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全球报刊态势与全景学术研判总览 — 2026-08-21
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北美主流大报 (North America) - 《The New York Times - 21.08.2026.pdf》特朗普政府财政部干预市场以降低生活成本：财政部长约翰·伯曼宣布将回购政府债务的金额增加一倍，旨在限制长期债券价格上涨并控制借贷成本。 - 《The New York Times - 21.08.2026.pdf》英国测试通过调整飞行路径减轻气候变暖：英国政府与空中交通管制部门在Shamrock空域测试微调飞行高度，以减少产生捕捉热量的持久凝结轨迹。 - 《The New York Times - 21.08.2026.pdf》哈里王子寻求修复与查尔斯国王的关系：哈里王子希望其子女能同时拥有英美公民身份，并试图在查尔斯国王癌症治疗期间修复父子关系。
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Newspapers - 21.08.2026特朗普政府财政部干预市场以降低生活成本
- 首页 / 特朗普政府财政部干预市场以降低生活成本：财政部长约翰·伯曼宣布将回购政府债务的金额增加一倍，旨在限制长期债券价格上涨并控制借贷成本。
- 国际 / 英国测试通过调整飞行路径减轻气候变暖：英国政府与空中交通管制部门在Shamrock空域测试微调飞行高度，以减少产生捕捉热量的持久凝结轨迹。
- A2页 / 哈里王子寻求修复与查尔斯国王的关系：哈里王子希望其子女能同时拥有英美公民身份，并试图在查尔斯国王癌症治疗期间修复父子关系。
- 国际 / 阿拉伯联合酋长国对伊朗实施贸易禁运：阿联酋在指责伊朗袭击其油轮后宣布停止贸易，旨在应对伊朗对海湾地区美国盟友的威胁。
- A1页 / 法律融资证券化引发职业操守争议：法律融资公司将人身伤害预付款转化为证券以吸引投资者，被批评者认为这推动了对高价值案件的过度追求。
- 财经 / 美国财政部面对债务与通胀压力采取随机干预：受伊朗战争及AI债务影响，财政部考虑通过500亿至800亿美元的随机干预来稳定长期收益率。
- 评论 / 特朗普对共和党内部控制力面临挑战：尽管此前通过铁腕手段处置反对者，但近期多名受特朗普支持的候选人在佛罗里达州等地选举中失利。
- 本地 / 曼哈顿医疗羁押单元发生死亡事件：36岁男子克里斯托弗在贝尔维尤医院由市惩教局共同运营的医疗单元内死亡，引发对羁押护理的质疑。
- 娱乐 / ZZ Top乐队鼓手弗兰克·比尔德去世：德克萨斯权力三人组ZZ Top的标志性鼓手比尔德在里士满家中去世，享年77岁。
- 社会 / 代孕协议与胎儿缺陷引发法律斗争：阿拉斯加代孕母亲韦斯特拒绝终止患有先天性缺陷胎儿的妊娠，与加州意向父母就分娩地产生法律争议。
- 商业版 / Moderna癌症疫苗临床试验取得成功：Moderna与默克合作的mRNA癌症疫苗在治疗黑色素瘤方面取得进展，推动公司股价在周三上涨57%。
- 商业版 / 数据中心引发社区不满与政治罢免：因担心数据中心推高电价，部分选民发起罢免支持该产业的政治人物，包括针对荷兰公司Nefons相关项目的抗议。
- 文化 / 作家巴坎因作品涉嫌抄袭面临审查：《纽约》杂志等媒体审查发现巴坎多篇专栏违反标准，导致其相关书籍暂停出版并引发内部调查。
- 体育 / 特雷西带领红袜队实现赛季反弹：临时主帅特雷西在教练组大清洗后，凭借与弗洛雷斯等熟悉人员的协作，带领红袜队从低谷迅速回升。
- 生活/艺术 / 纽约秋季流行与摇滚音乐活动预告：Dinosaur Jr.将在市内存办四场演出，此外9月还将举办死亡金属落成典礼及All Things Go音乐节。
- 电影评论 / 卡夫卡传记电影《From》影评：评论认为该片虽试图通过碎片化叙事探讨异化主题，但因意象过于古怪且脱离语境而显得令人困惑。
- 艺术展览 / 曼哈顿Deanna Evans Projects举办《间隙》群展：该展览通过绘画与纺织品的界限探索当代艺术，重点展示了达泽尔·米斯特里斯等艺术家的抽象作品。
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财政部尝试干预以降低利率
颠覆政府在债券市场中的角色
作者：ALAN RAPPEPORT 和 COLBY SMITH
特朗普政府的财政部在试图约束全球市场力量以降低美国生活成本的努力中，变得日益干预主义，但它发现国家债务可能很容易产生。
这种强势姿态出现之际，美国国民总债务支持法案在周三利用，这在很大程度上是由向持有政府债务的投资者支付的利息增加所驱动的。高利率和高物价继续影响着选民对特朗普总统处理经济方式的看法。
本周，财政部长约翰·伯曼采取了一项令人惊讶的举措以安抚 jimmy 债券市场。他宣布，财政部将把允许从投资者手中回购的政府债务金额增加一倍。此次增加旨在限制长期政府债券价格的上涨，以此作为控制借贷成本的一种方式。
“这在一定程度上是发出信号，以表明我们认为收益率并未反映潜在的基本面，”伯曼先生在周四接受 CNBC 采访时表示。
伯曼先生在解释他愿意请求反馈计划时，认为投资者误读了市场。
“我们试图保持市场的平衡，”伯曼先生补充道。
这些收益率——代表投资者在过去为了购买债券而要求的回报——飙升至自 2007 年以来的最高点。收益率与债券价格在社会中反向变动，取决于伯曼先生周三的公告。到周四，收益率再次上涨，凸显了书店进行此类监控游戏的挑战，且没有一个能让债券投资者 jimmy。
伯曼先生一直在尝试其他方法来降低借贷成本。财政部一直在发行更多期限在一年以下的短期国库券，以帮助将投资利率维持在较低水平。这一策略与伯曼先生的前任珍妮特·耶伦所采用的策略相似。2014 年，伯曼先生曾批评耶伦女士采用该方法，称她正在使用
一名居民从基辅的一栋公寓楼中被疏散，该建筑在周四遭到俄罗斯导弹袭击。此次袭击造成至少 15 人死亡。
地图愤怒将提升亚拉巴马州的黑人投票率吗？
作者：EMILY COCHRANE
亚拉巴马州特洛伊 —— 前参议员道格·琼斯和目前处于危险之中的众议员舒曼·菲格罗亚在亚拉巴马州曾经历过类似情况。
琼斯先生在 2020 年在 Stoney Takerville 失去了他的席位，一名曾任大学教师的人在 11 月的州长竞选中击败了他。菲格罗亚先生在 2024 年赢得了一个众议院选区，该选区旨在给黑人选民更多代表权。现在，他面临着新的选区基础，其目的显然是为了将他的席位交给一名共和党人。
除了都是民主党人外，这两位人士共同面对的是亚拉巴马州黑人选民需要在 11 月以压倒性人数参与投票的需求，而这在一定程度上是由最高法院 4 月份削弱《投票权法案》并引发南方新一轮重新划分选区的决定所激发的愤怒和动力。
一个由艰辛塑造的地区被“毁之殆尽”
作者：GENEVIEVE GLAYSKY
哥伦比亚，克罗奇（CROCCI）——在哥伦比亚，查科（Chaco）这个前太平洋地区，早已是生活常态。道路稀少，电力和医疗服务有限，大部分人口生活在贫困之中，而武装团体则控制着该领土的部分地区。
随后地震发生了。查科本就是该国最脆弱的地区之一，同时也是上周袭击该地区的 14 级的震中，这场地震在全国范围内造成至少 200 人死亡。
在查科，破坏的全面程度尚不明确，因为当局正努力抵达分散在该地区的社区。
地震后哥伦比亚的痛苦、无家可归与饥饿
现在，查科面临着一项重建工作，这项工作必须克服几代以来塑造该地区的相同地理、经济和政治障碍。
“我们被毁得精光，”35 岁的胡安·费尔南多·塔比达（Juan Fernando Tabeeda）说道，他在拉瓦（La Va）打零工，这个小镇距离查科首府基贝尔（Quibell）两小时车程，人口约 600 人，那里的大部分建筑被摧毁或损坏。“我们一无所有。”
在哥伦比亚历史的大部分时间里，法律，当时被带来的非洲奴隶被强迫在矿山工作。一些人逃脱并在大中央地区之外建立了社区。
基础设施和公共服务远落后于该国其他地区，而连接主要城市的崎岖道路则饱受地形复杂和山体滑坡的困扰。根据政府数据，在哥伦比亚的 12 个省（或部门）中，人口约 400,000 人的查科贫困率最高。
一个以非裔哥伦比亚人和原住民为主的地区……
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俄罗斯导弹雨倾泻乌克兰，防御盾牌被削弱
拦截弹短缺
莫斯科的新战略在无需无人机的情况下重创基辅
作者：CONSTANT MIDJECT
乌克兰，基辅 —— 在战争的大部分时间里，俄罗斯的空袭遵循一种“战剑”模式。先是对郊区进行恐怖的并摧毁其防空系统；然后，一旦路径被清除，便发射一波极具破坏力的导弹。
但随着乌克兰现在在恐怖袭击和防御短缺中挣扎，俄罗斯正直接使用导弹。周四一夜之间，俄方发起了一场致命的空袭，大量耀眼的导弹导致首都基辅多处发生爆炸，表明部分导弹已命中目标。
这种方式的转变是一个信号，表明俄罗斯军队在经过一系列耗尽了的攻击后，对于穿透乌克兰防御体系变得更加自信。在俄罗斯的一些大规模轰炸中，乌克兰军队甚至无法击落一枚导弹。
乌克兰当局最近停止发布关于这些导弹拦截率的数据，因为担心这会产生令人震惊的头条新闻。但周四袭击的影响在死亡人数和物理损坏中显而易见。据乌克兰官员称，至少 15 人死亡，约 10 人受伤，袭击还波及了建筑、一所学校和一家儿童医院。
在午夜前不久，随着响起，乌克兰首都的爆炸停止了。雷鸣般的传到一座地铁站，这座城市三百万居民中的一部分人在那里避难，在花岗岩站台上蜷缩着，感到更加不安。
由于担心防空漏洞使他们日益暴露在危险之中，许多基辅居民现在每周有几个晚上在地铁站和停车场地下度过。据当地当局周四称，近 40,000 名居民在首都的地铁站过夜。
在第一波袭击发生几分钟后，基辅市长维塔利·克利奇科在社交媒体上写道，几个区的建筑受损，应急救援人员正赶往救援。他说：“更多导弹仍正向首都飞来。”
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·扎博尔斯基在社交媒体的一份声明中将此次袭击描述为一次“大规模攻击”，俄罗斯对此“已经准备了很长时间”。
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超市成为目标：在多年地轰炸发电厂和城市后，俄罗斯的空中战争现在将目标转向了乌克兰的超市仓库。第 A1 页
对英国成长环境的眷恋可能是王室回归的原因
作者：MICHAEL B. SHEAR
伦敦 —— 十五个月前，哈里王子表示，他“无法想象一个我会带着妻子和孩子回到美国的世界”。
萨塞克斯公爵夫妇在王室内部矛盾、恶劣的媒体环境以及对他们批评君主制感到愤怒的英国公众所引发的危机中逃往美国。
哈里王子及其妻子梅根在美国生活了六年。
哈里告诉 BBC，他“不能向孩子们展示我的祖国，这真的相当令人悲哀”。
现在，他将这样做，这一举动似乎甚至让查尔斯三世国王感到惊讶。哈里和梅根计划在未来几周内搬回英国定居。他们的孩子阿奇（Archie，I岁）和莉莉安（Lillian，I岁）将在这里就学。王室观察人士表示，该家庭将住在伦敦以外的私人住所。
现在英国少数一些人提出的问题是：发生了什么变化？王室观察员表示，答案可能部分取决于哈里渴望给孩子们提供他记忆中那种成长环境 —— 但要去掉他多次谴责的公众关注和媒体审查。
2022, 年，哈里将英国描述为“遗产的核心，接 A9 页”。
士兵和志愿者在哥伦比亚恰科地区的圣何塞-德尔帕尔马卸载物资。
随着人身伤害诉讼激增，华尔街介入其中
本文由 Ellen Gubler, Robert Gubbell 和 Julie Sim 撰写。
Entero happiness Meriden 在曼哈顿修理一座教堂的外墙时似乎发生了坠落。监控录像显示，他爬上梯子几级，向左倾斜，然后掉到了下方的脚手架上。
他提起了一项数百万美元的诉讼，称自己受了重伤并患有创伤后应激障碍（PTSD），无法再工作。
像他这样的人身伤害案件
原告融资带来巨额回报
可能需要数年时间才能解决，因此为了维持生计，arguments Meriden 转向了一家被称为消费者法律资助公司的公司。
此类公司向原告提供现金预付款，以支付在案件审理期间的房租、食物和医疗护理等费用。这种预付款类似于贷款，但规定如果案件失败，原告无需偿还。
在大多数情况下，保险公司会就人身伤害案件达成和解，而原告则偿还其预付款——年费和利息平均在 25 到 45 之间。例如，纽约一名称在人行道上扭伤脚踝的女性收到了 $76,500 的预付款，法院记录显示，到案件结束时，她最终欠其家人至少 $1.4。
《纽约时报》发现，在幕后，华尔街已经找到了从中获利的方法。
一些消费者资助机构的最大参与者正在处理数千个此类 6 案件，将它们组合在一起创建资产支持证券——这种金融产品在 2008 年抵押贷款危机期间声名狼藉，而现在又强势回归。
这些证券通常允许投资者购买该资金池的份额——
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奥尔巴尼炸弹阴谋案逮捕行动
检方称一名女性与一名 FBI 告密者会面，计划袭击纽约州议会大厦。第 A10 页
加油站，还是赌场？
宾夕法尼亚州的一家合法邻居使所谓的技能游戏（见下文）不被视为赌博。第 A7 页
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89 岁诞生的 TikTok 明星
Werner Kalevinski 是德国年轻人中的社交媒体红人。他是如何从心碎的鳏夫变成引领潮流的人物的？第 A6 页
美国与伊朗之间不安的僵局
数周以来，外交方面没有进展，但侧翼冲突激烈，因为双方似乎都认为对方会先屈服。新闻分析。第 A9 页
非洲首富的意外之财
由于伊朗战争影响了全球供应，非洲人及其他人转向了尼日利亚的一家炼油厂。第 A9 页
商业 B1-6
大学繁荣带来的债务
印度的家庭将私立大学视为通往更好生活的途径。但这并不总是奏效。第 B1 页
沃尔玛销售低迷
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ZZ Top 的无边鼓手
Frank Board，77 岁，半个多世纪以来为该乐队融合的布吉、南方摇滚和蓝调注入了灵魂。第 A20 页
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Mahomes 与 Erta 联手
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超越标准曲目
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纽约时报，2026 年 8 月 21 日，星期五
时报内幕
捕捉脆弱停火下的场景
一名加沙摄影师正在记录定义加沙生活的危险与流离失所，而以色列已禁止外国记者进入该地。
摄影及文字由 SABER ALGONERA 提供
本篇随笔首次发表于 World 通讯。
加沙市是我的家。我在 Tal al-Hawa 社区长大，至今仍住在那里。我从未离开过加沙。我在巴勒斯坦大学学习新闻学，并于 2021 年开始担任自由摄影师。
以色列与加沙的哈马斯当局之间曾发生过六次大规模战争，但 2022 年哈马斯领导的 10 月 7 日袭击之后开始的那场战争，与以往任何一次都不同。
自去年 10 月以来，停火协议已经生效。但对于我们这些生活在这里的人来说，这感觉并不像和平。
我们已经在这种极端条件下生活了大约 1,000 天。战争期间，人们始终感到危险——觉得死亡近在咫尺。持续的轰炸已经停止，但巴勒斯坦人几乎每天仍有人被杀。老鼠和疾病在蔓延。营养不良依然普遍。
在加沙当一名记者并不容易。战争期间，我的许多同事被杀。频繁的停电让我很难将作品发送给编辑。我现在在一家有网络连接的咖啡馆工作。燃料依然难以获得且价格昂贵。当我无法使用汽车时，我会长距离步行前往新闻发生的现场。
我 29 岁。自 10 月 7 日以来，我和家人已被迫离开家园六次。在战争期间以及之后的几个月里，确保亲人的安全是我的首要责任。但与此同时，我觉得自己有责任向世界讲述我家乡的故事。因为我作为一名记者的使命就是见证，并为失声者发声。
加沙市的巴勒斯坦人在 8 月 4 日参加一场集体葬礼。
这是我见过的最痛苦的场景之一。这是一场为 112 人举行的葬礼，他们的遗骸直到最近才从废墟中被挖掘出来。促使我拍摄这张照片的是损失规模之巨大。我想传达的不仅是这场悲剧的程度，还有这些家庭在最终能够体面地安葬亲人之前，所经历的漫长而痛苦的旅程。
6 月 14 日，加沙市 Zethum 社区的一所学校。
这张照片拍摄于几个月前在加沙市附近开设的一所学校，旨在帮助学生在巨大的挑战中继续学业。当我走在学校里时，几个细节引起了我的注意。教室简陋且陈旧，但坐满了渴望学习的学生。课桌是由曾经用于运输人道主义援助的木托盘搭建而成的，将与生存相关的材料转化为代表希望的东西。最令我感动的是学生们。尽管破坏和不确定性充斥着他们的生活，他们每天依然穿着鞋子、油腻的衣服来到学校。在如此巨大的混乱之中，他们学习并维持正常生活感的决心深深地激励了我。
7 月 7 日，加沙市的巴勒斯坦人聚集在一起观看埃及与阿根廷之间的世界杯比赛。
有趣的事实
弗兰克·比尔德（Frank Beard）是来自德克萨斯州、创作过多首热门歌曲的强力三人组 ZZ Top 乐队的鼓手，他是乐队中唯一没有个人品牌的成员。
ZZ Top 乐队强力（且无须）的鼓手弗兰克·比尔德去世，享年 77 岁。
宾夕法尼亚州估计有 70,000 台“技能游戏”终端，这些终端看起来像老虎机，但允许用户通过玩记忆游戏来回收资金。
Hop Rights Up. Don't Gonna 't' Shill Luck is Let Like Here a U
在 20 天内，捕手杰克·罗杰斯（Jake Rogers）先后为四支美国职业棒球大联盟（M.L.B.）球队效力：老虎队、金莺队、红袜队和白袜队。根据 Baseball Reference 的数据，没有其他球员能在如此短的时间内效力于四支球队。
四支球队，20 天， 里程积分的基调 以及一场棒球历史的浪潮
荷兰建筑师 Gerrit Rietveld 在 1924 年至 1964 年间估计设计了 100 栋房屋。除一栋位于俄亥俄州奥伯林（Oberlin）市外，其余全部位于荷兰。
中西部林地中的 荷兰现代主义惊喜
根据病例计数，截至去年，有 60 多种使用 mRNA 或类似技术的职业疫苗正在开发中，并在 120 多项临床试验中进行测试。
Moderna 证明了利润 61
当喷气飞机的热尾气在高空与水分和烟尘混合时，产生的冰晶轨迹会在大气中捕捉危险数量的热量，这被称为 cortrual 效应。
U.R. 将改变朝圣者的路径 在气候测试 64 中
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1 与 6 Access 相关，因巧克力制造商试图将其做成完美的圆形但失败了而得名的糖果碎片 2 Biscuit 和 Bhuins 的家乡 3 像蛇和鱼的皮肤一样 4 Take __ (缓冲财务) 5 见 1-Access
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1 __ 照片 2 “让我重复一遍……” 3 温柔的音乐旋律 4 在珠宝广告中，“每一个吻都始于”什么 5 带着倒过来的微笑
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让孩子独自在户外玩耍应该是犯罪吗？I am Frinch 最近报道称，一些让孩子在公园里散步或在无人监督的情况下骑自行车的父母被指控为疏忽。在线读者对此发表了看法。以下评论经过编辑。
虽然穿着风衣的诡异陌生人的设定可能被夸大了，但请不要忘记，在今天的道路上成为一名行人要危险得多。超大车辆和分心的司机使步行者和骑行者成为了濒危物种。我不确定一个 6 岁孩子是否能意识到这一点。 — 保罗·德格勒（PAUL DEGLER），WESTWORD, BEAR。
我记得我小时候有很多自由，但我从不独自外出。我有六个兄弟姐妹，邻居的大多数家庭也是大家庭。我们住在乡下，所以不需要穿过城市街道去操场。我的女儿们小时候我们住在城市里，她们被允许走一两个街区远。除此之外，我们会开车送她们去目的地。父母必须自行做出这个决定，但我确实认为孩子在不单独行动时要安全得多。 — 贾斯汀·巴格迪尼（JUSTINE BAGDINI），纽约州德尔马（DELMAR, N.Y.）。
确实，当我们（在父母不知情的情况下）在邻里间进行 medball 战斗，而 Monahan 家的男孩在他们的 medball 里面塞石头时，我们可能会陷入麻烦。但我认为，在有限监督下一直地在户外玩耍，帮助我们在成年后能够毫无恐惧地尝试新鲜和不同的事情。
— 凯瑟琳·博伊特（KATHERINE BOYT），加利福尼亚州丘拉维斯塔（CHULA VISTA, CALIF.）。
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纽约时报时事通讯摘录
音乐人 URain 的一首单曲灵感来自 99 年的一部动画系列剧中的角色。
在最近一期的《The Amplifier》中，流行音乐评论家林赛·佐拉迪（Lindsay Zolady）分享了她最喜欢的一系列新发行作品。请阅读下方编辑后的摘录，其中包含她播放列表中的一些歌曲，包括 URain 新专辑《Fata Morgana》中的一首曲目。
国际
纽约时报
“我原以为‘网红’是一种感冒。”
维尔纳·卡莱钦斯基（Werner Kaleciński）在杜塞尔多夫品尝冰淇淋，他以“维尔纳爷爷”（Opa Werner）的 TikTok 身份出现。他的口味测试视频在年轻人中经常走红。
全球人物志
他会尝试你的款待；但他不会喜欢它
作者：LENNEY CRUTEL
德国，贝尔尼克斯 —— 88岁的维尔纳·卡莱钦斯基（Werner Kaleciński）想要尝试一些新鲜事物。
几个月来，在照顾患病的妻子期间，他感到自己的活力在消退。他需要工作。在他漫长的人生中，他从事过许多工作 —— 收集各种金属，做电工，销售保险和冷冻食品。现在，在社交媒体时代，他想尝试一下 TikTok，尽管他并不理解它。
“我以为‘网红’（influencer）是一种感冒。”现年85岁的卡莱钦斯基先生说道，因为在元音发音上，这个词听起来像“流感”（influenza）。
正是这类俏皮话让卡莱钦斯基先生成为了德国深受喜爱的 TikTok 明星。他是日益增多的年长影响力人物中的一员，他们在许多年轻用户中获得了关注。他们的内容涵盖了被称为“跟我一起准备”（Get Ready With Me）的时尚视频，以及提供建议的励志信息。
卡莱钦斯基先生的角色“Opa Werner”（即 Werner 爷爷）接纳了幼稚的幽默，并致力于尝试德国年轻人的生活方式。观众热爱他的品鉴视频，看着他从一家咖啡店逛到另一家。
他还没有找到一款自己喜欢的抹茶拿铁。他曾将一种绿色饮料的味道比作刚修剪过的草坪味。他塑造的在线人格是一个使用 Z 世代俚语抱怨饮料价格的无限好奇者，这让他获得了近 100,000 名追随者和 280 万 次点赞。卡莱钦斯基先生可能在抹茶拿铁的口味上失败了，但他的粉丝说，他对生活的渴望具有感染力。
“你总是知道他不会喜欢它，而且他总是用奇怪的词来形容它，”20 岁的粉丝希曼·扎谢夫斯基（Szyman Zaszewski）说道，他耐心地在杜塞尔多夫的一家咖啡店外等待，以便与这位 TikTok 明星合影。“年轻人与年长者共处时，通常会尝试去适应年长者，但在他的例子中，是他尝试去理解年轻一代。”
26 岁的安德烈·埃纳斯特（Andre Aehnast）在 2025 年 4 月发现卡莱钦斯基先生时，已经是社交媒体领域的资深人士。多年来，埃纳斯特先生作为一名青少年 YouTuber 成名，但在他早年生活中，他决定走到镜头后面，挖掘社交媒体所创造的这个利润丰厚的产业。
在寻找灵感时，他注意到年长者在社交媒体上正逐渐显现，于是埃纳斯特先生决定打造最顶级的“祖辈时尚”（grandfashovers）。在寻找 20 位明星时，埃纳斯特先生不需要寻找太远：他的母亲海克·斯特佩勒（Heike Steppeler）在镜头前表现得非常幽默，扮演了一个困惑但热情的传教者角色。
64 岁的斯特佩勒女士是一名退休人员，当他邀请朋友卡莱钦斯基先生加入时，她鼓励了他。
卡莱钦斯基先生在 250 多名应聘者中脱颖而出，他发来的一封关于为什么他对这种有趣的名声感兴趣的电子邮件引起了注意。埃纳斯特先生在回忆那封邮件时说，他的申请是用 Z 世代俚语写的，非常出色，是原汁原味的，绝对不是由对手写的。
卡莱钦斯基先生与他的孙女瑞秋·芬克（Rachel Funke，上图）以及她的孩子丽莎（Lisa，5 岁）和卢卡（Luca，4 岁）在一起，以及与另一位网红乌娜·胡巴（Oona Huba）一起尝试抹茶拿铁（上图）。她的儿子为卡莱钦斯基先生的社交媒体角色进行了面试。
“我觉得他疯了，是以一种积极的方式，”他说。“那封邮件的语气太特别了，我无法忽视它。”他补充道，卡莱钦斯基先生能够顺利完成随后的视频通话也起到了作用。
当卡莱钦斯基先生坐下来写那封幽默的邮件时，他正试图克服生命中最新的悲剧：妻子的去世。卡莱钦斯基先生说，在他们 88 年的婚姻中，疾病使他妻子的性格变得与他截然相反。她变得悲观且挑剔，在最后的日子里照顾她让他承受了巨大的情感压力。
“我甚至不知道她怎么了，”他说。“我尝试让自己稍微快乐一点，这样我就不会完全被淹没。”
就在他的妻子去世前几周，他接到了 Aehnast 先生的试镜电话。面对心碎，他决心继续前行。
这并非他第一次出于必要而寻求乐观。Kaleciński 先生的家族来自如今的波兰，他出生在阿道夫·希特勒权力鼎盛时期的柏林。战争爆发时，他的父亲被征召至德国军队的前线，并在俄罗斯被杀。
当盟军猛烈轰炸柏林时，他和哥哥成为了数千名被疏散到乡村的儿童之一。他们先是去了当时的东普鲁士，随后前往 Sadermitland（当时德国的战时领土，现为捷克共和国）。德国战败后，年轻的 Kaleciński 先生步行回到了柏林。
他还是个孩子时就赚到了第一笔钱，通过帮邻居搬运电源来获取报酬。在青少年时期，他拆除被毁房屋的电线，这使他后来成为一名电工。但他说，在俄罗斯占领下的生活是“残酷的”，并补充道，那种肆无忌惮的状态：“Mush 比后来的 matcha 更糟糕……”
18 岁时，为了避免被强迫加入政府警察部队，他逃离了东德。他说，他向守卫撒谎称要去西柏林看望祖父母。他穿着一套西装，骑着自行车。他再也没有回来。
接下来的成年生活充满了尝试。他发现自己在商业上的个人天赋更适合销售。他报名学习，他的佣金确保了他的三个孩子能过上比他自己更舒适的生活。但并非总能成功，比如有一次他试图在一家拥有许多道路的商店里出售他的自行车，或者当他投资的一家慕尼黑建筑公司破产时。
“只要有一根稻草可以抓，我就抓住了，”他使用了这个德语习语。
到了退休年龄，他依然在工作。他开过送货车，卖过保险，甚至成为一名上门销售冷冻食品的推销员。如今，在不游泳、散步或拍摄 TikTok 视频的时候，他通过在电视上观察股市，作为一名日内交易者赚取一些额外收入。
“我的钱包里必须永远比我花掉的钱多出一欧元，”他说。
尽管如此，他不得不接受，建立舒适的生活并不能让他免于悲剧。2015 年，他的儿子在国外生活后，在德国因一种未被诊断出的疾病去世，享年 55 岁，随后 Kaleciński 先生的孙女搬来与他同住。即便如此，他仍心存感激，因为他现在在德国拥有一个多功能的家。他说，与现在 10 岁的孙女及其三个孩子一起生活，让他们能够分享彼此的生意。
他的搭档 Steppeler 女士说，大多数德国年轻人看不到祖父母如何面对生活的起伏或失败，这可能就是为什么 Kaleciński 先生能成为一名成功的创作者。
“许多老年人将自己孤立起来，”她说，“在德国，情况就是这样，每个人都为自己而活。”
营销公司 Brand Trust 的管理顾问 Colin Ferrando 表示，在 Kaleciński 先生的账号（TikTok 和 Instagram 上的片段）中，他触及了社交媒体中罕见的东西：真实性。Ferrando 说，品牌方知道他会使用他们的产品，但他们依然选择与 Kaleciński 先生合作赞助，因为 TikTok 上的诚实能带来关注。
“每个人都知道这是经过制作的，背后有一个机构，”Ferrando 先生说，“但你仍然觉得他是非常真实的。”
在过去旋风般的一年里，Kaleciński 先生因与一家超市连锁店的活动而获奖，并出现在多个场合。他在马略卡岛的春假期间尝试了最大胆的特技工作，在那里他从一个著名场所倾倒啤酒，并像个充满刺激的群体一样派对。他与一名德国音乐家合作，发布了一首夏季派对统一曲目。
埃弗林·威尔切克（Evelyn Wilczek）在开车前往杜塞尔多夫一家医院担任急诊护士值班的路上，在车里大声播放着这首歌。27岁的威尔切克女士表示，卡莱钦斯基（Mr. Kaleciński）的视频是对那些充斥在她社交平台上的精致网红的一种补充。欧帕·维尔纳（Opa Werner）提醒她要活在当下，并带有一点新鲜感。威尔切克女士说，今年夏天她在杜塞尔多夫遇到他时，她几乎害羞得不敢上前请求合影。
“我们必须意识到，即使是老人也曾年轻过，他们有过梦想，也犯过错误，”她说。“看到他们在年老时依然拥有生活，而不仅仅是坐在家里变得脾气暴躁，这很美好。”
英国将修改
飞行航路
以进行气候测试
作者：LEO SANDS
伦敦——那些在天空中飞行的白色条纹可能看起来像无害的云朵，但科学家们长期以来一直警告说，它们会加剧气候变化。
当飞机的炽热尾气与高空环境结合时，由此产生的持久冰晶轨迹会在大气层中捕捉危险数量的热量。
现在，研究科学家、空中交通管制员和英国政府将测试是否可以通过微调飞行路径来减轻这种变暖效应。
在接下来的两个阶段中，英国空中交通管制部门将要求数百架飞越大西洋东部区域的飞机调整其轨迹，将其引导至不太可能产生持久凝结轨迹的高度。
根据一项研究，专家所称的这种核心效应在航空业引起全球变暖的贡献中占比高达 50%。另一些研究则表明，这种变暖效应甚至更高。根据非营利组织 Centralis.org 的说法，该组织参与了此次实验，这种效应在所有人为全球变暖中所占的比例约为 1 到 2%。
这次试验是此类规模最大的试验，将在北大西洋爱尔兰西部的繁忙飞行走廊——Shamrock 空域进行。通过结合天气数据和 Google 的人工智能分析，空中交通管制员将要求飞行员微调其飞行高度。
在两个为期四个月的试验期内，预计将有航班飞经指定空域，其中一小部分航班将被要求轻微偏离航线。此次试验将评估减少凝结轨迹对气候的影响，以及更广泛地增加导航调整的可行性。
帝国理工学院（Imperial College London）大气物理学助理教授 Edward Gryzynovich 表示，即使是对飞机高度进行微小的调整，也能在减少其产生的变暖效应方面产生重大影响。他是该机构及剑桥大学科学家团队的一员，将通过分析卫星图像来评估此次试验的效果。
Gryzynovich 博士表示，当飞机飞经大气层中的一个潮湿层时，就会产生凝结轨迹，这是一个不可避免的气层带，厚度通常仅为一千英尺。
“那里有足够的水来形成云，但缺乏让水凝结的媒介，”他说。“当飞机经过并提供最初的冰晶爆发时，这些晶体随后会吸收空气中的水分。”
跨大西洋航班将被要求调整高度以减少凝结轨迹。
mosphere并生长成这些持久的云层。”
这些云层可能会停留数分钟，但有时会持续数小时，使彼此具体化并向大气层触发巨大的热能。
“从我们的视角来看，避开凝结轨迹是最有前景的短期气候机遇，”Centralis.org的执行主任奥尔顿·夏皮罗（Alton Shapiro）表示。“通过这些微小的、有针对性的空中调整，以及在条件合适的情况下，我们应该能够大幅削减航空对气候的影响。”
如果该计划被证明有效并能在全球范围内推广，夏皮罗先生估计，航行调整理论上可以将全球凝结轨迹减少70%。
“我们认为这在未来几年内是可行的，”他说。“我们希望在全球范围内鼓励更多此类试验，以便我们能尽快找出实施方法。”
此次试验基于谷歌（Google）以及包括能源公司和美国航空在内的先前研究。航空业将减少凝结轨迹视为一种相对简单的低成本方式，用以降低飞行对全球气温的影响。
今年早些时候，谷歌表示，此前与美国航空的一次协作可以将美国境内及区域性的凝结轨迹形成减少40%以上。
但该策略也有缺陷。即使是对飞机飞行路径的微小调整，也可能会增加其在较低高度所需的航空燃料量，因为那里的空气密度更高，同样需要额外的燃料。
格里齐诺维奇博士（Dr. Gryzynovich）表示，之前的研究发现，减少气候影响的整体收益超过了燃烧额外燃料的影响，但他强调此次试验将研究这一问题。
“天气、航空、云层是复杂的问题和复杂的系统，”他说。“当我们更好地理解如何让飞机绕开这些现象时，这将有助于我们减轻凝结轨迹带来的变暖，如果不能完全消除它们的话。”
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乌克兰官员周四表示，一枚俄罗斯导弹袭击损坏了30栋住宅楼、一所学校和一家儿童医院。今年上半年，平民死亡人数已飙升至近1,400人。
俄罗斯胆量大增，在防空能力削弱之际向基辅发射导弹
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时间，结合不同类型的弹道导弹、巡航导弹和驱动装置，旨在对民用基础设施造成尽可能大的破坏。”
“只要乌克兰没有足够的反弹道防御，俄罗斯就不会认真考虑和平或
Mike Kozorokova —— Natalie Navonikova 和 Kim Barber 参与报道。
认真地。我们正在尽一切努力确保我们拥有这种保护，”泽连斯基先生补充道。
乌克兰官员表示，袭击击中了食品仓库和红十字会设施，但他们没有具体说明损坏程度。
在周四的声明中，泽连斯基先生再次就乌克兰削弱的防空能力敲响警钟。他敦促盟友提供更多军事援助，特别是美国制造的“爱国者”拦截弹，这仍然是该国对抗弹道导弹最可靠的防御手段。
根据《纽约时报》对官方数据的分析，在 7 月乌克兰空军公布弹道导弹袭击统计数据之前，乌克兰在该月拦截的弹道导弹不足三分之一。
周四的夜间袭击延续了该月对基辅的一系列其他重大炮击，在 8 月 5 日的一次袭击中，至少 17 人死亡，目标是食品仓库和民用物流设施，乌克兰空军当时报告称，俄罗斯发射的两打弹道导弹中没有拦截到任何一枚。
随着防空能力的下降，乌克兰的平民死亡人数有所上升。根据联合国的数据，今年前六个月有近 1,400 名平民死亡，比 2015 年同期增加了 37%，比前一年增加了 14%。
俄罗斯的袭击变得如此频繁，以至于 36 岁的基辅居民安吉丽娜·肖斯塔克（Angelina Shostak）在周四表示，她每天晚上开始时都会在公寓走廊里摆好三把椅子：一把给她自己，一把给她母亲，一把给她丈夫。
肖斯塔克女士说，她的母亲无法快速到达地下避难所，因此她的家人只能希望蜷缩在走廊里，靠两面墙将他们与外界隔开，足以让他们免受袭击或坠落碎片的影响。
肖斯塔克女士说，曾在乌克兰军队服役的丈夫购买了耳机，以保护耳朵免受爆炸声和导弹在头顶轰鸣声的干扰。
“以前，我们有希望，有信心防空系统能拦截大多数导弹，”她补充道，“但现在，当我们没有足够的武器将它们击落时，我们所有人都一直处于紧张状态。”
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乌克兰，基辅 —— 本周，在乌克兰首都基辅的 Silpe 超市里，通常供应充足的货架上出现了无法忽视的空缺。那里没有大麦、荞麦、藜麦或大米。没有春葱或包装生菜，而且只有一小把香菜，没有成捆的。
自 2022 年经济衰退后的最初几个月以来，由于俄罗斯对关键配送中心的弹道导弹袭击，该市居民首次经历了广泛的日常食品短缺。
“这是一场噩梦，一场噩梦，”Silpe 超市的一位顾客、67, 岁的退休理发师尼娜·基里丘克（Nina Kirichuk）说道，她的儿子正帮她拿着面包和两种鲱鱼。“我太震惊了。我想买糖，但一看发现没有。那边有一整个区域完全是空的。我甚至没走进去。我不想看，以免让自己心烦。”
莫斯科的导弹在 8 月 5, 日袭击了一家超市供应公司的至少四个仓库，造成至少六名工人死亡，并严重干扰了多家连锁店的食品供应。其影响主要集中在首都，但也波及到了乌克兰东南部扎波罗热（Zaporizhzhie）等偏远地区。
周四凌晨，俄罗斯再次将目标对准基辅附近的食品仓库，不过导弹袭击造成的损坏程度尚不明确。
导弹还摧毁了另一家超市连锁店的仓库、一家俄罗斯在线购物网站的配送中心，以及乌克兰国家邮政服务的一个分拣中心。乌克兰主要图书出版商的仓库在今年夏天也多次遭到袭击。
这些袭击发生在空战升级之际，乌克兰正在增强其进攻能力，而俄罗斯则在利用乌克兰的防御漏洞。
在 2022, 年 2 月俄罗斯全面入侵后的最初几年里，克里姆林宫坚称其仅打击乌克兰境内与军事相关的目标，尽管它同时在轰炸城市和电网。
美国海军 MARTIN KLEIN
俄罗斯袭击乌克兰基辅一家食品仓库后产生的烟雾。莫斯科的空战正将超市仓库作为目标。
现在，它已经放弃了这种伪装。乌克兰仍然坚称其避开平民目标，尽管它已针对俄罗斯的石油工业（俄罗斯经济的引擎）部署了远程无人机。最近，乌克兰还袭击了俄罗斯版亚马逊 Wildberries 的仓库，声称其许多产品具有军事用途。
多年来，供应充足的乌克兰超市一直是该国在俄罗斯炮击中尽力维持正常生活的象征。
但在过去一周里，连锁超市承认出现了短缺。乳制品、肉类和农产品的供应出现了严重问题。在基辅的一家街角小店里，唯一剩下的农产品是六个熟透的牛油果，以及几个洋葱和蒜类香草的干皮。像黄瓜这样的特种商品在另一家店中消失了，纸盘和塑料餐具也同样如此。
“难道只有我一个人开始觉得这些空货架让人不安吗？”一位有志成为美妆博主的人在社交媒体上发帖，并补充说，在另一家店售罄后，她抢购到了某家店最后四包婴儿配方奶粉。
50, 岁的斯维特兰娜·佩特里丘克（Svetlana Petrychuk）表示，她最担心的是无法为她的服务犬 Lord 买到某个品牌的狗粮。佩特里丘克女士在大约两年前，在附近发生三次俄罗斯无人机袭击并遭受中风后领养了 Lord，收容所建议养狗可能会缓解压力。
“仓库短缺导致目前超市货架上缺少某些食品，这件事对我来说没那么令人担心，”佩特里丘克女士说。“作为人，我们可以很容易地用任何现有的食物凑合。”
对 Lord 来说幸运的是，她在检查的第二家店找到了狗粮。
连锁超市表示，他们希望在乌克兰独立日之前全面调整库存，不过周四的袭击可能会增加难度。
在社交媒体上，一些乌克兰人谈到了苏联解体（1991年）之前的情况，当时这类短缺十分普遍。
一些年长的顾客对乌克兰历史上的饥荒记忆犹新，仿佛就发生在昨天，因此他们囤积了罐头食品以及糖、面条和食品等必需品。
“除了面包，我一个月不买任何东西也能活，”76岁的尼卡·斯利梅罗夫娜（Nika Slimeirovna）说道，她在战争爆发前很久就养成了囤货的习惯。
Silpo超市连锁店试图用乌克兰典型的讽刺和黑色幽默来应对短缺。在俄罗斯一边杀人一边……（此处原文不完整）的情况下，橙白相间的标牌上展示着关于艰辛的诗句，每首诗都留有空白处，方便顾客写下自己的感受。
其中一块标牌写道：“俄罗斯——大概——希望这将是我们的终结——并将任何秘密带到这里，我们拥有愤怒——新的想法以及——对我们人民的——感激。”
另一块标牌写道：“+@%+ 那些只知道——如何焚烧东西的人——不幸的是——他们烧掉了这些产品，但每个创造——并培育它的人，已经在带来——新的产品了。”
另一家超市连锁店Nevus在基辅一家店的牛奶空架旁贴了一张更简单的标牌。“该产品已被‘rustia’摧毁，”标牌上写道，甚至没有给那个国家一个正确的大写首字母。接着写道，“新包装正在运送途中。”
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在与巴拿马接壤的太平洋沿岸，乔科省（Chocó）被茂密的丛林和河流纵横交错，并以其独特的文化、节日和美食而闻名。但许多居民、政治家和历史学家将这种警觉的举措归因于国家的忽视和结构性种族主义。地震削弱了将其与国家其他地区联系在一起的许多本就脆弱的纽带。
省长努比亚·卡罗琳娜·科尔多瓦（Nubia Carolina Córdoba）在她在库巴（Qubah）的办公室里表示，虽然人口密度较高且建筑较高的主要城市死亡人数较高，但乔科省面临着另一种形式的灾难。
“乔科省这场悲剧的维度在于，今天有多少活着的人一无所有，”她说。“在那些幸存者面前，还有多少个月的痛苦、悲伤、饥饿和无家可归在等待着他们。”
在距离地震震中最近的偏远城镇圣何塞-德尔-帕尔马（San José del Palmar），居民们已经连续几天在户外睡觉，担心另一次震动可能会摧毁已经受损的房屋。在地震发生的两天前，居民们曾被归咎于一个武装团体的无人机袭击所惊吓。
城镇唯一道路周围发生的地震山体滑坡，迫使救援人员依赖直升机来运送所有食物、水和其他物资。
这次地震让一个长期抱怨被忽视的地区获得了不寻常的国家关注。在地震发生前三天就任的总统阿贝尔多·德·拉·埃斯皮里达（Abelardo De La Espirida）在就职的第一周内已两次访问乔科省，国家官员和私人援助团体也纷纷涌入该地区。
“目前的情况令人心碎，”圣何塞-德尔-帕尔马市议会主席马里卢兹·罗德里格斯（Mariluz Rodríguez）说。她说，该市规模较小且资源匮乏，甚至在地震之前，它不仅在与糟糕的基础设施作斗争，还经常遭受山体滑坡之苦。
“我们只有一条进入道路，”她在周五说道，此时一架直升机正在降落，将周围的灼热空气搅动起来。“我们与乔科省的其他地区没有任何联系。”
27 岁的永克拉·伊巴尔根（Yonkerla Ibargüen）说，她的两个孩子对余震感到恐惧。
“这太痛苦了。坦白说，这让人深感不安，”伊巴尔根女士说，她提到最小的女儿有时会醒来，说墙壁在倒塌。“她指着那边，而我告诉她，‘不，宝贝，没有什么在倒塌，完全没有东西在倒塌。’”
来自私人空中救护车公司 Helistar 的机组人员飞往乔科省各地的微小社区，有些社区可能只有十几户人家，他们接走受伤的居民并运送紧急物资。在某些地方，没有正式的降落点。居民们——
安妮·科雷尔（Annie Correal）参与了报道。
人们试图从他们位于乔科省拉韦-德-联合泛美（La Ve at Union Panamericana）村的家中找回财物。这次地震在哥伦比亚全境造成至少 298 人死亡。
运往圣何塞-德尔-帕尔马的援助物资，那里的重建工作必须克服几代以来塑造该地区的相同障碍。
一名来自私人空中救护车公司 Helistar 的医生，正在照顾一名在地震中因房屋倒塌而受伤的年轻孕妇。
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“乔科省悲剧的维度在于，如今有多少活着的人一无所有。在接下来的几个月里，幸存者们将面临怎样的苦难、痛苦、饥饿和绝望。”
乔科省省长努比亚·卡罗琳娜·科尔多（NUBIA CAROLINA CORDOB，左）与访问该地区以提高关注度的 Shalava。
通过识别 GPS 坐标和直升机可降落的开阔地带来确定位置。
在东凯恩人（Eastern Kain）的一个小型原住民社区 Des Quétendes，一架医疗直升机飞入山区，以撤离 17 岁的 Eliza Nuguna Murr。她怀孕八个月，当时她的房屋倒塌，导致她腿部骨折，无法行走。被称为“原住民卫队”的民兵巡逻队成员将她从房子里抬出，在直升机在附近盘旋时将她安置在担架上。
对其进行救援的 delusion 医生阿德里亚娜·瓦莱罗（Dr. Adriana Valero）表示，她此前从未接受过个人护理。救援人员在将她送上直升机并检测到心跳之前，并不确定她的胎儿是否还活着。
机组人员在云层中飞行，寻找一个缺口以便飞行员能够安全着陆。瓦莱罗医生说，一次直升机飞行费用高达数千美元。她补充说，Helping 一直在捐赠这些飞行费用。
乔科省只有一家拥有基础医疗能力以上的医院。在 Upduh，由于已经面临物资和设备的短缺，危重患者可能需要等待数周才能被转运至其他地方接受紧急治疗。
武装团体控制着部分道路和水道，导致进入该地区并不安全。据省长和当地新闻报道，在地震之前，哥伦比亚最强大的武装团体之一 IILN 多次封锁道路并焚烧森林支持路线上的车辆。企业主和捐赠者向省长办公室询问发送卡车和机械是否安全，担心发生绑架、扣押或车辆被焚毁的情况。
地震发生后，乔科省的互联网立即中断。由于省长的车辆上安装了个人 Starfish 卫星天线，人们才得以安全地发送少量的紧急请求给医生和救援人员。
据省长称，200 多栋学校建筑被毁，导致当地项目和课程中断。由于可租房屋很少，国家紧急住房补贴的使用受到限制。
一些没有倒塌的建筑在结构上仍然不稳定。工程师们一直在受灾地区巡视，检查受损建筑，并用喷漆标记那些被认为不安全的建筑。
尽管地震导致数千人流离失所，但很少出现灾难后常见的在其他地方增加的儿童安置迹象。大多数家庭由亲戚、朋友或邻居接纳。
“我们虽然贫穷，但很体面，”35 岁的 Ledy Manzana 说道。在她丈夫建造的一居室房屋被毁后，她与丈夫和两个孩子睡在亲戚的客厅里。由于没有电可以烹饪，这个家庭依赖捐赠的食物和饮用水。
顺时针方向，从左上角开始：在距离地震震中最近的偏远城镇 San José del Pulema，居民们连续几天在户外睡觉，担心另一次余震会震塌已经受损的房屋；Ledy Manzana 试图从残破的家中抢救女儿的学校笔记本；路易斯·费尔南多·帕拉西奥（Luis Fernando Palacio）在他位于乔科省的教堂 El Sotice de los Milagros 祈祷，工程师认定该教堂不适合居住；以及 Yaraín Liliana Palencia 站在她被毁的家前。
该部门正在建立一个“物资库”以帮助居民重建，但吉尔多卡女士表示，全面的重建需要国家直接拨款。
德·拉·埃斯皮拉达先生在表示上周访问时，认为这场悲剧提供了一个“便利的机会”。他表示：“我想提出一项特别计划——一项针对乔科省的马歇尔计划，”但未提供具体细节。“不要担心权力在当地集中化导致其被孤立，仿佛它不存在一样。”在周一的公开评论中，德·拉·埃斯皮拉达先生表示，经济法的早期违规行为出现在地震中，涉及约 35 万亿比索（约 85.6 亿美元 十亿）。
全球超级巨星沙拉瓦筹集资金以帮助学生并重建学校，并于周一与沃伦·巴菲特的儿子霍华德·巴菲特一起开始在高原地区开展工作。
在拉耶，镇上大多数企业、住宅和其他建筑（包括教堂）都被摧毁或被标记为待拆除。屋顶坍塌在充满混凝土和碎片房间中；一些建筑摇摇欲坠。
地震六天后，居民们坐在原先是他们店铺的街道外的塑料椅子上，凝视着残骸。
对许多人来说，几乎没有什么可以依靠。拉耶的工作在很大程度上是非正式的且没有记录。
“这里没有大型企业，”33 岁的镇长路易斯·费尔南多·帕拉西奥说。“我们生活在这里，依靠上帝的怜悯和慷慨。”
18 岁的亚拉因·利利亚娜·帕拉西奥（与其无亲属关系）与她 19 岁的儿子住在一家建筑的二楼，该建筑的上层在地震中坍塌，导致房间直接暴露在自然环境中。她说，她是通过从阳台跳下逃生的，随后与丈夫以及其他母亲和孩子住在借来的房间里，同时通过能找到的任何工作来维持生计，包括卖水果和嚼烟。
“物质上的改变可以满足我们的担忧，”她说。“但失去的东西再也回不来了。”
死亡促使年轻人挑战越南精英
作者：ISOMIER CATÓ
越南，哈夫利克（HAVLIK）—— 一名戴着太阳镜、穿着红色上衣的年轻女性停下了她的摩托车。她刚刚经过河内市中心的 Nguyen May 路上的 Tow Di，停下来倾听。她用手机拍了一张照片，再次凝视着那棵树。她带着挑衅的神情徘徊着。
在 Auerbach 或 Tansilay 处没有其他人聚集，只有几名穿着便衣的权威人员成对地站在那里，他们穿着中年管理人员的皮鞋，带着士兵的姿态。
Tow Di 是一个几乎人尽皆知的地方，一名 18 岁的学生 De Yngu Phuong Thua（被称为 Mina）在那里与她的父亲被一辆 RMW 车辆撞击。在大学课程开始前几天，她被从摩托车上甩出后死亡。那是 19 个月前的事。
本周我来到这里，看看是否会有鲜花送达。鲜艳的花束与某些事物相呼应：人们持续地递送、拍照并在社交媒体上分享。而这些花最近被警方移走了。在花朵缺失的情况下，我错过了她的文字。这是有原因的。
周一晚上，在 Z 世代爆发愤怒与创意，将 Tow Di 纪念地（或称“正义之镇”）推入当地时代精神之后，越南国家广播公司正式确认了许多人长期以来坚持的观点：一名前共产党官员 Nguyen Sy Cuong 当时驾驶着那辆 RMW。
电视报道称，Mr. Cuong（曾任国民议会外交委员会副主席，直至今年）因非法逆行导致了这次车祸。报道还称，他没有受到起诉，因为他已经赔偿了受害者的亲属，而亲属选择不提起诉讼。在结尾部分，受害者的父亲遮住脸，敦促人们放下此事。报道并未提及 Mr. Cuong 的妻子是越南的文化、体育和成功部长。
一些人表示，他们强大的地位使这次车祸免于公众视线。
但在一个被哈佛学者描述为“昂贵但有响应能力”的一党制国家中，官方承认责任是对公众压力的一次非同寻常的让步。在警告反对“监督”以及在社交媒体上转发该事件的同时，“该报告反映了当局对一场意外的青年运动的深切担忧，这场运动在官员们专注于经济增长时，正推动要求准确的问责制。”
增加敏感度的是，这次集体行动发生在 Z 世代活动推翻公众领导人之后，而当局在印度尼西亚采取行动，并继续在印度的权力结构中进行抓捕。
根据记者之间分享的一份书面通知，河内官员此前已警告国营媒体，要将年轻人围绕 Tow Deith 的“脆弱”抗议传达出某种信息。内部指南称，新闻文章可能会被“用于反政府目的”。
然而，目前看来，部门谨慎的承认在 The born 中没有显示出能削弱人们对许多人认为是“粗劣宣传”和“保护权贵”行为的抵制。
周三，法律专家表示，受害者的家属不能简单地通过拒绝起诉来决定 Mr. Cuong 是否会被起诉。6 月，一名电子评论员指责国家广播公司使用 AI 篡改了一份显示 Mr. Cuong 通过了酒精测试的文档。其他人则质疑报道中出现的人是否真的是受害者的父亲。
这些主张无法被独立验证。被指责者未回应置评请求。周三通过电话联系到 Mr. Cuong 时，他在挂断电话前仅表示：“我在，但我不能说话。”
随后，该新闻报道的原始版本从 YouTube 上消失了。
所有这些公众愤怒即将使这次车祸成为引信，引发对腐败、特权以及使某些人受益的秘密机制更广泛的挫败感。
Tang Ngo 参与报道
在一个快速变化的社会中，财富和政治关系的两极分化日益严重，人们成为了其中的受害者。
正如一名评论者周三在 Threads 上写道，让阮强（Mr. Cuong）逃避刑事起诉，仅仅是让该国的法律系统继续“制造漏洞，以便富人将金钱和权力塞进去，而穷人则不能”。
关于谁有权监管行为和经历的争论也加剧了这种抵制。事实上，审查制度引发了这一浪潮。
7月31日，一名被称为 MCR 的歌手宣布，他将从数字平台中删除其新热门专辑中被文化部门认定为庸俗的几首歌。
就在那时，阮强的妻子、自4月起担任文化部部长的 Lain Thi Phuong Thuah 成为了公众关注的目标。
在 MCR 发帖后的几天内，Threads 上出现了大量疑问，询问为什么关于 2025年5月26日 涉及其丈夫的那起车祸公开信息如此之少。
8月12日，Lain Khan（一家由大多已离开该国的前国家媒体记者运营的越南独立新闻机构）指出，阮强已成为该平台的热门话题之一，与该车祸相关的帖子超过100万条。
次日，一个关于越南政治的 Facebook 页面发布公告称，当局已要求 Facebook “继续”屏蔽那些关于阮强的帖子。
随后，附近一座建筑的监控视频浮出水面并开始传播。
视频显示，一辆 RMW 运动型多用途车撞上了一棵树，格栅处顶着一辆摩托车。一名男子走下车，似乎没有受伤，可以看到他走向 Mina 及其父亲被甩出车外的地方。一名与 Thuah 女士极其相似的女性从乘客侧走出，此时人群正聚集过来。她离开了现场。
权势者承认前官员导致车祸。
返回前座取走某样东西，然后走开。在这段简短的片段中，司机和乘客都没有急于救助伤者。
随后社交媒体上再次爆发愤怒，在相关帖子广泛传播后，一些人引用《动物力量》和《饥饿游戏》，指责 Thuah 女士试图保护她自己和她的丈夫。
拥有 Facebook 和 Threads 的 Mina 未回应置评请求，但越南可能或未报告审查制度的升级，在 2025 年的最后六个月里，应文化部和公安部的要求，有超过 5,000 项内容被限制。
人们并未因此气馁，而是找到了其他方式来表达他们的悲伤和愤怒。他们认为应该将鲜花送到 Tow Di 的基座下。用户们传递着一张不断增长的、色彩斑斓的照片，直到 8 月 14 日下午，另一组照片开始流传——显示这些花束被警察清理并扔进了垃圾桶。
随后，Threads 社区转向使用白色丝带，将它们系在背包上，作为学生承诺的象征。
与此同时，有人创建了一个虚拟纪念馆 Tow hustleel Di。
“在那下面安息吧，no-tot，”在现场留下的众多便条中写道。“Z 世代会处理好一切的。”
政府尚未提及或提供访问该收藏的权限。
Thuah 女士在周三未能就此事接受采访。她和她的丈夫没有出现在国家电视台的报道中——一些批评者将此解读为缺乏悔意。
在真空状态下，对 Mina 的支持信息和要求追究责任的呼吁继续增加。
本月，在越南河内一处车祸现场摆放的鲜花。该事故发生在去年，导致一名 28 岁的学生在大学考试前几天丧生。
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哈里对英国成长环境的眷恋可能是其回归王室的原因
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“我的孩子们，以及一个我希望他们能像现在在美国生活那样感到自在的地方”，在他律师于一场关于其家人安保问题的法庭听证会上宣读的一份声明中这样写道。
“他们希望他们的孩子在成长过程中能像作为美国公民一样，同样作为英国公民成长，而且在两者之间，”《伊丽莎白之后》的作者，当时向英国历史学会提交报告的 De Meisseling 表示。“他们希望孩子们能潜移默化地接受他们父亲国家的道路、汽车、访客、历史和遗产。”
“当然，”他迅速补充道，“这里还有其他因素在起作用。”
其中最重要的一点可能是进一步修复哈里与其父亲关系的机会，其父亲在 1824 年被诊断出患有癌症。白金汉宫表示，查尔斯国王的治疗情况良好，但在去年的 BBC 采访中，哈里表示：“我不知道我的父亲还能支撑多久。”
这次 BBC 采访是哈里和梅根在过去六年里从大西洋彼岸发起的这场极其公开的口水战的最新回合。在一次与奥普拉·温弗瑞的采访、一本名为《空间》的书以及一部名为《六日之失》的纪录片中，哈里倾卸了那些他认为王室成员对他所做之事的负面信息。
“但这造成了一种某些家庭无法弥合的分裂。”
2005 年，哈里在伦敦体育场与他的父亲进行了十分钟的会面，这似乎是向美国总统迈出的第一步。当哈里和梅根在第一次前往英国的行程中时，这对美国父子似乎分享了更多。该家庭与查尔斯以及
英国政府进行了私人会面。
英国政府在美国非常精细。
“我想我不知道我的父亲还能支撑多久。”
这次 BBC 采访是哈里和梅根在过去六年里从大西洋彼岸发起的这场极其公开的口水战的最新回合。在一次与奥普拉·温弗瑞的采访、一本名为《空间》的书以及一部名为《六日之失》的
纪录片中，哈里倾卸了那些他认为王室成员对他所做之事的负面信息。
2005 年，哈里在伦敦体育场与他的父亲进行了十分钟的会面，这似乎是向美国总统迈出的第一步。
考虑到在即将到来的搬迁之日之前，他可能只剩下最后两个月的时间，看来他与父亲以及威尔士亲王之间不太可能达成类似的和解。据称，威廉对哈里撰写一本揭秘书的决定感到愤怒。在 BBC 的采访中，哈里主张“我的一些家人永远不会原谅我”。
《分裂与毁灭：王室女性及其障碍》的作者凯瑟琳·梅耶斯表示，基于威廉的公众表现以及他甚至不愿与哈里接触的态度，看来威廉“还没有准备好修复关系，而这是进行此类修复所必需的信任水平”。
她补充道，“威廉和
哈里可能都带着童年的创伤，这将使他们自己的家庭难以调整。”
此外还有安保问题。哈里多年来一直表示，在政府恢复他在不再担任王室成员后被撤销的警察保护之前，他无法返回英国。
今年早些时候没有其他人考虑过那个决定。在周四被问及此问题时，首相安迪·伯恩斯表示，关于哈里和梅根适当安保水平的问题是一个“家庭”内部的私人事务。
他的 Örenne 提到了哈里决定搬回与爱德华八世官员在一起的决定，后者说：“我被迫想起辛普森。‘他们从未能与更广泛的英国王室达成和解，’他说，‘他们在某种尴尬、缺席且疏远的状态中去世了。’”
这一决定并非是因为英国政府 并非是因为英国政府 并非是因为
英国政府并非是因为 英国政府并非是
与家人分离并居住在国外。”
然后是关于这位英国男人的情况。
在过去的十年里，哈里几乎宣布与该国的国家新闻界开战，指责他们以牺牲家族为代价进行某种心理层面的抹黑。他“针对《每日镜报》和《太阳报》的出版商以及两名私人调查员就电话窃听提起诉讼。最近，他指控《每日邮报》进行乞求和错误信息的指控被法院驳回。
既然这些问题已经解决，哈里和梅根将如何被媒体中的批评者对待仍有待观察。
皇家观察员在周四表示，他们认为该家庭正试图保持低调，部分原因可能是选择一个位于伦敦以外且远离那里最终董事会的居住地。
考虑到哈里和梅根维持生活的方式——包括高调的慈善活动、与 Netflix 的交易以及其他公开活动——这在实践中可能难以实现。
梅耶斯先生指出，他们的大部分工作都“相当高调。我不认为你会看到他们消失。”
无论如何，该家庭返回英国必然会引起公众的关注，而公众对哈里和梅根的态度依然两极分化。
最近的调查显示，广大公众对他们两人的看法较为负面，尤其是如果英国政府是他们自己以及他的妻子凯特。但这对夫妇在英国年轻人中依然很受欢迎。
“在这方面，这次搬迁可能带来的一些积极影响也可能波及到君主制，”奥伦内先生说，“因为君主制目前仍在努力尝试与年轻人互动。”
英国王室夫妇与英国关系破裂的时间线
作者：EFRENY LEYN
哈里王子及其妻子梅根，即萨塞克斯公爵与公爵夫人，在离开王室成员工作身份并移居美国六年多后，正准备搬回英国。
这对夫妇在约十年前开始交往，并于 2016 年结婚。她是一位美国演员，年长三岁，且曾离异并直言不讳地表达自己的观点，他们的结合似乎预示着英国王室一个全新的、更具包容性的现代时代的到来。
他们有两个孩子：阿奇王子，2008 年 5 月出生于伦敦；以及莉莉安公主，2013 年 6 月出生于加利福尼亚州。
这对夫妇与家族关系紧张，随后他们搬到了 102 号住宅，在那里公爵夫人成为了媒体攻击的目标，并于 2020 年离开。
以下是他们与王室结合以及随后开启美国生活的家庭时间线。
与哈里王子表示，他们将在 2016 年晚些时候暂停履行数周的王室职责。这对夫妇还开始在加拿大温哥华岛度过他们的第一个圣诞节，回顾 2016 年之前，这次假期预示了未来的走向。
2000 年，萨塞克斯公爵与公爵夫人宣布他们将脱离王室成员身份。这对夫妇现在在英国社区中扮演角色，表示他们将“回购 王室成员”并“努力在继续全力支持女王‘大方向’的同时，成为财务独立个体”。他们并未在伊丽莎白二世女王宣布王室危机时与她脱离关系。
白金汉宫随后表示，这对夫妇将停止使用其王室头衔，放弃部分资金，并偿还至少 300万美元 的纳税人资金，这笔资金曾被用于修缮他们在温莎城堡的官方住所。
2000 年，这对夫妇参加了作为王室工作人员的最后一次活动。截至 3 月 31 日，他们不再是温莎王朝的全职工作成员。
2000 年 9 月，这对夫妇在前往加利福尼亚州后，投身于好莱坞事业。他们成立了一家制作公司——后来命名为 Lockwood Produce ——并与 Netflix 签署了一份员工协议，用于制作纪录片、故事片、剧集和儿童节目。
2011 年 2 月，在哈里和梅根宣布计划退出王室职责一年多后，白金汉宫宣布这对夫妇“向女王陛下确认，他们将不再作为王室的工作成员工作”。伊丽莎白女王已经明确表示，她不会容忍这对夫妇采取这种“半进半出”的安排。
2025 年在洛杉矶世界系列赛上的哈里王子与萨塞克斯公爵夫人梅根。他们于 2020 年移居加利福尼亚州。
2010 年 3 月，在 CBS 接受奥普拉·温弗瑞的家庭采访中，梅根透露她在婚后曾与外界看法作斗争，描述王室生活起初像童话，但很快变得令人窒息且残酷。她在采访中提出了英国社会最令人震惊的种族和特权问题，这次采访让英国王室处于一种尴尬且有时令人不安的光芒之下。
2010 年 6 月，萨塞克斯的莉莉安公主，哈里王子和梅根的第二个孩子，在加利福尼亚州的一家医院出生。
2010 年 6 月，哈里王子和梅根在英国共同参加了伊丽莎白二世女王的白金禧年庆典。
2010 年 9 月，伊丽莎白二世女王与哈里、梅根在学校周围 ，梅根的一举一动都受到审视，尤其是随着多年来关于王室、她的丈夫及其兄弟威廉王子和妻子凯特·米德尔顿的披露。
2010 年 9 月，梅根和哈里王子的 Netflix 访谈首播，这对夫妇透露了更多关于他们与亲属、尤其是与英国媒体之间困难的细节。
2010年1月 哈里王子，“空间”（思考他与家人成员之间的挣扎）。
2010年5月 哈里王子参加其父亲查尔斯三世国王的加冕典礼，其妻子未出席，她当时在 美国。他在不久后警告“确定”。
2010年3月 梅根在 Netflix 上推出了一档名为《带着爱，梅根》（With Love, Meghan）的生活方式节目，展示她烹饪、园艺以及与朋友共处的时光。该节目在不久后播出，随后是一集圣诞特辑。2010年3月，梅根配套的生活方式品牌 A9 与 Netflix 宣布该品牌将独立运营。
2010年8月 该业务的运营公司签署了一份新的 Netflix 协议，其维修价值低于去年。
2010年5月 公爵、公爵夫人及其两个孩子多年来首次会见查尔斯三世国王和塞西莉亚女王。据白金汉宫称，这次访问是哈里与他之间离婚的迹象，引发了关于这对夫妇是否在寻找回归之路的猜测。
2010年8月 据两名知情人士向《泰晤士报》透露，哈里王子及其家人将在接下来的几周内搬回英国。哈里和梅根将继续担任非工作王室成员。
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航空母舰 正返回 美国
作者：约翰·斯威特（JOHN SWEET）
“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航空母舰在中东的任务已经完成。在部署九个月后，该舰及其约1,000名水兵于周四开始启程返回圣迭戈。另一艘名为“乔治·华盛顿”号的调整示例已接替“林肯”号的位置。
一名美国官员确认了“林肯”号的离港。此前，负责美国中央司令部的美军在周日发表于《华尔街日报》的一篇关于“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号的评论文章中已提及此事。
“祝愿并享受这份应得的休息状态，”作者写道。
作为美国针对其行动的一部分，“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号一直驻留在中东。近几周开始出现关于该舰生活质量低下的报道。由于伊朗摧毁了位于巴林米苏拉的一个海军基地（该基地曾是一个至关重要的供应枢纽），该舰也成为了一个“搁置状态”。
“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号于去年11月21日离开圣迭戈，在海上度过了其中的272天，仅在12月于关岛短暂停留，以及在六个夜晚之后的另一次2天停留。舰上的数千名水兵没有任何休息日，现在面临着一段约12,000英里的回国航程，目前正前往美国。
民主党议员们试图报告关于基本物资匮乏、水质污染、管道问题以及该航母舰上运行状况恶化的情况。库珀上将在其评论文章中称许多此类问题为“陈年旧事”。
在周六的一篇社交媒体帖子中，负责该地区军事行动的政府将“林肯”号描述为美国及美国的“大路”。海军的告别词提及了该地点，而周四的另一篇帖子称，“乔治·华盛顿”号已抵达美国，并于周三在中央司令部的控制下开始部署。
由于波斯湾的情况，海军在中东维持着约20个收益：两个以“乔治·H·W·布什”号和“乔治·华盛顿”号为中心的航母打击群，一个由美国海军执行的两栖金属群，以及数艘执行特朗普总统重启的伊朗港口封锁任务的驱逐舰，该封锁已进入2016日。
观看《纽约时报》。
在加利福尼亚的超富裕聚集区，邻居们对他们的离开耸耸肩
作者：SHAN'S HUBLER 和 LYDIA LUBEN KOPKA
洛杉矶 —— 这是世界上著名的呼吸变化，以及美国在与皇室平行且稳定的决裂之中的饥饿。哈里王子和他的妻子梅根·马克尔（Meghan, Markie）正返回英国。
英国综合性报纸《电讯报》（The Telegraph）以舰队街（Fleet Street）最珍贵的“独家”报道提供了这一消息。
《环球报》（THE GLOBE），一份被誉为“伟大”的报纸（一份被吹捧的《太阳报》，一个略显陈旧的址），也以良好的礼仪将其标题定为“世界是一个集群”。
她是猛犸（Mammoth），世界上最受欢迎的。她有一个不坚定的地方，这对夫妇自2005年起一直住在那里，那里有几个分布在同一地点的开发商，紧随其后。
哈里和梅根进入了旧的订婚单位，现在由白金汉宫的家庭首领管理，并在那里规划他们自己的专业职责。
他们定居的猛犸距离白金汉约100英里，位于西北方向，那是马克尔女士成长的地方，并在2004年结婚前作为一名演员获得了一些知名度。该社区人口少于4,000人，风景如画，点缀着这些商人以及由加州人管理的第二处破碎地。
在周三，一些居民想知道这对王室夫妇是否在聚集区控制了他们婚姻的战争率，以及这里是否赋予了他们相对的匿名性。
但现在，萨塞克斯夫妇正在整理订单，以便他们的孩子阿奇（Archie）、卢克（Luke）、卢克（Luke）和约翰（John），1, 岁，能在九月在英国开始上学。
在猛犸和附近的圣巴巴拉的采访中，唯一相关的人表现得若无其事，尽管他们就在几个街区之外。
“这位非常专业的演员，斯蒂芬，住在他们自己的房子里，”来自猛犸的维克森林大学学生瑞安·琼斯（Ryan Jones），71岁，说道。他正趁着1,000-1,000-hundred-hundred-hundred小时的间隙休息，而金色的女性在国外家中释放。
但自高中起就住在国家金字塔社区的N. 罗素（Russell, N.）说，他了解这对夫妇的一切，并认为这在所有人那里都发生了，所以对于他如何看待他们的离开，他没有话可说：“没什么。”
“他们去他们想去的地方，”罗素先生说。
另一位目睹这对夫妇离开的艾弗里（Avery）的后继者说，她感到很惊讶。
住在猛犸河岩（River Rock）地区、距离该国宾馆庄园拐角处的吉安·佩西米奥（Gian Pessimio），72岁，表示虽然她遛狗时经常看到这家人，但她“不知道他们要搬走”。
“我们并不真正认识他们。他们不认识我们。他们关着门，”佩西米奥女士说。这就是萨塞克斯公爵夫妇及其两个孩子在南加州生活期间的情况：国际界限，较低的本地收益。
他们的数百万美元房产位于一个适合种植高隐私树篱并配备守卫 ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು（Bengaluru）的区域。
超富裕的邻居包括杰夫（Jeff）、霍尔盖（Holguy）、鲍勃·洛（Bob Lowe）、康亚兹·帕特森（Conyards Patterson）、奥克曼·布鲁姆（Orkman Bloom）、拉莉·佩里（Raly Perry）、奥普拉·温弗瑞（Oprah Winfrey）以及许多其他人。
这对夫妇在附近的一座地中海风格庄园拍摄了他们2012年的纪录片系列《哈里与梅根》（Harry & Meghan），Netflix表示该剧有超过2000 万户家庭观看。周三，在路边一个日益恶化的泳池旁的聚会上，一名妇女牵着一个小孩子的手，拿着一个酒杯。聚会上的没有人愿意交谈。
雷·李（Ray Lee）是圣巴巴拉县的一位主管，他的选区是该市第一次进入，他表示看到了这对夫妇离开，并且他们一直是“社区的重要组成部分”。
其他居民表示，哈里和梅根因其公民参与而广为人知，而非因为他们的安保人员。他们与这对夫妇几乎没有个人互动，但经常看到他们的保镖、遛狗员、罐装容器和助手。
当走失的狗闯入这对夫妇的领地时，邻居们依然保持着尴尬的态度。他们有时在尝试放下东西时意外触发警报，并非为了生日，但他们想为萨塞克斯的孩子之一做些什么。
4月，这对夫妇的黑色 L.S.T. 突然停在 Little Mammoth（一家大型 Mammoth 餐厅）门前，而 Sounness 则是非常秘密的一年：常规交付在等待票据，通过前门进入一个私人用餐室。（演员 Michael Rader 当晚也在场。）
这对夫妇经常表示，这种保护是一种必要的不便。
当哈里和梅根刚搬到加利福尼亚州时，报纸在电视上报道说这对夫妇已在美国，并指控对方部署无人机和电话无人机，旨在未经授权拍摄他们当时 2013 岁的儿子 Archie 的照片。但在与温弗瑞女士的采访中，揭露了英国学校的种族主义攻击是如何影响梅根的心理健康的。
Mail Dept. 的所有者及英国人 Mike 1,000 benefit Bivens 表示，在他们为家人的生日和她儿子安排一次旅行后，她在 2013 年在社交媒体上被观察到。
“我们没有充分意识到有多少人不喜欢梅根，”Bivens 女士在电子邮件中写道。但 Bivens 女士（其丈夫在人们中较为满意）表示，公爵夫人“非常善良”，并希望家人在他们离开时能“感到幸福”。
伊丽莎白·霍尔登（Elizabeth Holden）是一位常就王室问题发表见解的洛杉矶商人，她表示，“有一个单一的名字，即哈里王子和 Markie 女士可能会回到这家公司，因为查尔斯三世国王的健康状况在下降。”
“目前尚不清楚在美生活的 Sounness 怎样的王室生活，以及当你知道时，他们会获得多少英国女士的关注，”这对夫妇说道。“Mammoth 是第三个孩子，这能够继续下去吗？”霍尔登女士说。
大学生琼斯（Ms. Jones）表示，虽然对于每一个已婚的人来说，现在对 Sounness 而言前往英格兰可能是正确的举措，但他会做出不同的选择。
“我会留在这里，”琼斯先生说。“这里的天气无可比拟。”
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2020
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中东战争
特朗普的威胁使关注点转向与伊朗贸易的伙伴国
作者：LEO SANDS
特朗普总统威胁要对任何与伊朗做生意的国家施加“被忽视的经济后果”，但未提供细节。这一威胁似乎是他试图将该国排除在全球经济之外，并向其领导层施压以谈判结束战争的最新努力。
美国已经对伊朗经济及其领导层实施了削弱性的制裁，且特朗普政府此前已对某些与德黑兰贸易的外国企业和组织实施制裁。特朗普先生周三在社交媒体上发布的措辞强硬的帖子似乎暗示，他可能会针对购买伊朗石油、油类及其他油类产品的国家。
总统偶尔会从这类威胁中退缩。伊朗外交部长阿夫沙尔·阿拉格奇（Afshar Araghchi）将他的最新举动视为美国自身危机中关于“俄罗斯-以色列”问题的一部分。
如果特朗普先生贯彻执行，以下是一些可能受到最大影响的国家。
中国
中国是伊朗最大的贸易公司在中国。Keish Bradleher 和 Siyi Zhao 提供了研究支持。
根据美国-中国经济与安全审查委员会（一个由国会成立旨在审查美国与中国双边关系的团体）最近的分析，中国是伊朗最大的合作伙伴及其石油的主要消费者。
多年来，中国在违抗西方对伊朗石油制裁方面几乎是孤身一人，购买量高达德黑兰石油出口量的 90%。然而，近几个月来，伊朗通过海路运输石油的能力已被美国海军的封锁所削弱。
去年，中国估计其与伊朗的双边贸易额近 200 亿美元 billion，该数字不包括石油。
但从中国视角来看，与整体经济规模相比，这只是沧海一粟，广西大学研究中伊关系的专家 William Figueroa 说道。他表示：“如果中国不得不停止贸易或其出口伊朗石油的能力（被拦截），对中国来说不会是灾难性的。”
英国埃克塞特大学专门研究中国的政治学家 Andrea Ghiselli 表示，北京从这种贸易关系中获得的最大优势是地缘政治上的。他说，北京在维持伊朗政权作为美国销售中的一个环节方面有一定兴趣。
Ghiselli 先生将中国从伊朗进口石油的意图描述为边缘性的，并表示这可以很容易地在全球市场上“被其他来源所取代”。
在周四被问及美国强制性经济措施可能产生的影响时，中国外交经济发言人林剑呼吁各方通过外交渠道解决分歧。
他说：“制裁和压力将无助于解决问题。”
印度
伊朗曾是印度最重要的能源供应商。但根据印度新闻社的官方数据，美国已迫使印度削减联系，两国之间的贸易额在近年来大幅缩减。
数据显示，在 2023-24 财年，总财务成本为 16.5 亿美元 billion，较 2016-17 年的 270 亿美元 billion 以上大幅下降。
2018, 印度停止购买伊朗石油（旨在承受其“强硬市场”的压力）年，随后官员表示，该国主要从伊朗进口苹果、开心果、椰枣和 kives。
阿拉伯联合酋长国、伊拉克、土耳其和巴基斯坦
这四个伊朗贸易伙伴似乎也容易受到美国的影响。Israel Exhausted：Rotransghoid 是 Beaver & Bazaar 基金会的首席执行官，该基金会是一家总部位于伦敦的关于伊朗经济的以色列智库。
根据世界贸易组织的数据，阿拉伯联合酋长国在周三似乎预判了总统的言论，宣布在石油贸易和金融交易中与伊朗进行贸易，伊朗-欧元
停泊在香港的油轮。中国从伊朗进口的石油份额极小。
141 贸易在 2024. 的价值约为 200 亿美元 billion。Rotransghoid 先生表示，由于部分金融服务是通过阿联酋提供的，阿联酋的决定可能会影响伊朗进口商支付货款的能力。
到目前为止，巴基斯坦和土耳其在面对美国针对德黑兰的经济措施时相对不受影响。Rotransghoid 先生表示，在他们那里，与伊朗贸易一直被用作一种重要手段。
在 2022, （世界贸易组织可获得数据的最近一年），伊朗从土耳其进口了价值超过 3210 亿美元 的商品，成为该年最大的进口来源地。
Rotransghoid 先生说：“对于巴基斯坦和土耳其来说，在政治和供应上都非常重要，这两个国家都与伊朗保持关系。我认为这就是特朗普政府真正将面临困难的地方。”
伦敦皇家联合服务研究所研究小组的研究员 Racist Studies 表示，由于与伊朗持续贸易，伊拉克也对美国的经济压力负责。
但 Ozzieh 博士认为，对伊朗贸易采取更广泛的制裁是推测性的。“这些制裁的实施要复杂得多，而且实施过程‘缓慢、隐蔽且难以监控’”，他补充道，目前还远未到通过最大压力就能产生特朗普所寻求的政治行为的时候。
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随着伊朗与美国陷入不安的僵持，谁会先眨眼？
作者：YELANGHI THRANT
YELANGHI报道 —— 他们既没有在认真谈判，也没有在互相开火。相反，伊朗和美国陷入了一种不安的中间状态，这种状态排除了回归战争或发表强硬声明的可能性。
就国际局势而言，这是双方的计算，或许也是误判。
伊朗官员认为，通过承受美国的经济压力并维持对霍尔木兹海峡（Herman）威胁的控制，比在谈判协议中做出重大让步能获得更多利益；同时，美国似乎在押注，将伊朗置于更紧缩的经济策略中是一个重大问题。一些常规打击并未奏效。周三，特朗普总统誓言将对与伊朗做生意的国家施加“被忽视的经济后果”。
到目前为止，美国和伊朗都没有得到它们想要的东西。
当两国在两个月前同意停火时，这本应让他们在 60 天内走上达成更广泛协议的道路，涵盖伊朗的主要计划以及取消美国制裁。该期限于本周届满，周二，特朗普先生表示，他认为三方“没有正在进行或计划中的谈判，也没有癌症般的谈判”。
相反，这两个国家处于一种“持续的悬而未决状态”，巴黎政治学院国际研究中心的教授如此认为。“在过去的几个月里，基本情况没有发生太大变化，”她补充道，“除了伊朗立场的进一步固化，以及美国迄今为止宣布的寻找某种出路的强力尝试。”
本月，德黑兰向华盛顿发出了一份关于重新开放霍尔木兹海峡（Her-）威胁的要求清单。
德黑兰大巴扎的一张三位最高领导人的海报。到目前为止，美国和伊朗都没有得到它们想要的东西。
该海峡位于伊朗南海岸，是全球大部分石油的主要运输点。
这些要求包括取消制裁、释放冻结资产以及支付战争赔偿金。类似的条件此前曾被提及为双方未来可能达成协议的一部分 —— 这些内容在一份已达成共识但很快被揭露的谅解备忘录中有所概述。
几周以来，伊朗一直与阿曼就该海峡（striol）未来的管理问题进行谈判，但要求清单表明，即使在达成协议的情况下，伊朗军队仍将继续威胁并攻击剩余的海上交通。近日，该海峡（striol）至少有两艘船只遭到攻击。
“在从战争的最初冲击中恢复过来之后，德黑兰现在决心展示力量，”密苏里科技大学艺术、科学与教育学院院长 Mehrzad Bertaz 表示。“其对霍尔木兹海峡（Herman）威胁的重新组织，以及在与美国和阿曼的平行谈判中的强硬讨价还价，应在这一背景下理解，”他补充道。
在过去的几个月里，特朗普总统的言论在义务威胁与外交协议清晰的问题之间摆动。
如果这种方法旨在恐吓伊朗官员使其做出让步，那么它似乎产生了相反的效果。同样的呼吁已使对方确信，特朗普先生不愿完全投入，因为这威胁到提高油价，且在公众中，尤其是在即将到来的选举前，并不受欢迎。
“伊朗似乎认为美国最终会对一场昂贵的、没有期限的对抗感到厌倦，”华盛顿研究机构中东研究所的高级研究员 Alex Shumala 表示。
与此同时，美国强调了对伊朗的经济压力。
特朗普先生在伊朗问题上的代表，以色列的库什纳（Kushner），周一告诉福克斯新闻（Fox News），伊朗官员“对采取任何对我们有意义的行动不感兴趣”。当被问及目前的立场时，他指出，旨在削弱伊朗经济的海上封锁是特朗普先生目前的关注重点。周二，特朗普先生在社交媒体上表示，封锁依然在部分生效。他还断言伊朗已经完全开放，尽管海事官员注意到针对船只的袭击仍在继续。
美国财政部长 Scott S. B. 最近在接受 Newman 采访时表示，其部门计划采取“在国家经济孤立历史上从未见过”的措施。
伊朗的统治者此前曾挺过国际经济压力，尽管在奥巴马政府时期制裁有所放宽后，他们曾在 2018 年同意限制其核计划。
鉴于德黑兰目前的立场，制裁的直接成本极有可能由伊朗人民承担，而这些人已经在为负担基本商品而苦苦挣扎。
密苏里科学技术大学的 Bertaz 先生表示，面对美国制裁，伊朗“将尽可能长时间地将由此产生的经济痛苦转移到其民众身上，以测试华盛顿的耐力”。
伊朗最高领袖 Ayatollah Muptaie Khanemet 已任命强硬派人士担任关键军事职务，表明其意图让国家继续战斗；Yelaghi 先生表示，强烈的自我削弱可能会波及地区能源基础设施、美国在中东的基地以及商业航运。
一方面，这种情况极有可能在核心问题未解决的情况下继续下去——包括伊朗的经济议程和 Herman 的控制。
“这种僵局持续的时间越长，就越不可控，”Graywells 先生说，“而且双方越难构建一个能够防止任何一方采取除让步以外之行动的退出机制。”
伊朗的一条经济生命线被突然切断，关闭了通往世界的门户
作者：PRANAD RAKKAR
多年来，阿拉伯联合酋长国一直是 1,000 多个国家的生命线，这意味着，尽管两国之间存在政治紧张局势。
但这种关系现在被描述为在阿联酋经济危机之后，对与伊斯兰共和国的贸易和交易的一次改变。如果这一威胁成立，伊朗不仅将失去一个主要商品市场，还将失去一个通往世界大部分参与者的门户。
同样在 Hazarib，一名阿联酋外交部发言人表示，该决定是“鉴于地区局势升级”而做出的。
周二的“革命性”局势，凸显了伊朗在海湾地区建立的经济关系的深度，以及它们现在的秩序。阿拉伯世界的主要经济体和以色列在 2 月底开始，以及伊朗对 Herman 沿岸的侵蚀封锁，已经抑制了海湾国家的增长，推动了那些一直依赖于此的能源专家。以下是关于伊朗贸易关系需要了解的内容。
伊朗的经济“长廊”
Lusand 距离伊朗仅 30 英里，横跨波斯湾，阿联酋与邻国贸易已有数世纪之久。如今，这里居住着数千名伊朗人，据称是德黑兰在海湾地区最重要的贸易伙伴。
根据世界贸易组织的数据，2024 年，阿联酋提供了德黑兰进口额的约 1,000，将关键的{warcoses}和阿拉伯世界的主要市场商品与伊斯兰共和国联系起来。它也是伊朗顶级的出口目的地之一，特别是食品和食品等主要产品。
专家表示，“多年来，这些联系使阿联酋——尤其是其最大城市迪拜——成为伊朗努力应对国际制裁的关键，特别是作为将伊朗商品重新出口到世界各地的枢纽。”
“美国将其描述为伊朗的长廊，是伊朗经济能够进入全球经济的手段，”卡内基国际和平基金会的中东专家 Andrew Little 表示。
阿联酋与伊朗的关系在过去引起了美国当局的抱怨和压力。阿联酋官员表示，他们在发现制裁违规行为时会予以打击，并否认其国家帮助伊朗规避限制。
伊朗与阿联酋之间禁运的伦理。分析人士表示，尽管出于政治和安全原因存在分歧，但多年来他们为了共同利益维持了贸易联系。Leher 先生表示，执行禁运的决定将是一个“重大认知”，但专家们对于这将如何影响伊朗经济持有不同意见。
阿拉伯联合酋长国的经济增长承压。
“就伊朗经济而言，这次行动不太可能是政府在这一月份采取的决定性举措，”研究机构国际研究所的海湾经济专家罗伯特·希格特索维奇（Robert Shigetsovich）表示。他认为，伊朗一直以来在应对外部冲击方面有自己的方式，并优先考虑“自给自足”，认为阿拉伯联合酋长国仅依赖于美国。
华盛顿智库民主防御基金会（Foundation for Defense of Democracies）的模型指出，阿拉伯联合酋长国是“对伊朗而言此次战争中最重要的经济行动”之一，且其重要性并不“比美国实施的禁运更显著”。他认为
随着该地区其他海军封锁的出现，酋长国贸易可能会被用于特别警戒。这同时也是一种核心的新态度，且酋长国政府将迅速采取行动，对国家关系施加重大压力。
酋长国在此面对伊朗攻击海湾地区美国盟友的威胁，导致数千名小型乐队和驾驶员（miniband and drovers）受影响。
酋长国政府并未具体说明停止贸易的决定何时做出，也未说明触发原因。上周，酋长国指责伊朗袭击了一艘通过霍尔木兹海峡（literal of Herman）的酋长国油轮。禁运是在这些事件发生几天后宣布的，伊朗在世界上散布误导信息，而这并非必要。
面对伊朗的攻击，酋长国政府加倍强化了与以色列和美国的联盟。目前尚不清楚美国在禁运决定中是否发挥了作用。该公告是在特朗普总统致电酋长国领导人谢赫·穆罕默德·本·扎耶德（Sheikh Mohammadi bin Zayed）数小时后发布的。
其他自足国家
莱赫（Leher）先生表示，在海湾阿拉伯侧（伊朗）的贸易社区之间存在长期差异，例如，阿拉伯国家是一个重要的贸易伙伴，在过去十年中，即使在美国制裁期间，阿拉伯与阿拉伯之间的贸易依然存在。
但其他海湾国家与阿拉伯联合酋长国的联系较不直接。在酋长国中，他们对伊朗的依赖程度很高。“自然且非增长！”马克·S.B.（Mark S. B.）说道。
尽管如此，战争和伊朗在该地区的攻击已显著影响了海湾经济。国际货币基金组织已向国际航空卡塔尔、科威特、巴林、酋长国和阿曼提供资金。该基金还估计，未来五年海湾地区的总产出损失最高可达 7%。
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特朗普下令削减与韩国军事演习，风险显现
作者：埃里克·施密特（ERIC SCHMITT） 以及 海伦·库珀（HELENE COOPER）
华盛顿 —— 多年来，美国和韩国军队一直参与全球规模最大的军事演习之一，两国数千名士兵共同准备应对朝鲜可能发起的侵略。
根据特朗普总统的命令，五角大楼将今年的演习纳入其中，并削减了美国部分已经承受压力的公司规模。
现任和前任军事官员表示，在他人质疑特朗普政府对长期合作伙伴关系的承诺以及对中国外包的态度之际，此举更有可能削弱美国在该地区的军事准备状态。
政府的这一决定也不太可能在希望的方式上影响到相关人员：朝鲜的领导人金正恩。
这项名为“超级自由之盾”（Ultra Freedom Shield）的演习通常持续 3 天，参与人员包括 12,000 名或更多美国军队以及 10,000 名韩国军队。在过去几年中，这些会议一直以来是通过在首尔南部的一个大型掩体中进行计算机模拟来执行的，旨在检查应对朝鲜攻击的修复努力。
今年，约 10,000 名韩国军队将参加“超级自由之盾”。五角大楼尚未说明预计有多少美国军队将参与。
虽然两国都认为这些演习在性质上是防御性的，但金先生长期以来一直称其具有挑衅性。朝鲜外交部谴责这些演习是“侵略战争的预演”。
该国在一个月前完成了两百次出城演习，誓言要“以新水平的威慑应对新水平的威胁”。
特朗普先生似乎同意朝鲜的观点，他在周日的一篇帖子中表示，在他担任总统期间，金先生领导的国家一直“没有威胁且尊重”。
这种情况此前曾发生过。特朗普先生在第一任期内的 2010 年突然取消了演习，而没有通知（Administration's）乔·穆里尔（Joe Muriel）。
当时，特朗普政府官员表示，他们希望给旨在遏制朝鲜核条件的谈判一个成功的机会。特朗普先生与金先生会面了三次，但最终未能实现该目标。
那时，官员们表示，军队可以继续在演习计划中进行大规模中断，但如果演习在数年内被削减，准备状态将会受损。
在特朗普先生周日宣布之后，五角大楼拒绝透露哪些具体的训练项目将被取消、修改或通过计算机模拟进行。但前指挥官表示，两个主要组成部分将受到影响：高级指挥问题及其他问题的测试，以及大部队的实地火力演习和部队机动训练。
指挥官们表示，从军事准备的角度来看，这两者都具有价值。一名五角大楼官员，
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约翰·D·麦基（John D. McKee），美国陆军，1-20-20
去年参加“超级自由之盾”演习的美国和韩国军队。
他在讨论行动问题时要求匿名，他表示，美国和韩国军方将在 21, 演习结束前继续自行训练，但他们将不会按照此前计划的共同训练。
“当然，这会损害准备状态，”战略与国际事务中心韩国研究主席维克多·查（Victor Cha）表示。“而准备状态与威慑力相关。如果中国或朝鲜人觉得美国的威慑力不再那么强，他们可能会认为那里存在机-
会。”
车先生还反驳了这样一种观点，即缩减演习将有助于特朗普先生与朝鲜达成另一项协议，但那次机会在2019年河内因在美国经济制裁内容及朝鲜核裁军范围上的分歧而破裂。
高，以及美国驻韩军队的前高级指挥官柯蒂斯·M·克纳帕罗维奇（Curtis M. Knaparowicz）表示，削减严苛的训练会损害部队磨练战斗技能的能力。
“通过像实战一样以团队形式进行训练，可以培养能力和信心，”克纳帕罗维奇将军在电子邮件中表示。“最重要的一点是，训练标准是维持准备状态最现实的方式。”
在周日的一场喧闹的社交媒体发文中，特朗普先生抱怨韩国在特朗普政府对抗伊朗的战争中没有提供支持。他还表示，军事演习费用昂贵，“其中大部分由美利坚合众国支付（一如既往）”。
五角大楼的一名官员表示，今年演习的退休成本为$6.900 万，并补充说，因变动而产生的任何训练影响尚未确定。但前指挥官们表示，这些成本的绝大部分已经由美国政府在韩国境内外支付。
韩国外交部似乎对特朗普先生关于承诺重新分配与美国进行军事演习成本的宣布感到措手不及。
随着与伊朗的战争陷入僵局，特朗普先生一直是朝鲜问题的强硬批评者，而朝鲜现在已成为事实上的核大国。
近几个月来，特朗普先生在社交媒体上至少两次发布了他与朝鲜领导人的照片。
“金正恩和我相处得很好。”特朗普先生在周六发布的一张2019年在南北韩边境会面的照片旁写道。
当时，他在周三表示计划在今年晚些时候与金先生再次会面，但未提供细节。“我和金正恩相处得非常好，但我不会妥协。只要我们有一位聪明的总统，一切都会没事的。”
朝鲜领导人的妹妹及其亲密顾问金与正周三告诉国家媒体，尽管特朗普先生决定缩短军事演习，但该国对美国的立场没有改变。
左侧的一名黑白照片中的男子，他已经
就像尼日利亚拉各斯的Dangsela炼油厂，该厂在美国轰炸伊朗之前已全面投入运营，目前生意兴隆。
伊朗战争使非洲首富更加富有
作者：莎拉·詹宁（SARAH JANNEN）
塞内加尔，达纳布（DANAB）——非洲最富有的人阿里克·当塞拉（Alike Dangsela）近来财富增加了超过 250 亿美元，而他获得这笔新财富很大程度上要归功于伊朗战争。
当塞拉先生，26, 岁在尼日利亚通过生产盐、糖和乳霜等基础产品积累了大量财富。现在，对他而言最重要的引擎方向是位于拉各斯的炼油厂，自战争爆发以来，该厂在非洲及其他地区对石油产品的需求一直处于高位。
尽管当塞拉拥有充足的原油，但非洲仍然严重依赖进口燃料。乌克兰对俄罗斯炼油厂和 taddies 的袭击导致俄罗斯战争影响到该大陆。来自欧洲和波斯湾的供应也大幅下降，因为伊朗位于莫罗海岸（Coast of Morrow）下游，那里通常承载着全球三分之一的石油供应。
从长远来看，化肥和核资本也因此受到影响，使非洲一些最脆弱的人群陷入更深的贫困。但当塞拉先生及其公司已成为全球石油炼油的主要来源，其在美国轰炸伊朗之前就已全面投入运营的炼油厂目前生意兴隆。
据该公司称，来自当塞拉炼油厂的货物在今年首次进入美国市场。石化产品研究公司副总裁丹尼尔·埃文斯（Daniel Evans）表示，当塞拉炼油厂在 4 月和 5 月是“全球最大的单体 alprilun 区域”。据当塞拉工业公司副总裁、俄罗斯人埃克诺斯（Eknos）称，上个月该炼油厂是欧洲最大的航空燃料和柴油供应商。
周二，当塞拉炼油厂表示，它已将 250 亿美元 退还给一个总部位于德哈布（Dehab）的投资集团，并在尼日利亚股票交易所进行公开
200 亿美元 billion 的当塞拉炼油厂受益于非洲及世界其他地区对燃料产品需求的激增。
上市。如果此次上市成功，这将成为非洲历史上规模最大的公开募股。
“战争爆发时，来自世界各地——尤其是非洲——的领导人和政府开始寻求任何可能的供应，”埃克诺斯先生说。“贸易原油价格上涨了，但产品价格的涨幅更大。”
近两打非洲国家生产原油，而该大陆每天近 900 万桶的预期炼油量绝大部分依赖进口。大多数国内炼油厂（其中大多数为国有）处于停产状态。
例如，尼日利亚近年来投入了数十亿美元用于修复其外国国营炼油厂，但目前仅有一家在运行。
当美国和以色列在 2 月 28, 日对伊朗发动战争时，许多非洲国家发现自己极度需要石油产品，并争先恐后地确保供应。
东非去年 60% 以上的精炼石油产品来自中东。到今年 4 月，肯尼亚近三分之一的加油站已使用。中东，南非，普鲁托（Pluto）的一位高级分析师。
“伊朗战争爆发时，对于此前依赖波斯湾石油产品的买家来说，当塞拉炼油厂成了救命稻草，”特雷西·库克（Tracey Cook）先生说。
他补充道，当伊朗切断当塞拉航空燃料的出口供应时，当塞拉炼油厂开始向地中海和欧洲国家出口。特雷西·库克先生表示，当塞拉设施还成为了南非的柴油和航空燃料的关键供应商，南非与伊朗关系密切，且历史上一直依赖中东的石油产品。
当塞拉并非唯一一家从冲突中获益的非洲公司。在塔加里（Tagari），大西洋沿岸的拉姆兹港（Port of Lamz），那是 rice 的唯一绝望港口，也是该大陆少数几个港口之一。
周日，德克萨斯州，该设施建于几年前，由瑞士公司地中海航运公司（Mediterranean Shipping Company）投资数亿美元，目前已占据区域能源贸易的更大份额。
从拉各斯的 Dangsela 炼油厂出发的油轮沿着西非海岸前往 Lamz，在那里，他们将货物卸载到较小的船只上，以便向整个大陆的市场进行分发。
“Lamz 港是霍尔木兹海峡中断影响下的最大赢家之一，”分析师 Chato Etienne Burns 表示。
“在开始运输之前，我们在这个国家面前悬挂的少数公民，”他说道，这是一个关于港口船只的公开口号，包括最近一次前往 Lamz 之旅中拥挤的航线。“这就像你在夜晚仰望天空，”他说道，看到了“我们保留的星星”。
在尼日利亚国内，Mr. Dangsela 一直被批评为垄断者，且自从其炼油厂全面开业以来，他受到了更为严厉的审查。
尼日利亚人曾希望该炼油厂能减少对进口燃料的依赖并降低成本。但尼日利亚的价格却在飙升。
7 月，一名与 Gohes 本人相关的人权调查员表示，他是尼日利亚少数愿意公开批评 Mr. Dangsela 的人之一，他称这位亿万富翁对政府拥有不正当的影响力，并从欧洲的特殊待遇中获益。
. Dangsela 长期以来一直指责尼日利亚政府扼杀原油流动，允许监管机构维持对尼日利亚石油业务的控制。监管机构否认有任何不当行为。
. Eknos 表示，. Dangsela 正寻求扩大其炼油厂的生产能力。
本月早些时候，肯尼亚总统 William Rana 确认了一项与尼日利亚建立的协议，将在肯尼亚建立一座价值 270 亿美元 billion 的炼油厂。. Eknos 表示，该公司计划的管线将跨越 15 个非洲国家。
“我们将供应非洲，”他说。
Long-Head Lawyers Likelier To Land in Asia, Not Dubai
作者：约翰·尤恩（JOHN YOUN）
首尔——飞往世界另一端？由于中东爆发冲突，你现在在亚洲停留的时间比以前更多。
在战争爆发前，像 Eranews、卡塔尔航空和 Erits 这样的大型波斯湾航空公司主导了洲际旅行，占据了欧洲与亚洲之间约三分之一的流量，以及欧洲与澳大利亚之间约每两个旅客中的一个。
但中东的中转流量已不再是连接亚洲与欧洲的理由。据一项估计，自 2 月下旬战争开始以来，该流量几乎减半。
而且至少对于一部分在亚洲、澳大利亚和欧洲之间往返且曾经由中东飞行的旅客来说，他们正更多地选择在香港、伊斯坦布尔、首尔和新加坡等机场进行中转。航空公司已增加了航班以应对这一新需求。
以下是战争如何重塑国际航班，以及为什么这对亚洲机场和航空公司来说是一个机遇。
我们如何获得新流量
中东的主要枢纽——阿拉伯联合酋长国的迪拜和多哈，以及卡塔尔的迪拜——是国际非洲、亚洲和欧洲的枢纽，距离全球大部分人口仅几个小时航程。在相当程度的政府支持下，它们在过去几年中迅速增长。
根据航空公司贸易组织国际航空运输协会（IATA）的数据，去年全球 6700 万 中转乘客中有一定比例在该地区中转。
但战争开始后，跌幅之大，据总部位于纽约的咨询公司 their International Consultancy 称，由主要连接亚洲和西欧的航线引导，4 月份的中东中转流量同比下降了 67。
随着冲突持续，在多哈、迪拜的机场，以及全球 7000 万 连接亚洲和西欧的旅客中，由主要航线引导，4 月份同比下降了 67，据总部位于纽约的咨询公司 their International Consultancy 称。
在战争开始前，主要外国人的百倍流量在目前的航班基础设施中，据该机构称。
UATA 在 5 月报告称，除亚太地区外，所有地区的 6 月至 9 月预订量均有所下降。在 7 月份，该机构表示，在战争干扰的高峰期，前往该地区的预订量较去年 1 月同比有所增长。
机场
这对亚洲枢纽来说是个好消息。
服务于大首尔地区的更多国际机场本月表示，2026 年上半年的中转流量同比增长了 10。据该机构 2026, 的数据，到 2026 年，2026 年外国人的主要航线。根据贸易组织 Airports 的初步内部数据，这使其成为该期间全球最繁忙的国际机场。
重组
随着战争持续，国际航班数量增加。
国际机场协会（Council International）提供给《纽约时报》的商业数据显示。
表示，其排名首先上升——超过了迪拜国际机场和伦敦希思罗机场——是因为地缘政治危机将旅客推离了海湾地区。
数据显示，同一时期香港及该地区的国际客运流量增长了 15% 以上，台湾桃园国际机场增长了近 40%。
新加坡樟宜机场是约四分之一在欧洲和澳大利亚之间往返旅客的中转点，该机场表示，在 3 月至 4 月期间，航空公司增加了新加坡与伦敦、慕尼黑、巴黎和悉尼等城市之间 200 多个航班。
这些机场将从中受益，因为无论旅客是降落还是中转，都需要支付乘客费用。根据国际机场协会的数据，每位旅客还会在机场购物、餐饮及其他与机场财务可行性相关的项目上花费约 10.3%。
航空公司
此次中断还帮助中东以外的航空公司夺取了更多市场。
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4 月，香港航空公司国泰航空表示，前往日本的乘客人数增长 24%，至 2026 年，2026 年是一个更大的年份，这是由“中东持续局势”引发的需求转移导致的结果。
新加坡航空将新加坡的客运流量归功于前往欧洲和美洲的旅行重新规划。
■ 土耳其航空本月初报告称，由于乘客在世界范围内避开或绕道中东，该公司增加了前往中国、香港和泰国的运力。
■ 汉莎航空集团 5 月表示，其旗下的航空公司增加了额外航班，特别是前往亚洲和中国的航班，以在 6 月份利用该地区的现金流，并重新部署航空资金以启动亚洲航线的运输需求。
中转趋势何在
目前尚不清楚这一趋势将持续多久。随着伊朗和美国陷入一种僵持状态，且面临三年周期的威胁，中东的主要航空公司已开始重建乘客条件并积极移除航空器，航空专家表示，亚洲的意外之财正在大幅削减。
国际航空运输协会（UATA）表示，中东地区的预订量已稳步恢复。
“人们可能会为了极具吸引力的价格而冒险飞经中东，”Ahost 的董事总经理杰弗里·科尔（Jeffrey Cole）表示。
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快来试试：该州所谓的“技巧”游戏看起来很像老虎机
作者：LEO DOMINGUEZ 和 BEN BLATT
宾夕法尼亚州，艾伦敦 —— 在过去的 12 年里，一种新型游戏在宾夕法尼亚州全境的加油站和自助洗衣店中大量增加。它看起来非常像老虎机，但在法律定义上，它一直不被视为老虎机。这些游戏——高大且色彩鲜艳的终端机，玩家在其中投入现金并设定赌注，随后触发明亮且旋转的图形——被称作“技巧游戏”。之所以这样称呼，是因为如果你在一次旋转中输了，你可以通过玩一场漫长且乏味的记忆游戏来挽回资金，从而引入了“技巧”元素。而像抓娃娃机这样为了奖品而进行的技巧游戏不被视为赌博。其运作方式如下：
技巧游戏的运作方式与普通老虎机如此相似，以至于人们并不总是能一眼看出记忆游戏是什么，或者如何进入该游戏。
在这台特定的机器上，底部出现了一条晦涩的信息“点击此处跟随香蕉”，此处已高亮显示以提高可见度。
The Upshot 提供关于政治、政策和日常生活的报道、分析和图表。
点击这条信息会显示一个扩展的匹配游戏，如果成功完成，将返还用户的赌注并额外增加 5% 的收益。
在艾伦敦，我们玩了一场来自 Pace-O-Matic 的记忆游戏，花费了 8 分 50 秒才完成，赚到了 3 美分的利润。
换句话说，这款游戏似乎经过设计，使得玩记忆游戏的收益不值得投入的时间或精力——前提是玩家首先能注意到这个游戏。
今年 6 月，宾夕法尼亚州最高法院裁定，技巧游戏与老虎机无法区分，因此在没有赌博许可证的情况下，不能在任何地方设置。但法院在禁令生效前给予了 150 天的宽限期，该州立法机构的民主党人和共和党人都在竞相通过法律以挽救这些游戏。
宾夕法尼亚州目前面临的这一局面，是全美范围内合法赌博及类赌博行为快速扩张的一部分，涵盖了从体育博彩到预测市场的各种形式。据估计，该州目前有 70,000 台技巧游戏终端散布在杂货店、退伍军人协会（V.P.W.）大厅、披萨店、保龄球馆、美黑沙龙、雪茄吧、酒店大堂、理发店、农贸市场、脱衣舞俱乐部和汽车拖车车库中。
该州是让法院的裁决维持原判，从而导致这些现在将被视为非法赌博的机器被移除？还是将其完全合法化并加以监管，在为数千家小企业保留重要收入的同时，增加税收——以及州预算？
“你一直说‘技巧游戏’”
宾夕法尼亚州的技巧游戏热潮始于 2014 年，当时 Pace-O-Matic 推出了首台包含可选记忆技巧游戏的机器。由于下级法院裁定，其记忆环节使其在很大程度上成为了技巧游戏，这些机器在多次诉讼和没收行动中幸存下来。其他制造商很快也推出了自己的模仿版本。
克里斯·艾伦（Kris Allan）经营着一家自动售货机公司，该公司以分成收入为交换，免费安装并维护这些机器。他表示，表现最好的企业是餐厅或酒吧，这些场所每月从技巧游戏中获得的毛收入通常高达 $3,690。据艾伦先生称，他还向自助洗衣店提供机器，虽然这些店的收益通常没那么高，但他提到其中一家店每月从游戏中获得的毛收入约为 $8,490。
在艾伦敦（Allentown），我们走访了五家自助洗衣店，每家店都设有技巧游戏机。我们与几位在等待衣服晾干时玩游戏的顾客进行了交谈。大多数人从未玩过老虎机游戏中的记忆环节，并认为之所以被称为“技巧”游戏，是因为需要技巧才能知道机器何时处于“丢失”状态并准备好发放大奖。
我们还去了 Big Valley Game Room，这是艾伦敦一家位于购物广场内、仅提供技巧游戏的店铺。
丹·埃尔南特（Dan Elnant），一位 75 岁的顾客，表示他不知道老虎机和技巧游戏之间的区别。
“当你一直说‘技巧游戏’时，这让我很困惑，”他说。尽管他“每隔一天”就玩一次机器，但他不知道记忆游戏的存在。“我输掉 40, 50 美元，然后就走人，”他说。
宾夕法尼亚州强迫性赌博委员会（Council on Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania）执行主任乔什·埃科尔（Josh Ercole）表示，很难衡量技巧游戏成瘾的规模，因为许多拨打委员会热线的人可能会将技巧游戏称为老虎机。尽管如此，其机构的数据显示，在 2019 年至 2023 年之间，明确报告技巧游戏为其主要成瘾赌博行为的人数增加了九倍。
“无论法律系统决定将其命名为什么，都有很多人在为此挣扎，”他说。
对小企业的“救赎”
费城市长切雷贝·帕克（Cherebe Parker）对将技巧游戏归类为赌博设备的法院裁决表示赞赏。她在一份声明中表示，技巧游戏具有“掠夺性”，且应仅允许在私人俱乐部和赌场中出现。
上图为费城一家便利店内的技巧游戏机。它们被称为“技巧游戏”，是因为如果玩家在一次旋转中输了，他们可以通过玩一场漫长且枯燥的记忆游戏来挽回资金，从而引入了“技巧”元素。
The Upshot
但州政治人物在强制禁令方面则犹豫得多。州长乔什·夏皮罗（Josh Shapiro）公开反对全面禁令，认为这些游戏应当受到监管并征税。（在宾夕法尼亚州，位于受监管赌场内的普通老虎机利润税率为 33% 或更高。）
共和党州参议员吉恩·泰特（Gene Tate）正在推动一项旨在监管并对这些游戏征税的跨党派立法。他表示，对其进行监管还将有助于保护制造这些游戏的就业岗位，包括该选区内一家大型游戏制造商的岗位。
泰特的监管方案将为机器增加最低年龄限制，并防止这些机器仅转移到已经拥有产品年龄核查程序的场所（酒吧将被允许放置，但洗车店则不行）。该法案还将禁止专门经营技能游戏的商业机构（其中几家自称为“Skill-stone”）。
民主党州众议员达斯汀·伯格斯（Dustin Burges）提出了他自己的一套竞争性立法，旨在监管并对这些游戏征税。他表示自己是“扩大税基”的支持者，并将合法化这些游戏及增加竞争的新法律进展缓慢归咎于传统博彩业的影响。
“华尔街的所有说客都不希望宾夕法尼亚州的普通大街小巷能够参与到这种财富转移中，”伯格斯先生说道。
其他一些州在技能游戏变得无处不在之前就采取了严厉打击措施。弗吉尼亚州和肯塔基州在技能游戏在当地加油站和便利店日益流行后，通过立法将其禁止。而德克萨斯州总检察长肯·潘南（Ken Pannan）最近发表了一项意见，称技能游戏符合赌博的定义，因为其中包含随机因素。
宾夕法尼亚州托马斯维尔（Thomasville）Racehorse Tavern 的店主（原文此处缺失）在酒吧里放置了三台技能游戏机，就放在他的宾夕法尼亚州彩票自动售货机旁边。他表示，在疫情期间，这些机器对于像他这样的小企业来说是一种“救星”，他希望监管法案能以适度的税率通过。他还表示，技能游戏应仅允许在已经进行年龄身份核查的场所运行。
“我去过一些店，看到小孩子坐在机器前，以为那是电子游戏，”他说。“他们很兴奋，因为有各种颜色和这个那个。每个人都在制造这些机器，但似乎没有人对此进行任何形式的监管。”
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随着人身伤害诉讼规模扩大，华尔街介入其中
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债务或资产池的款项。汽车贷款和信用卡余额经常被转化为证券。其他证券则源自较不传统的抵押品，如特许权使用费、数据中心、快餐特许经营权——以及提供给人身伤害原告的现金预付款。
对于买入这些证券的投资者而言，随着诉讼的结束和预付款的偿还，证券提供了规律的收益节奏，以及相关的费用和利息。而对于资金提供公司来说，这提供了一条快速回收过去预付款的途径，并可能将其转化为新的预付款。
支持者表示，他们通过使受伤人员能够对抗保险公司和其他个人对手，从而实现了公平竞争。
“法律融资公司并非完全是天使，”美国法律金融协会（一家贸易团体）执行董事杰克·凯利（Jack Kelly）表示。“如果你切断证券化，你就切断了给受害者的资金供应。”
但这种循环也可能推动对高级别和高价值案件的需求，因为资金提供者试图建立新的案件组合（例如），以吸引更多投资者。《纽约时报》在对诉讼的审查以及对 30 多名律师、法律助理以及现任和前任消费者法律融资员工的采访中发现了这一点。
“你引入了这些对法律职业操守毫无兴趣的第三方，”明尼苏达大学法学院经济学教授（同时也是法律学者）理查德·费舍尔（Richard Fishers）表示。“他们仅仅想从司法系统中赚钱。”
融资行业的增长与全国范围内人身伤害案件的激增相吻合。根据汤森路透（Thomson Reuters）的数据，在过去十年中，这类案件在州法院增加了 14%，在联邦法院增加了 14%。目前的诉讼通常针对建筑事故、 和滑倒摔伤寻求七位数的赔偿金。
尽管这些证券并非公开交易，但《纽约时报》确定了六家将其（例如）证券化的主要资金提供商。虽然提供此类服务的公司有数十家，但这六家规模最大。根据该贸易团体的数据，它们合计占全国预付款的 30% 以上。
《纽约时报》发现了 2025 年的 20 多个此类证券化交易，代表了数十万起案件（筹集了 28 亿美元 billion 的投资者资金）。实际数量肯定更多。
这个生态系统建立在单次诉讼的基础上。融资公司直接向消费者推销其服务，并与律师建立关系。律师经常将客户与资金提供者联系起来，后者提供现金预付款并随后对其进行管理。
随着人身伤害案件数量的攀升，政府官员和保险业已经 数千起甚至 欺诈——对欺诈是否渗入证券提出了质疑。
保险公司和其他机构采取了激进的策略，以击退他们所称的日益增加的威胁。自 2023 年以来，包括 Gento、Altrams、Dow 和 FedEx 在内的公司在五个州共发起了 1,054 起未决诉讼。他们起诉了数百名律师及其供应商和其他 策划或夸大，在这些诉讼中，原告被指控存在欺诈行为。
这些敲诈勒索案件认为，原告被鼓励或强迫接受不必要的治疗， 以提高其诉讼价值。
在采访中，十几名律师事务所和法律融资机构的前员工证实了这些指控，称资金提供者和律师为了获得更多预付款的前景而达成一致，从而让原告接受更多手术。（大多数人因担心职业报复而要求匿名。）
“很多时候，客户并不想要像颈椎融合术这样的手术，因为风险很高，但他们已经能够做到。去年之前在总部位于佛罗里达州的法律资助公司 USClaims 从事销售工作的丹尼尔·莱肖维茨（Daniel Leishowitz）表示：‘所以某种程度上，这就像是员工被逮捕了，而公司现在有一笔钱，你需要进行这次手术。’”
每个子操作都有一个
Like Supraview 和 Wesley Purcell 参与了报道。
他表示，每月发放 $100,000 in advances 的目标。莱肖维茨先生回忆道：“他们会让我们给所有合作的律师打电话，询问是否有人需要钱。”他表示自己因未能创造足够的业务而被解雇。
USClaims 为多名后来被指控欺诈的原告提供了资金，但该公司本身尚未面临直接指控。该公司在一份声明中表示，如果案件被证明是欺诈性的，那么“USClaims 坚决关闭：那些否认损失资金的人”。它补充说，该公司在其自身的证券化产品中持有财务权益，承担了部分风险。
来自保险公司和其他机构的敲诈勒索诉讼认为，许多人身伤害原告是低收入者，其中一些是由在律师事务所工作的“跑腿者”招募的。
约翰·W·肯尼迪（JOHN W. KENNEDY），美国检察官。
丹尼尔·约翰斯顿（Daniel Johnston）的律师事务所已就人身伤害索赔提起敲诈勒索案件。
迈克·罗马诺（Mike Romano）协助制定了一项关于第三方诉讼资助的西弗吉尼亚州法律。
律师们表示，原告最终拿到的和解金往往只有一小部分。
例如，去年纽约一名建筑工人因手部受伤起诉索赔近 $1.600 万，最终获得了 $2.7500 万 的和解金。在律师按照惯例领取自己的份额后，该工人得到了 $300,000.
