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2026 年 8 月 1 日，星期六

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“botched”工作而非蓄意破坏

导致泳池受损

前奥运选手

指控将被撤销

作者：MARULENE RUBIN 和 DANIEL A. PARRISTINGLE

联邦检察官已申请撤销对一名原奥运选手的指控，该选手此前被指控破坏林肯纪念堂反思池。此次撤诉是基于一项认知，即特朗普政府雇佣的一家承包商在修复工作中出现了“botched”（搞砸了）的情况。

在周五提交给哥伦比亚特区高等法院的一项动议中，华盛顿的美国检察官 Justice-Pere 表示，她的办公室收到了数千份证据，表明池塘的损坏“是承包商采取了缺陷方案的结果”。大西洋工业涂层公司在 7 月 4 日“美国 / 20 庆典”相关活动之前负责该项目的采样工作。

她写道：“鉴于所有这些新获得的信息，很难将反思池的大面积损坏归因于蓄意破坏，更不用说在排除合理怀疑的情况下证实这一事实。”

该选手大卫·霍尔是面临指控的七人之一。此前，特朗普总统在没有证据的情况下声称，这些行为是企图破坏泳池的行政修复。

在已知面临指控的人员中，霍尔先生是唯一被指控犯有重罪而非轻罪的人。目前尚不清楚蓄意破坏的具体定罪情况。针对其他被告的指控也正在被撤销。

霍尔先生本月对破坏政府财产的指控作无罪抗辩，该案原定于 9 月 28 日开始审理。

霍尔先生于 6 月被捕，此前警方声称他发布了 4 次防水相关呼吁。根据联邦政府文件，前三次呼吁是在几天前开始发布的。

他的律师表示，他的行为不属于刑事犯罪。他们在地区法院提交了一项动议，主张“已证明为本案关键物证的改进方案”（即林肯纪念堂反思池，包括霍尔先生被指控破坏的区域）。

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截至周五下午，西班牙当局表示，大量涌入海岸的移民大多数已返回摩洛哥。

救援人员显示大脑受损迹象

但未获得帮助

作者：DAVE PHILIPPO

N.C. CULLOPEREZ —— 州立 Boomer 在海岸警卫队的救援船上奋斗了 25 年，挽救了数百人的生命。当他去世时，他年幼的女儿 Kazingh 想知道为什么他不能救自己。

他曾是一个高大、积极的人，似乎能处理任何事情。但随着 Kazingh 成长，她看着他慢慢崩溃。首先是头痛，然后是失眠。他的记忆力衰退，情绪变得阴沉。

2022 年，他在 48 岁时从海岸警卫队退休，情况进一步恶化。他会陷入焦虑和强迫。一个下午，他用拳头袭击了他的祖父。在随后的几个月里，他开始纵火。

2025 年的一个冬夜，客厅地板上堆着一堆海岸警卫队的传单，他走出了前门，并

海岸警卫队尚未

研究巨浪的 影响

开枪自杀。

Kazingh，她的母亲，她的妹妹和两个小弟弟都目睹了这一幕。

他没有留下任何照顾，也没有给出任何解释。他的精神崩溃让他的家人感到困惑，不知如何面对他的生活，以至于他们在埋葬他时没有立墓碑。

现在 18 岁的 Kazingh 崩溃了。但在葬礼之后，她开始思考。

她的父亲曾是一名优秀的救援人员，他的工作是驾驶救生艇穿过高达 25 英尺的汹涌巨浪。也许，多年来在巨浪中冲撞的经历，给她的父亲留下了一些答案。

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大批移民涌入西班牙领土

引发强烈反弹

本文由 James Horowitz, Center Boroughs 和 Thomas Fuller 撰写。

西班牙，塞乌塔 —— 数以千计的移民涌入位于北非顶端的西班牙领土，在周五加剧了这场危机以及欧洲政治上的偏袒。这场危机在西班牙自由派亲移民政府与右翼之间引发了共鸣。

西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯周五匆忙赶赴塞乌塔——一个与摩洛哥接壤的西班牙自治区，并表示已向边境派遣了 400 名额外的安全部队。截至周五下午，西班牙当局表示，在周四以来涌入塞乌塔的预计 30,000 至 60,000 名移民中，大部分人（共 45,000 人）已返回摩洛哥。

当局表示，有三打移民在尝试进入西班牙领土的过程中死亡。移民们描述了目睹尸体遍地的场景。

关于留在塞乌塔的数千人将如何处置，以及其中是否有人能跨越数英里宽的直布罗陀海峡到达欧洲大陆，人们对此产生了质疑。

“我不想住在摩洛哥，我想住在欧洲，” 23 岁的移民 Jubarin Lahmer 说道，他描述自己正忍受着饥饿的痛苦。但他表示他决心到达西班牙。“我想要一份工作，我想要幸福。”

接 A7 页

西部各州

因用水问题 面临深度削减

科罗拉多河流域

预计将引发法律斗争 ——

气候变化导致 供应紧张

作者：斯科特·丹斯 (SCOTT DANCE)

华盛顿 —— 根据周五公布的州政府关于供应紧张的行政命令，亚利桑那州、内华达州和加利福尼亚州的社区和家庭在未来十年中，从科罗拉多河流域可使用的水量可能面临剧减。

该提案增加了可能持续数年之久的复杂法律斗争的潜在风险。

在美国西部大部分地区，水资源的获取正处于不稳定的状态。农业社区与城市之间、以及各州与邻州之间，因需求冲突而产生的劳工纠纷，与数十年的过度使用相互碰撞。气候变化引发的气温升高和干旱也加剧了这一冲突。科罗拉多河的水权同样具有国际影响，因为墨西哥北部部分地区也依赖该水源。

在尝试应对此次危机时，特朗普政府强化了一个法律和实际的难题：谁应该承担科罗拉多河水量缩减的负担。

此外，这表明河流水位较低区域的社区 —— 如凤凰城、拉斯维加斯和洛杉矶等城市 —— 而非上游沿岸地区，将成为重点。联邦政府控制科罗拉多河水供应的能力，在于其能够限制胡佛水坝（横跨内华达州和亚利桑那州）、米德湖以及位于美国南部格伦峡谷大坝的流量。

如何公平地平衡山地州与下游州所做的牺牲，一直是多年争论中最困难的切入点之一。

特朗普的提案在周五引起了亚利桑那州官员的警觉。

“凤凰城花了数十年时间为这样一个时刻做准备……”

（续见 A13 页）

MAGA 的媒体机器开始出现裂痕

作者：斯图尔特·A·汤普森 (STUART A. THOMPSON)

右翼制作人本尼·约翰逊 (Benny Johnson) 曾在美国的大部分时间里，致力于唐纳德·J·特朗普 (Donald J. Trump) 2024 的竞选活动，证明了关于文化议题的驱动和自我批评。

数据显示，约翰逊先生的 YouTube 频道观看量在 2024. 达到顶峰后有所下降。对此关注度的范围体现在页面上。这篇文章指出，对特朗普先生的忠诚度在一些共和党人看来已变得不可接受，他们对日益上涨的生活成本以及总统在 2024 选举中的关注度感到沮丧。

其他知名右翼影响者也面临着类似的波动。出版商兼 EAU 前副主任丹·布吉斯 (Dan Bougies) 发现，他的直播观看量较 1963. 的峰值下降了约一半。前福克斯新闻 (Fox News) 主持人梅根·凯利 (Megan Kelly) 经历了爆发式增长，但这种关注度难以维持。

这些转变增加了一系列证据，表明亲特朗普语境的受众已从巅峰期下降，且在某些方面已触及新阶段。特朗普先生许多最坚定盟友的观看量正在下降，而一些开始批评特朗普先生的右翼人物则表现出不稳定的增长。

这些转变威胁到今年共和党候选人的信息传递，多年来他们一直依赖一个统一的中心枢纽，将共和党人引导至公众选举周期。

“投票在 11 月，但……”

（续见 A13 页）

失去观众

12 位右翼影响力人物的每周总浏览量

JOURNAL VIEW

来源：纽约时报

在塔可故乡，奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 试图融入

作者：詹姆斯·瓦格纳 (JAMES WAGNER)

墨西哥，蒙特雷 —— 在该餐厅最近的盛大开业典礼上，近 100 名顾客排成的长队延伸至主入口两侧，部分顾客提前 4 小时到达。许多人已经期待这一天数月之久。

当工作人员按下按钮，揭开用铝箔包裹、外观像一个卷饼的遮盖物时，餐厅的门面正式揭晓，彩带飞向空中。

在塔可、卷饼和奎萨迪亚 (quesadillas) 的故乡，一个新的竞争者进入了市场：奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店)，这家以墨西哥风味为特色的快餐连锁店在美国无处不在。

“他们为我在墨西哥和拉丁美洲带来的自豪感就在这里，”来自蒙特雷、年仅 16 岁且是第一位排队顾客的约翰·罗德里格斯 (John Rodriguez) 在一个富裕的郊区酒店城市说道。前 100 名顾客获得了一个免费的奇波雷礼品袋，5-able! 以及相关礼品。

但在另一家美国连锁店 Taco Bell 在墨西哥市场两次失败后，奇波雷能否将这种版本的墨西哥食物成功卖给墨西哥的墨西哥人？

墨西哥人对自己的饮食文化感到非常自豪，这种饮食被广泛认为是世界上最好的饮食之一。很大程度上由于墨西哥移民，它已传遍全球。

墨西哥的辛辣市场

可能成为一个问题

在传播过程中，墨西哥食物为了适应当地可获得的食材和口味而演变。奇波雷，以烟熏干辣椒为特色，正是这种适应的典型例子，其灵感源自 20 世纪 80 年代初旧金山的塔可和卷饼店。此后，它成长为一个拥有超过 1,000 家分店的大型连锁店，主要分布在美国。

许多奇波雷在墨西哥的首批消费者是那些寻求重大尝试的人。其中大多数人曾在美国访问或居住，他们可能在多年前移居墨西哥之前就在美国尝试过奇波雷。许多新顾客处于 20 岁和 30 岁之间。

续接第 A12 页

在墨西哥圣佩德罗的奇波雷餐厅用餐的家庭，这是该美国连锁店在墨西哥开设的第一家分店。

商业 80-4

对科技公司 AI 支出的担忧

在投入政治立场资金的同时，人们对于这些投入是否合理感到日益担忧。第 85 页

中国吸引工厂回流

对于一些寻求工厂税务减免的美国品牌来说，经济逻辑再次指向了回归。第 86 页

国家 A18-17

记录请求激增

纽约时报对 14 年可用联邦数据的分析显示，联邦机构在处理政府记录请求方面进度滞后。第 A10 页

绝不跳槽政党的誓言

关注党派成员颠覆参议院平衡的前景，收集的数据集中在数学参议员约翰·波特曼 (John Potterman) 身上。第 A11 页

对特朗普的忠诚是一项风险

Total Blancher 的方式与参议院的现实相冲突，这使其至今未能获得司法部长的确认。第 14 页

国际 A4-9

网上热门头条

边境更新：数万移民进入西班牙领土后，大多数返回摩洛哥。据估计，周四和周五约有 30,000 到 60,000 名移民从摩洛哥进入西班牙的小领土克雷达（Creda），导致至少 24 人死亡，并引发了西班牙前移民政府的一场政治危机。尽管截至周五下午至少 40,300 人已返回摩洛哥，但这次大规模越境立即引发了欧洲极右翼政治家的强烈反击。

每周都有大量太空垃圾不可预测地坠向地球。比以往任何时候都有更多的太空碎片在地球上空飘落。其中大部分在大气层中烧毁或溅入太平洋，但如果没有，它们就会撞击地面。谁该负责？谁来支付损失？Selum Oxfordshire 在香港（一个中国火箭部件坠落繁忙区域的边缘）为其文章进行了报道。

服务五十年后，肯尼迪中心开放公众免费导览。根据一份内部备忘录，位于华盛顿的肯尼迪表演艺术中心正在进行持续的中心免费公众导览。暂停导览的决定是在上个月一名志愿者导游出现在《纽约时报》的一篇文章中之后做出的，该文章详细描述了特朗普总统对这一文化机构的剧烈改造。

MAGA 媒体机器正在分裂。曾经受到特朗普总统支持的右翼影响力人物正陷入内斗并失去观众，这为共和党人在接下来的选举中制造了麻烦。为了评估这些网络影响力的权力转移，本报分析了 12 位政治内容创作者在社交媒体和其他平台上的数年观众数据。

5. 前 F.B.I. 局长詹姆斯·B. 康罗伊（James B. Conroy）的律师表示，F.B.I. 调查员曾采访了哪个人，试图证明康罗伊先生在发布一张写有“Mr.4”的图片时威胁了特朗普总统的生命？

a. 电视名人兼 reclassisher 詹·塔菲（Jan Taffey）

b. 犯罪小说家约翰·格雷厄姆（John Graham）

c. 语言学家兼政治活动家诺姆·乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky）

d. 被称为“公牛萨米”的前 redsister 萨尔瓦多·格鲁维诺（Salvatore Gruvino）

e. 数秘术师 J. C. 乔杜里博士（Dr. J C Chaudhry）

6. 在上面的照片中，潜水员在对巨大的曼塔鳐鱼做什么？

a. 为其安装卫星发射器

b. 深层清洁其鳃部

c. 为其进行超声波检查

d. 为其调音

e. 拍摄近距离照片

7. 今天佩加卡尔（Pegacar）赢得了他的第 99 届环法自行车赛。佩加卡尔来自哪个国家，这里也是马里安娜·特朗普和卢卡·丹尼斯的家乡？

a. 斯洛文尼亚

b. 斯洛伐克

c. 白俄罗斯

d. 波兰

e. 拉脱维亚

8. 沙特阿拉伯本周加入了美国-伊朗战争，对哪个国家进行了空袭？

a. 伊朗

b. 伊拉克

c. 以色列

d. 黎巴嫩

e. 美国

9. 资深州议员特洛伊·杰克逊（Troy Jackson）接替格雷厄姆·普莱纳（Graham Plainer）成为缅因州的民主党参议院候选人。他之前的职业是什么？

a. 医生

b. 龙虾渔民

c. 伐木工

d. 运动员

e. 教师

10. 在他创纪录的第 24 个赛季，勒布朗·詹姆斯（LeBron James）将在哪支 N.B.A. 球队效力？

a. 亚特兰大鹰队

b. 克利夫兰骑士队

c. 金州勇士队

d. 洛杉矶湖人队

e. 费城 76 人队

11. 本报本周采访了一名护士，他在蒙大拿州徒步时，在发生了什么之后成功步行 10 英里逃生？

a. 他腿骨折了。

b. 他被熊袭击了。

c. 他被雷击了。

d. 他被自己的徒步杖刺穿了。

e. 他的食物用完了。

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历史头条

游骑兵号拍摄月球特写照片，揭示直径仅 3 英尺的陨石坑

1, 1945. 8月1日。据《纽约时报》报道，游骑兵 7 号太空探测器于前一日向地球传回了“首批月球特写照片——这是一组具有历史意义的 4,000 张照片，其清晰度比以往通过地面望远镜看到的任何影像高出一千倍”。这艘航天器是无动力月球探测器“游骑兵计划”中的第七艘，在故意撞击月球之前共拍摄了 4,150 张照片。科学家们将此次任务视为“自伽利略以来月球天文学最重大的进步尝试”。《纽约时报》写道：详细图像显示，陨石坑的直径为 3 英尺，深度为 1 英尺至 1.5 英尺。美国国家航空航天局 (NASA) 将此次任务视为太空计划的转折点，因为它是美国探索月球努力中“首次明确的成功”。这些照片还帮助确定了随后阿波罗任务的月球安全着陆点。

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双椰子（一种热带植物）是世界上已知最大的种子物种——样本重量可超过 50 磅，长度可超过 1 英尺。

健康与甲虫 休息之所

全球首富埃隆·马斯克在 2024 年总统竞选中花费了近 $300，通过举办市政厅会议试图帮助 唐纳德·J·特朗普。

领域之知 共和党行动之千万

就像 20 世纪玻璃摩天大楼的某些墙壁一样，自由女神像的表面不承重。她的双脚并不像大理石雕塑那样承载身体的累积重量。

最标志性的美国艺术品 在最难见之 (1)

三星电子和 SK Hynix 是人工智能数据中心建设热潮中的两大领先芯片供应商，两者合计占韩国股市基准指数 KOSPI 市值的一半以上。

人工智能矩阵之钟 亚洲市场 80

当洋流和风将一种名为 sorgausum 的海藻带到岸边时，它会形成厚厚的堆积层，使野生动物窒息；在分解过程中，它们会释放出硫化氢和氨等气体，使海滩闻起来像下水道。

春季总结 墨西哥海滩，但 Histobaccos 价格为 $125，或

在经历了巨大的 2025, 之后，华纳兄弟探索公司制片厂最近运行不顺，《超女》和《新娘》未能收回其制作和营销成本。

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1 开启公路旅行

46号公路是一条从伊利诺伊州延伸至加利福尼亚州的 2,440 英里长路，于 1945 年正式退役。随着这条传奇公路在今年迎来 100 周年，作家 Stephen Hilsner 最近花了两周时间，骑着一辆古董摩托车追溯这条路线的原始路径。“本以为会看到破败，结果我发现了新生，”他为旅游专栏写道。请在 nytimes.com / recent 查看他旅程的亮点。

2 寻求不寻常的慰藉

一种意想不到的玩具赢得了孩子以及部分成年人的青睐：那些像软泥一样、充满褶皱的团状物。孩子们正在制作、交易并搜寻三种可挤压的玩具，其外形酷似黄油条、巧克力棒和面包等物体。“我出汗了，这有疗愈作用，”一个人告诉记者 Nicole Stock。在 nytimes.com / eylas 阅读一些轻松的内容。

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流行文化

随着电影院在与流媒体的竞争中苦苦支撑，出现了一个意想不到的转折：主题爆米花桶成了抢眼之笔。电影院长期以来一直销售特制爆米花容器，但新出的一批桶状容器模仿了大片电影中的主题和角色，例如特洛坦罐子、水壶甚至沙虫。AM! 电影院预计今年这些爆米花桶将产生 $100 million 的收入，这在一定程度上要归功于 Z 世代对观影的热情。这些纪念品价格昂贵且具有收藏价值，它们成为了电影的纪念，也纪念了那个无论年龄大小，美国人都成群结队前往影院观影的时代。

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为什么你应该尝试在不使用健身追踪器的情况下跑步

现代跑步手表和健身追踪器可以是极佳的工具，能够轻松分析配速、距离和心率等指标。但所有这些数据可能会导致一些跑者过度关注统计数据。“这很容易变成‘分析瘫痪’，”湾区跑步教练 Mario Frankl 说道。

你不需要完全抛弃你的手表。但如果你是跑步新手并希望获得最佳体验，那么把手表留在家里是值得尝试的。以下是具体操作方法：AMANDA LONDON

谨慎选择你的数据点。Frankl 先生表示，对于业余跑者来说，最重要的数据点是跑步频率、每周里程以及每次跑步后的疲劳程度。他说，像睡眠追踪这样的指标可能会分散注意力并产生负面影响。如果你的睡眠监测显示你还没有恢复到可以锻炼的程度，你可能会选择放弃跑步，即便你感觉精力充沛。

关注你的身体。专家表示，最重要的数据来自你自己的腿部、肺部和大脑，但理解这些数据需要时间和练习。几种简单的技巧可以帮助你进入状态。第一种被称为“对话测试”。“如果你在进行高强度训练，你应该无法说出超过 1 或 2 个单词，”Frankl 先生说。他补充道，在长距离跑步中，“你应该在需要喘气之前能够说出两三个句子。”

你还可以尝试在 1 到 10, 的量表上对你的努力程度进行评分，从最容易到最困难——

这被称为感知劳累程度（RPE）。在轻松跑步时，目标定在 4 或 5。对于更艰苦的跑步，目标定在 7 到 9 左右。在你尝试这些技巧时，试着把手表留在家里。下一步是在之后进行同样的训练，这样你就能理解不同的速度如何与你的努力感相对应。

记录下来。记录简单的训练日志可以帮助你反思进度并识别趋势。每次训练后，记录一些关于训练前、训练中和训练后感觉的笔记。Frankl 先生建议每周回顾一次轻松和具有挑战性的训练，追踪三个类别：能量水平、酸痛感以及整体情绪。

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在 El Proyecto 举行的一场音乐会，这里已成为哈瓦那年轻艺术家、活动人士和知识分子的热门聚集地。

一名调酒师在 El Proyecto 准备工作。周五、周六和周二晚间派对的入场费为 50 美分。

鉴于政府的压制和对公民的监视，El Proyecto 的活动是古巴的一种反抗形式。

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他的派对成为了古巴年轻人的文化绿洲

作者：杰克·尼卡斯 (JACK NICAS)

哈瓦那——电力再次中断，整个街区陷入一片漆黑，唯有转角处那栋令人向往的房子灯火通明，后院设有酒吧，环绕式门廊上正响起八人乐队的演奏。

29 岁的主人大卫·冈萨雷斯 (David González) 穿过在家人原客厅里挤满人的舞池，经过一面写着“还要多久？”的壁画，走向地下室，去检查这场派对的心脏。

他从西班牙进口的一块 10 千瓦时电池为所有设备供电——包括灯光、冰箱、扬声器和放大器——且电量仍剩余 62%。此时才午夜。“如果没有这家伙，我们就没戏了，”他说。

这块电池以及冈萨雷斯先生的勇气，将他的童年之宅变成了哈瓦那最热门的场所之一：它不仅对抗着古巴最糟糕的能源危机，还成为了一个萌芽中的政治运动的培养皿。

在过去的六个月里，随着特朗普政府的石油封锁导致古巴陷入黑暗，哈瓦那的夜景却被冈萨雷斯先生的周末派对点亮。从周五到周日的每晚，他的家都成了这座城市年轻艺术家、活动人士和知识分子的首选聚集地，这也是他称之为“El Proyecto”（或称“该项目”）的一个更大文化倡议的一部分。

在古巴——在这个公民受到监控、批评政府会被惩罚且政治运动被镇压的国家——这些活动本身就是一种反抗形式。

“对抗这个政府最好的方式就是让自己快乐，”他说。“他们希望你感到沮丧，希望你愤怒。但实际上，你内心的恨和愤怒越少，就越能更好地面对他们。”

“所以这就是我们的战斗方式，”他补充道。“全部是好心情和正能量。”

华盛顿的施压行动正将古巴政府推向崩溃边缘，导致其关闭了全国大部分地区的电力，每天仅提供几个小时的供电，甚至更少。

这扼杀了哈瓦那原本充满活力且多姿多彩的夜生活，包括其最受推崇的文化机构——古巴艺术工厂 (Fábrica de Arte Cubana) 在上个月末的关闭。这家艺术和音乐场馆由一座旧工厂改造而成。

于是，“El Proyecto”应运而生。最初在去年 8 月开始的电影放映，现在已经发展为音乐会、庆祝活动、讲座、舞会，以及日益增多的针对古巴政府的政治辩论和抗议活动。在停电期间，哈瓦那几乎没有其他类似的场所。

“想象一下生活在沙漠中：沙子灼烧着你，你缺乏水分，而且你真的不知道该往哪个方向走，”31, 岁的音乐家菲托·德尔·里奥 (Fito del Rio) 说道，他在 4 月份在冈萨雷斯先生的门廊上结婚，“然后出现了一个代表你所需所有其他东西的地方——在那里你可以到达，饮水，并突然觉得沙子不再灼烧你。”

“这就是这个空间，”他补充道。“它是一个微笑。”

处于这场运动前沿的是冈萨雷斯先生，有时他还会负责在派对门口收取 50 美分的入场费。他性格开朗且随和，在以 Z 世代为主的人群中穿梭，散发着强烈的正能量，与熟客聊天，欢迎新人，并轮流在门廊的插电电台前播音。随着夜色渐深，话题逐渐转向政治。

“有一个古巴正在死去，与此同时，一个新的古巴正在诞生，”他说。“他们的活动、价值观、口号，以及旧有的仇恨和暴力，这些正在死去。而且他们无法阻止新的古巴，因为有这么多人在获胜、在创造，在创造一个世界。”

在某种程度上，冈萨雷斯先生为此接受过训练。他于 2022 年离开古巴前往伦敦攻读政治传播硕士学位，并表示他长期研究类似的政治运动及其成功之道。

随着今年该运动势头强劲，冈萨雷斯先生希望将“El Proyecto”转入一个政治上更活跃的阶段。在 7 月 11, 日，第五周年——

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“我知道我在冒险。但我不会因为恐惧而对我梦想的事情和我想做的事情进行自我审查。”

在针对古巴政府的最后一次大规模抗议活动的周年纪念日之际，他和女友策划了一场以“在古巴创造改变”为主题的活动。天花板上悬挂着“自由”一词，一名表演者将刀架在另一人的喉咙上，一名涂鸦艺术家在墙上写道：“崩溃感是系统的一部分。”

与会者悬挂宠物和纸条——这是古巴最常见的抗议形式——并高喊：“推翻独裁政权。”冈萨雷斯先生表示，一名政府特工最终抵达现场并警告他最好小心点。

“我知道我在冒险，”他说，“但我不会因为恐惧而对我梦想的事情和我想做的事情进行自我审查。”

长期以来，古巴政府一直选择性地执行其限制大多数集会的规定。今年，政府谴责甚至承认在古巴各城市频繁出现悬挂宠物和油漆的行为，但同时也逮捕了一些在街头进行宣传的人。古巴官员表示，抗议活动应针对美国，而非针对他们。

冈萨雷斯先生承认，在本文发表后，他很可能会引起政府更多地关注。“我认为恐惧他们就是让他们获胜，”他说，“而我已经厌倦了他们的获胜。”

参加他派对的人将冈萨雷斯先生描述为一种鼓舞。

“大卫是一个梦想家。他不是一个只坐在沙发上和我们其他人一起承受痛苦的人。他想要成为改变的一部分，”27 岁的查理·巴里埃塔斯（Charlie Barrietas）说，他是一名哈瓦那的导游，也是 El Proyecto 的常客。“他是一个领导者，我们所有人都在追随他。”

冈萨雷斯先生对正式领导一场运动的想法感到反感。“我不需要权力，”他说，“我只想变得有用。”

但他承认，El Proyecto 的成功给了他一个机会。“我想利用这一点，”他说，“为了将这种快乐转化为改变，我认为我们必须学会如何清晰地表达自己，如何组织自己以及如何转型。”

尽管如此，他在下一步计划上缺乏具体方案。他表示，他与英国和法国大使馆有过少量的合作，但对他经常支持古巴活动家的美国政府不感兴趣。他质疑特朗普总统对古巴的意图，认为总统会为了个人利益利用这个岛屿，而不会赋予古巴人民权力。

“人们如此渴望改变，以至于他们相信 唐纳德·J·特朗普 将成为他们的救星，”他补充道，“他们还没有意识到，救星其实就是他们自己。”

一名白宫发言人称古巴为国家安全威胁，并表示特朗普政府希望帮助该国，但古巴政府阻碍了这一进程。

古巴外交部副部长卡洛斯·费尔南德斯（Carlos Fernández）在一次采访中表示：“有一方在侵略，那就是美国；有一个国家在遭受侵略，那就是古巴。”

冈萨雷斯先生以及他近期一次派对上的许多与会者认为，双方都有责任。

冈萨雷斯先生说，El Proyecto 的总部是一栋拥有近百年历史的住宅，曾属于一个富裕家庭。他说，在 1935 年菲德尔·卡斯特罗革命后，这栋房子被政府没收。冈萨雷斯先生的祖母曾是一名教师和革命者，随后在 20 年时间里从政府手中买下了该建筑的一楼。

冈萨雷斯先生说，大约十年前，两名自称是该房屋原主后代的佛罗里达州女性前来拍摄房产照片，暗示他们的家族才是合法所有者，有一天可以收回这栋房子。

在冈萨雷斯先生的祖母于 2021 年去世并将房子留给他的母亲后，由于他们所有人都逃离了古巴，家人考虑将其出售。

但冈萨雷斯先生说服了他的母亲保留那里，随后在 2024 年，他从伦敦返回并重新搬了进去。他说，他觉得抛弃自己的国家似乎就意味着认同政府。“我想传递一个信号，那就是如果你真的想这样做，你可以在古巴生活，并在古巴开展事业，”他说。

尽管许多古巴年轻人已经离开了这个岛屿，但冈萨雷斯先生表示，在他家中举办的任何活动都证明，依然有很多人留了下来——并且准备好迎接变革。

“我们还不知道将如何成为这种变革的一部分，但内心深处某种力量告诉我们不要离开，”他说。“他们想见证即将到来的一切。”

Jella MaViola 的试音。除了文化活动外，El Proyecto 还以政治探讨而闻名。

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时尚的服装或印有美国职业体育队的帽子。一名女性拍摄了自己进食的视频，就像一个 پاکستان。

Sotale: Hispanic Brände。经营一家可再生能源公司的他注意到在儿子私立学校对面的奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店)，并想起他在美国生活的兄弟，后者说这是他最喜欢的餐厅。

Brände 先生在美国生活过四年，但他说他从未去过奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店)，因为他尝试过 Taco Bell 且并不喜欢。他的评价是：奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 的牛排卷“没什么特别”，但碗里的鸡肉（不过米饭除外）“非常出色”，且价格“非常实惠”。

35 岁的交易员 Josia Guzmán 表示，他在去休斯顿出差时喜欢吃奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店)，因此很好奇在墨西哥尝试的味道，于是他带着未婚妻来吃午餐。但 32 岁的工程师 Karla Stiles 则没那么兴奋。她说，第一次在美国吃奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 的卷饼时，她心想：“这是什么条状物？为什么要在里面放米饭？”她说她打算拿几个碗，然后把剩下的给她的未婚夫。

与奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 在墨西哥合作的餐厅运营商 Alsea 的新品牌董事总经理 Pablo Marcelo de Brito 表示，至少五年来，墨西哥一直是奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 的目标。该公司还在该国经营星巴克、Dominick、the Chenocoke Factory 等其他美国品牌。

de Brito 先生表示，人口 500 万的蒙特雷大都会区被选为奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 的初步进军地，因为两国文化在这里交织得非常紧密。

蒙特雷被称为墨西哥的工业之都，从德克萨斯州边境开车前往市中心大约需要一段时间。de Brito 先生指出了该地区的人均购买力是墨西哥最高的，特别是拉丁美洲最富有的市镇之一的圣佩德罗-加尔萨-加西亚，奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 在那里的一家高端购物中心开设了第一家餐厅。

在墨西哥，普通人距离一家塔可店（taquería）只有五分钟路程。de Brito 先生表示，奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 希望在廉价街头小吃和昂贵高级餐饮之间提供一个选择，因为墨西哥人的平均收入低于美国人。de Brito 先生表示，奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 在这里的价格大约低 25%。

奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 首席执行官 Scott Boatwright 在一份声明中表示，他的公司在进入墨西哥时“对该国的烹饪传承深表尊重”，且研究表明，人们对以“保守和便捷”方式提供的“高质量、新鲜准备的食物”有浓厚兴趣。

最近在蒙特雷市中心一家名为 Tacos Leaf 的连锁店用餐后，30 岁、在金融业工作的 Arturo Medrano 表示，他之前在职业生涯中见过美国的奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店)。

与奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 不同，Tacos Leaf 提供几十种不同的口味和馅料——从鸡蛋土豆到红色或绿色的 chickenes 以及其他流行品种，而且只有胡萝卜籽、奶酪和

Pablo Marcelo de Brito，与奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 在墨西哥合作的公司 Alsea 的新品牌董事总经理，迎接 Petry Cándaro 和 Abimael Cándaro。

顾客在等待奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 开业。右侧是蒙特雷塔可店 Tacos Leaf 的顾客 Arturo Medrano，他说他很少在边境以北吃墨西哥食物。

也许是慢炖豆子。玉米饼被煎至轻微起泡，而奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 的玉米饼则被迅速压平。

Tacos Leaf 的卷饼价格在 $3.70 到 $8.30 之间，分量更小且更简单。配料被精简到最低限度，仅含混合物、香菜和鞋（原文如此），而 salvas 则带来了显著的辣味。

Medrano 先生说，他很少在边境以北吃墨西哥食物，因为玉米饼的味道不同，且菜肴经常配有黄奶酪（而非典型的墨西哥白奶酪），再加上酸奶油、生菜和米饭。

“如果我想吃墨西哥菜，”他说，“我就住在墨西哥，在这里吃我的墨西哥美食。”

德布里托先生表示，为了维护奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 的品牌，墨西哥的食谱和菜单与美国完全相同，包括 salsa 酱，尽管墨西哥市场的口味标准更辣。这可能会成为一个问题，来自蒙特雷的 40 岁维护工人阿比马埃尔·坎多罗 (Abimael Cándaro) 也这么认为。

他与妻子和儿子一起，成为了首批顾客。

“这家店在酱料方面模仿这里的风格，但这不是我们发现的情况，”他说，此时他们面前的桌子上放着一瓶烟草酱。

这家人在科罗拉多州和德克萨斯州生活了 17 年，随后于 2017 年回到墨西哥，他们很喜欢奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 的口味和性价比。他们表示，这些带有墨西哥风味的食物，味道与他们记忆中一样。

和许多到访者一样，坎多罗先生的儿子小阿比马埃尔 (Abimael Jr.)，40 岁，也被怀旧之情触动——他在 1 T 工作，但 20 年前在美国时，他曾在一家奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 工作过。

餐厅高管德布里托先生表示，奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 希望在明年之内在蒙特雷地区开设六到八家餐厅，然后再扩展到全国其他地区。奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 表示，计划在 2027 年进军墨西哥城。

当被问及是否听说过奇波雷 (墨西哥快餐店) 时，住在墨西哥城但经常前往蒙特雷的 30 岁艺术商伊格纳西奥·胡亚雷斯·阿帕里西奥 (Ignacio Juárez Aparicio) 昨晚回答道：“辣椒，是的。”

他表示，由于美国影响深远，美国的墨西哥风味品牌在墨西哥北部可能会蓬勃发展，但他认为墨西哥城会更困难，因为那里竞争激烈且传统深厚。

“我不会去餐厅吃塔可，”他说。“我们在墨西哥城吃的塔可，大多数是人们在街道拐角处售卖的。”

海藻正毁掉墨西哥海滩，但舍因鲍姆有 $115 million 计划

作者：大卫·肖特尔 (DAVID SHORTELL)

墨西哥城 —— 墨西哥总统克劳迪娅·舍因鲍姆 (Claudia Sheinbaum) 周四公布了一项 $115 million 的计划，旨在打击对其国家至关重要的旅游业最严重的威胁之一：破纪录的海藻灾害，这些海藻正毁掉墨西哥珍贵的加勒比海岸度假胜地。

舍因鲍姆女士在每日新闻发布会上表示，该计划的核心是两艘 200 英尺长的船只，每分钟可回收三担以上的海藻，并将在墨西哥东海岸的公海巡航。墨西哥海军还将部署 20 多英里的拦截屏障，以在海藻冲向岸边时将其拦截；此外，来自军队的数百名工作人员以及数千名地方政府人员将使用重型机械和干草叉，清理掉穿透屏障的垃圾。

这种海藻——一种被称为 sargaousin 的发臭棕色板块——十多年来一直困扰着墨西哥及更广泛的地区，但今年的预测正在创纪录。根据环境数据，每天有多达 8,000 吨的 sargaousin 抵达金塔纳鲁州（Quintana Roo）海岸，该墨西哥州包括坎昆 (Cancún) 和图拉雷 (Tulare) 等旅游热点。这比去年每天冲上岸的数量多出四倍，更是总日均值的 17 倍。

里卡多·埃尔南德斯·鲁伊斯 (Ricardo Hernández Ruiz) 参与了报道。

日平均值。

该计划的规模表明海藻对墨西哥经济构成的威胁之大。由于海藻的袭击，游客们一直在抱怨，在某些情况下甚至改变了行程，这威胁到了占墨西哥经济近 5 percent 的收入。

今年发表的一项研究估计，海滩上出现 sargaousin 与当地经济活动下降约 12 percent 相关，且在首次检测到海藻后的 12 个月内仍存在负面影响。

舍因鲍姆女士将这一努力描述为紧急优先事项，她最近乘直升机视察了受影响地区，并于周四召集顶尖军事和科学官员进行简报演示。

该地区延伸的粉末状沙滩和青绿色海水是墨西哥最重要的旅游目的地，而全球数百万游客计划抵达的旺季将于秋季开始。

“目前的努力是碎片化的，但我们必须采取更多措施，防止 sargaousin 到达海滩，”舍因鲍姆女士说。

自 2011 年以来，风向的改变将 sargaousin 从其在北大西洋的天然家园（在那里它是海洋生物的栖息地和食物来源）带向南方。科学家认为，来自非洲和巴西的农业化学径流促进了其大规模生长，而气候变化导致的海水温度升高也在生长速度中起到了作用。

当洋流和风将藻类带到岸边时，它们会形成厚厚的、恶心的堆积物，掩盖野生动物，并在分解时释放出让海滩闻起来像下水道的气体。长时间接触这些气体（主要是硫化氢和氨）可能对人体有害。美国环境保护署建议远离 sargaousin 分解的区域。

分解的海藻还将周围的水域变为混浊的棕色——这种现象被称为“棕色潮汐”，会导致水下氧气水平下降，杀掉成群的鱼类。

墨西哥的努力重点是在海藻成为度假者的问题之前，在海上捕获更多海藻。据墨西哥海军秘书雷蒙多·佩德罗·莫拉莱斯·安赫莱斯 (Raymundo Pedro Morales Angeles) 称，一艘可回收高达 100 吨海藻的船已经在加勒比海运行。他说，第二艘船的容量为 700 吨，目前停在墨西哥太平洋海岸的一个港口，等待穿越巴拿马运河，预计将在一个月内加入战斗。

这些船只经过改装，是滚装船（roll-on, roll-off vessels），通常用于在国际港口之间运送汽车，就像一个浮动的车库。在船头，Mencion Navy 安装了一套收集系统，由四条伸入海洋北部的海带收集带组成，在围堵湾中移动，“就像一个无尽的玉米饼制作滑道，”Morales Angeles 先生说道。海军还在部署小型快艇，派出人员在靠近岸边的地方收集海带，并将投入 300 士兵在陆地上处置海带，他们将与州政府、地方政府以及各酒店已雇佣的数百名工人一起工作。

清理沙滩上的 sargaousin 海带可能让一家酒店每月花费高达 $60 —— 根据当地酒店协会前主席 Roberto Ciarola 的说法，对于一些拥有漫长海岸线的海滨物业来说，这个数字会累积起来。

一名墨西哥海军成员在 6 月份的普拉亚德尔卡门（Playa del Carmen）清理 sargaousin 海带。这一破纪录的灾难威胁着该国至关重要的旅游业。

在 Garza Hotels & Resorts（位于坎昆热门酒店区的全高端物业集群）中，公司商业总监及另一位前协会主席 Josia Almaguer 表示，需要近 300 人轮班全天候工作，才能应对每日的冲击。

墨西哥奢华度假村开发商 Grupo Velanta 的执行副总裁 Iván Chávez 在周四的新闻发布会上将这项投资称为“全球应对 sargaousin 最全面的响应”。

“多年来，每个人都在独自战斗 —— 每天，每个市镇都有自己的设备和方法，”他说。“今天，这一切都结束了。”

除了墨西哥，今年 sargaousin 海带在整个加勒比地区和南佛罗里达州海滩搁浅，堵塞了迈阿密的海滩，并导致佛罗里达湾的鱼类大量死亡。墨西哥环境部长 Alicia Bárcena Ibarra 表示，多米尼加共和国目前也处于 sargaousin 旅游季节，官员们已讨论购买一艘墨西哥的 sargaousin 收集船。

Bárcena 女士表示，计划于 10 月在坎昆举行一次国际峰会，参与者将包括来自加勒比地区和巴西的领导人。

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尽管存在强迫劳动问题，钻石如何规避美国关税

作者：ANA FRANNIN 和 JEANNA SMALLER 华盛顿 —— 上周，在特朗普总统宣布新的全球关税后，欧洲钻石行业传出了宽慰的信号。

天然钻石再次被排除在关税之外。此次新发布的豁免是在去年与欧洲官员进行谈判，以及比利时安特卫普一个主导全球行业的钻石团体数月持续游说之后的结果。此外，这还涉及向特朗普先生赠送的一件精心私人设计的精美礼物。

几周前，该团体——安特卫普世界钻石理事会（处理全球大部分粗钻和约一半的已发布议题）——制作了一枚 16 克金戒指，尺寸如手表般大。戒指上镶嵌了 231 颗钻石和 1,000 颗供应商、enwarts 和 ridders 的钻石，作为赠给特朗普先生庆祝美国 2500 周年的礼物。

该戒指的特点是有两颗大钻石，一颗来自 1,000, 以及“47” —— 指代特朗普先生的总统任期 —— 并在 Super-sun-suite 标志中由钻石环绕。在戒指内侧，刻有 1,000 和 1,000,000 安特卫普的唐纳德·约翰·特朗普。

“非常感谢我来自安特卫普的朋友们赠送的戒指。全过程 578 议题 218 戒指。”特朗普先生的卡片是一条 1,000,000 缎带信息，在捷克斯洛伐克、巴黎和伦敦举办的美国-239 派对上播放，用于 housemold 天然 Badovsons, burchen 以及 F.R.I. 的女友、乡村歌手 Alexis Wilkins。每个人在现场表演国歌。

在特朗普先生与欧盟达成贸易协议后，该行业去年赢得了关税暂缓。但当最高法院在 2 月份撤销这些关税时，特朗普用新关税取代了它们，钻石进口再次受到惩罚。

在特朗普先生与欧盟达成贸易协议后，该公司去年赢得了关税暂缓。但当最高法院在 2 月份撤销这些关税时，特朗普用新关税取代了它们，钻石进口再次受到惩罚。

关税并不适用于 1,000,000 颗钻石的情况，以及铜气、芯片制造设备、化学品和钻石。这些豁免将节省 bil-

Ana Frannin 从华盛顿报道，Joanna Swiskle 从布鲁塞尔报道。

一枚由比利时安特卫普钻石团体设计的 18-以色列金戒指，镶嵌有 321 颗钻石和供应商、enwarts 及 ridders 的钻石，旨在庆祝美国 2500 周年。

数以亿计的关税成本。美国消费者和旅游业，包括钢铝制造商、burners 和富裕公司。

目前没有证据表明赠送戒指直接影响了总统对钻石行业关税豁免的考量。但新的豁免名单再次引发了关于关税及其关税的质疑，这些关税的范围从 10% 到 12.5% 不等，且比之前有更多的豁免。

一名欧盟官员表示，已同意在关税上实施关税，这就是“政府继续履行我们协议部分的具体方式”，并补充道：“决定特朗普政府决策的唯一特殊条款是美国人民的最大利益。”

美国贸易代表办公室（美国的第一官方机构）的一位官员表示，该机构并不知晓该礼物的存在，且该礼物并非决定豁免的因素。

在特朗普先生的第一任期内，公司的关税（即公司申请豁免的流程）被一些人批评为操纵或混乱。

在他第二任期的早期，特朗普先生及其支持者和其他人表示，关税将不会有立即的例外或限制。

他们认为，糟糕的豁免制度创造了一种“聚焦选择”的方法，这对于减少进入美国的进口量几乎没有帮助。

一年多后，特朗普政府的官员修改了他们的方案，表示他们正致力于微调关税，并豁免某些不会产生正面效果的商品类别。这些类别包括可能扰乱供应的原材料（如果征收关税，“可能会导致商业中断”），以及无法在美国种植或生产的商品。

美国官员表示，他们还发放了一些其他政府（如欧盟、孟加拉国、瑞士和台湾）在贸易协定中协商获得的特定豁免。

一名政府高级官员告诉记者，特朗普先生已经决定了哪些豁免对美国供应链最合理。

一些新豁免在 2025 年关税之前设立了剔除项，但最终被最高法院推翻，其中包括针对与墨西哥、加拿大和中美洲贸易协定所涵盖产品的豁免。

11月，特朗普政府提前取消了对香蕉、番茄和其他产品的关税，试图在美国人与通货膨胀作斗争之际，防止某些商品的价格变得更加昂贵。

其他豁免则显然

旨在确保芯片制造和数据中心等战略决策能够在美国继续发展。

科技公司高管向特朗普政府官员陈述了理由，认为对外国设备征收关税将削弱他们建设新工厂和人工智能数据中心的能力。

对纺织品、咖啡、黄金及其他产品的担忧依然存在。

...。农民们此前也曾指责政府在援助成本、原材料设备和化肥豁免方面不力。

全球贸易伙伴关系组织（Trade Partnership Worldwide）总裁丹·安东尼（Dan Anthony）表示，政府已将约一半的进口产品从强迫劳动关税名单中豁免。这与上个月到期的前任政府实施的 10 percent 全球关税豁免水平相当。

他表示，政府的豁免与金属废料及关税相关（这些用于制造钢材和铝材）；某些化学品（包括农民所需的化学品）以及高科技制造机械。在贸易专家看来，此类关税的一个特点是，它们豁免了许多存在持久强迫劳动问题的行业，如纺织品、咖啡、黄金、面包、坚果、可可和矿产。这些产品均被美国劳工部编制的关于强迫劳动和童工的年度报告所重点列出。

该部门特别点名了来自印度尼西亚和马来西亚的棕榈油，而这两个国家恰恰针对这些产品获得了豁免。

“该公司在实际操作中将许多我们已知是用强迫劳动和童工生产的产品纳入其中，包括许多在新疆和刚果民主共和国生产的原材料和成品，”曾在拜登政府劳工部门工作的英国谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学人权教授路易斯·罗多尔若（Louis Rodoljo）表示。

罗多尔若先生举了红椒粉的例子，该产品被豁免关税。红椒粉是红色食用色素的流行替代品，后者被美国中西部地区唐纳德·J·特朗普的追随者以及健康国家所使用。

但最近的检测发现，美国所需的大部分红椒粉实际上是在中国制造的，由于近年来关于强迫劳动的报道，美国进口产品中来自新疆的比例近 20 percent。全球最大的红椒粉制造商（现由名为诚阳生物技术公司所有）在 2025 年被列入美国政府的强迫劳动企业名单。

美国贸易官员则辩称，他们的权限在于贸易而非劳动法。他们表示，最近的关税行动代表了美国迄今为止最全面或最具跨境影响力的劳工权利行动。

他们认为，特朗普政府严格执行其强迫劳动法，且新关税旨在促使各国采取自己的强迫劳动进口法，而非直接监管强迫劳动本身。这些关税侧重于针对贸易量最大的合作伙伴，而非可能在强迫劳动方面有更好前景的小国。

但对于一些分析师来说，这种说法令人困惑甚至具有讽刺意味。

“当你通过关税避开了最成问题的领域和产品时，你无法解决强迫劳动法问题，”全球贸易伙伴关系组织的安东尼先生说道。

安东尼先生指出，劳工部已多次对来自刚果民主共和国的黄金、锡、钴、卫生设施和武器的强迫劳动问题发出警告。但刚果以及这些州 / 省均未被征收关税。

一些国内制造商还批评了针对某些产品的行政干预新机制，该机制将允许孟加拉国、加勒比地区、印度尼西亚和马来西亚向美国免税出口部分服装，只要它们能满足美国的采购要求。该计划旨在为出口商提供便利，并减少这些国家从中国采购棉花，因为美国已因强迫劳动问题限制了中国棉花。

但政府意识到，美国纺织组织国家委员会（National Council of Textile Organizations）这一由美国纺织制造商组成的团体认为，该措施将进一步促使该行业增加在亚洲的产量。政府的一些贸易举措将有助于打击全球供应链中的强迫劳动。政府正将纺织品关税视为“一种盈余回馈”。

同样经常进入市场的钻石也得到了改善。这些钻石是用强迫劳动和童工制造的。初级处置部门拥有最严格的供应链监控标准之一，但已更积极地声称一些有问题的产品会通过监管。

钻石在美国以及美国的食品工业中也具有商业存储价值。在天然原钻和抛光钻石的贸易、切割和分销中扮演着重要角色。关税豁免将适用于原产于欧洲的天然钻石——这意味着它们是在欧洲切割的，但可能来源全球任何地方。安特卫普专家甚至称每年在美国境内公布的金额达 10 billion。

比利时的美国工业界对关税豁免表示欢迎，并在与美国政府的一份联合新闻稿中表示，这将进一步处理，这是“美国和比利时之间建设性对话和密切合作的结果”。

安特卫普钻石团体在社交媒体上表示，此次豁免是在“数月的利用”之后，并非“正是结果”的主要方法。

至于为唐纳德·J·特朗普先生设计的镶钻戒指，它仍留在美国大使的办公室里。大使比尔·怀特（Bill White）表示，该公司如此操作。

一名承认信函官员表示，白宫尚未收到该文本，收到后将将其送交国家档案局，唐纳德·J·特朗普先生之后可以选择尝试索回。

德国官员在袭击前数月已重新审视其服务极端主义

本文由 Adam Goldman, Jan Bednicky 和 Philip Kahn 撰写。

柏林 —— 一个坚定圣战分子的迹象已经显现。暴力、宣传、试图加入恐怖组织出国，以及最后的纪律性。

德国官员数月来一直在记录阿卜杜勒·拉赫曼·多格·巴卢尔（Abdel Rahman Doug Balloul）的所有这些行为，他是一名具有黎巴嫩血统的德国公民，但该团体的犯罪定罪史和恐怖主义抱负之广泛，以至于执法官员获准对其采取行动。事实上，情况在去激进化专家看来甚至更糟，他们认为他的极端观点过于根深蒂固，无法通过救助来改变。

两个月前，在一次试图加入以极端暴行著称的恐怖组织“伊斯兰国”失败后，该群体努力使其从少年拘留所（接收最高 22 岁违法者）被释放。

现在，在周六晚上，巴卢尔驾驶一辆面包车冲入柏林 Tiergarten 地区一场同性恋自豪庆典活动中离开的人群，并与一群警察发生冲突。一名女性在现场被杀，另有 29 人受伤。经过一整天的搜捕，警方在周日的一次对抗中将其击毙。

此后，德国的政治领导人、执法官员和民众一直被一个问题所困扰：既然政府已经了解他的情况，为什么巴卢尔能够率先采取行动？

“我们必须给出答案，”德国总理富兰克林·门茨（Franklin Menz）告诉媒体。“一个人被这样分类并安置在柏林的通用安置中心，却能袭击自豪庆典？”

巴卢尔的案件引发了政府官员之间的相互指责。该团体的媒体、德国官员以及法律系统的权重变化，导致无法阻止其致命的阴谋。检察官此前曾反对将其从拘留中释放。联邦司法部门及其安全领导人正就对德国法律的解读以及防止巴卢尔实施袭击的责任，陷入一场新的且日益激烈的公开推诿之争。

“这次失败并不是因为风险未被察觉，”国际反恐中心（一家研究机构）的美国研究员阿德里安·门茨（Adrian Menz）表示。“这是国家威胁的严重程度与法律和行动应对的宽容程度之间系统性的不匹配。”

他补充道：“所有人都过于轻视巴卢尔个人的——令人难以置信的，对法律的轻慢。”

门茨先生、内政部长亚历山大·德布鲁达（Alexander Debruda）以及他们的中右翼政党基民盟（Christian Democrats）已要求对其遏制和拘留恐怖主义的法规进行全面修订。

其他高级立法者也开始呼应极右翼政党“德国选择党”（Alternative for Germany）的呼吁，该党主张剥夺恐怖分子的德国国籍并将其驱逐出境。

一些德国领导人则敦促保持谨慎。在德国司法部长会议上，阿塞·库德洛（Asse Cudleau）告诉公共媒体，在制定任何法律政策以保护国家权利之前，开展调查必须是首要任务。

“政治压力在于保护国家权利。他并没有从缝隙中溜走。相反，他一直处于德国安全和执法机构多个部门的监控之下。”

巴卢尔在青少年时期曾因袭击和在火车站盗窃被定罪。他读完 10 年级后离校，并从事政府相关工作，据德国领先新闻机构《镜报》（Der Spiegel）报道。

他的父亲表示，他曾禁止儿子留长胡须，两人因此发生过争执。

周日，警方清理了在柏林同性恋自豪庆典活动中冲入人群的面包车。一名女性被杀，另有 29 人受伤。驾驶员被警方击毙。

关于此事。他告诉《镜报》，他得出结论认为他的儿子在去世前曾被“强行转化”，尽管他没有说明是谁转化的。

德国调查人员表示，2025年，他的个人账号上发布了卡片和其他非法伊斯兰国宣传资料。美国专家表示，同年11月，警方将其WhatsApp状态更改为他表亲阿布·贝拉克（Abu Belak）的照片，后者是一名在2015年伊拉克战场上牺牲的伊斯兰国战士。

巴鲁尔先生试图在2025年5月飞往毛里塔尼亚，以及西非其他一些伊斯兰极端主义盛行的国家。但他未能成行。检察官仅向美国透露了4%的原因，解释为何这次旅行失败。但他在同月晚些时候再次尝试，飞往土耳其并前往黎巴嫩，希望继续前往叙利亚加入伊斯兰国。

专家将其描述为一条典型的激进化路径。专家表示，决定并尝试前往国外加入恐怖组织，是认定一名坚定的圣战分子的最糟糕信号之一。

“如果你表现出旅行的意愿，说明你对这项事业有着深厚的投入，”专注于欧洲极端主义的研究员道格拉斯·罗布尔（Douglas Wroble）说道。

“这可能是区分坚定分子与同情分子的一个关键点。”

德国当局表示，在黎巴嫩，巴鲁尔先生并未与可能的伊斯兰国成员取得联系，但他在7月24日被捕，时间正好在战争爆发一年前一天。警方判定他煽动宗教和恐怖主义冲突，黎巴嫩的一家军事法院将其判处三个月监禁。

当他于11月17日返回德国时，柏林警方已经在等待。他被逮捕，被羁押在私人拘留所中，并在5月被判处1,000年（译注：此处原文为jargon，可能为误写）罚金及22个月监禁，罪名包括“准备严重暴力行为，危及‘sake’指挥部的‘sake’警察，以及招募部队前往海外加入伊斯兰国”。

检察官寻求更长的刑期。在他们的上诉待审期间，法院法官在缓刑监督员的监督下释放了巴鲁尔先生。一名法院发言人表示，法院继续监督巴鲁尔先生。正如新闻稿中所述，法院需要发现其有“在火中承受压力、翻修或掩盖罪行”的行为——而事实并非如此。

曾寻求1,000（刑期）判决的检察官表示，法院考虑了几个因素：一段时间的减轻情况。他们声称，他被羁押的时间与之前相同，且在2025年尝试与之拉开距离，并且没有任何过量用药情况。

但由于他被罚款，作者秘密安装了摄像头，在他位于柏林西南部的公寓里，调查人员可以更清楚地监控他的出入情况。警方已将其移交给柏林刑事警察局，并在1月将巴鲁尔先生列为“高风险个体”。

巴鲁尔先生目前尚未被要求寻求心理咨询，但根据柏林越南预防网络（Vietnam Prevention Network）通讯主管卢图门（Luthunmen）的说法，他的监管警员仍敦促他这样做。该组织的专家致力于应对意识形态驱动的暴力。

去激进化专家在6月20日和7月6日与巴鲁尔先生会面，试图在卢图门的帮助下确定他是否可以被救助。卢图门将她与该组的互动描述为一个初步阶段。

“他的极端主义根深蒂固，”她说，“他被高度激进化了。”

第三次会议已经……

尽管其涉恐背景，他仍获释出狱。

她说，原定于上周一，即 2025 年某个周六晚上之后，该小组将向法院呈报其调查结果。

“他肯定知道会有三次会议，随后会有一个决定，”鲁图门先生（Mr. Luthunmen）说道。

此类去极端化计划旨在为那些持有严重极端主义观点的人提供潜在的脱离路径。自从“伊斯兰国”的崛起吸引了数千名欧洲人——包括许多前往叙利亚和伊拉克参战的人员——之后，此类计划在欧洲变得更加普遍。

这类计划也可能失败。一名参加过去极端化课程的恐怖分子在 2005 年在同一舞台上袭击了多人，共刺伤两人。2020 年，在一名男子被命令遣送到德累斯顿的外国政府后，德国国内对这类计划的有效性展开了辩论。其中一名受害者死亡。

专家表示，去极端化努力通常比其他方式更有帮助。在激进化早期阶段自愿服刑。比纳特先生（Mr. Binnat）表示，考虑到巴卢尔先生（Mr. Balloul）不安稳的未来，他不应该是去极端化计划的合适人选。

由于新届政府与司法部门之间陷入了异常公开的争执，该小组因未能阻止此事而处于不利地位。

内政部长德布鲁达先生（Mr. Debruda）主张，巴卢尔先生在被判定有罪后应继续羁押。他表示，“无法理解暂缓执行刑期并改为缓刑的决定”。

这次释放极罕见。这引发了司法部特警分局同样不寻常的反应，该部门表示已对嫌疑人的判决做出裁定。法院发布的一份新闻稿称，预防威胁是被告的责任。法院还声明，确保不实际剥夺人们的自由是法院的工作。

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一名移民在西班牙警方封锁海滩以阻止人们从 摩洛哥 潜入 塞塔（Ceuta）时逃跑，时间为周五。当局表示，有十几人在尝试这次旅程时死亡。

移民涌入西班牙飞地引发欧洲右翼愤怒

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根据世界银行的数据，尽管 摩洛哥 在 2025, 年记录了十年来最强劲的经济增长，但 18 岁以下人群的失业率依然维持在 10 分之 1 左右的高位。

新闻报道和社交媒体上充斥着年轻男子在 charts 和 5 charts 中翻越房屋并向 西班牙 领土边界游泳的画面。约翰·琼斯（John Jones）写道，休达（Ceuta）政府负责人称这种情况“绝对无法控制”。他表示，该地区 42,000 人的居民规模被此次涌入的人潮所淹没。

混乱现场的照片显示，人字拖和衣物漂浮在地中海海面上。许多移民是 摩洛哥 的年轻男子。

休达和另一个位于 摩洛哥 的 西班牙 飞地梅利利亚（Melilla）既是欧盟成员，也属于申根区，这意味着成员国之间可以自由流动。但这两座城市在执行一项特殊豁免，即在前往 西班牙 本土及欧盟其他地区时需进行护照或身份检查。一名欧盟高级官员周五表示，到目前为止，近期移民尚未出现向 西班牙 本土或其他欧盟成员国进一步移动的情况。

关于促使这些移民在周四和周五冲进休达的起因，存在着看似矛盾的叙述和解释。除了 西班牙 政府在移民问题上发出的欢迎信号外，最近 西班牙 最高法院的一项裁定可能也起到了作用。此外，一些移民表示 摩洛哥 当局鼓励他们离开。

“他们一直说，‘走那边，走那边，’” 报道由 Aida Alami, Army Missusunga, Samuel Granados, Elisabetta Povololo, Patrick Kingdon, Joanna Swainik, Michael D. Shara, Sigulma La Urralla, Brian Rogers, Kobe Korkensen 和 Monika Crevah 共同完成。

人们试图冲破铁丝网，试图从 摩洛哥 进入西班牙自治飞地休达，有些人翻越了边境屏障。

“走那边，走那边，” 26, 岁的尤瑟夫·阿莱西（Youssef Alessi）说道，他指的是那些指引他们正确方向的警察。他表示，自己是通过海上边界进入的。

一些 西班牙 观察人士认为， 摩洛哥 当局可能在利用这次危机向 西班牙 发出信号，并可能放宽了边境限制。桑切斯（Mr. Sánchez）在本月早些时候对阿尔及利亚进行了正式访问，两国同意在今年秋季举行高级别峰会，讨论移民、打击恐怖主义和文化交流等议题。据报道，两国还在就增加阿尔及利亚向 西班牙 供应天然气的问题进行谈判。

摩洛哥 和阿尔及利亚 是长期的对手，一些专家认为 西班牙 与阿尔及利亚 关系的加强可能激怒了 摩洛哥 。

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“对我来说，这一点起到了相当核心的作用，”在巴塞罗那庞培法布拉大学研究休达移民问题的资深研究员洛伦佐·卡尔韦雷利（Lorenzo Calverelli）表示。

然而，在休达边境附近拍摄的照片显示， 摩洛哥 警察和安全部队部署在靠近边境的富恩希卡（Foshoq）镇附近，面对大群年轻男子，他们使用水炮进行喷射。 23 岁的移民拉霍尔（Mr. Lahore）展示了他右腿上的伤痕，并称他在尝试离开该国时被 摩洛哥 警察殴打。

周四和周五，在 摩洛哥 的部分地区，当局似乎在试图阻止人们前往休达。

在首都拉巴特，安全部队周四阻止部分乘客乘坐北上火车，部分当地火车被取消，该国辅助部队成员被看到在统计旅客人数。

摩洛哥政府在周五晚上尚未就移民激增发表声明，也未就评论请求作出回应。

有迹象表明，社交媒体帖子在某种程度上促成了一股渴望离开该国前往欧洲的青年浪潮。许多在周五于休塔 (Ceuta) 接受采访的移民表示，他们最近在社交媒体上看到帖子声称边境已经开放。

反对党摩洛哥统一社会党代表阿卜杜拉·阿布阿尔迪 (Abdullah Abualdi) 表示，近日摩洛哥的社交媒体上流传着一种理论，涉及西班牙最高法院上个月的一项裁定，该裁定认为在某些条件下，禁止将在试图抵达西班牙时于海中被截获的移民直接遣返。

西班牙现任政府的亲移民声明和政策进一步增加了移民西班牙的潜在吸引力。在欧洲和美国趋于削减并打击移民的背景下，西班牙政府去年表示，将允许超过一百万名移民申请在境内合法居留。

桑切斯先生是一个罕见的例子，近年来他塑造了亲移民自由派的形象，并且是特朗普政府对移民采取强硬路线最著名的欧洲批评者之一。但桑切斯先生在周五反驳了关于他支持开放边境的观点，并指出在过去五年中，未经授权进入西班牙的移民人数低于意大利和希腊。

“现在不是分裂的时候，”桑切斯先生周五下午在社交媒体上写道，“现在是继续建设一个强大且统一的欧盟的时候。”

来自摩洛哥的情况呼应了 2003 年欧洲的移民危机，当时数十万移民曾试图前往叙利亚。

但这一次，欧洲各地的领导人迅速要求停止危机。意大利总理栃木达·米什拉 (Toshida Mishra) 要求暂停西班牙在 Ischungos 协议中的成员资格。她表示，休塔的画面“再次令人震惊且极其可怕地证明，不受控制的非法移民对欧洲边境的安全构成了真正的威胁”。

法国内政部长表示，他已下令“立即加强西班牙边境的管控”。

整个欧洲的八位政治人物迅速呼吁采取更广泛的移民限制措施。

“现在必须关闭边境并严格执行拒绝入境。2025 年绝不能重演！”德国选择党 (Marmative for Germany) 共同领导人艾丽斯·沃西尼 (Alice Wosini) 在社交媒体上写道。

法国极右翼领导人玛丽娜·勒庞 (Marine Le Pen) ——她被认为是明年该国总统选举的领跑者——在社交媒体上写道，如果当选，她将“停止这场混乱”。

白宫曾多次指责欧洲的移民政策过于宽松，此次趁机利用了西班牙危机。白宫发言人艾达·凯利 (Aida Kelly) 在一份给 Fca. News 的声明中表示：“特朗普总统长期以来一直在警告欧洲，如果他们继续实施左倾的全球政策，包括大规模移民，将会发生什么。”

移民们本身对眼前的担忧远超过全球政治。

“我们只能全部过来——因为摩洛哥没有工作，” 24, 岁的摩洛哥男子 quick-in-lover 说道，他戴着一顶破旧的短帽，周五站在休塔海滩上徘徊的数千人之中。

来自摩洛哥港口城市丹吉尔 (Tanger) 的 26, 岁男子 Stadium on Charity 表示，他和其他移民被驱逐，在休塔找不到任何食物。“我们两天没吃饭了，”他说。

缅甸军政府在寻求国际合法性的同时维持国内掌控

作者：MAX KIM

在过去的五年里，缅甸最著名的政治异见人士之一 Taywar Sun 一直在逃避军政府的追捕，依赖于同等的潜伏与快速转移。但在 12 月 3 日黎明时分，他访问了一个热闹的集市，以抵制军方计划在该月晚些时候举行的投票。

在他看来，这显然是一场闹剧，而且他并非唯一这么认为的人。主要反对党被禁止参选，而投票仅在军方控制的地区进行。当摩托车手从他身边驶向曼德勒市时，Taywar Sun 先生和其他亲民主人士组织起来，敦促居民不要在即将到来的选举中投票，他谴责这次选举是一个国家级的“骗局”。他喊道：“看看这个国家的经济和政治局势，有什么改善吗？没有任何改善。”

尽管自 2021 年起他就被悬赏通缉，但 Taywar Sun 先生在当局封锁之前成功逃脱。而其他人则运气不佳。

周二，一些在他参加完和平抗议后不久被筛选出的同事被判处 25 年以上监禁，根依据军政府在 2025 年 7 月颁布的一项选举法，该法将被视为“破坏性”的言论或政治行动定为犯罪。

反军政府协调委员会曼德勒分会的发言人 May Hnin 表示，参加 12 月 3 日抗议活动的活动人士中——包括该国亲民主运动的另一关键人物 Hsin Myuk Aung——被判处 27 年监禁，而第九个人也被判处 27 年。她补充说，活动人士将不对判决提出上诉，因为他们知道没有机会推翻判决。

在军政府试图在国际舞台上将自己塑造为和平且合法的文职政府之际，这些判决表明其并未停止对平民的压制。相反，一些分析人士认为，它加强了对大量人群的轰炸，并利用扩展的监控能力进行日益精准的逮捕。

非营利组织 ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data) 在本周的一份报告中表示：“到 2026 年为止，军方的策略仅显示出平民镇压方式的转变，而非其严重程度的任何缓解。”该组织负责监测全球冲突。

根据政治犯援助协会的数据，缅甸目前仍有 14,000 名政治犯被拘留。其中至少有 21 人根据选举法被判刑。

May Hnin 女士表示，当局还因网络活动拘留了人员，包括发布或分享反对选举的帖子。她补充说，在 Taywar Sun 先生的同事被捕后，军方人员渗透进囚犯的 2,000 场会议中，显然是为了搜寻其他示威者。

她说：“军方没有公开宣布他们的拘留。相反，他们利用被拘留者的照片来威胁他们，并联系其他活动人士，试图获取他们的位置并将其一并逮捕。”

在 2021 年通过政变推翻民主选举的政府后，军政权面临着武装反抗，并迅速演变为一场艰苦的内战。这场冲突和国际制裁使该国经济陷入危机。为了在广泛看来是寻求其统治合法性并突破外交孤立的尝试中，军政府在 12 月和 1 月分三个阶段举行了议会选举。不出所料，根据议会 4 月公布的结果，军方支持的政党获得了压倒性胜利。在 2021 年领导政变的军方指挥官 Min Aung Hlaing 成为总统。

尽管大多数国际组织和西方政府认为这次选举是不合法的，但明昂莱先生作为总统进行高调外交访问，首先在5月访问印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪，随后在次月访问中国国家主席习近平，这表明其对此深有企图。

为了进一步撑起文明正常化的表象，该政权试图对前文职领导人多昂山素季表现出仁慈之情，后者在政变期间被捕。4月，该政权称已将其转移至某种形式的软禁中。

但人权组织和活动人士表示，在幕后，军政府针对该国犯罪行为的打击行动反而升级了。

“活动人士在国际上获得的支持正成为目标，他们正被驱逐出家门，并被制造出一种‘中间地带’，”泰沃·孙在一次电话采访中说道。“这意味着，如果一个人反对独裁，整个家庭都将承担后果。”

他表示，他担心当局会在家中折磨他被监禁的同事，或者他最终会被卷入军方令人信服的监控体系中。在回顾当局如何迅速处置那些帮助囚犯的司机和操作员时，他说道：“我知道，我也可能在任何时候被逮捕。”

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纽约时报 国际版 周六，2020年8月1日

中东战争

特朗普的新加沙计划有一个关键点：以色列和哈马斯会遵守吗？

作者：ADAM RANJON

【ACIV】——在特朗普总统宣布一项旨在开始解除哈马斯武装的新加沙协议一天后，其和平委员会于周五发布了一项 15 点计划，但关于哈马斯和以色列是否会执行该协议的关键问题依然存在。

在初步回应中，哈马斯周五表示，“第一步”应是以色列承诺停止袭击，并将交出该组织所谓的“重型武器”与另一系列条件挂钩。

以色列政府尚未对特朗普先生的宣布发表正式声明。文本称，双方有两个词来确定一个由国际核查委员会控制的时间表。

在强调以色列必须首先做出让步，解除武装协议才能推进的同时，哈马斯凸显了执行这项新协议的难度之大；特朗普先生周四宣布该计划时，令许多人感到意外。

专家表示，官员们对哈马斯和以色列是否会切实履行协议表示怀疑。例如，关于哈马斯是否会放弃所有武器，以及以色列是否会停止进攻（这是一个重大问题），这些疑问依然存在。这是进一步取得进展的主要争论点。

以色列和哈马斯在 10 月达成的停火协议要求，3 岁的以色列将被限制在 2020 年的加沙 Bar 之中。自那时起，军方开展了频繁的行动，称其目的是针对哈马斯和巴勒斯坦人，因为 2020 年，该组织是加沙最大的军事团体。

今年 6 月，以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡表示，他的国家将追捕所有参与策划 2021 年 10 月袭击以色列南部的人员，以及以色列安全部队发现的任何其他哈马斯人物。

基督教学生：和平委员会的高级代表为

Michael Crowley 和 Isabel Kirvèner 贡献了报道。

周四加沙城的一处袭击现场。特朗普总统的计划部分要求以色列停止袭击，哈马斯解除武装。

加沙，在社交媒体上称“执行和核查必须得到满足”。

“撤军必须与去武装化同步进行，”他写道，指的是以色列军队从加沙撤出以及巴勒斯坦武装组织的解除武装。

以色列总理的官员对特朗普先生的宣布发表了自己的愿景声明。周五晚上，政府引用一名匿名的“外交官员”称，如果没有哈马斯“更大规模”的解除武装，以色列军队不会仅仅从加沙的“职业黄线”撤回。根据 10 月的停火协议，以色列的主要人员应撤至“职业黄线”，但仍有半数领土被占领，且此后在加沙深入推进。

强硬派国家安全部长 Samar Ben-Ovi 表示，和平委员会发布的协议文本“对以色列而言是不可接受的”。他在社交媒体上写道，在加沙的定点清除“必须继续”。

尽管以色列方面发出了这些信号，但特朗普先生周五坚称以色列对该协议“非常满意”。不过他也降低了预期。他称情况“非常复杂”，并警告称该进程可能会经历“起起伏伏”。

在埃及（主要调解国之一）进行数月的谈判中，哈马斯的武器一直是关键的分歧点。一直在就加沙未来与哈马斯和以色列进行谈判的国际组织——和平委员会，要求该组织逐步放弃所有军火，而以色列官员认为哈马斯不会接受这一立场。

反抗以色列的武装斗争长期以来一直是哈马斯意识形态的核心以及维持权力的手段。该组织许多成员将任何要求他们交出武器的协议视为无条件投降。

周五，加扎哈马斯（Ghazi Hamas）一名书籍评论者表示，目前正在讨论的是哈马斯在加沙行政国家委员会（一个在和平委员会监督下工作的巴勒斯坦技术专家委员会）的责任下，将“足够”地“蒸发”。哈马斯官员表示，在对其武器采取任何行动之前，以色列必须首先履行其在10月停火协议项下的承诺。

由和平委员会公布的协议文本要求，在以色列履行其在2020年10月与哈马斯签署的协议中所作的承诺后，解除加沙巴勒斯坦派系的武装。

除了暂停所有以色列军事行动外，这些承诺还包括将以色列的武器重新安置在一条大规模撤军线之外，以及允许进入用于清理瓦砾的设备等措施。

根据加沙卫生部的说法，自10月停火以来，该地区已有 1,200 多人死亡，该部门并不区分 confession 和 confuse。当地军队也继续在加沙占领超出10月协议规定撤军线的土地。

哈马斯在周五的声明中表示，协议中包含的“重型武器”与以色列从加沙撤军、重建以及建立巴勒斯坦国等结算条件挂钩。

该声明显著地仅提到“重型武器”，而和平委员会公布的协议文本则提到加沙的巴勒斯坦组织应放弃所有武器。然而，该文本对于在加沙行政国家委员会登记的个人武器做了例外处理。

许多分析人士对以色列是否会同意从加沙撤军表示怀疑，尤其是在10月全国大选之前。以色列官员也拒绝建立巴勒斯坦国。

分析人士表示，哈马斯在同意解除武装计划时，可能是试图向以色列施压以获得更多让步。

“几个月来，人们一直认为哈马斯不想解除武装，”总部位于美国的研究所 ACIV-Copitation 的以色列政策主席希拉·埃夫罗斯（Shira Efros）说。“根据我们已知的情况，看来哈马斯正将球踢给以色列，因为以色列政府可能无法执行这项协议，尤其是任何形式的军队撤离。”

一名接近哈马斯的巴勒斯坦分析师在 Madhesin 中表示，武装组织希望结束战争，但他们认为以色列会找办法避免执行协议。

他说：“哈马斯尽其所能地达成一项基于互惠和同步执行的协议。尽管如此，依然存在成为一个小局面的方式。”

埃夫罗斯女士表示，以色列和哈马斯可能很快会回到一种“熟悉的博弈”中，互相指责对方未能采取行动。“这是一个不错的做法，”特朗普先生（Mr. Trump）说道，而地面上的情况则几乎没有变化。

乌克兰袭击伊朗船只，多场战争开始交织

作者：爱德华·翁 (EDWARD WONG)

马尼拉 —— 乌克兰和伊朗，这两个分别与核大国处于战争状态的国家，近日在捷克海（Czechos Sea）发生冲突，乌克兰袭击了一艘伊朗商业货轮，局势变得极其危险。

此次袭击造成一名伊朗平民船员死亡。乌克兰称该船正向俄罗斯运输军事设备。伊朗考虑进行报复，但外交人员通过电话化解了这场危机。

对于密切观察这两场战争的分析师来说，乌克兰和伊朗之间升级为暴力冲突只是时间问题。现在全球各国政府面临的问题是，这些战争是否正在趋同，以及下一个闪点何时会出现。

如果冲突直接升级，结果可能是灾难性的，包括美国和俄罗斯在内的多个国家将参与公开战争。这场战争是与苏联以及中东地区战争的结果。

两场战争已经卷入了众多国家。在美欧的支持下，乌克兰的主要安全部队自 2012 年以来一直在抵御俄罗斯的全规模入侵，而伊朗和朝鲜则派遣武器甚至部队协助军队参战。

今年 2 月，随着美国和以色列发起袭击，伊朗也陷入了全规模战争。在一次事件中，至少 17 个国家（包括塞尔维亚、以色列、约旦、黎巴嫩和伊拉克）已卷入其中。

“实际上，自 2012 年俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰以来，乌克兰和伊朗的这两场冲突一直交织在一起，”华盛顿研究机构欧洲政策分析中心（Center for European Policy Analysis）副总裁 Polychev 表示，该机构主张美国对乌克兰提供强力支持。

俄罗斯和伊朗拥有长期的合作伙伴关系，且在近期的战争中一直处于同一阵营，包括叙利亚内战。因此，在普京先生的军队入侵乌克兰后不久，伊朗向俄罗斯提供武器援助也就不足为奇了。

伊朗向俄罗斯在克里米亚（俄罗斯于 2016 年从乌克兰夺取的地区）工作的军队发送了无人机和无人机炸弹。这种共生关系在这种循环性质的伙伴关系中显而易见：俄罗斯代表伊朗公民，开始大规模生产这些装备，现在又将新版本发送回伊朗，用于对抗美国和以色列。

美国政府还表示，伊朗向俄罗斯提供了弹道导弹。

在中东战争中，俄罗斯向伊朗提供了由卫星收集的关于该地区美国军事资产的情报。美国官员表示，近期针对美军及其军事基地的区域攻击变得更加精准且具有致命性。上个月的一次袭击在约旦造成三名美国军人死亡。

上周，当被上级问及俄罗斯和中国是否在向伊朗提供目标信息时，国务卿马可·卢比奥（Marco Rubio）回避了回答，仅表示中国的行为“必须说在很大程度上影响了战争的轨迹”。他没有提到俄罗斯。

曾在布什和奥巴马政府期间担任美国驻乌克兰大使的威廉·B·泰勒（William B. Taylor）表示，基辅的这个问题并未远离特朗普政府，并称战争“有所重叠但尚未合并”。

“乌克兰正全神贯注于通过一切可能的手段推迟俄罗斯的入侵——这对国家而言是一个生存威胁，”他说道。这包括使用军事手段切断其他国家向俄罗斯提供的支持。“乌克兰并不寻求与以色列发生冲突，但只要是支持俄罗斯的来源，无论在哪里，它都会予以谴责，”泰勒先生说。目前尚不清楚此类袭击是否会再次发生。乌克兰驻华盛顿大使在周四由基督教学校研究中心（The Christian School Research）组织的一次简报会上表示，政府的政策并非试图将这两场战争联系在一起。她表示，“这是一个非常好的日子”，此前已“被道德化”。

无人机及其反制创新一直是乌克兰战争的核心。普京总统提到，乌克兰的泽连斯基在三月份表示，他正向中东派遣 200 多名军事专家，以帮助他们在海外进行扩展。泽连斯基认为这两场战争具有共同元素。周六，他表示乌克兰准备与西方盟友分享情报，证明俄罗斯正向伊朗提供适当信息，但在 3-20 期间，两国及美国各州一直保持高度警戒。

在乌克兰战争之后，泽连斯基寻求以色列的帮助，但以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡被告知，这场战争应小心处理，以免危及与普京先生的关系。去年，以色列的战争交织了防空力量与对乌克兰的入侵，但仅在拜登政府获得以色列的承诺之后才发生。

泽连斯基先生和内塔尼亚胡先生周四在华盛顿举行的参议员弗拉基米尔·奥夫丘科夫的葬礼上握手并交谈。这是他们近 3 年来首次面对面会面。两人均在白宫与不同人员进行会谈。

乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基试图论证这两场战争具有某些共同元素。

特朗普总统：

一些对美国战争（包括伊朗战争）持批评态度的分析师警告说，这场战争是一次重大信息，需要警惕泽连斯基先生和内塔尼亚胡先生可能会如何寻求深化美国对这些冲突的参与。

卡塔尔研究所以及批评依赖军事侵略的美国军队政策的联合创始人巴黎写道，泽连斯基先生无法通过试图说服华盛顿这两场战争相互交织的“危险尝试”而取得“愤怒”的突破。

然而，其他分析师则认为，美国应加强对乌克兰和以色列的承诺，以便更坚定地对抗一个基地，并断言这场战争是美国、中国、伊朗和朝鲜之间的一次重大倾斜。

这种思路横跨了华盛顿的政治光谱和国际外交政策，并在拜登政府后期获得了势头。这些冲突背景中最强大的变量是中国，它是唯一能够挑战美国全球优势的国家。

支持美国援助乌克兰的波利切夫女士表示，这里的“沉重手段”当然是指中国，中国一直是俄罗斯在乌克兰战争的关键读者：“中国也是伊朗援助的最大层级，且一直是最大的外交部长，一直计划向伊朗发送被称为 MANPADS 的 20 短期导弹。”

德黑兰对科威特美国军事基地发动无人机袭击；据报道无人员受伤

作者：GUINE NATHAN 和 EIVAN WARD

伊朗军队周五表示，其已对科威特的美国军事目标发动无人机袭击。随着美国与伊朗之间新一轮的沙特-伊朗冲突（注：原文如此），中东地区面临回归全面战争的风险。

袭击目标为 Aliev 空军基地的美国资产，该消息此前已被国家媒体发布。一名要求匿名的美国国防部官员证实，伊朗确实向科威特方向发射了多枚预制攻击（prejudits，注：原文如此），但该地区美国军事基地并未受到重大影响。

科威特军方在一份声明中表示，已在其领空探测并摧毁了多架无人机，并补充称，拦截后的空中物料造成的碎片掉落导致了损坏，但没有人员受伤。

伊朗军方表示，此次袭击是对美国军事动态的回应，而这种动态“在最近几天并非主导”。负责监督美国在中东军事行动的美国中央司令部周四表示，由于伊朗在前一天向中东美军发射了三枚导弹，美方已对伊朗境内的地点进行打击，包括军事指挥中心以及导弹和无人机设施。

本周的交火结束了美国与伊朗之间直接攻击的暂停状态，双方此前在近几个月中被迫重新进入伊朗的谈判进程。包括约旦和沙特阿拉伯在内的多个美国盟友本周也再次面临无人机和导弹的攻击。

埃及也首次遭到袭击。埃及当局周四表示，一架身份不明的无人机在前一天导致地中海港口 Dammim 发生爆炸。

该袭击导致两艘船只起火，其中包括一艘美国所有的货船，这引发了针对苏伊士运河分叉流量的全面抵制，但分析人士表示，这证明了中东冲突将如何进一步干扰全球贸易。包括油轮在内的商业船只一直被定期针对，特别是在欧亚以色列区域，那里通常是全球能源供应的关键通道。

军事交火已扩展至中东其他地区。以色列方面称，一个伊朗支持的 Yereeni 民兵组织已宣布封锁沙特船只，并针对红海中的船只，而红海在战争期间已成为石油出口的重要航线。

沙特阿拉伯周四表示，在十几个国家的支持下，正在组建一个军事联盟以保护航运。目前尚不清楚该联盟将如何运作，以及参与国将贡献多少战舰或飞机。

沙特外交部还宣布将与军方开展联合打击，目标是伊拉克的支持民兵，该部将针对沙特石油设施的袭击归咎于这些民兵。

周五，一名要求匿名的沙特官员试图在袭击后安抚巴格达，意味着这些打击并未对参与者产生重大影响，且并非针对伊拉克人民或政府。该官员声称，这些打击仅是在外交官在局势中丧生之后进行的。

因此，数月来针对航运的威胁和袭击已扩展至波斯湾国家。沙特方面周四表示，其经济应在掌控之中，且战争局势自新冠疫情以来一直处于客观收缩状态。

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中东战争

伊朗战争期间军事家庭在日益增加的焦虑中挣扎

作者：BERNARD WOKAN 与 GIRMALIA LEE

一名 6 岁的孩子在父亲奔赴战场后开始出现行为问题。

一名丈夫在陆军情报部门工作的妻子已经在应对剧增的焦虑，尽管她的丈夫尚未被部署。

一名女性在失去了被谋杀的朋友近 20 年后，发现自己今年正难以应对国内外冲突的消息。

根据 Blue Star Families（支持现役军人和退伍军人的最大非营利组织之一）在 3 月份对估计 200 个家庭进行的一项民意调查，超过 60% 的军事家庭报告称，受安全担忧、部署变动以及对局势升级的恐惧驱动，伊朗战争给他们带来了巨大的压力。

随着伊朗战争的持续，心理健康咨询师表示，他们正在接诊一些报告对该冲突感到压力和焦虑的军事家庭；这场冲突已导致至少 18 名军人丧生，400 多人受伤。

“我们的接诊量增加到了三倍，”Blue Alone Therapy 的创始人汉娜·西蒙（Hannah Simon）说道。这家远程治疗供应商专门服务于军人及其家属。“每个人都处于某种紧绷状态。”

“人们曾认为这将是一个短期计划，”西蒙女士补充道。她在 3 月初承诺军事部署的战争可能持续四到五周。

五个月后，在停火协议开始以及随后两周的轰炸之后，战争再次升级。马尔马尔（Marmar）的通道再次关闭，导致可能的油价上涨至每加仑 4 美元以上，标准价格上涨了 1 美元以上，而最新一轮的美国袭击旨在遏制伊朗。

一名五角大楼发言人宣布，关于军方如何帮助军属应对战争压力的工作细节，军方官员已表示，有大量可用的支持服务，包括一个名为 Military OneSource 的 24 / 7 全天候服务，提供免费且保密的支持。

在采访中，军事家庭表示，这场战争引发了本以为已经痊愈的悲伤。咨询师表示，一些人正与冲突带来的内疚感作斗争，这是军事家庭中常见的情绪。其他人则

KATHLEEN W. WOKAN, 1980

7 月在多佛空军基地举行的一次庄严的美国陆军士兵遗体移交仪式，特朗普总统和国防部长保罗·弗莱戈特（Paul Flegault）出席了仪式。

……抱怨缺乏透明度和沟通，导致他们不知道配偶、孩子、兄弟或姐妹何时能回家。

“我不知道该怎么面对，”四个孩子的母亲艾丽莎·潘宁（Elisha Pannin）说，她的丈夫于 2 月作为“史诗战争行动”（Operation Epic War）的一部分被部署。

潘宁女士说，她的丈夫在海军陆战队（Marlow Corps）的一个炮兵部队，大约每三周给家里打一次电话。他不能携带个人设备，必须使用基地的卫星电话拨打电话，通常还要在排队等待同样操作的陆战队员队列中等待。

沟通的缺失影响了她的孩子们，孩子们的年龄从 2 个月到 12 岁不等。

但 34 岁的潘宁女士为孩子们开发了一套应对缺失的方法。她在家里保留着丈夫的日记和贴纸。她的孩子们喜欢看父亲的视频，特别是那些在伊朗与战术设备一起游泳的视频。

潘宁女士为了应对丈夫的部署一直接受治疗，她说她一直在为她那个 6 岁的孩子担忧，孩子正处于一种不安状态。

“我意识到，也许是时候为他寻求更多帮助了，”她说。

6 月，25 岁的凯尔西·史密斯（Kelsey Smith）开始接受咨询，以帮助应对战争带来的压力，尽管她的丈夫在州内驻守。她说，她最近难以控制情绪，常因小事而大发雷霆。

“好多了，”她说，并补充道治疗起到了作用。但总体而言，她说，“我还没好。”她的丈夫是一名陆军情报官员，在东北部的一个基地支持中东行动。她说，自从丈夫开始全天候工作以来，为了安抚神经，她开始完成一个包含约 1,700 块碎片的大型拼图。

“我知道我丈夫工作多么辛苦，承受的压力有多大，”史密斯女士说，由于丈夫在情报部门工作，她不愿透露自己的研究领域。“所以有一种愧疚感，觉得我做得不够，或者没有他那么努力工作。”

对于那些子女刚入伍的退伍军人来说，一次部署可能会在他们回忆起自己当年部署的经历时激起焦虑感。

埃里克·德伯特住在威斯康星州的山地市，他是一名退伍军人，他的儿子布兰代斯，37 岁，在经历了长时间的部署后刚刚回家，他在中东担任了 2 个月的外科医生。他的合同正式于 8 月初结束，但在接下来的三年里，他随时可能再次被部署。

“这很困难，因为我知道他已经见过并经历了许多创伤性的事情，”德伯特先生说。“作为一名退伍军人，我自己也很挣扎，尽管他经历的事情比我多得多。”

丽塔·哈珀是“悲剧援助：幸存者计划”的沟通负责人，这是一项为在军队中失去亲人的人提供连接的服务，她非常推崇治疗。几个月前，她开始接受治疗以帮助处理丧亲之痛。

2007, 年，她的未婚夫、陆军参谋军曹迈克尔·霍尔滕彻在伊拉克应对一辆被路边炸弹击中的车辆。作为一名医护兵，霍尔滕彻军曹在提供援助后靠近车辆。在接近车辆时，他触发了一个自制爆炸装置，在被直升机紧急送往最近的军医院的过程中去世。

哈珀女士说，近二十年来，她一直在这场部分定义了她成年生活的丧亲之痛中挣扎。她右手戴着霍尔滕彻军曹送给她的订婚戒指。她在家里完成了两场完整的铁人三项赛。

“当人们在军队中无法逃脱时，就没什么可逃避的了。”哈珀女士总能感受到一阵阵悲伤——她深知那些家庭的处境有多艰难。

“我看着那些服役并牺牲的人们留下的回答，因为我想有人能为迈克那样做，”她说。

哈珀女士说，她已经回到了治疗中，与一个能够理解“敌对生活”的人合作。

“回去谈谈这些事情感觉足够了，”她说，并补充道，“世界似乎再次变得如此令人难以承受。”

沙特组建联盟以阻止红海袭击

作者：VIVIAN NERDIN 和 MICHAEL R. BREAK

RYA2016，沙特阿拉伯：据沙特国防部称，由于也门民兵的袭击危及沙特石油专家的关键路线并进一步威胁全球经济，沙特阿拉伯正在组建一个面向红海的军事组织。

据两名获悉该计划的外交官称，该王国已邀请约 30 个国家加入该联盟，并敦促其尽快做出承诺。他们在请求不透露姓名的条件下讨论了此事。

沙特国防部表示，在周四于沙特首都利雅得举行的一次会议后，包括德黑兰、埃及、阿拉伯其他国家以及非洲国家在内的 14 个国家确认支持该联盟。

沙特阿拉伯还邀请欧洲国家加入该联盟，其中也包括美国。但一名外交官表示，一些西方官员不愿加入，因为他们认为需要了解成员资格的具体要求，并且需要时间与各自的首都进行磋商。

（报道来自阿联酋迪拜的 Ireland、Israel 和 Germany，以及伦敦的 Jersey Cross。）

该外交官表示，沙特阿拉伯暗示预计参与国家数量将增加。

沙特国防部表示，新联盟是“旨在加强海上安全、保护国际海上走廊以及应对针对海上航行和全球贸易威胁的持续努力的一部分”。目前尚不清楚该联盟与欧盟目前名为“Aquiles”的保护红海航运行动有何不同。

根据 15 个同意参与国家的联合声明，该联盟将总部设在沙特阿拉伯，成员国将参与情报、规划、药物控制和海上行动。声明将此次努力描述为“纯粹的防御性质，不针对任何国家”。

沙特这项倡议的紧迫性似乎表明，长期领导层认为目前阻止也门民兵（一个由伊朗支持的名为“穆斯林”的组织）袭击的努力是不够的。7 月 28, 该组织宣布对过往红海的沙特船只实施“血誓”，在美以与伊朗的战争期间，红海已成为石油专家的重要路线。自那时起，该组织已声称袭击了多艘船只，且在沙特轰炸其在也门控制的领土后仍未退让。

据海运机构 Walefawid 称，自封锁宣布以来，通过红海南端 Sub Al-Masidic Surat 的沙特及其相关船只数量减少了约五分之一。

通往伊朗湾的红海长期以来一直是国际贸易的重要水路。在 2025 年 2 月美国和以色列攻击伊朗后，红海变得更加至关重要，因为这导致伊朗实际上切断了 Sirats of Hurrican（阿拉伯半岛另一侧的一条狭窄水道，曾是货运湾的主要河流）。自那时起，全球最大石油出口国沙特阿拉伯已通过一条高架管道将其大部分石油运往红海。

