the way its makers designed it.
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Alexandr Wang leads Meta’s A.I. division. After he was hired, he developed a closed A.I. model.
away its A.I. models for free. Last spring, after falling behind An- thropic and OpenAI in the A.I. race, Mr. Zuckerberg took action. He invested $14.3 billion in ScaleAI, an A.I. start-up, and hired its founder, Alexandr Wang, to revamp Meta’s A.I. division, which was renamed Meta Super- intelligence Labs. Meta spent bil- lions to assemble a team of all-star A.I. researchers around Mr. Wang, and they began developing an A.I. model that was not open but closed. The move gave Meta the poten-
Open weights do not go so far as to disclose all of the code that makes the system work. Some A.I. companies have released their un- derlying code, while others have published only the weights. And other companies have not dis- closed any details about the inner workings of their A.I. models.
Why do we care about this now? It boils down to the A.I. race and who holds power over the technol- ogy. Anthropic and OpenAI, the leading A.I. labs, have spent bil- lions of dollars on developing cut- ting-edge A.I. models that are mostly closed, which means the companies do not share anything
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Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, aims to keep “powerful chips out of authoritarian hands.”
tial to sell access to new models for more revenue. This month, it began selling access to its latest A.I. model, Muse Spark, for the first time. Meta also continues to develop open-source models. Mr. Zuckerberg has long be- lieved that A.I. will transform so- ciety in positive ways that are yet to be understood. This month, Meta released a national advertis- ing campaign saying that invest- ing in A.I. tools and releasing them broadly meant the company was “betting on people.” The Wall Street Journal pub-
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about how those models were cre- ated. These models have been widely adopted around the world. But this concentration of A.I. power has raised concerns among tech giants such as Nvidia, Micro- soft and Meta, which are also com- peting in this race. The sharing of open-weights models, many of these companies argue, could al- low for other ventures to be creat- ed atop the technology that would broaden the playing field. There is also a safety compo- nent. Releasing open-weights models allows for wider scrutiny, which can help companies fix vul- nerabilities before those flaws can be exploited, some companies ar- gue. Anthropic and OpenAI claim
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arc of the industry has been toward more openness.’
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta.
lished an opinion piece by Mr. Zuckerberg this week in which he criticized “centralizing” of A.I. power and said he believed in “in- dividual empowerment, invention and balance of power.” In the arti- cle, he did not name Anthropic and OpenAI. In Tuesday’s interview, Mr. Zuckerberg acknowledged that the A.I. debate was contentious and noted that talks with different parties in Silicon Valley and Washington had been productive. “I don’t know if the goal is to have everyone agree on every- thing,” he said. “Almost by defini- tion, if you believe what I do, you don’t need to convince everyone of everything.” Looking back over the course of technology, he said democratiza- tion of tech tools had tended to eventually win out. “I believe the general arc of the industry has been toward more openness and putting the power of tech into more people’s hands, not fewer,” he said.
that because some of the technol- ogy is so advanced, giving all of the code away freely could be more dangerous, especially if the models are used by those with bad intentions. (It also happens to be very bad for their business.) Releasing A.I. model weights is something of a compromise be- tween open- and closed-source software. Hardcore proponents of open-source software say open- weights models still do not go far enough in sharing information. (The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied those claims.)
How much is China a factor? China is a major factor in this de- bate. China’s tech industry has em- braced open source as a tool to catch up in A.I. development. Last year, the Chinese start-up DeepSeek shocked the tech indus- try when it released an A.I. model that performed as well as the best in the world and published much of the underlying code as open source. Since then, China has become the source of most of the world’s leading open-source models, in- cluding from companies like Ali- baba, Z.ai and Moonshot AI. This month, Xi Jinping, China’s leader, also gave a speech portraying the country as a global champion of an open approach to A.I. develop- ment. China’s strength in open-source A.I. has appeared to pose a threat to U.S. competitiveness in the technology, spurring the debate in Silicon Valley about how to move forward. Washington has also been watching the back-and-forth as officials debate how or whether to regulate A.I.
In Digital Encryption Standard
Modern Systems Won’t Experience Immediate Intrusions
By DUSTIN VOLZ
WASHINGTON — A leading A.I. model built by Anthropic has found flaws in a weakened ver- sion of a digital encryption stand- ard that is in pervasive use throughout the internet, the com- pany’s researchers said Tuesday, underscoring the potential risks to global cybersecurity posed by ever-improving artificial intelli- gence software. During a research-led test, the model, Claude Mythos Preview, was able to detect new ways to at- tack cryptographic algorithms that keep everything from online bank transactions to private com- munications to state secrets safe from the prying eyes of hackers or other unwanted third parties. The research shows that A.I. could one day challenge core as- sumptions for how the internet operates. While experts say A.I. is likely to upend many industries, A.I. systems have made particu- larly rapid advancements in cod- ing and cybersecurity. The flaws identified do not con- cern a cryptographic standard currently in use today, which means that modern banking and communication systems are not subject to immediate potential in-
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Anthropic, which developed the Claude app, has been testing its new artificial intelligence tool.
implications could be significant.
trusions from A.I. Instead, An- thropic’s technology cracked a watered-down version of an algo- rithm for Advanced Encryption Standard, or A.E.S., a ubiquitous protocol that safeguards web traf- fic, wireless networks, data stor- age and more. It is common to perform tests on weaker versions of encryption algorithms to understand whether more powerful comput- ers could someday crack the actu- al standards, akin to solving a simpler math problem to identify whether patterns may exist for a more complicated one. In the test- ing, Mythos was able to break the weaker version of Advanced En- cryption Standard in a way that Anthropic said made an assault 200 to 1,000 times faster than what previous human research had managed to do. While the immediate ramifica- tions are minimal, the long-term implications could be significant. In previous tests, large-language models seemingly could not match or best what humans can do in the mathematically dense field of cryptographic research, but their rapid advances could suggest a future in which top models can surmount traditional internet security protections that are foundational to just about ev- erything that takes place on the internet. Nicholas Carlini, a research sci- entist at Anthropic who worked on the cryptography tests, said that tests he was building last year with A.I. models were not nearly as powerful as they are to- day. “They could not do problems that I could do when I was 16,” Mr. Carlini, who previously worked at Google’s A.I. division, said in an interview. “Now they are doing state-of-the-art research not pre- viously discovered in the field.” The latest releases of frontier A.I. models have in recent months spooked governments worldwide, including the Trump administra- tion, with their powerful capabili- ties, particularly in the field of cybersecurity. When Mythos first made its de- but in April, it was so adept at find- ing and exploiting computer bugs that Anthropic limited its release
to select government agencies and organizations to prevent the possibility of a global digital ca- tastrophe. The Trump adminis- tration, which initially once took a hands-off approach to A.I. regula- tion, has veered toward an ad hoc system of oversight. Many Ameri- can A.I. companies are now sub- mitting models for review by the government before releasing them publicly, and Mythos re- mains unavailable to the general public today. Last week, concerns about the powers of leading A.I. systems peaked again. OpenAI acknowl- edged its models had leaped out of a safe testing environment, known as a sandbox, that is de- signed to be unconnected to the internet and successfully hacked into an A.I. technology digital li- brary in an effort to essentially steal the answers to an exam that was grading their abilities. U.S. and Western intelligence officials have warned for decades that if existing encryption stand- ards were ever broken, it would have profound consequences for digital privacy and national secu- rity. China is believed to have col- lected vast troves of encrypted data, for example, potentially in hopes that it may be able to some- day decode the information. The race between the United States and China to build advanced quantum computers that could one day break modern encryption protocols has only heightened concerns around existing stand- ards. In addition to the attack on the encryption standard, Mythos also orchestrated another improved attack against a different digital cryptographic system known as HAWK that is designed to be bul- letproof against both traditional and quantum computers. HAWK is not currently in use, but under consideration by the National In- stitute of Standards and Technol- ogy to become a new standard. The HAWK attack was validated by its authors, and independent cryptographers reviewed the Ad- vanced Encryption Standard at- tack, Anthropic said, adding that it had shared its findings with the U.S. government and industry partners ahead of publication. Mythos devised the crypto- graphic attack on A.E.S. almost entirely autonomously, Anthropic said, but only after first refusing to contemplate the problem be- cause it believed it was impossible to improve on existing methods of analysis. But after some coaxing, the chatbot sat with the puzzle for about a week before engineering its novel attack. Two human re- searchers then worked for nearly a month to verify that the method appeared correct. Encryption is foundational to virtually everything that takes place on the internet, and some of the techniques in use today have protected the world’s secrets since the 1970s. Quantum cryp- tography, which builds on the complicated properties of quan- tum physics, is a form of encryp- tion that is in theory unbreakable. Advanced Encryption Stand- ard, or A.E.S., was adopted as a government standard in 2001 and was widely seen as nearly un- breakable at the time. Conven- tional methods of brute-force code cracking, in which a computer uses trial and error to guess com- binations of a password or en- cryption key, are generally seen as incapable of defeating A.E.S. The standard is believed to have nearly as many key combinations as there are atoms in the observ- able universe. But advances in A.I. on some fronts have outpaced what many evangelists assumed was possi- ble even a few years ago. The re- cent advances have fueled con- cerns that the mathematical core of internet security standards could one day be vulnerable re- gardless of advances in quantum computing. “Given that we are constantly underestimating the power and time of availability of future mod- els, are we really comfortable that two years from now strong en- cryption won’t be threatened?” said Glenn S. Gerstell, the former general counsel at the National Security Agency. “Mathematicians would tell you that it shouldn’t be possible given current computing powers to break strong encryption in any meaningful time,” added Mr. Ger- stell, who helped write a report on cryptology in 2022. “But I don’t think the capabilities of future models in the medium term — be- fore quantum computing or quan- tum-proof cryptography — should be dismissed as trivial in this context.”
SK Hynix, a top memory chipmaker, reported stratospheric sales and profits on Wednesday. Its operating profit jumped 557 percent from the previous year.
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pled from the previous year to roughly $54.5 billion, while oper- ating profit jumped 557 percent. But the financial performance was slightly below even higher forecasts from analysts. The com- pany’s shares fell nearly 10 per- cent in trading on the Seoul stock market. Shares of Samsung Elec- tronics, South Korea’s other mem- ory chip giant, also fell 5 percent, while the benchmark KOSPI fell 6 percent. In a conference call on Wednes- day, Hynix executives said they saw no signs of a slowdown. Or- ders from its big tech customers, they said, remained robust and the company’s biggest challenge was keeping up with demand. Asked about more efficient, open A.I. models from China that re- quire less computing firepower, they replied that the impact should be to broaden A.I. adoption and usage rather than reduce de- mand for A.I. chips. So far, Silicon Valley’s tech gi- ants, including Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, say they plan to increase their spending on data centers and software develop- ment for A.I. this year, not pull back. Despite the recent stock-mar- ket slide, the Hynix business re-
By NIKO GALLOGLY
Max Spero calls himself the inter- net’s slop janitor. He is the chief executive of Pan- gram, an artificial intelligence de- tection company that has become a leading tool for deciphering whether an article, a social media post or another piece of text was written by a human or a chatbot. In other words, is it A.I. slop or not? As generative A.I. continues to permeate more and more forms of communication, New York-based Pangram is one of a new group of start-ups vying to be the best at distinguishing A.I. from human- generated content. The company says its A.I. text-detection model can accurately identify 9,999 out of 10,000 times whether text was A.I.-generated. And it has re- cently signed up some high-pro- file online publishers as customers. A.I. writing and A.I.-detection tools raise a host of big, thorny questions: How should society treat A.I.-generated text? And how should A.I.-detection tools like Pangram be used given that they can — even if rarely — be wrong? Pangram raised $9 million in a fund-raising round on Wednesday led by Menlo Ventures with par- ticipation from ScOp Venture Cap- ital, Haystack Ventures and oth- ers. The fast-growing company is also announcing the release of its latest A.I. detection model — Pan- gram 4.0 — and its first-ever A.I.- image detection model. Mr. Spero and his co-founder, Bradley Emi, both 30, met as un- dergraduates at Stanford, study- ing in the university’s artificial in- telligence lab and playing poker late into the night. Upon gradua- tion, they followed well-trodden paths for Stanford computer sci- ence engineers: Mr. Spero went to Google and Mr. Emi to Tesla, where he worked under Andrej Karpathy, the prominent A.I. re- searcher and OpenAI co-founder. After the release of ChatGPT in 2022, the two friends felt called to
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The amount raised by SK Hynix in a U.S. share sale, the largest ever by a foreign company.
SK Hynix’s revenue last quarter, which more than tripled from the previous year.
mains exceptionally strong. It has a cash nest egg of more than $60 billion, and operating profit mar- gins reached a record 76 percent in the second quarter. The short- fall compared with expectations, company executives said, re- flected its investment in staying ahead in A.I. chip-making, which should yield higher sales and prof- its in the near future. For Hynix, however, the road to its current prosperity has been long. Over the years, Hynix, founded in 1983, flirted with insolvency and changed ownership a few times. In 2012, it became part of the SK Group, one of South Ko- rea’s biggest family-controlled
Max Spero, left, and his co-founder, Bradley Emi, started Pangram in 2023. The tool is effective at determining whether text was written by a human.
build something “for the world that this technology will bring forth,” Mr. Spero said. An inevita- ble feature of the A.I. future, they felt, would be scores of A.I.-gener- ated content flooding the internet and other channels of communi- cation. Mr. Spero and Mr. Emi founded Pangram in 2023, and their pre- diction turned out to be prescient. Today, roughly 50 percent of news articles and blogs on the internet are A.I.-generated, according to a recent analysis by the digital mar- keting firm Graphite.
Honing accuracy Pangram’s interface resembles a chatbot. The website prompts us- ers to insert a piece of text, and Pangram spits out a verdict — A.I., human or A.I.-assisted. Be- hind that simple interface is a powerful model. Pangram trained it by feeding its A.I. system mil- lions of examples of text to ana- lyze, and asking which were writ- ten by humans and which by A.I. Over time, the model honed its ac- curacy. Pangram has proved remark- ably effective at detecting whether a full piece of text was written by A.I. or a human. A 2025 University of Chicago study found that Pangram maintained near- perfect accuracy in assessing
conglomerates. Even during good years, Hynix was overshadowed by its much larger South Korean rival, Samsung. As the smaller challenger, Hynix sought innovations to close the gap. It spent years developing designs that stacked chips verti- cally to shuttle information faster between memory chips and pro- cessors. The early efforts were promising but expensive. By the time A.I. technology, with its unlimited demand for data, began to take off, the tech- nology had matured. The com- pany forged a close relationship with Nvidia, whose processors power most A.I. systems and which is Hynix’s foremost customer. Nvidia’s new Rubin processor, for example, bundles two large A.I. chips with eight stacks of high-speed memory, each contain- ing 12 chips, with Hynix as its key supplier. The A.I. boom has rippled across the broader memory mar- ket, lifting prices and profits for chips used in smartphones and notebook computers. But the most sought-after and most lucra- tive products are the high-speed chips that go into the A.I. memory stacks. Hynix is the clear leader. In the
texts that were roughly 500 words or more, outcompeting Origi- nality.ai and GPTZero. The company’s tool is not as deft at detecting A.I. in shorter pieces of text where the model has less context. It’s also less capable of identifying text that was partly A.I.-generated, though the model released today is aimed at improv- ing those capabilities. The University of Chicago study contradicted a belief that had been gaining traction in tech circles and beyond about A.I.-de- tection tools: that they don’t work. The belief solidified after OpenAI shut down its own A.I.-detection tool in 2023 because of its poor ac- curacy. But as word of Pangram’s effec- tiveness spread, its user base be- gan to grow. A majority of Pangram’s reve- nue comes from individual sub- scriptions, which cost $20 per month. The company has also signed contracts with a number of universities and publishers look- ing to crack down on A.I. writing. Publishing platforms, inter- ested in weeding out A.I. posts or bots, are also using Pangram. Quora, the question-and-answer site, was one early customer. Last week, Substack started a partner- ship with Pangram to allow read- ers to opt out of seeing A.I.-gener-
first quarter of this year, it ac- counted for 58 percent of the so- called high-bandwidth chip mar- ket, according to Counterpoint Re- search. Samsung and Micron, America’s big memory chip maker, each had 21 percent of the market. But in the year-earlier quarter, Hynix held 69 percent of the mar- ket. Samsung is gaining ground, analysts say, and Micron was re- cently certified as a supplier of high-speed chips to Nvidia. Today, big tech companies worry that a memory shortage will be a bottleneck to A.I. devel- opment. They are trying to lock in supply with long-term contracts, despite high prices. In some tech circles, there is talk of a memory chip “supercycle” of rising de- mand and high prices that could stretch out over several years. Jim Handy, a seasoned semi- conductor analyst, is skeptical. “In today’s market, the biggest challenge is keeping up with de- mand,” said Mr. Handy, whose re- search firm, Objective Analysis, tracks the memory market. “But when the A.I. bubble bursts, they will have huge issues the other way.”
Xinyun Wu contributed reporting.
ated content. That customer traction has helped Pangram’s annual revenue rate grow to 35 times what it was a year ago. The company declined to share its exact revenue but said its number of monthly users grew to 120,000 in June, up from 2,700 a year earlier.
‘Cognitive security’ The addition of its A.I.-image-de- tection tool — which Pangram says is 99.5 percent accurate in de- tecting images fully generated by A.I. — will augment Pangram’s goal of providing users with “cog- nitive security.” Pangram also plans to release an A.I.-video-de- tection tool this year. Pangram’s lead investor be- lieves Pangram is meeting a broad and growing demand. “I see A.I. detection as a kind of univer- sal need that everyone has,” said Deedy Das, a partner at Menlo Ventures. There’s one big caveat, though: Pangram doesn’t always get it right. And people might not apply it correctly, either. That creates the potential for accusations about A.I.-generated writing that might be wrong. Pangram can struggle to accu- rately assess text that was partly A.I.-generated, as the Substack author Freddie deBoer recently pointed out. Mr. deBoer found that when he appended a few sen- tences of A.I. writing to a para- graph otherwise written by him, Pangram reported the entire thing as A.I.-generated. In a post on social media, Mr. Spero said the new model was able to more accu- rately identify text partly generat- ed by A.I., including in the exam- ple shared by Mr. deBoer. Then there is the question of how to treat text that Pangram la- bels as partly written with A.I., perhaps through editing or rewrit- ing. Mr. Spero said he thought it was “completely OK” for people to use A.I. as an assistant, but noted that he personally chose not to. How schools, publishers and in- dividuals want to treat that messy middle remains to be worked out.
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lion program from Google, the group plans to boost annual ap- prenticeship enrollment to 30,000 from 19,500 for the next three years in locations selected by Google. Another grant from BlackRock, the asset manager, would widen training pipelines for its data centers in Texas, part of a $100 million effort to expand the skilled trades. Tina Williams was hired to man- age the grants, which are the alli- ance’s first from the private sec- tor. She hopes the money strengthens the work force enough to meet demand from data centers without abandoning other clients, like Mr. Shelton’s employ- er. “We want to bring in enough to fulfill the need for the data cen- ters, while maintaining our core work in each of these locals,” she said.