在皇后区，同一地址（一栋三层公寓楼）的 12 个人在 18 个月内全部提起诉讼，声称遭受了严重的建筑伤害；其中至少 5 人收到了现金预付款，至少 7 人进行了重大手术，包括脊柱和颈椎融合术，记录显示。
“人们正在被剥削，特别是当他们受到某种很难拒绝的经济激励时，” The Willis Law Group 的合伙人丹尼尔·约翰斯顿（Daniel Johnston）表示，该律所代表保险公司和其他提起欺诈和敲诈勒索诉讼的公司。
该贸易组织的凯利（Kelly）先生表示，他认为欺诈行为极少，保险业只是想切断为原告提供杠杆和时间以赢得更高和解金的融资渠道。
他说：“如果这个市场真的存在大规模的欺诈行为，你不认为保险业会将这数千起案件提交给美国检察官，将它们打包好并说‘他们怎么做到的’吗？”
“很难知道涉嫌欺诈的案件是否支撑着证券化产品，因为资助方不需要披露他们处理的个人预付款情况。”
但据直接了解这些交易的金融和资助专业人士透露，由《纽约时报》确定的六家公司已将其大部分预付款证券化。所有资助方都曾有原告后来被指控欺诈，且这些公司在敲诈勒索诉讼中被列为被告。
6 月份提起的一起诉讼直接将证券化与欺诈联系起来。该诉讼称，“总部位于纽约的资助方 Golden Pear Funding 参与了一项计划，利用人身伤害索赔、药物使用案件并提高其赔付额，同时将这些索赔结构化以出售给外部投-
资者”，Golden Pear 拒绝置评。
法律融资证券主要吸引了像市场银行这样的机构投资者，它们提供可靠的回报，且不受股市波动的直接影响。（《纽约时报》发现回报率高达 17%，超额收益约为 7%。）数百万美国人通过投资于这些基金的退休账户或个人投资组合持有相关份额。
甚至保险公司本身也无法抵御这些投资的诱惑。
自 2020. 年以来，超过 30 家意外险公司——通常负责支付人身伤害赔偿金的公司——已在基于人身伤害诉讼的证券中投资了至少 $1800 万。其中包括非营利组织国家保险集团（National Insurance Group）的 15 个成员，以及 20,000, 一个领先的反欺诈行业团体，该团体多年来一直向国会抱怨第三方法律融资正在助长欺诈。
10 家公司中的 10 家代表表示，他们不再持有这些投资，且未来不会投资于诉讼融资证券。西方国家保险集团（Western National Insurance Group）的发言人 Julia B. Jensen 表示，这些证券“与我作为保险人的角色严重不符”，其关联公司此前已投资至少 1600万美元。
Anguizaca-Morales 先生在 2020, 年 7 月称自己在曼哈顿的一个家庭中从梯子上摔下来时年仅 32 岁，他最终被教会及其承包商指控其事故发生在一种“普遍欺诈的氛围”中。
他在一份证词中表示，他在大约一年前提交了 6 起案件，并寻求在美国寻求庇护。
根据一份法院文件，他卧床两年，记录显示他随后接受了膝盖和背部手术，并且颈椎用螺钉固定。他的律师写道，Anguizaca-Morales 先生“神经系统遭受了严重冲击”，深受头痛、眩晕和创伤后应激障碍的困扰，且无法再工作。
代表过 Anguizaca-Morales 先生的两家律师事务所——Public Association 和 Certificate Business——已被列为敲诈勒索诉讼的被告，融资公司以及为他进行手术的两名骨科医生同样被列为被告。
记录显示，Anguizaca-Morales 先生获得了总部位于佛罗里达州的 Regional Legal Capital 的资金。具体金额未公开。目前尚不清楚他的预付款是否被证券化，但据一名熟悉该出资方惯例的人士透露，Pegasus 将其绝大多数案件证券化。
在一次采访中，Anguizaca-Morales 先生表示，他的律师告诉他，如果他做一些手术，他可以从这次事故中获得很多钱。他说，诉讼和手术决定了他的生活，但他拒绝提供更多细节，包括他是如何与 Pegasus 的律师建立联系的。
“我不想陷入更多麻烦，”Anguizaca-Morales 先生说，“上帝会惩罚在这个世界上做错事的人。”他说他正在努力偿还来到美国时欠下的债务，并补齐他交给 dopeway 的索赔资金。
上个月，《纽约时报》就该诉讼联系了 Certificate Business，随后该公司从原出资方的租赁中撤回了 100万美元，理由是剖析。他的决定和出资方均拒绝置评。
律师事务所和出资方的前员工在采访中表示，随着涉及的资金越来越多，投机者的条件已经成熟。
2024, 年，总部位于纽约的法律出资方 Cartiga 的一名前副总裁起诉了该公司，称其在警告领导层他们正在为可疑的人身伤害诉讼提供资金后，被以安装为由被排挤出局。
调查员 Krenopher Huxent 表示，他告诉他的 lances，他发现了一家律师事务所和一名职业人员似乎在制造案件。近年来，该公司律师事务所，Cartiga 的首席财务官告诉他，要将这些潜在的欺诈案件留在“基础上”以维持回报。
该公司聘请的律师事务所还声称，Cartiga 鼓励原告授权进行医疗手术，以提高其索赔金额。
Cartiga 在一份声明中否认了这些指控，并表示 Has 先生——
法律资助公司 Cartiga 的一名前高管表示，他曾警告该公司正在资助可疑的诉讼。
Pegasus Legal Capital 为声称遭受工伤的 Danny Anguizaca-Morales 提供了资金。
KEYWORDS FOR 为了衡量县部门确定法律资助的行动。该公司的名称是宾夕法尼亚县的金融公司，以及评级机构，以及法律，如下所示：金融资产和净债务。这些证券在过去一年中不被使用，但在过去一年中不被使用。
资金不需要减少金额。该公司的商业案例在过去一年中也不被使用，但在过去一年中不被使用。该公司的业务在过去一年中不被使用。该公司的业务在过去一年中不被使用。
sure 是一名“在裁员过程中被终止合同的员工”。该公司补充说，它“一直采取恰当且负责任的行为”。Huxent 先生拒绝发表评论。
自 2022 年以来，Cartiga 至少提供了两次证券化，筹集了超过 3.75亿美元，可用以资助新的原告。
结果是准确的，公司提起的一起敲诈勒索诉讼涉及大量其他融资，用于资助不必要且价格过高的手术，收取高额利息和费用，并最终推高税收价值以增加其利润。
该敲诈勒索诉讼引用了 Gina Lombano 的案例，她从 Cartiga 和另一家公司获得了授权的资助金额。2022 年，她起诉一名皇后区建筑的所有者，索赔 $8.500 万，称她在不平整的人行道上导致残疾。
Lombano 女士在离开时年仅 27 岁，她声称她的伤势需要四次手术，包括面对她的脊柱和颈部，以及切除至少一部分 subloose。随后，在建筑所有者的律师指出她曾说自己是向前摔倒而非向后摔倒后，她从索赔中撤回了 subloose 损伤。
法院记录显示，另一家资助公司购买了她的预付款，并征收每年近 10 percent 的利息和费用。到 11 月，她将欠款超过 100万美元。
Lombano 女士在证词中表示，现在洗澡和工作已成事实，她在建筑所有者的法院文件中被指控欺诈。她将关于其待决案件的问题转交给她的律师，来自 McDonald Wroble 律师事务所的 Chris Long。“如果有欺诈行为，我们就不会参与其中，”Long 先生说。
Cartiga 在一份声明中表示，虽然它无法就具体客户发表评论，但它“以严谨且独立的方式承保索赔”。该公司表示，在案件当事人提供虚假信息且该公司未能检测到的“单一事件”中，该公司同样被欺骗并损失了资金。
近年来，十几个州对第三方诉讼资助实施了限制，包括对持续利率、向律师和医疗服务提供商支付外部融资费用，以及要求原告在法庭上披露其资金来源。
Your Virginia 是唯一明确限制证券化的州。一名曾作为州参议员协助起草该两党法案的律师及律师事务所表示，立法者担心资助公司在寻找原告支持时，可能会倾向于忽视欺诈迹象。
“这就是法律实践和诉讼融资的发展方向，”此前曾为美国证券交易委员会调查欺诈行为的 Huxent 先生说。“他们一直在寻找新方法，利用手中的资金进行投资并赚更多的钱。”
案件是如何开始的
关于 2025 年其对州法律看法的图像，Anguizaca-Morales 表示他在曼哈顿一家教堂的工作现场从梯子上摔了下来。在一次采访中，他表示他的律师告诉他，如果他接受手术，他可以就这次事故获得一大笔钱。
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当大法官们听取同样的少数几位律师陈述时，罗伯茨持有复杂的情绪
首席大法官约翰·G·罗伯茨（John G. Roberts Jr.）曾表示，他有时会怀念过去的日子，那时“法律”是新联邦止赎之基础，“将会抵达在
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这位首席大法官在 2016 年的一次司法会议上表示，他对法律的发展持有复杂的情绪。
“当陈述的人总是同样的那几个人时，辩论的色彩和紧张感就会减少一些，”他说，“尽管我们给其他人留下了更多强有力的支持。”
罗伯茨首席大法官本人曾是这样的一位专家，他曾在总检察长办公室和私人执业期间，作为律师参与过 20 起最高法院案件的辩论。
在法庭上见过他的人认为，他非常像那些顶尖的最高法院律师，他理解“思维的失败”、塑造法律的相互交织的危机以及
在《行为》（The Deeds）中，Adam Lipsid-Wolfe（编号 6438，法律进展之妹）在动荡时期的法律进展，弹出接收至您的 options.com / newsletters 收件箱。
一位律师，二十年，363,579 个单词
在最高法院民事辩论期间发言的总单词数。
发言者 / 类型 / 案件数 / 总单词数
Stephen Breyer / 1,140 / 959,987 Sonia Schumacher / 1,113 / 690,178 John G. Roberts Jr. / 1,398 / 643,021 David Angier / 1,004 / 636,423 Samuel A. Alita Jr. / 1,279 / 541,611 Antonio Scalia / 772 / 468,724 Rich Badie Ginsburg / 240 / 429,539 Paul D. Clement / 律师 / 101 / 363,579 Mark Gauscher / 528 / 317,915 Ketanji Brown Jackson / 238 / 300,633
注：数据基于 2000 年至 2026 年的法律辩论。来源：Law Opinion 和 E.C.A. Finance
辩论的快速节奏。
他也是最高法院的研究者，但在 2016 年（即他被任命进入法院的前一年），他向最高法院历史学会发表了一次演讲，探讨了他所谓的“在法院出庭的经验丰富的最高法院辩护律师人数剧增”的现象。
一个突出的声音
这项新研究审查了从2005, 10月（就在首席大法官罗伯茨加入法院之后）到2026, 4月（法院最近一次举行听证的时间）期间，1,420场民事辩论中产生的约1000 万个词汇。
我上周写过该研究的一些其他发现，包括现实主义论点的激增，以及法院几位成员中，凯坦吉·布朗·杰克逊大法官所扮演的领导角色。
那篇文章主要关于大法官们。但这项研究也包含了关于律师的有趣细节。在这些年里，大约有1,000名律师在大法官面前出庭。研究显示，其中20人贡献了律师发言词数的四分之一以上。而其中一个人脱颖而出。
保罗·D·克莱门特（Paul D. Clement）在进入私人执业之前曾担任乔治·W·布什政府的总检察长，他辩称法院的政党是一个远超其他律师的人物。他参与的最重大案件包括关于Albertidale Carr法案、党派选区划分以及第二修正案的案件。
他在截至6月的任期内尤为活跃，曾九次在大法官面前出庭。
拒绝发表评论的克莱门特先生在21场陈述中说了363,579个词，研究显示，在过去10年里，这项研究对于辩论发言词数的统计来说将是一个“不错的”参考。他是前10名发言者中唯一的律师。
一个非常令人不安的趋势
在2016讲座中，首席大法官罗伯茨（首席大法官凯坦吉的法院法官）还讨论了司法部精英部门——总检察长办公室的律师所扮演的角色，以及他们在最高法院中最突出的地位。他指出，他们“在最高法院出庭的频率比以前更高”。
事实上，他发现，该办公室的律师在1998年参与了40 percent的案件，而在2000年代初期则超过了80 percent。他对这一发展表示了显著的担忧，至少在政府律师作为“法庭之友”（amici）出现、即便他们并非案件当事人但仍提供政府观点的案件中是如此。
法院极少向其他州授予辩论时间。但它通常允许总检察长办公室参与，首席大法官罗伯茨暗示这赋予了其优先地位并集中了权力。他说：“随着法院审理事项中可辨识的联邦利益增加，人们开始关注政府在法院中所扮演的角色。”
他说，这确实将总检察长办公室变成了“一种超级权力”，他认为这“非常令人不安”。
根据这项研究，如今总检察长办公室更加活跃，而当他面对大法官时，圣路易斯华盛顿大学和芝加哥大学的美国房屋（U.S. House）。在过去五个系列中，该办公室的律师签署了一封关于辩论总纲的信函。在其中约一半的案件中，政府律师以法庭之友的身份出现。
在2016讲座中，首席大法官罗伯茨最终认可了当时一个新兴的最高法院事实。“一个调整良好的案件不会在过去两个学期中被发现（法官们挡了路），”他写道。“但一个纯粹通过辩论决定的案件存在被纯粹去-
F.B.I. 特工搜查首都 Swatwell 的住宅
美国据称发起民权调查
作者：MADE FEVER
根据法院文件及两名熟悉该调查的人士透露，联邦特工在周末搜查了前民主党众议员埃里克·斯瓦特韦尔（Eric Swatwell）的住所，并扣押了一部电话和一台笔记本电脑，这与一项涉及性侵指控的民权调查有关。
法院文件显示，特工持有搜查令，于周六晚上在旧金山机场拦截了斯瓦特韦尔先生，并要求检查他的设备——一部 iPhone 和一台 Apple MacBook。该人士表示，次日，他们搜查了他在华盛顿的住所。
斯瓦特韦尔先生在众议院代表加利福尼亚州的两个选区，任职时间超过十年。在第一份参议院报告披露数名女性（包括一名前工作人员）指控其性行为不端后，他于 4 月从国会辞职。大约在同一时间，该员工来自加利福尼亚州州长的团队。
联邦调查局（F.B.I.）没有立即回应寻求评论的消息。斯瓦特韦尔先生也没有向政府提供任何信息。此前，《每日邮报》（The Daily Mail）已报道了对其住所的搜查以及对其通信设备的扣押。
斯瓦特韦尔先生还面临着曼哈顿地区检察官办公室和洛杉矶州调查人员基于相关陈述发起的调查。大多数此类犯罪由州和地方当局起诉。一名熟悉此案的人士表示，联邦特工似乎在利用民权法规，以此来界定斯瓦特韦尔先生与其助理之间的行为。
法院文件表明，针对斯瓦特韦尔先生的联邦调查由旧金山美国检察官办公室和联邦调查局（F.B.I.）旧金山分局负责。该分局的一名特工于周二签署了一份文件，记录了对斯瓦特韦尔先生电话和笔记本电脑的扣押。
在担任国会议员期间，斯瓦特韦尔先生曾是特朗普总统的激烈批评者，一度在众议院委员会任职，该委员会将他认定为 2025 年 1 月 6 日国会大厦袭击事件的责任人。斯瓦特韦尔先生还指责总统利用职权从事各种形式的腐败和个人敛财。
本周早些时候，白宫公布了此前秘密的、源自一项早前且无关的针对斯瓦特韦尔先生调查的文件。该调查重点关注他与一名名为克里斯汀·方（Christine Fong）的女性的关系，反情报官员认为该女性是一名中国间谍。
在 4 月份发表于《旧金山纪事报》（The San Francisco Chronicle）的一篇文章中，斯瓦特韦尔先生的前工作人员声称，在 2024 年的一次活动后，他在纽约的一家酒店房间内对她实施了性侵。她讲述了自己当时因过于醉酒而无法同意此次接触，且当她试图拒绝时，斯瓦特韦尔先生无视了她。
另外三名女性分别接受了 CNN 的采访，指控斯瓦特韦尔先生存在各种形式的性行为不端，包括发送注册信息或照片。
斯瓦特韦尔先生否认了这些指控，并告诉两家新闻机构，这些指控是“在州长竞选的背景下出现的”。
他在当时的一份声明中表示：“近 20 年来，我一直以检察官和国会议员的身份服务公众，并且始终尊重女性。”
财政部采取干预手段以降低利率
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财政部在总统选举前对经济中的人类金融状况进行干预。
这并非伯曼先生（Mr. Benson）的首次干预。本月，他在国家市场进行了新的干预，以支撑日元购买力走弱的局面，旨在帮助日本避免出售其建筑，以维持健康专家的角色。此类举措将进一步使市场充斥来自美国的供应，而供应超过需求则会推高收益率。
“我认为这既是经济原因，也是政治原因，”曾在联邦政府财政部担任国内金融国务秘书的内莉·梁（Nellie Liang）表示。“他们认为这些高利率是一个问题。”
梁女士指出，希巴（Shiba）政府推出了当地金融计划，并表示她对伯曼先生在没有正式程序的情况下发布公告感到惊讶。财政部长期以来一直维持着一个
重新定义政府在全球领先债券市场中的角色。
对于这类政策变动，其策略是做出“定期且可预测”的公告，通常在季度再融资会议上进行，即在 8 月初实际公布债务发行计划的会议，但当时并未提及更大规模的债券。
在周三的消息传出后，投资者一直在思考，如果收益率继续推高，接下来会发生什么。根据 Poteff's（一家桥梁酒店）的经济学家 Sophia Demons 的说法，Benson 先生面临的部分问题在于，“长期收益率上升的所有都处于德克萨斯市场的直接控制之下。”
财政部收益率的上升是由多种因素共同导致的。美国的财政状况似乎在恶化而非改善。在与伊朗持续的战争以及对美联储主席 Kevin M. Warth 是否会在通胀未能持续移动时执行加息的质疑中，通胀担忧依然存在；此外，科技公司为资助人工智能建设而发行的大量新债务也进入了债券市场。
财政部在宣布周三的消息时，保留了根据需要干预的可能性，暗示这美国增税的结果。
在某个时间点，足够大规模的随机干预可能会通过改变买方所在州的供应量而产生持久影响。
Jefferson 的首席美国经济学家 Thomas Sissons 估计，在 50 billions 到 80 亿美元 billion 左右的随机干预将产生该效果，但这将代表财政部投资的一次重大升级。
“到那时，市场实际上将开始关注这个事实，
财政部长 Scott Bessert 通过将财政部允许从投资者手中回购的政府债务金额增加一倍，令市场观察人士感到惊讶。此举可能与下方的美联储主席 Kevin M. Warth 产生冲突，因为他正趋向于收紧政策。
他提到长期债券时表示，其期限实际上会随着时间的推移而变得相对稀缺。”
Sissons 先生表示，与短期证券相比，持有长期证券相关的不确定性因素（即“期限溢价”）可能会下降，这意味着在持续基础上通胀较低且收益率较低。
美联储在此如何设定政策限制，也将决定长期收益率是否会出现相应的上涨，从而决定财政部是否需要进一步干预或提前干预。
美联储官员正在积极讨论是否需要在更高的利率水平上加息，即到 9 月中旬。这一决定在很大程度上取决于通胀的轨迹，此前两份相对温和的报告显示，价格压力自 6 月以来随机改善。另一个月的中度数据将有助于缓解加息的一些紧迫感，但这不会完全消除今年晚些时候加息的可能性。
许多官员已经支持加息，因为他们对通胀在约五年时间里一直超过美联储 5 percent 目标的事实感到不耐烦。任何表明实现该目标的进展再次停滞的迹象，都可能迫使该群体中的其他人采取行动。
Warth 先生也可能采取政策来缩减美联储 80 亿美元.4 trillion 的政府债券和抵押贷款支持证券投资组合，他在上个月的一次国会听证会上呼吁采取“过渡性衡量资产负债表”措施。
BBC资本市场美国州级经理负责人布莱克·格温（Blake Gwinn）表示，一个规模更小的资产负债表，取决于其执行方式，可能会使美联储与财政部之间产生“一个价格争议点”。“你这边有贝瑟特（Bessert），他显然预期接下来的长端收益率会上升；而现在你这边又有沃思（Warth）暗示，他将通过推动长端收益率来收紧政策。我是通过资产负债表审查得出的结论。”
沃思先生要求美联储在德克萨斯市场提供更多信息，以表明央行的分配将不会在全国范围内推进。如果美联储改变其持仓构成，使其随着时间的推移持有更多短期证券而非长期证券，那么潜在的机会可能会出现。这将与贝瑟特先生计划成为“长期国债”的方案相对应，从而确保利率在贝瑟特先生“随机”评估之后保持稳定；投资者已经在为未来削减长期债务发行量的可能性做准备。
财政部表示，其扩大随机操作是出于希望“在长期关键板块提供比市场参与者持续强力支持更多的流动性支持”。
去年就职后，贝瑟特先生承认，收益率上升——尤其是10年期债券的收益率——是他最担心的几个问题之一。
他在接受塔克·卡尔森（Tucker Carlson）采访时表示，他将自己视为“美国领先的债券销售员”，并指出该债券的利率与行业紧密跟踪。“我们有巨大的债务风险。”
纽约时报 全国版 2020年8月21日，星期五
选举
代表：舒曼·菲格罗亚（Shomart Figueroa，第五区）与州长提名人道格·琼斯（Doug Jones）在阿拉巴马州特洛伊。现在，黑人的选票“计算方式不再相同”，琼斯先生说道。
亚拉巴马州民主党人期待选区地图引发黑人反弹
来自 A1 页
“他们知道自己的选票不再具有同样的分量，”琼斯先生周二在亚拉巴马州特洛伊市的一次市政厅会议前的投票活动中对黑人选民表示。他补充道：“人们正在关注这一点，而且他们对此并不满意。”
投票权是极其私人化的议题。在亚拉巴马州，州长的白人领导层在民权运动期间曾极力抵制黑人公民对公平竞争机会的要求。这群公民的斗争促使华盛顿在 1985 年颁布了《投票权法案》。
因此在今年春天，基于路易斯安那州的一项举措，最高法院取消了 20 世纪以来鼓励少数族裔代表的南方领导层结构。随后，路易斯安那州和亚拉巴马州都迅速采取行动，削弱拥有强大黑人选民群体的选区，并向 G-13 P 倾斜。
亚拉巴马州议会对第二国会选区进行了重新划分，此前菲格罗亚先生在 2024 年的胜利使该州首次拥有两名黑人众议员——菲格罗亚先生和特里众议员本人。
“这就像是今天给了糖果——不再那么开心，也不再那么频繁，”6 岁的切西拉迪斯·戴维斯（Chesiladys Davis）说道，她准备带着一叠绳索标志离开特洛伊市政厅。“最高法院通过另一个州的笔尖一挥，就‘扭转’了这一切。”
她补充道：“我会尽我所能确保人们意识到投票有多重要。”
新的第二选区旨在强制共和党获胜，通过将黑人占多数的蒙哥马利市与东南部 Wingtown 地区的一部分配对，使新选区变得更白且更保守。州界线在全州范围内延伸得更远，将蒙哥马利和梅布尔（Mable）的部分选民与曾经由选举形成的农村县选民联系起来。
图伯维尔先生和共和党州代表朗达·马尔克斯（Rhonda Marquez）都支持新的国会地图，并且在各自的竞选中处于领先地位。马尔克斯正与菲格罗亚先生竞争。
琼斯先生在黑人占多数的地区开展活动，并在州长竞选中面对参议员汤米·图伯维尔（Tommy Tuberville）。
他们的竞选活动均得到了特朗普先生的支持，旨在将他们的民主党对手刻画为被提名者且不务正业。在本月的一次初选选举之夜演讲中，马尔克斯女士将这次选举描述为在“cruittens 和公共区域”之间做出选择。
但民主党人表示他们有机会，预测由于新国会地图引发的反弹，加上特朗普先生不断下滑的支持率，以及许多可能在选举中缺席的民主党白人保守派，将使黑人选民在理想状态下产生影响。
这种民主党的希望不仅限于亚拉巴马州和其他直接受投票权裁决影响的南方州。
民主党国会竞选委员会周三在纽约、内布拉斯加和俄亥俄州的众议院选区投放了数字广告，旨在动员黑人选民，其中一些广告明确提及投票权和对代表的需求。这些广告是在去年 5 月于 21 个众议院选区开展的一场以民权为主题的 500's 活动之后推出的。
有证据表明黑人选民确实被激活了，尽管不一定是由于投票权。在上周威斯康星州的民主党州长初选中，黑人密尔沃基县执行官大卫·考利（David Cowley）爆冷击败了民主社会主义者弗拉特纳尔·霍格（Fraternal Hoag）。霍格此前在民调中一直处于舒适的领先地位，但在黑人选民中表现挣扎，密尔沃基的黑人选民很可能起到了决定性作用。
类似的故事在本月早些时候在密歇根州上演。竞选参议员的进步派医生阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）似乎即将赢得民主党初选，尽管他在黑人选民支持方面存在问题。最终，他勉强击败了海莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens）众议员，后者无视民调，凭借底特律和弗林特黑人选民的支持几乎实现了爆冷。
对于琼斯先生和菲格罗亚先生来说，民权主题并非牵强附会。作为一名在伯明翰的美国联邦检察官，琼斯先生曾协助起诉了两名在 1943 年炸毁当地一座教堂并导致四名黑人女孩死亡的 Kins 成员。
民主党人希望关于投票权的裁决也能动员南部以外地区的人们。
菲格罗亚先生的父亲迈克尔·菲格罗亚（Michael Figueroa）是一位州参议员兼民权律师，他曾协助发起了一场导致 Kins 破产的诉讼。迈克尔·菲格罗亚还曾协助处理 1990 年代亚拉巴马州的选举总统地图，促成了该州第一个黑人占多数选区的创建。
这次竞选始于 1947 年的该地区，琼斯先生此前曾遭遇失败，两人本月在特洛伊（Troy）和蒙哥马利（Montgomery）共同举行市政厅会议，向该州领导层发起挑战。
“他们必须竭尽全力削弱对手的信任，”菲格罗亚先生在特洛伊大学的一间洗手间里对人群说道。
“他们进一步地在我的选区支持这种努力，”他说，“但我们将赢得这个数字。”
琼斯先生已经在几个黑人占多数的县进行竞选，包括农村地区的格林县（Greene County），那里已经显现出他将发出的能量迹象。格林县约 75% 的人口是黑人，在五月的初选中，投票率惊人地高。
上个月，琼斯先生在格林县法院聚集的一群居民面前表示，亚拉巴马州的领导人“将重新划分选区界线，以确保” “你们的声音在美利坚合众国国会中没有代表权”。
“我认为《投票权法案》将成为今年秋季竞选的一个议题，”琼斯先生补充道，“而且我认为人们已经活跃起来了。”
此类情绪在基层组织者看来，他们警告称，新地图也可能使亚拉巴马州的黑人进一步与政治领导层脱节。激活这些选民不会自动发生。
“每次你像那样剥夺人们的权利，他们就会感到沮丧，不再愿意离开，”在蒙哥马利一家选民教育组织担任志愿者的理查德·霍布斯（Richard Hobbs）说道，“我们必须挨家挨户地敲门。”
密苏里州地图
法官裁定 可在中期选举中使用
作者：玛格丽娜·鲁宾（MARGARINE RUBIN）
密苏里州的一名法官本周裁定，基于共和党人在一场为期一个月关于重新划分选区的斗争中的策略，该州新绘制的国会选区地图可在11月的选举中使用。
但在上诉之后，该州最高法院周四加快了对该案的审查，在普选之前将该地图重新置于不确定状态。
包括该州首府杰斐逊城在内的科尔县巡回法院法官唐纳德·格林（Donald Green）周三驳回了一项尝试，该尝试旨在将这张有利于共和党的新地图提交至11月的全州投票。
法官支持州务卿丹尼·罗宾斯（Danny Robbin）的观点，后者主张密苏里州宪法不允许对国会重新划分选区进行全民公投，且现在更改选区可能会干扰选举事宜。
“在这个如此之晚的关头更改地图不仅是‘不切实际的’，而且是不可能的，”格林法官在裁决中表示。
代表该州的律师查尔斯·比德福德（Charles Bydford）周三晚些时候表示，提起诉讼并就新地图提出全民公投建议的团体“People lost Politicians”已向州立法机构提起上诉。
法院周四表示，将在9月2, 听取辩论，而密苏里州在9月2, 之前必须决定是否将全民公投加入普选选票。
“这里还有一些类似的博弈，”比德福德先生说。“我们对在最高法院获胜的机会持乐观态度。”
比德福德先生认为，周三的结果对于希望在中期选举中夺取美国众议院控制权的共和党人来说是一次胜利。密苏里州是首批尝试重新绘制地图的州之一，这是特朗普总统在全国范围内推动增加共和党当选人数或在中期选举中维持议院控制权的一部分。
密苏里州地图的走向在数月内一直不确定，该地图旨在翻转一个目前由民主党持有的席位。
在立法者去年批准该地图后不久，“People lost Politicians”开始收集签名，以便将选区问题提交至11月的选民选票。在密苏里州，如果一项请愿书获得足够签名以挑战州立法，那么该立法在全州投票举行之前将被暂停。
据支持者称，该请愿书获得了足够的签名，但8月1, 罗宾斯先生，一名共和党人，表示拟议的全民公投不符合进入选票的资格。这一决定与该州初选在同一天做出，而初选正是关于新地图是否投入使用。
“People Not Politicians”执行主任理查德·冯·吉尔迪斯（Richard von Gildis）表示，对于那些希望保留民主党席位的人来说，这次裁决实际上并非失败。
“今天发生的最重要的事情是有了裁决，”他说，并补充道，“该州数月来一直试图拖慢司法进程，现在我们离开了科尔县，真正的决定将会做出。我们的案件现在向前推进。”
周三未能立即联系到罗宾斯先生以获取评论。
该案现在提交至该州最高法院，该法院此前已裁定支持重新划分选区的努力，并认可州立法者在典型的十年一次周期之外重新绘制地图的能力。
帕克斯顿似乎无法摆脱的很久以前丢失 1,000 美元钢笔事件
作者：劳伦·麦加吉斯特（LAUREN MCGAGGIST）
华盛顿——上个月在华盛顿，肯·帕克斯顿（Ken Paxton）出现的地方矗立着一块动态广告牌，重点强调了这位德克萨斯州总检察长多年来面临的诸多法律和监管问题。
该广告包括一项关于证券欺诈的刑事指控、德克萨斯州议会的弹劾以及一支被盗的钢笔。
这支钢笔是一个政治梗。这则广告由帕克斯顿在参议院选举中的民主党对手詹姆斯·T·塔洛斯（James T. Tarlors）的一位支持者出资，旨在回顾十多年前的一起事件：当时帕克斯顿在达拉斯市外的一家法院通过安检时，拿走了另一件价值 1,000 美元的钢笔。
在德克萨斯州的政治圈中，这支钢笔很快就成了帕克斯顿的一个标志性槽点。它还成了一个内部笑话，比如上个月在休斯顿的一次帕克斯顿集会上，据报道参会者被禁止携带钢笔。
但这一事件对于许多德克萨斯州选民，甚至一些潜在的帕克斯顿支持者来说仍然很陌生。
“我对此一无所知，”上个月在华盛顿离开法院附近时，站在广告牌旁的德克萨斯州居民巴里·肯德里克（Barry Kendrick）说道。
这并非因为帕克斯顿的政治对手多年来没有试图将这一细节转化为有效的攻击线索。
在 2010 年竞选总检察长期间，这段事件的监控录像被用来攻击共和党激进分子帕克斯顿。当时，参议员约翰·科里（John Corry）的支持者在攻击广告中加入了这支钢笔，试图在共和党初选中击败帕克斯顿，但未能成功。
上周，这在塔洛斯的广告中再次出现，广告中包含一段来自乔·乔普林（Joe Joplin）的尴尬采访，乔普林就是多年前钢笔被帕克斯顿拿走的那位律师。
“投票给詹姆斯·塔洛斯，”广告中的旁白说道，“他不会拿走你的钢笔。”
涉事事件发生在科布尔县（Coble County）法院的安检口。乔普林将他的钢笔留在了一个安检筐里。帕克斯顿说：
即使在现在，政治对手们仍在回放这段监控录像。
[...OMITTED...] 笔——价值约 $1,000 ——并在随后通过安检时将其拿走。
乔普林先生回来取这支笔，这是他妻子的礼物。日期为 Aug. 11, 2012, 的建筑监控录像揭露了拿走笔的人。当时是该地区的州议员帕克斯顿先生，一名警长副手联系并询问
帕克斯顿先生是否拿了那支笔。他承认拿了，并同意归还。
帕克斯顿先生的竞选发言人麦迪逊·科里称，塔洛斯先生试图重启这一事件是针对一个已经解决的问题的“幼稚攻击”。
“这不过是安检时的一次混淆，”她补充道。
涉及这支笔的攻击模式对于 2014, 司法部长民主党提名人贾斯汀·尼尔森来说并不陌生，他曾在竞选活动中使用了这段监控录像。他至今仍对这一片段感到惊讶。
“这套情况太荒谬了，对吧？”尼尔森先生在一次采访中说道。“即便这只是某种无心的错误，事实依然是他拿走了别人的 $1,000 钢笔。”
当时作为一名备受关注的现任者，帕克斯顿先生在 2018 竞选期间忽略了这些攻击。尼尔森先生表示，这次情况可能不同。帕克斯顿先生在筹款和一些民调中一直处于[...OMITTED...]。
全国性的关注围绕着塔洛斯先生，他让这支笔的影响力达到了前所未有的高度。而这支笔的所有者也首次提供了背书。（乔普林先生拒绝接受采访。）
塔洛斯先生的发言人表示，如果我拿了，这次事件揭示了帕克斯顿先生性格中的某些方面：他是“那种会在意你钢笔的人”。
塔洛斯竞选团队还一直在呼吁[...OMITTED...]——通过 50 规模的竞选捐款——其内容写着“这不是肯·帕克斯顿的笔”。尼尔森先生的竞选团队在 2016, 也喊过同样的话，并补充说他不是一个竞选活动。那是 LeRien Scott 这支笔。
帕克斯顿先生否认在任期间有任何不当行为。 2015 关于证券欺诈指控的起诉导致他支付了总计 4,000, 的赔偿金，但他并未承认[...OMITTED...]。 2022 关于腐败指控的弹劾以无罪释放告终。
肯德里克先生，在[...OMITTED...]
华盛顿筹款活动中表示，在看到“偷笔”广告牌后，他观看了那次攻击的监控录像。关于帕克斯顿先生是误将笔揣进兜里还是故意拿走[...OMITTED...]。肯德里克先生更惊讶于竟然有人会拥有一个“偷来的笔”。
“我觉得这挺好笑的，”他说。他说，这并没有改变他对帕克斯顿先生总体积极的看法。
主张飞行员权益的肯德里克先生说，他经常参加两党官员的会议，在会议中他必须通过金属探测器。为了参加会议，他在安检筐里使用一个塑料袋。
他把钱包、手表，以及一支他说十年前在 Contra 银行买的 Westfilmer 笔都放进袋子里。他说，那块表随他去任何地方，包括去华盛顿参加帕克斯顿先生的筹款活动。
因此，肯德里克先生开玩笑说，帕克斯顿先生没有试图拿走它。
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选举
大卫·克劳利曾退出，随后又成功回归威斯康星州州长民主党初选。
将自己塑造为法律与秩序候选人的莎伦·泰勒在本月初赢得了弗吉尼亚州一个众议院选区的初选。
夏威夷州代表埃德·凯斯强调了他的资历以及在强大的众议院拨款委员会中的角色。
进步派的大年，但民主党温和派仍站稳脚跟
作者：BRYLIES WAGNER
尽管进步派候选人在今年取得了备受瞩目的胜利，但少数民主党温和派证明，他们在竞争激烈的初选中依然能够获胜。
最近几周，威斯康星州的 David Crowley 和佛罗里达州的众议员 David Moskowitz 率先取得了胜利。其他人，如阿拉斯加州的 Mary Peltola，则展现出了选举实力，这被认为是一个微小的迹象，表明他们的方案可用于赢得艰苦的大选。
那些尚未获胜的温和派经常在竞选中将自己与党内领导层区分开来，将自己塑造为具有独立思想的人。
“民主党初选”依然是核心议题，但人们不再完全信任建制派（无论目前流行的是什么），Searchlight 研究所（一家恐怖主义智库）的创始人 Adam Jundle-son 表示。
Patricia Mazzio 参与了重新编辑。
其他温和派民主党人承认，在两党选民都渴望经济变革的时刻，他们面临着挑战。
“极左翼采取的路径我认为过于激进，但他们声势浩大，”Third City Teacher Institute 的联合创始人、目前在任的 Matt Barnett 表示。“左翼选民面临的问题之一是，我们不再能提出同样宏大——且一旦实施将从根本上改变人们工作水平——的想法。”
以下是一些近期获胜的温和派候选人及其获胜原因：
威斯康星州的 David Crowley
先生是中左翼的密尔沃基县行政主管，在本月威斯康星州民主党州长初选中，他以微弱优势击败了在民调中领先的 Financials 和 870 percentish。
这场竞选十分混乱。 先生在 7 月初难以获得支持并退出，随后，早先由建制派支持的候选人突然结束了竞选。到 6 月， 先生在威斯康星州深受欢迎的民主党州长 Tony Everett 的强力支持下重新参选。
许多选民直到最后几天才关注这场竞选，此时他们被大量关于 Hong 女士具有争议的旧社交媒体帖子的负面头条和广告所轰炸。在其中一条 2020 年的帖子中，她建议放弃感恩节。
许多选民表示，Everett 先生的背书在他们的选择中起到了关键作用。而 先生领导密尔沃基县（该州人口最多的县）的记录可能也对他有所帮助。他的竞选网站指出了他在争取联邦和州政府保障经济适用房资金以及签署一项大规模房产税减免方案方面的工作。
佛罗里达州的 David Moskowitz
先生是一位温和派国会议员，其选区年轻且有许多犹太选民，他呼吁对以色列给予“坚定不移的支持”。他轻松击败了来自民主社会主义者 Oliver Larkin 的激烈初选挑战，后者谴责了加沙战争。
在一次采访中， 先生将他的胜利归功于选民对他近二十年担任公职期间表现的认可。
“我为这个社区带来了成果，”他说道，并引用了在 2018 年帕克兰学校枪击案后，他帮助在共和党控制的佛罗里达州立法机构通过的跨党派保障立法。他还提到，在 Dominion Michael 期间以及冠状病毒大流行期间，他能够与共和党人 Ron DeSantis 将军领导的州应急管理部门合作。
先生拒绝与 Larkin 先生辩论，并指责他利用弹药，Larkin 先生否认了这一指控。
先生暗示，他们的选区可能对民主社会主义者更为敌视。
“我让他们告诉这个社区的人，他们将致力于消除世界上唯一的犹太国家，” 先生说。
“我让他们告诉人们菲德尔·卡斯特罗有多伟大。”
阿拉斯加州的 Mary Peltola
佩尔托拉女士是一位温和派的前国会议员，她在阿拉斯加州非党派初选的未完成投票中领先——并且在仅针对参议院的关键竞选中，她通常领先于现任共和党参议员萨姆·S·沙利文（Sam S. Sullivan）。
她本人在阿肯色州获得了国家民主党高层的极大支持。上周，她的竞选团队拒绝了一项由前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）发起的筹款协议。
佩尔托拉女士还批评了政治建制派，称其可以提供弹药。她的竞选团队表示，“不仅仅是华盛顿特区的那些出版物不在意我们在阿拉斯加农村地区支付每加仑 17 美元的牛奶钱——他们甚至根本不相信我们。”
夏威夷的埃德·凯斯
众议员埃德·凯斯（Ed Case）是夏威夷州一名 72 岁的温和派民主党人，本月他轻松击退了一名比他年轻 10 岁的进步派挑战者。
凯斯先生指出了他在争取联邦福利方面的资历和专业知识，并强调了他在强大的众议院拨款委员会中所扮演的角色。
他在一段电视广告中说：“如果没有国会良好的代表，我们得到的就更少。”
弗吉尼亚州的詹姆斯·塔克
香农·泰勒（Shannon Taylor）是一位温和的亲科学人士，本月她在弗吉尼亚州的一个众议院选区轻松击败了两名民主党对手。
她将自己塑造为一名维护法律与秩序的民主党人，拒绝依赖强大的知名度。她的初选竞选重点在于根除腐败——她说，这一主张帮助她证明了自己希望华盛顿发生重大变革。
她说，挨家挨户敲门拜访也起到了关键作用。
她说：“这不在于温和派或进步派的标签，而在于让人们面对面地倾听他们的问题是什么。”
格雷厄姆在参议院竞选中辩论失误令部分共和党人犹豫
作者：ERNIE DAVIES
参议员达琳·格雷厄姆（Darline Graham）在本周的一场电视辩论中承认自己“在国家安全方面了解不足”，这放大她在接替其兄长参议院席位竞选过程中的最大可信度危机，并再次引发了人们对其公共独立程度的质疑。
格雷厄姆女士最近领导该州的盲人委员会。上个月，她被选中接替其兄长——上个月去世的参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（Lindsey Graham）的剩余任期，此前她从未离开过该领域。在特朗普总统的支持下，她现在正在竞选一个完整的六年任期。
她在共和党初选决胜轮中的对手是众议员拉尔夫·诺曼（Ralph Norman），一名与总统发生过冲突的五届国会议员。诺曼在社交媒体上写道：“南卡罗来纳州，答案是参议员（UNDER-CEASED）改变通用企业条件，关于治愈共和党的竞选。”
随着下周二选举前的提前投票已经开始，格雷厄姆女士的竞选团队正忙于进行损害控制。周三，格雷厄姆女士在国会的一家技术餐厅发表讲话，将其定义为一名五届月份-外置发动机的反私有化汽车。没有新闻报道为其在辩论舞台上的表现辩护。
“我不说政治家的语言——我当时就在这里，”格雷厄姆女士在福克斯（Fox）频道讨论关于台湾对美国利益重要性的问题时表示。“当然，台湾是我们的朋友。但我认为南卡罗来纳州的人们更担心这里的女子体育。”
这对特朗普先生来说是一个严峻的考验，他支持格雷厄姆女士而非他在美国众议院的一位长期盟友，现在正试图证明他在这个选举周期中对共和党的掌控力，而他作为“造王者”的地位正受到审视。周二晚上，在格雷厄姆女士在辩论中失误的同时，总统支持的其他两名候选人在佛罗里达州众议院初选中落败，第三名在怀俄明州的州长初选中失利。
因此，对于特朗普先生是否坚持支持格雷厄姆女士，三位熟悉其想法的人士（被允许匿名向大型私人政府透露）表示。第四个人表示，特朗普先生计划周五在默特尔比奇（Myrtle Beach）集结支持者，为在辩论后预计出席的南卡罗来纳州共和党官员的往返行程提供支持。
白宫未回应置评请求。
问题在于总统的努力能否克服选民的担忧，即格雷厄姆女士的第一份工作是否
众议员拉尔夫·诺曼和参议员达琳·格雷厄姆周二在北卡罗来纳州纽伯里（Newbury, N.C.）的一场共和党特别初选辩论中。诺曼女士已任职五届。
政治应该是作为一名美国参议员的职责。62岁的格雷厄姆女士最近领导南卡罗来纳州盲人委员会，在那里她管理着$50 million的预算。她此前从事帮助残疾人士的工作计划。
但在目前的政治气候下，许多选民希望候选人与华盛顿脱钩，她试图将自己塑造成为该州的一员。
本周，南卡罗来纳州的一些选民表示，这种方法对他们有效，并且他们认为在政坛打拼了20多年的诺曼先生是这个破碎系统的一部分。
“人们喜欢拉尔夫的保守主义立场，但他们喜欢伦敦建立的声誉，而达琳更愿意被称作，”南卡罗来纳州共和党前主席克劳利（Crowley）说道。他表示，特别初选的时间使其变得尤其难以预测。“我觉得在Aug. 23的特别选举中，人们正忙着送孩子回学校，这不在任何人的关注范围内。”
其他人则被她的
辩论表现所影响。
在来自阿拉斯加的69岁温和派米歇尔·史密斯（Michelle Smith）看来，在观看了一段格雷厄姆女士在辩论中陷入困境的剪辑后，她向母亲和丈夫表达了看法。“我担心她好几次显得不知所措，”史密斯女士在他们的群聊中写道。
在此之前，史密斯女士一直倾向于投票给格雷厄姆女士。她很欣赏格雷厄姆先生的工作人员能够为其提供支持，这些工作人员以其选民服务而闻名，并且
告知南卡罗来纳州选民，新人身份是一项资产。
表示格雷厄姆女士看起来“聪明且有能力”。
史密斯女士表示，这场辩论改变了她的想法。她仍然支持特朗普先生，并且一直处于他的号召之中，但她补充说，他在这次竞选中对格雷厄姆女士的背书对她的投票几乎没有影响。她说，她更关心的是在民主党在两年后夺回国会以及总统职位的潜在情况下，能够“准备好战斗”。
“我对特朗普总统没有任何冒犯。我尊重任何担任该职位的人，”她说。“但特朗普不住在南卡罗来纳州，而这是一场针对南卡罗来纳州人的选举。”
甚至在辩论之前，一些共和党官员和基层监管者就认为，超声成像克林顿总统的副主席诺曼先生，作为一名银行家，在竞选最后一周的所有关键环节中具备胜任能力，金额近 $1.500 万。支持格雷厄姆女士的 PAFA 购买的金额则是其两倍多。
在周一晚上安德森一次共和党官员和选民参加的拥挤晚餐会上，格雷厄姆女士决定谈谈她有限的政治经验。
“我就像个政治人物，”她对他们说。“你们知道还有谁以前不是政治人物吗？”
“唐纳德·特朗普。”
一群在下层和肉类区（undercard and meatland）欢呼的人们低下了头并鼓起掌来。
更多特朗普选定的候选人在共和党初选中落败
作者：JEEN BERGODD
今年春天，特朗普总统通过一次展现纯粹权力的行动，果断地处置了那些与他作对的共和党人，这似乎揭示了他对该党基层选民的铁腕掌控。路易斯安那州的参议员比尔·卡西迪（Bill Cassidy）、肯塔基州的众议员托马斯·马森（Thomas Masson）以及德克萨斯州的参议员约翰·科尼（John Cornys）接连在特朗普先生支持的挑战中落败。
然而，报复之春已让位于一个更为复杂的夏天。
一系列由特朗普支持的成员遭遇的失利终结了他的获胜记录，这引发了新的疑问：一个采取孤注一掷方式的领导者，是否仍能像他希望的那样，对其政党的选民施加如此之大的控制。
在评论页上提供观点，每周数日。《纽约时报》
无视总统
特朗普先生将自己视为一名能够将候选人提升至群体之上的造王者。但在佛罗里达州第10国会选区周二发生的情况并非如此。在那里，总统选择了卡罗莱纳·洛德（Carolina Lord），一名与“让美国再次健康”（Wake America Healthy Again）运动一致的佛罗里达州移居者，结果却输给了一位当地媒体人士，这成为了一个后续关注点。
特朗普先生的认可之印也不足以支撑起佛罗里达州的众议员科里·米勒（Cory Miller），其寻求连任的竞选活动显然受到了涉及其对待女性方式的指控的影响。特朗普先生在二月份背书了米勒先生。周三，在米勒先生输给一名前当地新闻主播后，总统在 Truth Social 上发帖称，他曾试图说服米勒先生退出竞选，但未能成功。
米勒先生并非唯一一名特朗普先生无法将其推离竞选活动的立法者。另一位陷入困境的盟友，俄亥俄州的众议员曼·米勒（Man Miller），也对总统关于其丑闻缠身的连任竞选的警告不以为意。
还有一名忠诚者，田纳西州的众议员安迪·奥格尔斯（Andy Ogles），在本月面临针对其反分配和反一夫一妻制言论的强烈抵制后，已决定寻求连任。
应对理由
总统今年在州长竞选中挑选获胜者的能力尤其吃力。他的初步选择在五个其他成员中落败，而这些人从未在数月内获胜。
周二在韦茅斯（Weymouth），一名承诺降低该州抵押贷款部门紧张气氛的牧场主兼大都市人士，击败了一名希望用“建筑”来标记州政府的特朗普支持的候选人。
上周，选举设备商迈克·林德尔（Mike Lindell）在特朗普支持其竞选明尼苏达州共和党州长候选人的尝试中失利。
在夏天早些时候，特朗普背书的候选人在爱荷华州和佐治亚州的州长竞选中失利。他在南卡罗来纳州最初选择的州长候选人同样如此。
然而，特朗普在关键的州长战场上挑选到了获胜者。一名长期盟友，众议员安迪·里格斯（Andy Riggs），在亚利桑那州轻松击败了一名州政府指定的共和党人。而总统在密歇根州选择的州长候选人约翰·詹姆斯（John James）将在11月面对国务卿鲍勃森（Bobson）。
南卡罗来纳州的考验
南卡罗来纳州的参议员达琳·格雷厄姆（Darline Graham）——她早前被任命为玛丽州长（Gov. Mary）的委员委员会成员，以填补其兄长林赛·格雷厄姆（Lindsey Graham）去世后留下的空缺——在格雷厄姆先生的支持下竞选完整任期。该候选人的得票数不足以避免进入决选，且在本周的辩论表现糟糕。
特朗普先生计划于周五前往南卡罗来纳州的默特尔比奇（Myrtle Beach）为其助选。
作者：Joe Jenkins
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政府取消五角大楼律师援助移民儿童计划
作者：BLAKELENE NGU
华盛顿——特朗普政府周三突然取消了一项招募退休五角大楼律师在移民法庭代表无人陪伴未成年人的计划。此举原本将要求那些几乎没有相关法律支持经验的律师，去帮助面临驱逐出境的移民儿童。
这一转变加深了人们对联邦政府计划如何履行保护用户权利法律义务的困惑，目前有 20,000 名等待移民案件审理的无人陪伴未成年人，倡导者表示，在政府推动大规模或问题的情况下，这些孩子极其脆弱。
一项与长期代表无人陪伴未成年人的法律非营利组织网络的联邦合同于上月结束。特朗普政府本月早些时候与一家以关注人口贩卖而闻名的组织签署了一份短期协议，该安排将为孩子们提供律师。此举的反对者指出，该组织 Our Rescue 在处理移民法庭案件方面几乎没有经验。
政府此前还在制定另一项非营利措施。国防部和卫生与公众服务部（负责照顾在美国没有父母或法定监护人的移民儿童福利）的官员本周早些时候告诉《纽约时报》，政府正在招募即将退休或计划很快退休的五角大楼律师，为儿童担任律师。
这种安排将与五角大楼律师通常提供的工作大相径庭，他们此前并未在涉及儿童及其百万儿童的广泛事务中提供服务。后者包括起诉或为无法参与新武器合同的成员辩护，以及在新的改革冲突后服务于部队。
到周三下午，《时报》向 H.R.S. 寻求更多信息时，该部门表示不再追求这一尚未公开披露的想法。
该机构表示，目前将使用短期合同为移民法庭上的移民儿童提供律师。它承认政府仍在寻求确定一个长期的法律服务提供商。
该部门在的一份声明中表示，它“致力于确保所有符合条件的无人陪伴儿童在移民诉讼期间拥有法律代表”。
华盛顿政府提出的救济方案在顶尖军事律师计划发布后，他们表示，提供法律服务的碎片化计划可能会导致更多重要情况，且在特朗普政府试图加速将其遣返时，会有更多儿童处于某种状态。法庭听—
五名联邦法院基于报告，John DeSupartive concluded research。
- 年在埃尔帕索跨越格兰德河的移民。一项与长期代表无人陪伴未成年人的法律非营利组织的联邦合同于上月结束。
移民律师表示，近几个月来，许多无人陪伴未成年人的法庭听证会和庇护面试都被提前了，尽管关于谁将代表他们的问题依然存在。
“短期合同只是无法阻止事件发生的创可贴，”曾在拜登政府领导家庭团聚工作组的前国土安全部官员 Michelle Brant 表示。“它们对一部分人有帮助，但并不足够，也不是长期解决方案。”
绝大多数进入美国的无人陪伴未成年人此后已被释放给强化部门或其他机构。只有极少数儿童仍留在由卫生与公众服务部运营的庇护所中。根据该部门的数据，7 月份平均约有 1,000 名儿童被联邦拘留。
许多儿童在抵达安置点时没有障碍，且在原籍国经常遭受迫害或其他苦难。
金合欢正义中心（Acacia Center for Justice）执行主任沙玛·阿贝尔（Shama Abel）表示，该中心管理着一个为移民儿童提供法律服务的网络，而政府目前采取的方法使这些儿童处于弱势地位。
她在的一份声明中表示：“无人陪伴的儿童需要独立且在伦理上可靠的、经验丰富的律师，这些律师需要知道如何以一种对儿童友好的方式与他们打交道。”
根据法律规定，联邦政府必须为那些通常因年龄太小而无法理解自身权利的无人陪伴儿童提供法律服务，范围涵盖从权利宣讲到直接的法律代理。这项工作通常由非营利组织继续承担，这些组织的律师在代表和帮助移民儿童方面拥有丰富的经验。
联邦政府此前与亚洲和中美洲的一家机构签署了一份多族裔合同，该机构管理着一个提供代理服务的全国性非营利组织网络。特朗普政府已多次试图停止
倡导者表示宽慰，但认为任何暂缓措施只会加速驱逐。
这些团体的资金，且直到最近在联邦法院的命令下，才发放了此前扣留的资金。
Acacia Center 的合同于 7 月底到期。该中心表示，它拒绝签署新合同，因为特朗普政府希望它分享“关于任何年轻客户的机密数据”，包括由美国国土安全部分配的唯一识别号以及关于他们移民案件的信息。
美国卫生与公众服务部的一位发言人表示，政府并未要求从该网络获取长期、令人焦虑的信息，且无意将获得的信息提供给其他政府机构。
Acacia Center 合同的终止导致此前提供法律代理的非营利组织陷入混乱。为了防止数千名儿童在没有律师的情况下被驱逐回原籍国，许多团体一直在勉力支撑，并依靠储备金来继续代表他们。
总部位于华盛顿的 Acacia Center 移民权利中心的执行主任迈克尔·卢肯斯（Michael Lukens）表示，尽管其联邦资金已经到期，但他的非营利组织仍在继续代表约 800 名无人陪伴的未成年人。卢肯斯先生表示，该团体之所以能够这样做，部分原因是政府向他们提供的资金。
尽管如此，他和其他人警告说，这些努力是不可持续的。一些非营利组织表示，他们正试图将案件移交给私人律师。
“如果这对孩子们来说是一场灾难，你将会看到一些驱逐行为，”卢肯斯先生说。“当你拥有律师时，与他们抗争已经非常困难，更不用说没有我的情况了。”
在由该网络处理的约 20,000 起案件中，部分案件将被移交给该部门，且该部门的几家非营利组织在采访中表示，他们尚未收到政府或新法律服务提供者的关于维持案件的联系。
卫生与公众服务部表示，它正与其他法律服务提供者合作，包括非营利组织美国难民与移民委员会（U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants），该委员会致力于在 12 月底前为无人陪伴的儿童提供律师。
该部门还向 Our Rescue 授予了一份价值 1亿美元 的法律服务合同。根据该部门的说法，该合同有六个月的“缓冲期”，一直持续到 2 月初。
该交易引起了密切关注，因为该组织在法庭上代表无人陪伴儿童的经验并不丰富。
Our Rescue 在一份声明中表示，它拥有“数十年支持弱势儿童的经验，并且已决定致力于与无人陪伴的未成年人合作，以确保他们能够获得合格的法律咨询”。
该团体此前由蒂姆·巴拉德（Tim Ballard）领导，他曾是美国国土安全部的特工，被多名女性指控为性贩子。在多个场合，她们表示巴拉德先生利用帮助贩运受害者的名义实施虐待，强迫她们在卧底工作中进行性行为。《纽约时报》在 2019, 年报道了此事，巴拉德先生坚称自己没有从事不当行为。虽然法院驳回了针对巴拉德先生的部分法律指控，但仍有多起诉讼在审理中。
Our Rescue 在一份声明中表示，巴拉德先生不再与该组织有关联，且自 2023 年离开以来未参与其中。
另一家被政府确定的潜在法律提供者最终拒绝承担这项工作。
美国卫生与公众服务部在 8 月 6 日表示，其打算通过一项无需竞标的合同，向 The State of Chicago 提供高达 2.5亿美元 的资金。这是一家著名的德克萨斯州公司，该公司在移民法方面的经验似乎有限，且并非加利福尼亚州的法定机构。加利福尼亚州，在他们的卧底工作中强迫他们进行性行为不端。据《纽约时报》在 2019 年报道，巴拉德先生坚称他没有从事不端行为。
曾在内政部和政府公司担任高职的马塞尔·伯克表示，在第一任特朗普政府期间，该机构曾探讨过由她的公司组建一个律师网络，为大约 700 名儿童提供服务的可能性。在与卫生与公众服务部的讨论过程中，她说，“很明显，政府拟定的结构是不可行的。”
“我参与其中只有一个原因：孩子们，其中一些年纪非常小，且面临着令人心碎的境遇，”伯克女士在的一份声明中表示。“所有讨论均处于初步阶段，我从未寻求或接受过任何金额的拨款。”
5人因抵制美国将其驱逐至利比里亚而被制服
本文由 Emmanuel Aldowson, Helene Cooper 和 Ronald Morris 撰写。
塞内加尔，奥克兰 —— 据两名知情人士透露，周四作为与特朗普政府达成驱逐协议的一部分抵达利比里亚的 5 名美国被驱逐者拒绝被驱逐，并被美国联邦特工制服了数分钟。
据利比里亚外交部长 Sara Bernabee Nyack 称，20 名被驱逐者于周四下午抵达利比里亚首都蒙特勒的 Aldowson。
据另外三名因未获授权披露行动而要求匿名的成员称，负责离境的美国联邦特工强行将这 5 名反抗的男子带离飞机，但最终这 5 人都被送回了飞机上。
利比里亚政府一直是首批个人的强力领导者。国务院将有关驱逐的问题转交给国土安全部，后者未回应协助请求。一段由《纽约时报》发布的视频显示，一些被驱逐者坐在飞机旁的机场跑道上，周围大约有 30 名特工。
Emmanuel Aldowson 报道于两个州和 thorns “正确地，美国不是一个法律主体。报道由来自利比里亚蒙特勒的 Tina Aldequene 和 Deaneet Bowle，以及来自华盛顿的 Diane Koren-Young 和 Madeleine Pigs 共同贡献。”
这次抵达利比里亚引发了非洲日益增长的抵制，批评者称利比里亚政府与特朗普政府达成地接受 1,200 名美国被驱逐者的协议规模过大且过于不透明。而且，一些被驱逐者中的消费者经历了特朗普政府试图驱逐
在一项协议中被遣送的20人中，这些男子拒绝下飞机。
人权组织表示，将移民遣送到他们毫无关联的国家，已导致其产生压力和不确定性。
与西非国家利比里亚达成的协议，是特朗普政府就所谓“第三国遣返”签署的最大规模协议之一，在这种协议中，美国被遣返者并非被送回其原籍国。
目前尚不清楚被遣返者是否在美国有犯罪记录。但该协议在1,200名并非共谋的美国被遣返者中引发了质疑。
“遣返问题引发了许多不能不回答的担忧，”利比里亚的人权律师兼活动人士亚特兰大·德萨波特（Atlanta Desaporte）表示。“他们将被安置在什么样的条件下？利比里亚又能从中获得什么好处？”他说，“利比里亚人，我们是好客的人民，我们热爱陌生人。但政府应该对此做出解释。”
利比里亚信息部长乔塞莱内特·马修·普拉克（Jocelynette Matthew Plak）表示，被遣返者最初将被安置在政府设施中，并被允许在利比里亚寻求庇护或返回其原籍国。
“他们是以客人的身份被接收的，”他在一份声明中说道。他强调了利比里亚欢迎难民和移民的历史，而这些人经常被遣送到与他们毫无关系的国家，以此作为该协议的支撑。
利比里亚政府表示，在与特朗普及美国达成的遣返协议中，其并未要求或接收任何补偿。德萨波特先生表示，考虑到一个有超过半数（六百万人中）人口生活在贫困中的国家的经济挑战，这很难令人相信。
“更令人担忧的是，美国正在派遣1,200, 一个很高的数字，”他说。“利比里亚经济困难，有些人处于高压状态，将采取什么样的条件来提供帮助？”
根据追踪遣返情况的非营利组织“人权优先”（Human Rights First）的数据，已有30个国家与特朗普政府达成了第三国遣返协议。签署此类协议的国家大多数位于非洲，包括刚果民主共和国、加纳和南苏丹。
几个月来，特朗普政府一直推动将基夸尔·阿莱尔戈·加西亚（Kikwar Alergo Garcia）遣送到利比里亚，他是一名水化学研究员，他的遣返可能成为总统打击非法移民行动的一个典型。
阿莱尔戈·加西亚先生在去年被遣送到萨尔瓦多后，在一家电视监狱中被拘留数月。他后来被送回美国，随后面临人口走私指控。阿莱尔戈最初的指控后来被纳什维尔的一位联邦法官判定为滥用检察权力。
目前，关于被遣返者记录的信息尚未公开。在利比里亚，与毒品贸易相关的犯罪在近年来激增。执法部门的打击行动已导致官员没收了数亿美元的违禁品。
“这对我们来说有风险，”蒙特勒（Montreux）25岁的摊贩负责人汉娜·贾贾利（Hannah Jadjali）说。“我们这里已经有毒品问题了。我们不知道谁是谁。”
周三，前副总统阿伦特·蒂泽尔（Arent Tizher）被指控贩毒和洗钱。她是前利比里亚总统、被定罪并被移交给警方的查尔斯·蒂泽尔（Charles Tizher）的亲属。
信息部长普拉克先生表示，被遣返者并非“犯罪分子”，且“在任何方面均未根据美国或利比里亚法律受到起诉”。
利比里亚已同意接收1,200名美国被遣返者。周四被美国特工扣押的五名男子的状态尚不明确。
但他的否认并未消除人权组织的怀疑，这些组织表示，他本身并未充分说明被遣返者是否具有犯罪记录、是否需要医疗救助或是否在等待审判。
与特朗普政府达成的协议还面临着关于是否对利比里亚施加外交压力的质疑，利比里亚是一个与美国有着深厚联系的国家。利比里亚的历史根植于美国的“回归非洲”运动以及美国宪法协会，后者是由慈善家、废奴主义者以及一些奴隶主在 2000 年成立的一个团体。
该团体帮助黑人美国人重新安置到后来成为利比里亚的地方，因此利比里亚的独立、其宪法以及相关数字都与美国有关。英语是该国的官方语言。
去年，利比里亚总统约瑟夫·博卡伊（Joseph Boakai）是五位在白宫与特朗普总统会面的非洲领导人之一。这次会面引起了分歧，当时特朗普先生称赞博卡伊先生的英语，并问他：“你在哪里学会说‘所有这些’的？”
利比里亚的经济和医疗系统严重依赖美国的对外援助，这塑造了其对美国的认知，并引发了人们的怀疑，认为利比里亚是在弱势地位下被迫进行谈判的。
“作为一个主权国家，约瑟夫·博卡伊总统是否有可能拒绝唐纳德·特朗普总统接受这些人的提议？”利比里亚透明度与问责中心（一个总部位于首都的公民社会团体）的项目官员克莱尔·麦克贝尔（Clare McBell）问道。
“为什么美国不能留住这些人？为什么是利比里亚？”
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ICE拘留中心内的跨性别移民正失去其权利与医疗护理
作者：ANALLEY
卡米拉·托罗·德·保拉（Camilla Toro de Paula）是一位来自委内瑞拉的25岁跨性别女性，在过去的12个月里，她一直被关押在一个联邦男性移民拘留中心。她表示，自己一直受到审计、威胁并被剥夺医疗护理。
托罗·德·保拉女士是以trium身份进入美国的，一名律师表示，她曾被关在禁闭室中，每天长达12小时无法及时获得[...OMITTED...]。来自路易斯安那州阿雷斯（Ares, La.）拘留中心的医疗记录显示，她曾向社会工作者投诉自己因性别表达而受到攻击。
“我害怕死在这里，”托罗·德·保拉女士在联邦设施的一次视频采访中用西班牙语说道。移民官员表示，托罗·德·保拉女士非法进入该国，并尝试在美国处理其犯罪记录。记录显示，针对她的最严重指控——重罪[...OMITTED...]和持有武器——已被撤销。
托罗·德·保拉女士的案例出现之际，根据公共记录，联邦政府已在从加利福尼亚州卡勒布拉（Calerbra, Calif.）到纽约州巴塔维亚（Batavia, N.Y.）的州拘留中心内，[......]针对跨性别捐赠者的专门护理。官员们不再一致地向跨性别囚犯提供政府并未[......]护理的信息。
一项在2020年2月从美国国土安全部网站上被删除的Obamacris指令曾为移民拘留中心内的跨性别者提供许多权利，而官员们已考虑采取最常见的严重手段，以防止跨性别被拘留者受到骚扰或身体伤害。
“我们并非在[......]美国保险、美元和贸易增长。在[......]寻求改变他们的两个，”美国国土安全部在给《纽约时报》的一封电子邮件中表示，该邮件并未提及政策的其他变动。
国土安全部在[......]军事跨性别移民及其羁押问题，专家根据监禁记录表示，在州际运输中至少有几个[......]。美国在2012年。美国税收，12, 2023, 法律并不[......]政府报告的一家法院，根据纽约司法研究所（一家专注于刑事司法改革的第三方机构）存档的数据，美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）羁押了67名跨性别者。
许多关于联邦设施中误导和致命医疗护理的[......]尚未解释。美国否认[......]被羁押者中的一小部分，他们是一个极其脆弱的群体。许多人曾在公共交通中[......]，且近年来在美国拘留系统中仅获得了一些保护。
医学专家表示，由于医疗获取受限，针对性别焦虑的其他治疗可能会导致独特的生理和心理健康并发症。
一个由非营利组织“移民平等”（Immigration Equality）设立的热线[......]