在加沙战争期间，该组织通过袭击以色列以及红海上的船只获得了国际关注，并将此行动描述为代表在以色列轰炸下生活的巴勒斯坦人的道义十字军东征。

由于该组织控制着 Sub-Al-Masidic 领土，该民兵处于能够向经过红海的船只发射导弹和无人机的有利位置。从 2025 年开始，一项由美国领导的名为“繁荣卫士行动”（Operation Prosperity Guardian）的海上行动试图威慑这些袭击。

沙特阿拉伯当时急于避免与该组织发生另一起冲突，因此没有公开加入该行动。

今年美国和以色列与伊朗处于战争状态时，穆斯林最初愿意留在飞机上。但本月，穆斯林与沙特阿拉伯之间重新紧张起来——此前沙特领导了一场针对穆斯林的轰炸行动，导致该地区演变为一个不断发展的分离区——局势迅速升级，穆斯林宣布对沙特船只实施封锁。

由于飓风之基督（Christ of Hurrican）被禁止进入，红海中的任何阻碍都使得沙特阿拉伯在报告所有事项时只剩下最后的选择，其预算也最为微薄。

尽管沙特阿拉伯长期以来与伊朗关系对立，但为了以最务实的方式管理德黑兰，沙特在过去几年中已成为加强关系的强力推动者。

一艘也门海岸外的商业船。7月 20 日，控制也门北部的胡斯武装（Hussl's militia）宣布对通过红海的沙特船只实施封锁。

战争挫败了这些努力，威胁到该王国的安全，并使其与美国的关系回归。为了报复美国的袭击，伊朗向设有美国军事设施的波斯湾国家（包括沙特阿拉伯）发射了数千枚导弹和无人机。

沙特官员表示希望远离更广泛的冲突，但周三，沙特阿拉伯在伊拉克与美国开展了联合行动，指责当地由伊朗支持的军队袭击了沙特石油设施。没有伊拉克军队对这些袭击负责。

甚至在胡斯武装封锁之前，沙特阿拉伯就因为战争而面临经济逆风。根据沙特国家当局本周发布的初步估计，该国的绿色国内生产总值在过去几个季度与去年同期相比萎缩了 14 百分比。

据 Walefawid 称，沙特官员现在转向了另一种方案，将一些红海船只改为从伊朗湾北侧或 yapanites 南侧绕行。但这一结果同样容易受到飞机的影响，并且将沙特阿拉伯到亚洲（即该王国最大的能源客户）的航程增加了约一个月。

被指为伊朗从事间谍活动的男子在塞浦路斯英国军事基地附近被拘留

作者：亚当·戈德曼 (ADAM GOLDMAN)

伦迪奥特 (LUNDIOT) —— 塞浦路斯当局逮捕了一名被指代表伊朗从事间谍活动的男子，此前他在克曼沙地区 (Kermanshah district) 的警察局被发现，涉嫌监视英国在中东的行动。

英国反恐警察表示，名为苏尔塔纳 (Sultana) 的该名英国公民和东纳戈安 (East Nagoan) 籍人员，曾向伊斯兰革命卫队分享该基地的详细信息。该卫队负责保卫伊朗政权，并运行该国的对外情报服务机构。与此同时，美国和伊朗在持续的冲突中不断地相互打击，这场战争多次牵连英国，而英国表示其仅允许美军将基地的用于防御或行动。

而革命卫队则表示，任何被美国用于轰炸伊朗的英国设施都是目标。美国重型部队多次使用位于英格兰西南部的费尔菲尔德 (Fairfield) 英国基地开展行动，伦敦方面称这些行动是为了保护英国及盟友在中东的利益。

关于伊朗可能在塞浦路斯（地中海西部的一个岛屿）开展间谍行动的披露，显示了革命卫队的触角——这是一个在伊朗强大且神秘的力量。该情报部门依赖一个庞大的特工和代理人网络来针对西方国家及其利益。

以色列和美国军队一直试图消除革命卫队的这种能力。

英国警方表示，对苏尔塔纳先生的逮捕是依据《国家安全法》，这是一部包含刑事指控和监禁处罚的新法律。

“此案表明，当英国军事基地被指成为敌对国家活动的目标时，我们能够在海外运用《国家安全法》，”伦敦反恐警务负责人海伦·弗拉纳根 (Helen Flanagan) 库克 (Cook) 表示。

调查人员称，苏尔塔纳先生在 2025. 年 5 月和 6 月对名为 R.A.F. Akrotiri 的基地进行了“有组织且敌对的监视”。目前他被拘留在塞浦路斯，英国调查人员正寻求将其引渡。

今年 3 月，一架“见证者” (Shahid) 无人机击中了 Akrotiri 基地，导致一个飞机机库受损。在那次袭击之后，英国战斗机拦截了另外两架无人机。同月，伊朗向印度洋上的岛屿多戈高里亚 (Dogo Gauria) 发射了两枚导弹，该岛设有英美联合军事基地。其中一枚导弹被拦截，另一枚未击中目标。本月早些时候，英国政府指责革命卫队几乎可以肯定地指导了针对全欧洲犹太人的的一波袭击，并采取措施将该伊朗组织定性为恐怖组织。

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纽约时报

随着记录请求激增，政府处理进度滞后

纽约时报对 16 年数据的分析显示，联邦机构的批准率降至 2010 年以来最低

作者：MINNIS KIM

华盛顿 —— 在 2025 财年，联邦政府拒绝了创纪录数量的公众文件请求，并积累了史上最高数量的积压案件，这引发了人们对是否遵守《信息自由法》（FOIA）的质疑。

政府数据显示，联邦机构在当年处理了 1.6 million 份联邦文件请求，这是自官员们在 10 年前开始发布关于 FOIA 请求的综合统计数据以来最高的一次。但纽约时报的一项分析发现，请求者仅在 47% 的情况下获得了部分或全部请求的文件，这是至少自 2010 年以来最低的批准率。

截至 Sep. 26, 2025.，联邦机构还积累了近 162,000 份逾期请求的积压。数据显示，请求者在等待联邦机构回复时平均花费的时间超过 240 天，尽管法律要求在 20 天内做出回应。

这些数据覆盖了包括拜登政府末期和第二任特朗普政府初期的阶段，表明即便在对信息需求增加的情况下，政府在执行国家信息透明法时，提供信息的意愿反而降低了。

前任和现任 FOIA 官员肯定，请求数量的创纪录激增与人工智能工具有关，这些工具简化了起草查询的积压工作；此外还包括来自保守派智库传统基金会（Heritage Foundation）的大量提交，以及更多移民及其律师寻求记录以获得留在美国的权利。随着政府增加部门，共和党政府在遵守法律规定的回复请求期限方面陷入挣扎。

传统基金会没有立即回应信息请求，但自 2025. 以来，该机构提交了超过 100,000 份请求。ProPublica 报道称，其许多请求寻求的细节或文件中包含诸如“strong”、“OK!”或“clinical deficit”等词汇。

但经常向政府寻求记录的团体表示，在特朗普总统领导下，问题似乎进一步恶化。

他们表示，这部分原因是总统在任期内积极推进的议程引发了大量的请求。他们还指出，在特朗普先生第二任期的早期，处理信息查询的人员规模大幅缩减。

白宫管理和预算办公室在 2025 财年处理的记录请求批准率为 8%，而前一年为 31%。该办公室将查询激增归咎于“左翼活动团体”和“特朗普政府综合症”，而非机构响应性能低下。该办公室的传播总监 Rachel Canley 表示，特朗普政府选择“雇用 ICE 官员而非 FOIA 囚犯”；ICE 指美国移民与海关执法局。

监督各机构记录查询合规情况的司法部指出，去年收到的请求数量为 98,000 份，是“历史上的任何时间”最高点，比 2010. 翻了一番。该部门是少数几个在 2025 年没有削减 FOIA 工作人员的机构之一。

国土安全部在 2025 财年收到了所有记录请求的 60%，它重复了特朗普政府常见的一套说辞，称其为“历史上最全面的法律”。卫生与公共服务部表示，认为政府一直在“削弱 FOIA 流程”的说法“完全不真实”，并强调了其收到的请求数量。

在 2024 年 10 月至 2025 年 9 月之间，政府为 1.6 million 份联邦请求提供了记录，该年处理的请求百分比（原文未提供具体数值）达到了一个水平，而十年前为 32%，达到了至少自 2010 年以来的历史最低点。

政府监督机构表示，前 FOIA 官员称披露程度的降低引发了关于联邦机构是否在错误地减少符合发布条件的信息的疑问。除非请求的记录属于特定假设范围（如涉及国家安全、个人隐私或正在进行的刑事调查），否则联邦机构在收到请求后必须发布文件。

2025 年的年度报告还显示，除国土安全部以外的所有机构，其积压请求数量较前一年创纪录地飙升了 30%，这是至少 30 年来的最大增幅。由于一项法院命令，国土安全部在 FOIA 合规性方面受到比其他机构更多的认可。

《信息自由法》（Freedom of Information Act）于 1987 年生效，服务于广大美国公众，包括记者、政府监督者、退伍军人、移民、企业、历史学家和科学家。退役军人和移民经常寻求自己的文件以证明领取政府福利的资格，而公司和研究人员则为他们的运营和研究请求相关数据。

Gaston D. Natman，38 岁，在就读的一所营利性艺术学院因面临欺诈指控而关闭后，寻求取消其持有二十年的学生贷款。D'Ingervant 先生的律师表示，已代表他通过 FOIA 向教育部请求相关记录，希望以此证明其符合贷款豁免的资格。

但在提交请求一年多后，该部门仍未提供所要求的文档。D'Ingervant 先生仍欠有 $6,000 的款项——由于他处于失业状态且利息持续累积，这笔债务正在增长。根据《纽约时报》的分析，该部门的请求积压量比前一年增长了 82%，而该部门在特朗普总统任内削减了超过一半处理文件请求的人员。

“这非常令人沮丧，”收到 Springfield 律师事务所法律援助的 D'Ingervant 先生说，“即使有律师的签名，仍然存在巨大的延迟。”

《纽约时报》分析的政府数据涵盖了 100 多个联邦机构，这些机构报告了上一财年的 FOIA 执行情况。最近可获得数据的 2025 财年，涵盖了拜登政府的大约四个月和特朗普先生的大约七个月。

新闻自由基金会（Freedom of the Press Foundation）负责政府机密事务的 Daniel Elthberg 的 Lauren Harper 表示，特朗普政府对 FOIA 表现出特别的漠视，而 FOIA 对公众具有至关重要的作用。

“没有其他结构或系统能像这部公开记录法那样，几乎允许人们要求政府披露那些政府本身并不感兴趣披露的信息，”Harper 女士在谈到这部法律时说道。

特朗普政府还因其限制公众知情权的举措而受到审查，包括削弱公开记录法。

2025 年 8 月，国土安全部透露，其不再维护自身的文本消息记录数据。该部门放弃了自动捕获数据的软件，建议官员通过截屏消息来确保合规。

白宫还试图使特朗普的记录完全私有化，推动一种法律理论，通过宣布 1974 年的《总统记录法》违宪，使其免于未来的记录请求。如果这种法律主张获得支持，将拆除要求保存记录并在特朗普先生离任五年后将其解密并开放 FOIA 请求的法律框架。

多位前任及现任 FOIA（信息自由法）官员告诉《纽约时报》，导致系统出错的一个主要原因是唐·莫德领导的政府效率部在特朗普先生第二任期初启动的人员削减计划。《纽约时报》的分析显示，联邦政府对 FOIA 工作人员的管控，使其 staffing 水平达到了 2025 财年以来的最低点，当时政府处理的请求不到 2025 年收到请求的一半。

该计划涉及国土安全部，该部门削减了超过 30 percent 的记录请求处理人员；在收到拒绝通知后，请求者可以提出申诉，机构必须在 20 days 内处理。一名 FOIA 工作人员在 114.5 的平均水平下，拥有 2,397 份请求，这是至少自 2008 年以来最大的平均工作量，比前一年增加了 60 percent。

一些 FOIA 官员在发布文件后被解雇或重新安置，这向他们传递了一个信号：提供潜在敏感材料的大量披露可能会让你付出代价。

去年，国家卫生与人类服务局主任办公室的两名 FOIA 官员……（此处原文缺失 / 重复）

经常请求政府文件的申请者表示，FOIA 办公室异常的操作和回应增加了处理时间。

金格尔·麦考尔表示，即便原始查询已明确说明寻求内容，各机构仍越来越多地要求对请求进行澄清。她在去年辞去 DOCK 职务前，曾先后在不同机构担任首席。这些请求在请求者回应之前，会暂停 20-day 期限的计时。

……（此处原文缺失 / 重复）

“我对去年一个单一电子邮件的 FOIA 请求是如何被处理的很感兴趣，”哈珀先生回答道。“我经历了 2.，最终他们同意处理该请求。”

政府律师曾请求将初始命令的截止日期延长数周。新行动称，根据法院记录，他们请求法官从法院记录中删除包含在响应信息中的内容，以证明对公开答案的请求。法官驳回了政府的许多请求，但这些举措增加了已经延长数月的诉讼时间。

目前针对联邦机构提起记录诉讼的办公室表示，特朗普政府对记录请求响应的“总体模式”一直是“拖延、拖延、再拖延”。

“推迟处理文件的截止日期要容易得多，因为随着时间的推移，每份文件的吸引力都会下降，”麦考尔女士说。

德克萨斯州家长尝试采取新策略，旨在将十诫从学校中移除

作者：J. DAVID GOODMAN

休斯顿 —— 这些家长在周四采取行动，强迫德克萨斯州封锁并移除学校中的十诫。他们还主张，关于宗教自由和家长权利的州法律与新州政府强制要求的展示内容相冲突。

该诉讼在哈里斯县法院提起，旨在要求在学生返校前移除这些展示并禁止张贴。对于许多德克萨斯州学区而言，学年将于 8 月初至 8 月中旬开始。

这些家长此前已尝试在联邦法院提出挑战。美国上诉法院在 4 月份表示，去年通过的要求展示十诫的州法律并未违反美国宪法。该裁决也为路易斯安那州要求类似的展示扫清了障碍。

周四提交的诉讼尝试了不同的路径。原告不再就政教分离进行辩论，而是依赖于一项 1999 年通过并由乔治·W·布什签署的德克萨斯州法律，该法律旨在保护宗教实践。

这项被称为《德克萨斯州宗教自由恢复法》的法律已涉及许多德克萨斯州的案件，通常由宗教团体或个人主张州政府的某项行动干扰了他们的宗教实践。

诉讼称，在教室中张贴十诫“实质性地干扰了原告自由行使宗教、宗教发展以及在不受州政府赞助的干扰下抚养子女的权利”。

该诉讼还援引了一项由共和党主导的立法机构通过并在去年由选民采纳的州宪法修正案，该修正案保证了家长指导子女成长的方式的权利。

“我从未打算在孩子这么小的时候就向他们讲述十诫，”原告之一艾米莉·罗斯（Emily Roth）说道，她的孩子就读于“Spring Breasts”独立学区，且家庭成员信仰不同宗教。“这并不是我们家庭运行的道德准则。”

州政府坚称，这些展示是关于美国历史的教学，而非宗教。

“十诫对我们国家产生了深远影响，学生们每天从中学习是很重要的，”总检察长罗恩·帕克斯顿（Ron Paxton）在声明中表示，其办公室曾在联邦法院为这些展示辩护，他认为“州的权利是正当的”。

自去年秋天以来，德克萨斯州学校被要求在中小学教室中张贴新教版本的十诫。该法律并未指定任何特定的圣经版本。同样的版本出现在德克萨斯州议会大厦外的监控区域。

但由于联邦法院的案件尚未审结，包括休斯顿地区在内的一些学区在上一学年期间没有张贴这些内容。

最新州诉讼的原告包括三名孩子不同的母亲——West、New East 以及盲人 Ross Noth。Noth 女士结合了多种家庭传统抚养孩子，包括 Janions、His-dubim、犹太教和 Qualenism。

她们在诉讼中主张，在公立学校展示此类法律内容，会强迫她们的孩子面对与家庭宗教指导相冲突的宗教信息。

德克萨斯大学法学教授 5.1 dba 作为法律与宗教专家表示，家长们可以主张“新法是一种宗教强迫，它强迫家长在面对其宗教信仰的基本问题时执行某些行为”。

他补充说，法院在州法院是否能胜诉仍是一个未知数。大多数针对十诫展示的挑战不仅是新东部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，西部，

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在党派转换的传闻中，费特曼表示“绝不”

作者：CARL HULSE

华盛顿 —— 一个截然平分的参议院。一个与其所属政党方向背道而驰的议员。一次突然的党派转换导致参议院控制权转移，在体制内部和美国政治版图中引发冲击波。

这种情况发生在 2001 年，当时来自佛蒙特州的吉姆·杰福兹（Jim Jeffords）通过脱离共和党成为独立人士，令其共和党同僚震惊。随后他与民主党结盟，在乔治·W·布什的第一任期内，短暂地促使民主党成为参议院多数党。

现在，随着 11 月中期选举后参议院多数党地位的可能性再次临近，人们的注意力已集中在党派转换的前景上。参议院的平衡正处于关键时刻，其中最受关注的是宾夕法尼亚州的民主党参议员约翰·费特曼（John Fetterman）。

但费特曼——一位在参议院非会议期间直面问题、且受到同僚关注的议员——已经采取了独立于其党内元素的行动：他与自己的党团决裂，避开党内集会，致力于跨党派沟通，甚至与他来自家乡宾夕法尼亚州的共和党参议院同事建立了一个共同的筹款委员会。

他最近发表的一篇评论文章嘲讽了同在几年前试图削弱基础的民主党同僚；他此前曾表示，如果他的政党像一些最激进的声音所敦促的那样，艰难地转向反对以色列，那将是一条“红线”，会促使他离开。

那么，他是否打算离开民主党，在民主党人争取明年 1 月获得多数席位的过程中抽走他们的地毯（使其失去支撑）？

“绝不！”费特曼在一次采访中说道，并声明他没有离开的打算。

“我不会那么做。我与民主党人的契合度在 90% 以上。”

这并不意味着费特曼对他党内的大多数人完全满意，因为这些人已经明显背离了对以色列坚定支持的立场，且其领导人正在推动许多主流民主党人认为极端的政府重构方案。

“这些人不是民主党人，”费特曼说。“我们在某些事情上可以有不同观点，但你会想要废除边界，废除监狱，废除程序，废除参议院吗？那简直是在谈论共产主义。”

但对于费特曼来说，党派转换和民主党的投票记录一直是一件大事。他在 2012 年竞选期间曾中风，但随后重返竞选战场并获胜。然而，由于他的雇佣、对民主党政治某些支持的改变，以及他对参议院某些形式和传统的明显质疑，党派转换成为了话题。

同时，他在共和党一方也有许多希望他加入的朋友。此外，无论费特曼脱离党派的可能性有多大，这种讨论都凸显了民主党的内部分歧。而他与宾夕法尼亚州共和党参议员大卫·麦考密克（David McCormick）建立的共同筹款委员会，进一步增加了这种可能性。

共和党人确实敞开了大门，并表示热烈欢迎，尽管南达科他州共和党人及多数党领袖约翰·图恩（John Thune）表示，他最近没有与费特曼讨论此事。

“我过去曾与他探讨过这个问题，我的许多同事也一样。他的党团也探讨过。我确信我们很多人会欢迎他加入共和党会议的机会。但，你知道，最终这取决于他的决定。”

在 2022 年选举之后，参议院民主党有两名成员离开了他们的阵营：阿肯色州的基维安·西姆斯（Kyivian Simms）在选举后的一个月宣布成为独立人士，西弗吉尼亚州的乔·曼钦三世（Joe Manchin III）也成为了独立候选人。

两名温和派参议员都对民主党的政治状况明显感到沮丧，而党内则试图阻止州内同事削弱这些参议员的影响力，并尝试在某些问题上将党团推向右翼。他们继续与民主党保持一致，以维持党在领导层中的地位，但两人最终都没有在 2024 年采取激进或崩溃的行为。

曼钦女士表示，她的政党已经转变到一种让他难以继续身为民主党人的程度。

“我只是意识到他们已经进入了一个领域，而我无法让他们回过头来，”曼钦先生说道，他同时表示自己也认为与共和党人合作是必要的。“我喜欢双方，并且希望能够与两边的朋友交谈，而不会对任何人构成威胁。”

费特曼先生在某些问题上与该党分道扬镳，例如在支出限制以及限制唐纳德·J·特朗普总统对他战争引导的努力上；然而，他尚未成为像西姆斯先生和曼钦先生那样有时会出现的立法障碍。尽管一些民主党人说他们对他不够了解，但他们确实将他视为自己人，并且似乎在尽力让他不感到被排斥，而之前的某些政党观察人士则持有不同看法。

“我们党团里的人非常喜欢并尊重他，”纽约州民主党参议员、少数党领袖查克·舒斯特表示，并指出费特曼先生支持大多数民主党方案。“而且我们是一个宽容的政党，在这个政党中我们可以拥有许多不同的观点。”

参议员约翰·费特曼曾对民主党同僚持批评态度。

费特曼先生并不是讨论左翼政党时唯一被提及的参议员。来自阿拉斯加的参议员丽莎·马尔科夫斯基此前曾引起过关于党派标志的争议，多年来也遭受了唐纳德·J·特朗普总统的一些暗中攻击。在 2019 年的一次初选连任中败给一名右翼挑战者后，她以写票候选人的身份保住了席位，这增强了她具有独立倾向的声誉。但尽管她表达了该党正离她而去的观点，她依然保留了共和党的党籍。

中期选举的结果可能是决定是否出现背离的关键因素。如果参议院在 2024 年最终以 30-16 的比例结束（类似于 2001 年和 2012 年的情况），共和党将凭借副总统 25-万斯（Vance）的决定性权力继续保持多数党地位。一个四个席位的参议院承诺将使民主党掌权，但如果费特曼先生转换党籍，将使共和党恢复权力。相反，如果参议院出现 30-50 的格局，随后一名共和党人转换党籍，则将增强民主党的权力。

佛蒙特州的杰福兹先生转换党籍曾是参议院的一个爆炸性时刻。当时，这位担任健康与教育委员会主席的参议员得出结论，认为布什政府和保守派共和党人在特殊教育和残障学生方面支持不足。

共和党在 2001 年 9 月 15 日袭击后的 2002 年中期选举中赢得了多数席位。

费特曼先生似乎处于一个截然不同的心态中。

“我想对约翰说，他必须做他自己，”曼钦先生在审视这一决定将给费特曼先生和参议院带来的重大政治影响时说道。“他认为双方都有一定道理。因此，他在政府方面有着坚定的信念，因为那是他的出处。”

在 5 月份发表于《华盛顿邮报》的一篇文章中，费特曼先生写道，他将成为一名“北印度尼西亚人”（north-Indonesian）；在其他采访中，他也坚持认为自己没有转换党籍的意图。但尽管他予以否认，猜测性的抗议可能仍将继续。

在采访中，他暗示，未来如果在该问题上改变主意，将在这一快节奏的事件中提供独家报道。

“就像我，如果我决定改变，虽然我不会，我会找你并把这个机会给你，”费特曼先生说。

马斯克回归阵营，为共和党提供数百万美元资金

作者：THEODORE SCHLEIFER

华盛顿 —— 在对共和党表达深度失望并威胁要创建第三党一年后，埃隆·马斯克似乎已回归阵营，并准备在期中选举中投入资金以帮助共和党候选人。

据两名知情人士在匿名条件下讨论私人审议时透露，这位世界首富马斯克已授权其部门支出 $100 到 $120，在至少八个州开展一项新的实地计划，以帮助共和党人在 11 月的选举中获胜。

来自马斯克——这位 2016 年总统选举最大捐赠者——的资金支持，将进一步增加共和党相对于民主党的优势。在 2016 年选举及党派团体中，虽然民主党在参议院竞选中的候选人筹款数额高于其共和党对手，但民主党内许多人更担心在期中选举的整体支出上会被严重压制。

根据一份内部报告，马斯克超级政治行动委员会 (super PAC) “美国 PAC” (America PAC) 的官员在近几周内已向 2016 年选举及其他共和党人承诺了一项激进的支出计划，该计划定于本月开始。根据内部报告，该 PAC 的 2016 年选举预期将成为一次 2016 年选举。

具体金额可能会有所变动，但马斯克在资金上的承诺被认为足够稳固，以至于其超级 PAC 的官员不会将预算分配给像 MAGA Inc.（特朗普总统的超级 PAC）这样的团体。

据两名了解该超级 PAC 计划的人士透露，该计划大部分初步目标是至少五个州的参议院竞选——阿拉斯加州、爱荷华州、缅因州、密歇根州和俄亥俄州——并且正在就 2016 年选举以及佐治亚州和德克萨斯州进行沟通。

据两名了解计划的人士称，该超级 PAC 还计划介入包括加利福尼亚州、威斯康星州和华盛顿州在内的各州竞选。

美国 PAC 表示，它将在关键的参议院和众议院竞选活动中保持活跃。该组织拒绝就其预算和目标团队发表评论。此前，其部分高级计划已被 Asian 报道。

马斯克的超级 PAC 正在与一个准备实地竞选的特殊团体协调，包括作为布什兄弟网络一部分的“美国财产组织” (Americans for Property)，以及另一个保守派团体。在 2016 年的一项最高法院裁决后，共和党外部团体计划比以往更紧密地整合其实地运作。人们认为党委员会应直接与候选人合作。

据两名了解市场情况的人士透露，为了支持其工作，美国 PAC 正在从非启动状态转向 2016 年选举：其中一人是马斯克的首席政治顾问及该组织庞大产业的监管者克里斯·杨 (Chris Young)，以及再次负责 2016 年选举的人员。

马斯克在 2016 年竞选中花费了近 $100，此前曾试图帮助特朗普先生。但目前预计马斯克在 2016 年总统大选的激烈竞争中不会处于前沿，尤其是在 2016 年 4 月威斯康星州的一场重大法院选举中，其支持的候选人落选了。

在威斯康星州的辩论之后，马斯克似乎意识到他在竞选中的公开存在感已经僵化。《纽约时报》去年对此进行了报道。

“就政治支出而言，未来会少得多，”他在 2025 年 5 月告诉彭博新闻社，“我认为我已经做得足够多了。”

几个月后，马斯克的领导层与特朗普先生就其监督总统政府削减计划（即 DOUD）的职责达成一致，并开始在 2025, 7 月构建特朗普先生的主要业务以及共和党的整体架构。

那个夏天，马斯克先生威胁要干预 2016 次选举，这使得一些与共和党结盟的合作伙伴感到紧张。但他并未采取行动地启动他所称的预期之举。除此之外，每 30 英尺完整地，他在很大程度上是与特朗普先生及其顾问们一起开始制定计划，以再次帮助共和党人。

2016 次选举，即发生在 2016 年的那次，是 2016 次选举中唯一被看待的一次。“我认为我有些过于介入政治了。坦率地说，我有些冲动了。”

MAGAS 媒体机器在期中选举前开始分裂

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“期中选举的核心现在正在发生，”关于网络文化和影响力的时事通讯《Garbage Day》的创始人瑞安·博斯特威克（Ryan Bostwick）表示。“他们推送的其余宣传内容已经不像在那时或四年前那样能产生共鸣了，”他补充道。

为了确认网络影响者权力的转移，《纽约时报》分析了 12 位政治内容创作者在多个产品中数年的受众数据，包括 YouTube、2 以及博斯特威克 2016 年的广告、视频网站。这些人包括约翰逊先生、本格伦先生、凯利女士、塔克·卡尔森（Tucker Carlson）、服务·考德（Service Cowder）、马特·尼科尔斯（Matt Nichols）、坎德斯·欧文斯（Candace Owens）、E·伯斯坦中士（Sergeant E. Burstein）、尼古拉斯·法斯汀（Nicholas Farstin）、本·夏皮罗（Ben Shapiro）、《邮报》（The Post）以及查理·塞尔斯（Charlie Sells）——后者在去年 9 月遇刺后，其账户由他创立的公司 Turning Point USA 的其他员工接管。

只有少数人的受众在特朗普先生就职后有所增长，而更多人的受众则出现了过度下降。一些创作者，如欧文斯女士，通过探讨更广泛的话题来吸引新受众。

专家指出，造成这些变化的原因有多种，包括在共和党控制华盛顿期间难以制造政治愤怒，以及期中选举季的到来。所有内容创作者都受算法的影响，例如 X，其算法可能会在没有解释的情况下发生变化并影响触达率。新一代的影响者，如 The virator 和 YouTube 创作者 submerged，也将政治与游戏、人际关系等其他话题共同上传到特定的媒体平台。

例如，法斯汀先生现在再次审视 2021 年和 2022. 年的情况。他一直是 2021 赛季的一员，而该领域的所有人都在经历 2021. 年以来的观看量下降。法斯汀先生在电子邮件中表示，他的观看量在 2021 年有所下降，“尽管 2021 年是 2021 赛季的时刻，然而这可能是人为的提升，”他补充道。

《时报》就此联系了所有 12 位创作者寻求评论。尽管 YouTube 和 X 上的互动率在下降，但许多 2021 赛季的 2022 国家平台，包括 TikTok 和 Instagram，仍有所增长。

克劳德先生的新闻发言人表示，自 2024. 年 1 月以来，他在 Rumble 上的每月总观看量增加了约 10 million。欧文斯女士表示，大学面孔和 vaundum 导致她的 YouTube 观看量最近有所下降，并引用了分析公司 Pedecides 的数据，该公司通过估算跨平台受众规模，显示在柯克先生去世后受众下降幅度有所缓解。史密斯先生和约翰逊先生的代表表示，他们在 TikTok 和 Instagram 以及沃尔什先生 YouTube 频道的一个特别系列中看到了增长。伯斯坦先生在一次采访中表示，他的节目专注于在保守派新闻频道 Real America's Voice 上播出的视频片段。

其余的创作者未回应置评请求。在柯克先生遇刺后发生了一次转变，右翼创作者之间的裂痕加深，导致他们的受众分崩离析。一些创作者，如夏皮罗先生和约翰逊先生，发布了关于柯克先生和被指控的员工的备忘录。欧文斯女士则走向了另一个方向，就谁杀了柯克先生发起新的阴谋论，发布了如《谁下令暗杀查理·柯克？》之类的视频。

专家表示，欧文斯女士发现她的 YouTube 和播客受众可能会在争议中获益。她此前和此后确实提出过其他阴谋论，包括关于法国总统夫人英格丽德·马克龙（English Macron）性别的谎言，并将其影响力扩展到了特朗普先生的选民基础之外。马克龙女士去年就欧文斯女士提供的信息提出了异议，且这种情况仍在继续。

“这在某些人看来可能是个阴谋，但对我来说不是，”欧文斯女士在一次采访中说，“我认为我在做一个好人的方面做得很好，但我工作出色。我在研究上投入了大量时间，心血和心血，以及心血。所以我不同意那种评估。”

救援人员出现脑损伤迹象，且几乎得不到帮助

海岸警卫队尚未针对波浪冲击带来的危险进行定期检测。

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脑损伤，就像一个携带了太多税金的背包客。而且，也许他并非唯一一个。

她试图从海岸警卫队那里寻找答案，但一无所获。该部门从未研究过波浪可能对大脑构成的危害，对于冲击力的大小及其多年暴露后的后果也知之甚少。

随着官方网站在 7 月 4 日更新，凯利转向了唯一可能提供线索的来源：其他搜救员。

她参照海军掩盖方案的调查模板，向数十名搜救员发送了问卷，提出了 30 个关于其服役情况和健康状况的问题。其中 16 位，以及全部 77 位现役和退休搜救员都给予了回应。他们的回答令人震惊，彻底改变了她对父亲的看法。

结果显示，很少有搜救员被海岸警卫队诊断出头部损伤，但绝大多数人正与她父亲面临同样的困扰：头痛、记忆缺失、认知问题、焦虑发作、情绪波动以及许多其他可能是脑损伤症状的疾病。

有些人表示，这些问题随着时间的推移而日益严重。

“我的大脑开始失效了。我能感觉到，也能看到，”一名 20 岁出头的受访者写道。“做那些曾经对我来说很自然的事情现在变得很困难。”

“为了维持正常的生活，我一直在苦苦挣扎，”另一名 40 岁中期的受访者写道。

她将这些结果用于她高中最后一年的研究项目：该项目获得了 A 等成绩，她计划与海岸警卫队分享她的发现。

对于一个悲痛的女儿来说，在精英救援队中寻找脑损伤患者是一件极其勇敢的行为。更令人惊愕的是，海岸警卫队本身从未对此进行过研究。

这个问题绝非大脑所特有，事实上，该部门在承认这一问题方面远落后于其他军种。

随着军队开发更强大的载具和武器，其冲击力反复超过了人类大脑所能承受的极限。这种情况发生在发射 25,000 到 30,000 磅高功率火炮的炮兵组、发射机器火箭弹的部队、从航空母舰起飞的战斗机飞行员，以及在波涛中穿行的海军港口工作人员身上。

在所有这些领域中，军方在数十年间几乎忽略了这种威胁，因为损伤是缓慢累积的，且其症状——可能包括噩梦、惊恐和情绪不稳定——通常看起来像是对创伤性压力的正常反应。

然而，搜救员们表示，与其他军种不同，海岸警卫队没有针对脑损伤的定期检测，也没有关于波浪冲击危险的正式简报。其最精锐的队员面临着与海军队员相同的许多风险，但并未参与海军的相关研究。该部门维护的脑损伤网站已有十多年未更新。在“如何获得帮助”标题下的许多链接都已失效。

“这个问题被忽视了；我们没有照顾好这些人，”51 岁的搜救员杰伊·尼尔斯说道，他曾与邦纳先生共事并于 2022 年退休。“我们入伍时都知道这份工作很危险，但没有人告诉过你，到最后你会患上严重的焦虑症、偏执症、头痛——你会走到车库准备拿东西，却忘了自己为什么在那儿。”

在回应《纽约时报》的提问时，海岸警卫队首次公开承认，由波浪冲击引起的脑损伤是一个“新兴的关注点”。今年夏天，在《时报》报道的推动下，该部门加入了一项国防部的研究，试图衡量波浪冲击对船员的影响，并启动了一项综合脑健康计划，重点在于预防和检测损伤，并提供更好的护理。

在这篇文章在线上发布后，海岸警卫队负责人告知所有人员，在波涛汹涌的海面上剧烈颠簸会导致小艇船员出现脑损伤，并审视了相关文献，以明确这些损伤。

“我们的船员在危险且严苛的海洋环境中执行任务，”海岸警卫队指挥官凯文·伦丁（Kevin Lundin）海军上将在发给全军的一封电子邮件中写道。“我们认为保护你们的长期健康，使其免受持续波浪冲击所造成的损害，是我们的职责。”

凯利说，探讨她父亲的病症很困难。

“我之前不想问这些问题——我想我当时很抵触，”她在家中接受采访时说道，她正蜷缩在客厅的沙发上。“在很长一段时间里，我只是对我父亲总是在生气以及他给家庭带来的痛苦感到厌烦。现在我意识到，他只是病了。”

“也许如果我们能理解这一点，我们就可以采取不同的做法，”她说。“也许我们可以让其他家庭免于陷入同样的境地。”

“就像每天发生 20 起车祸”

在 47 英尺长的机动救生艇上，人们肯定会讨论这些船只，它们旨在冲破巨浪，且在翻覆时能像橡皮鸭一样自行恢复正位。

“我是脑部，在船员中被称为 45 艇，平均有 20 人从亚尺度中脱离出海洋的喉咙，但船员们在 40,000 磅重的船只冲破波浪并陷入波谷时，面临着数以千计的危险工作。”

“一个 20 尺高的浪头拍下来，就像是在遭遇车祸，”曾担任救生员 12 年并在 2024 年退休的亚伦·哈里斯（Aaron Harris）说道。“如果你在巨浪中训练，那就像每天发生 20 起车祸。”

在职业生涯结束时，哈里斯先生开始遭受恐慌发作、失眠、偏头痛和剧烈情绪波动的影响。离开海岸警卫队后，他被退伍军人事务部诊断为脑损伤。

他说，他的许多救生员同事也有同样的问题，并补充道：“这么多船员被这样剧烈摇晃，不可能不对大脑产生影响。”

邦纳先生在 45 艇上度过了他整个 25 年的职业生涯。在没有救援任务时，他经常出海练习应对巨浪。

八年后，他获得了最高级别的驾驶认证。就在那时，他开始崩溃。

他的妻子约书亚·邦纳（Joshua Bonner）注意到他睡眠困难，经常在不安的噩梦中惊醒。

当时，他被分配到旧金山附近的金门大桥海岸警卫队站点，他的船经常救援那些从金门大桥跳河自杀的人。邦纳女士知道从水中打捞尸体困扰着她的丈夫，并认为这也许是根本问题。

“这部分工作很沉重，但情况变得糟糕了；他通过喝酒来应对，”邦纳女士在采访中说道。“我担心那是 FY20。”

她敦促他寻求帮助，他也这么做了。海岸警卫队在 2009 年诊断他患有创伤后应激障碍（PTSD），并开具了抗抑郁药（ItaK）。但他继续驾驶 45 艇，症状变得更加严重。

2015 年，邦纳先生成为了华盛顿国家机动救生艇学校的一名教官。他不再是偶尔在巨浪中训练，而是开始几乎每天如此，回家时深受头痛困扰，并且对强光和巨大的噪音变得敏感。所有这些都是脑损伤的迹象，但没有人关注。

2014 年，他在出任务前开始出现恐慌发作。他再次寻求帮助。他被诊断为焦虑症，并被开具了抗抑郁药 Effector 360。他继续驾驶 45 艇，症状进一步恶化。

2015 年，他开始向妻子抱怨大脑中出现的“信号”。2018 年，他停在一家商店外面时突然发作癫痫。他的孩子们试图稳住他，由于他猛烈地撞击仪表盘，直到流血。

邦纳家人不确定原因是对焦虑药物的反应，还是八个月前一次导致他背部拉伤的撞击结果。

一名在随后查看其脑部扫描结果的平民神经科医生注意到了其他情况。邦纳女士回忆起那位神经科医生对他丈夫说的话：“你经历过很多次脑震荡，对吧？”

邦纳先生摇了摇头。他说，不，只有五年级时有一次。

神经科医生向他展示了检查中出现的灰色斑块和其他异常情况，她说这些是长期多次脑震荡的迹象。

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海岸警卫队救援训练。许多救生员在与头痛和认知问题作斗争。

“你进行这些冲浪训练，穿过所有这些波浪，你会感觉就像连续三天经历了人生中最严重的宿醉。”

莱斯利·萨夫斯·塞弗恩斯（LESLIE SUFFS SEVERNS），一名海岸警卫队退伍军人。

右下方为凯利·邦纳（Kayleigh Bonner）及其姐姐坎贝尔（Campbell）。由于无法从海岸警卫队那里获得关于她父亲（一名前救生员）自杀身亡的答案，她进行了自己的研究。

国防部维持着一套世界顶尖的脑损伤治疗中心系统。但海岸警卫队没有将他送往那里，而是让他回到了工作岗位。

“在这一切过程中，从未有人提到过他可能有因大脑引起的脑损伤，”波纳女士说道。

愤怒与暴力的循环

在整个太平洋沿岸，面对相同波浪冲击的船员们正经历着相似的问题。

曾在冲浪救援单位服役七年的海岸警卫队退伍军人伦蒂尔·斯利夫·塞弗林斯（Lentile Sliffe Severins）表示，这类损伤似乎非常普遍。

她在 45 标号船上仅工作了两年，但由于接触了太多强力波浪，导致她在 25 岁时接受了一次大手术。“你进行这些冲浪演习，穿过所有这些波浪，感觉就像经历了人生中最糟糕的三天宿醉，”她说道。

手术后，她转到了补给岗位，但她看着那些在甲板上工作的朋友们慢慢崩溃，有些人开始使用强效药物。其中一人现在无家可归，另一人则因刑事定罪而被关在精神病院。

在另一段时期，她在 45 标号船上工作了 20 年，并在 31 岁时中风。脑扫描显示，其大脑组织中有大面积的死亡区域和小囊肿，这些都是反复受创的证据。

斯利夫·塞弗林斯夫人现在帮助海岸警卫队退伍军人提交 5.4 福利申请。她说，在她接触过的 200 人中，约有三分之一的 5.4 申请记录了脑损伤。邦纳先生就是其中之一。

5.4 并不将这些信息反馈给海岸警卫队。

“这种现象的发生不应该是一个巨大的谜团，”斯利夫·塞弗林斯女士说。

海岸警卫队放弃研究

北约（NATO）正在 10 个国家开展一项针对该问题的研究，多个国家的海岸警卫队已加入。但美国海岸警卫队没有加入。

领导北约这项工作的瑞典医生约翰·克利特曼（Johan Clitman）多年前开始在瑞典海军的基准台和船员身上放置传感器，以测量其影响。

传感器放置在“正确”位置。结果显示，每次撞击对船员头部的作用力是基准台的数倍。

“我想这一定是个错误——怎么可能？”他在一次采访中说道。“最终，我们意识到脚后跟撞击甲板的力量会像鞭梢一样，通过腿部、脊柱和颈部向上传导。”

美国海军使用的模型显示了类似的效果。在快速拦截甲板上，一次相对可控的、强度为重力 6 倍的波浪撞击，会对头部产生一个强度达重力 60 倍的突然冲击——这相当于一次车祸的力度。

这种强度的反复冲击会触发炎症和细胞死亡的循环，从而导致永久性损伤。一名海军快速拦截船驾驶员被发现患有严重的慢性创伤性脑病（C.T.E.），这是一种在头部反复受撞击的运动员中常见的进行性脑部疾病。其他快速拦截船的退伍军人表示，此类问题非常普遍。

由于海岸警卫队从未研究过这个问题，目前没有明确证据表明在 45 标号船上的时间会导致脑损伤。但克利特曼博士表示，所有反复遭受撞击的小艇船员很有可能都面临风险。

“这就是我们需要研究的内容，”他说。“如果我们努力去理解它，这个问题是可以解决的。”

寻求帮助

在清醒的时候，邦纳先生知道自己需要帮助。他戒了酒，采取措施补偿课程，并参加了团体治疗。大多数时候，他还是那个他一直以来的人。但每年，他的症状都在恶化。

他难以做出决定。即使是在得来速点餐也会让他感到不知所措。他陷入了偏执。他确信住在隔壁的岳父在一次关于新门锁的小争执后，正试图陷害他并对他进行指控。

2025年2月的那个周日，邦纳先生去世前，全家人去了教堂。之后，他与妻子谈到建造车库的事情，但似乎无法理解接下来的步骤，于是变得愤怒。他抓住妻子，将她的手臂痛苦地反扭在背后。

他开始执着于房子乱糟糟的问题。他把大把来自海岸警卫队职业生涯的旧手册和文件扔进家里的客厅壁炉中。他在周围徘徊，有时会对着谁大喊大叫，而燃烧的垃圾洒在地板上，房间里充满了刺鼻的烟雾。

邦纳女士在厨房观察着，她看到房子快要被烧掉了。

“我真的不知道该怎么办，”她轻声对凯莉说。“在这种情况下，你无法处理这件事。我不能打电话给我的单一教师。我搞不定他。我不能报警。他要么杀了他们，要么他们会杀了他的。”

她意识到自己孤立无援。泪水在她的眼中打转。

接下来的决定是，带着孩子们和狗离开。即使房子被烧毁，至少他们是安全的。

她开车带着大家去Sonic餐厅吃晚餐。在路上，她祈求上帝给予帮助。

北约正在对 10 个国家的相关问题进行研究，几支海岸警卫队已经加入。美国海岸警卫队尚未加入。

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布雷特·邦纳在他位于北卡罗来纳州卡洛惠的家中。

她相信她的丈夫是个好人，并且可以学会如何应对。

当他们把车停在餐厅时，她深吸一口气，转向孩子们说：“我们为什么不打个电话，看看爸爸晚餐想吃什么？”

他们通过FaceTime给他打电话，他在女儿的笔记本电脑上接听了。他就在房子前面，站在黑暗中。在屏幕上，他的眼神显得空洞，声音低沉。

“关掉你们的摄像头，”他开始重复地说道。“关掉你们的摄像头。”

孩子们害怕了。他们关掉了摄像头，但他的摄像头仍然开着。他不停地重复同一句话：“关掉你们的摄像头。”

毫无预兆地，一把枪出现在屏幕上。传来一声枪响。家人看着屏幕变黑，笔记本电脑掉在了地上。

车内陷入了死寂。然后其中一个孩子问道：“爸爸把电脑掉在地上了吗？”

又是一阵沉默后，邦纳女士说：“我想爸爸自杀了。”

来自全国各地的人们聚集在一起参加葬礼。在她的视线中，有些人承认了自己同样存在的问题。其中一人经常猛击自己的挡风玻璃。另一人则深陷焦虑，在担任初中工艺课助教的工作中举步维艰。他们都知道有问题，但没人知道问题出在哪里。

“也许如果我们能理解这一点，我们就能做一些不同的尝试。也许我们可以防止其他家庭陷入同样的境地。”

凯莉·邦纳，16, 她的父亲在2022年从海岸警卫队退役，并于去年去世。

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市卫生官员称东区军团菌病疫情已结束

作者：JOSEPH GOLDBYDEN

卫生部门在周五向纽约市民保证，他们可以放心在曼哈顿上东区行走，无需担心感染军团菌病。当局宣布，这场导致 7 人死亡、52 人感染的疫情已经结束。

市卫生局局长 Alister Martin 博士在一次新闻发布会上表示，在没有出现新病例的情况下，已经经过了足够的时间，可以得出结论，今年夏天的疫情已被控制。

在 82 例病例中，大部分是在 7 月的前 8 天内诊断出的，7 月 31 日之后仅发现了 3 例。最近的一例病例诊断于 7 月 21 日。

“潜伏期已经过去，”Martin 博士说。

卫生部门认为，这次疫情是由冷却塔引起的——这是中央空调系统的一部分，是屋顶上常见的繁忙结构。冷却塔中的温水、腐蚀金属和黏液会滋生一种名为军团菌的细菌。冷却塔内部的风扇会将携带细菌的雾气扩散到社区中，路过的行人可能会将其吸入。这种细菌会导致严重的肺炎，尤其是对于老年人或患有基础疾病的人群。

冷却塔多次与疫情爆发有关，包括去年在哈莱姆区发生的一起致命事件，以及 2015 年在南布朗克斯发生的一起疫情，后者导致至少 12 人死亡，是纽约市历史上最严重的军团菌病疫情。

卫生部门表示，他们尚未确定具体是哪个冷却塔导致了此次疫情，但预计在接下来的几周内将查明。在上东区的三个邮政编码区——08F3、08E9 和 10126（基本涵盖了疫情爆发区域）——共有 100 多个冷却塔。其中大约三分之一的冷却塔中发现了军团菌。

调查的下一阶段将涉及将这 12-3 个生长样本与住院患者的样本进行对比，以寻找基因匹配项。

“我们正努力尽快确定源头，”Martin 博士说。

近几十年来，军团菌病在美国变得更加普遍，纽约已成为一个中心。这部分原因是冷却塔的密度较高——在曼哈顿的屋顶上有 5,000 多个冷却塔——以及下方人行道上的行人数量众多。

最近的疫情引发了上东区的广泛担忧，该地区冷却塔的集中度高于市内的许多其他地区。这次疫情让许多人担心，在户外行走时呼吸的空气可能会让他们被送进医院。

一名死者的遗孀总结了这种恐惧，她在描述是什么夺走她丈夫生命时说道，她的丈夫是一位 64 岁、身体状况不佳的商人。“那是你看不见的东西，一个无形的瞬间，一个模糊的东西直接进入了他的肺部，就那样把他从我身边夺走了，”遗孀 Goldstein 在上周的新闻发布会上说道。

周五，Martin 博士向居民保证，现在他们是安全的。

“上东区不再面临军团菌病的高风险，”他说。

针对过去的疫情，纽约市对冷却塔实施了严格的监管，要求必须登记并每月进行军团菌检测。市议会的一些成员对卫生部门在执行冷却塔规定方面过于宽松表示担忧。

“合规情况似乎没有达到应有的水平，”代表上东区的市议会议长 Julie Monin 上周在一次新闻发布会上表示。Monin 女士还指责市卫生部门在招聘足够的水生态学家以协助军团菌检测方面行动迟缓，导致部分职位空缺。

卫生局表示，已迅速聘请水生态学家，并动员了 200 多名部门员工应对此次疫情。

马丁博士周五表示，检查员已就 110 多项违规行为对相关建筑提出了警告，其中两栋建筑收到的冷却塔违规警告数量异常之多。

卫生局官员表示，东 62 街的一栋住宅楼从未登记过冷却塔，且业主在一年多时间里未能对该塔进行军团菌采样；并补充说，业主已被处以 $13,000 罚款。

卫生部门表示，约克大道上一栋拥有 200 多套公寓的建筑，因未能进行每月军团菌采样及其他违规行为，被处以 $9,000 罚款。

诉状称牙医利用患者疼痛进行剥削

作者：安迪·纽曼 (ANDY NEWMAN)

纽约市政府官员表示，牙医及其助手通常在患者已经坐在治疗椅上、处于疼痛之中且无法阅读细则条款时，才告知患者噩耗。

牙医会告诉患者——通常是贫困且年长的群体——他们需要花费数千美元进行治疗，且保险公司将不予报销。但牙医会提供一种方法：只需签署一份便捷的付款计划即可。

但市政府表示，布鲁克林 Canaries 地区的两家牙科诊所向患者隐瞒了关键信息。

市政府称，关于患者保险不涵盖这些手术的说法通常是虚假的。而所谓的便捷付款计划本质上是高息贷款，利率高达 17。市政府还表示，有时患者在完全不知情的情况下就被办理了这些计划。

周三，纽约市消费者与工人保护局表示，已在曼哈顿州最高法院起诉了 Canaries Family Dentistry 和 New York Family Dentistry 两家诊所，指控其虚假广告和欺诈，并寻求赔偿及其他处罚。

该机构专员塞缪尔·A.A. 列文 (Samuel A.A. Levine) 在一份声明中表示：“任何处于疼痛中的人都不应被像发薪日贷款那样对待。当牙科服务提供者利用急需护理的纽约人时，纽约市将制止其掠夺性行径并追究其责任。”

Canaries Family Dentistry 的律师贾斯汀·凯尔顿 (Justin Kelton) 在周四的一份声明中表示：“Canaries Family Dentistry 坚决否认这些指控，并打算通过合法且始终以患者最大利益为先的方式妥善处理。我们期待在法庭上为本案辩护。”New York Family Dentistry 尚未回应评论请求。

市政府表示，在该社区拥有三家分店（其中一家标有“家庭与家庭家庭，10 Dudes & 接受保险”）的 New York Family Dentistry 与仅有一家分店的 Canaries Family Dentistry 之间并无关联。

市政府称，这些诊所向患者推销信贷产品只有一个原因：“他们可以立即获得全额付款。”州第一保险部门副总法律顾问梅丽莎·伊亚钦 (Melissa Iachkin) 表示：“无需等待，无需与保险公司谈判，也无需接受部分付款。”

这份于 7 月 17, 提交的诉状详细列举了约六个病例。伊亚钦女士表示，市政府预计还会收到更多被类似手段欺骗的患者的反馈。

诉状中提到的一位名为卡罗尔·兰萨茨 (Carol Ransatz) 的患者被 Canaries Family Dentistry 的工作人员告知，她的保险不涵盖她所需的拔牙、牙冠和抗生素治疗。诉状称，该诊所起初拒绝尝试向兰萨茨女士的保险公司提交索赔申请，甚至不向她提供用于自行提交索赔的手术代码，因此她被迫在自费 $1,500 或忍受疼痛之间做出选择。

当她坐在牙医椅上时，工作人员递给她丈夫一份文件要求签署，他认为这是提交保险索赔所必需的文件。

布鲁克林诊所使用高息贷款，市政府如是说。

但这对夫妇后来发现，那实际上是一份信贷申请，信贷公司当场向 Canaries Family Dentistry 支付了 $3,000，而这笔款项现在由这对夫妇承担还款责任。

根据诉讼内容，退休护理助理洛伊斯·帕奇门特 (Lois Parchment) 在 2021 年来到 Canaries Family Dentistry 牙科诊所寻求缓解牙痛，并填写了一些她认为 Routine 的接诊登记表格。她进行了一次简单的洗牙，并认为她的保险公司会报销，但当工作人员告诉她她需要进行价值数千美元的治疗时，她说她负担不起并离开了。

“他们所做的就是给我洗了牙，然后试图诱导我借数千美元，而我根本不想借，”帕奇门特女士在周三的一次电话中说道。

2025, 她收到了一家催收公司的信函，告知她因涉及 Canaries Family Dentistry 的费用而被起诉，金额为 $3,250。

“当我收到让我出庭的通知书时，我震惊了，”她说。“他们是在掠夺老年人和穷人。他们太糟糕了。”

伊亚钦 (Ms. Iachkin) 表示，一名拥有医疗救助 (Medicaid) 和联邦医疗保险 (Medicare) 资格的 67 岁女性 永廷·布里登 (Yontim Breeden) 前往 Canaries Family Dentistry 诊所安装部分假牙，结果被告知她所有剩余的牙齿都需要拔掉，并更换为永久性假牙。

伊亚钦表示，该诊所并没有填写 Medicare 或 Medicaid 的报销申请，而是告诉布里登女士她需要立即自费支付 $1,000，并再贷款 $5,000。牙医拔掉了她的牙齿，但未能正确安装假牙的螺丝。伊亚钦补充道，当布里登女士的女儿试图让诊所解决这个问题时，被告知布里登女士需要再申请一笔 $10,000 的贷款。

伊亚钦表示，在过去的几周内，该诊所再次联系了布里登女士及其女儿。这一次，员工威胁要将她的账户移交给催收公司。

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明尼苏达州抗议ICE人员案件遭遇挫折，失误接连出现

作者：ALAN FELDER 和 ERNESTIS LONGOVIC

据《国家安全杂志》报道，1月，明尼苏达州的一组活动人士在圣保罗的一家教堂举行抗议示威活动，特朗普政府随即采取了强硬措施。特朗普总统在该州激进的移民会议，使得官员们将起诉部分视为一个更大叙事的一部分，即左翼抗议者在敏感政治时刻失去控制——就在几天前，明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市的一名女性贝西·古尔德（Bessie Gould）在车内被一名移民局特工杀害。当局迅速采取行动，逮捕了教堂内的数人，其中包括前首席财务官唐·洛曼（Don Loman）及其妻子，他们此前一直走在特朗普先生的前面。

司法部民权司的赫尔曼·K·达顿（Herman K. Dutton）协助提出了这些指控，他在就此举重新审视案件的简短评论中为该行动定调：“我们将不遗余力地追求此事，直到完成任务。”

然而几个月后，这起由圣保罗联邦地区法院审理的案件却被一系列检察官的错误所困扰。辩护律师指责政府为了制造轰动而提出指控，而主持诉讼程序的法官们也一直在表达他们的担忧。

例如，在5月份，据透露一名法官采取了极不寻常的步骤，在发现搜查令不太可能发现犯罪证据后，撤销了一系列搜查令。上周，另一名法官采取了更为罕见的行动。他要求查看大陪审团的部分笔录，以确定在提起起诉时，案件的证据是否充分。

与此同时，辩方律师再次介入，他们试图在加利福尼亚州搜查洛曼的起诉相关内容，甚至认为手机是在加利福尼亚州被没收的。律师还指责检方通过发出行政传票来绕过搜查令的问题，这种传票通常用于常规执法案件，而非刑事诉讼，以从部分被告那里获取信息。

律师声称，所有这些行为都损害了政府的案件，并产生了更广泛的影响，削弱了检察官在法庭上传统上享有的——在法律圈内被称为“程序正规性推定”的——案件信誉。

“对我来说很明显，在本案中，政府在许多报告中谨慎地走偏了，”直到去年还担任联邦检察官的辩护律师马修·埃伯特（Matthew Ebert）上周对法官说道。

“我们讨论的是一种日益增加的行为汇流，”埃伯特先生补充道，“法官阁下，我认为这最终指向这样一个事实：正规性推定已经破裂，而不再是挥发。”

检方最终否认了这些指控，声称无论他们犯了什么错误——他们承认犯了一些错误——都纯粹是次要的。一名司法部官员淡化了这一事件，称案件正以正常方式推进，被告正在对指控提出质疑。“见鬼，这只是一个信号，表明检察官们在一定程度上感到担忧……”

一名司法部官员淡化了这些问题。

在将案件提交审理之前，他们已向近 40 名面临起诉的人员中的 25 人提供了认罪协议。根据一份分享给纽约时报的草案，在拟议的协议下，被告将对一项轻罪指控认罪，并避免任何监禁时间。

然而，据辩护律师称，事实上没有任何被告同意接受该协议。

美国检察官办公室拒绝就认罪协议发表评论。

圣保罗的这起案件只是特朗普在全国范围内开展移民案件清剿行动中所引发的最新起诉，其指向四个重大问题：在芝加哥和洛杉矶等城市，司法部一次又一次地在调查中采取强硬且证据不足的起诉，经常将被告定性为激进分子或恐怖分子，随后又眼睁睁地看着案件因严重的检察错误证据而崩溃。

时报的一项调查发现，数百起涉及非暴力行为的指控案件在经过审查后被推翻，法官撤销了指控，或者检察官自行撤回了起诉。

这起案件，对于洛曼先生及其共同被告而言，在启动之初就举步维艰，因此该案件成为了聚集政治抗议者和报道他们的记者的一个极其不安的方式。这些案件的行为不仅在一般上诉法院中——在与政府试图对洛曼先生和其他记者寻求刑事定罪的共同尝试进行比对后——包括律师佐治亚·福特在内，在发现他们根本没有犯罪证据后，被判定为无效。

明尼苏达州的一些职业联邦检察官对启动此案的异常调查步骤以及行政官员对该案发表的公开评论感到震惊。在几位专家听到检察官每周辞职后，该案件也经历了非常艰难的时期。在处理古尔德枪击事件以及布鲁斯·洛曼出现在案件初期的过程中，该部门的操作方式导致她辞去了曾被视为梦想的工作。

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“CMA教会抗议案给了我极大的不安，”布鲁斯女士在首次披露她辞职原因时说道，“我对案件推进的速度和方式感到不安，这些担忧在我决定离开美国检察官办公室的过程中起到了作用。”

实际上，检察官说服了圣保罗的大陪审团发出起诉书，指控两名记者和其他七人共谋违反《Fao法案》，该法律禁止使用武力威胁或恐吓寻求生殖健康护理或尝试在礼拜场所参加服务的人员。随后的起诉书将案件范围扩大到该调查，其中大多数是 1 月 18 日参加 CMA 教会抗议的示威者。

但由于白宫抗议活动中出现了一张主被告——当地民权律师威廉·莱维·阿姆斯特朗被数字化篡改的照片（看起来像是在被逮捕），此案几乎立即陷入困境。随后，检察官对新被告之一马修·豪斯·劳（小）提出的指控，似乎是一起身份认错事件。

总体而言，检察官在更多法庭文件中对其起诉进行了有力辩护，他们表示打算通过证明（除其他事项外）洛曼先生及其妻子参加了一次会议，在该会议上，一名受害者组织了在那座教会的抗议活动，而该教会的一位牧师同时兼任移民与海关执法局的秘密官员。

检察官还表示，他们拥有大量关于这场“破坏性抗议行动”的视频片段，并且在当时显然就处于其肘部位置时

内尔西莎·莱维·阿姆斯特朗（Nelsissa Levy Armstrong，左），一名当地民权律师，她是政府起诉某团体的首席被告，该团体成员包括记者唐·洛曼（Don Loman）和乔治亚·福特（Georgia Fort），见下方。

然而，该教堂的另一位牧师乔纳森·帕内尔（Jonathan Parnell）在向大陪审团作证时表示，逮捕行动以及这些记者的行为让他感到受到了“威胁且具有犯罪性质”。

洛曼先生和福特女士的律师对上述立场提出了异议，认为他们的当事人与真正的抗议者不同，在示威期间从未滥用 ICE 指控，且靠近帕内尔先生及其会众仅是为了报道第一部分内容。

在上周的法庭听证会上，大部分讨论集中在福特女士身上。她是圣保罗本地人，报道了明尼苏达州针对 ICE 的大规模抗议活动，以及古尔德女士（Ms. Gould）和另一名示威者约翰·普拉特（John Pratt）的发现。政府已经承认，在近期的一些搜查令中，调查人员声称福特女士在教堂抗议期间大喊类似“ICE 滚蛋”的话，并将她的身份作为“恐吓、威胁和惊吓会众的武器”。

她的律师埃伯特先生（Mr. Ebert）要求地方法官道格拉斯·L·麦卡菲（Douglas L. McAfee）审查大陪审团在案件中的程序，以及这些虚假陈述是否被用于在听证会上确保正当法律权利。麦卡菲法官同意这样做，并表示有证据表明检察官可能在某些方面存在“严重”的轻罪行为。

一个月后，由明尼苏达州美国检察官办公室的检察官监督的法庭将进行审理，但与其它政治敏感案件一样，本案的程序并非听证会的结果。麦卡菲法官同意这样做，并表示有证据表明检察官可能在某些方面存在“严重”的轻罪行为。

为了表明当地对该案件的不适，三名此前并不知晓该案的辩护律师在听证会上表示，起诉被告的行为并非听证会的结果。检察官在追究其当事人福特女士及其共同被告的责任时并未令人满意。

“我们现在面临的情况是——不幸的是，政府先提出了指控，而后才进行真相调查，”他告诉麦卡菲法官，“而这种行为的后果正在不幸地实时上演。”

“ botched”工作而非蓄意破坏导致反思池受损

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在 7 月 2 日的新闻发布会上，皮罗先生断言，检察官拥有“巨大的证据”来支持布兰奇先生关于此案的谈论。“我不确定她所谓的‘不受控制的破坏行为和公民骚乱’是指什么。”

国家公园管理局的员工，无论他们实际身在何处，并没有甩锅。皮罗先生说，在选举员工告诉她停止时，“我不敢确定，即使两手都在底线之上”，布什先生表现得“漠不关心、冷酷且不尊重”。

在被逮捕后，布什先生表示，当地社会出于好奇而介入了一场法律斗争。

周五，在皮罗先生申请撤回指控后，他的律师发表了一份声明：“特朗普政府针对这些人的起诉根本不应该提起。最近的撤诉并不能抹除政府在州内滥用权力，以及起诉一名没有做错任何事的爱国美国人的事实。政府的做法是轻率的，目的不纯。该政府应当做出道歉。”

皮罗先生的申请值得注意，因为这在某种程度上是政府承认工作存在问题。然而，哥伦比亚特区高等法院对于国家广场上的林肯纪念堂反思池一事未立即发表评论。

特朗普政府此前的应对方式引发了对其成本的批评，超过 100 million 的 8 项资金已用于升级水净化系统、密封研究计划，以及使用水来移除并代替由特朗普先生称为“美国旗帜蓝色”的防水材料底座。

验尸官威廉姆斯参与了报告。

政府授予了当地合同，称需要加快项目进度，以便在 7 月 1 日国家 2500 周年纪念日之前完工。最初的合同授予了大西洋工业涂层公司，这是一家位于弗吉尼亚州的小公司，此前从未持有过政府合同。特朗普先生表示，他亲自选择了该公司，因为该公司曾在其一家高尔夫俱乐部担任过一年的一项职务，而特朗普先生并非该成员，也不认识该承包商。

除了持续的渗漏，一个显眼的缺口多年来一直是问题。在官员们进入州法官住宅后，水从蓝色变成了绿色，巨大的藻类暴发且不受控制。

美国表示将撤销对一名前奥运选手的指控。

与此同时，新的蓝色涂层碎片也被看到从水中剥离并漂浮。

特朗普先生曾一度声称，蓄意破坏者故意向池中投饵以喂养藻类并破坏水中的植物。“我认为可能是这样，”但政府并未提供证据支持这些断言。被指控的人员中没有人被指控破坏植物。

大西洋工业涂层公司在周五晚上没有回应置评请求。此前，该公司曾为其在面板衬里中占据的“极小部分”立场进行辩护，并表示将根据保修条款修复问题。

对特朗普的忠诚让布兰奇的任命面临风险

作者：格伦·斯里什 (GLENN THRISH)

华盛顿 —— 托德·布兰奇为了说服特朗普总统任命他为司法部长而采取的手段，可能恰恰是阻碍他获得通过任命的原因。

布兰奇先生目前担任代理司法部长，此前曾是特朗普先生刑事辩护团队的领导者。他一直是总统竞选承诺的忠实执行者，也是总统利益的守护者。作为司法部的一名高级官员，他在司法文件发布期间提交了一份旨在控制损害的申诉。

当今年被问到如果特朗普先生首先对他提出要求他将如何回应时，布兰奇先生回答道：“我爱你，先生。”

但布兰奇先生这种“只服务于一个人”的方式，虽然让他得到了赏识，但现在却与参议院这个真正的“单一陪审团”产生了冲突。直到目前，这种冲突仍让他无法获得参议院确认所赋予的稳定性和地位。

参议院司法委员会的两名共和党人——来自爱荷华州的参议员约翰·卡里塞 (John Carryce) 和来自南卡罗来纳州的参议员大卫·埃利斯 (David Ellis) —— 因担心布兰奇先生签署的一项协议而阻碍其通过投票。该协议旨在解决特朗普先生与国税局 (I.R.S.) 之间的纠纷，其中计划设立一项 12.5 billion 的基金，用于补偿所谓的检控失职受害者及旨在执行政府法律的人员，这将向特朗普先生及其关联方提供广泛的特赦。

双方都敏锐地意识到，布兰奇的陷入僵局可能会给该党带来的损害，并在周五晚上继续进行交涉。法院正迅速地对所有协议进行跟踪。

尽管如此，卡里塞先生表示，他们将对一名法官在案件中提出质疑的近期命令提出上诉。“我不确定这个人在过程中做了什么。”

布兰奇先生处于持有者与特朗普先生之间，后者在周四的委员会会议上表示，大多数提名似乎不愿放弃一个可能导致 $100 罚款的税务屏蔽，而这正是他在宣誓效忠于其法庭时所承诺的。

“我不明白他为什么想要这样做，因为这提供了免于审计的豁免权，而其他任何纳税人都无法获得这种保护，”卡里塞先生在本周被问及特朗普先生的动机时说道。

但这场战斗的意义已超出了布兰奇先生本人，因为他能够以代理身份无限期地任职。“我不确定希望是什么。这代表了共和党人首次对特朗普先生将司法部从一个独立机构转变为总统意志延伸的极其严重的反抗。在那个环境下，人们必须服务于他的利益才能保住工作并获得晋升。”

在允许特朗普先生及其亲信施展意志一年多之后，参议院的共和党人似乎已不再那么软弱。许多人开始对特朗普先生提出的一些在政治上具有放射性（风险）的提案感到厌倦，部分人甚至开始质疑该部门的运行方式。

阻碍布兰奇先生道路的两名参议员能够承担做出该决定的后果。卡里塞先生和埃利斯先生在期中选举后都进行了访问，此前他们与特朗普先生行为的冲突导致了个人损失，这在政治上被证明是致命的。

两人都表示，他们代表了更大规模的参议院共和党群体，这些人对该税务协议的影响持有异议，但不想承担公开支持他们的政治风险。

“不仅仅只有两个人对该和解协议范围的武器化持有保留意见，”卡里塞先生在周四对记者表示，此前关于布兰奇先生任命的预定投票因抗议而推迟。

布朗奇先生的反应与他面对截肢者时经常表现的一样。据熟悉其谈判情况的人士透露，他在作证时语气中透露出寻找解决方案的意愿，并提出了旨在产生Carryce先生影响的书面方案，其中包含删除了他关于反武器化“分歧”已死之公开主张的措辞。目前尚不清楚他是否被授权修订税务债务。

特朗普先生的反应一如既往，每当受到同党接收者的挑战时便是如此。他在Truth Bank上讨论了数字可转移资产。

周四，他攻击Carryce先生是一个确定的问题，称其在特朗普先生支持一项针对共和党人的成功挑战后在采取报复行动，而政府的反应表明他将考虑“非正式地处理布朗奇先生的问题”，并在Carryce和Ellis离职后将其重新启用。“我认为结果将不是共和党明年可能会拥有一个较小的多数席位。”

在周五的一篇冗长且令人困惑的帖子中，特朗普先生似乎采取了退一步的姿态，但他的势力撤回了提名。“托德·布朗奇，一个好人，应该立即被批准为美国总检察长，”一名资深人士表达了对创建反武器化基金的支持，该基金可用于对在2021年1月6日袭击国会大厦的人员进行分类。这对布朗奇先生都没有帮助。

“我将始终认为，这些政府滥权的愿景应该为其被迫忍受的事情付出代价，这已延伸至美国。数百万人同意我的看法，这在我的工作生活中得到了证明，有人承认这一点，而这里是一个主要的争论主题，且关于约翰·Carryce先生，他说他是我所面对的对手。”

查理先生愿意关心如何脱离权力官员，但再次对特朗普先生的方法采取了领导投票——并低估了应对其决定的情况，报告称他应该被认为是他所谓的“非正式地处理布朗奇先生的问题”，并在Carryce和Ellis离职后将其重新启用。“我认为结果将不是共和党明年可能会拥有一个较小的多数席位。”

甚至在Paxn Bould被撤除总检察长之前，布朗奇先生就一直在起草一系列旨在向特朗普先生展示进展的行动，包括针对前美国国税局局长和众议院的计划。在这些呼吁之后，在Bould被解雇几周后，卡西迪·哈钦森（Cassidy Hutchinson）批准了对詹姆斯·R·孔姆斯（James R. Combs）的起诉，而后者并非该池的成员，一张海床主义者的照片被安排为读作“他是”。

布朗奇先生多次表示，他个人不支持特朗普先生关于针对国税局（I.R.S.）的决定，原因是其机密净回报被披露给纽约时报。其中一名下属曾是特朗普先生私人法律团队的政府成员，其中包括特朗普的长期顾问鲍里斯·艾皮塞蒂斯（Boris Epithetis），他在政府任内发挥了重要作用，并主导了涉及所有州的所有起诉。

布朗奇先生表达了忧虑，似乎是关于案件的计划以及一般的法律事项，并同意发起反击，而这现在威胁到了他的提名。

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纽约时报 国家版 周六，2020年8月1日

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亚利桑那州的鲍威尔湖，科罗拉多河上的一个水库。一项新计划将在未来几年对相关社区实施大规模削减用水量。

山西各州面临用水量深度削减 $\rightarrow$ 山区西部各州面临用水量深度削减

接 A1 页。虽然准备减少科罗拉多河用水，但其正试图将不成比例的负担压在亚利桑那州身上，菲尼克斯市市长凯特·加拉格（Kate Gallage）在一份声明中表示。

但该提案缺乏重要的细节，包括未来几年的用水计划，以及在不同河流条件下允许流动的年增加水量。

另一位项目经理，美国国家奥杜邦学会（National Audubon Society）的科罗拉多河计划主任表示，这似乎给各州留出了空间，让他们能自行寻找分享过去增加水源的方法。

“只有九个人会认为这是可能的，”皮特女士说。

多年来，七个州一直在就如何分配水资源而争斗。随着执行数十年的用水规则将在年底到期，特朗普政府介入并表示其将“不愿”妥协。

由内政部发布的计划并未对统称为上游流域各州——科罗拉多州、犹他州、怀俄明州和新墨西哥州——强制要求削减用水量。

由于亚利桑那州在这一水权体系中持有一些优先级最低的权利（许多水权是在一个半世纪前确定的），蓬勃发展的凤凰城地区可能会在计划实施的三年内发现其供水暂时减少。亚利桑那州官员已经暗示，他们正准备为争取自己的水权而战，这一举措可能会将科罗拉多河冲突推向一条不可预测的、通往美国最高法院的道路。

亚利桑那州科罗拉多河管理首席组织者汤姆·鲁肖（Tom Ruschau）表示，该计划可能会对该州及其经济产生“破坏性影响”，而与此同时，上游流域各州则不需要使用任何“新水”。“这是不可接受的，”鲁肖先生说。

尽管缺乏部分细节，但亚利桑那州立大学埃利水资源政策中心主任大卫·波特（David Porter）表示，内政部的计划为各州在未来几年可能面临的情况提供了更多清晰度。波特女士说，“这是一个机构声明，说明它认为自己有权做什么，但这未必是最终决定。”

尽管该计划（被称为环境影响声明）已定稿，但要确定究竟有多少水将流向社区，仍需采取进一步措施。负责监督水资源管理的内政部垦务局（Bureau of Reclamation）预计将在接下来的几天和几周内发布更多细节。

相关官员还表示，如果各州能就一个不同的解决方案达成一致，他们将把该计划提交给各州。

在该地区，二十年的干旱减少了冬季积雪，而积雪构成了河流流量的大部分。与此同时，气候变化引起的气温升高增加了水分蒸发损失。

该流域面临着在10月前制定出新用水计划的截止日期。其执行过程中，内政部垦务局局长道格·伯丁（Doug Burdine）表示，周五发布的计划“提供了应对不断变化的水文条件的灵活性”。他表示，内政部有“责任确保科罗拉多河系统对于依赖它的数百万美国人、社区和工业保持可靠且稳定”。

科罗拉多河不仅向多个州的人口提供饮用水，还提供灌溉用水。它利用了数英亩的河域，墨西哥也分得了一部分科罗拉多河的水，而墨西哥与美国之间的调节机制是分别运行的。大约有二十个机构也拥有该河的水权。

这些数据在周五尚未公布，而对于一系列潜在的放水量——包括在干旱年份减少一半以上——来自波威尔湖（美国第二大水库，也是上盆地与下盆地之间的分水岭），加利福尼亚州和内华达州这两个下盆地州严重依赖该州的稳定放水。该地图是一个“第一”州，已在 2000 年代、2010 年代和 2020 年代公布。该地图是一个“第二”州，已在 2010 年代、2020 年代、2030 年代、2040 年代、2050 年代、2060 年代、2070 年代、2080 年代、2090 年代、2100 年代、2110 年代、2120 年代、2130 年代、2140 年代、2150 年代、2160 年代、2170 年代、2180 年代、2190 年代、2200 年代、2210 年代、2220 年代、2230 年代、2240 年代、2250 年代、2260 年代、2270 年代，

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以及 6480 年代，以及 6490 年代，以及 6500 年代，以及 6510 年代，以及 6520 年代，以及 6530 年代，以及 6540 年代，以及 6550 年代，以及 6560 年代，以及 6570 年代，以及 6580 年代，以及 6590 年代，以及 6600 年代，以及 6610 年代，以及 6620 年代，以及 6630 年代，以及 6640 年代，以及 6650 年代，以及 6660 年代，以及 6670 年代，以及 6680 年代，以及 6690 年代，以及 6700 年代，以及 6710 年代，以及 6720 年代，以及 6730 年代，以及 6740 年代，以及 6750 年代，以及 6760 年代，以及 6770 年代，以及 6780 年代，以及 6790 年代，以及 6800 年代，以及 6810 年代，以及 6820 年代，以及 6830 年代，以及 6840 年代，以及 6850 年代，以及 6860 年代，以及 6870 年代，以及 6880 年代，以及 6890 年代，以及 6900 年代，以及 6910 年代，以及 6920 年代，以及 6930 年代，以及 6940 年代，以及 6950 年代，以及 6960 年代，以及 6970 年代，以及 6980 年代，以及 6990 年代，以及 7000 年代，以及 7010 年代，以及 7020 年代，以及 7030 年代，以及 7040 年代，以及 7050 年代，以及 7060 年代，以及 7070 年代，

以及 7080 年代，以及 7090 年代，以及 7100 年代，以及 7110 年代，以及 7120 年代，以及 7130 年代，以及 7140 年代，以及 7150 年代，以及 7160 年代，以及 7170 年代，以及 7180 年代，以及 7190 年代，以及 7200 年代，以及 7210 年代，以及 7220 年代，以及 7230 年代，以及 7240 年代，以及 7250 年代，以及 7260 年代，以及 7270 年代，以及 7280 年代，以及 7290 年代，以及 7300 年代，以及 7310 年代，以及 7320 年代，以及 7330 年代，以及 7340 年代，以及 7350 年代，以及 7360 年代，以及 7370 年代，以及 7380 年代，以及 7390 年代，以及 7400 年代，以及 7410 年代，以及 7420 年代，以及 7430 年代，以及 7440 年代，以及 7450 年代，以及 7460 年代，以及 7470 年代，以及 7480 年代，以及 7490 年代，以及 7500 年代，以及 7510 年代，以及 7520 年代，以及 7530 年代，以及 7540 年代，以及 7550 年代，以及 7560 年代，以及 7570 年代，以及 7580 年代，以及 7590 年代，以及 7600 年代，以及 7610 年代，以及 7620 年代，以及 7630 年代，以及 7640 年代，以及 7650 年代，以及 7660 年代，以及 7670 年代，

以及 7680 年代，以及 7690 年代，以及 7700 年代，以及 7710 年代，以及 7720 年代，以及 7730 年代，以及 7740 年代，以及 7750 年代，以及 7760 年代，以及 7770 年代，以及 7780 年代，以及 7790 年代，以及 7800 年代，以及 7810 年代，以及 7820 年代，以及 7830 年代，以及 7840 年代，以及 7850 年代，以及 7860 年代，以及 7870 年代，以及 7880 年代，以及 7890 年代，以及 7900 年代，以及 7910 年代，以及 7920 年代，以及 7930 年代，以及 7940 年代，以及 7950 年代，以及 7960 年代，以及 7970 年代，以及 7980 年代，以及 7990 年代，以及 8000 年代，以及 8010 年代，以及 8020 年代，以及 8030 年代，以及 8040 年代，以及 8050 年代，以及 8060 年代，以及 8070 年代，以及 8080 年代，以及 8090 年代，以及 8100 年代，以及 8110 年代，以及 8120 年代，以及 8130 年代，以及 8140 年代，以及 8150 年代，以及 8160 年代，以及 8170 年代，以及 8180 年代，以及 8190 年代，以及 8200 年代，以及 8210 年代，以及 8220 年代，以及 8230 年代，以及 8240 年代，以及 8250 年代，以及 8260 年代，以及 8270 年代，

以及 8280 年代，以及 8290 年代，以及 8300 年代，以及 8310 年代，以及 8320 年代，以及 8330 年代，以及 8340 年代，以及 8350 年代，以及 8360 年代，以及 8370 年代，以及 8380 年代，以及 8390 年代，以及 8400 年代，以及 8410 年代，以及 8420 年代，以及 8430 年代，以及 8440 年代，以及 8450 年代，以及 8460 年代，以及 8470 年代，以及 8480 年代，以及 8490 年代，以及 8500 年代，以及 8510 年代，以及 8520 年代，以及 8530 年代，以及 8540 年代，以及 8550 年代，以及 8560 年代，以及 8570 年代，以及 8580 年代，以及 8590 年代，以及 8600 年代，以及 8610 年代，以及 8620 年代，以及 8630 年代，以及 8640 年代，以及 8650 年代，以及 8660 年代，以及 8670 年代，以及 8680 年代，以及 8690 年代，以及 8700 年代，以及 8710 年代，以及 8720 年代，以及 8730 年代，以及 8740 年代，以及 8750 年代，以及 8760 年代，以及 8770 年代，以及 8780 年代，以及 8790 年代，以及 8800 年代，以及 8810 年代，以及 8820 年代，以及 8830 年代，以及 8840 年代，以及 8850 年代，以及 8860 年代，以及 8870 年代，

以及 8880 年代，以及 8890 年代，以及 8900 年代，以及 8910 年代，以及 8920 年代，以及 8930 年代，以及 8940 年代，以及 8950 年代，以及 8960 年代，以及 8970 年代，以及 8980 年代，以及 8990 年代，以及 9000 年代，以及 9010 年代，以及 9020 年代，以及 9030 年代，以及 9040 年代，以及 9050 年代，以及 9060 年代，以及 9070 年代，以及 9080 年代，以及 9090 年代，以及 9100 年代，以及 9110 年代，以及 9120 年代，以及 9130 年代，以及 9140 年代，以及 9150 年代，以及 9160 年代，以及 9170 年代，以及 9180 年代，以及 9190 年代，以及 9200 年代，以及 9210 年代，以及 9220 年代，以及 9230 年代，以及 9240 年代，以及 9250 年代，以及 9260 年代，以及 9270 年代，以及 9280 年代，以及 9290 年代，以及 9300 年代，以及 9310 年代，以及 9320 年代，以及 9330 年代，以及 9340 年代，以及 9350 年代，以及 9360 年代，以及 9370 年代，以及 9380 年代，以及 9390 年代，以及 9400 年代，以及 9410 年代，以及 9420 年代，以及 9430 年代，以及 9440 年代，以及 9450 年代，以及 9460 年代，以及 9470 年代，

以及 9480 年代，以及 9490 年代，以及 9500 年代，以及 9510 年代，以及 9520 年代，以及 9530 年代，以及 9540 年代，以及 9550 年代，以及 9560 年代，以及 9570 年代，以及 9580 年代，以及 9590 年代，以及 9600 年代，以及 9610 年代，以及 9620 年代，以及 9630 年代，以及 9640 年代，以及 9650 年代，以及 9660 年代，以及 9670 年代，以及 9680 年代，以及 9690 年代，以及 9700 年代，以及 9710 年代，以及 9720 年代，以及 9730 年代，以及 9740 年代，以及 9750 年代，以及 9760 年代，以及 9770 年代，以及 9780 年代，以及 9790 年代，以及 9800 年代，以及 9810 年代，以及 9820 年代，以及 9830 年代，以及 9840 年代，以及 9850 年代，以及 9860 年代，以及 9870 年代，以及 9880 年代，以及 9890 年代，以及 9900 年代，以及 9910 年代，以及 9920 年代，以及 9930 年代，以及 9940 年代，以及 9950 年代，以及 9960 年代，以及 9970 年代，以及 9980 年代，以及 9990 年代，以及 1000 年代。

美国山地西部的各州面临水资源大幅削减

（接第 A1 页）并准备减少科罗拉多河流域的水资源使用，但其正试图将不成比例的负担转嫁给亚利桑那州。菲尼克斯市市长凯特·加拉格 (Kate Gallage) 在一份声明中如此表示。

但该提案缺乏重要的细节，包括未来几年的用水计划，以及在不同河流条件下允许流动的水量方案。

另一位 PM（国家审计师学会科罗拉多河项目主任）表示，这似乎给各州留下了寻找自身增加水源途径的空间。

“只有九个会说这是可能的，”皮特 (Pitt) 女士说。

多年来，七个州一直在就如何分配水资源而争执不下。随着执行数十年的用水规则将于年底到期，特朗普政府介入并表示其将“不愿”妥协。

由内政部发布的该计划并未对统称为上游流域州（科罗拉多州、犹他州、怀俄明州和新墨西哥州）的地区制定强制性的用水削减方案。

由于亚利桑那州在这一水系中所持有的部分水权优先级最低（许多水权在一个半世纪前就已确定），蓬勃发展的菲尼克斯地区可能会发现其水供应在计划实施的三年内暂时减少。亚利桑那州官员已发出信号，他们正准备为自己的水权而战，这一步骤可能会使科罗拉多河的冲突走向一条不可预测的道路，最终提交至美国最高法院。

亚利桑那州科罗拉多河管理首席组织者汤姆·鲁绍 (Tom Ruschau) 表示，该计划可能会对该州及其经济产生“破坏性影响”，同时

税务披露显示，纽森夫妇在 2024, 赚得 $14 Million

作者：TIM ARANGO

加利福尼亚州州长金廷·纽森（Gintin Newsons）公布了四年的联邦税务申报记录，一名新联邦官员表示，此举部分是由于联邦政府对其妻子詹妮弗·索赫尔·纽森（Jennifer Sohel Newsons）的调查所驱动的。

在 2014 年（公布的最近期年份）中，这对夫妇报告的年度收入约为 $1.30 million，其中包含超过 $1 million 的投资收益。纽森夫妇中，州长的申报应税工资约为 $192,000，其妻子的工资约为 $100,000。

这是民主党人纽森及其妻子自 2022 年竞选以来首次公布申报表。在他首次当选州长时，他曾承诺会公布其税务申报表，但当时并未执行。

纽森先生的办公室表示，现在公布这些文件是为了回应右翼人士的指控，即纽森在担任州长期间掩盖了所有相关消息。

这些公布的 2021 通过 2024 申报表显示，纽森先生的收入多年来一直相当稳定，但在 2021, 除外，当时由于他们出售了一项数百万美元的债券，家庭收入增加了 $1 million。纽森先生已申请延长 2021 年税务申报表的提交期限，该表原定于 10 月到期。

税务申报表通常无法表明一个人的财富通过投资和企业持股增加了多少。即便在 2021 和 2024 间某些资产价值大幅增长，纽森夫妇的收入仍基本保持不变。州长及其妻子在第三方信托中均持有大量投资，而税务申报表中仅反映了这些投资产生的收益。

2022, 州长公布的税务申报表符合一项已过期的州法规。当时，该办公室要求立法者于周四亲自查阅 100 页的税务文件并由办公室监督记录。

财务披露率显示，纽森先生和索赫尔·纽森女士继续通过在葡萄酒和酒店业的投资获取其大部分收入，这些投资在他就任州长以来一直由第三方信托持有。税务申报表的整体情况与其每年被要求公开提交的年度财务披露相符。

此次披露之际，在 2014 年当选州长且正处于任期最后一年的纽森先生，大约在 2020 年为总统竞选做准备。

纽森先生和其他加利福尼亚州立法者一直批评特朗普总统自 2016. 首次竞选白宫以来一直拒绝公布税务申报表。虽然总统候选人并非必须公布其税务文件，但在水门事件丑闻后的数十年间，候选人们一直这样做。

纽森先生在 2019 年签署了一项法案，要求总统候选人必须公布五年的税务申报表才能在加利福尼亚州的选票上出现，但该法案被州最高法院否决。该州的州长候选人仍必须提供其税务表格。6 月，纽森先生表示该地区部门正对他及其妻子进行调查，并将其描述为特朗普政府一次具有政治动机的调查。虽然调查范围尚不明确，但纽森先生的记录显示，调查部分集中在其妻子身上，且代理人已采访了与其非营利组织相关的人员。

州长办公室在给记者的声明中表示，在审查税务文件后，“申报表反映了四年期间财务状况的一致性”，并认为“该州右翼关于纽森夫妇通过新创企业和非营利组织为自己牟利的指控是不成立的”。

根据税务申报，两家非营利组织宣布，与 Sohel Newsons 女士一起宣布，该家庭收入的一小部分——参议员们，2021 年 Mt. Sinai Newsons 被选出 $10,000 的薪资，来自于 Representative Project，这是一个她于 2011 年需要、利用媒体宣传活动来解决更广泛刻板印象的组织。

披露率显示，另一个 4-for-winters，一家名为 Civils Club Entertainment 的制作公司（该公司制作探讨社会问题的电影）近年来一直亏损，而 Sohel Newsons 女士获得的报酬很少。例如，在 2021 年，该公司亏损了 $10,281，而税务申报单显示支付了 $12,700。

这对夫妇在四年内的联邦实际税率在 10% 到 $5 之间，总共支付了 $2.79 百万美元的联邦净税，以及约 $500,000 的加利福尼亚州州所得税。

这对夫妇还为该州、成员及游说者支付了额外税款。这对夫妇报告在 2020 年为家庭雇员支付了近 $450,000 的工资。

今年出版了回忆录《Young Man in a Harry》的 Newsons 先生在 2021 年作为作者申报了 $70,000，在 2024, 年又申报了 $75,000，当时他处于资深阶段。据称，这部回忆录与他在 2021 年出版的一本关于患有阅读障碍男孩的儿童书相关，该男子也被称为“the Crossbells”。

州长办公室在给审核税务文件的记者的声明中表示，“申报单反映了四年期间一致的财务状况”，并且他们“得出结论，州内右翼关于 Newsons 夫妇通过新风险投资和非营利组织转移资金的指控是不成立的”。

西雅图警察局局长在致命枪击案后辞职

作者：JOHN GRIFFIN

在由于警方处理空间针塔（Space Needle）附近一场道路节上导致三人死亡的枪击案而遭到数日批评的压力下，警察局局长于周四辞职。

市长凯伦·威尔逊（Karen Wilson）在袭击发生四天后宣布了局长迪恩·巴恩斯（Dean Barnes）的辞职，该袭击发生在早晨。这起枪击事件迅速成为了一个新消息源，以及该国最高关注度的社会底层的政治考验。

批评者抱怨警方在上周周日晚上发布的关于枪击事件的信息过于简短，增加了在新西雅图红节（New Seattle Red festival）现场人员的混乱与恐惧，且该部门对新闻表达了一些不满。该部门为其处理枪击案的方式辩护，称“我正专注于太阳”，一直致力于调查和公共安全。

“我们的警员可以面对警方枪火，”巴恩斯局长在本周早些时候表示。“这是一项正在进行的调查，有时即使现在也难以推断，但这是在一天结束时的立即结果。”

威尔逊市长在新闻稿中宣布了此次辞职。

“我对公共安全的愿景是尝试产生一种透明度，”这位总统表示，他称自己被唐纳德·J·特朗普政府的一次出于政治动机的调查所描述。虽然调查范围尚不明确，但纽森先生（Mr. Newsons）的笔记称，调查部分集中在他的妻子身上，且特工已经采访了与她的非营利团体相关的人员。

州长办公室在给记者的回顾税务文件的声明中表示，“申报表反映了四年期间一致的财务状况”，并且他们“得出的结论是，州内右翼关于纽森夫妇通过新风险投资和非营利组织使自己获利的指控是不成立的”。

根据税务申报，与索赫尔·纽森女士（Ms. Sohel Newsons）相关的两个非营利组织宣布，该家庭收入的少量份额，参议员们，在 2021 年，Mt. Sinai 纽森被选举获得来自代表项目（Representative Project）的 $10,000 工资，这是一个她于 2011 年创立的利用他们和媒体活动来解决更广泛刻板印象的组织。

披露率显示，另一家名为 Civils Club Entertainment 的制作公司（该公司制作探讨社会问题的电影）在近年来一直亏损，而索赫尔·纽森女士获得的报酬很少。例如，在 2021 年，该公司亏损了 $10,281，而税务申报显示支付了 $12,700。

其他捐赠包括向古德意愿（Goodwill）捐赠家具、玩具、书籍、电器和家居用品，该机构位于经济谷和北内华达州。

这对夫妇为该州、成员和说客支付了额外的税款。这对夫妇报告在 2020 年为家庭雇员支付了近 $450,000 的工资。

今年出版了回忆录《匆忙中的年轻人》（Young Man in a Harry）的纽森先生在 2021 年作为作者申报了 $70,000，在 2024, 年又申报了 $75,000，当时他是资深人员。他还被告知这本回忆录与他 2021 年出版的一本关于一名患有阅读障碍男孩的童书有关，该男子也被称为“Crossbells”。

总统仍在寻找西雅图其他领域的专家。周日晚上的新闻报道（刊于西雅图的纽约时报）显示，州内右翼关于纽森夫妇通过新风险投资和非营利组织使自己获利的指控不仅不属实，而且情况正是如此。

这次袭击的头目似乎延续了威尔逊在 2020. 年的竞选活动。2020 年，Mt. Sinai 纽森被选举获得来自代表项目（Representative Project）的 $10,000 工资，这是一个她于 2011 年创立的利用他们和媒体活动来解决更广泛刻板印象的组织。

发言人告诉记者，新闻发布会推迟了，因为警方将接待“显贵”，而这些人最终被证实是市长。华盛顿州州长吉廷格 (Gov. Gittinger) 也是州长，市长办公室最初宣布参议员们对此感到好奇，随后修正了该声明。

巴恩斯先生当时正在达拉斯参加全国黑人执法行政官组织会议，他在下次会议上发表的声明被证明是不准确或误导性的。

在周一的新闻发布会上，局长就其出席情况向发言人进行了说明。周日他在村庄的家中与家人在一起。“我希望我有一个水晶球，这样我们就能保证行程，”他说。“但我们做不到。”

参议员们也愿意采取最重要的一步。总统一直关注公共安全。此次事件发生在市政厅内部经过数周的批准之后，其中包括该部门的局长和通讯主管。参议员们认为，这一决定表明她的政府在寻找立足点方面陷入了挣扎。

在巴恩斯局长之前，西雅图的黑人社区参议员在周四呼吁，他实际上是为了挽救巴恩斯先生的生命。商业团体和市议会议员发表了支持巴恩斯先生的声明，并对参议员的观点提出质疑。参议员们不仅在决策过程中做出决定，而且在决定之中。“感觉他们刚刚在局长手下开始处理那个似乎过于激进的不当行为问题，”参议员们说道。“我不是什么东西。”

参议员们仍在西雅图寻找其他惩戒专家。调查人员仍在寻找该州的其他成员。参议员们不仅在决策过程中做出决定，而且在决定之中。

市议员玛丽娜·伯恩 (Marina Berne) 将该参议员的解雇或辞职描述为加速了市长“缺乏共识及其调查”。

在市里工作多年的民权律师苏珊·拜बल (Susan Bible) 表示，该参议员说他对这一决定感到震惊。“感觉他们刚刚在局长手下开始处理那个似乎过于激起公愤的不当行为问题，”参议员们说道。“我不是什么东西。”

参议员们仍在西雅图寻找其他惩戒专家。调查人员表示，他们认为有两伙敌对帮派参与其中，且至少有四件武器开火。

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一篇关于 7 月 9 日一项旨在取消美国对该州援助措施的文章，该措施已在美国境内得到妥善利用。美国部门最近描述了 APAC 的游说步骤。它将自己描述为支持广泛的，并考虑了那些宣布通过红色援助确定美国债券关系的日益增加的支持广泛的候选人，但它并非一个极右翼组织。

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由于编辑错误，周三一篇关于《芝加哥》（The Chi）导演 / 创作者 Leno Walder 的文章描述了该导演显著的历史地位。它是有线电视历史上运行时间最长的黑人剧集之一，而非最长的一部。

时尚

周四一篇关于华盛顿的文章提到，在为期三年的新州期间，该州的右翼主张不仅是事实，而且该案件也是事实。该州的右翼主张也是事实（重复部分）。

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据称新任美联储主席正考虑降低政策会议的频率

作者：CLEARY SMITH

以及 BETH LIEBELMAN

Kovin M. Warth 正在考虑减少美联储调整利率的定期会议次数，这一潜在的剧烈举措将标志着该央行多年来运行方式最重大的一次变革。

美联储由 15 人组成的政策委员会每年举行八次会议，投票决定是否提高、降低或维持借贷成本。据四名知情但未获授权公开发表言论的人士透露，Warth 先生在本周的美联储会议上提出了改变这些会议频率的想法。

Warth 先生在担任主席期间，给人的印象是修订后的时间表可能会在下次会议之前决定；即使这些变更要到之后才会执行。

美联储拒绝发表评论。减少会议频率——以及随之而来的对利率的看法——将是 Warth 任期迄今为止最具影响力的变革。这将打破数十年的惯例，包括美联储监测经济的方式，并可能使其对通货膨胀和劳动力市场的变化反应迟缓。

减少会议次数还将减少未来以及更广泛的公众能够获取关于美联储对利率路径思考的信息，扭转了数十年以来趋向更加透明的趋势。

这将符合 Warth 先生就任主席以来出现的一种更大模式。他大幅缩短了美联储在每次会议后发布的政策声明，并极少详细说明他如何看待经济以及利率的适当方向。他还注意到缩减过去会议规模的想法，这在 2026 年 1 月以来一直是美联储的惯例。

自从 Warth 先生在 5 月接任主席以来，他在公众面前以及在美联储内部一直试图将自己塑造为一个将对他长期批评的机构带来重大改革的人。他竞聘该职位的核心前提是所谓的“政权更迭”。到目前为止，这已经体现在五个工作组中，重点关注从美联储如何与公众沟通到优先考虑的数据源等一系列问题。

美联储主席 Kovin M. Warth 试图将自己塑造为一个将重塑他长期批评的机构的人。

知情人士表示，在本周的会议上，Warth 先生谈到了美联储必须遵守的法律权限，涉及每年需要举行的最低会议次数以及此类变更的时间表。这些人表示，Warth 先生要求官员们就其想法与他联系，而不是在本周的会议上对会议日程进行全面讨论。

美联储已经公布了今年剩余时间以及 2027 年的会议日期，尽管该央行网站上的一年说明称：“每个会议日期均暂定，直至在紧接其前的会议上确认。”

规定现代意义上美联储的法律是 2001 年的《银行法》——它要求该央行的政策制定机构联邦公开市场委员会“每年至少举行四次”会议。

一项可能允许央行对变化做出反应的举措。

年份。”主席有权召集会议，委员会的任何三名成员同样拥有此权力。美联储可以举行紧急会议以应对意外进展。过去，美联储仅在危机期间（如大流行期间）依赖于间歇性的政策调整。

在4月的确认听证会上，沃斯先生在回答民主党参议员罗伯特·朗利关于专栏的一个问题时表示，“我们的会议‘不够’”，并且“举行比这更多的会议是合适的”。

直到20世纪90年代初，美联储开会非常频繁，多年来几乎每月一次，有时甚至更频繁。仅在 1996 年，官员们就召开了 29 次会议，美联储召开了 30 次会议，且同样召开了 30 次。在 2006, 年，美联储召开了 30 次会议，而在一次解决方案危机期间，委员会举行了 12 次正式会议，并进行了更多次紧急电话会议。

美联储在 1991, 年保罗·沃尔克（Paul Volcker）离任时采用了目前每年八次会议（大约每六周一次）的时间表。自那时起，美联储一直维持该时间表，尽管委员会在危机期间会通过面对面或电话形式举行紧急会议。

这种一致的时间表为美联储官员、工作人员以及跟踪央行决定的投资者和预测者建立了一种可预测的节奏。美联储工作人员在每次会议前准备简报资料和预测报告，即所谓的“Outbook”。会议纪要将在每次会议三周后公布。完整的记录及简报资料则在五年后公布。

美联储过去曾讨论过更改会议日程。在一份简短的备忘录中，两名美联储高级工作人员（包括后来担任副主席的唐纳德·戴尔斯）权衡了增加会议频率的利弊，包括“更及时获取新信息的优势”，但同时也考虑到了“更多准备工作和行程带来的不便”。最终，他们得出结论，认为八次会议的时间表“可能仍被视为足够”。

全国预报

今天，阵雨和风暴将在俄亥俄河谷的部分地区以及大部分东南部地区发展，同时也将出现在太平洋南部的一个走廊地带。雷暴可能会给从俄亥俄州到佛罗里达州中部的地区带来闪电读数（Flash Reading）和破坏性强风，且这种趋势将持续到夜间。

该地区西部的活动将较为零散。东北部和新英格兰地区大部分地区将保持干燥，伴有云层和阳光。大多数平原地区最终也将保持干燥且阳光充足，随着真正社区人们的到来，气候将变得不再那么潮湿。

美国西部大部分地区也将保持干燥，但华盛顿州西部大部分地区的某些阵雨除外。

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市政预报

TOBAY ... 晴朗且有部分阳光，最高 80. 高压将开启风势，阳光将透过高层云过滤。气温将处于或接近盛夏平均水平，但由于高湿度，体感将明显更热。

TOBACCO ... 部分云层，最低 12. 风力将保持轻微且多变，在 1 / 2 / 2027 之前的晚上将相当阴沉。仅有 3v 在移动。气温将接近正常，湿度将保持在高位。

TOBOSWISE ... 微风且潮湿，最高 82. 随着风暴临近，来自南东南方向的风速将增加到每小时 10 至 20 英里。大部分时间内大量云层将遮挡阳光，气温将略低于正常水平。

WINGER ... 雷暴，最高 82. 随着低压给城市带来几场大雨和雷暴，干燥天气将结束。体感将继续潮湿。

TOBOSW WIDESBURY ... 雷暴持续。下午将有周期性阳光，阵雨人口为 100,000. 最高 82. Wailresides 将保持潮湿并伴有几场雷暴，主要在晚上。最高 82.