Human-Built There is no parallel in American history for the boom underway in the construction of data centers, fueled by companies with func- tionally unlimited cash that are racing to supply skyrocketing de- mand for their A.I. models. The explosion has offset flag- ging activity in other sectors, like office construction, which never recovered after the pandemic. Housing has been depressed by high interest rates, and offshore wind felled by political opposition. Still, competition for labor — never mind land and materials — is starting to weigh on other parts of the industry. “There’s no question the re- sources are very limited, so deci- sions to build one thing kind of drag from another,” said Mario Ia- cobacci, who runs the construc- tion and infrastructure advisory practice at Oxford Economics. Developers are paying a pre- mium for workers, especially in the rural areas where they are building data centers. According to an analysis by Indeed, the job listings website, hourly installa- tion and maintenance jobs at data centers pay 42 percent more than similar jobs in other fields. Behind that inflated pay is a bid- ding war. In markets with a lot of data center construction, like Dal- las and Northern Virginia, work- ers can jump ship for bonuses or higher per diem rates. The compe- tition has driven contractors to staffing services like Aerotek. “It is creating a labor tension that is really delicate,” said Marty Schager, Aerotek’s director of data center market development. “You’ve got a passive job-seeker community out there right now that I think is looking to poten- tially capture opportunity with this once-in-a-generation data center gold rush.” There is some precedent for tech companies to teach people to maintain their facilities. Microsoft started programs for data center technicians in 2018, and now oper- ates 39 locations around the world that have trained 15,000 people. But the A.I. era has drawn tech companies much further into the construction business. They’re working with community colleges and unions to design classes that can get people on site as quickly as possible, even if they keep learning on the job. Tony Qorri is vice president for construction at DataBank, a data center developer and landlord. He spends a lot of time with his con- tractors to plan their work force strategy years into the future, asking them to forgo other jobs to staff his project if they can’t find and train enough workers.
to unions that throw up barriers to better train service, faster con- struction, more housing. People who worked with Mr. Saunders over the years say he in- stilled two principles into the un- ion, which may help it as it con- fronts new challenges. The first is the power that comes from keeping the tent open to a wide range of political beliefs and professions. Under Mr. Saun- ders, the union has stepped back from what he called “in-your-face” politics and leaned into working conditions and protections, issues that he said bridged a partisan di- vide while creating a grass-roots base. “We represent Democrats, Re- publicans, independents, conser- vatives, progressives,” Mr. Saun- ders said during an interview at his office in Washington. “We’ve got to concentrate on the issues that impact on our members and why they voted to be in the union.” The second principle is that public services are vital to the fab- ric of the country, and that the workers who provide them should be treated with respect, a legacy of the union’s role in the civil rights movement.
Dylan Drouillard, left, of White Lake, Mich., and Daniel Curran of Waterford in the limited energy program at Detroit Electrical Industry Training Center.
“Even some folks that are grad- uating high school, these compa- nies are going after them saying: ‘We’ve got to train you up — this is the way to make money,’” he said. In one of the largest efforts, Meta, the social media giant, has allocated $115 million for the first year of what it says will be a multi- year commitment to train con- struction workers, starting with about 5,000 participants. They will complete a four-week training course, with travel and lodging paid for, then work on a site with one of Meta’s contractors. The program is run partly by Associated Builders and Contrac- tors, a nonunion trade association. It’s putting together a curriculum of basic construction skills tai- lored to data centers, hoping to keep projects on time and on budget. “The initial goal is, ‘Hey, let’s get as many of these folks on the Meta sites as possible, keep them in the family,’” said Joel Thames, the association’s vice president for work force development. “If someone leaves and goes to an- other sector or goes to a contrac- tor that’s not working on a Meta site, we all kind of agree that that’s OK.” Sean McGarvey is the president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, an alliance that represents three million workers. Its affiliates spend about $2.5 bil- lion annually on apprenticeship programs and other continuing
Left, Starr Sciortino, second from right, compared working on a data center to helping build a weapons factory. Right, Evan Deras working with switches.
“The values he holds are clear and understandable, about work- ers having a seat at the table, a voice at work, and that, in ex- change for the work that they do, to be treated in a dignified and a fair manner,” said Randi Wein- garten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who has known Mr. Saunders since the late 1990s. Mr. Saunders grew up in Cleve- land and joined AFSCME’s staff in 1978 as a labor economist in Wash- ington. In 2010, he was elected secretary-treasurer. Two years later, he won a closely fought elec- tion to become the union’s presi- dent. Mr. Saunders took office at a time of crisis for state and munici- pal workers. The Great Recession had hollowed out municipalities around the country. Tax revenues had plummeted, and states, most of which are legally required to keep a balanced budget, were looking for ways to cut spending. The downturn “resulted in sig- nificant attacks on public workers, our jobs, our benefits, our pay, even what we did,” said Steven Kreisberg, a longtime staff mem- ber of the union who retired in 2024.
education, paid for by employers and union members. Mr. McGar- vey said his group could train as many people as the A.I. giants needed, as long as they made an early commitment to hiring union workers. OpenAI did that in March, promising to work with unions to staff its projects. Mr. McGarvey called Meta’s effort “a brilliant public relations move,” arguing that a month of training doesn’t measure up to a four-year appren- ticeship that teaches a wide range of skills. “Any investment in the industry is a good investment at the end of the day, but we’re talking about apples and oranges here,” he said.
An Eye on the Future As the public grows wary of A.I.’s potential impact on white-collar jobs and the side effects of data centers on local communities — dramatized this week by a protest at President Trump’s appearance outside Detroit — splashy com- mitments to the skilled trades serve more than one purpose. Meta blanketed Facebook and Instagram with advertisements for “America’s Workforce Acad- emy.” It is also working with the National Urban League and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Com- merce to spread the word. Ramiro Cavazos, the chamber’s president, wants A.I. companies to hire more Hispanic contractors. Creating better relationships with
Republican governors — nota- bly in Wisconsin, where AFSCME was founded — gutted collective bargaining agreements. Conser- vative donors, think tanks and po- liticians pushed for privatization of public services, and laws that would hamper public-sector un- ions. In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that public-sector unions could not compel employees to pay dues or “fair-share fees” if
from many of the country’s leaders.
they did not want to be part of the union. “There was a thought this could be the end of public-sector un- ionism,” Mr. Kreisberg said. In- stead, it pushed unions to make a case for their relevance. Mr. Saunders had to manage union leaders who believed the union should not make an effort to serve the workers who did not want to pay dues, even though the union was bound by law to repre- sent nonpaying members in bar-
local businesses, he said, could help smooth Meta’s path in skepti- cal locales. “We’re hearing from our own communities and small busi- nesses that really feel like there’s a disconnect,” Mr. Cavazos said. “Our role in supporting these companies is better than not hav- ing a role at all.” Working with building trades unions also brings political back- ing. Anthony Abrantes, assistant executive secretary-treasurer for the Eastern Atlantic States Re- gional Council of Carpenters, says local unions typically endorse a project if they’re set to work on it. If not, they’ll sit out the debate. Like the offshore wind industry, which has withered in the face of intense opposition, data center developers need all the local credi- bility they can get. “Those industries did a really bad job of stopping the rhetoric and educating communities,” Mr. Abrantes said. “It’s almost like we’re doing their advocacy and business development for them.” Construction workers often have mixed feelings about data centers, too. Starr Sciortino is in her second year of the electricians union’s ap- prenticeship training. She loves troubleshooting problems, and just started on General Motors’ major retrofit of its plant in Lake Orion. But she compares working on a data center to helping build a weapons factory.
gaining and other matters. “I didn’t agree with that,” he said in the interview. “We have to figure out ways not to push them away, but to bring them in.” Mr. Saunders had to reckon with another internal division af- ter George Floyd’s murder, when a subset of members called for law enforcement groups to be ban- ished from the union. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Em- ployees is a liberal union, but its political composition can be quite diverse: Its 1.4 million dues-pay- ing members across the country include nurses in Michigan, trans- portation workers in New York and corrections officers in New Mexico, along with domestic workers, clerks, cops and librari- ans. Mr. Saunders thought it would be a mistake to push out the po- lice. “You’re either going to fight for workers or you aren’t going to fight for workers,” he said. “And your strength comes with the numbers that you have, and the classifications that you represent and people sitting down at that ta- ble representing all of those clas- sifications — that’s strength, and
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“I don’t believe any type of money is worth sacrificing any re- sources that’s beneficial to com- munities,” said Ms. Sciortino, 22. “However long it lasts, is it really worth it in the end?” The question looms over the ap- prentices who will become jour- neymen as the build-out reaches fever pitch. Fully trained electri- cians could shift to nuclear plants, apartment buildings or pharma- ceutical factories. But it’s hard to imagine anything on the scale of what’s underway. “The best-case scenario would be you train all these skilled work- ers up and right when the data centers start to become less popu- lar is we’d have a housing boom,” said Jeff Strohl, director of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. “That’s probably not likely.” Joe Ottenbacher already switched careers, leaving early childhood education because of its bureaucracy and underfunding. He worries that an exodus of elec- tricians from their $200,000-a- year data center jobs could de- press wages for everybody else. “If we have an influx of workers at this point with the data centers being built, what happens when they’re done? Where do those workers go?” he said. “How many people does it take to run a data center after taking up all this property and all this land that could have been used for some- thing else?”
that’s power.” Because Mr. Saunders came up through the union’s Washington headquarters, not a local chapter, his critics worried he might lack the workplace experience to lead the union. What Mr. Saunders did have was an understanding of how to talk to lawmakers and — his supporters say — the credibil- ity to forge deals. Mr. Saunders leveraged his relationships with Democratic leaders to help create the $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed in 2021 as the country emerged from the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic. Negotiating with officials facing revenue shortages is a tough part of the job, he said, but public-sec- tor workers know better than any- body where inefficiencies and waste lie in government. He said he had no patience for arguments about unions “standing in the way.” “If people believe that the way that you can solve the economic problems that exist in this country is to attack the benefits and wages of public-sector workers, then they’re living in a planet that I’m not on,” Mr. Saunders said. “Be- cause that’s just not for real.”
At The Times Leaving to Join ‘60 Minutes’
By BENJAMIN MULLIN and MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Ross Douthat, an opinion col- umnist at The New York Times, is leaving to join the CBS News pro- gram “60 Minutes” as a corre- spondent, the show’s executive producer said in a memo to staff on Tuesday. Mr. Douthat is among a group of journalists joining for the show’s 59th season, which will premiere on Sept. 13. The writer Sebastian Junger and Gianna Toboni, a for- mer Vice News correspondent, will become contributors, along with Trevor Phillips, a British journalist who joined CBS last month. Norah O’Donnell, the for- mer anchor of “CBS Evening News,” will be a correspondent as well. They are the first significant hires at the long-running Sunday program since CBS’s new editor in chief, Bari Weiss, orchestrated a shake-up that led to the departure of three top correspondents this spring, including the veteran jour- nalist Scott Pelley. Ms. Weiss has been trying to re- build the “60 Minutes” staff in re- cent weeks after a tumultuous pe- riod. In moves that rattled the pro- gram’s personnel, she dismissed the correspondents Sharyn Al- fonsi and Cecilia Vega, along with the show’s senior leadership team, including its former execu- tive producer Tanya Simon. Mr. Pelley was fired after he protested those dismissals in a clash with management; a fourth correspondent, Anderson Cooper, left voluntarily. Correspondents on “60 Min- utes” are full-time reporters who produce in-depth stories, while contributors periodically add analysis, opinion and reporting. The appointment of Mr. Douthat, a conservative col-
new correspondent after the dismissals of three others.
umnist and author, is one of the most notable hires made so far by Ms. Weiss and Nick Bilton, who succeeded Ms. Simon as execu- tive producer in May. Mr. Douthat, who had been an editor at The Atlantic, joined The Times in 2009. He hosts a popular Times podcast, “Interesting Times,” where he has interviewed newsmakers including Vice Presi- dent JD Vance, the “Andor” cre- ator Tony Gilroy and former Sena- tor Ben Sasse of Nebraska. Ms. Weiss and Mr. Douthat overlapped at The Times’s Opin- ion section before she resigned in 2020. Katie Kingsbury, the opinion ed- itor at The Times, said in a memo to her staff that Mr. Douthat made the case for “a religiously serious, intellectually restless conserva- tism.” “He was right about things early, wrong about things hon- estly and never, not once, boring,” she added. Ms. O’Donnell was promoted after being featured in some nota- ble segments on “60 Minutes” this past season. She interviewed President Trump, who bristled at some of her questions, in the after- math of the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Associa- tion dinner in April. And she was one of the journalists behind an in- terview with three Roman Catho- lic cardinals that seemed to trig- ger a social media tirade from Mr. Trump, a regular “60 Minutes” viewer. The stakes are high for “60 Min- utes” to prove its journalistic met- tle next season. The three fired correspondents have said execu- tives at CBS News tried to inject political bias into their segments. CBS News has denied those claims, and Ms. Weiss has said so- called editorial interference is part of her job as editor in chief. Ms. Weiss asked Mr. Bilton, a tech journalist and documentar- ian with no experience in broad- cast news, to expand “60 Minutes” beyond a one-hour weekly broad- cast and integrate the program more closely into the rest of CBS’s news division. In memos to the “60 Minutes” staff, Mr. Bilton said he wanted to modernize the show without compromising the values that made it a pacesetter in TV journalism for nearly six decades. In a memo to staff on Tuesday, Mr. Bilton said he was optimistic about the show’s tradition of “fearless, independent and impar- tial reporting.” “I can’t wait for them to get started,” he said.
By DAN POMPEI The Athletic
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Taking no tomorrows or yesterdays for granted, the N.F.L.’s most ac- claimed middle linebacker wound down for the evening last Oct. 11 at a hotel in Tampa, Fla., with pen and paper. In his journal, Fred Warner wrote about the gratitude he was feeling — for where he was, how he got there and the way he was playing for the San Francisco 49ers. He was playing well, maybe better than ever, which was say- ing something considering he had been a first-team All-Pro four times. He thanked God for the oppor- tunity to play the next afternoon against the Tampa Bay Bucca- neers. He envisioned passing Pat- rick Willis as the team’s career leading tackler (he was five tack- les away) and intercepting his first pass of the season. To Warner, sleep is a perform- ance enhancer, so he pulled the room-darkening shades tight and slept soundly for nine hours. The next day, at the stadium, he prepared for the challenge with some breathing exercises. When the game began, he was feeling it. So dialed in was Warner that he
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San Francisco linebacker Fred Warner dislocated and fractured his right ankle, above, in October. Top, with his son, Beau, 2.
read a screen play as quickly as he had ever read one and blew it up. About midway through the first quarter, he was anticipating a run on first down. He read the play correctly and filled, but Bucca- neers left tackle Tristan Wirfs was on him. Warner tried to punch him off, but Wirfs remained between him and what he wanted. Warner never found the runner. He was not thinking about a sea- son-ending injury. He had not had one since his sophomore year at Brigham Young a decade earlier. In his 11 seasons as a starter, dat- ing to college, Warner had missed one game — with a pulled ham- string in 2021. “When you’ve been around Fred for so long, you almost look at him as invincible,” said the 49ers’ defensive run game coordi- nator, Johnny Holland, who was his position coach in Warner’s first eight seasons. It wasn’t that Warner had not known pain. He played games with a fractured back, a broken wrist, stingers, knee and ankle sprains, a fractured ankle and a
Now They Want To Get Results
By SAM KHAN JR. The Athletic
The expectations surrounding South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers and Florida quarterback D.J. Lagway, who is now at Baylor, could not have been higher heading into the 2025 season. A year ago, one Power 4 offen- sive coordinator said, “If I’m starting a team right now, I’m probably taking D.J. Lagway as my quarterback.” A college scouting director called Sellers the best quarterback in the coun- try “because I love those traits, and they’re hard to pass up.” Then the 2025 season hap- pened, and neither came close to meeting expectations. The two are much lower in The Athletic’s latest College QB Tiers. Sellers, who was No. 3 last year, is No. 18, while Lagway is No. 42 after ranking fifth in 2025. How do opposing coaching staff members who were sur- veyed for this year’s rankings feel about the two players now? They spoke on condition of ano- nymity to offer honest opinions.
Their 2025 performances raised questions.
Sellers saw dips in completion percentage, passing efficiency, yards per play, off-target percent- age and touchdowns and a slight uptick in his interception rate. That put to bed any talk of his being a high first-round pick in the 2026 N.F.L. draft, which was a conversation going into last season. “I think last year they wanted to make him the first pick in the draft, so they just wanted to throw the ball with him,” a South- eastern Conference assistant coach said. “He’s not accurate enough to just drop back and throw the ball all the time.” A Power 4 offensive coordina- tor who was high on Sellers entering 2025 did not like what
Sam Khan Jr. is a senior college football writer for The Athletic.
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torn thumb ligament. He inter- cepted Patrick Mahomes in a loss to the 2019 Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl while playing with a thumb injury that later required surgery. It goes with the territory. It’s the life of a middle linebacker. But his injuries did not hit the way other people’s injuries did. Warner is convinced his dura- bility is a gift from the heavens. And a DEXA body composition scan taken last year helped him understand, revealing that his bones were six times as dense as the average human’s. “Some guys have a freakish ability to run fast,” he said. “My freakish ability, I guess, is having thick bones to help me stay health- ier.” As for running fast, or not so fast, his 4.64 40-yard dash time at the 2018 combine placed 13th among linebackers. Watching him play reveals more about his speed than his 40 time. He has been called sneaky fast, but a better de- scription is smart fast. His coach, Kyle Shanahan, has called him the perfect modern linebacker, partly because he is gifted in ways impossible to quan- tify. “He maxed out whatever the good Lord gave him to the nth de- gree as well as anyone I’ve ever seen,” said the 49ers’ general man- ager, John Lynch. “People ask me if guys really outwork one another in the N.F.L. I say absolutely, and Fred exemplifies that.” When off-season workouts con- clude, 49ers players are given 40 days off before the start of camp and encouraged to get away and recharge. Warner won’t. The long- est he typically stays away from the facility is four days, Lynch said. And if others want to join him in his precamp training, they may — but only if they commit to being there for the entire time. In 2024, running back Jordan Mason made the commitment, and Lynch believes it was no co- incidence that he had a breakout season. “Fred lifts a lot of players on our team,” Lynch said. Warner likes to hear about 4.64 more than 32. He wears 4.64, not like a scarlet letter but like a scar.
he saw on tape last season. “I wanted to like Sellers so bad,” the coordinator said, “but you just watch the film, and it was just hard to like him. He’s very inconsistent as a passer. His highs are as high as probably anybody in the draft. But his lows are bad. You don’t see enough of the highs to overcome some of the bad stuff you see on tape.” Lagway took a similar step back. His passing efficiency, yards per attempt and yards per play went way down while his off-target percentage went up. He did improve his completion percentage, but turned the ball over 15 times, including five times against Louisiana State. “It’s hard for me to forget the L.S.U. game,” a Big 12 personnel staff member said. “He looked so bad, man. I don’t even want to grade him from last year because I don’t think that’s who he is, but that’s what he showed. I’m as- suming there are a lot of scars there, and it’s going to be hard to forget some of what he did last year.” The Power 4 offensive coordi- nator questioned Lagway’s deci- sion-making. “If it wasn’t a man-to-man and he just knew where he needed to go with the football right away — like if he had to get through progressions — he put the ball in jeopardy a lot,” the offensive coordinator said.
Their talent still breeds optimism.
Sellers’s physical traits — 6- foot-3, 238 pounds, elite strength and dynamic running ability — are still reasons to be excited. And many we spoke with are forgiving of him for 2025, consid- ering he played behind an offen- sive line that allowed the third- highest pressure rate in the Power 4 (40.7 percent, according to Pro Football Focus) and other external factors. “He can beat you in a lot of ways,” an SEC general manager
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Fred Warner tried to reassure his teammates, left, as he was carted off the field last season in Tampa, Fla. Right, warming up in May.
And good things, he will tell you, can come from scars. There is one on the front of his right ankle that is about an inch and a half long. It’s where he had a tightrope inserted to repair del- toid ligament damage. And then there’s one on the back of the an- kle that is maybe seven inches long. It’s where a spiral fracture of the fibula was repaired with a plate and enough screws to secure a small shelf. Warner tried to spin away from Wirfs that day. Then he felt a mis- sile shoot below his knees that took him out, and he fell backward on the Florida grass — friendly fire from 49ers safety Ji’Ayir Brown. Warner looked at his body and saw his right foot facing the wrong way. Wirfs and Buccaneers receiver Tez Johnson waved to the side- line: Come, quick! Johnson put his hands on his head. Then came another wave of horrified gasps from the stands — they must be showing a replay on the stadium boards, Warner thought. Warner rolled on his side. Strangely, there was no pain, only a thumping in his ankle and foot, “almost like my heartbeat in my leg,” he said. Medical staff members cut off his cleat to make sure no bones had broken through the skin. Then the 49ers’ team physician, Timo- thy McAdams, grabbed the dislo- cated ankle and popped it back in place. As an air cast was slipped on and Warner was lifted on a cart, teammates streamed by like
D.J. Lagway dealt with injuries and a coaching change at Florida, but he should fare better in a new offensive system at Baylor.
said. “He has top-half-of-the- league ability. When he’s on, he can take over a game.” The SEC assistant said he would still put Sellers among “the top three or four” quarter- backs in the SEC.