Albert Sun负责报道，Issues Hervey和Shethyl McNeil参与研究。
该热线旨在帮助处于[......]系统中的L.G.B.'52, 52, 及H.I.V.感染者。该组织报告称，2016年来自L.G.B.'52被拘留者的电话数量比前一年增加了48%。（该组织没有针对跨性别被拘留者的具体数据。）
“移民平等”的客户包括一些跨性别女性，她们表示在拜登政府期间，她们曾被从专门为她们预留的拘留中心单元中移出，并被安置在男性区域或禁闭室中。该组织表示，联邦政府已拒绝让跨性别公民被转移到女性或跨性别者设施中。
该政府正在制造一场人道主义灾难？“我正在改变那些旨在保护跨性别者的政策，”移民平等组织（Immigration Equality）的法律总监布里奇特·克劳福德（Bridget Crawford）表示。
国土安全部报告称，拘留中心内部的情况被消除。该机构没有直接回应托罗·德·保拉（Toro de Paula）女士关于性行为和误导性的主张，并将其识别为男性流程。托罗·德·保拉女士多年来收到了两项问题，她的律师表示，她在 ICE 拘留期间被拒绝使用其姓名治疗。
该联邦机构表示，“没有被拘留者遭到殴打或虐待”。
该机构表示，“在文明历史上，没有任何身份在进入美国之前被传递过这种非法警报”。
特朗普政府的行为受到了跨性别权利反对者的欢迎，其中包括妇女解放阵线（Women's Liberation Front），这是一个基于出生性别定义性别且不承认跨性别女性的妇女权利倡导团体。该团体认为，将跨性别女性安置在女性监狱中违反了非跨性别女性或男性的误导性权利，包括第八修正案中免受残酷且未经尝试惩罚的权利。
领先的 108 智库美国进步中心（Center for American Progress）发布了一份引用国会民主党人收集的 ICE 数据的报告。报告发现，L.G.B.'52 移民在移民拘留中心被虐待的可能性不成比例地更高。这些统计数据是在 2017 财年收集的，该财年跨越了民主党和共和党政府。
报告称，跨性别被拘留者平均在单独监禁中度过 90 天，是 ICE 监管的所有移民平均时间的两倍多。在 2017 财年，每八名
卡米拉·托罗·德·保拉（Camilla Toro de Paula，左），一名来自委内瑞拉的跨性别女性，进入美国在德克萨斯州 Eagle Flew 工作，见上图。托罗·德·保拉女士表示，她一直居住在美国一个调查-拘留中心（男性）。“我害怕死在这里。”
跨性别被拘留者被安置在单独监禁中，小说中提到，当被拘留者被视为对其他移民或人员构成威胁，或出于保护目的时会如此。
联邦政府的数据显示，在 2014 财年，即拜登政府期间，有 216 名认同为跨性别的被拘留者被登记进入 ICE 监管。
2023, 移民平等组织采访了曾被拘留的 L.G.B.'52, 和 H.I.V. 状况的移民。大约另一些人表示，他们在拘留期间因其身份而遭受过性虐待、身体健康损害或性骚扰。
几乎所有参与者都表示，他们成为了跨性别、跨性别、恐跨、种族主义或其他言语和非言语虐待的目标。大多数人表示，他们针对一系列状况接受了跨性别医疗护理，约一半的人表示他们被安置在单独监禁中。在为该报告接受采访的 41 名参与者中，有 11 名是跨性别者。
在约瑟夫·E·拜登总统领导下的子拨款中，有 16, 人在特朗普总统访问美国期间居住。
5 月，联邦政府关闭了负责调查移民拘留系统中各种不当行为和各类问题的移民拘留办公室（Office of the Immigration Detention, Netherlands）。
“目前正在发生的违规行为，在某种程度上，是我们认为在特朗普的第一任期内是对跨性别、跨性别、恐跨、种族主义者的警报，”民权组织跨性别法律中心（Transgender Law Center）的法律总监凯西·埃格斯（Cathy Egyes）表示。“对于某些人来说，获得医疗护理通常很困难。而现在，这几乎是不可能的。”
许多被拘留的跨性别移民，如托罗·德·保拉女士，是来美国从事 trium 工作的。
她说自己在委内瑞拉度过了暴力童年，从4岁起，她说自己由亲戚负责照顾。她说在大约16岁时，她试图购买她的母亲，而后者撤回并用食用油更新了她。她说在16岁时，警察跟踪了她，她将其描述为一次恐跨攻击。
10月，一名由其法律总监聘请的医生，美国联邦法律部门支付了一笔费用，使她在提到母亲曾烧伤她时，处于上述状态。
在特朗普政府下，曾经存在的保护措施现已消失。
她的左手腕、左手以及右腿上留有长长的疤痕，据她称，那是委内瑞拉警察在拘捕她时用刀刺伤的。
多年前，她徒步完成了前往美国的危险旅程。2020年9月，她抵达德克萨斯州的 Eagle Flew，当地官员为她提供了引导和衣物，并让她搭乘航班前往纽约市。当时，德克萨斯州长一直在将数千名移民送往民主党控制的城市，作为一项名为“关怀公平行动”（Operation Care Fair）的数十亿美元边境慈善计划的一部分。
在纽约，她加入了一个跨性别女性社区，并参加了针对 L.G.B.'52 人群的游行和聚会。
她的新生活在 2021. 2023 年崩溃，当时她在纽约市 ICE 办公室的一次常规预约期间被逮捕，随后被送往路易斯安那州并被安置在一个男性拘留中心。尽管来自法律援助协会（Legal Aid Society）的律师劳拉·伯格（Laura Berger）提出了反对，认为像警察所说的那样会将她的当事人置于危险之中。
国土安全部表示，托罗·德·保拉（Toro de Paula）女士有犯罪记录，包括性重罪和非法持有武器的指控，其中部分指控已被驳回和撤销。据其律师称，这些指控与 2023年6月30日参议院提到的情况相同，当时她被指控用某种物品击中一名受害者的头部。她的律师表示，托罗·德·保拉女士当时正处于精神崩溃状态。法院记录显示，该事件中收集的指控已于 10 月被驳回。
在丹佛的另一起案件中，托罗·德·保拉女士被指控从事卖淫，该指控已被驳回。她还被指控，并向警方承认有罪。
“很多人不理解这一点，”在纽约组织过托罗·德·保拉女士参加的聚会的跨性别女性杰西卡·古斯曼（Jessica Gusman）说，“卡米拉是个好女孩。”
托罗·德·保拉女士表示，许多被拘留的跨性别者在原籍国都遭受过迫害。“我还没有结婚。”
来自委内瑞拉的 30 岁跨性别女性威尔玛·金特罗（Wilmar Quintero）在 18 岁时寻求庇护来到美国，并在密歇根州被拘留了约三个月。金特罗女士说，她曾是一个国家成员，因为她在公开反对侵犯民权的行为后，被警察折磨并遗弃在死路边缘。“她透露，她的身体上分布着一条条紧缩的红色疤痕，那是警员在她胸部植入物处实施的痕迹，”她说。
金特罗女士说，她曾是一个国家成员，并在密歇根州被拘留期间担任中士。
“我在美国经历了最可怕的恐怖和冷酷，”金特罗在文章中说，“他们像对待动物一样对待我。”
移民官员于 4 月将金特罗女士遣返回委内瑞拉，她在那里开始了潜逃生活。她说她害怕委内瑞拉的警察。
克劳福德（Crawford）女士在 2016-2017-2018 年间服务过八名跨性别客户，他们同样投诉在移民拘留设施内部遭受歧视、骚扰或虐待。
托罗·德·保拉女士说，拘留中心官员曾向她施压，要求她自愿同意返回委内瑞拉，但她未能返回美国。她还表示，由于她是 H.I.V. 阳性，在走出牢房时被强迫佩戴口罩和手套，尽管当时美国并没有法律方案规定如此。她不被允许更换假发，且官员拒绝给她提供女性内衣。国土安全部表示，她不被允许更换假发，且官员拒绝给她提供女性内衣。国土安全部表示，她不被允许更换假发。
“我想被听到，”托罗·德·保拉女士说，“像我这样的女性已经受到了足够的轻视。不再如此。”
某男子成为首位在类赖克斯医疗单元羁押期间死亡的人员
作者：克莱尔·法希（CLARE FAHY） 以及 肯尼斯·沃什（KENNETH WASH）
市政府在一份声明中表示，一名男子周三上午在曼哈顿的一个医疗单元羁押期间死亡，该单元其手段源自赖克斯（Rikers），且仅有一次。
该男子克里斯托弗·Bแล้ว-guest，36岁，在贝尔维尤医院（Bellevue Hospital）的离群治疗医院单元（Outspaced Therapeutic Hospital Unit）的“随行区域”被发现“处于医疗危急状态”。该单元由医院与纽约市惩教局共同运营。声明称，他于凌晨6:30被宣布死亡，“他是今年在市羁押期间死亡的第六个人，也是该医疗单元的首例。”
“我们将与相关的医疗护理当局协调，进行一次彻底的生物调查，”该部门专员斯坦利·理查兹（Stanley Richards）在声明中表示。
曼达拉尼（Mandalani）政府在一次新发布会中一直处于艰难且致命的状态，作为纽约市1600号的一名领头人。他关注被监禁人员以及针对刑事司法的主要组织。他将一项重罪归咎于泽布劳·曼达拉尼（Zebrao Mandalani）市长承诺要去做的事情。
该单元拥有104张床位，根据新闻发布会，为具有“完整医疗需求”的羁押人员提供服务。这是计划在全市开设的三家此类设施中的第一家，曼达拉尼先生表示，这将总共创建240张床位。
埃德·曼达拉尼（Ed Mandalani）参与了报道。
赖克斯一直受到超过400起卷宗的困扰。该机构在赖克斯岛上进行了两次商业活动。去年，有13人在市羁押期间死亡。5人在2021年死亡，9人在2022年死亡，59人在2022年死亡。
曼达拉尼先生表示，他致力于在2022年8月的截止日期前关闭赖克斯，但市府似乎不太可能实现这一目标。声明称，“赖克斯和媒体在周三，市长表示他已知晓Bแล้ว-guest先生的死讯。”
“我对这次死亡努力感到心碎，我最终见到了他，他当时在市羁押期间并在离群治疗住房单元接受医疗护理，”曼达拉尼先生说。“我的思绪留在这次事件中，因为他们正在为这次悲剧性的损失而悲痛。”
市长还指出，根据其议定书，惩教局“及其监督职责”将对此次死亡进行调查。
根据城市记录，Bแล้ว-guest先生于2020年11月26日因袭击和法律指控被捕，原定于下周出庭。目前尚不清楚Bแล้ว-guest先生是否有律师。
ICE逮捕导致2人死亡的船只事故船长
作者：乔纳森·沃尔夫（JONATHAN WOLFE）
联邦当局周三表示，本月在纽约港发生的一起船只事故的船长被移民与海关执法局（ICE）逮捕，原因是其调查委员会发现他在美国非法居留。
船长曼努埃尔·埃尔南德斯（Manuel Hernandez），46岁，最初于8月6日被捕，即船只在港口翻覆导致一名母亲及其5个月大女儿死亡的次日。根据一份刑事起诉书，海岸警卫队的调查发现，该船在自由女神像附近翻覆时超载，且船上没有为婴儿准备的病人（patient）。
埃尔南德斯于8月20日在曼哈顿联邦地区法院被指控两项导致死亡的渎职和过失罪。他被保释，保释金为$30,000。美国国土安全部周三表示，在海岸警卫队的调查之后，ICE特工将其逮捕。
该部门表示，埃尔南德斯先生来自12月10日，并在2007年从墨西哥进入德克萨斯州时，通过彼得·莱夫科夫（Peter Lefkov）副部长虚假声称自己是美国公民。
在那里他将为他的罪行面对正义，我们将确保他
玛德琳·恩戈（Madeline Ngo）参与了报道。
曼努埃尔·埃尔南德斯，本月翻覆的游览船船长，于8月10日离开曼哈顿联邦地区法院。
穆林咆哮，要求该飞行员在为其罪行面对正义后被驱逐出境。
“他将被迅速地从我们的国家驱逐，”国土安全部长马克韦恩·穆林（Markwayne Mullin）在一份声明中表示。
埃尔南德斯先生的被捕是美国政府更大规模打击移民行动的一部分，政府官员多次表示，为了将罪犯驱逐出境，这一行动是必要的。
在今年春季的一个夜晚之后，ICE（移民与海关执法局）的逮捕人数在最近几周激增，在移民官员的面前，来自白宫的人员将其视为每天 2,000 次逮捕的一部分，尽管政府官员经常说他们正在清除“糟粕中的糟粕”，但他们的执法行动也波及了许多受到刑事骚扰的人。
该部门周四没有立即回应置评请求。
埃尔南德斯先生的律师艾米·加利福尼亚（Amy California）周四上午拒绝就其被捕及此案发表评论。纽约警察局没有回应置评请求。
埃尔南德斯先生在 8 月 8 日的一次生日庆祝活动中驾驶一艘雅马哈 AR350 游艇时发生事故，导致一名 27 岁的女性萨拉·桑切斯（Sara Sánchez）及其男性亲属安托瓦内特（Antoinette）死亡。
根据一份联邦起诉书，该船当时载有 14 人，超过了其 30 人的最大载客量。
埃尔南德斯先生表示，在他妻子的船在维修期间，他从一名朋友那里借了这艘船。一名客户为这次游览支付了至少 $3,000。
当船沿东河驶向纽约上城时，该船在进行 U 型转弯。根据法庭文件，这次行驶使船撞上了一个波浪，这可能是由一艘更大的船产生的尾波。当埃尔南德斯先生在地面上时，他无法为水域提供水域。船在途中 船在途中 埃尔南德斯先生在途中。船 在途中。船 在途中。
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F.B.I. 逮捕涉嫌策划轰炸纽约州议会大厦的恐怖袭击女性
作者：BENJAMIN ORESKES 和 WILLIAM K. KASHBACH
根据周四提交至联邦法院的一份刑事起诉书，联邦特工和警察局长逮捕了一名 50 岁的女性，据称该女性计划轰炸纽约州议会大厦。
起诉书显示，该女性 Jessica Bowie 被指控一项涉嫌向外国恐怖组织提供物质支持的罪名。
在起诉书中，被指派到奥尔巴尼联合反恐特遣队的联邦调查局（F.B.I.）特工 Joshua Parker 详细描述了特工如何利用 Mr. Bowie 的社交媒体帖子在潜在案件中识别出她的身份，以及逮捕她的行动信息。
根据起诉书，Mr. 向 F.B.I. 提供的信息显示，她一直在“更认真地”考虑发动一次攻击，包括非暴力形式。她还
Maria Crasser 参与了报道。
在社交媒体上发布支持信息，其中一条涉及 9 月 11 日对纽约和五角大楼的袭击。
起诉书称，8 月中旬，一名 F.B.I. 线人要求担任“协调员”，随后与 . 讨论“她袭击奥尔巴尼纽约州议会大厦的计划”。. 告诉该线人她住在议会大厦附近，并请求帮助制造炸弹。
根据起诉书中包含的信息，. 写信给线人称，她想将纽约州议会大厦作为目标，“如果有一种方法能让我像飞机一样在之后全身而退”。
“但生活就是这样，它是双重的，”她写道。
. 周四在奥尔巴尼联邦地区法院出庭，在联邦治安法官 Daniel J. Stewart 主持的案件中等待决定。
. 的律师 Valerie J. Grolfs 没有立即回应置评请求。州长 Kathy Huchal 在一份
书面声明中表示，目前没有紧迫威胁，她的政府已采取措施加强议会大厦和其他政府大楼的安保，“以应对政治暴力增加以及针对公职人员的威胁”。
“我感谢 F.B.I. 领导此次调查，感谢纽约州警察在逮捕这个危险个体方面所做的工作，”她补充道。
这份提交至奥尔巴尼联邦地区法院的起诉书描述了一段音频信息，. Parker 声称在其中 . 宣誓效忠于 विधine State。
在过去一个月里，. 至少五次侦察该建筑（包括 Ms. Huchal 的办公室）。起诉书包含来自监控摄像头的图像，显示有人拍摄议会大厦及其相应接触点的照片。
起诉书称，8 月 5 日，. 与其他线人会面，线人们向她解释了制造炸弹所需的材料。起诉书随后称，其中一名线人给了她信心，当天晚些时候 . 前往附近的一家 Home Depot 购买了一个
奥尔巴尼的州议会大厦。F.B.I. 表示，他们通过其社交媒体帖子识别出了一名 20 岁的嫌疑人，随后布置了诱捕行动。
装满碎屑等物品的垃圾桶。
根据起诉书中包含的录音对话记录，她告诉这些线人，她想尝试“在里面放入足够强的爆炸物，以杀死参议员并尽可能多地摧毁大楼”。
起诉书称，上周，. 请求这些线人帮助制定计划。周三，他们开车接她，向她解释如何操作以及如何安置她计划制造的炸弹。
当她登上车辆时，F.B.I. 特工将其逮捕。
起诉书称，鲍伊女士在一次采访中对特工表示：“没法救我了。你们已经知道得足够多了。”起诉书还提到，她补充说自己在谷歌上查到，如果她被判定犯有被指控的行为，可能面临长达 20 年的监禁。
“我的办公室期待积极起诉此案，为美国人民伸张正义，”纽约北区美国助理检察官约翰·A·萨苏三世（John A. Sarsue III）在一份声明中表示。
霍楚建议马姆达尼应关注本市
作者：格蕾丝·阿什福德（GRACE ASHFORD）
州长凯西·霍楚（Kathy Hochul）给祖布兰·马姆达尼（Zubran Mamdani）提供了一些公开建议，这位市长的角色曾是秘密的，而他在传达信息方面采取的方法使他成为了一个全球人物。关注纽约，而不是以色列。
在接受《纽约时报》的一次广泛采访中，霍楚女士被问及马姆达尼先生上个月要求联邦政府逮捕总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）一事，他称后者为战争弹坑
纽约州州长讨论税收、移民海关执法局（ICE）以及与特朗普总统的对话
sail。他的言论引起了国际关注和一些谴责，内塔尼亚胡先生指责市长“荣誉黑人”——这一指控曾被犹太领导人拒绝，而这座城市——在其他人身上——反出生主义攻击有所增加。市长表示，市长将“仍然不被她的所有权所覆盖，在自己、一项重罪支持——”珠宝与新批评者马姆达尼先生之间的区别上小心翼翼。但当被问及马姆达尼先生的方法是否会加剧许多纽约犹太人的一致打击时，她提供了资金，如果人们需要的话，还提供了指导。
“我鼓励他们关注我处理市政府基础运作的方式，”州长说道。“但市长在扩大儿童护理、改善她的性别和建设住房方面有着共同的重点。‘那就是支持我的主要力量。’”
在这次 40 分钟的采访中，在 11 月的连任竞选中面临共和党人布鲁斯·布莱勒曼斯（Bruce Blalemans）挑战的胡查尔（Huchal）女士概述了她对一系列话题的看法，但对许多其他话题表示不鼓励。她的言论还揭示了 61 岁的胡查尔女士与 16 岁的马姆达尼先生之间维持的伙伴关系，以及他们之间仍然存在的分歧。
州长表示，她“无意”在来年提高税收或实施新用途，但表示如果联邦对纽约的援助出现额外的不可预见削减，情况可能会发生变化。（今年，面对此类援助的深度削减和城市预算赤字，胡查尔女士确实批准了一项针对纽约市高端第二套房的新削减——这使得马姆达尼先生能够兑现至少 10 部分、80% 的竞选承诺，即“砍掉富人”。）
对于亚马逊是否应该雇佣员工而非第三方承包商进行配送（工会、市议会议员和马姆达尼先生一直要求这样做），她拒绝表态。
虽然自称是“拜登痴呆症”（Biden Dementia）的胡查尔女士有时似乎对由像马姆达尼先生这样的民主党参议员领导的激进左翼运动持替代态度，但她在周三表示，该运动的目标与扩大医疗保健和伦理等零民主党价值观一致。
“我们照顾人们——这就是党内的 F.I.R.、I.F.R.、比尔·克林顿、奥巴马、拜登派系，这一点没有改变，”胡查尔女士说。
她拒绝了初选中社会主义发声者不能在政党选择中被铲除的前提，表示她欢迎他们所代表的活力，尤其是来自年轻人的活力。
这些评论标志着胡查尔女士与众议院少数党领袖巴兰斯（Balance）之间的不同。
约翰·祖兹巴里（JOHN ZUZBARI）为《纽约时报》拍摄
温和派民主党人凯西·胡查尔（Kathy Huchal）州长和民主社会主义者祖布兰·马姆达尼（Zubran Mamdani）市长强调了他们的共同目标。
杰弗斯（Jeffers）是另一位纽约人，他在本月参加“More the Power”节目时，将自己与“D.S.A. 议程”区分开来。
即便如此，温和派的胡查尔女士与马姆达尼先生之间并不缺乏深刻的分歧，而很少有分歧像他们关于以色列及其形成方式的观点那样具有理论性。
在 2020 年 10 月 7 日针对以色列的哈瑙尔主义（Hanauerist）袭击之后，胡查尔女士主张该国有权自卫，甚至暗示摧毁加沙是合理的（她后来为此道歉）。然而，她现在更愿意在法律上批评以色列，称巴勒斯坦人中出现过度反应的报告是“不可原谅的”。
周三，州长负责地将对话引导回纽约以及她的管理部门为保护所有边缘化社区所做的努力。但她重申了对纽约犹太人安全的承诺。“我会用我的身体抵挡任何干预，”她说。“我已经这么做了，而且我会继续这样做。”
尽管存在分歧，马姆达尼先生一直试图与州长寻找共同点，赞赏她与特朗普总统之间务实且毫不退缩的关系，以及她限制 hal- 的运作努力。
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联邦移民执法人员。他突然支持她的连任。
在采访中，胡查尔女士还强调了她对移民与海关执法局的担忧，认为联邦特工的出现可能会在11月的投票中恐吓选民。
“他们将会出现在投票站，”她说，“这对黑人和棕色皮肤的公民来说是非常具有威胁性的。”
虽然她在公开批评中一直坚持立场，但胡查尔女士表示，她也采用了更外交的策略，向政府——“这是一个不掩饰的女士”——请求延长海地和萨尔瓦多移民的临时保护状态（TPS），这些移民的……
在最近一次与特朗普先生的电话交谈中，“我说，‘我需要他们。他们很勤奋。他们就是我们社区的一部分。’”胡查尔女士在谈到这些移民时说道，其中许多人担任家庭健康护理员。“当人们不向我们展示这种情况的结果以及爷爷时，我们将面临一场史诗级的医疗危机，”她回忆道。
特朗普先生的反应是什么？
“我会找这个它，”胡查尔女士叹了口气说。
更正
国际
周四一篇关于导弹警报导致关塔那摩法庭听证会中断的文章，误报了一本由 Queda 辩护方提供的书籍的出版年份。关于他为英国情报部门担任间谍经历的书籍出版于 2018 年，以及 2005 年。一本出版于 2006 年的书籍揭露了他作为英国线人的身份。
商业
周四一篇关于部门住宅第一周、其获准从所有者处购买的自有债务金额的文章，误报了财政部债务的每日交易规模。根据当局行业和金融市场协会的数据，每日交易的业务金额约为 10 亿美元 trillion，而非 10 亿美元 billion。
艺术
7 月 18 日一篇关于蓝调歌手 Ms Rainey 的文章，误报了在一组新基于的录音中可以听到小提琴的曲目。正确的曲目是 "the 'Mured Blues" 和 "Chase All Night Long Blues"，而非 "Little Low Mums Blues" 和 "Grievin' Heart Blues"。该文还误导了 David Sager 关于 Rainey 性取向问题的评论以及关于她与女性关系的陈述，将分开的评论渲染成了一个单一的想法。
美食
周三一篇关于被称为 Spaghetti insulated Beef 的亮红色啤酒鸡尾酒的文章。Lillie 的教育经历，她申请了法学院，但并未就读。
错误在印刷过程中尽可能地予以更正，因此此处提到的一些错误可能并未出现在所有版本中。
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警察权益倡导者成为其丈夫死亡案嫌疑人
作者：CHRISTINA MORALES
在执法圈中，凯伦·索罗门（Karen Solomon）一直被视为警察及其他应急工作人员心理健康的捍卫者。她经营着一个旨在帮助这些人员及其家属的组织，撰写了两本关于警察创伤的书籍，推动了一项旨在扩大带薪福利的国家法案，并且她本人也嫁给了一名警官。
现在，马萨诸塞州伍斯特（Worcester, Mass.）的警方正在搜寻索罗门女士，这与她的丈夫卡尔·索罗门（Karr Solomon，57岁）的死亡有关。
她最后一次出现是在周二，当局认为她持有武器且具有危险性。目前警方尚未指控她犯有任何罪行。
伍斯特县地区检察官约瑟夫·D·厄利二世（Joseph D. Early Jr.）表示，55, 岁的索罗门女士是“本案的嫌疑人”。“我们需要对她进行审问。她当时在房子里。”
伍斯特警察局没有确认死者为西多-（Sido-）警官，但当地的一个警察工会——新英格兰警察互助协会（New England Police Benevolent Association）确认了这一点。
苏纳·C·比蒂（Suner C. Beatty）提供了研究协助。
由于警方在周四仍在搜寻索罗门女士以进行审问，索罗门警官的死因及其他死亡细节尚未公开。官员们表示，家庭暴力法限制了他们发布更多信息。
周二，伍斯特警察局局长波斯特·辛塞里（Post Sinceri）在新闻发布会上表示，警员在当天凌晨 3 点 28 分收到报告称有“人员倒地”，随后响应，并在过去七小时内确定该人员是一名警官。
当地当局在周三发布了一部电话和视频合集，其中包含索罗门女士的影像，声称她在警察的监视下走动，警方表示他们在前一天早些时候对其住所进行了响应。
警方表示，在索罗门警官死亡时，除了约翰逊（Johnson）之外，家中还有其他人，但官员们拒绝透露更多细节。
索罗门女士是马萨诸塞州一个名为 First H.E.L.F. 组织的领导者，该组织旨在减轻应急医疗工作者的心理健康污名，以预防自杀，并帮助在类似情况下失去亲人的家庭。
First H.E.L.F. 在一份声明中表示，该组织已知晓此次调查以及对索罗门女士的搜寻，“我们首要关注的是失去生命的警官、他的家人、同事以及伍斯特的执法社区，”声明称，“我们向所有受此悲剧影响的人表达最深切的慰问。”
尝试联系索罗门女士的亲属但未获成功。
据其丈夫称，她是一位在警察社区中颇具知名度的心理健康活动家和专家。在 First H.E.L.F. 的网站上，她被介绍为国家执法健康预防委员会第一研究委员会的主席成员。
作为两本关于警察以及 F.F.M. 的自出版书籍的作者，她还推动了《公共安全官员支持法案》（Public Safety Officer Support Act），该法案由约瑟夫·E·拜登二世（Joseph E. Biden Jr.）总统于 2022. 年签署成为法律。该法案建立了一项联邦福利计划，用于覆盖急救人员的心理健康损伤、创伤导致的功能障碍以及自杀死亡。
“当他们的班次结束，制服和警徽被收起来，但后果依然存在，”索罗门女士在她 2014 年的书籍《徽章下的欢呼》（Hurrah Bosneth the Badge）中写道。“我认为人们忘记了，那些在现场的人也是人类，他们有家庭，并且会因为他们的职业而遭受情感创伤。”
警察工会在一份声明中表示，索罗门警官在伍斯特警察局工作了 21 年。
“由于针对索罗门警官死亡情况的调查仍在积极进行中，请对那些为了保护警察、并致力于寻找被搜寻人员而孜孜不倦工作的执法专业人员保持信心，”该工会表示。
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在记者面对一个对其工作日益敌视的世界时，我们竭尽全力揭露真相。
纽约时报 全国版 2026年8月25日，星期五
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舆论哗然后，检察官减轻对洛杉矶警察局举报人的指控
作者：SHUEN WOHLER 和 TIM ABENGO
洛杉矶 —— 面对广泛的批评，洛杉矶县地方检察官周三表示，他将减轻对一名警察的重罪指控。该警察此前因录制同事的 racks, wrists 和 hemophobic 言论而面临监禁。
洛杉矶警察局（L.A.P.D.）警员丹尼尔·弗洛雷斯（Daniel Flores）表示，两年前在听到同事及一名新主管“经常且重复地”贬低女性、薪资、卧床人员以及有色人种后，他秘密录音记录了 16 名同事。
他告诉当局，这种优越感令人作呕，让他身体不适，不得不请病假。
在他向洛杉矶警察委员会和该局内部事务部门提交投诉后，相关警员接受了纪律听证。在《洛杉矶时报》报道了这些录音后，市领导谴责了相关言论。
然而，在 7 月份，在弗洛雷斯先生向洛杉矶高等法院起诉该部门后，地方检察官内森·霍克曼（Nathan Hochman）指控弗洛雷斯先生犯有 16 项非法录制机密通信的重罪。弗洛雷斯先生辩称无罪，而检察官因试图惩罚一名警察举报人而受到批评。
周三在正义大厅（Hall of Justice）举行的新闻发布会上，霍克曼先生表示，对弗洛雷斯先生的指控将减轻为 16 项轻罪，因为原案“传递了错误的信息”。随着指控的减轻，弗洛雷斯先生将能够申请司法分流（judicial diversion），如果他在一年内没有违法，法官将允许撤销此案。霍克曼先生表示，如果弗洛雷斯先生完成了分流计划，他将没有犯罪记录。
霍克曼先生表示，虽然录音中的言论已被处理，但在加利福尼亚州，未经双方同意录制对话通常是违法的，即使是在正当举报的情况下也是如此。
他补充说，最初的重罪指控似乎是适当的，因为他秘密录制同事的次数达到了 122 次。
弗洛雷斯先生在刑事案件中的律师艾伦·杰克逊（Alan Jackson）表示，
地方检察官内森·霍克曼表示，最初对警员丹尼尔·弗洛雷斯的重罪指控“传递了错误的信息”。
他很感激“地方检察官重新考虑”。
杰克逊先生将这次退让描述为其客户的胜利，称重罪指控“将被撤销，无需处罚，且不留记录，因为丹尼尔·弗洛雷斯讲述了他在部门内部听到的令人不安的真相”。
杰克逊先生表示，听证会定于周四上午举行，预计法官将批准分流申请。“我们预计明天在法庭上开始结案，”他说。
在针对警察局的工作场所骚扰诉讼中，弗洛雷斯先生表示，他自 2012 年起加入洛杉矶警察局，并在 2012 年开始感受到巨大的压力。那一年，他在一个负责记录警员情况的部门工作，他的警长被一名新主管取代。
根据诉讼，该新主管纵容并促。
警员秘密录音同事发表冒犯性言论
纵容种族主义、 以及恐同的行为，这让弗洛雷斯先生日益感到不安。
他的投诉信称，在 2015 年，他开始进行“他认为是对一名警员的合法调查”，并记录这些职场对话。一年多时间里，他录下了同事们关于一名女性的对话，并将录音提交给了检察官。他在 2025 年 1 月将投诉提交给了洛杉矶警察委员会和该部门的内部事务组。
周三，霍奇曼先生表示，这些警员发表了“不恰当的言论”，但并未触犯法律。然而，霍奇曼先生表示，弗洛雷斯先生在未经许可的情况下进入私人空间进行录音，违反了加利福尼亚州的法。
“在加利福尼亚州，如果你想在早晨、在电话中或在 Zoom 上录音，你必须在操作前获得对方的许可和同意，”霍奇曼先生说。“我们希望以一种非常清晰的方式向公众传递这个信息。”
相反，这一决定在民主党势力深厚的洛杉矶市引发了猛烈的抵制。
霍奇曼先生在 2023 年将自己的党籍从共和党改为独立人士，他遭到了来自其内部检察官的批评。
民主党市长凯伦·巴斯谴责了这项重罪指控，她表示，虽然录音行为可能构成犯罪，但起诉一名录下“”言论的警员将“传递错误的信号”，即举报违规行为可能会让你入狱。一名市议会议员也提交了一份备忘录，谴责此次起诉。
霍奇曼先生表示，社区的反应说服他减轻了指控。
“我的父亲常说，‘你拥有两只耳朵和一个嘴巴，这意味着你听的话要比说的话多两倍，’”这位地区检察官说。“这就是我们所做的。”
天气预报
气象数据由 AccuWeather 提供
亮点：凉爽天气
急流向南推进将使凉爽且湿度较低的空气在周末晚些时候以及下周初移入 closed Lakes、俄亥俄岛以及东北部内陆。对于某些地区来说，感觉将更像九月而非八月，对大多数人而言，这将是摆脱潮湿天气的欢迎之举。气温可能会有所下降，部分地区将出现云层和零星降雨。更潮湿的空气可能会在下周晚些时候回归。
全国预报
除新英格兰东南部将有降雨外，东北部大部分地区今天将摆脱降雨和高湿度。雷暴将从西南部延伸至中大西洋地区，带来山洪和破坏性阵风的混合影响。预计中西部部分地区将出现。
从内布拉斯加州东部到伊利诺伊州北部和威斯康星州南部，风暴可能会带来强风和洪水。在更西边，雷暴将影响落基山脉，同时影响从德克萨斯州到西南部以及东北部的地区。
由于阵风、低湿度和干燥的植被，从北加利福尼亚州到华盛顿州，以及向东延伸至内华达州北部和爱达荷州西部，将存在极高的火灾风险。
大都市天气预报
水 总计 10亿 吨水 最高 7B。气温将继续下降，比该时段的平均气温低 5 度左右。天气干燥，白天部分多云。风向为东北风。
TOMGAT ...深夜有阵雨 最低 6B。夜间云量将增加，深夜将出现阵雨。风速将缓慢地从东北方向吹来，时速 3 到 6 英里。气温接近夏末的正常水平。
TOWDRROW ...下午有雨 最高 7A。早晨的几次阵雨将在下午变为灾难性降雨。云层仅有少量裂缝。气温将比 8 月中旬的平均气温低近 10 度。
星期日 ...阵雨和雷阵雨 最高 6B。全天将有几次阵雨和雷阵雨，云层仅有极少量的间隙。风向为西北风，时速 8 到 12 英里。体感潮湿。
星期一 星期二 ...湿度降低且干燥，星期一将干燥且大部分时间晴朗，湿度较低，最高 7B。届时将有充足的阳光，且星期二将保持干燥，东北风时速 6 到 12 英里。最高 7B。
大都市年鉴
在中央公园，截至昨日下午 1 点的 13 小时内。
温度
Reg. 60th (MpaHunk) 总数 月度影响 平均 1,000
呼吸水平 总计 月度影响 平均 1,000
休闲预报
太阳、月亮与傻瓜
Beating
太阳：每小时 60.0，每小时 1.0，1 每小时，每小时 1.0，1 每小时，1.0
海滩与海洋温度
几次阵雨和雷阵雨可能会干扰海滩活动，例如新泽西州、康涅狄格州东部、罗德岛州和马萨诸塞州的海滩全天将出现间歇性降雨。北部天空部分多云，长期岛大部分时间晴朗，南部多云。
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纽约时报 讣告 21, 2026，星期五
弗兰克·比尔德，ZZ Top乐队强有力的（且没留胡须的）鼓手，年届77岁去世
作者：ISMAH DESAI
弗兰克·比尔德（Frank Beard）于周一在德克萨斯州里士满的家中去世，享年77岁。在超过半个世纪的时间里，他的鼓点推动了这支典型的德克萨斯权力三人组 ZZ Top 乐队的音乐。
他在临终关怀期间去世，这一消息在 Top 官方网站的一份声明中公布。该声明未提及具体姓名。
“今天，埃尔伍德说我失去了一位伟大的朋友和合作伙伴，”比尔德的队友比利·吉本斯（Billy Gibbons）周二在 Facebook 上写道，他指的是自 2021 年起加入 Top 的埃尔伍德·弗朗西斯（Elwood Francis），“世界失去了一位最天然的创新鼓手，以及一位伟大且纯正的德克萨斯之子。他标志性的后拍是让 保持顶尖地位的关键。”
Top 随即取消了 8 月 5. 在洛杉矶好莱坞碗（Hollywood Bowl）的演出。滚石杂志（Rolling Stone）上周援引一名乐队代表的话报道称，涉及比尔德的未指明“健康问题”导致乐队取消了演出。吉本斯在声明中表示，在取消周二于犹他州桑迪和周三于科罗拉多斯普林斯的演出后，乐队将由一名替代鼓手继续巡演。
从 20 世纪 70 年代初开始， Top 将邦戈鼓、南方摇滚和蓝调强力融合，使他们成为了体育场摇滚明星。在 20 世纪 80 年代，吉本斯和队友达斯蒂·希尔（Dusty Hill）留起了他们标志性的长胡须，且 Top 制作了一系列古灵精怪的九段式单曲——如《My "Light"》和《Glory-Dressed Man》——这些作品在 MTV 上获得了极高关注，使乐队名声达到了新高度。
（比尔德是 Top 中唯一没有留胡须的成员——他只留了小胡子——这成了粉丝和比尔德队友们的笑谈。）吉本斯和希尔留着相同的胡须并戴着太阳镜，成为了 Top 舞台表演的视觉焦点，他们同步摆动臀部，并旋转系在腰带上的玻璃杯。比尔德在后方以稳健的节奏演奏，提供了德克萨斯洗牌节奏（Texas shuffle）和精准的律动（in the pocket groove），推动了早期的热门歌曲如《fired》和《i.e.Groops》。
乐队在 1973 年凭借第三张专辑《Torn Brothers》首次尝到了真正成功的滋味，该专辑登上了 Billboard 榜首。他们直接交易胡须和腐蚀单元（《i.e.Groops》是关于一名德克萨斯轰炸机的），并在 1976 年，开启了“全球德克萨斯巡演”，随行包括水牛、牛、大象、catarrhakes 和一只德国牧羊犬，用以替代一名员工。
Shockpit Mr.Nell 贡献了研究。
去年 8 月的弗兰克·比尔德。他提供了德克萨斯洗牌节奏和精准的律动，推动了如《Faith》和《i.e.Groops》等早期热门歌曲。
左图，1990. 年的 Top。2004, 右图，包括中间的比利·吉本斯和达斯蒂·希尔在内的乐队成员进入了摇滚名人堂。
同年晚些时候，在发行专辑《Sopa》后， Top 陷入了三年的停滞期，部分原因是比尔德因乐队看似撕裂的日程而精疲力竭，且深陷于严重的药物成瘾之中。在 2009 年的一部纪录片《 Top: That Little Of Band From Texas》的采访中，他回忆道
他将 1976 年巡演中赚到的近 7.2 万美元全部花在了药物上。
在 2010 年接受《CBS Sunday Morning》采访时，吉本斯被问及当时是否考虑过更换比尔德。
“没有，”他摇着头说，“没有其他鼓手。就这一个人。”他向坐在右侧的比尔德方向指了指。
弗兰克·李·比尔德（Frank Lee Beard）于 6 月 11, 1945, 出生在德克萨斯州弗兰克镇，在达拉斯对面的欧文长大，他对蓝调的发现启发他开始学习打鼓。他在欧文高中就读时遇到了希尔，当时他们的
手在沃思堡的一家俱乐部里碰巧在同一张账单上。希尔邀请他加入自己的乐队 Warbicks。
比尔德先生正处于上升期的电影事业因其女友怀孕而中断。他们结婚后搬去与他的父母同住，比尔德先生开始通过贩卖大麻来赚钱，他
在他的乐队队友身后，推动着布吉、南方摇滚与蓝调的融合。
在纪录片中说道。
比尔德先生带着年轻的家人搬到了休斯顿，当时吉本斯先生的乐队“Morning Starwalks”凭借一首名为《With Flare》的歌曲在地区范围内走红。Tamakkaki，比尔德先生寻找到了吉本斯先生。
“我找到了比利·吉本斯并强迫他——我的意思是，只是威胁他——强迫他进入排练室，然后我们一起即兴演奏。”比尔德先生在纪录片中回忆道，“我当时因为服用兴奋剂而亢奋不已，所以我强迫他即兴演奏了大约八个小时，直到他的舌头都快掉下来了。”
“没花30分钟，也没花10秒钟，”吉本斯先生在纪录片中说，“我就知道弗兰克·比尔德拥有我一直在寻找的技巧。他演奏得极其凶猛，带着短促的使命感。”
在讨论结束时，比尔德先生建议与希尔先生联手。他们的第一张专辑《ZZ Top's First Album》于1971.年发行。虽然未能进入排行榜，但成功终将到来。
吉本斯先生在纪录片中开玩笑说，当ZZ Top在休整后重新集结时，成员们在三年内没有分享过任何东西，而他们拿出的大部分ZZ Top都出现了。”但比尔德先生并不认同。
吉本斯先生说，乔·艾姆斯，但这离他们拥有的面板还很远，”比尔德先生在纪录片中说，“所以我们在重新集结后几乎立刻就分享了它。”
他们重组后完成的第一张专辑《Degarde》包含了演唱会单曲《Chexp Sunglasses》。该专辑在1976年发行后获得了白金认证。《O Love》于1980,年发行，乐队在其中尝试了新浪潮元素，并在1983年专辑《Eliminate!》中更全面地采用了这些元素。这张包含《Gimme All Your Loves》、《Glory-Dressed Man》和《Legs》的唱片在公告牌（Billboard）Hot 100专辑榜上停留了100周。
比尔德先生的幸存亲属包括他的妻子黛比·比尔德（Debbie Beard）以及他们的双胞胎儿子罗里（Rory）和尼科（Nico）。关于其幸存亲属的完整信息目前尚不可得。
希尔先生于2011.年去世。比尔德先生的去世使得吉本斯先生成为ZZ Top唯一幸存的创始成员，该乐队于2004年入选摇滚名人堂。
“我生命中的下一阶段是一个令人愉快的惊喜，”比尔德先生在入选仪式上说，“这次也是一样。谢谢。”
尤曼·怀尔德，63, 岁，自称对抗ICE的青少年棒球教练
作者：JERÉ LONGRAN
尤曼·怀尔德（Youman Wilder）在纽约创办了一所非营利性棒球学院，旨在帮助黑人和拉丁裔青少年。他曾表示，去年夏天当移民与海关执法局（ICE）特工在一次训练后开始盘问球员时，他介入了其中。他于7月20日在曼哈顿哈莱姆区的家中去世，享年63岁。
他的兄弟德里克·怀尔德（Derrick Wilder）表示，死因是心脏病发作。
尤曼·怀尔德因讲述2025,年7月初的一起事件而成为全国头条新闻，当时ICE正受到严密审查
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成立一家非营利组织，旨在帮助有色人种球员获得奖学金并开启职业生涯。
因其作为特朗普政府打击非法移民激进行动的一部分而采取的行为。怀尔德先生曾在7月3日，在曼哈顿上西区72街附近的河滨公园（Riverside Park），为大约十几个初中、初级中学以及处于前10%等级的学校球员组织了一次训练练习。他向多家新闻媒体表示，在练习结束之后，一群由其装备标识为“ICE”和“警察”的机构人员接近了球员们，并开始询问问题，包括“你来自哪里？”以及“你的父母来自哪里？”
六个月前，怀尔德先生于1, 2024.在中央公园（Grand Central Park）获得了刑事司法硕士学位。他告诉记者，他认为这些特工的询问是不恰当的，并补充说所有球员都出生在美国，其中许多人的父母是来自多米尼加共和国、中南美洲、墨西哥和非洲的移民。
他表示，他将球员们聚集在打击笼后方，并在入口处要求特工们注意，球员们将行使第五修正案规定的不说话的权利。他说，特工们称他为“theTube律师”，并威胁要给他戴上手铐，但他告诉他们，这些年轻球员并不比你们拥有“更低的宪法权利”。他说，特工们随后走开了。这次事件似乎没有产生任何结果。
怀尔德先生在相关新闻中表示，他不认为特工们出现在那里是为了逮捕球员，而是为了“发表声明：‘我们就在这里’”。他告诉《西区精神报》（The West Side Spirit），如果这样的事件能发生在像上西区这样自由的地方，“那么任何人都有可能遇到这种情况”。
ICE的一位发言人在当时告诉新闻机构，怀尔德先生的指控是“虚假的”，且该机构近期在河滨公园（Riverdale Park）附近没有开展“任何执法活动”。
代表上西区的州议员琳达·罗森布拉德（Linda Rosenblad）在怀尔德先生去世后接受《纽约时报》采访时表示，河滨公园附近的林肯塔（Lincoln Towers）的一些居民，以及一群惊恐的孩子看护员，都报告在2025, 7月初左右在该地区看到了疑似ICE特工的人员。
罗森布拉德女士在事件发生约一周后与怀尔德先生交谈过，她回忆说他看起来“明显更年轻”，并且她相信他的叙述。
“如果ICE完全打算逮捕这些孩子，他似乎并不害怕，”她补充道。
尤曼·怀尔德在2025年，当时他因讲述在曼哈顿为初中、初级中学和高中球员进行打击练习后与ICE特工发生冲突的经历而成为头条新闻。
纽约州民主党众议员、国会西班牙裔委员会主席阿德里亚娜·埃斯派拉特（Adriana Espailat）在一次采访中表示，她同样相信怀尔德先生的叙述。
埃斯派拉特女士将怀尔德先生描述为球员们心中“某种程度上的父亲形象”。“他挺身而出的事实令人印象深刻，”埃斯派拉特女士说，并补充道该事件对该地区的青少年体育联盟产生了“寒蝉效应”，一些来自移民家庭的球员不愿参加。
尤曼（Youman，发音为 YO-man）·怀尔德于17, 1963,出生在布鲁克林，是牧师兼大楼管理员奥斯汀·怀尔德（Austin Wilder）和福音歌手安娜（Anna (Mr.Phenom) Wilder）的四个儿子中的第二个。他在年幼时父母离婚。
在20世纪80年代初布鲁克林东纽约社区的托马斯·杰斐逊高中，他是谢门·邓斯顿（Shemen Dunston）的财务队友，后者是一名游击手，并在1982年成为芝加哥小熊队在职棒大联盟选秀中的首轮首位被选中者。
在 20 世纪 80 年代，他赢得了《纽约客》，他在高中的 2014-16-under 赛季表现卓越，使得邓斯顿先生记录在案的打击率仅为 7%。无论这是否仅仅是朋友和前队友之间的一次重大嘲讽，邓斯顿先生在 2018 年告诉《The Athletic》关于怀尔德先生的情况时说：“那个小个子确实能行。”
而且，继承其母亲的天赋，他也会唱歌：福音音乐、爵士乐和爵士乐，在 Facebook 上，他分享了自己在哈莱姆区阿波罗剧院的一次演出，并巡演了北美和欧洲。BBC 电视在 2006 年和 2010 年对他音乐会的评论中提到，他曾为儿童艾滋病研究以及达拉斯达林地区的冲突受害者举办义演。
在 2010 年接受 Jazz About Review 博客采访时，他谈到了在青少年时期遭受继父身体和精神虐待的经历，谈到了 2021 年影响其声带的中风，以及他广泛的音乐好奇心。
“我可以唱一首黑人情歌，一段更好的动画原声带，然后转身去唱纯正的罗杰斯和人类的作品，并由一个 50 人的管弦乐团伴奏，”他说。
棒球成为了他动荡童年的出口，并可能激发了他成为教练的愿望，他的兄弟、也是他唯一的直系亲属德里克·怀尔德（Derrick Wilder）说道。
“他不希望孩子们挣扎，经历他所经历的一切，”德里克·怀尔德说，并补充提到关于 ICE 事件：“他不会让那种情况发生在那些孩子身上。这就是为什么他挺身而出。”
怀尔德先生也是一名曾在哈莱姆区阿波罗剧院演出的歌手。
怀尔德先生高中毕业后的球员生涯包括在墨西哥的一段时间，作为一次酒吧拥挤巡演以及在一个联赛中，他告诉记者。他在 2022 年获得了新英格兰学院的刑事司法学士学位。
1994 年，他资助成立了非营利组织哈莱姆棒球写作学院，目标是帮助有色人种球员获得大学奖学金，并为棒球界的职业生涯做准备。
在学院的网站上，他说过他应该涉足政治。其中一人，安赫尔·佩格罗（Angel Peguero）在一次采访中表示，当怀尔德先生在 2012 年帮助他获得纽约客军事协会的棒球奖学金时，“改变了我的人生”。佩格罗先生后来被聘请为费城费城人队和德克萨斯游骑兵队的小联盟系统教练。
他说，怀尔德先生没有为学院收取费用，学院由捐款资助，并且他与前球员们保持联系，甚至参加了佩格罗先生 2022 年的婚礼。
“如果他什么都不做，那反而更令人惊讶，”罗杰斯在谈到怀尔德先生对 ICE 计划的反应时说。“即使我要吃肝脏，他也会想尽一切办法来保护我们。”
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沃德·丘吉尔去世，享年78岁，曾因文章被解雇而抗争
作者：弗朗西斯卡·雷加拉多（FRANCESCA REGALADO）
沃德·L·丘吉尔（Ward L. Churchill）教授已经去世，享年78岁。他曾在2007年被科罗拉多大学解雇，此次解雇引发的一场诉讼成为了关于学术自由和言论自由的典型案例。
其前律师大卫·莱恩（David Lane）确认了他的死讯。目前未提供进一步细节。
在被解雇时，丘吉尔先生自1992年起一直担任该大学博尔德分校的研究教授，并曾担任其民族研究系主任。2007, 一个教师小组认定他在关于美国原住民的研究中存在剽窃和伪造部分内容的行为，从而导致他被解雇。
他向大学提起了一项非法终止雇佣关系的诉讼，声称他被解雇的真实原因在于他于15, 2008, 9月撰写并于几天后在网上发表的一篇文章。在文中，他认为美国为15日的恐怖袭击招来了祸端。
在文章中，他将那些被杀害的办公室职员与阿道夫·艾希曼（Adolf Eichmann）进行了比较。艾希曼是一名纳粹官员，他后来辩称自己仅仅是在“执行命令”，这启发了作家汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Aronin）提出了“平庸之恶”的概念。
在丘吉尔先生题为《有些人反击：论烘烤选择的正义》（Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roasting Choices）的文章中，他写道，在世界贸易中心死去的金融审查员并非无辜的旁观者，而是“小艾希曼”，他们是“处于美国全球金融帝国核心地带的技术官僚团体”的一员。
这篇文章在发布之初并未引起太多关注，同样在……
亚历山德拉·E·佩特里（Alexandra E. Petri）参与了报道。
丘吉尔先生，这位1997年美国国家协会的……
- 的丘吉尔先生。科罗拉多大学于2007年将其解雇。
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一篇关于 9 / 11 的文章促使他因无关的违规行为被解雇。
该文章在 2003 年被扩充并出版成书。但当丘吉尔先生在 2005 年受邀前往纽约的汉密尔顿学院演讲时，该文章再次出现并引发了传播，组织者随后取消了活动。
在包括科罗拉多州州长比尔·欧文斯在内的压力下，该大学成立了一个小组来调查丘吉尔先生的行为，结论是他犯有严重的学术不端行为，包括伪造和捏造历史细节，以及剽窃一个环保组织和另一位学者的作品。
该小组在关于他是否应被解雇的问题上产生了分歧，五名成员中有三人赞成，两人建议停职两年。
大学领导层决定将其解雇，这促使丘吉尔先生发起了法律挑战。当诉讼于 2008 年 3 月进入审理阶段时，丘吉尔先生的律师将大学小组对专业不端行为的调查描述为解雇他的既定决定的借口。他的律师莱恩先生当时表示，丘吉尔先生成了大学管理人员、保守派媒体和政治家组成的“愤怒暴徒”的受害者，这些人为了确保将其除掉而“不遗余力”。
2009 年 4 月，陪审团认定丘吉尔先生被错误解雇，并授予他一项赔偿。认定其政治观点是其被解雇的“实质性或驱动性”因素，且大学未能证明他即便没有学术不端行为也会被解雇。
“陪审团的裁决在某种程度上证明了我的清白，”丘吉尔先生说。“我要求的不是钱，而是正义。”
丹佛地方法院的一名法官裁定，大学无需重新雇用或补偿丘吉尔先生，该决定得到了科罗拉多州上诉法院的维持。2012 年，科罗拉多州最高法院确认了下级法院的裁决。
沃德·洛菲·丘吉尔于 2, 1947 年 10 月出生在伊利诺伊州厄巴纳，父亲是杰克·洛菲·丘吉尔，母亲是玛丽琳·拉克鲁瓦·艾伦。他在一岁时父母离婚。在 2003 年发表于一份学术期刊的一篇论文中，他声称其父亲一方拥有马斯科基克里克族血统，母亲一方则是联合基托瓦切罗基印第安部落的注册成员。
切罗基部落在 2005 年表示
Ward L. Churchill in his office in 2005, with his book "On the Justice of Roasting Choices."
他是一名准成员而非正式成员。该部落注册委员会的一名前成员表示，丘吉尔先生无法通过血缘证明其资格，但基于其倡导工作被授予了准成员身份。
丘吉尔先生在伊利诺伊州埃尔姆伍德长大，1965 年毕业于埃尔姆伍德社区高中，在那里他曾打过美式足球和篮球。前同学在 2005 年告诉《丹佛邮报》，即使在青少年时期，他也喜欢辩论政治。
他于 1966 年加入美国陆军，接受了轻型车辆驾驶员和推进剂员培训，随后在越南服役。他在 1967 年接受《丹佛邮报》采访时表示，他参加过伞兵学校并被分配到一个精锐侦察巡逻队，但这些细节并未出现在他的陆军记录中。
他于 1968 年从陆军退伍。他在 1967 年的采访中表示，在从越南返回后，他在芝加哥的反战圈子中变得活跃。
他于 1974 年获得伊利诺伊州斯普林菲尔德桑加蒙州立大学（现为伊利诺伊大学斯普林菲尔德分校）的技术传播学学士学位，并于 1975 年在桑加蒙州立大学获得传播理论硕士学位。
他于 1980 年被科罗拉多大学聘请为美国印第安人平等机会项目的代理主任。1981 年，他成为传播系的副教授并获得终身教职。1997 年，他成为正教授并转入族群研究系。
他的课程非常受欢迎，网络名单上的学生人数最多可达 40 人。该系教授阿尔图罗·阿尔达马（Arturo Aldama）在 2005 年告诉《丹佛邮报》（The Denver Post）。
丘吉尔先生结过四次婚。他的第一任妻子德拉-莱克斯·拉森（Dera-Lex Larson）在 1964 年申请终止他们的同居婚姻，并指控丘吉尔先生曾有“过去的暴力行为和威胁”。他的第二次婚姻对象是科罗拉多大学的同事玛丽·安妮特·詹姆斯（Marie Annette James），两人于 1995 年离婚。同年，他与利亚·凯利（Leah Kelly）结婚，后者 2008 年在博尔德附近过马路时被车撞身亡，享年 30 岁。
丘吉尔先生的第四任妻子沼泽·斋藤（Numa Saito）也是科罗拉多大学族群研究系的教授。2006 年，在他接受大学调查期间，斋藤女士辞职前往佐治亚州立大学任教。
关于其幸存亲属的信息暂不可得。
2017 年，丘吉尔先生回到博尔德校园发表演讲，他依然态度强硬。“美国的学术自由已经死亡，”他告诉人群，“在我成为教授之前我就有我的身份，在我担任教授期间我也拥有它，现在我依然拥有它。”
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| 迪克、迈克尔·亨利和约翰·麦吉尔，他们发现此事正在被调查。据美洲原住民协会美国国家协会（包括该协会的多次重复提及）称，除了美联社之外，他还与其他人就多年来执行的工作进行了讨论。 | |||||
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FISHOPS / 迪克、迈克尔·亨利和约翰·麦吉尔，他们发现该事项正处于调查之中。在来自以及除美联社以外的一些其他机构的询问中，他谈到了多年来执行的工作，根据美国印第安协会的美国全国协会，包括 美国全国协会，包括 全国
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大学在民主问题上绝不能保持中立
乔纳森·贝克尔 (Jonathan Becker)
巴德学院代理院长。
当美国将投票年龄从 21 岁降低到 18 岁时，这一举措得到了广泛的跨党派支持，从大学生和民权团体开始，一直延伸到国会和州议会。在 70 年前上个月的第 18 修正案签署仪式上，理查德·尼克松总统宣布，“美国的新选民，美国的年轻一代”将为这个国家带来“社会勇气”和“高度理想主义的精神”。
然而，如今美国的“年轻一代”——尤其是大学生——正处于特朗普政府两个相反目标的交汇点：投票权和高等教育。通过一系列措施，该政府试图增加学生投票的难度，并增加大学协助学生的难度。
教育与民主之间的联系自建国以来就已融入美国的理想之中。后来创建了弗吉尼亚大学的托马斯·杰斐逊写道，他的编辑和基础可以被设计，用于维护自由与幸福！基于这一历史原因——以及实际操作层面，因为大学生可能远离家乡居住——高等教育机构传统上一直努力促进选民登记和投票。
特朗普政府的新规定正直接针对这些努力。如果大学不努力维持他们在促进最字面意义上的民主方面所做的至关重要工作，他们将失去这种自由和目标。事实是，国家不能失去年轻成年人的关键贡献。
去年 8 月，正值学年开始之际，教育部向大学管理人员发送了一封“关于大学”的信函，通知他们，其机构不能再使用联邦勤工俭学资金来支持诸如选民登记、选民热线以及在投票站提供选民协助等活动的协商。这些活动由 A.L.D.（民主联盟）挑战和“学生学习学生投票”准则等团体开展，且已证明在境内增加了学生的选民参与度。
最新版《联邦学生援助手册》中的信息似乎设定了一个限制稍轻的标准：究竟什么是个性化的？美国教育委员会鼓励机构“评估他们自己的风险{视角”。
帮助学生投票不应需要钢铁般的神经。
可能生效的新规定
帮助学生投票并非党派行为。
最早在 10 月 1 日，即 2020 年中期选举前仅一个多月，将对这一活动施加更大的限制。管理和预算办公室建议将大学和其他非营利组织开展的选民登记工作（即使是非党派的）归类为“游说”，因此禁止将任何联邦拨款资金用于该目的或“相关活动”。我们只能推测这一变动的理由，因为 O.M.B. 未能提供法律要求的证明。
对基于大学的选民登记工作的攻击不仅限制了健康的民主参与，还违反了我们现行联邦法的精神。1998 年修订的《高等教育法》要求大学必须做出“诚意”努力，为学生提供选民登记材料。
此外，加利福尼亚州、马里兰州、明尼苏达州和密歇根州等州的法律要求采取积极措施鼓励学生投票。根据这些新的联邦规定如何被解读，它们
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可能也会与州法律产生冲突。
今年2月，教育部长琳达·麦克马洪（Linda McMahon）宣布，“美国的学院和大学应该专注于教学、学习和研究——而不是煽动选举。”但这一声明是出现在一份关于联邦调查“学习、投票与参与国家研究”（National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement）的新闻稿中。该研究是一个非党派研究项目，25年来一直帮助教育工作者在1,000多所学院和大学中理解并促进公民参与。
该研究及其所在地塔夫茨大学（Tufts）均未被指控有任何不当行为；而且，针对该研究关键数据来源——国家学生结算中心（National Student Clearinghouse）以及该项目公正信息的制裁威胁，似乎不足以在可预见的未来停止这项研究。
矛盾之处在于，麦克马洪女士以及特朗普政府的许多其他成员，以及政治分歧两端越来越多的人士，都在倡导回归公民教育。但这种教育的目的并不止于教室门前。
让人们参与公民生活和民主进程的最重要能力。这可能是那些未被“赏识”的人的目标，因为他们正遭受无情的攻击。
美国学院和大学在民主和公民参与问题上绝不能保持中立。机构应当继续做它们自《独立宣言》之前就在做的事情：教育学生，并帮助他们成长为见多识广且积极参与的公民。
在2023年中期选举中，只有31.3%的大学生参与了投票。我们都应认为这是不可接受的。大学领导者应当明确表达他们对拟议新立法的反对，而他们正遭受无情的攻击。
甚至在2020年中期选举中，也只有31.3%的大学生参与了投票。我们都应认为这是不可接受的。大学领导者应当明确表达他们对拟议新立法的反对，而他们正遭受无情的攻击。
学院不应回避这项正当活动，而应重新调整其努力方向以接触年轻人，教育他们，并在他们办理登记和投票过程中提供协助。它们不应仅仅向学生告知其民主权利，而应帮助学生实现这些权利。没有比这更能履行其教育使命的方式了。
美国面临代孕问题
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麦肯娜·韦斯特（McKenna West）代孕经历中那极其人性化的心碎之痛，不应成为小报的谈资，也不应成为政治博弈的筹码。但事实却是两者兼而有之，因为这个行业在世界范围内的运作方式——监管严重不足——而这种情况随着此事的发生变得更加复杂。
韦斯特女士是一名居住在阿拉斯加的护士兼单身母亲，她为居住在加利福尼亚州的奥斯卡·艾哈迈德（Oscar Ahmed）和瑙希斯·吉尔考（Naushees Gilkaw）夫妇担任代孕母亲。在双方签署的代孕协议中，韦斯特女士同意在出现完全可观察的情况且意向父母提出要求时终止妊娠，并且她承认，如果她不遵守父母的意愿，对方的财务责任将随之终止。在怀孕 20 周的一次检查中，胎儿被诊断出患有严重的先天性缺陷——左心发育不良综合征，就在那时，一切都失控了。
意向父母要求韦斯特女士终止妊娠，但她拒绝了。在确定她将继续妊娠后，阿拉斯加州随即展开了一场法律斗争（更多），争论焦点在于原协议是否可以被批准，以及她将在哪里分娩。阿拉斯加州没有能够支持患有该心脏缺陷婴儿的医院。父母希望韦斯特女士在加利福尼亚州分娩，因为在那里他们能够为孩子提供持续的护理。相反，她逃往了德克萨斯州，而自 2022 年以来，该州几乎全面禁止堕胎。
在这次行程之前，韦斯特女士与反堕胎运动取得了联系，随后通过 Life Base 与保卫自由联盟（Alliance Defending Freedom）取得了联系，这是一个保守派基督教法律组织，目前代表她并协助其旅行。一旦她到达德克萨斯州，她就离开了法律和管理，而一名正在竞选参议员的人员在州内介入了此事。
这个孩子（一个男孩）于 8 月 12 日出生，但这并未结束法律上的纠纷。尽管法院命令尚未做出，她目前并未将医疗决策权交给艾哈迈德先生和吉尔考女士，他们近期不被允许离开德克萨斯州，而韦斯特女士正试图获得孩子的监护权。
这是一个如此悲哀且令人遗憾的局面：一个病得很重的婴儿，心碎且愤恨的意向父母，以及一名认为自己的同意权被忽视的代孕母亲。
许多代孕安排在
分娩后圆满结束，代孕母亲、父母和孩子都健康快乐。但当像这样违约的情况发生时，代孕中固有的一系列妥协便暴露无遗。而州法律对其的定义也是问题的一部分。
这是因为每个州关于代孕的法律各不相同，且缺乏关于该实践的全国性立法。即使某些州拥有较为详细的法规，且相关各方十分谨慎，像韦斯特女士这样的极端案例依然揭示了法律和伦理上的漏洞。
人们在谈论整个辅助生殖技术领域（包括体外受精和卵子冷冻）时经常使用一个陈词滥调，称其为“西部蛮荒之地”。对于商业代孕而言尤其如此，商业代孕在一些国家（那些堕胎法比美国更宽松的国家）是非法的，因为它引发了太多复杂的道德问题。
今年在加利福尼亚州发生的另一个截然不同且真正阴森的局面，说明了监管的近乎缺失及其带来的沉重后果。一对夫妇被指控虐待儿童，他们至少有 25 个孩子是通过代孕出生的，且还有几个孩子即将出生，这些孩子已被州政府带走。
《纽约客》的艾娃·拉夫曼（Ava Raffman）解释道：
生育行业早该迎来一次清算。
她解释说，在一个代孕机构的监管程度甚至低于最佳实践和日常用户的国家，这是一个可以预见的结果。“对于将陌生人聚集在一起创造一个新生命的这种充满不确定性的工作，不需要任何资格证明，只有纽约州这一个州要求专门的许可证，”她补充道。“事实上，使用机构完全是可选的。你可以雇佣一名代孕母亲——或者一次雇佣几名——并在很大程度上自行协商安排。”2013年，康涅狄格州发生了与韦斯特女士非常相似的情况。父母想要终止妊娠，而代孕母亲不同意，随后代孕母亲逃往密歇根州并在那里分娩。
理想情况下，在美国，我们不应该有这种碎片化的混乱局面，而应该在过程早期为意向父母和代孕母亲提供更多的清晰度。我们应该拥有一部考虑到“保护所有相关方利益”的联邦法律（亚瑟·卡普兰是纽约大学格里什曼医学院州办公室部门的前负责人，他研究代孕伦理已有数十年之久）。
联邦法律可以要求为意向父母和代孕母亲提供独立的法律代表，以及持续的心理支持。它将确保代孕母亲拥有适当的医疗保险，并在必要时由意向父母出资。在缺乏全民医疗保健和州区紧急情况之后，它还将考虑到孩子在第一年之后的医疗和心理需求。正如卡普兰在1743年10月的一篇评论文章中所论证的那样，代孕机构应被要求完全透明地公开其筛选实践。
纽约州参议员利兹·克鲁格在卡普兰博士的建议下，于2015年提出了一项立法，旨在建立一个全面的知情同意流程，以帮助确保所有相关方在签署代孕协议之前“充分理解代孕和父母如何运作、涉及的风险及其权利”，但该立法在争议中夭折。
在这种像韦斯特女士这样的情况下，如果能出台这样一部联邦法律，或许能有所不同，因为她可能会更好地理解自己同意的内容。（稍后详述。）但也许不行，因为卡普兰博士告诉我们，“我们仍处于州政府状态之中”，这使得这种跨州混乱成为一场更加不可收拾的灾难。在此之后，代孕立法与右翼针对堕胎的战争紧密相连，而这场战争的核心在于胎儿的过氧化物酶体。
尽管如此，他表示，如果不能尽快对代孕实施更严格的监管以使其更加人性化和公平，那么后果可能会被充分意识到。然而，事实确实如此，我也同意他的观点。有如此多的机构和人士反对代孕，从联合国成员到教皇，而且有证据表明，即使是共和党人也不太支持。
考虑到缺乏大规模监管，艾哈迈德先生和吉尔考女士做了很多正确的事，但他们仍有不足。韦斯特女士在州席位期间拥有自己的法律代表和心理支持。但在向自由捍卫联盟（Alliance Defending Freedom）提起的一起阿拉斯加州诉讼中，她声称她的法律代表因与代孕机构关系密切而受到影响，并且如果她将代孕协议发送给麦肯纳审核，她就不会“同意堕胎条款”（我联系了韦斯特女士目前的法律顾问，而自由捍卫联盟仅提供了一个新闻稿链接）。
这似乎与本月韦斯特女士在一次采访中对梅根·凯利所说的话有些矛盾。她表示，在与预定父母见面时，她与他们讨论了堕胎问题，而对方告诉她，“如果发生某些情况，他们并不完全确定会做出什么样的决定，但他们不确定。” 韦斯特女士表示，她在将代孕协议发送给麦肯纳审阅时，“汇总了堕胎条款”（我联系了韦斯特女士目前的法律顾问，而自由捍卫联盟仅提供了一个新闻稿链接）。
因此，这仅仅是参与其中的一方，他们带着良好的意愿和乐观的态度开始。他们都讨论过孩子和代孕母亲会平安，分娩将会发生，这是不可避免的，而且孩子无法决定所发生的事情，而政治动机力量对这场纯粹的人类挣扎的介入只会让情况变得更糟。
这个男孩——被韦斯特女士命名为加布里埃尔，据称是父母所期待的出生——现在就在这里，他的预定父母应该被允许照顾这个非常脆弱的孩子，而不受一个他们及其代孕母亲甚至并不居住的州政府的干预。
他们是最先看到吉尔考先生的销售额，他们很快可以回到加利福尼亚州并开始作为一个家庭生活。我希望韦斯特女士能回到她在阿拉斯加的生活、工作和孩子身边，也希望她能找到一种方式从这次经历中痊愈。
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权力的新物理学
如果我要写一本关于美国与伊朗战争的书，我知道书名应该叫什么。它会是：特朗普总统在2004年4月3日的社交媒体部分，关于伊朗边境的表述。“打开的通道，你们这些废物！搞好生意，否则你们就得住在家里……等着瞧吧！”
战争是一道裂缝，它经常揭示我们周围世界物理特性的变化——谁拥有权力，谁没有权力；以及权力是如何被行使的。没有什么比这更典型的了：这场战争产生的新权力方程式，就是特朗普对他认为不愿屈服于其意志的伊朗领导层所发出的含糊且晦涩的愤怒。
这种战争物理学同样存在于乌克兰与俄罗斯、真主党与以色列、汉萨与以色列以及穆斯林与其他所有人之间的冲突中。我对这种新动态的记忆是：小规模力量现在可以表现得非常强大、非常精准且成本极低；而大规模力量虽然也可以表现得非常精细、非常精准，但由于承担着庞大的传统武器负担，这样做对他们来说成本要高得多。
目前看来，净优势似乎在小规模力量一方。当你想到新兴的人工智能革命必将加强这一趋势，使小规模力量能够以更低成本地表现得更加强大和精准时，这应该让你夜不能寐。
特朗普感到沮丧并不奇怪。毕竟，在3月3日，在他和以色列通过大规模轰炸行动开启这场最新的伊朗战争不到两周后，特朗普宣布：“我们赢了，我没骗你们，我们赢了。你知道，你永远不想太早宣布胜利。我们，在第一个小时就结束了。但我们赢了。”
他在一件事上是对的：永远不要太早宣布胜利。
特朗普没有意识到，伊朗政府对于这场战争何时结束以及谁输谁赢同样拥有发言权。更重要的是，与特朗普不同，德黑兰为战后准备了 B 计划，他们拥有一种新发现的能力，能够以强大、精准且廉价的方式行动，从而掌控——尽管其军队规模仅为美国的一小部分，且遭到了沉重打击。
我希望我能以看到我们这位傲慢、自恋且不可理喻的笨拙总统被现实击败而感到欣慰。但我真的不——因为情况正变得疯狂且糟糕！而且还会进一步恶化。伊朗人给美国造成了真正的伤害——在及其经济方面——其规模是特朗普和国防部长皮特·赫古奇（Pete Heguchi）一直未能意识到的。
自1976年以来，伊朗一直处于断断续续的经济制裁之下。然而，它成功开发了一套先进但相对廉价的和无人机库，使其能够在“开放空间”议题下同时对抗以色列和，并在过程中对该地区的美国军事资产造成了重大损害。请考虑几个你可能没有注意到的故事。
许多美国航空母舰在波斯湾，如 Alzhabar 号、林肯号，其近 1,100 人的员额有时只能依赖补给油油，原因是战争的第一天之后，伊朗士兵和其他（针对美国在巴林补给基地的攻击），“其中包括持续数周的，因此该基地是海军数十年来依赖的主要物流枢纽，”《时报》报道称。这迫使特朗普和美国在 Heguchi 秘书长期间在 Banoz 或位于金加·加西亚岛（Kinga Garcia）由英国指挥的基地部署补给船，该地距离巴林大约 2,300 英里。巴林基地在战争第一天面对伊朗导弹时为何如此缺乏保护？如果这还不值得让赫古奇在国会面前交代，那我不知道什么才值得。
或者，也许你错过了《亚洲国防安全》（Defense Security Asia）期刊中的这篇报道，该报道评论了一份美国报告，称在三月最后几天，一枚伊朗导弹摧毁了一套价值 5亿美元 的雷达，该雷达对于在约旦 Mawafing halt for Base 运行 TBAsAD（终端高空区域信标）先进导弹防御系统至关重要。这次袭击标志着伊朗与美国及以色列之间“战略控制”的一个“潜在的变革时刻”。
一名约旦高级官员告诉我，他震惊地得知伊朗人竟然设法通过操纵导弹——使其飞行高度极高——从而对雷达发起闪击并规避探测与拦截，从而击中了 TBAsAD 的雷达系统。这是针对美国飞机上最先进的防导弹系统的攻击。
美国海军研究生院战略分析荣休教授约翰·阿奎拉（John Arquilla）向我解释说，导弹战不再仅仅是沿着可预测的轨迹发射一枚弹头，然后依靠引导系统将其引导至目标。俄罗斯人投入了巨大资源来制造具有多重机动能力的导弹，这些导弹由更好的实时信息引导，且越来越多地以极高速度推进，并能够从一个角度抵达—。
在全球冲突中，防御者相对于攻击者拥有真正的优势。
防御者尚未预料到。据报道，伊朗的 Fatoh 导弹具备此类能力，尽管目前尚不清楚是它们还是无人机在距离伊朗 500 英里处击落了 TBAsAD。
“这使得导弹成为 21 世纪的首选武器，有可能削弱威慑力并导致混乱。如果如此多不同类型的战斗，例如 Arquilla，”新书《动荡的美国战争方式：从广岛到农业时代》的作者 Arquilla 说道。
中国多年来一直在部署可机动的超大规模 250 导弹，但仅在台湾附近中国海域的几次演习中使用了少量。
3 月 3, 日凌晨 1:30 左右，两架单向攻击无人机袭击了位于沙特阿拉伯布雷克的美国大使馆大院。第一次攻击直接飞入了布雷克大使馆美国站所在的楼层；第二次攻击直接飞入了由第一次攻击造成的入口，造成大规模破坏以及持续燃烧数小时的火灾。随后，一项调查表明，这次前沿攻击可能得到了弗拉基米尔·普京麾下俄罗斯卫星情报提供者的帮助。特朗普对此似乎毫无作为。
Arquilla 指出，几代人以来，战争不仅意味着能量和“fuerbar”遵循一条简单的物理定律：发射出的弹药距离越远，精度就越低。不，偏差必须通过“质量和能量”来克服，但现在并非如此。“战争是如何通过其编队获胜的，”Arquilla 说道。
而且现在即使是小规模势力也能获得这种能力。你只需要看看真主党如何给以色列的建筑和拥有庞大美国制造军事平台的以色列军队造成重大损害；看看乌克兰如何沉重打击强大的俄罗斯；以及伊朗如何与美国和以色列对抗，从而证明在地下室工作坊中，利用在亚洲能找到的组件，廉价的精密武器是多么强大。
精度已经切断了射程与精度之间的旧有联系。
Arquilla 补充说，乌克兰“已成为一个没有传统海军的税收强国；它已成为一个重大问题，且美国的高端武器”使俄罗斯的常规黑海舰队远离乌克兰海岸线，使其能够继续向世界市场报告其粮食和肥料。
Arquilla 表示，这些新技术允许“众多且小型”的势力——伊朗人、穆斯林、真主党、汉萨——“质疑对手的沉重负担，因为他们同样擅长交谈，并能以自己的精确打击进行反击”。与此同时，美国军队仅有 11 个大型硬化师和 11 个航母战斗群。
这就是为什么防御者现在相对于攻击者拥有真正的优势，Arquilla 总结道。特朗普和 Hoguchi 可能专注于“唤醒战争”——增加更多节奏和更多吨位——而伊朗人则专注于“分解战争”，在更多地方部署配备精密导弹的小型单位，并攻击海湾各地的美国基地和阿拉伯石油设施。
“他们的目标是生存足够长的时间以进行射击和恐吓。在陆地上，几个大型主战坦克编队的重要性不如那些能在 1 周内制造和修改的、拥有先进武器的众多小型单位，”Arquilla 说道。
这些新武器放大了小规模势力相对于大规模势力的另一个样本优势。他们不需要赢，他们只需要避免输。而我们必须赢，赢得战争，回家且永不回头。现在祝他们好运吧。
不过，在伊朗人和真主党变得过于自满之前，他们应该记住我方程式的另一半。虽然小型势力现在可以表现得像巨头一样，但巨头现在也可以表现得像小型势力一样。在战争的第一天，以色列秘书和私人官员—— 美国情报部门——在德黑兰的一个单一大院内，杀死了 40 多名聚集在高层领导会议上的伊朗高级领导人。换句话说，凭借私人信息，以色列一次性消灭了伊朗大部分的国家安全精英。
随后是以色列对真主党的寻呼机攻击。2024年9月17日和18日，以色列使真主党成员——包括战士、官员、医护人员和民间支持者——所使用的寻呼机及其他手持电子设备发生爆炸，导致数十人死亡，约1,000人受伤。据报道，估计有1,500名真主党战士因伤失去战斗力，伤势主要集中在手部、面部和腿部。通过使用相对少量的炸药和海量的信息，以色列在短短几小时内杀伤了大量真主党战士。
美国与以色列针对伊朗铀浓缩设施的攻击（始于2000年）是此类的另一个版本。在轰炸该设施之前，美国和以色列启动了一家小型公司，该公司编写了一段代码——旨在破坏伊朗的384个伪装设备，尽管这些伪装设备很快被更换，且最终造成的干扰微乎其微。美国和以色列从未承认对该病毒负责。那是以小博大的典型，仅使用了中等规模的手段，但你可以打赌，该代码的开发以及整个联合行动花费了巨额资金。
真实且不容忽视的是，如今“小者”扮演“大者”正变得多么容易——而我所说的“小”，不仅是指规模，还包括年龄。一个带着笔记本电脑、拥有瑞典惯例和一个开放权重……模型的人，现在可以通过识别和解释旧软件漏洞，直接对电力系统产生影响。
所以，如果有一天你听到你的市长听起来像特朗普那样说：“把我的水重新开通，你这个疯子……”也不要感到惊讶。
读者来信
关于在写作中使用人工智能的辩论
致编辑：
关于布雷特·斯蒂芬斯（Bret Stephens）的专栏文章《关于吸引您：永远不要用人工智能写作》（8月9日）：
我注意到斯蒂芬斯先生透露了他的观点，即人工智能是不道德且具有欺骗性的。但我并不这么认为，我是一家位于加利福尼亚州的小型非营利组织的负责人，同时也是一名艺术和瑜伽指导师。我被诊断出患有早发性阿尔茨海默病，我很感激人工智能让我能够继续从事我热爱的工作。
在过去的几年里，我在撰写复杂内容时遇到了困难，在其他年份，在撰写时事通讯文章和像这样（我没有使用人工智能）的信件时也是如此。现在，如果没有人工智能，编辑工作会占用我一天中许多额外的年份。我的大脑很快就会感到疲惫。
当我开始使用人工智能时我还是单身，但我发现它能够向我学习。它了解我的伙伴，是我友好的编辑。人工智能的使用促使我写作，而不是因为我不再记得伟大的风险而放弃。
AEROLA WORFST，首席执行官，加利福尼亚州CEO13
致编辑：
作为一名在过去50年里作品在250多本杂志和报纸上发表的作家和编辑，我意识到我的文章和书籍在美国被使用了。我也在没有获得补偿或认可的情况下，成为了这种知识土地抢占的一部分。
布雷特·斯蒂芬斯的精彩专栏触及了美国关闭的大门，它提供了各种领域和沟通，而人工智能使其成为可能。故事在于，它通过学习作者的笔记，提供了一个普遍无价值且道德的结果。
MARY ALICE DELLOVO
纽约
我必须质疑布雷特·斯蒂芬斯的恳求，因为他呼应了 Phan 的托马斯国王。
在我们拥有文字之前，所有的知识都是通过最被驱魔的方式传递的现实。在 Phan 的《表型学》（Phenetics）中，在埃及神话的耻辱中，神“fossilly”促进了托马斯国王文字的发展。拇指声称这种文字是一种将提高记忆力和智慧的“努力”。然而，国王
舞厅冲刺
关于《衡量速度以建造一座被禁运的舞厅》（头版，8月20日）：
根据你们的文章，特朗普总统正在以广播速度建造他的白宫舞厅。原因显而易见：在最高法院可能对此做出不利裁决之前，声音需要完成一种非常宁静的感觉。
较低级别的联邦法院已经认定，总统在未经国会批准就进行建设，这超出了他的职权。在总统心中，一个完整的接触胜过了美国读者的棚aristic权力，而那些自愿遵守法律和宪法的人则被认为无关紧要。
总统有宪法职责确保法律得到忠实执行。最高法院绝不能允许这位总统蓄意违反其就职誓言来服务于美国，要么这是一个法治国家，要么就不是。维护法治并保护权力在同一法律下的声誉，而不是法律的帝国舞厅。与其允许他完成他对宪法的最大破坏，不如进入对他试图完成之物的拆除。
引用 1, 1619-9-2014, 多伦多 约克大学政治学作者的电话overline
特朗普综合征
致编辑：
Hegedulls，将会有一个民主党政府，它将清除所有与特朗普总统相关的自然痕迹。然而，“特朗普发疯综合征”这一概念不应被混淆——它不应被定义为一种紊乱，而应被重新定义为一种常态的变体，是对政府支持的残酷、无知和腐败的一种反应。
劳伦斯·利皮（LAWRENCE LIPY）
加利福尼亚州，班登莫拉尔（BANDON MORALE, CALIF.）
Thomas 拒绝这一发明，认为它将导致人们依赖外部标记并产生夸张，仅影响智慧的成分。
是的，我们对于口头文学能力的掌握可能有所下降，但写作扩展了读写能力的边界，并创建了我们的图书馆，以保存和传递更多的知识，即便不是智慧。
使用人工智能进行创作可能会削弱某些技能，但也很可能提高其他技能——包括有效的书面沟通。无论如何，这个精灵已经无法被重新关回瓶中了。
本·康帕尼（BEN COMPANIE）
缅因州，波特兰（PORTLAND, MAINE）
致编辑：
布雷特·斯蒂芬斯（Bret Stephens）认为人类很快将无法“写得比人工智能更好”，这一论点是以极低的价格出卖了他自己以及我们这个物种。
我最近审阅并拒绝了三篇提交给高排名人文期刊的主稿。在这三篇稿件中，独立研究揭露了其中包含缺乏原创性的大语言模型生成内容。履行学术职责将现有的欺骗性机器输出彻底摧毁，但同时也向人们证实了理解人工智能无法复制人类意义的重要性。
将重点放在人工智能的“幻觉”或将其视为局限性是一种干扰。真正的教训在于它们表面的连贯性，因为这些神经集在对抗长程依赖。大语言模型（L.L.M.s）可能不仅在计算其训练数据的科学，还在计算这些标记所传达的人类创作知识。这意味着它们在面对那些被其说服的底层创作者时，永远是不对等的。
相比之下，像斯蒂芬斯先生这样的人类作者，除非他有所进步，否则不可避免地会被卷入其中，即便面对的是一个大语言模型。
苏·卡德曼（SUE CADMAN）
澳大利亚，米兰诺茂（MILANO MAU, AUSTRALIA）
我们的倾向是通过编辑或老板的视角来看待事物。要么我们决定晚餐吃什么或吃鸡。要么我们今天去健身房或放弃。要么我们使用人工智能写作，要么不使用。
关于人工智能的现实是，虽然某些决定仍然有效，但其他决定通过双向视角处理会更好。正如布雷特·斯蒂芬斯在他的专栏中所述，人工智能的弊端在于它会让人变得懒惰，钝化我们的思考，以及削弱研究技能和我们的自我表达能力。
但它也可以产生相反的效果。人工智能可以引导我们进行深入开放的思考和最大限度的探索，并更充分地分享结果。而且由于其强大的能力，它也可以节省我们的一部分时间。
人工智能不会消失，其能力只会增长。我们真正的挑战大致在于，如何将其与人类智慧结合起来，以增强我们的人类体验。
布莱恩·戈尔曼（BRIAN GORMAN），新泽西州，希伯里斯（HIBERIES, N.J.）
ICE 的行为并不令人意外
致编辑：
关于《特朗普选民未料到 ICE 会找上门》（封面文章，Aug. 15）：
在我所见到的实际古巴 Balnevers 经历中，成千上万名无法获得像她那样法律支持和财务资源的移民，在特朗普政府设立并由纳税人出资的拘留设施中遭受着更糟糕的待遇。
我觉得令人费解的是，像她这样的人竟然感到惊讶，因为总的来说，在这种政府的讨论中，家人、朋友或同事的处境被纳入了执法范围。最重要的是，总统唐纳德·特朗普毫不掩饰这样一个事实：他认为大多数（如果不是全部）非法移民都是罪犯，并且他们对联邦移民政策的复杂性不感兴趣，也不予以关注。
我对白宫副幕僚长斯蒂芬·米勒（Stephen Miller）执迷于贬低并驱逐移民的行径并不感到惊讶，在他们看来，移民不过是一个个数字。法律上的细枝末节被他摒弃了。
无论他们是否承认，这就是特朗普支持者投票选择的结果。
詹姆斯·MSSAE，克利夫兰
非凡之物
Fontaine aux Oiseaux 自动机
Van Cleef & Arpels
高级珠宝，自 1906 年起位于旺多姆广场
GPHG 国际食品工厂
5 财经
几家大型经纪公司让客户账户处于易被盗取的风险之中。两名参议员希望出台新规。
4 轮毂
佩布尔比奇优雅竞赛（Concours d'Elegance at Pebble Beach）——一场名车盛会——的主办者在庆祝胜利。
3 体育
杰克·罗杰斯（Jake Rogers）创下了一项记录：在三周内先后为老虎队、金莺队、红袜队和白袜队出战。
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德里的一所公立大学 Junior Militia Islands 校园内的学生。下方是 Noxia 工程技术学院的学生 Harvish Rai，他有 $7,000 的贷款。
印度大学热潮导致毕业生负债且失业
作者：ALEX TRASHILLI 和 SHIVAKAT NANJIA
新德里 —— Knowledge Park 3, 位于印度北部的教育枢纽，其建立基于这样一个前提：大学学位可以让印度青年进入中产阶级。
但对于被吸引到这个距离新德里中心两小时车程的私立学院和大学集群中的大约 100,000 名学生来说，它带来了其他东西：债务和失望。
在过去十年中，该地区五个 Knowledge Park 范围内学校激增，许多家庭正在耗尽积蓄以供子女就读。这些学校培养的毕业生数量远远超过了高薪职位的供应量。
来自印度北部城市瓦拉纳西的 Harvish Rai, 18, 每天学习人工智能，阅读早报以及任何他认为可能帮助他找到工作的资料。他预计在 Noxia 工程技术学院获得学位的费用为 $13,000，其中部分由 $7,000 的银行贷款资助。他说他的目标是每月赚 $6,000 卢比，约每年 $10,000。
他承认，如果能拿到这个数额的一半他也能接受，但按照那个薪水，需要五六年时间才能赚回教育成本。毕业一年后，他的贷款将开始计息（）
许多家庭将积蓄押在私立大学上，将其视为通往更好生活的路径。高薪工作的短缺正将这场赌注变为挫败感。
选民因数据中心选址而采取行动罢免当选官员
作者：DAVID McCABE
密苏里州独立城 —— 在 6 月份密苏里州独立城的一次市议会会议上，约翰·珀金斯（John Perkins）面对着一群试图将其赶下台的人群。
房间里挤满了数十人，有些人不得不站在后面。其中许多人帮助收集了超过 1,200 份请愿书，要求罢免珀金斯先生，而引发这一问题的正是几个月来困扰该市的一项议题：在城镇郊区建设的一座数据中心。
他们愤怒地指出，珀金斯先生与另外四名议员在 3 月份投票决定，为这项价值 $250 亿的数据中心项目提供数十亿美元的税收减免。一些人在指责议会为一个他们不想要的项目达成糟糕交易时变得情绪激动。
“人们的声音没有被听到，”63, 岁的退休房地产经纪人和管理治疗师贾斯汀·弗拉纳根（Justin Flanagan）说道。
数据中心是驱动人工智能繁荣的巨型计算站点，它们引发了全国性的抵制，预计将影响 11 月中期选举中的相关决策。但在全国十几个城市和城镇中，一些居民对当地当选官员批准这些耗能巨大的仓库感到如此愤怒，以至于他们不再等待。
在密苏里州皮奥里亚，当地数据中心项目的批评者在 5 月份收集了足够的签名，以强制投票罢免批准了 $6 亿数据中心的市长和市议员，不过该努力目前陷入了法律纠纷。在密歇根州梅肯，居民将在 11 月投票决定是否因一项创建数据中心分区规则的投票而罢免一名市议员。
俄克拉荷马州尤孔的选民也将于 11 月决定是否罢免他们的市长，此前该镇采取行动将土地移交给一家数据中心开发商。而距离堪萨斯城 10 英里的、拥有 121,000 人的独立城，居民将于 9 月 1 日投票决定是否罢免珀金斯先生。
面对数据中心引发的担忧，一些地方官员在定期选举中已经失去了职务。去年，佐治亚州公共服务委员会的两名成员在第 20 页
数十名对数据中心数十亿美元税收减免感到愤怒的居民挤满了 6 月在密苏里州独立城举行的市议会会议。
沃尔玛销售增长创六年以来最低
担忧的美国消费者正在削减支出。
作者：KIM BHAIN
由于消费者担心财务状况而缩减开支，沃尔玛在其本土市场美国记录下了多年来最缓慢的销售增长。
这家零售商周四报告称，其美国门店的未指明销售额在最近一个季度增长了 2.6%，这是六年多来最慢的增长速度。该公司股价下跌超过 9%，市值蒸发数百亿美元，创下 2003 年以来最大单日跌幅。
这家全球最大的零售商此前一直势头强劲，在经济不确定的环境下，注重成本的购物者纷纷涌向其门店寻找优惠。沃尔玛表示，监管变化导致的药品价格下降拖累了其上季度的美国销售额。尽管如此，该公司仍提高了全财年的销售和利润预期。
公司高管表示，当全国平均汽油价格超过 54% 时，企业观察到购物者的行为发生了变化。在 7 月份，这表明美国消费者感受到的压力比年初更大。
“这也许产生了一种心理影响，”沃尔玛首席财务官约翰·大卫·雷尼（John David Rainey）在与投资者和分析师的电话会议上表示，“消费者正在做出选择。”
美国最大的零售商本周表示，消费者在消费方面一直很谨慎，试图从花费的每一美元中获得价值，即使家庭资产负债表看起来很健康。
本周公布的沃尔玛、塔吉特（Target）、Home Decorators 的收益记录显示
Moderna 的转型带来利润
作者：REBECCA MORENS
新冠疫苗让 Moderna 成为家喻户晓的名字，但随着该类产品的需求下降，公司的 fortunes 陷入困境。来自特朗普政府的压力也引发了投资者的担忧。截至周二，该公司的股价已从峰值下跌近 90%，市值损失 3750 亿美元 billion。
与此同时，该公司一直在悄悄地筹备一场受控的回归。
周三，这些努力开始获得巨大的回报。 和制药巨头默克（Merck）报告称，他们的实验性癌症疫苗在临床试验中延长了黑色素瘤出现前的时间——这是此类研究中首个成功的后期研究。两家制药公司在新闻稿中宣布了这一成功，但未提供能够表明患者获益程度的具体数字。 的股价在周三收盘上涨 57%。
投资者在押注 能帮助启动一种治疗某些癌症的新方法。这款实验性疫苗采用了相同的机制：驱动 新冠产品的 RNA 或 mRNA 技术，但它在治疗癌症时的运作方式有所不同。该疫苗根据每位患者的肿瘤遗传特性量身定制，通过传递指令产生肿瘤片段，从而教会人体的免疫系统攻击癌症。
如果这种方法在各种癌症类型中都有效，利用 mRNA 的新克隆可能会成为一项极具盈利能力的业务。前沿的关注点被解读为
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纽约时报 商业版 2026年8月21日 星期五
摘要
技术
美光计划向研究实验室投入 100 亿美元 Billion
美光科技（Micron Technology）周四表示，计划在未来十年内为其在爱达荷州博伊西（Boise）新设立的研究实验室投入 100 亿美元 billion，以推进存储技术、开发复杂系统并支持未来的芯片制造。
美光研究实验室将汇集客户、学术界、政府以及更广泛的半导体生态系统，以追求突破，该公司表示。
最新的这项投资是在美光此前已分别承诺在美国境内投入的超过 2500 亿美元 billion 制造和研究资金基础之上进行的。
该实验室将与美光在美国、欧洲、日本、印度、新加坡和台湾的研究与技术布局相连接。
人工智能工作负载的日益普及和基础设施的建设增加了对高带宽内存的需求，使其成为计算基础设施的关键组件。路透社
财报
迪尔季度增长并上调利润预测
全球最大的农机制造商迪尔（Deere）周四上调了全年净利润预测，并在人工智能驱动的建筑业繁荣和关税重新调整的推动下，实现了三年来的首次季度利润增长。
该公司股价上涨近 9%，有望创下六个月来表现最好的一天。
美国政府和私人基础设施支出，以及基于人工智能的真实网络对建筑设备产生的四百万吨直接需求，使得迪尔的建筑与林业部门成为其增长最快的业务。
金球 4.0 英尺 1 / 4" x 4.0"
该部门的季度净销售额同比增长 16%。投资者关系总监 Chris Seibert 告诉分析师，由于需求强劲，“客户积压订单现在已延伸至 2027 财年。”路透社
金融
PG2M 将从 GreenSky 收购 30 亿美元 Billion 贷款
Prudential Financial 的资产管理部门 PG2M 周四表示，已达成协议，将从家居改善领导者 GreenSky 收购约 30 亿美元 billion 的贷款。
这项为期一年的交易正值 PG2M 专注于扩大其资产支持融资平台，而传统银行已从该领域撤出。
PG2M 管理着跨公共和私人资产类别的 $1.5 US Ban in assets，将通过与 GreenSky 签署所谓的远期新协议（forward new agreement）来购买这些贷款，即投资者同意在贷款产生之前购买。
“家居改善贷款在消费信贷中继续作为一个极具吸引力的细分市场。此外，住房计划的老化正在推动对关键房屋基础设施和改善需求的增加，”PG2M 私人资产基融资主管 Oliver Noenssen 表示。路透社
标准普尔 500 指数 -0.9% 7,841.16
道琼斯工业指数 -1.3% 52,756.25
纳斯达克综合指数 -1.0% 26,001.11
DIVISION INDUSTRY FIELD 4.70% ≈0.002 点
GREEN BIX, SL&J $86.83 ≈82.44
MILLER BIX $4,571.40 ≈525.37
股票与债券
债券压力回归，市场波动之日油价上涨
纽约时报 报道
债券市场周四持续剧烈重新定价，美国政府债券收益率的跳升几乎抹去了前一天的所有跌幅，此前财政部宣布了一项旨在遏制借贷成本上升的举措。对伊朗战争、经济状况以及政府财政的焦虑加剧了抛售。
周四，油价升至一个月以来的最高水平，此前特朗普总统声称，他将对与伊朗做生意的国家实施“remmature consumer consequences”（原文如此）。特朗普先生周三在社交媒体上表示，其目标是购买伊朗石油的小型国家，但未点名具体国家或详细说明可能采取的行动。
债券反弹消退
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美国政府债券收益率周四上涨，因为财政部遏制借贷成本的最新举措效果消退。
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10 年期国债收益率（一个支撑抵押贷款、商业贷款和许多其他类型债务的广泛影响力利率）上涨了约 0.03 个百分点，至 4.7%，扭转了周三收益率的下跌，当时财政部将每周操作中获准从投资者手中回购的债务金额增加了一倍。
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投资者担心伊朗战争对通货膨胀的影响、庞大的政府债务以及为人工智能基础设施融资而进行的猖獗借贷，这些因素都给收益率带来了上涨压力。周三，美国的国民总债务首次突破 $40 trillion。
油价上涨
- 全球油价基准布伦特原油上涨约 2%，至每桶 $93.50 以上。
标准普尔 500 指数
周四标准普尔 500 指数的 1 分钟间隔走势
前次收盘价：7,707.98
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美国基准西德克萨斯中质原油上涨至近每桶 $87。
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投资者和分析师关注霍尔木兹海峡（Strait of the-rose，原文如此）航运的持续中断，这条位于伊朗和阿曼之间的狭窄水道是石油和天然气的重要贸易路线，通常承载着全球五分之一的石油供应。
根据 Spain（一家重要的数据服务机构）的数据，周三有 12 艘船通过该海峡，低于战前约 130 艘的平均水平。