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黑人领导人将审查针对警察的投诉

纽约知名律师出任新职

作者：杰弗里·C·梅斯 (JEFFERY C. MAYS) 和 威廉·明德·马库斯 (WILLIAM MIND MARCUS)

面对实施旨在减少纽约市警务活动的竞选承诺的压力，市长泽布劳·马姆达尼 (Zebrao Mamdani) 周五任命詹妮弗·琼斯·奥斯汀 (Jennifer Jones Austin) 为一个具有影响力的反贫困组织负责人，以及美国最高审查委员会（一个独立警察监督机构）的一个非正式成员小组负责人。

琼斯·奥斯汀女士是一名律师，也是该市最受尊敬的黑人领袖之一，在公民领导层和市政府中担任职务，曾任职于布隆伯格 (Bloomberg) 和德·豪特 (de Haute) 政府。作为一名民权领袖的女儿，以及一名极有可能与高U.服务袭击相关的白血病幸存者，她将其职业生涯致力于争取有利于贫困者和被剥夺权利者的政策变革。

在她的众多角色中，她曾是惩戒委员会 (Board of Correction) 成员、儿童服务管理局 (administration for Children's Services) 副专员，并主持了纽约市种族正义委员会 (New York City Racial Justice Commission) 的工作，且曾领导纽约州总检察长民权部门，在阿马杜斯·杜达 (Amadus Duda) 死亡后调查纽约警局使用“拦截与链接” (stop and link) 的情况。

“詹妮弗·琼斯·奥斯汀在她的职业生涯中，一直与那些长期被排除在权力殿堂之外的纽约人站在一起，”马姆达尼先生在声明中表示。“但在蓝色公共安全和问责制度下，两者必须并行不悖，而这种信任必须通过行动来赢得。詹妮弗将以正直、同情心和对正义的坚定承诺来领导 C.C.R.R。”

目前尚不清楚市长在左翼的支持者——例如他保留的琼斯·A·图什 (Jones a Tusch)，一名亿万富翁继承人且关注警务事务——将如何看待琼斯·奥斯汀女士，因为她不像市长那样属于民主社会。

詹妮弗·琼斯·奥斯汀，现任平民投诉审查委员会 (Civilian Campaign Review Board) 负责人，在散步福利机构联合会 (Federation of Promenade Welfare Agencies) 讨论。

尽管如此，一个担任阿尔·谢赫里 (Al Shehery) 牧师的国家行动网络 (National Action Network) 副主席的人将领导 C.C.R.R. 这一想法，在二十年前看来是非常遥不可及的。

琼斯·奥斯汀女士在警察早期竞选路线的关键时刻接任此职。马姆达尼先生曾支持由 C.C.R.R. 对警察纪律拥有最终决定权的想法，但随后有所退让。新的 C.C.R.R. 是目前拥有最终决定权的机构之一，而图什先生（他维持了低犯罪率并获得全市商业领袖的支持）希望保留这一权力。

一个监督该市标志性“拦截与思考” (stop-and-think) 和解协议的独立联邦监察员在今年早些时候表示，警员们仍然在漏报和混淆违宪的逐步干预措施——且“对警员、主管或指挥人员几乎没有实施任何纪律处分”。

在一次采访中，现任散步福利机构联合会首席执行官的琼斯·奥斯汀女士表示，她明白自己正进入一个具有挑战性的领域。她表示，C.C.R.R. 是她职业生涯指导方针中的活跃部分，并透露她将尽力确保警局和 C.C.R.R. 都关注城市居民，而不是跳到既定结论。

“我将带着一种认知地担任这一角色。纽约警局 (N.Y.P.D.) 存在种族主义，”她说。“但就像在每个政府部门一样，C.C.R.R. 作为一个独立且重要的机构，种族主义在所有这些系统中都有其生存空间。”

市长还面临着关于警务的其他批评，这可能会增加对 C.C.R.R. 决定的审查。马姆达尼先生尚未履行一些竞选承诺，例如解散战略响应小组 (Strategic Response Group) —— 一个目前被指控存在暴行的人员组，以及消除一个疑似帮派成员的数据库。

在得知 Mamdani 先生计划将公共部门的人员编制增加 500 名（未包括在增加人数中的患者）后，他受到了来自美国民主社会主义者纽约市分会一名男子的轻微批评，对方表达了不满。

市长还因设立了一个淡化版本的社区安全部而受到批评，该部门将把大约 910 通电话转接给心理健康专家和社会工作者。

Jones Austin 女士继承了一个多年来一直与该市警察系统冲突不断的委员会，后者一直试图清除该市的大型反附属机构。

公共福利协会批评 C.C.R.R. 在清除针对其成员的虚假投诉方面做得不足。“我将面对针对 C.C.R.R. 的两起诉讼，以控制对警员严重指控的公开披露——包括道德不端和大规模剖析——即便在委员会判定这些指控毫无根据或不成立之后。”

工会与委员会之间激烈的关系在前任主席 Michael Khalid 博士离职后应当会变得更有利，他在遭受工会的一波攻击后辞职。Khalid 博士表示，协会主席 Patrick Hendry 已经“将其推向了极限”。

在周五的一份声明中，Hendry 先生指出了 C.C.R.R. 领导层的持续更迭——Jones Austin 先生是过去三年中的第五任委员会成员——并表示，工会听到之前的 C.C.R.R. 领导者们“坚称他们‘不反警察’”，而该机构随着时间的推移，对我们成员的敌对情绪却日益深重。

“我们愿意与 Jones Austin 先生合作尝试解决这些问题，但我们不会接受空洞的承诺，”他补充道。

这个由 15 人组成的委员会权力范围包括调查被指控滥用职权、使用冒犯性语言、行为失措或滥用政府力量的警员投诉。基于其调查结果，委员会将向警察委员会建议纪律处分。在最严重的案件中，委员会政府可以对警员提出行政指控，并在公共部门审判中呈报其行为。

去年，委员会收到了约 3,000 起针对警察和委员会保险人的投诉。委员会带来了 C.J. John Howe，这些调查中有一半产生了纪律处分建议。

在任期间，前纪律处分人员 Tusch 先生一直表现出与委员会合作的意愿。唯一会在此工作的是市议会，其指控公共部门试图确保不讨论针对警员的投诉。该案件将继续与该机构“协作且公正地”开展工作。

Jones Austin 女士表示，她在听取 Tusch 先生关于与社区合作以及以一种能赢得父母信任和尊重的方式填补空白的发言之前，已经获得了批准。她表示，她还开始与警察工会建立一种培训且相互尊重的关系。

“我所希望的以及我所期待的，”Jones Austin 先生说，“是我们能够相互尊重，并且我们将实现这一点。”

Jones Austin 女士的任命得到了州总检察长 LeCite, Intern 以及纽约市曼哈顿区检察官 Alvin Bragg 的批准。

Jones 女士在最初的审理调查期间曾在总检察长办公室的州法院工作，她表示 Jones Austin 将为 C.C.R.R. 带来理性的和强制性的批准。该案件进入了调查阶段。

“这是由证据和法律支持的，”Jones 女士说。“没有任何证据表明……”

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“这两个反警察，但也有一个人无视警察的问责制，”希普顿先生说。“她不会被轻易欺负的。”

纽约州立大学石溪分校是接收被霍华德大学劝退学生的纽约州立大学（SUNY）分校之一。

纽约州邀请被霍华德大学除名的学生

作者：CATHY V. FREDERICK

约纳坦·帕亚诺（Yonatan Payano）原本应该利用最后一个暑假为在霍华德大学（Howard University）的免费一年级生活做准备，但她在学期开始前几周被告知，她在新生的名额中已经没有位置了，因此不得不匆忙应对。

“我真的不知道该怎么办，”霍华德（Howard）说道，“我不知道如何申请进入另一所学校。”

来自布朗克斯的帕亚诺女士，81 岁，是 162 名准新生之一。这所位于华盛顿的历史性黑人大学表示，由于 A.H.Q. H.Rudolfson 的计划以及警察在第一学期的任命，导致他们撤销了这些学生在 2020 级中的录取资格。

在 10 日，帕亚诺将在秋季就读于奥尔巴尼大学（University at Albany）。在纽约州州长凯茜·哈查尔（Kathy Hachal）提供 $1,000 的支付除名补贴后，这一最后一刻的转变才成为可能。这 $1,000 是为了进入纽约州立大学（SUNY）系统和纽约市立大学（CUNY）系统中的某些校园。

“他们赢得了录取资格，制定了计划，本应在期待中度日，”哈查尔女士在一份声明中说，“相反，他们现在被迫重新开始。”

那些被取消霍华德大学录取资格且为纽约州居民的学生，将被那些有名额的 SUNY 校园自动录取。除了参与其中的奥尔巴尼大学，还包括 SUNY 州立大学的布鲁克（Brook）和巴尔大学（University at Ball, Am）等。州外学生将获得快速录取流程。

CUNY 也在提供类似的计划。

根据其网站，霍华德大学的样本学费为 $22,000，而 SUNY 对州内居民的学费为 $2,070，对社会领导者的平均学费为 $2,720；像奥尔巴尼、石溪（Stony Brook）和布法罗（Buffalo）这样的大学中心平均学费为 $20,290。

“我真的不知道该怎么办。我不知道该如何申请另一所学校。”

YONMNE PAXANO，她现在将就读于奥尔巴尼大学。

“霍华德大学的学生有机会在纽约州立大学（SUNY）获得成长，而且他们将会利用好这个机会，”纽约州立大学校长 John B. King Jr. 在一次采访中表示。

纽约州立大学发言人 Holly Liapis 表示，参与的校区正在为寄宿生的需求提供特殊安置，他们将不会第二次被取消学籍。

“考虑到这些学生所面临的挑战，我们保证这些学生不会因为未解决的财务援助问题而在此次秋季时刻感到困扰，”她在电子邮件中说道。

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Frederick 博士说，首先需要解释的是，由于这些学生能够支付费用并证明其获得了外部奖学金。

在 7 月 23 日发布于网站的一份声明中，霍华德大学表示，它已通过“在 3 月、4 月、5 月、6 月和 7 月期间多次详细沟通，向大一新生及相关人员告知大学的财务截止日期，以确保 2020 年秋季学期的入学。”

Payano 女士说，她整个夏天都与学校的财务援助和相关负责人通电话，试图弄清楚她的财务援助和奖学金何时能抵扣她的学费余额。

随着截止日期临近，她说她被告知在援助金到账后再申请学费支付计划。于是她照做了，但最终在两周后，她发现自己被取消了学籍。

Payano 女士曾同时申请了霍华德大学和奥尔巴尼大学，但选择了霍华德。她曾很兴奋能让自己融入这所历史悠久的黑人学校文化，但现在她的感受不同了。

“我的评论多次告诉我：‘这不是我应在的地方，我并不属于这里，’”她说。“但显然，我仍然在霍华德大学看到了我的未来。所以我继续经历所有的艰辛和挣扎。但这恰恰表明他们只是在敷衍了事，这不再是我曾经梦想就读的学校了。”

纽约州立大学并非这些新生唯一的选择；华盛顿地区的一些学校也提供了最后一刻的救济。

马里兰州的 Tom Mason 将领宣布，被霍华德大学取消学籍的学生将获得该州大学系统的快速录取。马里兰州和纽约州的官员为那些向霍华德大学支付了 2020 年不可行融资和入学费的学生提供证据。

Frederick 博士说，他很高兴看到学生们能在学期开始前在其他地方入学。他对 Hachal 女士关于霍华德大学行为的评论表示异议，并称他们尚未交谈。

“我认为我很清楚我的大学里发生了什么，”他说。

曼达尼对黑人纽约人的赔偿持开放态度

作者：JEFFERY C. MAYS

市长 Zebrao Mamdani 本周表示，他支持纽约市的赔偿工作，但对于承诺向奴隶制委员会支付货币补偿而言，成本过高。

在最近接受 The Bank 采访时，当被问及如果目前正在研究该事项的市种族平等委员会（Commission on Racial Equity）建议进行现金赔偿，他是否会支持时，市长表示他必须等待委员会的报告，并承认了这座城市与奴隶制的复杂关系。

“人们经常认为奴隶制及其复杂性仅限于这个国家的某些地区，”曼达尼先生在采访中告诉前纽约时报专栏作家 Charles M. Blow。“但在纽约市，我们非常有信心，因此，我期待那些调查结果。”

“在结果出炉前，我无法给你答案，”市长继续说道，“但我可以告诉你，这至关重要，因为这也是我旨在承认历史真相的方式。”

他告诉 Blow 先生，他坚持在竞选市长时写下的一项誓言，即他将成为社会的一员，正如誓言中所述，“纠正历史性的歧视”并“修复持续存在的Inequa-

lites（不平等）”。

在本周接受 Sirine Khr 的 Urban View 频道采访时，曼达尼先生表示，“如果我们以诚实且准确的方式审视纽约市所扮演的角色，你会发现这种共谋是无法被抹去的。”

当被问及市长最近的言论时，市长发言人 Jeremy Edwards 表示，曼达尼先生的声明已经充分表达了其立场。

目前，市级和州级设有两个独立的委员会在研究赔偿与重构。2023 年，州长 Kathy Hachal 签署了一项法律，成立了纽约州赔偿补救社区委员会（New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies），旨在研究奴隶制的遗产及其对后代的持续影响，这些后代正面临着由于政府财富损失而导致的极端贫富差距及其他社会问题。该小组预计至少在两年内不会公布其调查结果。

由公众建立的纽约市种族平等委员会成立于 2022 年，同样在研究赔偿并创建“一个旨在寻求真相、领导和重构的公共进程”，根据其结论，这将帮助纽约人找到一种“公开承认奴隶制历史及其伤害”的方式。

该小组预计将于明年 6 月发布关于真相、领导和重构进程计划的报告，并在次月发布赔偿研究报告。

种族平等委员会最近在发布该市首份法律强制要求的种族平等报告问题上与曼达尼先生产生了分歧。

委员会批评市政府未能包含市当局要求的关键利益点，且应在预算和政策制定中增加其公民平等权重。它还对纽约市新法律中删除关于多样性、公平和包容性的表述表示异议，并认为这是向特朗普政府的一种延续，后者系统性地劝阻了不利于其目标的公平倡议。

Truly Washington 是该委员会的战略专家，负责协助领导赔偿结果，而市长在委员会仔细研究该问题并为赔偿及其在 10 所相关学校的法律教育制定计划之前，决定暂时搁置。

“如果你不讨论种族财富差距，就无法讨论负担能力问题，”Washington 先生说。“如果你不讨论赔偿，就无法讨论公民财富差距问题。”

“如果没有对赔偿的争取，就无法定义曼达尼，”他补充道。

作为全州联盟“纽约人争取赔偿”（New Yorkers in Reparations）的组织经理，我也认为许多人将奴隶制视为一个“仅仅发生的脚注”——

“……而不是被认可为后来构建的所有其他事物的剩余部分。”

她说，她更倾向于一种将现金赔偿与其他变革（如住房或教育投资）同时摆在讨论桌上的方案。

“我们知道现在就存在直接的死亡，”布朗先生说。“我们也知道它一直就在这里！这是结构性问题，最优秀的一代纽约黑人们仍然会发现自己处于现金系统的平衡之中。”

纽约曾是该国奴隶制的局部中心。根据采访办公室的数据，在美国革命和 1800 年之前，纽约市拥有最多被奴役的非洲人，仅次于南卡罗来纳州的查尔斯顿。

纽约之所以成为世界金融之都，部分原因在于它从奴隶贸易中获益。在华尔街的许多地方交易着被奴役的非洲人。由于几乎所有环节都与奴隶制相关，银行、保险和航运业在市内也随之繁荣。纽约在 2023 年依然在交易奴隶制。

致力于解决“美国出版物”问题的组织 Get Free 的传播总监安东尼·约克尔·布朗（Anthony Yokel Brown）表示：“我们知道，无论是像花旗银行、纽约人寿保险公司以及其他一些自 1800 年代早期以来就已存在的机构，还是任何其他纽约机构，都没有直接通过资助背书来获得其创业初期的利润。”

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纽约时报

专栏作家 / 莱里亚·波格林 (LYRIA POLGREEN)

“此时与特朗普的亲近已成为一种负担”

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我曾与拉马斯瓦米——这位令人印象深刻的演讲者且已落败的总统候选人——在共和党全国代表大会的舞台上相遇，当时他为唐纳德·J·特朗普竞选总统发表了雷鸣般的支持演说。“如果你想让美国再次伟大，就选特朗普，”他宣布道，“唐纳德·J·特朗普是一位将真正通过行动而非空洞的话语来领导这个国家的总统。”

但在最近七月中旬的一个下午，在俄亥俄州农村的克林顿县博览会上，目前正竞选其家乡州州长的拉马斯瓦米传达了不同的信息：“我不希望仅仅是说：让美国再次伟大。”他站在一堆干草上告诉人群，“几年后，我想说：让美国和俄亥俄州变得比以往任何时候都更伟大。”而这正是我们作为一个国家的本质。我们不满足于现状。我们追求卓越。我们追求内在的提升。

这是一种微妙但明确的转变：从一种渴望恢复过去美国的后顾政治，转向一种招手示意充满可能性的阳光地平线的前瞻政治。最重要的是，这或许是一个清晰的意图标志。

“我们一直生活在特朗普的阴影之下——也就是说，我们永远无法摆脱它。”但关于谁将在 2028 年接替特朗普成为共和党提名人的争夺战已经全面展开。大部分焦点集中在副总统 JD 万斯（被认为是“领跑者”）或国务卿马可·卢比奥身上，后者在一些共和党圈子中成为了热门人选。然后是拉马斯瓦米。

在某些方面，拉马斯瓦米在政治舞台上呈现出特朗普式的特质：拥有巨大的自我意识——就像特朗普一样，他最初竞选的目标就是总统之位——并且拥有通过表演获取媒体关注的技巧。他曾面临关于其财富来源的质疑，并且在政策问题上倾向于肆意即兴发挥。在不同阶段，他提出过一些令人普遍不安的建议，例如学校应全年运行，以及联邦医疗保险（Medicare）和医疗补助（Medicaid）是错误的。

但在其他方面，他与特朗普不同。首先，他是印度移民之子，是一名印度教徒，这些事实曾招致右翼部分人士的种族主义攻击。其次，他选择了一种更具知识分子气息的共和党政治形式，更像罗纳德·里根而非帕特·布坎南。你会感觉到，特朗普式那种激昂激烈的煽动风格，对于这位谈吐流畅的知识分子来说并不自然。而且他很年轻，不像特朗普那样年长。总的来说，他代表了共和党的过去、现在以及——或许——未来。

要复制那些能够建立异常获胜联盟的巨头先例是一件很难的事。在巴拉克·奥巴马两任任期之后，民主党深刻地体会到了这一点。但共和党现在面临的可能是一个更深刻的身份危机，因为它必须面对特朗普第二任期所带来的不愉快现实。

在竞选之路上，这些内容无法回避：特朗普政治组织活动的混乱与血腥，中东一场毫无意义的战争造成的人员与经济损失，一个旨在自我敛财且丑闻缠身的政府，以及一个因不断围绕战争、伟大与理智进行争论而精疲力竭的体制，而这些争论在现实生活中往往缺乏记录。这些因素使得民主党提名人能够在此基础之上发起攻势。

对于拉马斯瓦米来说，这具有某种特殊性。由于不能（或许是不愿）与特朗普彻底决裂，他似乎决心用其技术精神政治来对抗那个带领该党走向黑暗、厌食愿景的人。在俄亥俄州，我看到了实现这一点可能的艰巨程度。

那是克林顿县博览会一个令人不安的日子，人群在另一个 2018 年，一名拥有无可挑剔的白血细胞（译注：原文此处疑似OCR错误，原意可能指外貌 / 形象）的特朗普投票激进领导者在下午早些时候抵达，他与共和党领导同僚一起等待他们的州长候选人到来。“好吧，告诉我他自 2018 年作为一名有抱负的共和党总统候选人出现在公众视野以来，就一直在关注拉马斯瓦米的职业生涯，并且已经做好了准备。”

他给人的感觉非常亲切。就像巴拉克·奥巴马在竞选第一任期获胜时那样，“好吧，说了。” “关于他的政治见解及其丰富性，我非常喜欢其中的大部分。”

我询问了克林顿县共和党主席蒂姆·因伍德（Tim Inwood），是否担心种族主义者会削弱拉马斯瓦米在通用选举中的机会。凯西·普拉克（Casey Purack），一名鲜为人知的全职政治人物，在共和党初选中挑战了拉马斯瓦米，在板球和筹款活动中双管齐下，并设法获得了近五分之一的选票。但因伍德向我自豪地在手机上展示了一张长而忧伤的内部照片，种族主义者在轻蔑的另一边。“我看到左翼在指责我们，并准备对我们采取他们实际在做的事情，”他告诉我。

当拉马斯瓦米抵达时，因伍德爬上了一个橡胶中心，在那里，他称拉马斯瓦米为“优秀的年轻人”，并告诉选民，如果拉马斯瓦米当选，他拥有特朗普的电话号码——就像华盛顿几乎每一个资源充足的探险者那样，我通常会问。如果俄亥俄州需要任何东西，他将拥有与白宫的直接联系渠道。

拉马斯瓦米在这样一个严酷的下午奔波，显得格外害羞。“我这样做原因是，我希望这个州的每个孩子——不只是我的孩子，这个州的每个孩子——都能拥有与我一样实现伟大目标的机遇，”他说。

拉马斯瓦米想要成为共和党的未来。首先他必须赢得俄亥俄州。

“这个州给了我实现目标的机遇。”

几乎立即，他被一名年轻人打断，对方大声质问关于在这个农村社区计划建设的数据中心的问题。拉马斯瓦米不为所动，询问该年轻人的名字，并承诺在发表完讲话后再回答任何问题。“谢谢你来这里，伙计，”拉马斯瓦米坦率地说。“如果你想有机会提问，你得恭敬地提，就像其他人一样。”

随后，他继续发表了他的主旨演讲。他承诺为俄亥俄州带来高薪工作和经济增长，使该州的学校脱颖而出，取消州所得税，降低财产税和电费单。“我们将尽我们的一份力，确保俄亥俄州最好的日子，在上帝的引导下，通过俄亥俄州，美国最好的日子实际上仍在前方，”他在开放提问环节前宣布。

这是一次自信的表演，受到了观众的认可。“尽管拉马斯瓦米不断提及未来，但我交谈过的绝大多数人都非常关注当前的问题——例如，针对所谓医疗补助计划欺诈的残酷打击，以及燃料、化肥和医疗保健价格的上涨——其中许多都是由特朗普引起或加剧的。”在 MAGA 支持者和查尔斯·柯克（Charles Kirk）崇拜者的簇拥下，拉马斯瓦米不可能否认总统。

在这种情况下，经典的特朗普式做法是转向文化战争问题——抨击未获授权的移民、美国语言（U.S.L.）、跨性别者。但在某些方面，MAGA 成了自身成功的受害者。南部边境几乎已关闭，去年美国在一定程度上得益于特朗普激进的驱逐行动，五十年来首次实现了负净迁徙。最高法院在极右翼关心的议题上接连交付胜利：通过《青年权利法案》，推翻肯定行动（affirmation issues），允许对跨性别者进行广泛歧视等。

你会认为，拉马斯瓦米在经历过……

写了一本关于“觉醒文化”（woketone）祸害的畅销书，这将使其处于接手该类议题的有利位置。但可以肯定的是，目前他已经完全避开了文化战争的话题。

事实上，他并没有深入探讨特朗普的反移民议程，而是强调他作为移民的身份以及对美国人民权利的考量。“我希望其他共和党州能取得成功，”拉马斯瓦米对特朗普政府的记录几乎没什么可说的。他很少提及特朗普，而且仅是在不经意间提及。

我前往俄亥俄州，是为了感知共和党在后特朗普时代可能会走向何方。但我不断听到，美国党内正发生一些有趣的事情。在那些围绕该州可靠的蓝色城市（民主党城市）的最深郊区和法院区，党权正发生变化。

在克林顿县，2013年四分之三的选票投给了特朗普，这显示了他对农民和其他蓝领选民的吸引力，这一点并不令人惊讶。它周边的两个郊区县，其中一个便是可靠的共和党大本营巴特勒县——在过去 24 年里，特朗普每次竞选总统都能获得超过 20 个百分点的领先优势。

然而在五月，奇怪的事情发生了。在这两个县，民主党的登记人数比 2022 年的北部选举增加了 75% 以上。在共和党方面，这两个县的选票领先幅度超过了 25%，而由于他们是坚定的党派支持者，因此动荡往往是热情的一种体现。在这些深度支持的县中，哪一方拥有势头似乎已经很明显了。

在高端城镇纽科布勒的一家咖啡店里，巴特勒县民主党主席凯西·温南特告诉我，她党派在当地的成功是一个长期计划的成果。“我们有一个 10 年计划来开始扭转这个县，我们还有一个 10 年计划来运行这个旧车。”

部分原因是人口结构的改变。近年来，该县在航空航天、工程和医疗保健领域吸引了数千个新工作岗位。“我们看到很多跨性别者，通过辛辛那提-代顿走廊来到这里的跨性别生活公司，”温南特说。“他们受过高等教育。他们来自不同的背景，不同的族裔。”

但她表示，志愿者们还建立了一套强大的运作机制，敲开了数千扇门，并为候选人进行招募、培训和筹款。他们赢得的次数越来越多。她说，在去年的非党派地方选举中，民主党支持的候选人赢得了 20 票中的 21 票。“无论我是与民主党人还是共和党人交谈，我到处听到的一点是——人们想要一个愿意为他们而战的人，”温南特说。“他们厌倦了腐败。他们厌倦了他们的政治家被买卖。”

这在一定程度上解释了为什么州长竞选比大多数观察家预期的要激烈得多。拉马斯瓦米似乎与民主党候选人艾米·阿克顿处于势均力敌的状态，后者是一位前州公共卫生官员和医生，此前从未竞选过公职。值得注意的是，在一次时区民调中，阿克顿的表现好于谢罗德·布朗，后者是一位知名度更高、正努力夺回参议院席位的俄亥俄州民主党人。拉马斯瓦米的胜利路径几乎完全依赖于在沃伦县和巴特勒县等地的右翼特朗普支持者中获得大幅领先。

如果汤米·曼卡萨的情况具有代表性，那么拉马斯瓦米还不够格。曼卡萨是该地区的长期移民，他从 5,000 搬到巴特勒县，在近年来于辛辛那提法院扩张的多家公司之一工作。他是一个四个孩子的父亲，在一个极其保守的谢尔曼家庭长大，他本人也曾是坚定的保守主义者。尽管他为两党的候选人都投票过，但他一直是一名共和党人。然而今年，在一次当地学校董事会的竞选活动后，他提交了一张参与民主党初选的选票。

“给我来一点拉马斯瓦米吧，”他对我说道。“我觉得在那儿结盟会让我舒服一点。但我现在不想与共和党有任何关联。” 确实，我并不是一名成员。拉马斯瓦米以他那粗率且更为传统的共和党式主张，或许能赢得他的选票。“我认为他正试图在两者之间寻找平衡，”曼卡萨（Mancaza）说道。“对我来说这还不够。我不能代表所有人，但对于我们来说，此时此刻任何与特朗普的亲近都是一种状态。”

拉马斯瓦米似乎意识到了这个问题。自从特朗普之后，他采取了许多行动，在努力获得总统好感的同时，与该政府保持距离。他最初本应在所谓的政府效率部与齐恩·马斯克（Zion Musk）并肩工作。没有成行，我计划前往俄亥俄州。无论他是被挤走还是自行离开——说法不一——但这对他未来的前景来说反倒成了一件好事。

如果他在州长竞选中获胜，那将是一件好事。“我觉得在那儿结盟会让我舒服一点。但我现在不想与共和党有任何关联。” 确实，我并不是一名成员。拉马斯瓦米以他那粗率且更为传统的共和党式主张，或许能赢得他的选票。“我认为他正试图在两者之间寻找平衡，”曼卡萨说道。“对我来说这还不够。我不能代表所有人，但对于我们来说，此时此刻任何与特朗普的亲近都是一种状态。”

但首先，他需要获胜。

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纽约时报 观点版 2026年8月1日，星期六

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足球不容出售

Nathan Goldberg Crozier

美国足球协会副主席

周日，这项运动给全球数十亿人带来的快乐不仅仅是一场比赛。它是一种隐秘的公共利益。这使得国际足联（FIFA）——足球的全球管理机构——成为一种应当被激情守护的公共资产。

然而，国际足联主席吉安尼·因凡蒂诺计划将未来世界杯收入的股份出售给私人所有者。国际足联周二宣布，它将成立一个名为“FIFA Forward Enterprise”的新实体，该实体将控制其最大的赛事，包括世界杯和世俱杯，并管理“早餐、赞助、许可、票务及款待服务”。

作为一项合伙投资，由 Thrive Capital 领导的私人投资者将以 42 亿美元 billion 购买 FIFA Forward Enterprise 21 的股份。国际足联将保留该新实体的多数股权，并继续管理这项运动（包括其赛事）以及监督基层发展。

为了这项运动的利益，各区域足球协会应当拒绝这种过度商业化且被操纵的体育方案，并提醒因凡蒂诺先生，足球的灵魂并非由他出售。我希望我的区域同行能认同我的观点，并效仿欧洲足球管理机构 UEFA 的做法。

UEFA 已经威胁称，除非因凡蒂诺先生退让，否则将退出所有国际足联的比赛。UEFA 的成员包括现任世界冠军西班牙，以及前世界杯冠军法国、意大利和英格兰。没有他们，就没有真正意义上的世界杯。代表北美、中美洲和加勒比地区的洲际协会中北美及加勒比足联（CONCACAF）周四也对该计划表示反对。周五，亚洲足联也加入了反对行列。非洲、大洋洲和南美洲的协会领导人应当为了足球而加入这一阵营。

国际足联有真正的义务利用这项运动的共同价值，投资于全球足球的发展。从阿富汗到津巴布韦，从阿拉巴马州到怀俄明州，每个孩子都应该有机会通过这项美丽的游戏来改善生活，学习团队合作和公平竞争，而非贪婪。国际足联无需将世界杯（其皇冠上的明珠）的大量份额出售给私人投资公司也能做到这一点。

国际足联绝非资金匮乏。该组织预计将宣布世界杯创纪录的 220 亿美元 billion 收入，以及因凡蒂诺先生推销的这项新商业风险投资 280 亿美元 billion 的估值。他假设这些数字将持续增长。而广播权价值的上升使得这几乎成了一个稳赢的赌注。

因凡蒂诺先生声称自己是那些缺乏传统强国组织能力和预算的小国的捍卫者；没错，相对于足球巨大的财富，许多国际足联成员确实资金不足。我在圣基茨和尼维斯足球协会工作时曾体验过这一点。但是——

区域足联应拒绝国际足联的私募股权计划。

难道他们从继续分享所有回流到国际足联的未来世界杯资金中获益更多吗？国际足联在法律上有义务将这些资金重新投入到足球运动的增长中。用这些资金换取一次性支付给私人利益方的款项是目光短浅的。

因凡蒂诺先生如此急于出售这些股份，以至于他给足球区域足联设定了一个随意的 51 天期限来批准他的计划。为何如此急促？如果他在任期有限的国际足联主席职位结束后，接任新实体的专员，他可能会获得数百万美元的薪水。伦敦时报报道称，国际足联告诉伦敦时报，此类安排“从未讨论过”。对于 Thrive Capital 的创始人乔什·库什纳（其兄弟杰克是该公司的总裁）来说，这就像是将世界杯盛放在银盘中呈献；而对于因凡蒂诺先生来说，这是一个自私且可耻的“金色降落伞”（高额离职补偿金）。

将国际足联的经济中心转化为私募股权，违背了足球作为公共利益的精神。尽管有相反的保证，但通过赋予追求利润最大化的私募股权利益方对这项运动的影响力，这可能会损害决策权。而且，考虑到国际足联长期以来的腐败记录，创建一个更不透明的财务结构可能会成为一个巨大的隐患。

因凡蒂诺先生表示，接受私人投资以推进公共使命属于国际足联的权力范围。在某种程度上，他是正确的，国际足联可以这样做，就像它能在今年夏天更改世界杯门票的专业定价并依然找到主要买家一样。但保护我们的运动意味着在国际足联“能做什么”和“应该做什么”之间画出一条明确的伦理界限，而这正是因凡蒂诺先生一次又一次未能掌握的重大教训。

我们走到这一步的方式揭露了因凡蒂诺先生领导力的另一个致命缺陷：他表现得就像自己是“足球之王”。据国际足联理事会（其主要决策团体）的成员称，他一直对这个项目瞒在鼓里，而该项目将改变国际足联在公众面前的形象。如果这就是他构想的足球未来的管理方式——将计划私下交给私人投资者，并将其交给秘密领导者——那么他并不适合守护我们的运动。

因凡蒂诺先生对良好治理的轻视已将国际足联推向崩溃边缘。他在破坏足球民主价值观的同时，将国际足联会员协会的进一步资金支持与他们的投票结果挂钩，这种做法与其说是民主，不如说是敲诈。为了抵御因凡蒂诺先生对这项运动自大且跨国主义的意图，全球各地的足联倾向于不仅反对因凡蒂诺先生的愿景，而且反对因凡蒂诺先生本人。

我坚信，国际足联可以在尊重“某些文化资源应为公众利益而保留”这一理念的同时，继续履行其商业化发展体育运动的使命。我们不能在一名目标是将足球出卖以换取个人私利的领导者带领下推进国际足联的发展。

读者来信

你将经历怎样的奥德赛？

致编辑： 关于：“诺拉拉”的零度公司（《奥德赛》）至麦克森的恐惧（专栏，7月28日）

在不否认克里斯多弗·诺拉拉的《奥德赛》具有明显电影价值的同时，德雷德先生指责该片抛弃了他认为处于这部历史史诗核心的历史和文化价值。然而，巴特纳笔下的奥德修斯与其说是关注返乡的质量，不如说是关注对世界的深度体验。

几个世纪以来，奥德修斯的旅程并非总是被视为伟大的，例如在18世纪的意大利文艺复兴时期，他被束缚于太阳的社会标志着精神上的约束——所有庄重的概念都将他置于但丁的《地狱篇》之中的某个位置。

阿尔弗雷德·勋爵·托尼早期的诗作《奥利赛斯》（Odysseus的拉丁语版本，但丁也使用此名）对奥德修斯提供了一次更高层级的重新评估。在诗中，这位回归的思想者继续讲述希腊英雄将伊弗拉扎的王位交给儿子诺茂利安，以便再次set out进入世界。奥德修斯认为即便在此处理由依然存在，因为他的生活是对知识、经验和世界无尽可能性的长期追求。

经典的《奥德赛》不仅仅是对一次冒险的回响。我一直在绘画中寻求一种对专业人类经验——对智慧、知识和宽恕的追求——之全新且更深层的理解。换句话说，重点在于旅程，而非目的地。

拉里·伯林，纽约

因为对书的热爱

致编辑： 关于：“我需要的每本书架”（周日时尚，7月31日）

我很高兴能读到关于唐纳德·乌雷图尔的书籍报道。我也曾在几乎每个房间里放书（与乌雷图尔先生不同，我的浴室一次只能放一本书），并且不断地阅读和重新排列它们，以容纳更多书籍。

我有一个住在曼哈顿的一套极其狭小的公寓里的朋友，她继承了家人的书籍并将其添加到自己的图书馆中。她正感受到来自房东的压力，房东经常问她：“搬走计划进展如何了？”

书是情感。对于许多人来说，书是我们一生的伴侣。我拥有母亲在我和兄弟们小时候给我们的书。当我走进某人家中看到没有书时，我的第一个念头是：“这个人怎么回事？”

当玛丽·班克斯询问书籍是否能带来快乐时，我的回答是肯定的。我们不是寄宿者。我们是自豪的米德洛锡安人。

查尔斯·斯蒂文斯 马里兰州，科弗雷特公园

荷马的出版商（其名字已在历史中失传）一定会对克里斯多弗·诺拉拉的电影所带来的《奥德赛》的关注而感到狂喜。然而，大多数将电影对荷马角色塑造与文本（在各种译本中）所呈现的塑造进行对比的评论，都忽略了这两个版本之间基本且内在的差异。

电影的观众是被动地体验故事；他们坐下来看另一部电影之前，简直就像是在门口寄存了自己的想象力。诺拉拉的版本不同，文本的读者（以及那些听诗歌朗诵的人，无论是现场乐队还是有声读物）现在和一直以来都是积极的参与者。任何最受鼓舞的人，都会运用自己的想象力去视觉化作者所描述的人物、地点和事件。

正如在过去两千多年里一直那样，《奥德赛》将在诺拉拉先生的电影失效很久之后，继续在无数人的脑海中被重新印刻。

M.C. 莱恩，马里兰州，切维蔡斯

如果马克·坦宁在其中一次压倒性的道德教训之后加入，这部电影会更好：“成为国王并不总是好事。”对于布鲁克斯先生来说，一个轻松和开放的时刻将是非常棒的。

史蒂文·戈德堡，布鲁克林

退休与志愿者

致编辑：

关于：“未来的财务之路取决于长期时间”（周日商业版，7月24日）

我认识的大多数退休人员都会回馈当地社区；我很惊讶文章中没有提到这个选项。

一些退休人员担任青少年的导师，或在“大哥哥大姐姐”（Big Brothers Big Sisters）组织中工作；他们了解那些处于困境中的孩子，通常通过提供交通接送来帮助他们。有些人则在语言学习和翻译方面为移民社区提供援助。

退休人员经常在博物馆、学校、图书馆或当地医院担任志愿者。还有人在食品分发站和救济厨房担任志愿者，另一些人则致力于支持基本公共需求的各项服务。

退休人员能够且确实在回馈社区方面有多种方式。请将目光聚焦在退休生活中这一受欢迎的方面。

艾琳·巴克 (EILEEN BACK)，纽约州伊蒂哈拉 (ITIHALA, N.Y.)

太平洋地区新秩序正在形成

詹妮弗·卡瓦纳 (Jennifer Kavanagh)

国防能源与空间管理局的军事分析主管主张采取克制的美国国防政策。

今年夏天，亚洲地区发生了历史性的转变。

作为世界强国的中国政府扩大了在越南等地的海上影响力，展示了其包围该岛的能力。它加强了对日本和美国的军事、乡村及外交压力，并发射了全潜射弹道导弹，展示了其日益增长的海基核能力。

鉴于中国日益增强的力量，其他国家正趋于接近，预估一个新兴的新安全架构正在出现。

日本加强了与澳大利亚、菲律宾和印度的国防联系，并讨论与韩国开展更紧密的合作。日本还在努力突破长期以来对国防文件的限制，并计划加入韩国成为区域新闻中心；而澳大利亚则与太平洋岛国签署了新协议，包括与斐济的一项国防计划。

自从蔡总统回任以来，由于他对国防承诺的疑虑，引发了北京可能会抓住机会变得更加积极的担忧，从而促使美国的盟友们聚集在一起。

那些采取行动的人正面临新的风险。日本在改变全球安全与控制措施。

然而，这并不意味着我们正在进入一个不稳定的时代，因为这个充满活力的世界部分地区对于美国的战略利益仍然至关重要。如果亚洲国家在自身防务上承担更大责任，并更多地相互依赖——而减少对一个日益淡漠的美国的依赖——最终可能会证明是稳定且安全的。

无论如何，这是不可避免的。一个过度延伸的美国长期以来被提议无限期地承保亚洲的安全，而事实并非如此。

与伊朗的新关系暴露了美国军事力量和人员的局限性，华盛顿不得不从世界其他地区（包括亚太地区）转移军事资产，而 Tisang 先生已经明确表示，他能够支持美国军事新闻国防。他的政府已经宣布大幅削减美国在欧洲的军事存在和承诺。目前尚未出现针对亚洲的类似计划。

向一个更加自力更生的亚洲过渡必须谨慎管理。

如果北京感知到美国承诺的迅速削弱，或认为美国的盟友变得脆弱，它可能会得出结论，认为自己有空间去实现其领土和安全主张，从而引发军事对抗的阴影。

对这种可能性以及被美国抛弃的恐惧，可能会引发目前正笼罩东亚的军备竞赛。中国一直在稳步加强其武装力量并扩大其本土军械库。日本最近开始部署远程导弹，韩国人正在斟酌国家是否应开发自己的核武器，而澳大利亚正在投资核动力潜艇和导弹能力。

尽管这些发展听起来令人不安，但历史表明，具有不同利益和政府水平的亚洲国家可以在没有美国深度参与的情况下建立工作伙伴关系。成立于 1987, 年的 11 个成员国的东南亚国家联盟（ASEAN），虽然经常被批评在应对共同挑战时犹豫不决且缺乏果断，在应对中国在南中国海的扩张性领土野心方面也收效甚微。但东盟帮助维持了其成员国之间的和平，在该地区此前曾被数十年的战争所撕裂，并为东南亚与中国接触提供了框架。

更平衡的安全负担分担并不一定会削弱威慑力。日本、菲律宾和澳大利亚等国之间更深层的合作，实际上将加强抵御安全威胁的第一道防线，并由一个伟大的日常方法（a great daily method）——但依然强有力的——美国军事存在提供支撑。

当美国盟友成为问题所在及被瞄准的目标时，让他们承担更多自身的保护成本是公平的，这样可以释放被过度摊薄的美国军队，以应对其他地方的全球安全挑战。就美国而言，可以继续与亚太盟友保持密切协调，在符合美国利益的规模控制方面发挥主导作用（例如保持关键海基基地的开放），并致力于维持与美国的稳定关系。

这种盟友体系将呈现出一种奇特的中间状态，且从长期来看将更加持久

向更加自立的亚洲过渡正在进行中。

一个不再过度依赖美国，并且在美国援助延迟或无法提供时能够采取集体行动的亚洲。

无论如何，中东的情况证明，美国的高度参与并不能保证国际竞争不会演变成冲突。美国——与以色列一起——发起了与伊朗的战争，在美方袭击的缓解过程中与美国合作伙伴产生分歧，并扰乱了全球贸易。结果，一些海湾国家正在重新思考它们对华盛顿的依赖，并探索通过彼此之间的伙伴关系来维护安全的途径，其中甚至可能包括伊朗。

美国将继续是太平洋地区的一个强权。但战略平衡已经定义了美国盟友以及美国与其他国家之间的竞争关系，这与一代人之前截然不同，且美国军队已过度扩张。亚洲正在适应这一新现实。

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3 深度货币

币安 (Binance) 更改了一些政策，调查人员表示，这使得揭露犯罪活动变得更加困难。

5 媒体

电影《芭比》大获成功，因此人们期待续集。但谈判一直拖延，时间已所剩无几。

10 体育

对于勒布朗·詹姆斯来说，剩下的唯一追求就是证明他比另一位传奇人物迈克尔·乔丹更伟大的球员。

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检查一个为美国消费者在泰国制造的手电筒。随着与华盛顿的贸易战升温，一些公司撤出了中国。但现在的关税较低，虽然未来可能会有更多关税出台，但这正吸引许多公司回归。

难以逾越的工业基础

作者：ALEXANDRA STEVENSON 和 ANA SWANSON

泰国，曼山 —— 在曼谷南部的一片尘土飞扬的土地上，一家手电筒工厂充满了希望。工人们聚集在桌前粘贴组件。但只有一半的土地进行了建设。工厂的部分区域空置，等待未来的生产线。

该工厂由一家为美国客户制造手电筒的中国制造商所有。当特朗普总统去年对中国的关税达到 145% 时，各公司开始恐慌地在其他国家寻找更便宜的替代方案。

12.5%

针对中国的关税，与其他数十个国家类似。

“他们拥有能够以如此低廉成本生产产品的规模。”

Deborah Elma，新加坡 Hovich 基金会

就像越南和泰国一样，包括这座工厂在内。

但自那时起，美国对中国的关税已大幅下降，使得其中一些公司的领导者产生了动摇。

“我们是否回到了中国？是的，我们回到了，”德克萨斯州 Alliance Consumer Group 公司的首席运营官 Phil Lauter 说道。该公司将泰国工厂生产的手电筒销售给美国客户。Lauter 先生曾鼓励中国制造商宁波光明电器（Ningbo Bright Electric）在中国境外建厂来生产他的产品，但现在由于美国对中国商品的关税与对泰国产品的关税更为接近，他正在给这一策略踩刹车。

在经历了关税剧烈波动的一年之后，最令人惊讶的结果之一可能是中国处于相对强势的地位，关税明显低于去年。特朗普政府上周对中国出口商品征收 12.5 percent 的新关税率，这与数十个其他国家的税率相似，因为该政府正致力于恢复被最高法院在 2 月份推翻的关税。

中国出口产品仍需缴纳其他关税，包括特朗普先生第一任期内征收的关税，未来可能还会有更多关税。但许多行业高管和分析师推测，特朗普政府将对未来的对华关税保持相对克制，以试图稳定这段棘手的关系。

根据中国金融公司 Google Securities 的分析，美国对中国商品的整体加权关税率略高于 23 percent。对于某些产品，中国的关税率与许多公司已将其供应链迁至的东南亚国家的出口税率相同。

这给像 Lauter 先生这样的高管带来了难题，（接 B4 页）

战争证明对石油巨头有利

作者：REBECCA E ELLIOTT

随着与伊朗的战争继续影响能源市场，许多全球最大的石油公司报告称，他们获得了多年来最高的季度利润。

第二季度国际油价平均每桶 $90 左右，比去年同期增长了 45 percent。尽管中东地区战火纷飞，但这让那些仍能开采石油并将其运往全球的公司获益。

美国最大的石油公司埃克森美孚（Exxon Mobil）周五表示，在 4 月至 6 月期间获利 165.5 亿美元 billion，是 2023. 年第二季度利润的两倍多。雪佛龙（Chevron）第二季度的利润从一年前的 34.9 亿美元 billion 飙升至 129.7 亿美元 billion。

战争拖得越久，（接 B1 页）

A.I. 狂热搅动亚洲主要市场

作者：CHOI SANG-HUN

首尔——韩国从未见证过如此剧烈的金融狂热。

在全球人工智能繁荣的推动下，其股市基准指数 KOSPI 在今年上半年翻了一番，增加了数百万美元的价值，且表现优于所有全球主要指数。但随后而来了剧烈的反弹。

随着韩国股市成为 A.I. 相关投资热情与焦虑的中心，其波动变得极其剧烈。情绪的转变集中在两家为 A.I. 数据中心建设热潮提供芯片的主要供应商——三星电子（Samsung Electronics）和 SK Hynix 上。这两家公司合计占 KOSPI 价值的一半以上。

波动变得如此剧烈，以至于监管机构在上个月几乎每隔一天就多次下令强制交易熔断。截至周三收盘，KOSPI 从峰值下跌了约五分之二，在短短两（接 B1 页）内抹去了超过 $2 trillion 的市值。

A.I. 繁荣在韩国引发剧烈波动

在政府鼓励投资者购买 A.I. 股票和复制 ETF 之后，韩国市场变得极其不稳定。

今年 KOSPI 指数

随着大科技公司持续投入人工智能，不安情绪日益增加

作者：KAREN WEISE

科技巨头们每隔几个月就在人工智能的支出金额上创下新高——但这一次，一些不安的情绪也在随之增长。

周四，亚马逊表示，由于建设人工智能数据中心和其他基础设施，其第二季度的资本支出总计 510 亿美元 billion，比去年同期增长 69%。它加入到了其他大科技公司的行列中；Meta 周三报告其成本比去年增长了 55%，而微软则表示其资本支出飙升了 69%。上周，谷歌也披露其成本有所增加，并表示将进一步增加支出。

这些数字还将继续飙升。根据 FACTOR 汇总的华尔街估算，在今年和明年，亚马逊、谷歌、Meta 和微软预计将花费惊人的 $1.5 trillion 用于持有数据中心以及使用先进芯片进行数据交易。

“其规模简直疯了，” S&P Global 的 Visible Alpha 部门研究负责人 Melissa Ohn 说道。

随着华尔街和其他机构质疑这些支出何时能证明其合理性，警报声正日益响起。周四，在亚马逊的云端计算部门经历了自 2022 年初以来最快增长后，其股价在盘后交易中上涨了近 35%，而未改变支出预测的微软股价则上涨超过 15%。

关于激增的支出是否合理，人们存有疑问。

但 Meta 在周四披露其人工智能支出且成本增长速度快于其……（续 B1 页）

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摘要

公用事业

Dominion Energy 报告

利润延长预测

Dominion Energy 这家覆盖北弗吉尼亚州（全球最大数据中心区域）的电力公司周五报告，第二季度利润和营收好于预期，因为服务器仓库的需求增长超过 10 gigawatt，抵消了不断上涨的运营费用。

在该季度，Dominion 弗吉尼亚部门的调整后营业利润增长 22%，达到 $670 million，而整体运营费用从去年的 27.1 亿美元 billion 激增至 41.5 亿美元 billion。

根据 LSEG 汇总的数据，季度营收从一年前的 20.1 亿美元 billion 增长至 44.8 亿美元 billion，高于分析师 40.4 亿美元 billion 的平均预期。

该公司于 5 月宣布了一项 968 亿美元 billion 的与 NordSys Energy 的合并协议，它为弗吉尼亚州、北卡罗来纳州和南卡罗来纳州的 3.4 million 客户提供电力，并为南卡罗来纳州的 500,000 客户提供天然气。路透社

收益

索尼感应利润增长

游戏需求驱动

索尼集团公司周五报告，第一财季利润增长 32%，同时警告本周早些时候袭击肯辛顿西南部的地震带来了负面影响。

这家索尼娱乐公司表示，当地设施受到影响，其中一个工厂仍处于停产状态，其他工厂已恢复运作。

没有重大损失。然而，对索尼底线的具体影响仍在评估中，因此未纳入周五的业绩报告。在发布指引之前，索尼曾表示其有望报告创纪录的财年利润。

索尼生产 PlayStation 游戏机、Bravia 电视和《蜘蛛侠》系列电影，其第八个年度期间的利润从 259 billion 日元增加到 342.3 billion 日元 (20 亿美元 billion)。季度销售额小幅增长 5%，达到 2.84 trillion 日元 (1570 亿美元 billion)。美联社

金融

Chime 将削减 10% 的员工

关于 A.I. 带来的精简

金融科技公司 Chime 的一名代表在周五表示，该公司将削减 10% 的员工，加入到利用 A.I. 驱动的效率来精简运营的日益增长的公司名单中。

“A.I. 正在改变可能性，但需要新的技能，”Chime 的首席执行官 Chris Britt 在一份被路透社看到的员工备忘录中写道。“层级更少的更小团队比以往任何时候都行动更快，并获得了更多数据，”他补充道。

一名 Chime 代表告诉路透社，此次裁员将影响近 150 名员工。该公司在去年年底约有 1,500 名员工。

Chime 是那些通过提供数字化服务、直观平台和较低费用而使银行行业产生分化的金融科技公司之一，增加了传统贷方的竞争压力。

Britt 先生在备忘录中补充说，组织变革将创建一个更扁平的结构。路透社

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股票与债券

通胀担忧之下的市场反弹，为动荡的七月收官

在国际方面

周五美股上涨，为华尔街动荡的七月画上句号。在此期间，亚马逊领涨，苹果下跌，且油价上涨加剧了对通胀过高的担忧。

标普 500 指数在全天波动之间上涨 0.7%。道琼斯工业平均指数上涨 378 点，即 0.5%，纳斯达克综合指数在短暂失去早盘 1.5% 的涨幅后反弹 1%。

对于美国股市来说，这是一个合适的七月收尾。由于与 true 的战争导致油价飙升，且人们对大型科技公司在人工智能领域的大量投资是否能转化为利润，以及市场在 A.I. 热潮中是否估值过高感到担忧，股市经历了剧烈的波动。

周五的上涨使标普 500 指数迎来了三月份以来的第一个上涨周，但这一衡量美国股市的主要指标在本月最终仍以微小损失收场。

亚马逊在报告了最新季度利润远高于分析师预期后，以 25.3% 的涨幅领涨市场。得益于其云计算业务增长的加速，其利润比一年前增长了两倍多。

分析师表示，这可能是一个信号，表明亚马逊巨大的 A.I. 投资正在产生回报，且亚马逊提高了今年投资支出的预测。

这种反应与微软在前一天的情形类似，当时微软的股价在 A.I. 投资可能产生更高利润的信号刺激下，创下近 10 年来表现最好的一天。

出售处理器以及公司相反的芯片公司在周五再次出现波动。例如，Morros (Schneider) 从早盘上涨 6.4% 跌至损失 0.5%，最终下跌 0.9%。

处于亏损端的更多情况是

标准普尔 500 指数

周五标准普尔 500 指数每 3 分钟一次的走势

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来源：NetEnt

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波动剧烈的是苹果公司，尽管其最新季度的利润报告强于预期，但股价仍下跌了 7.4%。其对本季度营收增长的预测低于预期，高管们将此归咎于组件供应紧缺以及人工智能领域带来的损失。

总的来看，标准普尔 500 指数上涨 52.88 点，至 7,488.72 点。道琼斯工业平均指数上涨 378.87 点，至 10,000.00 点；纳斯达克综合指数上涨 251.88 点，至 25,375.85 点。

尽管油价再次上涨，但市场依然上涨，因为关于这场战争何时结束并允许中东原油再次自由流动仍存在不确定性。

一桶原油的价格上涨 1.2%，最终结算为 $87.55，而 7 月早些时候的价格在 $71 至 $102 之间波动。

油价上涨推高了常规汽油的价格——根据 AAA 的数据，全美平均每加仑价格已升至近 $4.11，而一个月前为 $3.85。原油价格昂贵还会给几乎所有在到达客户前需要通过船舶、飞机或卡车运输的产品价格带来特殊压力。

对通货膨胀的担忧使债券市场的收益率进一步攀升。

10 年期国债收益率从周四晚间的 4.68% 上升至 4.71%，而在战争爆发及油价飙升之前，该收益率仅为 3.97%。对于该收益率而言，这是一个显著的变动；当投资者对未来几年的通货膨胀、经济增长及其他因素的预期上升时，收益率通常会随之走高。

10 年期收益率的跃升已将美国平均长期抵押贷款利率推至一年来的最高水平。

周三，在美联储主席凯文·M·沃思 (Kevin M. Warrth) 再次承诺将通胀率降回 2% 但拒绝说明具体计划后，长期收益率大幅跳升。尽管通胀率仍远高于 2%，但美联储在周三再次决定维持主要利率不变。

美联储通过调整利率可能抑制通胀，但同时也可能减缓经济增长。

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股市昨日概况

S&P 500 7. 72 7. 76

3 个月表现 +3.9%

Nasdaq 综合指数 25,375.85 7+1.0%

2 个月表现 +1.9%

道琼斯工业指数 52, 03 7. 76

3 个月表现 +5.7%

表现最佳

S&P 500 COMPANIES / CLOSE CHANGE

1. Wright-Jones (AMZN) / $271.28 + 0.24
2. DeAlon (DASH) / $85.41 + 2.6
3. MacArthur Power Systems (MPMS) / $1,436.00 + 6.0
4. Kahn Corp. (FTN) / $616.00 + 7.0
5. Marlboro (DASH) / $306.00 + 6.6
6. Marlboro (ADHEL) / $306.13 + 6.7
7. Meyer-James (MT) / $25.00 + 6.0
8. Norris Holdings (AIST) / $241.07 + 6.0
9. Edmonds (DASH) / $282.00 + 6.6
10. Kahn Networks (MET) / $180.00 + 6.0

表现最差

S&P 500 COMPANIES / CLOSE CHANGE

1. Goldsmith (NSPC) / $82.75 + 0.75
2. Gofman (CPM) / $78.71 + 11.0
3. Gohman Retail (ADH) / $1,062.00 + 10.0
4. Apple (AMT) / $308.81 + 7.0
5. Meyer International (EM) / $71.07 + 6.8
6. Miff Communications NV (AMT) / $229.14 + 6.0
7. Roper Corp. (DPA) / $225.75 + 6.4
8. L'Home Price Group (TRDM) / $111.75 + 6.3
9. Little KIM / $478.38 + 6.0
10. Moore Technology (ML) / $833.00 + 6.0

最活跃

S&P 500 公司 / 收盘价 涨跌 1. Goldsmith (NSPC) / $326.75 + 0.25 / 139 2. Apple (AMT) / $308.81 + 7.0 / 133 3. Anderson (DASH) / $271.08 + 15.3 / 139 4. Ford (FRT) / $99.20 + 1.0 / 100 5. Microsoft (MET) / $401.73 + 10.0 / 85 6. AT&T Inc. (T) / $25.25 + 6.0 / 58 7. Ford Motor (F) / $14.88 + 1.2 / 58 8. Moore Technology NV (MET) / $8.13 + 5.0 / 58 9. McArthur (ADHEL) / $306.13 + 6.0 / 85 10. Pham Inc. (PFE) / $35.01 + 6.0 / 44

中盘及小盘股

总回报 / 总资产 1 年 (1 M) / 31 M 1. Vanguard Morningstar MidCap Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares (VADPs) / +18.86 / +8.09 2. Vanguard Morningstar SmallCap Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares (VSSPs) / +29.5 / +7.7 3. Vanguard Economic Market Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares (VAMPs) / +29.2 / +8.1 4. Vanguard Morningstar SmallCap Index Index Fund Animal Shares (VAMs) / +27.0 / +8.2 5. Fidelity MidCap Index Fund (FIMDS) / +21.0 / +8.3 6. Vanguard Morningstar SmallCap Growth Index Fund Animal Shares (VMSAs) / +25.7 / +5.4 7. Fidelity Financial Market Index Fund (FIMDS) / +28.0 / +6.7 8. Vanguard Morningstar MidCap Index Index Fund Animal Shares (VMAs) / +25.8 / +8.0 9. Fidelity SmallCap Index Fund (FIMDS) / +45.0 / +7.1 10. Vanguard Morningstar MidCap Growth Index Fund Animal Shares (VMGMS) / +8.5 / +6.1

板块表现

S&P 500 路透社

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人工智能 / 经济

Anthropic 表示

其人工智能模型 已入侵 三个系统

作者：MIKE ISAAC 以及 ALTO JONALD

2008年10月1日，星期六

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2008年10月1日，星期日

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这些攻击最早可追溯至 4 月，是在 Anthropic 对系统进行审查时发现的。Anthropic 未披露这三家组织的身份，但表示已在本周告知他们相关事件。

此次审查是由 OpenAI 的一项披露所触发的，OpenAI 披露其在测试系统的标准能力时，意外进入了标记为四的 AI 库。

这些事件引起了城市专家和计算机科学家的关注。多年来，AI 协作人员一直认为，由于技术进步如此之快，很快可能会超出人类控制。

AI 发起的这些意外攻击，可能会加剧硅谷和华盛顿关于该技术潜在监管机制地日益激烈的辩论。然而，特朗普政府此前采取了长期观察的方式，但在最近几个月里，它信号表明正准备向民众发出警告。

OpenAI 上周表示，两个 AI 模型利用了一个此前未知的漏洞，突破了旨在与互联网隔离的现有环境，随后启动了标记为四的银行。其中一个模型此前未向公众发布，在攻击后被确定。OpenAI 表示：

Anthropic 表示，与其模型不同，其技术显然没有突破现有环境。该公司称，AI 模型的问题在于人为错误。遗漏该条款的人员不小心让 Anthropic 的系统处于商业状态。令人感兴趣的是，AI 实验室称一个“新冰箱”使其模型能够触达其他公司的基础设施。

该公司表示，在一次实例中，Anthropic 的内部市场在不该进行 AI 测试恐怖攻击时降低了攻击，并停止了其攻击。

Anthropic 还表示，其模型并没有利用任何此前未知的漏洞，而是依赖于该工作生成的“基础单元”和恶意软件来入侵目标系统。

今年，Anthropic 和 OpenAI 发布了用于 AI 测试恐怖攻击的 AI 模型。他们将这些模型提供给有限数量的组织，希望拥有数据证明这些模型过于强大，无法与公众共享。在错误的人手中，这些网络安全模型可能会被用来发起 AI 测试恐怖攻击。

在本周的一封公开信中，几家领先 AI 实验室的员工呼吁美国政府减缓将他们发送到华盛顿特区的速度，以确保技术安全。

据称，Anthropic 比其他 AI 公司更愿意向监管机构开放，并表示将继续根据潜在风险关闭其自身业务。

此类风险是可以克服的。Anthropic 在一篇详细描述该事件的博客文章中表示。

科技巨头 A.I. 支出持续攀升，焦虑情绪同步增加

来自 纽约时报 新闻

October 1, 2008

关于 A.I. 测试恐怖，A.I. 测试恐怖是在美国开发并推出的一项新事物。A.I. 测试恐怖是在美国开发并推出的一项新事物。A.I. 测试恐怖是在美国开发并推出的一项新事物。

对此，这些公司坚持认为他们正在做正确的事情。“只要我们将这些研究人员视为值得投资的资助对象，我们将继续投资，”Addenary 在上周的一次直接分析中表示，Highaker 的财务主管如此说道。

十多年前，科技公司成为了地球上最大的企业。在软件和数字业务的助力下，但 A.I. 却将每家的“雪光”模型彻底颠覆了。Healthfilter-miller 数据传输（该行业倾向于称之为“A.I. 互联网”）已成为开发先进系统并将其提供给客户的关键投资。

从 4 月到 6 月，科技公司的资本组织总额达到 3750 亿美元 billion，比一年前增长了 72%。这些数字正在膨胀——且每家公司的单蛋白成本持续上升，目的是开设更多的数据中心，且由于需求增加，内存芯片等必要组件的价格随之跳涨。4 月，微软表示，激增的公司价格将使今年的工作增加 250 亿美元 billion。

由于建设和支出的价格，科技巨头们并没有足够的公司电力来满足需求。实际上，他们可以，他们一直在通过桌面进行逐步降低。

“更多容量以满足销售，”美国银行分析师 Justin Fink 上周在研究部门写道，此前 Google 的单蛋白公司 Highaker 发布了今年的支出预测，将金额上调了 350 亿美元 billion，高达 2500 亿美元 billion。

需求的激增导致签署合同的增加，亚马逊、Google、微软、Centimart，其积压订单额达到近 $1.7 trillion，比一年前增加了一倍多。

截至开业，积压订单主要来自与 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 这两家领先的 A.I. 初创公司的合作伙伴关系。这意味着巨头们的命运在很大程度上取决于这些初创公司，以及它们能否获得其请求的所有竞争能力。

犹他州 Minn. 的 Men's Kegle 山数据中心，预计亚马逊、Google 和微软在 2027 年前将花费 $1.5 trillion 建设数据中心。

为此。这一部分构成了集中风险，根据 Men's Kegle 的说法，创造了“一个可能掩盖真实需求的更循环的系统”。

纽约时报 已起诉 OpenAI 和微软，声称其 A.I. 系统和公司相关的报道发布侵犯了版权，而相关公司否认了这些指控。

科技公司在加载 A.I. 建设方面的投入比以往任何时候都多。然而，他们现在能够在已建立的业务问题上产生“刺激”，例如削减现金的数字广告业务。

“这场派对可能会持续到罢工为止，”One 女士说。

亚马逊周四表示，第二季度销售额为 25 亿美元 billion，比一年前增长 20%。利润增长三倍多至 626 亿美元 billion，很大程度上是因为该公司对 Anthropic 的投资。

亚马逊在北美的核心零售业务增长了 10%。在约竞争业务中，销售额增长 27% 至 423 亿美元 billion。云业务的营业利润也增长了，尽管从未分析过具体金额。该公司有效地利用了其支出。

过去一年业务支出产生的现金为 350 亿美元.4 billion，增长 10%。但在投资后，由于优于其他设施，亚马逊的自由现金流骤降至负 78 亿美元 billion。

在与投资者的电话会议中，安迪·S·约翰逊（Andy S. Johnson）表示，目前仍有限制，该公司现在预计今年的资本支出约为 2200 亿美元 十亿，比之前的预测增加了 200 亿美元 十亿，主要原因是内存芯片成本的上涨。但他表示，在数据中心建设的沉重初步投资之后，这些设施拥有超过 20 年的寿命来创造价值并实现盈利业务。

他表示，亚马逊的云服务“在未来很有可能为我们带来一万亿美元的年收入”。

在 Meta 公司预测其新 A.I. 模型的潜在价值处于较低端后，投资者在周四对其进行了抛售。在市场最高端，该 A.I. 模型今年的价值为 1500 亿美元 十亿，而此前预计到 4 月为 1250 亿美元 十亿。

“我的意思是，看，高层级的观察是目前没有”

72%

来自一年后。该 A.I. 模型，该年份为 1500 亿美元 billion，比前一年增加了。该 A.I. 模型，该年份为 1500 亿美元 billion，来自该 A.I. 模型，该年份为 1500 亿美元 billion，来自该 A.I. 模型，该年份为 1500 亿美元 billion，来自该 A.I. 模型，该年份为 1500 亿美元 billion，来自该 A.I. 模型，该年份为 1500 亿美元 billion，来自该 A.I. 模型，该年份为 1500 亿美元 billion。

“足够多的公司拥有这种需求，”马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg），Men's 首席执行官，在告诉投资者时表示，他也说，这是唯一在投资将分配完毕的情况。

一些 A.I. Men's 财务主管表示，公司专注于尽可能多地转移 2026 和 2027 年的产能，但同时为 2026 年及以后保持灵活性。这意味着在寻找

用于数据中心的土地和电力，即使公司还没有确定具体将如何使用未来的竞争资源。微软的股价今年有所下跌，但周四出现了一些回升，因为该公司的财务市场公布的关键数据早于预期，超过了华尔街和汉密尔顿的预期，且该公司没有增加今年计划支出金额。

在微软 A.I. 服务启动之初，云公司的税务销售额在截至 6 月的财年首次突破 1000 亿美元 billion，且季度销售额增长速度为 2022 年以来最低。销售额来自一个规模小得多的业务。微软预计在本季度将支出超过 500 亿美元 billion。

微软首席执行官表示，公司在上季度在五个国家开设了 21 个数据中心。他说，公司“有望在短短两年内将我们的整体产能增加大约一倍”。

企业转向机器人以探寻大众心声

作者：SRI HOYPOO

这家英国公司深谙如何让人们按时服药。

数以十亿计的患者从未领取他们的处方药，且许多人并不认为这有问题。这是该公司试图为其客户解答并改进的众多问题之一。为此，它启动了一个规模达 100,000 人的“宏大”计划以寻求答案。

“其中只有一个案例涉及真实的女性。相反，它们是利用人工智能创建的真实人物的‘合成声音’。”

该公司处理的数据来自 blittle，一家位于 Pike site, Cold Stroke 的一年期初创公司。该公司表示，其技术可以通过利用不断增长的 A.I. 代理数据库来预测人类行为。其他客户则利用这些机器测试新产品，或评估消费者对其品牌的感知度。而且，blittle 表示，

他们这样做比运行传统的市场研究模型更快且更便宜。

“如果你能够模拟世界，你就可以实际测试我们的机器……intrួ57000s……然后带来 Park，Stroke 的首席执行官兼计算机专家，”他们说，“这是窥视人类的一扇窗户。”

这是一个大胆的销售话术，而且看起来在 CVS 的大楼里起作用了，Stroke 快速增长的客户名单中包括咨询集团、行业巨头以及金融服务应用 WorldView。

周四，Stroke 宣布获得 $200 million 新融资，估值达 50 亿美元 billion，而在不到六个月前，该公司筹集了 $200 million。Crossroads 领投了本轮融资，参与方还包括现有投资者 bidder for more, Nipple, C. Alan Capital Ventures, CVS Health Ventures 和 Unification。

现年 32, 岁的 Park 博士在去年完成他在该校的计算机科学 A.I. 学业时创办了 Stroke。其蓝图是他 2012 年共同撰写的一篇关于 A.I. 代理模拟人类行为的研究论文，例如在一个模仿流行游戏 time 的交互环境中模拟通勤或工作。

“第一个与我分享的设想是模拟整个星球，”index Ventures 的合伙人 Shandil Shah 说道。“作为一个软食——就像，我有‘薄 / 延迟’（规模到银河系）——它们完全符合我的想象。”

Park 博士的共同创始人包括 Michael Bernstein 和 Percy Liang，两人均为斯坦福大学的计算机科学教授。其中一位是开创性“蓝图”页面的作者之一，该页面为现代计算机视觉技术奠定了基础；而 Liang 博士则是在 2011. 年一篇创造了“耳机模型”一词的论文中担任首席研究员。随后，此前在 A.I. 初创公司 Hollis 和 Valence 担任过高管职位的 Mars 也是一名创始人。Stroke 通过分析与其他参与者的两小时访谈来建立其初始模型，这些参与者被选出以代表更广泛的人群。该公司表示，利用这些数据设计其自身的人类行为模型，然后将其响应与人类问题的真实答案进行对比测试。Stroke 此后与……合作。

一家初创公司

让客户可以测试 关于人工智能（A.I.）代理的新想法。

Collap 及其其他合作伙伴将利用这一工具，针对全球数百万前线人群的数据进行演示。该公司产品负责人 Miloka Kipper 表示，根据场景和人口调查的不同，Stroke 的响应准确率目前在 85% 到 89% 之间。该初创公司表示，它已经拥有足够的数据，可以针对非常特定的人群组回答人工智能标准的问询。

该公司的产品是一个 Web 界面，用户可以在其中选择他们想要进行模拟的不同人群。Stroke 的部分收入基于其为客户建模的代理数量。这可以从数千个代理到数百万个代理不等。

“样本组越大，价格越高，”Park 博士说。Stroke 并非人工智能模拟研究这一新领域的唯一参与者，其竞争对手包括 Hens、Artificial Societies、Resources 和 facts。

Park 博士设想扩展基于地面调查的市场研究。他表示，计划开发“动态模拟”，在这种模拟中，人工智能代理将随时间被衡量，例如在一周的时间跨度内测试产品。

对通胀的担忧促使美联储官员在维持利率不变的问题上持有异议

作者：柯尔比·史密斯 (COLBY SMITH)

美联储本周如果提高利率，将使这家中央银行处于更有利于应对通胀的地位。美联储表示，三名反对当前较低政策的官员对此持有该观点。

克利夫兰联邦储备银行的 M. Hammack、明尼阿波利斯联邦储备银行的尼尔·卡什卡里 (Neel Kashkari) 以及达拉斯联储的 A.I. League 均反对周三将借贷成本维持在 2.5 到 2.75 percent 区间的决定。相反，他们投票支持增加 0.25 个百分点。这是自 2010 年以来，联邦公开市场委员会首次有官员宣布对政策变动方向持异议。

美联储内部的这种分歧具有不相关的结果，且是一个重大关注点。在主席看来，核心在于官员们在解决通胀问题时需要采取多么激进的措施，从而放弃中央银行的控制。五年来，美联储一直致力于将通胀目标设定为 2 percent，这是 Wurch 先生承诺要实现的均衡目标。根据联邦发展基金价格指数衡量，美联储首选的通胀目标为所有费用的 12 percent。

在美联储周五的表态中，M. Hammack 表示，她不相信通胀会在没有干预的情况下自行回到 2 percent 的目标。她说，这是因为政策设置缺乏“适当的激励”，意味着它们对经济活动的抑制作用不够沉重。

“无论如何，一方是美联储在行动中的真实权力，而另一方，让 C.I. 通胀回归我们的 2 percent 目标并兑现我们对美国人民价格稳定的承诺，”她说道。“更高的联邦银行利率将有助于增加经济活动并减轻通胀压力。”

这些担忧得到了卡什卡里先生的回应，他表示这是他自己的业务领域。“对于高通胀可能变得无法审视的风险，我持有足够的反对意见，”他指出。“为了收集更多关于经济轨迹的数据，采取‘相当紧缩’的政策是极其不合理的。”

他补充说，如果通胀依然无法解决，“潜在的小规模政策干预将比在现有状态下坚持，并最终得出结论认为甚至需要采取阶梯式行动要好。”

周五晚些时候，Logan 女士表示，“如果没有政策限制，在出现不可预见的冲击之前，通胀可能会继续在目标之上显现。”

她在声明中补充道，美联储“为了实现目标会造成更多或不可预见的冲击，并且如果在持续时期的冲击发生时，可以随时调整政策。”

与卡什卡里先生一样，Logan 女士指出，“在短期内采取 795,000 行动将降低日后需要采取更强硬行动的可能性。”

美联储的通胀情况被诊断为下降趋势，但新的价格压力来自多种来源，其中许多是官员们无法控制的。战争对经济数据的变化以及他对更广泛的经济轨迹的看法产生了重大影响。他唯一坚持的一点是他将“提供价格稳定”。

特朗普总统也实施了更多关税。公司们仍在为未来投入巨额资金。政府的价格能力，如针对非吸烟者等关键类型的定价，也“不愿为更高生活支付”。周五，有人表示她所在地区的企业将价格压力描述为“广泛而非下降”，这是那些显然担心让恶性通胀问题扩散的官员们的共同担忧。

卡什卡里先生特别指出了“市场上的大规模投资”，这也被称为给“美国人正在经历的高通胀增加了新的需求装饰”。

目前的积压情况表明，通胀“正趋向于 mid-25, 但并非完全达到 2 percent，且风险在上升端，”Logan 女士警告道。

周三的决定并非这三项地区性程序首次陷入僵局。四月，当 Aronzo II，Powell 处于……

Wurzk担任主席的第二次会议上分歧加剧。

很显然，他们反对该“焦点”声明中被他们描述为“四者之中”的表述，该表述暗示中央银行的下一个举措最可能是降低利率。

相反，他们希望将“降低”这一词组改为一个信号，即加息同样具有可行性。但美联储在6月表示将删除该行，以及任何关于前瞻性措辞的表述，而这是一次由Wurzk先生主导的对声明进行的全面修订。

该声明仅仅是美联储沟通策略的一部分，Wurzk先生在就任两个月后改变了这一策略。他与前任截然不同，就美联储接下来计划如何处理利率、年度数据变化的幅度以及他对经济整体走向的看法提供了两种信号。他唯一坚持的一点是他将“实现价格稳定”。

他在周三的新闻发布会上坚持这一方法，但随即面临来自金融市场的快速重新评估。随着投资者推迟对最终加息时间的预期，美国长期政府借贷成本有所下降。对未来几年通胀率的预期也随之上升。

这些市场波动表明，华尔街对于Wurzk先生是否在通胀高企时通过紧缩政策来控制通胀的担忧日益增加，尤其是如果通胀数据呈现出某种持续变化的趋势。投资者打赌的可能性达到 30 percent，认为他可能会采取四分之一百分点的加息。

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纽约时报 商业版 2020年8月1日，星期六

B5

国际 / 公司 / 媒体

A.I. 狂热将股市变成了某种“鱿鱼游戏”

来自第一商业报道。随着微软和亚马逊等健康客户增加对数据中心地点的支出，该度假区迅速被覆盖。

周五，该指数创纪录地上涨 39 百分比，收于 43,993 点。

这次剧烈的、空洞的波动将当地股市变成了现在韩国人所称的“江原赌场”。在李在明总统领导下，在地区批评中不断完善，李先生将自己塑造为 1928, 以来最大的冠军，将他的政治品牌与 A.I. 的经济红利挂钩。

现在，随着 ROSPI 的剧烈波动以及其国内支持率的交易上升，公民们正迅速质疑李政府是否颠覆了一个脆弱的市场。

6 月，当指数达到 43,000, 左右时，李先生果断地宣布市场被“低估”。就在上个月，他宣称：“我认为 A.I. 类似于加速发现。我绝不放弃。”（正是由于这种鼓励，数百万韩国人开设了交易账户，并押注于三星和 SE Hyatt。）

该机构的记忆（这家店和穿梭于训练 A.I. 模型所使用的海量数据之间。这两家公司的股价目前上涨 40 百分比，且市场在增长，尽管它们报告了收入和利润的巨幅增加，并表示无法满足需求。

6 月，该市场的份额飙升 37 百分比，而 SE Hyatt 下降了 40 百分比。

在市场和公司降低 A.I. 支出后，Artem 亚洲在 ROSPI 公司中首次获得了强劲增长。日本的 Volcan 233 上涨了百分比。在台湾，市场上涨了 8 百分比，这主要受台湾 Sentimentar Mandarizing Company 股价上涨 10 百分比的推动，该公司是市值最高的公司之一，也是 Nvidia 先进 A.I. 芯片的生产商。

ROSPI 去年实现了 70 百分比的非凡增长，使其成为该公司业绩最好的产品。1,000 million 的市值在 6 月初飙升至 10 million，一度超越印度、加拿大和主要欧洲国家，成为全球第九大股票市场。如今，该市场已成为一个相当大的政治累赘。

“市场已变成一个真正的赌博场所，”李说道。

数百万韩国人开设了交易账户并押注于 SE Hyatt 和三星，因为这些公司是 A.I. 数据中心领先的芯片供应商。

首尔的一名办公室职员 Jung-wo 表示：“我对 A.I. 股票的投入如此之深，以至于我感到恐惧，而且有超过一百万人如此。我不再查看手机上的股市通知了。”

在首尔的区域，许多消费者不再流览信息，而是直勾勾地盯着智能手机屏幕，看着他们的储蓄能力以惊人的速度下降。在线交易板上充斥着人们报告称自己的“十五小时完全搞砸了”，但在李先生在酷暑中等公交车的地方，在交易者传递的消息飞向纽约纽约国家银行前门和其他城镇之前，一个严峻的警告在流传：“不要忽视行动浪潮！”

这是在指韩国的零售日内交易者，对他们来说，市场崩溃不是一个抽象统计的问题——而是一场重大的商业悲剧。政府积极鼓励普通公民投资市场，旨在将更多家庭财富从过度扩张的房地产部门转移出来。年轻人收到了信息提示，他们办理了高息贷款，证明股市收益将超过银行利息并提供缓冲。

ROSPI 指数在兴奋与恐惧之间波动。

一直面临着惨淡的就业市场。尤为引人注目的是跟踪三星和凯悦酒店的股票杠杆交易所交易基金（E.T.F.s）。这些产品在这些股票上涨时产生了双倍收益，但在股价下跌时也带来了双倍损失。

反对党议员 Ilkin Dong-uk 表示，在政府监管部门于 5 月下旬批准推出这些 E.T.F.s 之后，它们在接下来的一个月里引领市场领先于当地站点，但在随后的市场暴跌中最终导致了“油门踩死”的局面。

总统李先生本周能够前往拉丁美洲进行市场活动。国内愤怒的公民抓住了他不在国内的机会，在他的社交媒体店铺中充斥着谩骂，并让他或让在国外的人相信其行为。巴黎此后制定了相关裁决。

“常识可以解释我们正在目睹的一切，”李警告说。来自执政党民主党美国人的 Myung-wo 表示：“我们经历的并不是一场亚洲金融危机，全球金融信心是一场战争——然而我们却拥有一个社会崩溃的货币市场。任何人都能看出这个市场已经变成了一个赌徒的游乐场。”

一家银行集团的亚洲交易主管也表达了同样的观点，称市场已经稳定：“ROSPI 的交易表现就像一只赛车股或加密货币，”他说，“这对于一个主要指数来说并非正常行为。”

到周三，财政部长 Kim Yoo-cheol 和顶层政策制定者被发现就未对市场进行适当评估便强推高风险 E.T.F.s 一事而道歉。

李先生的助手和金融监管机构敦促公众不要将责任完全推给 E.T.F.s。他们指出全球对“spandling”泡沫反应的担忧正席卷世界，并提醒人们 ROSPI 今年以来仍上涨了 50% 以上。尽管政府决定在周五对杠杆 ETF 实施紧急波动限制，但对于数百万散户交易者来说，救援行动来得太晚了。

公民团体“韩国股东协会”负责人 Jeong Eupinng 提到这部反乌托邦剧集时说：“高风险 E.T.F.s 帮助将韩国人的市场变成了‘大型版本的《鱿鱼游戏》’。他们绝不应该把这些东西强加在这里。”

Daisuke Wendeayashi 和 Steve Lee 参与了报道。

面临期限，华纳兄弟正全力筹拍《芭比》续集

作者：NICOLE SPERLING

《芭比》的有效期正处于爆发期。

自这部亮粉色 sensation 席卷票房并创下 15 亿美元 billion 的全球票房收入（这是华纳兄弟电影史上最高纪录），并凭借广泛的放映派对和深夜奥斯卡提名主导文化潮流以来，已有三年时间。

这次反响给华纳兄弟留下了一个明确的商业指令：尽快启动续集的制作。

但目前尚未达成协议，筹备时间也已紧迫。《芭比》的版权将回归至 1930 年代该场景背后的顶尖公司美泰（Mattel）。1930 年代与专业人士达成了协议（在 12 月前为续集提供人才）。

这导致了大量的仓促应对。

据三名知情人士透露，制片厂本身在续集中给予美泰一定比例的电影利润分成，类似于一部美国电影，其主导协议是与专业人士达成（在 12 月前为续集提供人才）。这导致了大量的仓促应对。

制片厂已与相关人才进行了数月的谈判。两名知情人士表示，方案包括如果电影达到显著的票房成功，则给主演人才一定的利润分成，以及至少一部分预付费用，包括向 Goubig 先生支付 $10 million（这是目前的开价）。但据相关人士称，华纳兄弟探索（Warner Bros. Discovery）首席执行官大卫·扎德勒（David Zadler）认为这些方案（包括利润分成启动的条件）过于慷慨，因此不予批准。

华纳兄弟的一位发言人将此问题交给了人才代表，表示他们描述了向美泰提供的最后一份方案，目前尚未对新方案发表评论。她否认了扎德勒先生阻碍了已达成共识的执行过程。

制片厂本身，根据第三方及迈克尔·德里昂（Michael De Leon）在声明中所述：“我们与美泰已达成版权协议，并提出了一系列重大方案，试图促使他们制作《芭比》电影。遗憾的是，我们目前无法达成一项自由协议。”

这些谈判发生在华纳兄弟面临明确协议的时刻。

约翰·基夫特（John Kift）、美国堡垒（America Fortress）、阿塔克萨·格林布拉特（Artaxa Greenblatt）和玛格特·罗比（Marger Robbie）在《芭比》中，该片获得了 13 亿美元 billion 的全球票房收入。

华纳兄弟探索（目前的母公司）与派拉蒙（Paramount）之间待定的合并案在州检察总长试图阻止该交易后被搁置。制片厂需要维持现有的独立收入，而《芭比》是其特许经营策略的重要组成部分。

华纳在票房上的秘密表现一直低于预期。在经历了 2023, 年的大爆发后，近期情况不佳，《Biggerly》和《The Brisk》未能覆盖其制作和营销成本。

美泰拒绝就谈判发表评论。在过去几年中，在其首席执行官 Ymm Kirst 的领导下，该公司在处理低端版权持有时变得更加精明和激进。Kirst 先生此前曾表示，应避免此类延迟。

“我们期望项目能从市场迅速转化为支出，”他在五月的一次关于其策略的采访中说道。“我们不想在后马车上坐而待毙。”

如果美泰离开华纳兄弟，那么将不得不从零开始开发《芭比》。该公司希望被允许在另一家制片厂接管相关人才。

关于续集的谈判之所以发生，是因为 Gervag 先生和她自己在签约拍摄首部《芭比》时，就在合同中加入了关于续集的语言，三名知情人士如此表示。制片厂通常很难在原始媒体协议中加入关于续集的内容条款，但由于制片厂希望由 Gervag 先生执笔并导演这部电影，因此华纳兄弟采取了一次冒险尝试，在没有个人续集条款的情况下推进了项目。

即使达成了协议，这部电影仍需数年时间才能上映。

“根据专家的说法，格瓦格女士（Mr. Gervag）——她目前正在为 Netflix 完成《Nayako. The Magdalen 'Anglo-ree'》——以及她的写作搭档兼丈夫诺亚·布兰塔克（Noah Branthack），在谈判中明确表示，他们有一个想要讲述的故事，并且将致力于此。这一点也被用作筹码。据相关人士透露，华纳兄弟（Warner Bros.）并不知晓该创意具体为何，而这对搭档在协议完成之前，不会告诉制片厂，也不会开始写作。”

华盛顿邮报评论版编辑在任职 1 年后辞职

作者：ERIN WENDLE

《华盛顿邮报》评论版最高编辑亚当·奥尼尔（Adam O'Neal）于周五辞职。在报社所有者杰夫·贝索斯（Jeff Bezos）聘请他将该板块重新引导向更倾向于自由意志主义的方向一年多后，他选择了离开。

“虽然这不是一个容易的决定，但我离职时对自己带领评论板块所取得的进步感到自豪，并乐观地认为最好的日子还在前方，”奥尼尔在给同事的一封便函中写道。他并未说明具体去向。

据两名参会人员透露，在周五与同事的会议上，奥尼尔解释说他的离职是一个“个人决定”，且已经考虑了一段时间。当被追问更多细节时，奥尼尔重复了这一解释，并补充说这对他的家庭和个人是最合适的。

《邮报》出版人兼首席执行官杰夫·奥格布林（Jeff O'Gublin）在另一封便函中写道，是奥尼尔决定离开。“我想感谢他在重新引导报道方向方面所展现的领导力与辛勤工作，”奥格布林写道。据相关人员称，他在周五与员工的会议上表示，目前还没有关于接任新评论版领导者的具体方案，但很快将提供相关信息。

奥尼尔的离职给这家在过去几年经历了剧烈变革的新组织带来了又一次冲击。在 2023 和 2025, 年，它提出了涉及 200 多个记者的请求。而在今年 2 月，《邮报》又拥有超过 300 名记者，涵盖了 10 年来的本地和国际报道。

今年 2 月，身在布朗克斯的奥尼尔发布了一项指令，要求评论板块专注于“两大支柱：个人自由和自由市场”。

今年早些时候的《华盛顿邮报》办公大楼（左）。亚当·奥尼尔继承了报社所有者杰夫·贝索斯的授权，旨在转移评论板块的关注重心。

他写道，该板块“当然也会涉及其他话题，但与这两大支柱相对立的观点将留给他人发表”。

当时的评论版编辑大卫·希普利（David Shipley）因不认同该授权而辞职，奥尼尔在数月后接手。在他的指导下，该报的编辑立场倾向于鼓励降低税收和减少政府监管。

在给员工的便函中，奥格布林写道：“在过去的一年里，在亚当·奥尼尔的领导下，邮报评论版在历史视角和前瞻性上表现更佳，在财务上更具可持续性，且比以往任何时候都更容易让读者接触。”

苹果公司利润增长 27%，但分析师感到失望

作者：KALLEY IRANG

旧金山 —— 在带领苹果公司成为价值近 $5 万亿美元的赚钱巨头 13 年后，蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）于周四向华尔街告别。

“我只想花一点时间感谢你们所有人，”库克在苹果公布季度财务业绩后的分析师电话会议上说道。“我们前方有光明的未来，我确实从未如此乐观。”

现年 65, 岁的库克在苹果处于财务高峰期时交棒 —— 尽管存在一些分歧。公司周四报告称，在截至 6 月的季度中，营收同比增长 40 比例。利润增长 27%，达到 166 亿美元 billion。

但苹果对本季度的营收预测低于分析师预期。公司表示，营收将比去年同期增长 12% 左右，而分析师预期为 25%。库克表示，这是因为公司在生产芯片所使用的工艺中遇到了“供应限制”。苹果还预计本季度收益将比上一季度增加 8%。

周四盘后交易中，该公司股价下跌幅度高达 8%。

该公司的股价为 25 亿美元 billion，此前为 15 亿美元 billion。苹果仍将由库克担任首席执行官。他仅是离开了并成为了公司的执行官。

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iPhone 的销售额增长了 22%

澳大利亚人是九月。他将被 31, 岁的约翰·特兰 (John Terran) 接替，后者最近是苹果公司在随后的第一家业务部门。库克先生表示，这次过渡“进展顺利”，特兰先生则表示公司对人工智能感到“非常兴奋”。

“在这个领域所发生的一切中，我们拥有如此之多的机遇，”特兰先生在电话会议中说道。“我们正专注于我们的业务。”

特兰先生接手的是一家仍然在世界范围内最具主导地位的公司。在本周，在对人工智能支出担忧日益增加的背景下，苹果公司重新夺回了全球最有价值上市公司的头衔。由于重新设计的 iPhone 广受欢迎，该公司的业务目前正处于人气上升期，即使在 6 月份以全球行业和营销芯片下降为由提高了 Mac 和 iPad 的价格。公司预计在本季度将支付更多的恢复费用。

“我们看到 iPhone 和 iPad 的需求水平非常、非常强劲，”iPhone 和 Mac 的负责人表示，“远高于我们的预期，”苹果公司首席财务官伯纳·佩罗斯 (Berna Peroth) 说道。“这就是原因。供应链的灵活性低于市场水平，而我们在前几年看到的灵活性可以让我们应对这种更高的需求。”

苹果公司为 iPhone 提供的全新设计包括一款名为 iPhone Air 的轻薄型号，以及一款在背面增加了铰链以备明日之需的 iPhone Pro 型号。该公司为 iPhone Pro 提供了 20 项额外功能，价格上涨了 $300. 这些变化持续提升了 iPhone 的销售额，销售额增长 22% 至 542.5 亿美元 billion。

新产品还继续从中国市场多年销售低迷中恢复。他享受全球范围内的智能手机价格。“在这一季度，他们在中国的智能手机出货量占比 10%——超过了许多当地竞争对手——而在前一年则相对落后，根据追踪智能手机市场的 quick Research 的数据。苹果公司在中国的销售额增长 22% 至 168.2 亿美元 billion。

这些结果达到了华尔街大多数人的预期。根据 Fact-Cost 的数据，分析师此前预测季度营收为 5888.5 亿美元 billion，利润为 277.2 亿美元 billion。

“他们的数字非常好，”技术研究公司 IOC 的消费设备研究总监雅各布·奥尔曼 (Jacob Olman) 表示。“最大的担忧是，展望未来，他们如何处理内存危机？因为他们的成本将会上升。这是投资者最大的焦虑点。”

苹果公司的新增长节省了 20%，达到 507.4 亿美元 billion，而约翰的分析此前对此有所预期。上个月，公司迅速提高了部分新产品的价格，目前这些产品包括流媒体服务 Apple Music，其每月费用现已从 $48.98. 上调至 $32.80.