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mourners at a funeral. He told the long faces that ev- erything was going to be all right. “I always believed strongly that everything happens for a reason,” he said. “And it would be wrong to abandon that in the toughest times.” Many times, Warner, a team captain for seven years, had spo- ken with younger teammates about the temporary nature of what they shared. “I remembered telling guys to appreciate every game, practice
to savor every game, practice and play.
and single play because you never know when it could be your last,” he said. “That’s why I bring so much juice and positive energy to games and practices and meet- ings.” X-rays taken at the stadium confirmed the damage, which was repaired two days later by three surgeons at Stanford Medical Center. In the non-weight-bearing weeks that followed, Warner did not always feel that Zen that he felt on the field. Six weeks went by like six months, with most of that time on the living room couch, un- able to make it up the stairs to his
Lagway, who has been lauded for his size (6-3, 239), arm strength and mobility, spent a lot of the 2025 off-season recovering from injuries and dealt with them in-season as well. There was also a coaching change, as Billy Na-
bedroom, dependent on his preg- nant wife, Sydney, who was sup- posed to be dependent on him. His helplessness felt like hope- lessness at times. The feeling passed, though, replaced by the kind of gratitude he felt the night before the game at Tampa Bay. He thought about what it took to get where he is. His mother, Laura, a single mom, got by with assistance from her church and relatives. Five linebackers were drafted ahead of him partly be- cause he was a little bit outside linebacker, a little safety and a lit- tle nickelback. “I’m just so grateful to be in the N.F.L. that I’ve got to pinch myself every day,” Warner said. “If you knew the kid, Fred Warner, from San Marcos, Calif., little old Fred Warner, nobody thought he would be where I’m at. Even in my own mind, I never thought I was sup- posed to be here. I feel I’ve lived in a bit of delusion.” In the days when he still could not bear weight on the leg, he asked his surgeon about playing again that season. He was told there was a chance if he took a more aggressive approach to re- hab than typical. Warner went as aggressively as possible. The N.F.C. championship game was targeted as the day Warner would return, but the 49ers fell to the Se- attle Seahawks in the divisional round. Had they won, Warner said, he would have played. Missing 13 games had advan- tages, though. The most promi- nent was avoiding what could
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pier was fired midseason — and Lagway spent the first two years of his career with the pressure of Napier’s job security tied to his performance. “I think he’s going to be a lot better than what he was at Flor- ida, for sure,” the Power 4 offen- sive coordinator said. “I think he’s healthy. He kind of has the pressure off his back of having to be this five-star savior.” The SEC general manager said of Lagway, “The sky is still the limit.”
Their new offensive coordinators should help them succeed.
Sellers and Lagway will have new offensive coordinators this year. South Carolina hired Kendal Briles, a former Texas Christian offensive coordinator, to pair with Sellers, while Lag- way will work with Baylor’s Jake Spavital. Opponents see both quarterbacks fitting well with
have been the most difficult deci- sion of his life on Jan. 3. The 49ers were playing the Seahawks that night in the regular-season finale to decide which team would get the No. 1 playoff seed in the N.F.C. His wife went into labor before the game. He watched the game on his laptop from her bedside. Bella was born after the 49ers’ loss. He is happy he did not have to choose. “This game of football is all- consuming in my life, but nothing trumps my family,” he said. Sydney Hightower caught Warner’s eye when she was a con- testant on the television show “The Bachelor” in 2020. Their first date, at an In-N-Out restaurant at midnight, led to “for better or worse,” which they are certain is leading to “happily ever after.” This is a new phase for Warner, who will turn 30 on Nov. 19. He has two children now, including his 2-year-old son, Beau. Warner flinches not about a birthday that is often associated with the beginning of decline. The expectation for an aging, injured player, he well knows, is re- gression. But he says he feels fan- tastic about 30. Holland has been around N.F.L. linebackers for 35 of the last 39 years, both as a player and a coach. Among those he has associ- ated with are Bryce Paup, Chad Brown and DeMeco Ryans. But he has never worked with one who takes care of himself the way Warner does. So he is unsur- prised that Warner, in his opinion,
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LaNorris Sellers was No. 3 in The Athletic’s college tiers last year, but he had a thoroughly lackluster season at South Carolina.
their new schemes and play callers. “I think Kendal will make him run a little more and do what he does well, which I think will help,” the SEC assistant said. The Power 4 offensive coordi- nator cited the way Briles tai- lored his offense to K.J. Jeffer- son’s skills at Arkansas as a reason Sellers might be a good fit. Jefferson accounted for 3,276 yards (2,636 passing, 640 rush- ing), threw 24 touchdowns to just five interceptions, and averaged 8.8 yards per pass attempt in 2022, Briles’s final year with the Razorbacks. “I do think he’s in a position to succeed because the system will fit him,” the offensive coordinator said. A Big 12 head coach called Spavital’s offense “a lot more QB-friendly” than what Lagway had at Florida, and said he would not be surprised if Lagway had a good year. Geno Smith, Johnny Manziel, Davis Webb, Will Grier and Sawyer Robertson are all quarterbacks who threw for at least 3,400 yards and 28 touch- downs when starting at least 11 games in a season with Spavital as their quarterbacks coach or offensive coordinator, or both. “I think Lagway being with Spavital is going to be better than what people expect,” a Big 12 personnel director said. The Power 4 offensive coordi- nator said, “I think this system will definitely be a little bit sim- pler, a little easier for him, proba- bly more what he’s comfortable with from his high school days.” The 2026 season will be a prove-it year for Lagway and Sellers. “He’s got talent, you can’t deny that,” a Power 4 personnel staffer said of Lagway. “But is he an- other Anthony Richardson, or can he do more than that? I think people fall in love with the arm and what he can do with the wow throws. But the full picture of what he’s done — is that really what you want?” Of Sellers, an SEC front office staffer said: “I understand why he has that hype, because he makes some wow plays. But how many years are we going to play the ‘imagine if he puts it all to- gether’ game?”
is still ascending. Lynch is another who believes Warner is still getting better. Whenever Warner has identi- fied an area he wants to improve, he has attained his goal, according to Holland. As a rookie, Warner missed 18 tackles. In the off- season, he worked on pairing his body and eyes, bringing his feet to contact and running through ball carriers. The improvement, Hol- land said, was considerable. This off-season, Warner has been working on taking advan- tage of one-on-one pass-rush opportunities against running backs, which he has not been asked to do frequently in the past. Holland hopes that Warner will have many more chances to rush against running backs in the com- ing season. Warner believes he will reach a higher level in 2026 by increasing his competitive intensity, which was already high. He speaks of be- coming more of a “maniac on the field” and breaking through age’s barriers. Thirty, the way he sees it, is an opportunity. So is coming back from injury. “You’re away for a significant amount of time, and people kind of forget what you did,” Warner said. “You can still look at what I’ve done in the past, all the All-Pros, the Pro Bowls, the plays you made; those were great. But that has nothing to do with what you do going forward, in Week 1 and the rest of the season.” His coming chapter is likely to be more about stoicism than ath- leticism. Which leads us back to that day against the Buccaneers. He did not get what he was hop- ing for then — the team tackles record and an interception. But what happened led him to under- stand his purpose. Warner always suspected his purpose was to inspire. He’s sure of it now. “I hate to say it, but I had to go through this adversity to show what is possible, first through the grace of God, but then through hard work, dedication, commit- ment and discipline,” he said. So now Warner steps forcefully toward his comeback game in September against the Los Ange- les Rams in Melbourne, Australia — with purpose.
Players and Owners Spar Over Meaning of ‘50-50’
By EVAN DRELLICH The Athletic
In baseball, going halfsies is a controversial idea. A formal revenue split be- tween players and team owners is a key feature of a salary cap system, which M.L.B.’s team owners want to introduce. “Our salary cap and floor proposal levels the playing field while sharing baseball revenue with the players 50-50, which means players and clubs would share equally as revenue grows,” Glen Caplin, an M.L.B. repre- sentative, said in a statement to The Athletic. The players’ union has a long list of reasons it is opposed to M.L.B.’s cap setup. Among them: Players already receive “well over” half the industry’s annual $12 billion haul. But the union also thinks the league is wrong to paint its proposal as even-steven. “It’s no surprise that M.L.B. would resort to deception in framing their salary cap propos- als as sharing equally,” Bruce Meyer, the interim head of the players’ union, said in his own statement. “M.L.B. hasn’t pro- posed a 50-50 split of revenues. Any suggestion otherwise is misleading propaganda.” When it comes to the revenue divide in a cap system, there is crucial information to under- stand beyond just the percentage — namely, the denominator. What would be included, and what would be taken off the top, from the pot of money the sides would share? The answer is laid out in a lengthy proposal M.L.B. made May 28, which was reviewed by The Athletic and includes a cal- culation M.L.B. is calling base- ball revenue, or B.R. It has no shortage of de- ductions. M.L.B. could take up to 17 percent of local revenues off the top annually as expenses, plus up to 22 percent of national reve- nues. In addition, some areas would have no expense cap, such as construction and renovation costs for ballparks, including spring training facilities. MLB Network would have no deduction limit, and for 2027 and 2028, neither would costs from any team’s local broadcasts. The league also wants unlimit- ed deductions for what it broadly termed “new ventures.” “M.L.B.’s so-called revenue split is calculated only after skimming billions off the top in supposed expenses and exclu-
Evan Drellich is a senior M.L.B. writer for The Athletic.
By JULIAN McKENZIE The Athletic
The N.H.L. has had only one Black head coach in its 109-year history, and not even for a full sea- son. Dirk Graham, who was the league’s first Black team captain, assumed the coaching job for the Chicago Blackhawks in June 1998. He lasted 59 games before being fired with a 16-35-8 record. If Joel Ward gets his way, he will be next. And it will be overdue. “I think there should have been more ahead of me,” Ward said last week. “As a player, you go through it, and then it just seems like coaching is not really an avenue for a lot of guys that play for what- ever reason.” A former N.H.L. wing who notched 133 goals and 304 points over 11 seasons with four N.H.L. teams, including the San Jose Sharks during their run to the 2016 Stanley Cup finals, Ward has used his platform to promote in- clusivity and fight discrimination in the sport as a founder of the Hockey Diversity Alliance. In June, after six years as an as- sistant in the Vegas Golden Knights organization, the last three of which were spent on the N.H.L. team’s bench, Ward, 45, was named coach of the American Hockey League’s Henderson (Nev.) Silver Knights. He succeeds Ryan Craig, who was promoted to be Golden Knights coach after the franchise did not retain John Tortorella, a late-season hire, following its loss to the Carolina Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup finals. Ward said it was an honor to be entrusted by the Golden Knights to “lead their young men and de- velop players” at the organiza-
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sions,” Meyer continued in his statement. “There is also no ‘sharing equally’ in franchise value growth, expansion fees or the vast amounts of revenues being generated around ball- parks across the league.” While it might come as a sur- prise, the revenue split is proba- bly the most important piece of a cap system — even more so than the upper and lower limits on salary each team would have to respect. The split is the real salary cap. That’s because after each season, player salaries would be adjusted to make sure players and team owners get their desig- nated percentage of revenue. For this reason, the league wants players to put up to 10 percent of their salaries into escrow each year. These accounting gymnastics may sound familiar to those who follow other sports. In the N.B.A., the pool of money that is doled out is known as basketball-relat- ed income. In the N.H.L., it is called hockey-related revenue. “The proposed definition of baseball revenue aligns closely
can be a contentious issue in cap leagues.
with the proven approaches used in other leagues,” Caplin said. “M.L.B. player compensation has grown more slowly than player compensation in the other leagues.” The other leagues permit deductions, but the N.F.L. has fewer of them compared with the N.B.A. and N.H.L. and M.L.B.’s desired setup. None of the other cap leagues share the proceeds of franchise sales with players, either. De- spite this, the revenue split in the N.H.L. is still regularly discussed as 50-50. But, overall, the baseball union portrays M.L.B.’s proposal as a Frankenstein’s monster assem- bled from the least generous pieces of other leagues. Most any dollar that teams spend on players would count against the players’ share of baseball revenue. That includes everything from amateur signing bonuses, retirement benefits and moving expenses to interpreters and clubhouse meals. “The cap system they pro- posed is not just bad for all the reasons that we believe caps
tion’s top minor league affiliate, where he becomes only the sec- ond Black head coach in A.H.L. history. (The first was Graham, who led the Springfield Falcons in Massachusetts from 2004 to 2006.) “At the end of the day, I’d like to coach in the National Hockey League,” he said. Ward broke into the league with the Minnesota Wild in the 2006-7 season as an undrafted free agent out of the University of Prince Ed- ward Island, a rare product of Ca- nadian university hockey to reach the sport’s highest level. Despite spending the next year in the minors, he persevered to be- come a sturdy presence up front for the Nashville Predators and Washington Capitals from 2008 to 2015, highlighted by career highs of 24 goals and 49 points with the Capitals in 2013-14. Soon after formally retiring in 2020, Ward was one of nine Black participants in that year’s N.H.L. Coaches Association global coaches clinic. By November, af- ter sending his résumé to the Golden Knights’ president for hockey operations, George McPhee, who had signed Ward as a free agent with the Capitals in 2011, he was hired as an assistant for the Silver Knights. Now that Ward is back in Hen- derson, he can apply what he has learned from the various N.H.L. coaches he has played under and worked alongside, including Barry Trotz; John Stevens, a cur- rent Golden Knights assistant; and Peter DeBoer, who saw Ward’s coaching potential during their time together at San Jose. “I think on every team you coach, you always look around, and there’s always a couple guys in that room that you go, ‘Boy, I think that guy would be a really
systems are always bad,” Meyer said in June. “They’ve effectively managed to cobble together the worst system for players in any of the major sports, and not even close.” Under a cap, another key matter would have to be negoti- ated: how often the union could ask for a financial audit of the league office and the 30 teams. The league proposed 10 audits, which would be fewer than are available in other cap systems. The N.B.A. players’ union is permitted an average of 15 per year, while the unions in the N.F.L. and N.H.L. have no limit. Caplin said M.L.B. is providing “comparable independent audit rights and protections as the other unions.” In cap systems, changes to the pot can make a big difference, even if the percentage split is unaltered. During the N.B.A.’s last round of bargaining in 2023, basketball players agreed to the introduc- tion of “the second apron,” a spending threshold with penal- ties so significant for teams that cross it that it has dampened some players’ markets in free agency. The union now would like to change that provision. But one of the trade-offs for agreeing to it in the first place was a newly shared revenue stream. Before 2023, believe it or not, basketball players did not have a cut of licensed merchandise unless the item had a player’s name or image on it. A cap with a New York Knicks logo, for exam- ple, did not count toward the players’ share. Once it did, the pie grew by about $160 million. In M.L.B., the league wants to put revenue from traditional buckets into the pie: things like ticket sales, merchandise, broad- casts and beer. (And, yes, hats.) Suite sales for game days and seat licenses would count, as would 80 percent of naming rights for a stadium. Game day parking in a half-mile radius is included too. But players would be largely walled off from ancillary busi- nesses teams operate — money- makers that players will always want a slice of, and owners will always try to shield. Under M.L.B.’s proposal, land sales and leases around stadiums would not be divided with play- ers. The league also formally ad- dresses what it calls ballpark districts, mixed-use develop- ments around stadiums that some team owners have built. A bit of the revenue from these would be shared by the players,
Joel Ward, above right, will coach Vegas’s top minor league team. Dirk Graham, below, coached Chicago for 59 games in 1998-99.
The Braves reported that Battery Atlanta, the team-built district, brought in $97 million in 2025.
but not much. The league proposal counts eight teams as having a bona fide district: Atlanta, the Cubs, Colorado, Pittsburgh, San Fran- cisco, Seattle, St. Louis and Texas. As a publicly traded organiza- tion that has to regularly release financial information, the Braves reported that their district brought in $97 million in 2025. What would be shared from these areas? During an M.L.B. event, teams would fully share parking fees within the district. Plus, 20 percent of the revenue from signage within a ballpark district and its parking areas would go into the pot. If some restaurants and bars open only seasonally in a ball- park district, their revenues would count too — but only on game days. That means owners would not share a cut from restaurants that operate year- round. (M.L.B. declined to speci- fy how many district eateries currently operated part time.) M.L.B. and the teams would share some income related to sports gambling. But, unsurpris- ingly, the new casino that Steve Cohen, owner of the New York Mets, plans to build near his team’s ballpark would not di- rectly benefit players.
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Earnings from brick-and- mortar casinos and sportsbooks would count only if the casino’s business is “predominantly de- rived from gambling on M.L.B.” (M.L.B. declined to say whether any such casino exists.) Some of the stipulations in M.L.B.’s proposal are almost amusingly in the weeds. Paid mascot appearances count toward the pool. And while M.L.B. does not want to share access fees for film shoots at a ballpark, it is offering to share A.T.M. fees. For billboards and signs the team sells outside a stadium, M.L.B. offered to put 80 percent of revenues into baseball reve- nue, rather than 100 percent. To qualify, such ads would need to be within a half-mile radius “as measured from home plate.” If baseball winds up with a cap and a predetermined revenue divide, the conversation about B.R. would never end. Both the league and the union would need full-time staff in place to monitor and handle disputes over it. B.R. would be a major topic every time a new collective bargaining agreement is negotiated. Baseball’s current negotiation is still in its early stages, which means neither side has made its best offer. Down the line, M.L.B.
occupied similar roles after Cas- sidy was fired as coach in April, guiding the forwards alongside Dominique Ducharme as Tor- torella leaned on Vegas’s assist- ants to help the team get back on track. Cassidy had leaned on Ward’s recent N.H.L. experience. “I didn’t play a lot of N.H.L. games,” Cassidy said. “So to have a guy that’s been there and done it, and use that to your advantage to work the room. That was his big- gest asset, and I think he under- stood that.” Coaches like DeBoer and Cas- sidy spent years coaching in the minors and at the junior level be- fore moving into N.H.L. roles. They commended Ward for fol- lowing this path, even if it means returning to the A.H.L. after work- ing an N.H.L. bench. “It’s probably the next best league in the world to coach pro- fessionals,” Cassidy said of the A.H.L. “And it certainly prepares you to be an N.H.L. head coach. I mean, just look at the guys that are in the N.H.L. I bet, off the top of your head, you can name half of them were American League head coaches.” In fact, 21 of the N.H.L.’s 32 cur- rent coaches served as A.H.L. bench bosses before making the jump. Five of them, including Craig, took those gigs after hold- ing assistant titles at the N.H.L. level. Two of the league’s most prominent coaches, Paul Maurice and Mike Sullivan, spent years coaching in the N.H.L. before re- surfacing in the A.H.L., only to re- turn to the big leagues soon after. Cassidy himself climbed from the ECHL, the International Hockey League and the A.H.L. be- fore landing his first N.H.L. job, in Washington for the 2002-3 season.
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presumably would be willing to offer players a better version. “We stand ready to bargain on this issue at the table,” Caplin said of the revenue plan. It seems unlikely, however, that the players’ union will send a direct counterproposal for the calculation of B.R. Players do not want a cap at all, and are therefore loath to negotiate any of its workings. That’s too bad, according to M.L.B., which suggests players are losing out in the current system because their earnings are not formally tied to revenues. “Unlike in other sports, major league player compensation has not kept up with revenue growth,” Caplin said. “Since 2003, while M.L.B. revenue has grown 247 percent, player payroll has grown at 149 percent.” Meyer does not believe M.L.B. is actually trying to help players, however. “The league’s proposal is to slash overall player compensa- tion from where it stands now by hundreds of millions, lock it in and guarantee it can never grow more than revenues again,” Meyer said. “If players had agreed to a deal like the one that has been proposed at any time in the past two decades, their losses would be in the billions.”