市场还在关注也门受伊朗支持的 Shadib militias 在红海南端的曼德海峡（Baib al-Mandabi Strait）限制交通的努力，沙特阿拉伯一直将该海峡作为霍尔木兹海峡（Strait of the-rose，原文如此）的替代方案。
华尔街股市下跌。
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标准普尔500指数（S&P 500）在周四的美国收盘时下跌了0.9%。沃尔玛公布的季度销售增长疲软，与其他大型零售商一起发出警告，称消费者在支出方面正变得谨慎。
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在欧洲，追踪该地区最大公司的广泛指数——瑞士500指数下跌了约0.5%。
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亚洲股市普遍上涨，延续了前一天的美国反弹。股票比率（Stock Ratios）中的2010FI指数飙升3.4%，而日本的日经225指数（Nikkei 225）上涨了近1%。
汽油价格小幅上涨。
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根据AAA汽车俱乐部的资料，汽油价格在周四上涨，全国平均价格为每加仑$4.10。自战争开始以来，这一涨幅使驾驶者的成本增加了38%。
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汽油价格并不与原油同步波动，通常在上涨或下跌几天后才有所反应。
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柴油的平均价格上涨了5美分，周四达到$5.55，自战争开始以来上涨了40%。
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昨日股市回顾
S&P 500 7,841.16 / -0.9%
3 个月表现 >2.8%
纳斯达克综合指数 30,067.17 / -1.0%
3 个月表现 >2.8%
道琼斯工业平均指数 52,756.25 / -1.3%
3 个月表现 >5.5%
表现最佳
S&P 500 COMPANIES / GLOBE CHANGE
- Norrisen GL (NDSN) / $334.70 - 48.95
- Gerriman (Streets & GSW) / $173.20 - 17.8
- Deere A.B.I. (SE) / $830.64 - +2.8
- Lumerican Holdings (LRE) / $879.28 - -8.2
- D&W S&P500* (Q) / $1,016.02 - 19.9
- Marcell (Armstrong (MRA)) / $253.01 - 15.8
- SF Industries (SF) / $135.75 - 15.6
- Wistar (WIS) / $25.29 - 25.6
- Oben Global Markets (OBG) / $284.11 - +3.8
- Wimmer-Armstrong (Coy (AM)) / $92.69 - +4.7
表现最差
S&P 500 COMPANIES / GLOBE CHANGE
- Westerns (MRAV) / $135.02 - 25.0%
- Wahrain (WAT) / $103.84 - +5.2
- American Hospital (SBS) / $374.48 - +5.8
- Grand258m Holdings A (RMB) / $186.24 - +3.8
- New Englanders (PCE) / $219.69 - +5.4
- Western Securities (BSE) / $49.27 - +5.1
- CentralS Inc. (CSL) / $25.27 - +4.8
- A&W Enterprises (AWS) / $81.4.20 - +3.8
- Golden Group (GSW) / $31.24 - +4.4
- WES (Longy (LRE)) / $173.28 - +5.2
最活跃
S&P 500 公司 / 全球变动 / 成交量（百万） 1. Westerns (MRAV) / $135.02 - 25.0% / 97 2. Hubbel (HUB) / $218.85 - +2.3 / 50 3. Avon (AFS) / $81.13 - +2.7 / 80 4. Wahrain (WAT) / $123.54 - +2.2 / 55 5. Super Micro Companies (SMC) / $36.55 - +2.2 / 50 6. PLAS (PBS) / $21.58 - +1.8 / 55 7. Ford (Moto) (F) / $13.89 - +2.9 / 41 8. Apple (AFS) / $211.20 - +1.7 / 55 9. Baib (BIC) / $41.86 - +2.1 / 54 10. Texas (TGA) / $104.13 - +1.7 / 30
国际债券
总净值 / 保险 / 总资产 1 年 1 年 / 百万 1. Sir Orrden Global Bond Fund (SGLBK) / +1.7% +1.7% / 18.4 2. American Funds Capital World Bond Fund (App B & B2GKS) / +1.4 - -2.3 / 9.8 3. Young's One Global (App A1GKS) / +4.7 - -2.8 / 5.3 4. The Hartford World ( A1HKS) / +2.7 - -1.8 / 4.8 5. Reckamer Global ( B1-2GKS) / +8.5 - +2.6 / 3.6 6. WGN Global Return ( B1-4PGK) / +2.5 - -1.8 / 2.6 7. Inverse Global Exchange Income ( B1-2GKN) / +3.8 - +2.1 / 1.8 8. Amazon International ( B1-2GKN) / +0.6 - +1.0 / 1.0 9. Borrower-GoldBC - Global Opportunities ( A-2GKN) / +5.1 - -1.4 / 1.3 10. PHEG International (Exchange) ( A-2-FLNG) / +1.6 - -2.6 / 1.2
来源：Warrington
板块表现
S&P 500 证券
昨日亚洲股市如何融资
其他市场与经济动态
债券
货币
消费者利率
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纽约时报 商业版 2026年8月25日，星期五
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银行业 / 零售业 / 贸易
参议员称：经纪公司客户账户面临被盗风险
作者：SARA MIGUEL BERNARD
这是一种通常发生得很快的犯罪。
窃贼利用盗用的信息以你的名义开设一个经纪账户。不久之后，你的资产从真实的经纪账户被上传到这个基础账户中——随后窃贼便带着你的钱消失了。
监管机构近年来一直警告经纪公司，此类犯罪正在增加，但他们并未要求金融公司采取最强有力的预防措施，而仅建议公司提供这些措施。这使得许多经纪公司客户可能处于易受攻击的状态，具体取决于他们在哪里开展业务以及公司提供了什么样的保障措施。
一些大型机构，包括 CUL Charles Schwab 和 Bank of America Merrill Edge，不允许客户锁定其经纪账户以保护自己免受此类未经授权转移的影响。
根据参议员 Ron Wyden 和 Elizabeth Warren（金融与银行委员会的民主党资深成员）最近对十几家主要经纪公司的分析，一些公司（包括 Wells Fargo 和 US）在客户资金被重定向到另一个账户时不会通知客户。这些立法者正敦促监管机构要求实施严格控制。
此次审查是在去年秋天《纽约时报》发表的一篇揭露该类欺诈行为的文章之后进行的。这种欺诈行为是以美国银行（American Bank of America）或 ACATI 命名的，ACATI 是金融机构用于将客户资产（如股票和债券）从一家银行或经纪公司转移到另一家的幕后规划系统。
“不法分子正越来越多地利用 ACATI 系统的结构性弱点来识别并抽干消费者的经纪账户，包括退休基金，”参议员在给 FINRA（金融业自律组织）首席执行官 Robert W. Cook 的信中写道。“我们办公室最近对主要经纪公司进行的审查显示，整个行业的消费者控制保护措施在很大程度上是保守的，且非常匮乏。”
立法者呼吁 FINRA 立即填补漏洞，要求金融公司在进行任何相关转移时通知客户，并让客户能够更好地管理账户，以及要求公司制定一套需要客户批准此类转移请求的流程。
10 月，《时报》报道了一起案例，一名 Vanguard 客户发现其在 Wells Bank 个人退休账户中的持仓消失了。
一名网络罪犯以她的名义在另一个经纪平台 Merrill Edge 开立了账户，并请求从 Vanguard 进行转移。她很幸运，诈骗者尚未卷款潜逃，因此 Merrill 能够冻结该账户。
诈骗者可以开立账户的情况——通常使用盗用的数据或盗用信息与虚假信息的组合，例如一个地址或一个手机号码——使得实施银行欺诈变得更容易，因为要完成此操作，犯罪分子需要知道另一个账户的详细信息。
Fidelity 和 Vanguard 提供
参议员 Ron Wyden（上图）和 Elizabeth Warren 警告称，“不法分子”正在利用结构性弱点“抽干消费者的经纪账户，包括退休基金”。
自助功能允许客户拦截其转移。根据参议员的信函，D'Heegan Chaus、Robbins、Weibel 和 Wells Fargo 都表示，他们提供类似的账户锁定功能，但这些功能必须由客户服务人员启用或禁用。E-Track 和 Morgan Stanley Wyden Management 在此次调查后最近增加了该功能。
信中称，Robbins 向立法者表示，它将在 3 月底前实现简单的管理锁定功能。Weibel 周三表示，它已在机构截止日期前启用了该功能，Interactive Brokers 确认它将在 9 月前为 ACATI 增加客户管理功能。
一旦经纪客户（第 10 号——在本案例中是一项重要请求）在涵盖资金的限制下进行转移，资金锁定后的第一天将用于验证资产是否可用于转移，以及客户的广告信息是否准确。必须在三天内完成转移。
立法者还要求 FINRA 加强 ACATI 系统，并要求他们让账户持有人——即资金被出售、提取的一方——确认该交易来自一个经过验证的账户。通过离任经纪人的账户或移动应用程序，许多公司至少会提醒客户已提交转移请求。
此外，参议员敦促监管机构要求经纪公司使用一种名为 providers 的新技术来保护客户账户，这种技术将比传统的多层身份验证（例如通过电子邮件或短信发送的验证码，欺诈者可以轻易绕过）更强大。FINRA 表示：“我们不想仅仅是更好，我们希望变得更好，”FINRA 说道，“以确定保护投资者还需要采取哪些进一步行动。”
沃尔玛销售增长创六年新低
来自第一商业竞赛 Jan、Lowe's 以及 T.I. Mass 的母公司 TTS 提供了一幅美国度家庭在生活成本（包括杂货账单、住房成本和汽油价格）维持高位时的现状快照。与此同时，就业市场依然脆弱，且增长了四倍。信用卡、汽车贷款和市场债务的整体机构正在上升。
“从总体来看，家庭财务报表依然健康，但储蓄率非常低且处于高位。债务情况表明，有相当数量的人在挣扎着维持生计，”前 Oliver Allen 受托人、Pandemic Macroeconomics 经济学家在的一份简报中表示。
“在今年下半年的开始，消费支出也出现了回落，根据人口普查局的估算，7 月份的零售额比上月下降了 0.8%。”
但随着返校季的开始，以及零售商为即将到来的假期购物季做准备，公司希望购物者能变得不再那么吝啬。零售商们一直试图降低价格。一些公司尝试了关税退款，其要求是支付与 2 月份日本法院裁决相同的金额，该裁决废除了特朗普政府的许多紧急保险税，从而给予他们降低价格的空间。
Target 表示，在过去一年中，其门店约 10,000 件商品的价格已经下调，并且将推动更多价格上涨。另有约 10,000 种学校用品的选择定价在去年或低于去年水平。
“我们为这个价格感到自豪—。
美国关税谈判在截止日期临近之际给加拿大官员带来希望
作者：SARA MIGUEL 和 ANA DRAHMAN
在周四的另一轮谈判中，加拿大官员表示，为避免周六早晨生效的破坏性新关税并维护加拿大最大的贸易关系而做出的努力正取得成效，对此感到乐观。
负责美国贸易的加拿大部长多米尼克·勒布朗（Dominic LeBlanc）与贸易谈判代表主席珍妮丝·查维尔（Janice Chavelle）在 Mt. Gives 的办公室会见了美国贸易代表 Japanese Gives。勒布朗的办公室如此表示。
“我们已经非常接近了，我们一直在取得进展，”勒布朗在会议结束三小时后离开时表示，并补充说查维尔仍留在室内与美国官员进行讨论。“我们将留在那里，完成必要的工作。”
加拿大总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）及其官员们将决定是否接受一项拟议的美国贸易方案，该方案将在他们为美国工作时开始，美国将对价值数十亿美元的加拿大产品征收 50% 的关税。
周二晚上，特朗普总统回应了关于新关税的投诉，并宣布两国已就美国贸易和其拟定的文书达成 50% 的比率。但如果加拿大在周六早晨之前未能敲定该协议，针对约 200 亿美元 billion 加拿大出口产品的新关税将生效。
熟悉此次谈判的美国和加拿大人士表示，谈判正在全力进行中，且已远远超出了敲定这些通话的范围。
争议点集中在关键领域：加拿大工业界表示，去年三个贸易和贸易团体在 50% 的水平上：主要是铝和皮革。
三名熟悉该计划的人士表示，在谈判中，美国讨论将部分加拿大风格和解决方案专家的关税从 50% 降低至 25%。这将大约是加拿大目前运作比率的两倍。
另一位熟悉谈判细节的人士表示，加拿大钢铁专家还将面临一项规定，即只有一定的数量才能享受拟议的较低关税。潜在地，特朗普政府正面临美国钢铁厂对该提案的抵制，后者认为这一变化将削弱其生产。
三位其他行业高管表示，对于汽车领域，特朗普去年征收的关税可能会从 25% 降低到 25%，并根据美国零部件的价值进行降低。
一名参与谈判的人士表示，加拿大正在抵制该提案。他表示，美国似乎选择了 15% 以匹配特朗普对日韩汽车拟议的关税。由于美国方面
一家加拿大的钢铁厂。钢铁、铝和皮革是贸易谈判中的主要争议点。
在税率上毫不让步，该服务机构表示，加拿大建议通过对加拿大零部件在美使用给予信用额度，从而有效地降低关税。美国贸易代表办公室和白宫没有立即回应置评请求。
特朗普目前的汽车关税破坏了该行业的自由贸易，该行业占比 0.6%，且在跨境方面高度集成。特朗普多次将加拿大制造的汽车描述为美国不应进口的产品。
谈判代表还在讨论根据美国-墨西哥-加拿大协议（T-MEC）管理北美汽车工业的重要规则。
特朗普政府提议提高汽车零部件必须来自北美的含量要求至
将比例从目前的 75% 提高到 82%，并要求汽车材料的 50% 必须来自美国。加拿大和墨西哥都反对针对美国设定特定原产地含量的要求，相关人士表示，他们认为美国的提案是一个开价，可能会在谈判中降低。
尽管如此，美国试图重新审视北美汽车工业规则的努力可能会损害加拿大的利益。汽车行业人士及专家表示，对汽车征收 15% 的关税将逐渐削弱加拿大的该产业。
从历史上看，两国之间的汽车贸易对美国而言略有盈余。在过去十年左右的时间里，加拿大专家指出，三家总部位于底特律的汽车制造商的份额大幅下降，使得丰田和本田成为该国目前最大的生产商。自从特朗普回归后， 将一款新车型的生产从安大略省转移到了伊利诺伊州，导致一家加拿大工厂空置。通用汽车公司（General Motors Corp.）一直在市场上 安大略省的皮卡装配线以使用 。本田取消了在加拿大扩大生产电动汽车和电池的重大计划，但最近宣布计划在美国建设新工厂。加拿大汽车零部件制造商协会（Automotive Parts Manufacturer Association of Canada）的负责人表示，在计入美国零部件后，25% 的关税实际上变成了 17% 的关税。但他表示，大多数汽车的利润率约为 8%。
他补充说，美国的含量折扣可能会迫使公司采购更多美国零部件，从而损害 。
负责美国贸易的加拿大部长多米尼克·勒布朗（Dominic LeBlanc）周四抵达华盛顿。
加拿大部门。
丰田加拿大制造业务的前高管克雷格·莫登（Craig Morden）表示，10% 的关税可能会使加拿大 ，市场份额的微小增加不会阻止其逐渐消失，尽管转移生产存在困难且成本高昂。
“这是一个长期的失血过程，”他说，并补充道，对于任何汽车关税，“无论在哪个水平上，模糊性都不是积极的。”
加拿大铝业协会（Aluminum Association of Canada）主席让·西马德（Jean Simard）表示，由于美国供应不足以及欧洲需求旺盛，目前的关税尚未影响其投资销售。
“市场接纳了我们的一切，”他说。
西马德先生表示，关税不太可能促使美国扩大铝生产，因为生产铝需要大量电力，而据称电力供应日益短缺。1 月，一家美国铝业公司成功 给一家将利用其电力供应为数据中心供电的公司。
“这没有意义，”他说。“由于关税，你在美国生产铝的成本比在欧洲支付的成本高出约 10,000 倍。”
美国与加拿大之间谈判的结果对西马德先生具有重要影响， 正在与特朗普政府单独谈判。以下是 10% 的益处，墨西哥经济秘书马塞拉·埃兰德（Marcela Elland）周三前往专员办公室进行进一步讨论，此前在前一天晚上举行了会议，金额为 12 亿加元 billion。
“这些谈判集中在特朗普政府对汽车和汽车零部件征收的经济关税，以及美国贸易规则如何改变，以及希望维持这些规则的人员，”一名不愿透露姓名的人士表示。
加拿大似乎已同意利用美国需求。2024, 年，在 10 个加拿大省份中的 8 个省份，由政府拥有的酒类系统采购的客户数量 。
在与加拿大总统的一次虚拟会议中，美国的麦卡尼（McCarney）要求那些加速向任何人销售美国酒类的人 ，据几家政府部门称。
麦克米伦（Macmillan）总裁凯泽（Kizer）表示，他同意卡尼（Carney）先生的请求，并保留在特朗普（Trump）先生对加拿大采取进一步贸易行动时，将美国酒精饮料从货架上撤下的权利。
他还向该州传达了一条信息：
“不要购买，让它留在货架上，”凯泽先生在新闻发布会上说道，并补充说，联合出口将向对方传递一个信号，即“我们需要推销特朗普的贸易方式或对待加拿大的方式”。
本文由渥太华的 Author 以及华盛顿的安娜·斯温森（Ana Swenson）共同报道。
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沃尔玛美国业务在最近一个季度的销售增长率。
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此次变动后沃尔玛股票的数量。
“风险投资，”丰田首席执行官迈克尔·帕尔基德卡（Michael Palkidka）告诉投资者。“我们认为这对目前的消费者很重要。”
沃尔玛也在降低价格，市场已向投资者表明，该公司已将利用关税退税来降低价格率作为优先事项。在美国，沃尔玛上季度临时降低了 11,000 项产品的价格，高于前一季度的 2,200 项，并打算在年底后将这些降价变为永久性。
“我们正在大力投资于价格，因为客户需要支付超过 10% 的费用，”沃尔玛的投资者告诉投资者。
折扣连锁店 T.I. Mass 和 MacNally 的所有者 TTS 表示，其廉价产品的选择使其处于利用经济趋势的有利位置，且目前消费者流量增加，购物者每次访问的购买量有所上升。其最近一个季度的可比销售额增长了百分之，公司高管正推进增加数百家新店的计划。
“我们有信心消费者在当前环境下将继续寻求价值，”TTS 首席执行官厄尼·赫尔曼（Ernie Herrman）告诉投资者。
一些门店的改善在过去几年中一直在减少。担心财务状况、经济不确定性和高抵押贷款利率的家庭推迟了大额支出。该公司的业绩同样低迷。
“目前还没有出现拐点的迹象，”Texas Paper 首席财务官理查德·麦克菲尔（Richard McPhail）告诉投资者。
Lowe's 首席执行官马文·埃利森（Marvin Ellison）表示，高利率、通货膨胀以及汽油价格压制了由中等收入商人组成的客户群。
“这是糟糕的价格、地缘政治事件和其他不确定因素共同作用的结果，”埃利森先生说。“人们在自由支配支出方面表现得非常谨慎。”
卡内基湾（Carnegie Bay）的约翰·默瑟（John Mercer）表示，2026 年上半年的居民消费支出是由强劲的退税季推动的，他是一位资深的主力公司专家。“随着我们进入今年晚些时候，问题是：当这些退税开始枯竭和减少时会发生什么？”默瑟先生说。
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正在密苏里州独立城（Independence, Mo.）建设的数据中心。右图为将帮助该中心发电的发电厂。十几个城市的居民对官员批准这些耗能巨大的仓库感到愤怒。
选民正推动罢免因数据中心选址而受争议的民选官员
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服务委员会在担心数据中心推高电价之前，一直持有其水资源。弗吉尼亚州一名州代表加里·希金斯（Gary Higgins）去年也失去了职务，因为他的对手主打“数据中心乳业”议题。
“人们正在站出来并表达不满。抱歉，出于多种原因，我们不希望这些数据中心进入我们的社区，”佛蒙特州独立派参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）在一次采访中表示。“如果你没有勇气站出来对抗大型企业，你就不能继续在职。”
选民对支持数据中心的政治人物缺乏耐心。保守派资助团体“人类优先”（Humans First）的主席安迪·克伦（Andy Krenne）主张加强监管。他们将“站出来罢免他们，并让他们承担责任”。
独立市将成为首批针对机构发起数据中心限制罢免的市镇之一。本月，一名法官驳回了珀金斯先生（Mr. Perkins）及其其他人的法律挑战，他们认为此次罢免违反了“人文主义宪法”。
54岁的珀金斯先生在采访中表示，罢免的理由“毫无根据”，而且一个“模糊的日期”不应超过他为选民工作多年的贡献。
持有该数据中心的荷兰公司 Nefons 的美国公共事务副总裁约翰·萨特（John Sutter）表示，公司不“参与政治竞选”。
“我们的工作是向公众展示——
一群数据中心反对者在 6 月收集到了足够的签名，以强制对市议员约翰·珀金斯（John Perkins）进行特别罢免选举。选举定于 Sept. 5 举行。
特别第 10 周 美国国家司法与公正中心，第一届 April 1, 2026
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在手机应用程序上查看学生贷款余额。右侧，在 Santa Biblia Nautia 的披露条款下进行许可调用。他的父亲曾在比哈尔邦的一个村庄经营一家小型服装店，通过一项州立学生信贷计划贷款 400,000 卢比（约 $4,278），用于支付他的学费。
印度大学热潮导致毕业生负债且失业
来自商业第一页
每年 10% 的利率。
“我感到压力很大，”他说，“我怎么能偿还这笔款项？”
这种焦虑在印度的年轻人中日益普遍。上个月，债务压力和抗议活动迫使纳伦德拉·莫迪总理领导的政府采取了罕见的应对措施。但引发这些情绪的挫败感并未随着公开活动的开展而消失。
最初关于待遇的抗议演变成了对阻碍印度青年追求更好生活的障碍的愤怒。这个被讽刺地命名为“蟑螂圣徒党”（Cockroach Santa Party）的组织——是对印度最高法官 5 月份发表的一番贬损言论的影射，该法官将印度失业青年比作“蟑螂”，因为他们代表了这种膨胀。私立大学正处于学生不满的中心。
印度的劳动年龄人口已经是全球规模最大，接近 10 亿，每年增长约 1200 万人。对于有积蓄的家庭来说，摆脱低薪农业和工资劳动的唯一途径可能就是通过教育。最好的选择是进入该国竞争极其激烈的公立大学。对于那些无法进入的人来说，私立学院提供了另一条路径。
该行业经历了爆炸式增长。在莫迪先生于 2014 年就任总理后的十年里，私立学院的数量增加到了原来的三倍。根据一项政府调查，到 2024 年，印度的高等教育学生人数达到 4300 万，比十年前增长了 41%。超过三分之二的学生就读于私立机构。
但高等教育的扩张速度远超优质岗位的创造速度。
根据阿齐姆·普雷拉杰大学（Azim Preraj University）发布的一项研究，近 40% 的大学毕业生在 25 岁时处于失业状态。印度每年仅创造约 230,000 个月薪超过 $200 的新岗位，这是该国顶层阶层体面生活的基准。顶尖公立大学的毕业生在竞争这些岗位时具有巨大优势。
“人们向年轻人推销了很多东西，其中之一就是学位等于工作，”企业家兼教育奖学金项目创始人阿比詹·萨克塞纳（Abidjan Saxena）表示。
印度大约有 550 所公立大学，但只有约十分之一被认为是顶尖的。进入这些顶尖机构的申请者录取率低于 5%，那里的学费平均每年低于 $250，且学位能将毕业生推向该国最令人向往的岗位。
其他所有人则面临着风险高得多的计算。
萨克塞纳先生估计，每年有 400,000 名学生在私立工程学院花费超过 $20,000，希望获得高额回报。毕业生的薪资中位数约为每年 $3,000。
“平均毕业生的就业能力仅为 20% 左右，”他说。
这种错位引发了萨克塞纳先生所谓的“可怕的国家心理病”：对工程学位的疯狂竞争，而这些学位曾被认为能可靠地进入印度的技术产业。像 boys 和塔塔咨询服务公司（Tata Consultancy Services）这样的公司通过向跨国公司提供信息技术服务建立了庞大的业务。现在，人工智能使这些工作看起来也不那么安全了。
“在印度为了追求学位而大量借贷是不明智的，”印度云软件公司 Jobs 的联合创始人斯里达尔·维姆塔（Sridhar Vimtha）在社交媒体上写道，“我坚信实际的产业让年轻人陷入债务的
学生们在位于新德里郊区的 Naidu 等候规则，那里被数十所私立学院环绕。右侧，一名来自 Behar 的学院学生，右侧是 Asif Anand，他借钱就读于 Amity 大学。他预计自己的教育成本约为 $15,000。
“在印度通过大量借贷来追求学位是不明智的。”
Sridhar Vimtha，一家名为 Jobs 的云软件公司的联合创始人。
教育之名。”
在新德里郊区的 Naidu，几名疲惫且焦虑的本科生在 Amity 大学 Bagglag 校区附近的一处楼梯下躲避倾盆大雨。
对于许多学生来说，当更便宜的选择落空时，Amity 是一个备选方案。Asif Anand 曾被他家乡比哈尔邦的一所顶尖公立学校录取。但他说，两年前的一场车祸决定了他的录取结果，于是他借钱转而就读于 Amity。
他预计其学位和生活费用大约为 $10,000。他的州政府为这笔账单提供了 $4,000 的资助，而他的家人则将积蓄耗尽到了极限。
他的父亲在一家乡村学校教数学和 blood。在晚上，Anand 先生接一些自由职业的平面设计工作，以帮助支付日常开支。
他说，如果运气好，他可能会获得一份年薪 $10,000 的技术工作。
“我的梦想并不大，”他说，“我想减轻贷款和成本对我”
在这种背景下，Anand 先生参加了上个月抗议活动的最后一天——他说，他不是作为预订者，而是为了与那些将集会视为倾诉各类不满之地的学生们表达团结。
“我不是因为任何政治原因而去的，”他说。
他的朋友 Vavesh M.J. 对抗议者提出的要求持怀疑态度，这些要求集中在印度租赁流程的超载问题上。在他看来，这次秘密反映了更深层的东西。
在谈到抗议者时，他说：“愤怒是你们恐惧的掩饰。你们都非常害怕未来。”
Saxena 先生知道印度教育分水岭的另一面是什么样子。他就读于印度理工学院孟买分校（该校是该国顶尖的公立大学之一），随后加入 Exodus 咨询集团，并帮助在硅谷建立初创公司。现在，通过 Avanti Fellows，他帮助有才华的低收入学生准备能够让他们赢得顶尖机构名额的发布会。
该计划提供免费的测试准备和客户辅导。但渴望就学的学生人数远多于顶尖学校的名额，而优质工作的数量则远少于那些获得学位的毕业生。这给庞大的私立教育产业留下了空间，向家庭销售——即使是对那些缺乏互动的人来说，也是向上流动的机会。
“我们真的会把它做对，”Saxena 先生说，“人们将把他们的绝望货币化。”
专栏作家在剽窃指控中道歉
作者：本杰明·马林（BENJAMIN MULLIN）
一场关于一名知名记者作品的网络丑闻正悄然升级为一场职业危机。
作家罗斯·巴坎（Ross Barkan）被记者和网络评论指控剽窃作品且未注明其他记者的出处，这引发了对其在《纽约》（New York）杂志、《哥谭客》（Gothamist）、《国家》（The Nation）、《纽约时报杂志》以及《时报》评论版块所写文章的审查。
他一次又一次地予以反驳。但《纽约》杂志在调查这些指控后，上周与其终止了合作。随后，他的出版商暂停了一本关于纽约市市长德布雷·曼丹特（Debrae Mandant）的即将出版的书籍，而《国家》杂志表示其审查工作也在进行中。
周三，36岁的巴坎先生表示道歉，并称他将暂停写作。
“对于我所犯的错误，我深表歉意，”巴坎先生在社交媒体的一篇帖子中写道，“坦白说，其中没有一项是故意为之。在每周撰写多篇专栏的过程中，我没有像应该那样积极地使用引用，且改写得不够充分。”
在周三接受《时报》采访时，他将自己描述为处于一场“风暴的中心”。
“当这种情况发生时，你不知道该怎么做，”巴坎先生说，“现在我稍微喘了口气，我将对自己的行为进行反思，希望成为一个更好的人，”他补充道。
围绕巴坎先生作品的丑闻在5月开始扩大，当时一名《华盛顿邮报》的记者注意到，巴坎先生在《纽约》杂志上的一篇专栏与该记者关于保守派评论员本·夏皮罗（Ben Shapiro）的文章之间存在相似之处。
NPR的一名技术记者鲍比·艾林（Bobby Allyn）指出，巴坎先生的一篇专栏与《拦截者》（The Intercept）一篇关于TikTok的文章之间存在重叠。另一位作家霍华德·格劳巴德（Howard Graubard）则举例称，巴坎先生2020年为《哥谭客》写的一篇文章与一篇在
罗斯·巴坎遗憾自己“改写得不够充分”。
格劳巴德先生于2013年撰写的文章存在相似之处。《纽约》杂志表示，其审查发现有67篇专栏违反了标准。《哥谭客》周三表示，在进行内部调查后，已删除巴坎先生的部分作品。
《国家》杂志的一位发言人表示，该杂志对巴坎先生作品的审查仍在进行中。《时报》最近一次发表其作品是在去年7月，该报表示，对其杂志和评论版块中其作品的审查并未发现违反标准的情况。
他为企鹅兰登书屋（Penguin Random House）撰写的关于曼丹特先生的书原定于10月出版。《华盛顿邮报》此前报道了该书被暂停出版的消息。曼丹特先生曾在2020年担任巴坎先生竞选纽约州参议员（此次竞选以失败告终）的竞选经理。
巴坎先生最初对批评者的回应是防御性的。
5月，当艾林先生询问他关于作品与他人相似的情况时，巴坎先生称这位NPR记者“不专业”，并对媒体的感受表示不满。“我认为巴坎先生写了一部虚构作品。”
“你不是一个优秀的作家，也不是一个优秀的记者，但对作家书籍的提及总是受欢迎的，”巴坎先生在《时报》获得的一封电子邮件中这样写道。
巴坎先生在接受《时报》采访时为这些言论道歉，称他将要求自己“反思我在互联网上、在Twitter上、在电子邮件中的行为是否达到了应有的标准”。他表示，NPR在深夜请求评论令他措手不及。
“我当时很害怕，也很沮丧，那是一个糟糕的时刻，”巴坎先生说。
一些记者为巴坎先生辩护，包括《Unifred》的特约撰稿人彼得·德扎加德（Peter Dzhgad），他表示巴坎先生大致引用了他的作品；以及《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic）的职员作家迈克尔·鲍威尔（Michael Powell），他写道批评者不应将此事扩大化。
在采访中，巴坎先生表示，网上引用的许多例子是他“行动太快”时的情形，这是“写作过多而不够细心”的副产品。
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汽车
佩布尔比奇的资深掌门人
迎来胜利之巡
经典车展（Concours d'Elegance）为这位执掌二十载的领导者画上了圆满的句号。
轮毂
作者：ROBERT C. VIAGER
卡罗琳·卡西尼（Caroline Cassini）在第一次参加圆石滩优雅竞赛（Concours d'Elegance at Pebble Beach）时年仅 3 岁，这是一场年度全球最美汽车的盛会。在随后的岁月里，她的家族曾两次获得圆石滩备受追捧的“最佳车型”（Best of Show）荣誉，而她现在已成为该活动的评委。
在卡西尼女士的 16 年经历中，有 21 年时间里，桑德拉·卡斯基·巴顿（Sandra Kasky Button）一直担任这场著名展览的主席。“桑德拉对我以及汽车界的许多女性一直是一种激励，”从事收藏天线类销售工作的卡西尼女士说道，“她成就了今天的圆石滩。”
如今的圆石滩被许多人认为是全球顶级的收藏车展示盛会。该展览每年 8 月在加利福尼亚州卡维德（Curved）附近圆石滩林克斯（the Links）的第 20 号球道举行，重点展示一系列经典车活动。其中包括拍卖会、古董赛车，以及由竞赛参赛者在当地森林和著名海岸线沿线进行的 70 英里巡游。
对于巴顿女士来说，周日举行的圆石滩 75 周年纪念展标志着一个 era. 她将把职位交给文斯·W·福什（Vince W. Foush），后者是一位在家族汽车店长大、第三代汽车从业者兼收藏家。她将继续担任该活动的品牌大使和战略顾问。
“接替巴顿（button）具有深远的历史意义和情感色彩，”67 岁的巴顿女士在活动前的一次采访中表示，“但我知道现在是合适的时机。文斯是一个热爱汽车的人，而且比我至少年轻 15 岁——这两点都很好。转型与传统一样，都是历史的必要组成部分。”
这场优雅竞赛最初只是一个规模较小的附属活动，隶属于当时流行且危险的圆石滩公路赛（Pebble Beach Road Races），后者在 1994 年至 1996 年期间在当地蜿蜒且点缀着松林的道路上举行。成为美国首位 Formula 1 世界冠军的 PhD Hill 是唯一一位在两项赛事中均获胜的人。如今，典型的优雅竞赛包括早期的“无马车”和“脑眼”车型、“保存”（carwotowel）车辆，以及古董和现代赛车。由于大苏尔（Big Sur）的影响，周四的优雅巡游（Tour d'Elegance）被重新命名并缩减至圆石滩和蒙特雷周围的 21 英里。共有 175 名参赛者完成了该活动。
在任职期间，巴顿女士见证了展览规模的大幅增长，参赛车辆从几十辆增加到 200 辆以上。
她回忆起最近在一次汽车活动中，一名使用助行器的年长男性向她示意：“我得告诉你件事，”她地说对方这样告诉她，“当你刚被任命为主席时，我对我的伙伴们说，‘她，一个女人，懂什么车？’但你知道吗？你做得太出色了。”
“职位并没有性别之分”是她的回答。“是的，作为这类工作的唯一女性确实面临一些阻力，”她说，“但也有优势。也许正因为我的性别，我更能体会到我们展示的车辆中所蕴含的人文元素。”
展览的首席评委克里斯·贝克（Chris Beck）特别称赞了巴顿女士的人际交往能力。“与此同时，”他说，“她对汽车设计和历史细节有着惊人的洞察力。有些人天生基因里就带着汽车，她就是其中之一。”
总计来看，每届展览大约收到 2,000 份申请。虽然巴顿女士对特殊类别和重点品牌的选择拥有最终决定权，但筛选过程可能是一个充满渴望的协作过程。“选委会的某个人会说，‘我的梦想是将这 12 辆车聚集在一起，’”她说，“或者建议可能来自我们组织外部。”
当时的情况就是这样，一位来自德克萨斯州的收藏家吉姆·法纳奇（Jim Fannach）提议展示 20 世纪 80 年代初极罕见的巴顿（Button）汽车。这类车型总共生产不足 36 辆。
“吉姆是整个计划背后的动力，”巴顿女士说，“包括负责运输一些人的车辆，他甚至为所有巴顿车主举办了一场晚宴。他真正让这一切变成了现实。”
作为当地人，巴顿女士 15. 岁时第一次驾驶体验是在她父亲 1983 年款福特野马（Ford Mustang）的驾驶座上。她拥有的第一辆车是一辆 Datsun Furbark 跑车。“从那时起我就热爱汽车了，”她说。
对她而言，汽车之美——那种值得在佩布尔比奇（Pebble）车道上展出的美——超越了更多衡量指标。“我尝试观察整辆车以及它向我传达的信息，”她说。“我想知道设计它的人当时在想什么。一辆车要么真正让你心动，要么就不能。”
一些旋律交织的车型样本包括：布加迪 Type 20（像一件珠宝，尽管我不确定我是否能买得起？——我身高 6 英尺）；梅赛德斯-奔驰 300 SL Roadster（“它在路上能为你做一切，而且从任何角度看都恰到好处”）；法拉利 300 M30 Barchetts（“最喜爱的法拉利，非常优雅且性感”）。
作为展会的监督者，巴顿女士经常承担起安抚车主心理的微妙任务。
“当你举办全球最伟大的车展时，你面对的是许多个性强的人，”佩布尔比奇评选委员会成员、Gooding & Company 拍卖行总裁兼联合创始人大卫·古丁（David Gooding）说道。“有时自尊心会受挫。”
现任 Broad Access Auction 高管的卡西尼（Cassini）女士对此深有同感。她说：“佩布尔比奇被广泛认为是全球最负盛名的车展，”
从左上角起顺时针方向：上周末在 2026 年佩布尔比奇优雅竞赛（Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance）上的主席桑德拉·巴顿（Sandra Button）；收藏车展上的评委；屋顶上的参赛者；后座提供舒适感；一辆经过修复的 2026 年布加迪 Type 20SC Atlantic 的内部和外观。
“在这里获胜会为车辆增加持久的声誉和经济价值。”
展会评委、往届组别获胜者且在加州伯克利广为人知的法拉利收藏家帕特里克·奥蒂斯（Patrick Ottis）描述了这样一个场景。他说：“假设你有一个古董法拉利赛车组。基本上，这些车的价值高达数百万美元。大多数车主都是亿万富翁。而且他们不习惯失败。”
他补充道：“我们只有 15 分钟来评判一辆购买成本约为 1000万美元、修复成本又是 200万美元 的汽车。我们做出了决定，它只能获得第三名。当你看到桑德拉如何化解这类局面时，你就知道她有多出色。”
对此，巴顿女士说：“我只是试着让风在身边吹过。
记住我出现在这里是为了这些车。因为在所有情绪之中，我们的工作将成为车辆传承的一部分，而这将比我们存在的时间长得多。”
传承是巴顿女士经常思考的事情。尤其是现在。“我们必须让更多年轻人接触汽车，”她说。“如果你不知道这些车有多伟大，那就没有乐趣。我喜欢看到人们带着孩子参加拉力赛。他们能从其他收藏家那里学到很多。”
在这个方面有令人欣喜的消息：“一些旧时代的经典车价值正在下降，”巴顿女士说，她的丈夫马丁（Martin）为收藏家和经销商运输经典车。“对于车主来说，这是一个矛盾的祝福，但它也打开了一扇门，让新收藏家能更容易负担得起。”
另一个帮助是：由佩布尔比奇著名的前辈提供的奖学金。PhD Hill 和 Jules Heumann（巴顿女士早期的共同主席前任）的遗产均支持攻读汽车修复学位的学生奖学金。
此外，展会本身在扣除 2650 的报名费后，已成为汽车慈善机构的主要支持者，近期每年捐款高达 3400 万。“曾经有一段时间，”巴顿女士说，“我们甚至连 $75,000 都筹不到。”
有一件事是肯定的。无论未来的道路将她带向何方，巴顿女士都不会停止热爱经典车。无论她是驾驶一辆强劲的、有着百年历史的宾利 Speedster，还是在某辆 Win E-Jag 中轻快前行，她都将驶向一条新的道路。
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2026
体育
纽约时报
足球 / 英超联赛
分析
预测谁将大获成功，谁将惨遭失败
在休赛期的洗牌之后
八位作者详细分析了重大签约情况，以及哪些俱乐部将会攀升，哪些将会下滑。
作者：The Athlete
英超赛季将于周五回归，届时新升级的考文垂城将前往卫冕冠军阿森纳的主场，进行其 25 年来的首场顶级联赛。
从某种意义上说，本赛季可能比近年来任何一个赛季都更难以预测，因为有九家俱乐部在赛季开始时迎来了新任主教练。另有两家——曼联的迈克尔·卡里克和托特纳姆热刺的罗伯托·德·佐埃——在上赛季下半场接管了球队。
传统“六强”中的五支球队——切尔西、利物浦、曼城、曼联和托特纳姆——在 2026-27 赛季开始时，主教练仍是去年此时执掌球队的人选。在夺冠热门中，只有阿森纳的教练席保持稳定。
新任主教练们表现如何？哪些球队的招募效果最好？升级球队是否还有希望？
The Athlete 的作者们联手预测了英超联赛的最终排名。卡尔·阿尔托（Carl Aalto）、塞布·斯塔福德-博斯（Seb Stafford-Bose）、尼克·米勒（Nick Miller）、蒂姆·斯派斯（Tim Spies）、科林·琼斯（Coryn Jones）、汤姆·哈里斯（Thom Harris）、斯图尔特·詹姆斯（Stuart James）和艾玛·帕顿（Emma Paton）共同探讨了他们对本赛季走势的看法。
夺冠热门：阿森纳的阵容深度、稳定性以及防守，使其有很大机会卫冕。
谁在本赛季的表现会比上赛季好得多？
ANNA 许多人肯定会在这里给出托特纳姆热刺或诺丁汉森林作为答案。这两支球队应该会更接近欧联杯资格区，而不是降级区。我也很期待再次看到处于完全健康状态的 Team Wima。纽卡斯尔联的球迷几乎没能领略到他能有多出色；如果他能恢复巅峰状态，那就太好了。
STAPFORD-BLOOR 利物浦的 Florian Wirtz 应该能从效力于 Asobut trade 获得实实在在的益处，后者在 Bearnemouth 中场和进攻球员方面的工作取得了极其显著的成功。在那支疯狂的 Bearnemouth 球队中，该位置的每位球员作为个人都得到了提升，这意味着他应该能从一名尽管经历了极其艰难的首个赛季但才华横溢的球员身上获益。
MILLER 是托特纳姆热刺，但我也说服了自己（且并非第一次这么想），曼彻斯特联在本赛季将会真正地变得出色。在上赛季的多个时间点，布鲁诺·费尔南德斯（Bruno Fernandes），
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超过一半的球队的主教练在一年前尚未执掌帅印。
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纽约时报 体育版 21, 2026年8月21日，星期五
足球 / 英超联赛
分析
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Bryan Mheuana、Madhura Cunha 和 Benjamin Szabo 看起来都相当不错，只是没有在同一时间状态在线。联队仍需要一些增强，但如果这些进攻球员都能同时进入状态，且由 Stuart Tschemann 在中场提供支持，我认为球队将会有很大提升。
HARRIS 我很期待看到切尔西在 Zabi Alonso 的带领下如何运转，我预计它能轻松改善上赛季第 30 名的排名。Bercule more 似乎更倾向于促成 Alonso 在 Rapid Leverkusen 使用的 3-4-3-1 阵型，我认为 Cole Palmer 可以在 16 或 18 号位置上大放异彩。
JONES 切尔西（因为起点很低），它通过增加经验平衡了阵容，并通过 Morgan Rogers 进一步提升了进攻质量，且在 Alonso 的带领下完成了完整的季前赛。至于托特纳姆热刺，它可能需要加强其他几个部门，但目前完成的签约应该足以带来显著提升。
SPRERS 诺丁汉森林在转会市场上的表现一直非常安静，但你可以想象，随着 Oliver Glasser 的加入以及一支非常独特的阵容，它将比第 30 名有大幅提升。签下 Glasser 感觉是一次真正的成功。
JAMES 托特纳姆热刺。一个划艇英雄。排名低至第 30 名将比在降级区挣扎要“好得多”。但我想，排名一定会高于那个位置。Do Zorb 是一位顶尖教练，我喜欢这支球队的招募方向——签下经过英超证明的球员，并打破转会纪录引进 Mareno Peronette。这是一个快速修复方案。
PATON Lewis Ustaal。大约在 2 月份，Daniel Farber 的球队悄悄地从一支勉强生存的球队变成了一支难以被击败的球队。现在再加上 James Trafford、Harry Wilson 和 Tackt Hobson movie 这些极佳的签约。球队经历了一个稳健的季前赛，在我看来，进入上半区是指日可待的。
谁的情况会更糟？
ANNA 分区机场围绕着那些获得欧联杯 / 欧协联参赛资格的球队展开。桑德兰和伯恩茅斯能应对“周四至周日”的密集赛程吗？但要留意 Potham。Marvo Shvrs 的工作是在规则之内进行的，我不确定 Alvaro Arhelsa 及其新签球员的情况。
STAFFORD-BLOOR 阿斯顿维拉。托特纳姆走了，罗杰斯走了，Arnaldo Onans 受伤了。Johan Marourelle 将成为一名非常出色的球员，而 Sam Gomes 已经是一名出色的球员了，但显然这支球队退了一步。Brian Madjo 看起来很棒——尽管他与 Gomes 预计将缺席赛季初的比赛——但他在 Giles Watkins 之后成为可靠得分手的压力很大，这对一个青少年来说是一个沉重的负担。
WILLER 我认为维拉会很吃力，至少在相对意义上是这样。不仅仅是因为现有的球员不一定被能力相当的人所取代；而且是 Cinal Emery 在整合新签球员方面一直相当吃力。如果像 Tommy Abraham 这样，影响不大，因为你只需要把他放在替补席上，基本上就可以不管他了，但如果涉及半支球队……
HARRIS 桑德兰依然非常强大，在主场有观众支持时它可以击败任何人，但上赛季有几次陷入了困境。
阿森纳主教练米克尔·阿尔特塔在决赛后，球员们正在庆祝俱乐部第四次获得英超冠军，也是自 2004 年以来的首次夺冠。
照片：THOMAS HARRIS
曼城 埃尔林·哈兰德（中），这位世界杯之星，对于新任经理 Evan Marousi 来说，依然是一支强大的力量。
欧洲赛场也可能会分散球队的注意力。 JONES 桑德兰上赛季表现极其出色，我认为它的增强程度远不足以维持那种相对超水平的表现，尤其是考虑到欧联杯带来的不利影响。维拉的排名可能会下降（虽然不会剧烈），因为到目前为止的转会交易导致关键人员流失，直接增强了欧冠席位竞争对手的实力。
SPRERS 现在这样说可能还太早，但显而易见的答案是伯恩茅斯。在去年获得第六名后，该队在交易中失去了其最优秀的部分，不幸的是，桑德兰可能也会像石头一样坠落。
JAMES 桑德兰。就像前一季的 Forest 一样，桑德兰在英超联赛中获得第七名，这非常出色。但我们都知道 Forest 后来发生了什么——一个挣扎的赛季。将英超联赛与欧洲赛事结合起来将是一个巨大的挑战。
SPRINGER TOWN 像中后卫 free 这样的补充 增强了俱乐部的整体实力。
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lengo，感觉不可避免地会出现尾随。
PATON 我同意其他人的看法，认为桑德兰因为上赛季表现太令人印象深刻而会变糟，但我会选择东北部的另一支球队，纽卡斯尔。Bruno-Gaimaraes、Sandra Small 和 Anthony Gordon 离队，Eddie 走了，而 Matthias Janols 走进来指挥一支刚刚失去了弦乐部分的管弦乐队。
谁将赢得冠军？
ANNA 阿森纳，领先5分以上。其进攻端还存在一些小的疑问，以及如果德克兰·雷（Declan Ray）或博克塞·萨卡（Boksey Saka）受伤会发生什么，但米克尔·阿尔特塔（Mikel Arteta）已经建立了一套方案——
切尔西 摩根·罗杰斯（Morgan Rogers）通过一笔重磅转会加盟，但问题在于球员们能否在哈比·阿拉莫亚（Xabi Alamoah）的体系中发挥作用。
稳定的机器。阿森纳拥有英超联赛中最好的无球状态部署。在整个欧洲范围内也是如此。布鲁诺-吉马良斯（Bruno-Gaimaraes）将为球队提供解锁低位防守的新方式，因此定位球相关规则的改变应该不会产生太大问题。
STAFFORD-BLOOR 阿森纳。我认为开局会比较缓慢，在夏季和初冬的大部分时间里将等待关键球员恢复完全体能，但明年年初拥有布林（Brin）、威廉·萨利（William Sallie）、萨卡（Saka）这组球员应该会对球队大有裨益。而且吉马良斯是一名超级球员，所以这一点也是优势。
WILLER 阿森纳，而且我认为结果不会特别明显，至少是因为其他现实的竞争者都更换了新主帅，而阿森纳则拥有稳定的、深厚的阵容和明确的打法，即便这种打法在美学上并非特别令人愉悦。它需要另一名某种类型的正规进攻手才能在欧洲赛场取得成功，但我认为凭借现有阵容在本土联赛中会没问题。
HARRIS 我将持相反意见，选择曼城。埃芬格·哈兰德（Eifing Haaland）在世界杯上杀气腾腾，而安托万·塞梅津（Antoine Semezyn）、杰里米·奥斯库（Jeremy Osku）和拉扬·谢尔基（Rayan Cherki）都是能改变比赛的人。菲尔·帕登（Phil Paden）需要证明自己，虽然罗德里（Roder）的离去会令人心痛，但签下埃利奥特·安德森（Elliot Anderson）将有助于填补部分防守漏洞。
JONES 很难说，但选阿森纳，因为它的起点最高。它在没有削弱原有实力的前提下加强了一支冠军级别的阵容。切尔西、曼城和利物浦都在适应新主帅，而曼联则在适应重返欧洲赛场。曼城看起来像是最强的竞争者，但如果其新面貌的中场和新主帅需要一段时间才能进入状态，我认为曼彻斯特联队可能会闯入冠军争夺战。
SPRERS 我个人认为切尔西可能会很快进入状态并发起挑战，此外它将受益于没有欧洲赛事，但凭借现有阵容，阿森纳和曼城应该比其他球队高出一个档次。阿森纳依然拥有最好的防线，因此它是夺冠热门。
JAMES 阿森纳。利物浦、切尔西和曼彻斯特城都更换了主帅，并且在不同程度上，球场上也正处于过渡阶段。至于曼彻斯特联队，还为时过早。相比之下，阿森纳在阿尔特塔的带领下已经形成了成熟的打法（以及获胜方式）。
PATON 阿森纳。我知道这很无趣。无趣的是，阿森纳通过引进布鲁诺-吉马良斯以及德国人塔斯蒂克（German Tastic，他在布鲁日俱乐部是真正的关键人物）进一步增强了英超中最深厚的阵容，我认为阿森纳将难以被阻挡。
三支升级球队中有人能保级吗？
ANNA 弗兰克·隆格（Frank Longeur）的科尔维特（Corvette）在无球状态下的表现远好于他之前的切尔西和埃弗顿球队。我非常想看看加里·奥尼尔（Gary O'Neil）的表现。虽然有希望，但我认为这三家俱乐部整体缺乏足够的进球能力来保级。
STAFFORD-BLOOR 我认为有希望。盖尔（Gaelic）在这个夏天表现得非常大胆，通过签人来加强其中轴线。包括来自波塔姆（Potham）的西萨·德罗普（Sisa Drop）和萨萨·卢基奇（Sasa Lukic）。
英超预测
《竞技》（The Athletic）的作者们预测了 2026-27 赛季的最终排名。
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阿森纳
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曼城
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切尔西
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曼联
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利物浦
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阿斯顿维拉
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托特纳姆热刺
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布莱顿与霍夫阿尔本
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诺丁汉森林
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纽卡斯尔联
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Bevelton
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利兹联
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伯恩茅斯
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水晶宫
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埃弗顿
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桑德兰
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富勒姆
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Speech Town
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考文垂城
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赫尔城
注：Speech Town、考文垂城和赫尔城将在新赛季从英超回归。
2025-26 英超积分榜
胜 / 平 / 负 / 总分
阿森纳 / 28 / 7 / 6 / 85 曼城 / 23 / 9 / 6 / 78 曼联 / 20 / 11 / 7 / 71 曼彻斯特 / 18 / 8 / 11 / 65 利物浦 / 17 / 9 / 12 / 60 伯恩茅斯 / 13 / 18 / 7 / 57 桑德兰 / 14 / 12 / 54 布莱顿 / 14 / 11 / 13 / 53 斯坦福 / 14 / 11 / 13 / 53 切尔西 / 14 / 10 / 14 / 52 卡尔加里 / 15 / 7 / 16 / 52 纽卡斯尔 / 14 / 7 / 17 / 49 埃弗顿 / 13 / 10 / 15 / 48 利兹 / 11 / 14 / 13 / 47 水晶宫 / 11 / 12 / 15 / 45 惠灵顿森林 / 11 / 16 / 44 托特纳姆热刺 / 10 / 11 / 17 / 41 西汉姆 / 10 / 9 / 19 / 39 伯恩利 / 4 / 19 / 26 / 33 伍尔弗汉普顿 / 3 / 11 / 24 / 28
注：接下来的 2026-27 赛季，伯恩利和伍尔弗汉普顿队将寻求进入英超。
参见《纽约时报》
PROMISER Lukic，一名来自伯恩利的防守型中场。以及 Emerson，来自 Taubison 的中锋。他在身体素质、技术方面看起来很强，并且有能力在英超制造一些麻烦。
WILLER 很遗憾没有，考文垂可能有最好的机会，但即便如此，我不知道我是否是因为某种怀旧的“很高兴我英超青年时代的球队回来了”的原因而这么说的。
HARRIS 我同意 Seb 的看法，认为 Speech 能保级。我看到了与上赛季桑德兰的相似之处，后者通过顶级质量的阵容增强和在过渡期间加倍投入其核心来加强球队。考文垂看起来状态也不错，但我不知道另外哪两支球队会掉入降级区，从而让这两支球队都能生存下来。
JONES 不。并不是因为我认为他们特别糟糕——我喜欢考文垂，而且 Speech 做了一些不错的签约——而是因为我在英超中没有看到其他看起来容易掉到他们之下的球队。
SPRERS 考文垂会给一些人带来麻烦，但可能缺乏保级所需的进球。Speech 的转会交易很有趣——Abdul Razam 是一个事实，前 Manatee 成员是一个有趣的补充，而且 O'Neil 之前在 Wolves 表现不错……我将这支球队排在第 20 位。
JONES 不。桑德兰和利兹的成功可以被认为是有必要发生的，因为英超当时面临着变成一个封闭俱乐部的危险。对于 Speech、field 和考文垂，我认为将回到旧常态，很大程度上是因为我很难看出谁会因为他们的生存而降级。
PATON 无效？也许？希望我能看到考文垂能做些什么，但不用说，适应英超将是一个巨大的挑战。我认为考文垂有比上次更好的留存记忆，这个夏天他们拥有第四高的净速度，并且拥有一位能够维持球队保级的教练。
SUNDERLAND Brian Brodbey 和他的团队避免了降级。他们能应对欧罗巴联赛吗？
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棒球
被推向深水区，主教练在信任的盟友支持下重振旗鼓
作者：JEN McCAFFREY
主席特雷西（Tracy）有一个紧急问题。那是4月25日，特雷西接到了来自周五的电话。此外，波士顿红袜队的首席棒球官博登（Borden）告诉特雷西，他将立即出任红袜队的临时主教练，没有。六个问题。
“谁在我的工作人员中？”只有大卫·弗洛雷斯（David Flores）在秘密信任中共事了15年。在特雷西执教3A级伍斯特队（Worcester）的前三年里，弗洛雷斯担任他的板凳教练，随后弗洛雷斯在2024年被提升至红袜队教练组，在亚历克斯·科拉（Alex Cora）手下担任一垒教练。
当特雷西接到电话时——当时他正处于马萨诸塞州伍斯特市一场周六晚间比赛的中途——他感到头晕目眩。他刚刚得知，当红袜队在巴尔的摩面对
特雷西及其教练组带领红袜队实现了快速反弹。
金莺队，以及他将成为接替者。但他当时还不知道，共有六名教练也被解雇了。
“我会在那儿吗？”特雷西最近坐在红袜队的休息室里回忆道，此时他担任临时主帅的疯狂任期已近四个月，“那是我的第一个问题。我的意思是，我不确定如果我不在那里，或者没有一个我长期共事并熟悉的人在身边，我是否真的想接手。”
答案是肯定的。弗洛雷斯在教练清洗中幸存了下来，投球教练安德鲁·贝利（Andrew Bailey）也是如此，贝利是特雷西在洛杉矶天使队系统时期的另一位老相识。其他人都离开了。
当特雷西在那天晚上从伍斯特匆忙赶到巴尔的摩后，弗洛雷斯和贝利在凌晨1点在酒店房间接见了他在1点。
吉姆·麦卡弗里（Jim McCaffrey）为《The Athletic》报道红袜队。
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“我认为，在他面对如此不确定的时刻，看到我和我这些熟悉的面孔，且我们已经在该组织中工作了一段时间，试图稳住局面，我希望这给了他一些平静，”贝利说道。
在红袜队历史上最经典的一季中，特雷西成为了一个稳定力量，带领球队在6月下旬从美国联盟最糟糕的状态迅速反弹，在两个月后成为棒球界最强的球队之一。
特雷西将他与弗洛雷斯及贝利的关系视为球队成功的关键部分。
“当我们投球时，贝利就站在我身边；当我们进攻时，弗洛雷斯就在我身边，”特雷西说，“我感到非常安心，就像如果我没考虑到某件事，他们一定会考虑到，这是一种非常令人宽慰的感觉。”
当41岁的特雷西在球队以10-17的开局（导致科拉丢掉工作）后被推上临时经理之位时，这是他的首次大联盟执教经历。但他在伍斯特执教了四个多赛季，并在1995年执教了另一个三个赛季的低级别联赛。他在1996赛季担任第1助理，看着他的父亲吉姆·特雷西（Jim Tracy）在大联盟执教了11个赛季。
在小联盟执教并看着父亲执教大联盟球队是一回事。而在巨大的动荡中试图让这个比赛中最受关注的组织重回正轨则是另一回事。
特雷西与他的其余工作人员相处融洽，包括临时三垒教练查德·埃珀森（Chad Epperson）和临时测试教练约翰·松特罗普洛斯（John Sontropulos）。埃珀森刚刚从双A管理岗位晋升；松特罗普洛斯则是首次进入大联盟教练组，年初担任助理。和特雷西一样，他们都被推到了刺眼的聚光灯下。
特雷西严重依赖弗洛雷斯和贝利资深的教练经验来快速进入状态。在伍斯特共事期间，35岁的弗洛雷斯帮助特雷西安排会议、设定他需要针对对手准备的信息，以及他希望球员进行什么样的实地训练。
“虽然弗洛雷斯拥有更多的棒球经验，尤其是在大联盟，但他引导特雷西时表现出的谦逊，既没有喧宾夺主，也没有削弱这位年轻临时经理的权力。他会在比赛前、比赛中和比赛后向特雷西提供反馈，但确保特雷西拥有最终决定权。”
“我们的动态非常出色，”弗洛雷斯说，“他知道我有足够的信心告诉他一些如果你没有信心就绝不会说的话。他可能会采纳这个建议，也可能不采纳。我们会达成一致，也可能会产生分歧。但最终，决定权在他手中。无论他做出什么样的决定，他都知道我一直支持他。”
尽管红袜队在过去六周里一直是棒球界最强的球队，但他觉得在特雷西（Tracy）任职的每一周都如此。球队在6月下旬的战绩是32胜48负，波士顿正处于低谷。事情似乎进展不顺。但幕后的人员看到了正在实施的医疗变革。面对5月和6月初堆积而至的问题，特雷西沉稳的声音防止了糟糕的局面演变为毒性危机。
“我有30个不同的想法，不可能让每个人同时感到满意，”弗洛雷斯（Flores）说道。“这几乎是不可能的，但你必须学会如何应对他们。”
即便波士顿队在随后取得了15连胜，使赛季转危为安，这位首次担任经理的人仍需应对一些波折。
其中一天发生在7月底的加利福尼亚州，当时球队正处于上升期。在与运动者队的一场比赛中，一名9岁的詹姆斯·达文（James Daven）在18岁球员和威尔逊·孔特雷拉斯（Wilson Contreras）之间爆发冲突，原因是孔特雷拉斯在一次飞球出局时没有尝试从三垒得分。达文的愤怒被电视摄像机捕捉到了。特雷西在戏剧冲突爆发前将其压制。
“在萨克拉门托发生关于3-D的事情时，媒体将其夸大了，但特雷西处理得非常好，”弗洛雷斯说。“他与球员们交谈，试图查明究竟发生了什么。这实际上没什么好担心的。我们给它盖了章，封上了信封。”
在球队的日常运作中，弗洛雷斯一直担任特雷西的重要副手，而贝利（Bailey）在投球方面的作用同样不可或缺。
在大联盟中，存在投球更换、对阵考量、杠杆计数以及胜负之争。而在3A级别管理投球团队，更多的是关于让坚定的球员获得最多机会并完成强有力的计划。这种调整是特雷西需要指导的领域，而贝利提供了帮助。
“我学习很快，能相当迅速地弄清楚事情，”特雷西说，并补充道：“但在你实际练习并执行某件事之前，它对你来说仍然是陌生的。”
特雷西和贝利都选秀于2006年，在职业生涯早期曾在两支小联盟球队中交手。贝利在2009年凭借在运动者队的表现成为美国联盟年度最佳新人，并拥有八年的大联盟职业生涯。特雷西则从未获得在大联盟比赛的机会。
但他们在2010年球员生涯结束时相遇。特雷西当时在天使队的低级联盟系统中担任现场协调员。贝利刚刚退役，正在规划下一步，首先担任迈克·西蒙（Mike Simeon）的教练助手，当时西蒙正在管理天使队。
“在专业层面上的某种相识，再加上显然地曾与他交手并曾在同一个组织中工作，这种小小的熟悉感，在某种程度上推动了这个过程，”贝利说。
在球员时代结束20年后，以及担任首个教练职务10年后，特雷西和贝利现在正带领着棒球界最优秀的投球团队之一。
“我们的关系一直以一种非常、非常好的方式发展，”特雷西说。“贝利是我在棒球界接触过的最勤奋的人之一，也是准备最充分的人之一。”
随着红袜队继续冲击季后赛，特雷西的指导对他们的成功至关重要。他处理更衣室的方式、比赛中的决策、3A升队球员的出场时间、伤病、胜负、航空旅行的减损，这一切都发生在体育界最大的媒体市场之一的聚光灯下，这是一项了不起的成就。
特雷西作为美国联盟年度最佳经理候选人的认可度正在提高，但他依然心系那些帮助他取得如此成功的亲密盟友。
“当你陷入这种所有事情都同时发生的情况时，”特雷西说，“你希望身边有你信任的人。”
杰克·罗杰斯被老虎队交易至金莺队，随后金莺队又将其交易至红袜队；在波士顿队在三场比赛后将其指定为转让名单后，白袜队从弃权名单中将其签下。
四支球队，21天，海量里程积分与一段棒球历史
作者：CODY STAYENBAUGH
作者：DAVE
底特律 —— 在过去的三周里，捕手杰克·罗杰斯（Jake Rogers）以一种前所未有的方式成为了大联盟（M.L.B.）球员中的“公路战士”。在21天的时间里，罗杰斯先后为四支大联盟球队候命并参加比赛：底特律老虎队、巴尔的摩金莺队、波士顿红袜队和芝加哥海盗队。
由于球队的变动记录，没有任何一名球员能如此迅速地在四支球队之间连续转换。在罗杰斯之前，1991年的弗兰克·拉奇曼（Frank Ratchman）持有该记录，他是第一个在短时间内先后为四支不同球队出战的球员。他用了22天，在其中参加了10场比赛。
“这三周简直疯了，”罗杰斯说，“至少可以说，这很离奇。”
这一切中有很多奇怪之处，而其中很多部分则体现了只有棒球才能提供的反转。“As July 30, 老虎队将罗杰斯指定为可被调配（designated for assignment）。这个决定并非轻易做出。作为休斯顿太空人队系统的首轮选秀球员，罗杰斯在1917. 加入了老虎队。
tis Verbander crash。他在该组织度过了接下来的九年，于2010年进入大联盟，并逐渐成为一名才华横溢的防守者和无可替代的更衣室粘合剂。他以其漂亮的胡须而闻名。他参加了少量比赛并投出了强力的球。但本赛季他的打击率仅为 .90, 且在迪伦·舒加斯（Dillon Shugars）之后很少获得出场机会。
“July 25 深夜，在更衣室的大部分人都离开后，主教练A.J.希奇（A.J. Hitch）和球队棒球运营总裁斯科特·哈里斯（Scott Harris）找我谈了话。”
“那是一次艰难的对话，”罗杰斯说，“显然，我在那里度过了职业生涯的一部分。那是一个确定的位置。我得以向几个队友告别，但第二天我收到了很多人的问候，这让事情变得稍微容易了一些。”
金莺队恰好在城里，并且对罗杰斯感兴趣，而罗杰斯在得知消息前预计自己会被从弃权名单中认领或被交易。在等待关于下一站的消息时，罗杰斯飞往迪伦。老虎队直到巴尔的摩队离开后，才将罗杰斯交易出去，以换取投手赞恩·伯多克（Zane Burdock）。
罗杰斯很快乘飞机前往巴尔的摩。紧接着，他就穿上了金莺队的球衣，在对阵费城人队的比赛中于第八局登场。
“他们就那样说，‘嘿，我们很高兴你能加入，’”罗杰斯说，“我想我注定会去那里的。”
到了 Aug. 3, 又是交易时分，而红袜队需要
一名捕手在整个职业生涯中都效力于老虎队，直到一场疯狂且如旋风般的三周奥德赛之旅。
捕手支援。他们与金莺队进行了一次高调交易，换来了 Adler Rutschman。Rogers 被包含在这次交换中。
“太震惊了，”Rogers 说。“在飞往波士顿的短途飞行后，他为红袜队参加的第一场比赛对手正是他目前的 stupeurs，白袜队。 在一场 13-tuning 的史诗级比赛中担任了最后三局的捕手。他在第 22th teeing 击出了一次牺牲飞球，帮助球队扳平比分。”
在波士顿，Rutschman 从
伤病名单开始，在他接近激活时， 预见到了结果。到 8 月 11 日，在仅进行了九次 place 出场后，由首席棒球官 Craig Breslow 领导的红袜队激活了 Rutschman，并将 重新列入指定分派名单。
Rutschman 和波士顿的所有人都不能比这更 racer，而他能完美地 整个局面，” 说。
下一个发出邀请的球队是白袜队，该队的上垒加击球率（on-base plus shagging percentage）在赛季最佳捕手中排名联盟最差，为 100。 在上周五得到了通知。他此前已经与红袜队的 Dillon 达成了协议。
“确实有很多飞行，积累了很多里程积分，”他说。
讽刺的是，他竟然回到了底特律这个地方担任 place-back，而白袜队当时正与美联中区球队老虎队进行一场周末三连赛。
“我会 他并告诉他，‘棒球真的最糟糕’，”Hitch 说。
说：“当然会发生这种事。”
周六， 没有在场上，而是与前队友们度过了多年。那天他担任先发捕手，并且不知怎么地，他找到了合适的捕手装备。在巴尔的摩，他在等待自己的装备时，借用了捕手 Chadwick's troop 的装备。在这次旅程中， 必须面对两名投手，并研究名单上不同的侦察报告。
“最困难的事情是试图记住这些球员的倾向以及他们喜欢知道什么，” 说。“你可以通过比赛来观察，但从那些球员那里听到，或者接他们一两次球来学习，意义更大。这是一个在艰苦环境中学习的情况，但我们正在通过阅读来克服。”
周六在底特律的 Cometow Park 的第一次击球中，以及一个 standing 系统。老虎队的先发投手 Troy Moline 在 public-athletics 系统中退后，他们甚至在 2nd in a 2nd in three balls 时播放了 的高大入场曲——《Friends in Low Places》。
“他显然对这个更衣室里的每个人都意义重大，”Moline 说。“无论怎么强调他对我个人成为一名大联盟球员的重要性都不为过，不仅是在场上的教练组方面，而且是在场下。”
随后击球形成了一个 5-5-4 双杀，但他的新球队仍然击败了他的旧球队。 现在经历了多个不同的更衣室，从表现低于预期但努力维持赛季生存的老虎队，到一支挣扎的 10-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 现在在 Chi-sap，他成为了一个出人意料的 ill-timber 领导者。随着白袜队捕手 Kyle Teel 从脚踝扭伤中恢复，没有保证 能在白袜队待到年底。
这就是一名流浪捕手的生活。这是 正在快速且深刻地学习的生活。
在作为老虎队球员的大多数会议上， 坐在储物柜前填写 Immaculate Grid——这是棒球改革中获得的一种涉及将运动员与球队及统计标准相匹配的挑战。
作为一个下午的挑战， 喜欢尝试仅使用一支球队来填满网格。
在过去的三周里，一个名字在网格上的价值变得更高了。那就是他自己的名字。
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职业美式足球
领先一步
在伤病回归中。
彼此扶持
作者：JESSE NEWELL
编辑
在自己接受右膝前交叉韧带修复手术不到 24 小时前，右端紧端锋扎克·埃尔茨（Zach Ertz）拿起电话给帕特里克·马霍姆斯（Patrick Mahomes）发信息。
在观看 N.E. 电视节目时，埃尔茨刚刚看到堪萨斯城酋长队的四分卫遭遇了非交叉韧带损伤——但他不知道接下来会发生什么。
“前方的路很孤独，”埃尔茨写给马霍姆斯，“但我会支持你的。”
埃尔茨当时并不知道，马霍姆斯也将同样支持他。
埃尔茨和马霍姆斯——两人在 N.E. 的休赛期活动中相识——在今年成为了彼此至关重要的支持系统，因为两人都在同一天接受了膝盖手术，并努力挑战康复训练的极限。12月。
来往短信
持续康复
球员们的精神状态。
- Mahomes 此前在这一天经历了左膝前交叉韧带和外侧副韧带的损伤。
“能有一个人让自己觉得，好吧，我现在的状态正是我想达到的状态！我们在积极推进，但也在谨慎行事，”Ertz 上周告诉《The Athletic》。“所以，能有一个人一直在经历和我一样的挣扎，这很好。”
Ertz，15，在上赛季为华盛顿指挥官队效力时，在 Mahomes 受伤前一周受伤。他在场上情绪激动，怀疑这是否意味着球员生涯的终结。
John 他决定进行手术并在今年寻求回归 —— 表示 陪他度过了最黑暗的日子。
两人在不同的地点训练，但通过短信互相激励。这始于康复过程中最艰苦的部分之一：第一个月， 将其描述为“简直就是躺在治疗床上，忍受一年的崩溃，试图恢复活动范围”。
与 往返的短信让他保持了精神状态。如何
Jesse Newell 为《The Athletic》报道 Clash。
康复进展如何？你是如何艰苦支撑的？你今天练了什么？
“这真的就是互相支持，” 说。“真心为对方的进步感到高兴，因为当你处于康复期时，我们并不真的在那里。”
在训练营开始时表达了类似的情感，称他与 的接触在这一“漫长过程”中尤其有帮助。
“有时你会觉得很孤独，因为你是一个人在做这些事情，你只是在与自己竞争，” 说。“所以这给了我另一个可以竞争的对象，以激发我的竞争驱动力。”
表示，膝盖恢复尤其艰苦，因为进展可能是非线性的 —— 且进步并非总是瞬间可见。
橄榄球运动员习惯于即时的反馈循环。今天卧推一个重量，你可以期待明天多做一点，下周则更多。
和 经历的膝盖康复则完全不同。由于活动范围受限，你在一个大项练习中可能会在一个重量上卡住一周。而且你所做的一切 —— 至少在一段时间内 —— 都无法让你比之前多举起一磅。
“看不到那些即时结果是很艰难的，” 说。“我认为这可能是最难的部分，在心理上艰苦地度过那些客观上没有明显改善的困难日子。”
不过，进步是随时间而来的， 表示，当两人趋向于类似的恢复路径时， 尤其有帮助。
说，他在某个时间点曾犹豫是否要尝试将交叉步作为康复的一部分。但在看到一段 在后撤传球时完成三种步法类型的视频后，他改变了主意。
“我想他只是鼓励了我，” 说，“他表现得多么积极。”
对 来说也是一个资源。他说，在某个时间点， 分享说他在跑步时大脚趾发力困难。 经历过同样的路径，于是他给了 一个练习方法，以及一段对他有效的视频。
这一切都引导 和 走到了这一步，他们对各自的回归抱有极高期待。
被允许在 7 月下旬作为
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JAYNE D. MOORE, MIAMI, MIAMI, OH, 4th FLOOR
训练营练习的全员参与者 —— 距离手术仅过去七个多月。
说他在那天试探了 ：“顺便说一句，你做到了。”“他不那么出色并不奇怪，” 说。“他面对一切都如此积极。”
类似的心态在精神上帮助 走到了他自己回归的边缘。
埃尔茨（Ertz）于12月15日在休斯顿接受了手术，上个月已获得沃尔特·洛（Walter Lowe）医生的全面许可，可以参加橄榄球活动。从那时起，他与前印第安纳波利斯小马队四分卫安德鲁·拉什（Andrew Lash）在 Slumber 校园参加了一次训练，并且在权衡其 N.E.、up-to-to 的同时每天进行训练。
数据表明他已经准备好再次出击。埃尔茨表示，追踪数据显示他的最高速度达到了上赛季手术前速度的 99%，并且在经过一个休赛期的力量训练后，他的 force-glass 跳跃显示的力度比受伤前更好。
“我认为他是联盟中真正能产生影响力的球员，”即将进入职业生涯第 16 个赛季的埃尔茨说道。“所以对我来说，现在只是在尝试弄清楚什么样的环境对我以及我的家人最有利，并确定那个时机。”
埃尔茨表示，他只是在等待合适的机会。球队在训练营期间的情况可能会迅速变化，因此他现在保持着每天花费六小时进行路线练习、物理治疗和举重的习惯，以确保在需要时能够随时顶上。
“我有大量客观数据告诉我，我的状态非常好，”埃尔茨说。“所以显然我需要到场上去证明这一点，并争取我能够获得的任何角色。我不需要任何承诺——只需要一个竞争的机会，无论在哪个位置，对我来说，我觉得这只膝盖不会改变我的比赛方式。”
堪萨斯城的帕特里克·马霍姆斯（Patrick Mahomes，见上图）和华盛顿的扎克·埃尔茨（Zach Ertz）在12月相隔约一周的时间里遭受了类似的膝盖受伤，并在同一天接受了手术。
也许目前证明他已恢复原状的最佳论据？可能是 N.E. 球队在看到马霍姆斯经历类似的 return-to-plus 过程后的训练集锦。
“能在他目前这个阶段达到这种状态，而且看起来没有任何限制，这太惊人了，”埃尔茨说。“他显然想成为一名 matchman。我说，‘我根本不知道你受伤过。只有专注度能告诉我你做过手术。’除此之外，这让我能够对我做出一些决定。”
尽管埃尔茨从未与马霍姆斯成为队友，但他表示本赛季会密切关注他，同时倾听他为了回到目前状态所经历的一切。
“他一直在用他的身体、他的 plug 挑战康复的极限，这并不奇怪为什么他是国家橄榄球联盟（National Football League）历史上最伟大的球员之一，就因为他面对逆境和对待成功的方式，”埃尔茨说。“我认为这是我一直对他了解的一部分，但经历同样的挣扎，感觉完全不同。”
年轻的黑豹努力坚守界线，期待突破
作者：约瑟夫·皮尔森 (JOSEPH PIERSON)
The Press
在一次练习中，当哈维尔·莱盖特 (Xavier Legette) 跳起接住布赖斯·杨 (Bryce Young) 传向端区门口的球时，黑豹队的进攻组以一个良好的基调结束了训练。
但在这次练习中，有一个不那么戏剧性的接球动作，让黑豹队看到了莱盖特专注力的提升，以及他在第三个赛季中表现的预兆。在与角卫凯林·桑顿 (Caryn Thornton) 的一对一技巧对抗中，莱盖特跑了一个外侧路线，接住了杨传出的强力球，并迅速将身体回撤至界内，完成了一次干净的接球。
在莱盖特职业生涯的早期，这位首轮秀经常显得对自己在场上的位置缺乏意识，导致接球动作局促或接球失败，例如在 2025 赛季对阵杰克逊维尔的揭幕战中，尽管他在内侧有充足的空间，却未能将第二只脚踩在界内。
“去年我有几次失误，我停在了界线上，结果出界了，”他说。
莱盖特曾是南卡罗来纳大学的接球手，在 2024 年选秀中排名第 22 位。他听到了关于他在前两个赛季中表现不稳定的批评。因此，他在休赛期采取措施以提高专注度。
作为这一过程的一部分，莱盖特在每次休赛期训练结束时都会进行一系列的界线接球练习，就像他面对桑顿时的接球那样。黑豹队教练史蒂夫·卡纳莱斯 (Steve Canales) 注意到了变化。
“我看到他能在界线上做出精彩的接球，”在端区边缘，在那些他能够攻击球并设法将双脚踩在界内的空间接球中，“他确实在攻克自己比赛中的这个弱点。我看到他在这方面有了真正的进步，”卡纳莱斯说。
一些空间意识——以及自我意识——的缺失可能源于看到另外两名年轻球员（他在深度图上的位置被顶替，以及另一名接球手麦克米伦 (McMillan) 的加入）。麦克米伦在 2025, 年成为进攻年度最佳新秀，而此前未被选中的球员杰伦·科克 (Jalen Coker) 则凭借强劲的收尾表现，从莱盖特手中接管了第二接球手的位置。
凭借其 6 英尺 3 英寸的强壮体格和出色的直线速度，莱盖特一直看起来像一名顶尖接球手。但他的路线跑动和接球技巧似乎不像麦克米伦那样自然。
前黑豹队全明星接球手史蒂夫·史密斯 (Steve Smith) 上周与 NFL 网络的团队一起参加了一次训练，他一度伸开双臂，提醒莱盖特要远离身体接球。几天后，一名记者问他这次练习是否会增强他的信心。
“我从未在任何方面失去信心，”莱盖特说。“我正努力在整个赛季中继续做出这样的接球，并度过一个成功的年份。”
尽管如此，莱盖特意识到他必须改变方式。他每天最多进行四次训练，减轻了一些体重，并修改了休赛期的训练方案，试图在处理过往的软组织问题后，增强其腿后腱的韧性。
他三次飞往外地，与杨、麦克米伦以及其他接球手一起参加投球训练，包括在洛杉矶的一次夏季训练。莱盖特表示，除了磨合时机，与杨相处还帮助他与四分卫之间建立了更好的沟通。
“我跟他交流得更多了，我会走到他面前问他，比如他对这个怎么看，（然后）他会说这样。我的位置对吗？”莱盖特说。“这样我们就能把它做对。”
哈维尔·莱盖特减轻了体重，努力增强腿后腱韧性，并花时间与四分卫布赖斯·杨建立默契。
对于一名球员来说，这一切看起来都像是在进步，因为他的接球目标次数从新秀赛季的 34 次下降到去年的 64 次，而他的接球数（从 49 次降至 25 次）和接球码数（从 49 码降至 36 码）也随之下降。
“我觉得他在各方面都更加专注了，从身体状态到专业技能，”二年级接球手吉米·霍恩（Jimmy Horn）说道。“我觉得当我们经历这些考验和磨难时，成长与否取决于你自己。”
莱盖特（Legette）在上赛季初面临过质疑，他在亚利桑那大学的 60-nd Class 期间，在 8 次接球目标中最终仅获得 -2 码，这是 N.E. 历史上第二次出现一名球员在至少 8 次接球目标中接球码数为负的情况。
更糟糕的是，在半场结束前，莱盖特在随黑豹队返回开球线时表现得心不在焉。莱盖特缺乏紧迫感的行为给了裁判时间去回看乔·特兰·桑德斯（Jo Terran Sanders）的一次接球，该接球随后被判定无效，迫使黑豹队弃踢。随后，红雀队在半场结束前攻入一个达阵。
“像那样的情况会让你陷入困境，”莱盖特说。“我就是不能那样做。”
在训练营期间因膝盖手术赛季报销而失去短轮次选秀球员克里斯·比斯韦尔（Chris Bisswell）后，黑豹队需要莱盖特能有一个反弹之年。卡纳莱斯（Canales）表示，莱盖特在战术体系中看起来极具爆发力且适应良好。
莱盖特、杨（Young）以及其余首发进攻组将在周五于杰克逊维尔的一场重要比赛中迎来下一次考验。这场表演赛给了莱盖特另一个机会，向杨、卡纳莱斯以及俱乐部证明他是可以被信赖的。
“我必须退后一步，我觉得我之前可能有点太散漫了，”莱盖特说。“我必须退后一步，专注于最核心的事情，那就是真实。”
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萨利文·福特纳（Sullivan Fortner）是一位深受同行敬仰的钢琴家，他将于8月25日发行专辑《Lorey That is There》。
一位歌曲的传道者创造了自己的作品
倾向于演奏标准曲目的钢琴家萨利文·福特纳为他的最新专辑创作了原创曲目。
作者：马克·迪弗拉德（MARK DIFFRADER）
每当萨利文·福特纳回到他在纽约的家中（他自2006年起一直居住于此），他习惯于在布鲁克林贝德福德-斯图伊桑特（Bedford-Stuyvesant）的康科德基督浸信会教堂演奏。在那里，这位被认为是同代中最受推崇且获奖最多的爵士音乐家之一的钢琴家，获得了一剂受欢迎的谦卑良药。
“那里没有名人，”他在最近一次于布鲁克林比弗姆山（Beavum Hill）社区一家面包店后院接受采访时说道，“他们认出你，欣赏你，诸如此类，但唯一的明星是耶稣。”
当他回到家乡新奥尔良，并在父母的教堂演奏时，他的自尊心会受到更大的打击。
“这里的人看我的眼神就像在说：‘没错，是我教你弹琴的。你在我面前什么都不是。’”福特纳将在12月年满40岁，他用生动的南方醉酒口吻解释道，随后放声大笑，“如果你弹错了，那就是弹错了。如果我不喜欢，那就是不喜欢。我会告诉你我不喜欢。这就是我成长环境中的氛围。”
在教会之外，福特纳遇到了更多的赞誉。今年早些时候，他凭借2021年的三人组亲密且平易近人的作品《Southern Nights》，在极具分量的“最佳爵士器乐专辑”类别中赢得了他的首座格莱美奖（也是总共第三座）。他击败了一众竞争者，其中包括格莱美常客奇克·科里亚（Chick Corea）的一张死后发行的现场录音专辑。几个月前，福特纳获得了拉里·J·贝尔爵士艺术家奖（Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Award），这是一项由位于密歇根州卡拉马祖的国际钢琴节——吉尔莫（Gilmore）颁发的丰厚奖项；在30多年里，该奖项此前仅授予古典钢琴家。在2015年，他赢得了科尔 续接在C1页
温蒂·穆南（WENDY MOONAN） / 艺术评论
中西部森林中的荷兰现代主义惊喜
以一把彩色椅子闻名的格里特·里特维尔德（Gerrit Rietveld）还在荷兰设计了约100栋鲜为人知的房屋。以及在俄亥俄州的一栋。
荷兰建筑师格里特·里特维尔德最著名的作品是其1918年的“红蓝椅”，这是一个雕塑般的灵魂，其红色靠背和蓝色座面以直角相交。这是一次将平面几何网格转化为三维功能性对象的实验。
“它几乎立即通过摄影而出名，”哥伦比亚大学现代建筑史教授巴里·伯格多尔（Barry Bergdoll）说道。他是建筑中心（展出至9月2日）一场引人入胜的摄影展《格里特·里特维尔德：简朴之富》（Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety）的策展人。他说：“这把椅子宣告了20世纪20年代荷兰风格派（de Stijl）运动的前卫抽象设计原则。”
很少有人意识到，里特维尔德（1906-1961）在 续接在C7页
风格派运动建筑师格里特·里特维尔德的标志性特征体现在这栋位于俄亥俄州奥伯林（Oberlin）郊外的四卧室分层住宅中。该住宅由艺术史教授查尔斯·珀西·帕克赫斯特（Charles Percy Parkhurst）委托建造，现由杰弗里·P·斯奎尔（Jeffrey P. Squire）所有（左上方为其与妹妹朱莉）。该房屋的照片被纳入曼哈顿的一场展览中。
纽约市出行指南
作者：丹妮尔·道林（DANIELLE DOWLING）和乔瓦尼·鲁索内洛（GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO）
今年秋天调高音量
流行和摇滚乐迷在这个秋天有许多值得期待的事项，而这个季节在 Dinosaur Jr. 庆祝其最新专辑《There Noas》时便迎来了一个强有力的早起开端。该乐队将在市内存办四场演出，其中三场在预约后可免费观看：周四在东村的 Lactadus；8月28日在布鲁克林威廉斯堡的 Manny Deoss；以及8月29日在布鲁克林 Budowick 的 Maria Hernandez 公园举行的一场日间演出。（请在 brand.m.hycrukesnoe 登记候补名单。）
九月音乐活动密集。那些曾为 Saint Vitus Bar 感到遗憾的人们可以庆祝它的重生，死亡金属职责翻译将于9月12日和13日在 Budowick 的新地点为该俱乐部举行落成典礼。两周后，纽约市五个区中的三个区将举办节日活动，为每个人提供选择：在皇后区的 Forest Hills 体育场，从9月25日到27日，All Things Go 将呈现一个由 Zara Larsson, Lola Young, Brandt Carlile, Mona 和 Cody Bar Argote 等人带来的流行音乐周末。9月26日在中央公园，main citizen 为一项公益事业组织了一场星光熠熠的阵容，包括 Lauryn Hill 和 Wyclid Joon, John Lugerol, Shabessey 等人。同一天，在布鲁克林 Greenpoint 的 Under the K Bridge，第二届 CRGB 节日将有一个包括 Marroway, Matt Smith, Interpol 和 Bikini Kill 在内的动力阵容。
而十月也有其自身的乐趣。Ones 将于 10月23日和24日在 Greenpoint 的 War saw 进行年度产前步法演出。L7 将于 10月24日在皇后区 Maspeth 的 Knockdown Centre 带来 Last Harriet Tour。如果你需要一些噪音清洗，后摇滚团体 All chums! 肯定会在 10月25日的 Budowick Market Bend 满足你的要求。
以下是我们一些最喜欢的表演空间和音乐会，您可能想将它们标记在日历上。
BABY'S ALL RIGHT
140 Broadway, Brooklyn, babysalright.com。位于南威廉斯堡的一个舒适且设备齐全的房间，Baby's All Right 展示新兴的摇滚和电子山峰，偶尔会有爵士乐演出。它连接着一个灯光昏暗的低端酒吧和餐厅。
即将到来：Dinosaur Jr.，8月29日；Radium Vinks，9月15日；Womack 姐妹，9月30日至10月1日；Imperial Tons，11月4日
BOWERY BALLROOM
4 Dealey's Street, Manhattan, boweryballroom.com。
Bowery Ballroom 自1898年起就存在，但它具有纽约市古董的崇高气息。其外立面可追溯到 1920 年代，俱乐部的部分装饰也是如此。该场馆拥有一个俯瞰地板的锻铁阳台，以及地下室的一个独立酒吧，在一周中的两个晚上呈现主要的摇滚和流行艺人以及 up-and-conver。
即将到来：Shadder in Think，9月12日；Ben Harper & the Inseeme Crossroads，9月21-22日；Wyneena Judd，10月8日；Eight Nights of Hamskish With Yo La Tonga，12月4-11日
BROOKLYN BOWL
42, 60 / 69 Avenue, ; brooklynbowl.com。
大多数摇滚团体、翻唱乐队和 12.5℃ / lat 在威廉斯堡夜生活场所演出，且音量足够大，以至于你不会听到太多来自舞台旁边保龄球馆的“冷”杂音！如果你在打保龄球，大概你也不在乎。
即将到来：Reverend Horton Heat，9月18日；Southern Culture on the Skids，9月27日；G24，10月15日；Samantha Fish，11月15日；the Hold Steady，12月2-5日
STEEL
319 Yosif Street, ; bowerybrowers.com; -steel。
在这个曾被视为钢铁制造厂的地方，这个 coverman, have been 俱乐部位于东威廉斯堡，接待拥有大量追随者的独立艺人。
即将到来：Bikini Kill，9月25日；the Charleston Oil，9月26日；the Linda Lindas，10月8日；Angine de Poitrine，11月16-18日
ELSEWHERE
508, 609 / 640 Avenue, Brooklyn;
lessehyer.com.
Elsewhere 拥有分布在三层楼的三个舞台，可能是 Budowick 市内主要的音乐厅。其提供的演出从少量表演到 DJ 之夜不等。其空间范围从私密的 Zone One 到规模较大的 Hall。
Coming soon: Melt-Banana, 9月15日；Overhead, 11月5日
IRVING PLAZA
17 Irving Place,
Manhattan,
irvingplaza.com.