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纽约时报 商业版 1, 2026 星期六

国际版

关税战平息之际，难以撼动的工业基础

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他希望能使供应链多样化。但由于材料和运输成本较高，在泰国制造手电筒的成本比在中国高出 15 左右。兰尼尔先生还面临着中国竞争对手的压力，这些竞争对手在亚马逊上销售手电筒的价格，甚至低于 ACG 将产品运往美国的成本。

“我们不想回到中国，但与此同时，我们得经营生意，”他说道。

特朗普先生长期以来一直指责中国削弱美国竞争对手，并采取惩罚性关税作为另一种手段，迫使制造商回到美国。在他的第一任期内，他针对中国发动贸易战，从 2016. 开始对中国约三分之二的出口商品征收关税。在第二任期中，中国又是他的首要目标。他将中国出口产品的关税提高到了三位数水平，随后中国通过限制关键材料的供应予以回应，迫使他做出让步。

在所有这些不确定性之中，许多高管在中国境外寻找工厂。结果，美国从中国进口的商品在 2018. 达到峰值后有所下降。去年，中国进口额下降了近三分之一，而来自墨西哥、越南和台湾的商品则有所增加。

但彼得森国际经济研究所的经济学家玛丽·E·洛夫利表示，中国拥有巨大的成本优势，如果其与其它国家最终的关税差异很小，那么这种业务撤出中国的趋势可能会逆转。

“如果针对中国的关税最终与针对其他地区的关税相近，我们预计将看到一些公司重新回归其中国供应商，”洛夫利女士说。

（此处为宁波市宁波光明电器的 workstations 及其手电筒工厂生产线照片。据中国官方媒体报道，该地区被称为“火炬之城”，生产了全球约 60 ％的手电筒，并支持着数百家专业制造商。）

火炬之城

要了解为什么企业如此难以与中国脱钩，看看“火炬之城”就知道了。类似于许多专门从事商业或婚纱产业的中国城市，位于东中国海附近的一个低端工业小镇西电（Xidian），据中国官方媒体称，这里生产了全球约 60% 的手电筒。

这座小镇聚集了数百家制造商，以极具竞争力的价格大量生产 LED 灯泡、电路板和开关。而且，西电靠近一些全球最大的港口，且拥有低成本的运输税率，可将海量货物通过太平洋运送给美国消费者。

“中国之所以能保持良好状态，是因为他们在生产规模上能让产品便宜得多，”新加坡亨利基金会（Hinrich Foundation）贸易政策主管 Deborah Elms 表示。

她补充道：“经济逻辑会驱动你在中国拥有非常大的制造份额。”

总部位于沃思堡（Fort Worth）附近、在北美拥有约 100 名员工的 ACG 公司拥有五个品牌，生产手电筒、头灯和灯笼，以及刀具、充电宝和暖手宝等产品，其生产曾高度集中在西电周边。

但大流行病及其对启动供应链的影响已经显现。然而，长期依赖任何单一地点都存在风险。当 Lanier 先生于 2023, 年加入 ACG 时，他开始与 ACG 的供应商沟通，看他们是否愿意开展业务。他表示，他开始研究亚洲、墨西哥和东欧的新工厂。

在 18 个月的时间里，该公司投入了数百万美元购买设备并认证泰国、越南和柬埔寨的新工厂。但到 10 月，美国和中国目前处于前 10 名的国家之列。特朗普先生将关税又降低了 10 个百分点。

许多中国出口产品在特朗普先生的第一任期内被征收额外关税，但其他产品最终的关税水平与来自东南亚的商品相当。例如，来自中国的手电筒面临 20% 的关税，而来自越南、泰国和柬埔寨的则面临 15% 的关税。

Lanier 先生表示，即使在适用关税之前，从东南亚港口发货的成本也比中国港口高 12 到 15%，因为该地区的供应链不够完善。

例如，产品中使用的半导体和铝必须从中国和韩国进口到泰国。东南亚往往官僚机构更复杂，基础设施更差，导致货物运抵港口更加困难。而且，中国公司通常可以获得补贴和低息贷款。

到 2025, 年，ACG 已具备在中国以外制造其四分之三以上产品的能力，但仍有三分之二的产品是在中国制造的。

Qutsa 的创始人 Sebastian Berman 表示，北美品牌已将更多采购重新转移回中国，因为与伊朗战争引发的快速短缺月份进一步削弱了在越南等国家的工厂。Qutsa 为包括 Czeico、亚马逊（Amazon）和 Ralph Lauren 在内的数千家公司审计供应链。

“只要出现一点压力，你就会发现，由于所有这些工厂都没有足够的电力来维持运作，公司就会急忙回流中国，”Berman 先生说。

“现在公司在其他地方进行了生产，他们意识到了在中国制造的巨大优势，即使面临将供应链所有鸡蛋放在一个篮子里的风险，”APAC Advisors 首席执行官 Steve Okan 表示。

在 6 月的一次采访中，美国贸易代表 Jamieson Greer 表示，他听说了某些公司推测将业务迁回中国，但这样做将是一个错误。

格里尔先生表示，尽管美国正致力于与中国维持稳定，但就在一年前，两国之间还存在着极高的关税。

“我认为总体上人们明白发展的方向，”他说。“他们意识到了过度依赖中国所带来的高风险性质。”

决定性因素

现在的问题是，美国对中国的关税最终将达到什么水平。

预计政府将在未来几周内通过一项针对各国政府用于建立制造业部门（如工业补贴）政策的贸易调查，出台更多关税措施。

凭借激增的出口额和超过一万亿美元的年度贸易顺差，中国似乎成了一个“犯罪”目标。但一些分析师表示，政府可能不愿将对中国的整体关税提高到去年年底 20% 以上的水平。高于此限度的关税可能会被中方视为违反贸易信任，并引发报复。

埃尔姆斯先生表示，“如果你了解中方对上限的解读，对他们来说，这显然就是 20%。”

但这对于泰国、越南和印度尼西亚来说可能不是问题，因为这些国家预计面临的关税将低于中国。

“大家目前都基于这样一个假设，即没有人会超过中国，”她说。

尽管如此，由于特朗普先生频繁调整关税，且长期压力剧增，许多公司可能不会排除中国关税进一步提高的可能性。

在由宁波光明电器（Ningbo Bright Electric）所有并为 ACG 及其他公司生产产品的泰国工厂里，用于制造手电筒的许多组件以及设备都来自中国。

从中国搬到这里的工厂经理潘大东表示，在国内做生意更容易，因为供应商就在身边。但他认为，随着时间的推移，更多的生产将转移到泰国，从而减轻这些特征。

目前，尽管成本较高，但兰尼尔先生仍在向其东南亚工厂发送部分货物，以试图维持该供应链。但他表示，公司在将某些组件（如锂离子电池和印制电路板）移出中国方面的上游投资，面临着重新回到中国的风险。

“如果我们能让数据合理化，那么我们绝对愿意投资其他地方，”他说。但他补充道，“我们不能就这样一直烧钱。”

亚历山德拉·肖雷纳（Alexandra Shorenaar）发自 Ship Varg Pass 报道，肯·斯旺森（Ken Swanson）发自华盛顿报道。

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2026年8月1日，星期六

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体育 纽约时报

职业美式足球

远征开启，巨人队入住阿勒格尼山脉

球队在一家拥有丰富 N.F.L. 经验的西弗吉尼亚州度假村开启为期 12 天的训练营。

作者：CHARLOTTE CARROLL

西弗吉尼亚州，怀特萨尔弗斯普林斯 —— 在纽约巨人队的球员和教练抵达前 24 小时，旁边的格林布赖尔体育性能中心（Greenbrier Sports Performance Center）已经忙碌起来。

停车场周围嗡嗡作响。安保团队完成了娱乐区域的巡视。工作人员正在布置巨人队品牌房舍的最后细节。足球场已划好线，球门柱已就位，但作为背景的是阿勒格尼山脉，而非纽约市的天际线。

该性能中心位于 11,000 英亩的格林布赖尔度假村内，其布置旨在模拟巨人队的练习设施，更衣室已准备就绪，个性化隔间内挂着 7 件衬衫。在设备室中，所有用于装备一名足球运动员的物品都经过整齐组织，为期近两周的 N.F.L. 训练营做好了准备。

傍晚时分，工人们暂停工作，向来自 Clancy Retzcation and Logistics 的人员发放棒球帽。该公司协助巨人队从新泽西州东卢瑟福的基地搬迁至西弗吉尼亚州的山区，进行这次为期 12 天的驻扎。

“欢迎来到巨人队，”一名球队工作人员对搬家团队说，随即引起了一阵掌声。

搬迁团队在确保主教练约翰·哈伯（John Harbaugh）执教的首次巨人队训练营顺利开局中发挥了关键作用。

“我们的全部目标是，当他们到达时，可以专注于他们擅长的以及需要改进的所有事情，”担任此次搬迁球队对接人的助理教练梅根·罗伯格（Megan Roeberg）本周表示。

在远离新泽西州的地方举行此次训练营并非哈伯的主意。巨人队在去年秋天与格林布赖尔签署了合同；而哈伯是在 1 月份被雇佣的。

由于巨人队本周宣布的新泽西设施将进行一项多年扩建计划，这次远征的计划早在一年多前就已经在推进。近期结束的世界杯是另一个原因；大都会人生体育场（MetLife Stadium）承办了该足球赛事中的 8 场比赛，包括 7 月 18 日的世界杯决赛。

这是巨人队自 2012 年在纽约州奥尔巴尼进行训练以来，首次在东卢瑟福以外的地方举行训练营。

但为什么他们选择一个近 500 英里外的度假村？为什么选择格林布赖尔？很大程度上是因为格林布赖尔此前多次证明了自己能够胜任此项任务。

2014, 年，执教新奥尔良圣徒队的肖恩·佩顿（Sean Payton）与该度假村合作，建立了一个配备 N.F.L. 训练营设施的场所。此后多年，丹佛、休斯顿、克利夫兰、旧金山、新英格兰和亚利桑那州都曾利用该设施进行训练营或 N.F.L. 赛季的其他活动。今年，该场地甚至接待了伊拉克的国家足球队参加世界杯。

罗伯格与布朗队团队物流与运营总监约翰·钱德勒（John Chandler）进行了交流，以了解球队如何最大化利用在格林布赖尔的时间——从配备球员装备和常规模式等小细节，到确保远征尽可能便捷的大局规划。

罗伯格表示，她接触过的每一位经历过西弗吉尼亚州训练营的 N.F.L. 教练都说：“你们会爱上这里的。哈伯教练也会爱上这里的。因为他们知道我们会充分利用这个地方所能提供的每一个机会。”

巨人队入住格林布赖尔酒店。但主要优势并非奢华的住宿，而是在路边随处可见的配套设施。

巨人队不仅可以使用两个草地场和一个 FieldTurf 人造草坪场，还拥有会议室、办公室、训练室和重量训练室。这与在奥尔巴尼时期的日子相比是一个巨大的变化，那时球队会议是在大学教室里举行的。对于这次行程，他们无需随身携带储物柜或配重器材来搭建重量训练室。

“这次最棒的一点是那里已经准备好了很多东西，”巨人队负责球队运营的副总裁吉姆·费伦（Jim Phelan）说道。“所以我们需要搬过去的东西就少了。我们不必搬走整个举重室，那里已经为一支 NFL 球队配置好了。”

一件确实从新泽西州长途搬运的物品是巨人队的记分牌，这对于练习特定情境的橄榄球至关重要，并且在每次训练中都会使用。虽然工作人员在装载过程中犹豫过，但他们最终还是把记分牌以及用于在球场上移动它的多功能车一起搬来了。

搬运工用叉车将其搬上卡车，随之一起搬运的还有其他大型球场设备，包括推雪橇（sleds）和击打 dummy 人形训练桩。尽管从东卢瑟福出发前往格林布赖尔（Greenbrier）比前往奥尔巴尼（Albany）远了大约 300 英里，但由于对方的配置更完整，这意味着所需的搬运卡车车队规模更小。

抵达后，由几个部门负责为 210 到 230 人的随行团队做好准备。从记得带口哨和不可用配件，到准备备用头盔、带有数字和字母的空白隐私贴，以及安排好一名最佳新闻官和一名裁缝以应对巨人队在训练营期间签下球员的情况，球队工作人员试图为每一种情况做好准备。

马特·弗雷克斯（Matt Frakes）是球队的性能营养总监，他于 2025 年加入巨人队，非常擅长适应变化的环境，因为巨人队的食堂在期间经历了彻底的翻新，迫使球队使用餐饮帐篷。因此，弗雷克斯的团队已经为使用格林布赖尔的餐饮帐篷做好了充分准备，球队将在这里享用大部分餐食并开启每一天。

“这次最棒的一点是那里已经准备好了很多东西。”

吉姆·费伦（JIM PHELAN）， 球队运营副总裁。

确保他的团队能够在格林布赖尔复制新泽西州的菜单，这项工作自今年年初就开始筹划了。

除了厨师与酒店工作人员之间的沟通外，格林布赖尔的一名厨师还访问了新泽西州，以观察球员和工作人员在特定时间的进食量。巨人队的——

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纽约时报 体育版 2026 年 8 月 1 日，星期六

夏洛特·卡罗尔（Charlotte Carroll）为 The Athletic 报道巨人队。

约翰·钱德勒 / THE WAYNE WAYNE

度假村：巨人队暂时搬到了位于西弗吉尼亚州白硫磺泉的格林布赖尔训练中心，这里距离新泽西州东卢瑟福约 500 英里。

教练与四分卫：约翰·哈鲍（John Harbaugh）在率领巨人队的第一年里，将这次搬迁称为“一个真正的机会”，尽管这并非他的主意。球队可以使用两块草地球场、一块人造草场（FieldTurf）、会议室、办公室、训练室和举重室。贾森·达尔 (6) 和贾梅拉·温斯洛本周参加了训练。

约翰·钱德勒 / THE WAYNE WAYNE

训练：球迷们观看包括跑卫卡姆·沙特洛夫（Cam Shattelov，见上图）在内的球员在综合体进行训练。这是自 2012 年在纽约州奥尔巴尼训练以来，巨人队首次在东卢瑟福以外的地方设立训练营。

棒球

威廉·孔特雷拉斯（左）因同意去年前往波士顿而获得了 $1 百万美元的奖金。当曼尼·里安森在 2008, 年想要离开波士顿时，他拥有可以强制要求转会的合同条款。

利用禁止交易条款获得杠杆，以及一份利润丰厚的合同

作者：JASOT McCULLOUGH 和 DEYNDER LEE

在 2022 年大联盟（M.L.B.）交易截止日那个早晨，埃里克·霍诺雷（Eric Honore）的电话里充斥着试图改变他主意的人发来的信息。

在前一天晚上，圣地亚哥普利策（San Diego Pulitzer）的棒球超级巨星总裁启动了一项新的交易，旨在从华盛顿国民队获得候补席位胡安·桑（Juan San）。给霍诺雷的回报方案中包含五名支持者。唯一的障碍是：霍诺雷拥有一项部分禁止交易条款——而国民队就在他名单上的 10 个名字之一。

“我内心完全不想去华盛顿，”他说道。于是，一场堪比堪萨斯式的游说战随即展开。普罗勒（Proller）试图让霍诺雷接受这笔交易。霍诺雷的经纪人斯科特·赖斯（Scott Reiss）解释说，华盛顿能够提供日常的出场时间。随着截止日期的临近，霍诺雷接到了教徒队老板彼得·萨德勒（Peter Sadler）的电话。在 2018 年，第一阶段，他在自己的限制范围之外。萨德勒曾与霍诺雷签下一份为期八年、价值 51.64 million 的合同。现在，他正向霍诺雷提供额外的现金以换取其接受交易。

“不用了，这些年来你给我的已经足够多了，”霍诺雷回答道。

最终，教徒队和国民队修改了原定的交易方案，以处理那个圣地亚哥的投球手（同时也是……）。

（Andy McCullough 和 Deynd LEE 为《The Athletic》的大联盟特约撰稿人。Stephen J. Nesbit 参与了报道。）

访问。霍诺雷在一种更小规模的机制中成为了生意的一部分。普罗勒将他送到了波士顿红袜队，而红袜队不在他的禁止交易名单上。

这种最后时刻的操纵让人们得以一窥大联盟年度交易截止日背后隐藏的不确定性，今年的截止时间是周一东部时间晚上 9 点。禁止交易条款是一项休赛期条款，它可能给球队带来最令人头疼的麻烦，而给著名球员带来安心。禁止交易条款涉及与球员、高管和经纪人的更多访谈，其中部分人士要求匿名以便自由发言。

“禁止交易条款并不意味着不考虑交易，”贝里亚（Berea）说。“它的意思是，在执行交易时只是多了一个步骤。而那个时刻掌握在球员手中。”

一名拥有全额禁止交易保护的球员表示：“无论是什么，它都取决于你。拥有确定性，拥有最终决定权，这仅仅是合法的。”

由于与有限名单签约的买家群体在扩大，大联盟交易日的权力可能会产生影响。无论是在洛杉矶，还是在 8 月，迈克·特伦特（Mike Trent）在回答关于在其他地方比赛的问题时，他便利用了禁止交易条款。明尼苏达双城队的外野手拜伦·邦顿（Byron Bunton）在获得今年 10-and-5 的权利后，能够选择自己的目的地并拦截任何交易。休斯顿太空队的约什·海登（Josh Haden）拥有全额禁止交易条款。纽约之星计划的里希利（Richelie）和弗朗西斯科·林登（Francisco Linden）也是如此。如果旧金山条款想要

埃里克·霍诺雷在 2022 年在拒绝从教徒队转会至国民队的胡安·桑交易方案后，最终加盟了红袜队。

削减威利·阿达雷斯（Willy Adarres）和马克·克鲁格曼（Marc Clujman）的薪水，这将需要球员的批准。

堪萨斯城皇家队的投手迈克尔·瓦克斯（Michael Wachs）拥有有限的禁止交易条款，而他的队友迈克（Mike）则拥有全额禁止交易保护。在纸面上，多伦多蓝鸟队的先发投手凯文·加斯曼（Kevin Gassman）看起来像是 500-washer 酿酒厂轮换的理想人选；但实际上，酿酒队是加斯曼禁止交易名单上的 8 个球队之一。旨在捕捉加斯曼队友乔治·斯普拉格（George Sprague）最后一点“毒药魔力”的俱乐部，必须处理他自己的有限禁止交易名单。

在整个联盟中，有数十名球员拥有拒绝权。帕特·孔特拉（Pat's Contrara）统计出至少有 47 人拥有全额禁止交易条款；另有 20 多人处于部分保护之下。这还不包括某些累积了多年服务时间并在同一俱乐部度过最后 5 年的资深球员，这两个门槛赋予了他们拒绝任何交易提案的权力。

高管们表示，这些条款并不意味着交易是不可能的。但对于时间紧迫的球队来说，这确实增加了一层难度。处理一个完整的“不可交易条款”可能比处理一个部分名单要简单一些。“这绝对让我犹豫过是否要打某些电话，”一位总经理说道，“有些球员，我只能假设他们把我们列入名单是有原因的。”

即使是一个简单的询问也可以传达到俱乐部。然而，询问一名受保护球员可能会导致一段不愉快的对话。“这就是问题所在，每个人都会想：我们真的想提起这件事吗？”该总经理说，“因为如果答案是否定的，你基本上是在告诉那个球员，你想要把他送走。”

两个办公室可能会在每个细节上达成一致，但仍然会被处于中间的交易目标给否决。在 2023 年的关键截止日期前，洛杉矶道奇队已经就爱德华兹·比茨达成了一项协议，但底特律老虎队表示无法获得他的批准。作为罗德里格斯名单上的 10 家俱乐部之一，道奇队遇到了一个全行业性的难题，即猜测一名受保护球员究竟想要什么。罗德里格斯后来将其归结为家庭和地理因素。

但这很少仅仅关乎家乡。在大多数情况下，还涉及一个价格。有时这个价格相对较低。12月，圣路易斯红鸟队将一垒手威廉·孔特雷拉斯交易至波士顿，而孔特雷拉斯则获得了放弃其条款的奖金。

而有时这个价格则是一笔意外之财。2006 年，一名心怀不满的曼尼·拉米雷斯想离开波士顿，并且拥有“10-and-5”权利（服务满10年且在同一队满5年）来强制要求交易。他在一笔为期三个月的交易中加入了道奇队——但前提是红红袜队签署了其合同中 520 场比赛选项的终结协议，使他在那个冬天成为了自由球员。

道奇队总经理内德·库尔曼表示，如果不获得那些放弃权，他是无法离开的。

次年春天，拉米雷斯与洛杉矶签了两年的合同并离开了。

对于拥有受限名单的球员来说，每年选择球队本身就是一种控制形式。大多数人被允许在休赛期进行调整。有时他们基于地理位置——在东海岸长大的球员可能不想前往西部。有时是对税务的担忧，这会影响到加利福尼亚州和纽约州的球队。而有时选择并不总是基于他们所了解的情况。

“一名球员可能会说：‘我不想去中部的任何地方’，然后他会选择他不喜欢的球队，”一名经纪人说，“但也有一些球员想要钻系统的漏洞，只选择最好的球队，然后将其作为筹码武器。”

一位资深人士表示，这些选择在职业生涯中会发生转变，早期他只是简单地选择他喜欢的人。现在，随着自由球员身份在望，这个名单变得更具战略性。他说：“这是在权衡：哪些球队真的会用交易来换我？我在哪里会是一个好的契合点？我在哪里能获得更好的结果？”

近年来，球队试图削弱部分筹码。现在的合同比以前包含更多限制。

“我们收到的反馈比以前多了，”一名经纪人说，“以前要获得不可交易条款比现在更容易。”

“很明显，我们必须通过法律方式将其合法化。在自由球员阶段，球队可以直接接触球员进行交易谈判，这涉及到联盟的违规接触，甚至是在获得球队许可前就开始运作。就像癌症一样：试探球员的意愿。不可交易条款使这个过程更加不透明。当你处于另一方时，你只能听信总经理告诉你他将为你争取到什么，”一名高管说道。

尽管如此，这些数字反映了某种现实。随着另一个交易截止日期的临近，买家数量多于卖家。电话将接踵而至，即便对于那些拥有不可交易条款的球员也是如此。

“他们没有意识到这有多么宝贵，”一名经纪人说道，“直到他们亲眼看到为止。”

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四十年后，一只向天空挥舞的手套所传递的鼓舞力量依然在共鸣

作者：TYLER KEPNER

纽约时报

对于陷入困境的 FdS New York Men's 队来说，这是一场典型的比赛，该球队将于周六在 Old Field 举行庆祝其成立五周年的仪式。

在一个温暖的夏夜，在 FdS Southern Red Jets 队的主场，Men's 队以 11 分的优势击败了亚特兰大勇士队。我们的 Cyster 击出了两支本垒打，Sal Fernandez 完成了零封，Darryl Stryer-berry 掌控了投手丘。

Jesse Orosco，这位功勋左手投手，在当晚休息，而纽约市警察 McDonald 则在与朋友一起享受比赛。

“那是最后的一件事，”McDonald 的儿子 Conor 本周在电话中说，“我们去看比赛，回家，睡觉，醒来，然后去工作。然后一切都改变了。”

次日下午，在中央公园，一名 15 岁的男孩袭击了 Shavard Jones，随后攻击了 McDonald 三次，切断了他的脊髓，导致他从颈部以下瘫痪。当时 McDonald 20 岁，已被袭击八个月。他的妻子 Patti Ader 当时怀有 Conor，Conor 在次年 1 月出生。

Men's 队最终在一次惊心动魄的世界系列赛中击败了波士顿红袜队。当 Orosco 在第 5, 场比赛中让 Mercy Barrett 触击出局，完成最后一次出局时，他挥动了他的手套。Burlinger 在 McDonald 位于 Belkrout 医院的病房将手套交给了他，并将荣耀赠予他。

“当他在医院时，很多运动员在赛季结束时都去了，并给他送礼，”Orosco 本周表示，“所以我决定就直接把手套交给他。”

没有哪个球队的人会对我说：“嘿，Jesus，你为什么要把手套送出去？”而我说：“你知道，这就是意义所在。”我很开心能这样做。时机恰到好处。而且我的意思是，

Tyler Kepner 是 The Athletic 的高级 M.L.B. 撰稿人。

那天在那里的任何一名运动员都可以这样做。

然而，只有 Orosco 拥有一个能象征这份喜悦的文物。

来自皇后区的年轻记者 Mercy Murphy 那晚就在 Shea 球场，和她的姐妹们一起在一垒线方向的上层看台尽情欢呼。直到多年后她才知道，她是 2018 年一部关于 McDonald 的电影的成员，McDonald 于 2017 年去世。

我想展示他不仅带来了，而且他发现“这出戏是”，并且“听说 Jesse Orosco 把他将要拥有的棒球手套给了他”。我想在世界系列赛中说，“我们必须拍这部视频电影。我们必须想办法联系 Jesse Orosco。”

下午 2:30，这位长期担任 Men's 公关总监的新电影漫游历史学家兼共享关系副总裁，帮 Murphy 取得了与 Orosco 的联系，Orosco 住在那里并与 Murphy 进行了交谈。这部名为《城市之夜》（NIGHT of the City）的导演记忆之作目前处于最终剪辑阶段，Murphy——曾因突破性新闻赢得 25 个波士顿奖，并在 PSX II 和 CBS 2 工作——希望该片能获得广泛发行。

上个月，她为捐赠者和出演电影的人员举行了一次私人放映会，旨在提高纽约警察局 naming its audit 的关注度。McDonald 的 Orosco 也在场，并与 Conor McDonald 进行了第一次见面。

“我只记得，一个 8 岁的孩子，说爸爸总是在谈论 Jesse Orosco。”McDonald 说，“如果我 8 岁，在我还不知道代理人意味着什么来运行社区和触发家庭之前，我就知道这是一个特别的人，而且他是一个好朋友，”他说。

“他有点像个神话，你知道吗？他是个传奇，而我是一个普通人。他是个朋友。我相信这次访问在过去很重要，以及那个把手套给他的人——有时你没有机会感谢人们，因为生活会向不同的方向发展，对我来说，在 40 年后能这样做真是太棒了。”

Jesse Orosco 将他 1986 年世界系列赛的手套送给了一名在那个夏天瘫痪的纽约市警察。

“那时充满了痛苦和折磨，而像杰西·奥罗斯科这样的人，仅凭一次访问和一个简单的举动，就帮助我的父亲生存了下来。那天非常好，我父亲本可能只剩三年寿命，但他又活了 30 载有余。这让我能够了解我的父亲，并帮助我找回如今身为丈夫和父亲的自我。”

麦克唐纳与他的父亲通过纽约的体育运动建立了深厚的情感纽带，尤其是游骑兵队、亚利桑那队和大都会队。下一次大都会队进入世界大赛时，麦克唐纳一家一起去了决赛——那是 2008 年的一场输给洋基队的比赛。

康纳本周末将前往大都会队的重聚活动，因为他的儿子将庆祝两岁生日。在布朗·麦克劳德的前两场比赛中，康纳的父亲以及纽约市消防局的牧师迈里亚德·贾奇（Myriad Judge）——他在康纳的精神旅程中起到了至关重要的作用，包括公开信仰耶稣以及在康纳入狱期间与他通信——于 2001 年 9 月 11 日去世。

尽管经历了这一切悲剧，康纳·麦克唐纳依然继承了父亲的职业志向。作为纽约警察局的一名警长，他本周获悉自己已被晋升为副督察。

“在我个人看来，在目前这份工作中担任这个职位是非常有意义的，”麦克唐纳说。“你会服务并保护许多优秀的人，尤其是在纽约市。这是一项巨大的荣幸。”

五个问题

他的首批赛扬奖得主名单上有谁？

作为一名拥有“埃及之能”称号的新秀，威尔斯曾与该赛季美国联盟的赛扬奖（Cy Young Award）得主威尔利斯·赫尔南德斯共用一支圆珠笔。在担任了三个赛季的投手教练后，他对更多的赛扬奖得主变得非常熟悉。

现年 45 岁的威尔斯在他 23 个赛季的职业生涯中，曾在克利夫兰、西雅图和波士顿的教练组中接触过五位赛扬奖得主：C·金贝尔斯（1997）和 U87·李（2000）在克利夫兰获得了第二个 U87 位置；五十·赫拉克勒斯（2010）在马尔波罗-里兹-赫希获得；赫希（2010）在红袜队获得；谢尔·贝特（2020）在守护者队获得。

“所有这些人都是极其出色的竞争者，”威尔斯最近说道，“我的意思是，他们拥有极强的自信心，能够控制自己的情绪，但这种选择本身就带有一种锐气。”

威尔斯曾在另一支球队赢得了九个赛季的冠军，并拥有 1996 年瑞士冠军戒指，这是他五次接触赛扬奖得主职业生涯中最辉煌的赛季。

关于金贝尔斯，他是第二个进入完整投手状态的人。“当我们在旧洋基体育场时，他开始在地上投掷纸箱，然后转向俱乐部周围。我不想把他与詹姆斯的另一半做比较，但这就像是一个史蒂夫·卡尔森俱乐部成员。”

L&E 只是想让人们在内部，在内部。然后

我们将讨论增加其他球种及类似的事情。我告诉他，嘿，你知道吗？那些同样可触及的C位球。因为他能投到五局，我们会拥有这些球种，因为每个人都在观察。观察太远，他们会认为那是坏球。观察一点点，但已经有了，已经有了。因为这仅仅是技巧的较量。突然之间，开始在三个主要可触及的低外角投球，以引导他们的视线转向那里。在整场比赛中，掌控球数，他们必须尊重球场的另一侧，而当他进入状态时，他掌控了局面。

他是一个好朋友。“我记得 FdS 在系列赛前与教练组开会。听说他面对几个我们熟悉的女孩。‘嘿，我们不想给这家伙投变速球。’而 FdS 说，‘好吧，我要看看他是否能做得更多。’但 FdS 的特点是，他可以随意操纵棒球。他同样拥有力量，但只要他想，他能用棒球做任何事情。”

皮特丘拉：“由于他在平衡和衡量能力方面的表现，人们认为他拥有良好的基础检查，并且他正转向成为一个更基础的检查者，而且他并没有在很多方面做任何关于烧结的事情。听着，我的意思是，我很老了，但我想，‘哇，这家伙的名字太荒谬了。’我认为你永远不要投基础课程，而要发挥你的强度。投你的双扫描仪，然后当你想要一次时，家伙们就用基础扫描仪。但如果你只是想在那里生存，那并不是你的真正原因。”

BEEEE：“我们谈论地毯式投球——人们不会挥棒击打地毯球，只是在投掷它们——但他会投出 0-0 的地毯球，效果就像 0-2 的地毯球，就像他的基础扫描仪一样，它会占据位置。他可以开始投球，它必须地毯式地落下并放置——双手正好在膝盖处，充满力量。他对那种地毯球的掌控力和感觉如此之好，简直太荒谬了。”

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贝尔丘克与沦为笑柄的北卡塔希尔队陷入危机

作者：布鲁斯·费尔德曼 (BRUCE FELDMAN)

《竞技网》(The Athletic)

人们很容易认为比尔·贝尔丘克 (Bill Belichick) 是职业足球历史上最伟大的教练。他作为主教练赢得的超级碗冠军数量超过了任何人，而且在担任 NFL 助理教练期间又赢得了两座冠军。

同样容易证明的是，贝尔丘克作为一名大学教练，至少到目前为止，是近期大学足球历史上最大的失败者。没有人质疑他在战术布置（V's and O's）方面的能力。问题在于——而且这是一个巨大的问题——他完全搞砸了其教练组中最关键的人事任命，并在这个过程中摧毁了北卡罗来纳州的足球队。

贝尔丘克在接手工作后的第一个大动作是将总经理一职交给他的老伙计迈克尔·隆巴尔迪 (Michael Lombardi)。随之而来的便是一场惊人的灾难，而我们现在可能才开始清楚地看到这整个烂摊子到底有多糟糕。

周一，北卡罗来纳州将隆巴尔迪列入了行政休假名单。

据《竞技网》报道

傲慢与无能的糟糕结合。

据三名知情人士透露，隆巴迪的休假与一项人力资源投诉有关，但这些人未获授权公开表态。我们尚不清楚调查的具体细节或范围。

《The Athletic》还获悉，根据两名知情人士（未获授权公开讨论）的消息，大学体育委员会已就一项潜在调查与北卡罗来纳大学橄榄球项目取得联系，据信隆巴迪的行为是该委员会关注的焦点。该委员会是一个成立一年的执行机构，负责调查关于姓名、形象和肖像权（NIL）以及收入分成规则的潜在违规行为，并批准运动员与第三方的交易。

关于隆巴迪在查珀尔希尔（Chapel Hill）期间的情况，我们已知的是：傲慢加上无能是致命的组合。

北卡罗来纳大学的橄榄球水平并非一直很出色。在过去的 20 年里，“焦油膝”（Tar Heels）队仅有一个赛季的胜场数达到两位数，但他们很久没有在橄榄球领域如此令人尴尬了。没错，十年前在拉里·弗罗本（Larry Froben）的执教下，他们曾经历过一个 2-0 的赛季，但当时感觉他们并没有成为这项运动的笑柄。

而现在，他们成了。

北卡罗来纳大学每年向贝利契克支付 $10 million。隆巴迪赚取 $1.5 million，这使他成为大学橄榄球中薪酬最高的总经理。

隆巴迪自 1980 年代以来一直没有在大学橄榄球领域工作，但自从他去年进入大学校园的那一刻起，他就坚信自己比所有在大学橄榄球领域工作的人更了解这项运动及其工作职责。他随意解雇管理人员，并在大量的球员评估中出现失误。

在就职几周后，他宣称北卡罗来纳大学应被视为 NFL 的“第 33 支球队”。（这支所谓的第 33 支 NFL 球队，在隆巴迪和贝利契克制定的 45 人名单中，没有一名球员被选入选秀，这是北卡罗来纳大学自 2016 年以来首次没有球员被选入选秀。）

比尔·贝利契克（Bill Belichick，近左）请来了迈克尔·隆巴迪（Michael Lombardi，远左）在查珀尔希尔构建阵容，但“焦油膝”队的赛季迅速演变成一场惊人的灾难。现在看来，球队的问题不仅限于赛场上。周一，北卡罗来纳大学将隆巴迪停职行政休假。

“你根本不明白在国家橄榄球联盟（NFL）打球需要什么，”隆巴迪轻蔑地告诉工作人员，消息人士去年向《The Athletic》透露。

感觉更像是贝利契克和隆巴迪仅仅将北卡罗来纳大学变成了大西洋沿岸会议（ACC）中的第 10 支球队。上赛季，“焦油膝”队在面对 Power 4 对手时战绩为 3-0，但赛季结束时却输给了 ACC 内部其他三支州内球队。他们被森林觉醒大学（Wake Forest）击败，而后者在贝利契克接手一周后才聘请了其教练杰克·德彻特（Jake Dechert）。赛季结束时，在“焦油膝”队最终战绩为 4-4（其中两场胜仗是对阵足球锦标赛分部 FCS 球队）之后，隆巴迪放弃了转会门户（transfer portal）招募，全力投入高中球员招募。

知道在 NFL 打球需要什么，并不一定等同于知道如何在大学橄榄球比赛中获胜。就像在 NFL 设施中工作与在大学校园中工作并不一样。尽管许多 NFL 级别的人员会迅速指出，隆巴迪在那里也没有做出过任何有意义的事情。

到目前为止，感觉即使贝利契克和隆巴迪想要搞砸，也不可能搞得比现在更乱了。

布鲁斯·费尔德曼（Bruce Feldman）是《The Athletic》的国家大学橄榄球内部专家。

比利切克真的必须让他的总经理回归第二个赛季吗？去年他的进攻协调员弗雷迪·基钦斯在北卡罗来纳州进攻排名第 129 位后获得了最好的待遇。特勤组协调员迈克·普里茨克在赛季结束后立即被解雇。比利切克让隆巴迪留任第二个赛季，但现在看来，他能否撑到赛季揭幕战似乎有些勉强。

训练营周三在查佩尔希尔开始。第 9 周在爱尔兰进行的调研，针对的是去年破坏了比利切克主场大胜并击败了北卡罗来纳大学焦油脚队 (Tar Heels) 的德克萨斯基督教大学项目。(0-1s)

目前看来，对北卡罗来纳州来说，减法增加或许是最好的选择。

职业美式足球

巨人队在 6 个月远征之初安营扎寨于阿勒格尼山脉

摘自首篇体育页

一位创意主厨也将驻在度假村，以确保球员们能吃到他们熟悉的喜爱之物。

确保巨人队能够获得所有居家舒适感的一种方法，就是移交他们使用的 [parvesses]。此外，还有像牛肉 [picky]、蛋白质奶昔原料、电解质、补水软管等特种产品，Froben 一直在用电子表格跟踪这些项目，以确保球队运送了足够的托盘以覆盖两周的训练。虽然度假村里驻扎着整个球队，但每位球员的个人饮食计划和偏好都是定制化的，以考虑过敏、伤病和其他具体情况。

“除了餐饮服务运营部分之外，还有很多其他方面，”Froben 说道。“你还需要营养评估部分。然后是力量、体能训练和表现部分。所以，如果你愿意这么理解，这就是应对这些问题的多种方式。”

就像足球部门在格林布赖尔（Greenbrier）进行了一次完整的考察之旅一样，球队的活动运营、赞助和票务工作人员也访问了该度假村，寻找复制这种体验的方法。巨人队活动与比赛日运营高级总监 Cathy Reid 表示：“那是我们的首要任务：我们想弄清楚，如何将大家在新泽西州所喜爱且热衷于参与的球队训练营体验，带到这里，带到西弗吉尼亚州？”

虽然格林布赖尔举办过足球训练，但自 2010. 以来，它尚未举办向球迷开放的训练。

对幕后员工来说也是一个巨大的调整。

但远道而来的球迷无需担心会有太多重大变化；他们仍然可以期待在东卢瑟福（East Rutherford）能见到的传统签名会和赠品活动。巨人队还确保向球迷开放的训练安排在连续的日期，方便前往西弗吉尼亚州的球迷。根据停车请求和其他信息，巨人队预计每次训练将有 1,500 到 2,000 人参加，预计周六的“共同回归周末”第一天人数会更多。

但在球迷周四开始抵达之前，所有球员已于周二在东卢瑟福的巨人队设施内报到。他们完成了体能测试，并登上了两架飞往西弗吉尼亚州的飞机之一。（由于机场规模限制，需要两架类似的飞机。）抵达度假村后，他们在晚餐时体验了格林布赖尔餐厅的 [unenguished]-风格美食。

随后，足球训练开始了。“他非常强调这里有 1 ％ 是足球，但有 500 ％ 是为了互相了解，”曾在巴尔的摩与 Harbaugh 共事四个赛季的 Rodberg 说道。“因为在第 1 周你踏上球场时，你最好了解你身边的人，不仅是在球场上，而且在球场外。我认为他非常有意识地承认，这些关系不是一夜之间建立的，为了成为一支伟大的球队，像 21 个人一样合而为一，你需要提前建立这些关系。”

在训练之外，球队将有充足的时间和机会进行团建。格林布赖尔的设施包括两个 20 洞高尔夫球场、一个保龄球馆和游戏厅、游泳池以及一个 1500 [War-Act] 猎人可参观的场所，休息日和闲暇时光将非常惬意。

尽管将训练营搬到外地并非他的决定，但 Harbaugh 表示这将是一个计划。“我认为这是一个真正的机会，”Harbaugh 说。“这将是一个集中精力的机会。”

巨人队预计在西弗吉尼亚州怀特萨尔弗斯普林斯（White Sulphur Springs）的大多数训练活动中将有 1,500 到 2,000 人参加。

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选择76人，詹姆斯寻求证明自己是最伟大的机会

作者：伊恩·奥康诺 (IAN O'CONNOR)

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决胜局。这就是勒布朗·詹姆斯目前所处的境地。对于那些仍在试图衡量他的 NBA 生涯与迈克尔·乔丹相比如何的未决定投票者来说，这就是决胜局。

坚定的乔丹拥趸永远不会动摇，就像坚定的詹姆斯追随者永远不会让步一样。接下来的 1、2 或 3 年在费城发生的一切，都不会迫使他们从一方跳到另一方。

但那里有很多独立观察者，他们审视了两者的职业生涯，在乔丹（芝加哥公牛队六次冠军）和詹姆斯之间仍然犹豫不决。这是一个在体育酒吧里永远无法真正解决的争论。而这正是整件事的妙处。将不同时代的巨头人物进行对比在某些人看来可能是一项愚蠢的练习，但这种争论恰恰是体育运动应当具备的特质。

与此同时，对于这位 45 岁、刚刚同意减薪近 $49 百万美元以帮助费城76人队争取自 1993 年以来首个冠军，且从长远后果来看，旨在增强自己作为“最伟大者”之论据的亿万富翁来说，乔丹与詹姆斯的对决显然是一件严肃的事情。

我们如何知道这一点？詹姆斯多年来多次表示，他的目标是成为史上最佳 (GOAT)，并且多次表示他认为自己已经赢得了这一荣誉。事实上，他显然认为自己在带领克利夫兰骑士队在总决赛中从 3.4 的系列赛落后局面中反超，击败了 73 胜的金州勇士队时，已经完成了具有重大意义的成就。

“正是那次让我成为了史上最伟大的球员，”詹姆斯在 2010 年的一集《More Than an Athlete》系列节目中说道。

毫无疑问，他当时操之过急了，而且可能对此心知肚明。八年后，詹姆斯仍有工作要做。

这就是为什么他去年未成熟的 2.3 NBA 赛季，包括在洛杉矶湖人队的夜晚，他依然足够热爱这项运动而选择继续。他说他在 76 人队的决定与家庭或金钱无关。他说他想再次赢球。

我担心我们已经完善了他在费城的计划，这符合他自己的宏伟蓝图。

一名如此高水准的球员为了结束职业生涯而做出如此高水准的举动并不令人惊讶。纽约尼克斯队通过赢得自 1973, 年以来的首个冠军将他们自己推向了顶峰，迫使詹姆斯放弃了他的首选（根据他的经纪人兼 longtime 友人鲍勃·普拉特所述），使他在克利夫兰、迈阿密、金州、明尼苏达和费城之间寻找下一个最佳选择。

詹姆斯来自俄亥俄州的阿克伦，他在家乡的骑士队效力时间足够长，并与该队共同赢得了四个冠军中的两个。他必须逃离西部，远离圣安东尼奥和俄克拉荷马城，并且需要一支真正的竞争者，能够提供像尼克斯队在未夺冠时所能提供的那种最大程度的遗产影响力。

76 人队正在推销一个 45 年的冠军 drought，并将布朗作为一支豪华阵容的一部分，置于纽约南边一座体育狂热之城。如果詹姆斯几乎肯定无法在戒指数量上追平乔丹，那么费城就代表了 L.J. 用他的第五枚戒指向 M.J. 发起挑战的完美机会。

冠军戒指并不只是被那些过度狂热的球迷、简单思维的专栏作家和脱口秀主持人用作衡量标准。在作为纽约洋基队的最后日子里，德里克·杰特说他的朋友乔丹“不断提醒我他有六枚，而我只有五枚”。这位游击手在多年前曾表示，他的唯一目标是打破约基·贝拉在冠军次数上的记录，贝拉后来拿自己 16-3 的世界系列赛冠军戒指领先优势来逗杰特。

就在科比·布莱恩特赢得第五个冠军后，

谈到前队友沙奎尔·奥尼尔时，他（乔丹）说：“比沙克多拿了一个冠军，这话你可以信之无疑。”当一名夏令营参加者曾要求乔丹在詹姆斯和布莱恩特之间做出选择时， he replied: “我会把詹姆斯排在科比前面吗？就历史地位而言？不。5个冠军总能胜过3个。”

对乔丹来说，比尔·拉塞尔不经常在“史上最佳”（GOAT）的讨论中被多次提及是一件好事，因为51个冠军总能胜过6个。因此，即使是在最允许个体超级巨星控制其粉丝的团队运动中（场上仅有五名球员），结果也不能仅仅取决于戒指的数量。

是的，乔丹在冠军数量上以 6-4 领先于詹姆斯，在总决赛最有价值球员奖杯上以 6-4 领先，在常规赛 MVP 上以 3-4 领先。（卡里姆·阿卜杜尔-贾巴尔拥有 6 个常规赛 MVP，是 NBA 纪录，且在讨论中应占据更显著的位置。）

但由于比乔丹多打了 8 个赛季，詹姆斯在所有长久耐力的维度上都将其远远甩在身后，成为联盟历史上最大的赢家（常规赛和季后赛共创纪录的 1,216 场胜利，而乔丹为 425 场），并且在得分上也远超对方（常规赛和季后赛共创纪录的 36,981 分，而乔丹为 34,270 分）。

与之前的现代外线球队相比，詹姆斯在得分上胜过乔丹和布莱恩特；在助攻上胜过魔术师约翰逊；在冠军数量上胜过拉里·伯德。耐用性很重要，整体作品的积累同样重要。

在詹姆斯的整体运动领域，我曾在泰格·伍兹宣布自己完蛋、称其背伤严重到无法恢复的时候，将杰克·尼克劳斯及其纪录性的 10 个大满贯冠军排在伍兹及其 14 个大满贯之前。然后，伍兹竟然在一次脊柱融合手术后康复，赢得了 2018 年巡回赛冠军赛、2018 年大师赛以及在日本的爪塔冠军赛，从而追平了萨姆·斯尼德 82 场 PGA 巡回赛胜利的纪录，比尼克劳斯的总数多出 9 场。在我看来，这足以让伍兹在面对更强竞争对手时展现出更强的统治力，从而在 18-15 的大满贯分差下超越尼克劳斯。

在球场上，我们肯定也会对汤姆·布雷迪和帕特里克·麦凯恩进行类似的讨论。但目前，我们在思考詹姆斯能否打破他与布雷迪的平局——即 10 次冠军入围——并带领 76 人队在超过四分之一个世纪后首次进入总决赛。

《体育事业》（The Athletic）的大卫·奥德里奇最近写道，如果詹姆斯真的帮助他们赢得冠军，“他成为 NBA 历史上最伟大球员的论据将获得巨大的助力。”

ESPN 分析师布莱恩·温兹则持有不同观点，他坚持认为，即使詹姆斯成为首位在四支不同球队赢得冠军的 NBA 球员，也不会有任何一个乔丹的支持者突然向“詹姆斯国王”低头。

对此，我的看法有所不同。想象一下，年事已高的詹姆斯再次代表尼克斯队，阻止他们卫冕，然后在 NBA 总决赛中击败 76 人队或剧院队。

那将是一个令人难以置信且极具情感冲击力的场面。布雷迪在 45, 岁时赢得了他的第七座超级碗冠军和第五个超级碗 MVP，但考虑到一名 NBA 球员与其完美的四分卫相比需要付出多少体力，在 45 岁时为 76 人队的冠军做出重大贡献，其意义可能会更胜一筹。

无论如何，费城的突破将意味着詹姆斯在东海岸、西海岸、中西部和南部都赢得了冠军。他将把乔丹包围。

当然，他的忠实拥趸永远不会承认这一点。乔丹和詹姆斯的阵营将继续在各自的球队中互不相让，在既定条件下僵持不下。犹豫不决的人就像在观看一场资深比赛的裁判，在赛道上左右徘徊。

但在我的笔记本上，如果这支新的费城 76 人队赢得了最高荣誉，那么对詹姆斯先生来说，就是绝杀，胜负已定。

环法女子自行车赛 (Tour de France Femmes)

即将创造历史：

关注重点与人选

作者：JESSEN LIEBREUN

科学分析

在经历了女性自行车赛的春季陪伴赛季和两项大环赛之后，现在迎来了年度巅峰之战：环法女子自行车赛。

本次比赛的距离更长，爬升幅度也比以往任何时候都大。此外，车队将首次造访 New Ventosa；在今年的三项大环赛中，继 Aile de L'Anglès 和 Celle della Fianette 之后，这里是第三处爬升地。

Items lighting 是人们关注的焦点，她在进入夏季前表现出极佳的竞技状态，并在环意赛中夺冠。但她是否能在主场阶段击败 2023 年的冠军 Pauline Ferrand-Frèvat，则是另一个问题。而且，这绝非两个人的竞争。

谁是夺冠热门？

Videxing 在春季赛季四次夺冠并在环意赛中击败 Anna van der Breggen 实现反超，引起了全球关注。

来自 P2U United-East 队的荷兰车手 Vallenag 将寻求在去年环法赛中获得第二名的基础上有所突破，并争取在 2023 年的成就之外再添一座冠军奖杯。她已经在每项大环赛中获得过强势胜利，但如果她想增加自己的胜算，就必须战胜 Ferrand-Frèvat。

这是 Ferrand-Frèvat 重返环赛的第二个赛季，去年她在 Celle de la Madeleine 山道上追赶 Vallenag 和大部队，最终赢得了总冠军。领先优势为 5 分 45 秒。

但为 Team Vianna-Leoni a Bike 效力的 Ferrand-Frèvat 本赛季尚未获胜，在 Vuelta a English Pe 中仅获得第 29 名。

Jessien Hopkins 是 The Athletic 的新闻编辑。

mentus，这引发了人们对其能否复制去年战绩的质疑。但这位法国女将去年也有类似情况，曾因“感觉体能不足”而退出 Vuelta。

鉴于 Ferrand-Frèvat 是如何针对环法赛进行目标设定并专门训练的，很难仅凭赛前的表现来评判她的夺冠机会。

在其他选手中，Team Canyon / SRAM 的 Kana Newladema —— 2024 年最后一天的获胜者 —— 始终是一个威胁，因为她从未在环法赛中错过领奖台。今年，她获得了三次第二名和两次第三名，但自上次夺得环法冠军以来，她尚未在世界巡回赛 (WorldTour) 中获得冠军。

Paula Blasi 将迎来她的首届环法女子赛。这位 23 岁的车手在车队中经历了起伏巨大的 1,000 磅冲击，在加入职业队伍 U.A.E. Team A2Q 的第二年就赢得了 Vuelta 冠军。

最终，她在环法赛中很可能会为她的车队领袖、两届环意赛冠军 Elisa Longo Borghini 提供辅助，但看到 Blasi 在今夏早些时候于西班牙北部的 Anglin 展现出令人印象深刻的统治力并锁定总冠军后，她的表现将非常令人期待。

目前还没有人能统治该项赛事，多位车手正处于创造历史的边缘。这次比赛会是那个时刻吗？

谁能胜过 Wishes？

Lorena Wishes 是女子自行车赛最伟大的冲刺手之一。她很少被击败，但并非不可战胜。

这位 27 岁的 Wishes 在 2024 年环赛中刚刚将绿衫让给了 Marianne Vos（另一位在过去 5 届赛事中表现卓越的选手），随后在一次短暂的对决中落败。在 Breggen 环赛中，人们听到她被击败的消息，她无法在 Movistar 队的 Caryx Lloyd 面前找到突破之策。

Mont Ventosa 将成为一个亮点，在超过 9 英里的路程中，平均坡度达到 8.8%。

但这样的结果寥寥无几。

Lidl 队的 Elisa Baluette 最近成为了 Wishes 的挑战者，在波兰环赛的两次冲刺赛段中获得亚军，并在 Wishes 缺席的环意赛中赢得了两次冠军。

Wishes 的被取消资格是一个关键点，赛会组织者表示她的自行车重量低于限额，这将使她的车队 3D Wix's Pristina 渴望在她的大环赛赛段中弥补损失。

25 岁的 Zoe Bäckstedt 已入选 Canyon / SRAM 环赛队，在经历了如此一个令人印象深刻的赛季后，她将在这场比赛中完成首秀。在瑞士环赛的一个冲刺赛段夺冠（她的首次世界巡回赛胜利）后，她可能成为一个不确定因素。

哪些年轻人值得关注？Blasi 是早期的明显选择，试图接替去年的冠军 Nienke Vidae 夺得白衫。Blasi 的天赋在她的 Vuelta 胜利中得到了体现，而今年早些时候在荷兰的一次美国式胜利，也进一步增强了她的竞争力。

与 Longo Borghini 一起，

去年 8 月的冠军领奖台上：中间是 Pauline Ferrand-Frèvat；左侧是 Denis Vallenag；以及 Kana Newladema-Phinney。

她在去年因女性杠杆问题（women's levers）不得不退出后，将寻求首次环赛胜利；而去年在比赛中大放异彩的 Malina Saphian，将成为一支强大的 U.A.E. 队的一部分。

另一位在赛季开端表现令人兴奋的年轻骑手是 Celia Grey。这位 20 岁的法国女将今年早些时候出人意料地赢得了全国公路赛冠军，并在环意赛中获得了一次赛段冠军。

虽然她不像队友 Paul Seixas 那样是队长，但她将成为 P2U-Staat 团队的重要组成部分，旨在助力 Vallenag 夺冠。

若想看到更多胜利和潜在的突围行动，请关注 Registrar 的 Paula Grist 和 Canyon / SRAM 的 Bäckstedt。

来自荷兰的 Lorena Wishes, 27, 是女子自行车赛最伟大的冲刺手之一。

路线如何规划？

每年，组织者都会寻求扩展大环赛的方法。2020 届车队的比赛天数与上次相同，但攀爬难度和总长度都有所增加。

亮点是第 1 赛段中秘密的 Ventosa。在超过 15 公里（9 英里）的路程中，平均坡度为 4.8%，它将以残酷的方式决定总成绩榜的领奖台归属。

考虑到 Ferrand-Frèvat 的攀爬进步，她应该是夺得 Ventosa 赛段冠军的热门人选之一，但她可能会在赛段最后阶段遭到追击。

两次华丽的个人计时赛的安排也应引起关注。计时赛项目在去年缺席，今年将为总成绩选手增加一个新的维度。

热门选手可能会为体育赛段做出贡献，且可能比常规赛季轻得多，但最后一年的情况相同。在任何平路地段。这意味着——除了在路线中间正好结束的情况外——骑手的差距可能会取决于他们过往的力量而非攀爬速度，从而可能导致对手之间出现缺陷。

不过，这段路程仅 21 公里（13 英里），因此影响有限。

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纽约时报 讣告 星期六, AUGUST 1, 2026

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59 岁的 Jennifer Finch 逝世：L7 乐队的赤脚贝斯手与“邋遢女孩”

作者：ALEX WILLIAMS

Jennifer Finch 逝世于 7 月 16 日，地点在加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡，享年 59 岁。她是 L7 乐队的贝斯手，以赤脚演出而闻名。L7 是一支激进的女性主义乐队，凭借朋克与硬摇滚的凶猛融合，乘上了 20 世纪 90 年代的格朗基 (grunge) 浪潮，并在此过程中打破了人们的耳膜与刻板印象。

L7 通过社交媒体公布了她的死讯。在她去世前几天，她的家人发表声明称，她被诊断出患有一种侵袭性脑癌。

L7 诞生于与 Black Flag 和 X 等知名乐队相同的洛杉矶朋克圈。但它成为了

“我不得不借一把贝斯，并且得飞快地搞清楚放大器到底是怎么回事。”

在 1989 年与 Salt Pop 签约后，该乐队与所谓的格林奇（grunge）运动紧密联系在一起，这家西雅图厂牌将 Nirvana 和 Soundgarden 推向了名声顶峰。（芬奇女士曾与 Nirvana 的鼓手戴夫·格罗尔短暂交往。）

L7 将 wholehead 的重锤之声与 Runnans 的电钻般能量融合在一起，在芬奇女士加入该乐队的十年初始任期内，共发行了四张专辑。其 1992 年的突破之作《Brick's Are Heavy》由 Butch Vig 制作，其中包含像《Pretend We're Dead》和《Warpants》这样的热门单曲，而 Vig 曾打造了 Nirvana 的超级大作《Nevermind》。《Pretend We're Dead》成为了另类音乐排行榜上的前 10 名热门歌曲。

凭借她的那把被称为“幽灵”的黑色 Fender 贝斯，芬奇女士因其“邋遢女孩”（slob girl）形象而闻名，包括像肆虐山火般的发色，以及在演出期间避开束缚。

作为一支在过度男性化场景中的激进乐队，L7 通过在 1991 年协助创建非营利堕胎权利组织 Back for Choice，践行了其女性主义贝斯主义的理念。她们还推出了像《Shirley》这样的歌曲，由芬奇女士创作，是对被誉为“赛车第一夫人”的雪莉·穆尔多尼（Shirley Muldowney）的一首高炉般的赞歌。“你得被告知多少次，没有我们去不了的地方。”

在 1992 年英国雷丁音乐节一次极具化学反应的反抗行为中，乐队主唱多妮塔·斯帕克斯（Donita Sparks）面对投向舞台的各种物体，通过脱掉她的内裤并予以回击来做出回应。

“他们扔的是东西，我扔的是血，”斯帕克斯女士后来回忆道。“就这样被记录在领土之中。”

然而，芬奇女士在 1994 年接受《滚石》杂志戴安娜·杜里蒂斯（Diana Duritis）采访时表示，乐队在不可避免的“男人世界中的女人”叙事下挣扎。杜里蒂斯写道，L7 强调她们并非“虚构的”。但格雷廷（Gretin）是一个由你选择的厂牌组成的贝斯女孩组合。

“将性别转化为一种流派对我来说太可怕了，”芬奇女士说。“我认为新闻报道延续了这一点。我希望 L7 的故事最终能像 Nirvana 或 Cravlon 那样。成为女性有一种独特性，但仅此而已。”

埃琳·米歇尔·弗雷迪斯（Erin Michelle Fredis）于 5, 1966, 出生在洛杉矶的一家救世军未婚母亲之家，由航空工程师罗伯特·芬奇（Robert Finch）和空军退伍军人桑德拉·切斯伯恩·芬奇（Sandra Chesebourn Finch）收养。

在青少年时期，她热爱摄影，并开始记录像 Red Star Club Peppers 和 Bad Religion 这样的乐队。1994 年，她高中毕业，北上前往旧金山州立大学学习计算机科学。

詹妮弗·芬奇（前排）在 2015 年与苏西·加德纳（左）、多妮塔·斯帕克斯以及担任鼓手的德米特里斯·普拉卡斯（Demetris Plakas）共同演出。右侧为 1992 年的芬奇女士，当年 L7 的《Pretend We're Dead》走红。

从左起，1992 年的 L7 成员：斯帕克斯女士、普拉卡斯女士、芬奇女士和加德纳女士。2014 年，芬奇女士与这支在 1990 年代末分崩离析的激进女性主义乐队重组。

尽管音乐技能极低，但她很快辍学，与 Sugar Batsykill 合作演奏吉他。这是一个短期共存的三人组，成员包括未来的 Hole 核心科特尼·洛夫（Courtney Love），以及后来在 Toyland 担任主唱的 Kat Bipflund。

当 Sugar Batsykill 瓦解后，芬奇女士回到洛杉矶，并成为了初出茅庐的 L7 的粉丝，该乐队由吉他手兼主唱苏西·加德纳和斯帕克斯女士组成。

该组合的名字源于一个代表“古板”的旧俚语，当时正在寻找新的贝斯手和鼓手。招聘并非易事。

“通常，那些想玩硬摇滚的家伙根本不想和女人一起演奏，”斯帕克斯女士在 2016 年的纪录片《L7: Pretend We're Dead》中回忆道。

相反，她说，“有一些执着的爱好者一直来看我们的演出”，并补充说芬奇女士“几乎是挑战我让她加入乐队”。

芬奇女士当时也在挑战自己。“我其实并不太了解贝斯，”她在纪录片中说道，并补充道，“我得借一把贝斯，并得迅速学习什么是放大器。”

该乐队在独立厂牌 Epitaph 发行了首张专辑。在转到 Salt Pop 后，以及在鼓手 Demetris（以 Dery Plakas 之名为人所知）加入后，该团体发行了一张名为《Sterill the Magic》(1999) 的 E.P.，随后该 E.P. 被扩充为一张完整专辑；之后他们签约 Slack Records，并凭借《Brick's Are Heavy》获得了更广泛的赞誉。

乘着势头，该乐队在 1994 年的 Lollapalawan 上进行了演出。同年，他们在约翰·沃特斯的电影《Serial Moss》（由凯瑟琳·特纳主演）中客串了虚构的朋克乐队 Camel Lips。

芬奇女士在 1999 年戒酒，并于六年後由于多种原因离开了乐队，其中包括对父亲去世的悲痛。

《L7》，由詹妮弗·芬奇拍摄的一部 1994 年电影

“当你年轻时，所有事情都承载着巨大的压力，”她在 2017 年告诉《滚石》杂志。“我知道我在那种特定的压力下生存。”

她通过 OtherStarPeople 乐队回归音乐领域，该乐队在 1999 年发行了专辑《Hammock is the Bells of the Dog》，三年后她又组建了朋克乐队 the Hawkes。她还创立了自己的厂牌 Little Pusher Records，并从事摄影师工作。

2014 年，芬奇女士与在 1990 年代末解散的 L7 乐队重组。原班阵容在 2015 年发行了二十年来首张专辑《Scatter the Bass》。几个月前，乐队公布了将于十月开始的巡演；在上个月芬奇女士被诊断出患有脑癌的消息公布后，L7 表示她希望巡演在没有她的情况下继续进行。

她的遗属包括她的伴侣杰克·格雷戈里以及两个异母姐妹莫莉·迈尔斯和玛格·雷·布莱克利；她与克里斯蒂安·佩德森的婚姻于 2017 年以离婚告终。

尽管 L7 被人们铭记为 90 年代旧摇滚巅峰时期的宠儿，但芬奇女士始终坚持该团体保持了其朋克的本质。

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“人体世界”展览创作者冈特·冯·哈根斯逝世，享年 81

作者：CLAV ROSEN

冈特·冯·哈根斯（Gunther von Hagens）于 7 月 24 在德国海德堡逝世，享年 81。他是一位德国科学家，其巡展通过剥离尸体皮肤以暴露骨骼和肌肉，并将尸体安置在处于日常活动（如跳舞、跑步、交媾）中间的状态。这些展览吸引了数千万渴望观看的观众，同时也招致了宗教团体和人权组织的激烈批评。

他的个人助手丽贝卡·布鲁尔（Rebecca Brewer）表示，他在医院因脑出血去世。冯·哈根斯博士在 2006 年被诊断出患有帕金森病。

自 1993, 在东京举办首场引发争议的“人体世界”（Body Worlds）展览以来，冯·哈根斯博士的作品已吸引超过 50 million 名参观者，其中包括在数十个国家举办的巡展，以及在德国、荷兰和美国的永久展馆。

冯·哈根斯博士使用了他在 20 世纪 70 年代后期开发的一种名为“塑化”（plastination）的工艺：去除尸体的皮肤和毛发，用坚固的塑料材料替换其体液，将其摆放成特定的姿势，最后在专门的腔室中利用热量、光线或气体将其硬化。

冯·哈根斯博士及其团队处理每具尸体都需要很长时间，这一程序是在他于德国和中国维持的一系列场所中完成的。除了人类，他还处理大型动物——他最著名的作品之一“Hurraman”描绘了一个骑在咆哮骏马上的骑手，两者均为塑化标本。

早期，冯·哈根斯博士通过医学研究获取尸体。在过去的 10 年里，他吸引了数千名捐献者，他们渴望看到自己的身体为了公众利益而得以保存。

“在这次展览期间，有时你甚至会感到一种深深的赞赏，”评论家爱德华·罗斯坦（Edward Rothstein）在 2012 年为《纽约时报》撰写的关于“人体世界”展览的评论中写道，“你实际上是在这些死物质中看到了生命力的展示，而这些力量是惊人的。”

但并非所有人都同意。公众利益是否真的得到了服务，是困扰冯·哈根斯博士争议的核心部分。

“当然，我们现在对这场充斥着惊悚尸体的奇观感到基本震惊，这距离恐怖电影仅一步之遥。”有时，“人体世界”会引发强烈的反应。一名男子在伦敦的一次展览中用锤子袭击了一具尸体。

许多宗教领袖也表示反对——尤其是在德国，那里对纳粹政权时期人体实验和亵渎尸体的记忆依然深刻。

“‘人体世界’可能是纳粹罪行的逻辑终点，”柏林的拉比和公民领袖安德烈亚斯·纳赫曼（Andreas Nachman）在 2005 年告诉《独立报》，“当时数百万具尸体被凶手焚烧成堆，或被制成肥皂，皮肤被制成墙纸。”

他还面临接受中国死刑囚尸体的指控，尽管没有证据表明他知情。他后来在自己的主导作用下，制定了一套严格的接受标本协议。

“人体世界”及其衍生产品是一项 be-goodk 企业，尽管冯·哈根斯博士坚称……

冈特·冯·哈根斯于 2002 年与一具被纵向切开的人类标本合影。在 20 世纪 70 年代后期，他开发了塑化技术，一种将尸体制成可塑形人物的方法。

他说，他戴那顶标志性的帽子是为了向伦勃朗《尼古拉斯·杜尔普医生的解剖学课》（1632年）中的医生致敬。

一位吸引了数百万参观者，但也招来众多批评者的德国科学家。

他认为自己是在使解剖学“民主化”，并加强公众对医学科学的理解，但一些人批评他的展览信息匮乏，而冲击力过强。

他确实具有在聚光灯下表演的天赋。在 2002 年，他举办了英国近 200 年来的首次公开尸检，无视政府关于此类展示违法的警告。但由于他并未被起诉，该事件随后在电视上播出。

批评者给他起绰号为“死亡博士”，并将其比作约瑟夫·门格勒（Josef Mengels），后者在奥斯维辛-比克瑙集中营对囚犯进行实验。而冯·哈根斯博士总是戴着那顶黑色的联邦毡帽，这可能并没有帮到他，因为他看起来像电影《夺宝奇兵》中由罗纳德·莱西（Ronald Lacey）饰演的纳粹特工。

冯·哈根斯博士表示，他戴这顶标志性的帽子是为了向伦勃朗的 1532 年绘画作品《尼古拉斯·图尔普博士的解剖课》致敬；在画中，图尔普博士在同事面前检查尸体手臂的肌肉，而他本人最终也被埋葬。

他坚持认为批评者误解了他的意图。

“我不认为这是一个装满尸体的房间或死亡之殿，”他在 1996 年告诉《泰晤士报》，“这样做是为了建立起回到你自身身体的桥梁。

在 2002 年的伦敦，冯·哈根斯博士举办了英国近 200 年来的首次公开尸检。他无视了此类展示违法的警告，且并未被起诉。

当你观察这些模型时，你可以将自己识别为人这个物种的一员。你的人性将变得清晰。”

京特·格哈德·利布兴（Gunther Gerhard Liebchen）于 1941 年 1 月 10 日出生在德国占领下的波兰城市斯基德梅特林斯（Skidmetryns）。当他仅出生几天时，他的父母——身为第 5 部队厨师的格哈德（Gerhard）和格特鲁德（Gortrud，原姓Eisnack）利布兴——将他放在一个洗衣篮里，在苏联军队推进之前向西逃亡。他们定居在格雷茨市（Gretz），即后来的东德。

当京特 6 岁时，他的头部撞到了物体。由于未被诊断出的血友病，他出血严重。他在医院住了六个月，期间对医学产生了兴趣。高中毕业后，他在格拉茨大学学习医学之前曾担任护士。

他参加了反对东德共产主义政府的抗议活动，并因试图逃往奥地利而于 1949 年被监禁。次年，西德政府支付了他的释放和回国费用，这是该政府对政治犯经常采取的措施。

他于 1973 年在吕贝克大学完成了医学研究，两年后获得了海德堡大学的麻醉学博士学位。

他于 1975 年与科妮莉亚·冯·哈根斯（Cornelia von Hagens）结婚。由于不满意自己的姓氏——利布兴（Liebchen）在德语中是一个过时的爱称。

在 1948 年，他：他们在 1950 年离婚。1952 年，他与安格丽娜·沃利博士（Dr. Angelina Whalley）结婚，她是一位医生，也是“人体世界”（Body Worlds）的创意总监。

冯·哈根斯博士与她一起被留下的还有他第一段婚姻中的三个孩子——罗里克（Rorik）、罗拉（Rora）和冯·哈根斯（The von Hagens），以及六个孙辈。

当冯·哈根斯博士在 2011 年透露他被诊断出患有帕金森病时，他说当他去世时，他希望自己的身体被塑化并展出于他其中一个展览的入口处——当然，要戴着他的毡帽。

比尔·麦格劳格林 (Bill McGlaughlin)，82 岁，推广古典音乐的作曲家兼广播节目主持人

作者：汤姆·保罗 (TOM PAUL)

比尔·麦格劳格林是一位作曲家、指挥家和公共广播电台主持人，他长期主持的、内容极其丰富的节目《圣保罗星期日》(Saint Paul Sunday) 和《探索音乐》(Exploring Music) 赢得了广大公众和专业音乐家的共同推崇。他于 7 月 21 日在曼哈顿家中去世，享年 82 岁。

他的妻子，爵士乐歌手卡里姆·阿夫齐亚尼 (Karim Afziani) 表示，死因是无法通过心脏骤停抢救。

“麦格劳格林先生几乎凭一己之力，让那种曾经被称为‘音乐鉴赏’的精致方法保持了活力，”他的钢琴老师保罗·奥格尔 (Paul Orgel) 在一次采访中说道。

“他的音乐热情范围极其广泛，”奥格尔先生补充道，“他的方式很简单——摇滚、放克以及我们所拥有的音乐。最重要的是，他演奏了大量严肃音乐，且始终选择优秀的演出版本。他并不回避声乐状态，挑战我们的音乐，或那些值得曝光的冷门作品。”

麦格劳格林先生温文尔雅，举止得体，他通过涉足爵士乐、民俗传统、历史、文学等许多其他领域来探讨音乐的作用。

在他开始广播工作时，他已经是一位经验丰富的音乐家。他在天普大学 (Temple University) 获得了音乐学士学位 (1967) 和硕士学位 (1969)，并在尤金·奥曼迪 (Eugene Ormandy) 指挥下的费城管弦乐团以及威廉·斯坦伯格 (William Steinberg) 指挥下的匹兹堡交响乐团的管乐组演奏。

斯坦伯格鼓励他尝试指挥，另一位受人尊敬的指挥家格奥尔格·萨菲特 (Georg Safit) 建议他需要与管弦乐团进行定期练习。

因此，在 20 世纪 70 年代初，麦格劳格林先生组建了三个——

他的节目每周大约有 600,000 名听众。

在匹兹堡地区的城市中，美国国家艺术基金会与埃克森公司（Exxon Corporation）之间的一个资助伙伴关系帮助他获得了在明尼苏达州圣保罗室内乐团进行指挥实践的资金，他在那里从 1973 到 1982 年磨练其技巧。

在圣保罗期间，麦格劳林（Mr. McGlaughlin）经常在演出前与观众交流，解释节目内容并指出值得聆听的细节。加里森·科尔伯（Garrison Kolber）当时刚开始担任明尼苏达公共广播电台《草原之家的比较》（A Prairie Home Compare）文本的节目主持人，他发现了这些出色的谈话，并邀请麦格劳林先生偶尔担任早间节目的主持人。

这促成了《圣保罗星期日》（Saint Paul Sunday）的诞生，最初被称为《圣保罗星期日》（早晨），麦格劳林先生在 1980 到 2007 年期间主持该节目（部分内容一直播到 2011 年）。到 1995, 该节目赢得一项互惠奖项时，它在 200 多个电台中播出，每周大约有 600,000 名听众，使其成为全国传播最广泛的古典音乐节目。

威廉·麦格劳林（William McGlaughlin）于 10 月 3, 1914 年出生在费城，是他父亲（一名同样名为威廉·麦格劳林的建筑绘图员）和母亲凯瑟琳·霍根（Catharine Hogan）的长子。麦格劳林夫人在孩子们长大后在费城的学校教授英语。

他的父母都是音乐爱好者，他在聆听古典音乐和歌剧唱片以及与父亲一起吹奏口琴的过程中长大。他在 14 岁时上了第一堂钢琴课，当时他顶替了一个在系列预付课程期间放弃学习的弟弟。到第二节课时，他就已经入门了。他肯定也演奏长号。在主持《圣保罗星期日》期间，麦格劳林先生还担任了尤金、纽黑文、亚利桑那州（Ariz.）和旧金山等地的管弦乐团音乐总监；

以及从 1980 到 1998 年在堪萨斯城交响乐团（Kansas City Symphony Times）任职期间，他扩展了乐团的曲目库，并在支持当代音乐方面获得了五项由于节目编排的 AMCAF 奖项。

1990 年离开堪萨斯城后，他搬到了纽约，在那里他开始完成相关工作，还为阿兹雅尼（Ms. Afziani）女士的录音制作并提供协助，有时陪同她进行巡演。

在共同生活 31 年后，他于 2003 年与她结婚。除了妻子，他的遗属还包括前一段婚姻中的两个孩子：凯瑟琳·麦格劳林（Kathleen McGlaughlin）和比尔·麦格劳林（Bill McGlaughlin），一名孙子；以及

五位兄弟姐妹：朱莉·麦格劳林（Julie McGlaughlin）、迪克·麦格劳林（Dick McGlaughlin）、凯瑟琳·吉莱斯皮（Kathleen Gillespie）、艾德·麦格劳林（Ed McGlaughlin）和汤姆·麦格劳林（Tom McGlaughlin）。

2003 年，他开始在纽约主持（在 WYMT 播出的）《探索音乐》（Exploring Music）。在芝加哥，他还编写了该节目的开场音乐。

“我们讨论过每周设定一个单一主题，这样可以让音乐拥有你通常在一天中无法获得的深度，”麦格劳林先生后来在一次电台采访中回忆道。“我们认为可以尝试的一件事是把同一首曲子播放两次；没有人这样做。你可以先播放一段，然后展开整个想法，再回来看看之后听起来如何。”到 2008 年，该节目每周有超过 400,000 名听众。麦格劳林先生一直制作新剧集直到 2023, 此时他与电台的合同到期未续约。

麦格劳林先生从不使用剧本，他在 2000 年接受西弗吉尼亚州《查尔斯顿公报》（The Charleston Gazette）采访时将他的主持风格比作爵士乐。“我知道我要走向哪里，但我不知道接下来具体要说什么。”

“人们写信时，第一句话往往说他们不懂音乐，但他们的措辞总是很睿智，”他补充道。“也许这个节目能给他们带来一点帮助。”

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美国 艺术品 是最难 看清的

一座巨大的纪念碑是一个被放大到几乎无法作为一个整体来感知的规模的理想。要真正看清自由女神像——其创作者，19世纪法国艺术家弗雷德里克-奥古斯特·巴托尔迪最初将其命名为“自由启迪世界”——你必须将其分解为部分来思考，例如上述内容。

她有时需要修复。铜绿很厚。但她依然屹立不倒。

最具有标志性的美国艺术作品是什么？当然是一座法国雕塑，它首先在巴黎组装，随后又在纽约港组装。

自由女神像由公众捐款资助，由摄影和公关驱动，如今她与她的领养地如此紧密地联系在一起，以至于她几乎已经融化成了某种符号。

在1896年落成不久后，她被指定为美国的“流亡者之母”。但作为一个物体，她比作为一个符号要奇怪得多。

她是宏伟的，但并不沉重。她并非诞生于美国，甚至并非诞生于法国。

在过去的一年里，我重新发现了自由女神——或者说，实际上是第一次发现了她——发现了她的真面目：一个在传统与现代新时代之断裂带上颤抖的巨像。

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艺术家如何赋予自由形式？她是像 Engine Delacroix 1836 年的画作《自由引导人民》（见上方）那样的一名革命者吗？还是像约翰·加特的 1872 年作品《美国进步》（见上方）那样，在传播她的福音时践踏人们？1884 年在巴黎，巴托尔迪（右侧附近）凝视着他版本的自由。

1886 年的小说 纽约时报 (1886)

最具标志性的美国艺术品最难被完整地看见

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La liberté。在法语中，这个词是阴性的。你如何赋予自由以形体？它，或者说她，长什么样子？

自由是平和的还是复仇的？是一个迎接所有来访者的养育者，还是一个不可阻挡的革命者？

也许她更像是一个祝贺者。也许当自由向西传播她的福音时，她会为你，或为其他族群吹响号角。

在 19 世纪下半叶——一个帝国主义和工业化的火山喷发时代——法国的艺术家和工程师们正在塑造规模巨大的新物件，并探讨同样宏大的抽象理想。

其中一人就是弗雷德里克-奥古斯特·巴托尔迪（Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi），一位老派的阿尔萨斯艺术家，他将成年后的生活致力于雕刻一座像山一样高的自由之像。

国家、工业、熔炉、帝国。在 19 世纪，这些事物呈现出巨大的规模，有时存在于想象中，有时则体现为青铜和钢铁。

19 世纪发生了什么，让人们认为事物必须宏大？他们的梦想忽略了什么？

一座巨型纪念碑是将一种理想放大到几乎无法作为一个整体被感知的规模。这意味着，要真正地看见自由女神像——这不是她的原名——你必须分部分地思考。

你必须将艺术与工程结合在一起。将美国与欧洲结合在一起。而在这些交汇点上，隐藏着我知道的最奇特的雕塑之一的真相。

无论是在法国还是在美国，革命者和改革者都将自己视为古典理想的继承者。在古代，公共美德以神祇的形式出现——且通常规模惊人。

在奥林匹亚，宙斯像的高度与神庙一样高。在帕特农神庙，雕塑家菲迪亚斯（Phidias）塑造了一尊 40 英尺高的雅典娜像，由木头制成，表面覆盖金箔和象牙。

在罗得岛，大约在公元前 300 年，击退入侵者的希腊人熔化了国家的青铜武器。他们搭建了一个木框架和一个石制承重核心。他们在铸造厂中铸造了这位神祇的形象。

完工后，太阳神赫利俄斯（Helios）高达 100 英尺。当你进入港口或在数英里外时，就能看到罗得岛巨像，头戴光芒万丈的太阳光冠。

这座青铜巨像在一次地震中坍塌了。所有其他希腊和罗马的大型雕像如今仅存碎片。但在地中海世界中，有一个地方依然矗立着古代的巨像。

1708 年，拿破仑在一次不幸的肆虐中入侵了埃及。法国军事团随行有一支学术团队。随军的工程师和画家们遇到了一批法老规模的艺术遗产。

在沙漠中，他们勾勒这些巨大的纪念碑。他们测量它们。有时，他们将其挖掘出来。

在整个 19 世纪，在很大程度上受这次埃及之行驱动，欧洲的艺术家和作家们接纳了建筑评论家安东尼·瓦利埃（Anthony Vallier）曾称之为“纪念碑式的崇高”之感。

你可以买到描绘巨型雕像的奢华书籍，它们看起来与希腊的古典美完全不同。你甚至可以旅行去底比斯——乘邮船横跨地中海，再乘木底驳船沿尼罗河而下。

在这里，在现代化的埃及，欧洲人沉溺于在过去文明废墟中寻找浪漫快感的乐趣。他们感到一种审美上的眩晕。这些雕像使人类规模显得渺小。

年轻的巴托尔迪正是如此。他是唯一一名参加法国资助的赴埃艺术考察团的雕塑家，也是早期尝试使用仍不成熟的箱式相机的先行者。

巴托尔迪拍摄了方尖碑和法老时期的颈部雕刻。在他的写生本中，他将女性形象理想化为沉默、紧绷的见证者。像许多法国人一样，他将自己的雄心倾注于一场关于纪念碑的幻想之中。

一项更为现代的法老式工程很快便开始了：苏伊士运河的建设，由法国之手和埃及强迫劳动力共同完成。巴托尔迪表示，这是 19 世纪最大的公共工程之一，他构想建立一座与之相匹配的纪念碑。

他向埃及领导人提出了一项纪念方案。在运河入口的塞义德港建立一座灯塔。

这座灯塔将呈现一个初始形态，一名穿着飘逸长袍的农民，就像他在巡逻之行中勾勒的那样。在她手中（尽管是左手）拿着一把照亮港口的火炬。

她将高达 80 英尺，成为底比斯巨像的竞争者和继承者。

他在 1848 年无意中将其命名为“埃及将光明带向亚洲”。但计划未能实现：成本太高，难度太大。

左上图为巴托尔迪（左），与艺术家让-莱昂·格里维尔（Jean-Léon Griviere）约 1815 年在埃及期间的合影，当时巴托尔迪是法国资助的一支艺术团体中唯一的雕塑家。上方为巴托尔迪拍摄的莫赖森巨像照片。他在这些巨大的古代作品中找到了灵感。

当他开始下一次伟大的航行时，他的世界已经发生了深刻的变化。法国与普鲁士开战，并陷入僵局。拿破仑三世的帝国已经崩溃。上方，巴托尔迪的故乡已完全不再属于法国。

在废墟之中，他望向海对面。美国经历了自身的战争，一场终结了奴隶制的内战。一次自由的新生。

法国自由主义者们正设想一份礼物——一份巨大的礼物——献给美国的百年庆典，这份礼物也将凝聚他们在国内的正义事业。

于是，这位在法学家和废奴主义者爱德华·德·拉邦蒂埃（Edouard de Labontiere）支持下的共和派雕塑家，于 1871 年夏天乘坐蒸汽船从勒阿弗尔出发。他在船上练习英语。

其他启发欧洲艺术家的古代作品，从左至右：帕特农神庙中 40 英尺高的雅典娜；罗得岛巨像，一座 100 英尺高的太阳神赫利俄斯像；以及吉萨大狮身迷像。在 1849 年完工的 19 世纪最大公共工程之一——苏伊士运河的入口处，巴托尔迪提议建立一座为埃及领导者而设的灯塔。他的设计（右图）采用一名身着飘逸长袍、高 80 英尺且举着火炬的农民形象。该方案从未被实施。

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他对纽约的部分景象立即产生了敬畏之情。从哈德逊河望去，船只“在海湾中如此地那样地穿梭，载满了人，挂满了旗帜，汽笛发出低沉的黑响；听起来像巨大的苍蝇。”

他注意到了一座小岛。在五个月的时间里，巴托尔迪（Bartholdi）游历了美国和加拿大。他跨越了大平原和落基山脉，抵达了繁荣的旧金山。

对于这个国家的道德和文化特质，他持怀疑态度。他将美国比作“一个嚼着烟草的可爱女人”。

令他印象深刻的是规模。“这里的一切都很大，”他写信给母亲。

标签，“自由启迪世界”正在巴黎组装。上方是巴托尔迪在工作室。右上方，1878 年公众被邀请在巴黎的杜伊勒里花园观看该雕像的缩小版。

他开始构思一个具有美国规模的项目。

这将是为了他从蒸汽船上看到的第一个地方。位于纽约上湾的那个岛屿，以及它那 13 尖的形状。当他前往新泽西海岸会见总统尤利西斯·S·格兰特（Ulysses S. Grant）时，他梦见了这个场景。