After he was dismissed by the Capitals, and after a stint as a Blackhawks assistant, he again worked his way up. That time, he went from the Ontario Hockey League to the A.H.L. and, finally, to the Boston Bruins’ bench before he replaced Claude Julien as coach during the 2016-17 season. There are a handful of examples for Ward to follow, providing proof that the route to becoming an N.H.L. coach is not always linear. “He’s doing it the right way,” De- Boer said of Ward. “He’s not look- ing for a quick way into the N.H.L. He’s willing to ride buses and go to the minors and pick up pucks as an assistant coach. He has the same mentality as a coach that he had as a player, that he’s willing to work for it. And I have no doubt, eventually, he’s going to get re- warded for that, just like he did as a player.” The son of parents from Barba- dos, Ward knows how rare it is for a Black coach to attain any posi- tion in pro hockey. When Paul Jer- rard, who died in 2023, worked for the Colorado Avalanche (2002-3), Dallas Stars (2011-13) and Calgary Flames (2016-18), he was the only Black assistant in the league; the same for the New Jersey Devils’ Mike Grier (2018-20). And aside from Ward and the Tampa Bay Lightning’s goalies coach, Frantz Jean, the N.H.L. had zero other Black members of coaching staffs on its 32 teams during the 2025-26 season. But Ward hopes that his jour- ney, no matter where it leads, can encourage younger people to fol- low in his footsteps. “I’ve learned so much through- out the course of my career and from a lot of great coaches,” Ward said. “It would be a shame if I had all this information and didn’t get a chance to share it with others.”
Plum, Collier and Other W.N.B.A. Trade Deadline Targets
By ANNIE COSTABILE The Athletic
The W.N.B.A. trade deadline has a history of being relatively uneventful, but is that about to change? There are several reasons for that history, starting with the league’s hard salary cap, which limits teams’ ability to absorb contracts. But some of the W.N.B.A.’s biggest power players believe that the influx of money and the roster construction tools in the new collective bargaining agree- ment — including the minimum salary cap exception and the ability to carry seven protected veteran contracts compared with six in previous years — could make teams more likely to take chances before the deadline this Sunday. Franchises that have made bold moves in the past have been rewarded for it. The Minnesota Lynx have generally been the most ag- gressive franchise at the dead- line, executing deals like the 2015 midseason trade for center Sylvia Fowles, who went on to help the team win two titles and become a league most valuable player. Last year, Minnesota acquired guard DiJonai Carring- ton at the deadline, and her perimeter defense provided a spark off the bench for the Lynx. The Las Vegas Aces traded for NaLyssa Smith in June 2025, ahead of the deadline, and she ended up paying dividends in their championship run. Talks are active around the league with just days to go be- fore Sunday’s deadline. The question is, will those talks amount to substantial move- ment? Here is what I’m hearing com- ing out of the All-Star break:
Expiring Contracts
Kelsey Plum was part of a three- team trade in 2025 that sent her to the Los Angeles Sparks, Jew- ell Loyd to the Aces and the No. 2 pick, which became Dominique Malonga, to the Seattle Storm. Las Vegas can say it won that trade by claiming its third title in four seasons last year, though Malonga is now an All-Star for the Storm. When they made that deal, both Los Angeles and Seattle had more work to do to become con- tenders, and now the Sparks are at risk of losing Plum for noth- ing. Plum signed a one-year deal for $999,999 in free agency, but the sense from sources around the league, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not cleared to com- ment publicly on the matter, is that the 31-year-old guard does not intend to re-sign with the Sparks as a free agent. Both Plum and her agent, Zack Miller of WME Basketball, declined to comment on her plans. The only way for the Sparks to guarantee that they will not lose a valuable asset for nothing is to move Plum before the deadline. The franchise fired Raegan Pebley, its general manager, earlier this month, and the as- sistant general managers Zach Knowlton and Nate Nielsen have been filling the role on an interim basis. The Sparks had not engaged in meaningful trade talks involving Plum, according to multiple
Annie Costabile is a senior wom- en’s basketball writer for The Athletic.
By MIKE VORKUNOV The Athletic
When LeBron James chose the Philadelphia 76ers last week as his next team, perhaps no one out- side of Philadelphia was happier than the N.B.A.’s schedulers. Just as the other N.B.A. teams waited on the legend to make his latest decision, so did the league office. As N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver pointed out earlier this month, on Day 16 of James’s inde- cision, the league was waiting on its star to pick a destination. “Where LeBron plays affects the schedule,” Silver said July 16 while speaking on a panel at the CNBC/Boardroom Game Plan event. “I would like him to make his announcement already so we can finish the schedule, because, as you might imagine, the teams are calling us, the networks are calling us, and everybody wants to lock in the schedule. But it will
Kelsey Plum, right, is on a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Sparks, who may choose to trade her.
Napheesa Collier, left, may not want to re-sign with the Minnesota Lynx after her contract expires.
high-level team executives around the league. She has missed the last month with an injury that also cost her an All- Star Game appearance, but she is expected to return soon. Candace Parker, Chelsea Gray and Nneka Ogwumike are all former Sparks champions who left in free agency because of the franchise’s consistent missteps. After almost a decade of staying out of the team’s operations, the controlling owner Mark Walter appears to be taking a more active approach, as evidenced by Pebley’s midseason dismissal and the team’s announcement of a new $150 million practice facili- ty that will open in 2027. If the Sparks opt not to trade Plum, they are taking a big risk that they will be able to execute offseason moves that will per- suade her to stay in Los Angeles. The Lynx star Napheesa Col- lier is another franchise player who, because of the terms of her contract, has to be considered a trade option. The back-to-back M.V.P. run- ner-up has spent her entire ca- reer with Minnesota, which selected her with the sixth pick in the 2019 draft. She signed a one-year supermax deal for 2026 after she was cored by the Lynx, and in doing so, she signaled to some degree that she would like to explore her options in free agency.
influence how we set the schedule, how we set opening week, Christ- mas Day, etc.” With James’s choice on Friday of Philadelphia, the N.B.A. can get to work on finalizing its 2026-27 schedule. Even at 41 years old, James remains a key component of the league’s broadcast plans. While his delayed decision slowed down N.B.A. business, the league still expects to announce its schedule in mid-August as it his- torically has, according to a league spokesperson. But it seems that the move has at least affected the process. Last season, James and his Los Angeles Lakers tied for the most national TV appearances of any team. James remains the league’s most bankable star. He will turn the 76ers into TV stars, too. The 76ers were scheduled for just 14 national broadcast appear- ances last summer when the N.B.A. dropped its schedule; ex- pect the league and its media part- ners — NBC, ESPN and Amazon — to max out their Philadelphia games this upcoming season.
Even without Collier, who missed the first 27 games of the season recovering from surgery on both her ankles, the Lynx were leading the league in wins at the All-Star break. That is in large part thanks to Olivia Miles, who is playing her way into M.V.P. discussions as a rookie. Furthermore, Miles, the No. 2 pick in this year’s draft, is on the path to solidifying herself as the franchise’s future cornerstone. “Every team is going to be opportunistic to improve their roster,” Cheryl Reeve, the Lynx coach and president of basketball operations, told reporters in Minnesota on Monday. “Every team is maybe in a different spot in terms of what they think they need, whether they should or shouldn’t. We’re certainly a team that’s been, quote, open for busi- ness, open-minded to things that are being talked about. It’ll be a busy week for us.” Reeve’s task is to determine whether she has assurances that Collier will re-sign with Minne- sota after the season. That prom- ise could be mutual, too. For example, Collier could agree to sign a multiyear deal as long as Reeve can guarantee that if she wants out at any point during its duration, the team will work with her to make that happen. Collier’s 2026 debut — 24 points and 10 rebounds in 22 minutes on July 22 — showed
The N.B.A. goes to great lengths to construct its schedule, and the process begins with its marquee days and nights. Those are the first set of games the league figures out. “We’ll generate, again, hun- dreds of potential Christmas Day drafts,” Evan Wasch, the N.B.A.’s executive vice president for bas- ketball strategy and growth, told The Athletic in 2022. “The differ- ent teams you could feature, the different matchups, the different time slots, and then we’ll just start conversations with ESPN. See what they have in mind. Try to find middle ground, and usually we’re pretty aligned with sort of the general structure, and we might have some sort of disagree- ment on small pieces of the sched- ule, but we navigate those fairly easily.” The N.B.A. would, of course, want James on those big stages. Those games tend to be some of the highest-rated of the season for the league, and they are when it puts its best foot forward. Like Santa Claus, James has be-
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that she is healthy and would give any team that hopes to trade for her faith that they would be acquiring an M.V.P.- caliber player moving forward. The Lynx’s status as contend- ers puts Reeve in a different position from the Sparks front office because keeping Collier would help Minnesota contend for a title this season. Reeve is not operating from a position of desperation.
Mercury Retrograde
The Phoenix Mercury are one of the biggest disappointments of the season. After making a finals run in 2025, they were 12th in the stand- ings at the break and well behind the Mystics for the eighth and final playoff spot. General Manager Nick U’Ren took a big swing in 2025 when he acquired the All-Star forwards Alyssa Thomas and Satou Sa- bally in a four-team trade. This off-season, he opted not to core Sabally, and she ultimately signed with the New York Lib- erty as an unrestricted free agent. There were trade talks includ- ing Thomas during the Mer- cury’s losing streaks earlier this season, according to multiple league sources, but they have since gone cold.
come a Christmas Day tradition, playing on the holiday every year since 2007. Whichever team he chose likely needed to be slotted in for the that day. But the league also figures out Christmas in conjunction with opening week. NBC hosted its opening night last season with two games on a Tuesday, ESPN took the next two nights with four games total, and Amazon closed off the week with two Friday-night matchups. Last season, the 76ers
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Forward Alanna Smith has been limited with the Dallas Wings. Could she find a home with the struggling Phoenix Mercury?
One player who could be a target for U’Ren and the Mer- cury as they look to salvage the 2026 season is Dallas Wings forward Alanna Smith. A co- defensive player of the year last season, she signed a three-year maximum deal valued at roughly $3.75 million. While the Wings were able to offer Smith the best financial situation, her opportu- nities have been limited in Dal- las, where she was averaging 3.8 points and 2.9 rebounds in the first half of the season and play- ing 14.2 minutes per game off the bench. The Mercury have $857,740 in cap space remaining this season, which means they would have to send salary back to Dallas or otherwise clear room to land Smith.
Liberty Move?
Betnijah Laney-Hamilton’s name has been in trade talks since the start of the season, according to multiple league sources. Those conversations cooled in May and June, but they have heated up again with the deadline ap- proaching. The problem with getting a deal across the finish line is what many league sources believe is a prohibitively high asking price from Liberty General Manager Jonathan Kolb. Laney-Hamilton missed the entire 2025 season while recovering from surgery to repair a meniscus injury that occurred while the veteran guard was playing in Unrivaled. Kolb suspended her contract last year to create cap space and open up a roster spot, but the move also gave the Liberty exclusive nego- tiating rights over her in free agency. This season, Laney-Hamilton’s role has been significantly lim- ited. She is on an expiring con- tract valued at $400,000, which
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did not play a nationally broadcast game until Halloween but will likely not have to wait that long this upcoming season. James and the Lakers played once on NBC and once on Amazon during open- ing week. The television impact on any team that James chose would have been immense. Last season, the Miami Heat were scheduled for just five national TV games, and the Cleveland Cavaliers were scheduled for 24. Either of those
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will not necessarily be difficult to move, but it all comes back to Kolb’s asking price. “As a competitor, as somebody who’s worked really hard, as somebody who’s been a part of the organization for a long time, it can sometimes be disappoint- ing and frustrating,” Laney- Hamilton said earlier this month about her lack of playing time. “But, you know, that’s also part of the process.”
Sellers vs. Buyers
The Connecticut Sun have a plethora of assets between posi- tional overlap, draft capital and cap space ($800,769). Far re- moved from the playoff picture, they are in position to be a top seller at the deadline. The second-year forward Aneesah Morrow has come up in trade talks, according to multiple sources. One intriguing possibil- ity could be a deal that sends Morrow to the Liberty for Laney- Hamilton. The Mystics could be deadline buyers or sellers. Like the Sun, Washington has a lot of posi- tional overlap on its roster. The team drafted center Lauren Betts with the No. 4 pick despite having Kiki Iriafen and Shakira Austin in the frontcourt because Betts was the best player avail- able and a valuable trade asset. The Mystics are exceeding expectations with a comfortable grip on the final playoff spot coming out of the All-Star break. They could attempt to speed up their rebuild by making a move for Plum, who would comple- ment Washington’s leading scorer, Sonia Citron, in the back- court. The Mystics also have $1,836,639 in cap space, which will make bringing in salary easier.
The N.B.A. waited for LeBron James to choose a new team before it got to work on finaliz- ing the 2026-27 schedule.
two franchises would have had a much bigger spotlight with James on their roster. In the past, the N.B.A. has usu- ally waited until the first half of July to sit down with executives from its media partners, and build out the rest of the schedule, Wasch told The Athletic. The league then relied on optimizing software to make schedules that could fit the parameters it needed. The num- ber of options could initially stretch into the billions as the league winnowed down the choices. But the later a star player, let alone James, makes his decision on a team, the harder it gets for the league to finish the schedule. “It’s the scheduling team’s nightmare when that stuff hap- pens late in our process,” Wasch told the Houston Chronicle in 2023. “The worst outcome is big superstar movement in late July. That will really push the process back.”
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NEWS CRITICISM
Auditions Open, Dreams Arise
who arrived from around the country, seeking to join the show.
By ALEXIS SOLOSKI
Do you suffer from summertime ennui? Are you bearish on humanity in general? Let me suggest an unconventional cure: a few hours spent among the hope-struck adoles- cents auditioning for an Off Broadway re- vival of “Spring Awakening,” a rock musical celebrating teenage love and angst. These aspirants arrived by plane, by bus, by subway, in braids and vests and milk- maid dresses, clutching headshots and binders and gigantic water bottles. Their destination on this Friday in July: Studio Seaview, a theater in Times Square. A few dozen joined the line before dawn. By noon, more than a thousand sat and stood and swayed. Inside the theater, each was as- signed a number and then called, in groups of 10, to smaller rooms to sing their 16 bars. As the hopefuls waited in the main audito- rium, they were eager, fizzy, fidgety — vi- brating with enough theater-kid energy to power several city blocks. Nicholas Aaron, 23, discovered “Spring Awakening” in high school. “It helped me to come out,” he said. When he saw an ad for the audition, he knew he had to try. “I woke up this morning smiling ear to ear, just so emotionally fulfilled knowing that I was
Artwork that illustrates the mythical story of ‘The Odyssey.’
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At School Finds Trail Of Abuse
to Jeffrey Epstein, discloses accusations against 47 adults.
By GRAHAM BOWLEY
Dozens of former students of the Interloch- en Center for the Arts in Michigan, where Jeffrey Epstein is said to have encountered some of his earliest victims, told a law firm hired by the school that they had been sexu- ally abused by teachers, staff members, trustees and others affiliated with the insti- tution in episodes from the 1950s to the 2010s. In a report released on Tuesday, after al- most two years of interviews, the law firm presented firsthand accounts of Interloch- en alumni, who said they had been sub- jected to misconduct ranging from groom- ing and flirting to intercourse. The report said that some 70 of the former students de- scribed physical abuse and identified the perpetrators as 47 adults affiliated with the center. The 97-page report said that some adults figured in multiple accounts that stretched over decades, but that most episodes had occurred several decades ago and claims of abuse had dropped sharply since 2000. “Many alums detailed the impact that this conduct had on them,” said the report, from the Sanghavi Law Office, a Massachu- setts-based firm. “Some shared that the im- pacts were significant and lasted well after they graduated from, or otherwise left, Interlochen.” The arts institution, which was founded in the 1920s, is both a year-round boarding school for teenage prodigies and a summer camp. It is known for its rigorous instruc- tion and recreational diversions in a pas- toral campus set near two lakes, and it has long drawn a selective group of young musi- cians and other aspiring artists, including Epstein, who attended as a teenage bas- soonist. In more recent years, Interlochen also be- came known as the place where Epstein, a celebrated donor to the school, returned to
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THEATER REVIEW Things Could Be Worse, As in Average
facing death at 30 into a flashy confessional of insecurity.
THE COMEDIAN Cat Cohen has always been a bit of a horror show. Adopting a flamboyantly superficial, fame-hungry persona, she is the kind of nar- cissist who says as an aside, “I’m engaged to a guy named Josh or something.” Or turns obliviousness into punchlines. “One of my friends said I’m too selfish to have kids,” she says, “but I don’t care what anybody thinks. I’m going to do what I want to do when I want to do it.” So it makes a certain kind of sense that the set of her hectically entertaining new
Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes Lucille Lortel Theater
production, “Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes,” is decked out in candles, chandeliers and fake stone walls from a Victorian gothic. In this haunted house design by Derek McLane, Cohen makes an entrance looking like a mil- lennial Bride of Frankenstein, singing a moody “By the Sea” (the music is by Cohen and David Dabbon) that evokes “Sweeney Todd.” This new show is a departure for Cohen, a ratcheting up of ambition for one of the most charismatic musical comedians of the past decade. Cohen, who has built a devoted following through whirligig satirical per- formances in intimate rooms like Club Cum- ming and Joe’s Pub, is shifting from a stripped-down cabaret aesthetic to a flashi-
Mother of More Than Just the Blues
Ma Rainey comes alive on a release culled from archives and private collections.
Across the recordings, one can hear elements of ragtime, even comedic sketches.
By EMMA MADDEN
Before Thomas A. Dorsey became the fa- ther of gospel music, he spent the mid- to late 1920s at the piano accompanying Ma Rainey, the mother of the blues. After tour- ing with her, he would later reportedly say there was “nowhere else to go but to the Lord.” At the dawn of the recording industry, Rainey plied a new style derived from vaudeville that spoke to a Black audience just a generation removed from slavery. “She was the star of her day,” said Gaye Todd-Adegbalola, a blues singer who has covered and written about Rainey. Despite her hit songs, including “See See Rider” and “New Bo-Weavil Blues,” which became blues standards, and vibrant touring career, Rainey’s impact was inconsistently docu- mented after her death in 1939. A new boxed set, released last week, of- fers the most complete look at Rainey’s re- cording career. The collection, from Black Swan Records and the George H. Buck Jazz Foundation, compiles Rainey’s complete re- cordings from 1923 to 1928, includes rare test pressings, alternate takes and 118 origi- nal recordings painstakingly assembled af- ter almost a decade of searching through private collections and jazz discographies. That these recordings exist at all is a mi- nor miracle. Paramount Records, the label responsible for much of Rainey’s recorded output, was a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Chair Company. It produced records largely to sell phonographs, with little regard for audio quality, pressing them onto cheap shellac. Doug Benson, the Grammy-nomi- nated engineer behind the collection, said this source material was the most challeng- ing he has ever worked with. Rainey’s voice was powerful enough that when she hit her loudest notes, the grooves distorted. “The first time people played these songs on a Victrola with a heavy steel needle,” Benson said, “it’d skip right past them.” Those notes are audible on the new release. The restoration uncovered details hidden within the records. “We discovered a violin that is not in any of the other discogra- phies,” said Benson. The strings, played by Leroy Pickett, can be heard on “Little Low Mama Blues” and “Grievin’ Heart Blues.” Jazz luminaries including Coleman Hawkins, Fletcher Henderson and Louis Armstrong can be heard elsewhere on the compilation, responding to Rainey’s crash- ing and moaning delivery. Rainey was deeply involved in writing songs that spoke directly to the Black expe- rience. She is credited as composer, co-com- poser or lyricist on roughly a third of the re- cordings collected in the set, based on sur- viving copyright records, which means the true number is likely to have been higher. In the words of Todd-Adegbalola, Rainey was “the Black griot of the blues” Born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus, Ga., in 1886, Rainey developed her rich, rag- ged contralto within the traditions of field hollers, folk songs and the communal story- telling techniques of Black Southern life. Her rise on the entertainment circuit co- incided with the explosion of Black music in the 1920s, and the Harlem Renaissance, a period in which Black culture and schol- arship were finding new audiences. Rainey did not strive to make her music legible to newcomers. “She wasn’t trying to be white and she wasn’t trying to appeal to white val- ues,” said Todd-Adegbalola. “With Ma, Black people had found a mother, and that’s as close to God as you can get.” Rainey belonged to a new generation of Black Americans who sought greater free- dom even as Jim Crow policies still terror- ized the South. In her songs, she explored the complexities of romance: one moment pleading with a lover not to leave, the next asserting her own independence. Her 1928 recording “Prove It on Me Blues,” accompa- nied by a jug band, remains one of the bold- est examples of the latter: “Went out last night with a crowd of my friends / They must’ve been women, ’cause I don’t like no men.” The song has become central to modern interpretations of Rainey’s legacy, with
Ma Rainey in the 1920s, above, and with her band, top. A new boxed set released last week, below, is a comprehensive collection of her recordings from a prolific period.
scholars identifying it as one of the earliest expressions of queer identity in popular music. But the new compilation questions recent assessments that the song con- firmed her bisexuality. “There isn’t much to suggest she was,” said David Sager, a historian who worked with a team of researchers to write the liner notes. “Although there are anecdotes about her having orgies with women backstage, we can’t know whether they were or were not true.” The collection also showcases Rainey ranging beyond the blues. Before she ever entered Paramount’s recording studio, she had already spent years performing in tent shows and on minstrel and vaudeville stages, dabbling in popular styles of enter- tainment. Across the recordings, one can hear elements of ragtime, comedic sketches and the 32-bar pop song “Honey, Where You Been So Long?” Branding Rainey as a blues act was the
work of J. Mayo Williams, the promoter hired by Paramount in 1924 to oversee its race department at a time when 12-bar blues was among the most commercially successful forms of Black recorded music. “Every glimpse we get of her stepping away from that straitjacket is precious,” said Sager. Rainey retired from music in 1935, return- ing to her family home in Columbus, a place that beckoned her far more than the stage. She died four years later, and was little re- membered outside the Black news media until August Wilson’s 1982 play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” became a Broad- way hit. A 2020 Netflix adaptation starring Viola Davis earned the actress an Oscar nomination. Among Rainey’s most ardent followers after her death were avid record collectors in the 1940s who began gathering reissues of early jazz, blues and country recordings. Their efforts helped preserve a body of work, as her records were passed down through families who “considered Rainey an authority,” said Sager. With the scratchy recordings and paltry historical records, points of Rainey’s biog- raphy have been subject to mythologizing. We do know that she dressed for the stage in sequined gowns spangled with golden coins or pearls and ostrich-feather boas, and wore heavy greasepaint and powder. Taken together with productions like the Wilson play, Benson said, the version of Rainey por- trayed to millions differs greatly from the woman heard on these recordings. “They made the character much more aloof and unfriendly,” said Benson. “But just from listening to this woman, you can feel this is someone you’d really like.”