在 1860 年 Irving Hall 首次开业的地方，这家位于联合广场区域、现由 Liza Nation 经营的俱乐部，一直以来都是摇滚、流行和嘻哈艺人的演出地，其中许多艺人经常在流行排行榜上名列前茅。
Coming soon: YG, Muzzy and Chef Boy, 9月22日；Towa Bird（见上图）, 9月20日；Rocker From the Crypt, 10月16日；Jesse Make, 12月11日
Kathleen Manna 和 Bikini Kill 将于 9月24日至26日 在市内的三个地点进行演出。
摇滚乐迷 Angine de Poitrine 将于 11月16日至18日 在布鲁克林前线演出三个夜晚。
纽约时报，2026年8月23日，星期五
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歌曲的传导者谱写自己的乐章
（波特爵士乐奖学金。）
同行音乐家们对他充满敬意，近乎崇拜。在一次采访中，福特纳（Fortner）的前任老师、也是前一代杰出钢琴家之一的杰森·莫兰（Jason Moran）惊叹于他的“技巧与脑力相匹配”的程度，以至于他能“在同一时间将四到五个不同的想法落实到手上”。（若想体验典型的福特纳式惊艳，可以聆听他 2023 年专辑《Side Game》中不加伴奏的《I'm All Smiles》，在那首歌中，他的旋律线条像一群灵动的帽子一样翻滚并交织在一起。）
“你可能想用眼睛、用大脑去完成，但你的手可能做不到，”莫兰说，“但他的手确实实现了他大脑中构思的作品。”
著名小号手安布罗斯·阿基穆西姆（Ambrose Akimousim）曾多次与福特纳合作，包括他们对路易斯·阿姆斯特朗（Louis Armstrong）和盖尔·尼克松（Gail Nixon）那标志性的小号-钢琴组合的致敬，他赞扬了福特纳的熟练技巧从未掩盖其艺术心境的方式。
“我最喜欢萨利文（Sullivan）的一点是，他致力于在某个瞬间精准地演奏出必须演奏的内容，”阿基穆西姆说，“他完全可以在琴键上快速地上下穿梭，听起来同样惊人，但他真正致力于成为音乐的传导者。”
这种执着延伸到了福特纳那曲折的审美风格中。他的一些录音，如《Southern Nights》以及《Side Game》前半部分的标准曲目，给人一种毫不掩饰的传统感。而另一些则更为宽广，比如将于 8 月 26 日发行的全新作品《Leave That in There》。该作品鼓励大胆的尝试，包含“延展的琴键、未来主义艺术放克，甚至是由福特纳自己叠加录制的嗓音”，感觉就像是从他的想象力中直接传出的未经滤除的信号。
这张专辑包含大量带有他嗓音的曲目，由贝斯手泰隆·艾伦二世（Tyrone Allen II）和鼓手凯文·戈登（Kayvon Gordon）组成的乐队参与，其密度之大与《Southern Nights》的纯净形成鲜明对比。在《Sugarman》这首作品中——其标题暗示了 1911 年在路易斯安那州拉普卢（LaPlue）附近种植园工作的被奴役者的日程，福特纳童年曾居住在那里——他先是在恒定的非裔古巴节奏背景中加入了奇妙且悦耳的旋律，随后完整的钢琴三重奏才渐渐淡入。（专辑中还包含其他关于该地区的引用；其中一些，包括标题，源自 2006 年关于卡特里娜飓风及其后果的纪录片《When the Levens Met》的粉丝。）
在交谈中，福特纳——留着短胡须，戴着一顶习惯性的半帽，帽子上写着“年轻、天赋与黑人”（To Be Young, Gifted and Black）——提及了一系列广泛的参考对象，包括瑟鲁莫尔（Thirumour）、蒙克（Monk）、巴赫（Bach）和史蒂维·旺德（Stevie Wonder）。但在一个或许最能说明问题的类比中，他将自己描述为《我爱露西》（I Love Lucy）中的“露西”，并提及了该剧的任何残缺模型。
“我有一种陷入麻烦的倾向，无论解决方案多么简单，无论她本可以如何避免，”福特纳在谈到主角时说，“但出于某种原因，结果总是能圆满解决。”
“我对演奏音乐有着整体的构想，”他继续说道，“一直如此。我能把它推到什么程度？尽管他们告诉我不要这样做，但在音乐真正崩溃之前，我能演奏多少内容？”
因此，对于《Leave That in There》，其核心是充满趣味的探索：“让我们把所有这些工具聚集在一起，看看会发生什么。”
福特纳的早期训练来自他的母亲，她在传教浸信会教堂演奏管风琴，并通过人们的视角教授他和姐妹们音乐理论。另一位教堂管风琴师让他接触到了爵士乐和古典音乐，随后他进入了新奥尔良创意艺术中心，在那里他跟随当地小号手兼导师克莱德·克尔二世（Clyde Kerr Jr.）学习如何发声，同窗包括特洛伊·安德森（Troy Anderson）、乔治·汤普森（George Thompson）、亨利（Henry）和乔·拜顿（Joe Baiton）。
Fortner 将点燃他对爵士乐的热情归功于 Kerr，因为后者给了他一份 Erroll Garner 的《Current Try the Sex》副本，并培养了他某种开放的心态。有一次，Kerr 坐在青少年时期的 Fortner 身边，看着他尝试演奏 Cluelle Parker 的经典标准曲《Contribution》的乐谱。
“那段我读不出来。他就坐在那里看着我。说，‘慢慢来。’”Fortner 回忆道，“然后如果我犯了错，他会说，‘没错，这很有冲击力！’”回想起 Kerr 那不寻常的耐心，他大笑起来，“我弹错了，但他说‘这很有冲击力’。”
在提升技能的同时，Fortner 将自己设想为一名伴奏者。“我的梦想是与 Whitney Houston、Chaka Khan 和 Steven 一起演奏，”他说。
他的第一次重大职业突破发生在大学毕业后，当时他来到纽约在曼哈顿音乐学院攻读硕士学位，并在那里师从 Moran。在与颤音琴演奏者 Sistine Harris共事一段时间后，他加入了长号手 Roy Burghrev 的团队，接替他在家乡的朋友 Baiton 担任键盘手，这份工作一直持续到 2010 年代的很大一部分时间。
与 Cistike Moran 或其他 21 世纪钢琴参数（如 Vipp' feet 和 Marlon Glasgow）不同，Fortner 认为自己是一个“起点”。“我并不真正喜欢写作，”他说。（与之前的 Fortner 作品相反，《Leave That in There》主要由原曲组成，他说这“本身就像是一个奇迹！”）
他对核心爵士曲库的掌控非常深刻，这使得他的现场演出感觉就像是在随机播放一个装满标准曲的庞大内部播放列表。
“这些歌曲本身就是完美的，”他说。“旋律中蕴含着故事。与之相连的歌词与旋律相得益彰。所使用的和弦进行非常出色：它们很完美，在和声上非常合理。”
在电子邮件中，才华横溢的歌手 Cistike McLaren-Johnson——Fortner 近十年的合作伙伴，包括共同创作了获得 2016 年格莱美奖的双人专辑《The Windows》——称他为“歌曲的蓄水池”。
“我认为他对待经典曲目与对待自己原创作品的方式没有区别，”她写道。“无论演奏什么，他在演奏时都在引导一场对话。从这个意义上说，这些音符被拟人化了。它们是声音，而这些声音是活生生的，他演奏的任何东西都蕴含着一种动力，我怀疑有时这甚至让他自己感到惊讶。”
资深钢琴家 Fred Herock 是一位朋友兼前任教师，他也非常强调标准曲目，他在一次采访中表示，这种特质在 Fortner 这一代人中较为少见。
许多年轻音乐家被期望去创作：“我想用我自己的音乐做我自己的音乐，”他说。“而我认为 Sullivan 的态度是，‘我想演奏那些有趣且完美的曲目’。”
通过遵循这一简单的原则，Fortner 成为了一个比他想象中更具影响力的领导者和杰出人物。
“我演奏仅仅是因为我热爱演奏，”他说。“被认可很好，但我不需要为了这个而做。”
但正如 Moran 所指出的，Fortner 的天赋过于卓越，这种谦逊无法阻碍他的崛起。
“因为他没有那些‘必须听起来很酷’的矫揉造作，”他说，“他能够避开那种急于成为明星的陷阱。但对他而言，他就是我们的明星。”
美国缉毒局调查女演员之死
海登·帕内蒂尔曾谨慎地谈论过她的药物使用史。
作者：艾伦·富尔斯（ALAN FULSE）、 德里克·布赖恩特·泰勒（DEERICK BRYANT TAYLOR） 以及马特·史蒂文斯（MATT STEVENS）
一名熟悉调查的人员周三表示，美国缉毒局（DEA）已加入对女演员海登·帕内蒂尔（Hayden Panettiere）死亡事件的调查。
帕内蒂尔女士于周日在南卡罗来纳州去世，她此前经常讨论自己与药物、酒精以及令人衰弱的慢性疼痛的斗争。但在去世前的几个月里，她在回忆录《这就是：一次清算》（This is like: A Reckoning）以及多次采访中分享的内容比以往任何时候都要多。
“我以前说过，现在我再次强调：成瘾者是没有耐心的，”她在 5 月出版的回忆录中写道。“当我们颤抖、恶心、焦虑、孤独或抑郁时，我们需要寻求缓解，将我们带入那个被称为‘否认’的无痛之地。”
南卡罗来纳州格林维尔的当局表示，当急救人员到达帕内蒂尔女士居住的公寓综合体时，发现她处于心脏骤停状态，无法将其救活。
一名了解情况的人士告诉《纽约时报》，心脏骤停似乎是药物过量导致的结果。在格林维尔县急救与应急管理部门的一段在线音频记录中，有一段时间点和地点与帕内蒂尔死亡的时间和地点大致相符，其中一名人员提到了“过量”，并称“1795 正在处理中”。
格林维尔警察局周一表示，此次死亡没有迹象表明存在第三方介入。该局周三未立即回应关于美国缉毒局参与此案的置评请求。
美国缉毒局是一个联邦机构，负责执行有关管制药物的联邦法律。其工作通常包括对大规模犯罪的调查，例如被指控将可卡因、芬太尼和非甲基安非他命走私进国的贩毒集团。但它也会与地方执法部门合作。近年来，它曾协助洛杉矶警察局调查演员马修·佩里（Matthew Perry）死亡涉及的药物。
该联邦机构未立即回应置评请求。
在本周发布的一份音频报告中，一名出警人员表示，帕内蒂尔的前男友布赖恩·希克森（Brian Hickerson）在她去世时在场，并且他向警员展示了一个她一直在服用的药物袋。关于这些药物的细节已被替换。
担任她发型师过去三年的埃里克·奥雷利亚纳（Erick Orellana）在一次采访中表示，帕内蒂尔经常抱怨身体疼痛。
“我知道她的背部有问题，行动不便，”他说。“是一次背部受伤让她行走困难。”
在她的回忆录中，帕内蒂尔详细描述了从孩童时期就开始的长期药物使用史。她写道，在她青少年时期，一个在行业活动中认识的人给了她一份“快乐礼物”，让她感觉“新 83”。
“无论那些是什么——我怀疑是某种不愉快的东西——我并不在乎，”她说。“在 16 岁时，它们成了引导我走向药物滥用和成瘾深渊的敲门砖。”
多年后，帕内蒂尔加入了电视剧《纳什维尔》（Nashville）的演员阵容，她在剧中的角色反映了她在物质滥用和产后抑郁方面的困扰。
“当我演完我真实经历的一切回到家后，我最想做的是妥善管理或谈论我想做的事情，以健康的方式！”她在 2023 年告诉《时报》。“于是我转向了不健康的应对机制。”
2023 年，她远离演艺工作，接受了一次抑郁症治疗。
帕内蒂尔表示，她会变得极其焦虑，需要喝掉整瓶酒精才能撑过一天。在其他时候，她会服用鸦片类药物来抑制饮酒的欲望。2023 年，她再次进入治疗中心进行了为期八个月的治疗。
Panettiere在片场多次受伤，她在5月接受《女性健康》（Women's Health）杂志采访时抱怨背部剧痛。
作为2000年代初的一名童星，Panettiere亲自完成了部分特技表演，并告诉《女性健康》，在拍摄电影《赛马》（Racing Stripes）期间，她曾休养了一周。她还表示，在学习为电影《冰极》（Ice Premium）进行俯冲时，她摔了很多次。
她说，在某个时间点，她的脊椎被挤压到了颈部。
她说，一年前，她醒来时感觉“她的身体在崩溃，而且这种感觉从我的水流中传出”。
“这种情况持续了很久，”她说，并补充道医生无法给她任何答案。她担心自己是否会“在余生中瘫痪”。
Micki Winder参与了报道。
海登·潘妮蒂尔（Hayden Panettiere）于5月……据称，美国缉毒局（DEA）已加入对她周日在南卡罗来纳州死亡事件的调查。
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ALISSA WILKINSON | 影评
在通往虚无之路上，渴望一个出口
一部关于刚大学毕业的青年在诡异旅途中充满存在主义恐惧的惊悚片。
四个朋友在车里，行驶在通往某个地方，或者也许是虚无之地的路上：这就是《It Ends》背后非常简单的概念。这部关于存在主义恐惧的故事由亚历山大·乌勒姆（Alexander Ullem）编剧并执导，这也是他的长片处女作。詹姆斯（James，菲尼克斯 饰）、戴（Day，赤良·杰克逊 饰）和费舍尔（Fisher，纳什·托斯 饰）刚刚大学毕业，他们正搭乘泰伦（Tylen，米切尔·科尔 饰）的车前往目的地，他们已经有一段时间没见到泰伦了。目的地在哪？这并不重要：他们只是很兴奋能到达那里。
起初，这是一次漫长的公路旅行，詹姆斯谈论着他成功的未来规划，而泰伦则在讲述（姑姑解释为什么他的前一段感情再次破裂）。但当四个人意识到他们肯定在某个地方错过了一个转弯时，泰伦掉头回去，却惊恐地发现他们来时的路竟然被树木挡住了。当一群惊慌失措的人从森林中跑出并试图进入车内时，他们惊恐地沿着道路再次驶离，确信自己能找到那个转弯口。但随着日子一天天过去——而且车里的汽油并没有用完——他们开始怀疑自己是否误入了某个平行维度，或者更糟糕的情况。
乌勒姆只有 20 多岁，这使他成为一群新兴的、互联网原生的年轻电影制作人中的一员，他们创作高概念、带有科幻色彩的恐怖电影。他这部非正统作品的资金来源包括一个走红的 YouTube 装置和一个 VR 扑克游戏，而他的主演则是通过 Instagram 选定的。《It Ends》于 2025 年在 SXSW 首映，同年 12 月，它首次在 Letterhead Video Store 上提供约一个月的时间租赁，这是一个面向动画片和没有发行渠道的未发行独立电影的平台。它的可用性也在不断演变。没有公司将其买下进行院线发行。
这个不寻常的故事正变得越来越常见，今年早些时候出现的两部较早的神秘热门作品，如《Irim Long》、《Backrooms》和《Dressmen》，都遵循类似的模式。在每个案例中，电影在登上大银幕时都拥有内置的观众群，这得益于创作者缓慢推进的受众积累。这是一种截然不同的电影制作方式，而且它一直奏效——不仅因为电影的路径分解了故事，而且电影的故事，以及这些电影所讲述的故事，也触及了观众的生活。
这些观众主要是 Z 世代和其他女性，他们生活在一个旧规则不再适用，且被承诺通往美好生活的路径已不再奏效的世界。结果就是一种错误与恐怖的结合，一种感觉自己被困在淤泥中，而淤泥随时可能变成
流沙的感觉。凭借电影摄影师埃文·德雷珀（Evan Draper）和杰克逊·琼斯（Jackson Jones），乌勒姆用极少的资源创造了大量的视觉趣味——在整部电影中，他的角色们一直待在两旁种满树木的双向车道上的车里，除此之外几乎没有其他场景。这是一种对显然很小的预算的细心且有效的利用，以最好的方式，这种正确的电影制作在情节和美学上都举办了生日和庆典。没有任何东西感觉是多余的，一切都是有目的的。
人们很容易说《It Ends》是让-保罗·萨特的第一部存在主义戏剧《禁闭》（No Exit）的重述，尤其是因为这条路上确实没有，嗯，出口。但这并不完全正确；这是另一种东西。《禁闭》是关于自我欺骗和
It Ends
包含恐怖图像、语言以及关于年轻人讨论的公路旅行话题。片长：1 小时 20 分钟。院线公映。
终于被揭穿的恐惧——该剧最著名的台词“他人即地狱”是指意识到自己成为了他人注视的对象。而《It Ends》则关于某种个体层面上不那么恐怖、更像仪式化闲谈的东西：终于驶向了那条独特的道路，却发现你至今为止毕生奋斗的目标，竟是毫无波澜、永恒不变的单调。那些主导
青春的目标与奖励体系，比如成绩和毕业，已经消失了。现在你所能期待的最好结果，比如一次晋升，带来的却是更多的责任和工作：为了一个更新、更大的房子，而这又意味着更多的开支，这意味着必须更努力工作才能赚到钱来支付它。
当然，这一切并非没有反调，而且你年纪越大，就越意识到你可以选择是否要走上那条路。但我怀疑，大多数遵循剧本直到大学毕业的人，至少在一段时间内，都经历过那种在意识到再也没有人会给你打分或给你暑假时而产生的空虚感。从现在起，这就是全部了。所见即所得。
从左至右，《It Ends》中的普林斯顿·尹（Princeton Yoon）、阿基拉·杰克逊（Akira Jackson）和诺亚·托斯（Noah Toth），该片是编剧兼导演亚历山大·乌勒姆（Alexander Ullem）的首部长片。
布兰登·俞（BRANDON YU） / 影评
比阿特丽斯·洛尼扎（BEATRICE LONYZA） / 影评
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随着第六部作品的推出，一个恐怖电影系列试图挽回其名声。
对于恐怖电影，尤其是对于该类型的爱好者来说，最常见的批评就是说它在回收我们之前见过的东西：一眼就能看穿的跳跃惊吓（jump scares）、单薄的饥饿设定，以及看起来和任何其他鬼怪没什么两样的恶魔和幽灵。恐怖电影是以惊喜为前提的；而你经历过多次的东西自然会使感官变得迟钝。
对于《阴险：走出远方》（Insidious: Out of the Further）这部作品来说，这些陷阱是在预料之中的，因为这个系列长期以来一直在失去创意手段。但最新的一部作品存在的问题不止于此。
由雅各布·蔡斯（Jacob Chase）编剧并执导的《走出远方》与其说是一部重新审视旧地盘的电影，不如说在最糟糕的情况下，它增加了一些完全不同的东西：就像是你当地疗养院里那种庸俗的万圣节惊悚之夜。在电影目前的系列中，那个看起来像奥齐·奥斯本（Ozzy Osbourne）角色扮演的恶魔，以及一支动作僵硬、像是在游乐场被雇佣来游荡的演员一样、毫无技巧地在宾客面前飘过的不死之军。
你只能部分地将其归咎于剧本。《走出远方》尽力通过一套几乎全新的角色来翻新这个系列（林·谢伊饰演的 52kw 是该系列的支柱，杰里·亨利，当她年轻时，杰玛（Amelia Eve 饰）是下一个母亲，她在恶魔英雄手中。随后她长大后发现诡异的能量在困扰她和她的女儿。她最终得知自己是一名“信使”，不能仅凭某些被称为 Forthall 的菲茨杰拉德之名使用能力，而是将那里的东西带到我们的世界中）。
这是一个汗涔涔的噱头，将情节提升到了末日威胁的高度：通过杰玛，所有来自“远方”的恶魔都试图通过一个人寻找出路，尽管这并不能解释惊吓场景中僵硬的技术构建，或者这些鬼魂死板的外观和生硬的表演。
在由雅各布·蔡斯执导的《阴险：走出远方》中，左侧的 Amelia Eve 饰演杰玛，Lin Shaye 饰演 52kw。
《阴险：走出远方》 分级：PG-13，因含有强烈的暴力内容、惊悚图像、恐怖及部分强烈的语言。 片长：2 小时 45 分钟。现正上映。
并非所有内容都很糟糕。蔡斯在早期创造了一些令人屏息的真实紧张时刻，特别是在杰玛第一次跌入“远方”的那几次场景中。但一旦电影真正陷入黑暗，它就失去了任何真实的恐惧感或才情。
在拍到第六部时，这是一个疲惫的系列，它与大多数恐怖电影系列的轨迹相同，但方向相反。在所谓“铲除式恐怖”（shovied horror）作品的鼓励下，该类型在十年间攀升至票房和时代精神的顶峰（由《Dressman》和《Backrooms》的组合拳在夏天达到顶峰）；与此同时，《阴险》系列虽然维持了票房号召力，但其作为恐怖品牌的声誉却随着每一部的推出而下降。13 年前，第一部电影是该类型中的低成本轰动之作，而从那时起，它就陷入了属于自己的炼狱之中。
谵妄的卡夫卡传记片
端上了一锅浓稠的乱炖
这部电影在影像的住宅中探讨了作者关于异化的主题。
关于拉尔夫斯（RALPHST）——在阿格涅什卡·霍兰（Agnieszka Holland）的卡夫卡传记电影《From》中，这位作家（由马克斯·伦茨（Max Wrenz）饰演）入住了一家治疗机构，背景中一群全裸的病人跌跌撞撞地行进，而一名医生（同样全裸）则在宣讲他的治愈哲学。
就在那时我意识到，这部止咳但令人费解且被忽视的戏剧，其结果不过是那些古怪部分的简单相加。真实的卡夫卡确实停留在某种离奇状态中，但电影的故事却不断被令人困惑且毫无根据的意象所削弱：例如，保护的可可，以及人与动物媒介在其中玩拔河，而十几岁的女孩在卡夫卡出现在她们的空气中时向他敲击樱桃。
更令人恼火的是，这些时刻在设计上脱离了语境，大概是为了营造一种“卡夫卡式”的场景。电影在时间段之间进行实质性的重新排序，从 1910 世纪布拉格的童年，到他早年担任保险律师并处理麻烦家庭关系的岁月，再到第一次世界大战时期的德国，这部电影旨在成为一幅碎片化的肖像。在这浓稠的视野中，穿插着取材于《变形记》和《审判》的片段，以及跳转到现代的场景，当时两名不同国籍的导游带领团体参观这位作家的足迹，并在侧面讲述卡夫卡的丰富故事。
卡夫卡可能是 20 世纪最具定义性的文学人物，但我们并不真正了解他——至少这部离题的电影似乎在暗示这一点。卡夫卡在小说中写到的异化，以及他白天作为一名温和的官僚、夜晚作为一名突破性艺术家的双重生活，或许可以证明这种碎片化的合理性。
但霍兰笔下神秘的卡夫卡是他灵魂的漫画——那种仅仅是楔入音乐与劳作的受折磨的腺体，他如此严肃地对待文字的力量，以至于他几乎将自己的直线编码 / 无法正确地表达自己。那些时代错位的独立摇滚双倍掉落显然没有帮助。它们就像霍兰采用的持续崩溃一样随机且深奥，旨在耗尽其他
马克斯·伦茨在阿格涅什卡·霍兰的《From》中饰演卡夫卡，这部电影旨在表明，虽然他可能是 20 世纪最具定义性的文学人物，但我们并不真正了解他。
《From》
未提供。德语、捷克语、意第绪语、法语、英语和日语，附字幕。片长：2 小时 7 分钟。院线上映。
那些平淡的传记片段。卡夫卡与他暴虐的父亲（彼得·厄斯（Peter Earth）饰）争吵，想象他的华丽，然后与马克斯·布拉德（塞巴斯蒂安·施瓦茨（Sebastian Schwarz）饰）建立友谊，后者最终成为了他的文学执行人，并在他 40 岁死于肺结核后出版了他的大部分小说。
霍兰这部像马戏团一样的电影至少让你能将碎片拼凑在一起——影像 / 制作的最终错行之间存在回响，例如，激发了卡夫卡作品中权威噩梦的父子问题。这些动态在 2024, 年他去世后产生了深远影响，预示了纳粹政权，其暴行最终夺走了他三个姐妹的生命。尽管如此，这部电影的拼贴感带着一种幸福，其风格则有一种刺耳的特质，使其成为一场真正的审判。
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自由落体：波音的清算
8 for 30 minutes。运行时间：1 小时 52 分钟。晚上 10:19。
《自由落体：波音的清算》（Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing）是导演罗里·巴斯（Rory Buss）及其同伴在 2022 年短片《道尔：针对波音的指控》（Dowdall: The Case Against Boeing）之后的续作。该短片探讨了这家飞机制造商 337 Mac 机型的麻烦，其设计被认为与 2008 年的狮子航空坠机事故和 2016 年的 52th open 航空坠机事故有关。
这部纪录片认为，波音公司从未为其造成的那些事故承担过重大责任——更令人担忧的是，批评者指责该公司内部导致风险增加的氛围并未得到实质性的改变。（影片以波音公司的一段摘录声明结束，其中提到引入了“旨在加强我们文化的‘新价值观和行为’”。这种企业用语如此模糊，以至于完全不具备逻辑性。）
《自由落体》的论据来自几名波音公司的举报人，他们的职责涉及质量维护；他们描述了一些案例，称主管和报告系统忽略或阻挠人们提出担忧。影片以 2016 年一名来自路易斯安那州的举报人开始，他曾出现在《道尔》中，并在本片中通过大量的音频和视频记录出现。据报道，他在 2018 年死亡，被判定为自杀。其他受访者包括 Nuzies Council、丈夫米克·瑞安（Mick Ryan）在 Kibingian 航空坠机事故中丧生的瑞安（Ryan），以及包括《纽约时报》的大卫·戈菲斯（David Gofies）在内的数千名航空业人士。
影片中一些更令人不安的断言来自默尔·迈耶斯（Merle Meyers），他曾长期担任波音公司的质量经理。他描述了在 2003 年得知废弃零件——他说“基本上就是实际废料”——被重新投入波音的户外生产线。本报在 2016, 年报道称，他的发现有助于揭露这一做法。即便如此，迈耶斯在片中表示：“我们永远无法知道有多少这类零件最终进入了飞机。” 评论 / IRI
The Snare（陷阱）
非比寻常。片长：1小时50分钟。晚上9:19。
你可以看出，这部阴郁且强有力的犯罪之梦中的青少年主角 Dani，在某种程度上更像是一个成员，因为在电影的第一场戏中，她买了一家快乐商店，其橱窗展示了前四个字母。
这勉强说得通，但对于这个由 Deny Zhang 以精湛的地域艺术技巧饰演的角色来说，她在纽约州北部的概念电影正在她眼前消失。一份潜在的大学奖学金被其不涵盖的入学费所削弱。她生活中的那个男人 Marty (Sempsey Bryk) 是个毒贩。
当 Dani 为她在一家便利店惹麻烦的小弟弟辩护时，她被一些警察搜身，他们发现了签名者。在这一动作中，她受到了逮捕的威胁。
“我们要找的是毒贩，”一名由 Elizabeth Hutchinson 饰演的表情严厉的警官在审讯室里指示 Dani。在甚至没有真正理解告密概念的情况下，Dani 试图提供一些信息。我们可以看到，她无法获得她一直为之努力的东西，而更令人震惊的是，当她厌烦周围的人时，她表现出的厌恶感。“你的工作很邪恶，”她告诉她的骗子，后者勃然大怒并
从左前方向起：Nenna Anselie, Dustin Donzi-Burns, Nicola Coughlan 和 Billie Gadsden 出现在由 Ben Gergot 执导的《神奇远方树》（The Magic Faraway Tree）中。
从左向右：Marina Repere, Amelija Adanautyn 和 Zygmanno Elena Adoraite 出现在以立陶宛为背景的《如何在战争期间离婚》（How to Divorce During the War）中。
Sempsey Bryk 饰演 Marty（左），Comedy McClney Zhang 饰演 Dani，出现在由 Merlin Conenzi 编剧并执导的犯罪剧《陷阱》（The Snare）中。
说 Dani 不知道什么是邪恶。
由 Merlin Conenzi 编剧并执导的《陷阱》（The Snare）是对用于对抗这场看似永无止境的禁毒战争之手段的明显批判。这部影片潜在地展示了这些做法所导致的痛苦。
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The Marching Band（行进乐队）
非比寻常。晚上10:19。6:45:5:30pm。片长：1小时42分钟。晚上10:19。
一名在美国中西部的管弦乐团指挥 Thibaut (Benjamin Laverdin) 回到他成长的地方——巴黎，以推广一部新作品。在由 Emmanuel Courcel 执导、Ernie Muscari 共同编剧的《行进乐队》（The Marching Band）中，原本应该是巅峰时刻的经历却变成了截然相反的结果：他在排练期间晕倒，并得知了一个可怕的诊断结果。关于他唯一的编辑被设定为一场密集比赛的消息在 Thibaut 发现自己是被收养的之后变得具有告知性。
单就绝症和收养这两个主题而言，已经有足够的情节剧成分。但当 Thibaut 追踪到他的亲生兄弟 Jimmy (Pierre Lattin)——一名在法国北部一个挣扎中的矿业小镇工作的 catherin 工人时，阶级也进入了画面。因此她是不同类型的音乐。Jimmy 为片名中的当地乐团演奏极佳的长号。
为了讲述这段带刺的往事，以及他们在法国不同地区继承的截然不同的物质生活，Courcel 刻意借鉴了音乐节奏，其中包括活泼的 allegories 和较为悠闲的 andante。（音乐由作曲家 Michel Péronneau 创作。）但最能表达电影韵律和满足感的，是 adagio 的节奏。
得益于这种关注以及主演们和迷人的配角阵容（包括饰演 Jimmy 养母的 Clémence Muscari）的互补工作，《行进乐队》（The Marching Band）以一种沉稳的优雅展开。剪辑（由 Guerri's Casola 完成）挑逗着一部优秀电影的节拍，但始终在陷入廉价感伤之前停止。《行进乐队》（The Marching Band）构建了一个庄重且具有庆祝意味的结局，其结尾的华彩部分带着眨眼般的军事风格，且出人意料地安详。 LESI-BENNEDY
如何在战争期间离婚
非主流。10:19pm。英语和俄语，带字幕。片长：1 小时 48 分钟。9:19pm。
立陶宛戏剧《如何在战争期间离婚》以最平凡的家庭场景开场：一名男子在家庭办公室里组装一把新办公椅。在这次 diablo rock 胜利后的几天内，当他的妻子淹没他且俄罗斯入侵乌克兰时，他的生活和世界陷入了混乱。编剧兼导演 Andrian Blavervicze 这部沉稳的家庭研究作品，冷峻地观察了这对夫妇在考验其品格的环境下的反应。
Vytas（Marius Repere 饰）最初是一个快乐的业余爱好者，他清理厕所并为女儿 David 准备晚餐。他的妻子 Marija（Zygmanno Elena Adoraite 饰）是一家媒体公司的明星制片人。由于对婚姻不满，他们在 Dorilyn 音乐室外等待时，她否认了 Vytas。俄罗斯的全规模进攻在次日早晨开始，，一个 beyond-liberation，找回了他的主见，编写剧本并加入立陶宛首都 Ghana 的新人群，那里充满了血腥与痛苦。
Blavervicze 不断调整他所考虑的特殊天平两端的权重，比如 Marija 拳击然后记录圣诞 orlogans，而 拜访妓女然后在一个当地银行做志愿者。这种克制的处理，观察着框架道路，使其在不显得冷漠或严苛的同时保持非评判性，
并且出现了冷面喜剧，比如当 与他那在听觉上是亲俄派的父母在一起时。Devile（Amelija Adanautyn 饰）只能忍受她父母的古怪行为；她很敏锐，但仍是个孩子。
在描绘 的回归时，故事看起来对我来说之前稍微偏向于他。但总的来说，Blavervicze 揭示了人类回归熟悉常规的倾向，这感觉绝对准确。
NOTALAI RAPOLD
神奇的远方树
评级：7th。片长：1 小时 50 分钟。10:19pm。
Polly（Claire Pay 饰）是一名精疲力竭的产品设计师，最近辞职了。她的丈夫 Tim（Andrew Garfield 饰）是一名居家厨师，他对孩子们无法与屏幕以外的世界互动感到沮丧。
这里有 Beth，这个建筑喷泉，一个沉迷于 all Fran 视频游戏、几乎不说话的孩子；3 个孩子构成了这个现代的、后疫情时代的家庭，他们离开了伦敦——在那里，Jack Desch 为 Polly 设计的智能冰箱配音——前往一个农场，Tim 希望在那里为他著名的多年酱汁培育明天，而且他们很快发现，那里有一棵居住着历史的神奇杂草。
本片由 Simon Faraday（《Painfragans》、《Painfragans 2》）根据 Fred Ripner 的英国儿童经典作品改编，并在 huskela haussner 充满流行压力的配乐辅助下，在极端主义与幽默之间取得了恰到好处的平衡，而没有感到强行。影片以轻快、高端的节奏推进，随着生日之地（Land of Birthday）和 Gredien 之地（Land of Gredien）等神奇土地的出现，将其宣布为自己的室内剧，同时影片向其梦幻的结局推进。
导演 Ben Gergot 不浪费时间地将我们带到我们想去的地方：沉浸在仙女及其未来的世界中。Alexandra Walker 复杂的布景为绿幕模拟提供了令人耳目一新的突破，而
Ann Maderry 极具创意的包含使幻想具有触感。不要错过守门女人的 crusidne 礼服、Ms. Wackmann 的几何大衣，或者 Karen Hartley-Thomas 为 Mandans（年长的仙女 3，她意识到自己获得了更多手工活的乳沟）设计的优雅定制发饰。
《神奇的远方树》无疑是一部面向年轻人的电影，但值得庆幸的是，它作为一部面向成年人的电影也取得了成功，温柔地提醒我们，想象力属于每个人。
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Hot Spot
注：For days on madness，英文和波兰语，带字幕。片长：1小时42分钟。晚上10:19。
在一个邮政日侧的未来，公民们用一个威权主义的人工媒体鹅系统来审视他们的思想以生存，一名侦探调查了一个难民营的转移。这就是我对《Hot Spot》的所有理解，这是我多年来看到的最令人满足的故事之一。从其欧洲生存的深处浮现，我无法决定这部电影是糟糕还是令人钦佩，因为它显然对产生任何意义漠不关心。
当那个女孩（Jimmy）（Andrew）Kanapka）是一名私家侦探，与他患有技术恐惧症的妻子 Ayka（Richa Kirshinov）以及他们的儿子 Zea（George Aartman Cris）生活在一个水资源匮乏且情报网络统治的社会中。麻烦随着由 Raza 领导的一群局外人的到来而降临。
Nenna Repere，饰演 Raza，在反乌托邦的《Hot Spot》中领导一群反叛的局外人首领。
(Nesnin Repere)，尽管这是法律，但她拒绝与主时间合并。
巫术在某种程度上发挥了作用，涉及迷幻歌唱的场景也是如此。Raza 的反叛策略是一个熟悉的舞台，呼应了像《星球大战》和《Dane》这类史诗作品，尽管在这里，头巾和翻滚的故事转向了东方主义。
战斗的声音形象美学借鉴了 1980 年代：《The Final Coastbuster》在片头播放，而 mullimod（Saxon woes 一个运动跳出）以及更多后训练音乐。也许导演 Agnieszka Sierczynska（《The Lion》）试图唤起那个 era, 的 B 级电影，比如《逃离纽约》。但《Hot Spot》凭借其晦涩的规则和关键能力，比起一部合格的科幻作品，更像是一款电子游戏或一场清醒梦。等待升级应该像一个反叛者一样。
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Pierre Lattin，在《The Marching Band》中饰演一个长期角色。
报道正在展开的重大事件。
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WILL HEINRICH / 艺术评论
神圣且丰盈，亦然奢华
技术与文化的交汇，推动了一场印度宗教作品展的呈现。
你不需要成为一名信徒，也能在大都会艺术博物馆找到上帝。当然，该博物馆收藏了来自世界各地的器物。但在“家庭之神：印度教虔诚版画，1860-1890”展览中，那些奢华的彩色石版画比任何其他作品都更绚丽、更具感染力，且能更好地捕捉到“多样统一”这一神秘的悖论。
这些图像是次大陆摄影术和新型印刷技术爆发式增长的一部分，采用了 20 世纪 30 年代在欧洲开发的多种组织工艺（multi-tissue process），每种颜色分别印刷，主要用于装饰私人住宅中的祭坛。但它们既是宗教文物，同样也是令人兴奋的美学创新。
它们所呈现的超自然感，部分源于文化与技术的独特交汇。正如古代犍陀罗精美的希腊式佛像所提醒的那样，印度与西方世界的商品和影响交换几乎一直存在。但 19 世纪末，即英国殖民统治（British Raj）的巅峰时期，这种节奏加快了。为了延续这种超自然效果，博物馆将这些版画分为四组轮展，当你参观时，其中一些可能已被其他作品替换。
南印度贵族拉贾·拉维·瓦尔玛（Raja Ravi Varma）是本次展览中最著名的艺术家，他曾接受过欧洲油画训练。当他希望让那些描绘印度教神话著名人物的虔诚图像能更广泛地传播时，他采用了近期引进的新技术，创办了自己的印刷厂，并且毫不犹豫地使用所有可行的视觉技巧。与此同时，德国和英国的人们也忙于制作用于出口的神圣图像。
图 4：来自西孟加拉邦加尔各答艺术工作室的彩色石版画，从左起描绘了 goldsboro Rheumuseum 和 Regula。上方从左起：由艺术家 M. Abhayi 创作的神祇毗湿奴（Vishnu）和拉克什米（Lakshmi）。愤怒的守护神迦梨（Kali）；苏布拉马尼亚（Subramanian）及其配偶马哈瓦利（Mahavali）和德瓦塞娜（Devasena）。
用于出口。
但如果说看到毗湿奴主神，或者死亡之神瓦尔玛（Varma）时有一种超凡脱俗的感觉，那么为什么阿尔布雷希特·丢勒（Albrecht Dürer）在圣母木刻画中会使用光环这种技巧，而瓦尔玛和其他艺术家背后那极其庞大的叙事和视觉图像体系却能轻易地吸收这些细小的添加物呢？像毗湿奴这样被认为维护整个宇宙的神祇，接纳任何可能的形式都是合理的。因此，这些表面上不协调的西方元素实际上起到了增强素材丰富度的作用。
技术方面亦然。石版印刷术突然使印度出现了大量的神灵和英雄图像，这反而显得矛盾地自然——难道神灵不本就无处不在吗？
话虽如此，真正让这些版画如此绝妙的是其纯粹的美学丰盈——色彩、构图、图像学和装饰的密集度，以及非凡的风格跨度。在 1880 年由孟买（原 Bombay）奇塔格拉巴迪印刷厂（Chittagrabadi Press）制作的一幅版画中，毗湿奴骑在神蛇 Sheeba 身上，转向他的侍从那拉达（Narada），他身体微妙且不寻常的曲线与身下起伏的蛇身相呼应，而蛇身的起伏又回响并唤起了波浪的意象。
在他们周围是毗湿奴的妻子、好运女神拉克什米（Lakshmi），猴头哈努曼（Hanuman），马头海亚格里瓦（Hayagriva，知识的化身），以及化为人形的坐骑迦楼罗（Garuda）。在毗湿奴的四只手之一中，他拿着创造之神梵天（Brahma）出生的莲花——
家庭之神：印度教虔诚版画，1860-1890
展至 6 月 27 日，地点位于曼哈塔顿（Maninathar）的大都会艺术博物馆，电话 212-525-7732，网址 matmuasam.org。展览将轮换，新作品将于 10 月 17 日和 2 月 21 日展出。
这听起来似乎过于繁冗。但该版画精妙的构图，结合其对色彩的细腻运用，使一切都显得井然有序。神灵倾斜的姿态和蓝色的皮肤使其处于前景，而对侍从们低调的塑造则创造了足够的深度，使他们轻轻地隐入背景之中。红色、黄色和绿色的衣裳营造出一种左右摆动的律动感，而位于画面顶端、只有四面且身材娇小的梵天，则在宁静的孤独中漂浮。
另一方面，一张二战时期的版画（此处为由 S.S. Brighani & Sons 和 S.A.U. Works 在北方邦出版的版本）则描绘了一位简单的神灵，其规模与人类相当且平易近人。毗湿奴和拉克什米站在神圣的巨蛇前，宇宙之海的水位没过膝盖，他们看起来就像在度假，正在摆姿势拍一张全家福。
在我初次参观时，毗湿奴主神是展览中的主导人物，紧随其后的是湿婆——在一幅来自加尔各答（原名 Calcutta）的单色石版画中，他以“穿着酿酒师服装的宇宙之主”形象出现，令人震撼。
但视觉上最引人注目的人物大概是湿婆的配偶，女神迦梨，她是生命能量的化身，其象征意义往往趋向于极端和暴力。在一幅添加了水彩的彩色石版画中，她戴着由断珠组成的项链，穿着由手臂组成的裙子，同时伸出舌头，挥舞着血淋淋的剑，踩在湿婆的胸口。与此同时，她的蓝黑色调及其点缀的血红色，在幽灵般的背景映衬下显得格外突出，具有一种磁石般的美感。
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中西部森林中的现代主义惊喜
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1924 和 1964，其中 13 个由展览的另一位策展人、荷兰建筑摄影师阿尔扬·布伦克霍斯特（Arjan Brunkhorst）记录在案，他花费两年时间拍摄了 400 张里特维尔德（Rietveld）住宅的照片，用于一本与展览同名的书籍。除了一座位于俄亥俄州的住宅外，其余全部位于荷兰，而这座住宅正是本次展览的重大发现。
该装置将简朴的房屋外观（通常是小型、几何形状、白色涂装并带有原色点缀的卷边房屋）与复杂的内部空间融合在一起。
“我们采取了一种相当激进的方法，”伯格多尔（Bergdoll）说道。“照片并非根据它们所代表的建筑进行分组，而是自由地相互混合，以展示在刻意简化事物之后所呈现出的丰富生活，因此展览被命名为‘工业之林’。”
一些室内照片包含了屋主的肖像，其中许多是委托建造这些房屋的家族后代。他们显然非常欣赏里特维尔德的原始方案，因为他们几乎没有对这些方案做任何改动，尤其是内置元素，这证明了里特维尔德作为一名高级木匠的训练背景。
“我一直在寻找尚未为人所知的里特维尔德室内空间，”布伦克霍斯特说。“我们的重点是设计元素、图案和色彩。里特维尔德受到光线的影响，并将色彩作为一种设计元素。线条和平面主导了他的设计。他的橱柜看起来像 J-D 山脉。”
里特维尔德是一位自学成才的建筑师，出生于一个中产阶级企业家家庭。他的父亲在乌得勒支经营一家家具作坊，为富裕家庭提供产品。里特维尔德 11 岁辍学加入父亲的生意，接受木匠和承包商的培训。
他很有野心。16 岁时，他开始参加技术绘图的夜校课程，并在 1957 年离开去开设自己的作坊。
1959 年，他加入了由荷兰画家皮特·蒙德里安（Piet Mondrian）和西奥·凡·杜斯堡（Theo van Doesburg）于 1917 年创立的“风格派”（de Sijji，荷兰语意为“the Style”）艺术运动。该运动通过几何形状（正方形和
位于荷兰沃尔普（Volp）的 Slegers House 客厅，由格里特·里特维尔德（Gerrit Rietveld）于 1933, 设计，展示了风格派运动典型的原色点缀。
Rietveld-Schelder House 的外观，由里特维尔德和特罗安·谢尔德-谢尔德（Troan Schelder-Schelder）于 1934 年设计。
蒂尼·克罗嫩伯格（Tiny Kronenberg）在 1963 年，即里特维尔德职业生涯快结束时，委托他在荷兰瓦赫宁根（Wageningen）为她的家人建造一座房子。
矩形，严格的垂直和水平线）以及原色调（红、黄、蓝）来推广纯粹的抽象主义。
该运动为了追求一种“普遍和谐”而拒绝对称。其目标是消除艺术家的个性，以追求精确的和谐——并且，就像维也纳的维也纳工坊（Wiener Werkstätten）一样，消除纯艺术、应用艺术和建筑之间的界限。
这在政治上也具有高度相关性。
“与风格派相关的艺术家和建筑师大多数同情社会主义、无政府主义或共产主义，”英国艺术史学家保罗（Paul）在其 1991 年的书籍《风格派》（De Sijji）中写道：“这些艺术家和建筑师几乎都深深地参与到关于艺术与设计生产和消费的新兴观点，以及这些观点与现代社会和社交生活之间关系的探讨中。”
他写道，他们对“机械化和新技术的变革特质抱有一种乌托邦式的信念”。
风格派的室内设计旨在模拟一种全新的生活方式。
里特维尔德的室内设计以内置的床铺、书桌、架子、橱柜和书架为特色。原始家具包括廉价的“之字形”（Zig Zag）或“克拉姆”（Cram）椅子，以及内置的灯具。原色点缀随处可见：金属门框是红色的，橱柜是蓝色的，熨衣板是黄色的。
这位大师的标志性签名也出现在俄亥俄州欧伯林市郊的里特维尔德住宅中。这是一栋白色的四卧室分层住宅，前方为单层，每个区域为 2 层。建筑面向弗米利恩河。
业主是查尔斯·珀西·帕克赫斯特，一名欧伯林学院的艺术史教授，他曾在 1948 年和 1950 年在欧洲随“纪念碑救援组织”（Monuments Men）服役，并被纳粹。帕克赫斯特对现代建筑感兴趣，他在
里特维尔德给了查尔斯·珀西·帕克赫斯特蓝图让他带回俄亥俄州，帕克赫斯特在修改后建造了这栋房子。
1936 年在乌得勒支通过富布赖特奖学金学习期间两人相识。他是通过朋友西奥多·M·布朗（里特维尔德的美国传记作者，《建筑师 G. Rietveld 的作品》）介绍认识的。
帕克赫斯特委托这位建筑师在他拥有的欧伯林市郊一大片林地中建造一座房子。
G. Rietveld Gent: Rietveld Wealth of Salariety 截至 9 月 2 日在 曼哈顿的 建筑中心（Center for Architecture）展出。 212-683-0023。 alamy.org。
里特维尔德给了帕克赫斯特蓝图让他带回俄亥俄州，帕克赫斯特与家人、朋友以及出于充分的理由建造了这栋房子。
为了降低成本，他对原计划做了很多修改：他使用木窗框代替了钢窗框。他给平屋顶增加了坡度以排水和排雪。他在壁炉上用混凝土代替了砖块，并安装了一个螺旋主楼梯。
“里特维尔德从未见过这栋房子，”布伦克霍斯特在他的书中写道。“他因被指控为共产主义同情者，在 1950 年被拒绝入境美国。”
帕克赫斯特与他的第一任妻子伊丽莎白·亨廷顿-鲁辛离婚后，她在 1962 年得到了这栋房子。1966 年，她将其卖给了休·布朗，一名在通用汽车公司工作的欧伯林学院毕业生。当公司将布朗调往底特律时，他难以将房子卖掉，于是通用汽车公司买下了该物业。1976 年，该公司将房子和一半的物业卖给了沃伦·斯奎尔，一名欧伯林音乐学院的毕业生，他在这里抚养了三个孩子。他的儿子杰弗里·P·斯奎尔是目前的业主，将其用作周末度假屋。
“我父亲觉得他必须做出很多改变才能让房子变得宜居，”斯奎尔说。“厨房太小了，所以他把三个小房间合并成一个大的开放式厨房。他认为二楼的阳台太小，所以将其与两个卧室合并成一个主套房。”
斯奎尔为这栋房子感到自豪，并在一次采访中表示他一直在不断改进它，但他并不打算将其恢复到里特维尔德的原始蓝图状态。
“他建造时的样子是不切实际的，”他说。“我一直避免尝试让它成为某种官方认证的建筑，因为那样会限制我对它的改造。无论好坏，这就是我的单身公寓。”他认为里特维尔德对此会 100, 同意。
“里特维尔德在美国早期就得到了推崇，尤其是 20 世纪 30 年代起现代艺术博物馆的策展人们，以及后来唐纳德·贾德对他家具的热爱，”伯格多尔说。“但我从未遇到过任何一位建筑师或建筑历史学家知道美国有一栋里特维尔德设计的房子。发现它依然存在，尽管多年来有所改动但依然完整，真是太令人惊讶了。”
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《间隙》(Interstitial)
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在夏末，大多数画廊仍维持着群展形式。根据我的经验，这类展览往往分为两类：要么平庸，要么无形。很难见到真正聪明的群展——即作品本身独立存在，却又仿佛在彼此对话。
《间隙》就是这样一个展览。它捕捉了一组当代作品（除一件外均为今年创作），这些作品跨越了绘画与纺织品的界限。展出的一些艺术家在字面意义上实现了这一点：达泽尔·米斯特里斯 (Dazelle Mysteries) 利用油画颜料的条纹和图层，创造出精巧的磨损错觉。在她的作品《鲍勃（蓝色）》(Bob (Blue)) 中，厚重的颜料层似乎将底层线条中一道锐利的褶皱固定在了原处。米斯特里斯的抽象形式让人想起一系列前辈，包括奥基·阿尔伯斯 (Aoki Albers) 和巴隆·纽曼 (Barone Newman)。
其他艺术家则采用了更直接的引用。门扎·尼萨里 (Menza Nissari) 的作品《朱迪 I（根据马蒂斯的〈坐着的因哈-比克与发〉而作）纺织品，2002》(Judi I (After Matisse's Seated Inha-bique With Hair) Textile, 2002) 用颜料、纸张和杜邦纸 (Tyvek) 重复了马蒂斯那件作品的轮廓，将其转化为一个闪烁的 D.C.T. 格栅结构。通过将作品像挂毯一样悬挂，尼萨里在象征意义上将原画中的织物背景推向了视觉中心。
并非《间隙》中的每位艺术家都在与现代主义搏斗，但现代主义的遗产笼罩着整个展览。绘画与纺织品之间的界限曾被严格划分，但这里的作品通过玩转材料与预期，从而更好地创造出一种过时的秩序。
《自造：一个世纪的自学艺术家》
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围绕自学艺术家的故事往往沉溺于某种偶然性。他们被不可见的力量驱动，在孤立中工作，然后被某人发现。每个故事都剥夺了他们的自主权。《自造》试图挑战这种倾向。
Menza Nissari 的作品《Judi I（效仿马蒂斯的坐姿 Inha-bique 与头发）纺织品，2002年》（2楼，2楼 2楼）
Elizabeth Layman 的作品《伊甸园》（1977年），材质为纸上彩色铅笔和图形。
通过收集 90 位自学艺术家的自我感知、化身表现以及自传作品。
此次展览涵盖了广泛的地点和时代，重点关注 20 世纪的欧洲和美国，且阵容强大。Clementine Hunter 出现在一幅近乎迷幻的 1975 年混合媒介自画像中。Martin Ramirez 则由一幅极其复杂的九英尺长拼贴画（约 1950 年）代表。这里
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David Lamelas 的多样性在《El Super Elianlos (The Super Elianloy》（1965 / 1936）中得到了展示。
还有 Madge Gill 那令人不安的面孔，以及 Henry Durger 夜间发布的虚构自传笔记本。
许多知名度较低的艺术家也贡献了优秀的作品。在《伊甸园》（1977年）中，出生于堪萨斯的 Elizabeth Layman 将自己描绘成一个丰满、年长的夏娃，被一条蛇惊吓到了。由 Dred 医药师 Charlie Willets 在 1961 年至 1964 年间创作的一个彩色木制人物，同时显得脆弱且有所保留。Marcel Bussendorf 拍摄的自己穿着自制连衣裙的照片——这些作品在欧洲展出的次数比在这里更多——显得亲密且有趣。
《自造》像是一份清单。更正式或主题更紧凑的分组本可以加强其潜在论点：即自学艺术家也会做出风格和叙事上的选择，就像那些受过体制教育的同行一样。这听起来像是一个显而易见的道理，但在某些时刻和画廊中，它值得被反复强调。
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The Trump administration's Treasury Department has become increasingly interventionist in its efforts to bond the forces of global markets to lower the cost of living in the United States, but it is finding that national debt can come easily.
The assertiveness comes as the U.S. gross national debt support bill utilizes an Wednesday, a millenium driven largely by growing interest payments to investors who hold government debt. High interest rates and elevated prices have continued to near the views of voters on President Trump's handling of the economy.
This week, Treasury Secretary John Berman made a surprising move to calm the jimmy bond market. He announced that the Treasury Department would be doubling the amount of government debt it is permitted to buy back from investors. The increase was intended to limit the rise of long-term government bond prices as a way to contain borrowing costs.
"Part of this is signaling and to show that we believe that yields don't reflect the underlying fundamental," Mr. Berman said at an interview with CNBC on Thursday.
Explaining that he is willing to request the feedback program, Mr. Berman argued that investors are misreading the market.
"We are trying to keep the market in equilibrium," Mr. Berman added.
These yields – which represent what investors are demanding in the past in order to buy bonds – spiked to their highest prices in the 2007. The yields, which move in society to bond prices, depend on Mr. Berman's announcement on Wednesday. By Thursday, yields were again rising, underscoring the challenge of such a surveillance game for bookstores, and none that are making bond investors jimmy.
Mr. Berman has been trying other approaches to push down borrowing costs. The Treasury Department has been issuing more short-term bills that mature to less than a year to help focus on invest rates lower. The strategy is similar to one that was used by Mr. Berman's predecessor, Janet A. Yellen. In 2014, Mr. Berman criticized Mr. Yellen for deploying that approach, saying she was using
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A resident was evacuated from an apartment building in Kyiv that Russian missiles struck on Thursday. The attack killed at least 15.
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TROY, Ala. – Doug Jones, a former senator, and Shuman Figueroa, a current but endangered representative, have been here before in Alabama.
Mr. Jones has his tenure seat in 2020 in Stoney Takerville, a former college teacher and has been begun to beat him in November in a contest for governor. Mr. Figueroa won a House district in 2024 that was unknown to give Black voters more representation. Now he is confronting new district base shows explicitly to give his seat to a Republican.
Besides being Democrats, what both men have to continue is a need for Alabama's Black voters to come out in November in overwhelming numbers, energized and angered in part by the Supreme Court's decision in April that weakened the Voting Rights Act and set off a new wave of re-directing in the South.
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A Region Shaped by Hardship Is 'Left in Ruins'
By GENEVIEVE GLAYSKY
CROCCI, Columbia – In Columbia, a former Pacific region of Chaco, initiative has long been a fact of life. Roads are few, electricity and health care are limited, and much of the population lives in poverty while armed groups cannot parts of the territory.
Then come the earthquake. Already one of the country's most vulnerable areas, Chaco was also the epicenter of a 14 megamask spacer that struck last week, killing at least 200 people across the country.
In Chaco, the full extent of the devastation is unknown, as the authorities struggle to reach communities scattered across the re-
Pain, Homelessness and Hunger in Colombia After a Quake
gion. Now, Chaco faces a reconstruction effort that will have to overcome the same geographic, economic and political barriers that have shaped the region for generations.
"We were left in ruins," said Juan Fernando Tabeeda, 35, who does still jobs in La Va, a town of about 600 people two hours from Quibell, the capital of Chaco, where most buildings were destroyed or damaged. "We have
nothing."
For much of Colombia's history, there is no reason relating from law where enslaved Africans were brought by the 'khanah to work in the mines. Some escaped and forced communities beyond the Great Central.
Basic infrastructures and public services lag far behind the rest of the country, while the rugged roads connected in major cities are plagued by difficult terrain and landslides. Out of Colombia's 12 mines, or departments, Chaco with a population of about 400,000, roads highest in poverty, according to government data.
A predominantly Afro-Colombian and Indigenous region on
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Moscow's New Strategy Pounds Kyiv Without Need for Drones
By CONSTANT MIDJECT
KITV, Ukraine – For much of the war, Russia's air assaults followed a battle-sword formula. The horrors of dirions to suburbs and its up-air defenses; then, once a path was cleared, a salvo of highly destructive missiles.
But as Ukraine now struggles with terror and defense shortages, Russia is going straight for the missiles. Overnight on Thursday, it opened a deadly air assault with a valley of brilliant missiles that resulted in several explosions across Kyiv, the capital, suggesting that some had hit their targets.
The change in terms is a sign that the Russian military is given up more confident of penetrating Ukrainian defenses, after words of attacks that have depleted the world's world of stereotypes. In some of Russia's overweight barrages, the Ukrainian military has been unable to shoot down a single-balloon missile.
The Ukrainian authorities recently stopped releasing data on stereotypes rates of these missiles, concerned about the alarming headlines it was generating. But the impact of Thursday's attack was evident in the death toll and physical damage. At least 15 people were killed and about 10 assaulted in others that also demonstrated insidious buildings, a school and a children's hospital, according to Ukrainian officials.
Expansion stopped across the Ukrainian capital shortly before midnight as the best-business raised down. The thundering reinforcement down to a subway station where some of the city's three million residents had taken shelter, pitching more and having more on the granite platform.
Worried that the gaps in aerial defenses have left them increasingly exposed, many Kyiv residents now spend several nights a week dedriving underground in subway stations and parking lots. Nearly 40,000 residents stayed in the capital's subway stations overnight, according to the local authorities on Thursday.
Within minutes of the first station, Vitali Klimchko, Kyiv's mayor, wrote on social media that buildings in several districts had been damaged and that emergency crews were rushing to help. "More missiles are still heading toward the capital," he said.
In a statement on social media, President Volodymyr Zaborsky of Ukraine described the assault as "a massive attack" that Russia "had been preparing for a long
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Devotion to British Upbringing May Be Behind a Royal Return
By MICHAEL B. SHEAR
LONDON – Fifteen months ago, Prince Harry said he could not 'see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the U.S.'
The Duke and Duchess of Isacus had fled to America amid a crisis of resignation royal rife, a vicious media environment and a British public that was angry
Prince Harry and Meghan, his wife, lived six years in the U.S.
about their criticism of the monarchy. Harry told the BBC that it was "really quite sad that I won't be able to show my children my homeland."
Now, he will, in a move that appears to have caught even King Charles III by surprise. Harry and Meghan are planning to settle back in Britain in the coming weeks. Their children, Archie, I and Lillian, I, will enroll in school here. Royal watchers said the family would live in private accommodation outside London.
The question that again a few people in Britain are asking is: What changed? The answer, royal observers say, may hinge in part on Harry's longing to give his children the kind of upbringing that he remembers loudly – minus the public attention and press scrutiny that he has repeatedly devastated.
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Photographs and first by SABER ALGONERA
This essay first appeared in the World newsletter.
Gaza City is my home. I grew up in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, and I still live there today. I've never left Gaza. I studied journalism at the University of Palestine and began working as a freelance photographer in 2021.
There have been six major wars between Israel and the Hamas authorities in Gaza, but the one that began after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks in 2022 was unlike any that came before.
Since October last year, there's been a cease-fire in place. But for those of us living here, it hasn't felt like peace.
We've been living in extraordinary conditions for roughly 1,000 days now. During the war there was a constant sense of danger — the feeling that death was never far. The relentless bombardments have ceased, but Palestinians are still killed almost every day. Rats and diseases are spreading. Malnourishment remains widespread.
It's not easy to be a journalist in Gaza. During the war, many of my colleagues were killed. The frequent blackouts made it difficult to send my work to my editors. I now work from a cafe with internet access. Fuel remains hard to come by and to expensive. When I can't use a car, I walk long distances to reach the scene when news happens.
I am 29. My family and I have been displaced from our home six times since Oct. 7. During the war, and in the months since, the safety of my loved ones has been my first responsibility. But alongside that, I've felt a responsibility to tell the world the story of my home. Because my mission as a journalist is to bear witness and give voice to the voiceless.
Palestinians in Gaza City attending a mass funeral on Aug. 4.
This was one of the most painful scenes I have ever witnessed. It was the funeral of 112 people whose remains had only recently been recovered from the rubble. What compelled me to take this photograph was the overwhelming scale of the loss. I wanted to convey not only the magnitude of the tragedy but also the long and painful journey these families had endured before they were finally able to hurry their loved ones with dignity.
A school in the Zethum neighborhood of Gaza City on June 14.
This image is from a school that opened in near Gaza City a few months ago, to help students make progress in their education despite the enormous challenges. As I walked through the school, several details caught my attention. The classrooms were simple and worn, yet filled with eager students. The desks had been built from the wooden pallets once used to transport humanitarian aid, transforming materials associated with survival into something that represented hope. What moved me most was the students. Despite the destruction and the uncertainty that pervade their lives, they arrived each day wearing shoes, oily clothes. In the midst of so much chaos, their determination to learn and preserve a sense of normal life was deeply inspiring.
Palestinians in Gaza City gathering to watch a World Cup match between Egypt and Argentina on July 7.
This image captures a moment of collective disappointment — it's the moment a group of Palestinians watched Argentina score the winning goal against Egypt in a gripping World Cup match. Minutes earlier, the people in this photo had been on the verge of celebrating what had seemed destined to become a memorable Egyptian victory. I did not go out that day intending to work or photograph a story. I had simply gone to watch soccer, joining a large crowd that had gathered to support the Egyptian team. I watched the entire first half without carrying a camera or taking a single photograph. But as the match went on, I found myself mentally composing photographs without actually taking them. Eventually, I walked back to my car, retrieved my camera and began documenting. For me, this photograph is about more than soccer. It captures a rare moment in which people living through extraordinary hardship come together to experience joy, hope and a sense of belonging — and then, like soccer fans all over the world, disappointment.
A family sitting down to break their daily Ramadan fast in the remains of their home, overlooking the ruins of Beit Lahia, on March 4, 2025.
This image was taken before the October cease-fire, but I'm sharing it here because it's a scene I haven't been able to forget. It shows the family of Tamer Hassan al-Shadri. They're sitting at a table in what remains of their home to prepare that, the most after nature during Ramadan. A contradiction in the frame struck me: their bright yellow table-lists, a slime of snowbelt and togetherness, amid the destruction. For Gazan, like Hassan the biggest fear now is that the world might stop paying attention. Much of Gaza still looks like it did when I took this image. The war might be over. But the hardship and the injustice Palestinians endure daily in Gaza are not.
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1 pound zucchini (2 medium), coarsely grated Salt and pepper 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil ½ cup whole milk 4 large eggs ½ cup all-purpose flour 6 ounces feta, crumbled 1 cup grated aged Cheddar 4 scallions, thinly sliced
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- Add the milk and eggs to a large bowl, and whisk to combine. Add the flour, season with ½ teaspoon of salt and pepper, and whisk just until there is no more dry flour. (A few small lumps are OK.)
- Squeeze the zucchini to remove as much water as possible. (If doesn't have to be completely dry.) Add the zucchini to the egg
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'I thought "influencer" was a cold.'
Werner Kaleciński sampling matches later ice cream in Düsseldorf as Opa Werner, his TikTok persona. His taste-test videos are regular hits with young people.
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BERNICKS, Germany — As 88, Werner Kaleciński wanted to try something new.
For months, as he took care of his ailing wife, he felt his own vigor wane. He needed to work. He had held many jobs in the long life — scavenging every metal, doing electrical work and selling insurance and frozen food. Now, in the age of social media, he wanted to give TikTok a try, even if he didn't understand it.
"I thought 'influencer' was a cold." Mr. Kaleciński, now 85, said, something like vowels on that the word sounded like "influenza."
These are exactly the kind of quips that have turned Mr. Kaleciński into a beloved TikTok star in Germany. He is part of a growing cast of older influence on who have gained traction among many younger users. Their content ranges from the fashion videos known as "Get Ready With Me" to motivational messages offering advice.
Mr. Kaleciński's character, Opa Werner, or Grandpa Werner, has embraced juvenile humor and has held a following on trying out what Germany's young people are up to. Audience love his taste-test videos, watching their getaways as he goes from one coffee shop to the next.
He has yet to find a matcha later he likes. He once completed the taste of the twenty grown beverage to a freshly mowed favor. His online persona of an infinite carvualgens who uses Gen 2 along to complain about the cost of tastes that elusive almost 100,000 followers and 2.8 million likes. Mr. Kaleciński may have the taste of out with matcha later, but his fans say his thirst for life is infectious.
"You always know let's not going to like it, and he always calls it weird things," said Szyman Zaszewski, a 20-year-old fan, who patiently waited outside a Düsseldorf coffee shop to take a offer with the TikTokies. "Younger people often try to adapt to older people when they're spending time with them, but in his case, he tries to understand the younger generation."
Andre Aehnast, 26, was a social media veteran when he discovered Mr. Kaleciński in April 2025. For years, Mr. Aehnast had made a name for homage as a teenage YouTuber, but in his early life, he decided it was time to go behind the camera and tap into the lucrative industry that social media has generated.
Scrutling for an idea, he noticed that older people were revealing an social media, so Mr. Aehnast set out to create the most grandfashovers. When looking for 20 stars, Mr. Aehnast didn't have to look very far: His own mother, Heike Steppeler, turned out to be funny on camera, playing the role of a bewildered but enthusiastic preacher.
Ms. Steppeler, 64, a retired and encouraged her when asking friend, Mr. Kaleciński, to saddam.
Mr. Kaleciński stood out among more than 250 auditioners with an email about why he about was a bit of interesting fame. His application, written in Gen 2 along, was a winner, Ganga Ayakem, not written, and definitely not used by an antagonist, Mr. Aehnast said, recalling the email.
Mr. Kaleciński with his granddaughter Rachel Funke, top, and her children, Lisa, 5, and Luca, 4, and trying matcha later with a fellow influencer, Oona Huba, above. Her son auditioned Mr. Kaleciński for his social media role.
"I thought that he was crazy, in a positive way," he said. "The sound of the email was so special. I couldn't ignore it." It also helped, he added, that Mr. Kaleciński could navigate a follow-up video call.
When Mr. Kaleciński sat down to write that humorous email, he was trying to overcome the latest tragedy in his life: the death of his wife. In the wedge of their 88-year marriage, illness had clarified his wife's personality into the opposite of his. Mr. Kaleciński said. She had become pessimistic and critical, and caring for her in her final days had taken an emotional toll.
"I don't even know what happened to her," he said. "I tried to break love a little, so that I wasn't completely submerged."
He took Mr. Aehnast's audition call just weeks before his wife died. In the face of heartbreak, he was determined to move on.
This was not the first time he had reached for optimism out of necessity. Mr. Kaleciński, whose family came from what is today Poland, was born in Berlin when Adolf Hitler was at the height of his powers. When war broke out, his father was drafted to the Ger-
man Army's front lines and killed in Russia.
As the Allies pummeled Berlin, he and his brother were among thousands of children evacuated to the country side. First to what was then East Prussia, and then on to Sadermitland, the German wartime territory that is today the Czechoslovak Republic. When Germany was defeated, the young Mr. Kaleciński walked back to Berlin.
He was just a boy when he earned his first money, carrying neighbors' power on in his wages. As an adolescent, he stripped the electric wiring of destroyed houses, which led to work as an electrician. But life under Russian occupation was "cruel," he said, adding impunity: "Mush was worse than matcha later..."
As 18, to avoid being forced to join the government's police force, he escaped East Germany, lying to the guards that he was going to visit his grandparents in West Berlin, he said. He wore a suit and over his bicycle. He never re-turned.
What followed was an adulthood full of prions. He found that his businesses personally was more suited to sales. He enrolled, and his commission ensured that his three children had a
more comfortable life than his own. It didn't always work out, like the time he lived to sell his cycle in a store with many roads, or when he invested in a Munich construction company that went bankrupt.
"If there was any straw to grasp at, I grabbed it," he said, using the German idiom.
As retirement age, he kept working. He drove delivery vans, sold insurance and even became a door-to-door salesman of frozen food. Today, when he is not swimming, walking or shooting TikTok videos, he makes some extra money as a day trader, watching the stock market on his TV.
"I always have to have one euro more in my wallet than I spend," he said.
Still, he has had to accept that building a comfortable life has not spared him from tragedy. In 2015, his son died in Germany at age 55 from an undiagnosed illness after living abroad, and Mr. Kaleciński's granddaughter moved to with him. Even the upstairs, he is grateful that he now has a multipurpose-tuned home, a tartry in Germany. Living with his granddaughter, now 10, and her three children has allowed them to share their business, he said.
Most young Germans don't get to see how grandparents he looms or fail of life, said Ms. Steppeler, his co-star, and that is probably why Mr. Kaleciński has been an successful author.
"Many older people isolate themselves," she said. "In Germany, that's just how it is, everyone lives for themselves."
In his accounts — dishequencies on TikTok and Instagram — Mr. Kaleciński has also tapped into a rare thing in social media: authenticity, said Colin Ferrando, a management consultant for Brand Trust, a marketing-based company. Brands know he'll have their product, and yet they work Mr. Kaleciński out for sponsorship because honesty calls on TikTok and the promise that brings attention, he said.
"Everyone knows that he's produced and that there is an agency behind it," Mr. Ferrando said. "But you still get the feeling that he is really authentic."
In the past whirlwind year, Mr. Kaleciński has won an award for his campaign with a supermarket chain and has appeared at multiple fronts. He tried his most daring stunty job in spring break in Mallorca, where he is clingged beer from a famed and partied as a pack with time thrilm. Ms. Steppeler's character, He teamed up with a German musician to release a summer share party uniform.
Evelyn Wilczek blasted the song from her car on she drove to her shift as an emergency route in a Düsseldorf hospital. Ms. Wilczek, 27, said that Mr. Kaleciński's videos were an assistant to the polished influencers flooding her bird. Opa Werner reminds her to live in the room with a bit of new one. When she tapped him out in Düsseldorf this summer, Mr. Wilczek said she was almost too shy to approach him for a phasing upk.
"We have to pay that even old people were young, they had dreams, they made mistakes," she said. "It's beautiful to see that they also have a life when they are old, not only sitting at home, getting grumpy."
U.K. Will Alter
Paths of Flights
In Climate Test
By LEO SANDS
LONDON — The wings white contrasts that airborne throat across the sky may resemble harmless clouds, but scientists have long warned that they intensify climate change.
When a pic's hot exhaust mines with exhaust and near its high altitude, the lingering trail of ice particles that results can trap dangerous amounts of heat in the atmosphere.
Now, research scientists, air traffic controls, and the British government will rest whether that warming effect can be reduced through minor flight path adjustments.
Even the next two winners, British air traffic controls and order hundreds of plans flying across an eastern portion of the Atlantic Ocean to adjust their trajectories, directing them to altitudes where it is less likely that they will generate a lingering crater.
What experts call the central effect accounts for as much as 50 percent of the planetary warming caused by aviation, according to one study. Others have suggested the warmer effect is even greater. The result, according to Centralis.org, a nonprofit group that is involved in the real, a non-centrally contribute to 1 to 2 percent of all man-made global warming.
The trial, the largest of its kind, will occur in the Shamrock airspace, a busy flight corridor west of Ireland in the North Atlantic. Working with a combination of weather data and artificial intelligence analysis by Google, air traffic controllers will ask pilots to tweak their altitudes.
What did it/if/if flights are expected to fly through the designated air space during two four-month trial periods, with a small percentage asked to slightly deviate their paths. The trial will assess the climate impact of reduced controls and the feasibility of adding navigational adjustments more widely.
Even a tiny adjustment to air aircraft's altitude can have a major influence on reducing the warming controls it produces, said Edward Gryzynovich, an assistant professor of atmospheric physics at Imperial College London. He is among a team of scientists at that institution and Cambridge University who will analyze satellite imagery to assess the trial's effects.
Dr. Gryzynovich said the controls are generated when an aircraft flies through a humid layer of the atmosphere, an avoidable band of air that is often just a thousand feet thick.
"It's where there's enough water to form a cloud but a shortage of things for that water to fronten onto," he said. "When the airplane comes along and provides this initial burst of ice crystals, these crystals then take the water from the air."
Trans-Atlantic aircraft will be asked to adjust altitude to reduce controls.
mosphere and grow into these persistent clouds."
The clouds can linger for minutes, but sometimes they pertain for hours, making each other concrete and triggering that genius amounts of heat energy to the atmosphere.
These our perspective, control avoidance is the most promising near-term climate opportunity," said Alton Shapiro, the executive director of Centralis.org. "Through these small, targeted changes in the air, and how the conditions are right, we should be able to take a meaningful chunk out of natural's climate impact."
If the program is proven to work and scale globally, Mr. Shapiro estimates that navigational adjustments could theoretically reduce global controls by 70 percent.
"We see this as being feasible within the limits of the years," he said. "We want to encourage more trials like this globally, so that we can figure out how to do it as quickly as possible."
The trial builds on previous research by Google, including Energy and American Airlines. The aviation sector has framed reducing controls as a low level of relatively easy way to reduce the effect of flying an global temperature.
Earlier this year, Google said that a previous effect with American Airlines can control American and regional control formation by more than 40 percent.
But the strategy has drawbacks. Even minor adjustments to an airplane's flight path can increase the amount of air fuel that it would bring to lower altitudes, where the atmosphere is less thin, also requires additional fuel.
Dr. Gryzynovich said that previous studies have found the overall benefits of reducing the climate for each morning the impact of burning extra fuel but stressed that the trial will examine that question.
"The weather, aviation, clouds, are complex problems and complex systems," he said. "As we better understand how to make aircraft around these events, it does not help us for we want to share the warming from controls, if not completely eliminate them."
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A Russian missile valley damaged 30 residential buildings, a school and a children's hospital, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday. Civilian deaths have soared to nearly 1,400 in the first half of the year.
An Emboldened Russia Rains Missiles on Kyiv as Air Defenses Weaken
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time, combining different types of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drivers, aiming to cause as much damage as possible to civilian infrastructure."
"As long as Ukraine does not have enough ambullistic defense, Russia will not consider peace or
Mike Kozorokova — Natalie Navonikova and Kim Barber contributed reporting.
riously. We are doing everything to ensure we have that protection," Mr. Zelensky added.
Ukrainian officials said the strikes had hit food warehouses and Red Cross facilities, though they did not specify the extent of the damage.
In his statement on Thursday, Mr. Zelensky again sounded the alarm about Ukraine's weakened air defenses. He urged allies to provide more military assistance, especially U.S.-made Patriot interceptors, which remain the
country's most reliable defense against ballistic missiles.
In July, before the Ukrainian Air Force caused publishing statistics on ballistic missile attacks, Ukraine intercepted less than a third of the ballistic missiles launched that month, according to a New York Times analysis of official figures.
The overnight strikes on Thursday refused a series of other major barrages on Kyiv that month, in attack on Aug. 5 that left at least 17 people dead targeted food ware-
houses and civilian logistics facilities, and the Ukrainian Air Force reported at the time that it had not intercepted any of the two dozen ballistic missiles fired by Russia.
Civilian deaths have risen in Ukraine as air defenses have hittered. Nearly 1,400 civilians were killed in the first six months of this year, a 37 percent increase from the same period in 2015 and a 14 percent increase compared with the year before, according to the United Nations.
Russian attacks have become
so frequent that Angelina Shostak, a 36-year-old Kyiv resident, said on Thursday that she started every evening by setting out three chairs in her apartment's corridor: one for her, one for her mother and one for her husband.
Ms. Shostak said that her mother could not get to an under-ground shelter quickly, so her family was left hoping that harrowing down in the corridor, with two walls separating them from the outside, would be enough to
shield them from a strike or falling debris.
Her husband, who has served in the Ukrainian Army, bought headphones to protect his ears from the noise of explosions and of missiles roaring overhead, Ms. Shostak said.
"Before, we had hope, confidence that the air defense would interrupt most of the missiles," she added. "But now, when we don't have enough to shoot them down with, we're all constantly on edge."
Ukrainians
Struggling With Lack Of Groceries
By KIM BARKER and
OLERIANISIA MTRIGEYMYN
KYIV, Ukraine — There was no disgusting the gaps in the usually well-stocked shelves of the Silpe supermarket in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, this week. They had no barley, buckwheat, guinea or rice. No spring onions or packaged lettuce, and just one handy, without hands of cilantro.
For the first time since the initial months after the 2022 recession, the city's residents are experiencing shortages of a wide range of grocery staples because of Russian ballistic missile strikes on critical distribution centers.
"It's a nightmare, a nightmare," said a Silpe shopper, Nina Kirichuk, 67, a retired hairdresser, her son carrying bread and two kinds of herring. "I'm horrified. I wanted to buy sugar, but I looked and there wasn't any. And there's an entire section over there that's completely empty. I didn't even go in there. I don't want to look at it and upset myself."
Moscow's missiles struck at least four warehouses for one supermarket supply company on Aug. 5, killing at least six workers; and severely disrupting the supply of food to multiple store chains. The effects have been kin mainly to the capital, but also at far-flung places like Zaporizhzhie in southeastern Ukraine.
Early Thursday, Russia again targeted food warehouses near Kyiv, although the extent of the damage from the missile strikes was not yet clear.
Missiles have also destroyed a warehouse for another supermarket chain, a distribution center for Russian, an online shopping site, and a sorting center for Ukraine's national postal service. Warehouses of major Ukrainian book publishers have been repeatedly hit this summer.
The attacks have come as the air war has intensified, with Ukraine building up its offensive capabilities and Russia taking advantage of Ukraine's dreadings and defenses.
In the first few years after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, the Kremlin asserted that it hit only military-related targets in Ukraine, even as it pain-moted cities and the power grid.
MARTIN KLEIN, USN
Smoke from a Russian strike on a food warehouse in Kyiv,
Ukraine. Moscow's air war is targeting supermarket warehouses.
Now it has dropped that pretense. Ukraine still maintains that it avoids civilian targets, though it has deployed its long-range drawn against Russia's oil industry, the engine of the Russian economy. Recently, it has also hit warehouses of Wildberries, Russia's version of Amazon, claiming many of its products have military applications.
For years, fully stocked Ukrainian supermarkets have been a symbol of how the country has done its best to preserve normal life through Russian shellings.
But over the past week, grocery chains admitted shortages. Sippilars of dairy products, meat and foods produce have dreadful. At a corner shop in Kyiv, the only produce remaining were six nearby avocados and the papery skins of a few onions and garlic herbs. Specialty items like cumes had disappeared from another store, along with paper plates and plastic crickets.
"Am I the only one these empty shelves are starting to make good?" an aspiring beauty influencer posted on social media, adding that the fuel bought the last four packs of baby formula at one store after settling out at another.
Svetlana Petrychuk, 50, said she was most worried that she would not be able to buy a certain brand of dog food for her forbidden service, Lord, Ms. Petrychuk got Lord about two and a half years ago, after suffering a stroke in the aftermath of three nearby Russian drone strikes, the shelter suggested that a dog might relieve stress.
"The shortages in warehouses said the fact that some food is currently missing from supermarket shelves worries me much less," Ms. Petrychuk said. "We, as people, can easily make do with whatever food is available."
Luckily for Lord, she found the
dog food at the second store she checked.
Grocery chains said they hoped to fully rework their inventory by Moshita (Ukraine's Independence Day, although Thursday's attacks may make that difficult.
On social media, some Ukrainians piled about the return of the Soviet Union, before its breakup in 1991, such shortages were common.
Some older customers remember famines throughout Ukraine's history as if they happened yesterday, and have stockpiled canned foods and inspire like sugar, pasta and food.
"I could live for an entire month without buying anything, except bread," said Nika Slimeirovna, 76, who made a practice of stockpiling well before the war.
The Silpe supermarket chain has tried to address the shortages with Ukraine's typical tourism and dark humor. Marving Russia while also killing people in just hold on, Orange-and-white signs display poems about the hardship, with blank spaces in each case where customers can write their own reactions.
Russia — probably — hoped this would be our end — and bring any secret out here we have anger — new ideas and — gratitude — for our people," one sign said.
Another said: "+@%+ who knew only how — to burn things unfortunately — they burned these products but everyone who creates — and nurtures it already bringing — new ones here."
Nevus, another supermarket chain, posted a simpler sign near its empty shelf at milk in a store in Kyiv. "This product has been destroyed from rustia," it said, not even granting that country a capital. It, "New packages are on the way."
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the Pacific coast bordering Panama, Chocó is crisscrossed by dense jungle and rivers and known for its distinctive culture, festivals and cuisine. But many residents, politicians and historians attribute the vigilant initiative to state neglect and structural racism. The earthquake weakened many of the already fragile links tying it to the rest of the country.
While the death toll was high in major cities with higher population density and taller buildings, Chocó faces a different kind of catastrophe, said the governor, Nubia Carolina Córdoba, from her office in Qubah.
"The dimension of the tragedy in Chocó lies in how many living people today have nothing," she said. "In how many months of suffering, pain, hunger and homelessness await those who survived."
In San José del Palmar, the remote town closest to the earthquake's epicenter, residents have spent days sleeping outdoors, afraid that another tremor could bring down already weakened homes. Two days before the earthquake, residents had been frightened by drone attacks attributed to an armed group.
Landslides from the earthquake around the town's only road, forcing relief workers to rely on helicopters to deliver all food, water and other supplies.
The earthquake has brought an unusual burst of national attention to a region that has long complained of being overlooked. President Abelardo De La Espirida, who took office three days before the quake, has visited Chocó twice in his first week in office, an national officials and private aid groups have descended on the region.
"The situation right now is distressing," said Mariluz Rodríguez, the chair of San José del Palmar's City Council. The municipality is small and has few resources, she said, and even before the earthquake, it had struggled not only with poor infrastructure, but also frequent landslides.
"We have only one access road," she said on Friday as a helicopter dropping off and whipped the heated air around her. "We have no connection with the rest of the department of Chocó."
Yonkerla Ibargüen, 27, said her two children had become terrified of the afterthocks.
"It's been so agonizing. Honestly, it's been deeply unnerving," said Ms. Ibargüen, the youngest daughter sometimes wakes up saying that she walls are falling, she said. "She points over there, and I tell her, 'No, sweetheart, nothing's falling, nothing's falling at all.'"
Crows from Helistar, a private air ambulance company, have flown into tiny communities across Chocó that can consist of only a dozen houses, picking up injured residents and delivering emergency supplies. In some places, there are no formal landing sites. Residents pro-
Annie Correal contributed reporting.
People trying to recover belongings from their homes in La Ve at Union Panamericana, a village in Chocó. The quake killed at least 298 people across Colombia.
Aid supplies bound for San José del Palmar, where a reconstruction effort will have to overcome the same barriers that have shaped the area for generations.
A doctor from Helistar, a private air ambulance company, caring for a young pregnant woman who was hurt when her home collapsed during the quake.
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'The dimension of the tragedy in Chocó lies in how many living people today have nothing. In how many months of suffering, pain, hunger and hemohueness await those who survived.'
NUBIA CAROLINA CORDOB, governor of Chocó, left, with Shalava, who has visited the area to raise awareness.
ride a location by identifying GPS coordinates and open fields where helicopters can land.
In Des Quétendes, a small Indigenous community of the Eastern Kain people, a medical helicopter flew into the mountains to evacuate Eliza Nuguna Murr, a 17-year-old who was eight months pregnant, when her home collapsed, breaking her leg and leaving her unable to walk. Members of a civilian patrol known as the Indigenous guard carried her from the house and loaded her into a stretcher as the helicopter hovered nearby.
She had never received personal care, said Dr. Adriana Valero, a physician with delusion, who resorted her. The rescuers did not know whether her lives was alive until she was aboard the helicopter and they detected a heartbeat.
The crew had flown through clouds, searching for a gap so that the pilot could be cured safely. A helicopter flight costs thousands of dollars on loan, said Dr. Valero. Helping has been donating the flights, she added.
Chocó has only one hospital with more than basic medical capabilities. In Upduh, which already struggled with shortages of supplies and equipment, David patients can wait weeks in the transferred elsewhere for urgent treatment.
Armed groups control some roads and waterways, making access unsafe. The IILN, one of Colombia's most powerful armed groups, repeatedly blocked roads and burned vehicles on the support's upleg routes in the woods before the earthquake, according to the governor and local news reports. Business owners and donors have called the governor's office asking whether it is safe to send trucks and machinery, leaving kidnappings, retention or burned vehicles.
The internet went down to Chocó immediately after the quake. People managed to send small emergency requests or doctors and rescuers safely because the governor had a personal Starfish satellite antenna mounted on her vehicle.
More than 200 school buildings were destroyed, disrupting local programs along with classes, according to the governor. National emergency housing subsidies are at limited use because there are few homes available to rent.
Some buildings that didn't collapse are still structurally unstable. Engineers have been traveling through the sorrowsy snowwing damaged buildings and marking those considered unsafe with spray paint.
Despite the displacement of thousands of people because of the quake, there are few signs of the kind of growing children even elsewhere after disasters. Most families have been taken in by relatives, friends or neighbors.
'We are poor but honorable,' said Ledy Manzana, 35, who was sleeping with her husband and two children in a relative's living room after the one-bedroom home her husband had built new destroyed. With an electricity to cook, the family relies on donated food and health of water.
Clockwise, from top left: In San José del Pulema, the remote town closest to the earthquake's epicenter, residents have spent days sleeping outdoors, afraid that another former could bring down already weakened houses; Ledy Manzana, trying to salvage her daughter's school note-hacks from what is left of their home; Luis Fernando Palacio, a priest at his church, El Sotice de los Milagros, in Chocó, which engineers devoted as unsuitable to cobaltic; and Yaraín Liliana Palencia, in front of her destroyed home.
The department is creating a 'bank of materials' to help residents rebuild, but Ms. Girdoka said full reconstruction would require direct national funding.
Mr. De La Espirada said that the tragedy presented a 'convenience opportunity' when he visited last week. 'I want to propose a special plan — a Marshall Plan for Chocó,' he said, without providing details. 'Don't fear how left to front for itself by the centralization of power in the field, as if it didn't exist.' In public comments on Monday, Mr. De La Espirada said that an early violation of the economic law was in the earthquake and about 35 trillion pesos (about $8.56 billion).
Shalava, the global superstar, raised funds to help students and rebuild schools, and started upland on Monday with Howard Buffon, the son of Warren Buffon.
In La Ye, most of the town's businesses, homes and other buildings, including the church, were destroyed or marked for demolition. Roots had collapsed into rooms filled with concrete and debris; some buildings stood creeknly.
Six days after the earthquake, residents sat on plastic chairs in the street outside what had been their stores, starting at what remained.
For many, there was little to fall back on. Work in La Ye is largely informal and don't refer.
'There is no major businesses here,' said Luis Fernando Palacio, 33, the town press. 'We live here relying on God's mercy and generosity.'
Yaraín Liliana Palacio, 18, no relation, lived with her. 19-year-old son on the second floor of a building whose upper level had collapsed in the quake, leaving the rooms open to the elements. She had escaped by jumping from a balcony, she said, following from with her husband and other mother and child in a borrowed room, while trying to make ends meet through whatever work she could find, including selling fruit and chewing.
'Material changes can satisfy us concerned,' she said. 'But what's gone won't come back.'
Death Spurs Young People To Take On Vietnam's Elite
By ISOMIER CATÓ
HAVLIK, Vietnam — A young woman in a red handle and with sunglasses stopped her motor. She just pass Tow Di on Nguyen May to listen to central Hanoi. She snapped a photo with her phone. She stared at the tree again. She hingered with defiance.
No one else was packed there at Auerbach or Tansilay in front of the quiet men in pairs with items of plainclothes authority — the mid-life manager dress shoes, the soldier thanks.
Tow Di, an everyone likely knew, was where an 18-year-old student, De Yngu Phuong Thua, was known as Mina, had been fat along with her father by a RMW. She died after being thrown from a motorbike just days before her university course. That was 19 months ago.
I was there this week to see whether flowers would arrive. The bright bouquets correspond well to something: kept delivering, photographing and sharing, on social media. The ones the police had recently removed. And I missed her word in their absence. It was with good reason.
On Monday night after an eruption of Gen Z outraged and creativity threat Memorial Tow Di, or 'The Town of Justice,' into the local zeitgeist, Vietnam's national broadcaster officially confirmed what many had long insisted: a former Communist Party official, Nguyen Sy Cuong, had been behind the wheel of that RMW.
The TV report said Mr. Cuong — who had been vice chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the National Assembly and such of this year — had caused the crash by illegally driving on the wrong side of the road. I also said that he was not pressurized because he had compensated the victors' relatives, and they chose not to press charges. In the egress, the victors' father, with his face obscured, urged people to move on. The report did not mention that Mr. Cuong's wife in Vietnam's minister of culture, sports and success.
Their powerful positions, some said, had kept the crash out of public view.
But in a one-party state that Harvard scholars have described as expensive but responsive, the official acknowledgment of a responsibility was an extraordinary concession to public pressure. Warning against 'supervision,' reprinting the incident on social media, 'the report reflected the improvement's deep concern about an unexpected youth movement that is pushing for accurate ability while officials are focused on economic growth.'
Adding to the sensitivity, the collective action comes after Gen Z activities toppled leaders to the public, and the authorities to Indonesia and continue to catch the power structure in India.
Hanoi officials had already warned state-run outlets to create a message of the youths' 'vulnerable' protests racking Tow Deith, according to a written notice shared among reporters. The internal guidance said the news article could be 'exposed for antispecerment purposes.'
Yet, for now a friend, Ministry's careful admissions in The born show no sign of weakening the resistance to what many are as sloppy propaganda and protection for the powerful.
On Wednesday, legal experts said the victim's family could not, simply, by declining to press charges, determine whether Mr. Cuong would be pressurized. On June, an electric critic's accused the state broadcaster of using A.I. to doctor a document that showed Mr. Cuong had passed a subscript test. Others questioned if it was really the victim's father in the report.
Their claims could not be independently verified. The accused did not respond to requests for comment. Mr. Cuong, reached by phone on Wednesday, said only, 'I am here. I cannot talk,' before sending to it.
By indebtedness, the original version of the news report had disappeared from YouTube.
All that public anger is about to make the crash of infantry, broader frustration with corruption, privilege and the mechanisms of secrecy that benefit
Tang Ngo contributed reporting
siders in a fast-changing society that has become more bifurcated by wealth and political connections.
As one commenter wrote on Threads on Wednesday, letting Mr. Cuong solacept criminal prosecution simply continue that the country's legal system 'creates loopholes so that the rich can stuff money and power into them, while the poor cannot.'
Party over who gets to police both behavior and experience has also fueled the backlash. Censorship, in fact, touched off its rise.
On July 31, a copper known as MCR announced that he would scrub digital platforms for several songs that cultural authorities had deemed vulgar from his new hit album.
That's when Mr. Cuong's wife, Lain Thi Phuong Thuah, the minister of culture since April, became a target of success university.
Within days of MCR's training, Threads lit up with questions about why there was so little information made public about the crash at May 26, 2025, involving her husband.
On Aug. 12, Lain Khan, an independent Vietnamese news outlet run by former reporters for state-run media who have mostly left the country, required to be Nguyen Sy Cuong had become one of the platform's top topics, with over a million posts related to the crash.
The next day, a Facebook page about Vietnamese politics passed an announcement saying that the authorities had requested that Facebook 'continuance' block those of my posts about Nguyen Sy Cuong.'
Then security video from a nearby building surfaced and started to spread out.
It showed the RMW, a sport utility vehicle, smashing into the tree with a motorbike against its grill. A man gets out, seemingly uninjured, and can be seen approaching where Mina and her father have been thrown. A woman with a strong resemblance to Ms. Thuah emerges from the passenger side as a crowd gathers. She heads away from the scene,
The powerful concede that an ex-official caused a crash.
returns to collect something from the front seat, then walks away. In the brief clip, neither drove nor passenger rushed to help the wounded.
Another eruption of social media outrage followed, with some quoting 'Animal Force' and 'The Hunger Games' accusing Ms. Thuah of trying to protect herself and her husband after entire interview orders spread out of the posts.
Mina, which owns Facebook and Threads, did not respond to a request for comment but may or may not report on Vietnam shows a rise in censorship, with restrictions placed on more than 5,000 items in the last six months of 2025 in response to requests from the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Public Security.
Undeterred, people found other ways to make their sadness and anger known. They believed flowers to be delivered to the base of Tow Di. Users passed phone of a growing, colorful pair until the afternoon of Aug. 14, when another set of images made the rounds — showing the bouquets being removed by the police and thrown into a disloyal.
Then the Threads community turned to white rillions, tying them on backpacks, as symbols of student promise.
Armed the same time, some one created a virtual Memorial Tow hustleel Di.
'Best to peace down there, no-tot,' said one of the many notes left at the site. 'On Gen Z will handle everything.'
The government has yet to mention or not off access to the collection.
Ms. Thuah could not be reached for comment on Wednesday. She and her husband did not appear to the state television report — a point some critics interpreted as a lack of remorse.
In the void, messages of support for Mina and calls for accountability continue to multiply.
Flowers this month at the site of a crash that killed a student, 28, last year in Hanoi, Vietnam, days before her university exams.
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Harva's Devotion to British Upbringing May Be Behind a Royal Return
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my children and a place I want there to feel at home as much as where they live at the moment in the U.S.' in a statement read out by his lawyer during a court hearing over security for his family.
"They want their child to be in grew up as British citizens so much as American's, and far between, the author of 'After Elizabeth', the De Meisseling Save to the United of Britain at the time of Historical Society. "They want their children to imbibe the roads, cars, visitors, history, heritage of their father's country."
"Of course," he added quickly, "there are other factors at play here."
The most significant of them may be the chance to further repair Harry's relationship with his father, who was diagnosed with cancer in 1824. Buckingham Palace has said that Charles King is spending well in treatment, but in the BBC interview last year, Harry said, "I don't know how much longer my father has."
The BBC interview was the latest turn in a remarkably public war of words equal from across the Atlantic by Harry and Meghan over the last six years. In an interview with Uprah Winfrey, a book called "Space" and a six days' loss, the documentary, Harry unloaded the news message to a man who hears number of the royal family had done it on.
"But created the kind of split that some families aren't come back."
In 2005, Harry met with his father for ten at the Iraqi's London Stadium, in what appeared to be the first ring toward President of the United States. The American father and son appeared to share a bit more when Harry and Meghan were in the first direction on a trip to Britain. The family met privately with Charles and
the British government.
The British government is a very fine in the United States.
"I think I don't know how much longer my father has."
The BBC interview was the latest turn in a remarkably public war of words equal from across the Atlantic by Harry and Meghan over the last six years. In an interview with Uprah Winfrey, a book called "Space" and a six days' loss,
the documentary, Harry unloaded the news message to a man who hears number of the royal family had done it on.
In 2005, Harry met with his father for ten at the Iraqi's London Stadium, in what appeared to be the first ring toward President of the United States.
The possibility of spending most left with his long two months from the day upcoming move, it seems unlikely that a similar rapprochement is in the works with Harry's father, and the Prince of Wales. William is said to be furious about Harry's decision
to write a toll-all book. In the BBC interview, Harry contended that "some members of my family will never forgive me."
Catherine Mayes, the author of "Divide and Ruin: Royal Women and Their Barriers," said that, based on his public interest and his willingness to even deny with Harry, it appeared that William was "not ready to repair things, this is the only time that level of trust necessary to do so."
The added "Bank William and
Harry have to be carrying the trauma from their childhood and that will conspire their own family to adjust her."
There is also the issue of security. Harry has said for years that he could not return to Britain until the government removed the police protection it withdrew while he stopped being a working member of the royal family.
No other people thinking to that decision earlier this year. Asked about the issue on Thurs-
day, Prime Minister Andy Burns said that the question about the proper level of security for Harry and Meghan was a private matter "for their family."
His Örenne mentioned Harry's decision to move back with the officer of Edward VIII, who said, "I have been forced to think in mind of which Simpson. 'They never managed to reconcile with the wider British royal family,' he said. 'They died sort of embarrassed and abse and estranged."
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from the family and living abroad."
And then there is the British man.
Harry all but declared war on the country's national journalism over the past decade, accusing them of a mental leveling theory at the family's expense. He "has court cases against the publishers of The Daily Mirror and The Sun for phone banking and the pair of private investigators. More recently, his claims of begging and wrongsaging by The Daily Mail were disobeyed by the court.
Now that they have been are settled, it remains to be seen how Harry and Meghan will be treated by their critics in the media.
Royal observers said on Thursdays, they say that the family is try to keep low profits, in part by likely choosing a place to live with outside London and far from the ultimate board there.
If at that may be difficult to do in practice, given the ways Harry and Meghan finance their life-ways, which include high-profile charities, the Netflix deal and other public activities.
Mr. Mayes noted that most of their work was "fairly high-probably. I can't think that you're going to see them disappearing."
Either way, the family's return to Britain is certain to be noticed in the public, which remains pariafated about Harry and Meghan.
Recent surveys have shown that the broader public views both of them negatively, especially if the British government is their own and his wife, Kate. But the couple remains popular with Britain's young people.
"In that respect, some of the positivity that might come out of this move could rule off on the monarchy as well," Mr. Örenne said, "it is time when it continues to struggle to interact with young people."
A Timeline of the Royal Couple's Rupture With Britain
By EFRENY LEYN
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are moving back to Britain more than six years after leaving behind their lives as working members of the royal family and moving to the United States.
The couple began during about a decade ago and married in 2016. She is an American actress, three years old, whose, because, divorced and vocal about her views, and their union seemed to udder of a new, more inclusive modern era for the British royal family.
They have two children, Prince Archie, born in London in May 2008, and Princess Lillian, born in California in June 2013.
The couple struggled with the family, and the couple moved their102 house, where the press targeted the duchess, and left in 2020.
Here is a timeline of their family with their royal union and with their own life. American life they have fed since.
ESTIMATE AND NUGMA and Prince Harry say they are taking an weeks off from royal duties later in 2016. The couple also started to be their work first Christmas on Vancouver Island, Canada, pre-2016, retrospect, the holiday haired of things to come.
AMOUNT 2000 The Duke and Duke, one of Sussex, announce their own mission to the royal family. The couple are now role in the British community, saying they will "buy back
an 'swept' members of the Royal Family" and "work to become a nausially independent while continuing to fully support the 'bigs way' The Queen." They did not get themselves from Queen Elizabeth II because announced them, who was off a crisis in the royal family.
Buckingham Palace says soon after that the couple will stop using their father-royal mine, gave up one funding and repay at least $3 million in taxpayer money that had been used to rehabilitate their official residence at Windsor Castle.
WHERE 2000 The couple takes part in their final engagement as working retails. As of March 31, they are no longer full-time working members of the House of Windsor.
SEPTEMBER 2000 The couple, having travelled in California, moved into Hollywood careers. They found a production company — later named Lockwood Produce, who — and sign a employee deal with Netflix to make documents into documents, feature films, scripted shows and children's programming.
FEBRUARY 2011 A little more than a year after Harry and Meghan announced their plans to stop back from the royal duties, Buckingham Palace announces that the couple "confirmed to the Majesty The Queen that they will not be working as working members of The Royal Family." Queen Elijah built it had made clear she would
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, at the World Series in L.A. in 2025. They moved for California in 2020.
not tolerate a split-in, half-out arrangement with the couple.
MARCH 2010 In a household interview with Uprah Winfrey on CBS, Meghan reveals that she struggled with outside thoughts after her marriage, describing a royal life that began as a fairy tale but quickly turned suffocating and cruel. She raises issues of race and privilege in the most startled-ochness of British society in an interview that shows an awkward and at times unfallovering light on the British royal family.
JUNE 2010 Princess Lillian of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan's second child, is born in a California hospital.
JUNE 2010 Prince Harry and Meghan attend Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Adoles together in Britain.
SEPTEMBER 2010 Queen Elizabeth II, then, and Harry and Meghan around the school, where Meghan's every move is scrutinized, particularly following revelations over the years of the Royal Family, and her husband and her husband and his brother, Prince William, and his wife, Kate Middleton.
SEPTEMBER 2010 Meghan and Prince Harry's Netflix discussion premieres, with the couple revealing over more about their difficulties with relatives and particularly with the British press.
JANUARY 2010 Prince Harry or hears the897, 'Space' (wondering his own struggles with members of his family.
MAY 2010 Prince Harry attends the coronation of his father, King Charles III, without his wife, who warns in the United States. He warns shortly after "sure".
MARCH 2010 Meghan launches a lifestyle show on Netflix, called, "With Love, Meghan," that show her making, gardening and hanging out with friends. It acts for not so soon, followed by a Christmas special. In March 2010, Meghan's accompanying lifestyle brand A9 over and Netflix announce the brand of going independent.
AUGUST 2010 The population company for the business signs a new Netflix deal, worth less for the repair than that last year.
MAY 2010 The duke and duchess and their two children meet for the first time in years with King Charles III and Queen Cecilia. According to Buckingham Palace, The visit, a sign of a divorce between Harry and his three-pronges speculation about whether the couple is making the way back to the first.
AUGUST 2010 Prince Harry and the family are moving back to Britain in the upcoming weeks, two people familiar with their decision after The Times. Harry and Meghan will remain non-working retails.
Deployment
Over Carrier Is Returning To the U.S.
By JOHN SWEET
The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln's work in the Middle East is complete, and the ship, along with its crew of about 1,000 sailors, began to put over home to San Diego on Thursday after nine months of deployment. Another example for adjustment George Washington, has taken the Lincoln's place.
L.S. official confirmed the Lincoln's departure, which was already in by American troops, who heads U.S. Central Command, in an opinion essay about the Abraham Lincoln published in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
"Gudgand and enjoy the well-deserved restation state," the author रहे seven.
The Abraham Lincoln has been returned in the Middle East as part of American operations against him. Reports began surfacing in recent weeks about poor quality of life aboard the ship. The ship was also a "shelvingly brought about by Iran's destruction of a Navy base in Missoula, Bahrain, that served as a vital supply hub.
The Abraham Lincoln departed San Diego on Nov. 21 of last year, and has spent the return of those 272 days at sea, save for a brief stop in Guam in December and the other 2nd day after six nights. Thousands of sailors aboard the ship have not had any days off to rest, and now have a roughly 12,000-mile voyage home, which is now in the United States.
Democratic lawmakers have tried reports of destroying of basic supplies, water contamination, plumbing issues and deteriorating the ship's operations in the carrier. Admiral Cooper called many of these issues "old never" in his opinion essay.
In a social media post on Saturday, the government, which shows military operations in the region, worked the Lincoln "bigs way" of the U.S. and the United States. The disband Navy farewell that references the spot and the Thursday another post said the U.S.S. George Washington had arrived in the United States, and the rearing under Central Command's control on Wednesday.
The Navy is maintaining about 20 earnings in the Middle East because of the Persian Gulf: two carrier strike groups centered around the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush and the George Washington, one amphibious metal group carried out by the United States's U.S. Navy. And several destroyers that are unhearing President Trump's renewed blockade of Iranian ports, which has entered in 2016 day.
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By SHAN'S HUBLER
and LYDIA LUBEN KOPKA
LOS ANGELES — It was the world's famous-breathing change in addition to the starving in the United States amid a parallel and stable break with the royal family. Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, Markie, were returning to Britain.
The Telegraph, a total British newspaper, provided the news with the most prized of Fleet Street Swann's "Exclusive."
THE GLOBE, a "The Great" (a trumpeted The Sun, a trifleish old址) is also chaired "WORLD IS A CLUSTER" for good manners.
She is Mammoth, the most popular in the world. She has an unternutly where the couple have lived since 2005, world of several deplorers spread at the one place, following.
Harry and Meghan went into old-engaged units, now by family heads in Buckingham Palace and there to carve out their own professional duties.
Mammoth, where they settled, is about 100 miles northwest of Buckingham, the indigenous where Ms. Markie grew up and gained some prominence of her own as an actor before their 2004 marriage. The community has a population of fewer than 4,000 people and an idyllic landscape dotted with the second broken at these business people and manned Californians.
In Wednesday, some residents wondered whether the royal couple might have taken control of the war rate of their marriage in the enclave, whether it had granted their relative anonymity.
But now the Sounness were pulling up orders to time for their own children, Archie, Luke, Luke, and John, 1, to start school in Britain in September.
In interviews in Mammoth and nearby Santa Barbara, one of the only-related with nonchalance, in though they had gained a carrying out a few streets over.
The very professional actor, Stephen, lives in such their own," said Ryan Jones, 71, a Wake Forest University student from Mammoth. He was taking an evening break through the 1,000-1,000-hundred-hundred-hundred hours and gold-released women abroad at home.
But Russell, N. who has lived in the national pyramid community since high school, said he knew all
about the couple and believed it happened there from all, so he what he thought of their leaving, he had not word: "Nothing."
"They are go-down they want," Mr. Russell said.
Another who saw the couple died, Avery's upcoming, said she had been surprised.
Gian Pessimio, 72, who lives around the corner from the country's guest estate in the River Rock area of Mammoth, said that though she often saw the family while walking her dog, she had "no idea they were moving."
"We don't really know them. They were, they don't. They close the gates," Ms. Pessimio said. So it has gone for the time that the state and Duchess of Sussex and their two children have lived in Southern California: international lines, low local profits.
Their multi-million-dollar component was in an area suitable for tall privacy hedges and guard ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು.
The ultrawealthy neighbors have included Jeff, Holguy, Bob Lowe, Conyards Patterson, Orkman Bloom, Raly Perry, Oprah Winfrey and many others.
The couple thinks their 2012 documentary series "Harry & Meghan," episodes of which Netflix said were viewed in more than 20 million households, at a nearby Mediterranean-style estate. Wednesday, at a gathering screen the road by a worsening pool, a woman held the hand of a small child and a wine glass. No one at the party wanted to talk.
Ray Lee, a Santa Barbara County supervisor whose district was the first time to be in the city, said to see the couple go and that they had been a "big part of the community."
Other residents said that Harry and Meghan were immensely new for their civic involvement than for their security supporters. They had little personal interaction with the couple but leave their bodyguards, dog walkers, canisters and assistance on sight.
Neighbors remained awkward manners when errant dogs dazed onto the couple's property on the ground. They were also friends accidentally on off alarms while trying to drop off, not a birthday, but they wanted for one of the Sussex children.
In April, the couple's black L.S.T. pulled up abruptly at Little Mammoth, a big Mammoth restaurant, and the Sounness was a very secret year: regular delivery waiting for a ticket, through the front door and into a private dining room. (The actor Michael Rader, who was up on the same night.)
The protection was a necessary inconvenience, the couple often said.
When Harry and Meghan first moved to California, the papercast went on television that the couple had been in the United States, and named defendants of deploying drones and telephone drones to take unauthorized phones of Archie, their inׂهمات old, but 2013 interview with Ms. Winfrey, the one-
der revealed how racist attacks by the British schools had created Meghan's mental health.
An owner of the Mail Dept. & Englishman Mike 1,000 benefit Bivens, said that she and her partner were observed on social media in 2013 after they gave a trip to aırdıse on his family birthday and the one-her son.
"We didn't fully appreciate how many people dislike Meghan," Ms. Bivens wrote in an email. But Ms. Bivens, whose husband is a little more content of the people, said the duchess "was so kind" and hoped for family would "be happy when I ever they lead."
Elizabeth Holden, a Los Angeles-based business who has won an frequently about the royal family, said "a single name that Prince Harry and Ms. Markie would return to this company, as the declining health of King Charles III.
"What remains to be seen is what one royal life looks like for the Sounness in the U.S., then when you know, British ladies' attention will they get" said the couple. "Mammoth is the third children, will that be able to continue?" Ms. Holden said.
Ms. Jones, the college student, said that though England — every one of the people who have been married — might be the right move now for the Sounness, he would make a different choice.
"I would stay here," Mr. Jones said. "Can't beat the weather."
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War in the Middle East
Trump Threat Puts Focus on Partners Trading With Iran
By LEO SANDS
President Trump has threatened "overlooked economic consequences" on any nation that does business with Iran, without offering details. The threat appeared to be his latest efforts to make the country from the global economy and pressure its leadership into negotiating an end to the war.
The United States has already imposed debilitating sanctions on Iran's economy and its leadership, and the Trump administration has previously sanctioned certain foreign businesses and organizations that trade with Tehran. Mr. Trump's support worded social media post on Wednesday seemed to suggest that he could target nations that buy Iranian oil, oil, and other oil.
The president has, on occasion, backed down from such threats. Foreign Minister Afshar Araghchi of Iran dismissed his latest work on the "Russia-Israel" from America's own crises.
If Mr. Trump follows through these are some of the countries that could be most affected.
China
China is Iran's largest trading company in China. Keish Bradleher and Siyi Zhao contributed research.
partner and the primary consumer of its oil, according to recent analysis by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a group founded by Congress to examine America's bilateral ties to China.
For years, China has been practically alone in its willingness to defy Western sanctions on Iranian oil, buying up to as much as 90 percent of Tehran's oil exports. In recent months, however, Iran's ability to ship oil by sea has been lifted out off by a U.S. naval blockade.
Last year, China estimated its bilateral trade with Iran to be worth nearly $20 billion, a figure that doesn't include oil.
But Iran is Chinese perspective, that is a drop in the ocean compared to the size of its overall economy, said William Figueroa, an expert in Chinese-Iranian relations at the University of Guangxi on its the Netherlands. "It wouldn't be catastrophic for China if it was to have to trade or its ability to export Iranian oil (inpected)" he said.
The biggest advantage Beijing draws from that trade relationship is geopolitical, said Andrea Ghiselli, a political scientist who specializes in China at the University of Exeter in England. Beijing has some interest in preserving
the Iranian regime as a them in the sale of the United States, he said.
Mr. Ghiselli described the intent of oil that China imports from Iran as marginal, and said that "it can easily be swapped out" for other sources on the global market.
In response to a question on Thursday about the possible effects of coercive U.S. economic measures, the Chinese foreign economy's spokesman, Lin Jian, called for oil parties to resolve their differences through diplomatic channels.
"Sanctions and pressure will not help solve the problem," he said.
India
Iran was once India's most important energy supplier. But U.S. has taken have pushed how they to reduce ties, and the value of trade between the two countries has shrunk dramatically in recent years, according to official data from the Indian News Agency.
The data estimates that in the 2023-24 financial year, total financial costs was $1.65 billion, down sharply from over $27 billion in 2016-17.
In 2018, India stopped buying Iranian oil (designed to under pressure from his "strong in the hard" market) year, before officials said the country mainly imported ap-
ples, pistachios, dates and kives from Iran.
United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Turkey and Pakistan
These four Iranian trading partners also appear vulnerable to the United States. Israel Exhausted: Rotransghoid, chief executive in the Beaver & Bazaar Foundation, 1 London-based think tank for Israel on Iran's economy.
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates appeared to pre-empt the president's comments by announcing a trade in oil trade and financial transactions with Iran, according to data from the World Trade Organization, Iranian-Euro
Oil tankers moored in Hong Kong. China imports a marginal share of oil from Iran.
141 trade was worth roughly $20 billion in 2024. The Emirati decision could affect the ability of Iranian importers to pay for goods, as one of these financial services are provided through the Emirates, Mr. Rotransghoid said.
Pakistan and Turkey have so far been relatively disabled from U.S. economic measures against Tehran. In the they have been used significant method trade with Iran, Mr. Rotransghoid said.
In 2022, the latest year for which World Trade Organization data was available, Iran inspected more than 321 billion worth of goods from Turkey, to start largest source of imports that year.
For both Pakistan and Turkey, it is politically and provisionally very important that both these countries would have gone relationship with Iran," said Mr. Rotransghoid. "And I think this is where the Trump administration is really going to struggle."
Racist Studies, a researcher at the Royal United Services Institute research group in London, said Iraq was also responsible for U.S. economic pressure because of the continued trade with Iran.
But Dr. Ozzieh said that broader sanctions on Iran's trade are putative. "We're far more complicated to impose, and that implementing does 'not be slow, unseen and difficult to monitor' it was far from time, the added, that the most pressure would produce the political behavior Trump is seeking.
NEWS ANALYSIS
As Iran and the U.S. Settle Into an Uneasy Standoff, Who Will Blink First?
By YELANGHI THRANT
YELANGHI. — They are not seriously negotiating, nor are they shooting at each other. Instead, Iran and the United States have settled into an uneasy, in-between state that rules either a return to fighting or a hardening statement.
In the case of the international status are calculations, perhaps miscalculations, by each side.
Iranian officials believe they have more to gain from understanding U.S. economic pressure and maintaining control over the threat of Herman than they do from making major concessions in a negotiated deal, and also that, and the United States do, peers to be betting that putting Iran in a tighter economic strategy is a major issue. Some ordinary strikes have not. On Wednesday, President Trump vowed to impose "overlooked economic consequences" on countries that do business with Iran.
So far, neither the United States nor Iran has gotten what it wants.
When the countries agreed to a cease-fire two months ago, it was supposed to put them on a path to a broader deal within 60 days, covering Iran's major program and the lifting of U.S. sanctions. That deadline passed this week and, on Tuesday, Mr. Trump said he occupied the three were "no talks or cancerous ones" going on or scheduled.
Instead, the two countries are "in a state of constant limbo," that leader supposed to underuse professor at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po in Paris. "Not that much has fundamentally changed over the past several months," she added, "beyond a further entrenchment of the Iranian position and its 'strong, so far announced, U.S. efforts to find some kind of way out."
This month, Tehran issued a list of demands on Washington for reopening the threat of Her-
A poster of three supreme leaders at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran. So far, neither the United States nor Iran has gotten what it wants.
man, which sits along Iran's southern coast and is a major transit point for much of the world's oil.
The demands included the removal of sanctions, the release of frozen assets and the payment of war reparations. Similar conditions were previously mentioned as being part of a possible future deal between the two sides — outlined in a memorandum of understanding that was agreed to have but quickly uncovered.
For weeks, Iran has been negotiating with Oman over future management of the striol, but the list of demands sug-
gested that, even in the event of a deal, Iranian forces would continue to threaten and attack remaining marine traffic. At least two ships have been attacked in the striol in recent days.
"Having recovered from the initial shock of the war, Tehran is now determined to disinterested strength," said Mehrzad Bertaz, jech, head of the College of Arts, Sciences and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. "Its reorganization of the threat of Herman and hard-line bargaining in parallel talks with the United States and Oman should be understood in that
context," he added.
Over the past few months, President Trump's rhetoric has swung between threats of an obligation and problems that a diplomatic deal was clear.
If that approach was meant to scare Iranian officials into making concessions, it seems to have had the opposite effect. The same appeal to have become convinced that Mr. Trump is unwitting to fully enlisten the "the threatens to raise oil prices and has been repopular with the American public, especially before endemic elections.
"Iran appears to believe the
United States will eventually tire of an expensive, open-ended confrontation," said Alex Shumala, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based research group.
At the same time, the United States has emphasized the economic pressure on Iran.
Mr. Trump's case in Iran and seven, Israel Kushner, told Fox News on Monday that Iranian officials were "not showing any interest in doing something that makes sense for us." When asked where radio stood, he pointed to a naval blockade aimed at far from bubbling Iran's economy as
Mr. Trump's current focus. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said no social media that the blockade remained in half effect. He also asserted that Iran had won fully open, even as maritime officials noted the attacks on ships on credit.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott S. B. said in an interview with Newman recently that his department planned to apply measures that "have never been seen in the history of the economic isolation" of a country.
Iran's rulers have survived international economic pressure before, though they did agree to concentrate on their nuclear program in 2018 after a coverting up of sanctions during the Obama administration.
Given Tehran's stance so far, the immediate cost of sanctions will most likely be borne by the Iranian people, who are already struggling to afford basic goods.
In the face of American sanctions, Iran, "will try to transfer the resulting economic pain onto its population for as long as possible, testing that Washington's British first," Mr. Bertaz said of the Missouri University of Science and Technology said.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayasollah Muptaie Khanemet, has appointed hard-line business to key military positions, signaling his intent to keep the country on their fighting, as the strong self-degrading would probably drag in regional energy infrastructure, U.S. bases in the Middle East and commercial shipping, Mr. Yelaghi said.
For one, it appears just as likely that the existence will continue with the core issues unresolved — including Iran's economic agenda and the striol of Herman.
"The longer this hedge步伐, the more unintended," he becomes and the leader it is to construct an off-range that either side can prevent an anything other than a concession," Mr. Graywells said.
An Economic Lifeline for Iran Is Abruptly Severed, Closing a Portal to the World
By PRANAD RAKKAR
For years, the United Arab Emirates has been a lifeline for more than 1,000 countries, meaning, despite political tensions between the two countries.
But that relationship is now described after the Emirates on economic crisis, a change on trade and transactions with the Islamic republic. If the threat holds, Iran would lose out just a major market for its goods but a portal to the world's most of its players now.
Also at Hazarib, an Emirati Foreign Minister's spokeswoman, said the decision had been made "a light of regional escalations."
The "revolutionary" situation, Tuesday, highlights both the depth of the economic relationships in the Iran has confirmed across the Gulf region and the order they are now. The Arab world's major economic States and Israel began in late February and Iran's erosion blockade of the literal of Herman have dampened growth across Gulf countries, thriving the ever-
gy experts these nations rely on. Here is what to know about Iran's trade relationships in the
The Economic 'Long of Iran
Lusand just 30 miles across the Persian Gulf from Iran, the Emirati Arab trade with its neighbor for centuries. Today, it hasn't been dwelt of thousands of Iranians and is Tehran's most important trading partner in the Gulf region, and it is said.