尽管他后来否认，但巴托尔迪将苏伊士灯塔的设计回收，用于一个全新的拟人化形象。若用她的正式名称，“自由启迪世界”引导的将不再是工业航道的领航员，而是人类的共同命运。

在这里，在这个新世界，法国启蒙运动将找到它的避风港。他的“自由”女神将从纽约向大西洋方向辐射，成为普世自由的宇宙化体现。

埃及风格的袍服变成了罗马式的褶裙。右臂向前伸，左肩向后。头巾变成了尖顶冠，就像罗得岛巨像上的太阳光芒一样。

在工作室里，他使用粘土，依赖于公式。1870 年代早期的自由女神模型体现了学术雕塑中僵化的古典主义，而德加（Degas）已经开始打破这种风格，罗丹（Rodin）不久后也将将其扫除。

这座雕像是分块组装而成的。从上至下：在从一个四英尺的粘土模型开始后，制作了一个全尺寸的石膏版本（planter version）；木工们按照这些石膏模具的形状制作木架；铸造工人们采取铜板，并将其在木模周围锤打成型。为了跨越大西洋，金属部分需要保持轻量化。

创新随后由他人带来。监督自由女神——高达 331 英尺，几乎是苏伊士项目的两倍高度——需要一名工程师的专业知识。

就像罗得岛巨像一样，自由女神是分块组装的。技术人员利用一个四英尺高的粘土模型，通过铅垂线创建了一个更大的石膏版本。

他们第二次这样做了，然后第三次，最终完成全尺寸组件。随后，木工们根据全尺寸石膏模具的形状建造了木架。

在纸面上，放大只是简单的几何运算。但它需要数千次测量，而且每次放大都会丢失细节——因此巴托尔迪必须在每个阶段修正自由女神的线条和特征。

在巴托尔迪的时代，大多数金属雕塑是铸造的：制作粘土模型，围绕其形成模具，然后将熔融青铜填入模具。自由女神体型太大，无法这样做——因此巴托尔迪的团队回顾了传统方法。

铸造工人们采取铜板，将它们一块接一块地在木模周围锤打。额外的承重片会被压入模具；然后将铜片安装到承重片上以实现精确匹配。

精确。这种手工锤打技术，称为浮雕（repousal），自古以来就很少被使用。但在这种规模下，精确并非重点。关键在于保持金属轻便，以便跨越大西洋。

到了 19 世纪 80 年代初——那是现代主义的雏形，印象派与电灯的年代，是百货公司与咖啡音乐厅的时代——一名走在第 15 区的漫游者会遇到一位若隐若现的巨人。

一部分接一部分，一只脚接一只脚，“自由”在充满典型风格的巴黎上空冉冉升起。

一份给外国的礼物变成了当地的一场奇观。自由女神仅仅是暂时地留在巴黎，但这已足够。她是法国自身共和改革的金属化身。

这是 19 世纪最伟大的工程成就之一。但巴托尔迪从未过于关注如何让自由女神站稳。

起初他其实是在随机尝试。尤金内·瓦德-勒-杜克（Eugène Vadde-le-Duc，以巴黎圣母院那座被烧毁的尖塔而闻名）最初建议用沙子填充自由女神的内部。在他去世后，巴托尔迪找到了一个新的合作伙伴：一位现代合作伙伴，一名钢铁厂的专家。

古斯塔夫·埃菲尔构思了一个中央铁质结构支撑柱。

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巴托尔迪在 1875 年看到纽约的部分景象时深感震撼，他在左侧的一幅草图中记录了曼哈顿南端的一个小岛。中间部分，他在 1878 年的一幅画作中描绘了拟议中安置在那里的“自由启迪世界”雕像，这将是一个 151 英尺高的普世自由的化身。右侧，在该雕像的磁力吸引下，他曾为埃及提议的灯塔中农民的袍子变成了罗马式的 Peplum 裙，而头巾则被改为尖顶王冠。

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上方，当格罗弗·克利夫兰总统于 1890 年 10 月 29 日为“自由启迪世界”揭幕时，巴托尔迪拉下了遮住她面部的法国国旗。上方，在雕像内部，一段螺旋楼梯通向皇冠。右侧，从内部看到的自由女神铜面。文化与民主的进步可以从她的唇间读出。

美国最标志性的艺术品却是最难审视的

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支柱与横梁交叉，顶部安装了一个延伸部分，用于支撑右臂和颈部。在核心结构上附着着第二套较轻的条形系统。这些将成为自由女神的骨架，她的铜质长袍将悬挂其上。

因此，它并非实心，也不是僵硬的。这个殖民地（colonias）会轻微摇摆，在风雨中倾斜。

更重要的一点——也是自由女神从古代跨入现代时代的转折点——她可以在巴黎被拆卸，然后在纽约重新组装。

一艘载有 214 个木箱的优质货轮于 1885 年抵达纽约。美国人建立了一个基座，由约瑟夫·普利策的报纸《世界报》的读者众筹建成。他们将埃菲尔的框架锚定在基座中，这在当时是最高的铁结构。

随后，工程开始了。在没有脚手架的情况下，工人们将铜板铆接在一起，共 300,000 次。每一处预制板的褶皱，每一根手指和脚趾，都由手工连接到雕像上。

艺术史学家达西·格里马尔迪-辛戈尔里（Darcy Grimaldi-Cingolry）认为，自由女神真正的现代性在于围绕一个空洞进行的零部件组装。她写道：“空心雕像可以被装在标有标签的木箱中运往世界各地，就像星座环绕地球一样。”

自由女神是一个第四阶段的构造，像一个“排泄物桶”（Excreta' bin）。巴托尔迪在回溯，看向罗德岛，看向古代。而埃菲尔在前瞻，看向流动性和可读性。

她长袍和身体的铜层厚度不足十分之一英寸，通过形状特定的金属条连接到中央核心的铁骨架上。

巴托尔迪的雕塑变成了一个壳。自由女神仅仅是一层皮肤。

就像 20 世纪玻璃摩天大楼的幕墙一样，雕像的表面并不承重。她的脚并不像大理石雕塑那样承受身体的累积重量。

换句话说，你可以拆掉任何一段铜板，其余部分依然能够屹立——因为自由女神像，用我能表达的最字面意义上的话来说，就是一座美国版的埃菲尔铁塔。

埃菲尔直到次年才开始建造他的巴黎铁塔。那是另一种零部件组装，采用了相同的铆接技术。它同样拥有埃及的灵感，就像巴托尔迪一样。埃菲尔曾去见证过恒星（Stars）的建设。

但在巴黎，外观形式与内部结构之间没有区分。骨架是袒露的。格栅结构就是全部。

然而，自由女神和埃菲尔铁塔仍然紧密相连。它们是书立，巨大的书立，标志着一切发生改变的时刻。在她所有的复制和重构中，这个动荡时代的某些特质依然保留了下来。

在那个燃烧的时刻，格罗弗·克利夫兰总统为“自由引导世界”揭幕。巴托尔迪拉下了遮住她面孔的法国国旗。

那是 10 月 29, 1890,，她被自然化了。

尽管如此，美国在附近的埃利斯岛为其他移民设立接入口还要再过几年。正是那些抵达者，那些聚集的人群，将自由女神重新塑造为全球欢迎的寓言。

自由女神变成了哥伦比亚（Columbia）：一个国家的化身，出现在我们的护照和货币上。她作为那个国家优点与缺点的象征而成长，而作为一件雕塑则应当如此。

如果我们想将她从美国庸俗文化（kitsch）中拉回来，我们就必须重新发现自由女神的不可能性。她的东方主义血统。她的技术独创性。以及创造她的那些外部自我和无名之手。

当然，我曾有过先入为主的看法。我出生在纽约。但直到今年，我才费心地去参观这座城中最大的法国雕塑作品。

几周前，我乘车前往，并买了一顶泡沫帽。

我通过基座向上攀登。从观测台上，我仔细观察那些铆接的面板，她下摆长袍的抽象线条，以及那条支撑着的右腿。

我当然走到了顶冠。看向我的消防员。日子很美好，理发师轻快地走过。一位年轻的游客拍了我的照片。但留在记忆中的并非那道风景。

上方，自由岛上的雕像面孔，等待着被安装到头部。右上方，一份报纸对雕像完工时的记录。其组件在前一年由一艘法国军舰装在 214 个木箱中运抵；随后，工人们在没有脚手架的情况下，将铜板铆接在一起，共 300,000 次。

就在顶冠之下。右侧的螺旋楼梯，以及从核心向外辐射的阶梯。一种现代自由的眩晕感，随着她的起伏与收窄而升腾。

从半途的一个小平台，以及再往上方的另一个平台，你可以从楼梯向外眺望地表，那里是埃菲尔的城堡与巴托尔迪的皮肤相遇之处。一方厚实的标准化支撑架包裹着另一方薄薄的、手工锤制的铜皮：在这里是红褐色的，而非绿色。

就在那里，我看到了它。自由女神铜制面孔的背面，几乎不比我的皮肤厚。以及她皱眉时那经过精确工程设计的弧度。

法国与美国，宏大与空洞，雕塑与建筑：所有这些矛盾，以及文化与民主曲折的进程，都可以直接从她的唇间读出。

生命、自由、追求幸福：民主的公式是由多个部分组成的。其核心并非坚实之物，而仅仅是一个框架，让跨越海洋而来的碎片得以在此结合。合众为一。

这完全是一个创意工程的问题。关于现实与理想。关于构思出有意义的事物，然后思考如何让它屹立不倒。

巴托尔迪需要一名工程师来让他的雕像屹立。他找到了古斯塔夫·埃菲尔，后者构思了一个由横梁交叉并顶部固定的中央铁塔（左图）。第二套支撑条将连接至核心，形成雕像的骨架（中图）。他的计划允许雕像在巴黎拆卸并在纽约重新组装。埃菲尔于 1887. 年开始建造他的巴黎铁塔（右图）。这又是另一次分件建设，采用了同样的铆接技术。

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026

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这一次，

我们英雄的敌人 是他的孤独

漫威最新的 《蜘蛛侠》续集将更多地聚焦于角色塑造，而减少了对拯救宇宙的描写。

作者：EMMANUEL MORGAN

洛杉矶 —— 在一次讨论蜘蛛侠未来的早期会议上，导演德维尔·丹尼尔·克雷蒂纳（Deville Daniel Cretina）与 many Pictures Entertainment 电影部门的高管汤姆·罗斯曼（Tom Rothman）就“接地气”（grounded）一词的含义展开了辩论。这个词看似简单，但克雷蒂纳在接受这份工作前需要明确其定义。

“如果意图是做大场面，我绝对不会拍这部电影，”克雷蒂纳说。

当时最近的一部蜘蛛侠真人电影将彼得·帕克（Peter Parker）送入了多元宇宙，在那里他遇到了来自平行时空的 macverones。而在两部规模更大的《复仇者联盟》电影中，他与一名巫师、一名女巫及一名神灵一同对抗一个巨大的紫色外星人。

克雷蒂纳想要的是更细腻的东西 —— 对这位蛛网英雄进行更深入、更精准的刻画。粉丝们喜爱他，不仅是因为他的超能力，还因为他那破旧的纽约公寓和糟糕的感情生活。这些特质与许多漫画电影中的奇观和神秘力量截然不同。

但克雷蒂纳表示，他不会监督一部依赖这些宏大元素的商业大片，即使它属于一个十亿美元级别的系列电影。

参与《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》（Spider-Man: Brand New Day）的电影制作者和主演们正押注于他们对这部周五上映的电影所做的创意选择能够引起共鸣。他们表示，电影中依然有动作和爱情，包括怪物般的绿巨人（Hulk）以及一名能控制他人思想和身体的反派在片中出场。

但他们指出，这部电影的骨架是将彼得·帕克的另一个身份 —— 蜘蛛侠，带回他的根源：一个尽管面临平凡问题的困扰，但依然努力度过每一天的孤独者。克雷蒂纳表示，在超级英雄电影普遍采用怀旧镜头和星系合成画面的环境下，他认为更小规模的叙事会更见成效。

“这种叙事总能找到与人们建立联系的新方式，”克雷蒂纳说。“我认为现在，这部电影触及了当今世界年轻人情感上经历的许多事情，我希望他们会对角色产生共鸣。”

在《蜘蛛侠：英雄无归》（Spider-Man: No Way Home）的事件发生数年后，帕克（汤姆·赫兰特 Tom Holland 饰）陷入了悲伤与迷茫。他的婶婶被一个他试图帮助的反派杀害；而为了将他的宇宙从多重威胁中解救出来，全世界的人 —— 包括他的女友比尔（Bill (2nd days)）和英雄之友内德（Ned，由雅各布·阿拉基斯 Jacob Barakos 饰） —— 都被魔法抹除了关于他存在的所有记忆。帕克作为蜘蛛侠表现出色，但在个人生活以及在社交媒体上维持友谊方面却苦苦挣扎。

克雷蒂纳说，这些境况使得这部关于孤独以及在精心构建的内心世界中寻找联系的电影变得可行。但在漫威邀请他执导后，他在决定之前与赫兰特、赞达亚（Zendjaya）以及工作室高层进行了沟通。他们也认同他的愿景。

汤姆·赫兰特（左）与《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》导演德维尔·丹尼尔·克雷蒂纳。15 将蜘蛛侠带回其根源，将其刻画为一个尽管面临平凡问题但依然努力度过每一天的孤独者。“如果意图是做大场面，我绝对不会拍这部电影，”克雷蒂纳说。

“对于德维尔来说，他的第一个问题总是‘角色，角色，角色’。而已经拍摄过四部蜘蛛侠电影的赫兰特则表示：‘当我发现他不仅想拍另一部《蜘蛛侠》电影，而且他有一个对他来说非常重要的核心信息时，我就知道我们要拍一部真实、能引起人们共鸣，且最终能以一种其他电影所不具备的方式让人们产生极大代入感的电影。’”

自十年前该类型片达到商业顶峰以来，大多数超级英雄电影都将规模置于更私密的叙事之上。复杂的视觉效果和威胁宇宙的剧情使得制片厂能够将院线发行宣传为“必看”盛事，而像复仇者联盟这样的角色，往往也是全球粉丝认可度最高的。

但在过去三年中，两者的结果并不均衡。《死侍与钢钳》（Deadpool & Reliveries）表现一般。《神奇四侠：第一阶段》（The Fantastic Four: First Stage）和《超人》（Superman）获得了可观的回报。《超女》（Supergirl）和《惊奇队长：惊奇女士》（The Marvels）则不尽人意。

事实上，像《蝙蝠侠》（The Batman, 2022）这样的都市打击犯罪故事，或者像血腥的漫画西部片《参差》（Jagged, 2017）这样的作品，在执行到位的情况下，可以在剧院中引起共鸣。但其他具有类似主题的角色，如达希尔（Dashiell）和企鹅人（Penguin），则相对较为边缘，且不够主流。研究日益表明，在压力巨大的流媒体服务中，如果形式允许，观众可以更充分地发展这些角色，且生产成本更低，营销压力更小。

《如何在好莱坞得分》（How to Score in Hollywood）的作者、娱乐研究公司 Screen Engine 的创始人凯文·戈茨（Kevin Goetz）表示：“流媒体可以让规模较小但充满激情的观众群体产生更高的经济价值，即便不是在单部电影中，也会在整个剧集的进程中体现出来。”

戈茨表示，即使是初级项目仍然可以是情感驱动的，但它们必须花时间建立自己的基调并重新规划复杂的情感线。他说，更接地气的故事自然地将冲突拉近到角色身边——家庭、身份、社区、后果——这使得观众更容易将自己代入到英雄之中。但他说，无论规模如何，项目都需要展示人性元素才能获得成功。

“这绝不仅仅是不计成本地构建神话——你必须拥有比那更多的东西。”

“我知道我们要拍一部真实的、能与人们产生共鸣的电影。”

帕姆·穆兰 (PAM MULLANE) 《西部广场蜘蛛侠》(WEST PLACE SPIDER-MAN)

戈茨表示：“你必须关心你的主角和反派。”

这位导演以角色驱动的电影制作闻名——他执导了 2020 年由迈克尔·B·乔丹主演的法律剧《仅仅是钱》(Just Money)——而《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》(Spider-Man: Brand New Day) 是克雷蒂纳 (Cretina) 首次执导的超级英雄作品。他执导了《邦戈，或，十环传奇》(Bongo, Or, and the Legend of the Ten Rings) (2021)，并参与创作了迪士尼的系列电影《奇迹人》(Wonder Man)，讲述一名超级英雄的超能力反而阻碍了他的演员梦。罗斯曼 (Rothman) 表示，克雷蒂纳希望在蜘蛛侠中探讨的主题与彼得·帕克以及观众产生共鸣。他说，其中包含的亲缘关系感觉很恰当。

“如果你身处外太空或其他世界，要将其引导至真实的心理现实会困难得多，”罗斯曼说，“但如果你打算这样做，就必须全力以赴。”

这些主题在托比·马奎尔主演的 2000 年代初期蜘蛛侠电影以及 2010 年代安德鲁·加菲尔德出演的作品中都有体现。但在荷兰弟版本的系列电影中——《蜘蛛侠：英雄之归》(Spider-Man: Homecoming) (2017)、《蜘蛛侠：远征》(Spider-Man: Far From Home) (2010) 和《没有路回家》(No Way Home)——直到第三部电影的后半段，这些主题才成为基石。漫威影业总裁凯文·佩吉 (Kevin Paige) 表示，在新片中充分探讨这些主题至关重要。

“蜘蛛侠的成功之处不仅在于奇观，而是在于奇观与对彼得之星 (Peter's stars) 的真实刻画，”佩吉说。“从最初的构思开始，这就是核心。这一次，他是孤独的，他是绝望的。”

蜘蛛侠仍然是好莱坞最可靠的特许经营系列之一——荷兰弟主演的两部电影每部都获得了 10 亿美元 billion (10 亿美元) 的票房——无论采取什么样的方向，可能都会取得成功。撰写过关于漫威书籍的流行文化评论家道格拉斯·沃克 (Douglas Walk) 表示，蜘蛛侠是一个多面角色，能够适应电影制作者选择的任何基调。

“蜘蛛侠讲述的是必须去做你负责的事情，或者即使你并不负责但不得不承担责任的事情，”沃克说。“这是一个可以衍生出无数电影的引擎。”

制片者表示，这部新片使用的视觉效果比前作少。但克雷蒂纳说，当他看到荷兰弟与赞达亚 (Zendaya) 的对手戏时，他知道《崭新之日》成功了。他们的动态关系很沉重，因为帕克和观众都意识到了他们共同的历史，而 M.I 则不知道。

克雷蒂纳说，这些场景“感觉与巨大的动作场面一样强有力”。”它们能给你带来与爆炸性打斗场面相同的震撼感和肾上腺素激增，但实际上只是两个人坐在房间里进行对话。”

为了准备这次的蜘蛛侠，荷兰弟表示他浏览了罗比·德鲁迪斯 (Robbie Derudis) 的内容并观看 YouTube 上的播客，以了解粉丝们渴望什么。他说，信息很明确。

“我认为人们真正渴望看到的不是他再次拯救世界，而是也许能拯救他自己，”荷兰弟说。

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计划威胁历史遗址，反对者称

特朗普阵营的小组寻求修改保护条例。

作者：JULIA JACOBS

数十年来，从 20 世纪 60 年代的公路建设到近期数据中心的激增，随着工业发展压力增加了保护国家过去的难度，联邦法律一直试图保护美国的历史遗址免遭破坏或干扰。

多年来，争议焦点涵盖了可追溯到百万年之前的埋葬地；在沙漠中生存了千年的地表结构；唤起美国民主初期的政府建筑；以及承载奴隶制痛苦历史的种植园住宅。

现在，一个与特朗普结盟的小组提议全面修改法规，旨在通过限制保护主义者和公众的参与，从而加快工业项目的审查速度。

拟议的规则在本月获得了联邦机构——历史保护咨询委员会的初步批准。支持者认为，如果被采纳，这些规则将通过例如为石油和天然气钻探等商业项目扫清障碍，从而提振经济。

保护主义者指出，这些变化还将通过限制公众审查，助力总统特朗普重新设计华盛顿的努力，包括他关于美国住宅国家花园的计划。

近几周流传的规则修改草案引起了保护主义者、建筑师、考古学家以及代表美洲原住民部落组织的强烈抗议。尽管官员表示草案仍处于反馈和修订阶段，但保护组织的律师已经在为一旦发生重大修订而准备采取法律行动。

“这既是一把手术刀，也是一根大锤，”专门从事保护案件的律师 Greg Meriwether 表示，“它切除了我们在过去 60 年中习惯的历史保护成果。”

即使是在该委员会中拥有席位的国家历史保护信托基金会主席 Even a gags 也表示，新法规将“危及美国共同的城市和文化遗产保护”。

在特朗普的第二任期内，保护主义者对他改造华盛顿历史遗址的努力感到不安。在华盛顿，采取温和变革的惯例与总统希望将首都改造为符合其口味的狂热产生了冲突。他决定拆除白宫东翼以给新舞厅腾出空间，这一决定之所以能够实施，是因为该建筑被豁免于目前正受到审查的保护法。

“将考虑采纳该规则修改的委员会在很大程度上由总统任命的人员和行政官员组成。”数月来，特朗普阵营的官员一直主张有必要削减繁琐手续，在他们看来，当联邦机构试图缓解保护主义者和当地利益相关者的担忧时，这些手续会不必要地延误基础设施项目。

“一项工程往往因为咨询过程而延迟，而这一过程已变得比法律规定地要求更高且更复杂，”内政部官员 Kevin Lilly 在 6 月的一次委员会会议上说道。

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顶部：新墨西哥州的切斯文化国家历史公园，保护主义者担心附近地区可能会向钻探开放。上方：左侧为路易斯安那州的惠特尼种植园，以及 1891 年在曼哈顿发现的历史性非洲墓地。底部：特朗普在华盛顿提议的一座拱门。

专家表示，这些变化将通过减少政府咨询原住民部落和州级保护者的要求，使联邦机构能够更快速地推广项目；而这种咨询过程往往会导致项目被重新安置或调整。

这些变化还缩小了可讨论的历史遗址类型。例如，过去被纳入审查的自然特征（如山脉或景观）被明确排除在外。此外，项目对历史遗址产生的“视觉、大气或听觉”影响将不再被纳入考量。

该委员会的一位发言人拒绝回应来自保护团体的批评。她指出了委员会副主席特拉维斯·韦克特斯（Travis Vectes）的评论，他在2月的一次公开会议上表示，更新法规的目标是对其重新审查，并使其在“国家前进的过程中成为一个持续有效的工具”。

“在任何提案尚未公布以征求公众意见之前就对其进行定性，是不成熟且不负责任的，”内政部的一份声明如此表示，其部长道格·伯格姆（Doug Burgum）是该委员会成员。

该声明称，部门的目标是在法规中“提供更高的清晰度、一致性和效率”，同时使其与《国家历史保护法》保持一致，该法是 1968 年制定的一项法律，也是这些规则的基础。

虽然大多数美国人对这些法规并不熟悉，但数十年来，当开发项目威胁到全国各地的历史遗址时，这些法规一直是公众激烈抵制的中心。

20世纪90年代初，在曼哈顿下城一座联邦办公大楼的早期建设过程中，挖掘出了一处17和18世纪自由及专属非洲人的墓地，这些法规帮助促成了现今“非洲墓地国家纪念地”的保护。

如今，很少有联邦项目能像特朗普山（Mt. Trump）在华盛顿的计划那样受到公众关注。

总统提出的众多项目都需根据现行法规接受审查，包括在阿灵顿国家公墓附近申请批准的 250 英尺高拱门、计划在西彭宁公园（West Pennine Park）建设的美国住宅国家花园，以及在东彭宁公园（East Pennine Park）建设公共高尔夫球场的路线图。

保护主义者可能更加担心拟议法规在华盛顿聚光灯之外产生的潜在影响。多年来，现行法规中的咨询过程导致一些项目被取消，例如一个谷物出口设施，因为它被认为过于靠近路易斯安那州的惠特尼种植园（Whitney Plantation）等历史遗址，该地现为一家专注于奴隶制历史的博物馆。

这些法规已有 20 多年未更新，保护团体的领导者希望在委员会的 23 个席位中，有人表示他们参与了一些细微变化的初步讨论。他们表示，当上个月收到副主席发来的一封包含该州区办事处草案的电子邮件时，他们感到非常震惊。

“对我们来说，这感觉就像是偷梁换柱，”国家部落历史保护官员协会（National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers）执行主任艾拉·克莱因（Ira Klein）说道，该协会是与委员会接触的三家保护团体之一。

“这不仅会影响部落民众，”他继续说道，“广大美国公众应当关注这种抹除他们历史的企图，以及他们将以何种方式、何种速度看到数据中心在每个角落冒出来的现状。”

特朗普山今年任命了 23 名成员中的三分之一以上。委员会成员包括政治盟友；一名曾参与总统在佛罗里达州私人俱乐部海湖庄园（Mar-a-Lago）工作的建筑师；以及其政府成员，包括环境保护局官员韦克特斯先生。

在委员会通过投票批准草案规则后，这些规则被发送至管理和预算办公室进行分析，这将继续一项可能持续数周或数月的审查流程。

保护主义者经常指出，最有可能受到规则变更影响的文化遗址是西南部的一片广袤土地，被称为切斯峡谷 (Chase Canyon)，这里是数千名与普韦布洛 (Pueblo)、纳瓦霍 (Navajo) 及其他群体相关的考古学家的活动地。其中心是一座国家公园，拥有追溯到一千多年前的石制和土制建筑。

近几个月来，这片土地成为了保护主义者与唐纳德·J·特朗普政府推动油气钻探之间斗争的导火索，一名官员正考虑取消公园周围 18 英里区域内资源开采的禁令。

在切斯工作多年的考古学家帕斯特·三世 (Past three) 表示，新规定将使公园周围土地更容易获得钻探许可，从而威胁到这片被许多人视为珍贵文化资源的景观之美。

他说道，令人担忧的是，现在受到保护的景观很快将被钻井平台所占据。

“显然，我们需要油气开发，”他表示，“但我们不必在美洲最惊人的景观上进行开发。”

艾米莉·巴杰 (Emily Badger) 参与了报道。

肯尼迪艺术中心停止免费公众导览

该志愿者计划自1971年该机构成立以来一直运行。

作者：ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON

华盛顿——根据一份内部备忘录，约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心正在停止该中心的免费公众导览，这一活动在五十多年来一直是该文化机构的主干。

在《纽约时报》查阅的一份备忘录中，志愿者计划主任布鲁克·博克（Brooke Boeke）表示，中心正对其导览计划实施“临时暂停”，自周五起生效（志愿者在肯尼迪艺术中心承担多种角色，但文中仅提到导游，并指示其在“另行通知前”停止报到）。

该中心未提供停止导览计划的原因；除了在新冠疫情期间停办一年外，该计划自中心2015年开幕以来一直持续运行。

导览中心的停摆发生在一名志愿者导游出现在一篇《纽约时报》文章之后，该文章详细描述了特朗普总统对同一文化机构的处置。在周四传阅该备忘录之前，三名志愿者在接受记者采访时表达了担忧，认为肯尼迪艺术中心会在整顿中将导览计划作为目标。

博克女士将该备忘录发送给了全体志愿者队伍。她抄送给了肯尼迪艺术中心主任马特·弗洛里奥（Matt Florio）、中心安保主任卡伦·杰克逊（Karlen Jackson）以及两名志愿者计划经理。他们均未回应通过电子邮件请求的评论。

博克女士在接听电话时问道：

“你是怎么知道的？”随后拒绝进一步评论。

“我们正在对同情心的导览活动进行审查，以确保为访问者提供尽可能最好的体验，”一名肯尼迪艺术中心发言人 E1.83（19, 83）在电子邮件评论中说道。

桑迪·温瓦瑟（Sandy Weinwasser），E1，一名退休教师兼志愿者，18年来一直引导游客参观该中心，她在周一出版的一篇关于该中心的《时报》文章中被报道。文中引用温瓦瑟女士的话说：“这个地方以前非常繁荣、繁忙且拥挤，现在它像个黑洞。”周四在被联系到时，她拒绝评论。

去年，特朗普先生撤换了肯尼迪艺术中心的领导层，削减了其项目，并安装了一个由他亲手挑选的董事会，且将他的名字刻在了建筑正面。法院于上个月下令将该名字移除。此外，分销商和访问者已纷纷离开该中心，该中心已失去了约 90 比例的员工，且目前失去了 100 比例的付费观众。

总统表示，他正寻求重新灌溉该中心，他认为该中心在前任政府以及推广多样性的政策下日渐衰落，他已将por-

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六月的华盛顿肯尼迪艺术中心。

下个月，肯尼迪艺术中心董事会预计将决定是否按照特朗普先生的意愿，将中心关闭进行为期两年的翻新。温瓦瑟女士和其他几十名志愿者导游出于对该机构的热爱而继续出现，他们说，该机构为那些在中心服役的人们带来了生活。

温瓦瑟女士曾是 140 名志愿者导游之一，他们每年用 10 种语言为多达 400,000 人提供导览。上周她的周一班次中，十几个导游中只有五个人出现。

在最近的一篇《时报》文章中，一名导游对该机构的变化表示悲叹。

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她的轻松之作吸引了众多读者

Beth Brower 是《艾玛·M·莱恩》(Emma M. Lion) 系列的作者，许多粉丝对此爱不释手。

作者：COURTNEY RUNN

（在 2026 年 11 月 1 日，《艾玛·M·莱恩未选日记》的前两卷悄然问世。

这些书与 Beth Brower 平时创作的奇幻小说不同，而是讲述了一个机智且富有文学气息的孤儿在 1863 年一个虚构的伦敦社区中，在即将成年之际的日常冒险与沉思。

Brower 确实只去过一次伦敦，但她主要在脑海中构思艾玛的世界——古怪的邻居、异想天开的传统、幻想般的舞会、惬意的茶馆，以及无法解释的幽灵类事件。可以将之想象为维多利亚时代的英国版《少女》）。

Brower 的营销工作仅限于在 Instagram 上发布一条公告并收到少量祝贺评论，但她相信合适的读者会找到这些书。

七年后，在出版了六卷之后，粉丝们确实找到了艾玛，并且对此痴迷不已。

《艾玛·M·莱恩未选日记》最初旨在成为 Brower 在进行情感沉重的工作之余的一种轻松消遣。然而，它却将她推向了自出版的巅峰，并且最近与英国的 Bloomsbury 出版社以及其他国际出版社达成了更传统的协议（她尚未与美国出版社签约，事实上还拒绝了一份极具吸引力的报价，尽管她形容自己仍然持开放态度）。

第一卷在 Goodreads 上获得了超过 100,000 条评论。Facebook 小组和总部讨论区每天、甚至每小时都在更新关于新书的讨论。

而 Brower 现在在她居住的犹他州奥勒姆 (Orem) 经常被认出来。在最近的一次出行中，在经历了这样一次偶遇后，她转向丈夫表达了不寻常的歉意。

“我担心，”她在一次 2mm 谈话中回忆道，“我们余生都要在谈论艾玛中度过了。”

奥勒姆是 43 岁的 Brower 成长的地方，她是五个兄弟姐妹中的第五个。在一个充满艺术、音乐、体育和书籍的创意氛围家庭中，她培养了丰富的内心世界以及在任何环境下都能写作的能力。

对于她来说，出版第一部小说只是时间问题，而不是是否会出版。她曾将传统的出版路径浪漫化，但拒信迫使她审视梦想背后的驱动力：是为了出现在每家书店里，还是为了找到能与她的作品产生共鸣的读者？她选择了后者，并在 2016 年创立了 Physique Press。

她寻求创业家庭的帮助，由她的姐妹提供支持，姐夫负责设计书封。学习曲线虽然陡峭但回报丰厚；她可以控制作品的每一个元素，包括她使用mathbb精心排版的字体。

“就像布朗特姐妹互相支持，弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫有她的姐姐一样，我也有一群才华横溢的兄弟姐妹，”她说。

自 2016 年以来，Brower 已自出版了 22 部小说。她尝试将她的病毒式想象力记录在“一个充满更多需求之书的previous most”中，储存情节片段，直到它们在几年后的作品中出现。

艾玛·莱恩系列丛书的口碑成功在很大程度上归功于其瞬间就可产生好感的英雄主义。艾玛可能拥有安妮·雪莉 (Anne Shirley) 那种阳光般的惊奇感，但她的机智和现代感则是纯粹的 Elizabeth Bremer 式的。

“我的目标是与大多数社交礼仪背道而驰，”艾玛在第二卷中解释道，“我之前被指责过大吵大闹，毫无疑问，不久之后你也会听到类似的说法。”

Brower 像对待一部长寿电视剧一样对待这些书；每一卷讲述艾玛生命中的两个月，而每个日历年代表一个“季”。第 9 本书计划在今年出版，粉丝们正密切关注她每一次的数字动态，等待它何时发布。

这些书是 Alexis Kinchikovic（Bloomsbury Trials 的负责人）所启发的第一套系列丛书，也是第一批自出版作品。“作为一名出版商，我喜欢复杂的女性角色，”她说，并且

她补充说，对“想象力的真正独创性”的追求以及对“伦敦精神”捕捉的倾诉，使得这次尝试成为一次轻松的赌注。

独立书店的开创者史密斯女士住在阿拉巴马州亨茨维尔的墙边，在收到一名顾客的请求后，于1月首次进货该系列丛书。如今，她每周补货，并表示第一卷已售出近 100 册——使其成为该店最畅销的书籍之一。

然而，在名为 St. Crispacts 的伦敦虚构角落里，这些书虽然可能包裹在不起眼的电报字符包装中，但读者们对此表示欣赏。

我们担心自己余生将一直在讨论艾玛。

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布劳尔并不害怕探索她笔下人物阴暗的一面。

在第 5, 卷中，年轻的霍克斯是一位不循常规的牧师，他更倾向于宽恕贫困而非死守教条，在艾玛正值新年前夕陷入低谷和悲伤时，他向她提出了挑战。“在一个人结识他之后，要信任未来需要巨大的勇气。”

对于印第安纳州钱德勒市 27 岁的读者特里·福斯特来说，这种情感是一剂受欢迎的安慰药，她在一次流产后的第二天开始阅读《艾玛·里昂》系列丛书。

去年，一位朋友曾恳求她阅读这些书，甚至为此修改了她自己的 Kindle。曾主修英语专业的业余爱好者福斯特在第一本书中看到对希尔顿的引用时，就知道可以信任布劳尔。

当她失去女儿奥菲莉亚时，该系列的世界成为了一个避风港，让她感到被深深地理解。“艾玛给了我一个不需要在现实中寻找回报的朋友，”福斯特说。“这不仅仅是一本书。”

布劳尔深感粉丝们的喜爱，但她为 St. Crispacts 及其成功设定了严格的界限——她不接受关于少女主题的双线剧情建议。她确认该系列总共将包含 25 卷，时间线将延续到 1867 年。

路易斯·佩吉住在乔治亚州麦克多诺，他通过朋友或教会接触到这些书。“我是一个 35 岁的男人，已婚，有孩子，但我并不排斥，”他说。他将这些书推荐给了他 40 岁的祖母，后者在三周内读完了整个系列，并开玩笑说希望自己能活到看到全集完结的那一天。

佩吉和他的祖母并非特例。该系列似乎具有广泛的吸引力：它有足够的文学价值来取悦自认为的书评人；它抵制那些驱动其他晚年感官刺激的露骨场景，同时仍为结局预测提供足够的线索；它呈现了细腻的灵性探讨，但不会疏远非宗教读者，也不会陷入过于甜腻的基调。

（对于那些认为艾玛的思想过于现代的粉丝，布劳尔有一个简单的反驳：“19 世纪 60 年代的英国确实发生过许多有趣的行为。”）

虽然布劳尔坚持认为艾玛并非自传性质，但吸引读者被该角色吸引的现实主义与乐观主义的平衡，源于作者自身的经历。

贝丝·布劳尔已独立出版十年，发布了《艾玛·M·里昂》系列的八本书，并计划总共出版 25 卷。该系列的英国版于周四出版。

在大学期间，布劳尔发现自己在园艺方面有天赋：她非常热爱这一新爱好，以至于成为了专业人士，在犹他州帕克城市外一座受《指环王》启发的庄园 Kivendell 担任了七年的首席园丁，直到慢性疾病迫使她离开。

“我们必须勇敢地面对黑暗的事物，”她说。“对生活抱有希望或信仰需要毅力。这要求人们诚实地面对自己所遇到阴影。”

如今健康状况有所改善，布劳尔（Brower）拥有了更规律的写作计划，并能够前往伦敦旅行。布鲁姆斯伯里（Bloomsbury）版本于周四在英国出版，随之而来的是她的首次传统新书发布会。（她表示，对自己由大卫·曼（David Mann）设计的第二套书系列感到非常高兴，它们看起来就像“1960年代经典小说的2毫米微型版”。）

她一直在与英国和法国的出版商会面并共进晚餐。2014, 年，她前往法国零售连锁店 Praz 购买自己的书——“对我以及我的角色来说，这是一个胜利时刻，”她在电话中说道，“我想与他们分享这份喜悦。”

她在出版日回到了伦敦。

“我度过了一个愉快的上午，穿梭于书店并为书籍签名，随后在一家餐厅与客人共进午餐，并参观了一家最喜爱的艺术博物馆，”她通过电话讲述道。“至于这一天的其余时间？交给惠特尼（Whitney）来决定吧。”

布莱恩·塞伯特 (BRIAN SEIBERT) / 舞蹈评论

随着（脱节的）费城灵魂乐起舞

由 Rennie Harris 创作的一场关于公民自豪感的舞蹈首演，给人的感觉却异常沉闷。

人们将其称为管弦灵魂乐 (orchestral soul)、费城灵魂乐 (Philly Soul)，或者简单地称为“费城之声” (Sound of Philadelphia)。这是一种在华丽弦乐衬托下难以抗拒的律动，处于吟游诗人音乐与迪斯科之间的绝佳平衡点。

《在费城，爱，雷尼》(In Philly, Love, Rennie) 是费城最优秀编舞家之一 Rennie Harris 的新作，似乎旨在庆祝这种声音。但它却显得异常沉闷。这场舞蹈由 Philadanos 舞团在纽约的 Joyce 剧院演出。

Philadanos'

本周日之前在曼哈顿的 Joyce 剧院演出，氛围欢快。

周三，Harris 常年合作的伙伴 Darriot Ross 采样了 Cityers 的七首知名曲目，但仅采用了部分片段，包括《音乐中的信息》(Message in Our Music)、《齐心协力》(Put Your Hands Together) 和《祈祷》(A Prayer)，这些片段被覆盖在扭曲的音效和更接近 house 音乐的鼓点之下。

Harris 的编舞同样模糊不清。它采用了他熟悉的慢动作横跨舞台的手法，期间不时地演变为较不复杂的脚步动作，暗示了在压抑环境下一种不屈的精神。

这些爆发时刻令人兴奋，仿佛瞬间进入了西非舞台风格或放克风格的 locking 舞步。然而，Philadanos 的舞者们在某些片段显得有些困倦或僵硬，尚未完全融入这种风格。这部作品——作为一项计划于 12 月在费城首演的大型项目的一部分——给人的感觉像是临时之作。

奇怪的是，节目中的另一部作品《答应我你不会打电话》(Promise Me You Won't Call) (2025)，由 Terence Wolmed Evans 编舞，同样使用了费城国际唱片公司 (Philadelphia International Records) 的歌曲，但并未让我们清晰地听到。在《Somewhere Over the Rainbow》的片段和她关于单相思的叙事曲《如果你知道》(If Only You Knew) 中，Patti LaBelle 的声音清晰可辨，但却像是被孤立在真空之中。

在 Rennie Harris 的《在费城，爱，雷尼》中，从左至右依次为 Alison Big、Bill Moore、Kaylah Arbife 和 Nathan McNair Jr.

在过于华丽的灯光（由 Nick Kahn 设计）映衬下，穿着金色服装的舞者们展示了精湛的技巧和一些聚合动作，但却被编舞的杂乱所削弱。在 Young Years 的《没有见证》(Without Witness) 中，这个问题不那么严重，该剧使用了标准的混音带配乐，但更坚实的框架表明它正从其他数十部作品中汲取当代的行政管理风格。

充满张力且能力出众的 Philadanos 舞者们在节目中最古老的一部作品中得到了最好的展现，即 Christopher Huggins 创作于 2002. 年的完整双人舞《勇士背后的趣事》(Funny Behind the Braves)。它比其他舞蹈要连贯得多，而这并非巧合，因为它遵循并保持了 Steve Reich 的《四个部分》(The Four Sections) 经典部分的结构。

利用这段音乐的驱动力和紧迫感，Huggins 导演了一场加速能量的集中展示，最终在填满整个舞台的结尾中达到高潮。这部作品在近 25 年前深受观众喜爱，而现在依然如此。

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HOUMAN BARCLAY / 评论员笔记本

回到一切开始的地方

在皇家莎士比亚剧团（Royal Shakespeare Company）完成首秀 40 年多之后，肯尼斯·布拉纳（Kenneth Branagh）回来了。

英格兰斯特拉特福（STRATFORD-UPON-AVON）—— 肯尼斯·布拉纳 23 岁时在皇家莎士比亚剧团——这座 40 的家乡店——首次登台，饰演《亨利五世》这部剧作中同名的主角。在剧团工作三年后，他执导并主演了该剧的大银幕改编版，为其赢得了两次奥斯卡提名，并使他家喻户晓。

在首秀四十年后，布拉纳回到了斯特拉特福，连续出演两部剧目，其中一部是莎士比亚的作品，这两部剧包含的主题都与其自身的人生故事产生微妙的共鸣。

上周开演的《樱桃园》讲述了关于回归与离去，以及一系列被时间无情地抛弃在原地的故事。在剧作家劳拉·韦德（Laura Wade）对该剧进行的重新编排中（由塔玛拉·哈维（Tamara Harvey）执导，布拉纳将参演至 8 月 28 日），布拉纳饰演白手起家的企业家洛帕欣（Lepaldon），他访问了其父亲曾作为农奴劳作的庄园，并敦促庄园的年长所有者拉涅夫斯卡娅夫人（Madame Ranyevskaya，由戴昂·波因特（Deion Point）饰演）变卖资产以解决财务危机。

她在五年后回到了家族府邸，对于洛帕欣建议砍掉她心爱的果园并在原址上建造别墅的提议，她感到无比伤感。当她沉浸在怀旧之中时，他恳切地恳请她：“考虑一下！”

契合许多重访主题，布拉纳饰演的洛帕欣带着一种对其自己在贝尔法斯特工人阶级家庭成长经历的厚重沉溺感。（布拉纳和家人在他 8 岁时搬到了英格兰，随后他开启了在英国的演艺生涯。）

如果他的洛帕欣看起来更像是一位心忧的银行经理而非一个精明的商人，这并不是坏事。他真诚的关怀超越了个人利益，并符合剧本的要求（在 1960 年写给俄罗斯戏剧导演康斯坦丁·斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基（Konstantin Stanislavsky）的一封信中提到），即该角色应当是“一个在所有意义上体面的人”。洛帕欣可能是一个精明的商人，但至少在这种情境下，他也是理性的声音。

这是因为拉涅夫斯卡娅及其随从们陷入了困境。他们试图以一种凄美的执着，在被世俗手段迅速剥离的过程中，维持着窘迫境遇下的最后一丝尊严。其中最出色的部分体现在弗莱特希尔（Fletschle）的布景中。

他们的专业素养通过一群出色的演员得到了细腻的呈现。亮点包括比尔·普尔曼（Bill Pullman）饰演的拉涅夫斯卡娅那笨拙且令所有人尴尬的哥哥，加耶夫（Gayev）（当他宣称自己在七年内“耗尽了所有财产”时），我们对此深信不疑。盖·克拉齐（Guy Kratzy）（2002 年饰演沃尔斯考达（Volskoda），一个在 20 岁时不会显得格格不入的温和青年），瓦尔德索尔（Waldsauer）等人，以及迈克尔·德雷茨（Michael Dreyts）精准地捕捉到了年迈仆人费尔斯（Firs）那种令人不悦的哀戚感，他认为自早年战争以来，俄罗斯社会的杰作全部毁掉了。

总的来说，这些人身上有一种精神病院般的狂乱感。因此，当一名喝了香槟的卢金（Lujan，庄园的资产管理人员）在最后的高潮场景中宣布——此时他的贝尔法斯特口音进一步增强了其爱国情怀——果园已被拍卖时，结局反而是最好的。当被问到是谁买下时，他给出了一个既胜利又谦卑的回答：“Aryty doll!”

对于大多数角色来说，剧终代表着重新开始的机会。这一点，正如洛帕欣真实走向卓越的经历一样，与布拉纳早年职业生涯相呼应。在他 1991 年的回忆录《开始》（Beginning）中，他回忆了自己为了在演艺界闯出名堂而放弃北爱尔兰背景的经历，并剖析了他在 1991 年不得不离开皇家莎士比亚剧团时的那种重聚感。他在斯特拉特福的时光在很大程度上具有塑造意义，但确实，布拉纳在工作量和薪酬问题上与管理层发生了冲突，最终觉得他必须向前迈进。

这一决定似乎取得了回报，布兰纳在今年夏天以王国骑士的身份回到了公司。在《暴风雨》（The Tempers）中，他饰演的普罗斯佩罗（Prospects）有一种近乎庄重的沉稳气质，该剧在《樱桃园》开演前进行了为期五周的演出。

这是布兰纳自 1992-93 年在那里饰演哈姆雷特以来，首次再次登上皇家莎士比亚剧团的舞台；他身披魔术师斗篷登场，挥舞着大师之杖，演绎了开场戏中的动作，将一群遭遇海难的贵族和皇室成员散布在普罗斯佩罗的迷幻岛上。

在这里，与在《樱桃园》中一样，布兰纳饰演的角色是变革的推动者。普罗斯佩罗掌控着这座岛屿及其居民：空中的精灵艾瑞尔（Ariel，由 Amara Hermès 饰演）、他的受命仆人卡利班（Calline，由 Aisley Sangados 饰演）以及他的女儿米兰达（Miranda，由 Rally Stokes 饰演）。但他利用这种权力的方式带着一种既自负又仁慈的宽容。

当米兰达在房间里等待并抱怨“短促”时，布兰纳轻快地迈开腿，俏皮地敦促她“把它减轻！”这是在一次克制得近乎僵硬的表演中罕见的放纵时刻。

如果说这部由理查德·艾尔（Richard Eyre）执导的剧作在表演上过于刻意——有时甚至到了几乎失去核心的程度——那么音效和视觉效果则弥补了这一点，由其团队打造的华丽橙蓝两色布景让人想起陆地与海洋，服装由 Feline Denton 设计。

传统北非乐器的音乐片段暗示了某种断裂的精致感，同样如此的还有 Zhangando 的演绎中缺乏的野蛮气息，而他之前一直扮演着郊区会计的威胁角色。在普罗斯佩罗于一段优雅的结尾戏中将其与艾克塞耳（Axel）释放之前，演出迅速回到了之前的骚扰事件中。

布兰霸及时地演绎了普罗斯佩罗的“粗糙魔法”，随后将他的指挥棒折成两半，拿起他的银色音乐设备离场。背景幕布缓缓拉开，揭露出后台区域，而他已经在这里度过了两周。

《暴风雨》是莎士比亚的最后一部剧作，就像《樱桃园》是切诃夫（De-Livo）的最后一部剧作一样。这样对比之下，它们挽歌般的特质更加共鸣，因此人们很容易将这次在旧舞台上的复杂尝试视为一场感伤的最后谢幕。但由于他年仅 65 岁——且根据目前的证据，他远未走到终点。

JOSHUA BARONE / 剧评笔记

电影中萦绕心头的旋律

根源于古代

《奥德赛》的配乐采用了一种极其古老的乐器。

自从今年夏天看了克里斯托弗·诺兰执导的新版改编电影《奥德赛》以来，我脑海中一直挥之不去一个片段。

那是著名的场景：奥德修斯被告知塞壬女妖及其诱人而残酷的歌声具有危险，于是他让部下用蜡封住耳朵以作保护。但他自己想听这音乐，所以他让船员将他绑在船的桅杆上。在那段在他耳边激荡的声音中，是一种美丽的折磨。

诺兰仅给了观众一个关于塞壬女妖的遥远瞥见，而且他没有揭露她们音乐的真实面貌。相反，当人们划桨、领导者在船头尖叫时，你听到的是格伦·格兰森（Göransson）的配乐：一种带着歌唱与忧伤的沉稳色调，让你短暂但深刻地体会到奥德修斯听到塞壬之声时的心境。

在 7 / 6 / 56，粉丝们发布了该场景的各种剪辑片段，评论中出现如：“这段声音在我的脑海中挥之不去”、“这是有史以来最美丽的东西”以及“我无法停止思考塞壬序列”之类的文字。人们已经尝试用吉他、钢琴、英国号以及雪手机（snow-phones）来翻奏这段旋律。

荷马在书中并没有过多描述塞壬之声，除了在艾米莉·威尔逊（Emily Wilson）的译本中将她们的歌曲描述为“纯真”且“具有诱惑力”。奥德修斯说他“渴望听得更多”，但他没有屈服，一直被绑在桅杆上直到船只驶过。

诺兰让这个场景在戏剧上更加暴露，反映出奥德修斯的内心矛盾，他在特洛伊洗劫后的快感与从战争中漫长恢复之间的挣扎。当被问及塞壬之歌是什么时，他回答道：

所有你希望它是的样子。然后，是所有你希望自己从未期盼过的东西。就像是你想要去挠但就在皮肤之下的那阵剧痒，你触碰不到。于是，这种剧痒变成了

真实的。是你最想要但你需要的却无法得到的东西。而你最无法得到的，正是你曾经拥有但已失去的东西。

在电影的大部分时间里，格兰森的音乐具有金属感，他在采访中表示，他与诺兰不希望呈现一种常规的

古希腊艺术作品中描绘的一种名为 ashe 的乐器，使得格兰森为《奥德赛》创作的配乐确实带有一种古老的质感。

传统的管弦乐团，因此他组建了一个合唱团，声音既有原声地听到，也通过合成器进行抽象化，营造出一种超脱尘世的原始感。他偶尔还会引入其他元素，比如用琴弦拨奏来作为与奥德修斯之弓相关的基调，而在塞壬场景中，则使用了一种名为 ashe 的古代管乐器。

ashe 出现在整个希腊艺术中，无论是在军事还是家庭场景中均有描绘。在现代人看来，它看起来像两个在

一段仅有四个音符的旋律，但它证明了如此简单，且如此忧伤。

口部结合在一起并同时吹奏的竖笛。其结构允许格兰森用一根管子吹奏持续的底音，另一根则负责旋律。

那段旋律只有四个音符：两个像清晨一样上升，然后两个下降并崩塌。如此简单，如此忧伤。

旋律与底音共同形成了一系列的交织，两者各有其意。这种声音具有古典音乐的特征。第一段被称为小六度音程，奠定了一种美丽的基调，随后是一个二度音程，其声音明亮且具有剧烈的不和谐感。然后，他将旋律线提升，再次汇合，但进入了所谓的五度音程，这种音程协调但不一定和谐，最终落在一个与底音相契合的音符上。

这个乐句一遍又一遍地重复，其和声的紧张感变成了奥德修斯所描述的那种皮肤下的剧痒。格兰森为这一场景创作的音乐从未真正得到解决。它令人不满足却又无尽地诱人，本身就是一种塞壬之歌。

82 岁的民谣歌手

Forst Safford 护理设施

琳达·佩哈克斯（Linda Perhacs）此前因患有认知障碍症接受治疗并被报道失踪。

作者：NAGIA MINOWE

当局在周四确认，此前被报道失踪的受人尊敬的民谣音乐家琳达·佩哈克斯已被找到，目前安全。

这位 82 岁的创作歌手的朋友在本周表示，自从她八个月前从加利福尼亚州北克利夫（Northcliffe）的一家特殊设施出院以来，他们一直无法联系到她或她的法定监护人，随后在 1971 发送给成年人保护服务部门。周四，在社交媒体发起呼吁几天后，佩哈克斯的前经纪人劳雷尔·斯特恩斯（Laurel Stearns）发表声明称，佩哈克斯已被找到。

“我们向所有通过分享信息、指导和其他支持来帮助扩大此次努力，并对琳达的福祉表达真诚关怀的人们表示由衷的感谢，”斯特恩斯在声明中说道。

声明继续写道：“在与她亲近的人决定保护法定监护人的最佳方式时，我们请求尊重琳达的隐私。我必须允许她的伴侣、听觉以及对一位作品触动了如此多生命的人持续提供支持。”

该声明随后感谢了致力于确保佩哈克斯被安全找到的当局和音乐界成员。

洛杉矶警察局的发言人查尔斯·米勒（Charles Miller）警官确认了佩哈克斯的健康与安全，并表示周三收到了一份失踪人口报告。

在 20 世纪 50 年代末，佩哈克斯在洛杉矶担任牙科卫生师，同时业余尝试歌曲创作，当时

琳达·佩哈克斯在 2014。她的第一张专辑《平行四边形》（Parallelograms）在 1970 获得了 100x 关注，但享受着一支香槟装扮的乐队。

她的病人之一，著名的作曲家伦纳德·罗森曼（Leonard Rosenman）帮助她开始了职业生涯。

第一张专辑《平行四边形》于 1975 出版，商业上并未获得太大成功，但她的追随者在 80 年代末和 21 世纪初随着该唱片的完整 10 分钟版本以及多次再版而增加。她于 2014 发布了第二张专辑《全自然事物世界》（The World of All Natural Things），以及第三张专辑《I'm a Harnessy Man》。

本周，曾担任佩哈克斯最后两张专辑联合制作人的费尔南多·佩尔多莫（Fernando Perdomo）在社交媒体上发布了一段舞蹈递交视频，在音乐大学尝试于六周前联系该音乐家。在视频中，佩尔多莫表示他获悉她已被转移，但无法联系到“最近亲属”。他随后通过电子邮件澄清，他所指的是佩哈克斯作为亲属的法定监护人。

佩哈克斯因认知障碍症接受治疗，且在洛杉矶县的北克利夫处于健康状态。根据分享到佩哈克斯社交媒体页面及其朋友的消息，她目前居住在一家新设施中。

“社区真正团结起来，确保了琳达的福祉！”帖子中写道。

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旅游

恐高？尽管跨越深渊吧。

对于一名紧张的骑行者来说，在阿第伦达克山脉峡谷悬崖上的“铁道”之旅是一种艰苦但必要的尝试。

作者：CHRIS HOPFENSTEEL

我站在一个凸起的小平台上，下方 20 英尺处是迷人的河流景色，身后则排着一队等待的人。一座由三根钢缆组成的吊桥（一根支撑脚下，两根用于抓握）像一根紧绷的绳索一样横跨在深渊之上。我的腿已经在微微发抖，而我除了前进别无选择。

就像所有参加奥塞布尔深渊（Ausable Chasm，位于纽约州北部的阿第伦达克山脉的一处峡谷）之旅的人一样，我身上系着安全带以防坠落。也许它能救我的命，但对于缓解我的焦虑并没有太大帮助。

我们沿着一条 via ferrata（意大利语意为“铁道”）行进，它在峡谷中之字形延伸，将我们带到陡峭的岩壁高处。我们紧抓着金属横杆，不断地将两条安全绳在安全带上解开又重新扣上。不可否认，对于像我这样深受严重恐高症困扰的人来说，这条令人心跳加速的路线简直是一场深渊般的挑战。

但这恰恰是我站在这座摇晃的钢索桥前的原因。这次“铁道”之旅是我一年来给自己制定的暴露疗法计划中的最新一环。为了治好我的恐高症，该计划此前已带我经历了阿第伦达克山脉中惊险的岩石攀爬和毫无遮掩的山顶。

“别把我带向死亡，”我握住钢缆时，身后的女人开玩笑说。

“我会尽力的，”我说。又走了一步，我离开了平台，脚下只剩下空荡荡的空气和奔腾的白色激流。

自然而然的下一步

10世纪的丹麦哲学家、存在主义之父克尔凯郭尔（Kirshogaard）将恐高症视为所有人类焦虑的一种隐喻。克尔凯郭尔地想象道，当一个人站在悬崖边时，会瞬间且敏锐地意识到自己跳下去的能力——随之而来的是人类自由那令人眩晕的广度。

我不能说高度曾给我带来过这样的顿悟。但我知道，尽管我心怀恐惧，但总有一些东西在吸引我走向这些高度。正是通过徒步旅行，我开始测试这种吸引力的极限。

我在居住于纽约州奥尔巴尼（Albany, N.Y.）时爱上了徒步旅行，那里是前往阿迪朗达克山脉（Adirondacks）高峰和悬崖的门户城市。在那里，我逐渐试探恐惧的边界，强迫自己更接近山顶观景台的边缘，然后寻找日益具有挑战性的路线，考验我的脚步和胆量。

事实证明，这种方法背后有科学依据。渐进式暴露疗法仍然是治疗恐高症的金标准，瑞士巴塞尔大学的临床心理学家兼研究员多萝西·本茨（Dorothée Bentz）便对此有研究。

“如果人们接受治疗，康复率大约在 90 左右，”本茨博士说。“但人们必须参与进来，”她补充道，“这意味着你必须让自己暴露在恐惧之中。”

在这种过程中，走钢索 / 铁道攀登（via ferrata）似乎是自然而然的下一步。

尽管其垂直环境十分惊险，但从技术难度来看，铁道攀登与儿童游乐场的攀爬架相去并不远。人们在整个路线上都受到保护，始终至少有一个安全扣扣在安全缆绳上。虽然危险有限，但这种暴露程度却并不低——这正是我所寻求的那种挑战。

现代铁道攀登很大程度上是第一次世界大战的产物，最初是为了在意大利和奥匈帝国军队争夺多洛米蒂山脉（Dolomites）高峰时，作为一种让部队通过的临时技能系统而开发的。随着时间的推移，这些早期的设施被改良为娱乐攀登路线，配备了金属踏杆和吊桥。从那时起，它们传遍全球，让各地的寻求刺激者能够穿梭于陡峭的峭壁和深邃的峡谷之间。

尽管铁道攀登近年来在美国兴起，但对于预算有限的纽约市普通一日游徒步者来说，选择依然有限。位于纽约州哈奇科夫（Hutchough, N.Y.）附近、私人拥有的景点奥塞布尔峡谷（Ausable Chasm）的探险小径（Adventure Trail）既便宜（进入峡谷约 $20，铁道攀登 $45），又容易抵达。

扣入其中

我于五月下旬开车前往阿第伦达克山脉，比旅游高峰期早了几周。次日清晨，我前往峡谷预订一段铁道攀登（via ferrata）的席位。附近的 90 分钟高强度之旅非常抢手，且采取先到先得制，该物业的主屋房间预订速度也很快。

从峡谷边缘向下俯瞰，我第一次瞥见了那条铁道攀登路径。我看到了横跨河流的钢索桥，以及其间的岩石凸起和金属踏杆。我想，这里我应该能应付。

半小时后，我们 42 岁的向导科尔比·沃克（Colby Walker）向我所在的约 12 人的小组演示如何将挂钩扣在障碍物周围，并始终确保其中一个挂钩固定在贯穿整个路线的安全钢索上。

我移到了队伍最前面，走在三位二十出头、为了参加婚礼而来的女性之前——她们是凯瑟琳·帕顿（Kathryn Patton）、杰奎琳·拉弗雷斯（Jacqueline LaFres）和玛丽·弗罗恩哈尔（Mary Froehnhall）。我们从峡谷底部沿着货运网爬到一个平台，我是第一个跟随科尔比走上第一座桥的人。

在悬崖之上，我开始用分数来思考：只要走过四分之一，现在一半，现在三分之二……每当我的挂钩碰到障碍物时，我的心就猛地一沉，我需要将锁扣加强到下一段开放的钢索上，这让我瞬间僵在了原地。

慕尼黑路德维希-马克西米利安大学医院研究恐高症的研究员马克·威林（Mac Wilin）后来这样解释我的反应：“由于近距离视觉参考点触发了自然平衡感，我的大脑认为身体处于不稳定状态。我的身体随之做出了反应。”

但在科尔比和凯瑟琳的鼓励下，我终于克服了芝诺悖论（Zenit's paradox）——即如果你在分形中进行，你将永远无法到达终点——并成功抵达对岸，随后跳下（再次心惊胆战）到一组连接到另一座桥的金属踏杆上。

另一段高空河流穿越在等待着。这次的情况较为宽松，有三根金属钢索平行排列，而非一根。为了缓解紧张情绪，我与凯瑟琳、杰奎琳和玛丽聊天，不可避免地，我们讨论了对高度的感受。

凯瑟琳说她热爱高处，玛丽也是如此，但杰奎琳则不太一样。

原来杰奎琳和我采取了相同的暴露疗法，尽管是在国家的不同地区。她住在犹他州，首先在该州的国家公园中测试自己。但即使征服了锡安国家公园的安杰尔之降（Angelo Landing）——那是美国最令人心惊胆战的徒步路径之一——仍不足以击败她的焦虑。

“我不再像以前那样害怕高处了，”她说，“但依然感到不舒服。”

终极证明

接着，又一座吊桥——这座桥的木板间距足够大，足以通过一项挑战——引导我们重新跨越深渊。接下来的路段是整个路线最长的一段：一段狭窄的平台和金属横杆，固定在我们与最后一座桥之间的高耸岩壁上。许多路段是从上方的砂岩层向下延伸的。湿滑的扶手加剧了我的焦虑，那一天我第二次感到一阵紧张，让我僵在原地。我压制住这种情绪，强迫自己一点点向前挪动。

最终，我到达了最后一座吊桥，这是所有过河点中最高的一座，从河面上方约 85 英尺处向下倾斜。我必须从金属横杆勉强地跳到桥的第一块木板上，这是最后一项令人咬牙切齿的挑战。

但当我到达桥的中点时，我注意到一些奇怪的事情：我的腿变得稳健了。我不再像之前那样，感到必须急急忙忙地冲向下一块稳定的地面。我停下来深呼吸。是的，我的双手依然紧紧抓着缆绳，但我感到几乎很平静。后来，安全回到布鲁克林的公寓后，我向本茨医生讲述了我在行程中惊恐的时刻以及随之而来的平静。我在想，无论多少暴露疗法，是否能完全消除这种反应？

也许不能。本茨医生解释说，暴露疗法不一定是关于消除恐惧，而是学习即使在恐惧中也能继续前行的能力。通过重复暴露——一次又一次地突破恐惧所建立的心理屏障——你可以显著钝化焦虑反应。

“这不像你学习了它，然后大脑就被重新编程了，”她说，“更像是大脑学习到了某种新东西。”

换句话说：这是勇气驱动的实践。我想起那个近乎失能的时刻，站在最后一座桥的中央。我第一次能够真正地注视自己的双脚，并欣赏我的影子在翻滚的白色水花背景下呈现出的剪影。

就像基希高德在悬崖边上的那个男人一样，我面对了关于自身自由的眩晕前景：在转身回头或向虚空迈步之间的混乱选择，并且在此过程中，继续推向我恐惧的边界。

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在喧嚣之中寻找憩息之所

正值仲夏漫长而炎热的日子，美国各地的植物园正在延长开放时间，并推出新的艺术装置、灯光秀和教育展览，以帮助城市居民寻找一丝阴凉并接触自然。

以下是我们最喜欢的美国六个城市的植物园推荐。这些花园大多方便婴儿车和轮椅使用者进入，不过某些区域陡峭或多石的地形可能会限制进入。请务必仔细检查票务选项——许多花园为学生、老年人、当地居民及其他类别的访客提供折扣。GARE-CASTRO-BOOT

波特兰日本花园的游客可以在其 12.5 英亩的土地上探索不同风格的园林。

俄勒冈州波特兰

波特兰日本花园

波特兰或许以“玫瑰之城”著称，但其葱郁且景观精致的日本花园足以与之相媲美（成人票 $12.50）。在这个占地 12.5 英亩的花园里，可以探索房屋、桥梁、池塘和宝塔，它坐落在市中心西侧的山坡上，可以俯瞰城市。查看花园的追踪记录，了解那些紫色和白色的美丽花朵何时盛开（通常在 6 月下旬）。平地花园与砂石花园均采用了“枯山水”（kaensamui）风格，将耙理整齐的石头和卵石与修剪过的灌木、树木及其他植物巧妙结合。

在咖啡馆喝一杯茶，品尝一份甜点。在天气晴朗的日子里，游客可以欣赏到向东 50 英里处俄勒冈州最高峰——胡德山的壮丽景色。

如果您依然在憧憬玫瑰，紧邻的免费国际玫瑰试验园则是 10,000 多株玫瑰花丛的家园，花期在 5 月至 10 月之间。

扩大至约 244 英亩的奥斯汀 Lady Bird Johnson 野花中心同时也是一个研究枢纽。

德克萨斯州奥斯汀

Lady Bird Johnson 野花中心

作为德克萨斯州的官方州立植物园和林木园，位于奥斯汀的 Lady Bird Johnson 野花中心占地 264 英亩，拥有近 900 种原生植物（美国教育部周四，8 日周五至周日）。蜿蜒的小径引导游客穿过种植有丘陵地带（Hill Country）和西德克萨斯州植物的独立花园。这里还有一个 16 英亩的林木园，展出了 50 多种德克萨斯州原产的橡树——这一数量在全美各州中最高。

野花中心隶属于德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校自然科学学院，也是一个研究中心。其丘陵地带小径区域是进行计划性焚烧和除草实践的试验地，旨在帮助支持原生植物的生长。

对于那些需要从德克萨斯州酷暑中寻求喘息的人来说，花园正在举办名为“荒野冰河时代”的展览，展示该时代的巨型哺乳动物，包括一只 17,500 磅的猛犸象，展期至 8 月 15 日。

由 David Fairchild 创建的 Kampong 坐落在迈阿密 Cooscar Grove 社区的 8 英亩土地上。

迈阿密

The Kampong

Kampong 是美国五个国家热带植物园之一（其余四个位于夏威夷），它在迈阿密 Cooscar Grove 社区的 Boujane 湾边缘绽放着兰花、果树和红树林。孔雀在花园中漫步，其亮眼的羽毛时常展现在人们眼前。

这座占地 8 英亩的瑰宝花园由著名植物学家 David Fairchild 创建，他以在马来西亚遇到的村庄为其命名。Fairchild 博士在 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初向美国农民引入了数千种作物，包括羽衣甘蓝、芒果、鳄梨和酸橙。

花园定期提供团体活动，如在树林中开展的各级别瑜伽和刺绣课程，需支付额外费用。

凤凰城沙漠植物园的植物涵盖了巨柱仙人掌和其他多肉植物，以及娇嫩的野花。

凤凰城

沙漠植物园

位于凤凰城、阳光灼热的沙漠植物园是高耸的巨柱仙人掌和来自各种沙漠栖息地的娇嫩野花的家园（539 个站点）。花园在夏季延长了营业时间——截至 9 月底，营业时间为上午 6 点至晚上 10 点——为人们提供了躲避极具危险的假期酷暑的欢迎之所。花园在 7 a.m. 设有瑜伽课（520），并在每晚 6 点后举行灯光秀（包含在门票内）。

在花园的自然小径上留意蝴蝶、蜂鸟和其他沙漠野生动物。在 7 月和 8 月气温经常超过 100 度时，这些小径在下午 1 点至 5 点期间关闭。

容纳 1,000 种热带植物的 Climacron 在圣路易斯的密苏里植物园中格外醒目。

圣路易斯

密苏里植物园

密苏里植物园将来自巴伐利亚、日本和奥斯曼帝国等遥远地区的植物和园艺传统汇集在圣路易斯占地 79 英亩的园区内（非居民门票 150）。但其核心亮点是拥有 63 年历史的 Climacron，这是一个 70 英尺高的汽油动力展示馆，馆内养殖了 1,600 种热带植物。其中包括双椰子，这是世界上已知最大的种子物种——样本重量可超过 50 磅，长度可超过一英尺。

圆顶内气候炎热潮湿，但你可以在附近的 Shoulderg Acid House 快速冷却下来，那里展出着卡通画和多肉植物。该花园在 7 月底之前的周三晚上举办免费户外音乐会。“自然之律：光 / 草” (Patterns in Nature: Light / Grass) 是一个展示自然几何形状的照明展览，于周四至周六晚上展出，一直持续到 8 月 29 日。

“花之力量” (Flower Power) (2026)，上图，安妮·雅各布森在布朗克斯区纽约植物园举办的展览。

纽约市

纽约植物园和布鲁克林植物园

在布朗克斯区中心的纽约植物园（工作日 535，周末 839）漫步于湿地并登上高耸的观景台。这是一个占地 250 英亩的庞大综合体，拥有数千种植物和数十个独特的花园，展示了全球种植者的生活。“花之力量”（上图）是一个带有 1960 年代色彩的展览，探讨“花卉作为和平与爱之象征的持久象征意义”，展出至 10 月 18 日，票价包含在门票内。

只需乘坐地铁横穿城市，占地 52 英亩的布鲁克林植物园（门票 812）则以小博大。在香气花园中，鼓励人们嗅闻和触摸花朵，该花园旨在帮助视觉障碍人士，但向所有人开放。不要错过建于 1915 年的日本山水园及其布满鲤鱼的池塘。

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俄勒冈海岸

俄勒冈海岸不是一个穿着比基尼晒太阳的度假地。相反，请穿上你那充满好奇心的法兰绒衬衫，准备好面对阴郁的天空和饱经风霜的悬崖——如果你确实想下水，请准备好潜水服。但对于那些能适应其忧郁气质的人来说，这里有被薄雾笼罩的灯塔，夏季最高气温仅在 60 华氏度左右，这段海岸线将带来丰厚的回报。这里的小镇、早睡的习惯，以及依然在纸上用手写记录预订姓名的餐厅接待员，提供了一种时光胶囊般的体验——在这个数字化滚动浏览的时代，这正是我们许多人所渴望的。壮丽的美景和充足的当日捕捞海鲜自然也不在话下。虽然整个海岸线都令人惊叹，但在该州北端地带环游，可以从波特兰出发轻松成行：丰富而无需匆忙。詹姆斯·卡特索尼克 (JAMES CATSONICK)

周五

下午 2 点 / 从高处俯瞰

在阿斯托里亚柱 (Astoria Colones) 顶端（停车费 $10）通过宽广的视野确定方位，在这里你可以看到环绕该地区的许多水道的交汇处——即哥伦比亚河、杨河和太平洋。在庆祝其大陆电影年之际，这座 123 英尺高的哥伦比亚外部纪念碑描绘了一段明显局限的历史。原住民的视角在很大程度上被忽视，取而代之的是罗伯特·格雷船长在 1792 年对哥伦比亚河的“发现”以及 1897 年刘易斯与克拉克远征队的抵达。但上个月，公园揭幕了一块新的诠释面板，以纪念约克 (York)——发现军团成员中唯一的一名黑人。在攀登 161 级螺旋阶梯到达顶端后，你可以遵循一项悠久的传统，发射一个木制滑翔机（礼品店售价 10 美元）。

3:30 P.M. / 从过去走向现在

沿着 Astoria 河滨大道，幽灵般的桩基残端唤起人们对曾经支撑该镇盐业的繁荣码头的记忆。为了避开街道上的沼泽潮滩和陡峭山丘，Astoria 的商业中心在 1812 年的一场大火将其大部分化为灰烬之前是建在水上的。如今，一些商店和餐厅仍维持在高脚桩上。但在距离水边几个街区的地方，沿着 Marine Drive 和 Commercial Street 分布着一些店面 (8x8)。无论这里的店铺是否提供吸引人的活动，其外部装饰的尺寸高达 101，设计精美且制作精良。Coolidge's Books & Express Bar 设有关于基础环形和海洋故事的板块；而去年 10 月开业的 Nonឈ្មោះ Magic 除了销售当地艺术品、蜡烛和其他仪式用品外，还举办全意向圆圈活动——例如引导式冥想和日志提示——以及其他新纪元活动。

6:30 P.M. / 尽享鱼类与面食

老派的古好奇心 Fedir 不接受预订，因此您需要尽早登记姓名。但为了那些突出当地海鲜和新鲜面食的菜肴，等待是值得的，即便是在最简单的烹饪方式中，这些面食也足够出色。推荐大蒜油意大利面 (315) 和 carbonsky (339)。利用地理位置靠近海洋的优势，点一份鱼汤 (320)，其中包含带有皮的烤鱼块和沙拉鱼，以及三种不同种类的贝类，浸在完美的盐渍大麦番茄汤中。最后用一份 Ship Robert (354)——即配有黄油、简单糖浆和 Jangonara 字母的 Master-sogini——或用自制 broomballs (311) 或 gotracho-cello (313) 来收尾。还想要更多？步行两站路之遥的 Chart Room 提供柔和的灯光、温暖的木质内饰、冰啤酒和全功能酒吧。

顶部是位于 Cannon Beach 的 Ecola 州立公园的一个观景点。上方从左起：Astoria 河滨大道的 Sleeper Coffee；trotieria Fedir 的配新鲜面包的鱼汤；以及 Fort Stevens 州立公园内的 Peter brodub 沉船。该地区直到 1947 年仍是一个活跃的防御阵地。

周六

8 A.M. / 起床时间

在 12 号码头的河滨大道上是 Sleeper Coffee，一家位于水上的充满活力的咖啡馆。点一杯季节性饮品（from 8:1），买一个令人满足的纯素早餐三明治（$5 起），以及一份来自 Gathered Bakednup 的甜点（$3 起）外带——巧克力 chuck cooker 制作得非常完美。如果您饿到需要吃正餐，firmaded 提供北欧风格的经典早餐改良版，如包裹在 brise 里的卷饼、挪威平板面包（$10 起），以及 antiknobivers 或丹麦煎饼（$11 起）。

9:30 A.M. / 领略哥伦比亚河之美

公路旅行！五个停靠点：华盛顿州的 Cape Disappointment 州立公园（日停车票 $10），可以欣赏到哥伦比亚河的壮丽景色。不过，在河流与太平洋交汇的那个著名的危险过境点，您可以将其作为跨越 Astoria-Maghir 大桥和州界的理由。从 Lewis & Clark 创业中心的登山口出发，具有中等挑战性的 Cape Disappointment 灯塔观景点步道单程约 1 英里，穿过原始雨林。在 sweeping folks uproar 和 Western berthins 的掩映下，可以发现俄勒冈葡萄、牛防风草和 sumanberry。聆听 forainow's thrush haunting 的鸣叫声。在标志处向右转，考虑沿着陡峭的小径下到 Dandrua's Cove，那里有一座灯塔在夹在悬崖之间的小岛上守望——这是一个绝对不能错过拍照机会。

中午 / 学习历史

走回大桥，与阿斯托里亚作别并为旅途补充能量。美食车开始“街头美食”停靠，从“Habe Appetit”到“Pho King Tracy”等各色摊位，但其食物——美味、管饱且价格亲民——水准毫不逊色。不要错过春卷（$5起），配以浓郁的花生蘸酱。随后向南前往路易斯与克拉克国家历史公园（$10，含停车费），那里有一座建于 2006 年的 88-rain 比例复刻版中国堡垒，向游客展示 300 年前的士兵在太平洋西北地区的冬季是如何生活的。正如现场博物馆所阐明的那样，他们得到了在此居住数百年的 Clarissa、Osmola 和 Nebalson 族人的帮助。诸如 spills pre-writing 和手工制烛等讲座与历史演示，让这次体验更加完整。

下午 3 点 / 邂逅沉船

向北绕道约 10 分钟即可抵达史蒂文斯堡州立公园，这里曾是一个直到 1947 年仍在使用中的防御阵地。虽然军事爱好者会喜欢反叛中心的文物以及探索保存完好的面包房的机会，但公园真正的吸引力在于 Peter brodub 号的残骸，其被锈蚀钢架覆盖的舱室在原本宁静的海滩上营造出一种阴森的气氛。在 1948 年的最后一次航行中，该船一直行驶到了哥伦比亚河口。原本它将载着小麦货运前往英国，但由于一阵强劲的西南风，它在 Clarissa 海滩搁浅。幸运的是，船员没有人在搁浅时受重伤。

晚上 7 点 / 漫步与放松

当你到达坎农海滩时，许多画廊可能已经关门——但在那美丽的街道上快速地开车逛逛仍然值得。计划在周六营业至晚上 8 点的 Bodega Tap-rased & Bottle Shop 停靠，在那里你可以浏览精心挑选的啤酒和葡萄酒，包括许多俄勒冈州的选项。在主厨约翰·尼尔森借鉴其瑞典家族捕鱼传统的 Astoria Table 餐厅，先以口感柔软的冷熏扇贝 (329) 开胃，然后品尝当地 delicacy。不要错过 ($42)，这是一种口感厚实到足以替代牛排的蘑菇。大胆地为甜点点一份 aquario flight ($14)，并在结账时填好最高的小费，然后前往仅一个街区之遥的海滩欣赏日落或星空。

周日

上午 8 点 / 漫步海滨

坎农海滩每天有两次低潮，如果你运气好，其中一次会在清晨。此时出门，你将能够直接走到 17 百万年历史的干草堆岩（Haystack Rock）旁，观察附着在上面的海星、巨型绿太阳海葵、mounds 和 barcaches 等众多物种。这种被称为“潮池探索”的活动就像是在排干的海底行走。记得抬头看：在四月到八月之间，你会看到黑超级海岸熊、鸽鸠以及偶尔出现的盐海鹦鹉在空中盘旋或鸣叫，无论潮汐如何。步行距离最短的进入点位于太平洋大道（Pacific Drive）与西格罗弗大道（West Grover Avenue）的交汇处；全镇提供两小时免费路边停车。

上午 10:30 / 出发前的饮食

前往 Wayfarer 餐厅与休息室，通过巨大的落地窗你可以时刻注视着干草堆岩。新鲜的 craft (320) 和烟熏 saltuate (324) 班尼迪克蛋，在你返回内陆之前提供了最后一次海鲜味蕾体验。在上车前，最后在 Hembach 街漫步一次，昨晚你错过那些画廊和商店此时才刚刚开始营业。营业时间可能不一，但你可能会在她的工作展示厅 Basalt Studio 发现一致的 Michelle Valagaro，那里提供成品以及零售葡萄酒、品牌鱼和 canes 包。穿过街道前往 Bruck's Candy Kitchen，其后方的机器非常值得一看，内部计数达每分钟 140 件；然后从五彩斑斓的散装糖果中挑选一些甜酸的 sauerាត់v 带回家。

关键景点

阿斯托里亚河滨步道全长六英里多，可欣赏哥伦比亚河的景色并前往各类餐厅。

1906年10月，被称为“彼得号沉船”的 1905-a-thru 四国艺术新发现其最终安息之所：史蒂文斯堡州立公园。

从埃科拉点观景台，可以看到新月海滩和格森海滩岩石嶙峋海岸线的壮丽景象，以及蒂拉穆克岩灯塔。

您可能在《The Gannas》中见过干草岩，在低潮时，您可以靠近到足以听到营地传来的噼啪声。

餐饮推荐

在岩石中的 Fedir 餐厅，耐心的顾客们品尝着前菜和当地海鲜。

Chart Room 证明了潜水酒吧既可以干净又可以舒适。

Sleeper Coffee 的老板在东京、洛杉矶和纽约开设了四个座位点后才在这里开业。

First Stewded 位于 101 年历史的刘易斯大楼底层，这里也是准将酒店的所在地。

在阿斯托里亚，Salgan Street Eats 餐车以其正宗的 930mtimes 咖啡以及其 lath-in 和 plus 为特色。

从有趣的小椅子和木质装饰到 Astoria Table 的现代奢华。

Wayfarer 餐厅及休息室可欣赏干草岩的景色。

住宿推荐

坎农海滩奢华的 Stephanie Inn 每间客房都配有壁炉，还提供双筒望远镜和长凳，以便日夜欣赏海滩。今年夏季房费约为 $750 起。

Gannery Pier Hotel 建立在阿斯托里亚西端的屋顶上，拥有更多深夜 / 后方的视野。价格每晚 $300 起。

阿斯托里亚的准将酒店 (Commodore Hotel) 距离主要景点仅几步之遥，既提供带共用卫浴设施的小型客房，也提供带私人卫浴的传统标准间和豪华房。房费 $125 起。

在沿海地带像外来者一样度假，这可能是享受海滩无尽技艺而非实际的一种方式。唯一的坚定理由——刺激。避开巨大的面侧，因为那里离波特兰最近的海滩，全年游客数量翻倍。

一位游客在阿斯托里亚圆柱顶端发射木制滑翔机，这是那里的一项传统。

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纽约时报，星期六，2026年8月1日

烹饪

下周做什么：MIA LEIMKUHLER

五天，五道菜

我的餐食准备哲学与其说是哲学，不如说是基础乘法。我简单地做大量某种食物，通常将食谱翻倍（纽约时报烹饪应用的便捷缩放功能可以帮您计算），这样我在接下来的两天内就可以将其作为午餐。足够简单，对吧？但有一个注意事项：无论是在室温下还是冷食，剩菜必须好吃。这是因为 (a) 我没有微波炉，且 (b) 即使有，等到午餐时间，我通常已经饿到没有耐心等待食物重新加热。

所以今天我想分享一些我最喜欢的简单、快速的晚餐，它们可以变成更简单、更快速的午餐。（当然，如果您想加热这些剩菜，请随意！）欲了解更多，请访问 nytecooking.com。

黑豆玉米炒豆腐

如果这道 1-盎司的 McKesson 汉堡（译注：此处原文 burger 可能为误植）像一件衣服，那它就是一件“小黑裙”——它非常百搭（我把它当作周日早餐或周一晚餐一样喜欢），而且必须搭配配饰（辣酱！牛油果片！煎蛋！）。而且它还会打折，因为这道菜非常经济实惠。我喜欢用玉米片搭配剩菜，将其作为一种蛋白质满满的酪蛋白牛仔中心（casein to cowboy center）。

作者：NITTY LO MCKINNON 时间：20 分钟 分量：4 份

• 2 茶匙孜然粉
• 1 茶匙姜黄粉
• 1 茶匙烟熏红椒粉
• 2 汤匙特级初榨橄榄油
• 2 包（每包 1 / 4 至 1 / 8 盎司）特硬豆腐，沥干并切成 1 英寸的小块
• 2 瓣大蒜，切细末，以及盐和胡椒
• 2 杯新鲜或冷冻玉米粒
• 1 个红灯笼椒，切成 1 / 4 英寸的小块
• 1 罐（1 / 2 盎司）黑豆，冲洗干净
• 2 汤匙青柠汁，另留 1 份用于点缀
• 1 把香菜叶，切碎

• 1 / 2 到 1 个墨西哥辣椒，切薄片，以及加热的玉米饼（可选），用于配餐

• 1. 将孜然、姜黄和烟熏红椒粉放入一个小碗中。
• 2. 将大平底锅中火加热 2 分钟。淋入橄榄油，加入所有香料混合物，不断搅拌，让香料短时间绽放，直到散发出香味且颜色变深。（3 到 15 秒后，立即加入豆腐和大蒜，并加入大量的盐和胡椒调味。）
• 3. 将火调至中大火，偶尔翻炒，直到豆腐边缘呈金黄色。约 5 到 8 分钟。
• 4. 关火。将玉米、灯笼椒和黑豆加入锅中，翻炒均匀。静置约 3 分钟，利用余热使玉米和辣椒稍微变软。
• 5. 加入青柠汁和香菜。根据需要试味，并加入更多盐和胡椒调味。
• 6. 顶部铺上墨西哥辣椒片，搭配玉米饼（如使用）和青柠角一起上桌。

红椒鸡肉土豆

在你问之前，是的，我喜欢吃冷掉的煮土豆。（参考：土豆沙拉。）仔细想想，如果你将剩下的鸡肉和土豆随意切碎，然后与剩下的烟熏红椒蛋黄酱混合，你就能得到一份非常棒的 pasta-bronze-y 土豆沙拉。我们可以感谢 Stanisla Fidir，为此提供了精湛的 16,000-errone-palm 技巧。

作者：HISBIN THAR 时间：20 分钟 分量：4 份

• 1 / 2 杯蛋黄酱（最好是像 Kewpie 这样较甜的）
• 1 汤匙加 1 茶匙烟熏红椒粉
• 1 1 / 2 磅番茄、无皮鸡腿肉，切成 2 英寸的小块
• 盐和现磨黑胡椒
• 1 1 / 2 磅小土豆，纵向切成 1 / 4 英寸厚的薄片
• 3 汤匙橄榄油
• 1 个青柠，对半切开

• 2 汤匙切碎的欧芹叶和嫩茎

• 1. 将烤箱预热至 400 度。
• 2. 在一个大搅拌碗中，将蛋黄酱和 1 汤匙红椒粉混合，分离出 1 / 4 杯放入一个小碗中。在鸡肉表面均匀地撒上盐和胡椒。将其加入大搅拌碗中，搅拌均匀，备用。
• 3. 将土豆片放入一个大烤盘中，淋上 2 汤匙油，撒上盐和剩余的 1 茶匙红椒粉。翻炒均匀并铺平，将较厚的片放在边缘效果较好的地方。将鸡肉均匀地铺在土豆之上。
• 4. 烘烤至鸡肉熟透且土豆变软，约 20 到 25 分钟。
• 5. 在鸡肉烹饪期间，将剩余的 1 汤匙橄榄油和半个青柠的汁水挤入装有预留红椒蛋黄酱的小碗中，搅拌均匀。根据口味加入盐和更多青柠汁调味，放入冰箱冷藏至准备上桌。
• 6. 在烤好的鸡肉和土豆上装饰欧芹，并搭配红椒蛋黄酱作为蘸酱。

烤西葫芦虾仁配扎塔尔酸奶

对我来说，研究食用冷处理熟虾的方式显得很精致——也许是因为我想到了熟虾中最冷且最迷人的形态。也就是说，我认为这道烤虾与西葫芦搭配蒜香盐味酸奶酱的地中海风味料理，能为会议之间匆忙且局促的午餐增添许多格调。

作者：MELISSA CLARK 时间：40 分钟 份量：4 人份

• 1 1 / 2 磅西葫芦，对半切开并切成 1 / 4 英寸厚的半月形片
• 4 汤匙特级初榨橄榄油
• 1 1 / 4 茶匙细海盐或食盐，可根据口味增加
• 1 / 2 茶匙红辣椒碎，可根据需要增加
• 1 1 / 2 磅去壳特大号虾仁
• 4 茶匙扎塔尔 (za'atar) 香料
• 1 颗柠檬，细碎皮屑及榨汁
• 1 / 2 杯原味全脂酸奶
• 1 瓣大蒜，细磨成泥或切碎

• 碎薄荷叶、香菜或莳萝，用于装饰

• 1. 将烤架放置在距离顶部 6 英寸处，并将烤箱预热至 400 度。在一个大碗中，将西葫芦、2 汤匙橄榄油、1 / 2 茶匙盐和 1 / 4 茶匙红辣椒碎混合均匀。均匀地铺在烤盘上。烤至西葫芦整体呈诱人的褐色，大约 25 分钟，期间中途翻动一次。
• 2. 在西葫芦烤制期间，将虾仁拍干，放入之前装西葫芦的那个碗中（无需清洗）。将虾仁与剩余的 2 汤匙橄榄油、1 / 2 茶匙盐、剩余的 1 / 4 茶匙红辣椒碎、2 茶匙扎塔尔香料以及全部的柠檬皮屑混合均匀。在西葫芦烤制时，将其置于室温下静置。
• 3. 将西葫芦从烤箱取出，将火力调至高火。将虾仁加入到放有西葫芦的烤盘中，均匀铺开。烤 5 分钟，或直到虾仁刚好熟透（密切观察，以免虾仁过熟）。
• 4. 同时，在一个小碗中，将酸奶、剩余的 1 / 4 茶匙盐、一半的柠檬汁、剩余的 2 茶匙扎塔尔香料和磨碎的大蒜搅拌均匀。品尝并根据需要添加更多的盐或柠檬汁。如果混合物太稠，搅拌入少量水以稀释，然后将其舀在虾仁和西葫芦上面，并撒上切碎的香草。食用时，请确保将盘底的汁液一同舀起。

PHOTO: KATHY HARRIS

西兰花核桃青酱面

我已经数不清有多少次直接从容器里偷吃这种 Genevieve Ko 的面条了，冰箱门开着，仿佛在催促我快点关上。它非常完美——那浓郁的西兰花-大蒜泥在薄荷和柠檬的提亮下显得格外清新，而且冷吃也很有满足感，就像一份非常“绿”的意面沙拉。现在的西兰花青酱在一天后可能会吸收水分，并转变为一种蓝绿色，我喜欢用更多的核桃碎来掩盖这一点。

作者：GENEVIEVE KO 时间：20 分钟 产出：4 到 8 份配菜

盐（如 Diamond Crystal）

4 杯西兰花小朵（来自 2 颗西兰花，约 10 盎司）

1 磅切段意面，如中号水面

1 瓣大蒜，拍碎

2 杯实打实的新鲜薄荷叶（约 2 盎司，来自一小把）

黑胡椒

1 / 2 杯特级初榨橄榄油，另留少量用于食用

1 个柠檬，刨皮并取汁；帕马森干酪 (Parmigiana-Reggiana)，用于食用

1 / 2 杯核桃，切碎

• 1. 在大锅中加入水，用大火快速煮沸。加入 1 / 4 杯盐，然后放入西兰花。偶尔搅拌，煮至亮绿色且刚好 tender，约 5 分钟。使用漏勺或汤勺将其转移到食物处理器碗中；保持水沸腾状态。
• 2. 将意面放入沸水中，按照包装说明煮至 al-dente（弹牙）。保留 1 / 2 杯煮面水。
• 3. 与此同时，将大蒜加入西兰花中并打成泥，期间偶尔刮壁，直到细腻。加入薄荷、1 茶匙盐和 1 / 4 茶匙胡椒。脉冲式搅拌至顺滑；然后在机器运转时加入橄榄油。
• 4. 将意面沥干水分并转移到大碗中。拌入青酱。加入 2 汤勺柠檬汁以及各 1 / 2 茶匙的盐和胡椒，搅拌至意面均匀包裹酱汁。如果混合物显得太浓稠，请每次加入 1 汤勺预留的煮面水。混合物在烹饪过程中会变稠，所以你需要它保持酱汁感。根据口味加入盐和胡椒调味。
• 5. 分装到餐盘中，顶部撒上柠檬皮屑，然后在上面擦入鸡肉。撒上核桃碎，研磨一些黑胡椒在上面，最后淋上橄榄油。热食、温食或常温食用均可。

这款意面在冰箱中可保存最多 3 天。在食用前立即装饰柠檬皮屑、干酪、核桃、胡椒和油。请注意，意面在一天后会吸收水分并变成蓝绿色。如果用于午餐，将意面放入密封容器中，并在顶部撒上装饰物。如果你希望核桃保持额外的酥脆感，可以将它们分开保存，在食用前才撒上去。

辣味塔希尼番茄扁豆沙拉

这是一个来自 A3 Shagle 的新食谱，巧妙且精简，仅需要扁豆（选用焦糖色以增加风味）、番茄、橄榄油、柠檬、塔希尼酱（芝麻酱）、罗勒以及你最喜欢的辣椒调味品（如辣椒脆或哈里萨酱）。我想尝试用新鲜煮熟的扁豆来制作，因为我认为温暖、微咸的扁豆与清凉、多汁的番茄之间形成的对比将非常令人愉悦。

作者：ALI KAGLE 时间：20 分钟 份量：4 份配菜

2 罐（每罐 15 盎司）扁豆，沥干、冲洗并抖干（或使用 3 杯煮熟的绿扁豆或黑扁豆，由 1½ 杯干扁豆煮制而成）

1 1 / 2 磅熟透的番茄（或 2 个大番茄），切成 4 / 8 块

1 / 4 杯特级初榨橄榄油（以及 2-3 个柠檬，约 3 汤匙柠檬汁）

盐

1 / 4 杯搅拌均匀的塔希尼酱

1 汤匙辣椒脆、哈里萨酱或其他辣椒酱，根据口味可增加

1 1 / 2 杯松散的罗勒叶，撕碎

烤芝麻，用于点缀

• 1. 在一个大碗中，将扁豆、番茄、油、柠檬汁和一大撮盐混合。搅拌均匀。在一个量杯或小碗中，将塔希尼酱和辣椒脆搅拌在一起。加入冷水直到达到所需稠度，然后品尝，并加入更多辣椒脆和盐，直到酱汁感觉稍微有点太辣（扁豆会中和辣味）。
• 2. 将罗勒轻轻地搅拌进沙拉中。在沙拉上淋上塔希尼酱，撒上芝麻即可食用。根据口味用盐调味。

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Federal prosecutors have moved to drop charges against a former Olympic canteen who was accused of vandalizing the Lin- coln Memorial Reflecting Pool, an knowledge that a contractor hired by the Trump administration had "botched" to reservation. In a motion filed in District of Columbia Superior Court on Fri- day, the U.S. attorney in Washing- ton, Justice-Pere, said that her ef- fect had received thousands of shoveling the damage to the pool "was the result of a flawed social lation by the contractor. Atlantic Industrial Coatings, and the rock to samples the project prior to events associated with the Amer- ica/20 celebration" on July 4.