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Award Announces Nominees
Thirteen novels in a range of genres are in the running for Britain’s coveted Booker Prize.
By ALEX MARSHALL
Marlon James’s “The Disappearers,” the Ja- maican writer’s first nonfantasy novel since he won the 2015 Booker Prize for “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” is already one of the year’s most anticipated releases. Now the novel, about an anti-gay hate crime in 1980s Jamaica, is likely to be even more so. On Tuesday, it was nominated for the Booker Prize along with a dozen other books, including “John of John,” by the fel- low Booker winner Douglas Stuart, and “The Things We Never Say,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout. The Booker, a distinguished British liter- ary award, is given each year to a title origi- nally written in English and published in Britain or Ireland. The judging panel, led this year by the classicist Mary Beard, will announce a six-book shortlist on Sept. 22. The winner will be named at a ceremony in London on Nov. 9. Its author will receive 50,000 pounds, about $66,500.
The nominees:
Chloe Aridjis’s ‘The Shadow of the Object’ In this dreamlike tale, a woman who is hospi- talized after being bitten by a dog must re- turn a magic lantern to another patient’s son. John Self, writing in The Financial Times, said that the book had “an intense flavour that can only come from an author’s deep investment in their material.”
Emma Cline’s ‘Switzy’ Set for an Sept. 8 re- lease, Cline’s third novel follows a retired business executive with a degenerative neurological disease as he visits friends and family before his medically assisted death in Zurich.
Makenna Goodman’s ‘Helen of Nowhere’ The author’s second novel centers on a profes- sor who, after losing his job and partner, heads to the countryside, where he hopes to live a bucolic existence he’s not ready for. Jo Hamya, in The Guardian, called it “a perfect fairy tale for our times.”
M. John Harrison’s ‘The End of Everything’ A beachcomber pulls a mysterious being from the sand in this science fiction novel set in a coastal town. John Self, in The Times of London, said that Harrison, 81, “has been writing confounding, brilliant books for more than 50 years,” and that this was an- other one.
Marlon James’s ‘The Disappearers’ James’s latest, which is scheduled for a Sept. 1 re- lease, revolves around eight men in 1980s Jamaica who respond to a casting call for a play with openly L.G.B.T.Q. themes and are then met with bigotry and violence.
Luke Kennard’s ‘Black Bag’ This “eccentric, amusingly slanted campus novel,” per Phil- ip Womack in the Times Literary Supple- ment, reimagines an old academic experi- ment in which a man attends lectures cov- ered in a black bag, within contemporary academia.
Kenan Orhan’s ‘The Renovation’ A Turkish exile living in Italy hires builders to remodel her bathroom — and discovers that they’ve built a prison cell instead. MJ Franklin, in The New York Times, said that learning its premise was sufficient to make him think, “Enough, I’m in!”
Rebecca Perry’s ‘May We Feed the King’ Per- ry’s debut novel begins with a curator trans- forming a former palace to make it look his- torically accurate, then darts hundreds of years backward into the world of a medi- eval king. Melissa Harrison in The Guard- ian called it a “highly wrought puzzle-box of a book.”
Gwendoline Riley’s ‘The Palm House’ Riley’s latest book recounts the travails of an editor and a contributor to a highbrow magazine after a new executive arrives to shake it up. Christian Lorentzen, in The New York Times, described Riley as a novelist who’s “as thoroughly unsentimental as J.M. Coet- zee or Michel Houellebecq.”
Elizabeth Strout’s ‘The Things We Never Say’ A depressed high school history teacher discovers a long-hidden family secret in this story by an author who has been nominated for the Booker twice before, for “Oh William!” and “My Name Is Lucy Barton.” Maggie Shipstead, writing in The New York Times, said this latest work “rewards re- reading.”
Douglas Stuart’s ‘John of John’ A gay man re- turns to his abusive father’s farm on a Scot- tish island in the latest work from the au- thor of “Shuggie Bain.” In The New York Times, Mark Harris called Stuart’s latest work a “moving, suspenseful, completely worth-your-time” book.
Djamel White’s ‘All Them Dogs’ White’s de- but novel is about a Dublin gangster who flees from a feud and then tries to return to a life of crime five years later. Elizabeth Man- nion, in The Irish Times, said the novel was “beautifully audacious” and filled with “street lyricism.”
ACROSS
two altar boys includes winning performances.
THE ATLANTIC THEATER Company’s Off Broadway main stage is a converted Gothic Revival parish hall. When the Atlantic turned the hall into a stage back in the ’90s, they kept its peaked wooden ceiling and air of contemplation. Now, for Bubba Weiler’s play “The Saviors,” the little theater wants to be a church again. In Jack Serio’s meticulous production, David Zinn’s set exactly recreates a Roman Catholic chancel: altar, baptismal font, stained-glass windows. Two bustling altar boys — 14-year-old Paul (Julius Rinzel) and 13-year-old Michael (Ivan Howe) — handle the ephemera, sorting bulletins and wield- ing candle snuffers before and after serv- ices. Despite their long white albs, they don’t exactly maintain a holy-of-holies atti- tude. They’re boys; everything is a race. One of the waystations in their dash to adulthood is confirmation, the sacrament
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The Saviors Through Aug. 15 at the Linda Gross Theater in Manhattan; atlantictheater.org. Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes.
that binds a Catholic to the church. Michael, who somehow seems much younger than his friend, cannot stop thinking about choosing his confirmation saint — wouldn’t it be cool if he picked Paul, and Paul picked Michael? He chatters on, thrilled to commit himself to God, an almost romantic surren- der that’s tangled up in his intense feelings for Paul. Michael’s fervency troubles Paul in ways neither boy will name. Weiler — now in his early 30s — wrote the first draft of “The Saviors” when he was 19, looking back on his own time as an altar boy. The actors Rinzel and Howe are around the same age as their characters, yet they confi- dently carry the entire evening. (They’re small miracles.) It’s a relief, even a thrill, to slough away the imitation adolescence we settle for so often onstage and perceive the real, awkward, thoughtful thing itself. It wouldn’t be a coming-of-age story with- out a test of some kind, and so a stranger comes into their charmed circle, an itiner- ant named Julian (Stanley Simons). He needs literal shelter from a literal storm, but the character keeps blurring into allegory. Julian is also the name of the patron saint of hospitality, so we note which boy extends a welcoming hand. And Simons has been styled by the costume designer, Avery Reed, to look like a scruffy Jesus. He’s a drug addict; he’s a troubled guy. He’s for- saken. Weiler is a gentle writer, occasionally to a fault. He and his go-to director Serio have already had one huge Off Broadway suc- cess this season with the poignant “Well, I’ll Let You Go,” about a grief-stunned widow. In that play, the dead husband narrates, and after a given period of mourning and revela- tion, he ascends, if you catch my drift, a staircase into death. It’s been a while since a playwright has been so sincere in his use of
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Christian imagery. (Imagine Samuel D. Hunter’s soulful realism, but with fewer de- tails from the world as it is.) Michael senses Paul pulling away from him, which he perceives as a religious crisis. He wants to rescue Paul from godlessness, while Paul wants to save Michael from the homophobia in their church. I did occasion- ally hope during “The Saviors” for more dramaturgical velocity, particularly as Weiler maps out this slow conflict of the boys’ caring clumsily for each other. Serio draws extraordinary performances out of the young men, but the division between sweetness and treacle can be thin. Thank goodness, therefore, that there’s a fourth character: Judy (Crystal Finn), whose nervous attempts to lead a youth group — only Michael turns up — cover a deeper desperation. Finn, a downtown treasure, has huge Bette Davis eyes; she’s also the best actor alive at conveying daffy warmth. She gives Weiler’s play the com- edy, and later the lacerating sadness, that it needs. A playwright can’t name a character Ju- das without tipping his hand, but gosh, he comes close with the name Judy. In her, Weiler has written a character with a com-
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plicated relationship to betrayal. Judy has an adult perspective on Julian, with whom she has a secret connection, and on lying and charity. We’re never quite sure if she’s right. “Do you forgive me?” Julian asks her. “For what?” Judy says, which is either lov- ing or unbearably cruel. “The Saviors” as a text contains its own complicated relationship: It relies on its own ending in a way that rebalances the drama. There’s an (almost) final gesture, a gift from Michael to Julian, which indicates what will happen after the play’s time frame is over. This image lends a new weight to ev- erything that’s gone before it; as I think about the show, it seems to blossom back- ward from that moment. I was occasionally impatient with the pro- duction, but that feeling has dissolved as time has gone by. The more I realized that Serio and Weiler had diverted me with teenage drama from an adult horror be- neath, the more I admired the 90 minutes I spent at the Atlantic. This may be a play that needs to be considered twice. And, any- way, that’s what a certain savior would say, right? It is better to live through some sor- rows a second time, knowing what’s to come.
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The museum in the Middle East, long delayed, will focus on art from the 1960s onward.
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Frank Gehry’s unconventional design of stainless-steel mesh, onyx and glass, is in the city’s Saadiyat Island cultural district and includes 125,000 square feet of interior gallery space.
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mingle with students, several of whom later said they had been subjected to his groom- ing and abuse. Though parents of two girls who attended Interlochen have said that decades ago they told the school that their daughters were discomforted by Epstein’s attention, Inter- lochen officials have said the records they have on hand do not contain any indication of complaints about Epstein before his 2008 conviction in Florida of a sex offense involv- ing a minor. The school has said it then cut all ties to him. In a statement released alongside the re- port, Interlochen officials expressed their regrets. “On behalf of Interlochen, we are deeply sorry for the harm experienced by mem- bers of our community and extend our apologies to those impacted by abuse at Interlochen,” Trey Devey, the school’s presi- dent, and Barrett Rollins, the chair of its board, said in a public letter to the Interloch- en community. “We have provided the names of all indi- viduals accused of misconduct to the Grand Traverse County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and the Grand Traverse County Sher- iff’s Office, which will determine if there is a viable pathway to prosecution or other steps that could be taken to promote ac- countability or minimize current risk to stu- dents at other institutions,” the letter added. Epstein was 14 when he attended the camp on a scholarship in 1967. Between 1990 and 2003, he returned as a donor, di- recting more than $400,000 to Interlochen, including $200,000 to build the Jeffrey E. Epstein Scholarship Lodge, created to house visitors and parents.
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By ZACHARY SMALL
After more than two decades of anticipa- tion, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open the doors of its Frank Gehry-designed art museum on Dec. 11. It will be one of the last major venues in a culture district that the United Arab Emirates has spent billions to create. “Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is a defining moment in our cultural journey,” Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman for the de- partment of culture and tourism of Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, said in a statement. “It brings new perspec- tives to modern and contemporary art, shining a light on art from all around the world.” Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, focusing on art from the 1960s onward, is the fourth exist- ing museum in the Guggenheim’s global network, joining institutions in New York, Venice and a celebrated Gehry-designed outpost in Bilbao, Spain. But the partner- ship between the Abu Dhabi museum and the government is unique. The Guggen- heim said all major hiring decisions have been made jointly with Abu Dhabi’s depart- ment of culture and tourism; artworks that the museum acquires belong to Abu Dhabi’s government, which has spent more than $1 billion on the construction of the Middle Eastern outpost. “Our ambition is to show a new art his- tory,” said Mariët Westermann, director and chief executive of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, adding that the museum would have significant works from the Middle East, Asia and Northern Africa. “This museum was built to invite visitors from the country, the region and the world.” The new museum will feature 30 galleries connected by a central atrium and 10 sculp- tural cones that punctuate Gehry’s uncon- ventional design of stainless-steel mesh, onyx and glass. The museum offers about 125,000 square feet of interior galleries, with more than double the exhibition space outside. But as the museum nears completion,
Records released by the Department of Justice and the school indicate that Epstein stayed in the lodge on some of his visits to Interlochen in the 1990s and in 2000. It was during those visits that Epstein is known to have met some of the earliest victims of his grooming and abuse. The report included the accounts of two of the three former Interlochen students who have described disturbing encounters with Epstein. In one case, a woman told the in- vestigators of going to meet him at the cam- pus lodge where “Epstein engaged in sexu- al conduct with her, brushing against her body over her clothes, in a manner in which he indicated was accidental,” the report said. The woman also told investigators that Epstein paid for her to visit him in New York on three occasions when she was a student. “She described being in a room with Ep- stein in New York, and that his hands were on her,” the report said. It noted that “this alum said that on occasions when she and Epstein were crossing the road, he put his hand on her crotch.” The report included additional claims by a third former Interlochen student who told investigators that Epstein had paid for her to fly to New York the summer after she graduated, and that she had given him a massage at his home and he “may have asked her to remove her top.” Her mother told investigators that she had called Inter- lochen to warn the school that Epstein was “preying on their students,” but that no one from Interlochen had followed up. In 2009, Interlochen renamed the Epstein lodge and removed a plaque that acknowl- edged his philanthropy. Epstein died in 2019. In June, Interlochen demolished the lodge as it continued to work to shed any connection to its former benefactor. The episodes related in the investigators’ report occurred on and off campus, includ- ing in faculty houses. Interlochen is by no means the first private school to release a report detailing sexual abuse by its employ- ees or others associated with the institu- tion. Over the past decade, other schools —
including Choate Rosemary Hall and the Hotchkiss School, both in Connecticut, St. George’s School in Rhode Island, and Phillips Exeter Academy and St. Paul’s School, both in New Hampshire — have published similar accounts, though none in- volving Epstein. While Interlochen’s report did not make any formal findings about the school’s secu- rity protocols, it highlighted gaps that had, for example, allowed faculty and staff mem- bers to be alone with students while giving donors or trustees open access to the cam- pus. None of the 47 adults referred to in the report are currently employed or affiliated with Interlochen, the school said. The report noted instances in which the school took action at the time to fire employ- ees when accusers came forward. It also listed new protocols Interlochen had put in place in recent years, such as enhanced re- porting practices, improved background checks and 24/7 supervision of the campus. Some 240 cameras have been installed around its 1,200 acres. In the wake of the report’s findings, Inter- lochen said it was making counseling sup- port available for former students affected by the abuse. It also said it would remove naming credits on, for example, buildings if doing so was found to be warranted. The school said it had already renamed a build- ing that once honored a former trustee who was associated with the school from 1970 to 1999. “Interlochen today is fundamentally dif- ferent from the institution described in this report,” the Interlochen officials wrote in the public letter. The school said the investigators spoke with about 120 former students for the re- view. Devey, who has been Interlochen’s presi- dent since 2017, credited a former student, who came forward in 2024 with a complaint from the 1970s, with spurring the broader investigation. “It’s clearly been a difficult process for our community,” he said, “but I think an es- sential one.”
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A law firm hired by Interlochen, a Michigan arts school, to look into alumni complaints of sexual abuse fielded dozens of disturbing accounts, mostly from decades ago. Former students accused 47 adults of abuse.
some employees have noted cracks in the flooring. Also, the museum also declined to share what artworks would be on view dur- ing the opening. “There is always more to do, but not one specific area other than installing the art,” Westermann said in an interview. Hotly anticipated and highly scrutinized, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi was first an- nounced in 2006 by the museum’s director at the time, Thomas Krens, who popular- ized the expansion strategy of a global mu- seum with multiple outposts. He claimed success after opening the Guggenheim Bil- bao, which became a major tourist draw in Spain. Other projects failed to materialize, including museum outposts in Finland, Brazil and Mexico, and partnerships in Berlin and Las Vegas subsequently closed. Throughout the 2010s, activists accused the museum of putting immigrant laborers in unsafe working conditions at the Abu Dhabi construction site. Other arts centers have since opened in the Saadiyat Island cultural district, includ- ing the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a natural-history museum and an immersive art center by the Japanese company teamLab. A per- forming arts center, also by Gehry, is under construction. Westermann, the former vice chancellor of N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi, joined the museum in 2024 with a mandate to open the Guggen- heim Abu Dhabi, even reorienting the lead- ership structure of the foundation so that she could have more flexibility to run the museum’s international profile and raise money. Many employees have been urged to come into the offices in Abu Dhabi, even as the war between the United States and Iran continues. As recently as May, Iranian bal- listic missiles and drone strikes were hitting Abu Dhabi. At the same time, “the safety of our team and of our visitors is — as it is with any Guggenheim in the world — our top pri- ority,” Westermann said. “I was in Abu Dhabi last week for the first time since Feb- ruary, and it was great to be back.”
Over Efforts To Hack Her Content
Ariana Grande says associates have been targeted for years.
By DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR
Ariana Grande filed a lawsuit against anon- ymous hackers who she said for years stole, sold and leaked dozens of unreleased songs, video footage and private images obtained through a series of account intrusions and phishing scams. The lawsuit, filed on Monday in Superior Court of California for Los Angeles County, said that some of the hacked materials have been sold on the dark web for significant sums of money or were published on social media platforms and other content transfer systems like WeTransfer and Dropbox. “Defendants also use multiple accounts specifically designed to mask their identi- ties in order to publish the content they ille- gally accessed and stole,” the lawsuit said. No hackers were identified by name, but the singer hopes to use the complaint to “uncover the identities” of the people in- volved, the court papers said. Representatives for Ms. Grande declined to comment on the lawsuit on Tuesday. The filing comes amid a busy time for Ms. Grande. She’s on a world tour, with a spate of sold-out shows in Montreal this week. Her latest studio al- bum, “Petal,” will be released on Friday. The complaint de- tails digital attacks dating back to 2019, when hackers ob- tained login creden- tials to a Dropbox ac- count of a photogra- pher with whom Ms. Grande had previously worked. In that episode, hackers accessed and downloaded unreleased photos. Then in 2020, cybercriminals hacked their way into the mobile device of a producer on Ms. Grande’s team, download- ing unreleased masters, demos and footage from recording sessions, the complaint said. Three years later, hackers struck again, stealing and then leaking 45 unre- leased songs. The suit also detailed two episodes in early 2024, when a digital technician fell vic- tim to phishing scams after hackers created a fake email account and domain name im- personating a photographer. In those inci- dents, the hackers obtained unreleased photos. “This malicious invasion of Ms. Grande’s privacy and disruption of her career have caused her substantial and irreparable harm,” the complaint said, adding that no one should have to suffer such violations. Not only have the hacks caused Ms. Grande reputational harm, the complaint said, they have forced her to use significant resources to investigate the matter, take down materials published without her con- sent and rerecord songs. Ms. Grande seeks a trial by jury and court orders demanding the defendants turn over all private materials.