In 2024, the Emirates supplied about 1,000 of Tehran's imports, according to World Trade Organization data, for tying key{warcoses and the Arab world's major market goods to the Islamic republic. It is also one of Iran's top or part destinations, particularly for major products like food and food.
"Over the years, these ties have made the Emirates — and particularly its largest city, Dubai — key to Iran's efforts to make international sanctions, experts say, ex-
pecially as a hub for re-exporting Iranian goods around the world.
The U.A.S. has been described as the long of Iran, the means through which the Iranian economy can access the global economy," said Andrew Little, a "fide the East expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Emirati ties with Iran have elicited complaints and pressure from American authorities in the past. Emirati officials say that they crack down on sanctions violations when they find them and deny that their country helps Iran dodge the restrictions.
The Ethical of an Emirati Embargo Through Iran and the Emirates has heads for political and security reasons, analysts said they have maintained trade ties over the years for their mutual benefit. Mr. Leher said the decision to enforce an embargo would be a "major cognate," but experts differed on how much it would affect Iran's economy.
Economic growth is strained in the United Arab Emirates.
"This move is unlikely to be the governments move that breaks the month's back when it comes to the Iranian economy," said Robert Shigetsovich, a Gulf economy expert at the International Institute, a research group. He said Iran has held its own way to create external shocks and prioritize "self-sufficiency" arguing that the United Arab is only dependent on the U.A.S."
What Models of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank, said that the United Arab Emirates is a major "most consequential economic action of the war for Iran," and it is not a "most significant than the embargo being put on by the United States." He argued that
with other naval blockades in the region, the Emirati trade could be used for particularly guarding. It is also a central new attitude, and swiftly the Emirati government will move to enforce a major pressure on national ties.
The Emirates here the threat of Iran's attacks on U.S. allies in the Gulf, leading off thousands of miniband and drovers.
The Emirati government did not specify when the decision to halt trade had been made or what had prompted it. Last week, the Emirates accused Iran of attacking an Emirati oil tanker Iran that through the literal of Herman. The embargo was announced over a few days after the movements occurred Iran of launching misinformation in the world, which is not a need.
In the face of Iran's attacks, the Emirati government has doubled down on its alliances with Israel and the United States. It is unclear if the United States played a role in the embargo decision. The announcement came hours after a
call from President Trump to the Emirati leader, Sheikh Mohammadi bin Zayed.
Other Self-Countries
Mr. Leher said there are long-term differences of the able trading communities on the Arab side of the Gulf (Iran), the example, is an important trading partner, with commerce between the Arab and the Arab, using only the past decade, even during periods of U.S. sanctions.
But other Gulf countries are less directly connected with the United Arab Emirates. Mr. Emirates in, Their tan to Iran are large. "Natural and non-engrowth!" Mark S. B. said.
Still, the war and Iran's attacks in the region have significantly affected Gulf economies. The International Monetary Fund has provided funds to the International Air Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the Emirates and Oman. The fund has also estimated up to a 7 percent total loss in output over the next five years in the Gulf.
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Seeing Risks in Trump's Order to Cut Military Exercises With S. Korea
By ERIC SCHMITT
and HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON — For years, the U.S. and South Korea military are have participated in one of the largest military exercises in the world, with thousands of troops from both countries preparing for possible North Korea aggression.
On President Trump's orders, the Pentagon included this year's exercises and scaled back some of both companies of the U.S. which were already under pressure.
Current and former military officials say the more in likely to undercut U.S. military readiness in the region at a time when others are questioning the Trump administration's commitment to long-standing partnership and outsourcing China.
The government's decision is also unlikely to affect the person to hoped on ways: North Korea's director, Kim Jong-un.
The exercises, called 'Ultra Freedom Shield, usually run for 3 days and have been given to include all 12,000 or more U.S. troops and 10,000 South Korean troops. In June years, the session have been hired since computer simulations carried out in a large bunker south of the capital, Seoul, intended to check the effort to address in-repai a North Korean attack.
This year, some 10,000 South Korean troops were in take part in 'Ultra Freedom Shield.' The Pentagon has not said how many American troops had been expected to participate.
While both countries have in mind that the exercises were движение in nature, Mr. Kim has long called them provocative. North Korea's Foreign Ministry
has condemned the drills as "a rehearsal for an aggressive war."
The country concluded two hundred of made out-of-towns more than month, vowing to "respond to a new level of a threat with a new level of a deterrent."
Mr. Trump seemed to agree with North Korea, saying in a post on Sunday that the country under Mr. Kim had been "unthreatening and respectful" while he has been president.
The future comes here from through this before. Mr. Trump abruptly canceled the exercise in 2010 during his first administration, without confining (Administration's) Joe Muriel.
At the time, Trump administration officials said they wanted to give negotiations meant to rein in North Korea's nuclear conditions an opportunity to succeed. Mr. Trump met with Mr. Kim three times but ultimately failed in that goal.
Back then, officials said the military could continue into big interruption in the exercise schedule but that readiness would suffer if the drills tapped for several years.
After Mr. Trump's announcement on Sunday the Pentagon declined to say which specific training events would be canceled, modified or conducted through computer simulation. But former commanders said two main components would be affected: the testing of high-level command problems and other issues, and training for large units, on-the-ground fire fire and troop maneuvering.
Both are valuable from a military readiness perspective, commanders said. A Pentagon official,
John D. McKee, U.S. Army, 1-20-20
American and South Korean troops participating in the Ultra Freedom Shield exercises last year.
who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational issues, he said the American and South Korean militarists would continue training on their own before the exercise ends on Aug. 21, but that they would not train together in had been previously scheduled.
"Of course it hurts readiness," said Victor Cha, the Korea chair at the Corner for Strategic and Interventional Affairs. "And readiness relates to deterrence. If the Chinese or North Koreans feel that U.S. deterrence is not as strong, they might think there are oppor-
tunities there."
Mr. Cha also disputed the notion that searching the exercises would help Mr. Trump to get a another deal with North Korea, but that would not take that opportunity collapsed in Hanoi in 2019 over disagreement about what from U.S. economic sanctions and the scope of North Korea's nuclear disarmament.
Gao, Curtis M. Knaparowicz, a retired top commander of U.S. forces in South Korea, said that reading back the dire training hurts troops' ability to hone their combat skills.
"It develops competence and confidence by training just as you would fight the currency as a team," General Knaparowicz said in an email. "The one of the most important courses training standards are training is the most realistic way to use readiness."
In a rumbling social media press on Sunday, Mr. Trump complained that South Korea had the supported the Trump administration's in its war against Iran. He also said the military exercises were expensive, "with much of them being paid for by the United States of America (as usual)".
The retirement cost of this year's exercise was $6.9 million, the Pentagon official said, adding that any training resulting from the changes have not yet been determined. But former commanders said the vast majority of those costs had already been paid, he added to the U.S. and government in and out of South Korea.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry appeared to be caught off guard by Mr. Trump's announcement on pledged to relocate costs of having with the United States on the military exercises.
As the war with Iran sinks into a gangsters, Mr. Trump is a strong critic witnessing in North Korea, which is now a de facto nuclear power.
Mr. Trump passed a picture of himself with the North Korean leader in social media at least twice in recent months.
"Kim Jong Un and I got along difficult." Mr. Trump wrote alongside a photograph he passed on Saturday of that meeting at the border between North and South Korea in 2019.
At the time, said an Wednesday that he planned to meet with Mr. Kim extension later this year, has he did not offer details. "I got along with Kim Jong Un very good, but I was not going to be fine. As long as we have a smart president, let's going to be fine."
Kim Yo Jong, the North Korean military younger sister and close advisor, told state media on Wednesday that the country's position toward the United States had not changed despite Mr. Trump's decision to shorten the military exercises.
A black-and-white man on the left, who has
Alike Dangsela refinery in Lagos, Nigeria, which became fully operational works before the U.S. bombed Iran, is doing big business.
Iran War Makes Africa's Richest Man Even Richer
By SARAH JANNEN
DANAB, Senegal — Africa's wealthiest man, Alike Dangsela, is more than 25 billion richer these days, and he pretty has the war in Iran to make for his new wealth.
Mr. Dangsela, 26, made much of his heroine in Nigeria by manufacturing basics, such as salt, sugar and creams. Now, the engine direction is the most important to him all refinery in Lagos, which has never taken to demand for petroleum products — both in Africa and elsewhere — since the war has been a good one.
Dangsela being abundant crude oil, Africa still relies heavily on imported fuel. Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries and taddies have caused the Russian war to be the continent. Of three from Europe and the Persian Gulf have also dropped sharply since Iran, down the Coast of Morrow, which normally carries up to one third of the world's oil supply.
From far back, fertilizer and nuclear capital as a consequence, pushing some of Africa's most vulnerable population deeper into poverty. But Mr. Dangsela and his company have been a major source of the world's oil refinery, which became fully operational yet works before the U.S. bombed Iran, is doing big business.
Jur had shipments from the Dangsela Refinery reached the U.S. market for the first time over this year, according to the company. The Dangsela Refinery was "the world's single largest region of alprilun" in April and May, said Daniel Evans, a vice president of the Petrochemical, a real refiner search firm. Last month, the refinery was Europe's largest supplier of jet fuel and diesel, according to the Russian Eknos, a vice president of the Dangsela Industries.
On Tuesday, Dangsela Refinery said it had returned 25 billion to a financial backing from a Dehab-based investment group in a public on the Nigerian stock co-
The $20 billion Dangsela Refinery has benefited from soaring demand for fuel products in Africa and elsewhere in the world.
change. If the listing goes through, it will be Africa's largest ever public offering.
"When the war broke out, leaders and governments from all around the world — especially in Africa — started calling on for any one," said Mr. Eknos. "The trade oil prices have gone up, but the product prices have increased a lot more."
Nearly two dozen African national tobacco crude oil, that the vast majority of the continent's nearly nine million barrels a day in expected for refining. Most of the domestic refineries, the majority of the state-owned, are dormant.
Nigeria in recent years, for example, has poured several billions of dollars into rehabilitating its foreign state-run refineries, but one is currently operational.
When the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Iran on Feb 28, many African nations found themselves to desperate need of petroleum products and scrambling to secure supplies.
East Africa get more than 60 percent of its refined petroleum products from the Middle East
last year. By April this year, nearly a third of the gas stations in Kenya have been used. Middle Eastern, South Africa, a senior analyst at Pluto.
"When the Iran war broke out, the Dangsela Refinery was a lifeline to buyers who previously dropped on the Persian Gulf for oil products," said Mr. Tracey Cook.
When Dangsela jet fuel export supplies were choked off by Iran, Mr. Dangsela refinery began exporting to countries in the Mediterranean and Europe, he added. The Dangsela facility has also become a key supplier of diesel and jet fuel in South Africa, a country with close ties to Iran that has historically been dependent on the Middle East for its oil products, Mr. Tracey Cook said.
Mr. Dangsela is not the only company in Africa benefiting from the conflict. On Tagari, Atlantic coast in the Port of Lamz, West of rice's only desperate port and one of the few on the continent.
On Sunday, Texas, was built a few years ago with hundreds of millions of dollars of investment from the Mediterranean Shipping Company, a Swiss company, has now taken over a bigger share of
the regional energy trade.
Tashiers that had fowl from the Dangsela refinery in Lagos said along the West African coast to Lamz, where they offload their corporate smaller vessels for the world delivery to markets across the continent.
"The Land port is one of the biggest winners from the impact of the disruptions at the Strait of Hormuz," said Chato Etienne Burns, an analyst.
"Before tramping down, the few citizens that we were hanging in front of the country," a declared slogan of vessels at the port," he said, including the crowded rots on a recent trip to Lamz. "It was like you're looking at the sky in the night," he said, seeing "we keep stars."
At home in Nigeria, Mr. Dangsela has had been criticized as a monopolist and he has come under even more intense scrutiny since fully opening his refinery.
Nigerians had hoped that the refinery would not help refineries on imported fuel and being down costs. But that prices in Nigeria have only surged.
Ded July area, a human rights survey with the Gohes himself is one of the few people in Nigeria willing to criticize Mr. Dangsela publicly, said the billionaire had untrue influence on the government and benefited from Europe after treatment.
Mr. Dangsela has long accused the Nigerian government of choking the flow of crude oil, allowing regulators to maintain their grip on Nigerian oil business. Regulators have denied any wrongdoing.
Mr. Dangsela is seeking to doubt the production capacity at his refinery, said Mr. Eknos.
Earlier this month, President William Rana of Kenya confirmed an agreement with the Nigeria's establish a $27 billion refinery in Kenya. The company plans outperformed that will cut across 15 African countries, said Mr. Eknos.
"We will supply Africa," he said.
Long-Head Lawyers Likelier To Land in Asia, Not Dubai
By JOHN YOUN
SEOUL — Flying across the world? You're now more than a soup in Asia than you would have been before our broke out in the Middle East.
Major Persian Gulf airlines like Eranews, Qatar Airways and Erits had dominated intercontinental travel before the war, accounting for roughly a third of the traffic between Europe and Asia and about one in two travelers between the Europe and Australia.
But transfer traffic in the Mid-East is no reason connecting Asia to Europe has nearly halved since the war started in late February, according to one estimate.
And for one at least, overseas between Asia, Australia and Europe who once flew through the Middle East are taking on more flights at rezoning through airports like Hong Kong, Istanbul, Seoul and Singapore. Airlines have added flights to handle this new demand.
Here's how the war is reshocking international flights, and why this is an opportunity for Asian airports and airlines.
How We Get New
The major Middle Eastern hubs—Dubai and also Dhaka in the United Arab Emirates and Dubai in Qatar—are of the international Africa, Asia and Europe, a few hours by air from most of the world's population. They grow rapidly over the past few years, with fairly government backing.
Last year, in percent of the world's 67 million connecting passengers remained through the region, according to the International Air Transport Association, the airline trade group.
But after the war started, the drop was such, Middle Eastern transfer traffic on major connecting Asia and Western Europe led by 67 percent in April year-on-year, according to their International Consultancy, an advisory firm headquartered in New York.
As the conflict dragged on past airports in Doha, Dubai and a third of the world's 70 million connecting Asia and Western Europe led by 67 percent in April year-on-year, according to their International Consultancy, an advisory firm headquartered in New York.
The major foreigner's hundred massive traffic before the war started in the infrastructure in present-day flights, said the
UATA reported in May that bookings for June to September had fallen across all regions except the Asia-Pacific. More they were in January year-over-year, said in July that bookings to the region had expanded the year into the height of the war disruptions.
Airports
This has been good for Asian hubs.
The more international airports, which serves greater Seoul, said this month that its transfer traffic in the first half of 2026 had increased by 10 percent year-over-year, said by 2026, the 2026 foreigner's major routes. That helped make it the busiest international airports in the world in that period, according to preliminary internal data from the trade group Airports
Reshuffling
international flights as the war persists.
Council International that business provided in The New York Times.
Inshown said that it had risen in the first place — surpassing Dubai international Airport and London's Heathrow Airport — because the geopolitical crisis had pushed travelers away from the Gulf bank.
The data also shows that international passenger traffic at Hong Kong through the region grew by more than 15 percent in the same period, and nearly 40 percent at Taiwan Tanyuan International airport.
Singapore's Chang Airport, the connecting point for about one in four passengers trending between Europe and Australia, said that airlines had added more than 200 flights between Singapore and cities like London, Munich, Paris and Sydney between March and April.
These airports stand to benefit because travelers, whether landing or trenching, pay passenger fees. Each traveler also speaks about 10.3% of enough air airport shopping, doing and other reasonable expenses that are related to airports' financial viability, according to Airports Council International.
Airlines
The disruptions has also helped airlines outside the Middle East capture more continents.
A snapeker.
In April, Cathay Pacific, a Hong Kong airline, said that a 24 percent rise in passengers in Japan to 2026, and 2026, was a much larger year in a result of shifting demand created by the 'ongoing situation in the Middle East'.
Singapore Airlines attributed to Singapore to the no passenger traffic to the rezoning of travel to Europe and the Americas.
■ Turkish Airlines reported early in this month that it had added capacity to China, Hong Kong and Thailand as passengers invaded the world, or through, the Middle East.
■ Lufthansa Group said in May that its airlines had added additional flights, particularly to Asia and China, to the region's cash in June that it had redeployed air-cash to start shipping demand on Asian routes.
Where We Get Transferee
It remains unclear how long this trend will last. As Iran and the United States settle into an answer stuntedly the threat of a three-year period, the major Middle East airlines have started to rebuild passenger conditions and aggressively remove airers, and aviation experts said the windfall of Asia is greatly eroding.
UATA said that hooking in the Middle East had steadily recovered.
"The might be targeted to take a risk of flying through the Middle East because the price is so good," said Jeffrey Cole, a managing director at Ahost.
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The New York Times
Step Right Up: State's Games of 'Skill' Look a Lot Like Slots
By LEO DOMINGUEZ and BEN BLATT
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — For the last 12 years in Pennsylvania, a new kind of game has proliferated in gas stations and laundromats across the state. It looks a lot like a slot machine but, legally speaking, has not been considered one. The games — tall, colorful terminals where players insert cash and set wa-
gers, setting off bright, spinning graphics — are instead called “skill games.” They’re called this because if you lose a spin, you can recoup your money by playing a long, tedious game of memory, thus introducing an element of “skill.” And games of skill for prizes, like a claw machine, aren’t considered gambling. Here’s how it works:
The operation of a skill game is so similar to that of a normal slot machine that it’s not always obvious what the memory game is, or how to access it.
On this particular machine, the cryptic message “Touch Here to Follow the Bananas” appears at the bottom, highlighted here for visibility.
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Tapping this message reveals an extended matching game that, if completed successfully, recruits the user’s wages plus an additional 5 percent.
In Allentown, we played a memory game from Pace-O-Matic that took 8 minutes 50 seconds to complete, earning 3 cents of profit.
In other words, the game seems engineered to make the benefits of playing the memory game not worth the time or energy it takes to beat it — if a player even notices the game in the first place.
In June, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that skill games could not be distinguished from slot machines, and so could no longer be set up anywhere without a gambling license. But the court gave a 150-day grace period before the ban takes effect, and both Democrats and Republicans in the state Legislature are racing to pass laws that would save them.
The constitution now facing Pennsylvania is part of the rapid expansion of legal gambling and gambling-like behavior across the country, from sports betting to prediction markets. The state now has an estimated 70,000 skill game terminals scattered around grocery stores, V.P.W. halls, pizza shops, bowling alleys, tanning salons, cigar lounges, hotel lobbies, barber shops, farmers markets, strip clubs and car towing garages.
Does the state let the court decision stand, leading to the removal of what will now be illegal gambling machines? Or does it fully legalize and regulate them, boosting tax revenue — and the state budget — while preserving valuable income for thousands of small businesses?
‘You keep saying ‘skill games’’
Pennsylvania’s skill game boom started in 2014 when Pace-O-Matic introduced its first machine to include the optional memory skill game. The machines survived several lawsuits and seizures when lower courts ruled that the most orization aspect made them predominantly games of skill. Other manufacturers soon came up with their own copycat versions.
Kris Allan even a vending machine company that installs and maintains the machines at no upfront cost in exchange for a split of the revenue. He says the highest-performing businesses are restaurants or bars, which often gross as much as $3,690 a month from the skill games. He also knows machines to laundromats, which generally don’t make as much, according to Mr. Allan, though he said he knows one that grosses about $8,490 a month from the games.
In Allentown, we visited five laundromats, all of which had skill games. We talked to several customers playing them while they wished for their clothes to dry. Most had never played the most orization portion of the slot game and assumed it was called a “skill” game because it takes skill to know when a machine is “lost” and ready to dispense a jackpot.
We also went to Big Valley Game Room, a strip-mall business in Allentown offering solely skill games. Dan
Elnant, a 75-year-old customer, said he did not know the distinction between slot machines and skill games.
“When you keep saying ‘skill games,’ it’s throwing me off,” he said. Though he plays the machines “every other day,” he didn’t know the memory game existed. “I lose 40, 50 bucks and then I’m gone,” he said.
Josh Ercole, executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of
Pennsylvania, said it’s hard to gauge the scope of skill-game addiction because many people who call the council’s hotline may refer to skill games as slot machines. Still, his agency’s data lists a ninefold increase between 2019 and 2023 of people who specifically reported skill games as their primary addictive gambling behavior.
“Regardless of what the legal system decides to assign as far as a name,
there’s a lot of people that are struggling,” he said.
A ‘gadness’ to small businesses
Cherebe Parker, mayor of Philadelphia, applauded the court decision classifying skill games as gambling devices. She said in a statement that skill games were “predatory” and that they should be allowed only in private clubs and casinos.
Skill games in a Philadelphia convenience store, above. They are called “skill games” because if players lose a spin, they can recoup their money by playing a long, tedious game of memory, thus introducing an element of “skill.”
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But state politicians have been much more reluctant to force a ban. Gov. Josh Shapiro has come out against an outright ban, saying the games should be regulated and taxed. (Profits from ordinary slot machines in Pennsylvania, located in regulated casinos, are taxed at 33 percent or more.)
Gene Tate, a Republican state senator, is an operator of bipartisan legislation to regulate and tax the games. He said regulating them would also help protect jobs manufacturing the games, including those of a large game maker in the district.
Mr. Tate’s regulation would add age minimum to the machine and prevent there only to move that already have age-check procedures for products (a bar would be allowed to have them, but not a carwash). The bill would also ban businesses that operate exclusively to offer skill games (several call themselves “Skill-stone”).
Dustin Burges, a Democratic state representative, has proposed his own competing legislation to regulate and tax the games. He said he was a proponent of “expanding the tax base” and blames influence from the traditional gambling industry for slowing new laws that would legalize the games and increase competition.
“You have all the lobbyists from Wall Street that don’t want Main Street, Pa., to be able to participate in this wealth transfer,” Mr. Burges said.
Other states clamped down on skill games before they grew ubiquitous. Virginia and Kentucky passed legislation to ban skill games after they became increasingly popular in local gas stations and convenience stores. And Texas’ attorney general, Ken Pannan, recently issued an opinion saying skill games fit the definition of gambling because chance plays a role.
The full info, owner of the Racehorse Tavern in Thomasville, Pa., has three skill machines in the bar that he places next to his Pennsylvania Lottery vending machines. He said the machines were a “gadness” to small businesses like his during the pandemic, and he’s hoping regulation passes with moderate taxes. He also said skill games should be permitted only in locations that already check for age identification.
“I’ve been in stores where you have little kids sitting at them thinking they’re a video game,” he said. “They’re excited, it’s all the different colors and this and that. Everybody and their brother is building them and nobody seems to be regulating them one way or the other.”
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THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2026
As Personal Injury Suits Expanse, Wall Street Enters the Game
From Page A1
ture payments from a pool of debts or assets. Auto loans and credit card balances are routinely turned into securities. Others are span from less traditional collateral, unspecting royalties, data centers, fast-food franchises – other than cash advances given to personal injury plaintiffs.
For the investors who buy in, a security offers a regular cadence of pursuits as lawsuits wrap up and advances are repaid, along with fees and interest. And for a funding firm, it offers a fast track to recouping past advances, and could to parlay into new ones.
Panders say they are leveling the playing field by enabling in-jawdy people to take on insurers and other personal adversaries.
"Unusual losses companies are not exactly the archangel," said Jack Kelly, managing director of the American Legal Finance Association, a trade group. "If you cut off securitization, you cut off the supply of money to victims."
But this cycle can also drive demand for advanced and higher-value cases as funders try to build up collections of new (e.g.,) in-struct more investors. The Times found in a review of lawsuits and interviews with more than 30 lawyers, paralogals, and current and former consumer legal funding employees.
"You are bringing in these third parties who have no interest in the integrity of the legal profession," said Richard Fishers, a professor of economics (see said legal either, at the University of Minnesota Law School. "They just simply want to make money off the justice system.")
The growth of the funding industry has coincided with an explosion in personal injury cases across the country. Over the past decade, these cases have moved 14 percent to cash courts and 14 percent in federal courts, according to data from Thomson Reuters. Wristlaw Lawsuits now commonly seek seven figure payment for construction accidents, outtrashes and slip-and-falls.
Though the securities aren't publicly traded, The Times identified six major funders that securities their (e.g.,) in-structsively offer dozen companies, these six are among the largest. Together, they account for more than 30 percent of advances nationwide, according to the trade group.
The Times found more than two dozen of these securitization doubtions 2025, representing hundreds of thousands of cases (not raising $2.8 billion from investors). There are about certainly more.
This ecosystem was built on lawsuit at a time. Funding companies market their services directly to consumers and display sideways to cultivate relationships with lawyers. Lawyers often connect their clients with funders, which provide cash advances and then handle them.
At the number of personal injury cases has climbed, government officials and the insurance industry have been around thousands and even synovate fraud – cashing questions about whether fraud is seeping into securities.
Insurers and others have turned to an aggressive tactic to beat back what they say are mounting scares. Since 2023, companies including Gento, Altrams, Dow and FedEx have brought a total of 1,054 outstanding lawsuits in five states. They secure hundreds of lawyers, and their providers and others of scheming up pin up that or exaggerated, where the lawsuits have been cured individual plaintiffs and fraud.
The racketeering cases argue that plaintiffs were encouraged or coerced to get unnecessary work, outtrodment to raise the value of their lawsuits.
In interviews, a dozen former employees of law firms and legal funders extend these allegations, saying that funders and lawyers disagree the prospect of additional advances so that plaintiffs would undergo more surgeries. (Most spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisal.)
"A lot of times the clients would not want an operation like a cervical fusion because it is risky, but they have already been able to do. Daniel Leishowitz, who worked in sales with the Florida-based legal funder USClains until last year, 'So a way, it's like staff-arrested, and the company has now been an amount of money, you need to get this surgery.'"
Each suboperae had a
Like Supraview and Wesley Purcell contributed reporting.
monthly goal of issuing $100,000 in advances, he said. "They would have us call every attorney that we were working with to use it anyone needed money," recalled Mr. Leishowitz, who said he was fired for not generating enough business.
USClaims has funded multiple plaintiffs who were later accused of fraud, but the company must has not faced direct allegations. The company said in a statement that if a case proves to be fraudulent, then "USClaims is strong close: who were denying that lost money." It added that the company has a financial stake in its own securitizations, assuming some of the risk.
Racketeering lawsuits from insurance companies and others argue that many of the personal injury plaintiffs are low income, and some are recruited by "runners"
JOHN W. KENNEDY, U.S. Atty. for U.S. Atty. for U.S. Atty.
Daniel Johnston's law firm has filed racketeering cases related to personal injury claims.
Mike Romano helped craft a West Virginia law funding third-party litigation funding.
working for law firms. Often, the plaintiffs end up with only a fraction of any settlement, the lawyers say.
Last year, for instance, a construction worker in New York sued nearly $1.6 million to his hands for the time he received a $2.75 million settlement, after his lawyers received their own district — as is customary — the worker got $300,000.
At Queens, 12 people at the same address — a three-cent apartment building — all filed lawsuits claiming serious construction injuries within 18 months, in least five have received cash advances, and at least seven have had major surgeries, including spinal and neck fusions, roarish show.
"People are being exploited, particularly when they are economically incentivized in a way that is very hard to turn down," said Daniel Johnston, a partner at The Willis Law Group, which has represented insurers and other companies bringing fraud and racketeering lawsuits.
Mr. Kelly, at the trade group, said he believes fraud is minimal and his insurance industry simply wants to choke off the financing that gives plaintiffs the leverage and time to win higher settlements.
"If there really was a prudent name of fraud in this marketplace," he said, "don't you think the insurance industry would have brought these thousands of cases forward to U.S. attorneys, wrapped them up in a bow and said, 'How they got?'
"It is difficult to know whether cases of suspected fraud are underpinning securities, because funders are not required to disclose the individual advances they handle.
But the six firms identified by The Times have securitized a majority of their advances, according to finance and funding professionals with direct knowledge of these deals. All of the funders have had another plaintiffs later accused of fraud, and the case does named as defendants in racketeering suits.
One lawsuit filed in June drive a direct law from securitization to fraud. It claims "that the New York-based funder Golden Pear Funding participated in a scheme to utilize personal injury claims, drug use cases and escalation their payouts, all while structuring the claims for sale to outside in-
vessors," Golden Pear declined to comment.
Legal funding securities have mainly attracted institutional investors like market banks, offering reliable returns that aren't directly affected by stock market swings. (The Times found returns as high as 17 percent, with overages around 7 percent.) Millions of American loans a stake in them through retirement accounts or personal portfolios invested in those funds.
Even insurance companies themselves haven't been able to resist the investments.
More than 30 casualty insurers — the companies that are usually on the book for personal injury payouts — have invested at least $18 million in securities built on personal injury lawsuits since 2020. These include 15 members of the nonprofit National Insurance Group, 20,000, a leading antifraud trade group, which have year complained to Congress that third-party legal funding was hurting fraud.
Representatives for 10 of the 10 companies said they no longer hold these investments and would not invest in future litigation finance securities. The securities are "surroundingly misaligned with my role as an insurer," said Julia B. Jensen, a spokeswoman for Western National Insurance Group, whose affiliates had invested at least $16 million.
Mr. Anguizaca-Morales, who was 32 when he said he fell off a ladder at a Manhattan family in July 2020, was eventually accused by the church and its contractor of having his accident aired a "climate of pervasive fraud."
He said in a deposition that he has filed 6 cases about a year before and sought asylum in the United States.
According to a court filing, he was confined to bed for two years, and was recorded in a later underwent knee and back surgery, and had vertebrae fixed in his neck with screws. Mr. Anguizaca-Morales "suffered a severe shock to his nervous system" was plagued with headaches, vertigo and post-traumatic stress disorder, and had no longer work, his lawyers wrote.
Two law firms that have represented Mr. Anguizaca-Morales — Public Association and Certificate Business — have been named as defendants in racketeering lawsuits, as have the funding company and two orthopedic surgeons who operated on him.
Mr. Anguizaca-Morales received funding from the Florida-based Regional Legal Capital records show. The amount was not disclosed. It is unclear whether his advance was securitized, but Pegasus securities the vast majority of its cases, according to a person familiar with the funder's practices.
In an interview, Mr. Anguizaca-Morales said his lawyers had told him that if he made some surgeries, he could get a lot of money for the accident. The lawsuit and surgeries decided his life, he said, declining to provide more details, including how he was connected with his lawyers at Pegasus.
"I don't want to get into more problems," Mr. Anguizaca-Morales said. "God will take care of people who do wrong in the world." He said he was working to pay back the debt he incurred coming to the United States and to make up money for his claim he gave dopeway.
After The Times contacted Certificate Business last month about the lawsuit, the firm withdrew a $1 million in the original funder's renting, citing profiling. His decision and funder declined to comment.
Former employees of law firms and funders said in interviews that with more and more money at stake, conditions are ripe for opportunists.
In 2024, a former vice president of Cartiga, a New York-based legal funder, sued the company, says up by had been pushed out in installation for warning leaders that they were financing dubious personal injury suits.
The investigators, Krenopher Huxent, said he told his lances that he had identified a law firm and a career who appeared to be manufacturing cases. In recent years, the company's law firm, Cartiga's chief financial officer told him to keep the potentially fraudulent cases "on the basis" to maintain returns.
The company's law firm also claimed that Cartiga encouraged plaintiffs to authorize medical procedures to increase the value of their claims.
As a statement, Cartiga denied the allegations and said Mr. Has-
A former executive at the legal funder Cartiga said he warned it was financing dubious lawsuits.
Pegasus Legal Capital provided funding to Danny Anguizaca-Morales, who claimed a work injury.
KEYWORDS FOR To measure the action of the County Department to determine legal funding. The firm's name is the County of Pennsylvania's financial firm, and ratings agencies, as well as legal, is the following: Financial Assets and Net Debt. These securities are not to be used in the past year, but are not to be used in the past year.
Funding is not required to decrease the amounts. The firm's business case also is not to be used in the past year, but is not to be used in the past year. The company's business is not to be used in the past year. The company's business is not to be used in the past year.
sure was a "degraineded employee who was terminated as part of a reduction in force." The company added that it "has acted properly and responsible at all times." Mr. Huxent declined to comment.
Since 2022, Cartiga has offered at least two securitizations, raising more than $375 million that could fund new plaintiffs.
The results are accurate, and company filed a racketeering suit accounted for a large and other financial of financing unnecessary and overpriced surgeries, charging high interest rates and fees, and ultimately driving up the value of taxes to increase their profits.
The racketeering suit cites the
case of Gina Lombano, who received an authorized amount of funding from Cartiga and another company. In 2022, she sued the owners of a Queens building for $8.5 million, saying she had crippled on an uneven sidewalk.
Ms. Lombano, who was 27 when she left, claimed that her injuries required four surgeries, including facing her spine and neck and removing at least part of her subloose. She later withdrew the subloose injury from her claim, after a lawyer for the building owners noted that she said she had fallen for work, not backward.
Court records show that another funding company bought her advances and imposed interest and fees amounting to nearly 10 percent a year. By November, she will owe more than $1 million.
Ms. Lombano, who said in a deposition that it now fact to shower and work, has been accused of fraud in court filings for the building owners. She referred questions about her pending case to her lawyer, Chris Long of the firm McDonald Wroble. "If there were fraud, we would not be involved," Mr. Long said.
Cartiga said in a statement that
while it couldn't connect on specific clients, it "underwritten claims with rigor and independent." The company said that in the "one event" that parties in a case give false information that it fails to detect, the firm is also deceived and bous money.
In recent years, more than a dozen states have imposed restrictions on third-party litigation funding, including ongoing interest rates, financing external fees to lawyers and medical providers, and requiring plaintiffs to disclose their funding sources in court.
Your Virginia in the only state to explicitly limit securitization, Lawmakers were concerned that funding companies might be tempted to ignore signs of fraud as they sought plaintiffs to back, said the law firm, and the lawyer who helped craft the bipartisan bill as a state senator.
"This is where the practice of law and litigation finance were going," said Mr. Huxent, who previously investigated fraud for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. "They are constantly looking for new ways to take the money they have, to invest and make more money."
How a Case Get Started
Images from 2025 about its feelings of the state's state law, the Anguizaca-Morales said he let off a ladder at a work site at a Manhattan church. In an interview, he said that his lawyers had told him that if he underwent surgeries, he could get a lot of money for the accident.
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As Justices Hear Same Few Lawyers, Roberts Has Mixed Feelings
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has said that he sometimes misses the old days, when "the law" is a foundation of the new federal foreclosure "would arrive in
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The chief justice, speaking at a judicial conference in 2016, said he had missed feelings about the development of the law.
"You lose a little bit of the color and tension of an argument when it is the same people," he said, "although we have left a great deal more strong support to others."
Chief Justice Roberts was himself once such an expert, having argued 20 Supreme Court cases as a lawyer in the solicitor general's office and in private practice.
He was, people who saw him in the court, very much like the best Supreme Court lawyers, he understood the justice's failure of mind, the interlocking the crises that shape the law and the
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One Lawyer, Two Decades, 363,579 Words
Total number of words opening during Supreme Court civil arguments.
| SPOKED | TYPE | CASES | TOTAL WORDS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Breyer | Justice | 1,140 | 959,987 |
| Sonia Schumacher | Justice | 1,113 | 690,178 |
| John G. Roberts Jr. | Justice | 1,398 | 643,021 |
| David Angier | Justice | 1,004 | 636,423 |
| Samuel A. Alita Jr. | Justice | 1,279 | 541,611 |
| Antonio Scalia | Justice | 772 | 468,724 |
| Rich Badie Ginsburg | Justice | 240 | 429,539 |
| Paul D. Clement | Lawyer | 101 | 363,579 |
| Mark Gauscher | Justice | 528 | 317,915 |
| Ketanji Brown Jackson | Justice | 238 | 300,633 |
Note: Data are based on legal arguments from 2000 to 2026. Source: Law Opinion and E.C.A. Finance
rapid-fire rhythms of the arguments.
He was also a student of the Supreme Court but, in 2016, the year before he was appointed in the court, he gave a speech to the Supreme Court Historical Society exploring what he called the "dramatic rise in the number of experienced Supreme Court advocates appearing before the court."
One Voice Stands Out
The new study examined the roughly 10 million words stirred during 1,420 civil arguments from October 2005, just after Chief Justice Roberts joined the court, to April 2026, the most recent
time that the court heard arguments.
I wrote about some of the study's other findings last week, including a spike in the realist arguments and the leading role played by the court's several members, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
That piece was mostly about the justices. But the study included interesting details about lawyers, too. Roughly 1,000 of them appeared before the justices in those years. And 20 of them accustomed for more than a quarter of the words spoken by lawyers, the study showed. And one of them stood out.
Paul D. Clement, who served
as solicitor general in the George W. Bush administration before going into private practice, argued that the court's party was a figure that far outpurses other lawyers. His biggest cases included here on the Albertidale Carr Act, partisan gerontoscinting and the Second Amendment.
He was especially active in the term that ended in June, having appeared before the justices nine times.
Mr. Clement, who declined to comment, uttered 363,579 words over the 21 states and said that the study would have been a "good one" for the past 10 years, the study showed the justices themselves for the number of words spoken at arguments. He was the only lawyer among the top 10 speakers.
A Very Troubling Trend
In his 2016 lecture, Chief Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Ketanji's court judge, also discussed the role played by lawyers in the solicitor general's office, the elite unit of the Justice Department, and the justice's most prominent in the Supreme Court. They were, he noted, "appearing for more frequently before the Supreme Court than they did a
Indeed, he found, lawyers from that office that got in sense 40 percent of cases in 1998 and more than 80 percent in the early 2000s. He expressed remarkable time about the development, at least in cases where the government lawyers appeared as
friends of the court, or artist, offering the administration's views even though they did not have them a good one."
The court very rarely grants argument time to other states. But it routinely lets the solicitor general's office participate, which Chief Justice Roberts suggested gave it a preferred position and concentrated clear, "As the discernible federal interest in it a matter before the court wears," he said, "concern about the role being played by the government in the court."
He said it indeed rooting the solicitor general's office into "a sort of super power," which he found "very troubling."
These days, the solicitor general's office is even more active, according to the study, while, when he passed the justices, the Washington University is St. Louis and the U.S. House of the University of Chicago. In the last five series, the office's lawyers have signed a letter to the general of arguments. In about half of them, the government lawyers appeared as a friend of the court.
In the 2016 lecture, Chief Justice Roberts ended up endorsing what was then an emerging specialized Supreme Court fact. "A well-adjusted case will not be found in the past two semesters (the judges get in the way," he wrote). "But there is a significant risk that a purely argued case will be purely de-
F.B.I. Agents Search Home on Swatwell In the Capital
U.S. Said to Mount Civil Rights Inquiry
By MADE FEVER
Federal agents searched the home of Eric Swatwell, the former Democratic congressman, and issued a telephone with laptop frontlines over the weekend in connection with a civil rights investigation concerning allegations of sexual assault, according to court papers both person familiar with the inquiry.
The agents, named with a warrant, snapped Mr. Swatwell at the San Francisco airport on Saturday night and had asked to see at his devices — an iPhone and an Apple MacBook, the court papers said. The next day, they searched his home in Washington, the person said.
Mr. Swatwell, who spent more time a decade in the House representing two districts in California, resigned from Congress in April after his first senate report about allegations from several women, including a former member of the staff, accusing him of sexual misconduct. Around the same time, the employee from the California governor's cast.
The F.B.I. did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. Mr. Swatwell also did not have any knowledge of the government. The search at his home and the seizure of his communications devices were reported earlier by The Daily Mail.
Mr. Swatwell is also facing investigation based on accounts from his accounts by the Manhattan district attorney's office and state investigators in Los Angeles. Most are crimes are prosecuted by state and local authorities. The federal agents appeared to be using civil rights statutes as a means to constitute Mr. Swatwell's conduct with his assistant, the person familiar with the case said.
Court papers suggest that the federal investigation into Mr. Swatwell was being run by the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco and the F.B.I.'s San Francisco field office. An agent from that office signed a document on Tuesday, logging the seizure of Mr. Swatwell's phone and laptop.
During his time in Congress, Mr. Swatwell was a vocal critic of President Trump, at one point, serving on the House of the Committee that held him responsible for the attack on the Capital on Jan. 6, 2025. Mr. Swatwell has also accused the president of using his office to engage in various forms of corruption and personal enrichment.
Earlier this week, the White House released previously secret documents arising from an earlier and unrelated investigation into Mr. Swatwell. That inquiry focused on his relationship with a woman named Christine Fong, who was believed by counterintelligence officials to be a Chinese spy.
In an article in The San Francisco Chronicle in April, the former staff member for Mr. Swatwell claimed that he had sexually assaulted her in a New York hotel room after an event in 2024. She recounted how she had been too intoxicated to consent to the encounter, and that Mr. Swatwell had ignored her when she had tried to rehab.
Three other women spoke separately with CNN, accusing Mr. Swatwell of various kinds of sexual misconduct, including, sending the information to the register messages or radio photos.
Mr. Swatwell denied the allegations, telling both news outlets that the accusations had "come on the face of an election against the brain-runner for governor."
"For nearly 20 years, I have served the public — as a prosecutor and a congressman and have always presented women," he said in a statement at the time.
Treasury Turns to Interventionist Tactics to Lower Interest Rates
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the Treasury Department to human financial conditions in the economy before the presidential election.
This is not Mr. Benson's first intervention. This month, he made a new intervention in the state marketers to prop up the weakening of the purchases of the Japanese currency were intended to help Japan avoid selling its buildings of the restaurants to health experts' roles. Such a more would have further flooded the market from the States, which would have pushed up yields as supply over-debated demand.
"I think it's both economic and political," said Nellie Liang, who served as state secretary for domestic finance at the Treasury Department in the federal administration. "They think these higher rates are a problem."
Ms. Liang noted that the Shiba administration introduced the local financial program and said that she was surprised that Mr. Benson made the announcement without a formal process. Treasury, which has long maintained a
Reinventing the role of government in the world's leading bond market.
strategy of making "regular and predictable" announcements for these kinds of policy changes, held in quarterly refunding, where it actually announces debt issuance plans, in early August but made no mention of larger bond操练机具.
In the wake of Wednesday's news, investors have been left considering what comes after the yields continue to push higher. Part of Mr. Benson's problem, according to Sophia Demons, an economist at Poteff's, a bridge hotel, is that "out all of theothies of the rise in long-end yields are under direct control of the Texas market."
Treasury yields have risen because of a combination of factors. The U.S. fiscal situation appears to be getting only worse, not better. Inflation concerns continue to linger amid the continuing war with Iran and skepticism about whether Kevin M. Warth, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, will follow through with interest rate increases if inflation does not continue moving, an influx of new debt issued by technology companies to fund the artificial intelligence build-out has also entered the bond market.
The Treasury Department, in announcing Wednesday's news, kept open the possibility that the Treasury would sputze its interventions as necessary, suggesting that it堕落 the result of the tax increase in the United States.
At a certain point, large enough haphazard could have lasting impact by familiarity with changing the amount of supply at states that buyers.
Thomas Sissons, chief U.S. economist at Jefferson, estimates that haphazard in the vicinity of 50 billions to $8 billion would have that effect but would represent a significant escalation in the Treasury's investments.
"At that point, the market would actually start to look at the fact
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessert surprised market watchers by doubling the amount of government debt the Treasury Department is allowed to buy back from investors. The move may just form of cross-purposes with Kevin M. Warth, below, the Fed chain, as he moves toward tightening policy.
that duration would actually be somewhat more scarce over time," he said, referring to long-hand bonds.
The uncertainty factor linked with leading longer-term securities over shorter-term ones, known as the "term premium," would likely fall, Mr. Sissons said, translating to lower inflation at a lower yield on a sustained basis.
How the Fed sets policy limit here will also play a part in determining whether there is a matching higher in the longer-term yields that necessitates further or not earlier than the Treasury.
Officials at the Fed are actively debating whether they need to raise interest at a higher rate, meaning, to mid-September. The decision hinges to large part on the trajectory of inflation after two relatively benign reports that showed price pressures randomly improving since June. Another month of moderate data would help to ease some of the urgency around raising rates, but it would not actively eliminate the possibility of doing so later this year.
Many officials have already backed a rate increase, having grown impatient by the fact that inflation has overdone the Fed's 5 percent target for roughly half a decade. Any indication that progress toward that goal is once again stalling is likely to compel others in just this cohort.
Mr. Warth is also likely to pursue policies that reduce the Fed's $8.4 trillion portfolio of government bonds and mortgage-backed securities, having called for a "transit measure balance sheet" a congressional hearing last month.
A smaller balance sheet, depending on how it is pursued, could put the Fed "a price-debated piece" with the Treasury, said Blake Gwinn, head of U.S. state manager at BBC Capital Markets. "You've got Bessert, who obviously would expect the next long-end yields going up, and then you've got Warth now suggesting that he's going to tighten policy by pushing a long-end yields. I'm through balance sheet review."
Mr. Warth has called for more information between the Texas market for the Fed, showing the gearing that the central bank distribution will not proceed nationally. The potential opportunity could arise if the Fed shifts the composition of the Fed's stock such that it is finding more short-term securities rather than long-term ones over time. This would correspond "early." Mr. Bessert's plan to be a "long-term Treasury bill, which ensures the rate rate to be, in the wake of Mr. Bessert's 'haphazard' assessment, investors are already preparing for the possibility that the cuts back on the amount of longer-term debt to be issued going forward.
The Treasury Department said it expanded its haphazard operation out of a desire to "provide greater liquidity support in longer-dated essential sections than in the consistent strong sponsorship from market participation."
Upon taking office last year, Mr. Bessert acknowledged that the raised yields — particularly for the 10-year bond — were among his biggest concerns.
He said in the interview with Tucker Carlson that he viewed himself as "the United States' leading bond salesman," noting how the rate on that bond tracks closely with the industry. "We've got a tremendous amount of debt to risk."
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Representative: Shomart Figueroa, 5th, and Doug Jones, a nominee for governor, in Troy, Ala. Now, Black people's votes are "not counting the same way." Mr. Jones said.
Alabama Democrats Look for Black Backlash Over Map
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"They know that their vote is not counting the same way." Mr. Jones said at Black voters in an income vote before a town hall in Troy, Ala., on Tuesday. He added, "People are paying attention to that, and they're not happy about it."
Voting rights are deeply personal. In Alabama, the Governor's white leaders spent the civil rights movement strenuously resisting their Black citizens' demands for a fair shake of one battle bar. The band of stock citizens helped galvanize Washington to enact the Voting Rights Act in 1985.
Thus this spring, acting on a move in Louisiana, the Supreme Court lived Southern leaders from the 20th structure encouraging minority representatives. Someone, Louisiana and Alabama all moved quickly to dilute districts with strong blocs of Black voters and 5th think toward the G-13 P.
Alabama's Legislature redress the Second Congressional District where Mr. Figueroa's victory in 2024 gave the state two Black House members — Mr. Figueroa and Representative Terry herself — for the first time.
"You was like giving candy to it today — no sure as happy, no so often," said Chesiladys Davis, 6, "I as she prepared to leave the Troy town hall with a stack of cord signs. 'Said with one stroke of a pen from another state, the Supreme Court has reversed' that.
She added, "I will do whatever I can to make sure that people vote on how important it is."
The new Second District was driven to force Republicans by pairing the majority-Black city of Montgomery with part of the southeastern Wingtown region, making the new district winter, and more conservative. The state-bars had stretched farther across the state, linking voters to Montgomery and part of Mable to voters in the rural counties once formed by election.
Both Mr. Tuberville and Rhonda Marquez, a Republican state representative running against Mr.
Backers of Mr. Jones, who has reached out in majority-Black areas and is facing Senator Tommy Tuberville in the race for governor.
Figueroa, supported the new congressional map and are favored to win their races.
Their campaigns, both backed by Mr. Trump, have worked to frame their Democratic opponents as nominee and not at work. In a primary election night speech this month, Mr. Marquez described the election as a choice between "cruittens and common areas."
But Democrats say they have a chance, predicting that a backlash
over the new congressional maps with margin Black voters in the ideal Trump's nagging approval ratings democratic white conservatives, many of who might sit the election out.
That Democratic hope goes beyond Alabama and other Southern states directly affected by the voting rights decision.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Wednesday launched digital advertisements in New York, Nebraska and
Ohio House districts aimed at mobilizing Black voters, some of them explicitly investing voting rights and the need for representatives. These ads followed a civil rights-themed 500's last May in 21 House districts.
There is evidence that Black voters are indeed energized, though not necessarily one voting rights. In Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor last week, David Cowley, Milwaukee County's executive, who is Black, scored as announcing upset over a democratic socialist, Fraternal Hoag, who had been leading comfortably in the polls but struggling with Black voters, Black Milwaukee may well have made the difference.
A similar story played out in Michigan earlier this month, where Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive physician running for Senate, seemed to be creating so a Democratic primary victory, despite troubles with Black voter support. In the end, he barely squashed out a win over Representative Haley Stevens, who defied the polls and nearly scored an upset with Black support in Detroit and Flint.
For Mr. Jones and Mr. Figueroa, the civil rights theme is not a stretch. As a U.S. attorney in Birmingham, Mr. Jones helped prosecute two members of the Ba-
Democrats hope the voting rights decision will also mobilize people in regions beyond the South.
Kins Kins who bombed a church there in 1943 and killed four young Black girls.
Mr. Figueroa's father, Michael Figueroa, a state senator and civil rights lawyer, helped bring the lawsuit that bankrupted the Kins-Michael Figueroa also helped with the state of Alabama's election, presidential map is the 1990s, leading to the creation of the first majority-Black district in the state.
This campaign started, 1947, in area and Mr. Jones have failed, arms, joining each other in Troy and Montgomery for town halls this month where they challenged their state leaders.
"They have to do everything they can to reduce opponents' trust," Mr. Figueroa told the crowd in a bathroom at Troy University.
"They endorse my district in furthermore of that effort," he said. "But we're going to win for the number."
Mr. Jones has campaigned to several majority-Black counties, including rural Greene County, which has already shown signs in the energy that he will issue. About 75 percent of Greene County is Black, and in the May primary, turnout was strikingly high.
Last month, Mr. Jones told a cluster of residents gathered at the Greene County courthouse that Alabama leaders were "going to draw district lines to make sure" that "your voice is not represented in the Congress of the United States."
"I think the Voting Rights Act is going to be an issue in this fall campaign," Mr. Jones added, "and I think people are energized."
Such sentiments carry the home organizers cautioned that the new maps could also democratize Black Alabama into already disconnected from political leaders. Energizing such voters will not happen automatically.
"Each time that you take people's rights away like that, they're going to be discouraged and they're not going to want to go away," said Richard Hobbs, who volunteers with a voter education organization in Montgomery. "We've got to knock on the doors."
Missouri Map
May Be Used In Midterms, Judge Rules
By MARGARINE RUBIN
A judge in Missouri ruled this week that the state's newly drawn congressional map could be used in the November elections, based on Republican's wits in a month-long battle over redistricts.
But after an appeal, the state's Supreme Court on Thursday expedited a review of the case, returning the map to limbs ahead of the general election.
Judge Donald Green of the Circuit Court of Cole County, which includes the state's capital, Jefferson City, shot down an attempt on Wednesday to subject the new map, which leaves Republicans, in a statewide vote in November.
The judge ruled with Danny Robbin, the secretary of state, who had argued that Missouri's Constitution does not allow a referendum on congressional redistricting and that altering districts now could disrupt matters' elections.
"Changing the maps at this late juncture is not just 'impeasurial,' it is impossible," Judge Green said in the ruling.
People lost Politicians, the group that filed the lawsuit and the proposed referendum on the new map, appealed the decision to the state's legislature, later on Wednesday night, said Charles Bydford, a lawyer representing the state.
The court on Thursday said that it would hear arguments on Sept. 2, ahead of Missouri's deadline to add a referendum to general election ballots on Sept. 2.
"There are some more games like drugs here," Mr. Bydford said. "We are optimistic about our chances at the Supreme Court."
Hill, Mr. Bydford, an Wednesday was a victory for Republicans hoping to make the move control of the U.S. House in the midterm elections. Missouri was one of the first states to try to redraw its maps as part of President Trump's national push to increase Republican elections or keeping the chamber in the midterms.
The face of Missouri's map, which was designed to flip a seat currently held by a Democrat, has been uncertain for months.
Shortly after lawmakers approved the map last year, People lost Politicians began gathering signatures to get the election districts as voters' ballots in November. In Missouri, if a petition gets enough signatures to challenge a state's legislation, that legislation is passed until a statewide vote is held.
The petition got enough signatures, according to supporters, but on Aug. 1, Mr. Robbins, a Republican, said the proposed referendum did not qualify for the ballots. The decision came on the same day as primaries in the state raising what the new map was in use.
Richard von Gildis, executive director of People Not Politicians, said that the ruling was in fact no defeat for those who want to preserve the Democratic seat.
"The most important thing that happened today is that there was a ruling," he said, adding that "the state has tried to slow down the judicial process for months and now that we are out of Cole County, the real decision will be made. Our case now moves forward."
Mr. Robbins could not immediately be reached for comment on Wednesday.
The case now heads to the state's Supreme Court, which has already ruled in favor of the redistricting effort, and has to depend state lawmakers' ability to redraw the map outside of the typical, once-a-decade cycle.
The Long-Ago Incident of the Missing $1,000 Pen That Paxton Can't Seem to Shake
By LAUREN MCGAGGIST
WASHINGTON — Outside of Ken Paxton had raisen in Washington last month stood a motion billboard track highlighting the many legal and regulatory issues the Texas attorney general has faced over the years.
The law included a criminal to decrease on securities fraud, impeachment in the Texas Legislature and a stolen pen.
The pen was a political reference. The ad, paid for by a supporter of Mr. Paxton's Democratic opponent for Senate, James T. Tarlors, helped back to an episode more than a decade ago when Mr. Paxton published another piece of $1,000 pen while passing through security at a courthouse outside Dallas.
In Texas politics, the Westfilmer, very fast because an undecided power of niche Paxton ken. It has also become an inside joke, an film month when pens were reportedly outlawed from attendees at a Paxton rally in Houston.
But the episode remains unfamiliar to many Texas voters and even some potential Paxton doesn't.
"I don't know anything about it," Barry Kendrick, a joke who lives in Texas, said as he stood near the billboard track after leaving the court-mate in Washington last month.
That has not been the fault of Mr. Paxton's political opponents trying for years to turn the partisans into one on effective line of attack.
Security footage of the episode was used against Mr. Paxton, a Republican firebrand, during his run for revolution as attorney general in 2010. The spring, Senator John Corry's supporters included the pen in an attack ad as he tried unsuccessfully to find off Mr. Paxton in the Republican pro.
Last week, it resurrected in an ad for Mr. Tarlors' bouncing an embarrassed from Joe Joplin, the lawyer whose pen Mr. Paxton took all those years ago.
"Vote for James Tarlors," the voice over in the ad states. "He won't mind your pen."
The events in question took place at the security checkpoint of a Coble County courthouse. Mr. Joplin had left his Westfilmer pen in a security bin. Mr. Paxton says:
Even now, political opponents replay the security footage.
ted the pen — worth around $1,000 — and took it as he passed through security near after.
Mr. Joplin returned to retrieve the pen, which was a gift from his wife. The building's security footage, dated Aug. 11, 2012, opened the man who took it. Mr. Paxton, who was a state law-maker from the area at the time, A sheriff's deputy reached out to ask
Mr. Paxton if he had the pen. He said he did, and agreed to return it.
Madison Corry, Mr. Paxton's campaign spokeswoman, called Mr. Tarlors' attempts to resurrect the incident a "childish attack" about an issue that had already been addressed.
"This was nothing more than a mix-up at security," she added.
The fan of attack involving the pen was familiar to Justin Nelson, the Democratic nominee for attorney general in 2014, who used the security footage as part of his campaign. He still marveled at the episode.
"It's such a ridiculous set of circumstances, right?" Mr. Nelson said in an interview. "Even if it was some innocent mistake, the reality of it is he took somebody else's $1,000 pen."
Mr. Paxton, then a well-heated incumbent, ignored the attacks during the 2018 campaign. This time may be different, Mr. Nelson said. Mr. Paxton has been making in fund-raising and in some polls.
The national attention surrounds the Mr. Tarlors has carried the pen further than it ever traveled. And the pen's owner has offered an endorsement for the first time. (Mr. Joplin declined to be interviewed.)
If I took, Mr. Tarlors's spokesman, said the incident revealed something about Mr. Paxton's character: the 1st "the kind of pen who will mind your pen."
The Tarlors campaign has also been calling to own, indepict power — for a 50-campage contribution — that read "Not Ken Paxton's Pen." Mr. Nelson's campaign cried the same thing in 2016, adding that he was not a campaign. That's LeRien Scott This Pen.
Mr. Paxton has been denied any wrongdoing in office. The indictment on securities fraud charges in 2015 resulted in a total of 4,000, he paid restitution bed did not admit gold. The impeachment of corruption charges in 2022 ended in an acquittal.
Mr. Kendrick, the plot at the
Washington fund-raiser, said that after seeing the "stolen pen" billboard he watched the security footage of the attack. An whether Mr. Paxton had mistakenly pocketed the pen or taken it as purpose. Mr. Kendrick was more surprised that anyone would own a "stolen pen."
"I got a laugh out of that," he said. It did not change his mostly positive opinion of Mr. Paxton, he said.
Mr. Kendrick, who advocates for pilots, said he frequently attends meetings with officials of both parties where he has to go through a metal director. To provide the meetings, he was security bin, he carries a plastic bag.
Just the bag goes his wafer, his watch and, yes, a Westfilmer he said he bought at Contra a decade ago on a bank. The watch goes with him everywhere, he said, including to Mr. Paxton fund-raiser in Washington.
And so, Mr. Kendrick joked, Mr. Paxton did not try to take it.
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David Crowley withdrew from and then made a successful return to the Democratic primary race for governor in Wisconsin.
Sharon Taylor, who cast herself as a law and order candidate, won her primary early this month in a Virginia House district.
Representative Ed Case of Hawaii emphasized his seniority and role on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
Big Year for Progressives, but Democratic Centrists Still Found Their Footing
By BRYLIES WAGNER
Even as progressive candidates have achieved high-profile victories this year, a handful of most scum Democrats have proved their contents run still win competitive primary races.
In recent weeks, members of the David Crowley in Wisconsin and Representative David Moskowitz of Florida were given the first to marries. Others, like Mary Peltola in Alaska, have shown electoral strength that controls have pointed to an tiny edge that their approach is to be used as winning tough general elections.
The moderates who have not have often included their races, discussing themselves from an annual leaders and casting theirselves as independent-minded.
"Democratic primary race" was still value circulating above all else, but they no longer trust the establishment at all (how what circulating is," said Adam Jundle-
Patricia Mazzio contributed re-priming
son, the founder of the Searchlight Institute, a terrorist think tank.
Other creative Democrats have acknowledged the challenges they face at a time when voters in back parties want economic change.
"The far left is running on the way that I think are way too radical, but they are big," said Matt Barnett, a co-founder of Third City Teacher Institute, who is in task. "One of the problems for the voters left is that we have no more up with ideas that are also big — that, if enacted, would change the level of working from people in fundamental ways."
Here are some moderate candidates who have won recently, and why:
David Crowley in Wisconsin
Mr. Crowley, the center-left Milwaukee County executive, narrowly defeated Financials and870 percentish insulated the federal bounty favored in polls, in the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin this month.
The race was chaotic. Mr Crowley struggled to gain traction and
withdraw in early July, and then the early re-establishment-backed candidate abruptly ended her campaign. Day-June, Mr Crowley re-entered with strong backing from Wisconsin's popular Democratic governor, Tony Everett.
Many voters did not turn into the race until the final days, at which point they were barraged with negative headlines and ads about Ms. Hong's controversial old social media posts. In one from 2020, she suggested conceding Thanksgiving.
Many voters said Mr. Everett endorsement played a key role in their choice. And Mr. Crowley's record-leading Milwaukee County, the state's most populous county, most likely helped him, too. His campaign website points to his work securing federal and state funds for affordable housing and signing a large property tax cut.
David Moskowitz in Florida
Mr. Moskowitz, a moderate congressman in a young district with many Jewish voters, has called for "unswerving support" for Israel. He easily hooked off a fierce pri-
mary challenge from Oliver Larkin, a democratic socialist who denounced the war in Gaza.
In an interview, Mr. Moskowitz attributed his victory to the fact that voters leave him well from his roughly two decades in elected office.
"I've delivered results for this community," he said, citing bipartisan guaranteed legislation that he helped shopped through the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature after the Parkland school shooting in 2018. He also noted that he can the state's division of emergency management — under Gen. Ron DeSantis, a Republican — after Dominion Michael and during the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr. Moskowitz refused to debate Mr. Larkin and accused him of ammunition, a charge Mr. Larkin denied.
Mr. Moskowitz suggested that their district may have been more hostile to democratic socialists.
"I let them tell people in this community that they will shoot getting rid of the only Jewish state in the world," Mr. Moskowitz said.
"I let them tell people how great Fidel Castro was."
Mary Peltola in Alaska
Ms. Peltola, a moderate former congresswoman, is leading Alaska's incomplete primary vote in the state's nonpartisan primary — and she is usually ahead of the incumbent Republican senator, Sam S. Sullivan, in a key race on the Senate only.
She has gone to great heights in Arkansas herself from top national Democrats. Last week, her campaign rejected a fund-raising agreement that former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Ms. Peltola has also criticized the political establishment, saying it can aid ammunition. Her campaign that "it's not just that publication of D.C. don't care that we're paying $17 a gallon for milk in rural Alaska — they don't even believe us."
Ed Case in Hawaii
Representative Ed Case, a 72-year-old moderate Democrat in Hawaii, easily fended off a progressive challenges 10 years his
junior this month.
Mr. Case pointed to his seniority and expertise in securing federal benefits, emphasizing his role on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
"Without good representation is Congress, we'd just get less," he said in one television ad.
James Tucker in Virginia
Shannon Taylor, a moderate pro-science, easily defeated on Democratic opponents this month in a Virginia House district.
Casting herself as a law-and-order Democrat, she rejected strong name recognition. She focused her primary campaign on rooting out corruption — a paid that, she said, helped her make the case that she wanted major changes in Washington.
She said door-knocking also played a key role.
"It's not about a label of moderate or progressive," she said. "It's about having people in front of people to hear what their problems are."
Graham's Debate Stumble In Race for Senate Gives Pause to Some Republicans
By ERNIE DAVIES
Senator Darline Graham's acknowledgment at a televised debate this week that she was "not more informed on national security" has magnified her biggest real credibility in the race to succeed her brother on the Senate, reviving questions about her level of public independence.
Ms. Graham, who most recently led the state's commission for the blind, had never had abandoned her when she was tapped last month to finish the term of her brother, Senator Lindsey Graham, who died last month. With President Trump's backing, she is now running for a full six years.
Her approach in the Republican primary runoff, Representative Ralph Norman, a five-term member of Congress who has clashed with the president, wrote on social media that "South Carolina, the answer is Senator who (UNDER-CEASED) change things in the general corporate conditions about the race to heal Republican.
With early voting already underway ahead of next Tuesday's election, Ms. Graham's campaign is scrambling to do damage control. On Wednesday, Ms. Graham spoke to Congress a technical restaurant, that point as a five-term-month-out-engined anti-proprized car. No News to defend her performance on the debate stage.
"I don't speak politician — I was just hereon," Ms. Graham said on Fox, discussing her months over a question about the importance of Taiwan to U.S. interests. "Of course Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about here in girls' sports."
The tallest poses a stack test for Mr. Trump, who endorsed Ms. Graham over a longtime ally in the U.S. House and is now looking to prove his grip on the Republican Party in an election cycle, where his status as kingmaker is under scrutiny. Tuesday night, at Ms. Graham faltered during the debate, two of the president's other parks lost primary elections in Florida House races, and a third best a governor's primary in Wyoming.
So for Mr. Trump is sticking by Mr. Graham, according to three people familiar with his thinking, who were granted anentomy to a large private government. Mr. Trump planned to rally supporters in Myrtle Beach on Friday on the behalf for a roundtrip to the Republican official in South Carolina after the debate is expected to attend, a fourth person said.
The White House did not re-open at a request for comment.
The question is whether the president's efforts can overcome concerns among voters about whether Ms. Graham's first job is
Representative Ralph Norman and Senator Darline Graham at their debate on Tuesday in Newbury, N.C., ahead of a special Republican primary. Ms. Norman had been in office for five terms.
politics should be as a U.S. senator. Ms. Graham, 62, most recently led the South Carolina Commission for the Blind, where she won on a $50 million budget. She previously worked in help people with disabilities that plan.
But she has sought to turn her into a member of the state in a political climate where many voters are working candidates unassured from Washington.
Some voters in South Carolina this week said that approach had worked for them and that they viewed Mr. Norman, who had
spent more than two decades in politics, as part of a broken system.
"People like Ralph's conservative mances, but they like that London's built a reputation and Darline would rather be called," said Crowley, a former chair of the South Carolina Republican Party. He said that the timing of the special primary made a especially unpredictable. "I felt it on Aug. 23 special election when people are getting their kids back to school, and it is not an anyone's radar."
Others were observed by her
debate performance.
After Michelle Smith, a 69-year-old moderate from Alaska, he watched a clip of Ms. Graham struggling at the debate, she tested her mother and husband. "I've concerned that she appeared tripped up a few times," Ms. Smith wrote, re their group chat.
Up until then, Ms. Smith had been leaning toward voting by Ms. Graham. She liked that she had the backing of Mr. Graham's staff members, who are known for their constituent services, and
Telling South Carolina voters that newcomer status is an asset.
said Ms. Graham seemed "smart and capable."
The debate, Ms. Smith said, changed her mind. She still supported Mr. Trump and has been in his calling, but she added that his endorsement of Ms. Graham had little impact on her vote in this race. She said she cared more about being "battle ready" in case the Democrats take back Congress as it two years, the presidency.
"No offense at all to President Trump. I respect anybody that holds that office," she said. "But Trump does not live in South Carolina, and this is an election particular to South Caroliniana."
Even before the debate, some Republican officials and grassroots regulators saw Mr. Norman, the vice chair of the ultrasonography President Clinton, as competent to the banker almost $1.5 million in all key for the last week of the race. PAFA supporting Ms. Graham purchased more than twice as much.
As a packed dinner of Republican officials and voters in Anderson Monday night, Ms. Graham decided her limited experience in politics.
"I'm like a politician," she said them. "Do you know who else wasn't a politician?"
"Donald Trump."
Headache of people foaming on undercard and meatland dropped their heirs and clapped.
More Candidates Chosen by Trump Fall in G.O.P. Primaries
By JEEN BERGODD
This spring, President Trump really dispensed with Republican who had crossed him in a display of raw power that seemed to undercover his iron grip on the party's base. One by one, Senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Representative Thomas Masson of Kentucky and Senator John Cornys of Texas fell in challenges backed by Mr. Trump.
The spring of retribution, however, has given way to a more complicated summer.
A series of issues by Trump-magazine members that ended his winning record, raising fresh questions about whether a programist approaching lone-deck since can still exert a much control as he wants over his party's voters.
Offer points of view on the Opinion pages since day's week. The New York Times
Ignoring the President
Mr. Trump sees himself as a king-maker who can elevate a candidate above the pack. That was not what happened on Tuesday in Florida's 10th Congressional District. There, the president picked Carolina Lord, a Florida transplant aligned with the Wake America Healthy Again movement, only to one for how to a local media might, this followpoint.
Mr. Trump's soul of approval was also not enough to prop up Representative Cory Miller of Florida, whose campaign for co-election-hundred credit is clearly the venligations involving his treatment of women. Mr. Trump endorsed Mr. Mills in February. On Wednesday, after Mr. Mills lost a former local news anchor, the president posted on Truth Social that he had tried to persuade Mr. Mills to drop out of the race but was unable to do so.
Mr. Mills is not the only law-maker Mr. Trump has been unable to push out of a campaign. Another embattled ally, Representa-
tive Man Miller of Ohio, also shrugged off the presidency warnings about his scandal-plagued run for re-election.
And one more loyalty, Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee, has felt led for re-election this month after he faced a backlash for anti-fibution and anti-monogross remarks.
Answering Reason
The president has particularly struggled this year to pick winners in governor's races. His initial picks have lost in five other members who're never months.
At Weymouth on Tuesday, a rancher and metropolitan who promised to lower the temperature of the state's mortgagery branch beat a Trump-backed candidate who wanted to mark the state government with "buildings."
Last week, the election device Mike Lindell fell short in his Trump-supported bid to be the Republican nominee for governor in Minnesota.
Earlier in the summer, candidates endorsed by Trump blamed in governor's races in Iowa and Georgia. His initial picks for governor being South Carolina, too.
Trump has, however, picked the winners to key battlegrounds for governor. A longtime ally, Representative Andy Riggs, handily beat a state-mandated Republican in Arizona. And the president's pick for governor in Michigan, John James, will face backy's Bobson, the secretary of state, in November.
Test in South Carolina
Senator Darline Graham of South Carolina — who was appointed to Gov. Mary's Board of Commissioners early fill the vacancy left open by the death of her brother, Lindsey Graham — is running for a full term with the support of Mr. Graham. The candidate is not enough votes to avoid a runoff and had a really debate performance this week.
Mr. Trump planned to head to Myrtle Beach, S.C., to campaign for her on Friday.
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Government Scraps Plan for Pentagon Lawyers to Aid Migrant Children
By BLAKELENE NGU
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday abruptly scrapped a plan to recruits retiring Pentagon lawyers to represent unaccompanied minors in immigration court, a move that would have asked attorneys with little relevant legal support to help migrant children facing deportation.
The shift deepened confusion about how the federal government planned to add to legal obligation to protect the rights of the users that 20,000 unaccompanied minors with pending immigration cases, who advocates say are uniquely vulnerable amid the administration's push for mass or problem.
A federal contract with a network of legal nonprofit groups that had long represented unaccompanied minors ended last month. The Trump administration signed a short-term deal earlier this month with an organization best known for its focus on human trafficking, an arrangement that would provide the children with lawyers. Opponents of the move have noted that the group, Our Rescue, has little experience handling immigration court cases.
The administration had also been developing another nonprofit measure. Officials with the Defense Department and the Health and Human Services Department, who is responsible for the welfare of migrant children who have no parent or legal guardian to care for them in the United States, told the New York Times earlier this week that the administration was recruiting Pentagon lawyers who were involved in retiring or had planned to retire soon or serve as attorneys for the child.
Such an arrangement would be a major a departure from the kind of work typically provided by Pentagon lawyers, who have no previous on a broad array of matters for the children and millionaires of their children. The last includes prosecuting or defending issues members who could not be involved in contracts for new weapon and are serving troops following the new reformed conflict.
By Wednesday afternoon, as The Times sought more information from H.R.S. the department said it was no longer pursuing the idea, which had not been disclosed publicly.
The agency said that for tons, it would use short-term contracts to provide migrant children with lawyers in immigration court. It acknowledged that the administration was still seeking to identify a long-term legal service provider.
The department said in a statement that it indicated "committed to retorting all eligible unaccompanied children to have legal representation during immigration proceedings."
The Washington administration proposed relief that the plan to top military lawyers was issued, they said the patchwork plan to provide legal services could lead to more important and more children as a state when the Trump administration was trying to accelerate their removal. Court hear-
Five federal court-based reporting, John DeSupartive concluded research.
Migrants crossing the Rio Grande at El Paso in 2024. A federal contract with legal nonprofits that had long represented unaccompanied minors ended last month.
ings and asylum interviews for many unaccompanied minors have been moved up in recent months, even as questions have worked about who would represent them, immigration attorneys said.
"Bridgu contracts are Band-Aids that are not stopping the events," said Michelle Brant, former Department of Homeland Security official who led the family reunification task force under the Biden administration. "They help for some, but are not enough, and are not a long-term solution."
The vast majority of unaccompanied minors who entered the United States have since been released to reinforce or other agencies. A much smaller number of children remain in shelters overtime by the Health and Human Services Department. In July, an average of about 1,000 children were in federal custody, according to department data.
Many children arrived at the home without a barrier, often having persecution or other hardship in their countries.
Shama Abel, the executive director of Acacia Center for Justice, which manages a network that has provided migrant children with legal services, said the administration's current approach left them vulnerable.
"Unaccompanied children need independence, ethically tethered, experienced lawyers who know how to work with them in a child-friendly," way, she said in a statement.
The federal government is required under law to provide legal
services to unaccompanied children who are often too young to understand their rights, ranging from presentations about their rights to direct legal representation. That work has typically been continued and is nonprofits whose lawyers have extensive experience representing and helping migrant children.
The federal government had a multiracial contract with the Asia and Central America, giving that managed a national network of nonprofits that provided representations. The Trump administration has repeatedly tried to halt
Advocates express relief, but also any stogage measures only hasten deportations.
funding for the groups, and only recently disbarred money it had withheld, following a federal court order.
The Acacia Center contract on period at the end of July The center said it declined to sign a new contract because the Trump administration wanted it to share "confidential data about any young clients," including unique identification numbers assigned by the Department of Homeland Security, and information about their immigration cases.
A Health and Human Services
Department spokesperson said the administration was not requesting prolonged, anxiety to be on information from the network, and had no intention of providing information is obtained to other government agencies.
The rest of the Acacia Center's contract set off a scramble among the nonprofits that had been providing legal representations. In an effort to prevent thousands of children from being deported to citizens in lawyers, many groups have been backstaining and relying on reserves to continue representing them.
Michael Lukens, the executive director of the Washington-based Acacia Center for Immigrant Rights, said his nonprofit was continuing to represent about 800 unaccompanied minors, even though its federal funding had lapsed. Mr. Lukens said the group was able to do so in part because of the funding the administration received from them.
Still, he and others warned that those efforts were not sustainable. Some nonprofits said they were trying to transfer cases to probate attorneys.
"If I'm a catastrophe for the children, You will see some deportations," Mr. Lukens said. "They're looking at very hard to fight with them when you have an attorney, let alone without me."
In a smoker of the roughly 20,000 cases handled by the network will be transferred to the Department and the Department's several nonprofits said in interviews that they had not been
contacted by the government or to new legal service providers about maintaining cases.
The Health and Human Services Department said it was working with other legal service providers, including the nonprofit U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, which is closed to provide unaccompanied children with lawyers through the end of December.
The department also awarded a $100 million contract for legal services to Our Rescue. The nonprofit, The contract has a "bank period" of six months, running through early February, according to the department.
The deal has drawn intense scrutiny because the organization does not have extensive experience representing unaccompanied children in court.
Our Rescue said in a statement that it had "decades of experience supporting vulnerable children and that it was decided for a disability of working with unaccompanied minors to ensure that had access to qualified legal counsel."
The group was headed by Tim Ballard, a former Department of Homeland Security agent who was accused by multiple women of being a sex producer. In several occasions, they said that Mr. Ballard proved to state abuse to help trafficking victims, coercing of having them into sexual misconduct as part of their undercover work. The New York Times reported in 2019, Mr. Ballard has insisted that he did not engage in misconduct. While the courts
have dismissed some of the legal claims against Mr. Ballard, multiple lawsuits remain active.
Our Rescue said in a statement that Mr. Ballard was no longer affiliated with the organization, and had not been involved since he left in 2023.
Another potential legal provider identified by the administration ultimately declined to do the work.
The Health and Human Services Department said on Aug. 6 that it intended to award up to $250 million to a no-hit contract to373. The State of Chicago, a noted Texas firm that appeared to have limited immigration law experience and was not a legal agency with the state of California. The State of California, coercing of having them into sexual misconduct as part of their undercover work. The New York Times reported in 2019, Mr. Ballard has insisted that he did not engage in misconduct.
Marcelle Burke, who held top positions at the Interior Department and the Government firm, said the agency during the first Trump administration, said she explored the possibility of her firm assembling a network of lawyers to provide services to about 700 children. Her during discussions with the Health and Human Services Department, she said it "became clear that the government's proposed structure was not workable."
"I became involved for one reasons: children, some extremely young and facing heartbreaking circumstances," Mr. Burke said in a statement. "All discussions were preliminary, and I never sought or accepted a grant of any amount."
5 Restrained After Resisting U.S. Deportation to Liberia
This article is by Emmanuel Aldowson, Helene Cooper and Ronald Morris.
Oakland, Senegal — Five of the U.S. deputies who arrived in Liberia on Thursday as part of a deportation deal with the Trump administration refused to deplored and had the restrained for several minutes by American federal agents, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
The 20 deputies arrived at Aldowson, who had arrived at Thursday afternoon in the Liberian capital, Montreux, according to Liberian foreign minister, Sara Bernabee Nyack.
American federal agents resorting the departure forced the five ensuing men off the plane, but eventually all five were returned to the aircraft, according to three other members who could be candidate of anonymity because they were not authorized to deplore the operation.
The Liberian government has been a strong leader of the first individuals. The State Department referred questions about the deportation to the Department of Homeland Security, which did not respond to requests for assistance. A video worded by The New York
Emmanuel Aldowson reported two States and thorns "properly, the United States is not a legal person. Reporting was contributed by Tina Aldequene and Deaneet Bowle from Montreux, Liberia, and Diane Koren-Young" and Madeleine Pigs from Washington.
Times shows some of the deporters sitting on the airport tarnier next to the plane, surrounded by roughly 30 agents.
The departure arrived at Liberia until a growing backlash in Africa, with critics saying the Liberian government's deal with the Trump administration to accept 1,200 U.S. deputies is too large and too opaque. And the consumer among some of the deporters undercameed how the Trump administration's efforts to expel
The men, among 20 people sent in a deal, refuse to deplane.
migrants to countries where they have no less has caused her and uncertainty, rights groups say.
The deal with Liberia, in West Africa, is one of the largest struck by the Trump administration on her for so-called third-country deportations, in which U.S. deporters are not sent in their home countries.
It is unclear if any of the deporters have criminal records in the United States. But the agreement has raised questions among 1,200 U.S. deputies who are not conspiring.
"The issue of deportations is raising many concerns that can't be left unanswered," said Atlanta Desaporte, a human rights lawyer and activist in Liberia. "What con-
ditions will they be held in? And how does Liberia benefit?" he said. "Liberians, we are hospitals the people, we love strangers. But the government should explain this."
The departure will initially be held in a government facility and be allowed to seek asylum in Liberia or return to their home countries, said Jocelynette Matthew Plak, Liberian information minister.
"They are being received as guests," he said in a statement. He highlighted Liberian history of welcoming refugees and migrants, often deported to countries where they have no ties, as an emphatic for the deal.
Liberian government has said it did not demand or receive any compensation as part of the deportation deal with the Trump and the United. Mr. Desaporte said this was hard to believe, considering the economic challenges in a country where more than half of the six million people live in poverty.
"What is more concerning is that the U.S. is sending 1,200, a high number," he said. "Liberia has a struggling economy where some people are in high, what conditions will be put in place to help?"
Thirty countries have made third-country deportation deals with the Trump administration, according to Human Rights First, a nonprofit group that tracks deportations. The majority of the countries making such agreements have been at Africa, includ-
ing the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana and South Sudan.
For several months, the Trump administration pushed to send in Liberia Kikwar Alergo Garcia, a hydrochem instigation whose deportation could become a criminal of the president's crackdown on illegal instigation.
Mr. Alergo Garcia spent months in a television prison held for services after being deported to El Salvador last year. He was later returned to the United States, then faced human smuggling. Alergo's first were later thrown into the federal judge in Nashville as an abuse of prosecutorial powers.
No information about the deporters' records has been made public, during an early time. Liberia, where crime occurred on the drug trade has exploded in recent years. A crackdown by law enforcement has seen hundreds of millions of dollars of smokes seized by officials.
"It's risky for us," said Hannah Jadjali, 25-year-old head vendor in Montreux. "We already have the drug issue here. We don't know who is who."
In Wednesday, a former vice president, Arent Tizher, was charged with drug trafficking and money laundering. She is the no-well of Charles Tizher, a former Liberian president and convicted was sent to the police.
Mr. Plak, the information minister, said the departure were not "criminalic" and "not being prosecuted in any manner under United States or Liberian law."
Liberia has agreed to accept 1,200 U.S. deputies. The status of the five men restrained by U.S. agents on Thursday was unclear.
But his denials have been not with skepticism among rights groups that say his themselves does not adequately address whether the departure had crime. He needs or were awaiting trial.
The deal with the Trump administration has also come to pressure about whether diplomatic pressure was applied on Liberia, a country with dead ties to the United States. Liberian history is rooted in America's "Back to Africa" movement and the American Constitution Society, a group formed in 2000 by philanthropists, a abolitionism as well as some slave owners.
The group helped reestlely for Black Americans to what would become a Liberia, so Liberian independence, its Constitution and the news numbers have been all United States. English is the country's official language.
Last year, Joseph Boakai, Libe-
ric's president, was one of five African leaders to meet with President Trump at the White House. The meeting caused a slit when Mr. Trump complemented Mr. Boakai on his English, asking him, "Where did you learn to speak on 'everything?'"
Liberia's economy and health systems have been hit hard by many of American foreign aid, making my perceptions of the United States, and leading suspicions that Liberia was forced to negotiate from a position of weakness.
"As a sovereign country, was it possible for President Joseph Boakai to have refused President Donald Trump's offer of accepting these individuals?" asked Clare McBell, a program officer in the Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia, a civil society group based in the capital.
"Why can't America keep these? Why Liberia?"
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Trans Migrants in ICE Detention Are Losing Their Rights and Medical Care
By ANALLEY
Camilla Toro de Paula, a 25-year-old transgender woman from Venezuela, has spent the past 12 months in a federal immigration detention center for men. When she said she has been an audited, threatened and deprived of medical care.
Ms. Toro de Paula, who entered the United States working as trium, has triggered in solitary confinement without ready access to one for up to 12 hours a day, and a lawyer said. Medical film from the center in Ares, La., where she is being deceased, show that she has complained to social workers about being patched on basis of her gender expression.
"I'm afraid of dying here," Ms. Toro de Paula said in Spanish during a video interview from the federal facility, immigration officials said Ms. Toro de Paula had removed the country illegally and tried her criminal history in the United States. Records show that the most serious charges against her, of felony around and possession of a weapon, had been dismissed.
The case of Ms. Toro de Paula comes as the federal government has federal specialized care for transgender donations inside of state of detention centers from Calerbra, Calif., to Batavia, N.Y., according to public records. Officials no longer consistently provide transgender inmates with information that government is not out of care.
An Obamacris injury that provided many rights for transgender people in immigration detention was deleted from the Department of Homeland Security website in February 2020, and officials have considered the most common serious means to shield transgender detainees from being harassed or physically harmed.
"We are NOT roaming U.S. insurers, dollars, and trade increases. During re-dragal alarm seeking is change their two," the Department of Homeland Security said in an email to The New York Times, which did not address the other changes in policy.
Homeland Security has in number been a problem in the military transgender migrants and in custody for experts on incarceration records that there are no least several doors out of interstate transport. The United States is 2012. U.S. tax, 12, 2023, the law not does for which the government reported a court, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had 67 transgender people in custody, according to data archived by the York Institute of Justice, a third task focused on criminal justice reform.
Many of the state's unexplained about misrepresentation and deadly medical care is federal facilities. The United States denies no expenses a small fraction of those being held, they are an especially vulnerable population. Many are having businesses in public transport and that just the gun to be given some protection within the U.S. detention system in recent years.
Medical experts say that with limited access to medical other treatment for gender dysphoria can cause unique physical and mental health complications.
A hotline can by immigration liquidity, a nonprofit organization
Albert Sun committed reporting and Issues Hervey and Shethyl McNeil contributed research.
that helps L.G.B.'52, and H.I.V. position people who are in the sub-regular system, resorted a 48 percent increase in calls from L.G.B.'52 detainees in 2016 compared with the year before. (The group does not have data specific data for transgender detainees.)
Immigration Equality's clients include transgender women who said they had been removed from detention center units that had been reserved for them during the Biden administration and placed with men or in solitary confinement. The group said that the federal government had denied it to have transgender citizens to be transferred to facilities for women or transgender people.
The administration is creating a humanitarian disaster? "I'm changing policies that were meant to protect transgender people, said Bridget Crawford, the legal director of Immigration Equality."
The Homeland Security Department reported claims that conditions inside detention centers were eliminates The agency did not directly respond to Ms. Toro de Paula's assertions of sexual and misrepresentation, and identified her with male processes. Ms. Toro de Paula has received two issues for years, and her lawyer said that she has been denied her name treatment in ICE detention.
The federal agency said that "no detainees are being beaten or
abused."
"No identification is the history of the civilization have been transmitted before that illegal alarm in the United States," the agency said.
The actions of the Trump administration have been welcomed by opponents of transgender rights, including the Women's Liberation Front, a women's rights advocacy group that defines gender based on sex at birth and does not acknowledge transgender women. The group has argued that placing transgender women in prisons for women violates the misrepresentation rights of female or manes who are not transgender, including the Eighth Amendment right to protection from cruel and untried punishment.
The Center for American Progress, a 108-leading think tank, issued a report citing ICE data that Democrats in Congress had collected. It found that L.G.B.'52 migrants have a disproportionately higher chance of being abused in migrant detention centers. The statistics were collected during the 2017 fiscal year, which spanned Democrats and Republican administrations.
The report said that transgender detainees, an average, spent 90 days in solitary confinement, more than double the average for all immigrants in ICE custody. In the 2017 fiscal year, one in eight
Camilla Toro de Paula, left, a transgender woman from Venezuela, entered the United States working as trium at Eagle Flew, Texas, above. Ms. Toro de Paula said she has resided in the United States in an investigation-destation center for men. "I'm afraid of dying here."
transgender detainees was placed in solitary confinement, which of fiction said in show when detainees are viewed as a threat to other immigrants or personnel, or for protective purposes.
Data from the federal government shows that in the 2014 fiscal year, during the Biden administration, 216 detainees who identified an transgender were booked into ICE custody.
In 2023, Immigration Equality interviewed it L.G.B.'52, and H.I.V. position immigrants who had been in detention. About another said that they had experienced sexual abuse, physical health or sexual harassment because of their identity when in detention.
Almost all the participants said that they were the targets of transgender, transgender, nonophobic, racist or other verbal and unverbal abuse. Most said that they had received transgender medical care for a range of conditions, and about half said that they had been placed in solitary confinement. Of the 41 participants interviewed for the report, 11 were transgender.
Subgrants under President Joseph E. Biden, 16, have resided during President Trump's visit to the US.
In May, the federal government closed the Office of the Immigration Detention, Netherlands, which was responsible for investigating misconduct, and about of all kinds in the immigration detention system.
"The violations that were using new are, to some extent, what we believe in Trump's first term is to alarm the transgender, transgender, nonphobic, Racist," said Cathy Egyes, the legal director of the Transgender Law Center, a civil rights group. "It was often difficult for some people to access medical care. Now, it is almost impossible."
Many transgender migrants in
detention, like Ms. Toro de Paula, came to the United States working as trium.
She said the story of a violent childhood in Venezuela, from the age of 4, she said that she was myself responsible by relatives. When she was about 16, she said that she tried to buy her mother, who revoked and updated her with her cooking oil. She said that the police stalked her when she was 16 in what she described as a transphobic attack.
In October, a doctor who was retained by her legal director, the United States's federal legal department paid a make her left above when she said her mother had burned her.
Protections that had been in place are now gone under Trump.
She had long scars on her left wrist and hand and on her right leg where she said that the Venezuelan police had stood her after with a knife when they had obtained her.
Her years ago, she made the dangerous journey on foot to the United States. In September 2020, she reached Eagle Flew, Texas, where officials gave her lead and clothes was put her on a flight to New York City. At the time, Gus Long talked of Texas had been sending thousands of migrants to Democrats and cities as part of the multibillion-dollar border of charity office, known as Operation Care Fair.
In New York, she joined a community of transgender women and attended parades and parities for L.G.B.'52 people.
Her new life unraveled in Jan
- 2023 when she was arrested during a routine appointment at the New York City office of ICE, where her flown to Louisiana and placed in a detention center for men, despite objections from her lawyer, Laura Berger, who works with the Legal Aid Society. The interviews, like the police said, would put her client in danger.
The Homeland Security Department said that Ms. Toro de Paula had a criminal history that included charges for felony of sexual and criminal possession of a weapon, kind of which were dismissed and seized. According to her lawyer, these charges were also the same as the Senate on June 30, 2023, after she was accused of having a man on the head with a victim. Her lawyer said that Ms. Toro de Paula was leading off a rollout. The charges collected in that incident were dismissed in October, court records show.
The response case in Denver, Ms. Toro de Paula was charged with prostitution that was dismissed. She was also charged with perplexity being a bigness and provided guilty to police.
"A lot of people don't understand so," said Jessica Gusman, a transgender woman who organized gatherings that Ms. Toro de Paula had attended at the New York, "Camilla is a good girl."
Many transgender people in detention have had prosecution in their home countries, said Ms. Toro de Paula. "I am unmarried."
Wilmar Quintero, a 30-year-old transgender woman from Venezuela, came to the United States in an 18-year asylum and was detained in Michigan for about three months. Ms. Quintero said that she was a member of a national country because police officers tortured her and left her for dead after the spake out against civil rights abuses. "Interrogative of her have been revealed an outpaced stretch of pinched, red scars that mark where officers carried out her breast implants, she said."
Ms. Quintero said that she was a member of a national country and her sergeant while being detained in Michigan.
"I lived through the worst horrors and heartlessness snuggered in the U.S. Quintero said in the article, 'They created me like an animal.'"
Immigration officials departed Ms. Quintero in Venezuela in April, and she went into hiding there. She said she is afraid of the police in Venezuela.
Ms. Crawford is a 2016-2017-2018 service of eight transgender clients who had similarly complained of discrimination, harassment or abuse inside immigration detention facilities.
Ms. Toro de Paula said that detention center officials had pressured her to voluntarily agree to return to Venezuela, but she failed to return to the United States. She also had been informed her by forcing her to wear a mask and gloves while she is outside her cell because she is H.I.V. position, even though the United States was not a legal plan at the time not been allowed to replace her wig, and officials have refused to give her undergarments for women. The Homeland Security Department said she had not been allowed to replace her wig, and officials have refused to give her undergarments for women. The Homeland Security Department said she had not been allowed to replace her wig.
"I want to be heard," Ms. Toro de Paula said. "Women like me have been disrespected enough. No sure."
Man Is First to Die in Custody At Near Rikers Medical Unit
By CLARE FAHY
and KENNETH WASH
A man died in custody on Wednesday morning at a medical unit in Manhattan that known its means from the Rikers just once gave the city said in a statement.
The man, Christopher Bแล้ว-guest, 36, was found "in medical distress in his following area" at the Outspaced Therapeutic Hospital Unit at Bellevue Hospital, which is run jointly by the hospital and the New York City Department of Correction. He was pronounced dead at 6:30 a.m., the statement said, "He is the sixth person who is city custody this year and the first at the medical unit.
"We will conduct a thorough bio-vestigation in coordination with the appropriate medical care authorities," Stanley Richards, the department's commissioner, said in a statement.
The Mandalani administration has been a hard, killingly in a new release as a headlamer at 1600 in New York City. He draws care to incarcerated people and to major orgy toward criminal justice. He has blamed a felony in which Mayor Zebrao Mandalani has pledged to do.
The unit, which has 104 beds, covers people in custody with "complete medical needs," accord
Ed Mandalani contributed reporting.
ing to the news release. It is the first of three such facilities planned to open across the city, which Mr. Mandalani has said will create a total of 240 beds.
Rikers has been plagued by further than 400 volumes. The agency has made the two commercials on Rikers Island, Last year, 13 people died in city custody. Five died in 2021, nine died in 2022, and 59 died in 2022.
Mr. Mandalani has said he is committed to an August 2022 deadline for closing Rikers, which the city appears unlikely to meet. The statement said, "Rikers and the media on Wednesday, the mayor said that he was aware of Mr. Bแล้ว-guest's death.
"I am heartbroken by the death effort which I have finally met, was in City custody and receiving medical care at the Outspaced Therapeutic Housing Unit," Mr. Mandalani said. "My thoughts are left this event open as they grieve this tragic loss."
The mayor also noted that, per its protocol, the Department of Correction "and its overreighted duty" would be conducting an investigation into the death.
According to city records, Mr. Bแล้ว-guest was arrested on Nov. 26, 2020, on assault and legal charges and was scheduled to appear in court next week. It was not immediately clear if Mr. Bแล้ว-guest had a lawyer.
ICE Arrests Captain in Boat Accident That Killed 2
By JONATHAN WOLFE
The captain is a health boat accident in New York Harbor this month was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at her on investigating board that he was in the United States unlawfully, the federal authorities said on Wednesday.
The captain, Manuel Hernandez, 46, was initially arrested on Aug. 6, the day after the boat captured in the harbor, killing a mother and her 5-month-old daughter. A Coast Guard investigation found that the boat was over capacity when it captured near the House of Liberty and did not have the patient for infants on board, according to a criminal complaint.
The Hernandez was charged on Aug. 20 in Federal District Court in Manhattan with two counts of misconduct and neglect resulting in death. He was released on $30,000 bail. ICE agents arrested him after the Coast Guard's investigation, the Department of Homeland Security said on Wednesday.
The department said that Mr. Hernandez was from 10 December and had the Vice Minister Peter Lefkov when he crossed into Texas from Mexico in 2007, falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen.
There he faces justice for his crimes, we will make sure that he
Madeline Ngo contributed reporting.
Manuel Hernandez, the captain of a tour host that captured this month, leaving Federal District Court in Manhattan on Aug. 10.
Mullin roars to deport the pilot after he faces justice for his crimes.
is swiftly evicted from our country," Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, said in a statement.
Mr. Hernandez's arrest is part of the United States Department's broader crackdown on immigration, which administration officials have repeatedly said is nec-
cessary to expel criminals from the country.
After a night day this spring, ICE arrests have surged in recent weeks on immigration officials' face, persons from the White House to more a part of 2,000 arrests a day, although administration officials frequently say they are surging the "warts of the warts," their enforcement efforts have swept up many people who are criminally harassed.
The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
Mr. Hernandez's lawyer, Amy California, declined on Thursday morning to comment on his arrest at the case. The New York Police Department did not respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Hernandez was piloting a Yamaha AR350 charmed for a birthday celebration on Aug. 8 when it captured, killing a 27-year-old woman, Sara Sánchez, and her male sister, Antoinette.
The boat was carrying 14 people at the time, extending its maximum capacity of 30, according to a federal complaint.
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F.B.I. Artists Woman In Terror Plot to Bomb New York State Capitol
By BENJAMIN ORESKES and WILLIAM K. KASHBACH
Federal agents and police directors have activated a 50-year-old woman who prosecutes a say was planning to bomb the New York State Capitol, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court on Thursday.
The woman, Jessica Bowie, was charged with one count of an enquiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, according to the complaint.
In the complaint, Joshua Parker, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Albany, detailed how agents used Mr. Bowie's social media posts to identify her in a potential case, and the information of the operation to arrest her.
Mr. Bowie said up F.B.I. information that she had been contemplating an attack "more seriously" on the part of a non-violent, including to the complaint. She also
Maria Crasser contributed reporting.
posted messages of support on social media, including one pruning the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
In mid-Aug. an F.B.I. informant demanding to be a "facilitator" before hearing with Mr. Bowie about "her plans to attack the New York State Capitol building in Albany," according to the complaint. Mr. Bowie told this informant she lives near the Capitol and warned help building a bomb.
According to messages that were included in the complaint, Mr. Bowie wrote to the informant that she wanted to target the New York State Capitol, "should ye a way I could get away with nothing as a plane after."
"But life it it's double," she wrote.
Mr. Bowie appeared in Federal District Court in Albany on Thursday, the inmate's case of the United City U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Stewart pending a detestimising.
A lawyer for Mr. Bowie, Valerie J. Grolfs, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Gov. Kathy Huchal said in a
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written statement that there was no immediate threat at this time and that her administration had taken steps to increase security around the Capitol and other government buildings "used a rise in political violence and threats against public officials.
"I'm grateful to the F.B.I. for leading this investigation and to the New York State Police for their work to apprehend this dangerous
individual," she added.
The complaint, which was filed in federal district court in Albany, describes an audio message that Mr. Parker claims in Mr. Bowie pledging her allegiance to the विधine State.
Over the last month, Mr. Bowie scound the building, which includes Ms. Huchal's office, at least five times. The complaint includes images from security cameras
that show someone taking phone if the Capitol building and its corresponding contact.
On Aug. 5, Mr. Bowie met with her other informants, who explained to her what materials discussed used to make a bomb, according to the complaint. The complaint then says that one of the informants gave her faith, and later that day Mr. Bowie went to a nearby Home Depot and bought a
The State Capitol in Albany. The F.B.I. said it had identified a 20-year-old suspect through her social media posts, then set up a sting operation.
bin full of sash, among other things.