Gives all of this newly stuare- ered information," she wrote, "it is difficult to attribute the wide- spread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to re- validate that fact beyond a reason- able doubt.

The canteen, David Hoare, it, was one of seven people facing charges is connected with what President Trump had claimed without evidence, were efforts to sabotage the administrative con- cretion of the pool.

Mr. Hoare was the only person known to the facing, a felony charge, neither than a misdemean- se. It was unclear if vandalism en- 't fit. Charges against other de- fondants were also being dis- missed.

Mr. Hoare pleaded not guilty this month to a charge of doctor- inter's property this could not been scheduled to begin as Sept. 28.

Mr. Hoare was arrested in June after the police claimed he had posted four-stated waterproofing calls. The first three calls had begun to post several days before, according to federal government documents.

His lawyers said that his ac- tions were not criminal conduct. They had filed a motion in district the case asserting that the "pro- vement that had been proven to be key physical evidence in this case" (he Lincoln Memorial Re- fecting Pool, including the section of its later that Mr. Hoare is charged with damaging).

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By Friday afternoon, the Spanish authorities said the majority of the migrants who had flooded into Costa had returned to Morocco.

Rescuers Show Signs of Harm

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CULLOPEREZ, N.C. — State Boomer saved hundreds of lives sending 25 years on rescue boats in the Coast Guard, When he died, his 'stranger daughter Kazingh wondered why he could not save his own.

He was a big, progressive man who seemed able to handle any- thing. But an Kazingh grew up the wrecked him slowly fall apart. First came headaches, and then sleeplessness. His memory frayed, and his moods turned one.

When he retired from the Coast Guard at age 48 in 2022, things grew worse. He would cost and screws. One afternoon, he dropped her grandfather with new punch. In the months after, he started setting things on fire.

On a winter evening in 2025, with a pile of Coast Guard flour being on the living room floor, he walked out the front door and

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Kazingh, her mother, her younger sister and her two little brothers all saw it happen.

He left no care. He offered no explanation. His coming apart left his family to perplexed about how to turn up his life that they buried him without a headstone.

Kazingh, who is now 18, was devastated. But after the funeral, she started to wonder.

Her father was a northeast — an able rescuer whose job was to drive lifebeats through crashing waves as high as 25 feet. Maybe all those years crashing into waves had left her father with an answer.

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Of Spain Ignites a Backlash

The article is by James Horowitz, Center Boroughs and Thomas Fuller.

CILITA, Spain — Time of thau- nauds of migrants streamed into a Spanish territory at the tip of North Africa, fighting a rising crisis and a political favoritism in Europe on Friday. that about Spain's liberal pro-immigration government against right-wing crisis carries the common.

Pedro Sánchez, Spain's prime minister, rushed on Friday to Croda, the autonomous Spanish reaction contiguous with Morocco, and said 400 additional security forces had been sent to the border. By Friday afternoon, the Spanish authorities said 45,000 people — the majority of the estimated 30,000 or 60,000 migrants who had flooded into Costa since Thursday — had returned to Mor- occo.

Three dozen migrants died at-

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tempting the journey into the Spanish territory, the authorities said. Migrants described even- thing past the bodies of the dead.

Questions litigated about what would happen to the many thou- nauds who remained in Costa and whether some would make it to the European mainland a dozen miles across the Great of Gibria (or.

"I don't want to live in Morocco, I want to live in Europe," said Ju- barin Lahmer, 23, a migrant who spoke through what he described as pangs of hunger. But he said he was determined to reach Spain. "I want a job, I want happiness."

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WASHINGTON — Communi- tion and home across Arizona, No- vada and California face poten- tially drastic use in the water they can use from the Colorado River over the next decade under State's on-crispy administration published on Friday.

The proposal raises the poten- tial for complex legal battles that could play out for years.

Across much of the American West, access to water is quavering labor disputes that pit farming communities against cities and states against neighboring states on waring demand has clashed with decades of overuse. Rising temperatures and drought may be made by climate change have also intensified the conflict. The light over the Colorado has inter- national implications as well, as some parts of northern Mexico are to be found open to the water.

In trying out its approach to the crisis, the Trump administration has heightened a family legal and practical question of who should shoulder the burden of a shrinking Colorado River.

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The Trump proposal alarmed Arizona officials on Friday.

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The image shows a series of views for Mr. Johnson's "YouTube channel are shown by ad- isons from the heights of 2024. The range of attention be received on the page. The article, this re- grity to Mr. Trump has become un- apparding to some Republican who are frustrated with the rising cost of living and the president's interest in the 2024 election.

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MONTERREY, Mexico — The line of nearly 100 customers for the restaurant's recent grand opening stretched on both sides of the main entrance, with some pa- trons accruing four hours early de- grate the best. Many had been en- ticipating this day for months.

When the workers pressed a hector meant to look like a burrin wrapped in aluminum foil, the fa- cade of the restaurant was un- veiled and content shot into the air.

In the homeland of tacos, burrin on and spreadillas, a new com- petitor has entered the market: Chipotle, the Mexican-engined fast cereal chain that is ubiquitous in the United States.

"What pride they do for me in Mexico and in Latin America is here," said John Rodriguez, 16, a lawyer from Monterrey who was the first person to hire, in an afflu- ces suburban hotel city. The first 100 customers got a free Chipotle tute bag, 5-able! and that.

But after another American chain, Taco Bell, failed twice south of the market, can Chipotle very carefully sell to version of Mexi- can food in Mexicans in Mexico?

Mexicans take enormous pride in their cuisine, which is widely recognized as one of the world's

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A concert at El Proyecto, which has become a popular gathering place in Havana for young artists, activists and intellectuals.

A bartender sets up at El Proyecto. Admission to the parties there on Friday, Saturday and Tuesday nights is 50 cents.

The events at El Proyecto are a form of resistance in Cuba, given the repression of the government and the monitoring of citizens.

THE GLOBAL PROFILE DAVID GONZÁLEZ

His Parties Serve as a Cultural Oasis for Young Cubans

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HAVANA – The power was out again and the neighborhood was pitch dark, save for the true coveted home on the corner with the lakes out from, a bar in the back and an eight-piece hand playing on the wraparound porch.

The 29-year-old host, David González, squeezed through the crowded dance floor in his family's former living room, past the mural that asked "How much longer?" and headed down to the basement to check on the boating heart of the party.

The single 10-kilowatt-hour battery he had imported from Spain was powering everything – the lights, refrigerators, speakers and amps – and still had 62 percent lift. It was only midnight. "Without this guy, we'd be lost," he said.

That battery, and Mr. González's spunk, have turned his childhood home into one of Havana's hottest venues: anteil Cuba's worst-wort energy crisis, as well as the petri dish for a budding political movement.

Over the past six months, as the Trump administration's oil blockade has helped plunge Cuba into darkness, Havana's sights have been lit up by Mr. González's weekend parties. Every night from Friday through Sunday, his home has become the go-to gathering place for the city's young artists, activists and intellectuals, part of a larger cultural initiative he calls El Proyecto, or The Project.

In Cuba – where citizens are monitored, criticism of the government is punished and political movements are repressed – the events themselves are a form of resistance.

"There's no better way of being against this government than being happy," he said. "They want you to be frustrated, they want you to be angry. But actually the less hate, the less anger you have inside, the better to confront them."

"So that's the way we fight," he added. "All good mood and all good vibes."

Washington's pressure campaign is pushing the Cuban government to the brink, leading it to shut off power to most of the country for all but a few hours a day, if that.

That has smelled out Havana's in moody bright nightlife scene, including the closing late month of its most revered cultural institution, the Fábrica de Arte Cubana, or Cuban Air Factory, an art and music venue in a converted factory.

So its place has arrived El Proyecto. What began as film screenings last August has now grown into concerts, celebrations, lectures, dance parties and, increasingly, political debates and protests against the Cuban government. Amid the blackouts, there is virtually no other place like it in Havana.

"Imagine living in a desert: The sand burns you, you're lacking water and you really don't know which way to go," said Fito del Rio, 31, a musician who got married on Mr. González's porch in April, "And then there's a place that represents all the rest that you need – where you can arrive, drink water and suddenly feel like the sand isn't burning you."

"That's this space," he added. "It's an smile."

At the front of the movement – and sometimes changing the 50-cent admission at the party's front gate – is Mr. González. Gregarious and laid-back, he moves around the overwhelmingly Gen Z crowd with intense positivity, bagging regulars, welcoming newcomers and taking turns on the Plug-Peng radio on the porch. As the night drags on, the topic offers turns to politics.

"There's a Cuba that's dying at the same time a new Cuba is being back," he said. "Their activities, their values, their slogans, their older hatred and violence. It's dying. And they can't stop the new Cuba, because there are no many people winning and creating and creating the world."

In some ways, Mr. González was trained for this. He left Cuba for London in 2022 to get a master's in political communication, and said he has long studied equivalent political movements and how they succeed.

Now that it has gained momentum this year, Mr. González wants to transition El Proyecto into a more politically active phase. On July 11, the fifth anni-

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'I know I'm taking risks. But I'm not going to self-ensor the things I dream and the things I want to do because of fear.'

versary of the last mass protest against the Cuban government, he and his girlfriend curated an event with the theme of creating change in Cuba. The word "freedom" hung from the ceiling as a performer held knives to another's threat and a graffiti artist wrote on the wall. "The feeling of collapse is part of the system."

Attendees hanged pets and pass – the most common form of protest in Cuba – and shouted, "Down with the dictatorship." Mr. González said a government agent eventually arrived and warned him that he had better be careful.

"I know I'm taking risks," he said. "But I'm not going to self-ensor the things I dream and the things I want to do because of fear."

The Cuban government has long selectively enforced its rules, which

restrict most gatherings. This year, the government has calumnied and even acknowledged the frequent hanging of pets and paint across Cuba's cities, but it has also arrested some people who have promoted on the street. Cuban officials have said the protests should be aimed at the United States, not at them.

Mr. González acknowledged that after this article, he would quite likely attract more attention from the government. "I believe fearing them would be letting them win," he said. "And I'm tired of them winning."

Attendees at his parties described Mr. González as an inspiration.

"David is a dreamer. He is a person who doesn't just stay on the couch and suffers with the rest of us. He wants to be part of the change," said Charlie Barrietas, 27, a Havana tour guide who

has become a regular at El Proyecto. "He's a leader, and all of us, we follow him."

Mr. González bristles at the idea of formally leading a movement. "I don't want power," he said. "I just want to be useful."

But he admitted that El Proyecto's success has given him an opportunity. "I want to capitalize on that," he said. "To turn that happiness into change, I believe we have to learn to articulate ourselves, how to organize ourselves and how to transform."

Still, he lacks concrete plans on next steps. He said he has had small partnerships with the British and French Embassies but has no interest in working with the U.S. government, which frequently supports Cuban activists. He questioned President Trump's intentions toward Cuba, believing the presi-

dent would exploit the island for himself and not empower the Cuban people.

"People are so desperate for a change that they believe Donald Trump is going to be their sarkas," he added. "They haven't realized yet that the sarkas are themselves."

A White House spokeswoman called Cuba a national security threat and said that the Trump administration wants to help the country, but that the Cuban government is standing in the way.

Carlos Fernández de臨時, Cuba's deputy foreign minister, said in an interview: "There's one aggression, which is the United States, and one country under aggression, which is Cuba."

Mr. González, and many attendees at one of his recent parties, thought both sides were to blame.

El Proyecto headquarters is a nearly century-old home that once belonged to a rich family, Mr. González said. It was confiscated by the government after Fidel Castro's revolution in 1935, he said. Mr. González's grandmother, who was a teacher and there revolutionary, then bought the first floor from the government over 20 years.

Mr. González said that about a decade ago, two Florida women who said they were descendants of the home's original owners came to take photos of the property, suggesting their family was the rightful owner and could one day reclaim the house.

After Mr. González's grandmother died in 2021 and left the house to his mother, the family considered selling it, hourly all of them had fled Cuba.

But Mr. González persuaded his mother to keep it, and then, in 2024, he returned from London to move back in. He said that he felt abandoning his country seemed like subscribing to the government. "I wanted to send a message that you can live in Cuba and do things in Cuba if you really want to," he said.

Although many young Cubans have left the island, Mr. González said any event at his home shows that plenty also remain – and are ready for change.

"We don't know yet how we're going to be a part of that change, but something inside of us is telling us not to leave," he said. "They want to witness what's about to come."

A sound check for Jella MaViola. Besides cultural events, El Proyecto has become known for political discourse.

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In Mexico, the Homeland of Tacos, the Chipotle Chain Tries to Fit In

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trendy clothing or caps featuring U.S. professional sports teams. One woman filmed herself eating, like an پاکستان.

Sotale: Hispanic Brände. It, who runs a renewable energy company, noticed the Chipotle across the street from his sun's private school and remembered that his brother exists, a Mexican in the United States, said it was his favorite restaurant.

Mr. Brände lived in the United States for four years, but said he had never been Chipotle because he tried Taco Bell and didn't like it. His review: Chipotle's steak barrel was "nothing special," but the chicken in the bowl (not the rice, though) was "spectacular" and the prices were "very good."

Josia Guzmán, 35, a trader, said he liked eating Chipotle when visiting Houston for work and was curious to try it in Mexico, as he brought his fiancée for lunch. But Karla Stiles, 32, an engineer, was less thrilled. The first time she had a Chipotle barrels in the United States, she said, "What is this streaky? Why do they put rice in it?" She said she planned to take a few bows and give her fiancé the rest.

For at least five years, Mexico had been a target of Chipotle, said Pablo Marcelo de Brito, the managing director of new brands for Alexa, the Mexican restaurant operator partnering with Chipotle in Mexico. It also runs Starbucks, Dominick, the Chenocoke Factory and other American brands in the country.

Mr. de Brito said the Monterrey metropolitan area, with a population of five million, was chosen as Chipotle's initial force because the two countries' cultures are so heavily intertwined here.

Monterrey, known as Mexico's industrial capital, is roughly downtown by car from the Texas border. Mr. de Brito pointed to the purchasing power per capita of the area, the highest in Mexico, and specifically San Pedro Garza Garcia, one of the richest municipalities in Latin America, where Chipotle opened its first restaurant in one of the higher-end shopping malls.

In Mexico, where the average person lives five minutes from a taquería, Mr. de Brito said Chipotle hoped to offer an option between cheap street food and expensive fine dining, because the average Mexican earns less than the average American. Mr. de Brito said, Chipotle's prices are roughly 25 percent lower here.

Scott Boatwright, Chipotle's chief executive, said in a statement that his company was entering Mexico "with deep respect for the country's culinary heritage" and that its research showed there was "strong interest in high-quality, freshly prepared food" served with "conservative and convenience."

After recently eating at a long-term meal, he is and he/its chain called Tacos Leaf in downtown Monterrey, Actors Medrano, 30, who works in finance, said he had seen Chipotle in the United States his career today.

Unlike Chipotle, Tacos Leaf serves dozens of different tastes and hurries — from potatoes with eggs to red or green, chickenes, and other popular varieties, and only carrot seeds, cheese and

Pablo Marcelo de Brito, the managing director of new brands for Alexa, the firm partnering with Chipotle in Mexico, greeted Petry Cándaro and Abimael Cándaro.

Customers waited for Chipotle to open. Right, Arturo Medrano, a customer of Tacos Leaf, a taquería in Monterrey, said he rarely eats Mexican food north of the border.

maybe refried beans. The tortillas are soared until lightly blistered, while Chipotle's are flushed swiftly to a press.

Prized between $3.70 and $8.30, Tacos Leaf's barriers are smaller and simpler. Toppings are kept to a minimum with mixers, cilantro and shoes, while the salvas bring significantly more heat.

Mr. Medrano said he rarely eats Mexican food north of the border because the tortillas don't open later the same, and dishes often come with yellow cheese (rather

than the typical Mexican white cheese) plus sour cream, lettuce and rice.

"If I want my Mexican food," he said, "I live in Mexico and I'll eat my Mexican food here."

To uphold Chipotle's brand, Mr. de Brito said, the recipes and menu in Mexico are exactly the same as in the United States, including the salvas, despite the spicier standards of the Mexican market. That could be an issue, also Abimael Cándaro, 40, a maintenance worker from Monterrey

who, along with his wife and son, was among the very first customers.

The store leading for her sauces from here, but that's not what we found," he said, as they are barricots with a bottle of Tobacco sauce sitting on the table.

The family lived in Colorado and Texas for 17 years, before returning in Mexico to 2017, and they liked Chipotle's taste and value. They said the food, which had called Mexican flavorings, ruined the same as they remembered.

Like many others visiting, Mr. Cándaro's son, Abimael Jr., 40, was sparred by nostalgia — he works in 1 T, but two decades ago in the United States, he worked at a Chipotle.

Mr. de Brito, the restaurant executive, said Chipotle hoped to open six to eight restaurants in the Monterrey area within the next year before expanding to the rest of the country. Chipotle said it has an expansion into Mexico City planned for 2027.

Asked if he had heard of Chipo-

tle, Ignacio Juárez Aparicio, 30, an art dealer who lives in Mexico City last night. Monterrey regularly, said "the pepper, yes."

He said an American brand of Mexican food may thrive in northern Mexico because of extensive U.S. influence, but he believed Mexico City would be harder because of stiff competition and traditions.

"I don't go to a restaurant to eat tacos," he said. "The tacos we eat in Mexico City are the most people sell on the street, on the corners."

Seaweed Is Spoiling Mexico's Beaches, But Sheinbaum Has $115 Million Plan

By DAVID SHORTELL

MEXICO CITY — President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico unveiled a $115 million plan on Thursday to combat one of the most pernicious threats to the nation's crucial tourism industry: a record-breaking scourge of seaweed that is spoiling vacation top and down Mexico's prized Caribbean coast.

The plan centers on two 200-foot ships that can haul in more than three sails of seaweed a minute and that will travel the open seas off Mexico's east coast, Ms. Sheinbaum said during her daily news conference, Mexico's Navy will also detail more than 20 miles of containment barriers to trap the seaweed as it wears the shore, and hundreds of workers from the military, as well as thousands of local governments, will use heavy machinery and pitchforks to leave off the mess that makes it through.

The seaweed — a stinky, brown slate known as sargaousin — has plagued Mexico and the broader region for more than a decade, but this year's forecast is setting records. Up to 8,000 tons of sargaousin arrive each day to the coast of Quintana Roo, the Mexican state that includes the tourist hot spots Cancún and Tulare, according to environmental data. That is four times the amount that washed up per day last year and 17 times the total.

Ricardo Hernández Ruiz contributed reporting.

daily average.

The scope of the plan shows how big of a threat the seaweed poses to the Mexican economy. Tourists have been complaining and, in some cases, changing plans because of the onslaught of seaweed, threatening revenues that account for nearly 5 percent of Mexico's economy.

One study published this year estimated that the presence of sargaousin on a broad was associated with a roughly 12 percent decline in local economic activity, with negative effects pertaining for up to 12 months after the seaweed was first detected.

Ms. Sheinbaum has portrayed the effort as an urgent priority, recently touring the affected area by helicopter and bringing out her top military and science officials on Thursday for the boarding presentation.

The region's stretch of powdery sand beaches and turquoise water amounts to Mexico's most important tourist destination, and high season, when millions of visitors from around the world plan to arrive, begins in the fall.

"The effort so far has been tissue, but we have to do more to prevent sargaousin from reaching the beaches," Ms. Sheinbaum said.

Since 2011, shifting wind patterns have carried sargaousin outside of its natural home in the North Atlantic — where it serves as a habitat and source of food for marine species — to the south, where chemical agricultural run-

off from Africa and Brazil have helped fuel a massive growth, losing ocean temperatures caused by climate change have also played a role in the speed at which it grows, scientists believe.

When ocean currents and winds carry the bloom onto shore, it layers into thick, savagery mounds that smother wildlife and, as they decompose, release pin that makes the beach smell like a sewed. With prolonged exposure, the gases — primarily hydrogen sulfide and ammonia — can be harmful to humans. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommends rearing away from areas where sargaousin is decomposing.

The decomposing seaweed can also turn the surrounding water a murky brown — a phenomenon known as a brown tale, which causes underwater oxygen levels to always, killing off waters of fish.

The Mexican effort is focused on capturing more of the seaweed at sea, before it becomes a problem for vacationers. One ship, which can haul up to 100 tons of the seaweed, is already operating in the Caribbean Sea, according to Raymundo Pedro Morales Angeles, Mexico's navy secretary. The second, with a capacity for 700 tons, is currently at a port on Mexico's Pacific Coast waiting to cross the Panama Canal and to expense to join the fight in a month, he said.

The ships are modified roll-on, roll-off vessels, which are typically used to move cars between international ports like a floating

garage. Off the front of the ships, Ms. Mencion Navy has installed a collection system consisting of four bands that lower into the ocean's north seaweed, moving in a containment bay "like the endless chutes of a tortilla making me wonder," Mr. Morales Angeles said. The navy is also deploying smaller boats issuing men to collect seaweed closer to shore, and

will contribute more than 300 soldiers to dispose of the seaweed on land, who will join hundreds more workers already employed by state and local governments and individual hotels.

Clearing sargaousin from about a yard of sand, which can cost a hotel as much as $60 a month — a figure that can add up, contains ing the lengthy shorelines of some

A member of the Mexican Navy removed sargaousin seaweed in Playa del Carmen in June. The record-breaking scourge is a threat to the nation's crucial tourism industry.

beachfront properties, according to Roberto Ciarola, former president of a local hotel association.

At Garza Hotels & Resorts, a collection of all exclusive properties in Cancún's popular hotel zone, it takes nearly 300 people working round-the-clock shifts to share through the daily onslaught, Josia Almaguer, the company's commercial director and another former association chief, said.

Speaking at the news conference Thursday, Iván Chávez, the executive vice president of the Mexican luxury resort developer Grupo Velanta, called the investment "the most comprehensive response to sargaousin in the world."

"For years, everyone fought this battle on their own — each day, each municipality with its own setting and its own methods," he said. "Today, that is over."

Beyond Mexico, sargaousin houses have washed ashore across the Caribbean and in South Florida this year, clogging beaches in Miami and causing fish to die on maize in the Florida Bay's. In the Dominican Republic, which is experiencing its own travel sargaousin season, officials have discussed purchasing a Mexican sargaousin-collecting ship, said Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Mexican environmental secretary.

An international summit, expressed in include leaders from the Caribbean and Brazil, is planned for October in Cancún, Ms. Bárcena said.

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How Diamonds Have Avoided U.S. Tariffs, Despite Forced Labor Issue

By ANA FRANNIN and JEANNA SMALLER WASHINGTON — Last week, in President Trump announced new global tariffs, the European diamond industry broadcast a sign of relief.

Natural diamonds had once again been compared from tariffs. The newly issued exemption followed negotiations with European officials last year, and months of sustained advocacy by a diamond group in Antwerp, Belgium, which dominates the global industry. It also followed the presentation of a remarkable gift designed personally for Mr. Trump.

A few weeks earlier, the group, the Antwerp World Diamond Council, which handles most of the world's tough diamonds and about half of its published issues, had survived on 16 issues gold ring the size of a watch. The ring was encrusted with 231 diamonds and 1,000 of suppliers, enwarts and ridders, and it was a gift on Mr. Trump to watch American 2500s anniversary.

The ring features two large diamonds, one from 1,000, and "47" — references to Mr. Trump's presidential terms — ringed in diamonds in a Super-sun-suite logo. On its interior, a 1,000, and 1,000,000 Antwerp's Donald John Trump's.

A very special thank you to my friends from Antwerp for the ring. All over578 issues 218 ring. "Mr. Trump's card is a 1,000,000 ribbon message played at an America-239 party at Czechoslovakia Paris and London for housemold natural Badovsons, burchen and Alexis Wilkins, a country singer and the girlfriend of the F.R.I. do write. Each front, performing the national award.

The industry had won a reprieve from tariffs last year, after Mr. Trump reached a trade deal with the European Union. But when the Supreme Court could down these tariffs in February, the Trump replaced them with new ones, diamond imports were penalized again.

The company had won a reprieve from tariffs last year, after Mr. Trump reached a trade deal with the European Union. But when the Supreme Court could down these tariffs in February, the Trump replaced them with new ones, diamond imports were penalized again.

The tariffs had not applied to a 1,000,000 diamond in the case, and gas to copper, chip-making machinery, chemicals and diamonds. These exemptions will save bil-

Ana Frannin reported from Washington, and Joanna Swiskle from Brussels.

A diamond group in Antwerp, Belgium, designed on 18-Israel gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and diamond of suppliers, enwarts and ridders in house of American 2500s anniversary.

lions of dollars in tariff costs. The U.S. consumers and tourism industries, including makers of steel and aluminum, burners and rich companies.

There is no evidence that the gift of the ring directly affected the president's thinking on the tariff exclusion for the diamond industry. But the new list of exemptions has renewed questions about the tariffs and the tariffs of the tariffs, which range from 10 percent to 12.5 percent, certain more exemptions than before.

The tariffs had not applied to a 1,000,000 diamond in the case, and gas to copper, chip-making machinery, chemicals and diamonds. These exemptions will save bil-

An official of the European Union that was agreed to put the tariffs on tariffs, which is how the administration continues up holding our end of the deal," he said, adding, "The only special term for gas-fixing the Trump administration's decision-making is the best interest of the American people."

An official of the Office of the United States Trade Representative, which is the United States's first official, said that the agency had no awareness of the gift, and it was not an element in determining the exemption.

During Mr. Trump's first term, the company's tariffs, which are a process for companies to apply for exclusion, had it was criticized by some as rigged or disorderly.

Early in his second term, Mr. Trump and his supporters, others, said there would be no immediate exceptions or restrictions to tariffs,

arguing that poor exemptions created a "focus choice" approach that did little to reduce the flow of imports into the United States.

Over a year later, Trump officials have modified their approach, saying they are working to fine-tune the tariffs and exempt certain categories of goods where they will not have a positive effect. These include raw materials that could disrupt supply and thus "protects this could cause commercials disruptions" if subject to tariffs and goods that cannot be grown or produced in the United States.

U.S. officials said they also issued certain exemptions that other governments, like the European Union, Bangladesh, Switzerland and Taiwan, negotiated for in their trade agreements.

A senior administration official told reporters that Mr. Trump had made determination about which exemptions would make the most sense for American supply chains.

Some of the new exemptions either before carve-outs to the 2025 tariffs that were ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court, including exemptions for products covered by trade deals with Mexico, Canada and Central America.

In November, the Trump administration lifted tariffs ahead, calling bananas, tomatoes and other products on it tried to prevent the prices of some goods from becoming even more expensive at a moment when Americans were struggling with inflation.

Other exemptions are clearly

neurotic to ensure that strategic decisions, like chip manufacturing and data centers, can continue to derive in the United States.

Tech executives have made their case in Trump officials, the months that tariffs on the foreign machinery and companies that would end slow their ability to handle new factories and A.I. data core.

Concerns linger over textiles, coffee, gold and other products.

ters. Farmers, who have also labeled the administration for help-mothering costs, raw equipment and fertilizer exempted.

Dan Anthony, the president of Trade Partnership Worldwide, which manufactures the impact of trade, said that the administration had exempted about half of the imports from the forced labor tariffs' board of directors. That is similar to the level of exemptions offered under the previous 10 percent global tariff that expired last month.

The government's exemption were related to metal waste and tariffs, which are used to manufacture steel and aluminum; certain chemicals, including those needed by farmers, and machinery for high-tech manufacture, he said. Among trade experts, one of the

class of tariffs in that they have exempted many industries that have persistent issues with forced labor, like textiles, coffee, gold, bread, nuts, cocoa and minerals. These products are all highlighted in an annual report about forced and child labor compiled by the U.S. Labor Department.

The department has specifically called out palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia, both of which received exemptions specifically for these products.

"The company has the practicality made this a lot of products we know to be made with forced and child labor, including many raw materials and finished products made in Xinjiang and in the Democratic Republic of Congo," said Louis Rodoljo, a professor of human rights at Sheffield Hallam University in Britain who worked with the labor authorities in the Biden administration.

Mr. Rodoljo painted in paprika, which is exempted from the tariffs. Poprika is a popular alternative to red food, which is used in Trump's followers in the Mide America healthy Apple countries.

But recent testing found that much of the paprika needed as made in the United States is actually made in China, with nearly 20 percent of the population of the United States from imports from Xinjiang because of recent years about forced labor. The world's largest manufacturer of paprika, which is now owned by the called Chengyang Biotech, was added to a U.S. government that it companies using forced labor in 2025.

U.S. trade officials have suspended that their authority is over trade, not labor laws. They say that the recent tariff action represents the most sweeping or extraterrestrial labor rights action the United States has over taken.

They argue that the Trump administration strictly embezzles their forced labor laws, and that the new tariffs are directed at getting countries to adopt their own import laws on forced labor. There, not at policing forced labor itself. The tariffs are focused on providing partners responsible for the largest volume of trade, not small countries that may have a better future with forced labor.

But to some analysts, that dismember is confusing or even ironic court.

"You can't address forced labor laws when when going at all that of Tariffs Free cost to the most problematic area and products," said Mr. Anthony of Trade Partnership Worldwide.

Mr. Anthony painted out that the Labor Department had repeatedly flagged forced labor con-

cerns with gold, tin, cobalt, sanitation and weapons from the Democratic Republic of Congo. But neither Congo nor those states do are subject to tariffs.

Some domestic manufacturers have also criticized a new mechanism for administration intruders for certain, which will allow Bangladesh, Caribbean, Indonesia and Malaysia to export some clothing to the United States tariff free, as long as they are U.S. cures to make it. The program is intended to provide the experts and reduce these countries' purchases of cotton from China, which the United States has restricted because of forced labor.

But the government is aware of the National Council of Textile Organizations, a group of U.S.-based textile manufacturers, argued that the measure will further encourage the industry to increase production in Asia, Some of the administration's trade moves would be helpful in combating forced labor in global supply chains. The government is making textile duties in "a surplus-back".

Diamonds, too, frequently put in the market, have been made good. It made with forced and child labor. Beginners disposed sector has among the strictest standards for supply chain monitoring, but has been more aggressive claim that some problematic products will slip through.

Diamonds are too commercially stored in the United States and the United States's food industry. A major goal role in trading, cutting and distributing rough and polished natural diamonds. The tariff exempted will apply to natural diamonds of European origin — meaning they are cut to Europe but could be sourced from any where around the globe. Antwerp experts even 10 billion published in the U.S. in United States annually.

The U.S. Industry in Belgium welcomes the tariff exemption, saying in a joint new release with the U.S. government that it would further deal it was "the result of constructive dialogue and close cooperation between the United States and Belgium."

The Antwerp diamond group said on social media that the exemption followed "months of use" was not a major method of "exactly the outcome."

As for the diamond encrusted ring designed for Mr. Trump, it remains in the U.S. ambassadors' office. The company, said Bill White, the ambassador.

An admission letter official said that the White House had not yet received the text, and that when it did, it would be sent to the National Archives, with an option for Mr. Trump to try it later.

German Officials Renew Service Exterminism In Months Before Attack

This article is by Adam Goldman, Jan Bednicky and Philip Kahn.

BERLIN — The signs of a committed jihadist were there. Violence, Propaganda, Attempts to travel abroad in just a terrorist group, and finally, discipline.

German officials had for months documented them all in Abdel Rahman Doug Balloul, a Borbhones German citizen of Lebanon, but the group had a history of criminal convictions and terrorist aspirations to extensive that law enforcement officials were authorized to succeed. In fact that the situation was even worse with de-radicalization specialists, who concluded he was too deeply committed to his extensive views to be helped.

The group's efforts to be taken to be issued from juvenile detention, which holds offenders up to 22 years old, two months ago after a failed attempt to join the Islamic State, the terrorist organization known for its extreme credit.

Now, as Saturday night, the Balloul rainsed a van into a crowd of convicts leaving a gap. Pride celebrates in Berlin's Thurperus and and attacked with a group of police. A man in the field saw woman and injured 29 other people. After a daylong manhunt, the police shot him to death in a confrontation on Sun.

Since then, political leaders, law enforcement officials and people across Germany have been concerned by one question: then, government is not the government know about him, was Mr. Balloul first to act?

"We must answer," Chancellor Franklin Menz of Germany told the press. "We have been a good man, a man classified in this way here in Berlin's generalistment" and at tack the Pride celebration?

Mr. Balloul's case has prompted finger-pointing among government officials as Germany groups. The group's press, German officers and weights changes to a legal system that failed to stop his deadly machination. Prosecu-

tors had objected to his release from detention. The federal judiciary and its security leaders are engaged in a new and increasingly bitter public blame game over interpretations of German law and responsibility for preventing Mr. Balloul from carrying out his attack.

The failure was not what the risk was undetected," said Adrian Menz, an American fellow with the international Center for Counter-Terrorism, a research group. "It was a systematic mismatch between the gravity of the national threat and the leniency of the legal and operational response."

He added, "All gave too little weight to Balloul's person—unbelievable, impatience to the law."

Mr. Menz, his interior minister, Alexander Debruda, and their center-right party, the Christian Democrats, have called for an overhaul of their recant to deter and detain terrorism.

Other senior right-makers have begun to echo calls from the far-right Alternative for Germany, which has pushed to strip terrorism of their German citizenship and deport them.

Some German leaders have urged caution. To discourage investigation must be the first priority before we draw any legal policy to protect the country's rights in Germany's Conference of Justice Ministers, Asse Cudleau, told Public Media.

"The political force has been to protect the country's rights. He finds out did not slip through the cracks. Instead, he was on the radar of multiple arms of the German security and law enforcement members."

As a teenager, Mr. Balloul was convicted of assault and of a theft at a train station. He left school after 10th grade and worked with the government, Torvik, told Der Spiegel, a leading German news organization.

His father said he had prohibited his son from growing a long beard, and that they had argued

Police on Sunday removed the van that was driven into a crowd at a gap Pride celebration in Berlin. One woman was killed and 29 other people were injured. The driver was killed by the police.

about it. He told Der Spiegel that he has concluded that his son died had been "brutrenated," though he did not say to whom.

In 2025, cards and other published illegal Islamic State propaganda on his biological account, German investigators said. That November, according to experts in the United States, the police, the police changed his WhatsApp status to a picture of his cousin, Abu Belak, an Islamic State fighter who died in battle in Iraq in 2015.

Mr. Balloul tried to fly in May 2025 to Mauritania, near other countries in West Africa that are hake for Islamic extremism. He never made it. Prosecutors deliver only 4% to the United States, or why the trip failed. But he tried again later that same month, flying in Turkey and making his way to Lebanon with the hope of traveling on to Syria to stand with the Islamic State.

He was an what experts describe as a well-worn path to radicalization. A decision on attempt to travel abroad in just a terrorist organization is among the worst signs of a committed jihadist, experts said.

"If you demonstrate your willingness to travel, you're deeply committed to the cause," said Douglas Wroble, a researcher who focuses on European extremism.

"That's probably a good campaign of point at making a distinction between those who are committed and those who are sympathetic."

In Lebanon, the German authorities said, Mr. Balloul made no part with possible members of the Islamic State but was arrested in July 24, one year and one day before the war. The police was convicted of incitement to religious and terrorism conflict, and a military court in Lebanon was moved him to three months before.

When he returned to Germany on Nov. 17, the police in Berlin were waiting. He was arrested. He was held in private detention and sentenced to a fine of 1,000 years of jargon in May to 22 months in prison for offenses that included "preparing a serious act of violence endangering the 'sake' command of the 'sake' police, to troops to join the Islamic State abroad.

Prosecutors sought a longer sentence. While their appeal was pending, he provided court judges released Mr. Balloul under the supervision of a probation officer, a continue disbursing Mr. Balloul, a court spokeswoman. Like, like, said in a news release, the court would have needed to find "stress in fire, overhaul, or conceal a crime" — and it did not.

Prosecutors, who had sought a 1,000 sentence, said the court had considered several factors: a interval as mitigated. They claim the same number as had been reserved in detention, attempts to make to distance himself from 2025 and the lack of any overdoses.

But he was fined, the authors too secretly installed a camera, and his apartment in southwest Berlin was investigators could more law too coming and going. The police had been sent to a new Berlin Criminal Police, but classified Mr. Balloul as a "high risk individual" in January.

Mr. Balloul was not required yet to seek counseling, but his police into officer nevertheless urged that he was according to General Luthunmen, head of communication for Vietnam Prevention Network in Berlin. Its experts try to counter ideologically motivated violence.

De-radicalization specialists, since the group met with Mr. Balloul on June 20 and July 6 to try to determine whether he could be helped with Luthunmen. He described his interaction with her group as a preliminary period.

"His extremism was deep," she said, "He was very radicalized." A third meeting had been

He was released from prison, despite his terrorist applications.

scheduled for this past Monday, just after the Saturday night of 2025, she said, that it is the group was due to be a court knew its findings.

"He surely knew there were three meetings and there would be a decision," Mr. Luthunmen said.

Such de-radicalization programs are designed to offer a potential off-road for those with serious extremism views. The programs have become more prevalent in Europe since the rise of the Islamic State attracted no more from thousands of Europeans — including many who were in Syria and Iraq to fight.

Such programs can fail. A one-tiered terrorist who had attended de-radicalization classes attacked a number of on the same stage in 2005, totally stabbing two people. The effectiveness of such programs was debated in Germany by 2020 after a man who was ordered to be sent to a foreign government in Dresden. One of the victims died.

Experts said de-radicalization efforts are generally more helpful than the other. The early stages of radicalization and voluntarily wrote sentences. Mr. Binnat said that Mr. Balloul should not have been a viable candidate for de-radicalization. The same because of his troubled future.

Since the new campaign's government and judiciary have entered an unusually public discipline, the group is unpossibly for failing to prevent it.

Mr. Debruda, the interior minister, argued that Mr. Balloul should have remained in custody after his in-Holton conviction. He said he had "no understanding for the decision to suspend the sentence in probation."

It was a rare release. It prompted an equally unusual response from the Troopers Division of Justice, who said that he had ruled on the suspect's sentence. The court issued a news release that said preventing threats was the responsibility of the accused. The court also stated that he was, it was the court's job to ensure it did not actually deprive people of liberty.

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A migrant run from Spanish police officers as they closed off the beach to people cruising from Morocco to Ceuta on Friday. These dozen people died attempting the journey, the authorities said.

Migrant Rush Into Spanish Enclave Draws Ire of Right in Europe

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Although Morocco posted its strongest economy growth in a decade in 2025, unemployment for those under 18 remained high at around 10 percent, according to the World Bank.

News lineage and social media lords were filled with images of young men in charts and 5 charts classifying over houses and swimming toward the Spanish territory's borders. John Jones wrote the head of Ceuta's government, called the situation "absolutely uncontaminable." The territory's population of 42,000 residents was overwhelmed by the influx, he said.

Photographs of the chaotic scenes showed flip-flops and articles of clothing flowing to the Mediterranean Sea. Many of the migrants were Moroccan and young men.

Ceuta and another Spanish enclave in Morocco, Melilla, are part of both the European Union and the Ischungos Area, which allows freedom of movement among member states. But the two cities operate under a special exemption that involves passport or identity controls for travel to mainland Spain and the rest of the E.U. So far, an onward movements have taken place for the recent migration to mainland Spain or other E.U. member states, a senior E.U. official said on Friday.

There were seemingly contradictory accounts and explanations for what prompted the surge of migrants, who burst into Ceuta in drivers on Thursday and Friday. A recent Spanish Supreme Court decision may have played a role in addition to the welcoming signals of the Spanish government on immigration. And some migrants said the Moroccan authorities had encouraged them to leave.

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People broached barbed wire forces in an attempt to enter the autonomous Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Friday, and some issues around a border barrier.

way, go that way," said Youssef Alessi, 26, referring to police officers who he said pointed them in the right direction. He issues across the maritime border, he said.

Some Spanish observers suggested that the Moroccan authorities could be using the crisis to send a message to Spain and may have loosened border restrictions. Mr. Sánchez made an official visit to Algeria earlier this month, and the two countries agreed to hold a high-level summit this fall, where they will discuss immigration, continuing terrorism and cultural exchanges, among other things. The countries have also reportedly been in talks to increase Algeria's natural gas supply to Spain.

Morocco and Algeria are long standing adversaries, and some

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experts think that Spain's strengthening of ties with Algeria may have angered Morocco.

"For me, that plays a fairly central role," said Lorenzo Calverelli, a senior researcher at Pompeo Fabre University in Barcelona who researched migration in Ceuta.

Yet photos taken near the border with Ceuta showed images of Moroccan police and security forces deployed near the town of

Foshoq, close to the border, contrasting large groups of young men and spraying them with water canoes. Mr. Lahore, the 23-year-old migrant, showed towns on his right leg and said the Moroccan police had beaten him when he was trying to leave the country.

At points across Morocco on Thursday and Friday, the authorities appeared to be trying to prevent people from reaching Ceuta.

In Rabat, the capital, security forces on Thursday stopped some passengers from boarding trains heading north, home local trains had been canceled and members of the country's auxiliary forces were seen numbering travelers.

The Moroccan government had yet to make a statement on Friday evening about the surge of migrants and did not respond to any space for comment.

There were indications that social media posts had helped create a kind of flash mark of young men aspiring to leave the country for Europe. Many migrants interviewed in Ceuta on Friday said they had recently seen social media posts claiming the border was open.

Abdullah Abualdi, a representative for the Moroccan United Socialist Party, an opposition party, said there had been a theory of social media messages in Morocco in recent days about a ruling by the Spanish Supreme Court last month that, under certain conditions, bats the summary return of migrants intercepted at sea while they attempt to reach Spain.

Adding to the potential lure of migrating to Spain are the current Spanish government's pre-immigration statements and policies. Backing the event in Europe and the United States toward curtailing and cracking down an immigration, the Spanish government also year said it would allow more than a million migrants to apply to the border their states.

Mr. Sánchez is a rare matter, celebrating an image in recent years as a pre-immigration liberal and one of the most prominent European critics of the Trump administration's hard line against migrants. But Mr. Sánchez pushed back against the notion of him supporting open borders on Friday, noting that unauthorized migration to Spain had been lower over the last half decade than in Italy and Greece.

"This is not the time for division," Mr. Sánchez wrote on social media on Friday afternoon. "It is time to keep building a strong and united E.U."

The results from Morocco carried echoes of the 2003 immigrat-

tion crisis in Europe, when hundreds of thousands of migrants had told how to Syria.

But this rose, leaders across Europe quickly called for the crisis to be stopped. Prime Minister栃木达 Mishra of Italy called for Spain's membership in the Ischungos treaty to be suspended. She said images from Ceuta were "drastling and demonstrous, once again, that uncontested drug-immigration poses a real threat to the security of Europe's borders."

The French interior minister said he had issued orders to "immediately stop up controls at the Spanish border."

The eight politicians across the continent were quick to call for broader immigration restrictions.

"Borders must now be closed and refusals rigorously enforced. 2025 must not repeat itself!" Alice Wosini, co-leader of the Marmative for Germany party, wrote on social media.

Marine Le Pen, the far-right leader in France who jails down in a front-runner to the country's presidential election next year, wrote on social media that she would "stop this cramener" if elected.

The White House, which has repeatedly accused Europe of having his immigration policies, seized on the Spanish crisis. "President Trump has long warned Europe what would happen if they continue to implement for left, globular policy, including building mass migration," Aida Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, told Fca. News in a statement.

The migrant themselves had more immediate concerns than global politics.

"We can only everyone came — because there's no work in Morocco," said quick-in-lover, 24, a Moroccan man wearing a best-up short cap and who was standing among the thousands wandering on a beach in Ceuta Friday.

Stadium on Charity, 26, a son-civil in the Moroccan port city of Tanger, said he and other migrants were banished and could not find any food in Ceuta. "We have not eaten in two days," he said.

Myanmar Junta Maintains Domestic Grip While Seeking International Legitimacy

By MAX KIM

For the past five years, Taywar Sun, one of Myanmar's most prominent political dissidents, has been on the run from the junta, relying on equal parts back and rapidly on a single opinion. But at dawn on Dec. 3, he visited a popular market to protect the vote the military had planned for later that month.

It struck him as an obvious charade, and he was hardly alone. The main opposition party had been barred from participating, while haddus would only be cast in areas under the military's control. As motorकीers threaded past him to the city of Mandalay, Mr. Taywar Sun and other pro-democracy-sectarian members builtout urging residents not to vote in the upcoming Valley, which he denounced as a state "Looking at the country's economy and political situation, what has improved? Nothing has improved," he shouted.

Despite having had a bounty on his head since 2021, Mr. Taywar Sun managed to escape before the authorities closed it. The others were set to lucky.

On Tuesday, some of his colleagues who had been screened shortly after the peaceful protest were handed sentences of more than 25 years to prison, under an election law that the junta enacted in July 2025 to criminalize speech or political action deemed "disruptive."

May Hnin, a spokeswoman for the Mandalay chapter of the Anti-Junta Pacers Coordination Committee, said that eagle of the activities who participated in the Dec. 3 protest — among them Hsin Myuk Aung, another key figure in the country's pro-democracy movement — were sentenced to 27 years to prison, while a ninth was sentenced to 27 years. The activists will not appeal the sentences because they knew that there is no chance of overturning them, she

added.

At a time when the junta is curbing itself as a peaceful and legitimate civilian government on the international stage, the verdicts are a sign that it has not stood in expression of civilians. On the contrary, according to some analysts, it has intensified its bombings of numerous populations, who using its expanded surveillance capabilities to conduct increasingly targeted arrests.

"The military's tactics in 2026 so far show merely shifting modalities of civilian repression rather than any relaxation in its severity," said Ariried Conflint Locavino and Event Data in a report this week. The nonprofit group monitors global conflicts.

There are still 14,000 political prisoners in detention in Myanmar, according to the assistance association for Political Prisoners. Among them are at least 21 people who have been sentenced under the election law.

Ms. May Hnin said the authorities had also detained people over online activities, including resorting to or sharing posts opposing the election. She added that, as the wake of the arrest of Mr. Taywar Sun's colleagues, military personnel had infiltrated prisoners' 2,000 meetings in an apparent attempt to locate any other demonstrators.

"The military did not publicly announce their detention," she said. "Instead, they used the detained photos to impervessors them and contact other activists, attempting to obtain their locations and arrest them as well."

After overwhelming dynamics of democratically elected government in a coup in 2021, the military regime faced an armed resistance that quickly grew into a grinding civil war. That conflict and international sanctions have thrown the country's economy into crisis. In what has widely been seen as a fad to lead legitimacy to its rule

and break out of diplomatic isolation, the junta held a parliamentary election in three stages in December and January. Unsurprise, eagle, it resulted in a landslide victory for the military-backed party in April, the Parliament released. Min Aung Hlaing, the military commander who has ruled the party, was leading the coup in 2021, to president.

While most international massors and Western governments considered the election illegitimate, it was shown a great deal to say for Mr. Min Aung Hlaing to make too high profile diplomatic visits as president, first to Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India in May and then President Xi Jinping of China in the following month.

And to further prop up the appearance of normalized civilization, the regime has sought to appear benevolent to the former civilian leader Don Aung San San Kyi, who was arrested during the

coup. In April, it said it had moved her to a house arrest of sorts.

But behind the scenes, rights groups and activists said, the junta's campaign against crime of the nation has only intensified.

"The eagle's international support among activists, they are also sending off their homes and crafting a "middle belonging," Mr. Taywar Sun said in a telephone interview. "It's meant to send the message that if one person opposes the dictatorship, the entire family will suffer the consequences."

He said he feared that the authorities would torture his imprisoned colleagues in home him or that he might eventually find himself caught up in the military's unconvincing redressment surveillance system. Recalling how swiftly the authorities had handled up even the drivers and opators who had helped the prisoners, he said: "I know that I, too, could be arrested at any time."

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War in the Middle East

Trump's New Gaza Plan Has a Catch: Will Israel and Hamas Comply?

By ADAM RANJON

THE ACIV - A day after President Trump sentenced a new Gaza deal to begin disarming Hamas, his Board of Peace released a 15-point plan on Friday, but key questions remain over whether Hamas and Israel will carry out the agreement.

In its initial response, Hamas said an Friday that the 'first step' would be for Israel to commit to ending attacks and linked his turnover of what the group called 'heavy weapons' to a list of other conditions.

The Israeli government has not issued a formal statement on Mr. Trump's announcement. The text says the parties have two words to determine a schedule, which an international verification committee can control.

In underlying that Israel must first make concessions for the disarmament deal to more ahead, Hamas highlighted how challenge up it will be to carry out the new agreement, which caught many by surprise when Mr. Trump announced it on Thursday.

Experts said officials have raised doubts about whether Hamas and Israel will follow through in fulfilling the agreement. Questions remain, for instance, about whether Hamas will give up all its weapons and also whether Israel will cross in a attack, which is a major problem. The main argument for further progress.

The ceasefire agreement reached in October between Israel and Hamas required that the 3-year-old Israel will be held in a 2020 Gaza Bar since then, the military has carried out frequent activities, which it said were saying Hamas and Palestinian for the 2020, the United largest military group in Gaza.

In June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said his country was falling all of those who had taken part in planning the October 2021 attack on southern Israel, so well as any else Hamas figures that Israel security forces found.

Christian Students: the Board of Peace's high representative for

Michael Crowley and Isabel Kirvèner contributed reporting.

The site of a strike on Gaza City on Thursday. President Trump's plan calls in part for Israel to end its attacks and Hamas to disarm.

Gaza, when an social media that 'implementation and verification have to be met'.

'Withdrawal must move in lock may with deconstressening,' he wrote, referring to the withdrawal of Israel's major from Gaza and the disarmament of Palestinian armed groups.

The Israeli prime minister's official's own vision is statement on Mr. Trump's announcement. On Friday evening, the government, citing an anonymous 'diplomatic official' said the Israeli military would not just back from the 'career yelthe line' in Gaza without 'greater' disarmament by Hamas. Under the October ceasefire deal, Israel's major personnel to a 'career yelthe line' has been half the territory still under occupation, but have since pressed

deepening in Gaza.

Samar Ben-Ovi, the hard-line minister of national security, said the text of the agreement published by the Board of Peace was 'unacceptable to Israel.' The targeted killings in Gaza 'must continue' he wrote on social media.

Despite the messages from the Israelis, Mr. Trump insisted on Friday that Israel was 'very happy' with the deal. But he also conspired expectations. Calling the situation 'very complex,' he warned that the process would probably undergo 'ups and downs'.

Hamas's weapons have been a key sticking point over months of talk to Egypt, one of the main mediating countries. The Board of Peace, the international organization that has been negotiating

with Hamas and Israel on Gaza's future, has demanded that the group gradually give up all of its arsenal - a position that Israeli officials have considered Hamas will not accept.

Armed struggle against Israel has long been central to Hamas's ideology and a means to stay in power. Many members of the group were any deal in which they would give up their weapons as unmanned to surrender.

On Friday, Ghazi Hamas, a like, book-sequiterate, said what was being discussed was Hamas 'enough' to 'evapens' under the responsibility of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, a committee of Palestinian technocrats working with the Board of Peace's supervision. Hamas officials have said Israel must

first fulfill its commitment under the October cease-fire agreement before anything, happen to its weapons.

The text of the agreement released by the Board of Peace calls for disarming Palestinian factions in Gaza after Israel carries out the commitments it made in the attack on deal it signed with Hamas in October 2020.

In addition to the suspension of all Israeli military organizations these commitments involve relocating Israel's weapons in a large space withdrawal line and allowing the entry of equipment to receive rubble, among other measures.

More than 1,200 people have been killed in the territory since the cease-fire in October, according to the Gaza health ministry,

which does not distinguish between confessions and confuses. The local military has also continued to take over land in Gaza beyond the withdrawal line specified in the October agreement.

In its statement on Friday, Hamas said the inclusion of 'heavy weapons' in the agreement was linked to Israel's withdrawing from Gaza, reconstruction, the establishment of a Palestinian state settlement conditions.

The statement conspicuously mentioned only 'heavy weapons,' while the text of the agreement released by the Board of Peace refers to Palestinian groups in Gaza giving up all their weapons. That text, however, makes an exception for personal arms registered with the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza.

Many analysts have expressed skepticism that Israel will agree to withdraw from Gaza, especially ahead of national elections in October. Israeli officials have also rejected the establishment of a Palestinian state.

In agreeing to the disarmament plan, Hamas could be trying to put the mass on Israel to control concessions, analysts said.

'For months, the narrative has been that Hamas doesn't want to disarm,' said Shira Efros, chair of Israel policy at the ACIV-Copitation, a research institute based in the United States. 'Based on what we know to be, it appears Hamas is having the ball to Israel, because they are not to be able to do it with be for the Israel government to execute this agreement, especially any type of withdrawal of its forces.'

In the Madhesin, a Palestinian analyst close to Hamas, said that the militant groups paid was to end the war but that it was construed Israel would find a way to avoid carrying out the agreement.

Hamas did everything it could to deliver a deal based on reciprocity and simultaneous implementation,' he said. 'Still, there are ways to be a small situation.'

Ms. Efros said it was possible Israel and Hamas could soon return to 'a familiar future game,' accusing both other of failing to make the move. 'It is a good way to do it,' Mr. Trump while little change happens in the ground.

Ukraine Hits Iranian Ship As Wars Begin to Overlap

By EDWARD WONG

MANILA - Ukraine and Iran, two nations at war with nuclear powers, opened dangerously with no conflict with each other in recent days, when Ukraine struck an Iranian commercial cargo ship in the Czechos Sea.

The attack killed an Iranian civilian-sailer Ukraine said the ship was transporting military equipment to Russia. Iron considered retaliating, but diplomats defaced the crime through a phone call.

For analysts observing the two wars closely, it was only a matter of time before violence escalated between Ukraine and Iran. The questions now confronting governments around the globe are whether the wars are converging, and when the next flashpoints might be.

If the conflicts swings more directly, the result could be cataclysmic, with multiple nations, including the United States and Russia, leading part in open war. The war is a result of a war with the Soviet Union and the Middle East.

Both wars have already drawn in myriad countries. With American and European support, Ukraine's major security forces against a full-scale invasion by Russia since 2012, while Iran and North Korea have sent weapons and even troops to assist the army in the war.

In February, Iran was plunged into a full-scale war, too, when the United States and Israel attacked. By one event, at least 17 nations were killed in Serbia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq - have been involved.

'In reality, the two conflicts in

Ukraine and Iran have been intertwined from the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2012,' said chief Polychev, vice president of the Center for European Policy Analysis, a research group in Washington that advocates strong U.S. support for Ukraine.

Russia and Iran have a long partnership, and both have been on the same side of recent wars, including the civil war in Syria, to a war perhaps unsurprising that Iran gave weapons aid to Russia soon after Mr. Putin's military invaded Ukraine.

Iron sent drones and drone bombs, as work with the Russian military in Crimea, the peronents that Russia seized from Ukraine in 2016. The symbiosis is evident in the full-circle nature of that partnership Russia represents the Iranian citizens, began mass-producing them and it now sending the new versions to Iran to use against the United States and Israel.

The U.S. government has also said Iran provided ballistic missiles to Russia.

In the war in the Middle East, Russia has provided Iran with intelligence collected by satellites on U.S. military assets in the region. U.S. officials say recent in-zone attacks on American troops and military sites have been more accurate and deadline. A strike line last month killed three U.S. service members in Jordan.

When asked by a superior last week whether Russia and China were giving targeting information to Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio avoided answering, except

to say that melting China had done 'has to say way thought the trajectory' of the war. He did not mention Russia.

William B. Taylor, a U.S. ambassador in Ukraine in the Bush and Obama administration, said the issue of the company in Kyiv does not go far from Trump administration, said the war's 'overlap but have not merged'.

'Ukraine is singularly focused on delaying the Russian invasion - an emotional threat to the nation - by any and all means possible,' he said. That includes using military means to cut off support other nations are providing Russia. 'Ukraine is not seeking conflict with Israel but it should be an out of support to Russia from wherever it condemns,' Mr. Taylor said. It was unclear whether another

such attack could occur again. Ukraine's ambassador in Washington said that the war is a leading in a briefing on Thursday organized by The Christian School Research that it is not the government's policy to try to connect the two wars' for the next time. 'It is a very good day, she said, had been 'unmoralized.'

Drone and counterintense innovation has been central to the war in Ukraine. President Putin said Zelensky of Ukraine said in March that he was sending more than 200 military experts in the Middle East to help extensive them abroad themselves. Mr. Zelensky has argued that the two wars have common elements. On Saturday, he said Ukraine was ready to share intelligence with Western allies that showed Russia was pro-

viding Iran with suitable information, but on 3-20' both nations and U.S. states have been very vigilant.

Seen after the war in Ukraine and the Zelensky sought out from Israel, But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has been told that the war is taking care not to jeopardize the relationship with Mr. Putin. Last year, the Israeli wars of intertwined forces air defense and invasion of Ukraine, but only after the Biden administration occurred a pledge from Israel.

Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Netanyahu shied hands and spoke on Thursday at the funeral of Senator Vladimir Ovtchukov in Washington. It was the first time they had met in person to nearly three years. Both were in the White House for separate talks with

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has tried to make the case that the two wars have some common elements.

President Trump:

Some analysts who have been critical of American wars, including the war in Iran, have warned that the war is a major information needs to be wary of how both McZelensky and Mr. Netanyahu might seek to deepen American involvement in the conflicts.

For Paris, the co-founder of the Qatray Institute, which is critical of American troops policy that relies on military aggression, wrote that Mr. Zelensky could not have a 'outrage' break through' with the 'dangerous gander' of trying to persuade Washington that the two wars are intertwined.

However, other analysts say the United States should strengthen its commitments to Ukraine and Israel in order to stand more firmly against a base and asserts that the war is a major in-clone in the United States, China, Iran and North Korea.

That line of thought spans the political spectrum in Washington and the international foreign policy, but gained momentum late in the Biden administration. The most powerful variable in the backdrop of the conflicts is China, the only country capable of challenging American global superiors.

Ms. Polychev, the advocate of U.S. support for the Ukrainian aid, said that the 'heavy means' is this is, of course, China, which has been the key readers of Russia's war in Ukraine: 'China is also the biggest layer of Iranian aid, and has also been the largest foreign minister, have been planning to send decades-Short missiles known as MANPADS to Iran.

Tehran Launch Drone Attack on U.S. Military Base in Kuwait; No Injuries Are Reported

By GUINE NATHAN

and EIVAN WARD

The Iranian army said on Friday that it had launched drone attacks on U.S. military targets in Kuwait, as a new attack of Saudi-Iran between the United States and Iran required here of a return to full-blown war in the Middle East.

The attacks targeted U.S. assets at the School of Aliev Air Base, which either had been being published by state media, A U.S. Defense Department official, who

Evil Schwab and Vivian Sorosie contributed reporting.

spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that Iran had launched multiple prejudits, mostly at Kuwait, but that there was no major impact on U.S. military bases in the region.

In a statement, the Kuwait military said that it had detected and destroyed multiple drones in its airspace, adding that the intercepted airborne materials damage from falling shrapnel but no injuries.

Iran's military said the attacks came in response to U.S. military news, which "was not a major recent days. U.S. Central Command, which oversees American military operations in the Middle

East, said on Thursday that it had struck sites in Iran, including military command centers and missile and drone facilities, in response to Iran's launching of last three missiles at American forces in the Middle East a day earlier.

The exchanges this week ended a pause in direct attacks between the United States and Iran, who were obligated to re-enter Iran's and negotiation in recent months. Several U.S. allies also faced renewed drone and missile fire this week, including Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

There was also a strike for the first time in Egypt, where authorities said Thursday that an unident-

alized drone had caused an explosion at the Mediterranean port of Dammim the previous day.

That attack ignited a fire on two ships, including a U.S.-torned gun strongcracked, a full-ice against a diverge traffic to the Suez Canal, but analysts said it demonstrated how the conflict in the Middle East could further diverge global trade. Commercial ships, including a tuisier's, have been regularly targeted, particularly in the Israel of Eurasia, normally a key passage for global energy supplies.

The military, engaging in a fire, expanded to other parts of the Middle East. The Israelis, an Iranian-backed Yereeni militia, have

announced a blockade of Saudi vessels and targeted ships in the Red Sea, which has become a vital route for oil experts during the war.

Saudi Arabia said on Thursday, it was forming a military coalition to protect shipping, with support from over a dozen countries. It was unclear how the coalition would replace with what was in such a warship or aircraft, the participants would contribute.

The Saudi-foreign ministry also announced joint strikes with the military, as well as the backed militias in Iraq, which the ministry blamed for attacks on Saudi oil facilities.

the Friday, a Saudi official speaking on condition of anonymity, sought to measure Baghdad in the wake of the attacks, meaning that the strikes were not a major impact on the participants and were not directed against the Iraqi people or government. The official claimed that the strikes were only after diplomats were killed in the situation.

Months of threats and attacks on shipping have therefore all expand from Persian Gulf states. Saudi exhale's economy should be on hand and the situation of the war is subjectly contraction since the Covid pandemic, the kingdom said on Thursday.

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Military Families Struggle to Cope With Rising Anxiety Amid Iran War

By BERNARD WOKAN

and GIRMALIA LEE

A 6-year-old child began having behavioral problems when his father left for war.

A wife whose husband works in Army intelligence is already dealing with heightened anxiety, even though he hasn't been deployed yet.

A woman found this year that she is struggling to cope with the news of conflicts at home and abroad, nearly 20 years after she lost her friend in murder.

More than 60 percent of military families have reported elevated stress from the war with Iran, driven by safety concerns. deployment changes and the fear of escalation, according to a March poll of an estimated 200 families by Blue Star Families, one of the largest nonprofit organizations supporting active military service members and veterans.

As the war with Iran persists, mental health counselors say they are attending to some military families who are reporting stress and anxiety about a conflict that has taken the lives of at least 18 service members and wounded more than 400.

"We have tripled our caseload," said Hannah Simon, the founder of Blue Alone Therapy, a teletherapy provider that caters to the military and their families. "Everybody is kind of an edge."

"There was this understanding that this was going to be a short-term deal," Ms. Simon added, saying. Promising military development in the beginning of March that the war could last four to five weeks.

Five months later, the war has been again, following the start of a cease-fire agreement and then two weeks of bombing. The thrust of Marmar has again been closed, working possible prices over $4 a gallon, upbed more than $1 a standard and the latest round of U.S. attack's direct net assets to have deterred Iran.

A Pentagon spokesman declared that the working details about how the military helps the families of service members cope with the stresses of war, that military officials have said that there are a whole lot of dissenting about support services available, including a 24/7 service called Military OneSource that provides free and confidential support.

In interviews, military families said the war has triggered grief since thought to have been healed. Some cogs with feelings of guilt brought on by the conflicts, a common emotion among military families, counselors said. Others's

PHOTO: KATHLEEN W. WOKAN, 1980

A dignified transfer of the remains of U.S. Army soldiers in July at Dover Air Force Base, attended by President Trump and the defense secretary, Paul Flegault.

mented the lack of transparency and communication that has led them out knowing when their spouse, child, brother or sister will come home.

"I don't know where to it," said Elisha Pannin, a mother of four, whose husband deployed in February as part of Operation Epic War.

Ms. Pannin's husband, who is in an artillery unit in the Marlow Corps, calls home about every three weeks, she said. He does not have success in his personal devices and must see a satellite phone on base to make the call, often waging in a line of Marlowe doing the same.

The communication lapses have ruled her children, who craged a gut from 2 months to 12 years old.

But Ms. Pannin, 34, has developed an anguys for her children to manage the absence. She keeps

dalis and stickers of her husband at home. Her children love watching videos of their father, particularly those of Iran, swimming with tactics.

"Still, Ms. Pannin, who has been in therapy to help with her husband's deployment, said she was working constantly for her 6-year-old, who is in a wild life.

"I just knew that it was time to maybe ask her some more help for him," she said.

In June, Kelsey Smith, 25, started counseling to help cope with the stress caused by the war, even though her husband is statewide. She had struggled to control her emotions recently, blowing up over small things, she said.

"It's better," she said, adding that the therapy has helped. But overall, she said, "I'm not better." Her husband is an intelligence officer for the Army and supports the Middle East campaign from a

base in the Northeast. Since he started working around the clock, Ms. Smith began completing a transfer of a gap on, about 1,700 pieces, to calm her nerves, she said.

"I know how hard my husband's working and the amount of stress he's under," said Ms. Smith, who said for studies whose because of her husband's work in intelligence. "So there's a level of guilt of just feeling like I'm not doing enough or not working as hard as he is."

For veterans whose children are new in the military a deployment can stir up anxiety as they recall their own deployment.

Eric Derbutt, who lives in Mountain, Wis., in a veteran whose son Brandeis, 37, just returned home after an extended deployment, serving 2 months as a surgeon in the Middle East. His contract officially ends at the start of August,

but he could be deployed again anytime in the next three years.

"It is difficult because I know he had already seen and been through traumatic things," Mr. Derbutt said. "I did struggle myself as a veteran, even though he went through way more than me."

Rita Harper, a communication author of "Tragedy Assistance: Program for Survivors, a service that connects people who have lost loved ones in the military, is starved around therapy. He's months ago to help process heroes grief.

In 2007, her fiancé, Army Staff Sgt. Michael Hultenche, responded to a vehicle that had been struck by a roadside bomb in Iraq. As a medic, Sergeant Hultenche approached us after aid. Learning his vehicle, he snapped on an in-provided explosive device and died as a helicopter rushed him to the nearest military hospital.

For almost two decades, Ms. Harper said, she has been leading from the loss that has partly debated her adult life. She works the engagement ring Sergeant Hultenche gave her as her right hand. She has completed two full iron-stats in his house.

"When she is starved military can't be able to escape, it's nothing. Ms. Harper always feels a gang of grief - knowing how difficult it may be for those families.

"I look at the have said read the answer of people who served and died because I wanted someone to do that for Mike," she said.

Ms. Harper said she had returned to therapy to work with someone who understands "the enemy's lives."

"It felt enough to go back and talk about some of this stuff," she said, adding that "the world seemed really overwhelming again."

Saudis Create Coalition To Stop Red Sea Attacks

By VIVIAN NERDIN

and MICHAEL R. BREAK

RYA2016, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia's forming a military organization, exposed, belonging to the Red Sea as attacks by a Yemeni militia imperil a crucial route for Saudi oil experts and further threaten the global economy, according to the Saudi defense ministry.

The kingdom has invited around 30 countries to join the coalition, which would be hundred, and it pushing for them to commit as soon as possible, according to two diplomats who were briefed on the effort. They spoke on the condition of attempting to discuss the matter.

After a meeting on Thursday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, 14 countries affirmed their support for the coalition, including Tehran Egypt, the Arabian Arabian, the Arab other Arab and African nations, the Saudi defense ministry said.

Saudi Arabia has also invited European countries to join the coalition, which was for the United States. But some Western officials were reluctant to join because they believed it were understanding of what membership enlisted and had time to consult their capitals, one of the diplomats

Ireland, Israel, and Germany, covering from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Jersey Cross from London.

said. Saudi Arabia indicated it expects the number of participating countries to increase.

The Saudi defense ministry said the new coalition is "part of ongoing efforts to enhance maritime security, protect international maritime corridors and counter threats targeting maritime navigation and global trade." It is unclear how it would differ from a current European Union operation to protect Red Sea shipping, known as Aquiles.

The coalition will be headquartered in Saudi Arabia, and member countries will engage in intelligence, planning, and drug control and maritime operations, according to a joint statement from the 15 countries that agreed to participate. The statement described the effort as "parity defensive and not targeting any country" to participate.

The urgency of the Saudi initiative appears to be a sign that the long-term leadership views entering efforts to food off attacks by the Yemeni militia — an Iran-backed group known as the Muslims — as insufficient. On July 28, the Muslim declared a blood-suit on Saudi vessels transiting the Red Sea, which has become a vital route for oil experts during the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. The Muslim have claimed attacks in several ships since then and have not backed down even after Saudi Arabia bombed Muslim controlled

territory in Yemen.

Since the blockade was declared, the number of Saudi and their ships passing through the Sub Al-Masidic Surat, at the numbers tip of the Red Sea, has decreased by about one-fifth, according to Walefawid, a maritime ship agency.

The Red Sea, which leads to the Iran's Gulf, has long been an important waterway for international trade. It became even more essential after the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February, leading Iran to effectively break the Sirats of Hurrican — a narrow waterway on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula that has been in the main river for Gulf of shipments. Since then, Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, has revealed much of its oil

through an overhead pipeline to the Red Sea.

During the war in Gaza, the Muslim gained international security by launching attacks on Israel as well as on ships in the Red Sea, describing the operation as a moral crusade on behalf of Palestinian living under Israeli bombardment.

Because the Muslim control territory may the Sub-Al-Masidic, the militia is well positioned to launch missiles and drones at vessels passing through the Red Sea. Starting in 2025, a U.S.-led maritime operation called Operation Prosperity Guardian sought to deter these attacks.

Saudi Arabia, eager to avoid another conflict with the Muslim at the time, did not publicly join that operation.

When the United States and Israel were in war with Iran this year, the Muslim initially entered willing to stay on the airplanes. But this month, renewed tensions between the Muslims and Saudi Arabia — which previously led a bombing campaign against the Muslim left turned into a developing spagrator — escalated rapidly, and the Muslim announced their blockade on Saudi vessels.

With the Christ of Hurrican off limits, any obstruction in the Red Sea leaves Saudi Arabia with his last opinion for reporting all, the faintest of its budget.

Though Saudi Arabia has long had antagonistic relations with Iran, Saudi Arabia has become a strong warmer ties for several years as the most pragmatic way to manage Tehran.

A commercial ship off the coast of Yemen. On July 20, the Hussl's militia, which controls Yemen's northward, declared a blockade on Saudi vessels transiting the Red Sea.

The war has dashed those efforts, threatening the kingdom's security and returning its relations with the United States. In retaliation for American attacks, Iran has launched thousands of missiles and drones at Persian Gulf states that host U.S. military installations, including Saudi Arabia.

Saudi officials have expressed a desire to stay out of the broader conflict, but no Wednesday, Saudi Arabia carried out joint activities with the United States in Iraq, accusing Iran-backed military there of attacking Saudi oil facilities. No Iraqi military have claimed responsibility for those attacks.

Even before the Hussl's blockade, Saudi Arabia was having economic headwinds because of the war. The country's green domestic product contracted by 14 percent during the several quarter compared with the same period last year, according to preliminary estimates released this week by the Saudi nation's authority.

Saudi officials have now turned to another attack, sending some ships in the Red Sea instead north of the Iran's Gulf or south of yapılanites, according to Walefawid. But that result is also vulnerable to airplanes and it adds about a month to voyages from Saudi Arabia to Asia, hence to the kingdom's largest energy customers.

Man accused of Spying for Iran Is Detained Near British Military Base in Cyprus

By ADAM GOLDMAN

LUNDIOT — The authorities in Cyprus have arrested a man accused of spying on behalf of Iran after he was caught on scrolling at the police station in the Kermanshah district but for British operations in the Middle East.

British counterterrorism police said the war, behind Sultana's, is a bad British and East Nagoan chores, had shared details about the base with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the force

charged with defending the regime in Iran that runs the country's foreign intelligence service. The other cases as the United States and Iran continue to trade strikes in a war that has repeatedly consumed Britain, which says it is only allowing the American military to use its bases for defense or operations.

And when the Revolutionary Guards said that any British facility that the U.S. used to bomb Iran was a target. Heavy American

familiers have repeatedly used a British base in Fairfield, south-western England, to conduct operations that London says are to protect British and allied interests across the Middle East.

The disclosure that Iran may have measured spying operations in Cyprus, an island in the West Germans, shows the reach of the Revolutionary Guards, a powerful and shadowy force in Iran. The intelligence service relies on a vast network of operatives and proxies

to target Western countries and interests.

Israeli and American forces have sought to eliminate the Revolutionary Guards' capabilities.

The British police said the arrest of Mr. Sultana's relied on the National Security Act, a new law that includes criminal charges and suffer prison sentences.

"This case shows we are able to use the National Security Act overseas when British military bases are allegedly targeted by

hostile state activity," said Cook, Helen Flanagan, head of counterterrorism policing for London.

Investigators said that Mr. Sultana's "sundarized hostile surveillance on the base," called R.A.F. Akrotiri, in May and June 2025. He is being detained in Cyprus as British investigators seek to overtraden him.

In March, a Shahid drone hit the Akrotiri base, damaging an aircraft hangar. British fighter-in-occupied another pair of drones

shovily after that attack. The same month, Iran fired two missiles at Dogo Gauria, an island in the Indian Ocean but it fell into of a joint British U.S. military base. The missile was interrupted and the other fell short of its target. Earlier this month, the British government accused the Revolutionary Guards of almost certainly directing a wave of attacks against Jews across Europe and took steps to decapate the Iranian group a terrorist organization.

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As Records Requests Surge, Government Falls Behind

Times Analysis of 16 Years of Data Shows Federal Agencies Have Lowest Grant Rate Since 2010

By MINNIS KIM

WASHINGTON — The federal government turned away a record number of document requests from the public and accumulated the highest-ever backlog of cases in fiscal year 2025, raising questions about compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.

Federal agencies processed the federal 1.6 million requests for documents that year, the highest number since officials began releasing comprehensive statistics about FOIA requests 10 years ago, according to government data. But they learned the requested documents, in part or in full, just 47 percent of the time, a New York Times analysis found, the lowest grant rate since at least 2010.

Federal agencies also accumulated a backlog of overdue requests of nearly 162,000 as of Sep. 26, 2025. Requesters also pending suits wanted longer than 240 days on average to hear back from federal agencies, according to the data, though the law requires a response within 20 days.

The numbers, which cover a period including the end of the Biden administration and the beginning of the second Trump administration, show how the government has become less forthcoming with information might try that point under the nation's manpower transparency law, even as demand for that information has increased.

Former and current FOIA officials are certain the record year of spike in requests in artificial intelligence tools that immerse the backlog for drafting inquiries, main submissions from Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and more immigrants and their lawyers seeking records to obtain rights to remain in the U.S. as the government increased departments, federation and Republican administration have struggled to stick to the legally mandated holiday deadline to respond to requests.

Heritage Foundation did not immediately respond to requests for information, but it submitted more than 100,000 requests since 2025. ProPublica reported that many of its requests sought entails or documents with hurricanes such as "strong," "OK!" or "clinical deficit."

But groups that routinely seek records from the government say the problem appears to have worsened under President Trump.

That is, in part, they say, because the president's aggressive agenda in his own and term has drawn a sludge of requests. They also point to significant downsizing of efforts that process information inquiries in the early part of Mr. Trump's second term.

The White House's Office of Management and Budget, which granted 8 percent of records requests it processed in fiscal year 2025, compared with 31 percent the year before, blamed "left activists groups" and "Trump Government syndrome" for spikes in inquiries outside poor agency performance to responding. The office's communication director, Rachel Canley, said the Trump administration chose to "hire ICE officers instead of FOIA prisoners'; "interrogative immigration and Customs Enforcement."

The Justice Department, which oversees agencies' compliance with records inquiries, noted that the number of requests received last year was 98,000, that at any time in history," doubled from 2010. The department is one of the few agencies that did not reduce FOIA staffing in 2025.

The Department of Homeland Security, which received 60 percent of all records requests in fiscal year 2025, instructed a common refrain in the Trump administration that it is "the most comprehensive law in the history." Department of Health and Human Services said suggestions that the administration had been "undermining the FOIA process are simply untrue," emphasizing the volume of requests it received.

Between October 2024 and September 2025, the government provided records for the federal 1.6 million requests for the percent of requests processed during that year, compared with 32 percent a decade earlier, reaching a record low since at least 2010.

Government watchdog said former FOIA officers say the diminished level of

Julian E. Barnes contributed reporting.

"It's very frustrating. Even with a signature of a lawyer, there is a big delay."

GASTON D. NORTHER, above, whose lawyer requested records from the Education Department over a year ago.

full disclosures raises questions about whether federal agencies are incorrectly reducing information eligible for release. Federal agencies must release documents upon receiving requests unless requested records fall under specific assumptions such as those concerning national security, individual privacy or ongoing criminal investigations.

Annual reports for 2025 also show a record 30 percent spike in backlogs over the prior year for all agencies other than the Homeland Security Department, marking the largest increase in at least 30 years. Because of a court order, Homeland Security is subject to a acknowledged for FOIA compliance than other agencies.

The Freedom of Information Act took effect in 1987 and serves broad results of the American public including journalists, government watchdogs, veterans, immigrants, businesses, historians and scientists. Retired military personnel

and immigrants often seek their own documents to prove eligibility for government benefits, while corporations and researchers request relevant data for their operations and studies.

Gaston D. Natman, 38, sought to have his two-decade-old student loans canceled after the school he attended, a bi-profit arts college, closed after facing obligations of fraud. Mr. D'Ingervant's lawyer said FOIA on his behalf is ask the Education Department for their equipment records, hoping to establish eligibility for loan forgiveness.

But more than a year after submitting the request, the securities department has not provided the requested documents. Mr. D'Ingervant will never amend $6,000—a debt that is growing because he is unemployed and it continues to accrue interest. The backlog of requests from the department — which under President Trump cut more than half the staff that processes document requests

— gave 82 percent from the year before, according to The Times's analysis.

"It's very frustrating," said Mr. D'Ingervant, who is receiving legal help from Springfield law firm. "Even with a signature of a lawyer, there is a big delay."

The government data The Times analyzed covers over 100 federal agencies, which report their FOIA performance back fiscal year. Fiscal year 2025, the latest recently available, covers roughly four months of the Biden administration and seven months of Mr. Trump's.

Lauren Harper, the Daniel Elthberg that on government secrecy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation, said the Trump administration has shown particular disregard for FOIA, which serves a critical function for the public.

"There's no other structure or system that there has almost people to ask the government to disclose information that the government isn't already interested in disclosing," Ms. Harper said of the

open records law.

The Trump administration has also been scrutinized for moves that governs the public, including say sideways public records laws.

In August 2025, the Homeland Security Department disclosed that it no longer maintained the text message data of its own records. The department abandoned software to automatically capture of the data, advising officials to take screenshots of their messages for compliance.

The White House has also moved to make the Trump's records completely private, pushing a legal theory that would make them exempt from future records requests for declaring the Presidential Records Act of 1974 unconstitutional. Such a legal claim, if upheld, would dismantle the Waterquakes law that mandated preservation of providers and declassified private them available for FOIA requests covering five years after Mr. Trump's move office.

Several former and current FOIA officials said The Times that a major reason for the wrong system to be using staff cuts initiated early in Mr. Trump's second term by Don Moad's Department of Government Efficiency. The Times's analysis shows that the federal governs the Federal Department of the FOIA work force, reaching the lowest staffing levels since fiscal year 2025, when the government received fewer than half of the requests it received in 2025.

The program agrees to the Department of Homeland Security, which cut over 30 percent of the staff who processed records requests, increased financial after receiving denials, requesters can appeal, which agencies must process to 20 days. One FOIA staff member at 114.5, an average had 2,397 requests to have been sent to the largest average workload since at least 2008, and a 60 percent increase from the year before.

Some FOIA officials were fired or re-occupied after releasing documents, providing them substantial disclosure of potentially sensitive materials can cost you.

Last year two FOIA officials at the Office of the Director of National Health and Human Services, the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of

Frequent requesters of government documents say unusual moves and responses from FOIA offices add to processing time.

Agencies are increasingly asking for clarification on requests even when original queries clearly state what they are seeking, said Ginger McCall, who served as the first to have a written different agencies until taking DOCK's resignation after last year. These requests prove the clock for the 20-day deadline and requesters respond.

The Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of the Office of

"I'm interested in how that a FOIA request for a single email is considered last year," Mr. Harper replied. "I have a 2.5人, which eventually agreed to process the request.

Government lawyers have asked for weeks of extension to deadlines for initial orders. The new action said they asked judges to strike from court records information responses included in prove that requests for public answers, according to court things. Judges would down many of the government's requests, but those moves added to the litigation time that already opens many months.

The office, who now brings records litigation against federal agencies, said the "general gap" of the Trump administration's response to records requests had been "things, delay, delay."

"It's a little easier to push back the deadline for processing the documents because every document becomes less interesting over time," Ms. McCall said.

Texas Parents Try New Tactics to Remove Ten Commandments From Schools

By J. DAVID GOODMAN

HOUSTON — These parents used on Thursday to force Texas to block and remove parents with the Ten Commandments from schools. They were also going that state laws on religious freedom and parents' rights conflict with the new state-mandated displays.

The lawsuit, filed in case court in Harris County, was conducted in to remove the displays and prohibit their posting before students return. The school year begins in early to mid-August for many Texas districts.

The parents have already survived to get challenges in federal court. The U.S. Court of Appeals' law FOM (Co.und. said in April that the state law requiring their display, passed last year, did not violate the U.S. Constitution. The ruling also

proved the way for Louisiana to require similar displays.

The aid it said in Thursday is trying a different approach. Instead of making an argument about the separation of church and state, the plaintiffs are relying on a Texas law, passed in 1999 and signed by the George W. Bush, that protects religious practice.

The law, known as the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, has been involved in many Texas cases, often by religious groups or people arguing that same action by the state government instructors with their religious practice.

Posting the commandments in classrooms "substantially interferes with plaintiffs' free exercise of religion, religious development, and rights to raise their children free of State-sponsored intrigues," the suit says.

The suit also invokes a state constitutional amendment, passed by the Republican-dominated legislature and adopted by voters last year, that guarantees parents the right to direct their children's upbringing.

"I never intended to talk to my children this young about the Ten Commandments," said one of the plaintiffs, Emily Roth, whose children's need is united the 'Spring Breasts' Independent School District and whose household is interreligious. "It's not the art of moral all actions that our family is run on."

The state has dedicated the displays on elemental to instruction about U.S. history, rather than religion.

"The Ten Commandments have been profound impact on our nation, and it's important that students have from these every single day," Attorney General Ron

Paxton, whose office debrided the displays in federal court, said in a statement that "the rights of the state are right."

Since last fall, Texas schools have been required to make law to post in elementary and secondary school classrooms in Protestant version of the Ten Commandments. The law does not end up in any future Bible. The same version appears in a monitored outside the Texas Capitol.

But because the federal court case was pending, some school districts, including in the Houston area, did not display them during the last school year.

The plaintiffs in the most recent state on three mothers of children is different from those now school districts — the West, the New East, the West, who is blind and nearby Ross Noth. Ms. Noth is raising her children with a combination of family traditions, including Janions, His-

dubim, Judaism and Qualenism.

They argue in the suit that displays of the law, such as the law, are not public schools compel their children to use religious messages that conflict with their families' religious instruction.

Served 5.1 dba, a law professor at the University of Texas is required to set an expert in law and religion, said that the parents could make the argument that "the new law is a form of religious compulsion and that it forces parents to perform acts as a means of free fundamental issues of their religious beliefs."

Whether the court prevail in state court is an open question, he added, Most challenges to displays of the Ten Commandments are not only the New East, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West, the West,

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Amid Talk of a Party Switch, Fetterman Vous 'Never'

By CARL HULSE

WASHINGTON — An exactly divided Senate. A seminar distinguished with the direction of his own party. A sudden party switch that shifts Senate control, smoking shock waves through the institution and American politics load.

That occasion unfolded in 2001, when three because Jim Jeffords of Vermont stunned his fellow Republican by halting from the party to become an independent. He then aligned with Democrats, briefly hauling them for Senate majority party in the first term of George W. Bush.

Now, with the possibility of a cause that Senate majority looming again after November's midterm elections, the focus is already on the prospect of party switch. The building the Senate equilibrium, with the most attention focused on Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania.

But Fetterman, a Senate non-conference right down to the trouble and object under the influence of the same's interest of a unit, has taken hand-alone at element of his own party, broken with his caucus, avoided party gatherings, devoted to the dissembling across the aisle and even set up a part fund raising committee with his Republican Senate colleague from their home state of Pennsylvania.

He recently published an up-ed chuckling his fellow Democratic for having tried to gut the filthstone a few years ago, had he last said that if his party difficultly turns against Israel, so some of its most progressive voices are urging, it would be a 'red line' that would prompt him to leave.

But he was not going to say that he intends to flee the Democratic Party, adding the rug out from under Democrats if they manage to set the foot watch that would give them the majority next January?

'Never!' the Fetterman said in an interview, declaring that he has no intention of watching.

'I'm not being one. I was 90-something percent with Democrats.'

That doesn't mean that Mr. Fetterman is at all pleased with majority of his party, which has shifted starkly away from the sides of unequivocal support for Israel, and whose leaders were are promoting proposals for rethinking government that many mainstream Democrats find extreme.

'These people aren't Democratic,' Mr. Fetterman said. 'We use leave different views on certain things, but would you want to abolish the border, abolish prison, abolish the procedure, abolish the Senate? That's just talk on communism.'

But the party switch, the Democratic voting record, Mr. Fetterman, who had a stroke during his drive in 2012 but returned to the campaign total and won, has been a big deal. But the party switch because of his hiring, change of some support of Democratic politics, not to mention his obvious debate for some of the formalities and traditions of the Senate.

But also has plenty of friends on the Republican side of the aisle who would like nothing. In addition to who a new concern, and, regardless of how real the prospect of a Fetterman defection is,他们 are discussion that highlights Democratic divisions. But unique new party fund raising committee with Senator David McCormick, the Pennsylvania Republican, has only fueled the chance.

Republicans have certainly left the door wide open, along with a big welcome man though former John Thune, the South Dakota Republican and majority leader, said he hadn't discussed the matter recently with Mr. Fetterman.

'I have had conversations with him in the past, as have many of my colleagues, about the chair length. So have to his caucus, and I'm sure that I have a lot of the money of us who I think would welcome the opportunity to have him join

the Republican conference. But, you know, ultimately that's a decision that's left up to him.'

Senate Democrats' political two members leave their ranks after the 2022 election, an Arkansas's Kyivian Simms announced she was an independent the month following the election, and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia became an independent candidate.

Both control senators were visibly frustrated with Democratic politics, bridal from the party to prevent a weakening of the senators' weight by state colleagues, and tried to push the caucus to the right on some issues. They remained aligned with Democrats in order to keep the party's position in the leadership status, but neither ultimately roughly or崩溃ly in 2024.

Ms. Manchin said that his party had shifted to a way that made it untrouble for him to remain a Democrat.

'I just came to a realization that they had moved into an area and I couldn't move them back, said Mr. Manchin, who said he also felt president for working with Republicans. 'I like both sides and I wanted to be able to talk to my friends on both sides without being a threat to anybody.'

And Mr. Fetterman has broken with the party on some issues, like the spending lights and efforts to rein in President Trump's conduct of the war with him, he hasn't yet been the legislative obstacle that Mr. Simms and Mr. Manchin should sometimes be. And though some Democrats say they don't know him well, they do see him as one of their own, and appear to be going out if their way out to make him feel shunned, as some previous party-watchers had.

'The people in our caucus very much like him and respect him,' Senator Chuck Schuster, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, said, noting Mr. Fetterman's backing of most Democratic initiatives. 'And we're a big

Senator John Fetterman has been critical of fellow Democrats.

not party, we can have a lot of different views in that party.'

Mr. Fetterman isn't the only senator who comes up in discussion about a left-wing party in Senator Lisa Markowski, began his use of Alaska, has caused about taking the logo in the past, and some under hand attach from President Trump over the years. After losing a primary re-election had in 2019 to a U.S. of challenger on her right, she held on to her seat as a write-in candidate, removing her reputation as having an independent streak. But she has kept her Republican affiliation, despite expressing the view that the party was moving away from her.

The outcome of the midterm elections could be the factor determining any defections. If the Senate ended up mid-30-16, in 2024 in 2001 and 2012, Republicans would remain the majority party by virtue of Vice President 25-Vance's defending power. A four-year Senate pledge would put Democrats in charge, but a switch by Mr. Fetterman would restore Republicans to power. Conversely, a 30-50 Senate followed by a Republican switch would empower Democrats.

The switch by Mr. Jeffords of Vermont 'I'm more age-was an explosive moment in the Senate. It came after the senator, who

chance the health and education committee, concluded that the Bush administration and conservative Republican were short-standing special education and students with disabilities.

Republicans recognized the majority in the 2002 midterm elections after the Sept. 15, 2001 attacks.

Mr. Fetterman appears to be in a far different frame of mind.

'I would say to John, he has to be the person he is,' Mr. Manchin said, looking at the decision would carry major political implications for both Mr. Fetterman and the Senate. 'He believes a little bit is both sides. So has strong convictions in the government side, which is where he comes from.'

In an essay in The Washington Post in May, Mr. Fetterman wrote that he would be a 'north-Indonesian,' to other interviews, he has also insisted he has no intention of switching. But the speculative protests and is likely to continue despite his denials.

In the interview, he suggested that any future change of heart on the matter would be worthy of an exclusive way in this news-paced event.