Ariana Grande is suing as-yet unnamed hackers.
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er theater of the macabre. You can feel the stylistic imprint of Alex Timbers (“Beetle- juice”), whose busy production includes gusts of smoke, dance breaks and glittering atmospherics (Jake DeGroot’s lighting is its own cartoonish fun) and a multitude of sound effects to accent Cohen’s jokes. The biggest pivot here is a bit of a fakeout. In a move hinted by the title, Cohen tells us that she had a stroke. “Isn’t that so cre- ative?” she says. “So ahead of the curve. So forward thinking. A stroke at 30, I’m dis- rupting the industry.” The real joke here is Cohen sets out to tell an earnest confessional story of facing down death, only for this to become an af- terthought to the real hero’s journey, grap- pling with the demon really haunting her: a sneaking suspicion that she’s kind of basic. With severity in her voice, she tells a story of a casting director describing her
Then Dreams Arise
‘You want to give them all an opportunity that they want so badly, and they’re worth it.’
STEVEN SATER A ‘SPRING AWAKENING’ CREATOR, SPEAKING OF THE ASPIRANTS
In “Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes,” directed by Alex Timbers, this charismatic comedian is shifting from a stripped-down cabaret aesthetic to a flashier theater of the macabre.
even going to be able to come here,” he said from a back row, still smiling after having sung a snatch of “Death of a Bachelor” by Panic! At the Disco. Adapted from an 1891 play by the German writer Frank Wedekind, this rock musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater debuted 20 years ago at the Atlantic Theater Com- pany before transferring to Broadway, where it eventually won eight Tony Awards and launched a generation of musical the- ater talent including Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, John Gallagher Jr. and Gideon Glick. With provocative lyrics, its songs de- scribe adolescents fighting a repressive so- ciety for love, freedom and self-expression. A sensation among both teenagers and adults, it has, with occasional edits, become a staple at colleges, regional and communi- ty theaters and at some adventurous high schools and summer camps. In June, it was announced that Danya Taymor (“The Outsiders,” “John Proctor Is the Villain”), Broadway’s resident teen whisperer, would direct a revival of the mu- sical at Studio Seaview. Taymor — in con- sultation with Sater, the choreographer Ce- lia Rowlson-Hall and the show’s casting di- rectors — opted to hold an open call. For Taymor, who has used open calls to cast tours and Broadway replacements for “The Outsiders,” that decision was both generous and selfish. “Not everybody has access to an agent or a fancy school or one of the official path- ways to being seen,” she said. “Part of it is honestly just wanting to get the best people for the show and not miss anyone.” An open call requires no application, no prescreening, not a single Actors’ Equity credit — only the mettle and spunk to try. A dance call was held on a Thursday in early July, followed by two days of singing audi- tions. Ads, placed on Instagram and TikTok, attracted 400 hopefuls to the dance call and 2,100 to sing a folk, pop or indie-rock selec- tion. Nina Faye, 17, who flew in from Ohio with sheet music for “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls, fell for the musical in middle school. “That angst, it just connects with young people,” she said. “It’s insane that this was written in
type as “a normal girl.” She has clearly never recovered. Her insecurity is that she might not be a fabulous New York diva but the kind of person who knows how to use an air fryer. Maybe an early stroke is eccentric enough to save her. Cohen is following in the footsteps of co- medians like Cole Escola (“Oh Mary!”) and Jacqueline Novak (“Get on Your Knees”), who also went to the Lucille Lortel Theater to try something more thematically coher- ent and theatrical. Cohen is taking a big swing here. Does it pay off? At times. This escapist, overstuffed toy box of a show moves like a roller coaster. And Cohen per- forms like a solicitous party host, con- stantly checking in (“Listen,” “Stay with me”) and never letting things get heavy without a quip undercutting its weight. (Even a lyric about getting raped is fol- lowed by a comic sound effect.) But there is so much going on that it does-
1891 and it still connects with teens today.” Near her sat Molly Hagerty, 24, a gradu- ate of Ball State University, who had pre- pared “Cigarette Smoke” by Olivia Rodrigo. She can still remember being 14, hearing the cast album for the first time, she said. “It’s such a phenomenal time to revive it, because it’s about generational divide and the lack of connection, which our genera- tion definitely is struggling with,” she said. Xavier Rubiano, one of the casting direc- tors, was stunned by the turnout. He had thought the open call might get 500 appli-
n’t feel quite as loose or personal as her ear- lier work. And to the extent it does, she’s working on old themes. While her taste may run to “Love Island” and Taylor Swift, Co- hen need not worry about being normal. An undeniable creature of showbiz, she finds unlikely comedy in quirks of language or physicality. One of my favorite jokes is her trying to stop an eye-roll only to turn it into a performatively pensive pose. In a superb gag, she describes the skele- ton key of her personality as being “young for my grade,” making a persuasive case that this might be more determinative than family birth order. I could see why embrac- ing Broadway theatrics might be a way to
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cants, 800 at the most. When he saw the line, he and his colleagues scrambled to find other accompanists so that multiple audi- tion rooms could open. “I really, really un- derestimated the appeal of the show,” he said. “Spring Awakening” is in part, about the desire to be seen, to be acknowledged as a whole person rather than merely a daugh- ter, a student, a child. So the audition team decided to see everyone who came. Taymor said that she wasn’t looking for any particular type or sound. “You’re look-
upgrade. But there are enough tender mo- ments in her work to make one wonder what would happen if Cohen committed to vulnerability, embracing the confessional mode of the kind of show being spoofed. What distinguishes Cohen is the show- manship of her songs. Not many artists her age have as big a catalog of genuinely funny ones. But music is the most emotional of art forms. And she has changed registers to something more searching, even sentimen- tal (see “Upstate,” an older, moving tune that has anguished views on being basic). You see this in one of the best of the night, “Hypochrondriac’s Anthem,” about how getting sick can be vindication. There’s the usual self-deprecation here, but Cohen sings with a deeply felt sincerity that cuts through the jokes, hinting as something else. “Worrying is always worth it,” she says with conviction, eyes unrolled. “I only do it when I don’t feel perfect.”
Left, the line outside of Studio Seaview. Bottom left and right, hopefuls inside during auditions.
ing for the individual,” she said, “somebody who sings like themselves, somebody when they sing the song, you feel like they wrote the song, whose presence has not been fil- tered.” Not everyone could manage that. Some hopefuls hid behind musical theater trills; others rushed or overemoted. A handful of songs recurred. Taymor eventually made a playlist of them: “Both Sides Now,” “The Joke,” “Landslide,” “Criminal,” a lot of Jeff Buckley and Lizzy McAlpine, most of the Olivia Rodrigo catalog. But in the most ex- citing auditions, which were also often the simplest, the particular songs faded, leav- ing only the singers, brave and exposed and wholly themselves. At one point or another, almost everyone behind the table wept. “It’s like falling in love,” Rowlson-Hall said. “There’s no denying it once it’s there in front of you.” Sater was surprised by how emotional he felt. “When these young people come in, they bring their future into the room,” he said. “They move you with their whole lives.” Of the 400 dancers who auditioned, 28 were asked to return. Of the 2,100 or so sing- ers, just 100. “It was excruciating getting it down to that number,” Sater said. These chosen ones would be folded in with the 100 professionals chosen to audition. Eventu- ally, 11 principals and two understudies will be hired, along with older actors who will play the adult roles. Sater, still in the midst of auditions, hoped that several from the open call would make it. (The producers ex- pect to announce casting by mid-Septem- ber.) “You want to give them all an opportunity that they want so badly, and they’re worth it,” Sater said. For almost all of the aspirants, the call was a positive experience. “Everyone was really nice,” said Manuela Rodriguez, 18, who had prepared “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” “I’ve made some new friends. I’ve reunited with old friends that I met in my college auditions. It isn’t tense at all.” Loren Delemo, 23, who was collecting her bag after her audition (“Yoü and I” by Lady Gaga), looked entirely relaxed. “I feel really good,” she said. “Normally I feel panicky af- ter auditions. But here I feel just really proud and good.”
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Lives On In Works Of Art
evoke the myth of Odysseus.
By ILARIA PAROGNI
The release of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” this summer has prompted fresh interest in the story of King Odysseus’ 10- year journey home to Ithaca after the Tro- jan War. Part of the reason for the continued fasci- nation with the epic poem that inspired the movie is Odysseus’ proximity to humans in it, said Joel Christensen, a professor of clas- sics at the City University of New York. “He’s not the son of gods; he’s not the son of a goddess,” he said. “He doesn’t have spe- cial powers — he’s just really smart.” Kenneth Lapatin, the curator of antiqui- ties at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los An- geles, said he found it fascinating that the story had been reflected in so many media. “You have it on vases,” he said. “You have it in silver. You have it in wall paintings. You have it on gems. You have it in sculpture.” The societies these artifacts originated in shine through their interpretations of the story. “The story of ‘The Odyssey’ is like a palimpsest manuscript,” Christensen said. “It keeps getting written and overwritten again, but you can see underneath the other stories.” If Nolan’s star-studded movie has piqued your interest, images inspired by the ad- ventures are on view at several U.S. muse- ums. Here is a closer look at some of them.
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J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan Two Greek terra-cotta, fifth-century B.C. plaques at the Met stand out for their de- tailed representation of two episodes to- ward the end of Odysseus’ journey. They were probably affixed to a wooden chest or a wall. One focuses on the moment an old nurse- maid, Eurycleia, washes the feet of Odysseus, who has returned to Ithaca in disguise, and recognizes him from a scar. “If her face were preserved — the frag- ment is missing — we would see her looking at him in this moment of recognition,” said Seán Hemingway, the curator of Greek and Roman art at the Met. In a second plaque, Odysseus, dressed as a beggar, approaches his wife, Penelope, who has faithfully awaited him. She “ap- pears desolate but resolute,” Hemingway said. “Soon she will recognize her husband and know that he is home again.” Such scenes of homecoming emphasize the importance of family and shared experi- ences for the ancient Greeks, he added, not- ing that the renderings of the details are what make the pieces poignant.
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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, houses several items devoted to Odysseus’ adven- tures: two wine jars, or pelikai, from ancient Greece and a painting by the 19th-century Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin. On one jar, Odysseus is portrayed meet- ing Elpenor, a deceased crew member, in the underworld. “Elpenor’s plaintive ex- pression, beautifully drawn in three-quar- ter view, pulls at Odysseus’ heartstrings by forcing him — and the vase’s intended audi- ence — to remember and to honor all those left behind,” said Phoebe Segal, a senior cu- rator of Greek and Roman art. The second jar takes on one of the poem’s best-known stories: Odysseus’ escape from Polyphemus’ cave while clinging to a ram. It is “perhaps the most vivid, thrilling episode,” Segal said, adding that it “exem- plifies his wily resourcefulness.” Pelikai were common during drinking parties, she said, and images from the epic “provided jumping-off points for poetry rec- itations and philosophical discussions.” Thousands of years after the pelikai were popular, Böcklin also explored Odysseus’ escape in an 1896 artwork showing Poly- phemus preparing to throw a boulder at the king’s boat. In a curatorial note shared by the mu- seum, the art historian Emily Beeny high- lighted how the seascape is imbued with a literary narrative. “Böcklin creates a dis- tinctive blend of fear and humor, and of fan- tasy and reality, in his take on this story within the painting,” she writes.
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J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Several items at the Getty Villa in Los Ange- les spotlight moments from the poem. Among them are a two-handled cup and a lamp, both from ancient Rome. The cup, featuring a chapter from Odysseus’ visit to the underworld, is made of silver. “It’s obviously of much greater val- ue,” Lapatin said, adding that it probably belonged to a wealthy Roman. Such cups were also common at drinking parties. Lapatin noted that the lamp, which cap- tures the moment Odysseus offers a cup of wine to Polyphemus to get him drunk, was instead a less “elite” object. Homer was pop- ular culture, and his stories would have been widely known, Lapatin said. At the Getty Center, visitors will find “Ulysses at the Palace of Circe,” a 1667 work by Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg, a Flemish artist who specialized in architec- tural images, and Carl Borromäus Andreas Ruthart, a German painter known for his portrayals of animals. The work depicts the encounter between Odysseus and the sor-
“Ulysses at the Palace of Circe” (1667), by Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg and Carl Borromäus Andreas Ruthart, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
From left: two ancient terra-cotta plaques with scenes from Homer’s poem at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and a cup depicting Odysseus’ travails, at the Getty Museum.
“The Adventures of Ulysses,” a panel that is part of a cassone made by Apollonio di Giovanni in the 15th century, on display at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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From left: wine jars from around 490 to 440 B.C.; and “Odysseus and Polyphemus” (1896), by Arnold Böcklin. All three pieces are at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
ceress Circe on her island after she turned his crew members into pigs. The writer Madeline Miller, the author of the best-selling novel “Circe,” featured the artwork in an essay for her website. “These artists have taken the lush, seductive at- mosphere of the original Circe story and run with it,” she writes. “Now Circe lives in a Versailles-extravagant house, surrounded by a louche entourage, and exotic animals, including an ostrich.”
On view at the Art Institute is a panel that is part of a cassone, a decorated chest usually included in a bride’s dowry in Renaissance Italy. The artist, Apollonio di Giovanni, was one of the most prolific makers of cassoni in 15th-century Florence, said Rebecca Long, curator of European painting and sculpture. The panel shows Odysseus strapped to his boat’s mast to avoid the temptation of the Sirens; his encounter with Nausicaa, the daughter of King Alcinous; and his re- turn home to Ithaca. At the center of the painting is Penelope, weaving inside her home. That choice, Long said, was intentional: Cassoni were usually associated with domesticity and marriage. “It’s women holding out for their husband, women being faithful,” she said.
Gardner Museum, Boston
Housed in a niche along a staircase, a statue of Odysseus has been amusing visitors of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for decades. From the interior courtyard, you see his front, but if you stand next to the ele- vator, his uncovered behind is facing you. The placement would not have been lost on Isabella Stewart Gardner, a pioneering collector and the museum’s founder, said Nathaniel Silver, associate director and chief curator of the museum. “She had a ter- rific sense of humor,” he said. The statue was discovered on the prem- ises of what had once been the pleasure gar- den of the Roman historian Sallust. Odysseus is depicted in a crouching posi- tion, Silver said, and would have been either part of a group of statues in the garden or of a pediment, an architectural element on the front of a temple. The statue is believed to represent a mo- ment in the Trojan War, before the events of “The Odyssey”; in the poem, the conflict is revisited through flashbacks and stories told by the characters. Odysseus’ posture suggests that he might be on a clandestine mission, Silver said, and he holds a sword.
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IMAX 70-millimeter packs a New York theater at all hours.
adaptation of Homer’s epic, “The Odyssey,” as its director, Christopher Nolan, had intended: in IMAX 70-millimeter film, a format optimized for both detail and scale. AMC Lincoln Square’s fourth-floor theater has the largest IMAX screen in the United States and accommodated the surging demand by offering screenings at 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. There are plenty of tickets available to see “The Odyssey” in standard format across the city — the film hauled in $124.5 million at the box office in its first weekend.
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But the IMAX 70-millimeter screenings are all but sold out, which is why around 450 New Yorkers dragged themselves to the theater when they might otherwise be call- ing it a night. “It’s definitely an event,” said Ellis Tan, a photographer and videographer who had traveled from Westchester County. Dash Suarez, a student at the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, felt it was worth it. “I don’t think there’s a compro- mise in any section of his storytelling,” said
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The online chat that follows the show reveals some wildly different conclusions.
By MARTINE THOMPSON
“Love Island USA,” which wrapped its eighth season earlier this month, has al- ways been more than a dating show. It’s an invitation to press your face against a one- way mirror and watch strangers flirt, con- nect and navigate conflict while audiences assign attachment styles, spot red flags and decide who deserves empathy and grace. Season 8’s most prominent relationships became the subjects of impromptu sociolo- gy seminars and group therapy sessions. Viewers unpacked the volatile romance be- tween KC Chandler and Aniya Harvey, de- bating issues of compatibility, emotional la- bor, accountability and toxic masculinity. Sincere Rhea’s treatment of Melanie More- no started conversations about dishonesty, respect and the point when repeated breaches of trust outweigh the potential of a relationship. Zach Georgiou and Kayda Bosse’s pairing prompted the audience to analyze the line between playful teasing and subtle disrespect. But this season also revealed that the people under the microscope on “Love Is- land” were not limited to the contestants. For many fans, their post-episode ritual of- ten involved watching a collective debrief on TikTok six times a week and encoun- tering others who arrived at wildly different conclusions about the same scenes. Behav- ior that struck one viewer as cruel could in- spire another to post a passionate defense. Just as often, one viewer’s analysis might have articulated a discomfort another per- son felt but hadn’t been able to name. And more men entered the chat, a space more frequently inhabited by women. Reality TV’s male fandom is not unprece- dented: This spring, there was a lot of chat- ter about the expanding male audience of “Summer House.” Men were creating recap videos and defending contestants on Tik- Tok. On “Love Island,” one central question kept resurfacing: Were the behaviors that viewers witnessed reflecting the influence of internet subcultures like the manosphere and red-pill content? Or was this simply age-old misogyny and patriarchal culture being recast through a Generation Z filter? Part of what made those conversations feel so inescapable was the format itself. Airing five nights a week — along with “Af- tersun,” the series’s weekly companion talk show — “Love Island” turns these post- mortems into an extension of itself. Long overshadowed by its British coun- terpart, “Love Island USA” has grown into a cultural phenomenon, which didn’t surprise Ilia Saddler, 42, a former reality television executive and producer in Los Angeles. “One of the things reality TV does best, especially when a show becomes a true cul- tural event like ‘Love Island,’ is give people a shared experience to talk about what’s al- ready happening in their own lives,” said Saddler, who followed Season 8 closely and shared her own commentary on social me- dia. There’s a lot of nuance that’s not shown in a highly edited and produced show. Hours of disagreements and reconciliations are distilled into a single episode, leading view- ers to assess relationships when they are given only part of the story. “That doesn’t make what viewers see un- true, but it does mean it’s only part of a much bigger story,” Saddler said. “I think remembering that helps create a little more empathy for the people onscreen.” That tension between interpretation and reality became especially pronounced dur- ing a season in which Black women were central to the story lines. No relationship made audiences’ contrasting interpreta-
Wildfires, ticks, bacteria and more are affecting us all, and not even the rich are immune.