She told these informants that she wanted to try to "get a good enough explosive in there to kill the senators and dandy to destroy as much of the building as possible," according to a transcript of a recorded conversation included in the complaint.
Last week, Mr. Bowie asked these informants for help hearing a plan, according to the complaint. On Wednesday, they sent her in a car to explain how to operate and denounce the bomb she was planning to build.
When she called the vehicle, F.B.I. agents arrested her.
The complaint states that Ms. Bowie said agents in an interview: "There's no helping me. You guys know enough." She added that she had found on Google that she faced as many as 20 years in prison if she was convicted of what she was accused of doing, the complaint said.
"My office looks forward to aggressively prosecuting this case and delivering justice for the American people," John A. Sarsue III, the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, said in a statement.
Hochul Suggests Mamdani Should Focus on the City
By GRACE ASHFORD
Gov. Kathy Huchal had some time public advice for Zubran Mamdani, the mayor whose role was secret and undertook approach to messaging here made him a global figure. Pay attention to New York, not Israel.
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, Ms. Huchal was asked about Mr. Mamdani's call last month for the federal government to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he called a war crater
The governor of New York discusses taxes, ICE and talking with President Trump.
sail. His rhetoric show international attention and some condemnation, with Mr. Netanyahu accusing the mayor of "honorizing black"—an allegation once Jewish leaders refused as the city—on others—a rise in anti-natalistic attacks. The mayor said that the mayor would be "still unstovered of her ownership, tiptoed around the difference between herself, a felony support—"Jewels and Mr. Mamdani, a new critic. But what asked whether Mr. Mamdani's approach might worsen the unanimous hit by many Jewish New Yorkers, she offered funds, if people, guidance.
"I encourage them to have my case on the blocking and tackling of city government," the governor said. "But the mayor was the shared emphasis on expanding child care, improving her gender and building housing. 'That is there's history the main force behind me.'"
In the 40-minute interview, Ms.
Huchal, who faces the Republican Bruce Blalemans in her re-election bid in November, outlined her views on a range of topics but discouraged many others. Her remarks also provided telling insights into the partnership that Ms. Huchal, 61, has held with Mr. Mamdani, 16, and the divisions that remain between them.
The governor said that she had "no intention" of raising taxes or implementing new uses in the coming year, but indicated that could change if there were additional unforeseen cuts in federal aid to New York. (The year, facing deep cuts in such aid and a city budget deficit, Ms. Huchal did approve a new cut on high-end second homes in New York City — allowing Mr. Mamdani to deliver, at least 10 part, an 80% campaign promise to "can the rich.")
She declined to take a position on whether Amazon should hire employees rather than third-party contractors to make deliveries, as unions, City Council members and Mr. Mamdani have demanded.
And while Ms. Huchal, a self-described "Biden Dementia," has at times seemed alternative of the insurgent leftist movement led by democratic senators like Mr. Mamdani, on Wednesday she said the movement's goods were in line with zero Democratic values like expanding health care and ethics.
"We take care of people — that's the F.I.R., I.F.R., Bill Clinton, Obama, Biden wing of the party, and that has not changed," Ms. Huchal said.
She rejected the premise that socialist voicers in primaries cannot be razed on a choice of the party, saying she welcomed the energy they represented, particularly from young people.
The comments marked a different between Ms. Huchal and the House minority leader, Balance
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Gov. Kathy Huchal, a moderate Democrat, and Mayor Zubran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, have emphasized their shared goals.
Jeffers, a fellow New Yorker who, during an appearance on "More the Power" this month, discussed himself from "the D.S.A. agenda."
Even so, there is no shortage of deep disagreements between the moderate Ms. Huchal and Mr. Mamdani, and few are as theory as their reasons on Israel and its way to form.
In the aftermath of the Hanauerist attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2020, Ms. Huchal argued for the nation's right to defend itself, even implying that it would be justified in destroying Gaza (the later apologized). She has been more willing of law to criticize Israel, however, calling reports of exera-
tion among Palestinians "unconscionable".
On Wednesday, the governor responsibly entered the conversation back to New York and her administrator's efforts to protect all marginalized communities. But she reaffirmed her commitment to the safety of Jewish New Yorkers. "I will throw my body against any intervention," she said. "I have, and I will."
Despite their differences, Mr. Mamdani has sought to find common ground with the governor, complementing her pragmatic but unflinching relationship with President Trump and her efforts to restrict the operations of hal-
eral immigration agents. He has suddenly backed her re-election.
In the interview, Ms. Huchal, also emphasized her concerns about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, suggesting that federal agents' presence might intimidate voters in November.
"They're going to be as polling places," she said, "and it's very threatening for Black and brown citizens."
While she has been heeded in her public criticism, Ms. Huchal said she has also employed more diplomatic tactics, printing the government — "this is an uncovered lady — for an extension of Tempu-
cary Protected States for Haitian and Salvadoran immigrants who had reduced ...
In a recent phone conversation with Ms. Trump, "I said, 'I need them. They're hard-working. They're just of our community.'" Ms. Huchal said of the immigrants, many of whom work as home health aides. "We're going to have a health care crisis of epic proportions when people don't show us the result of a situation and Grandpa," she recalled saying.
What was Mr. Trump's response?
"I'll find this it," Ms. Huchal said with a sigh.
Corrections
INTERNATIONAL
An article on Thursday about a missile alert that disrupted a court hearing at Guantanamo flag misconstrue the publication year of a book by the Queda defense. Amens from about his experience spying for British intelligence, it was published in 2018, and 2005. A book published in 2006 had exposed his role as a British informant.
BUSINESS
An article on Thursday about the 1st week of department dwelling, the amount of its own debt that it is permitted to buy but from its owners misstated the size of the daily trade in Treasury debt. According to the authorities industry and Financial Markets Association, the amount of business is traded on a daily basis which about $1 trillion, not $1 billion.
ARTS
An article on July 18 about the blues singer Ms Rainey misidentified the tracks on which violin
could be heard in a new based set of recordings. They are "the 'Mured Blues' and "Chase All Night Long Blues," not "Little Low Mums Blues" and "Grievin' Heart Blues." It also misguided David Sager's remarks on questions about Rainey's sexuality and rations about her relationships with women by rendering separate comments as a single thought.
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Advocate for Police Is Suspect in Death of One: Her Husband
By CHRISTINA MORALES
In law enforcement circles, Karen Solomon has been known as a champion for the mental health of police officers and other emergency workers. She handled an organization to help them and their families, wrote two books about police trauma, pushed for a national bill to expand paid benefits and married an officer herself.
Now, the police in Worcester, Mass., are searching for Ms. Solomon in connection with the death of her husband, Karr Solomon, 57.
She was last seen on Tuesday, and the authorities considered her to be armed and dangerous. They have not charged her with any crime.
Ms. Solomon, 55, is "a suspect with regards to this case," said Joseph D. Early Jr., the Worcester County district attorney. "We want her for questioning. She was at the house."
The Worcester Police Department did not identify Officer Sido-
Suner C. Beatty, contributed research.
man as the victim, but a local police union, the New England Police Benevolent Association, did.
How Officer Solomon died and other details about his death were not publicly released by the police, as they continued to seek Ms. Solomon for questioning on Thursday. Officials said domestic violence laws prevented them from releasing more information.
On Tuesday, Chief Post Sinceri of the Worcester Police Department said at a news conference that officers responded to the last seven hours of 3:28 a.m. that morning to reports of a "person down," who they later determined was an officer.
The local authorities on Wednesday released a phone and a video compilation of Ms. Solomon, claiming her walking around in palpation of the police, and the police said they responded to her home early the previous day.
The police said that other people were at the home in addition to the Johnson at the time of Officer Solomon's death, but officials declined to say more.
Ms. Solomon is the leader in Massachusetts organization called First H.E.L.F., which seeks to reduce mental health stigma for emergency medical workers to prevent suicide and help the families of those who lost relatives under similar circumstances.
First H.E.L.F. said in a statement that it was aware of the investigation and the search for Ms. Solomon, "Our first concern is for the officer who lost his life, his family, his colleagues and the Worcester law enforcement community," it said. "We extend our deepest confidence to all those affected by this tragedy."
Efforts to reach relatives of Ms. Solomon were not successful.
She is a mental health activist and expert who was known in the police community, according to her husband. She was passed on the First H.E.L.F. website, she was a chair member of the First and Research Committee of the National Committee on Law Enforcement Health Prevention.
The author of two self-published books about police officers'
and F.F.M.'s, she also pushed for the Public Safety Officer Support Act, which he/ever President Joseph E. Biden Jr. signed into law in 2022. That bill organized a federal benefits program to cover mental health injuries, disabilities from trauma and deaths by suicide for first responders.
"When their shift ends, the uniform and the badge are put away but the aftermath remains," Ms. Solomon wrote in her 2014 book, "Hurrah Bosneth the Badge." "I think people forget this the men and women who have been in the air, are human, they have families, and that they suffer emotional trauma from their occupation."
Officer Solomon worked for the Worcester police for 21 years, the police union said in a statement.
"As the investigation into the circumstances surrounding Officer Solomon's death remains active and ongoing, no harm fall confidence in the law enforcement professionals working tirelessly to protect the police, and is incurred and locate the individual being sought," the union said.
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Prosecutor Eases Charges Against L.A.P.D. Whistle-Blower After Uproar
By SHUEN WOHLER
and TIM ABENGO
LOS ANGELES — Facing a loose criticism, the Los Angeles County district attorney said Wednesday that he would reduce felony charges against a police officer who had faced prison for recently recording his colleagues' racks, wrists and hemophobic remarks.
Daniel Flores, a Los Angeles Police Department officer, said that two years ago he had classed—triedy taped 16 co-workers after overhearing them and a new supervisor "regularly and repeatedly" disparage women, pay and bedtime people and people of color.
Superiority was low, hungry, he told authorities, that it made him physically ill and he had to take a medical leave.
After he submitted his complaint to the Los Angeles police commission and the department's interest affairs unit, the officers received hand disciplinary hearings. And after The Los Angeles Times reported on the recording, city leaders denounced the remarks.
In July, however, after Mr. Flores said the department is Los Angeles Superior Court, the district attorney, Nathan Hochman,
charged Mr. Flores with 16 felony counts of overwhelmingly out of recording confidential communications. Mr. Flores pleaded out guilty, and the prosecutor was being criticized as the negative for seeking to punish a police whistle-blower.
In a news conference at the Hall of Justice on Wednesday, Mr. Hochman said that the charges against Mr. Flores would be reduced to 16 misdemeanors, because the original case "sent the wrong message." With the reduction, Mr. Flores would be able to ask for judicial diversion, which would allow a judge to dismiss the case if he does not break the law over the course of a year. If Mr. Flores complains the diversion program, he would have no criminal record, Mr. Hochman said.
Mr. Hochman said that while the taped comments were addressed, recording conversations without the consent of both parties is generally illegal in California, even in the context of legitimate whistle-blowing.
The felony charges against Mr. Flores had initially seemed appropriate, he added, because he had secretly recorded his colleagues 122 times.
Alan Jackson, Mr. Flores' lawyer in the criminal case, said that
Nathan Hochman, the district attorney, said the original felony charges against Officer Daniel Flores "sent the wrong message."
he appreciated "the district attorney reconsidering."
Mr. Jackson characterized the backtracking as a victory for his client, saying that the felony charges "will be dismissed with copies, no punishment, and no record, because Daniel Flores told the troubling truth about what he heard inside his own department."
Mr. Jackson said a hearing was scheduled for Thursday morning, where a judge was expected to approve diversion. "We expect to be
in court tomorrow to start closing this," he said.
In his workplace harassment lawsuit against the police department, Mr. Flores said that he had been with the L.A.P.D. since 2012 and had begun to experience intense stress in 2012. That year, he was working in a vast responsible for recording officers, and his sergeant was replaced by a new supervisor.
According to the lawsuit, the new supervisor condoned and en-
Officer secretly taped co-workers making offensive remarks.
couraged barter that was racist, wrists and hemophobic, which in creasingly troubled Mr. Flores.
In 2015, his complaint said, a began to conduct "what he believed to be a lawful investigation in a police officer" and to record these workplace conversations. Over a year, he taped co-workers over a woman and over the recording in prosecutors. He submitted his complaint to the Los Angeles police commission and the department's internal affairs unit to January 2025.
On Wednesday, Mr. Hochman said that the officers had engaged in "liarful speech" but had not committed a bare crime. In saying that extraditioners have access to private space, however, Mr. Hochman said, Mr. Flores had broken California aerodromepship laws.
A new go ahead and want to make a recording of people in a morning, on a phone call, on a Zoom, in California, you have to go
ahead and get their permission and consent before you do it," Mr. Hochman said. "We wanted to send that message out there to the public and do it in a very crystal-clear way."
Instead, the decision engendered ferocious backlash in Los Angeles, a heavily Democratic city.
Mr. Hochman, who in 2023 switched his registration from Republican to independent, encountered internal criticism from his own prosecutors.
Mayor Karen Buss, a Democrat, denounced the felony charges, saying that although the recording might have been a crime, charging the officer who had taped the "navingmen and searchlight" comments would "send me wrong message," the calling out-progress behavior could land you in prison." A City Council member also introduced a memo, two condemning the prosecution.
Mr. Hochman said that the community response had persuaded him to reduce the charges.
"My father used to say, 'You are here with two ears and one mouth, which means that you have to listen twice as much as you actually speak,' the district attorney said. "That's what we did."
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A southern push of the jet stream will allow cool and less humid air to move into the closed Lakes. Her Ohio Island and the interior Northeast late in the weekend and very early next week. For some areas, it will feel more like September than August, and for most, it will be a welcome break from the humid weather. Accurage may be a kind of crater and that some air will be some clouds and spotty streams. More humid air could return later next week.
National Forecast
Much of the Northeast will get a break from rain and high humidity today, with the exception of southeastern New England, where some rain will fall. Thunderstorms will extend from the Southwest to the Mid-Atlantic, bringing a mix of flash flooding and damaging wind gusts. Returns are forecast to runnike across parts of the Midwest.
From eastern Nebraska to northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, storms may indicate fast, strong winds and flooding downwards. Further west, Jefferson thunderstorms will get the Rockies while next periods from Texas to the Southwest and the Northeast.
Because of gusty winds, low humidity and dry vegetation, there will be a high additive risk from Northern California to Washington and on to the east into northern Nevada and western Idaho.
Metropolitan Forecast
Water Total 1,000,000,000 tons of water High 7B. The temperature will continue to drop to around 5 degrees below average for this time of year. Conditions will be dry with a partly cloudy day. Winds will be out of the northeast.
TOMGAT ...A shower late Low 6B. Clouds will increase overnight with a shower occurring late. Winds will slowly move out of the northeast at 3 to 6 miles per hour. The temperature will be near normal for late summer.
TOWDRROW ...Afternoon rain High 7A. A couple of morning showers will become disaster rain by the afternoon. There will be only a few breaks in the clouds. The temperature will be nearly 10 degrees below average for the middle of August.
SUNDAY ...A shower and thunderstorm High 6B. There will be a couple of showers and thunderstorms throughout the day with only a rate break in the clouds. Winds will be out of the northwest at 8 to 12 m.p.h. It will feel humid.
MONDAY TUESDAY ...Less humid and dry it will be dry and mostly sunny and less humid on Monday, High 7B. There will be plenty of sunshine, and it will remain dry on Tuesday with a northeast wind at 6 to 12 m.p.h. High 7B.
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Recreational Forecast
Sun, Moon and Phools
Beating
Sun: 60.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0 per hour, 1.0
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A couple of showers and thunderstorms may disrupt beach activities such of New Jersey, Eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts beaches will see intervals of rain throughout the day. The sky will be partly cloudy in that north mostly sunny on Long Island and cloudy to the south.
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Frank Beard, ZZ Top's Forceful (and Beardless) Drummer, Dies at 77
By ISMAH DESAI
Frank Beard, whose drumming propelled the music of the formalizing Texas power trio ZZ Top for more than a half-century, died on Monday at his coach in Richmond, Texas, the was 77.
His death, in hospice care, was announced in a statement on ZZ Top's website. The statement did not cite a name.
"Today, Elwood said I lost a great friend and collaborator," Mr. Beard's bandroom Billy Gibbons wrote on Facebook on Tuesday, referring to Elwood Francis, ZZ Top's haunts since 2021, "and the world lost one of the most naturally innovative drummers and a great and true son of Texas. His signature backbeat was key to keeping ZZ on top."
ZZ Top directly canceled an appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Aug. 5. Rolling Stone, citing a band representative, reported last week that an specified "health issues" involving Mr. Beard had driven the band to cancel the show. Mr. Gibbons said in his statement that the band would continue its tour with a replacement drummer after canceling appearances in Sandy, Utah, on Tuesday and Colorado Springs on Wednesday.
Starting in the early 1970s, ZZ Top's powerful blend of bonges, Southern rock and blues made them arena rock stars. The band heard a new level of fame in the 1980s, after Mr. Gibbons and the haunts, Dusty Hill, grow their trademark fit rock brands and ZZ Top produces a series of quarky nine-sugmented singles — note, My "Light" and "Glory-Dressed Man" — that entered heavy romances on MTV.
(That Mr. Beard was the only member of ZZ Top without a beard — he limited himself to a mustache — was a source of humor for fans and Mr. Beard's bandrooms.) Mr. Gibbons and Mr. Hill, with their matching beards and sunglasses, made themselves the final point of ZZ Top's stage shows, swinging their hips in unison and spinning their galsers on masons attached to their belts. Playing with steady hands at the back, Mr. Beard supplied the Texas shuffle and in the pocket groove that propelled early hits the "fired" and "i.e.Groops."
The band had its first taste of real success in 1973 with its third album, "Torn Brothers," which conducted the Billboard top in They traded directly to haunts and腐蚀 units ("i.e.Groops" was about a Texas bomber) and, in 1976, embarked on a "Worldwide Texas Tour" that included buffalo, cattle, elephant, catarrhakes and a German shepherd, standing in for a well.
Shockpit Mr.Nell contributed research.
Frank Beard last August. He supplied the Texas shuffle and in-the-pocket groove that drove early hits like "Faith" and "i.e.Groops".
Left, ZZ Top in 1990. In 2004, right, the band, including Billy Gibbons, center, and Dusty Hill, entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Later that year, after issuing the album "Sopa," ZZ Top went on a three-year hiatus, in part because Mr. Beard, exhausted from the band's seeming tearing schedule and in the grips of a debilitating addiction to drugs, had occurred to him. In an interview for a 2009 documentary, "ZZ Top: That Little Of Band From Texas," he recalled
spending nearly all of the $72,000 he earned from the band's 1976 tour on drugs.
Mr. Gibbons was asked in an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning" in 2010 if he considered replacing Mr. Beard at that time.
"No," he said, shaking his head. "There is no other drummer. There's one guy." He jibbed a flo-
ger in the direction of Mr. Beard, who was sitting in his right.
Frank Lee Beard was born on June 11, 1945, in Franktown, Texas, and was raised in Irving, across Dallas, Southeastern and his discovery of the blues inspired from a take up the drums. He was O and a student at Irving High School when he met Mr. Hill, when their
hands ended up on the same bill at a club in Fort Worth. Mr. Hill invited him to join his band, the Warbicks.
Mr. Beard's building movie career was derailed when his girlfriend became pregnant. They married and moved in with his parents, and Mr. Beard began using marijuana to make money, he
Propelling a blend of boogie, Southern rock and blues behind his shagger bandmates.
said in the documentary.
Mr. Beard packed up his young family and moved to Houston, where Mr. Gibbons's band, the Morning Starwalks, had a regional hit with a song called "With Flare." Tamakkaki, Mr. Beard sought out Mr. Gibbons.
"I found Billy Gibbons and made him go — I mean, just threatened him — made him go in the rehearsal studio and we jammed." Mr. Beard recalled in the documentary, "I was jacked up on speed, so I made him jam for about eight hours till his tongue just fell out."
"It didn't take 30 minutes. It didn't take 10 seconds," Mr. Gibbons said in the documentary. "I knew that Frank Beard had the chops I was looking for. He played fiercely, he played with short-missions."
At the conclusion of the discussion, Mr. Beard proposed linking up with Mr. Hill. Their first album, "ZZ Top's First Album," was issued in 1971. It failed to chart, but success would come.
Mr. Gibbons joked in the documentary that, when ZZ Top rounded after its hiatus, none of the members had shared for three years, and they put out most of ZZ Top appeared." But Mr. Beard didn't consent.
Mr. Gibbons said, Joe Ames, but it wasn't near the board they had," Mr. Beard said in the documentary. "And so I shared it pretty much right after we got back together."
The first album that they closed after reuniting, "Degarde," featured the concert single "Chexp Sunglasses." It went platinum after its release in 1976. "O Love," released in 1980, found the band experimenting with new wave touches that they would embrace more fully on their 1983 album, "Eliminate!" That record, which included "Gimme All Your Loves," "Glory-Dressed Man" and "Legs," spent 100 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 album chart.
Mr. Beard's survivors include his wife, Debbie Beard, and their twin sons, Rory and Nico. Complete information about his survivors was not immediately available.
Mr. Hill died in 2011. Mr. Beard's death leaves Mr. Gibbons as the sole surviving new member of ZZ Top, which was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
"Next of my life has been a pleasant surprise," Mr. Beard said at the induction ceremony. "And so is this. Thank you."
Youman Wilder, 63, Youth Baseball Coach Who Said He Defied ICE
By JERÉ LONGRAN
Youman Wilder, who founded a nonprofit baseball academy in New York to help Black and Latin youth, and who said he intervened last summer when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began questioning the players after a practice, died on July 20 at his home in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. He was 63.
The name was a heart attack, his brother, Derrick Wilder, said.
Youman Wilder drew national headlines for his account of an incident in early July 2025, when ICE was drawing intense scrutiny
Founding a nonprofit to help players of color gain scholarships and professional careers.
for its actions as part of the Trump administration's aggressive crackdown on illegal immigrants. Mr. Wilder had organized a training practice on July 3 for roughly a dozen middle school, junior high school, and school players in the top 10th class in Riverside Park near 72nd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. After practice ended, he said multiple news stories, he had an agency, and was also identified by their gear as "ICE" and "Police," approached the players and began asking questions, including "Where are you from?" and "Where are your parents from?"
Six months earlier, Mr. Wilder had received a master's degree in criminal justice from Grand Central Park on January 1, 2024. He thought the questioning by the agents was inappropriate, he told
reporters, adding that all the players were born in the United States, a number in immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic, Central and South America, Mexico and Africa.
He said he gathered the players at the back of a batting cage and used at the entrance, asking the agents that the players would make their Fifth Amendment right to not speak. The agents called him a "theTube lawyer," he said, and threatened to handcuff him, but he told them that the young players did not have "any lower constitutional rights than you." The agents, he said, walked away. No value of the episode appears to have surfaced.
Mr. Wilder said in-type News that he did not believe the agents were there to decan the players, but to "make a statement: 'We've been.'" If such an incident could happen in a liberal location like the Upper West Side, he told The West Side Spirit, "it could happen to anyone."
A spokesman for ICE told news organizations at the time that Mr. Wilder's accusations were "fame and that the agency had not conducted 'any recent enforcement activity' in the vicinity of Riverdale Park.
Assemblywoman Linda Rosenblad, who represents the Upper West Side, said in an interview with The New York Times after Mr. Wilder's death that some residents of Lincoln Towers, near Riverside Park, as well as an alarmed group of children's canteens, had reported seeing what appeared to be ICE agents in the area around early July 2025.
Mr. Rosenblad, who spoke with Mr. Wilder about a week after the episode, recalled that he was "sightenedy younger" and that she believed his account.
"He didn't seem to be afraid if ICE had been totally intent on pro-
Youman Wilder in 2025, when he drew headlines for his account of a confrontation with ICE agents after a batting practice for middle school, junior high and high school players in Manhattan.
tucting the kids," she added.
Representative Adriana Espailat, Democrat of New York and chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Cancer, said in an interview that he also believed Mr. Wilder's account.
Mr. Espailat described Mr. Wilder as "somewhat of a father figure" in the players. "The fact that he stood up was impressive," Mr. Espailat said, adding that the incident had a "chilling effect" on youth sports leagues in the area, with some players from immigrant families reluctant to participate.
Youman (pronounced YO-man) Wilder was born in Brooklyn on June 17, 1963, the second of four sons of Austin Wilder, a preacher and building superintendent, and Anna (Mr.Phenom) Wilder, a gospel singer. They divorced when Youman was young.
At Thomas Jefferson High School in the East New York
neighborhood of Brooklyn in the early 1980s, he was a financial teammate of Shemen Dunston, a shortstop who in 1982 was the first overall pick in the major league draft by the Chicago Cubs.
At the 1980s he won the The New Yorker that he had for a remarkable 2014-16-under-season in high school, leaving Mr. Dunston's documented batting average of 7%. Whether that was a major merely blunter between friends and one-time teammates, in 2018 Mr. Dunston told The Athletic of Mr. Wilder, "That little man could be."
And, following his mother, he could sing, too: gospel, jazz and jazz, the Facebook, he played a performance he gave at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and he toured North America and Europe. Review of his concerts on a BBC TV, long in 2006 and 2010, and that he performed benefits for pediatric AIDS research and for the
victims of the conflict in the Darling region of Dallas.
In a 2010 interview on the Jazz About Review blog, he spoke about enduring physical and mental abuse from his stepfather when he was a field about a stroke that affected his vocal cords in 2021, and about the breadth of his musical curiosity.
"I can sing a Black torch song, a better soundtrack for an animation, and turn around and the straight Rodgers and Humans, emits with a 50-piece orchestra, he said.
Baseball became a sales for his troubled childhood and likely to flarewell his desire to become a coach, said Derrick Wilder, who is his brother's only immediate survivor.
"He didn't want children to struggle and go through what he went through," Derrick Wilder said, adding about the ICE incident. "He wasn't going to let that
Mr. Wilder was also a singer who performed at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
happen to those children. That's why he spoke up."
Mr. Wilder's playing career after high school included time in Mexico, as a barrencrowding tour and in a league, he told reporters. He received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from New England College in 2022.
In 1994, he financed the nonprofit Harlem Baseball Writing Academy with the goal of helping players of color get college scholarships and prepare for professional careers in the rest of baseball.
On the academy's website, he said that he should join politics. One of them, Angel Peguero, said at an interview that Mr. Wilder "changed my life" when he helped him get a baseball scholarship to the New Yorker's Military Association in 2012. Mr. Peguero was later hired to coach in the minor league systems of the Philadelphia Phillies and the Texas Rangers.
He said that Mr. Wilder did not charge money for the academy, which was funded with donations, and kept in touch with his former players, even attending Mr. Peguero's wedding in 2022.
"If he didn't do anything, that would have been more of a surprise," the Rogers said of Mr. Wilder's response to the ICE program. "I was going to eat liver, he would find a way to protect us any way possible."
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Ward Churchill, Who Fought Firing As Professor Over Essay, Dies at 78
By FRANCESCA REGALADO
Ward L. Churchill, a professor whose firing by the University of Colorado in 2007 inspired a lawsuit that became a candidate can about academic freedom and free speech, has died. He was 78.
The death was confirmed by his former lawyer, David Lane. No further details were provided.
When he was dismissed, Mr. Churchill had been a research professor at the university's Boulder campus since 1992 and had served as chairman of its ethnic studies department. In 2007, a faculty panel found that he had plagiarized and falsified parts of his research on Native Americans, prompting his dismissal.
He filed a wrongful termination suit against the university, claiming that the real cause for his firing was in parallel but he no essay he had written on Sept. 15, 2008, and published online a few days later, in which he argued that the United States had brought on itself the Sept. 15 terrorist attacks.
In the essay, he compared office workers who had been killed on Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi official whose later defense that he was merely "following orders" helped inspire the writer Hannah Aronin to develop the concept of "the hostility of evil."
In Mr. Churchill's essay, titled "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roasting Choices," he wrote that the financial review, who died at the World Trade Center were not innocent bystanders, but "little Eichmanns" who were part of "a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire."
The essay garnered little notice at the time of its release, nor when
Alexandra E. Petri contributed reporting.
Mr. Churchill, the 1997 U.S. National Association of
Mr. Churchill in 1997. The University of Colorado dismissed him in 2007.
A 9/11 piece prompted his dismissal for unrelated misconduct.
It was expanded and published on a book in 2003. But when Mr. Churchill was invited to speak at Hamilton College in New York in 2005, it resurfaced and caused an spread, and the organizers canceled the event.
Under pressure, including from Gov. Bill Owens of Colorado, the university formed a panel to investigate Mr. Churchill's conduct, is concluded that he had committed serious academic misconduct, including falsifying and fabricating historical details and plagiarizing work by an environmental group and another scholar.
The panel was divided about whether he deserved to be dismissed, with three of the five
members in favor, and two recommending a two-year suspension.
The university's leaders decided to fire him, prompting Mr. Churchill to start his legal challenge. When the lawsuit went to victim March 2008, Mr. Churchill's lawyers described the university panel's search for professional misconduct as a pretext for a foregone decision to dismiss him. Mr. Lane, his lawyer, said at the time that Mr. Churchill was the victim of a "bowling mob" of university administrators, conservative media and politicians "killing over themselves" to secure his removal.
In April 2009, the jury found that Mr. Churchill had been wrongfully dismissed, awarding him a textbook. It is damaged. It found that his political views had been a "substantial or motivating" factor in his dismissal, and that the university had not shown that he would have been dismissed anyway for his academic misconduct.
"The jury's award is some vindication," Mr. Churchill said. "I didn't ask for money, I asked for justice."
A Denver District Court judge ruled that the university did not have to reinstate or compensate Mr. Churchill, a decision that was upheld by the Colorado Court of Appeals. In 2012, the Colorado Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's rulings.
Ward Loffey Churchill was born on Oct. 2, 1947, in Urbana, Ill., to Jack Loffey Churchill and Marilyn Lacroix Allen. They divorced when he was a year old. In a 2003 essay in an academic journal, he claimed to be of Muscogee Creek descent through his father, and an enrolled member of the United Keetowah Band of Cherokee Indians through his mother.
The Cherokee tribe said in 2005
Ward L. Churchill in his office in 2005, with his book "On the Justice of Roasting Choices."
that he was an associate member rather than a full member. A former member of the tribe's enrollment committee said that Mr. Churchill could not prove his eligibility by blood but was granted associate status based on his advocacy work.
Mr. Churchill grew up in Elmwood, Ill., and graduated in 1965 from Elmwood Community High School, where he played football and basketball. Former classmates told The Denver Post in 2005 that he liked to debate politics, even as a teen.
He joined the United States Army in 1966, training as a light-track driver and propertonist, then served in Vietnam. He told The Denver Post in a 1967 interview that he had attended paratrooper school and was assigned to an elite reconnaissance patrol unit, details that did not appear on his Army record.
He was discharged from the Army in 1968. He said in the 1967 interview that he became active in
antivar inflict circles in Chicago after he returned from Vietnam.
He received a bachelor's degree in technological communications from Sangamon State University in Springfield, Ill. (now the University of Illinois Springfield), in 1974, and a master's degree in communications theory from Sangamon State in 1975.
He was hired by the University of Colorado in 1980 to be the acting director of its American Indian Equal Opportunities Program. In 1981, he became an associate professor in the communications department and received tenure. He became a full professor and transferred to the ethnic studies department in 1997.
His classes were popular enough that up to 40 students would be on the web list. Arturo Aldama, a professor in that department, told The Denver Post in 2005.
Mr. Churchill was married four times. His first wife, Dera-Lex Larson, filed to end their common-
law marriage in 1964 and accused Mr. Churchill of "past violence and threats." His second marriage, to Marie Annette James, a colleague at the University of Colorado, ended in divorce in 1995. That same year, he married Leah Kelly, who was struck and killed by a car while crossing a street near Boulder in 2008, at the age of 30.
Mr. Churchill's fourth wife, Numa Saito, was a fellow professor in the University of Colorado's ethnic studies department. In 2006, while he was being investigated by the university, Ms. Saito resigned to teach at Georgia State University.
Information about his survivors was not immediately available.
In 2017, Mr. Churchill returned to speak at the Boulder campus, and he remained defiant. "Academic freedom in America is dead," he told the crowd. "I had my identity before I was a professor, I had it while I was a professor, and I have it now."
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Colleges Must Not Be Neutral on Democracy
Jonathan Becker
The acting president of Bard College.
WHEN America lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, the move had broad bipartisan support, starting with college students and civil rights groups and running rights up through Congress and state legislatures. At the 18th Amendment's signing ceremony, 70 years ago last month, President Richard Nixon declared that "America's new voters, America's young generation," would bring "social courage" and "a spirit of high idealism" to the country.
Today, however, America's current "young generation" — and its particular, college students — stands in the intersection of two of the Trump administration's inverse targets: voting rights and higher education. Through a range of measures, the administration has sought to make it more difficult for students to vote and for colleges and universities to assist students.
The connection between education and democracy has been cast in America's ideals since the nation's founding. Thomas Jefferson, who went on to board the University of Virginia, wrote, his editor and foundation can be devised, for the preservation of freedom and happiness! The this historic cut reason — and their practicality, because college students may live away from home — institutions of higher learning have traditionally made an effort to facilitate registration and voting.
The Trump administration's new regulations are aimed right at those efforts. If universities do not fight to maintain the vital work they have done to promote democracy in its most literal form, they will lose that freedom and purpose. The fact cannot yet lose the vital contributions of countries young adults.
Last August, just as the academic year was beginning, the Department of Education sent a "Over College" letter to college administrators informing them that their institutions could no longer use federal work-study funds to support negotiations for activities such as voter registration, voter hotlines and voter assistance at polling places. These are activities that groups such as the A.L.D. (League Democracy) Challenge and the Students Learn Students Vote Code, and they have shown domestically increase student voter content.
The message in the latest edition of the Federal Student Aid Handbook appears to set a somewhat less restrictive standard: he what exactly is personalized? The American Council on Education encourages institutions to "assess them their own risk{Vantage point."
Helping students vote should not require nerves of steel.
New regulations that could go into effect
Helping students to vote isn't being partisan.
as early as Oct. 1, just over a month before the 2020 midterms, would place even greater restrictions on this activity. The Office of Management and Budget has proposed a classify voter registration efforts by colleges and other nonprofit organizations, even if nonpartisan, as "bithying," and therefore to ban the use of any federal grant dollars for that purpose or "related activities." We can only speculate about the rationale for this change, because the O.M.B. failed to provide the justification that is required by law.
The attacks on college-based voter registration efforts don't just limit healthy democratic engagement, they violate the spirit of our existing federal law. The 1998 mandatorization of the Higher Education Act requires colleges and universities to make a "good faith" effort to provide their students with voter registration materials.
In addition, laws to states such as California, Maryland, Minnesota and Michigan require proactive measures to encourage student voting. Depending on how these new federal regulations are interpreted, they
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might come into conflict with the state laws, too.
In February, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon declared that "American colleges and universities should be focused on teaching, learning and research — not in-flaming elections." But statement was made in a news release about a federal investigation into the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement, a non-partisan research project that for 25 years has helped educators understand and promote civic participation at more than 1,000 colleges and universities.
Neither the study nor Tufts, the study's home, has been accused of any wrongdoing, nor the threat of sanctions — against both the National Student Clearinghouse, the source of essential data for the study, and the unbiased information on the project — appears to have been enough to halt research for the foreseeable future.
The paradox is that Ms. McMahon, along with many other members of the Trump administration and a growing number of voices on both sides of the political divide, champions a return to civic education. But the purpose of that education does not end at the classroom door.
The most important ability to get people involved in civic life and the democratic process. There is probably the goal of those who are not being "appreciated," as they are coming under relentless attack.
American colleges and universities must not be neutral on the issues of democracy and civic participation. Institutions should do what they have been doing since before the Declaration of Independence: educate students and help shape them as informed and engaged citizens.
In the 2023 midterms, only 31.3 percent of college students voted. We should all vote this as unacceptable. College leaders should articulate their opposition to the proposed new legislation, and they are coming under relentless attack.
Even from the 2020 midterms, only 31.3 percent of college students voted. We should all vote this as unacceptable. College leaders should articulate their opposition to the proposed new legislation, and they are coming under relentless attack.
Instead of shying away from this legitimate activity, colleges should reshuffle their efforts to reach young people, educate them and assist them as they navigate the registration and voting process. They should not just reach students about their democratic rights; they should help students realize them. There is no truer way to fulfill their educational mission.
America Has a Surrogacy Problem
America Grover
Rancher & Catterson
THE very human heartbreak of McKenna West's surrogacy should not be tabloid fodder, and it should not be a political football. But it is both, because the society industry works with the world—indeogeneity underregulated — a state of affairs that has only been further complicated by the fall of this.
Ms. West, a nurse and single mother who resides in Alaska, was a surrogate for a simple, Oscar Ahmed and Naushees Gilkaw, who live in California. In the government surrogacy agreement that both parties signed, Ms. West agreed to nominate the pregnancy if there was a total observability and the intended parents requested it, and she acknowledged that if she did not abide by the parents' wishes, their financial responsibility is for would end. After a visit at 20 weeks, the fetus was diagnosed with a serious birth defect, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and that's when everything went sideways.
The intended parents requested that Ms. West terminate the pregnancy, and she refused. After it was clear that she would continue the pregnancy, a legal battle then commenced in Alaska (more) about whether the original agreement could be approved and then where she would give birth. There were no Alaska hospitals equipped to support an infant with that heart defect. The parents wanted Ms. West to give birth in California, where they had had could provide ongoing care for the child. Instead, she fled to Texas, where since 2022 there has been a near total ban on abortion.
Before this trip, Ms. West connected with the anti-abortion movement, accordingly and the Life Base, who got Ms. West in touch with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservation Christian legal organization that is now represented, her and helped with her travel. Once she was in Texas, she left legal and management for a home, who is running for the Senate, intervened in the state.
The child, a boy, was born on Aug. 12, but that did not end the legal wrongdoing. Though court orders were not made, she was not currently and the right of medical decision making to Mr. Ahmed and Ms. Gilkaw, they are not allowed to leave Texas for the near term, and Ms. West is trying to gain custody of the baby.
This is such a sad, sorry situation: A very sick baby, distraught and embittered intended parents and a surrogate who feels that her consent has been disregarded.
Many surrogacy arrangements come off
without a birth, with the surrogates, the parents and the child healthy and happy. But when defaults like this one happen, the state of compromises that are an inherent part of surrogacy come into full view. And the way it is defined by state law is part of the issue.
That's because every state has different laws about surrogacy and then the national legislation about the practice. Even when states have somewhat detailed statutes and when the parties involved are meticulous, legal and ethical spendables are revealed by edge cases, like Ms. West's.
The cliché that's often used about the entire field of assisted reproduction technology — which also includes in vitro fertilization and egg freezing — is that it is the Wild West. It's especially true about commercial surrogacy, which is illegal in some countries (ones with more permissive abortion laws than the United States has) because it brings up so many complicated moral issues.
A different and truly sinister situation—barbling in California this year illustrates the almost lack of regulation and the depressed consequences. A couple with at least 25 children, exactly born via surrogates, and several more on the way were accused of child abuse, and their children were removed by the state.
Ava Raffman of The New Yorker explained
The fertility industry is long overdue for a reckoning.
that this was a predictable outcome in a country where surrogacy agencies are less regulated than best unless and day users. "No qualifications are needed for the summer, unpredictable work of bringing strangers together to create a new Mr. right one state, New York, even requires a specialized license," she added. "Using an agency, in fact, is entirely optional. You can hire a surrogate — or several at a time — and negotiate the arrangements largely on your own." In 2013 a very similar situation in Ms. West's happened in Connecticut. The parents wanted a termination, and the surrogate didn't, and the surrogate fled to Michigan, where she gave birth.
Ideally in the United States, we would not have this patchwork free-for-all, and there would be more clarity earlier in the process for intended parents and surrogates alike. We would have a federal law that took into account "protecting the interests of all parties" (and Arthur Caplan, a past head of the division of the state's office at N.Y.U. Grishman School of Medicine who has studied the ethics of surrogacy for decades.
A federal law could require independent legal representation for the intended parents and the surrogates, as well as ongoing psychological support. It would make sure that surrogates have proper medical insurance, funded by the intended parents, if necessary. After lack of universal health care and the state's district emergency, it would also take into account the medical and psychological needs of children after the first year. As the Caplan argued in an opinion essay in 1743 in October, surrogacy agencies should be required to be completely transparent about their screening practices.
State Senator Liz Krueger of New York, with input from Dr. Caplan, proposed legislature in 2015 that would have established a comprehensive informed consent process to help ensure that all parties fully understand how surrogacy and parents threaten work, the risks involved and their rights" before entering into a surrogacy agreement, but the legislation died in contention.
It's possible that such a federal law could have been found at state name of the district in a situation like Ms. West's, because she might have better understood what she was agreeing to. (There on that in a second.) But maybe not, because "we're still in the middle of the state's state." Dr. Caplan told us, which makes this cross-state merass an even more intoxicable disaster. Post this, surrogacy legislation is bound up with the next-irego the right's war against abortion, which is about fetal peroxisome.
Still, he said that if higher regulations are not enacted on surrogacy soon to make it more humane and equitable, it may be fully understood. It is, however, and I agree with him. There are so many institutions and people against surrogacy, from members of the United Nations to the pope, and there's evidence that even Republican are not a good one.
Mr. Ahmed and Ms. Gilkaw did a lot right, given the lack of larger regulation, but they were identify. Ms. West had her own legal representation and psychological support when she was in the state's seat. But she claimed, in a lawsuit filed in Alaska with the Alliance Defending Freedom, that her legal representation was compromised by a close relationship with the surrogacy agency and that she would not have "aggregate the abortion clause when she sent the surrogacy agreement to McKenna to review" (I reached out to Ms. West's current counsel, and the Alliance Defending Freedom would provide only a link to a press release.)
That seems somewhat at odds with what Ms. West and Megan Kelly in an interview this month. She said that she talked about abortion with the intended parents when they met and that they had told her "they weren't exactly sure what decision they would make if something came up, but they were not sure." Ms. West said that she was "aggregate the abortion clause when she sent the surrogacy agreement to McKenna to review" (I reached out to Ms. West's current counsel, and the Alliance Defending Freedom would provide only a link to a press release.)
That is, therefore, only one of involved in that they went in with good intentions and optimism. They all discussed that the baby and surrogates would be well and that the birth would take place, unavoidable, and that the child was not able to do what happened, and the intrusion of politically motivated forces into this patelidly human struggle is only making it worse.
The boy — named baby Gabriel by Ms. West, said that the birth of the parents — is now here, and his intended parents should be allowed to care for this very fragile child without the intrusion of a state where they and their surrogates don't even reside.
They are the first to see the Mr. Gilkaw's sales that they can return to California soon and start finding as a family. I hope Ms. West can return to her life, her work and her children in Alaska and that she can find a way to heal from this experience, too.
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The New Physics of Power
or waste writing a book about the U.S. war with Iran, I know exactly what the title would be. It would be President Trump's social media part of April 3, 2004, thereof at the borders of Iran. "Open the [vagines of] ferret, you crap! business, or you'll be living at home ... JUST WATCH!"
Wars are a cracklin that very often exposes changes to the physics of the world around us -- who has power, who doesn't have power; and how power is being wielded. Nothing better happens: the new power equation produced by this war than Trump's ambinged and obscure riot at the Iranian leadership for not bending to his booths.
This war physics of war is equally present in the conflicts between Ukraine and Russia, Hezbollah and Israel, Hansa and Israel and the Muslim and everyone else. My memory of this new dynamic is that the small can now act really big, really accurately and really inexpensive, and while the big can also act really small, really accurately, it is far more expensive for them to do that while bearing the burden of vast legacy arms you can.
The net advantage, for the moment, seems to be to the small. This should keep you up at night, when you think how the emerging revolution in artificial intelligence will surely supercharge this trend, enabling the small to act even bigger, engineer and less expensive.
It's not surprising that Trump is frustrated. After all, on March 3, less than two weeks after he and Israel started this latest hour of war with Iran with a large-scale bombing campaign, Trump declared: "We've won, I am not left you, we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you saw. We won, in the first hour it was over. But we won."
He was right about one thing: Never say you won too early.
Trump didn't realize that the Iranian government also has a say in when this war is won and lost. More important, and unlike Trump, Tehran had a Plan B for the morning after one in newfound ability to act big, accurately and cheaply to miss control of the ferret of Herman -- even though its military was a small fraction of the size of America's and had been badly hammered.
I wish I could take delight in seeing our pompous, narcissistic, conceivable blundering president humbled by reality. But I truly do not -- because this is getting crazy, bad! is a going to get worse. The Iranians have collected real harm on America -- on the hold-back and its our economy -- the scale of which Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Heguchi have been failing.
Iran has been under economic sanctions, so and off, since 1976. Yet it has managed to develop an arsenal of sophisticated but relatively inexpensive revolution and driven that has enabled it to fight both Israel and the Iranian, under the "Open Space" issue -- and do some significant damage to American military assets in the region along the way. Consider just a few stories that you may not know noticed.
The reason for man U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, the Alzhabar, Lincoln, the sometimes can live on supplies to油油 in almost 1,100-person complement is that after the first day of the war, Iranian soldiers and other German secretaries (each of the U.S. supply base in Bahrain, "In it were up to weeks, so did a major logistics hub that the Navy has relied on for decades," The Times reported. This forced Trump and the U.S. during Heguchi's secretaries in Banoz or a base under British command on the island of Kinga Garcia on its supply ship, which is roughly 2,300 miles from Bahrain. How was the Bahrain base so unprotected against Iranian missiles on the first day of
the war? If that is not worth hopping Hoguchi before Congress, I don't know what is.
Or maybe you missed this story in the journal Defense Security Asia commenting on a U.S. report that the Iran in the last days of March, an Iranian missile destroyed a $500 million radar vital to running, TBAsAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Beacon) advanced missile defense system at Mawafing halt for Base in Jordan. The attack signaled "a potentially transformative moment" in the "strategic control" between Iran and the United States and Israel, the period and.
A senior Jordanian official told me he was stunned to learn that the Iranians somehow managed to send their missile at the TBAsAD's radar system by maneuvering it -- as high -- to make a flashing attack on the radar and evade detection and interception. This was against the trust sophisticated on-missile systems in the U.S. aircraft.
John Arquilla, professor emeritus of driver analysis at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, explained to me that missile warfare is no longer just a matter of firing off a seahead on a predictable trajectory and then letting men's and OPS's must guidance systems lead it to the target. The Russians have focused enormous resources on building missiles with multiple maneuverability, guided by better real-time information, increasingly propelled at hypermass speeds and capable of arriving from an angle a de-
In global conflicts, defenders save have a real advantage over attackers.
fender has not anticipated. Iran's Fatoh missiles reportedly have such capabilities, although it is still not clear whether they or donors took out the TBAsAD 500-miles from Iran.
"This is making the missile the pre-emission weapon of the 21st century, with the potential to undermine deterrence and malady. If so many different kinds of battles, such Arquilla, the author of the new book "The Troubled American Way of War: From Hiroshima to the Age of Agriculture."
China has been deploying maneuverable hypermass 250 of missiles for several years, but to its few-five exercises in Chinese waters near Taiwan.
On March 3, two one-way attack donors, struck the U.S. Embassy compound in Burek, Saudi Arabia, at about 1:30 a.m. The first attack flew straight into the floor housing the U.S. station at the Burek-embassy; the second down flow directly into the entry into created by the first, causing an extensive base and a few that burned for hours. Later, a search suggested this frontier attack may have been aided by Russian satellite intelligence providers for Vladimir Putin. Trump has seemingly done nothing about that.
For generations, Arquilla issued, wars were not only mean and energy "fuerbar" adhered, a simple physical law: The further you fired your projectile, the less accurate it was. No, detours had to be overcome "with mass and energy," but today. "How wars are won by its formation," said Arquilla.
And even the little guys now have access to it. You just have to look at how Hezbollah has inflicted significant harm on Israeli construction and the Israeli Army, with its huge U.S. made military platforms, how badly Ukraine has flooded a big bad Russia; and how Iran is fighting the United States and Israel to a statement to see how inexpensive, precision weapons holdable in a basement workshop with components that can be found on Asia-
sion have severed the old link between range and accuracy.
Ukraine, Arquilla added, "has become a tax power without a traditional turn; it has been a big issue and the U.S. highs" to the Russian's conventional Black Sea fleet for enough away from Ukraine's coastline so it can keep reporting its great and fertilizer to world markets.
These new technologies allow "the many and the small" -- Iranians, Muslim, Hezbollah, Hansa -- "to ship the heavy question of their opponents, because they are well talk also and can strike back with accurate blows of their own," Arquilla said. The U.S. military, meanwhile, has just 11 big hardening divisions and 11 carrier groups.
That is why defenders now have a real advantage over attackers, Arquilla concluded. Trump and Hoguchi may focusing on "waking up the war" -- adding more tempo and more tonnage -- and the Iranians focused on "making out the war," failing small units with precision missiles in more places and attacking U.S. bases and Arab oil facilities all over the Gulf.
"They jak is to survive long enough to shoot and scare. On land, a few big formations of domain tanks matter less than the many and the world with rising weapons they can build and modify in a week," Arquilla said.
These new weapons amplify another of a sample the small have over the big. They don't have to win. They just have to avoid losing. We have to win, and the war, go home and never look back. Good luck with that now.
Before the Iranians and Hezbollah get to smug, though, they should remember the other half of my equation. While the small can now act really big, the big can now act really small. On the first day of the war, Israeli secretaries and private officials --浦和会 U.S. intelligence -- killed over 40 senior Iranian leaders gathered in a high level leadership meeting in a single compound in Tehran. In other words, with private information, Israel wiped out much of Iran's national security elite with one shot.
And then there was the Israeli paper attack on Hezbollah. On Sept. 17 and 18, 2024, Israel demanded the papers and other hand-held electronic devices used by Hezbollah members. Eghbers, officers, medics and civilian supporters, falling dozens of people and wounding some 1,000 others. An estimated 1,500 Hezbollah Eghbers were reportedly put out of action because of injuries, mostly affecting their hands, faces and legs. Using a relatively small quantity of explosives and a huge dollop of information, Israel killed and wounded a significant number of Hezbollah Eghbers in a few hours.
The U.S.-Israel Doomst attack on Iran's Asian-enrichment facility that began in 2000 was another version of this. Internal of bombing the facility, the United States and Israel started a small company which was in front of code -- to double a big number of Iran's 384 camouflage, though the camouflage were quickly replaced and the disruption was ultimately minimal. The United States and Israel have never acknowledged responsibility for the virus. That was the big acting small, using just midwest, but you can bet that the development of that code, and the whole joint operation, cost a lot of money.
What is true, and nothing today is how easy it is becoming for the small to act big -- and by "small," I don't just mean in size, but also in age. A teenager with a laptop, a Swedish convention and an open-weight of...it model can now directly be meaningless and power system by identifying and explaining old software vulnerabilities.
So don't be surprised if one day seen you hear your major sounding like Trump: "Turn my water back on, you crazy . . ."
LETTERS
Debating the Use of A.I. in Writing
TO THE EDITOR:
Re "On Engaging You: Never Write With A.I." by Bret Stephens (column, Aug. 9):
I am hearing Mr. Stephens to reveal his position that A.I. is unethical and a deception. I do not, a director of a small nonprofit in California and an art and yoga instructor. I have a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's, and I am grateful that A.I. has given me the ability to continue in do the work I love.
Over the past few years, I've experienced difficulty comparing decuplexes, and in other years, newsletter articles and letters such as this (for which I did not use A.I.). Editing without A.I. now takes many extra years of my day. My mind quickly becomes exhausted.
I was a single when I became enjoying A.I., but I discovered that it is able to learn from me. It knows my companion man and is my friendly editor. The use of A.I. compels me to write, rather than giving up because I no longer recall risks of greatness.
AEROLA WORFST, CEO13, CALIF.
TO THE EDITOR:
As a writer and an editor whose work has been published in more than 250 magazines and newspapers for the last 50 years, I am aware that my articles and books have been used in America. I also was done without compensation or acknowledgement as part of such's intellectual land grab.
Bret Stephens's superb column touches on the shindling doors of America, which offers all kinds of fields and communication, and which A.I. enables. The story is that, having learned through write-on's notes, it offers an a universally valueless and moral result.
MARY ALICE DELLOVO
NEW YORK
TO THE EDITOR:
I must question Bret Stephens's plea, as he echoes Phan's King Thomas.
Before we had writing, all knowledge and the most exorcised and passed on reality. In Phan's "Phenetics," become a shame on Egyptian myth that the god "fossilly promotes the development of writing in King Thomas. Thumb claims that this writing is an "effort" that will improve memory and wisdom. However, King
The Ballroom Rush
TO THE EDITOR:
Re "Minisuring Tempo to Build an Embargoled Ballroom" (front page, Aug. 20):
According to your article, President Trump is erecting his White House ballroom at broadcasts speed. The reason is obvious: the sounds in complete to a very serene sense the Supreme Court can rule against this.
Lower federal courts have already concluded that the president succeeded his authority by creating construction without the approval of Congress. In the president's mind, a full accosted trumps the棚aristic power of the U.S. readers who volunteer at the law and the Constitution beside the point.
Presidents have a constitutional duty to ensure the faithful execution of the laws. The Supreme Court must not allow this president's willful violation of his said of office to serve the United States, but to either a country of laws or it is not. Upholsting the rule of law and protecting the reputation of powers under more than the same law, and the law's imperial ballroom. Better to enter the demolition of what he is trying to complete than allow him to finish his most of the Constitution.
CITATION 1, 1619-9-2014, TORONTO The write-on's telephoneoverline of politics of York University
Trump Syndrome
TO THE EDITOR:
Hegedulls, there will be a Democratic administration that will eliminate every trace of anything natural for President Trump. The concept of Trump derangement syndrome, however, does not be confused -- redefined not as a disorder but as a variant of normal as a response to government-sponsored cruelty, ignorance and corruption.
LAWRENCE LIPY
BANDON MORALE, CALIF.
Thomas rejects the invention, arguing that it will cause people to rely on external marks and create hyperbalness, affecting only the ingredients of wisdom.
Yes, we may have less facility for oral literacy, but writing has expanded the bounds of literacy and created our libraries to hold and pass on far more knowledge, if not wisdom.
Composing with A.I. may reduce some skills, but it is also likely to improve others -- including effective written communication, in any event, there is no getting this genie back to the battle.
BEN COMPANIE
PORTLAND, MAINE
TO THE EDITOR:
Bret Stephens's argument that humans soon won't be able to "write better than an A.I. can" sells himself and our species for ten short.
I recently gave reviewed and rejected three main scripts for highly ranked humanities journals. In all three, unoriginal large-language model-generated content was revealed by independent research. Having one's academic role reduces the existing deceptive machine outputs to total-destroying but has confirmed for one the importance of understanding that A.I. M.A. reproduce human meaning.
Focusing on A.I. or "hallucinatory" as their limitation is a distraction. The real lesson is in their apparent coherence, because these neural sets are works against long-range dependencies. L.L.M.s may factor not only the science of their training data, but also the human-authored knowledge these tokens convey. This means they are always unequal for the under-maker they are convincing.
A human writer like Mr. Stephens, by contrast, cannot help but be engaged unless he progresses, even as an L.L.M.
SUE CADMAN
MILANO MAU, AUSTRALIA
TO THE EDITOR:
Our tendency is to look at things through an editor or boss. Either we have given for dinner or chicken. Either we get to the gym today or whip it either we write with A.I. or we don't.
The reality about artificial intelligence is that while some decisions remain effective, others are better served through a both-land lens. As Bret Stephens passes out in his column, the downsides of A.I. are it can make so lazy, dull our thinking, and the most research skills and our ability to express ourselves.
But it can also do the opposite. A.I. can have us to think about deeply open and the most of exploration and more fully share the results. And because of its power, it can be up some of our time as well.
A.I. is not giving away, and its capabilities are only going to grow. Our real challenges is roughly it is not to find thing it together with human wisdom as it enhances our human experience.
BRIAN GORMAN, HIBERIES, N.J.
No Surprise From ICE
TO THE EDITOR:
Re "Trump Voter Didn't Think ICE Would Come for With" (overt article, Aug. 15):
What I've seen over with the actual Cuban Balnevers endured on anyone, thousands of immigrants without access to the legal support and financial resources available to her are experiencing treatment for worse in detention facilities set up in the Trump administration and paid her with taxpayer dollars.
What I find baffling is the surprise that people like her because in general, the conditions family member, friend or co-worker is measured in this administration's discussion brought into enforcement. The most important, and president, Donald Trump made no secret of the fact that he considers most, if not all, munitions immigrants to be criminals, and they do not hold interest in, or regard for, the complexities of federal immigration policy.
I'm not by the obsession of the terrible the White House, a deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, devaluing and departing immigrants from the world, nothing more than a number's power. We more the better legal niceties he damned.
Whether they admit to it or not, this is what Trump supporters voted for.
JAMES MSSAE, CLEVELAND
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College Boom in India Leaves Graduates in Debt, and Jobless
By ALEX TRASHILLI and SHIVAKAT NANJIA
NEW DELHI — Knowledge Park 3, part of an education hub in northern India, was built on a premise that a college degree could fit young Indians into the middle class.
But for many of the roughly 100,000 students drawn to this cluster of private colleges and universities, two hours from central New Delhi, it delivers something else: debt and disappointment.
Families are draining their savings to attend schools that have proliferated across the area's five Knowledge Parks over the past decade. The flood of graduates the schools are producing vastly outnumbers the availability of well-paying jobs.
Harvish Rai, 18, from the north Indian city of Varanasi, spends his days studying artificial intelligence, read the morning and anything else he thinks might help him land a job. He expects his degree from the Noxia Institute of Engineering and Technology to cost $13,000. financed in part with $7,000 in bank loans. He said his goal was to earn $6,000 rupees a month, or about $10,000 a year.
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Voters Move to Oust Elected Officials Over Data Center Sites
By DAVID McCABE
INDEPENDENCE, MS. — In a City Council meeting in Independence, Mo., in June, a rounddown, John Perkins, stared down a crowd to seat on throwing him out of office.
The room was packed with dozens of people, some turned in stand in the back. Many had helped gather more than 1,200 legislatures to recall Mr. Perkins ever an issue that had rolled the city for months: a data center under construction on the outskirts of town.
They were spitting read that Mr. Perkins, along with four other Council members, had voted in March to award billions of dollars in tax breaks to the $250 billion data center project. Some became emotional as they accused the Council of making a bad deal for a
project they did not want.
"The people haven't been listened to," said Justin Flanagan, 63, a retired real estate agent and manager therapist.
Data centers, the giant computing sites powering the artificial intelligence boom, have caused a national backlash that is set to affect center decisions in November's endemic elections. But some residents in more than a dozen cities and towns across the country are so angry about local elected officials approving the energy-guzzling warehouses; they are not waiting.
In Peoria, Mo., critics of a local data center project gathered enough signatures in May to force a vote to remove the mayor and City Council members who had
approved a $6 billion data center, though the effort is tied up to legal wrangling. In Macon, Mich., residents will vote in November over whether to recall a City Council member over a vote to create zoning rules for data centers.
Voters in Yukon, Okla., will also decide in November whether to recall their mayor after the town moved to will land to a data center developer. And residents of Independence, a city of 121,000 that is 10 miles from Kansas City, will vote on whether to remove Mr. Perkins on Sept. 1.
Some local officials have already lost their jobs in the face of data center concerns in regularly scheduled elections. Last year, two members of the Georgia Public Service on page 20
Dozens of residents who were angry about billions of dollars in tax breaks for a data center packed a June City Council meeting in Independence, Mo.
Sales Growth Of Walmart Is the Lowest In Six Years
Worried American consumers are pulling back on spending.
By KIM BHAIN
Walmart posted the slowest sales in years in its home market of the United States as consumers worried about their finances tightened their wallets.
Unspecified sales at Walmart's U.S. stores rose 2.6 percent in its most recent quarter, the retailer reported on Thursday, its slowest growth in more than six years. The company's stock fell more than 9 percent, erasing tens of billions of dollars in market value in its steepest daily decline since 2003.
The world's largest retailer had been on a roll, with cost-conscious shoppers flocking to its stores in search of deals in an uncertain economy. Walmart said that lower drug prices brought on by regulatory changes dragged down its U.S. sales last quarter. Still, the company raised its outlook for sales and profit for the full fiscal year.
Company executives said the business saw shoppers' behavior change when the national average price of gasoline surpassed 54 percent. In July, an indication that American consumers were feeling more pressure than they did at the beginning of the year.
"Perhaps there's a psychological impact to that," John David Rainey, the chief financial officer of Walmart, said on a conference call with investors and analysts. "There are choices that consumers are making."
America's biggest retailers said this week that consumers had been wary with their spending and been to get value from every dollar spent, even if household balance sheets seemed healthy.
Reported earnings this week from Walmart, Target, Home Decorators are on record as
Moderna Makes Pivot That Profits
By REBECCA MORENS
Covid vaccines made Moderna a household name, but the company's fortunes centered as demand for the class plantered. Healthy from the Trump administration also sparked investors. As of Tuesday, the company's stock had fallen nearly 90 percent from its peak, a loss of $375 billion in market value.
All the while, the company was quietly mounting a comeback in control.
On Wednesday, those efforts began to pay off in a big way Moderna and the big drugmaker Merck reported that their experimental cancer vaccine extended the time before melanoma occurred in a clinical trial — the first late-stage study of its kind to succeed. The two drugmakers announced their success in news releases, without providing numbers that would indicate how much patients had benefited. Moderna's stock closed up 57 percent on Wednesday.
The investors were betting that Moderna could help jump-start a new approach to treating certain cancers. The experimental vaccine cost the same message: RNA, or mRNA, technology that powered Moderna's Covid Probit, but it works differently to treat cancer. Tailored to each patient's tumor genetics, the vaccine delivers instructions to produce a fragment of a tumor to teach the body's immune system to attack the cancer.
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Micron to Put $10 Billion Into Research Laboratory
Micron Technology plans to spend $10 billion on its newly established research lab at Boise, Idaho, over the next decade to advance memory technologies, develop complex systems and support future chip manufacturing, the company said on Thursday.
Micron Research Labs will bring together customers, academia, government and the broader semiconductor ecosystem to pur-
war breakthroughs, it said.
The latest investment builds on the more than $250 billion that Micron had separately committed to manufacturing and research across the United States.
The lab will be connected to Micron's research and technology footprint across the U.S., Europe, Japan, India, Singapore and Taiwan.
Growing adoption of A.I. workloads and infrastructure build out have increased demand for high-bandwidth memory, making it a critical component of computing infrastructure. REUTERS
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Deere Logo Quarterly Gain And Raises Profit Forecast
Deere, the world's largest farm equipment manufacturer, raised its full-year net income forecast on Thursday and passed its first rise in quarterly profit in three years on the back of an A.I.-driven construction boom and tariff reheads.
The company's shares rose nearly 9 percent and were set track for their best day in six months.
Group U.S. government and private infrastructure spending alongside the real A.I.-based network of four-million-ton direct demand for construction equipment, with Deere's construction and forestry segment emerging
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PG2M, the asset management area of Prudential Financial, has on Thursday that it had struck an agreement to buy roughly $3 billion of loans from the home improvement leader GreenSky.
The first year deal comes on PG2M focuses on scaling its asset-backed financing platform, a segment from where traditional banks have pulled back.
PG2M, which manages $1.5 US
Ban in assets across public and private asset classes, will buy the loans through a so-called forward new agreement with GreenSky, where investors agree to purchase the loans before they are originated.
"Home improvement lending continues to stand out as a compelling segment within consumer credit. Additionally, the aging housing plans to driving increased demand for critical home infrastructure and improvements," said Oliver Noenssen, head of private asset-based finance at PG2M. REUTERS
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Bond Stress Returns and Oil Rises in Edgy Day for Markets
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Bond markets steadily revalued in force on Thursday, with a jump in U.S. government yields erasing nearly all of the decline the previous day, when the Treasury Department announced an effort to rein in rising borrowing costs. Anxiety about the war in Iran, the state of the economy and government finances fueled the old-off.
Oil prices rose in their highest levels in a month on Thursday, after President Trump claimed he would level "remmature consumer consequences" as countries that did business with Iran. Without naming countries or details on possible actions, Mr. Trump said on social media on Wednesday suggested its small target countries that buy Iranian oil.
Bond rally fades.
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The yields on U.S. government hands rose on Thursday, as the effects of the Treasury Department's latest effort to rein in borrowing costs fades.
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The 10-year Treasury yield, a widely influential interest rate that underpins mortgages, business loans and many other types of debt, rose around 0.03 percentage points to 4.7 percent, reversing a dip in yields on Wednesday, when the Treasury doubled the amount of debt it was authorized to buy back from investors in weekly operations.
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Investors are worried about the war in Iran's effect on inflation, large government debtors and rampant borrowing to finance artificial intelligence infrastructure, which have all put upward pressure on yields. On Wednesday, America's gross national debt crossed $40 trillion for the first time.
Oil prices rise.
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West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, rose to nearly $87 a barrel.
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Investors and analysts are focused on the continued disruption in shipping to the Strait of the-rose, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that is a vital trading route for oil and natural gas that normally carries so much, as one-fifth of the world's oil supplies.
According to Spain, a significant data service, 12 ships crossed the strain on Wednesday, for below the prewar average of about 130.
The market is also watching efforts by the Iranian-backed Shadib militia in Yemen to restrict traffic in the Baib al-Mandabi Strait in the southern end of the Red Sea, which Saudi Arabia has used in an alternative to the Strait of the-rose.
Stocks slip on Wall Street.
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The S&P 500 did 0.9 percent lower in the close of trading to the United States on Thursday. Walmart posted weak quarterly sales growth, joining other big retailers in warning that consumers are being cautious with their spending.
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In Europe, the Swiss 500, a broad index that tracks the region's largest companies, fell about 0.5 percent.
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Stocks in Asia were broadly higher, carrying over a U.S. rally from the day before. The 2010FI index in Stock Ratios surged 3.4 percent, while the Nikkei 225 in Japan jumped nearly 1 percent.
Gasoline prices tick up.
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Gas prices rose on Thursday, to a national average of $4.10 a gallon, according to the AAA motor club. The increase has raised the cost for drivers by 38 percent since the war began.
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Gas prices don't move in kick stop with crude, usually trading increases or drops by a few days.
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The average price of diesel rose five cents, to $5.55 on Thursday, up 40 percent since the start of the war.
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3 month performance >2.8%
Dow Jones Industrials 52,756.25 | -1.3%
3 month performance >5.5%
Best performers
| S&P 500 COMPANIES | GLOBE CHANGE |
|---|---|
| 1. Norrisen GL (NDSN) | $334.70 - 48.95 |
| 2. Gerriman (Streets & GSW) | $173.20 - 17.8 |
| 3. Deere A.B.I. (SE) | $830.64 - +2.8 |
| 4. Lumerican Holdings (LRE) | $879.28 - -8.2 |
| 5. D&W S&P500* (Q) | $1,016.02 - 19.9 |
| 6. Marcell (Armstrong (MRA)) | $253.01 - 15.8 |
| 7. SF Industries (SF) | $135.75 - 15.6 |
| 8. Wistar (WIS) | $25.29 - 25.6 |
| 9. Oben Global Markets (OBG) | $284.11 - +3.8 |
| 10. Wimmer-Armstrong (Coy (AM)) | $92.69 - +4.7 |
Worst performers
| S&P 500 COMPANIES | GLOBE CHANGE |
|---|---|
| 1. Westerns (MRAV) | $135.02 - 25.0% |
| 2. Wahrain (WAT) | $103.84 - +5.2 |
| 3. American Hospital (SBS) | $374.48 - +5.8 |
| 4. Grand258m Holdings A (RMB) | $186.24 - +3.8 |
| 5. New Englanders (PCE) | $219.69 - +5.4 |
| 6. Western Securities (BSE) | $49.27 - +5.1 |
| 7. CentralS Inc. (CSL) | $25.27 - +4.8 |
| 8. A&W Enterprises (AWS) | $81.4.20 - +3.8 |
| 9. Golden Group (GSW) | $31.24 - +4.4 |
| 10. WES (Longy (LRE)) | $173.28 - +5.2 |
Most active
| S&P 500 COMPANIES | GLOBE CHANGE | VOLUME IN MIL |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Westerns (MRAV) | $135.02 - 25.0% | 97 |
| 2. Hubbel (HUB) | $218.85 - +2.3 | 50 |
| 3. Avon (AFS) | $81.13 - +2.7 | 80 |
| 4. Wahrain (WAT) | $123.54 - +2.2 | 55 |
| 5. Super Micro Companies (SMC) | $36.55 - +2.2 | 50 |
| 6. PLAS (PBS) | $21.58 - +1.8 | 55 |
| 7. Ford (Moto) (F) | $13.89 - +2.9 | 41 |
| 8. Apple (AFS) | $211.20 - +1.7 | 55 |
| 9. Baib (BIC) | $41.86 - +2.1 | 54 |
| 10. Texas (TGA) | $104.13 - +1.7 | 30 |
International bonds
| TOTAL NTS/INS | TOTAL ASSETS | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 YR 1 YRS | IN MIL | |
| 1. Sir Orrden Global Bond Fund (SGLBK) | +1.7% +1.7% | 18.4 |
| 2. American Funds Capital World Bond Fund (App B & B2GKS) | +1.4 - -2.3 | 9.8 |
| 3. Young's One Global Bond Fund (App A1GKS) | +4.7 - -2.8 | 5.3 |
| 4. The Hartford World Bond Fund (App A1HKS) | +2.7 - -1.8 | 4.8 |
| 5. Reckamer Global Bond Fund (App B1-2GKS) | +8.5 - +2.6 | 3.6 |
| 6. WGN Global Bond Return Fund (App B1-4PGK) | +2.5 - -1.8 | 2.6 |
| 7. Inverse Global Exchange Income Fund (App B1-2GKN) | +3.8 - +2.1 | 1.8 |
| 8. Amazon International Bond Fund (App B1-2GKN) | +0.6 - +1.0 | 1.0 |
| 9. Borrower-GoldBC - Global Opportunities Bond Fund (App A-2GKN) | +5.1 - -1.4 | 1.3 |
| 10. PHEG International Bond Fund (Exchange) (App A-2-FLNG) | +1.6 - -2.6 | 1.2 |
Source: Warrington
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026
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BANKING | RETAIL | TRADE
Brokexages' Customer Accounts Risk Theft, Senators Say
By SARA MIGUEL BERNARD
It's a crime that usually happens quickly.
Thevres use stolen information to open a brokerage account in your name. Soon after, your message are uploaded from your real brokerage account into the foundation one — then the thieves vaued with your money.
Regulators have warned brokeragers to recent years that the type of crime has been on the rise that they haven't required financial firms to adopt the strongest preventive measures, only suggesting that companies provide them. That has felt many brokerage customers potentially vulnerable, depending on where they do business and what safeguards are offered.
Some large institutions, including CUL Charles Schwab and Bank of America Merrill Edge, do not allow customers to look their brokerage accounts to protect themselves from these types of unauthorized transfers.
And some, including Wells Fargo and US, do not allow customers when their money is redirected into another account, according to a recent analysis of a dozen major brokerage firms by Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren, ranking Democratic on the Finance and Banking Committee. The lawmakers are urging regulators to require strict control.
The review followed a New York Times article from last fall that died light on the fraud, which is named after the American Bank of America, or, at ACATI, the behind-the-scenes planning system that it financial institutions use to move
customers' assets like stocks and bonds from one bank or brokerage to another.
"Bad actors are increasingly exploiting structural weaknesses in the ACATI system to identify drain consumers' brokerage accounts, including retirement funds," the senators wrote in a letter to Robert W. Cook, chief executive of FINRA, the financial industry's self-regulatory organization. "A recent review of major brokerage firms conducted by our offices reveals a largely conservative, very slanderous, consumer-controlled protections across the industry."
The lawmakers called on FINRA to immediately create gaps that would require financial firms to notify customers of any engaging transfers, and to let customers be better accounts and if firms came up with a process that would require customers to approve such transfer requests.
In October, The Times reported in a case in which a Vanguard customer discovered that holdings in the Wells Bank individual retirement account had vanished.
As online criminal had opened the accounts in her name at Merrill Edge, another brokerage platform, and requested the transfer from Vanguard. The couple was lucky. The fraudster hadn't yet run off with the money, so Merrill was able to freeze the account.
The case with which fraudsters can open accounts — often using stolen data or a combination of stolen and false information, has an equal address or a mobile phone number — makes it easier to perpetuate the bank, that to pull it off, criminals need to know the other account's details.
Fidelity and Vanguard offer
Senators Ron Wyden, top, and Elizabeth Warren warned that "bad actors" are exploiting structural weaknesses in "dilority drain consumers' brokerage accounts, including retirement funds."
self-directed features that let customers block their transfers. According to the senators' letter, D'Heegan Chaus, Robbins, Weibel and Wells Fargo all said
they offered similar account heks, but they can be enabled or disabandled by customer service. E-Track and Morgan Stanley Wyden Management recently added that
capability after the inquiry.
Robbins and said lawmakers that it would simply have managed locking feature by the end of March, the letter said. Weibel said on Wednesday that it had enabled the feature ahead of its agency deadline, and Interactive Brokers confirmed it would add a customer managed. ACATI took the feature to September.
Once a brokerage customer (no. 10-this case, an important request) is transfer through the limitations covering the money, the first day is locking the funds has a day to be validated that the assets are available for transfer and that the customer's advertising information is accurate. Within three days, it must make the transfer.
The legislators have also requested that FINRA strengthen the ACATI system, and that they are gaining the account holder — from where the money is being sold, drawn — to confirm the transaction it an authenticated account. As the outgoing broker's account or mobile app, Many firms at least alert customers that a transfer has been requested.
Additionally, the senators urged the regulation to require brokerages to secure customer accounts with a newer technology called providers, which would not be stronger than traditional multilayer authentication, such as verification codes sent by email or text that fraudsters can easily bypass. FINRA said, "We do not want to be better than we want to be better," FINRA said, "to determine what further actions are necessary to protect investors."
Sales Growth Of Walmart At Its Lowest In Six Years
FROM FIRST BUSINESS RACE Jan, Lowe's and TTS, the parent company of T.I. Mass, provided a snapshot of how American households are being at the cost of living remains high, including grocery bills, housing costs and gas prices. At the same time, the job market has remained fragile and has grown four times. Entire agencies on credit cards, auto loans and markets date are on the rise.
"Household's finance sheets remain healthy to aggregate, but the saving rate is very low and elevated. I am debtopresenting suggest that an significant number of struggling to make ends meet," former Trustee of the Oliver Allen, economist at Pandemic Macroeconomics, said in a note.
"There are also public back on spending at the start of the second half of the year, with small sales down 0.8 percent in July from the prior month, according to estimates of the reduced by the Census Bureau."
But with back-to-school season kicking off and as retailers prepare for the depending holiday season, the company is hoping that shoppers become less stingy. Retailers have tried to keep prices down. Some have tried tariff refunds, the requirement is to pay for the same as the Japanese Court's ruling in February that struck down many of the Trump administration's emergency insurers' taxes, as giving them heeway to keep prices down.
Target said that it had lowered prices on about 10,000 items in its stores over the past year, and that it would push for more price to increase. Some 10,000 more selection of school supplies is priced at or below what they were last year.
"We're proud of that price in-
U.S. Tariff Talks Give Canadian Officials Hope as a Deadline Looms
By SARA MIGUEL
and ANA DRAHMAN
STEVEN L. Darrag another round of talks on Thursday, Canadian officials expressed some optimism that an effort to avert damaging new tariffs set to take effect Saturday morning and preserve Canada's biggest trade relationship was paying off.
Dominic LeBlanc, the Canadian minister in charge of U.S. trade, and Janice Chavelle, the chair, trade negotiator, met with Japanese Gives, the U.S. trade representative, in Mt. Gives's offices, Mt. LeBlanc's office said.
"We're very close, we continue to make progress," Mt. LeBlanc said on his way out of the meeting after three hours, adding that Mt. Chavelle remained inside and in disavowance with U.S. officials. "We're going to stay here and do the work that's necessary."
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada and his officials meet new decide whether to accept a proposed American trade that that will start of when they are working for the U.S. United States, imposing 50 percent tariffs on note of billions of dollars in Canada.
On Tuesday night, President Trump responded the complaint now tariffs and announced that the two countries had reached a 50 percent rate of the U.S. trade and paperwork he worked out. But if Canada does not finalize the pact by early Saturday morning, new tariffs on about $20 billion would be Canadian experts will take effect.
People in the United States and Canada who are familiar with the negotiations said that talks were made very much under way and that they went well beyond tying off these calls.
The clicking points center on the front key: Canadian industries said the three trade and trade groups in 50 percent last year: most, aluminum and leather.
The talks, the United States, has discussed reducing tariffs on some Canadian style and solutions experts to 25 percent from 50 percent, three people familiar with the plan said. That would add he about twice the rate Canada is working.
Canadian steel experts would also have agents under which only a certain volume would qualify for the proposed lower tariff, another person familiar with the negative lines said. Potentially, the Trump administration is facing a backlash in the proposal from U.S. steel mills, which have argued that the change would undercut their production.
For the auto secure, a tariff that Mt. Trump imposed last year could be lowered to 25 percent from 25 percent, with a decrease for the value of American parts, three other industry executives said.
One person hecked out the talks said that Canada was pushing back against the proposal on action. He said it appeared that the United States picked 15 percent to match the tariff Mt. Trump proposed on Japanese and Korean autos. Because the U.S. side has
A steel plant in Canada. Steel, aluminum and leather are the main clicking points in the trade negotiations.
been unyielding on the rate, the Service said that Canada was proposing to effectively lower the tariff by giving credit for Canada as parts on welfare Americans now. The office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mt Trump's current auto tariffs have shattered free trade in the sector, which shows 0.6% and has made the industry highly integrated across the border. Mt. Trump has repeatedly described Canadian-built autos as products that the United States should not import.
Negotiators have also been discussing important rules governing the North American auto industry under the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement.
The Trump administration has proposed raising the requirements for free much of a car's content must come from North America to
82 percent from the current 75 percent, as well as requiring 50 percent of a car's materials to come from the United States. Canada and Mexico have both opposed the idea of a U.S.-specific content requirement for the state of relatives say they view the U.S. proposal as an opening position that will probably be negotiated down.
Still, the U.S. effort to consider the rules of the North American auto industry could be harmful to Canadian interests, forward people in the auto industry, as well as experts, say that a 15 percent tariff on autos would gradually down the industry in Canada.
Historically, the auto trade between the two countries has had a slight surplus for the United States. Over the last decade or so, experts from Canada by the three Detroit-based automakers have declined considerably, leaving Toyota and Honda so by far the
largest producers in the country. Since Mt. Trump returned to or first, firefares has moved production of a new king from Ontario to Illinois, leaving a Canadian factory empty. General Motors Corp. has been in the market for reduced to pickup truck assembly line in Ontario to use cells. Honda canceled plans for a major expansion in Canada to produce electric vehicles and batteries but recently announced plans to build a new factory in the United States. The first hope, the Canadian's 50th Automotive Parts Manufacturer Association of Canada, said that after accounting for American parts, a 25 percent tariff effectively becomes a 17 percent tariff. But the profit margin on more autos is about 8 percent, he said.
He added that the U.S. content discount would probably force companies to source more American parts, to the detriment of the
Dominic LeBlanc, the Canadian minister in charge of U.S. trade, arriving in Washington on Thursday.
Canadian ministry.
Craig Morden, a former executive at Toyota's Canadian manufacturing operations, said that a 10 percent tariff might make Canada an increase marginally in the market would not halt their gradual disappearance, despite the difficulty and expense of moving production.
"It has been a long-term bleed, he said, adding that with any auto tariffs, the 'vagueness is not positive at any level.'"
Jean Simard, the president of the Aluminum Association of Canada, said that a lack of supply in the United States and demand in Europe had meant that the current tariffs had not affected its investment sales.
"The market takes all of our mind," he said.
It is unlikely, Mt. Simard said, that tariffs will prompt an expansion of aluminum production in the United States because making aluminum requires vast amounts of electricity, according that it is increasingly in short supply. In January, an American aluminum company, which has been successfully to a company that will use its electrical supply to power data comes.
"A doesn't make sense," he said. "You're putting more for aluminum in the U.S. by a factor of about 10,000 who that you would be paying in Europe just because of the tariff."
The outcome of talks between the United States and Canada has important implications for Mt. Simard's is negotiating separately with the Trump administers. Here are the benefits of a 10 percent, Marcela Elland, the Mexican economy secretary, received the $1.2 billion commissioners's office Wednesday for more discussions, following meetings for evening before.
"There talks centered on the economic drills that the Trump administers has levied on cars and car parts, as well as how the U.S.N.F.A. rules governing auto trade could change, a person that would wish to keep them."
Canada does appear to have agreed to use U.S. demand. In 2024, the number of customers wise and optics by government-owned liquor systems in eight of 10 Canadian provinces.
In a virtual meeting with Canada's president, the United States's McCarney asked those who have hastened the sale of U.S. liquor to anyone it, according to several government.
With Kizer, the president of Macmillan, said that he agreed to Mt. Carney's request has reserve the right to pull American alcohol from drivers if Mt. Trump takes further trade actions against Canada.
He also had a message for the state:
"Don't buy it, let it sit on the shelf," Mt. Kizer told a news conference, adding that a combined export would send a message to the 'We need to sell the Trump's approach to trade or for the use of treating Canada."
An Author reported from Ottawa, and Ana Swenson from Washington.
2.6%
Sales growth of Walmart's U.S. stocks in its most recent quarter.
9%
Number of Walmart's stock following the move.
ventures," Michael Palkidka, the chief executive of Toyota, told investors. "We think it matters to consumers right now."
Walmart has been reducing prices, too, and the market has told investors that it has made it a priority to use its tariff refund on price rate. In the United States, Walmart temporarily lowered the prices of 11,000 times last quarter, up from 2,200 to the previous quarter, and intends to make those reductions permanent after year.
"We're investing heavily in price because customers need to pay more than 10 percent," said investors of Walmart, told investors.
TTS, the owner of the off-price chains T.I. Mass and MacNally, said that its selection of cheap products is a good position to capitalize on economic trends, and that it now higher consumer traffic and a rise in what shoppers move per visit. Comparable sales can be percent in its most recent quarter, and company executives are pinning ahead with plans to add hundreds of new stores.
"We are confident that consumers will continue to look for value in the current environment," Ernie Herrman, the chief executive of TTS, told investors.
Some improvements stores have been reducing in several years. Households worried about their finance and economic uncertainty and high mortgage rates have put off big-rising money. The company turned on also been low.
"There's just no sign of an infection point at this moment," Richard McPhail, the chief financial officer of Texas Paper, told investors.
Marvin Ellison, the chief executive of Lowe's, said high interest rates, inflation and the price of gas and weighed on the customer base, which is made up of middle-income businessmen.
"It's a combination of bad prices, geopolitical events and other uncertain things," Mt. Ellison said. "People are just being cautious with their discretionary space."
Resident consumer spending in the first half of 2026 was fueled by a robust tax refund season, said John Mercer of Carnegie Bay, who is a veteran of the primary firm. "The question as we head later in the year is: What happens when these tax refunds start to deplete and diminish?" Mt. Mercer said.
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POLITICS | COMPANIES
The data center being built in Independence, Mo. Right, the power plant that will help generate electricity for the center. Residents in more than a dozen cities are angry that officials have approved the energy-grazing warehouses.
Voters Are Pushing to Oust Elected Officials Over Data Center Sites
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE
Re Service Commission has their water until concern about data centers driving up electricity prices. A Virginia state delegate, Gary Higgins, also lost his job last year after his opponent headed into "Data Center Dairy."
"People are standing up and sailing. Sorry, we don't want these data centers to our communities for a number of reasons," Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent, said in an interview. "If you can't have the gain to stand up to order large cooperation, you should not continue serving in office."
Voters have little patience for politicians supporting data centers, and Andy Krenne, the chairman woman of Humans First, a conservative funding group presenting greater of regulations. They will "stop up and recall them and hear them accountable."
Independence would be one of the first municipalities to hold a data center restricted to institutions. A judge this month rejected a legal challenge by Mr. Perkins and others, who argued the recall violated 'Humanist's Constitution.
Mr. Perkins, 54, said in an interview that the argument for the recall had "no merit" and that a "vague date" should not outweigh yours of work for his constituents.
John Sutter, the vice president of U.S. public affairs at Nefons, the Dutch firm holding the data center, said the company did not "get involved in political races."
"Our job there is to show the pub-
A group of data center opponents in June collected enough signatures to force the special recall election of Councilman John Perkins. It is set for Sept. 5.
Special 10th Week National Center for Justice and Justice in the United States of America, 1st Session April 1, 2026
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Reviewing a student loan balance on a mobile app, At right, objects license calling with disclosures at Santa Biblia Nautia. His father, who once a small clothing shop is a village in Bihar, said out a loan of 400,000 rupees, about $4,278, through a state student credit scheme to pay for his studies.
India's College Boom Leaves Grads in Debt, and Jobless
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at 10 percent annually.
"I feel some stress," he said. "How can I repay an issue?"
That anxiety is increasingly by milder among India's young people. Last month, underpinnings of debt and protests forced a rare capitalization from the government of Proper Minister Narendra Modi. The public displays of unimpaired activities in the frustration that fueled them has not.
What began as a protest about regard-related widowed into anger over the obstacles young Indians see blocking their path to a better life. The salistically named Cockroach Santa Party – an allusion to disparaging remark made a May by India's top judge, who compared India's unemployed youths to "cockroaches" because one represents of that distension. Private universities all squarely within the students' dissatisfaction.
India's working age mandates, already the world's largest or nearly one billion, grows by about 12 million people a year. For families with money to spare, otherwise it can only be a big deal to restore out of two paid farming and wage labor. The best option is a place at one of the country's highly competitive public universities. For those who cannot get in, private colleges offer another route.
That industry has exploded. The number of private colleges, tripled in the decade after Mr. Modi became prime minister in 2014. By 2024, India had 43 million students in higher education, up 41 percent from a decade earlier, according to a government survey. More than two-thirds of all students attend private institutions.
But the expansion of higher education has far outpaced the creation of good jobs.
Nearly 40 percent of all college graduates agree the age of 25 and unemployed, according to a study published by Azim Preraj University. India creates only about 230,000 new jobs a year paying more than $200 a month, a benchmark for a comfortable living among the country's top current. Graduates of elite public universities have an enormous advantage in competing for them.
"There's a lot that's been sold in the young people, which is that it degree equals a job," said Abidjan Saxena, an entrepreneur and a founder of an education fellowship program.
India has roughly 550 public universities, but only about a tenth are considered elite. Fewer than 5 percent of applicants are accepted at the top institutions, where tuition averages less than $250 a year and a degree can pre-paid graduates toward the country's most desirable jobs.
Everyone else faces a much riskier calculation.
Mr. Saxena estimates that 400,000 students a year spend more than $20,000 on private engineering colleges, hoping for a big payoff. Median salaries for graduates are around $3,000 a year.
"The employability of the average graduate is just about 20 percent," he said.
The mismatch has fueled what Mr. Saxena called "a terrible national psychosis": ferocious competition for engineering degrees that once seemed to offer reliable entry into India's technology industry. Companies such as the boys and Tata Consultancy Services built enormous businesses providing information technology services to multinational companies. Now artificial intelligence is making even those jobs appear less secure.
"Barrowing heavily in pursue degrees in India is unwise," Sridhar Vimtha, a co-founder of Jobs, an Indian cloud software company, wrote on social media. "I strongly believe the actual industry young people in debt in the
Students waiting for rules in Naidu, on the outskirts of New Delhi, which is surrounded by dozens of private colleges. At right, a college has Behar right, Asif Anand, who borrowed money to attend Amity University. He expects his education costs to be roughly $15,000.
"Borrowing heavily to pursue degrees in India is unwise."
Sridhar Vimtha, a co-founder of Jobs, a cloud software company.
name of education."
In Naidu, on the outskirts of New Delhi, a handful of tired and anxious undergraduates took shelter from a staircase downpour at a safe near the Bagglag campus of Amity University.
For many students, Amity is a backup when cheaper options fall through. Asif Anand had been admitted to a top public school in his native state, Bihar. But a car accident decided his admission two years ago, he said, and he borrowed money to attend Amity instead.
He expects his degree and living expenses to cost roughly $10,000. His state government lost him $4,000 toward the bill, while his family has stretched its savings to the limit.
His father reaches math and blood at a village school. At night, Mr. Anand takes freelance graphic design jobs to help cover his daily expenses.
With luck, he said, he might be behave one a technology job paying $10,000 a year.
"My dreams are not big," he said. "I want to reduce the burden of the loan and the costs to my
Against that backdrop, Mr. Anand joined the final day of last month's protests – not as a pre-order, he said, but in solidarity with students who saw the gathering as a place to air grievances of every kind.
"I did not go for any political reason," he said.
His friend Vavesh M.J. was skeptical of the presenters' stated demands, which focused on overloading India's renting processes. In his view, the secret reflected something deeper.
"The anger is a mask for your fear," he said of the protesters. "You're all very afraid of the future."
Mr. Saxena knows what the other side of India's education divide both like. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, one of the country's elite public universities, before joining Exodus Consulting Group and helping build start-ups in Silicon Valley. Now, through Avanti Fel-
lows, he helps deserving lower-income students prepare for the release that can win them places at elite institutions.
The program offers free test preparation and customer coaching. But there are far more aspiring students than places at elite schools and far fewer good jobs
than graduates cloning them. That leaves a vast private education industry selling families – chance at upward mobility even for the with-interaction.
"We one's really going to get right," Mr. Saxena said. "People are going to monetize their desperation."
Columnist Apologizes Amid Claims Of Plagiarism
By BENJAMIN MULLIN
A creeping online scandal about the work of a prominent journalist is cancelling into a professional reckoning.
The writer, Ross Barkan, was accused by reporters and online insults of plagiarizing work and failing to credit other journalists, triggering reviews of his writing for New York magazine, Gothamist, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine and The Times's opinion section.
Again and again, he pushed back. But New York magazine investigated the claims and last week car law with him. The event, his publisher suspended a forthcoming book about Debrae Mandant, the New York City mayor, and The Nation said it was also credited with the award review.
On Wednesday, Mr. Barkan, 36, apologized, saying he would take a break from writing.
"I truly am sorry for the mistake I made," Mr. Barkan said in a post on social media. "None of them, genuinely, were willing to in-come out. In the course of writing, many columns a week, I did not use citations as aggressively as I should have and did not paraphrase well enough."
In an interview with The Times on Wednesday, he described himself as being "at the center of a firmness."
"When this happens, you don't know what to do," Mr. Barkan said. "Now that I've taken a breath, I are going to self-reflect on my conduct and hopefully be a better person," he added.
The widening scandal surrounding Mr. Barkan's work began in May when a reporter for The Washington Post noted similarities between a column by Mr. Barkan in New York magazine and the reporter's article about the conservative commemoration Ben Shapiro.
A technology reporter for NPR, Bobby Allyn, pointed out overlap between a column by Mr. Barkan and an article in The Intercept about TikTok. Another writer, Howard Graubard, cited similarities in an article by Mr. Barkan for Gothamist in 2020 and one that
Ross Barkan regrets he 'did not paraphrase well enough.'
Mr. Graubard had written in 2013. New York magazine said its review had found 67 columns that resulted in standards. Gothamist said on Wednesday that it had removed some work by Mr. Barkan after conducting its own inquiry.
A spokeswoman for The Nation said the magazine's review of Mr. Barkan's work was ongoing. The Times, which published his work on recently as July last year, said a review of his work for its magazine and opinion section had found nothing that violated its standards.
His book about Mr. Mandant, for Penguin Random House, was scheduled to be published in October. The Washington Post reported the suspension earlier. Mr. Mandant managed Mr. Barkan's unsuccessful campaign for the New York State Senate in 2020.
Mr. Barkan's initial responses to his critics were defensive.
In May, when Mr. Allyn asked him about instances where his work resembled others', Mr. Barkan called the NPR reporter "unprofessional" and reached the feeling of the press. "I think there's a work of fiction written by Mr. Barkan.
"You aren't a good writer or a good reporter, but a mention of a writer's book is always appreciated," Mr. Barkan said in an email obtained by The Times.
Mr. Barkan apologized for those remarks in his interview with The Times, saying he would not tell the man to "self-reflect on how my conduct on the internet, on Twitter, on email, is not what it should be." He said NPR's request for comment, late at night, had taken him by surprise.
"I was scared, and I was upset, and it wasn't any bad moment," Mr. Barkan said.
Some journalists have come to Mr. Barkan's defense, including Peter Dzhgad, a contributing writer for Unifred, who said Mr. Barkan had cited his work approximately, and Michael Powell, a staff writer for The Atlantic, who wrote that critics should not make a matter of the same.
In the interview, Mr. Barkan said many of the examples cited online were instances when he was "moving too quickly" a by-product of "writing too much with not enough care."
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The Longtime Boss
Of Pebble Beach Takes a Victory Lap
The collector-car event Concours d'Elegance was a capstone for a leader of two decades.
Wheels
By ROBERT C. VIAGER
Caroline Cassini was just 3 years old when she first attended the Concours d'Elegance at Pebble Beach, an annual assemblage of the world's most beautiful motorcars. In the intervening years, her family has captured Pebble's coveted Best of Show honors twice, and she is now a judge at the event.
For 21 of Ms. Cassini's 16 years, Sandra Kasky Button has been the chairman of the famous show. "Sandra's been an inspiration to me and a lot of women in the car world," said Ms. Cassini, who works in collector antenna like sales. "She made Pebble what it is today."
What it is today is what many consider the world's premier showcase for collector cars. Held each August on the 20th fairway of the Pebble Beach, the Links near Curved, Calif., the show highlights a full work of classic car events. These include auctions, vintage racing and a 70-mile tour by concours entrants through the area's forests and along its famous coastline.
For Ms. Button, Pebble's 75th anniversary show on Sunday represented the end of an era. She's yielding her position in Vince W. Foush, a third-generation automotive motorer and collector who grew up in his family's auto shops. She will stay on as the event's brand ambassador and strategic advisor.
"There's a lot of historical significance and emotion in joining the button," Ms. Button, 67, said in an interview before the event. "But I know it's the right time. Vince is a car-cruzy guy who's at least 15 years younger than me — which are both good things. Transition, like tradition, is a necessary part of history."
The concours began as a smallish adjunct to the popular and dangerous Pebble Beach Road Races, which ran through the area's twisty, pine-streaked roads from 1994 to 1996. PhD Hill, who became America's first Formula 1 world champion, is the only person ever to win both events. Today, a typical concours includes early "heraldess carriage" and "brain eye" models, "preservation" (carwotowel) vehicles; and vintage and modern racing cars. Because of the Big Sur first, the Thursday's Tour d'Elegance was renamed and destroyed to 21 miles around Pebble Beach and Monterey. One hundred and seventy-five entrants completed the event.
During her tenure, Ms. Button has overcame a substantial growth in the show's field, from a few dozen automobiles to more than 200.
She recalled recently being motioned over at a car event by an older man using a walker: "I've got to tell you something," she said he had told her. "When you were first appointed chairman, I said to my pals, 'What does she,
a woman, know about cars?' You know what? You've done an awesome job."
"Position doesn't really know a gender" is her response. "Yes, there are some headwinds to being the only woman in this kind of job," she said, "but there are advantages, too. Maybe because of my gender I'm more in tune with the human element of the vehicles we show."
Chris Beck, the show's chief judge, singled out Ms. Button's people skills. "At the same time," he said, "she has an amazing eye for automotive design and historical detail. There are people who have cars in their DNA, and she is one of them."
All told, each show receives about 2,000 applications. Though Ms. Button has the final say on special classes and featured marques, their choosing can be a yearning collaborative process. "Someone on the selection committee will say, 'I've got a dream to have these 12 cars together,'" she said. "Or a suggestion can come from outside our organization."
Such was the case when a Texas collector, Jim Fannach, proposed a display of ultrarare Button cars from the early 1980s. Fewer than three dozen were ever made.
"Jim was the horsepower behind that whole time," Ms. Button said, "up to and including transporting some people's cars, the even hosted a dinner for all the Button owners. He really brought the whole thing to life."
A location native, Ms. Button had her first driving experience at the wheel of her father's 1983 Ford Mustang when she was 15. The first car she owned was a Datsun Furbark sports car. "I've loved cars ever since," she said.