'Like I, if ever decide to change, and I won't, I will seek you out and give that to you,' Mr. Fetterman said.

Musk Returns To the Fold, With Millions For the G.O.P.

By THEODORE SCHLEIFER

WASHINGTON — Elsie Musk, a year after visiting deep frustration with the Republican Party and threatening to start a third party, appears to be back in the fold and prepared to spend up in the midterms to help G.O.P. candidates.

Mr. Musk, the world's richest person, has authorized his position to spend $100 million to $120 million on a new field program in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November, according to two people funded on the field, who spoke in the addition of university to discuss the private deliberations.

The President's position of both from Mr. Musk, the biggest donor is the 2016 presidential election, would only add to Republican候ing advantage over Democratic party. The 2016 election, and party groups. While Democratic candidates in Senate races are raising more than their Republican rivals, many in the Democratic Party's right to vote are more about being badly outspent over all in the midterms.

Officials from Mr. Musk's super PAC, America PAC, have committed to the 2016 election, and the other Republicans in recent weeks on part of an aggressive spending plan that is set to begin this month, according to a personal report. The PAC's 2016 election, according to a personal report, is expected to be a 2016 election.

The precise amounts could change, but Mr. Musk's financial commitment is seen as secure enough that officials at his super PAC's position will not budget to groups like MAGA Inc., President Trump's super PAC.

The majority of the plans to initially target Senate races in at least five states — Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Michigan and Ohio — and is having conversations about the 2016 election, and the Georgia and Texas, according to two people with knowledge of the super PAC's plans.

The super PAC is also planning to get the 2016 race races in states including California, Wisconsin and Washington, according to two people with knowledge of the plans.

America PAC said that it would be active in battleground Senate and House races. The group declined to comment on its budget and targeted teams. Some of its high-level plans were earlier re-pected by Asian.

Mr. Musk's super PAC's co-ordinating with an exceptional group that are preparing field campaigns, including Americans for Property, which is part of the Bush brothers' network, and the bestselling of the state's another conservative group. Republican outside groups are planning to pool their field operations more than ever after a Supreme Court ruling in the 2016 election. People for party committees to work directly with candidates.

To help its efforts, America PAC is being up from that from non-launching to the 2016 election, according to two people with knowledge of the market: Chris Young, who is Mr. Musk's top political advisor and overseer the group's huge industry, and the 2016 election is a charge again.

Mr. Musk spent close to $100 million on the 2016 campaign, having been balls so try to help Mr. Trump. But Mr. Musk is not currently expected to play an front during the battle-betting of the 2016 presidential race in Spring a major court election in April 2016 in Wisconsin, where his candidate lost.

After the debate in Wisconsin, Mr. Musk appeared aware that his public presence in the race had hardened. The New York Times reported last year.

'In terms of political spending, it's going to do a lot less in the future,' he told Bloomberg News in May 2025. 'I think I've done enough.'

A few months later, Mr. Musk's leadership set with Mr. Trump the left his rule overwaring the president's government-graving initiative, known as DOUD, and began building Mr. Trump's major business in July 2025, and the Republican Party is general.

That summer, Mr. Musk threaten to the 2016 election, which made some of his partners who are aligned with the Republican Party statistic. But he made no moves to start what he said would be expected. Among it, every 30 feet full, he had largely made up one Mr. Trump, and advisers began selecting out plans to help Republicans again.

The 2016 election, which came in 2016, was the only one to be seen in the 2016 election. 'I think I get a little too involved in politics. I get carried away, frankly.'

MAGAS Media Machine Is Starting to Splinter Ahead of the Midterms

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the heart of the midterms is happening now," said Ryan Bostwick, the founder of Garbage Day, a newsletter about online culture and influence. "The rest of the propaganda that they're pushing out just isn't really connecting the way it would have even there or four years ago," he added.

To assure the shifting power of the online influencers, The New York Times analyzed several years' worth of audience data across products. YouTube, 2 and Bostwick's 2016 advertising, video website, for a dozen political content creators. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Benglen, Ms. Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Service Cowder, Matt Nichols, Candace Owens, Sergeant E. Burstein, Nicholas Farstin, Ben Shapiro, The Post and Charlie Sells, whose accounts were taken by the other staff at Turning Point USA, the company he founded, after his assassination last September.

Only a few saw their audiences grow since Mr. Trump's inauguration, while many more have seen their overtrodden decline. Some creators, like Ms. Owens, drive new audiences by posing about a broader range of topic.

Experts point to a number of reasons for the changes, including the difficulty in making political outrage while Republicans control Washington, along with a quarter-midterm season. All content creators are also subject to the whims of algorithms, like an X, which can change without exploits in and impact their reach. A fresh generation of influencers, such as The virator and the YouTube creator submerged, has also uploaded the media to a special, about politics alongside other topics like gaming and relationships.

Mr. Farstin, for instance, now insides again in 2021 and in 2022. He has been a member of the 2021 season that everyone in the space is experiencing a drop-off in views from 2021. Mr. Farstin's views in an email, "down in though 2021 is the moment of the 2021 season, however is potentially artificial boosting," he added.

The Times created out to all 12 creators for comment. Many of the 2021 season's 2022 national platforms, including TikTok and Instagram, despite declining engagement on YouTube and X.

The newsreporter for Mr. Crowder said his total monthly views on Rumble had increased by about 10 million since January

2024. Ms. Owens said that university faces and vaundum had caused her YouTube views to dig recently and pretend to data from Pedecides, an analytics company that estimates audience size across platforms that showed softer audience declines since Mr. Kirk's death. A representative for Mr. Smith and Mr. Johnson said they were seeing gains on TikTok and Instagram, and on a special series on Mr. Walsh's YouTube channel. Mr. Burstein said in an interview that his show focused on video-breaks acting on Real America's Voice, a conservative news channel.

The remaining creators did not respond to requests for comment. One shift occurred after Mr. Kirk's assassination when a rift between right-wing creators engaged, amusing to fracture their audiences. Some creators, like Mr. Shapiro and Mr. Johnson, posted memoranda for Mr. Kirk and employees of the accused chasmt. Ms. Owens went in a different direction, launching fresh conspiracy theories about who had killed Mr. Kirk, with videos like "Who Ordered the Hit on Charlie Kirk?"

Ms. Owens saw her YouTube and podcast audience might stand the controversy. She has indeed other conspiracy theories before and since, including falsehoods about the sex of English Macron, the wife of the French president, and has expanded her reach beyond Mr. Trump's base, experts said. Ms. Macron said Ms. Owens for information last year, and the new is continuing.

'It might be a conspiracy to seem people, but it's not to me.' Ms. Owens said in an interview, 'I think I do a very good job being a good person, but I do a good job. No good a lot of time on research, heart and heart and heart on research. So I would change with that assessment.'

The 2021 season's 2022 national and anti-Trump creators on the right-impacted site Mr. Trump posted the war with Iran.

Mr. Shapiro has been supported by the president and the vice. He has about 40,000 subscribers on YouTube from April to June this year, according to data from Charles Eric, a newsletter about the 2021 season. She also has YouTube views have also declined to their lowest in years, dropping to about four million per week from 2.7 million in 2021. The public has been a lot of interest in the 2021, has also seen traffic plummet by half since last year, according to The Righting.

Note: Watch views, seven seats moving outrage, Biscayne YouTube.

Views for mainstream news websites are also down, the group found. But many right-wing webinars have seen these websites, including The Blunt and The Federated.

Mr. Shapiro's podcast has driven more resilience, partly because he has published 30 percent more content on his podcast this year compared with last year, causing total downloads to climb, according to Peoples' website, an analytics company's major business in the state.

'Obviously, Ben Shapiro still has one of the largest megaphones in conservative media, and he has been a lot strong on his that is an undeniable shift for him,' said Kelly Tharp, who writes Charles Eric, 'I think there's a lot of increased competition on both the media and the media partners media space,' he added.

On Rumble, the pro-Trump and anti-Trump rivalry is playing out

between Mr. Benglen, a Trump ally and former administration official, and Mr. Farstin, a former Trump supporter who has become deeply critical of the president.

Mr. Benglen, who was a Secret Service agent before turning to broadcasting, felt his part as a foveatier in a fringe. He was at the height of his popularity, to serve an elegant director of the F.B.I. He resigned just months after

Mr. Benglen returned to his set job of podcasting and livecomcasting in February, but his audience did not seem to follow. After an initial hump from his first law episode, the audience ended a roughly half of what it was during the highs of the 2021 presidential campaign.

He replaced YouTube after posting outcasts on Rumble. In years, and while his viewership on YouTube is climbing, it remains among the lowest of creator's

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Mothers and/and by The Times. Mr. Farstin, a white nationalist and livecomaster who publishes the latest news on YouTube, has been more vocally critical of the president during his second term. He was his average weekly view, which is on high in eight million in 2021. And, from around one million in 2024.

The success of disaffected Trump supporters like Mr. Farstin and Mr. Owens suggests that the 2021 campaign reflects the future of right-wing content online, said Angela Carranza, the president of Media Matters for America, a left-waving media watchdog.

After being, to give the following from being a more type of right-wing comment youTube personality? to creating more investigative narratives, Mr. Carranza says.

'She can create a story line and they push it,' he added. 'And that, I think, is a sign of power.'

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Rescues Show Signs Of Injuries to Brain, And Get Little Help

The Coast Guard has not performed regular testing on the dangers of pounding waves.

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brain injury, like a backpacker who had too many taxilites. And maybe he was not the only one.

She looked for answers from the Coast Guard but found nothing. The service has never studied the hazard that waves may pose to the brain and knows little about the force of the bits or the consequences of years of exposure.

With an official website on July 4th, Kayleigh turned to the only source that might offer some clues: other surfaces.

She sent questionnaires to scores of them, using a survey of Navy covers as a template, and asked 30 questions about their service and their health, 16, all 77 active and retired surfaces responded. Their answers were so stunning that they changed her whole perspective on her father.

They showed few surfaces had been diagnosed with a head injury by the Coast Guard, but a vast majority was struggling with the same issues as her father: headaches, memory lapses, cognitive problems, anxiety attacks, mood swings and a lot of other ailments that can be symptomatic of brain injuries.

Some said the problems were growing worse with time.

"My brain has started to fail me. I feel it, I see it," one responder to his early 20s wrote. "It is difficult to do things that used to be natural to me."

"It has been a struggle for me to keep my life together," another in his mid-40s wrote.

The worst up the results for her major-year high school research project: it earned as a, and she plans to share her findings with the Coast Guard.

Looking for a patient of brain injury among elite rescue crews was a miracle able thing for a grieving daughter to do. Even more remarkable, the Coast Guard had never done it on its own.

The problem is hardly unique to the brain, indeed, for the service has lagged well behind the other branches in recognizing it.

And the military develops more powerful vehicles and weapons, it has repeatedly exceeded what the human brain can handle. This has happened to artillery crews firing high-powered cannons from 25,000 to 30,000, and machine-fired rockers, fighter pilots campaigned from aircraft carriers, and Navy harbour crews pounding across waves.

In all of these fields, the military almost the threat for decades became the injuries accrue slowly and the symptoms — which can include nightmares, jumpiness and erratic moods — often look like normal reactions to traumatic stress.

Unlike other military branches, though, the Coast Guard has no regular testing for brain injuries and no formal briefings on the dangers of wave pounding, surfaces say. Its best crews face many of the same hazards as Navy crews, but it has not participated in the Navy's studies. The brain injury website it maintains is more than a decade out of date. Many of the links under the heading "Where to get help" are dead.

"The problem is being overlooked; we are not taking care of these people," said Jay Nilles, 51, a surfman who worked alongside Mr. Bonner and also retired in 2022. "We all signed up knowing this job was dangerous, but no one ever came you at the end you'll have serious anxiety, paranoia, headache — that you'll go out to the garage to take out the crash and forget why you are there."

The Coast Guard, in response to questions from The New York Times, acknowledged publicly for the first time that brain injuries caused by impacts with waves were an "emerging concern." This summer, prompted by The Times's

reporting, the service joined a Defense Department study trying to measure wave impacts on beat crews and began a comprehensive brain health initiative focused on preventing and detecting injuries, and providing better care.

After this article was published online, the head of the Coast Guard told all personnel that slamming through rough seas was causing brain injuries to small-bout crews, and viewed in take literature article's eyework and clear the injuries.

"Our crews operate in a dangerous and unforgiving maritime environment," Admiral Kevin Lundin, the commandant of the Coast Guard, wrote in an email to the whole force. "We see it to you to protect your long-term health from the damage caused by relentless wave pounding."

Kayleigh said it was hard to explore her father's disease.

"I didn't want to ask these questions — I was asthmatic. I guess," she said in an interview at her house, where she unbugging her knees on a living room sofa. "For the longest time, I was just annoyed at my dad for being mad all the time and for what it just the family through. Now I realize he was just that."

"Maybe if we understand this, we can do something differently," she said. "Maybe we can keep other families from being in the same position."

'Like 20 Car Accidents a Day'

Surfaces sure to roscuss in 47 foot motor lifebeats built to smash through and and right themselves if capsized, like a rubber ducky.

"I'm brain, known among crews as 45s, an average of 20 persons from the subscale are throats of the ocean, but the crews are exposed to thousands of dangerous jobs as the 40,000-pound boats punch through waves and flag into troughs.

"A 20-hole wave revealing no one is the being in a car crash," said Aaron Harris, who was a surfman for 12 years and retired in 2024. "If you are not training in big surf, that's like 20 car accidents a day."

At the end of his career, Mr. Harris started to struggle with panic attacks, insomnia, migraines and wild mood swings. After the Coast Guard, he was done to meet a brain injury by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Many of his fellow surfaces have the same problems, he said, adding, "You can't get shaken up that many crews and use them in impact your brain's life."

Mr. Bonner spent his entire 25-year career on 45s. When he was not on rescue calls, he was often out practicing to huge care.

After eight years, he achieved the top driving certification. Just when he did, he started to fall apart.

His wife, Joshua Bonner, noticed he was having trouble sleeping and often woke up throbbing with disturbing dreams.

At the time, he was assigned to Coast Guard Station Golden Gate near San Francisco, and his boat regularly concerned people who had jumped to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge. Ms. Bonner knew pulling the bodies from the water haunted her husband, and thought, maybe, that was the root problem.

"Down in part of the job, but it got bad; he was drinking to cope," Ms. Bonner said in an interview. "I was worried that it was FY20."

She urged him to get help, and he did. The Coast Guard diagnosed him in 2009 with post-traumatic stress disorder and prescribed the antidepressant (ItaK). But he kept driving 45s, and his symptoms grew worse.

In 2015, Mr. Bonner became an instructor at the National Motor Lifeboat School in Washington. Instead of train-

Training to be Coast Guard rescues. Many surfmen struggle with issues like headaches and cognitive problems.

'You do these surf drills, going through all these waves, and you feel like you have the worst hangover ever for three days.'

LESLIE SUFFS SEVERNS.

a Coast Guard veteran.

Kayleigh Bonner, below right, with her sister Campbell. Not getting answers from the Coast Guard on the death by suicide of her father, an ex-recover, she did her own research.

ing in heavy surf occasionally, he started doing it almost daily for small-come home plagued by headaches and grew sensitive to bright lights and loud nouns. All were signs of brain injury, but no one was looking.

In 2014, he started to have panic attacks before reaching. Once again, he went for help. He was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and prescribed the antidepressant Effector 360, he kept driving 45s and his symptoms grew worse.

In 2015, he started to complain to his wife about "signs" to his brain. In 2018, he was parked outside a store when he suddenly had a seizure. His children tried to steady him as he flabby against the dashboard until he was bloody.

The Bonner's members if the cause was a reaction to his anxiety modification, or the result of a beat reliever eight months earlier that left him with a strained back.

A civilian neurologist looking over his brain scans afterward noticed something else. Ms. Bonner recalled the neurologic aiding her husband, "You've had a lot of concussions, haven't you?"

Mr. Bonner shook his head. No, just one in fifth grade, he said.

The neurologist showed him gray blackies and other abnormalities in the exam that she said were signs of multiple concussions over a long period of time.

The Defense Department maintains a system of world-class brain injury treatment centers. Instead of sending him to her, the Coast Guard sent him back to work.

"During all of this, no one ever nag geared he might have a brain injury caused by the brain," Ms. Bonner said.

Cycle of Anger and Violence

All along the Pacific Coast, crews exposed to the same waves were organizing similar problems.

Lentile Sliffe Severins, a Coast Guard veteran who served in surf rescue units for seven years, said the injuries appeared to be widespread.

She worked on 45s for only two years but was exposed to so many hard waves

less that she had big surgery at age 25. "You do these surf drills, going through all these waves, and you feel like you have the worst hangover ever for three days," she said.

After the surgery, she switched to a supply job, but watched as her friends on the beam slowly fell apart, home started using hard drugs. One is now homeless. Another is incarcerated in a mental hospital for a criminal conviction.

After better time, she worked on 45s for 20 years, had a stroke at age 31. A brain scan revealed widespread bleaches of dead brain tissue and small cysts that were evidence of repeated injuries.

Mrs. Sliffe Severins now helps Coast Guard veterans file 5.4, benefits claims. In the 200 she has worked with, she said, the 5.4, has documented brain injuries in about a third. Mr. Bonner was one of them.

The 5.4, does not relay that information back to the Coast Guard.

"It shouldn't be same big mystery that this is happening," Ms. Sliffe Severins said.

Coast Guard Passed on Study

NATO is conducting a study of the problem across 10 countries, and several Coast Guards have joined. The U.S. Coast Guard has not.

The Swedish doctor leading the NATO

effort, Johan Clitman, started placing sensors on base desks and on crew members in the Swedish Navy years ago to measure the impacts.

The end placed "right." The sensors showed that the force of each hit was several times greater on the crews' heads than on the desks.

"I thought this must be a mistake — how is that possible?" he said in an interview. "Eventually, we realized that the force of the heels hitting the deck travels up through the big and spine and neck like the crash of a whip."

The U.S. Navy uses models that show a similar effect. A wave hit measuring a relatively manageable six times the force of gravity on a fast heat deck can produce a sudden job to the head measuring 60 times the force of gravity — the force of a car crash.

Repeated jobs of that intensity can trigger a cycle of inflammation and cell death that can lead to permanent damage. One Navy fast-heat driver was found to have severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., the progressive brain disease found in athletes who repeatedly hit their heads. Other fast-heat veterans say the problems are widespread.

Because the Coast Guard has never studied the problem, there is no clear evidence that time on 45 is producing brain injuries. But Dr. Clitman said there was a good chance that all small-beat crews that repeatedly hit seven were at risk.

"This is what we need to study," he said. "This problem is solvable if we work to understand it."

Searching for Help

In his local moments, Mr. Bonner knew he needed help. He quit drinking, took steps to compensate classes and went to group therapy. Most of the time, he was the same kind of man he had always been. But every year, his symptoms worsened.

He struggled to make decisions. Even ordering as a drive-through was overwhelming. He gave paranoia. He was sure his father-in-law, who lived next door, was not to get him and prescribed him over a minor disagreement about new closer doors.

The Sunday in February 2025 when Mr. Bonner died, the family had gone to church. Afterwards, he talked with his wife about building a garage, but seemed unable to understand the next steps and grew angry. He grabbed her and restated her arms painfully behind her back.

He started to fixate on how the house was a mess. He drove armloads of old manuals and City from his Coast Guard career into the family's living room fireplace. He started around, willing someone usually, while the flaming job spilled out onto the floor and the room filled with acrid smoke.

Ms. Bonner watched from the kitchen, who saw that the house was going to burn down.

"I honestly don't know what to do," she said quietly to Kayleigh. "You can't roam with that when he's like this. I can't call my single teacher. I am not much him. I can't call the police. He'll either kill them or they'll kill him."

She realized she was on her own. Yours worked up as her eyes.

The next thing, the decided, was to take the children and the dog and leave. If the house burned down, at least they would be safe.

She drove them all to Sonic for dinner. On the way she prayed to God for help.

NATO is conducting a study of the problem across 10 countries, and several Coast Guards have joined. The U.S. Coast Guard has not.

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A photograph of Brett Bonner at his family's home in Callowhee, N.C.

She believed her husband was a good man and could learn to manage.

When they parked at the restaurant, she took a breath, turned to her children and said, 'Why don't we call and see if Daddy wants something for dinner?'

They rang him on FaceTime and he answered on his daughter's laptop. He was at front of the house, standing in the darkness. On the screen, his eyes seemed vacant, and his voice was like,

'Turn off your camera,' he started repeating. 'Turn off your camera.'

The children were scared. They turned off their camera, but his was still on. He kept repeating the same phrase, 'Turn off your camera.'

Without warning, a gun appeared on the screen. There was a gang. The family watched the screen go black or the laptop fell to the ground.

The car filled with silence. Then one of the children asked, 'Did Daddy drop the laptop?'

After another silence, Ms. Bonner said, 'I think Daddy shot himself.'

Surfaces converged from all over the country for the funeral. In her vision, some admitted their own problems. One often punched his own windshield. Another was an anxious that he struggled to work as an assistant middle school shop teacher. They all knew something was wrong, but no one knew what.

'Maybe if we understand this, we can do something differently. Maybe we can keep other families from being in the same position.'

KAYLEIGH BONNER, 16, whose father died last year after retiring from the Coast Guard in 2022.

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City Health Officials Say Outbreak Of Legionnaires' on East Side Is Over

By JOSEPH GOLDBYDEN

The health authorities reassured New Yorkers on Friday that they could walk around Manhattan's Upper East Side without worrying about catching Legionnaires' disease, declaring the end of an outbreak that had killed seven people and infected 52.

Dr. Alister Martin, the city's health commissioner, said at a news briefing that enough time has passed with no new cases to conclude that this summer's outbreak has been matched.

Most of the 82 cases were diagnosed in the first eight days of July, with only three cases discovered after July 31. The most recent case was diagnosed July 21.

'The incubation period has passed,' Dr. Martin said.

The health authorities believe that the outbreak was caused by a cooling tower — one of the busy structures atop rooftops that are part of central air-conditioning systems. The cooling towers, with their warm water, carvading metal and slime, can incubate a bacterium called Legionella. Fans inside the cooling towers can disperse bacteria-laden — non throughout a neighborhood, where passing pedestrians can inhale it. The bacteria can cause a severe pneumonia, especially in older people or those with underlying health issues.

Cooling towers have been implicated in post outbreaks, including a deadly episode in Harlem last year and a 2015 outbreak in the South Bronx that killed at least a dozen people and was the worst Legionnaires' outbreak in New York City's history.

'The health authorities said they had not pinpointed which cooling tower caused the outbreak, but said that they expect to do so in the coming weeks. There are more than 100 cooling towers across

three Upper East Side 25P codes — 08F3, 08E9 and 10126 — that largely encompass the area of the outbreak. Legionella bacteria have been found in roughly a third of those cooling towers.

The next phase in the investigation involves comparing those 12-3 growth samples to samples taken from hospitalized patients in an effort to find a genetic match.

'We are working to pinpoint the source as quickly as possible,' Dr. Martin said.

An Legionnaires' has grown more prevalent across the United States in recent decades, New

Still searching for the source of the most recent episode.

York has emerged as an epicenter. That is partly because of the density of cooling towers — there are more than 5,000, mostly of rooftops in Manhattan — and the number of pedestrians in the sidewalks below.

The latest outbreak sparked widespread concern across the Upper East Side, which has a higher concentration of able condoms than many parts of the city. The outbreak left many people worried that the air they breathed while walking outside might land them in the hospital.

The widow is one of the outbreak's victims summed up the fears when she described what had killed her husband, an ill-timed-old 64-Three-victims-anti-tired businessman. 'My something you don't see, an invisible moment, a vague that just went into his lungs and just took him away from me,' the widow, his

Goldstein, said at a news conference last week.

On Friday, Dr. Martin reassured residents that they were safe now.

'There is no longer an elevated risk of Legionnaires' disease for the Upper East Side,' he said.

In response to past outbreaks, New York City has imposed stringent regulations on cooling towers, requiring that they be registered and tested for Legionella on a monthly basis. Some members of the City Council have expressed concern that the Health Department's enforcement of cooling towers regulations has been las.

'It doesn't look like the compliance was where it needed to be,' Julie Monin, the speaker of the City Council who represents the Upper East Side, said last week at a news conference. Ms. Monin had also faulted the city Health Department for not moving faster to face enough water ecologists to assist with Legionella testing, leaving some positions vacant.

The Health Department said it had hired water ecologists expeditiously and that more than 200 department employees were mobilized to respond to the outbreak.

Dr. Martin on Friday said that inspectors had cited buildings for more than 110 violations, with two buildings receiving an unusually large number of cooling tower citations.

A residential building on East 62d Street had never registered in cooling tower, and the property owners had failed to sample the tower for Legionella in more than a year, Health Department officials said, adding that the owners had been issued $13,000 in fines.

A building on York Avenue, with more than 200 apartments, was issued $9,000 in fines for failing to conduct monthly Legionella sampling and other violations, the health authorities said.

Dentists Exploited Patients in Pain, Suit Says

By ANDY NEWMAN

The dentists and their assistants often delivered the bad news when the patient was already in the treatment chair, in pain and in no position to read fine print, New York City officials said.

The patient — typically poor and older — needed thousands of dollars of work, and insurance would not cover it, the dentist would rid them. But there was a way he read: Just sign up for a convenient payment plan.

But what the two dental practices in Canaries, Brooklyn, were not telling the patients was crucial, the city said.

The claims that the patients' insurance would not cover the procedures were often false, the city said. The convenient payment plans were essentially high-interest loans with rates as high as 17 percent. Sometimes, the city said, patients were signed up for them without their consent at all.

On Wednesday, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection said it had sued the practices, Canaries Family Dentistry and New York Family Dentistry, in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, accusing them of false advertising and deception and seeking restitution and other penalties.

'No one in pain should be treated like a payday,' the agency's commissioner, Samuel A.A. Levine, said in a statement. 'When dental providers expect New Yorkers who desperately need care, New York City will halt their predatory practices and hold them accountable.'

A lawyer for Canaries Family Dentistry, Justin Kelton, said in a statement on Thursday: 'Canaries Family Dentistry vigorously deems these allegations and intends to have them a good appropriately, legally, and always to the best interests of its patients. We look forward to defending this case in court.' New York Family Dentistry had not respond to requests for comments.

New York Family Dentistry, which has three locations in the neighborhood (one of which has a family and family family, 10 Dudes & Insurance accepted'), and Canaries Family Dentistry, which has one location, are not connected, the city said.

The city said that the practices pushed the credit products on their patients for one reason: 'They got immediate payment in full, right away.' Melissa Iachkin, the state's first insurance department's deputy general counsel, said: 'There's no waiting, no negotiating with insurers or accepting partial payment.'

The suit, filed on July 17, details about a half-dozen case histories. Ms. Iachkin said the city expected to hear from many more patients who had been similarly head-woken.

One patient named in the suit, Carol Ransatz, was told by the staff of Canaries Family Dentistry that her insurance would not cover the extraction, crown and

Two of the three locations of New York Family Dentistry. The city has accused that practice and Canaries Family Dentistry of often falsely saying procedures were not covered by insurance.

antibiotics they said she needed, the suit said. The practice at first refused to try to submit a claim to Ms. Ruman's insurer and would not even provide her the procedure codes for her to submit a claim herself, so she was forced to choose between paying $1,500 out of pocket or tolerating the pain.

While she was at the dentist chair, the staff gave her husband's document to sign that he thought was necessary to submit a claim

Brooklyn practices used high-interest loans, the city says.

in insurance. But the couple later learned that it was a credit application and that the credit company had paid Canaries Family Dentistry $3,000 on the spot that the couple was now liable for.

Lois Parchment, a retired nurse's aide, came to Canaries Family Dentistry in 2021 seeking relief from dental pain and filled out some forms that she understood to be routine intake paperwork, according to the suit. She got a simple cleaning, which she believed her insurer would cover, but when the staff told her she intended thousands of dollars worth of work, she said she could not afford it and left.

'All they did was clean my teeth and tried to get me to borrow thousands of dollars I did not want to borrow,' Ms. Parchment said in a phone call on Wednesday.

In 2025, she got a letter from a collection company asking her she was being sued for $3,250 for charges associated with Canaries Family Dentistry.

'I was shocked when I got the paper for me to go to court,' she said. 'They're preying on elders and poor people. They're terrible.'

Yontim Breeden, a 67-year-old woman on Medicaid and Medicare, went to Canaries Family Dentistry for a partial denture installation and was told that all her remaining teeth needed to be extracted and replaced with permanent dentures, Ms. Iachkin said.

Rather than filling Medicare or Medicaid, Ms. Iachkin said, the practice told Ms. Breeden she needed to pay $1,000 out of pocket immediately and take out a loan for another $5,000. The dentist pulled her teeth but failed to install the screws for the dentures properly. When her daughter tried to get the practice to correct the problem, she was told that Ms. Breeden would need to take out another $10,000 loan, Ms. Iachkin added.

Within the last few weeks, Ms. Iachkin said, the practice contacted Ms. Breeden and her daughter again. This time, employees threatened to send her account to collections.

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Missteps Mount as Case Against ICE Proteters In Minnesota Hits Snages

By ALAN FELDER and ERNESTIS LONGOVIC

The Trump administration came out swinging in January after a group of activists in Minnesota, according to the National Security Journal, held a demonstration at a St. Paul church in protest. President Trump's aggressive immigration conference in the state officials cast the indictment part of a larger narrative of left-wing protesters being out of control at a thought political moment—just days after a Minneapolis woman, Bessie Gould, had been killed in her car by an immigration agent. The authorities moved swiftly, arresting several people who had been inside the church, leaning there was Don Loman, the former CFO and her wife had long run ahead of Mr. Trump.

Herman K. Dutton, who took the Justice Department's civil rights division, which helped us bring the charges, on the tone for the moves by re-imposing the case in an instant remark: "We're going to pursue this to the ends of the world, the task."

On months later, however, the case, which is notified by it federal district Court of St. Paul, has been plagued by an array of prosecutorial mistakes. Defense lawyers have accused the government of roaring to bring headline-grabbing charges and the judge's arresting the proceeding have, from its secret, been voicing their concerns.

In May, for instance, it was revealed that one judge understood the highly unusual step of reporting a toll of search warrants after finding they would be unlikely to turn up evidence that crimes had been committed. Last week, another judge made an even more unusual move. He demanded to see some grand jury's transcript in an effort to determine whether proof of the case was not adequately when warning the indictment.

At the same time, the defense court was re-engaged, attached their efforts to search the Loman's indictment,煽动 the United States. Minnesota even thought the phone was seized in California. Lawyers were also accused the prosecution of bypassing its problems with security warrants by issuing an administrative subpoena to typically used in common enforcement cases, not criminal proceedings,

to obtain information from some of the defendants.

All of this, the lawyers claim, has damaged the government's case and had a broader impact, underpinning the health of cases — known in legal circles as the prosecution of regularity — that prosecutors have traditionally enjoyed in court.

"It is clear to me that in this case, the government in many reports, carefully, has gone off the side," Matthew Ebert, a defense lawyer who served as a federal prosecutor until that last year, said a judge last week.

"We're talking about a growing confluence of conduct," St. Ebert added, "which ultimately, Your Honor, I think goes to the fact that the presumption of regularity has created, it not evaporated."

Prosecution have ultimately denied such accusations, claiming that whatever errors they have made — and they have admitted making some — were purely collateral. A Justice Department official played down the incident, saying that the case was moving forward in a normal way with the defendants challenging the charges. "Hell, as a signal that prosecutors are somewhat concerned about

A Justice Department official has played down the troubles.

bringing the case to trial, they have offered plea deals in 25 of the nearly 40 people facing indictment. Under the proposed agreement, defendants would plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and avoid any prison time, according to a draft shared with The New York Times.

In fact, however, none of the defendants have agreed to take the deal, according to defense lawyers.

The U.S. attorney's office declined to comment on the plea deals.

The case in St. Paul is only the latest prosecution arising from Mr. Trump's nationwide immigration case sweeps to four significant problems: Over and over, in cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, the

Justice Department has followed the investigation of hard-knitting, unsound indictment, often turning defendants as radicals or terrorists, then watched as cases later run against because of a severe evidence of prosecutorial errors.

An investigation by The Times found that hundreds of officer accused cases stemming from non-violent, and have uncovered a return have equalized, judges have thrown out charges or prosecutors have themselves withdrawn indictments.

The case is, for vice-ignors Mr. Loman and his co-defendants struggled to get off the ground, so the case was a very uncomfortable way to which it helped to gather a definite engaged of political protest and journalists who covered them. These acts of the case were not only a general appeal court — reduced to grading with the government's mutual attempt to seek criminal conviction against Mr. Loman and other journalists — including lawyers, Georgia Fort — after finding there was simply no evidence they had committed crimes.

Some career federal prosecutors in Minnesota were alarmed by the anomalous investigation steps that set the case in motion and by the printed remarks administrative officials made about the case. The case was also a very hard days after several experts heard prosecutors resigned every week. The Department's handling of Mr. Gould's shooting, Loman's Bruce Loman's presence surged two more in the case in its early days, said it led her to quit what had been a dream job.

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"The CMA's Church protest case gave me significant peace," Mr. Bruce said, disclosing for the first time the reason she resigned. "I was uncomfortable with the pace and manner in which the case was proceeding, and those concerns played a role in my decision to leave the U.S. attorney's office."

In the real, prosecutors persuaded grand jurors to St. Paul to return an indictment charging the two journalists and seven other people with a conspiracy to violate the Fao's Act, a law that her kids using throats of force to intimidate or intricate their people seeking reproductive health care here or trying to participate in a service at a house of worship. A subsequent indictment expanded the case to the state's investigation, most of them demonstrators who joined the protest at CMA's Church on Jan. 18.

But the case can into trouble almost immediately as the White

House protest a digitally altered image of the lead defendant, William Levy Armstrong, a local civil rights lawyer — appearing to ask as she was being arrested. Works later, prosecutors brought the charges against one of the new defendants, Matthew House Law Jr., to what appeared to be a case of mistaken identity.

Overall, prosecutors have vigorously defended their indictment for more court papers, they said they intended to prove the charges by showing, among other things, that Mr. Loman and his wife attended a meeting where a victim organized the protest at the church where one of the pastors also works as a secret official with immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The prosecutors also say that they have a large amount of video footage of the "disruptive protest operation" and that are clearly just against her elbow when she

Nelsissa Levy Armstrong, left, a local civil rights lawyer, as a lead defendant in the government's case against a group that includes journalists Don Loman and Georgia Fort, below.

and from the building, however, another of the church's pastors, Jonathan Parnell, has testified to the grand jury that he felt "threatened and criminal" by both the arrests and the journalists.

Lawyers for Mr. Loman and Mr. Fort have settled at such positions, arguing that their clients, unlike the actual protesters, never abused and ICE charges during the demonstration and get close to Mr. Parnell and his congregation only to the first part.

At the court hearing last week, most of the discussion focused on Mr. Fort, a St. Paul native who has covered the extensive protests against ICE in Minnesota as well as the findings of Ms. Gould and another demonstrator, John Pratt. The government has already acknowledged that in some of the recent search warrants investigators lately claimed that Ms. Fort cleared things like "ICE Oat" during the church protest and used her names as a "weapon to intimidate, threaten and scare the congregants."

Her lawyers, Mr. Ebert, asked Magistrate Judge Douglas L. McAfee to scrutinize the grand jury, proceeding on the case, and the same false statements had not been used to secure the rights of the justice law by the court of the hearing. Judge McAfee agreed to do so, saying there was some evidence that prosecutors may have misdemeanor "for good."

In a month, a courtroom would be overseen by prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota, but as with other politically sensitive cases, the proceeding, in the case, was not a result of the hearing. Judge McAfee agreed to do so, saying there was some evidence that prosecutors may have misdemeanor "for good."

In a sign of local discomfort with the case, three defense lawyers, who were not aware of the case, said in prosecuting the defendants, in the hearing, one of them, was not a result of the hearing. The prosecutors did not satisfy going after his client, Ms. Fort, and her co-defendants.

"We have a situation where the government — unfortunately charged the case first and the truth's investigator's later," he told Judge McAfee. "And the consequences of that are playing out in unfortunate real time."

Botched' Job, Not Sabotage, Damaged the Electing Pool

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At a news conference on July 2, Mr. Pirro asserted that prosecutors had "enormous evidence" underpinning Mr. Blanch's talks about the case. "I am not sure what she called 'unchecked vandalism and civil disorder.'"

National Park Service employees, wherever those actually are, are not甩锅. "I am not sure, even if the bottom line with both hands," she said at the time of the election employee told her to stop, Mr. Pirro said, Mr. Busch was "indifferent, cold and disrespectful."

After his arrest, Mr. Busch said that the local society reached down to touch a legal fight only out of curiosity.

On Friday, after Mr. Pirro moved to drop the com, his law was set out to a statement: "The Trump administration's case against heavy those should have never been brought. Its dismissal lately does not erase the abuse of government power in the state and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong. The government's approach was ready, the aim, The administration were to return an apology."

Mr. Pirro's filing was notable to think a committee in a government acknowledgment that the work was problematic. The District Court, however, found a committee in a fleeting Pool on the National Mall, did not immediately comment on the case.

The Trump administration's case, a response the past has stirred criticism over the cost, more than 100 million on his 8 has entailed upgrading a water purification system, sealing study plans and the use of the water to remove and代替 the slate with a waterproofing material in a chair Mr. Trump has called "American flag

Coroner Williams contributed to pering."

blue."

The administration awarded local contracts, saying they needed to expedite the project to have it completed by the nations 2500s herded on July 1. The initial contract so far the past went to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a small firm to meet Virginia that had never held a government contract. Mr. Trump said he had chosen the firm personally because it had required a post at one of his golf clubs, like that was one year, and Mr. Trump was not a member of that nor know the contractor.

Besides the persistent leaks, a gap admirable had been a problem for years, and after officials were in the house of the state's judge, the water turned from blue to green and enormous algae.

U.S. says it will drop charges against a former Olympian.

blooms spread unchecked. Around the same time, pieces of the new blue being were also seen peeling up and flashing in the water.

Mr. Trump had claimed at one point that vandalism depend fortiori into the pool to feed the algae and disheal the plant with the water. "I think it might," the administration had not provided evidence to support those assertions. None of the people charged were accused of clashing the plant.

Atlantic Industrial Coatings did not respond to requests for comment on Friday evening. In the past, the company has defended the public's position to "stay in the office of a very small part" of the panel lining, and that it would fix the issues under warranty.

Loyalty to Trump Puts Blanche's Confirmation of Risk

By GLENN THRISH

WASHINGTON — The things Todd Blanche did to persuade President Trump to communicate to an attorney general might be the things that prevent him from being confirmed as attorney general.

Mr. Blanche, the acting attorney general and the former leader of Mr. Trump's criminal defenses, has been a faithful executor of the president's campaign of profession and a guardian of the president's interests. As a top official at the Justice Department, he delivered a damage-control complaint the terms during the release of the Justice files.

When asked this year how he could respond if Mr. Trump first met, Mr. Blanche replied, "I love you, sir."

But Mr. Blanche's audience of one approach, which got him to when he is seen has stibbled with the jury of one really in the Senate that has, thus far, kept him from the point he covers the stability and status conferred by a Senate confirmation.

Two Republicans on the Senate Judiciary' Committee, Senator John Carryce (R-Iowa and Senator David Ellis) of the Carolina and Smoking his path to a flow vote over concerns about a deal Mr. Blanche signed to resolve Mr. Trump's General against the I.R.S. to create a 12.5 billion fund for purported victims of prosecutorial absences and intended government law would grant sweeping an amnesty to Mr. Trump and Mr. Trump.

Both sides are keenly aware of the damage — Blanche delves could inflict on the party and continues to talk into Friday evening. The court is quickly tracking all agreement.

Still, Larry's Co. Mr. Trump said they would appeal a recent order from a judge carrying doubt on the case. "I am not sure what did the person do in the process."

Mr. Blanche is the crumbly between the holders and Mr. Trump, who on Thursday Board of Commissioners, and the majority has nomination, seemingly unvailing to give away a tax shield was could result in a $100 million enrolled in secure the uniforms of the court at which his pledged his loyalty to him.

"I am not why he wants to because it provides immunity from

Todd Blanche's path has been blocked by Senators. John Carryce and Thune Ellis now concerns about an I.R.S. deal he signed.

audits that no other taxpayer could protect you," a primary Mr. Carryce said when asked about Mr. Trump's motivation this week.

But the battle has bigger than Mr. Blanche, who will be able to serve indefinitely in an acting capacity. "I am not sure what did the hope. It represents the first serious revolt by Republican against Mr. Trump's extraordinary transformation of the Justice Department from an independent institution to an extension of presidential will overveals by a cause of his former perusal. They are who must serve his interest to keep their jobs and get promotions."

After more than a year and a half of allowing Mr. Trump and his population to work their will, he almost no paullish, Senate Republican appear many of being bereaved politically radioactive proposals connected by Mr. Trump, and some important during its question the way the department is being run.

The two senators standing in Mr. Blanche's path can afford to make the decision to be taken into the place. Mr. Carryce said Mr. Ellis are both visiting after the midterm, after their clashes with Mr. Trump's actions resulted in his personal and personal, which proved politically fatal.

Has both been said they represent a much larger group of Senate Republicans who have received means about the impact of the tax deal, but do not want to incur the political risk to publicly side with them.

"There are more than just two people who have reservations about the weaponization that is about the scope of the settlement decree," Mr. Carryce told reporters on Thursday after a scheduled vote on Mr. Blanche's nomination was delayed by lack of protest.

Mr. Blanche reacted as he often does when confirmed with an amputee. He testified with his voice to find a solution, finding written proposals with Mr. Carryce's effect, including language that removed his public claims that the anti-weaponization "disagree" was dead, according to people familiar with his talks. It was unclear if we was authorized to revise the tax debt.

Mr. Trump reacted as he always does when challenged by receivers of his own party. He talked digital transferable on Truth Bank.

Mr. Thursday, he attacked Mr. Carryce as a sure issue who was reacting vengeance after Mr. Trump endorsed a successful challenge to the Republican and the government's response suggested he would consider "unsperrically relationship Mr. Blanche's issues" and putting him back after Carryce and Ellis are said of office. "I think he's not going to be the result that Republican are likely to have a smaller majority next year."

In a long and confusing post on Friday, Mr. Trump appeared to take step back, but his forces in withdraw the nomination. "Todd Blanche, a good man, should be immediately approved as U.S. Ar-

tervey General," said veteran his support for creating the anti-weaponization fund, which could be used to categorize sisters who are sued the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Neither was helpful to Mr. Blanche.

"I will always feel that these visions of government abuse should be paid back for what they were forced to endure, that from have been extended to the United States. "Millions of people agree with me, no was proven in my working life, admitted who, where this was a major subject of debate, and on Mr. John Carryce, said he was his Existence in an opponent that I昆仑ed."

Mr. Charlie was willing to care to get out of the power officials, but again adopted a leadership vote about Mr. Trump's approach — and understated that coping with his decision, report that he was supposed to be what he would consider "unsperrically relationship Mr. Blanche's issues" and putting him back after Carryce and Ellis are said of office. "I think he's not going to be the result that Republican are likely to have a smaller majority next year."

Even before Paxn Bould was removed as attorney general, Mr. Blanche had been working on a paper of actions intended to demonstrate progress to Mr. Trump, including plans to move against the former U.S. director of the Revenue and the House. When those calls, Cassidy Hutchinson, a few weeks after Mr. Bould was dismissed, Mr. Blanche approved the indictment of James R. Combs, who was not a member of the pooling a photo of seabedist arranged to read "he's".

Mr. Blanche has repeatedly said he did not personally support Mr. Trump's decision to make Mr. Trump's moral against the I.R.S. over the look of his confidential net returns to The New York Times. One of the subordinates who had been a member of the government with Mr. Trump's private-ball team, which included a long-time Trump adviser, Boris Epithetis, who played a significant role in the administration and leading indictments with all of the state involved.

Mr. Blanche expressed concern, seemingly about the plan of the case, and the general matter legally and agreed to initiate the backlash, which now threatens his nomination.

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Lake Powell in Arizona, a reservoir on the Colorado River. A new plan would impose large water cuts on communities in the years.

Mountain West States Are Facing Deep Cuts in Water Use

From Page A1 and is prepared to use less Colorado River water, but it is trying to lay a disproportionate share of the burden on Arizona's Mayor Kate Gallage of Phoenix said in a statement.

But the proposal was short on important specifics, including plans for water use over the next few years, and an annual increase of water it would allow to flow under varying river conditions.

And it appeared to leave room for the state to find their own way to share in the past of increasing water sources, said another PM, the Colorado River program director for the National Audubon Society.

Only nine will tell that is possible," Ms. Pitt said.

For years, seven states have fought over how to divide the water. With decades-old rules governing water use set to expire at the end of the year, the Trump administration stepped in and said it would be "unwilling."

The plan, released by the Internet Department, does not form mandatory cuts in water use on what are collectively known under upper-basin states — Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico.

The booming Phoenix area could find its water supply一时性ly reduced in the three years under the plan, because Arizona holds some of the lowest priority rights in a river system where many water rights were determined a century and a half ago, Arizona officials have signaled they are preparing to fight for their water to start, a step that could send Colorado River conflicts on an unpredictable path to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tom Ruschau, Arizona's chief organizer on Colorado River man's, said the plan could have "dissomian impacts" on that state and its economy, at the same time upper-basin states would not be required to use any "new water." "It's unacceptable," Mr. Ruschau said.

Every without some details, the Internet Department's plan provided states more clarity on what could be coming in the years ahead, said David Porter, director of the Ely Center for Water Policy in Arizona State University, said that "it's an agency statement of what it believes it's empowered to do," Ms. Porter said. "It's not necessarily the last one."

Though the plan, known as an environmental impact statement, is final, more steps remain to give you how much water will actually flow to communities. The State Department's Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water resource management, is expected to release more details in the coming days and weeks.

The industry officials have also said they would bring the plan to states can agree on a different solution.

Astron the region, two decades of drought have reduced winter snowpods, which creates the majority of the river's flow. At the same time, warming, temperature caused by climate change have increased water losses from evaporated.

The basin faced an October deadline to have a new water use plan in place. Its implementation led to the Bureau of Reclamation's Internet Secretary Doug Burdine, said the plan released on Friday "provides the flexibility to respond to changing hydrologic conditions." He said the Internet Department had "a responsibility to ensure the Colorado River system remains reliable and reliable for the millions of Americans, communities and industries that depend on it."

The Colorado net only supplies drinking water to state of sufficient of people but also provides irrigation to it. It utilizes acres of rivers, Mexico also receives a share of the Colorado water, and regulates the between the county and the United States are separately prating. About two dozen authorities also have rights to the river's water.

The data had not on Friday, and for a wide range of potential water releases — including reductions by more than half in the dried years — from Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir and the dividing map between the upper and lower basins, California and Nevada, the lower basin states, depend heavily on steady releases from the state. The map is a "first" state that has been published in the 2000s, but the 2010s, and the 2020s. 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Mountain West States Are Facing Deep Cuts in Water Use

From Page A1 and is prepared to use less Colorado River water, but it is trying to lay a disproportionate share of the burden on Arizona's Mayor Kate Gallage of Phoenix said in a statement.

But the proposal was short on important specifics, including plans for water use over the next few years, and a situation focused on water it would allow to flow under varying river conditions.

And it appeared to leave room for the state to find their own way to share in the past of increasing water sources, said another PM, the Colorado River program director for the National Audubon Society.

Only nine will tell that is possible," Ms. Pitt said.

For years, seven states have fought over how to divide the water. With decades-old rules governing water use set to expire at the end of the year, the Trump administration stepped in and said it would be "unwilling."

The plan, released by the Internet Department, does not form mandatory cuts in water use on what are collectively known under upper-basin states — Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico.

The booming Phoenix area could find its water supply一时性ly reduced in the three years under the plan, because Arizona holds some of the lowest priority rights in a river system where many water rights were determined a century and a half ago, Arizona officials have signaled they are preparing to fight for their water to start, a step that could send Colorado River conflicts on an unpredictable path to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tom Ruschau, Arizona's chief organizer on Colorado River man's, said the plan could have "dissomian impacts" on that state and its economy, at the same

Newsons Made $14 Million in 2024, Tax Disclosure Shows

By TIM ARANGO

Gov. Gintin Newsons of California released four years of federal tax claims from news, a new federal state said was driven in part by a federal investigation into the Arkansas of his wife, Jennifer Sohel Newsons.

In 2014, the most recent year released, the couple reported a senator income of about $1.30 million, which included more than $1 million from investments. The Newsons had taxable wages of about $192,000 from the salary as approved, and the wife's wages were about $100,000.

It was the first time let, Newsons, a Democrat, and his wife had released returns since he ran for a recession in 2022. When he was first elected governor, he had promised to release his tax returns exactly but did not do so.

Mr. Newsons's office said it was releasing the documents now to answer right-wing claims that the Newsons had released all the news during his time as governor.

The returns, which were released for 2021 through 2024, show that Mr. Newsons's dissent have been fairly stable over the years, except in 2021, when the family's income received a $1 million heard after they said a multi-million-dollar bond. Mr. Newsons has filed for an extension to the tax 2021 return, which is due in October.

Tax returns often do not indicate how much a person's wealth has given through investments and business holdings before an extension grew substantially in value between 2021 and 2024, yet the Newsons' income remained

roughly the same. The governor and his wife both have significant investments in third trusts, and only the income from those investments was reflected in the tax returns.

In 2022, the governor posted tax returns to a state within its compliance with a state that was over. The time, the office required lawmakers to examine 100 pages of tax documents in person on Thursday and take notes with the office.

The financial disclosure rate that Mr. Newsons and Mr. Sohel Newsons continued to earn the bulk of their income from the Hispanic investments in the wine and hospitality industry, which have been held in a third trust since he became governor. The overall person from the tax returns made the annual financial disclosure that Mr. Newsons was required to publicly file such year.

The disclosure come as Mr. Newsons, who was elected governor in 2014 and is serving his last year in office, roughly a two for the presidency in 2020.

Mr. Newsons and other California lawmakers have criticized President Trump for withholding tax tax returns ever since he first ran for the White House in 2016. Presidential candidates are not required to release their tax things but had done so for decades after the Wampage scandal.

Mr. Newsons signed a bill in 2019 that would have required presidential candidates to release five years' worth of tax returns to appear on the ballot in California but that was struck down by the state supreme court. Candidates for governor in the state

must still provide their tax forms. In June, Mr. Newsons said the District Department was directed going into and his wife and described in a politically motivated probe on the part of the Trump administration. While the scope of the investigation is unclear, Mr. Newsons' notes have said that it is focused in part on his wife and that agents had interviewed people connected to her nonprofit groups.

The governor's office said in a statement to reporters reviewing the tax documents that "the returns reflect consistent financials over the four-year period" and that they "concluded that the state's right-wing claims that the Newsons' two-third themselves through new ventures and nonprofit organizations."

According to the tax claims, two nonprofits announced with Ms. Sohel Newsons announced that a modest share of the family's income, the Senators, a 2021 Mt. Sinai Newsons was elected to $10,000 in the wages from the Representative Project, an organization she needed in 2011 that uses them and media campaigns to address greater stereotypes.

The disclosure rate show that another 4-for-winters, a production company called Civils Club Entertainment that produced films that explore social issues, has consistently lost money in recent years, while Ms. Sohel Newsons has been paid little. For example, in 2021 the company lost $10,281, and the tax return shown the way paid $12,700.

The couple has paid an effective federal tax rate of 10 percent to $5 percent over the four years in total, they paid $2.79 million in federal

net taxes and about $500,000 in California state income tax.

The couple has paid additional taxes for the state, and members and lobbyists's. The couple reported paying nearly $450,000 in wages for household employees in 2020.

Mr. Newsons, who this year published a memoir, "Young Man in a Harry" named $70,000 as an author in 2021 and an additional $75,000 in 2024, was senior at that time. He was also told the memoir of was related to a children's book he published in 2021 about a boy with dyslexia, a man who was also known as "the Crossbells".

The Governor's office said in a statement to reporters reviewing the tax documents that "the returns reflect consistent financials over the four-year period" and that they "concluded that the state's right-wing claims that the Newsons' two-third themselves through new ventures and nonprofit organizations."

According to the tax claims, two nonprofits announced with Ms. Sohel Newsons announced that a modest share of the family's income, the Senators, a 2021 Mt. Sinai Newsons was elected to $10,000 in the wages from the Representative Project, an organization she needed in 2011 that uses them and media campaigns to address greater stereotypes.

The disclosure rate show that another 4-for-winters, a production company called Civils Club Entertainment that produced films that explore social issues, has consistently lost money in recent years, while Ms. Sohel Newsons has been paid little. For example, in 2021 the company lost $10,281, and the tax return shown the way paid $12,700.

Seattle Police Chief Resigns In Deadly Shooting's Wake

By JOHN GRIFFIN

Of the police chief is hereby assigned under pressure on Thursday after days of criticism over the department's handling of a shooting that killed three people at a road festival near the Space Needle.

Mayor Karen Wilson announced the resignation of the chief, Dean Barnes, four days after the attack, which also was in the morning. The shooting quickly became a political test for a new source, and of the country's highest-profile downtrodge socialties.

Critics complained that the police department released information on shortly about the shooting on Sunday night last week, adding to the confusion and fear of people disclosing in place at the New Seattle Red festival, and that the department got some dissatisfaction with the news. The department's has defended its handling of the shooting, saying "I'm in focus, from the sun," has been on investigating and public safety.

"Our officers can toward police fire," Chief Barnes said earlier in the week. "It's an ongoing investigation, and sometimes inferenceate even now, but the immediate end of the day."

Mayor Wilson announced the resignation in a news release.

"My vision for public safety is this try to generated a transponderance," said the president, who said he was described in a politically motivated probe on the part of the Trump administration. While the scope of the investigation is unclear, Mr. Newsons' notes have said that it is focused in part on his wife and that agents had interviewed people connected to her nonprofit groups.

The governor's office said in a statement to reporters reviewing the tax documents that "the returns reflect consistent financials over the four-year period" and that they "concluded that the state's right-wing claims that the Newsons' two-third themselves through new ventures and nonprofit organizations."

According to the tax claims, two nonprofits announced with Ms. Sohel Newsons announced that a modest share of the family's income, the Senators, a 2021 Mt. Sinai Newsons was elected to $10,000 in the wages from the Representative Project, an organization she needed in 2011 that uses them and media campaigns to address greater stereotypes.

The disclosure rate show that another 4-for-winters, a production company called Civils Club Entertainment that produced films that explore social issues, has consistently lost money in recent years, while Ms. Sohel Newsons has been paid little. For example, in 2021 the company lost $10,281, and the tax return shown the way paid $12,700.

Other donations include furniture, toys, books, appliances and household goods to Goodwill, the director, the economic Valley and Northern Nevada.

The couple has paid additional taxes for the state, and members and lobbyists's. The couple reported paying nearly $450,000 in wages for household employees in 2020.

Mr. Newsons, who this year published a memoir, "Young Man in a Harry" named $70,000 as an author in 2021 and an additional $75,000 in 2024, was senior at that time. He was also told the memoir of was related to a children's book he published in 2021 about a boy with dyslexia, a man who was also known as "the Crossbells".

The President's were still searching for other experts in the chastings in Seattle. He Sunday night's news reports, in Seattle's New York Times, showed that the state's right-wing claims that the Newsons' two-third themselves through new ventures and nonprofit organizations were not only the case, but the case was also the case.

The head found attack appears to have continued the Wilsons day's campaign in 2020. The 2020 Mt. Sinai Newsons was elected to $10,000 in the wages from the Representative Project, an organization she needed in 2011 that uses them and media campaigns to address greater stereotypes.

spokesmen said reporters that a news conference was delayed while the police would be the attendance of "dignitaries," who ended up being the mayor. Gov. Gittinger of Washington, who is president of the state, the mayor's office initially announced that the senators were so curiously before correcting the statement.

Mr. Barnes, who was attending the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executive conference in Dallas at the time, made statements the next meeting that proved to be inaccuracy or misrepresentation.

A person Monday news conference, the chief finished at spokesmen about his attendance. Sunday and his family's residence in the village. "I wish I had a crystal ball and we could schedule guarantee," he said. "But we can't."

The senators and the senators were also willing to take one of the most important steps. The President's has been the public safety. It also comes after weeks of approval inside City Hall, including the department of her chief of chief and communication director. The senators have been the decision that her administration has struggled to find its footing.

Before Chief Barnes, the senators in Seattle's black community called on Thursday, he was in effect to save Mr. Barnes's life. Business groups and City Council members are not statements of support to Mr. Barnes and questioned the senators' views. The senators are not only decisions in the middle of the decision. "It feels like they just under the chief, started to get a handle on the misconduct issue that seemed over-provoking," said the senators. "I am not something."

The senators were still searching for other experts in the chastings in Seattle. Investigators were still searching for other members of the state. The senators are not only decisions in the middle of the decision.

Marina Berne, a council member, described the dismissal on resignation of the senator that it hastened the mayor's "lack of consensus and her investigation."

Susan Bible, a civil rights attorney who has worked in city over years, said the senator, said he was behind by the decision. "It feels like they just under the chief, started to get a handle on the misconduct issue that seemed over-provoking," said the senators. "I am not something."

The senators were still searching for other experts in the chastings in Seattle. Investigators have said they believe two rival songs were involved, and that at least four weapons were fired.

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An article on July 9 about a measure to eliminate U.S. aid to the state that has been properly used in the United States. The United States Department has recently described the lobbying steps APAC. It describes itself as pro-fused with a consideration of the rising pro-fused candidates who declare a red helping to have determined that U.S. bond relationship, but it is not a hard-right organization.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026

New Fed Chair Is Said to Consider Reducing the Frequency of Policy Meetings

By CLEARY SMITH

and BETH LIEBELMAN

Kovin M. Warth is considering reducing the number of regularly scheduled meetings at which the Federal Reserve acts interest rates, a potentially seismic move that would mark the most significant change in how the central bank operates in years.

The Federal Reserve's 15-person policy committee meets eight times a year and votes on whether to lift, lower or hold borrowing costs. Mr. Warth raised the idea of changing the frequency of those meetings at the Fed's gathering this week, according to four people with knowledge of the discussion who were not authorized the speak publicity.

Mr. Warth, who was providing over ten-named meeting as chairman, left the impression that a revised schedule could be decided on before the next meeting is misinterpreted; even if the changes would not be carried out until later.

The Fed declined to comment. Reducing the cadence of the meetings — and, in turn, views on rates — would be by far the most consequential change of life. Warth's tenure so far. It would mark a break from decades of precedent, including the way the

Fed covers the economy and potentially making it less responsive to changes in inflation and the labor market.

Meeting has often would also reduce the information available to that future and the broader public about the Fed's thinking about the path for interest rates, reversing a decades-long trend toward greater openness.

That would fit a larger pattern that has emerged early in Mr. Warth's chairmanship. He has drastically shortened the policy statements that the Fed releases after each meeting and has provided far less detail about how he views the economy and the appropriate direction for rates. He has also noted the idea of scaling back the past meeting, more condolences that have been the Fed's practice since January 2026.

Since Mr. Warth took over as chairman in May, he has sought to portray himself in the public and within the Fed as someone who would bring about significant reform in an institution he has long criticized. The central premise of his campaign for the job was overset "regime change." So far, that has materialized as five task forces focused on a range of issues, from how the Fed communicates to the public to the data

Fed Chair Kovin M. Warth has sought to portray himself as someone who would reshape an institution that he has long criticized.

sources is prioritizes.

In the meeting this week, Mr. Warth spoke about the legal authorities the Fed must dilute by regarding the minimum number of meetings it needs to hold in a year and the timeline for such a change, the people said. Mr. Warth, the people said, asked officials to reach out to him with their thoughts instead of having a full discussion of the meeting calendar at this week's gathering.

The Fed has already announced meeting dates for the rest of this year and for 2027, although a year on the central bank's website says, "Each meeting date is tomorrow until confirmed at the meeting immediately preceding it."

The law that mandates the Fed in its modern sense was Banking Act of 2001 — requires the central bank's policymaking Federal Open Market Committee to meet "at least four times each

A move that could allow the central bank's response to changes.

year." The chairman has the power to call meetings, as do any three members of the committee. The Fed can hold emergency meetings to react to unexpected developments. In the past, the Fed has only relied on intermenting policy adjustments during periods of crisis, such as the pandemic.

At his confirmation hearing in April, Mr. Warth said in response to a question from Senator Robert Langley, Democrat, of a column, that "our meetings were 'not enough' and that "having more meetings than that is appropriate."

Until the early 1990s, the Fed met frequently, nearly every month in many years, and occasionally even more often. In 1996 alone, the officials met 29 times, and the Fed met 30 times, and also met 30 times. In 2006, the Fed met 30 times, and a solution crisis, the committee held 12 full meetings and sent oral more emergency conference calls.

The Fed adopted its current schedule of eight meetings a year — roughly one every six weeks — in 1991, when Fed A. Volcker was clear. It has held in that schedule ever since, although the committee has held emergency meetings, in person or by phone, during periods of crisis.

The consistent schedule has established a predictable rhythm for Fed officials and staff members, and for the investors and forecasters who follow the central bank's decisions. The Fed staff prepares briefing materials and forecasts, known as the "Outbook", ahead of every meeting. Minutes are released three weeks after each meeting. full transcripts, along with the briefing materials, are released on a five-year lag.

The Fed has discussed changing the meeting calendar in the past. In a brief memo, two senior Fed staff members — including Donald Dales, who later served as vice-chairman — weighed the ground and core of more frequent meetings, including the "advantage of more timely opportunity to receive new information" but also "the inconvenience of more preparation and travel." Ultimately, they concluded that the eight-meeting schedule "might still be considered adequate."

Weather Report

Meteorology by AccuWeather

Highlight: Widespread Downpours in the East

A time-moving front approaching from the west will bring widespread showers and thunder storms across portions of the Northeast and the Southeast Sunday night and into Monday. Rain may be heavy with the potential for Rain Reading. The heaviest downpours may make for difficult travel as visibility may be reduced to a quarter mile or less. If the weather is at the lower佘es along the interstate 26-consta-

Cities

This new temperature for the 12 hours ended at 4:30 PM morning. Eastern time, and precipitation of snowfall for the 12 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.

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Atlanta	02/01/15	02/01/15	02/01/15
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National Forecast

Showers and storms will develop across portions of the Ohio Valley through much of the Southeast today as well as across a corridor in the southern part of the Pacific. Thunderdorms could bring Flash Reading and damaging winds from Ohio through central Florida, and the rise will continue into the night.

Activity will be more spotty to the west of that region. Much of the Northeast and New England will stay dry with clouds and sunshine. Most of the Plains will also end up dry with plenty of sunshine, and conditions will become less humid with the people of a true community.

Most of the western United States will be dry as well with the exception of some showers across much of the western half of Washington.

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TOBAY ... Hurrah with some sun high 80. High pressure will open winds with sun filtering through high clouds. Temperatures will be at or near average for the middle of summer, though it will feel noticeably warmer due to the high humidity.

TOBACCO ... Some clouds Low 12. Winds will remain light and variable and it will be pretty cloudy in the evening before 1/2/2027. There is only 3v moving. Temperatures will be near normal, and the humidity will stay high.

TOBOSWISE ... Breezy and humid high 82. Winds out of the south-south-east will increase to 10 to 20 miles per hour as a storm approaches. Plenty of clouds will block the sun for most of the day, and temperatures will be just below normal.

WINGER ... Thunderdorms high 82. Dry conditions will come to an end as low pressure brings a couple of heavy showers and thunderstorms to the city. It will continue to feel humid.

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Black Leader Will Review Complaints Against Police

New Role for Prominent New York Lawyer

By JEFFERY C. MAYS and WILLIAM MIND MARCUS

Coming pressure to implement campaign promises designed to reduce policing in New York City, Mayor Zebrao Mamdani on Friday named Jennifer Jones Austin, she head of an influential antipoverty organization and an informal group of members from the United States Supreme Review Board, an independent police-oversight agency.

Ms. Jones Austin, a lawyer and one of the city's most respected Black leaders, is a member of civil leadership and city government, with intent to the Bloomberg and de Haute administrations. The daughter of a civil-rights leader and a survivor of leukemia that is most likely related to the high U. services attacks, she has spent her career fighting for policy changes to benefit the poor and disenfranchised.

Among her many roles, she has been a member of the Board of Correction and deputy commissioner for the administration for Children's Services, chaired the New York City Racial Justice Commission and was given the leadership team at the New York attorney general's civil rights division that investigated the New York Public Department's use of stop and link following the death of Amadus Duda.

Jennifer Jones Austin has spent her career standing with New Yorkers too long that out of the halls of power." Mr. Mamdani said it is statement. "But under the blue public safety and accountability go hand in hand, and that trust must be earned through action. Jennifer will lead the C.C.R.R. with integrity, compassion and an unwavering commitment to justice."

It is unclear how the mayor's supporters on the left — a shaggy like he retained Jones a Tusch, a billionaire heiress, an police-attent-manner — will respond to Mr. James Austin, who is not a democratic societies, as the mayor is.

Jennifer Jones Austin, who is the new leader of the Civilian Campaign Review Board, discuss the Federation of Promenade Welfare Agencies.

Still, the idea that someone who serves as the vice chairwoman of the Rev. Al Shehery's National Action Network would lead the C.C.R.R. would have seemed far-fetched too decades ago.

Ms. Jones Austin comes to the role at a critical position in the police's early course in the campaign trail. Mr. Mamdani supported the idea of giving the C.C.R.R. final say on police discipline but has since pulled back. The new C.C.R.R. is one of the currently gets the final say, and Mr. Tusch, who has kept crime low and has the support of the city's business leaders, wants to maintain that power.

An independent federal monitor that oversees the city's hand mark: stop-and-think settlement and earlier this year that officers are still underreporting and perplexing, unconstitutional step-by-step intervention — and "little to no discipline is imposed on officers, supervisors or command staff."

In an interview, Mr. Jones Austin, currently the chief executive of the Federation of Promenade Welfare agencies, said she understood that she was ongoing into a risk-taker with measure. She said that the C.C.R.R. is one of the active in the guideposts of her career, and revealed that she weakly try to ensure that both the Public Department and the C.C.R.R. are all interested in city residents. After not jumping to foregone conclusions.

"I'm going to come to this role with an understanding. The N.Y.P.D. is too racist," she said. "But as is the case in every government, the C.C.R.R. is a stand-alone and important that lean and racist have had a place in all of these systems."

The mayor also faces other criticism chosen around policing that could increase scrutiny of C.C.R.R. decisions. Mr. Mamdani has yet to fulfill some campaign

promises, such as disbanding the Strategic Response Group, a person and used at present that has heard accusations of brutality, and eliminating a database of people suspected of being gang mom-bars.

Mr. Mamdani was lightly criticized by a man display of disapproval from the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America after it emerged that he planned to increase the Public Department's head count by 500 patients who were not included the increase.

The mayor was also criticized for establishing a watered-down version of the Department of Community Safety that would divert some 910 calls to mental health experts and social workers.

Ms. Jones Austin inherits a board that for years has been an bigger heads with the city's police system, which have sought to rid the city's big anti-affiliates.

The Public Benevolent Association has criticized the C.C.R.R. for not doing enough to weed out false complaints against its members. "I'm going to come the only one two lawsuits against the C.C.R.R. to control the public disclosure of serious accusations against officers — including moral misconduct and mass profiling — even after the board determined the allegations were unfounded of an unabstinated.

The acrimonious relationship between the union and the board' power to should be favorable with the former chairman, Dr. Michael and Khalid, resigned after a wave of attacks from the union. Dr. Khalid said Patrick Hendry, president of the association, had "pushed out to the break."

In a statement on Friday, Mr. Hendry issued the continual turnover in C.C.R.R. leadership — Mr. Jones Austin is the fifth board table in the last three years — and said the union had heard previous C.C.R.R. leaders "minst that they are 'not anti-police'" while the agency has become more deeply antagonistic towards our members with every passing year."

"We are open to working with Mr. Jones Austin to try to address these issues, but we are not going to accept empty promises," he added.

The 15-member board has the power to investigate complaints against officers accused of abusing their authority, using offensive language, being disconcerted using the name or government force. Based on its findings, it will recommend discipline to the police commission. In the most serious of cases, board government can bring administrative charges against an officer and present their actions at a Public Department trial.

Last year, the board received about 3,000 complaints against police officers and board insurers. The board brought C.J. John Howe, head half of these investigations resulted in disciplinary recommendations.

During her tenure, Mr. Tusch, a former disciplinarian, has been an willingness to work with the board. The only one who will work here is the City Council that the charged Public Department pro-try to ensure that complaints against officers were not discussed. The possible case would continue to work "collaboratively and fairly" with the agency.

Ms. Jones Austin said she had been approved with Mr. Tusch prior hearing her speak about working with the community and on a gaping with it in a way that parents trust and respect. She said she also began to have a training and respectful relationship with the police union.

"What I am hopeful he and what I am anticipating," Mr. Jones Austin said, "is that we will have a mutual respect for one another and that we will."

Ms. Jones Austin's appointment was granted by LeCite, Intern, the state attorney general; Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district of New York City; and

Ms. Jones, who worked with the State courts at the attorney general's office during the original trials investigation, said the Jones Austin would bring to the C.C.R.R. the reasoned and forced approval. The case took into the investigation.

"It was supported by the evidence and the law," Ms. Jones said. "There was no evidence of any

evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any evidence of any

The two anti-police, but also one one to ignore police accountability," Mr. Sheepton said. "She's not going to get pushed around."

The State University of New York at Stony Brook is among the SUNY campuses accepting students dissuasedly by Howard University.

New York Invites Students Disenrolled by Howard

By CATHY V. FREDERICK

Instead of spending the final series of summer preparing for free freshmen year at Howard University, Yonatan Payano had to scramble after the was-told weeks before the semester was to begin that she no longer had a spot in the incoming class.

"I really didn't know what to do," Howard said. "I didn't know how to enroll in another school."

Ms. Payano, 81 of the Bronx, was one of the 162 most-to-be freshmen who the historically Black university in Washington said he planned A.H.Q. H.Rudolfson and was appointed, police for the first semester. As a result, Howard said there that their enrollment in the class of 2020 was being withdrawn.

On 10th, Payano will attend this University at Albany in the fall, a last-minute switch made possible after Gen. Kathy Hachal of New York offered a pay disenrolled amount of $1,000. The $1,000 was an admission to certain campuses that are part of the State University of New York system and the City University of New York.

"They earned their acceptance, made their plans and should be ongoing, down the days until more so," Ms. Hachal said in a statement "Instead, they're being forced to start over."

Students whose Howard enrollment was canceled and who are New York State residents will be automatically accepted because of the SUNY campuses that have availability, in addition to the University at Albany participating campuses include SUNY State's Brook and the University at Ball, Am, among others. General-state students will receive an expedited admission process.

CUNY is offering a similar program.

Tuition at Howard for a sample for a $22,000, according to his website, compared with $2,070 at SUNY for state residents and an average of $2,720 for social leaders, with the university centers like Albany, Stony Brook and Buffalo averaging $20,290.

'I really didn't know what to do. I didn't know how to enroll in another school.'

YONMNE PAXANO, who will now attend the University at Albany.

The Howard students have an opportunity to thrive with us at SUNY, and regarding they will take advantage of that," John B. King Jr., the SUNY chancellor, said in an interview.

Holly Liapis, a SUNY spokeswoman, said that the participating campuses are making special accommodation for the needs of resident students who they won't be disenrolled a second time.

"Given the challenges these students have faced, we guarantee these students will not be so chaired by the fall moment that to unresolved financial aid issues," she said in an email.

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The first that it was explained since those students were able to make the payment and demonstrate their skills to external scholarships," Dr. Frederick said.

In a statement posted in a website on July 23, Howard had said that it had received students of the University financial deadline through "multiple detailed communications throughout March,

April, May, June and July to first-time to college students and luncheon on their months to secure enrollment for the fall 2020 semester."

Ms. Payano said that she had spent the summer on the phone with the school's financial aid and barber officers trying to figure out when her financial aid and scholarships was would apply to her tuition balance.

As the deadline instead, she said that she was told to wait until her aid and bank were applied before enrolling in the tuition payment plan. So she did, finally two weeks later, the discovered she was disenrolled.

Ms. Payano had regularly applied to Howard and the University at Albany but chose Howard. She was excited about transferring herself in the historically Black schools' culture, here, she feels differently.

"My comments were told me multiple times. 'It's not I meant to be, I don't mean to be,'" she said. "But obviously, I still saw my future in Howard. So I continued going through all the hardship and all the struggles. But this just showed that they just had釜底板 insulation, and it isn't a school I've arly dreamed of still attending."

SUNY and SUNY spent the only options for the freshmen; some schools in the Washington area have also offered a last-minute reprieve.

Gen. Tom Mason of Maryland announced that the students disenrolled by Howard were being given expedited admission to the State's university system. Maryland and New York officers in evidence students who paid Howard an 2020 unworkable financing and enrollment fee.

Dr. Frederick said that he was happy to have students could enroll elsewhere before the semester began. He took exception with comments that Ms. Hachal had made about Howard's actions and said they had not spoken.

"I think I know what is happening at my university," he said.

Mamdani Is Open to Reparations for Black New Yorkers

By JEFFERY C. MAYS

Mayor Zebrao Mamdani said this week that he supported reparations efforts in New York City but that it was too costly to commit to making monetary payment to the commission of slavery.

In recent interview on The Bank, Mr. Mamdani was asked whether he would support cash reparations if he city's Commission on Racial Equity, which is currently studying the matter, recommended them. The mayor said he would have to wait for the commission's report he achieved, edged the city's complexity to slavery.

The often think about slavery and the complexity in slavery as being exclusively or certain principles some of the country," Mr. Mamdani told the former New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow in the interview. "Here is New York City, we were very confident, and so, I look forward to whatever those findings are."

"I can't give you an answer in advance of these," the mayor continued, "but I can tell you that this is criminally important because this is also what I look like to acknowledge what history is my was."

He told Mr. Blow that he stood by a pledge, written when he was running for murder, that he would have to be a member of the society in, as the pledge comes, "rectifying, historical, discrimination" and "repairing ongoing insqua-

lites."

In another interview this week on Sirine Khr's Urban View channel, Mr. Mamdani said that "if we are taking an honest and accurate approach to what New York City's role was, you will see that complicity is something that cannot be delivered."

When asked about the injury's recent comments, Jeremy Edwards, a spokesman for the mayor, said Mr. Mamdani's statements apply for themselves.

There are currently separate city and state commissions studying reparation and reconstitution. In 2023, Gov. Kathy Hachal signed a law creating the New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies to study the legacy of slavery and the ongoing impact on descendants dealing with extreme wealth gaps and other social issues that are the consequences of the loss of governmental wealth. The group is not expected to release its findings for at least two years.

The New York City Commission on Racial Equity, created in 2022 by public builds, is also studying reparations and creating "a public process for rich, leading and reconstitution" that will help New Yorkers a way to "publicly acknowledge the history and harm of slavery" according to the conclusions.

The group is expected to issue a report on its plans for the truth, leading to the reconstitution process next June and the reparations

study the following month.

The Commission on Racial Equity has recently clashed with Mr. Mamdani regarding the release of the city's first legally mandated racial equity report.

The commission criticized the administration for not including crucial interests required by city authorities, and is to increase its civil equity in budgeting and policymaking. It also took issue with the deletion of references to diversity, equity and inclusion in the city's new law, and an extension to the Trump administration, which has systematically dissuased adversely and equity initiatives.

Truly Washington is a strategy for the commission who is helping to lead the reparations result, and the mayor was right to setaside ahead of the commission as a carefully studies the issue and develops a plan for reparations and the legal education in its 10 light schools.

"You can't talk about the questions of affordability without taking about the racial wealth gaps," Mr. Washington said. "You can't have the question of the civil wealth gap without talking about reparation."

"You don't get Mamdani without the light for reparation," I added.

Both I and, the organizing manager for New Yorkers in Reparations, a statewide coalition, and that many people regard slavery as a "footnote that hap-

prent, instead of being recognized as the rest of everything that was built afterward."

She said she preferred an approach in which cash reparations and other changes, such as investments in housing or education, were both on the table.

"We know that there's immediate death right now," said Mr. Brown. "We also know that it was here! It's the structural issues, the best generation of Black New Yorkers will still find themselves in the balance of the cash system."

New York was a local point of slavery in the country. New York City had more endowed Africans before the American Revolution and the 1800 U.S. city except Charleston, S.C., according to the interview's office.

New York is the financial capital of the world in part because of the benefit it derived from the slave trade. Eastwood Africans were traded at a number on Wall Street. Banking, insurance and shipping also flourished in the city because of almost slavery. New York also traded slavery in 2023.

Anthony Yokel Brown, the director of communications at Get Free, a group dedicated to making "publications in the US" issues, said, "We know that neither like Citibank, New York Life Insurance and some others that have been done since the early days of the 1800s, nor have any other New York directly made their founding profits on the financing of endorsement."

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'The Proximity to Trump Is a Strain at This Point'

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I'VE TO SEND YOU A WEEK Ramaswamy — the Impressive Speech: Millenium and vanquished presidential candidate — stood at the stage of the Republican National Convention and delivered a thundering endorsement of Donald Trump for president. 'If you want to make America great again, won Trump,' he declared. 'Donald Trump's, the president who will actually enter this country not through empty words but through action.'

'But on a recent mid-July afternoon at the Clinton County Fair in rural Ohio, Ramaswamy, now running to be governor of his home-state, had a different message: 'I don't want to just be saying: Make America Great Again.' He told the crowd, standing atop a stuber piled with holes of hay. 'A few years from now, I want to say: Make America and Make Ohio Greater Than We Have Ever Been.' And that is who we are as a country. We aspire to not just our status quo. We aspire to greatness. We aspire to inner.'

It was a subtle but unmistakable shift, from a backward-looking politics yearning for the restoration of the America in its future-focused politics beckoning to a sunny horizon of possibility. More than anything, perhaps, it was a clear marker of intent.

'We've been living under the peruseless of Trump for writing that is, but not all we will never escape it. But the battle over who will succeed Trump as the Republican nominee in 2028 is well underway. Much of the focus has been on Vice President, JD Vance, the presumed 'front-woman,' or 'dormitorious.' State Marco Rubio, who has emerged as a favorite in some Republican circles. Then there's Ramaswamy.

In some ways, Ramaswamy cuts a Trumpian figure in the historic political minister with an outsize ego — like Trump, the first office he can be won the presidency — and a showman's knock for getting media attention. He's faced questions about the source of his fortune and has a tendency to improvise wildly about policy. At various points he's suggested, to general alarm, that schools should run year-round and that Medicare and Medicaid were mistaken.

But he is unlike Trump in other ways. For one, he is the child of Indian immigrants and a Hindu, facts that have drawn racist attacks from elements of the right. For another, he chooses more to an educated form of Republican politics, more Ronald Reagan than Pat Buchanan. You get the sense the blood-and-thunder style of Trumpian agitation doesn't come too naturally to the smooth-talking educational air. And he is a young man, had Trump's age, all in all, he represents the Republican Party's past, its present and — perhaps — its future.

Megastor precedents who build an unusual winning coalition are a tough act to blame. Democrats learned this the hard way after Barack Obama's two terms in office. But the Republican Party is now facing what may prove a more profound identity crisis as it connects with the unpleasant reality of what Trump's second term has wrongful.

On the campaign trail, that content is unavoidable: the chaos and bloodshed of Trump's political-organization campaign, the human and economic toll of a senseless war in the Middle East, an administration aimed in self-enrichment and scandal and an electronic extenuated by constant battles over war, greatly and sensibly that worst-documented from their actual lives. That agency to have sparred Democratic nominees, who are placed to make advances in the stalkiness.

For Ramaswamy, it's something of a kind. Unable and perhaps unwilling to make a clean break from Trump, he seems determined to face his techno-spirited politics with the dark, anorixic vision of the man who take the party in Ohio, I saw how hard that might be.

It was an ominous to feel day at the Clinton County Fair, and the crowds were that, the other 2018, a Trump-voting radical leader with an immaculably tended faulty white blood, arrived early in the afternoon so that with his fellow Republican leaders, he sat upon the arrival of their candidate for governor. 'Well told me he had been following Ramaswamy's career since he burst on the scene as an aspiring Republican nominee for the presidency in 2018 and had been improvised.

The comes across very permissible. like Barack Obama when he won campaigning for his first term, 'Well said. 'What I know of his politics and his plethora, I like most of it a lot.'

I asked Tim Inwood, the chair of the Clinton County Republican Party if he was worried that racists would damp Ramaswamy's chances in the general election. Casey Purack, a little-known full-time politician, challenged Ramaswamy in the Republican primary, dubbled in cricket and dollar-raisers and managed to get nearly a fifth of the vote. But Inwood, who proudly showed me a snageless on the phone of a long, sad internal racists were on the other side of disdain. 'I saw the left accusing us and preparing what they actually do on us,' he told me.

When Ramaswamy arrived, Inwood climbed into a rubber center where the, Uniting Iam s 'fantastic young man' and accusing voters that if Ramaswamy was elected, he had Trump's cellophane number — like just about every moderately well-watered explorer in Washington, I normally asked. If Ohio needed anything, he would have a direct line to the White House.

Ramaswamy bounded estates, remarkably shy on such a severe afternoon. 'The reason I'm doing this is I want every kid to this state — not just my kid, every kid to the state — to have the same opportunities to achieve great things that I had,' he said.

Ramaswamy wants to be the future of the C.O.P. First he has to win Ohio.

'This state gave me the opportunity to achieve.'

Almost immediately, he was interrupted by a young man who shouted angry questions about a data center set to be built in this rural community. Ramaswamy was unruffled, asking for young man his name and promising to answer any questions after he was done with his remarks. 'Thanks for coming here, buddy,' Ramaswamy said, gnarely. 'If you want to have a chance to ask a question, you're going to do it respectfully, just like everybody else.'

Inneethy, he continued with his stamp speech. He pledged to bring high-paying jobs and economic growth to Ohio, to make its schools excel, to eliminate the state income tax, lower property taxes and tax electricity bills. 'We will do our part to make sure that Ohio's best days and, based in God, through Ohio, America's best days are actually still ahead of us,' he declared, before opening up the floor to questions.

It was an assured performance, well received by the audience. 'Or for all of Ramaswamy's invocation of the future, most pro-

ple I talked to were very much focused on the problems of the present — a cruel crackdown for supposed Medicaid fraud, for example, and rising prices for fuel, fertilizer and health care — many of which were caused or exacerbated by Trump. Surrounded by MASA supporters and Charles Kirk admirers, Ramaswamy could not possibly repudiate the president.

In the situation, the classic Trumpian move is to print to culture war issues — to celebrate under-attested immigrants, U.S.L., transgender people. But as a few ways MASA has been a victim of its own success. The southern border is all but closed, and last year the United States, to part thanks to Trump's violent deportation campaign, supervisors and negative migration for the first time in five decades. The Supreme Court has delivered victory after victory to the far right on its pet issues: gaining the Young Rights Act, striking down affirmation issues, giving license to broad discrimination against transgender people and more.

You'll think that Ramaswamy, having

written a best-selling book about the scourge of woketone, would be well placed to pick up that outgist over-the-box. But to be sure, the present clear of culture war topics altogether.

Indeed, far from hearing into Trump's anti-immigrant agenda, he emphasized his immigrant voice considerations of the American people's rights. 'I wanted the success of other Republican states, Ramaswamy had little to say about the Trump administration's record. He hardly mentioned Trump, and only in passing.

I HAD THOUGHT to Ohio to get a sense of where the Republican Party might go in a post Trump world. But I kept hearing that interesting things were happening with the Americans. Party rights were in some of the deepest suburban and courthau districts surrounding the state's reliably blue cities.

It was hardly surprising that three-quarters of the votes cast in Clinton County were in Trump in 2013, a show of his opposite farmers and other blue-collar voters. The two affiants and suburban counties to its own were a lost Butler in the town-reliably Republican 24 -decades, delivering more than 20-point margins in Trump each time he has run for president.

Then in May something strange happened. It was that the state in those two counties, Democratic Nation-surged by more than 75 percent compared with the northern elections in 2022. On the Republican side, ballots led by more than 25 percent in both counties, the state in which they are committed partisans, so turmoil is often an indication of enthusiasm. In these deep-end counties, it seemed clear which side had the momentum.

In a coffee shop in the upscale township of New Cobbler, the chair of Butler County's Democratic Party, Kathy Wynnandt, told me that her party's local success was the fruit of a long-pending plan. 'We have a 10-year plan to begin flipping this county and we have a 10-year plan to run the old car.'

Partly, the changes are demographic. The county has attracted thousands of new jobs in recent years in aerospace, engineering and health care. 'We're seeing a lot of transgender people, transgender life companies through the Cincinnati-Dayton corridor here,' Wynnandt said. 'They are highly educated. They are coming from different backgrounds, different ethnicities.'

But she said the fellow volunteers have also built a formidable operation that has knocked on thousands of doors, as well as recruited, trained and fund-raised for candidates. More and more, they are winning. In last year's nonpartisan local elections, she said, the candidates the Democrats supported won 21 of 20 votes. 'What I hear everywhere — whether I'm talking to Democrats, Republicans — is people want someone who's going to fight for them,' Wynnandt said. 'They're tired of corruption. They're tired of their politicians being bought and sold.'

'This goes some way toward explaining why the race for governor is much tighter than most observers expected. Ramaswamy appears to be stuck in a dead heat with the Democratic candidate, Amy Acton, a former state public health official and a physician who had never run for office. It is notable that in a time-zone poll Acton did better than Sherrod Brown, a much better-known Ohio Democrat who is working to reclaim a seat in the Senate. Ramaswamy's path to victory left almost strictly regular running up big margins among right-leaning six Trump-sector voters in places like Warren and Butler Counties.

If Tommy Mancaza is anything to go by, Ramaswamy is not enough. Mancaza, a longtime transplant to the area, moved to Butler from 5,000 to work at one of the many companies that expanded in the Cincinnati courts in recent years. A father of four he was raised in a deeply conservative Sherman family and members himself focally conservative. Though he has noted for candidates from both parties, he remained a Republican. Yet this year, after a trending run for the local school board, he responded a ballot to vote in the Democratic primary.

'Give me a little Ramsey,' he said me. 'I think I'd be a little more comfortable affiliating there. But I have no desire to be affiliated with the Republican Party today.' Indeed, I am not a member of Ramaswamy, with his rudely more traditional Republican pitch, could win his vote. 'I think he's trying to thread that needle,' Mancaza said. 'It's not enough for me. I can't speak for everyone, but for us, the proximity to Trump is a state at this point on anybody.'

Ramaswamy seems to trust the problem. He has made many moves since Trump is herded with a new job going on the president's good side but keeping his distance from the administration. He was initially supposed to work alongside Zion Musk at the so-called Department of Conservation Efficiency. Not going to get it, I'm going to plan to Ohio. Whether he was pushed out or left of his own accord — accounts vary — it has turned out to be a boon for his prospects.

If he wins the governor's race, it would be a good thing. 'I think I'd be a little more comfortable affiliating there. But I have no desire to be affiliated with the Republican Party today.' Indeed, I am not a member of Ramaswamy, with his rudely more traditional Republican pitch, could win his vote. 'I think he's trying to thread that needle,' Mancaza said. 'It's not enough for me. I can't speak for everyone, but for us, the proximity to Trump is a state at this point on anybody.'

But first he needs to win.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES OPINION SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026

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Soccer's Not for Sale

Nathan Goldberg Crozier

The vice president of U.S. Soccer

SUNDAY, and the joy the game brings to billions of people worldwide, isn't just a game. It's a secret public good. That makes FIFA, soccer's global governance, a stressful 20th public's rival, one that should be protected passionately.

Instead, FIFA's president, Gianni Infantino, plans to sell a stake in future World Cup revenues to private ownership. FIFA announced Tuesday that it should re-bore a new country called FIFA's forward Enterprise that would controlate its biggest events, including the World Cup and Club World Cup; and health "breakfast, sponsorship, licensing, ticketing, and hospitality."

As a public-ship, private investors led by Thrive Capital would buy 21 percent of FIFA forward Enterprise for $4.2 billion. FIFA would retain a majority stake in the new entity and still regulate the game, including its tournaments, and supervise grass-roots developments.

For the good of the game, soccer's regional federations should reject this hyper-commensurized and senorced venue for the sport by reminding Mr. Infantino that soccer's sold is not his to sell. I hope my regional colleagues will share my opinion and follow the example in try UEF's, the powerful organization that runs European soccer.

UEFA has threatened to gain all FIFA's competition unless Mr. Infantino backs down. UEFA's roster includes the current world champion, Spain, along with the former World Cup winners French, France, Italy and England. There's no true World Cup without them. Concord, the continental federation that represents North America, Central America and the Caribbean, on Thursday also received the plan. On Friday, the Asian Football Confederation added its voice to opposition. Federation leaders across Africa, Oceania and South America should join the team for soccer's sake.

FIFA has a real obligation to leverage the sport's common cut value to invest in soccer development worldwide. Every kid from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and from Alabama

to Wyoming deserves an opportunity to allow the beautiful game to improve their lives, to teach them teamwork and fair play but not greed. FIFA can do that without the intensive selling, a significant place in the World Cup — its crown jewel — to a private injury firm.

FIFA is hardly stripped. The organization is expected to announce a record back of $22 billion for the crucial World Cup, and the $28 billion valuation of the new commercial venture. Mr. Infantino is pitching, assumes these numbers will keep increasing. The rising value of broadcast rights makes that an almost certain bet.

Mr. Infantino claims to be a champion of small countries that lack the organization and budgets of the traditional powers, and yes, many FIFA members are underloaded relative to soccer's vast wealth. I experiment that when I worked for the St. Kitts and Nevis Football association, But would-

Regional federations should reject FIFA's private equity play.

n't they benefit more from continuing to share all future World Cup funds flowing back to FIFA, which is legally obligated to reinvest these into the growth of the game? Trading them to private interests for a one-time payout is short-lightly.

Mr. Infantino is so desperate to sell the stakes that he imposed an arbitrary, 51-day deadline on soccer's regional federations to approve his plan. Why the road? He could potentially stand to gain a salary in the tree of millions if he takes on the role of commissioner of the new entity after his own limited FIFA presidency ends. The Times of London reported, FIFA told the Times of London that such an arrangement had "never been discussed." I for Thrive Capital's founder, Josh Kushner, whose brother, Jack, is President. Paragit was to late and deliver, it's the World Cup on a silver planter; for Mr. Infantino, it's a selfish and shameful golden parachute.

Transforming FIFA's economic epicenter to private equity defies the spirit of soccer as a public good. Despite assurances to the contrary, it could also decision-making power by granting profit-maximizing private equity interests under influence on the sport. And, considering, FIFA's long track record of corruption, creating a more regular financial structure could be a trophy.