By ALEXANDER NAZARYAN
Welcome to the summer of the bummer: a season of wildfires and heat domes, flooded streets and hazy skies, sharks skirting pop- ular beaches, rattlesnakes haunting hiking trails, meadows teeming with ticks. Even the simple pleasures of eating a fresh salad are now fraught, thanks to a cyclospora out- break. Spoiled vacation plans are nothing new. What’s unusual about the summer of 2026 is that, perhaps for the first time, not even people of means can fully escape the crises and catastrophes usually left to those of us without a waterfront estate. “It has been a summer of weather warn- ings,” read an editorial in The East Hamp- ton Star. The newspaper noted that about a week and a half before wildfire smoke from Canada turned the sky a sickly yellow, a storm had brought hurricane-strength winds to parts of Long Island. “We’re all living in human bodies,” said Brooke Harrington, a sociology professor at Dartmouth College who studies extreme wealth. “You can’t escape these forces of de- cay and potential death.” Plenty of summer pleasures are free or inexpensive, but that doesn’t mean every- one can access them with ease. As of 2025, 20 percent of working Americans in the pri- vate sector have no paid vacation. Some 32 million work outside in punishing heat and driving rain. So it is a remarkable moment when even the rich are boxed in by the bru- tal realities of climate change. “I think this summer marks the end of one of luxury travel’s oldest illusions: that if you have enough money, there’s always somewhere untouched to escape to,” said
tions more visible than the one between KC and Aniya. As viewers learned more about Aniya throughout the season — including her childhood in Georgia, her father’s his- tory as an N.B.A. player — some began see- ing her as a “Black American Princess” searching for a storybook romance. KC drew praise for declaring his admira- tion for Aniya, a Black woman with a deep
Jenny Southan, a travel trend forecaster. “Heat waves don’t stop at the gates of a five- star resort.” That lodge in Idaho’s postcard-perfect Sun Valley? Maybe not a great idea with the wildfire smoke wafting over from Oregon. The $4,000-a-night “cottage” at the Beach Village at the Hotel del Coronado, the his- toric San Diego beachfront resort? “Exces- sive” flows overwhelmed a nearby waste- water treatment plant, temporarily closing surrounding beaches. A local conservation group posted an Instagram video of murky water coated with brown sludge. Martha’s Vineyard, the Massachusetts is- land that is the preferred vacation destina- tion of presidents, celebrities and finan-
‘Heat waves don’t stop at the gates of a five-star resort.’
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Top and above, “Love Island USA,” which this season had more men taking part in post- episode chatter. Center from left: Sincere Rhea and Melanie Moreno; and Kayda Bosse and Zach Georgiou.
ciers, has also become the summer home of the lone star tick. The tick’s bite can cause a strong allergy to red meat and dairy, a con- dition known as alpha-gal syndrome. In 2024, a 47-year-old pilot in New Jersey who collapsed after eating a hamburger became the first fatality linked to an alpha-gal food reaction. The ticks, historically a scourge of the Southeast, are causing dread as they spread across the country. “People are really freaked out by it — it’s a topic of conversation all the time,” Alexan- dra Styron, a writer, said. “Every time you go to dinner, there’s a conversation about al- pha-gal because the host has to figure out what to cook, and everybody’s dietary is- sues come into play.”
brown complexion, including acknowledg- ing the role colorism can play in beauty standards and dating. Viewers debated whether his appreciation was performative or genuine. In their moments together, some viewers interpreted a young woman seeking re- assurance about their connection, while others saw a young man being asked to carry emotional expectations that unfairly limited his experience. But scroll through enough post-episode videos and the fault lines become clearer. Those who defended KC were seen by many viewers as excusing misogynistic behavior. Calls for more empathy for Aniya were con- sidered dismissive of men’s experiences. Other men in the villa became flashpoints for similar discussions. Sincere, for example, drew criticism from viewers not only for repeatedly lying to Melanie during their relationship, but also for addressing darker-complected Black women as “bro” and “big dog.” This gener- ated conversations about the ways Black women are often expected to accept forms of casual masculinization that can feel dis- missive and how respect, or the perform- ance of it, are performed by race, gender and skin tones. These debates don’t exist in a vacuum,
Things are not much better in the Hamp- tons: Flesh-eating bacteria have been found in Georgica Pond, where Steven Spielberg spends summers, as well as in Sagaponack Pond and Mecox Bay, where Alan Alda and Jennifer Lopez own homes. Ponds in the East End have also been af- flicted with cyanobacteria, which can cause greenish scum, potentially harmful to both humans and animals. (Meanwhile, the Na- tional Mall in Washington is struggling with a blue-green algae problem of its own.) The organisms thrive on nitrogen, which is present in the fertilizer that gives Hamp- tons lawns their signature deep green color. Also in the Hamptons, as large groups pack rental houses, sewage has overwhelmed the septic systems, leaching nitrogen and phosphorus that further contribute to cya- nobacteria growth. “I’ve lived out on the East End for 27 years now,” said Christopher J. Gobler, a marine biologist at Stony Brook University and an expert in local waterways. “There’s just a lot more people, a lot more activity, and that is a contributing factor.” Even staying home in New York City can be dangerous. On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, there has been an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease — a severe form of pneumonia — that has claimed the lives of six people and infected at least 90 others. “There was a feeling that, during Covid, the super rich were able to use their money to buffer themselves from the worst of it,” said Jenny Jackson, the author of the novels “Pineapple Street,” about East Coast elites, and “The Shampoo Effect.” “The rich could retreat to their country estates; they could eschew commercial air travel; they could work remotely from their private enclaves; they could golf at their clubs,” she added. “The thing about this strange summer is that money can’t insu- late people from this new round of scourges in the same way.”
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Post-mortems have become a part of a cultural phenomenon.
which is why topics surrounding the show can feel so prickly and high stakes. “Reality TV is just a reflection of what we are all navigating,” said Ericka Hart, 40, a sex educator based in New York City and a fan of “Love Island” who believes this holds true for viewers of all genders and sexu- alities. In her book, “Nasty Work,” Hart uses “Love Island” as a lens to examine the racist ideas that shape beauty and desirability standards. The through line in “Love Is- land,” and reality dating television more broadly, she said, is that “there’s no way to separate the ways in which dark-skinned Black women are treated in the world from how they’re treated in reality television. You are just getting a microcosm of it.” What she is describing is misogynoir, a term coined by Moya Bailey, the author of “Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance,” that refers to the inter- section of anti-Black racism and misogyny. The concept has helped some viewers process the recurring behaviors they saw reflected in the villa. “The level of vitriol that Black women ex- perience is so great, when you have the lan- guage to talk about what’s happening to you, it gives you a sense of agency to figure out what comes next and we actually ad- dress it,” said Bailey, a professor at North- western University, noting that this type of degradation shows up in other settings as well, such as the medical field. Amid the highs and lows of the season, the friendships between contestants were often a meaningful high point. When Aniya found herself consumed by tears and distress after a painful fallout with KC, Melanie Moreno reminded her that the world extended beyond the walls of the villa — and that she was worthy of a love more aligned with who she was. Later, Kayda and Trinity Tatum (who, alongside her boyfriend, Bryce Alakai Dettloff, were the show’s winners) worked through a mis- understanding, voiced their feelings and found their way back to laughter. As captivating as drama can be, watching conflict unfold can also feel exhausting for some viewers when it reflects the same ten- sions and inequalities they navigate in their own lives. On the other hand, the show also offered moments when people showed up for one another without the expectation of romance. There is something deeply mov- ing about watching humans support one an- other simply because they care. For Alahni McGahee, 29, a content cre- ator in Philadelphia who has watched the franchise since 2020, the friendships be- tween the women became one of the sea- son’s most memorable story lines. “I really enjoyed watching them be there for each other, stick up for each other, pull each other through, even when it was misguided,” she said. “You can tell there’s a real love there and connection there.” McGahee also pointed to the show’s abil- ity to bring together people who might never have crossed paths otherwise. “I love couples like Bryce and Trinity, or Season 7’s Nic and Olandria [who recently announced their breakup], or Carl and Aniya, who may never have found each other if not for this type of show,” she said. Maybe that’s why “Love Island” contin- ues to resonate with viewers despite its messiness. Beneath the arguments and the hot takes is something incredibly human — a desire to be loved, to feel less alone and to have your heart handled with care. The show may be built around romance, but its most memorable moments remind us that connection can take many forms.
Clockwise from top left: wildfire smoke in New York City; algae in the Reflecting Pool; ticks on Martha’s Vineyard; and salad greens.
Laurie Anderson Leaves Her Guests a Secret Message
Last year, as Julia Sherman was developing the menu for Oberon, the restaurant at the recently expanded New Museum in Lower Manhattan, she had the idea to create an after-meal treat to give diners with their checks. Like fortune cookies, the sweets would carry messages meant to ease the transition from the museum to the city’s busy streets. Unsure of what shape they should take, Sherman, formerly Oberon’s director of artists’ partnerships and, along- side Ali Ghriskey, its co-executive chef, asked the avant-garde musician and per- formance artist Laurie Anderson for input. “Laurie’s work has this sage-like, proph- etic aspect to it,” said Sherman, 43, who became enamored with Anderson’s oeuvre when she was an undergraduate at the Rhode Island School of Design and at- tended Anderson’s 2004 solo performance “The End of the Moon.” Several years later, when Sherman was collaborating with artists for her cookbook, “Salad for Presi- dent” (2017), she asked Anderson if they could have lunch. “She came by with the most delicious herb sandwiches, what looked like a pile of weeds and some bread,” recalled Anderson, 79, who went on to contribute a recipe to the book. When the two met to discuss the send-off sweets for Oberon, they came up with a concept for minty dark chocolate pieces — “kind of like an After Eight or Andes mint,” Sherman said — made by Raaka Choco- lates in Brooklyn and wrapped in paper printed with Anderson’s sketches and text excerpts from her journals, which she’s kept since the age of 12 and also mined for “Notebook,” her exhibit at this year’s Venice Biennale. In June, in the lead-up to the restaurant’s opening — and just before Anderson resumed touring with the band Sexmob to perform her new work, “The Republic of Love” — the pair hosted a lunch, featuring previews of some of the vegetable-forward dishes Oberon is cur- rently offering, at Anderson’s West Village apartment to mark the project’s comple- tion. “I like celebrating people who are doing interesting things,” Anderson said. On their way out, guests helped them- selves to the chocolates, which were presented in a bowl filled with sunflower petals. There were five options in total, with one wrapper recounting a dream Anderson had involving a talk show inter- view gone awry (“my nightmare,” she said). Another read: “I was thinking of you. And I was thinking of you. And I was think- ing of you. And then I wasn’t thinking of you anymore.”
THE ATTENDEES Among the guests were Anderson’s studio manager, Jim Cass; Sherman’s husband, Adam Katz, a consult- ant for creative entrepreneurs; the multi- disciplinary designer Minjae Kim, who’s responsible for Oberon’s ash dining tables and quilted fiberglass lamps; Mary Ping of the fashion brand Slow and Steady Wins the Race, who designed the restaurant staff’s uniforms; Scott Campbell, a New Museum vice president; Paul John, the head of community at the museum’s cultur- al incubator, NEW INC; his partner, the
earrings said to be made from ancient Iranian artifacts.
By YOLA MZIZI
Zendaya and Law Roach, the actress’s styl- ist, are known for pulling off the impossible. Zendaya wore a silver robot suit from Thierry Mugler’s fall 1995 collection while promoting “Dune: Part Two” in 2024. While promoting “The Odyssey” this month, she wore a cream Schiaparelli gown, designed to resemble a marble sculpture, that had de- buted on the runway hours earlier. At an- other event for the film, she wore a pair of earrings made from gold discs that origi- nated in ancient Iran. The last one of those rarefied pieces of fashion has set off a debate in the world of archaeology and cultural preservation. Some archaeologists saw the repurposing of ancient artifacts for fashion accessories as cause for concern and as disrespectful to the cultures they belong to, or as a way to “fetishize the past,” as the archaeologist and creator Dr. Z said, which could help drive the antiquities black market. Addi- tionally, critics worried about the origins of the artifacts, which they believed were ob- tained through looting and colonial plunder. Earlier this month, Zendaya, who is known for theme dressing, wore an ivory halter gown with an attached head scarf from the French label Jacquemus while pro- moting her latest film in London. She acces- sorized with statement disc gold-and-dia- mond earrings whose origins date to the first millennium B.C., according to Barron London, a gallery specializing in rare jewels and stones, which posted a photo of Zen- daya wearings its earrings on its Instagram page. On its website, the gallery highlights a
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTINA HOLMES Julia Sherman nestling chocolates atop sunflower petals and serving a Greek salad.
More dishes by Sherman and the chef Vilda Gonzalez; the science writer Jonathan Meiburg, center.
Laurie Anderson, and the centerpiece arrangement, by the floral designer April Johnson.
pair of Ziwiye gold medallion plaques, which it says were mounted with diamonds by Glenn Spiro, a London-based jeweler. In a statement to The Guardian, the gallery said it had acquired the earrings in 2025 from Spiro, whose Materials of the Old World collection featured ancient artifacts converted into jewelry. Representatives for Zendaya, Law Roach, Barron and Spiro did not immedi- ately respond to requests for comment. The gold discs are believed to have been excavated in the 1940s outside the Ziwiyeh Castle in northwestern Iran, as part of a trove of other artifacts from the ancient world. Items from the Ziwiye hoard, as the arti- facts became known collectively, are on view at museums around the world, includ- ing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The issue, according to Peter Edwell, a professor of history and archaeology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, is that this is “material that’s very problem- atic in terms of where it’s come from.” This is true of thousands of artifacts found glob- ally, particularly those coming from the Middle East in this period, Edwell added. “The archaeological origins of it are re- ally hazy, and we just don’t really know what happened,” he said. “And probably, I think, plunder and looting is what hap- pened.” Red carpet dressing has, in recent years, been a sport of celebrity one-upmanship. Stylists have leaned on theme dressing and have aimed to acquire fashion deep cuts for their clients to generate conversation. But the ancient artifacts are a relatively new ad- dition and a show stopper. When stars wear clothing with deep his- tory, it is an effort to place “them directly in that world, and they add to that story,” Ed- well added. This was not the first time historical arti-
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At an event promoting “The Odyssey” this month in London, Zendaya wore earrings made from gold discs that originated in ancient Iran, according to a London gallery.
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facts have made their way to the earlobes, neck or wrist of a famous person. At the same London promotional event, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya’s co-star in “The Odys- sey,” wore a diamond-encrusted watch from Bulgari that featured an ancient Roman coin as its case. For the premiere of “Wuthering Heights” this year, Margot Rob- bie wore Cartier’s Taj Mahal diamond neck- lace that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor, a gift from Richard Burton, then her hus- band in 1972. The stone was given by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahangir to his son Shah Jahan, who ordered the construction of the Taj Mahal, in the 17th century. The choice of jewelry may have been viewed as insensitive amid the U.S. war with Iran. “Iran is being actively bombed,” said Annelise Baer, an archaeologist and producer based in Los Angeles, adding that the backlash could also be a result of the
arts and culture strategist Elizabeth Cocco; and April Johnson, the stylist and floral designer behind Flowerpsycho. Also there were Anderson’s friends the composer Grey Gersten, the artist Rosanna Bruno, the science writer and musician Jonathan Meiburg, the media artist and sound engi- neer Jon Cohrs and the performance artist Evan Silver, whose stage name is Tiresias.
THE TABLE Sherman arranged platters on a large rustic dining table in Anderson’s living room, which overlooks the Hudson River. At the table’s center was a sculptural and largely edible arrangement of local garden pickings — sunflowers, alliums, squash blossoms, garlic scapes and purple cauliflower — put together by Johnson.
THE FOOD “I make food for people who I love, want to feel good and live forever,” Sherman said. With the assistance of the Hudson Valley-based private chef Vilda Gonzalez, 28, she prepared a Greek salad; seared dolmas (stuffed grape leaves); Caesar salad topped with baked speck (or “salty meat chips,” as Gonzalez described them); shrimp with salsa negra; and an herb-stuffed flatbread inspired by one sold at Zhengyalov Hatz, an Armenian bakery near Sherman’s former home in Pasadena, Calif. For dessert, John and Cocco made butter pecan ice cream — Anderson’s favor- ite — topped with spun sugar floss.
THE DRINKS Cass oversaw the drinks and kept it simple, offering sparkling water or Grüner Veltliner from Domäne Wachau.
THE MUSIC Anderson played vinyl records of William Basinski’s early aughts-era album series “The Disintegration Loops,” which he made by recording deteriorating tape loops. She wrote the foreword to a recent reissue of the eerie composition.
THE CONVERSATION Sherman tried on a prototype of the chef’s apron that Ping is designing for the New Museum’s gift shop; the designer wants it to also function as a picnic blanket and wood carrier. “The can- vas is too heavy,” Ping said of the sample, whose bottom corners feature pockets that double as potholders. “But it’s close.” John shared the story of his and Cocco’s experi- mental ice cream-making collaboration, which grew out of his time working at an artist’s residency in the Netherlands. An- derson and Bruno discussed “On the Calcu- lation of Volume,” the Danish writer Solvej Balle’s ongoing novel series — they’d al- ready convened a book club for it.
AN ENTERTAINING TIP Even, or perhaps especially, when a gathering is casual, it can benefit from at least one ceremonial flourish. “I always like a gong,” said Ander- son, who used one to get everyone’s atten- tion for Sherman’s toast.
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racism Zendaya and her fellow “Odyssey” co-star Lupita Nyong’o have been subjected to since the cast for the adaptation of the Greek epic was announced. Barron acknowledged the tense atmos- phere in a statement to The Guardian, add- ing that, at a time when Iran is viewed through the lens of contemporary politics, “we hope these earrings can also remind audiences of the country’s profound cultur- al, artistic and historical legacy.” Some comments on the original Barron post did not express opposition to the choice of accessory. Baer posted one of the early commen- taries on the decision to include precious ar- tifacts in a celebrity’s look. Ultimately, she saw the mainstreaming of ancient artifacts as a positive thing, a position that drew backlash on social media, prompting her to disable the comments. Baer saw a silver lining to the dust-up. “I am ultimately glad that this has really brought the issue of antiquities ownership and the ethics — provenance, looting, co- lonialism — immediately to the public at- tention,” she said. Many pieces of valuable art and stones were acquired illegally throughout history. Items looted in the 18th, 19th and 20th cen- turies have, through colonial plunder, made their way into famous art and history insti- tutions such as the British Museum in Lon- don. Recent calls for repatriating the arti- facts have been heeded by some countries and their governments, and some institu- tions have begun returning the stolen arti- facts. Baer argued that these conversations ought to happen in the public sphere in- stead of just among museum boards of di- rectors. “In the 21st century,” she said, “we are still dealing with the ramifications and the repercussions of what happened in the 20th century.”
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Fans at AMC Lincoln Square, which added 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. showings of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” in IMAX 70-millimeter to accommodate demand. Dennis Corrales, near left, wore a T-shirt commemorating the dueling 2023 blockbusters Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
Suarez, who attended the 2 a.m. screening with five pajama-clad friends. Two of them had read “The Odyssey.” Amanda Quinonez, who was sitting in a front-row seat, said she too had read “The Odyssey” — “too many times” by her esti- mation. The first time Quinonez read it, she was in high school in Texas — but she can’t recall which translation. Most likely it was not the widely ac- claimed translation by Emily Wilson, the chair of the classical studies department at the University of Pennsylvania and the first woman to publish an English translation of the ancient Greek poem in its entirety. No- lan is said to have relied on hers, much to the consternation of conservatives, who have taken issue with her translation, as well as some of Nolan’s casting choices, ac- cusing him of “wokeness.” All of that ap- peared to have held little resonance among the young and diverse crowd who arrived at Broadway and West 68th Street late on Sat- urday night for the Sunday showing. Seats for the IMAX theater at Lincoln Square were so elusive that many moviego- ers were OK with grabbing tickets for the nearly three-hour film for the graveyard shift. (Online, tickets were reportedly being resold for hundreds of dollars.) In fact, some even embraced it as a reason to do something a little unusual. “I feel like we’re part of something kind of exclusive,” Quinonez said. Even a little scarcity proved thrilling. “I’m happy there was a struggle to get tick- ets,” said Shreyas Kotla, a college student who had traveled to Manhattan from Wash- ington specifically to see “The Odyssey.” Kotla prepared by taking a nap earlier that day. Short-form video may yet prove the de- mise of cinema. For the filmgoers who sur-
‘I feel like we’re part of something kind of exclusive.’
They’re Scrunchies
A shoe trend wants you to pucker up even if it means spending four figures.