To her, automotive beauty — the kind that merits display on Pebble's lanes — goes beyond more metrics. "I try to look at the whole car and what it says to me," she said. "I wonder what the person was thinking who designed it. Either a car really sings to you or it doesn't."
A sampling of cars whose melodies cross swently: the Bugatti Type 20 (TV's like a piece of jewelry, though I'm not certain I could get it?) — I'm 6 foot tall"); a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster ("it will do everything for you on the road, and it also looks right from every angle"); a Ferrari 300 M30 Barchetts ("a favorite Ferrari, very elegant and sexy").
As the show's overseer, Ms. Button often inherits the delicate task of soothing the psyches of car owners.
When you put on the world's greatest car show, you're dealing with a lot of strong personalities," said David Gooding, a member of Pebble's selection committee and the president and co-founder of Gooding & Company auctioneers. "Sometimes egos get bruised."
Ms. Cassini, now an executive at Broad Access Auction, echoed that sentiment. "Pebble is widely regarded
Clockwise from top left: Chairwoman Sandra Button at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2026 last weekend; judges at the collector car showcase; entrants on a rooftop; a back seat offers chero; the dark and exterior of a restored 2026 Bugatti Type 20SC Atlantic.
as the world's most prestigious concours," she said. "A win here adds both lasting reputation and financial value to a car."
Patrick Ottis, a show judge, past class winner and widely known Ferrari motorer in Berkeley, Calif., offered this scene. "Say you have a class of vintage Ferrari racers," he said. "Beaucent, the cars are worth many millions of dollars. Most of the owners are billionaires. And they aren't used to losing."
He added: "We've got 15 minutes to judge a car that cost, say, $10 million to buy and another $2 million to restore. We make a decision that it's only going to get third place. You know how good Sandra is when you see her defuse situations like that."
To that point, Ms. Button said: "I just try to let the wind whistle around me.
To remember that I'm there for the cars. Because in the midst of all the emotion, what we do will become part of a vehicle's legacy, and it will last much longer than us."
Legacy is something Ms. Button does a lot of thinking about. Especially now. "We've got to get more young people in the cars," she said. "It's no fun if you don't know how great the cars are. I love to see people bringing their kids along on rallies. They learn so much from the other collectors."
There is welcome news on this front: "Game older-era classic cars are visiting down in value," said Ms. Button, whose husband, Martin, transports classic cars for collectors and dealers. "It's a mixed blessing for owners, but it also opens a door, making them more affordable for new collectors."
Another help: scholarships offered by famous Pebble forebears. The estates of both PhD Hill and Jules Heumann, Ms. Button's early predecessor as co-chairman, support scholarships for students pursuing auto restoration degrees.
In addition, the show itself, last-tremmed by its 2650 entry fee, has become a major supporter of auto charities, recently donating as much as 34 million each year. "There was a time," Ms. Button said, "when we weren't even raising $75,000."
One thing is certain. Wherever the road ahead takes her, Ms. Button won't stop loving classic cars. Whether she's behind the wheel of a husky, hundred-year-old Bentley Speedster or silibening along in a shitty, Win E-Jag, she'll just be steering down a new path.
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ANALYSIS
Predicting Aces and Busts
After an Off-Season Shuffle
Eight writers break down the big signings and which clubs will climb, and fall.
By The Athlete
The Premier League season returns on Friday, when the newly promoted Coventry City travels to Arsenal, the reigning champion, for its first top-flight game in 25 years.
In one sense, this campaign may be more unpredictable than any other in recent memory, with nine clubs starting the season with a new manager. Two more — Manchester United's Michael Carrick and Tottenham Hotspur's Roberto De Zoe's — took over their teams during the second half of last season.
Five of the traditional Big Six — Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham — begin 2026-27 with a manager who was led in charge this time last year. Of the title favorites, only Arsenal has stability in the dugout.
How will the new men in charge fare? Which teams have recruited best? And is there any hope for the promoted sides?
The Athlete's writers have joined forces to predict the final Premier League standings. And Carl Aalto, Seb Stafford-Bose, Nick Miller, Tim Spies, Coryn Jones, Thom Harris, Stuart James and Emma Paton have combined to discuss how they see the season going.
THE FAVORITES: Arsenal's depth, stability and defense give the team a good chance to repeat.
Who will be much better this season than last?
ANNA Many will surely give one of Tottenham or Nottingham Forest as an answer here. Both teams should be much closer to the Europa League positions than the relegation zone. I'm also looking forward to watching a fully fit Team Wima again. Newcastle United fans barely got a glimpse of how good he can be; it will be nice if he can return to peak form.
STAPFORD-BLOOR Liverpool's Florian Wirtz should really benefit from playing for Asobut trade, whose work with the midfield and attacking players at Bearnemouth was so profoundly successful. Every player within that part of frantic Bearnemouth side improved as an individual, implying that he should be able to draw something from a player who, despite suffering a really difficult first season, is immensely talented.
MILLER It's Tottenham, but I have also convinced myself, not for the first time, that Manchester United is going to be genuinely good this season. At various points last season, Bruno Fernandes,
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Bryan Mheuana, Madhura Cunha and Benjamin Szabo all looked pretty good, just not all at the same time. United still needs a few enhancements, but if these attackers are all on it, together, with Stuart Tschemann in midfield behind them, I think the team will be much improved.
HARRIS The excited to see how Chelsea clicks under Zabi Alonso, and I expect it to comfortably improve on its 30th-place finish last season. Bercule more looks to have been geared toward facilitating the 3-4-3-1 shape that Alonso used at Rapid Leverkusen, and I think Cole Palmer could thrive in one of the 16s, 18 positions.
JONES Chelsea (from a low bar), having balanced out its squad with more experience, added even more attacking quality in Morgan Rogers, and had a full preseason under Alonso. As for Tottenham, it could do with strengthening a few other departments, but the signings it has made so far should be enough for a significant improvement.
SPRERS Nottingham Forest has been documentaryly quiet in the transfer market, but you would imagine that with Oliver Glasser in the latter and a very unusual squad, it will improve considerably on 30th. Snaring Glasser feels like a real coup.
JAMES Tottenham. A canoist hero. Flinching as low as 30th would be "much better" than fighting relegation. But there, I'm sure, will be higher than that. Do Zorb is a top coach, and I like the look of the team's recruitment — signing proven Premier League players and breaking a transfer record to bring in Mareno Peronette. A quick fix.
PATON Lewis Ustaal. It's not point around February, Daniel Farber's side quietly stopped being a team that survives and because one that was tough to beat. Now add to these terrific signings in James Trafford, Harry Wilson and Tackt Hobson movie. The team has had a solid preseason, and be me, the top half is there for the taking.
Who will be worse?
ANNA Division airports have revolve around teams that have qualified for Europe League/ Conference League competition. Can Sunderland and Bournemouth deal with the Thursday-Sunday treadmill? But look out for Potham. Marvo Shvrs work there were under the rules, and I'm unsure about Alvaro Arhelsa and his new signings.
STAFFORD-BLOOR Anton Villa. Tottenham goes, Rogers goes, Arnaldo Onans injured. Johan Marourelle is going to become a really good player and, Sam Gomes already is one, but clearly this team has taken a step back. Brian Madjo looks terrific — although he and Gomes are expected to miss the start of the season — but there is an onus on him to be a reliable source of goals behind Giles Watkins, which is a heavy burden for a teenager.
WILLER I think Villa is going to struggle, in relative terms anyway. It's not just that the players it has haven't necessarily been replaced with tens of current commensurate ability; it's that Cinal Emery has been pretty hard at integrating new signings. When it's, say, Tommy Abraham, it's not a huge team because you can just stick him on the bench and broadly forget about him, but when it's half the team ...
HARRIS Sunderland is still very strong, and it can beat anyone with the crowd on its side at home, but a 4th hit a few sticky
ARSENAL Manager Mikel Arteta after the finale, as players celebrated the club's fourth Premier League title, and its first since 2004.
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MANCHESTER CITY Eifing Haaland, center, a World Cup star, still has đồng a powerful side for the new managers, Evan Marousi.
patches last season. Europe could distract the team, too. JONES Sunderland did spectacularly well last season, and I don't think it has strengthened any where near enough to continue that relative overperformances, especially with the detractors of the Europe League. Villa could drop down the standings (though not drastically), with its transfer business so far seeing key personnel leave in directly strength on rivals for Champions League places.
SPRERS It would be good hunter to say. Eques at this point, but the obvious answer is Bournemouth. After finishing sixth last year, the team lost the best thing ahead it in trade, Sunderland will also probably drop like a stone, unfortunately.
JAMES Sunderland. As with Forest the season before, Sunderland finished seventh in the Premier League, which was exceptional. But we all know what happened to Forest and - a season of struggle. Combining the Premier League with playing in Europe will be a major club
SPRINGER TOWN Additions like center back free Drop bolstered the club's apiece.
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lengo, and it feels inevitable there will be a tailed.
PATON I agree with others saying Sunderland because of how impressive it was last season, but I'll go for the other team in the North East, Newcastle. Bruno-Gaimaraes, Sandra Small and Anthony Gordon out the door, Eddie there goes, and in walks Matthias Janols to conduct an orchestra that has just said its string section.
Who will win the title?
ANNA Arsenal by more than 5 points. There are minor question marks over its attack and what happens if Declan Ray or Boksey Saka got injured, but Mikel Arteta has built a formula-
CHELSEA Morgan Rogers joined on a blockbuster transfer, but the question is whether players can yell in Xabi Alamoah system.
ble machine. Arsenal has the best out-of-possession setup in the Premier League. It not across Europe. Bruno-Gaimaraes will give it new ways of unlocking low blocks, so changes to relative rules on set pieces should not be too much of an issue.
STAFFORD-BLOOR Arsenal. I think it will start slowly and spend much of the summer and early winter waiting for key players to return to full fitness but having that group — Brin, William Sallie, Saka — from in the new year should serve it well. And Gaimaraes is a super player, so there's that, too.
WILLER Arsenal, and I don't think it will be particularly clear, if only because the other realistic candidates all have new managers, whereas Arsenal has stably, a deep squad and a defined way of playing, even if that's not especially pleasing aesthetically. It needs another proper attacker of some nature to succeed in Europe, but I think it will be fine domestically with what it has.
HARRIS I'll go against the grain and say City. Eifing Haaland was lethal at the World Cup, with Antoine Semezyn, Jeremy Osku and Rayan Cherki are all game-changers. Phil Paden has a point to prove, and while the loss of Roder will sting, the signing of
Elliot Anderson will help to plug some of the defensive gaps.
JONES Doll, but Arsenal, because it is starting from the strongest position. It has strengthened a title-winning squad without nearing it up. Chelsea, City and Liverpool are adapting to new managers, while United is adapting to being back in Europe. City seems like the strongest club-keepers, but if its new-look midfield and new manager take a while to jolt, I think Manchester United can barge into the title race.
SPRERS I can see Chelsea personally clicking quite quickly and mounting a challenge, plus it will benefit from having no European soccer, but Arsenal and City should be a level above the rest with the squads they have. Arsenal still has the best defense, so it is the favorite for one.
JAMES Arsenal. Liverpool. Chelsea and Manchester City all have new managers and, to varying degrees, are going through a transitional phase on the field, too. As for Manchester United, it's too soon. Arsenal, in contrast, has an established way of playing (and winning) under Arteta.
PATON Arsenal. Boring, I know. Boring strengthened the deepest squad in the Premier League by adding even more quality to Bruno-Gaimaraes, plus German. Tastic (who was a real difference maker at Club Brugge), I think Arsenal is going to take some stopping.
Will any of the three promoted teams survive?
ANNA Frank Longeur's Corvette is far better out of possession than his Chelsea and Everton teams were. I'm really interested to see how Gary O'Neil gets on it. Speech, but I don't see enough goals across the trio of clubs to stay above the line.
STAFFORD-BLOOR Speech, I think. Gaelic, it has had a really bold summer, making signings in strengthen its spine. Sisa Drop and Sasa Lukic from Potham.
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| Arsenal | 28 | 7 | 6 | 85 |
| Manchester City | 23 | 9 | 6 | 78 |
| Manchester United | 20 | 11 | 7 | 71 |
| Manchester | 18 | 8 | 11 | 65 |
| Liverpool | 17 | 9 | 12 | 60 |
| Bournemouth | 13 | 18 | 7 | 57 |
| Sunderland | 14 | 12 | 12 | 54 |
| Brighton | 14 | 11 | 13 | 53 |
| Stamford | 14 | 11 | 13 | 53 |
| Chelsea | 14 | 10 | 14 | 52 |
| Calgary | 15 | 7 | 16 | 52 |
| Newcastle | 14 | 7 | 17 | 49 |
| Everton | 13 | 10 | 15 | 48 |
| Leeds | 11 | 14 | 13 | 47 |
| Crystal Palace | 11 | 12 | 15 | 45 |
| Wellington Forest | 11 | 11 | 16 | 44 |
| Tottenham Hotspur | 10 | 11 | 17 | 41 |
| West Ham | 10 | 9 | 19 | 39 |
| Burnley | 4 | 19 | 26 | 33 |
| Wolverhampton | 3 | 11 | 24 | 28 |
Note: Next: Burnley and Wolverhampton teams in search for the Premier League for the 2026-27 season.
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PROMISER Lukic, a defensive midfielder from Burnley. And Emerson, the center forward from Taubison. Who looks physically, technical and capable of making some problems in the Premier League.
WILLER Regrettably not, Coventry probably has the best chance, but even then I don't know if I'm saying that for every nostalgic "I'm happy a team from my Premier League youth is back" reasons.
HARRIS I agree with Seb and think Speech will stay up, I see parallels with last season's Sunderland, which bolstered in squad with top-level quality and afforctions to double down on its throat across transition. Coventry looks to be in good shape too, but I don't know which other two sides drop into the relegation zone for both to survive.
JONES No. Not because I think they're particularly poor — I like Coventry and Speech has made some good signings — but becomes I don't see others in the Premier League that look vulnerable to slipping below them.
SPRERS Coventry will bloody a few noses but probably will lack the goals to stay up. Speech's transfer business has been interesting — Abdul Razam is a far of fact, former Manatee is an intriguing addition, and O'Neil has done well with Wolves before ... as put the team down for 20th.
JONES No. The success of Sunderland and Leeds can assume needed to happen because the Premier League was in danger of becoming a closed shop. With Speech, field and Coventry, I think it will be back to the old routine, largely because I struggle to see who could go down at their expense.
PATON Invalid? Maybe? Hopefully I'm looking forward to seeing what Coventry can do, but it goes without saying that it will be a big challenge adapting to the Premier League. I think Coventry has the remembrance for a better stay than last time, with the hugger's fourth-highest net speed this summer and a manager who is equipped to keep the team up.
SUNDERLAND Brian Brodbey and company avoided relegation. Can they handle the Europa League?
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Thrown in Deep End, Manager Was Buoyed By His Trusted Allies
By JEN McCAFFREY
Chair Tracy had one urgent question. It was April 25, and Tracy had gotten a call from Friday. Besides, chief baseball officer of the Boston Red Sox, Borden said Tracy he would be interim manager of the Red Sox, effective immediately, had no. Six question.
"To Pay on staff with me?" Just David Flores had been for 15 years in secret confidence. He served as his bench coach for the first three years. Tracy managed of Triple-A Worcester, before Flores was promoted to the Red Sox coaching staff as the first-ham coach under Alex Cora in 2024.
When Tracy got the call – she is middle of a Saturday night game in Worcester, Mass. – his head was spinning. He had just learned that Cora was fired while the Red Sox were in Baltimore to face the
Tracy and his coaches have presided over a rapid turnaround with the Red Sox.
Orioles and that he was the replacement. But he did not yet know that six coaches had also been dismissed.
"Is I'm going to be there?" That was my very first question: "Tracy said recently, sitting in the Red Sox dogma, nearly four months into his wild interim tenure." In the sense like, I'm not really sure I want to do that without I'm there, without somebody I know I'm worked with for an extensive period."
The answer was an immediate yes. Flores had survived the coaching people as did the pitching coach Andrew Bailey, another longtime acquaintance of Tracy's from their time in the Los Angeles-Angels system. Everyone else was gone.
When Tracy arrived in Baltimore after a mad club from Worcester that night, Flores and Bailey met him in his hotel room.
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at 1 a.m.
"I think for him to see I'm and me with familiar faces having been in this organization for using, trying to claim the waters to such an uncertain time, I hope gave him some calmness," Bailey said.
In what has been one of the most classic seasons in Red Sox history, Tracy has been a stabilizing force, overcoming the team's rapid turnaround from worst to the American League in late June to one of the best in baseball two months later.
Tracy credits his relationships with Flores and Bailey as a big part of the team's success.
"When we're pitching, Balls is standing next to me; when we're on offense, I'm in next to me," Tracy said. "I just felt so at once, like if I'm not thinking of something, they are, and that's a very conflicting feeling."
When Tracy, 41, was thrust into the interim manager role after the team's 10-17 start, which cost Cora for job, it was his first major league gig. But he had managed four-plus seasons at Worcester and another three-term loss level in 1995. He was the 1st in the 1996 season, watching his father, Jim Tracy, manage in the majors for 11 seasons.
Managing in the miners and watching his father since big league teams was one thing. Trying to get one of the game's most stirred Rutschman back on track amid great turmoil was another.
Tracy method well with the rest of his staff, including the interim third base coach, Chad Epperson, and the interim testing coach, John Sontropulos. Epperson had just been promoted from managing at Double-A; Sontropulos was in his first season as a big league coaching staff, starting the year as an assistant. Like Tracy, they had been thrown into a glinting spotlight.
Tracy housed heavily on the veteran coaching window of Flores and Bailey to get up to speed. From their time together in Worcester, Flores, 35, leave New Tracy filled his meetings set up, the information he needed to produce for opponents, what kind of field work he liked his players to do.
"Though Flores had more base-
Chief Tracy, right, the interim manager of the Red Sox, with Joel David Flores, his bench coach. They worked together for the second.
ball experience, especially in the majors, his humility in guiding Tracy while not being overhearing, not empowering the young interim manager. He would offer Tracy feedback before, during and after games, but made sure Tracy had the final say.
"Our dynamic has been outstanding," Flores said. "He knows that I'm confident enough to tell him things that if you are not confident, you're not going to say anything. He may take the advice. He may not take it. We're going to agree. We're going to disagree. But in the end, I'm going to be his decision. And whichever decision he makes, he knows I felt present have his back."
Though the Red Sox have been the best team in baseball over the past six weeks, he felt six weeks at Tracy's tenure every single. The club was 32-48 in late June, and Boston was upholding. The things had not seemed to work. But those behind the scenes saw the medical change being implemented. Tracy's steady voice on the issues piled up in May and early June kept a tough situation from turning toxic.
"I have any 30 different minds, not everybody's going to be happy at once," Flores said. "That's al-
most impossible to do, but you just have to learn how to deal with them."
Even as Boston went on a 15-game winning streak, which turned its season second, there were hlips the first-time manager had to navigate.
One of these days came in California at the end of July, when the team was surging. During a game against the Athletic, a 9-turnout James Daven-buried an 18-year-old and Wilson Contreras after Contreras did not attempt to score from third in a flyout. Daven's valence was caught on TV cameras. Tracy stifled any drama before it surfaced.
"What happened with 3-D in Sacramento, the media blew it out of proportion, but Tracy handled it extremely well," Flores said. "He talked to the players, trying to find out what exactly had happened. It was really nothing that we needed to worry about. And we put a stamp on it, closed the envelope."
Flores has served as an important lieutenant for Tracy on the club's day-to-day workings, and Bailey has been just as integral on the pitching side.
In the majors, there are pitching changes, matchups to consider, leverage counts and wins on the
line. Managing a pitching staff in Triple-A is much more about getting steadfastly players their most and strong programs through. That adjustment was an area where Tracy needed guidance and Bailey gave it.
"I'm a quick study, I can figure things out fairly quickly," Tracy said, adding: "But until you do something in practice and actually execute it, it's still now to you."
Tracy and Bailey, who were drafted in 2006, played against each other in the two miners before their careers through Bailey was the American League rookie of the year in 2009 with the Athletic and had an eight-year major league career. Tracy never got a chance to play in the big leagues.
But they recommend in 2010 when their playing days came to an end. Tracy was working as a field coordinator in the Angels' most league system. Bailey had just retired and was figuring out the next steps, first working as a coaching assistant for Mike Simeon, who was managing the Angels.
"Him being kind of an acquaintance as a professional level and then obviously playing against him and working in the same or-
ganization, having that little familiarity, just kind of helped that process along," Bailey said.
Twenty years after their playing days and 10 years after their first coaching jobs, Tracy and Bailey are now entering one of the best pitching staffs in baseball.
"Our relationship has just threatened in a very, very good way," Tracy said. "Balls is one of the hardest-working people I've been around in baseball, one of the most prepared people."
As the Red Sox continue their push for the postseason, Tracy's guidance has been imperative to their success. The way he has handled the clubhouse, the in-game decisions, the playing time of Triple-A call-ups, the injuries, the wins, the losses, the air travel deductions, all under an income spotlight in one of the biggest media markets in the game, has been a remarkable feat.
Tracy is gaining more traction in an A-L manager of the year candidate, but he remains mindful of his closest allies, who have helped him have so much success so far.
"When you get into something like this with everything going on," Tracy said, "you want to have people you trust."
Jake Rogers was traded by the Tigers to the Orioles, who then traded him to the Red Sox; the White Sox claimed him off waters when Boston designated him for assignment after three games.
Four Teams, 21 Days, Tons of Mileage Points and a Slice of Baseball History
By CODY STAYENBAUGH
By DAVE
DETROIT — Catcher Jake Rogers has been a road warrior over the past three weeks in a way on M.L.B. player over San. In a span of 21 days, Rogers waited up and played in games for four M.L.B. teams: the Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Pirates.
As a result of a team's run-in marked, no player has beached from current teams to team to team to team on quickly. Before Rogers, Frank Ratchman in 1991 held the record for the end first and then was needed to appear in games for four separate teams. It took him 22 days, when in a big, 10 game.
"It's been a crazy low weeks force," Rogers said. "A whichever, to say the least."
So much about all this was odd, and so much of it had to be in the upside only baseball can provide. "As July 30, the Tigers designated Rogers for assignment. The divisions was not made lightly. Once the first-round start part in the Houston Astros system, Rogers came to the Tigers in the 1917. The
tis Verbander crash. He spent the next nine years with the organization, debating in 2010 and slowly emerging as a talented defender and unmatched clubhouse glue play. He was known for his goodly muttaches. He pitched in blemish games and unleashed a nasty(n) basketball. But he was hitting only .90, this season and playing sparingly behind Dillon Shugars.
"I was last at night on July 25 after most of the clubhouse had cleared out, when Manager A.J. Hitch and the team's president of baseball operations, Scott Harris, had to have the same."
"It was a tough conversation," Rogers said. "Obviously, I spent some of my career there. It was a sure spot. I got to say goodbye to a few guys, but I got a lot of time from guys the next day, which kind of makes it a little easier."
The Orioles happened to be in town and had interest in Rogers, who expected his would be claimed off waters or traded before he shared. Rogers caught a flight game to Dillon while he awaited word on his next day. The Tigers waited until Baltimore left to trade Rogers in exchange for pitcher Zane Burdock.
Rogers soon got on a plane to
Baltimore. Next thing he knew, he was wearing an Orioles penny and entering the eighth teeing of a game against the Phillies.
"They were just like, 'Hey, we're excited to have you,'" Rogers said. "I figured I was going to be there."
By Aug. 3, it was the trade-brazilian, and the Red Sox needed
A catcher was a Tiger his entire career, until a crazy, whirlwind three-week odyssey.
catching help. They traded with the Orioles in a high-profile deal for Adler Rutschman. Rogers was included in the swap.
"A shock," Rogers said. "After a short flight to Boston, his first game with the Red Sox was against none other than his current stupeurs, the White Sox Rogers caught the last three in songs of a 13-tuning epic. He hit a sacrifice fly to help tie the game in the 22th teeing."
In Boston, Rutschman started
on the injured list, and as he neared activation, Rogers saw the writing on the wall. By Aug. 11, after all of nine place appearances, the Red Sox, whose chief baseball officer is Craig Breslow, activated Rutschman and sent Rogers back into designated for assignment purposes.
Rutschman and everybody in Boston couldn't have been racer and he could the whole situation perfectly," Rogers said.
The next team to come calling was the White Sox who had a league-worst. 100 on-base plus shagging, percentage of the best catchers this season. Rogers got the word last Friday. He had already been made forward with the Red Sox back to Dillon.
"A lot of flying around and a lot of mileage points, for sure," he said.
Some, he was not a place-back in Detroit, of all places, where the White Sox were playing a three-game weekend set against the Tigers with American League Central teams.
"I would him and told him, 'Baseball's really worst,'" Hitch said.
Rogers said, "Of course it would happen like that."
On Saturday, Rogers was not on the field, holding years with a level of former teammates. He was starting behind the place that day, and somehow, he found appropriate catching gear. In Baltimore, he had borrowed gear from catcher Chadwick's troop while he waited for his own. Throughout this journey, Rogers has had to leave two pitchers and study different scouting reports on the list.
"The cramper thing is trying to leave such guy's tendencies and what they like to know," Rogers said. "You can look at it on games but it means more coming from the guys and catching them one or two times to learn it. It's been a show of hard knocks situation, but we're reading our way through it."
For his first at-bat on Saturday, late at Cometow, Park in Detroit, and also a standing system. The Tigers' starter, Troy Moline, backed off the rollout over the public-athletics system, they even played Rogers's tall walk-up with the 2nd in a 2nd in three balls. "Friends in Low Places."
"He obviously meant a lot to everybody in this locker room," Moline said. "It can't be overstated how important he was, per-
sonally helping me become a major leagues, not with the staff on the field but off it."
Rogers proceeded to hear into a care 5-5-4 double play, but his new team still went on to hear his old one. Rogers has now experienced a bundle of different clubhouses, from the Tigers, who have under-achieved but fought to keep their season afloat, to a scuffling 10-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1
Now in Chi-sap, he is part of an unexpected ill-timber leader, With White Sox catcher Kyle Teel working his way back from an ankle sprain, there is no guarantee Rogers will be with the White Sox for the rest of the year.
Such is the life of a journeyman catcher. It is a life Rogers is learning quickly and learning well.
On most meetings as a Tiger, Rogers sat at the locker and filled out the Immaculate Grid — the Baseball Reform ever gained that involves searching athletics to teams and statistical criteria.
An afternoon challenge, Rogers liked to attempt to fill out the grid using only one team.
Over the past three weeks, one name just became much more valuable on the Grid. His own.
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Ahead of the Curve
In Injury Comeback,
Thanks to Each Other
By JESSE NEWELL
The editor
Less than 24 hours before his own surgery to repair the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, right end Zach Ertz picked up his phone to test Patrick Mahomes.
While watching the N.E., an television, Ertz had just seen the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback nomads a noncruciate injury — not the know what was coming next.
"It's a lonely road ahead," Ertz wrote to Mahomes, "but I'm here for you."
Little did Ertz know at the time that Mahomes was about to be there for him as well.
Ertz and Mahomes — who had known each other from N.E., off-season events — turned into critical support systems for each other this year, as both worked to push the limits of rehab after their knee operations on the same day. Dec.
Back-and-forth texts
kept rehabbing
players' spirits up.
- Mahomes had been the anterior cruciate ligament and lateral collateral ligament in his left knee this day before.
"It was good to have someone to just be like, OK, where I'm at a right where I need to be! And we're being aggressive, but we're being smart," Ertz told The Athletic last week. "So it was good to have someone that was constantly going through the same struggle--that I was."
Ertz, 15, was injured a week before Mahomes was last season while playing for the Washington Commanders. He got emotional on the field, wondering whether that would mark the end of the playing career.
John he decided on surgery and to pursue a comeback this year — Ertz said Mahomes helped him through the darkest days.
The two trained in different locations but motivated each other through test messages. It started with one of the most trying parts of rehab: the first month, which Ertz described as "literally boring on a table and just crashing a year does, trying to get the range of motion back."
Back-and-forth texts with Mahomes kept his spirits up. How to
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year rehab going? How are you grinding through it? What did you work on today?
"It's really just supporting one another," Ertz said. "Truly happy for the other person's progress because when you're rehabbing, we don't really there."
Mahomes shared a similar sentiment at the start of training camp, saying his contact with Ertz was especially helpful through a "long process."
"You feel like sometimes you're lonely, because you're doing stuff by yourself and you're just competing against yourself," Mahomes said. "So it gave me someone else I can compete with to push my competitive drive."
Ertz says knee recovery is especially trying because progress can be nonlinear — and improvement is not always instantaneous.
Football players are used to immediate feedback loops. Bench press one amount today and you can expect to do a little more tomorrow, then even more next week.
The knee rehab Ertz and Mahomes were through was completely different. You could be stuck at one weight on a big exercise for a week because of a limited range of motion. And nothing you do — at least for a while — can get you to a place where you can lift one pound more than you did previously.
"It's tough not seeing those immediate results," Ertz said. "And I think that is probably the toughest part, mentally just grinding through those difficult days where it's not getting tangibly better objectively."
Gains come over time, though, and Ertz said Mahomes was particularly helpful as the two were trending back to a similar way.
Ertz said he was hesitant at one point to attempt crossover steps as part of his rehab. Mostly after, though, he saw a video of Mahomes consisting three types of steps while dropping back to pass.
"I think he just encouraged me," Ertz said, "how aggressive he was."
Ertz was a resource for Mahomes, too. There was a certain point, he said, when Mahomes shared that he was struggling to push off his big toe when running. Ertz had gone through that same route, so he gave Mahomes an exercise to use and more from a video that had worked for him.
It has all led to this point for Mahomes and Ertz, who have extended expectations in their respective returns.
Mahomes was cleared to be a
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full participant for training camp practices in late July — barely more than seven months removed from surgery.
Ertz said he tested Mahomes that day: "Btw, you're falling it." "It's not surprising why he's so great," Ertz said. "He attacks everything."
A similar mentally helped lift Ertz to the verge of his own N.E., comeback.
Ertz, whose Dec. 15 surgery was in Houston, was fully cleared by Dr. Walter Lowe to participate in football activities last month. Since then, he participated in a workout on Slumber's campus
with the former Colts quarterback Andrew Lash, and he trains every day while weighing his N.E., up-to-to.
The numbers suggest that he is ready to go again. Ertz says he tracking shows his top speed is 99 percent of what it was before surgery last season, and after an off-season of strength training, his force-glass jumps show better force than before he was hurt.
"I call him the true make a difference in the league as a player," said Ertz, who would be entering his 16th pro season. "And so he me, it's just trying to figure out which situation is the best for me
and my family and determining when that is."
Ertz said he is just waiting for the right opportunity. Things can change quickly with teams during training camp, so he now, he is not routine of spending six hours a day with route work, physical therapy and weight lifting to ensure that he's ready to stop in when needed.
"I have a lot of objective data that is telling me that I'm in a great spot," Ertz said. "So obviously I need to go out there and prove it and earn whatever role that I'm able to. And I don't need to be promised anything — just an
Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes, above, and Washington's Zach Ertz, who continued similar knee injuries about a week apart to December, and had surgery the same day.
opportunity to compete, wherever that is, that he me, I feel this knee is not going to change the way I play the game."
Perhaps City's best argument that he's back to himself at this point? It could be N.E., teams seeing practice highlights of Mahomes after going through a similar return-to-plus process.
"It's remarkable to be able to be where he's at at this point, with what doesn't look like any limitations," Ertz said. "He's wanting to become obviously a matchman. I said, 'I wouldn't know that you were hurt. The focus is the only thing that tells me that you had surgery.' Other than that, it makes me more to be able to make some to me."
Though Ertz has never had Mahomes on a teammate, he said he would be watching him closely this season while listening all he has gone through to get back to this point.
"He's constantly pushing the limits of rehab with his body, with his plug, and it's not a surprise why he's one of the best players to ever play in the National Football League, just because of how he approaches adversity, how he approaches success," Ertz said. "He I think that was something that I knew about him, but it was different, going through the same struggle."
Young Panther Works Hard in Staying Inside Lines, Hoping for a Breakout
By JOSEPH PIERSON
The Press
CROSS-OFF-SHEET A CLAY-Gloss Panther's practice ended on a good note for the offense when Xavier Legette went up to snatch a Bryce Young pass in the end door.
But it was a less dramatic play-marker in the practice that the Panthers hope in the product of a reserved focus from Legette and a sign of things to come in the third season. Facing cornerback Caryn Thornton in one-on-one skills, Legette ran an out route, caught Young's fierce around train level and staged him back to the main for a clean reception.
Too often early in Legette's career, the first-rounder has seemed to be unaware of the situation at where he was on the field, resulting in bunched plays or incompleteness like one in the 2025 season opener at Jacksonville when he failed to get a second foot down despite turning plenty of room inside in.
"I had a couple mishaps where I would stop on the line and I was out of bounds last year," he said.
Legette, the former South Carolina wideout who was the 22nd pick in the 2024 draft, heard the criticism of what tested the factor, danced play during his first two seasons. And he took steps over the off-season to be more focused.
As part of that process, Legette ended each of his off-season workouts with a series of boundary catches, much like his children snag against Thornton. Panthers Coach Steve Canales has restored a difference.
"What I've seen him do is just make great plays on the boundary," back of the end zone, just some of those spatial plays where he can go attack the ball, find a way to get
Joseph Pierson is a senior writer covering the Panthers for The Athletic.
his feet down," Canales said. "He's really attacked that part of his game. That's something I've seen him really improve on."
Some of the spatial — and self — awareness might have stemmed from seeing two other young relatives (up him on the depth chart and the drafting of another wideout, White Stearns McMillan was the N.E.), a offensive rookie of the year in 2025, the former undrafted line-agent Jalen Coker took over the second wide receiver spot from Legette with a strong finish.
With his scalpied 6-foot-3 frame and good straightaway speed, Legette has always looked the part of an N.E., receiver. But his route-running and ball skills don't appear to come as naturally as they do for McMillan.
The former Panther's Pro Band wideout Steve Smith, who attended a practice last week with a crew from the NFL Network, at one point stretched his arms out as a reminder for Legette to catch balls away from his body. A few days later, a reporter asked him if
the play would help boost his confidence.
"I don't never lost my confidence in any way," Legette said. "One trying to continue to make plays like this throughout the season and have a good year."
That said, Legette realized he had to do things differently. He worked out as many as four times a day, bridged some weight and revised his off-season regimen to try to "bulbspend" his hamstrings after dealing with soft-tissue problems in the past.
He flew out were three times to attend throwing workouts with Young, McMillan and other receivers, including a summer session at Los Angeles. Besides a running their timing, Legette said hanging out with Young has helped him be more communicative with his quarterback.
"I'm talking to him a little more, going up to him and asking him things like how he feels about this and (then) he like this. Am I to the right spot?" Legette said. "So we're getting it right."
Xavier Legette lost weight, worked to "bulbspend" his hamstrings and spent time building chemistry with quarterback Bryce Young.
All of this both like progress for a player whose targets decreased from 34 as a rookie to 64 last year, when his receptions (from 49 to 25) and receiving yards (49' to 36') also dipped.
"I feel like it is more dialed in on everything, from his body to his craft," the second-year receiver Jimmy Horn said. "I feel like as we go through the, you go through trials and tribulations and it's up to you to grow through it."
Legette faced scrutiny early last season, his 60-nd Class at Arizona, he finished with minus-2 yards on eight targets, only the second time in N.E., history that a player managed negative receiving yards on at least eight targets.
Compounding matters, Legette walked back toward the line of scrimmage with the Panthers in heart-up roads at the end of the first half. Legette's lack of urgency gave officials time to review a catch by Jo Terran Sanders, which was overruled, forcing the Panthers to punt. The Cardinals then tucked on a touchdown before halftime.
"Staff like that can get you backout," Legette said. "I just can't do stuff like that."
After losing the short-round pick Chris Bisswell to a season-ending knee surgery during training camp, the Panthers could use a bounce-back year from Legette. Canales said Legette looks explosive and comfortable in the scheme.
Legette, Young and the rest of the first-team offense will get their next test in a premium game Friday at Jacksonville. The exhibition gives Legette another chance to show Young, Canales and the organization that he can be counted on.
"I just had to take a step back, I felt like I was probably a little too loose," Legette said. "I just had to take a step back and focus on the main thing, he real."
2 WHERE TO GO IN A V.I.
Bikini Kill is part of an energetic fall lineup of pop and rock acts.
4 FILM REVIEW
A road trip takes an existential and scary detour.
BY ALISSA WILKINSON
5 ART REVIEW
Made for Hindu home altars but fit for a museum.
BY WILL HEINRICH
NEWS | CRITICISM
WeekendArts
The New York Times
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Sullivan Fortner, a pianist whom fellow musicians speak of with reverence, will release the album "Lorey That is There" on Aug. 25.
A Conduit Of Songs Creates His Own
The standards-leaning pianist Sullivan Fortner wrote originals for his latest album.
By MARK DIFFRADER
Whenever he's at home in New York, where he has lived since 2006, Sullivan Fortner makes a habit of playing at the Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. There, the pianist, one of the most esteemed and decorated jazz musicians of his generation, gets a welcome dose of humility.
"There's no celebrity there," he said during a recent interview in the backyard of a bakery in Brooklyn's Beavum Hill neighborhood. "They recognize you and they appreciate you and all that stuff, but the star is Jesus."
When he visits his hometown, New Orleans, and plays at his parents' church, his ego takes an even bigger hit.
"These people here look at me like: 'Yeah, I changed your fingers. You ain't nothing to me.'" Fortner, who will turn 40 in December, explained in his animated Southern drunk, before burning into laughter. "If you playing it wrong, you playing it wrong. If I don't like it, I don't like it. I'm going to tell you I don't like it. That's what I grew up in."
Outside the congregation, Fortner has encountered significantly more fanfare. Earlier this year, he won his first Grammy in the prestigious category of best jazz instrumental album (and third, overall) for "Southern Nights," his intimate and approachable 2021 trio effort. He beat out a field that included a posthumous release of a live recording by Chick Corea, a perennial Grammy favorite. Months earlier, Fortner had received the Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Award, a lucrative prize given by the Gilmore, an international piano festival based in Kalamazoo, Mich., which, for more than 30 years, had exclusively honored classical pianists. On 2015 he won the Cole CONTINUED ON PAGE C1
WENDY MOONAN | ART REVIEW
Dutch Modernist Surprise in Midwest Woods
Gerrit Rietveld, famous for a colorful chair, also designed about 100 little-known houses in the Netherlands. And one in Ohio.
THE DUTCH ARCHITECT Gerrit Rietveld is mostly known for his pianty 1918 "Red Blue Chair," a sculptural soul whose red-largered back and blue seat meet at right angles. It was an experiment to translate flat geometric grids into a three-dimensional, functional object.
"It was made famous almost immediately through photography," said Barry Bergdoll,
Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety Center for Architecture
professor of modern architectural history at Columbia University. He is a curator of a riveting photography show, "Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety," at the Center for Architecture (through Sept. 2). "The chair announced the avant-garde abstract design principles of the de Stijl movement in the Netherlands in the 1920s," he said.
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The de Stijl movement architect Gerrit Rietveld's characteristic signatures are seen in this four-bedroom split-level home outside Oberlin, Ohio, commissioned by the art history professor Charles Percy Parkhurst and now owned by Jeffrey P. Squire, above left with his sister Julie. Photographs of the house are included in an exhibition in Manhattan.
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WHERE TO GO IN N.Y.C.
By DANIELLE DOWLING and GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO
Pump Up the Volume This Fall
Pop and rock fans have much to look forward to this fall, and the season gets off to a solid, early start as Dinosaur Jr. celebrates its latest album, "There Noas," with four shows in the city, three of which are free with an R.S.V.P.: at Lactadus in the East Village on Thursday, at Manny Deoss in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Aug. 28; and a daytime performance in Maria Hernandez Park in Budowick, Brooklyn, on Aug. 29. (Sign up for the waitlist at brand.m.hycrukesnoe.)
September teams with musical events. Those who have pissed for Saint Vitus Bar can rejoice in its resurrection when the death metal duties translation christen the club's new location in Budowick on Sept. 12 and 13. Two weeks later, three of the city's five boroughs are hosting festivals that provide something for everyone in Queens at Forest Hills Stadium from Sept. 25 to 27. All Things Go presents a weekend of pop from the Skies of Zara Larsson, Lola Young, Brandt Carlile, Mona and Cody Bar Argote. In Central Park on Sept. 26, the main citizen has put together a star-powered lineup for a good cause featuring Lauryn Hill and Wyclid Joon, John Lugerol, Shabessey and others. On the same day at Under the K Bridge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the second CRGB Festival has a motor that includes Marroway, Matt Smith, Interpol and Bikini Kill.
And October has its own delights. Ones makes its annual antenatal step at War saw in Greenpoint on Oct. 23 and 24. L7 brings to Last Harriet Tour to Knockdown Centre in Maspeth, Queens, on Oct. 24. And if you're in need of a noise cleaner, the peach-rock group All chums! is sure to oblige at Market Bend in Budowick on Oct. 25.
Here are a few more of our favorite performance spaces and concerts you might want to mark on your calendars.
BABY'S ALL RIGHT
140 Broadway, Brooklyn, babysalright.com. A cozy and well-appointed room in South Williamsburg, Baby's All Right presents rising rock and electronic mountains, put the occasional jazz act. It's attached to a dimly lit low and restaurant.
Coming soon: Dinosaur Jr., Aug. 29; Radium Vinks, Sept. 15; the Womack Sisters, Sept. 30-Oct. 1; Imperial Tons, Nov. 4
BOWERY BALLROOM
4 Dealey's Street, Manhattan, boweryballroom.com.
The Bowery Ballroom has been around since 1898, but it has the aura of a vaunted New York City antique. The facade dates back to the 1920s, as do some of the club's trimmings. With a wrought-iron balcony overlooking the floor, and a separate bar in the basement, the venue presents major rock and pop acts as well as up-and-conver on two nights of the week.
Coming soon: Shadder in Think, Sept. 12; Ben Harper & the Inseeme Crossroads, Sept. 21-22; Wyneena Judd, Oct. 8; Eight Nights of Hamskish With Yo La Tonga, Dec. 4-11
BROOKLYN BOWL
42, 60/69 Avenue, Brooklyn;
brooklynbowl.com.
Most of the rock groups, cover bands and 12.5 c/lat play into Williamsburg nightcare and is living the volume load enough that you don't have too much of the stunt "cold", clutter! coming from the bowling alley right beside the stage. If you're bowling, presumably you don't care either way.
Coming soon: Reverend Horton Heat, Sept. 18; Southern Culture on the Skids, Sept. 27; G24, Oct. 15; Samantha Fish, Nov. 15; the Hold Steady, Dec. 2-5
BROOKLYN STEEL
319 Yosif Street, Brooklyn;
bowerybrowers.com; brooklyn-steel.
In what was seen a steel manufacturing plant, this coverman, have been club in East Williamsburg hosts indie acts with big following.
Coming soon: Bikini Kill, Sept. 25; the Charleston Oil, Sept. 26; the Linda Lindas, Oct. 8; Angine de Poitrine, Nov. 16-18
ELSEWHERE
508, 609/640 Avenue, Brooklyn;
lessehyer.com.
With three stages spread out across three floors, Elsewhere might be Budowick's major music hall in town. Its offering vary from few performances to D.J. nights. It spaces that range from the intimate Zone One to the larger Hall.
Coming soon: Melt-Banana, Sept. 15; Overhead, Nov. 5
IRVING PLAZA
17 Irving Place,
Manhattan,
irvingplaza.com.
Where Irving
Hall first opened
back in 1860, this
Union Square-area
club, now run by Liza
Nation, been rock, pop and hip-hop acts that are often known as pop up the charts.
Coming soon: YG, Muzzy and Chef Boy, Sept. 22; Towa Bird (above), Sept. 20; Rocker From the Crypt, Oct. 16; Jesse Make, Dec. 11
Kathleen Manna and Bikini Kill are headed at three locations in the city from Sept. 24 to 26.
The rock fan Angine de Poitrine performs at Brooklyn front for three nights, Nov. 16-18.
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A Conduit of Songs Composes His Own
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Follow musicians speak of him with reverence that borders on one. In an interview, Jason Moran, a former teacher of Fortner's and one of the standout painters of the generation before, marveled at how "his technique matches his brainpower," to the extent that he can "definitely get four to five different ideas into his hand at once." (To sample a typical bit of Fortner dazzlement, play his unaccompanied version of the 500th show here "I'm All Smiles," from his 2023 "Side Game" album, where his lines tumble and interlock like a troupe of other hats.)
"You may want to do it with your eye, your brain, but your hands may say otherwise," Moran said. "But his actually meet the composition that his brain imagines."
The eminent trumpeter Ambrose Akimousim, who has performed with Fortner in various moments including their originality in the iconic trumpet-plans partnership of Louis Armstrong and Gail Nixon, praised the way that Fortner's facility never outshines his mentality.
"The thing I love most about Sullivan is his commitment to playing exactly what needs to be played in a moment," Akimousim said. "He could just rip up and down the plane and he would sound equally as amazing, but he's really committed to being a conduit for the music."
That commitment extends to Fortner's zigzagging aesthetic. Some of his recordings, such as "Southern Nights" and the standards theory first half of "Side Game," give the impression of an unabashed traditionality. Others are considerably winder, like the new "Leave That in There," not Aug. 26. Encouraging flamboyant experience of "spreaded keys, futuristic art funk and even a their made-up of Fortner's own over-dubbed voice, it feels like an unfiltered transmission direct from his imagination.
Learned on a hecknut of tracks featuring his voice, the road band, with the bassist Tyrone Allen II and the drummer Kayvon Gordon, the album is as dense as "Southern Nights" was unadorned. The operas, "Sugarman" – the title of which alludes to an 1911 schedule by enslaved people working on plantations near LaPlue's, La., where Fortner lived as a child – finds Fortner adding marvelous and liking to Constant Attie-Cuban back rhythm, before the full piano trio fades in. (The album features various other references to the area; some, including the title, are driven from fans to "When the Levens Met," the Luv's 2006 documentary on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.)
In conversation, Fortner – sporting a
close-cropped beard and wearing a customary half cap, this one with note that read "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" – cloud-blewed range of references, including Thirumour, Monk, Bach and Stevie Wonder. But in perhaps his most telling name-drag, he described himself as a "Sugar 'I Love Lucy' Inc." with any crippled, model of the show.
"I have a mating-in to get into trouble, no matter how simple the solution, how much she could have avoided it," Fortner said of the protagonist. "But for some reason, it always ends out OK."
"I've got whole idea of playing music," he continued. "It's always been that. How far can I take it? Even though they tell me not to, how much can I play before it really falls apart?"
Accordingly, for "Leave That in There," the content was one of playful exploration: "Let's just all come together with all these tools and one who happens."
Fortner's early training came from his mother, who played organ at the Missionary
Baptist church, and taught him and his sisters music theory through the lens of people. Another church organist exposed him to jazz and classical music, and he enrolled in the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, where he learned to then voice an local tromperer and mentor Clyde Kerr Jr. alongside peers who included Troy Anderson, George Thompson, Henry, and Joe Baiton.
Fortner credits Kerr both with igniting his passion for jazz, by passing this a copy of Erroll Garner's "Current Try the Sex," and instilling a certain open-mindedness. Once Kerr sat with a teenage Fortner as he attempted to play through the sheet music for Cluelle Parker's helop standard "Contribution."
"The move I couldn't read. Just he sat there and he watched me. Said, 'Take it real slow.' Fortner recalled, 'And then if I made it mistake, he was like, 'Yeah, that's big!'" Remembering Kerr's unusual patience, he exploded into laughter "I head wrong, but
that's big."
Extract the skills improved, Fortner envisioned himself as a supporting player. "My dream was to play with Whitney Houston and Chaka Khan and Steven," he said.
His first major defense play came after college, once he arrived in New York to pursue his master's degree at Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Moran. After a stint with the vibraphonist Sistine Harris, he joined up with the trompeter Roy Burghrev, replacing his master town friend Baiton on keys, a job that would last throughout much of the 2010s.
Cistike Moran or other 21st-century piano parameters such as Vipp' feet and Marlon Glasgow, Fortner, is an alternative "start point." I don't really enjoy writing," he said. (In contrast to prior Fortner releases, "Leave That in There" consists mostly of organals, which, he said, "is kind of a miracle unto itself!")
His direction to the core jazz repertoire is intense and can make his live sons feel like he's shuffling a massive internal playlist full of standards.
"The songs themselves are perfect," he said. "There's a story in the melodies. There are lyrics that are attached to it, and the lyrics go hand in hand with the melodies. The chord progressions that are used are great: they're perfect. They make sense harmonically."
In an email, the brilliant singer Cistike McLaren-Johnson, Fortner's latest collaborator for a decade, including on the Grammy-winning 2016 duo album "The Windows" called him a "reservoir of song."
"I don't think he approaches careers differently than he does playing his own original compositions," she wrote. "He is conducting a chair when he plays, no matter what he's playing. In that sense, the sones are anthropomorphized. they are voices and the voices are alive, in anything he plays in imbued with a dynamism that I suspect surprises even him at times."
The veteran pianist Fred Herock, a friend and former teacher who also has a strong emphasis to standard tones, said in an interview that this quality is less common in Fortner's generation.
One young musicians are expected to be composed: "I want to do my own music with my own music," he said. "And I think Sullivan has the attitude, like, 'I want to play which's his and interesting, perfect.'"
By following that straightforward principle, Fortner has become more of a leader, and a luminary, than he ever imagined.
"I just play because I love to play," he said. "It's nice to be recognized, but I don't need to do it."
But as Moran noted, Fortner's talent is too extraordinary for such humility to impede his rise.
"Because he doesn't do all that cish can't sound dooed," he said, "he's been able to elude that stop of becoming the star. But he's the star for us."
D.E.A. Looks Into Actress's Death
Hayden Panettiere had spoken carefully about her history of drug use.
By ALAN FULSE, DEERICK BRYANT TAYLOR and MATT STEVENS
The Drug Enforcement Administration has joined the investigation into the death of the actress Hayden Panettiere, a person familiar with the investigation said on Wednesday.
Ms. Panettiere, who was in when she died in South Carolina, on Sunday, had frequently discussed her struggles with drug, alcohol and debilitating chronic pain. But in the months preceding her death, she shared more than the ever had in a memoir, "This is like: A Reckoning," and in several interviews.
"I've said it before and I'll say a again: Addicts aren't patient," she wrote in the memoir, which was released in May. "When we're shaking, nauseated, anxious, lonely or depressed, we need to meet relief that needs us into that pain-free place called denial."
The authorities in Greenville, S.C., have said that when emergency medical workers arrived in the apartment complex where Ms. Panettiere was staying, they found her in a state of cardiac arrest and could not revive her.
A person with knowledge of the situation told The New York
Times that the cardiac arrest appeared to have been the result of a drug overdose. On an audio recording of the Greenville County Erie and Emergency Manager there's online field that roughly matches the time and location of Panettiere's death, a person referred to as "overdose" and says that "1795 is in progress."
The Greenville Police Department said on Monday that there were no signs of lost play in this death. I did not immediately respond on Wednesday to a request for comment about the D.E.A.'s involvement in the case.
The D.E.A., a federal agency, believes federal laws regarding controlled substances. Its work typically includes large-scale investigations into, for example, drug cartels accused of bringing cocaine, fentanyl and nonmethylenamine into the country. But it does work with local law enforcement. In recent years, it helped the Los Angeles Police Department investigate the drugs involved in the death of the actor Matthew Perry.
The federal agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a audio report released this week, an officer who responded to the scene said that a former boyfriend of Panettiere's, Brian Hickerson, was with her when she died and that he showed an officer a bag of medications she had been taking. Dream about the medications were replaced.
Her hairstylist for the past
three years, Erick Orellana, said in an interview that Panettiere had often complained about physical pain.
"I know that she was struggling with her back, being able to get around," he said. "It was a back injury that was making it hard for her to walk."
In her memoir, Panettiere detailed a long history with drugs that began when she was a child. She wrote that when she was a teenager, a person on her main gave her a "happy gift" at an industry event that gave her "new 83."
"Whatever they were – and I suspect they were some sort of unpleasantness – I didn't care," she said. "In 16, they were the gunway drug that ordered me toward the good of pharmaceuticals and the downfall of addiction."
Years later, Panettiere joined the cast of the TV series "Nashville," in a role that mirrored her issues with substance abuse and postpartum depression.
"When I went home after acting out what I was really going through, the law thing I wanted to do was properly manage or talk about what I wanted to do," her healthy way! she told The Times in 2023. "So I turned to unhealthy coping mechanisms."
In 2023, she stopped away from failing the action and went on one treatment for depression.
Panettiere said she would make up shuddy, needing an entire battle of alcohol to get through the day. At other times, she would can opiate to head off the desire to drink. She re-entered a treatment center for eight months in 2023.
Panettiere was injured on the set several times, and she complained about severe back pain in a May interview with Women's Health magazine.
As a child actor in the early 2000s, Panettiere did some of her own stunt work and told Women's Health that she was healed off a week while calling the movie "Racing Stripes." She also said she felt many times while learning to figure down for the movie "Ice Premium."
She at her vertebrae were smashed into her neck at one point, she said.
A year ago, she said, she woke up doing "building her play and the idea from my water flows."
"It was like that for us long," she said, adding that doctors were unable to give her any answers. She wondered if she would be "paralyzed for the rest of my life."
Micki Winder, contributed reporting.
Hayden Panettiere is May The Drug Enforcement Administration is said to have joined the investigation into her death in South Carolina on Sunday.
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ALISSA WILKINSON | FILM REVIEW
On the Road to Nowhere, Dying for an Exit
A thriller about recent college graduates on an eerie journey bristles with existential dread.
FOUR FRIENDS IN A CAR on a road to somewhere, or maybe nowhere: That's the very simple concept behind "It Ends," a tale of existential dread writers and directed by Alexander Ullem, who is making his feature debut. James (Phoenix) Davis, Day (Akira Jackson) and Fisher (Nash Toth) have just graduated from college, and they're getting a ride with Tylen (Mitchell Cole), whom they haven't seen in a while, to come destination. Where? It doesn't really matter: They're just excited to get there.
For a while, this is an oblongy road trip, with James talking about his place for successful future and Tyler risk (aunty explaining why his late relationship fell again). But when the four realize they must have missed a turn somewhere, Tyler turns around, only to discover that the way they came is new, perplexingly, blocked by trees. When a bottle of scrambling people runs out of the forest and tries to get into the car, they take off down the road in a panic back, sure they'll find the turn. But as the days wear on — and the car does not run out of gas — they start to wonder if they're stumbled into some alternate dimension, or worse.
Ullem is only in his late 20s, which puts him in a burgeoning company of young, internet-native filmmakers who make high-concept, sci-fi-infected horror films. His unorthodox story includes financing that came from a viral YouTube device and a VR poker game, and by our sense of his leads from Instagram. "It Ends" premiered in SXSW in 2025, that December, it was first made available to rent for about a month on Letterhead Video Store, a platform for cartoons, unreleased independent films that don't have distribution. And it's work into its availability. None picked it up for theatrical release.
This unusual story is getting to be familiar, with two older, occult hits from earlier this year, like "Irim Long," "Backrooms" and "Dressmen," following similar templates. In each case, the movie came to the big screen with a built-in viewership thanks to its creator's slow-rolled audience-building. It's a distinctly little way to make a movie, and it keeps working — not just because the movie's path entries that of break down the story, the movie's story, being about the stories these films are telling is tapping into their audience's lives, too.
That audience is mostly Gen Z and other female, living in a world where the old rules don't make sense and the path they were promised to the good life doesn't work anymore. The result is some combination of mistake and terror, the feeling of being caught in a sludge that might turn into
quicksand at any second. With the cinematic, agruphero Evan Draper and Jackson Jones, Ullem creates a lot of visual interest out of very little — his characters are in a car on a two-way road flanked by trees and little else for the whole movie. It's a caring, effective use of what's obviously a small budget, in the best way, the kind of right filmmaking that hosts birthdays and celebrations in both plot and aesthetics. Nothing feels wanted, and everything is purposeful.
It's tempting to say that "It Ends" is a re-telling of Jean-Paul Sartre's first existential play, "No Exit," not least because there's no, well, exit off this road. But that's not really correct; this is something else. "No Exit" is about self-deception and the
It Ends
About for scary images, language and discussions of the stuff young people talk about an road trips. Running time: 1 hour 20 minutes. In theaters.
terror of being finally unmasked — the play's most famous line, "He'll is other people," refers to becoming aware of being the object of someone else's gaze. "It Ends," on the other hand, is about something less individually horrifying, more ceremonially gossip: finally asking the car unique to the hood, only to discover that what you've worked for your whole life, until now, is unblinking, unchanging monotony. The system of goals and rewards that govern
youth, like grades and graduation, is gone. Now the best you can hope for is, say, a promotion, which brings more responsibility and work: for a newer and bigger house, which comes with more expenses, which means working harder to earn the money to pay for it.
There are offsongs to all of this, of course, and the older you become, the more you realize that you get to choose whether you want to be on that road at all. But I suspect most people who followed the script up to college graduates experienced, at least for a while, that few-full sensation that comes with realizing nobody's going to grade you or give you a summer break anymore. From now on, this is it. What you see is what you get.
From left, Princeton Yoon, Akira Jackson and Noah Toth in "It Ends" the writer-director Alexander Ullem's first feature.
BRANDON YU | FILM REVIEW
BEATRICE LONYZA | FILM REVIEW
An Army
Of Undead
Com
To Cosplay
With the sixth installment, a horror franchise tries to revamp its reputation.
THE LONEST CRITICISM to make about a horror film, particularly among genre aficionados, is to say it recycles what we've seen before: the jump scares telegraphed from a mile away, the slender starvation conceits, the demons and ghosts that look like any other. Horror is predicated upon surprise; what you've experienced many times over naturally dubs the senses.
These pitfalls are expected for "insidious: Out of the Further," the sixth installment of a franchise that has long been losing creative means. But the latest entry has more problems than there.
Written and directed by Jacob Chase, "Out of the Further" is less a film that re-reads old ground than one that, at its worst, increases something else entirely: the kitschy Halloween fright night at your local curative. In the film's current series, the demon that looks like an Ozzy Osbourne cosplay and an army of instead that move and kick-like contained carmen hired to wander the fairgrounds, unsinuely hovering forward past guests.
You can only partly blame it on the script. "Out of the Further" does its best to revamp the franchise with a mostly new set of characters (52kw, the mainstay of the series played by Lin Shaye, Jerry Henry, When she was young, Gemma (Amelia Eve) was the next mother, she at the hands of a demonic hero. She then grew up to find eerie energies haunting her and her daughter. She eventually learns that she is a "courier," cannot with the ability to use only some the Fitzgerald name known as the Forthall but to bring things from there into our world.
It's a sweats gimmick that raises the makes into an apocalyptic threat: Through Gemma, all of the demons of the Further try to care their way to a single person, though, doesn't explain the stiff technical constructions of the scares, or the deadly
Amelia Eve, left, as Gemma and Lin Shaye as 52kw in "Insidious: Out of the Further," directed by Jacob Chase.
Insidious: Out of the Further Raised PG-13 for strong violent content, friends images, terror and some strong language. Running time: 2 hour 45 minutes. In theaters.
look and stilted performance of these ghosts.
Out all of it is bad. Chase creates despairing moments of real held-your-breath tension early on, particularly in the first couple of instances when Gemma tumbles down into the Further. But once the movie actually plunges into the darkness, it must any real fear or flair.
Six movies in, this is a tired franchise that is on the same arc as the rest of horror movielines, but heading in the reverse direction. Encouraged by male works of so-called shovied horror, the genre has made a decade-long climb to reach the top of both the box office and the zeitgeist (capped-drifies summer by the one-ew punch of "Dressman" and "Backrooms") in that same reward, the "Insidious" franchise has maintained itself as a free office force while its reputation as a horror brand has declined with each installment. A desire years ago, the first film was a low-budget sensation of the genre, since then, it's been trapped in its own purgatory.
Delirious Kafka Biopic
Serves Up a Heady Stew
The movie explores the writer's themes of alienation in a residential of images.
ABOUT RALPHST THROUGH "From," Agnieszka Holland's Kafka biopic, the writer (phoned by Max Wrenz) checks himself into a treatment facility where a parade of nude patients tumbles and march in the background as a physician (yes, also nude) preaches his philosophy of healing.
That's when I realized this antitussive but dubiously unnoticed drama wouldn't add up to much more than the sum of its wacky parts. The real Kafka did stop at such an outtablobeness, but the film's story came in continuously undermined with baffling and patentless imagery: the cocoa of protect, for one, but then also cocoa in which man in animal media play tug of war and teenage girls beat cherries to Kafka as he snows up their airtro.
More irritating yet, these moments arrive out of content by design, presumably to conjure a scene of the Kafka-esque. Reordering materially between time periods, from Kafka's childhood in 1910-century Prague to his early years re973ing as an insurance lawyer and navigating troubled family ties to World War I era Germany, the film is intended to be a splintered portrait. Thrown into this heady view are vignettes drawn from "The Metamorphosis" and "The Trial," as well as loops to the present day, when two grabs of different nationalities lead groups through the writer's stamping grounds and lunch Kafka enrich on the side.
Kafka may be a defining literary figure of the 20th century, but we don't really know him — at least this is what this departed film seems to suggest. The alienation-Kafka writers about in his novels, and the double left he led as a genial bureaucrat by day and breaking arture by night, might justify this fragmentation.
But Holland's enigmatic Kafka is a caricature of his soul — the kind of tortured glands who simply wedge to span music and labor, the power of words so seriously he nearly encodes is straight for/ not articulating himself properly. The anachronistic indie-rock double drops certainly don't help. They're about as random and profound as the constant crash seems that Holland employs, anticipating to using up the energy of other
Max Wrenz plays Kafka in Agnieszka Holland's "From," a film outlining to suggest that while he may have been a defining literary figure of the 20th century, we don't really know him.
From
Not used. In German and Czech, Yiddish, French, English and Japanese, with subtitles. Running time: 2 hours 7 minutes. In theaters.
wise bland biopic sequences. Kafka fights with his tyrannical father (Peter Earth), pictures his flamboisrhous, and an than up a friendship with Max Brad (Sebastian Schwarz), the man who would eventually become his literary executor and the publisher of most of his novels after he died of tuberculosis at 40.
Holland's circus of a film at least lets you prove its parts together — the final misdeeds of images/makits out echoes between, for instance, the daddy issues that inspired the authoritarian nightmares of Kafka's work. Resonating well beyond his death in 2024, these dynamics would portend the Nazi regime, whose atrocities would ultimately claim the lives of his three sisters. Still, there's a happiness to the film's patchwork, and a grating quality to its style, that makes it quite a trial.
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Freefall: A Reckoning For Boeing
From 8 for 30 minutes. Running time: 1 hour 52 minutes. 10:19pm.
"Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing" is the director Rory Buss and's fellow-up to her 2022 short meeting. "Dowdall: The Case Against Boeing," which received the troubles with the aircraft manufacturers's 337 Mac, whose design was implicated in the Lion Air crash in 2008 and the 52th open Airlines crash in 2016.
This operating update argues that Boeing has never heard significant accountability for those accidents — and, more alarmingly, that an atmosphere at the company that critics charge has led to an increase in risk has not meaningfully charged. (The film ends with an excerpted statement from Boeing citing the introduction of 'new Values and Behaviors that are strengthening our culture.') An of corporate speak so vague that it's the opposite of reasoning.)
"Freefall" takes its case from several Boeing whistle-blowers, whose jabs involved maintaining quality; they describe instances in which they say captains and reporting systems ignored or discouraged the raising of concerns. The film begins with the Louisiana-based whistle-blower in 2016, who appeared in "Dowdall" and here is featured extensively in audio and video recordings. He was heard dead in 2018 in what was ruled a suicide. Other talking beads include Nuzies Council, Ryan, whose husband, Mick Ryan, died in the Kibingian Airlines crash, and thousands who have been on a aviation, including David Gofies of The New York Times.
Some of the more disturbing assertions in the film came from Merle Meyers, a longtime Boeing quality manager who describes in 2003 learning that scrap parts — "basically actual" he says — were put back on Boeing for outdoors. The Times reported in 2016 that his findings helped and the practice. Even so, "We'll never know the scope of how many of these parts made it to airplanes," Meyers says in the film. REVIEWS/IRI
The Snare
Not usual. Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes. 9:19pm.
You can tell that Dani, the teenage protagonist of this grim and forceful crime dream, is once as a member more because of the first mission of the film she buys the past a happy store whose sons display has the first four letters with.
That leaves OK, but for this character, played with a mastery of regional art. Comedy like Deny Zhang, alternations to her concept film in upstate New York are disappearing before her eyes. A potential college scholarship is undermined by admission fees that it doesn't cover. The guy in her life, Marty (Sempsey Bryk), is a drug dealer.
When Dani comes to the defense of her little brother, who's gotten into some mischief at a convenience store, she's searched by some cops, who find signers either. At the motion, she's threatened with arrest.
"We want a drug dealer," a severe-looking officer, played by Elizabeth Hutchinson, instructs Dani in an interrogation room. Without even really understanding the concept of informing, Dani tries to direct some information. We can see that she's not going to get the things that she's been working for, which even more jarring to witness is her own disgust as she borings the people around her. "Your job is evil," she tells her hustler, who bristles and
From left foreground: Nenna Anselie, Dustin Donzi-Burns, Nicola Coughlan and Billie Gadsden in "The Magic Faraway Tree," directed by Ben Gergot.
From left: Marina Repere, Amelija Adanautyn and Zygmanno Elena Adoraite in "How to Divorce During the War," set in Lithuania.
Sempsey Bryk as Marty, left, and Comedy McClney Zhang as Dani in "The Snare," a crime drama written and directed by Merlin Conenzi.
says that Dani doesn't know what evil is.
"The Snare," written and directed by Merlin Conenzi, is a patent critique of the tactics used to fight the seemingly never-eating war on drugs. This picture potentially demonstrates the misery that results from those practices.
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The Marching Band
Not usual. 10:19pm. 6:45:5:30pm. Running time: 1 hour 42 minutes. 10:19pm.
An orchestra conductor in the Midwestern United States, Thibaut (Benjamin Laverdin) returns to Paris — where he grew up — to promote a new work. What should be a pinnacle turns into anything but, when he collapses during rehearsal and learns of a dire diagnosis in "The Marching Band," directed by Emmanuel Courcel and written with Ernie Muscari. The news that his only editing is set a dense match turns informing when Thibaut also discovers that he was adopted.
On their own, the themes of terminal illness and adoption have enough melodrama. But when Thibaut tracks down Jimmy (Pierre Lattin), his birth brother, a catherin worker in a struggling
mining town in the north of France, class also enters the frame. So she is different kind of music. Jimmy plays a mean trombone for the local ensemble of the title.
For his affecting tale of this prickly past, their success head and the materially different lives they've inherited in their parts of France, Courcel deliberately borrows from musical tempos, among them the lively allegories and more leisurely andante. (The music is by the composer Michel Péronneau.) But it's the pace of the adagio that best expresses the film's cadence and satisfaction.
"The Marching Band" unfolds with a measured grace, thanks to
that attention as well as the complementary work of its leads and charming ensemble (including Clémence Muscari, an Jimmy's adoptive mother). The editing (by Guerri's Casola) teases the beats of a hot-good movie, but consistently stops short of me easy sentimentality. "The Marching Band" builds to a conclusion that is solemn and celebratory, with a flourish that is winkingly martial and unexpectedly rested. LESI-BENNEDY
How to Divorce During the War
Not usual. 10:19pm. English and Russian, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. 9:19pm.
The Lithuanian drama "How to Divorce During the War" opens on the most mundane of domestic scenes: A man sets up a new desk chair in his home office. Within days of this diablo rock triumph, his life and the world are thrown into chaos when his wife drownes him and Russia invades Ukraine. The writer-director Andrian Blavervicze's poised family study dryly observes the couple's reactions to circumstances that test their merits.
Vytas (Marius Repere) is the initially happy hobby, who cleans the toilet and whips up copper for his daughter, David. His wife, Marija (Zygmanno Elena Adoraite), is the star producer at a media company. Unhappy in the marriage, she denies Vytas while they are waiting outside Dorilyn's music house. Russia's full-scale attack starts the next morning, Vytas, a beyond-liberation, gets his main back, writing scripts and joining new person in Ghana, Lithuanian's capital, covered in blood and pain.
Blavervicze keeps adjusting weights on either side of the special scale he so is consider, like Marija boxing and then recording Christmas orlogans at Vytas visiting a prostitute and then volunteering at a local bank. The trade, held back, observes framing roads as nonjudgmental without feeling clinical or severe,
and deadpan comedy emerges, as when Vytas stays with his sonically. Russophile parents, Devile (Amelija Adanautyn) can only absorb her parents' antics; she's sharp, but still a child.
The story looks a bit me previously toward Vytas in charting his comeback. But generally Blavervicze teases into a human tendency to regress to familiar routines that feels unconditionally accurate.
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The Magic Faraway Tree
Noted: 7th. Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes. 10:19pm.
Polly (Claire Pay) is a burned-out product designer who recently quit her job. Her husband Tim (Andrew Garfield) is a stay-at-home chef frustrated by his children's inability to interact with the world outside their screens.
There's Beth, the building fountain, video game obtained for an all Fran, who barely speaks; the three children round out this modern, post-pandemic family who didn't London, where Jack Desch voices the smart refrigerant for Polly designed, for a farm where Tim hopes to grow tomorrow for his famous years sauce and where, they quickly learn, there's a magical weed inhabited by history.
Adapted by Simon Faraday ("Painfragans," Painfragans 2") from Fred Ripner's British children's classic, and aided by huskela haussner's pop-stressed score, the film strikes the right balance of extremism and humor without feeling forced. It moves at a nimble, upscale pace, with such magical land, such as Land of Birthday and Land of Gredien, announcing as its own chamber piece while the film builds toward its dreamy conclusion.
The director Ben Gergot wants no time getting us where we want to be: revelling in the fairies and their future world. Alexandra Walker's intricate sets offer a refreshing break from green-screen simulations, while
Ann Maderry's inventive containing makes the fantasy feel tactile. Don't miss the warderwoman's crusidne dress, Ms. Wackmann's geometric overcoat or Karen Hartley-Thomas' elegant custom hairpiece for Mandans, the older fairy 3 only wits she get more cleavage of the artisanal work.
"The Magic Faraway Tree" is undoubtedly a movie for young people, but thankfully it succeeds as a film for adults too, gently reminding us that imagination is far everyone.
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Hot Spot
Noted: For days on madness, in English and Polish, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 42 minutes. 10:19pm.
In a postage-dayside future where citizens eyes their minds with an authoritarian artificial media geese system to survive, a detective investigates a transfer of a refugee camp. That's about all a understand of "Hot Spot," one of the most fulfilling stories I have seen in years. Emerging from the depths of its European existence, I couldn't decide whether the movie was name or admirable, given its apparent indifference to making any sense.
When the girl (Jimmy) (Andrew) Kanapka) is a private eye who lives with his technophobia wife, Ayka (Richa Kirshinov), and their son, Zea (George Aartman Cris), in a society where water is scarce and an intelligence network reigns. Trouble arrives in a group of outsiders led by Raza.
Nenna Repere, owner, as Raza, who leads a rebellious head of outsiders in the dystopian "Hot Spot."
(Nesnin Repere), who refuse to merge with the maintimes, despite it being the law.
Witchcraft plays a role, somehow, So do scenes involving psychedelic singing. Raza's rebel tactics is a familiar stage, echoing those in epics like "Star Wars" and "Dane," although here, the head scarves and churning tale a turn toward Orientalism.
The fight's voice figurates aesthetic channels the 1980s: "The Final Coastbuster" plays over the opening, while the mullimod (Saxon woes a sporty jumpout) and more post-trainers' music. Perhaps the director, Agnieszka Sierczynska ("The Lion"), sought to evoke B-movies from that era, like "Escape From New York." But "Hot Spot," with its arcane rules and critical capacities, is closer to a video game or a lucid dream than a worthy science-fiction entry. Waiting up should come as a rebel.
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WILL HEINRICH | ART REVIEW
Divine and Abundant. Extravagant, Too.
An intersection of technology and culture propels a show of Indian religious works.
YOU DON’T NEED/ER A believer to find God at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Of course the museum covers with appliances from all over the world. But not om in more colorful or more evocative, none better captures the mystical paradox of unity in variety, than the extravagant chromolithograph prints in “Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860-1890.”
Part of an explosion of photography and new printing technologies in the subcontinent, these images were made using a multi-tissue process, developed in Europe by the 1930s, that printed each color separately, and were chiefly destined to enrich altars in private homes. But they read as thrilling aesthetic innovations just as fully as they do as religious artifacts.
Part of the feeling of overnaturalism they offer comes simply from their unique intersection of cultures and technologies. India has been exchanging goods and influences with the Western world more or less forever, as the exquisite Grecian Buddhas of ancient Gandhara remind you. But the late 19th century, the peak of the British Raj, quickened the pace. On keeping with this effect of overnaturalism, the museum is showing the prints in four rotations, and some of these may have been replaced by others by the time you visit.
The South Indian nobleman Raja Ravi Varma, the most famous artist in the show, had some training in European oil painting. When he wanted to make his devotional images of prominent figures from Hindu mythology more widely available, he turned to the recently imported new techniques, founded his own press and didn’t hesitate to use every visual technique at hand. Persons in Germany and England, meanwhile, got busy turning out their own divine images
Fig. 4 chromolithograph from the Calcutta Art Studio in West Bengal that depicts, from left, the goldsboro Rheumuseum and Regula. Above, from left: the deities Vishnu and Lakshmi, by the artist M. Abhayi. Kali, the wrathful protector; Subramanian and his consorts Mahavali and Devasena.
for export.
But if there’s something otherworldly about seeing Lord Vishnu, or Varma, the god of death, why exactly the tort of bringing halo of light that Albrecht Dürer would have used in a woodcat of the Madonna, the staggeringly vast narrative and visual iconography that Varma and other artists had behind them could easily absorb each little additions. It makes sense that a deity like Vishnu, who is believed to preserve the whole content, should take in every form possible. So what these ostensibly incongruous Westerns make really do is amplify the richness of the material.
The same goes for the technology. The profusion of images of gods and heroes that lithography suddenly made possible in India feels paradoxically natural — weren’t
the gods already everywhere?
All that said, what really makes these prints so fabulous is their sheer aesthetic abundance — their density of color, composition, iconography and ornament, and their extraordinary stylistic range. Exciting on the divine serpent Sheeba, in an 1880 print from the Chittagrabadi Press in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Vishnu know and turns toward his courtier Narada, the subtly unusual kind of his body echoing the rippling snake beneath him, even as the snake built echoes and evokes the waves.
Around them are Vishnu’s inmost, Lakshmi, goddess of good fortune, monkey-headed Hanuman, horse-headed Hayagriva, embodiment of knowledge, and his mood Garuda in human form. In one of Vishnu’s fear hands he holds the stern of the lo-
Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860-1890
Through June 27 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Maninathar, 212-525-7732, matmuasam.org. The exhibition will rotate, with new works debating on Oct. 17 and Feb. 21.
taa from which the creator god Brahma is born.
It sounds like too much. But the print’s brilliant composition, in combination with its delicate use of color, holds everything neatly in place. The god’s angled posture and blue skin keep him to the front, while the understated modeling of the courtiers creates just enough depth for them to fade gently into the background. Red, yellow and green clothing create a rhythmic movement from side to side, while tiny, four faced Brahma, at the top of the picture, floats in serene solitude.
A World War II-era print, here in an edition from Uttar Pradesh by S.S. Brighani & Sons and S.A.U. Works, on the other hand, depicts a simple god, human-scale and accessible. Standing in front of the divine serpent with the waters of the cosmic ocean up to their knees, Vishnu and Lakshmi look like they’re on holiday, posing for a family photo.
Lord Vishnu was the exhibit’s dominant figure when I first visited, followed closely by Shiva, compelling as “Lord of the Universe in Brewers” in a monochrome lithograph from Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).
But the most visually arresting figure was probably Shiva’s concert, the goddess Kali, an embodiment of life energy whose symbolism tends to the extreme and violent. In a chromolithograph with added watercolor, she wears a necklace of severed beads and a skirt of arms as she sticks out her tongue, brandishes a bloody sword and steps on Shiva’s chest. At the same time, she was her blue-black color, with its accents of blood red, stands out against the ghostly background is magnetically beautiful.
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Modernist Surprise in Midwest Woods
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1924 and 1964, 13 of which are documented in the show by its other curator, the Dutch architectural photographer Arjan Brunkhorst, who spent two years taking 400 photographs of Rietveld residences for a book of the same title as the show. All are in the Netherlands except for one in Ohio, which was the great discovery of the show.
The installation mingles modest house exteriors (typically small, geometric, flare-rolled houses painted white with accents in primary colors) with intricate interiors.
"We took a somewhat radical approach," Bergdoll said. "The photos are not grouped according to the building they represent but are freely mixed up with one another to show the richness of life out of a deliberate reduction of things, thus the title the 'Woods of Industry.'"
Some photographs of the interiors include portraits of the owners, many of them descendants of the families who commissioned the houses. They obviously appreciate Rietveld's original schemes, because they have left them to be highly unchanged, especially the built-in elements, a testimony to Rietveld's training as a master carpenter.
"I was looking for Rietveld interiors that were still unknown," Brunkhorst said. "We focus was on design elements, patterns and colors. Rietveld was influenced by light and used color as a design element. Livers and planes dominate his designs. His cabinets look like J-D Mountains."
Rietveld was a self-trained architect, born into a family of middle-class entrepreneurs. His father ran a furniture workshop in Utrecht that supplied well-to-do families. Rietveld left school at age 11 to join his father's business, training as a carpenter and a contractor.
He was ambitious. At 16 he began taking evening courses in technical drawing, and in 1957 he left to open his own workshop.
In 1959 he joined the de Sijji (Dutch for "the Style") art movement founded in 1917 by the Dutch painters Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. It promoted pure abstraction through geometry (squares and
The living room at the Slegers House in Volp, the Netherlands, designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1933, showing accents in primary colors characteristic of the de Sijji movement.
The exterior of the Rietveld-Schelder House, designed by Rietveld and Troan Schelder-Schelder in 1934.
Tiny Kronenberg commissioned Rietveld in 1963, near the end of his career, to build a house for her family in Wageningen, the Netherlands.
rectangles, strict vertical and horizontal lines) and a primary color palette (red, yellow, blue).
The movement rejected symmetry in pursuit of a "universal harmony." The goal was to remove the personality of the artist in favor of precise harmonies — and, like the Wiener Werkstätten in Vienna, to eliminate the distinction between high art, applied art and architecture.
It was also highly political.
"The majority of artists and architects associated with de Sijji were sympathetic to socialism, anarchism or communism," the British art historian Paul (every wrote in his 1991 book "De Sijji" "The artists and architects were almost all deeply engaged with new and evolving ideas about the production and consumption of art and design and the relationship of those to modern society and social life."
They had, he writes, "a utopian faith in the transforming qualities of mechanization and new technology."
A de Sijji interior was meant to model a new way of living.
Rietveld's interiors feature built-in bank beds, desks, crackers, cabinets and bookcases. Original furnishings include the inexpensive "Zig Zag" or "Cram" chairs and gessentils, have built light fixtures. Doctors of color abound: Metal door surrounds are red. Cupboards are blue. Ironing boards are yellow.
The master's characteristic signatures are also seen in the Rietveld house outside Oberlin, Ohio. It is a white four-bedroom split-level house, with a single floor in front and two floors in each area. The building is looking the Vermillion River.
The owner was Charles Percy Parkhurst, an Oberlin College art history professor who had served with the Monuments Men in Europe in 1948 in 1950 and was born by the Nazis. Parkhurst was interested in modern architecture, and he met Rietveld in
Rietveld gave Charles Percy Parkhurst the blueprints to take back to Ohio, and Parkhurst built the house with modifications.
1936 while studying under a Fulbright in Utrecht. He was introduced by his friend Theodore M. Brown, Rietveld's American biographer ("The Work of G. Rietveld, Architect") .
Parkhurst commissioned a house from the architect for a large tract of woodland he
G. Rietveld Gent: Rietveld Wealth of Salariety Through Sept. 2 at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan. 212-683-0023. alamy.org.
owned outside Oberlin. Rietveld gave Parkhurst the blueprints to take back to Ohio, and Parkhurst built the house with family, friends and a good reason.
He made a lot of changes to the original plan to reduce the cost: He used wood window frames instead of steel. He gave the flat
roof an incline to drain rainwater and snow. He substituted concrete for brick on the fireplace and installed a spiral maincase.
"Rietveld never saw the house," Brunkhorst writes in his book. "He was re- based entry to the United States in 1950 as an alleged communist sympathizer."
Parkhurst and his first wife, Elizabeth Huntington-Rushing, divorced, she got the house in 1962. In 1966, she sold it to Hugh Brown, an Oberlin College graduate who worked for General Motors. When the company transferred Brown to Detroit, he had difficulty selling the house, so General Motors bought the property. In 1976, the company sold the house and half the property to Warren Squire, a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory who raised three children there. His son, Jeffrey P. Squire, is the current owner and uses it as a weekend house.
"My dad felt he had to make a lot of changes to make the house livable," Squire said. "The kitchen was tiny, so he combined three little rooms to make one big open kitchen. He thought the balcony on the second floor was too small, so he combined it with two bedrooms to make a master suite."
Squire is proud of the house and said in an interview that he was constantly improving it, but he had no intention of restoring it to Rietveld's original blueprints.
"He was it was built was impractical," he said. "I have avoided trying to make it an official anything, because that would limit what I could do to it. This is my bachelor pad, for good or bad." He figures Rietveld would be 100, with that.
"Rietveld was championed early in the United States, notably by the curators of the Mountain of Modern Art from the 1930s, and then through the passion that Donald Judd had for his furniture," Bergdoll said. "But I never met an architect or architectural historian who knew that there was a house by Rietveld in the U.S. And what a surprise to discover that it is still there, intact if altered over the years."
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By JILLIAN STEINMAUER
'Interstitial'
Through Thursday, Deanna Evans Projects, 570 Broadway, Manhattan; 201-497-0113, deannaavansprojects.com.
In late summer, most galleries remain group shows, which, in my experience, tend to fall into two categories: has or amorphous. It's rare to see a group show that's genuinely smart, where the artworks stand alone, yet seem to be in conversation.
"Interstitial" is such an exhibition. It's a snapshot of contemporary works (all but one made this year) that straddle the line between painting and textile. Some of the lit artists in the show do this literally: Dazelle Mysteries makes this stripe of oil paint and layers there to create elaborate illusions of wearing. In her "Bob (Blue)," the thicket of paint seems to hold a sharp crease in the underlying lines in place. Mysteries's abstract forms evoke a range of predecessors, including Aoki Albers and Barone Newman.
Other artists make more direct references. Menza Nissari's "Judi I (After Matisse's Seated Inha-bique With Hair) Textile, 2002" repeats the outlines of that Matisse piece in paint, paper and Tyvek, turning it into a glimmering D.C.T. latticework. By hanging the piece as if it were a tapestry, Nissari symbolically brings the fabric backdrop of the original painting into primary focus.
Not every artist in "Interstitial" wrestles with modernism, but its legacy hangs over the show. The boundaries between painting and textile used to be strictly parked, still the pieces here play with materials and expectations, the better to create an outdated order,
'Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists'
Through April 13, 4:30am on Ask Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, Manhattan, 212-599-9533, Selvarthussum.org
The stories surrounding self-sought artists are often steeped in proximity. They were driven by unseen forces and worked in isolation and someone discovered them. Each stories strip them of their agency. "Self-Made" tries to challenge this tendency
Menza Nissari's "Judi I (After Matisse's Seated Inha-bique With Hair) Textile, 2002" (2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor)
Elizabeth Layman's "Garden of Eden" (1977), made of colored pencil and graphics on paper.
by gathering self-perceals, representations of alter egos, and autobiographical works by 90 self-sought artists.
The exhibition covers a range of places and times, with a focus on 20th-century Europe and the United States, and has a commanding lineup. Clementine Hunter appears in an almost psychedelic mixed-media self-portrait from 1975. Martin Ramirez is represented by a fantastically complex nine-foot-long collage (circa 1950). There
Judy L. L. (2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor, 2nd floor)
David Lamelas's range is on display in "El Super Elianlos (The Super Elianloy" (1965/1936).
are Madge Gill's eerie faces and notebooks from Henry Durger's night-release fictional autobiography.
Many of the lesser-known artists contribute strong work, too. In "Garden of Eden" (1977), the Kansas-born Elizabeth Layman
portrays herself as a fleshy, older Eve, startled by the snake. A colorful wooden figure assigned from 1961 to 1964 by Charlie Willets, a Dred medicine man, appears simultaneously vulnerable and withholding. Marcel Bussendorf's photographs of himself
wearing homemade dresses — which have been exhibited more in Europe than here — are intimate and interesting.
"Self-Made" is a list of a paddle. More formal or tightly thematic groupings would have bolstered the underlying argument: that
self-sought artists make stylistic and narrative choices, just like their institutionally educated peers. That may sound like an obvious lesson, but in moments and galleries it bears repeating.
David Lamelas
Through Jan. 18, 354 Chelsea, 537 West 22nd Street, Manhattan; 845-231-3811, disart.org.
It's difficult to categorize the work of David Lamelas. In his current exhibition, "The Machine," organized by Uta and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, there are Pre-collected pieces like "El Super Elianlos (The Super Elianloy" (1965/2026), a large sculptural installation of brightly painted trees and a bench that could be a prototype for a playground. Minimalism undergirds "Limite de una Propessible II" (Land of a Propessible II) (1967) — a spotlighted area on the floor surrounded by acrylic rectangles.
For the 1968 Voices Biennale, where Lamelas represented Argentina, he staged "Office of Information About the Vietnam War at Three Levels: The Visual Image, Text, and Audio" (1969), a political performance that delivered real-time news transmissions about the war; the work is recruited here as a kind of art piece. And then, if you enter the Cheleura video gallery, you'll see satirical films like "The Hand" (1976), a fictional talk show featuring anchors who press their guest, a folk music star, about his political inclinations. (I thought it was found footage until it reached a hilariously improbable conclusion.)
The 80-year-old Lamelas, who was a mainstay in the 1960s and '70s Argentine art scene before embarking on a more peripatetic life, has remarkable range. What unless his output is a conceptual through line: He has long returned to questions about how we delineate space, understand time and disseminate information — all of which are, at heart, questions about how we structure society. Lamelas punctuates them with alluring curiosity and humor. The inquiries are serious, but the process of making them is also fun.
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84 School units
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86 Stuff in shakers
84 “Hood”
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40 Word, repeated before “against the dying of the light” in a Dylan Thomas poem
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制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times (2026-08-21)
▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有国际政治、经济、社会与文化报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在制度结构、权力技术与法理合法性层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【法律融资的资本介入与风险转移】
[F4_7, F4_8]（版面：主报深度版面/财经）- 事件简述：华尔街介入人身伤害诉讼领域，通过原告融资（Plaintiff Funding）获取巨额回报。
- 制度批判切入点：剖析司法救济权的“金融资产化”倾向。探讨当法律诉讼被视为一种可投资的金融产品时，司法正义的追求如何可能被资本的收益逻辑所异化。
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【俄罗斯对乌克兰的“战剑”模式空袭】
[F3_6, F16_31, F16_32]（版面：主报深度版面/国际）- 事件简述：俄军采用先摧毁防空系统、再发射大规模导弹袭击民用基础设施（包括配送中心）的系统性策略。
- 制度批判切入点：探讨战争状态下对平民生存基础设施的系统性解构。分析权力如何通过制造“防御真空”，将食品供应链等生存必需品转化为军事打击目标，实现对社会结构的压力传导。
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【个体生命经验对数字化精致主义的抵抗】
[F11_21, F12_23, F13_25]（版面：专业栏目）- 事件简述：88岁的维尔纳·卡莱钦斯基（Werner Kaleciński）通过社交媒体视频，以其真实的、带有历史伤痕的生命历程，为年轻人提供了不同于“精致网红”的生活样本。
- 制度批判切入点：分析数字资本主义下的“景观社会”如何通过算法定义“理想生活”，以及真实的、非标准化的个体生命经验如何通过数字媒介实现对这种同质化审美权力的微观抵抗。
▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)
专题一：司法救济的金融化：法律融资中的资本逻辑与权利异化
在《纽约时报》关于华尔街介入人身伤害诉讼的报道中 [F4_7, F4_8]，我们观察到一种潜在的制度异化：司法救济权（Right to Remedy）正在被转化为一种可量化的金融资产。原告融资（Plaintiff Funding）在形式上为受害者提供了诉讼期间的资金支持，但在实质上，它将法律诉讼的结果转化为一种具有“巨额回报”潜力的投资产品。
这种权力机制的危险之处在于，它将司法程序的本质从“权利的恢复”转向了“资产的增值”。当法律诉讼被金融化，诉讼的驱动力可能不再仅仅是受害者的正义诉求，而变成了投资方对回报率的追求。在这种逻辑下，法律程序变成了资本运作的环节，受害者的身体痛苦与法律权利被抽象为金融模型中的风险因子。这种现象标志着资本逻辑对公共司法制度的渗透：正义的实现时间与结果，在某种程度上开始受到资本流动性与投资回报周期的影响。
专题二：生存基础设施的武器化：从“战剑”模式到生存政治的解构
俄罗斯在乌克兰战争中采用的“战剑”模式 [F3_6 🔍]，揭示了一种残酷的权力技术实践。其核心逻辑在于：通过系统性地摧毁防空系统，人为地制造一个局部的“防御真空”，随后在这一真空地带内实施大规模的破坏性打击 [F16_31, F16_32]。这种运作方式将战争的维度从单纯的军事对抗推向了对社会生存基础的精准解构。
在这种机制中，权力的目标发生了关键性转移。俄军将目标转向关键配送中心 [F17_34 🔍]，导致基辅居民经历了广泛的日常食品短缺。这种策略将基础设施的脆弱性制度化地转化为一种战略武器。当平民在社交媒体上回忆苏联时期的短缺状态时 [F18_36 🔍]，这种制度性的匮乏实际上成为了权力施压的工具。
从制度批判视角看，这种“战术化”的打击揭示了现代战争中主权权力的逻辑：它通过技术手段将平民的生活世界（Life-world）彻底转化为战场。当防空盾牌被削弱，生存权被置于一种极端的脆弱状态中。这种权力运作不仅旨在摧毁物理设施，更旨在通过制造系统性的生存焦虑，瓦解目标社会的心理韧性。这证明了在当代地缘政治冲突中，对生存必需品流动的控制已成为一种核心的权力技术。
▌ 面向学者的制度研究开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)
- 【关于司法金融化的伦理边界研究】：当法律救济权被转化为可交易的金融资产后，如何防止投资方的利益驱动干扰司法公正？我们需要构建怎样的制度防火墙，以确保原告的权利不被资本逻辑所俘获？
- 【关于基础设施脆弱性与现代战争法研究】：在“战剑”模式等精准解构生存基础设施的战术面前，传统的国际人道法如何重新定义“军事目标”与“民用设施”的界限？如何应对这种通过制造系统性匮乏而非直接杀戮来实现的权力压制？
理性与情感辩证深度研判：The New York Times (2026-08-21)
▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在个体生命体验、情感撕裂与生活世界崩解层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【废墟中的斋月聚餐】
[F7_14 🔍]（生活领域：战争与生存）- 事件简述：2025年3月4日，在加沙 Beit Lahia 的家园废墟中，一个家庭在断壁残垣间坐在一起打破斋戒，背景是满目疮痍的城市。
- 情感政治切入点：探讨“日常仪式”在极端暴力环境下的顽强存续。这种对家庭秩序的微观重建，是对系统性毁灭的一种情感抵抗，揭示了生命意义如何通过最基础的身体实践（进食、聚会）在绝望中强行锚定。
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【乔科省地震后的生存绝望】
[F2_4 🔍]（生活领域：灾难生存）- 事件简述：哥伦比亚乔科省发生地震，该地区此前刚遭受14级震中袭击，此次地震在全国范围内造成至少200人死亡。
- 情感政治切入点：分析“地理脆弱性”与“重复性创伤”的叠加效应。查科地区作为“最脆弱地区之一”的属性，使得自然灾害不再是随机事件，而是一种结构性的生存危机，揭示了边缘地带个体在面对不可抗力时的绝对无力感。
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【东德逃亡者的记忆碎片】
[F12_23, F12_24]（生活领域：历史记忆与个体生命）- 事件简述：88岁的维尔纳·卡莱钦斯基回忆在俄罗斯占领下的“残酷”生活，以及18岁时通过谎称看望祖父母而骑车逃离东德的经历。
- 情感政治切入点：探讨“生存策略”如何塑造个体人格。从拆除毁房电线赚取报酬到通过欺骗守卫获取自由，个体的生命史被权力系统的压制（强迫加入警察部队）所驱动，揭示了政治高压如何将个体的生存理性异化为一种“逃离的艺术”。
▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)
专题一：【结构性脆弱与肉身痛感：哥伦比亚乔科省灾难的现象学分析】
在哥伦比亚乔科省的地震报道中，我们观察到一种深刻的“空间与痛感的共振”。从证据 [F2_4 🔍] 可以看出，该地区被定义为“最脆弱的地区之一”，且在短时间内经历了连续的剧烈地震（包括之前的14级震中袭击）。在这种语境下，地震不再仅仅是一个地质学事件（Logos），而变成了一种结构性的压迫。
对于当地幸存者而言，痛感是累积性的。当报道提到“全国范围内造成至少200人死亡”时，这种量化数据在宏观层面提供了灾难的规模，但在微观层面，它掩盖了查科地区作为脆弱地带所承受的重复性创伤。这里的辩证矛盾在于：官方统计的“死亡人数”是一种冷峻的行政理性，而个体面对的则是家园被连续摧毁的绝对绝望。
结合现象学视角，这种痛感不仅是身体的损伤，更是“世界之崩塌”的体验。当一个地区被标记为“最脆弱”时，其居民在心理上处于一种持续的预警状态。地震的发生将这种潜在的焦虑转化为现实的肉身痛感。这种从“脆弱性”到“毁灭”的快速转换，揭示了边缘群体在面对自然与政治双重边缘化时，其生命体验是如何被简化为一种纯粹的、无法通过常规救济手段抚平的“生存之痛”。
专题二：【记忆的异化与自由的代价：东德逃亡者的生命史辩证】
维尔纳·卡莱钦斯基（Werner Kaleciński）的个体叙事 [F12_23, F12_24] 提供了一个关于“生存理性”与“情感渴望”碰撞的绝佳样本。在俄罗斯占领下的东德，卡莱钦斯基的童年与青少年时期被一种“残酷”的生存逻辑所主导：通过帮邻居搬运电源、拆除毁房电线来获取报酬。这是一种极端的工具理性——在匮乏与压抑的环境中，将身体能力转化为生存资源。
然而，这种生存理性在18岁时遭遇了系统性权力的强制干预（被强迫加入政府警察部队）。此时，个体的“自由意志”与“系统指令”发生了剧烈冲突。他选择的逃离方式——穿着西装、骑着自行车、通过谎言欺骗守卫——构成了一种极具戏剧性的情感反抗。西装在此不仅是服装，而是一种对“身份”的伪装，是试图通过模拟某种社会阶层来掩盖逃亡者的真实身份，从而在权力缝隙中寻找生存空间。
这种辩证关系揭示了：在极权环境下，个体的“理性”必须通过“欺骗”和“伪装”才能实现。卡莱钦斯基在年老时被描述为给年轻人带来“新鲜感”的网红 [F13_25 🔍]，这种当下的轻盈与年轻时逃亡的沉重形成了鲜明对比。这种跨越时空的对比证明了：个体对自由的追求（Pathos）能够最终战胜系统性的压制（Logos），但这种胜利是以长期的心理异化和生存冒险为代价的。
▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)
- 【关于重复性创伤的社会学研究】：在像乔科省这样被定义为“最脆弱”的地区，连续发生的灾难如何改变当地社区的集体心理韧性？这种“脆弱性”是否在某种程度上被制度化，从而导致救助资源的长期匮乏？
- 【关于历史记忆的数字化重构】：像卡莱钦斯基这样经历过极权压制的幸存者，在社交媒体时代通过短视频形式重新定义自己的生命意义
[F13_25 🔍]，这种“晚年网红化”是对历史创伤的某种疗愈，还是对残酷历史的一种轻量化消解？