THESE SHOES LOOK like your lips after you’ve eaten an entire bag of Sour Patch Kids. Known as the ruched (or puckered or scrunched) loafer, they look like a standard lithe loafer until you hit the toe, which wrin- kles like a shirt in need of ironing. Go into any boutique where the sales people are icy and the cashmere sweaters start at four fig- ures and you’ll find these shoes, their curled toes jutting from the shelves. “It’s kind of like the shoe trend of the era,” said Jian DeLeon, the men’s fashion direc- tor at Nordstrom. Tom Ford’s ruched slip-ons run to $1,190. Saint Laurent offers them in glossy leather and tan suede and even makes one with a collapsible heel. (Two unshakable shoe trends in one!) There are versions for men and women, evidence of eroding gender fault lines in the footwear market. All of these ruched-toed shoes seem, at first search, to cost more than $1,000. The Row is the agreed-upon originator of the scrunched toe. Its $1,290 Soft Loafer, which it introduced several years ago, has a toe that sits with an angular tilt, casting all that puckering in italic. “It was great when the Row came out with it 10 years ago,” said Becky Malinsky, who writes the popular shopping newslet- ter “5 Things You Should Buy.” Malinsky’s hyperbolic dismissal aside, the shoes con-
rendered a night of sleep to see the arrogant suitor Antinous (Robert Pattinson) get his just deserts, their sold-out screening was proof that a movie theater is an experience that no laptop or microwaved popcorn can replicate. “When people say film is dying — no, it’s not,” Kotla said. Dennis Corrales showed up to the 6 a.m. screening with an iced coffee in hand. He wore a T-shirt celebrating “Barbenheimer” — the simultaneous release in 2023 of two very different blockbusters, Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” (about the doll) and Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” (about the nuclear scien- tist). Corrales saw “Oppenheimer” at AMC Lincoln Square too. “Tickets weren’t so in demand yet because no one really knew
tinue to sell well. The Soft Loafer in brown eel leather is sold out in all women’s sizes on the Row’s website. Still, I can see also why Malinsky would dismiss these shoes. They have become a component in the stale starter pack of peo- ple who dress in a way that is informed by, and that reinforces, what is deemed “cool” in online fashion communities like those on Substack. They symbolize that you’re so thorough, so attentive to each piece of your outfit, that even your loafers must be built differently. And that you’ll pay to make it so. But, really, what is it about the wrinkly toe that evidently makes the cost worth it? DeLeon offered that the puckering was the shoe equivalent of scrunching up your shirtsleeves. It lends “a bit of drama and visual interest to something otherwise quo- tidian,” he said. I think there’s something to that. The scrunch reflects a casualness, an openness to imperfection that shoppers find appeal- ing. These loafers say, “I’m untamable — you couldn’t polish me if you tried!” (Maybe you could with a nail-polish brush, but it sure would be time-consuming.) They’re of a piece with a moment in fashion that has wedged the door open to clothes that are knowingly a bit off — a moment in which ripped jeans have once more reared their head and polarizing culottes are back. DeLeon had another theory: The pucker- ing is a marker of luxury, a sign that a label has the technical know-how to create those creases without crumpling the shoe’s front. It is, he said, “a bit of a litmus test because of how hard it must be to achieve the perfect gathered effect of the Row loafers.” In turn,
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about that format,” he explained, alluding to the growing awareness of the IMAX 70- millimeter format at that time. “Oppen- heimer” was widely celebrated as a master- piece, but “The Odyssey” has arguably topped that nuclear drama in spectacle and ambition. “Now the demand is crazy,” Corrales said. AMC said it would continue showing the film after midnight through mid-August at the Lincoln Square location. Mordechai Levovitz, founder of Jewish Queer Youth, showed up at the theater soon after 2 a.m. He was hoping to score a seat for the sold-out 6 a.m. showing, should anyone forgo theirs at the last minute. He went to the ticket kiosk in the theater’s deserted ground floor lobby, frustrated by an inter- face that appeared to show an available
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ticket, only for it to vanish when he tried to pay for it. He tried again for the 6 a.m. a couple of hours later. The same gods who guided Odysseus (Matt Damon) home to Ithaca smiled down on Levovitz, when a ticket for the 6 a.m. show suddenly materialized. This time, there was no glitch, no rug pulled out from under his feet. “The movie was way more relevant than I thought,” he said, emerging after the movie into the cool, resplendent morning. “The collapse of civilization, ethics, institutions, society as we know it.” Odysseus had returned home. Which is exactly where Levovitz was headed. “I’m going to go to sleep,” he said.
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Clockwise, from left: Chanel’s puckery loafers; Saint Laurent’s puckered toe; Tom Ford’s scrunched style.
A look that reflects an openness to imperfection.
LEFT, TOM FORD; ABOVE, SAINT LAURENT
In SoHo, shoppers pay their respects as a flagship outdoor gear shop closes after 15 years.
By ALISHA HARIDASANI GUPTA
Dozens of people stopped at the shrine be- fore sighing and then walking on. One per- son in a black dress and holding a black um- brella gave a 30-second farewell toast be- fore disappearing into the evening. Another started tearing up as she read the notes on the shrine. Passers-by hugged one another. It wasn’t a funeral; it was a “celebration of life,” according to the anonymous organ- izers — for the REI store. It had occupied a historic building in New York’s SoHo neigh- borhood for 15 years before closing its doors for good last Thursday night. In another city, perhaps, it might not have been a long run, but in a neighborhood with high busi- ness turnover, the company’s sole location in the city became somewhat of a landmark. “I’ve been living in New York for 20 years now, so I remember the time before REI and the time after REI,” said Chaiwen Chou, 43, who had stopped by the store to take some last photos of it and leave a message at the shrine. “It just so happened that when I started getting outdoors more was around the same time that REI opened,” she said. “I’m going to miss it,” she added. “It feels like the end of an era.” Ever since the flagship retailer for out- door gear moved into three stories of the Puck Building in 2011, it remained an un- changing space amid the rapidly changing downtown neighborhood. Its facade would help orient New Yorkers who emerged from the train station discombobulated, and pas- sers-by found in it an accessible, clean bath- room. It served as a heated oasis on cold days and a cool-down spot to fill up water bottles on hot ones. The store will also be remembered as a rare doorway to the great outdoors in the middle of an urban jungle, a one-stop shop for hiking boots and tents. When REI announced its decision to close the SoHo location in October, along with the closure of Boston’s sole storefront and a store in Paramus, N.J., it didn’t pro- vide details. A representative cited a “need to adapt to changing market conditions and customer needs” in an email, but would not elaborate. After an early pandemic outdoor-gear boom, the company has been clawing its way out of several years of losses. Its new chief executive has focused on cutting over- head costs and halting expansions, and REI posted two profitable quarters last year. Rising rents in SoHo have led to a revolv- ing door of commercial tenants in recent years. The average retail rent for the neigh- borhood hovered around $351 per square foot in 2025, up by 9 percent from the year before, according to a report by JLL, a real estate company. Kushner Companies, the building’s landlord, did not respond to re- quests for comment. Days before the store’s closure, an anony- mous user created an event on the event in- vitation app Partiful called the SOHO REI funeral. The invite instructed New Yorkers to gather outside the store, wear black and give it the “send-off she deserves.” There would be speeches and musical perform- ances. Within hours, hundreds of people said they were going to the party, which would have clogged the triangular convergence of Lafayette and Mulberry Streets. The organ- izers decided to pivot to an all-day shrine where people could stop by. Last Thursday morning, to the right of
the entrance on Lafayette, a placard for farewell messages appeared, with a bag of notecards, marker and tape. “Once went on a first date here because a guy had to pee,” read one unsigned note. “Thank you for guiding me when I don’t know if I’m north/east/south/west once I exit the F train,” read a card written by someone who went by Uno. Katrina Rili, the mourner who teared up reading the notes, went inside and walked out with a new hat. Dennis Porto, an REI member who lives down the street, came in with his girlfriend to take it all in one last time. The REI era is a relatively new one in the long history of the red-brick, Romanesque- Revival-style Puck Building, which was constructed in the 1880s. Its arched win- dows and tiara of crenelations predated even Lafayette Street and the underground subway, said Andrew Berman, the execu- tive director of Village Preservation. From 1887 to 1918, the building housed the country’s first satirical political magazine,
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At the entrance of REI in the SoHo neighborhood last week, top, people gathered on the store’s final day for a “celebration of life,” where a placard was supplied for farewell messages, along with a bag of notecards, markers and tape. The red-brick Romanesque-Revival-style Puck Building, center left, housed the retailer since 2011. Inside the store, customers browsed, while co-workers, above, said their goodbyes.
Puck, which was named after the Shakes- pearean fairy, and roughly 30 lithographic printing presses. Two gilded statues of the mischievous character decorate the facade, looking down at the street below while hold- ing a pen, a mirror and a book inscribed with “What Fools These Mortals Be.” Many of the original lithography stones hang in the REI store’s space. Over the past roughly 140 years, the building has been through many twists: It was briefly an artist’s cooperative before it was sold to the Kushner family, which still owns it. It was also featured in the popular sitcom “Will and Grace.” In 2013, Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump, started turning the top two floors and the roof space into luxury penthouses. In 2022, employees of the SoHo store were the first of the company’s nearly 200 locations to vote to unionize. “There was some level of hope that REI would listen because of its image” as a pro- gressive company, Elio Alexander, a worker at the store and a representative of the un- ion’s bargaining committee, said. The com- pany was founded by a group of friends in 1938 as a consumer cooperative owned by millions of its customers and workers who buy memberships. In the four years since the unionization vote, however, the company and the work- ers could not agree on a new contract, Alex- ander, 29, said. The jobs of all 72 workers at the store will be cut. The company has de- nied that the closures are related to the un-
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ionization effort. During the store’s last few hours of opera- tion, the mood inside was somber. Staff members, who said they were not allowed to talk to the media, expressed disappoint- ment with a company that had otherwise been a fun and fulfilling place to work. Benji Kalmanowitz, 26, and R.J. Tabach- nick, 28, stood outside, dressed in black be- cause they were in mourning. They met while working at the store in 2021 and be- came roommates, going hiking and biking together. Tabachnick bought his first bike at this store. The company “represents a movement of getting outside and being active in the world, and having it in New York, one of the biggest cities, is such a statement and has an impact,” Tabachnick said. “The fact that it’s closing kind of takes that away.” Exactly five seconds before the clock struck 8 p.m., or closing time, last Thursday, Colin Herron, dressed in an olive green vest, grabbed a microphone and started counting down. “5, 4, 3, 2, 1!” he yelled. Applause and cheers erupted around him. Herron, who worked there for three years, hugged the rest of the staff members. After the countdown, just before the doors closed, Porto kissed his girlfriend, laying claim to the last ever kiss to occur at the SoHo REI. Outside, the shrine was beginning to buckle under the weight of all the notes it had accumulated.
Anonymous Hair Salon, in SoHo, hasn’t changed much since opening 40 years ago.
By STEVEN KURUTZ
In the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, a part of town that has gone from artist haven to luxury shopping destination, an unre- markable-seeming hair salon has been do- ing steady business since the days when mullets and big perms were all the rage. It occupies a narrow storefront at 105 Sul- livan Street, between Spring and Prince. Fittingly, it goes by the name Anonymous Hair Salon. Walk a few blocks and you can find $6,000 handbags at Chanel, works of art worth millions at the Hauser & Wirth gallery and “farm to whisk” Japanese ice tea at the Matchaful cafe. While the neighborhood around it has changed profoundly in the past 40 years, the salon looks much as it did when it opened in 1986. The only difference might be the metal chairs meant for waiting customers on the sidewalk out front, which recently got a fresh coat of orange spray paint. Anonymous has withstood 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis and the pandemic. It has survived rising rents and the death of its founder, Patricia Winters-Liotta. It remains open, at least in part, because the building’s owner is that rare New York type — the gen- erous landlord. The salon’s current proprietor is Winters- Liotta’s son, Vincent Alfano, a Grammy Award-winning sound mixer for film and TV. A soft-spoken man, 32 years old, he has no experience cutting hair. But he more or less grew up in the salon, and he took over after his mother died of cancer in 2019. Anonymous is not the kind of place that offers patrons sparkling water with lemon slices on the way to charging $400 for a cut and color. It’s a neighborhood spot whose regulars include teachers, accountants, freelancers and retired priests from the Padua Friary on Thompson Street. Customers pay $60 to $100 and leave satis- fied. On a recent afternoon, a longtime Anony- mous stylist, Angelo Vega, 55, was the first to arrive at the salon. After setting up, he greeted his first client, Ron Hester, a free- lance photographer who had taken the sub- way from Park Slope, Brooklyn. “If I couldn’t meet with Angelo, I wouldn’t get a haircut,” Hester, 57, said as he climbed aboard one of the four swivel chairs. Vega started doing Hester’s hair more than three decades ago, when he worked at
an another salon. About 25 years ago, Vega joined Anonymous, and Hester followed. “How long you been with me?” Vega teased. “Since you had a ponytail!” “This is the longest relationship I’ve had,” Hester said, “other than my parents.”
‘The Chin’ Pat Winters-Liotta was the glue that held Anonymous together. She grew up in How- ard Beach, Queens, and got into the busi- ness in the early 1980s, when she was in her early 20s. At the time, she had a friend, Paulette Sconzo, whose father ran a barber- shop on Spring Street. They apprenticed there together. In 1986, they started their own place. It was originally two doors up, at 107 Sullivan Street. According to Alfano, his mother named it Anonymous Hair Salon so the name would appear before that of her com- petitors in the Yellow Pages. It was also a cheeky response to the name of a neighbor- hood salon called Who Cut Your Hair? Over time, Winters-Liotta became the sole owner. Julie Salamon, a longtime customer, has lived on the block since the 1970s. At first, she was a little intimidated by Winters-Li- otta, who had a pronounced Queens accent and a funky personal style. “Pat was so New York, in the best possible way,” Salamon, an author and journalist who previously worked for The New York Times, said. “And though I don’t think she was fearless, she came across as fearless.” In those days, the neighborhood was pre- dominantly Italian American. Nearby busi- nesses included Pino’s butcher shop, Cana- pa’s bakery and Melampo sandwich shop. St. Anthony of Padua drew Catholic wor- shipers on Sundays, and many of the con- gregants got their hair set at Anonymous on Saturday. “It was like a movie set, but more like Martin Scorsese’s ‘Mean Streets,’” Salamon said of the neighborhood in those years. The boss of the Genovese crime family, Vincent Gigante, who was known as the Chin, grew up on Sullivan Street. In an effort to avoid prosecution, he was known to feign mental illness by roaming the neighbor- hood in his bathrobe and pajamas. He also held court at the Triangle Social Club, a mob hangout at 208 Sullivan Street. The club is long gone, replaced by Sullivan Street Tea & Spice Company, a boutique selling chaga chai mushroom tea and soy candles. Winters-Liotta cut hair for the Cosa Nos- tra men and the priests from the friary. When a customer became too elderly or in- firm to show up in person, she made house calls. Though she lived in Rockaway Beach,
Queens, and, later, on Long Island, she was a local fixture, often sleeping at a friend’s apartment behind the salon. “Sometimes, at 11 or 12 at night, I’d walk by, and Pat would be cutting someone’s hair,” said Bruce Bromberg, a co-owner of Blue Ribbon, a popular brasserie that opened on the same stretch of Sullivan Street in 1992. People in creative fields who paid low rents to reside in the neighborhood’s lofts (which had been factories in a previous New York) formed another part of the cli-
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entele. The rock promoter Norman Perry, the bassist Jaco Pastorius and the painter Debrah Feinn were all regulars. In the 1990s, the cartoonist Ann Decker published a strip called “Hairstories” in The Village Voice based on conversations overheard at Anonymous. The revolving crew of stylists coalesced into a fixed cast, which includes: Irina Drevnyak, a Ukrainian barber; Yvonne Col- menares, a reserved woman who has a set way of doing things; and Vega, who learned his trade working for the celebrity hair-
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Top, from left: Anonymous Hair Salon, at 105 Sullivan Street; Linda Berghoff, a stylist, during its early years. Clockwise from far left: Patricia Winters-Liotta, center, the salon’s founder, circa 1989; Winters-Liotta in 1996; Angelo Vega, a longtime stylist, this month; Peter DeLuca, the salon’s landlord; and Winters- Liotta’s son, Vincent Alfano, who took over the salon after her death.
A few blocks away at Chanel you can find $6,000 handbags.
dresser Stephen Knoll uptown. “The night Celine Dion won her Grammy for ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ I washed her hair,” Vega said. “But the management was awful and made me cry once a week. Then I came downtown and met my people.”
The Collapse By the late 1990s, Prada and Ralph Lauren were setting up shop in SoHo, and lofts be- gan selling for millions of dollars, to hedge funders and movie stars. That’s when Win- ters-Liotta began to worry. She approached Peter DeLuca, a local building owner and the proprietor of Green- wich Village Funeral Home on nearby Bleecker Street. One of his properties, at 105 Sullivan Street, had a storefront available to rent — cheap. “I gave Pat six months for free, because I liked her,” DeLuca, 75, said, sitting in the basement office of the funeral home, his gray hair matching his suit. There was no lease, he added, just a handshake deal. In 2000, movers took the swivel chairs, the dryers and the mirrors to the nearby building owned by DeLuca. When the job was complete, the new Anonymous looked the same as the old one. DeLuca has kept the rent affordable even as moneyed tourists flocked to the neigh- borhood. And years later, when the salon was forced to close temporarily during the pandemic, DeLuca didn’t charge rent to help keep it afloat. Asked why he hasn’t tried to find a tenant willing to pay double or triple, he shared a personal story. In the 1980s, he ran another funeral par- lor, Nucciarone Funeral Home, at 177 Sulli- van Street. He owned the five-story build- ing that housed it, and he lived there, too, in an upstairs apartment with his family. One morning in November 1987, during a sleet storm, a construction crew was doing work along the foundation. DeLuca had just returned from a morning memorial service when he saw the building buckle and crash to the street. His 13-month-old son died in the accident. In the wake of the tragedy, the neighbors rallied around DeLuca, taking up a col- lection of more than $10,000 and lending emotional support. “I assisted people in their time of need and, in turn, they sup- ported me when I lost my son,” DeLuca said. “I felt I owed this community a lot for em- bracing me.” He still gets his hair cut at Anonymous. He used to go to Winters-Liotta, who re- fused to take his money. Now Vega is his stylist. DeLuca has the same handshake deal with Winters-Liotta’s son. “I saw businesses slowly and surely have to leave,” DeLuca said. “It’s important to find people who will be good neighbors. It sounds old-fashioned. It’s a way of life.”
Welcome, Clooneys? Winters-Liotta raised Alfano as a single mother. As a boy, he would sit at a desk di- viding the styling area from the wash sta- tion. He would answer the phone and pencil in appointments in the big calendar book. “My mom used to say, ‘I paid the rent again. I don’t know how, but I paid the rent again,’” Alfano said. As the years went by, Winters-Liotta re- sisted change, running the place as a cash- only business and hanging onto the worn furniture and faded decorations. When Al- fano bought a new chair for the dryer sta- tion, she chastised him from her hospital bed: “You can’t spend money! You’re going to tank the salon!” With his mother growing sicker, Alfano assumed power of attorney so that he could manage the finances. He and his mother never spoke directly about whether he would run the salon after she was gone, he said. But he felt a responsibility to the em- ployees and customers, who are like a fam- ily, and in a greater sense to New York itself. “I don’t want to be on that list of places that’s been a legacy business for so long and has shuttered,” Alfano said. “The more that are gone, the worse off we’re going to be as a society. That’s a driving force for me.” The block has remained a small oasis of a bygone New York, with a shoe repair, two dry cleaners and a magazine stand, but the new SoHo is creeping in. A townhouse has been home to John Legend and George and Amal Clooney. A new Italian restaurant on the corner sells $18 fries. For its employees and customers, Anony- mous is a minor urban miracle. “How many stores, how many restaurants, have had their leases not just doubled but quintu- pled?” said Salamon, who gets her hair cut by Vega. Alfano stops in a few times a week to check on things. The hefty appointment books and cash wads are gone, replaced by booking software and a digital payment system. But the salon’s place in SoHo seems about as permanent as can be in a city of unsentimental change. “As long as people keep coming,” Alfano said, “we’ll be open.”
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主要问题集中在：
1. 数字量词严重误译（将 % 译为 “份”）。
2. 语言污染（出现天城文）。
3. 结构性乱码（U+D54G... 字符块）。
4. 布局处理粗糙（导航页码混入正文且出现断句拼接错误）。
建议： 需对美联储（Fed）相关段落进行术语校对，清理乱码字符，并重新整理分栏文本的逻辑顺序。