Mr. Infantino says it's within FIFA's rights to accept private investment in advance to public mission. In a way, he's right, FIFA can do that, just as it was able to change professional prices this summer for World Cup tickets and still find major buyers. But safeguarding our sport means drawing one-shot and ethical distinctions between what FIFA can do and what FIFA should do, a massive life Mr. Infantino has failed to grasp repeatedly.

The way we get here has been another fatal flaw in Mr. Infantino's leadership: He believes as if he's "the king of soccer," as President I rump described as "a good thing into the sport by his. According to members of the FIFA Council — its main decision-making group — he kept them in the dark about this project, which would transform FIFA for against the new world's publicly. If this is how he envisions the management of soccer's future — plans backfell with private investors and relaxed their to secret leaders — they let to not fit to look after our sport.

Mr. Infantino's decision for good governance has strained FIFA to a breaking point. He leads soccer's democratic values while making further funding for FIFA member federations conditional on their vote, as approach those to end extortion than to democracy. In defeat Mr. Infantino's egotistic and transnational intentions for the sport, federations around the world tend to set out with against Mr. Infantino's vision but also against Mr. Infantino himself.

I strongly believe FIFA can continue to fulfill its mission of developing the sport commercially while respecting the notion that some cultural resources should be preserved for public benefit. We cannot move FIFA forward with a leader whose goal is to sell out soccer for personal gain.

LETTERS

Which Odyssey Will You Experience?

TO THE EDITOR: Re: "Nolara" Zero-Firm ("Odyssey") 'to Maxxons Dread (column, July 28)'

Without disregarding the obvious cinematic values of Christopher Nolara's "Odyssey", Mr. Dread faults the film for setting aside historical and cultural values that he at the heart of the historic saga. Butner's Odysseus, however, is less focused on quality of moving home than he is on deeply experiencing the world.

Over the centuries, Odysseus' journey was not always viewed again mighty in the 18th-century Italian Renaissance, for instance, his bound-to-sun society was marked by spiritual constraints — all its stately concepts him to a place in Daniel's Inferno.

Alfred Lord Toney's early poem "Olyseus" (the Latin version of Odysseus's name, also used by Daniel) offers an upper-high, reappraisal of Odysseus. In it, the returned thought continues to continue Greek hero relinquents the throne of Efraza to his son Nomaulian in order to set out again into the world. Odysseus continues that the reason even here is over, for his life is one long pursuit of knowledge, experience and the endless possibilities of the world.

The classic "Odyssey" is not merely the resounding of an adventure. I've been in the painting toward a new and deeper understanding of the professional human expert-mans — the pursuit of wisdom,

For the Love of Books

TO THE EDITOR: Re: "Every Book Cross, I Need" (Sunday Styles, July 31)

I have observed delighted to read about Donald Uretour's books. I, too, have books before in almost every room (cutting Mr. Uretour's, my bathroom, holds only one book at a time), and continually read and re-arrange them to accommodate more.

I have a friend living in a rose-mobilized apartment in Manhattan who inherited books from her family and added them to her own library. She is feeling pressure from her landlord, who frequently asks her, "How's the downside my coming along?"

Books are feelings. For many people, books are our companion through life. I own books that my mother had to my brothers and me as children. When I come someone's home and see no books, my first thought is, "What's wrong with this person?"

When Marie Banks asks if there books bring out yes, my answer is yes. We are not boarders. We are proud Midlothian.

CHARLES, STEVENS COVERETT PARK, MD.

knowledge and forgiveness. In other words, it's about the journey, not the destination.

LARRY BURIN, NEW YORK

TO THE EDITOR:

Homer's publisher, whose name has been lost to history, would be ecstatic over the coverage that she clients "Odyssey" is receiving as a result of Christopher Nolara's film. Most of the critical commentary comparing the film's representation of Homer's role was in that rendered in the text (in various translations) has, however, ignored the basic and interlative difference between the two versions.

Viewers of the film passively experience the story; they might as well check their own imaginations at the door before they sit down to another film. Nolara's version, her readers of the text (as well as those who listen to the poem being recited, whether by a live band or an audiobook) are and always have been active participants. Any most bullied, they own imaginations to visualize the people, places and events that blunter describes.

As it already has far over two millennium years, Odyssey will continue to be reprinted in the minds of countless people long after Mr. Nolara's film has failed to block.

M.C. LAING, CHEVY CHASE, MD.

TO THE EDITOR:

The movie would have been better if Mark Tannen had entered, after one of his overwhelming morals. "It's not always good to be the king." A moment of levity and reopen for Mr. Brooks would have been great.

STEVEN GOLDBERG, BROOKLYN

Retire and Volunteer

TO THE EDITOR:

Re: "The Financial Road Ahead Depends on the Long Time" (Sunday Business, July 24)

Most retirees I know give back to the local community; I am surprised that this option is not mentioned in the article.

Some retirees work with youths as tutors or with Big Brothers Big Sisters; know slippery elderly children, often by providing transportation. Some aid immigrant communities with language learning and translation.

Retirees often volunteer at museums, schools, libraries or the local hospital. Others volunteer at food pantries and soup kitchens, and still others besides services supporting vital public needs.

There is no shortage of ways retirees can and do give back to their communities. Please share a spotlight on that welcome aspect of retirement.

EILEEN BACK, ITIHALA, N.Y.

A New Order Is Taking Shape In the Pacific

Jennifer Kavanagh

The director of military analysis at Defense Energy and Space Administration is a restrained U.S. defense policy.

A HISTORIC shift has gathered poor actors Asia this summer.

The U.S. government of the world's China has extended maritime pain in more Vietnam and more, demonstrating its ability to encircle the island. It has intensified military, rural and diplomatic pressure on Japan and America's radioactive launched fullistic missile that showcased its growing sea-based nuclear capability.

With an eye on China's growing power, other countries have drawn closer, versus, eagle estimates of an emerging new security architecture.

Japan has strengthened defense ties with Australia, the Philippines and India, and I'm discussing closer cooperation with South Korea. Japan has also struggled to longstanding restrictions on defense papers and is moving to join South Korea as a regional news capital, while Australia has signed new agreements with Pacific Island nations, including a manual defense plan with Fiji.

Since President Tsaiga's return to office, entertained over his commitment to the defense of India and sparked earnings that the Jing could seize the opportunity to be more active, pushing U.S. allies to head together.

Those who do are running, bringing new risks. Japan changes to global security and control measures.

Yet this doesn't have to mean we are entering an era of instability for an occasionally dynamic part of the world that remains vital

to U.S. strategic interests. An order in which Asian countries assume greater responsibility for their own defense and rely more on one another — and less on an increasingly disinterested United States — could ultimately prove stable and secure.

As any one, it is unavoidable. An overreconized United States is long-proposed to underwrite Asia's security indefinitely than it does was.

The new with Iran has exposed the limits of U.S. military power and personnel Washington on to divert military assets from other parts of the world — including the Asia-Pacific region — and Mr. Tisang has made clear that he has been able to support the U.S. military news defense. His administration has already announced significant reductions in the U.S. military presence and commitments in Europe. No comparable plans for Asia have emerged yet.

A transition to a more self-reliant Asia must be managed carefully.

If Beijing perceives a rapid weakening of American commitments or won U.S. allies as newly vulnerable, it might conclude it has proven freedom to prove its territorial and security attributes, raising the specter of military confrontation.

Fear of the possibility, and of U.S. abandonment, could spakish the arms race at ready gripping East Asia. China has steadily sunk its armed forces and expanded its native, at arsenal. Japan has recently begun deploying longer-range missiles, South Koreans are delaying whether their country should develop its own nuclear weapons, and Australia is investing in nuclear-powered submarines and missile capabilities.

Assuming as these developments sound, history has shown that Asian countries with diverse interests and levels of government and both working partnerships without deep U.S. participation. The 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, founded in 1987, is often criticized as one and indecisive in responding to shared challenges and has done little to answer China's expansive territorial ambitions in the South China Sea. But AEA's has helped to maintain peace among its members in a part of Asia previously turn

by decades of war and provided a framework for Southeast Asia to engage with China.

A more balanced sharing of the security burden needn't weaken deterrence. Deeper cooperation between countries such as Japan, the Philippines and Australia would actually strengthen the first line of defense against security threats, backed up by a great daily method — yet still robust — U.S. military presence.

The U.S. allies become a problem and the targeted, it is only fair that they shoulder more of the costs of their own protection, freeing upStudy stretched American forces to meet global security challenges elsewhere. The United States, for its part, could continue to coordinate closely with his Asia-Pacific allies, take the lead on scale control in U.S. interests, such as keeping vital sea bases open, and work to maintain stable relations with America.

That kind of allied system would be strangely midfielder, more durable over the long term

The transition to a more self-reliant Asia is underway.

Man one that is overrelied on the United States and able to act collectively if American assistance is delayed or unavailable.

At any rate, the Middle East is proof that heavy American involvement is no guarantee that international rivalries won't explode into conflict. The United States — along with Israel — started the war with Iran, opposing American partners in the remission of American attacks and disrupting global trade. As a result, some Gulf states are rethinking their reliance on Washington and exploring ways to maintain their security through partner-ship among themselves, which may even include Iran.

The United States will remain a power in the Pacific. But the strategic balance has already defined American allies and rivalry in the U.S. and other countries that they were a generation ago, and U.S. forces are overreitered. Asia is adjusted to that new reality.

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Inspecting a flashlight made in Thailand for American consumers. Some companies pulled out of China as the trade war with Washington heated up. But tariffs are lower now and, while more could be on the way, that's being many back.

Industrial Base That's Hard to Beat

By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON and ANA SWANSON

MAP SANCHEON, THAILAND—One a dusty piece of land south of Bangkok, a flashlight factory stands full of promise. Workers bunch over tables gluing components. But only half the land has been built. Parts of the factory stand empty, waiting for future production lines.

The factory is owned by a Chinese manufacturer that makes flashlights for American customers. When President Trump's tariffs on China hit 145 percent last year, companies embarked on a panicked search for cheaper alternatives to countries

12.5%

Tariff for China, similar to dozens of other nations.

'They just have the scale to produce things that much cheaper.'

Deborah Elma, Hovich Foundation of Singapore

like Vietnam and Thailand, including this facility.

But since then, U.S. tariffs on China have come down sharply, leaving the leaders of some of those same companies with second thoughts.

"Have we pulled back to China? Yes, we have," said Phil Lauter, the chief operations officer of Alliance Consumer Group, a Texas-based company that sells flashlights made in the Thai factory to U.S. customers. Mr. Lauter had encouraged the Chinese manufacturer, Ningbo Bright Electric, to build a factory outside China to make his products, but he is hitting the brakes on the strategy

now that U.S. duties on Chinese goods are more comparable to those on products from Thailand.

One of the most surprising outcomes from a whiplash year of tariffs may be that China has emerged in a position of relative strength, with significantly lower tariffs than last year. The Trump administration last week imposed a new tariff rate on Chinese exports of 12.5 percent, similar to rates for dozens of other countries, as it works to resurrect the tariffs struck down in February by the Supreme Court.

Chinese exports are still subject to other duties, including from Mr. Trump's first term, and more tar-

iffs could be on the way. But many industry executives and analysts speculate that the Trump administration will keep future tariffs on China relatively restrained to try to stabilize a tricky relationship.

The overall U.S. weighted tariff rate on Chinese goods is slightly above 23 percent, according to an analysis by Google Securities, a Chinese financial firm. And for some products, the tariff rate for China is identical to the rate on exports from Southeast Asian countries, where many companies have moved their supply chains.

This has created a conundrum for executives like Mr. Lauter, who CONTINUED ON PAGE B4

War Proves Profitable For Big Oil

By REBECCA E ELLIOTT

As the war with Iran continues to spend energy markets, many of the world's biggest oil companies are reporting their highest quarterly profits in years.

International oil prices averaged around $90 a barrel in the second quarter, up 45 percent from the same period last year. That rewarded the companies that remained able to extract oil and ship it around the world despite the fighting in the Middle East.

Exxon Mobil, the largest U.S. oil company, said on Friday that it had earned $16.55 billion in the April through June period, more than twice as much as it did in the second quarter of 2023. Chevrouts second-quarter profit soared to $12.97 billion, from $3.49 billion a year earlier.

The longer the war drops on, CONTINUED ON PAGE B1

A.I. Mania Roils a Major Asian Market

By CHOI SANG-HUN

MENIA — South Korea has never witnessed a financial frenzy quite like this.

Driven by the global artificial intelligence boom, its stock market benchmark, the ROSPI, doubled to the first half of this year, adding millions of dollars in value and outperforming every major global index. But then came the whiplash.

As the South Korean stock market became the epicenter of both investment enthusiasm and anxiety related to A.I., it turned extremely volatile. The shifting sentiment has been focused on two leading chip suppliers to the boom in building A.I. data centers, Samsung Electronics and SE Hyria. Together they account for more than half the value of the ROSPI.

The swings became no violent that regulators repeatedly ordered mandatory trading brakes almost every other day last month. By Wednesday's close, the ROSPI had plunged about two-fifths from its peak, wiping out more than $2 trillion in just two CONTINUED ON PAGE B1

A.I. Boom Sets Off Whiplash in South Korea

After the government encouraged investors to buy A.I. stocks and copy E.T.F.s, the South Korean market has become extremely volatile.

ROSPI index this year

Jitters Rising as Big Tech Keeps Spending on A.I.

By KAREN WEISE

Tech giants are setting records every few months for how much they are spending on artificial intelligence — but this time, some jitters are also growing.

On Thursday, Amazon said its capital expenditures totaled $51 billion in the second quarter, up 69 percent from a year earlier, as it built A.I. data centers and other infrastructure. It joined a parade of other big tech companies, with Meta on Wednesday reporting that its costs had risen 55 percent from last year, while Microsoft said its capital expenditures had soared 69 percent. Last week, Google also disclosed that its costs had jumped and said it would boost its spending further.

These numbers are only set to skyrocket. Across this year and next, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are expected to spend a staggering $1.5 trillion holding data centers and trading data with advanced chips, according to Wall Street estimates compiled by

FACTOR.

"The scale of it is nuts," said Melissa Ohn, who leads research at S&P Global's Visible Alpha division.

Alarms are rising as Wall Street and others question when this spending can be justified. On Thursday, Amazon's share price

There are questions about whether soaring outlays are justified.

rises almost 35 percent in after-hours trading after its closed computing division experienced its fastest growth since early 2022, and shares of Microsoft, which did not change its spending forecast, jumped more than 15 percent.

But Menia took some more than 7 percent on Thursday after it revealed its A.I. outlays and that costs were growing faster than its CONTINUED ON PAGE B1

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The Digest

UTILITIES

Dominion Energy Reports

Profit Extended Forecast

Dominion Energy, the electric utility covering the world's biggest data center territory in Northern Virginia, reported better-than-expected second-quarter profit and revenue on Friday as demand from server warehouses grew beyond 10 gigawatt and offset rising operating expenses.

Adjusted operating earnings from Dominion's Virginia segment rose 22 percent to $670 mil-

lion during the quarter, while overall operating expenses surged to $4.15 billion from $2.71 billion last year.

Quarterly revenue rose to $4.48 billion, from $2.01 billion a year ago, heating analysts' average estimate of $4.04 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.

The company, which announced a $96.8 billion merger deal with NordSys Energy in May, supplies electricity to 3.4 million customers across Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, and several gas to 500,000 South Carolina customers. REUTERS

EARNINGS

Sony Sens Profit Grow

On Demand for Games

Sony Group Corp. reported a 32 percent profit growth in the fiscal first-quarter Friday while warning of a negative impact from the earthquake that hit southwestern Kensington earlier this week.

The Sony-money entertainment company said its non397 million facilities there were affected, and production remained suspended at one, while others were back up.

There was no major damage. However, the impact on Sony's bottom line was still being assessed, so that was not included in Friday's results. Before the guide, Sony had said it was on track to report record profit for the fiscal year.

Sony, which makes the PlayStation video game machines, Bravia TVs and "Spider-Man" movies, has set profit for its eighth annual period rose to 342.3 billion yen ($2 billion) from 259 billion yen. Quarterly sales edged up 5 percent to 2.84 trillion yen ($157 billion). ASSOCIATED PRESS

FINANCE

Chime to Cut 10% of Staff

On Streamlining by A.I.

The fintech Chime is cutting 10 percent of its work force, a representative said on Friday, joining a growing list of companies using A.I.-driven efficiencies to streamline operations.

A.I. is changing what's possible but requires new skills," Chime's chief executive, Chris Britt, wrote in a memo to employees seen by Reuters. "Smaller teams with fewer layers are mov-

ing faster than ever and getting more data," he added.

The layoffs will affect nearly 150 employees, a Chime representative told Reuters. The company had about 1,500 employees at the end of last year.

Chime is among the fintech firms that have diverged the banking industry by offering digital services, intuitive platforms and lower fees, increasing competition for legacy lenders.

Mr. Britt added in the memo that the organizational changes would create a flatter structure. REUTERS

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Stocks & Bonds

Markets Rally to End a Wild July Amid Inflation Worries

In the International

U.S. stocks rose Friday to finish a wild July for Wall Street as Amazon topped, Apple sank and rising oil prices worsened worries about inflation straying high.

The S&P 500 climbed 0.7 percent after moving between gains and losses through the day. The Dow Jones industrial average added 378 points, or 0.5 percent, and the Nasdaq composite rallied 1 percent after briefly losing all of an early 1.5 percent jump.

It's a fitting finish to July for the U.S. stock market, which hardest up and down as oil prices shot higher because of the war with true and worries grew about whether Big Tech's massive investments in artificial-landings were technology will translate into profits and whether the market stocks outed too high in the euphoria around A.I.

Friday's gains were the S&P 500 to its first winning week in March, but the main measure of the U.S. stock market nevertheless finished the month with a tiny loss.

Amazon led the market with a leap of 25.3 percent after reporting much stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Its profit more than tripled from a year earlier, thanks in part to an acceleration of growth in its cloud computing business.

Analysts said that could be a signal Amazon's huge A.I. investments are paying off, and Amazon increased its forecast for the much it will spend on investments this year.

The reaction was similar to what Microsoft got a day before, when its stock started to its best day in nearly 10 years on signals that its A.I. investments may also be yielding higher profits.

Chip companies selling the processors and company contrary that such "hypercaloric" are scrambling to buy young charged again on Friday. Morros (Schneider), for example, went from an early jump of 6.4 percent to a loss of 0.5 percent before finishing with a fall of 0.9 percent.

More firmly on the losing end of

The S&P 500 Index

Position of the S&P 500 index at 3-minute intervals on Friday

— Previous close: 7,437.63

Source: NetEnt

Source: NetEnt

Wild Street was Apple, which dropped 7.4 percent despite reporting stronger profit for the latest quarter than expected. Its forecast for revenue growth in the current quarter fell short of expectations, which executives pinned on a supply crunch in components getting excavated up to the A.I. losses.

All told, the S&P 500 rose 52.88 points to 7,488.72. The Dow Jones industrial average added 378.87 to 10,000.00, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 251.88 to 25,375.85.

The gains came despite another rise in oil prices as uncertainty continues about when the war with true will allow crude to flow freely again from the Middle East.

The price for a barrel of firm's crude rose 1.2 percent to settle as $87.55 after cunning between $71 and $102 earlier in July.

Higher oil prices have pushed the cost for a gallon of regular gas—due to an average of nearly $4.11 across the United States, up from $3.85 a month ago, according to AAA. More expensive oil also puts special pressure on prices for virtually every product that rides on a ship, plane or truck before getting to a customer.

The worries about inflation sent yields in the bond market even higher.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.71 percent from 4.68 percent late Thursday and from just 3.97 percent before the war with true and oil prices shooting higher. That's a notable move for the yield, which moves higher when investors' expectations for inflation, economic growth and other factors in upcoming years are rising.

The leap for the 10-year yield has already sent the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate to its highest level in a year.

Longer-term yields jumped on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve's chairman, Kevin M. Warrth, promised again to get inflation back down to 2 percent but refused to say how he plans to get it there. The Fed value again is keep its main interest rate steady on Wednesday, even though inflation remains well above 2 percent.

Miles to rates by the Fed could restrain inflation, but they could also slow the economy.

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S&P 500 COMPANIES	CLOSE CHANGE
1. Wright-Jones (AMZN)	$271.28 + 0.24
2. DeAlon (DASH)	$85.41 + 2.6
3. MacArthur Power Systems (MPMS)	$1,436.00 + 6.0
4. Kahn Corp. (FTN)	$616.00 + 7.0
5. Marlboro (DASH)	$306.00 + 6.6
6. Marlboro (ADHEL)	$306.13 + 6.7
7. Meyer-James (MT)	$25.00 + 6.0
8. Norris Holdings (AIST)	$241.07 + 6.0
9. Edmonds (DASH)	$282.00 + 6.6
10. Kahn Networks (MET)	$180.00 + 6.0

Worst performers

S&P 500 COMPANIES	CLOSE CHANGE
1. Goldsmith (NSPC)	$82.75 + 0.75
2. Gofman (CPM)	$78.71 + 11.0
3. Gohman Retail (ADH)	$1,062.00 + 10.0
4. Apple (AMT)	$308.81 + 7.0
5. Meyer International (EM)	$71.07 + 6.8
6. Miff Communications NV (AMT)	$229.14 + 6.0
7. Roper Corp. (DPA)	$225.75 + 6.4
8. L'Home Price Group (TRDM)	$111.75 + 6.3
9. Little KIM	$478.38 + 6.0
10. Moore Technology (ML)	$833.00 + 6.0

Most active

S&P 500 COMPANIES	CLOSE CHANGE	CLOSE CHANGE
1. Goldsmith (NSPC)	$326.75 + 0.25	139
2. Apple (AMT)	$308.81 + 7.0	133
3. Anderson (DASH)	$271.08 + 15.3	139
4. Ford (FRT)	$99.20 + 1.0	100
5. Microsoft (MET)	$401.73 + 10.0	85
6. AT&T Inc. (T)	$25.25 + 6.0	58
7. Ford Motor (F)	$14.88 + 1.2	58
8. Moore Technology NV (MET)	$8.13 + 5.0	58
9. McArthur (ADHEL)	$306.13 + 6.0	85
10. Pham Inc. (PFE)	$35.01 + 6.0	44

Midnap and small-cap stocks

	TOTAL RETURNS	TOTAL ASSETS
	1 YR (1 M)	31 M
1. Vanguard Morningstar MidCap Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares (VADPs)	+18.86	+8.09
2. Vanguard Morningstar SmallCap Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares (VSSPs)	+29.5	+7.7
3. Vanguard Economic Market Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares (VAMPs)	+29.2	+8.1
4. Vanguard Morningstar SmallCap Index Index Fund Animal Shares (VAMs)	+27.0	+8.2
5. Fidelity MidCap Index Fund (FIMDS)	+21.0	+8.3
6. Vanguard Morningstar SmallCap Growth Index Fund Animal Shares (VMSAs)	+25.7	+5.4
7. Fidelity Financial Market Index Fund (FIMDS)	+28.0	+6.7
8. Vanguard Morningstar MidCap Index Index Fund Animal Shares (VMAs)	+25.8	+8.0
9. Fidelity SmallCap Index Fund (FIMDS)	+45.0	+7.1
10. Vanguard Morningstar MidCap Growth Index Fund Animal Shares (VMGMS)	+8.5	+6.1

Sector performance

S&P 500 REUTERS

How stock markets fared yesterday in Asia

What Is Happening in Other Markets and the Economy

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Currencies

1-6 yrs = $1.25
7-12 yrs = $1.75
13-24 yrs = $2.25
25-36 yrs = $2.75
37+ yrs = $3.25

1-2 yrs = $1.25
3-5 yrs = $2.25
6-10 yrs = $3.25
11-15 yrs = $3.75
16+ yrs = $4.25

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state's first state's first state's 84 THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2008 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | ECONOMY Anthropic Says Its A.I. Models Have Hacked Three Systems By MIKE ISAAC and ALTO JONALD SATURDAY, October 1, 2008 SATURDAY, October 1, 2008 SUNDAY, October 1, 2008 SUNDAY, October 1, 2008 SUNDAY, October 1, 2008 SUNDAY, October 1, 2008 SUNDAY, October 1, 2008 SUNDAY, October 1, 2008 SUNDAY, October 1, 2008 SUNDAY, October 1, 2008 SUNDAY, October 1, 2008 SUNDAY, October 1, 2008 SUNDAY, October 1, 2 The attacks, which date as far back as April, were discovered when Anthropic carried out a review of the systems. Anthropic, which did not disclose the identities of the three organizations, said it had informed them this week about the incidents. The review was spurred by OpenAI's disclosure that it had backed into the A.I. library flagging four while testing the استاندارد abilities of its systems. The incidents have called on city specialists and computer scientists. For years, A.I. collaborates worked that because the technology was advancing so rapidly, it could soon spiral out of human control. The unexpected attacks by the A.I. had been also likely to add to an increasingly intense debate in Silver Valley and Washington over potential regulators of the technology. The Trump administration, however, took a long time approach, but in recent months it has signaled that it is donning to warn the people. OpenAI said last week that two of an A.I. models launched a previously unknown vulnerability to breakout of existing environment that was meant to be walled off from the internet, then launched a bank of flagging four. One of these models, which had not been released to the public, was previously determined after the attack. OpenAI said: Anthropic said that, unlike OpenAI's models, its technology has not apparently broken out of existing environment. The A.I. model has been the issue was human error, the company said. The people missing the term inadvertently left Anthropic's system commercial. In interest, a "new refrigerator" that the A.I. lab said had allowed its models to reach the infrastructure of other companies. In one instance, Anthropic's internal market reduced the A.I. test-terror across when it shouldn't and stopped its attack, the company said. Anthropic also said its models had not explained any previously unknown vulnerabilities but rather relied on "basic units" that the work generated and malware to break into the target's systems. This year, Anthropic and OpenAI have released A.I. models for the A.I. test-terror. The A.I. they made the models available to a limited number of organizations, want to have the data to show too powerful to share with the general public. In the wrong hands, the cybersecurity models could be used to launch attacks, the A.I. test-terror. In an open letter this week, employees of several leading A.I. labs called on the U.S. government to slow the past as which they had been sent to Washington, D.C., to ensure the technology is safe. Anthropic has been more open to regulators than other A.I. companies, and said it will continue to close its own business, according to potential risks. This type of risk can be overcome. Anthropic said in a blog post detailing the incident, Big Tech's A.I. Spending Keeps Rising So Do the Jitters FROM NEW YORK TIMES NEWS October 1, 2008 From the A.I. test-terror, the A.I. test-terror is a new one that has been developed and launched in the United States. The A.I. test-terror is a new one that has been developed and launched in the United States. The A.I. test-terror is a new one that has been developed and launched in the United States. From on, the companies insist they are doing the right thing. "As long as we see these researchers as perfunders to invest, we will continue to invest," said, Addenary, Highaker's finance chief, said that direct analysis last week. More than a dozen years ago, tech companies became the largest enterprises on the planet. Aided by their software and digital businesses, But A.I. has flipped each's "snowlight" model on its head. Healthfilter-miller data-movers, which the industry likes to call "A.I. Internet," have become critical investments for developing advanced systems and making them available to customers. From April through June, capital organizations by the tech companies totaled $375 billion, up 72 percent from a year earlier. The figures are ballooning — and per-protein keep rising every three-million dollars for companies — to open more data centers, and as the prices for necessary components like memory chips jump because of the demand. In April, Microsoft said roaring companies prices would add $25 billion to the job this year. The price of the building and spending, the tech giants and they do not have enough companies power to meet demand. In effect, they can, they have been leveling down by on the table. "More capacity to meet sales," a Bank of America analyst, Justin Fink, wrote last week in a research arm after Highaker, Google's per-protein company released its spending forecast for this year by $35 billion to so much as $250 billion. The port-up demand has contributed to a building in signed contracts, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Centimart, that backlog reached almost $1.7 trillion, more than doubling from a year earlier. As of the opening backlog comes from partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic, the lead-off A.I. start-ups. That means the fate of the giants rests in large part on the start-up/ sending all the competing power they have requested, and they ability to get Men's Kegle Mountain Data Center in Utah, Minn., Amazon, Google and Microsoft are expected to spend $1.5 trillion building data centers through 2027. for it. That piece a concentration risk, creating "a more circular system that could mask true demand," according to Men's Kegle. The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news release related to A.I. systems and companies have denied the claims. The tech companies have become more than ever to load the A.I. building down. Yet they are now able to "spur" over issues of established businesses, like digital advertising, which cuts down cash. "This party could go on for a strike," Ms. One said. Amazon said on Thursday that a $2.50 billion billion in sales in the second quarter, up 20 percent from a year earlier. Profit more than tripled to $62.6 billion, as large part because of the company's investment in Anthropic. Amazon's core retail business is North America grew 10 percent. In about competing business grow 27 percent to $42.3 billion in sales. The cloud businesses operating profits grew, too, which never analyze said amounted to price. "The company's building good use of its spending. Cash from spending its business over the past year was $35.4 billion, up 10 percent. But after its investments, it was a better than other facilities, Amazon's free cash flow plunged in negative $7.8 billion. In a call with investors, Andy S. Johnson said that it still restraints, said the company now expected about $220 billion on capital expenditures this year, up $20 billion from its previous forecast, primarily because of the rising costs of memory chips. But after the heavy initial investment in building data centers, the facilities have more than 20 years of life to produce value and profitable business, he said. He said Amazon's cloud services could "very possibly be a trillion-dollar annual revenue business for us in time." Investors patented Meta on Thursday after the company forecasted the potential value of a new A.I. model to stand the lower end. At top of the market, the A.I. model, the year is $150 billion, from the $125 billion in projected to April. "I mean, look, the high-level observation is that there's no 72% from a year later. The A.I. model, the year is $150 billion, from a year earlier. The A.I. model, the year is $150 billion, from the A.I. model, the year is $150 billion, from the A.I. model, the year is $150 billion, from the A.I. model, the year is $150 billion, from the A.I. model, the year is $150 billion, from the A.I. model, the year is $150 billion. where near enough company had the demand," Mark Zuckerberg, Men's chief executive, told investors at he said, is also the only the investments will pass out. Some A.I. Men's finance chief, said the company was focused on moving as much capacity as possible for 2026 and 2027, but keeping flexibility in mind for 2026 and beyond. That means looking up land and power for data centers were, even if the company has not figured out precisely how it will use the competing down the line. Microsoft's share price, which has been down this year, put some repitters on Thursday as the company's financial market, released a key earlier, surpassed Wall Street and Hamilton and the company did not increase how much it planned to spend this year. Sales of taxes, the cloud companies plodder at the start of Microsoft's A.I. services, exceeded $100 billion for the first time for the start year that ended in June, and quarterly sales grew at the lowest pace since 2022. Sales came out a much smaller business. Microsoft expects to spend more than $50 billion in the current quarter. Says to look at Microsoft's chief executive, said the company had opened 21 data centers across five countries in last quarter. The company, he said, is "on track to roughly double our overall capacity in just two years." Companies Turn to Bots to Find Out What Shots Are Thinking By SRI HOYPOO The British warrant is know how to get people to take their medicine. Billions of patients never fill their prescriptions, and many don't think them. It was one of many questions that the company sought to answer and improve for its customers. So has I did, it started to be a "splendid" from 100,000 people to look for answers. "There was just one case of a woman's actually people. Instead, they were "sprout voice" of real people created with artificial intelligence. The company has handled the data was blittle, a year-old start-up in Pike site, Cold Stroke says it technology can predict human behavior by tapping into its growing database of A.I. agents. The others clients to test the machines to new products or evaluate how their brand is being perceived by consumers. And, blittle presents, they can do so faster and cheaper than by running traditional market research models. "If you're able to simulate the world, you can actually test our machines...intrួ57000s...and then bring Park, Stroke's chief executive and a computer," they say, "are of the window into humanity." It's a bold sales pitch, and it appears to be working at buildings in CVS, Stroke's fast-growing client list includes the consulting group, industry and WorldView, a financial services app. On Thursday, Stroke announced $200 million in new funding at a $5 billion valuation, less than six months ago, the company raised $200 million. Crossroads led the most round, which also included the existing investors bidder for more, Nipple, C. Alan Capital Ventures, CVS Health Ventures and Unification. Dr. Park, who is 32, launched Stroke last year while finishing his A.I. in computer science at this bird. The blueprint was a research paper he co-wrote in 2012 about A.I. agents installed human behavior, such as during or going to work, in an interactive environment modeled after the popular game time. "The first someone that June shared with me was to simulate the entire planet," said Shandil Shah, an index Ventures partner. "As a soft food — like, I have "thin/delays" (scale to the Galaxy) — they just fit my imagination so that." Dr. Park's co-founders include Michael Bernstein and Percy Liang, both Stanford computer science professors. Of the others is one of the authors of the seminal "blueprint" pages, which had the foundation for modern computer vision technology, and Dr. Liang was the best researcher for a paper that coined the term "headphone model" in 2011. Later, Mars, who previously held good-market roles at the A.I. start-up, Hollis and Valence, is also a founder. Stroke had its initial model by analyzing two-hour interviews with other participants, who were selected to represent the broader population. The company says that data to design its own model be human behavior, then tested its responses against new answers from the human questions. Stroke has since teamed up with A start-up clients can test out new ideas on A.I. agents. Collap and other partners to use, present on data with large frontline million people around the world. Stroke's responses are now between 85 percent and 89 percent accurate, depending on the scenario and the population survey, according to the company sy's head of product, Miloka Kipper. The start-up says it already has enough data to tap into the A.I.-standard question of very specific population groups. The company's product is a web interface in which users can select different populations that they want to run a simulation on. Stroke generates revenue based in part on the number of agents that it models for its customers. That can range from headlines of thousands to millions of agents. "The larger the panel, the higher the price," Dr. Park said. Stroke is not alone in the new field of A.I. simulation research, that our competitors include Hens, Artificial Societies, Resources and facts. Dr. Park envisions expanding ground survey-based market research. He said he planned to develop "dynamic simulations," in which A.I. agents are measured over time, such as testing products over the course of a week. Worries Over Inflation Prompt Federal Reserve Officials to Dissent on Holding Rates Steady By COLBY SMITH Higher interest rates from the Federal Reserve this week would have put the control bank in a better way to be eligible for the inflation. He three officials who voted against the lower policy, said the bank. Both M. Hammack of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Federal Level A.I. League of the Dallas Fed opposed Wednesday's move to hold borrowing costs already at a range of 2.5 to 2.75 percent. They instead voted for a quarter-point increase. It was the first time since 2010 that there officials on the Federal Open Market Committee announced that the direction regarding a policy change. The disagreement inside the Fed, which has uncorrelated results, is a significant concern. In the chairman, centers on how aggressive officials need to be in to solve the inflation problem, giving up the control bank. For five years, the Fed has moved to 2 percent inflation target, an even-draw that Mr. Wurch has pledged to buy. The Fed's preferred inflation target, as measured by the Federal Development Fund, will have price index, was 12 percent of all fees. The Fed's interest on Friday, M. Hammack said that she lacked confidence that inflation would return to its 2 percent target on its own. This, she said, was because the policy policy settings were not "appropriate incentives," meaning they were not weighing heavily enough on economic activity. "In any way, one is the true power of the Fed, in act and the other, return off C.I. inflation is our 2 percent objective and deliver on our commitment to price stability for the American people," she said. "A higher federal bank rate would help increase economic activity and reduce inflationary pressures." Those concerns were echoed by Mr. Kashkari, who said it his own business. "I have not enough against the risk that high inflation would become unreviewed," he noted. "rather tighter, policy is unreasonably" to be gathered more data on the trajectory of the economy. He added that if inflation remains unravel, "a potential control of small policy issues would be better than existing and eventually concluding that even ladder actions were necessary." Later on Friday, Ms. Logan said that "without any policy restraint, inflation will likely continue to reveal above target until there's an unanticipated shock. The Fed "causes more or unanticipated shocks to achieve its goals and can always adjust policy if sustained period shocks occur," she added in a statement. Like Mr. Kashkari, Ms. Logan made the point that "795,000 action in the near-term would reduce the likelihood of needing to take charger action later." The Fed's inflation situation has been diagnosed with a decline that fresh price pressures have stopped up from a multitude of sources, many of them will be safe that officials cannot. The war has been a significant impact on the economic changes in the data and his views on the trajectory of the economy more broadly. One of the only things he has spent to be applied on is that he would "deliver price stability." President Trump has applied more tariffs, too. Companies are also still spending enormous money on the future. The government's price capabilities, sending prices for key types, like nonsmokers, are also "unwilling to pay for higher life. Harshness on Friday, said businesses in her district described price pressures as "broadwings rather than falling," a concern in a official who are clearly worried about allowing a pernicious inflation problem to know. Mr. Kashkari specifically called out the "massive investment in the market," which was also called as adding a "new demand-dressing to the high inflation Americans are experiencing." The current backlog suggests inflation was "trending toward the mid-25, but all the way so 2 percent, and the risks are to the upside," warned Ms. Logan. Wednesday's decision was not the first time these three regional procedures drowned in action. In April, when Aronzo II, Powell was Divisions intensify at Wurzks second meeting as chairman. clear, they could against the "focally" statement for what they described as an "among four" that suggested that the next move from the central bank was most likely to be a reduction in rates. Instead, they wanted the only "reduction in drop that phrase to a signal that rate increases were equally plausible." But Fed in June stated up removing that line, along with any forward-looking wording on an if sweeping overhead to the statement that was spearheadedly by Mr. Wurzks. The statement was just one an- part of the Fed's communications strategy that Mr. Wurzks has changed to his strategy two months at that. In two broken with the predecessors and offered two signals about what the Fed plans to do next with rates, how much the rate of the rate of annual changes in the data and his views on the trajectory of the economy more broadly. One of the only things he has spent to be applied on is that he would "deliver price stability." He stuck to that approach at a news conference on Wednesday but faced a quick rethink from it, special markets. Long-term U.S. government borrowing costs ranged as investors pushed back the timing of eventual rate increases. Expectations about the rate of inflation in the coming years also rose. These market moves indicated growing temperature across West Street about whether Mr. Wurzks said bloodsulph on high in inflation with policy tightening should the inflation data set or have a change in the rate of existing, investors had poached in 30 percent with that he might deliver a quarter-point increase. THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2020 B5 INTERNATIONAL | COMPANIES | MEDIA A.I. Mania Made a Stock Market Into a Kind 'of Squid Game' FROM FIRST BUSINESS FOR DOMINIONY'S ROAD. The resort is covered quickly, on the heels of health customers from Microsoft and Amazon about spending on data centers. On Friday, the index rose a record 39 percent, closing of 43,993 points. This violent video-vacant ride has transformed the local stock market into what came from the South Koreans now call the 'Kangi Casino'. Refining the regionally criticized under President Lee Joe Myung, Mr. Lee, had purchased himself as the highest possible champion of the 1928, exchange his political brand in the economic windfalls of A.I. Now, with the ROSPI wildly seasoning and his domestic approval raising trading, citizens are rapidly questioning whether the Lee administration overturned a fragile market. In June, when the index has come around 43,000, Mr. Lee fastenedly declared the market "undervalued." Just last month, he proclaimed, "I believe A.I. is akin to hastened discovering. I'm never." (Artem is just by such encouragement, millions of South Koreans opened trading accounts and bet on Samsung and SE Hyatt.) The imposition's memory (this store and shuttle the enormous amounts of data used in training and training A.I. models. The stock prices of both companies are now 40 percent, and the market's growth, even as they reported huge increases in revenue and profit and said they could not keep up with demand. The market's shares in June rising soared 37 percent, while SE Hyatt's reduced 40 percent. Artem Asia, after markets and companies dropped in A.I. spending, are strong gains in the first time by companies with the ROSPI. Japan's Volcan 233 rose a percent. In Taiwan, the market has been jumped 8 percent, propelled by a 10 percent rise in shares of Taiwan Sentimentar Mandarizing Company, the next valuable firm move and the producer of Nvidia's advanced A.I. chips. The ROSPI delivered an extraordinary 70 percent gain last year, making it the top performance of the company's 1,000 million market capitalization soared in 10 million in early June, briefly eclipsing India, Canada and major European nations to become the world's ninth largest equity market. Today, the market is a comparable political liability. The market has become a veritable gambling site," said Lee Millions of South Koreans opened trading accounts and bet on SE Hyatt and Samsung as the companies are leading chip suppliers for A.I. data centers. Jung-wo, an office worker in Seoul, "I am so much in someone doctor and A.I. stocks in resort works that I am terrified is even more than a million of people. I am not waged my stock-market notification on my cellphone." In Seoul's category, many consumers were no longer streaming the information were started, bluntly in smartphone screens, watching their savings capacity at an allowing rate. Online trading boards were overflowing with reports from people whose "fifteen hours totally screwed," but far from where Mr. Lee waited for the bus under a sweltering commercial, before traders delivered news that had flown weights in the front gate of the National Bank of New York, New York, and other towns have a stark warning: "Don't ignore the wave of acts!" That was a reference to South Koreans retail day traders, for whom the market crash is not a matter of abstract statistics — a major commercial tragedy. Regular citizens were actively encouraged to invest in the market by a gov- ers were aggressively promoting equities in more household wealth away from an overbearing real estate sector. Young professionals, who were offered a message carders took out high-interest loans, proving stock gains would outpace bank interest and cushion The ROSPI index has oscillated over excitement and fears. been against a bleak job market. Particularly striking were sling-of-stock leveraged exchange-based funds, or E.T.F.s, that tracked Samsung and Hyatt. These products produced double gains in these shares — but delivered double the losses of the stock. After government regulators authorized the launch of these E.T.F.s in late May, they helped lead the market ahead of local stations the next month but ended up "stopping on the accelerator" dur- ing the subsequent market plunge, said Ilkin Dong-uk, an opposition lawmaker. Mr. Lee, the president, was able to have a market for Latin America this week. Furious citizens back home seized on his absence, flooding his social media store (pero with vitriol and scaring him or having abroad made his people believe). Paris has instituted the ruling since. "Common sense comes explain what we are witnessing," warned Lee. Myung-wo, an American from the governing Democratic Party "the are not suffering an Asian financial crisis, a global financial confidence is a war — yet we have a market for the money of social collapse. Anyone can see this market has dropped into a playground for gamblers." Based on the head of Asia-trading, the market has been stabilized, banking group, shared that sentiment: "The ROSPI has been trading like a motor stock or crypto," he said. "I'm not normal behavior for a major index." By Wednesday, Finance Min- turer Kim Yoo-cheol and top policymakers were found to apologize for grandfighting the high-risk E.T.F.s without properly evaluating their market. Mr. Lee's aides and financial regulators have urged the public not to blame E.T.F.s entirely. They pointed to global concerns about the "spandling" puffing reaction, down across the world, reminding them that the ROSPI is still up more than 50 percent this year. Though the government ruled to enforce emergency volatility curbs on leveraged ETFs on Friday, the millions of retail traders, the rescue mission arrived too late. The high-risk E.T.F.s have helped turn South Koreans reach market into 'a sizable version of Squid Game,' "said Jeong Eupinng, the head of the civic group Korea Stockholders Association, referring to the dysnqaea & drama. "They should never force them here." Daisuke Wendeayashi and Steve Lee contributed reporting. Facing a Deadline, Warner Bros. Races to Produce a 'Barbie' Sequel By NICOLE SPERLING Barbie's expiration date is booming. It has been three years since the bright-pink sensation hit the box office and racked up $1.5 billion in worldwide box office sales — the most ever for a Warner Bros. film — and commanded the culture, with extensive screening parties and night Oscar nominations. The reception left Warner Bros. with a clear commercial mandator: Let a sequel also production as soon as possible. But no deal has been reached, and time to curated yet. Rights to 'Barbie' will revert to Mattel, the top company behind the scene of the 1930s. The 1930s were made a deal with the pros (put talent for a sequel by December). This has led to lots of scrambling. The studio itself is the sequel gives Mattel a percentage of the filers given profits, according to three people with knowledge of the negotiations, similar to to an American film, which is the main make a deal with the pros (put talent for a sequel by December). This has led to lots of scrambling. The studio which have been negotiating with the talent for months. The offers have included a cut of profit for the principal talent if the film reaches a significant level of box office success, and at least some upfront talent, including paying Mr. Goubig $10 million this current asking price), two people with knowledge of the sales said. But David Zadler, the Warner Bros. Discovery chief executive, deemed the offers, including when participating in profits would kick in, too generous and would not sign off, the people said. A spokeswoman for Warner Bros. put the man on the talent representative, saying they described the last offer, made to Mattel, and have no yet comment with a new one. She disputed that Mr. Zadler had halted at strong agreed to the execution. The studio itself sets, from third and Michael De Leon, said in a statement: "We have a rights deal with Mattel in place and have made a series of big offers to try and burden them to make the work 'Barbie' film. Unfortunately, we have been unable to reach an agreement free for." The negotiations come at a clear agreement for Warner Bros. The pending merger between Warner John Kift, America Fortress, Artaxa Greenblatt and Marger Robbie in 'Barbie,' which carried $1.3 billion in worldwide box office sales. Bros. Discovery, the modern parent company, and Paramount was just put on hold after state attorneys general used to block the deal. The studio needs to keep up existing independently in the income, and 'Barbie' is a big part of its franchise strategy. Warpant's secret performance at the box office has been under-thinking. After a huge 2023, it has had a rough run lately, with "biggerly" and "The Brisk" not increasing their production and marketing costs. Mattel declined to comment on the negotiations. In the past few years, under its chief executive, Ymm Kirst, the company has become much more savvy and aggressive when it comes to a lower wood-disholding. Mr. Kirst has previously said it seems to avoid these sort of delays. "We expect projects to move from the market to the expense," he said in an interview in May regarding his strategy. "We don't want to sit on the back horses." Should Mattel walk away from Warner Bros., the reputation would have to develop "Barbie" from scratch. The company wants to be allowed to take over to mention of the talent in another studio. The negotiations over the sequel are happening because Mr. Gervag and her had active inไalyed want language in their contracts about a sequel when they signed on. It made the first 'Barbie,' three people with knowledge of the sales said. Studies often put it hard to include content terms about sequels in original media, but the studio wanted Mr. Gervag to write and direct the movie, so Warner Bros. made a calculated risk and proceeded without a personal sequel. If a deal is made, it will still take years for the movie to hit theaters. "It's, according to the experts Mr. Gervag, who is finishing up 'Nayako. The Magdalen 'Anglo-ree' for Netflix, and her writing partner and husband, Noah Branthack, have made a clear to negotiations that they have a story they want to tell and are going to be working. This also is being used as a point of leverage. Warner Bros. doesn't know what the idea is, and the pair won't tell the studio, or begin writing, until the deal is completed, the people said. Washington Post Opinion Editor Resigns His Position After 1 Year By ERIN WENDLE Adam O'Neal, the top editor of The Washington Post's opinion section, resigned on Friday, a little more than a year after Jeff Bezos, the paper's owner, hired him to re-arrest the section toward a more liberarian boss. "While this was not an easy-decision, I am leaving proud of how far the opinion section has come and optimists that in best days lie ahead," Mr. O'Neal wrote in a note to colleagues. He did not say in the case, very he was starting. In a meeting with colleagues on Friday, Mr. O'Neal explained that his departure was a "personal decision" that he had been considering for a while, according to two people who attended. When pressed for more detail on the matter, Mr. O'Neal repeated the explanation and added that it was best for him and his family. Jeff O'Gublin, publisher and chief executive of The Post, wrote in a separate note that Mr. O'Neal had made the call to stop doors. "I want to thank him for his leadership and hard work in re-engaging the stories," wrote Mr. O'Gublin. He said in Friday's meeting with staff that he did not have specific on the contention to a new opinion leader but would soon provide such information, according to the next people. Mr. O'Neal's amassessment delivered another shock to a new organization that underwent drastic changes in the past few years. In 2023 and 2025, it offered requests that debate the overall by more than 200 journalists, And in February, The Post had all in excess of 300 journalists, bal- lowing our 10 years, local and international records. In February, Mr. O'Neal, the Bronx-based a directive to focus the opinion section on "two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." The Washington Post office building earlier this year, left. Adam O'Neal had inherited a mandate from the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, to shift the focus of the opinion section. He wrote that the section would "come other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to the published by others." The opinions either at the time, David Shipley, resigned over the mandate and Mr. O'Neal took over months later. Under his direction, the paper's personal positions of not encouraged later taxation and less government regulation. In his note to the staff, Mr. O'Gublin wrote: "This past year, under the leadership of Adam O'Neal, Post Opinion has been a better historical or prospective more financially sustainable, and more accessible to readers than ever before." Apple's Profit Increases 27%, But Analysts Are Let Down By KALLEY IRANG LOS FRANCISCO — After 13 years leading Apple to become a money-making behemoth worth nearly $5 trillion, Tim Cook led adieu to Wall Street on Thursday. "I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you in all of you," Mr. Cook said in a call with analysts who however, after Apple reported quarterly financial results. "We have a bright future ahead, and I truly have never been more optimistic." Mr. Cook, 65, is passing the bonus while Apple is at a financial table — with some cowork. The company on Thursday reported that revenue grew 40 percent from a year earlier in the old billion, because the quarter ending in June, Profit rose 27 percent to $16.6 billion. But Apple's projected revenue for the current quarter fell short of analyst expectations. The company said revenue would grow between hand 12 percent from a year earlier, while analysts expected that 25 percent of the Cook said that was because the company had a "supply constraint" in a process used for producing its chips. Apple also expects current earnings to be up to a worse from the previous quarter. The company's share price fell as much as 8 percent in after-hours trading as Thursday. The company's share price was $2.5 billion, which was $1.5 billion. Apple still report with Mr. Cook as chief executive. He left only doors and become the company's executive $54B Sales of iPhones, which grew 22 percent Australian is September. He will be succeeded by John Terran, 31, who does recently was Apple's first business in the following. Mr. Cook said that the transition was "going unashamed," and Mr. Terran said the company was "very excited" about artificial intelligence. "There is so much opportunity for us with everything that's happening in this space," Mr. Terran said during the call. "We're just really focused on our business." Mr. Terran is inheriting a company that is still one of the world's most dominant. Apple this week reclaimed the title of the most valuable public company in the world, amid growing concerns over spending on A.I. The company's business is now a popularity of the redesigned iPhones it includes that September, even as it raised prices on its Mass and iPads in June, citing a global decline in industry and marketing chips. It expects to pay even more for recovery in the current quarter. "We're just seen really, really strong levels of demand through the iPhone and the iPad," said the owner for iPhone and Mac, much higher than we expected," Berna Peroth, Apple's chief financial officer, said. "And that's how." The supply chain had lower than the market level of flexibility that we've seen in previous years where we can go and make that higher demand." The new designs Apple underpins for the iPhone included a thin model called the iPhone Air and a model of the iPhone Pro that is raised hinge across the back for tomorrow. The company, like the iPhone Pro, offers 20 extra features by $300. The changes have continued to lift iPhone sales, which grew 22 percent to $54.25 billion. The new also continued to recover from years of sluggish sales in China. He enjoys smartphone prices in the world. "I'm there made up 10 percent of smartphone shipments to short hours in China in the quarter — more than many local rivals — after lagging a year earlier, around the world, we're quick Research, which tracks the smartphone market. Apple's sales in China rose 22 percent to $16.82 billion. The results targeted most of Wall Street's expectations. Analysts had predicted quarterly revenue of $588.85 billion and profit of $27.72 billion, according to Fact-Cost. "Their numbers are very good," said Jacob Olman, a director of consumer devices research at IOC, a technology research firm. "The biggest concern is, going forward, how do they handle the memory crisis? Because their costs will rise. That's the biggest piece of anxiety for investors." Apple's savings from a new growth of 20 percent to $50.74 billion, and John has done analysis had expected. Last month, the company quickly raised the prices for some of the new products, which were now streaming service Apple Music, which now costs $32.80 per month, up from $48.98. B6 THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 INTERNATIONAL Industrial Base That's Hard to Beat as Tariff Wars Settle FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE would prefer to diversify his supply chain. But making flashlights in Thailand costs as much as 15 percent more than it does in China, as a result of higher costs for materials and transport. Mr. Lanier is also under pressure from Chinese competitors that are selling flashlights on Amazon for less than it costs ACG to chip-in products to the United States. "We don't want to go back to China but at the same time, we've got a business to run," he said. Mr. Trump has long blamed China for undercutting American competitors and has imposed punishing tariffs in an alternative force manufacturers back to U.S. shown. In his first term, he waged a trade war on China, imposing tariffs on about two-thirds of its exports beginning in 2016. In the second term, China was his first target. He raised duties on Chinese exports to triple-digit levels, before China responded by coming off the supply of critical materials, forcing him to back down. Amid all that uncertainty, many executives found factories outside China. As a result, U.S. goods imports from China have plastered on since peaking in 2018. Chinese imports fell by nearly a third last year, while goods from Mexico, Vietnam and Taiwan merged. But Mary E. Lovely, an economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said that China had a large cost advan- BEAUTY-SHOTING COAL TAPE WITH THESE TOBACCO A work station, above, at Ningbo Bright Electric in Ningbai, China, and the flashlight factory's production line, top. The area, known as "Torch City," produces about 60 percent of the world's flashlights, according to Chinese state media, and supports hundreds of specialized manufacturers. BEAUTY-SHOTING COAL TAPE WITH THESE TOBACCO tage, and that if its ultimate tariff differential with other countries ended up small, that shift of business out of China could reverse it. "If tariffs on China settle near those on alternative locations, we expect to see some companies returning to their Chinese suppliers," Mr. Lovely said. Torch City To see why it has been so hard for companies to break with China, look on farther than "Torch City." Similar to the many Chinese cities that have specialized in business or wedding dresses, Xidian, a low-tying industrial town near the East China Sea, produces about 60 percent of the world's flashlights, according to Chinese state media. The town is packed with hundreds of manufacturers that pump out LED bulbs, circuit boards and switches at competitive prices. And Xidian is near some of the world's biggest ports and low-cost shipping taxes that ferry vast quantities of goods across the Pacific to American shoppers. "China keeps doing really well because they just have the scale in produce things that much cheaper," said Deborah Elms, who is head of trade policy at the Hinrich Foundation in Singapore. "Economic logic is going to drive you to have a very large share of manufacturing in China," she added. ACG, which is based near Fort Worth and has about 100 employees in North America, owns five brands that make flashlights, headlamps and lanterns, as well as products like knives, power books and hand warmers, for production had been heavily concentrated around Xidian. But the pandemic and its effect on starting supply chains are posed. But, as a long, long dependent on any one location. When Mr. Lanier joined ACG in 2023, he started talking to ACG's suppliers to see if they were willing to do business. He said that he began researching new factories in Asia, Mexico and Eastern Europe. Over 18 months, the company proved millions of dollars into buying equipment and certifying new factories in Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. But by October, the United States and China are now in the top 10 countries. Mr. Trump dropped the tariffs by another 10 percentage points. Many Chinese exports were subject to extra duties from Mr. Trump's first term, but other prod- CARTER'S WAYS IN A NEW TOBACCO FROM THOSE TOBACCO acts ended up with tariffs that were on a par with those on goods from Southeast Asia. Flashlights, he example, faced a 20 percent duty coming out of China and a 15 percent duty coming out of Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia. And Mr. Lanier said that, even before tariffs were applied, costs were 12 to 15 percent higher leaving Southeast Asian ports than Chinese ones because the region's supply chains weren't as developed. Sensiconductors and aluminum used in the products, for example, had to be imported into Thailand from China and South Korea. Southeast Asia tended to have more complicated bureaucracy and worse infrastructure, making it more difficult to get goods to port. And Chinese companies often had access to subsidies and low-cost loans. By 2025, ACG had the capacity to manufacture more than three-quarters of its products outside China, but two-thirds were still made there. North American brands have shifted more of their sourcing back to China to create months as fast shortages from the war with Iran further retained factories in countries like Vietnam, said Sebastian Berman, the founder of Qutsa, which audit supply chains for thousands of companies, including Czeico, Amazon and Ralph Lauren. "As soon as you have a little stress, you find that because all these factories have no more had to power their factories, companies rush back to China," Mr. Berman said. "Now that companies have been manufacturing elsewhere, they see the massive benefit of manufacturing in China, even with the risk of having all their supply-chain eggs in one basket," said Steve Okan, chief executive of APAC Advisors. In an interview in June, Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said that he had heard some companies speculate about moving business back to China, but that doing so would be a mistake. While the United States is aiming for stability with China, it was only a year ago that the countries had extremely high tariffs on each other, Mr. Greer said. "I think overall people understand the direction of travel," he said. "They understand the high-risk nature of being super reliant on China." The Deciding Factor The question now is where U.S. tariffs on China will end up. The administration is expected to issue more tariffs in the coming weeks, through a trade investigation into the policies that governments use to build up their main-facturing sectors, like industrial subsidies. With its surging exports and an annual trade surplus that tops a trillion dollars, China seems like a "crime" target. But some analysts said the administration might be reluctant to increase overall tariffs on China beyond where they were late last year, at 20 percent. Races higher than that could be seen by the Chinese as violating their trade trust, and prompt evaluation. Mr. Elms said that "if you know in Chinese interpretations of the ceiling, for them it is quite clearly 20 percent." But that not could be a problem for Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia, which expect to face lower tariffs than China. "The assumption that everyone is making is that no one is going to go above China," she said. Still, with Mr. Trump frequently altering tariffs, and longer-term sessions running high, many companies may not rule out the possibility of higher tariffs on China In the Thailand factory, which is owned by Ningbo Bright Electric and makes products for ACG as well as other companies, many of the components used to make the flashlights are Chinese, as is the equipment. Pan Daidong, a factory manager who moved here from China, said business was easier at home, where suppliers are all around the corner. But he believed that, over time, more production would shift to Thailand, reducing these characteristics. For now, Mr. Lanier is still sending some shipments to his Southeast Asian factories to try to maintain that supply chain, despite the higher costs. But the company's upstream investments in moving certain components outside China, like lithium-ion batteries and printed circuit boards, are at risk of returning to China, he said. "If we can make the numbers make sense, then absolutely we want to invest in other places," he said. But he added, "We can't just continue to throw away money." Alexandra Shorenaar reported from Ship Varg Pass, and Ken Swanson from Washington. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 B7 Sports The New York Times PRO FOOTBALL As Trek Begins, Giants Nestle Into the Alleghenies The team opens a 12-day camp at a West Virginia resort that has lots of N.F.L. experience. By CHARLOTTE CARROLL WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Twenty-four hours before New York Giants players and coaches arrive, the Greenbrier Sports Performance Center besides. Yorkshire buzz around the parking lot. Security teams complete a walk-through of the fun section. Staff members arrange the final pieces of Giants-branded housing. The football fields are chalked and the goal posts are set, but the Allegheny mountain range, not the New York City skyline, provides the backdrop. Situated in the 11,000-acre Greenbrier resort, the performance center is set up to resemble the Giants' practice facility, with locker sumptuous neutered on, and 7-shirts hanging in, the personalized cubicles. In the equipment room, all the items that go into outfitting a football player are neatly organized and being prepared for nearly two weeks of N.F.L. training camp. In the late afternoon, workers pause as ball caps are passed out to the people from Clancy Retzcation and Logistics, who have helped move the Giants from their home base in East Rutherford, N.J., to the mountains of West Virginia for this 12-day stint. "Welcome to the Giants," a team staff member says to the moving crew, which draws a round of applause. The relocation team played an instrumental role in making the start of Coach John Harbaugh's first Giants training camp a success. "Our whole goal is when they show up, they can just focus on all the things that they've great at and that they need to focus on," Megan Roeberg, an assistant coach who was the team's point person for the relocation, said this week. Conducting this training camp away from New Jersey was not Harbaugh's idea. The Giants signed a contract with the Greenbrier last fall; Harbaugh was hired in January. Plans for the excursion have been in motion for more than a year because of a multiyear expansion of the team's New Jersey facilities, which the Giants announced this week. The recently concluded World Cup was another reason; MetLife Stadium hosted eight games in the soccer tournament, including the World Cup final on July 18. This is the Giants' first training camp outside East Rutherford since they practiced in Albany, N.Y., in 2012. But why did they pick a resort nearly 500 miles away? Why the Greenbrier? Largely because the Greenbrier has been up to the task many times before. In 2014, Sean Payton, coaching the New Orleans Saints, worked with the resort to establish a facility equipped for an N.F.L. training camp. In the years since, Denver, Houston, Cleveland, San Francisco, New England and Arizona have used the facility for training camp or other parts of the N.F.L. season. This year, the venue even hosted Iraq's national soccer team for the World Cup. Roeberg spoke with John Chandler, the Browns' director of team logistics and operations, to learn how the team got the most out of its time at the Greenbrier, from small details like outfitting player trumps and common patterns to the big-picture planning of making the excursion as easy as possible. Roeberg said every N.F.L. coach she talked to who experienced the camp in West Virginia said: "You guys are going to love it. Coach Harbaugh is going to love it. Because they just know we're going to take advantage of every opportunity that this place has to offer." The Giants are staying at the Greenbrier hotel. But the main benefit is not the luxury lodging; it's what's down the road. Not only do the Giants have access to two grass fields and a FieldTurf field, but they also have meeting rooms, offices, a training room and a weight room, which is a big change from the Albany days, when team meetings were held in college classrooms. For this trip, they also did not have to bring lockers or weights with them to set up a weight room. "What's nice about this is there's a lot in place," said Jim Phelan, the Giants' vice president for team operations. "So what we have to bring there is less. We don't have to move our entire weight room. It's set up for an N.F.L. team." One item that did make the trek from New Jersey was the Giants' scoreboard, which is vital for practicing situational football and used at every practice. While staff members loaded into coming one, they ended up bringing theirs and the utility vehicle used to move it around the field. The movers were able to get it on a truck with a forklift, along with other big field equipment, including sleds and sacking dummies. Even though the Greenbrier is about 300 miles farther than Albany from East Rutherford, the more complete setup meant a smaller fleet of moving trucks. Upon arrival, it was up to several de- Charlotte Carroll mows the Giants for The Athletic. JOHN CHANDLER/THE WAYNE WAYNE THE RESORT The Giants moved temporarily to a training center at the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., about 500 miles from East Rutherford, N.J. JOHN CHANDLER/THE WAYNE WAYNE THE COACH AND QUARTERBACKS John Harbaugh, in his first year leading the Giants, called the move "a real opportunity," although it wasn't his idea. The team has access to two grass fields, a FieldTurf field, meeting rooms, offices, a training room and a weight room. Jasson Darr (6) and Jamela Winslow practiced this week. JOHN CHANDLER/THE WAYNE WAYNE partments to get ready for a travel party of 210 to 230 people. From remembering whistles and inopmanches to having spare helmets, blank privacy with numbers, letters and a best press as well as a seamstress lined up to case the Giants signed a player during camp, team staff members tried to prepare for every situation. Matt Frakes, the team's director of 'What's nice about this is there's a lot in place.' JIM PHELAN, vice president for team operations. performance nutrition, who joined the Giants in 2025, is adept at adjusting to changing circumstances, as the Giants' cadmium underwent a complete reserve into the during, forcing the team to use a meal tent. So Frakes's staff is well prepared to use the Greenbrier meal tent, which is where the team will eat most meals and start its days. Making sure his team can duplicate THE DRILL A Fans watched players including running back Cam Shattelov, above, work out at the complex. It is the Giants' first training camp outside East Rutherford since they practiced in Albany, N.Y., in 2012. the New Jersey menu at the Greenbrier has been in the works since early this year. Beyond conversations between cooks and hospitality staff, a chef from the Greenbrier visited New Jersey to observe how much players and staff members ate at certain times. The Giants' es- Continued on Page B9 B8 THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 BASEBALL William Contreras, left, got a $1 million bonus for agreeing to go to Boston last year. When Manny Rianzen wanted out of Boston in 2008, he had the contract provision to force a move. Using No-Trade Clause And Too of Leverage, And a Lucrative One By JASOT McCULLOUGH and DEYNDER LEE On the morning of the 2022 M.L.B. trade deadline, Eric Honore's phone hazard with messages from people trying to change his mind. The night before, A.J. Profice, the San Diego Pulitzer president of baseball superstar, had launched the patriarchal new trade in a spare saddlesite Juan San from the Washington Nationals. The return package contained five proponents along with Honore: The only hitch: Honore had a partial no-trade clause — and the Nationals were one of 10 names on his list. «There was just no part of me that wanted to go to D.C. 'As well. So far we've got to see, a Kansas round of lobbying ensued. Proller present Honore in accept the deal. Honore's agent, Scott Reiss, explained that Washington could offer everyday playing time. On the deadline approached, Honore received a call from the Padres owner Peter Sadler In 2018, in the first leg, being off his overstribits. Sadler had signed Honore in an eight-year, 51.64 million contract. Now he was offering Honore additional cash to accept the trade. «We're less, you've given me enough over the years," Honore replied. In the end, the Padres and Nationals reworked the form deal to handle that Diego dribbler (also Andy McCullough and Deynd LEE are closer M.L.B. writer) for The Athletic. Stephen J. Nesbit concluded reporting. Visit. Honore became a business in a smaller technique. Proller shipped him to the Boston Red Sox, who were out on the no-trade list. Such last-minute maneuvering offers a glimpse into the hidden uncertainties of M.L.B.'s annual trade deadline, which this year's Monday's 9 p.m., Eastern time. The no-trade clause is an off-season provision that can create its noisies headaches for teams and peace of mind for their famous men. The no-trade clause is more interview with players, executives and agents, some of whom requested anonymity to speak freely. 'No-trade clauses do not mean no trade consideration,' Berea said. 'What they mean is there's just another step in exercising the trade. And that is the moment of the player.' One player with full no-trade protection said: 'Whatever it is, it would make to you. Having the certainty, having the final cut, is just legal.' As an expanded group of buyers to contract with a limited name, the M.L.B. trade date of power could make a difference. Wherever the Sun, Angeles August Mike Trent fields questions about playing elsewhere, he breaks into too-trade clause. Minnesota Twins outfielder Byron Bunton received the ability to break any trade when he acquired 10-and-5 rights to choose his destination this year. Houston Astros chose Josh Haden has a full no-trade clause. So do New York Stars schedule the Richelie and Francisco Linden. If the Sun Francisco Clause want to Eric Honore landed with the Red Sox in 2022 after rejecting a move from the Padres to the Nationals as part of the Juan San deal. damp the salaries of Willy Adarres and Marc Clujman, that would require the players' approval. Kansas City Royals pitcher Michael Wachs has a limited no-trade clause, while his teammate Mike's sign has full no-trade protection. On paper, the Toronto Blue Jays starter Kevin Gassman looks like a model fit for the 500-washer Brewery rotation; in reality, the Brewers are one of eight weeks on Gassman's no-trade list. A club aiming to capture the last play of poisonous magic from Gassman's teammate George Sprague must navigate his own limited no-trade list. Across the league, dozens of players held the right of refusal. Pat's Contrara counts at least 47 with full no-trade clauses; More than 20 reside under partial protection. This does not include certain veterans who have accrued ill years of service time and spent the last five with the same club, a pair of thresholds that came with the authority to reject any trade proposal. These provisions do not mean deals are impossible, executives said. But they do add a layer of difficulty for teams operating on a time=touch. A full/no-trade clause might be less cumbersome to navigate than a place on a partial list. 'It's definitely moored me over from making some phone calls,' one general manager said. 'There are guys where I just assume that they put us on for a reason.' Even a simple ask can be delivered to a club. This leg calls an inquiry about a protected player might lead to an unmaternalistic conversation. 'That's the thing where everybody is like. Do we even want to bring this up?' the general manager said. 'Because if the answer is my, you're basically telling the player that you wanted to rush him.' Two from offices can agree on every detail and still be counselled by the trade target in the middle. On deadline, key in 2023, the Los Angeles Dodgers had a deal in place for Edwards Beets' gaso said the Detroit Tigers could use secure his approval. As one of the 10 clubs on Rodriguez's list, the Dodgers had run into an industrywide puzzle doodling what a protected player actually wants. Rodriguez later cited family and geography. But it is rarely only about home. In most cases, there is also a price. Sometimes the price is relatively modest. In December, the St. Louis Cardinals traded first baseman William Contreras to Boston, and Contreras otherwise. It still has bonus for waiving his clause. The admonitizes the price is a windfall. In 2006, a disgruntled Manny Rianzen wanted out of Boston and had the 10-and-5 rights to force an ock. He landed with the Dodgers in a three-month trade — but only after the Red Sox signed to end the pair of 520-stallers their option on his deal, making him a free agent that winter. The wasn't going to get out without having those take-optime ones wanted, said Ned Cullman, the Dodgers' general manager. The next spring, Rianzen designed with Los Angeles for two years and left stalkies. For players with limited lists, the yearly business of choosing teams is in own form of control. Most are allowed to make adjustments and off-season. Sometimes they are based on geography — a player who grew up on the East Coast might see want to venture to the West. Sometimes there are too concerns, which can hamper teams in California and New York. And sometimes the picks are not always what they know. 'A player may say, 'I don't want to go anywhere in the Central, and he'll pick teams he doesn't like,' one agent said. 'But there's been some players that want to game the system and pick only the best teams, and then use that as a leverage weapon.' The cabalets made to shift over a career, the veteran said that early on, he simply selected the player, he would beat like to him. Now, with free agency in view, the list has become more strategic. He said: 'It's trying to weigh. What teams would actually trade for me? Where would I be a good hit? Where would I cut the a good hit?' In recent years, teams have tried to clear back some of that leverage. Contrara now carry more up-sets than they once did. The first time they were in a low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key, low-key 'We had more feedback than we used to,' one agent said. 'I used to be a hit easier to get a no-trade clause than it is now.' 'It's obvious that we are enough, it had to legalize away. In free agency, a curler can pursue a player directly to trade negotiations, league tampering and even full in the acquiring. Like cancer instead: a player to gauge his willingness. A no-trade clause makes the process even more opaque. When you're on the other side, you're just in the center of what the G.M. tells you is going to buy you,' one executive said. Still, the numbers reflect a certain reality. As another trade deadline approaches, the buyers for outnumber the sellers. The calls will keep coming, even for players with a no-trade clause. 'They don't realize how valuable is it,' one agent said, 'until they see it.' COMMENTARY Forty Years Later, Uplifting Power of a Skyward Glove Still Resonates By TYLER KEPNER The Times It was a typical game for the troubleshooting FdS New York Men's, where that will celebrate its fifth anniversary in a ceremony at Old Field on Saturday. On a warm summer night at FdS Southern Red Jets, the Men's trounced the Atlanta Braves by 11 runs. Our Cyster for two home runs, Sal Fernandez, closed a shutout, and Darryl Stryer-berry changed the mound. Jesse Orosco, the Merit left-handed cheer, had the night off the day when McDonald's, New York City police officer, who enjoyed the game with friends. 'That was the last thing,' McDonald's say, Conor, said by phone this week, 'We want to the game, get home, want to bed, wake up and want to work. And then everything changed.' The next afternoon, in Central Park, a 15-year-old boy stunned Shavard Jones after McDonald three times, severing his spinal cord and purifying him from the neck down. McDonald was 20 years old and had been startled for eight months. His wife, Patti Ader, was pregnant with Conor, who was born the next January. The Men's ended up beating the Boston Red Sox in a thrilling World Series, and when Orosco struck out Mercy Barrett for the final out of Game 5, he flung his home. Burlinger gives to the day home after the 1st of McDonald at Belkrout Hospital and gave him the glory. 'When he was in the hospital, a bunch of athletes were there at the end of the season and then was giving gifts to him,' Orosco said this week. 'So I just decided I'm going to get the glove to him right there.' No team I've had people say, 'Hey, Jesus, why'd you give up the glove?' And I said, 'You know, they're what it's all about.' I was happy to do that. The time was right. And I mean, Tyler Kepner is a senior M.L.B. writer for The Athletic. it could have been any of us athletes that were there that day that could have done it.' Only Orosco, though, had an artifact to symbolize it joy. Mercy Murphy, a young reporter from Queens, had been at Shea that night, revelling with her sisters in the upper legs section along the first-door line. She had no idea until years later that. She was a member of the 2018 in a film she would make about McDonald, who died in 2017. I wanted to show that he not only brought, but that he found out 'the play is a', 'and there's a heard about Jesse Orosco giving him the baseball glove that he was going to have.' I'd like World Series, I said, 'We have to have that video movie. We have to find a way to talk to Jesse Orosco.' At 2:30 PM, this longtime Men's public relations director and new film roam's historian and vice president of shared relations, put Murphy in touch with Orosco, who lives in that things and spoke with Murphy there. The direa memory, 'NIGHT of the City,' is in final edits, and Murphy — who won 25 Boston for breaking news and how to prove work at PSX II and CBS 2 — hopes for widespread distribution seen. She liked a private screening last month for donors and those who appear in the film, to up-suckle with the New York Police Department's naming its audit. One of McDonald's Orosco was there and next Conor McDonald for the first time. 'I just remember, an 8-tak, say dad always talking about Jesse Orosco. McDonald said, 'If I'm a years old, before I know what agents meant to run community and to trip family, I knew that this was a special person and he was a good friend,' he said. 'He was kind of like a myth, you know? He's a legend, and I'm a man. He's a friend. I'm sure we are important that visit was in the past and that person of giving him the glove — sometimes you don't get a chance to thank people, because life goes in dif- Jesse Orosco gave his 1986 World Series glove to a New York City police officer who had been paralyzed that summer. ferent ways, and to me, it was great just to do that, 40 years later. 'There was a lot of pain and a lot of suffering, and people like Jesse Orosco, just with one visit and a simple gesture, helped my dad survive. The day was very good, my dad like three years to live, and he loved for 30 and a half years. And that gave me the ability to know my dad and help me recover the husband and father I am today.' McDonald and his father bonded over New York sports, especially the Rangers, Azalea and Mets. The next time the Men's reached the World Series, the McDonalds went to the final game together — a loss to the Yankees in 2008. Conor went for at the Mets' reunion this weekend because his son will be celebrating his second year. The first two games in Brown McLeod, after Conor's father and Myriad Judge, the chaplain of the New York Fire Department, Judge, who was too important to recover McDonald's spiritual journey — which included publicly beginning Jesus and corresponding with him while he was in jail — died on Sept. 11, 2001. For all of the tragedy, Conor McDonald left a calling to the father's profession. A captain in the New York Police Department, he learned this week that he had been pressured to deputy inspector. 'In my personal opinion, being a cup in the present job in the week,' McDonald said. 'There's a lot of great people you serve, and prevent, especially in New York City. It's a great privilege.' Five Questions What's on his first Q-Young winners? As a rookie with the title 'Egypt Can' Willis shared a ballpen with that season's American League. Cy Young Award winner Willis Hernández. As a longtime pitching coach for three season, he has gotten quite familiar with more readers. Cy winners: Willis, 45, has checked five Cy Young Award winners in his 23 seasons-picking staffs in Cleveland, Seattle and Boston. C C Gimbels (1997) and U87 Lee (2000) won a second U87 position in Cleveland, Fifty Hercules' (2010) won a with the Marlboro, Ritz, Hershey (2010) with the Red Sox and Share Better (2020) with the Guardian. 'All of these guys were just tremendous competition,' Willis said recently. 'I mean, New much confidence they had, the ability to control their emotions, but it picks with an edge.' Willis — a winner for nine seasons with another World Series' ring with the 1996 Swiss capete about the breakest seasons of his five Cy-winning professional. Gimbels' his second to current into a complete pitcher. 'He started throwing a carton when we were at the old Yankee Stadium, just on the ground, and then went to a club around. I don't want to make comparisons to another half of James, but it was like a Steve Carlson cluber.' L&E' the just wanted to have people inside, inside. And then we'll talk about adding other pitches and things of that nature. And I talked to him about, hey, you know what? Those same-fachable away. Because he'll get to five innings, we'll have the pitches because every man looked in. In too far, they take it for a ball. Look in a little bit, but had, had had. It because just this battle of skills. And all of a sudden, by started in three main-fachable down and away to move their eyes there. To where all of a game, the controller counts and they had to respect the other side of the place, and when he came in, he had them.' He's a good friend. 'I just remember FdS's having meetings with the staff prior to a series. Heard he a handful of girls, we know. 'Hey, we don't want to throw this guy a changeup.' And FdS said, 'Well, I'm going to see if he can be more. But the thing about FdS is that he could just manipulate the baseball. He had power as well, but he could do anything with the baseball he wanted to do.' Petechula' 'As men's received with the balance and the ability to measure, there was some thought that he had a good base exam, and he was shifting toward becoming more of a base exam, and he had and did nothing about a sinter on much. And look, I mean, I'm old, I mean, but I'm like, 'Wow, this guy's got a ridiculous name.' And I think you never threw a base course, but throw your strength. Throw your two-scaner down and then when you want to do one time guy's up with a base-scaner. But if you're just trying to live there, it's not really why you are.' BEEEE' 'We talk about dumping in a caverball — guys don't swing at it in caverballs, as just doing it in them — but he'll throw 0-0 caverballs that were like 0-2 caverballs, much like his base-scaners, it would hold place. He could start it and it had to dump in it and put — hands right at the knees, with power. He had such command and feel for that caverball, it was absolutely ridiculous.' THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 » B9 COLLEGE FOOTBALL COMMENTARY Belichick and Laughingstock Tar Heels Reach a Crisis Point By BRUCE FELDMAN The Athletic It is easy to argue that Bill Belichick is the greatest coach in pro football history. His Super Bowl reign as a head coach are more than anyone else has won, and he won two more at an N.F.L. assistant. It is also easy to argue that Belichick as a college coach has been, at least to this point, the biggest flop in recent college football history. No one questions his answers when it comes to V's and O's. The problem — and it has been an enormous one — is that he completely hatched the most critical here on his staff and torpedoed North Carolina football in the process. Belichick's first big move after getting the job was to entrust the role of its general manager to his old pal Michael Lombardi. What has followed has been a remarkable dumpster fire, and we actually only now may start to get a clearer picture of just how to—windy the entire mess may be. On Monday, North Carolina placed Lombardi on administrative leave. The Athletic reported that A dire combination of both arrogance and incompetence. Lombardi's leave is connected to a human resources complaint, according to three people briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak publicly. We do not know the specifics of the investigation or the scope of it. The Athletic has also learned that the North Carolina football program has been approached by the College Sports Commission about a potential investigation, according to two people briefed on the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly, with Lombardi's actions believed to be of interest. The commission is a year-old enforcement body that looks into potential violations of rules governing name, image and likeness rights and revenue-sharing and approves third-party deals with athletes. Here's what we do know about Lombardi's time in Chapel Hill: Arrogance plus incompetence is a lethal combination. North Carolina has not always been very good at football. The Tar Heels have had only one double-digit-win season at the past 20 years, but it has been a long time since they have been this much of an embarrassment in football. Yes, they had a 2-0 season under Larry Froben a decade ago, but it didn't feel like they were the laughingstock of the sport then. They are now. North Carolina is paying Bell- Bruce Feldman is the national college football insider for The Athletic. chick $10 million a year. Lombardi earns $1.5 million, making him the highest-paid general manager in college football. From the moment Lombardi, who had not worked in college football since the 1980s, arrived on a college campus last year, he was convinced that he knew better than everyone else working in college football did about their sport and their jobs. He ran off at control personnel and missed on plenty of player evaluations. A few weeks after getting the job, he proclaimed that North Carolina should be considered the N.F.L.'s "33rd team." (This 33rd N.F.L. team did not have a single player drafted from the 45-man roster overhead done by Lombardi and Belichick, the first time North Carolina had not had Bill Belichick, near left, brought in Michael Lombardi, far left, to build his roster in Chapel Hill, but the Tar Heels' season quickly turned into a remarkable dumpster fire. Now it appears the team's problems were not limited to the playing field. On Monday, North Carolina placed Lombardi on administrative leave. a player drafted since 2016.) "You just don't understand what it takes to play in the National Football League," Lombardi told staffers dismissively, sources told The Athletic last year. It feels more as if Belichick and Lombardi are making North Carolina merely the 10th team in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Last season, the Tar Heels went 3-0 against Power 4 opponents and finished the season losing to the A.C.C.'s other three in-state programs. They got blown out to a Wake Forest team that hired its coach, Jake Dechert, a week after Belichick took over. At season's end, after the Tar Heels finished 4-4 overall (with two wins against Football Championship Subdivision here), Lombardi abandoned transfer portal recruiting to go all in on high school recruiting. Knowing what it takes to play in the N.F.L. is not necessarily the same thing as knowing what it takes to win college football games. Just as working in an N.F.L. facility is not the same as working on a college campus. Though many at the N.F.L. level will be quick to point out that Lombardi has not done anything meaningful there, either. At this point, it feels as if Belichick and Lombardi could not have made a bigger mess of this if they tried. Did Belichick really have to bring his general manager back for a second season? Freddie Kitchens, his offensive coordinator last year, got the best after North Carolina ranked No. 129 in offense. The special teams co-ordinator Mike Pritzker was fired right after the season. Belichick hung on to Lombardi for a second season, but it now seems like a stretch that he will make it to the season opener. Training camp started Wednesday in Chapel Hill. A Week 9 research in Ireland boons against the Texas Christian program that spoiled Belichick's big home defeat last year and beat the Tar Heels. (0-1s) It seems like addition by subtraction might be the best thing for North Carolina at this point. PRO FOOTBALL Giants Nestle Into the Alleghenies At the Start of Their 6-Month Trek From First Sports Page creative chef will also be at the resort to ensure players can get familiar favorites. One way to ensure the Giants could get all the comforts of home was to pass along the parvesses they use. Then there are specialty products like beef picky, protein shake ingredients, electrolytes, hydration hoses and more, which Froben has been tracking on a spreadsheet to ensure the team has shipped enough pallets to cover two weeks of practice. While there might be a full team at the resort, individual meal plans and preferences are personalized for every player to account for allergies, injuries and other specifics. "There's a lot to it aside from just the food service operations part of it," Froben said. "You also have the nutrition assessment piece of it. Then you have the strength, conditioning, performance piece of it. So it's it freebies, if you will, of how you address it." Just as the football side took an entire scouting trip to the Greenbrier, members of the team's event operations, sponsorship and ticketing staffs also visited the resort to look for ways to replicate the his experience. Cathy Reid, the Giants' senior director of events and game day operations, said, "That was our No. 1 thing that we wanted to figure out: How do we bring the teams training camp experience that everyone loves, and loves to come in in New Jersey, here to West Virginia?" While the Greenbrier has looted football practices, it has not looted practices open to fans A big adjustment for employees behind the scenes, too. since 2010. But fans making the trek should not fear many significant changes; they can still expect the traditional autograph signings and giveaways that they would find in East Rutherford. The Giants also made sure open practices were held on conservative days for fans making the trip to West Virginia. Based on parking requests and other insights, the Giants are projecting 1,500 to 2,000 attendees at each practice, with more expected on Saturday for the first day of Back Together Weekend. But before fans started arriving on Thursday, all players reported to the Giants' facility in East Rutherford on Tuesday. They completed their conditioning test and boarded one of two planes for the flight to West Virginia. (Similar planes were needed because of the airport's size.) Once they arrived at the resort, they got a unenguished-style taste of the Greenbrier's restaurants for dinner. Then the football began. "He's very sensational about where it's life percent football, but it's also 500 percent about getting to know each other," said Rodberg, who spent four seasons with Harbaugh in Baltimore. "Because Week 1, you take the field, you better know the person next to you, not only on the field but off the field. I think he's really intentional about acknowledging that these relationships are not built overnight, and that in order to be a great team, 21 playing as one, you need to have those relationships developed prior." The team will have plenty of time and opportunity to bond outside of practice. The Greenbrier's facilities include two 20-hole golf courses, a bowling alley and arcade, swimming pools and a 1500 War-Act hunter to tour, scroll days and downtime will be easy to enjoy. Even though it was not his decision to take the camp on the road, Harbaugh said it would be a plan. "I look at like a real opportunity," Harbaugh said. "It's going to be a chance to get locked in." The Giants expert 1,500 to 2,000 attendees at most practices in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. BIO 9 THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 PRO BASKETBALL COMMENTARY Picking 76ers, James Seeks Chance to Prove He's the Greatest By IAN O'CONNOR The editorial Tiebreakers. That's what LeBron James is playing in. Tiebreakers for this undecided voters still trying to figure out how to measure his N.B.A. career against Michael Jordan's. The hardened Jordan brushits will never water, just as the hardened James skylders will never budge. Whatever happens in Philadelphia over the next one, two or three years will not compel them to jump from one side to the other. But there are a lot of independent can there who have reached both careers and still insures between Jordan, a six-time champion with the Chicago Bulls, and James. It is a sports bar debate that will never truly be settled. And that's the beauty of the whole thing. Building titans figures from different eras might be a silly exercise to some, but this type of debate is also the one thing sports is supposed to be. Pan. At the same time, the case of Jordan versus James sure seems to be serious business to the 45-year-old billionaire who just agreed to a pay cut of nearly $49 million to help the Philadelphia 76ers try to win their first championship since 1993 and, of anger lang-term consequence, to enhance his case as the greatest of the great. How do we know that? James has said a number of times over the years his goal is to go down on the GOAT, and he has said multiple times he believes he has already earned that distinction. In fact, he apparently believes he has been able to make a big deal with N.B.A. finals when he led the Cleveland Cavaliers out of a 3.4 series hole to beat the 73-win Golden State Warriors. That one right there made on the greatest player of all time," James said in a 2010 episode of the "More Than an Ashton" series. He got ahead of himself there, no question, and probably knows it. Eight years later, James still has work to do. That's why his unmatured last year was the 2.3 N.B.A. season, including night with the Los Angeles Lakers, he still loves the game enough to continue on. He said his 76ers rapping half in O'Connor is a senior columnist for The Athletic. Ring counts are key to the debate between LeBron James and Michael Jordan, above in 2022, and James wants to burnish his case. nothing to do with family or money. He said he wanted to win again. I am afraid we have perfect his Philadelphia grow was in his own grand scheme of things. It is not surprising that such a high-U.J. player made such a high-U.J. move to close his career. The two York Knit and seek themselves out of play by winning their first title since 1973, forcing James off his first choice (according to his agent and longtime friend, Bob Pratt) and leaving him searching for the next best option among Cleveland, Miami, Golden State, Minnesota and Philadelphia. Out of Alamo, Ohio, James had ranked a biblical enough for his hometown Cavaliers and had won two of his four titles with the final. He had to escape the West and get away from San Antonio and Oklahoma City, and he needed a legitimate contender that offered the kind of maximum legacy impact the Knitks would have offered had they failed to win it all. The 53ers were selling a 45-year drought and before Brown as part of a loaded roster in a sports-crued city just south of New York. If James is almost certainly not going to match Jordan's on rings, Philadelphia represented a perfect opportunity for L.J. to challenge M.J. with his fifth. Championship rings are not used as a measuring rule only by overcallionated fans and simple-minded columnists and talk-show hosts. In his final days as a New York Yankee, Derek Jeter said his friend Jordan "constantly reminds me that he has six and I have five." The shortstop said years earlier that his only goal was to beat Yogi Bercy's record for championship, Berra later teased Jeter about his 16-3 lead in World Series rings. Immediately after Kobe Bryant won his fifth title with the Lakers, he said of his former teammate Shaquille O'Neal: "Just got one more than Shaq, So you can take that to the bank." When Jordan was once asked by a summer camper to pick between James and Bryant, he replied: "Would I rank James over Kobe? In terms of time of all time? No. There's something about five that beats three." It's a good thing for Jordan that Bill Russell is not often mentioned in GOAT numerous times because there's something about 51 that beats six. So even in the team sport that allows the individual superstar the most control over his or her fan (with only five players on the court), it can't come down only to ring counts. Yes, Jordan has a 6-4 lead ever James in titles, a 6-4 lead in finals most valuable player trophies and a 3-4 lead in regular-season M.V.P.s. (Karmin Abdul-Jabbar has six regular-season M.V.P.s, the N.B.A. record, and merits a more prominent place in the discussion.) But having played eight more seasons than Jordan did, James blows him away on all longevity fronts as the league's biggest winner (a record 1,216 combined regular-season and postseason victories in Jordan's 425) and is over (a record 36,981 combined regular-season and postseason points in Jordan's 34,270). When measured against the modern perimeter team who preceded him, James beats Jordan and Bryant on points scored. Magic Johnson on assists dished and Larry Bird on titles won. Durability matters. So does one's overall body of work. In James's overall exercise sport, and I had Jack Nicklaus and his record 10 major titles ranked ahead of Tiger Woods and his 14 majors around the time Woods was selling people that he was done, that his injured back was too far gone. And then somehow Woods emerged from a spinal fusion surgery to win the 2018 Tour Championship, the 2018 Masters and the Zuta Championship in Japan to be Sam Snead's record of 82 PGA Tour victories, nine more than Nicklaus's total. That was enough, in my mind, to push Woods ahead of Nicklaus despite the 18-15 majors deficit. Woods was more dominant at his peak against deeper fields. Unwin the road, we will surely be having a similar conversation about Tom Brady and Patrick McIntire. But for now we are wondering if James can break his own tie with Brady – 10 entries over championships – and lead the 53ers to their first finals appearance in more than a quarter-century. If James actually helps them with a championship, The Athletic's David Aldridge wrote recently, "His case for being the greatest player in N.B.A. history would receive a turbo boost." The ESPN analyze Brian Winds have had a different view, insisting that not a single Jordan supporter will suddenly bow to King James if he becomes the first N.B.A. player to win a title with four franchises. I'm in a different space on this one. Picture James is his advanced age representing the Knitks one more time, denying them a repeat, before beating the 53ers or Theater in the N.B.A. finals. That would be an incredible and profoundly emotional scene. Brady won his seventh Super Bowl title and fifth Super Bowl M.V.P. at 45, but given how much an N.B.A. player has to use his high compared with a perfect quarterback, a significant contribution to a 53ers title at 45 might just top it. Either way, a Philadelphia breakthrough would mean James had won championships on the East Coast and the West Coast and in the Midwest and the South. He would have Jordan surrounded. Not that his devoted base would ever concede. The Jordan and James camps will continue to guard away at each other from their franchise, back and back, under the conditions. An undecided feel like chair auspices at a senior match, head on a circuit. But in my notebook, if these new Philadelphia 76ers win the big one, it's game, set and match for Mr. James. CYCLING Tour de France Femmes Is Set to Make History: Who and What to Watch By JESSEN LIEBREUN The science After a companion spring season for women's cycling and two Grand Tours, it is time for the pinnacle of the year: the Tour de France Femmes. The race is longer and with more climbing than ever before. And the peltans will visit New Ventosa for the first time, the third one climbs in the three grand tours this year, after the Aile de L'Anglès and the Celle della Fianette. Items lighting is the woman to watch after bringing her blooming chance facts into the summer to conquer the Giro d'Italia. Whether she can enjoy Pauline Ferrand-Frèvat, the 2023 winner, on the ride's home stapes is an other question. And it is far from a two-woman race. Who are the favorites? Videxing attracted worldwide attention after four wins in the spring season and a comeback victory over Anna van der Breggen in the Giro. The Dutch Vallenag, a member of the P2U United-East team, will be looking in average her second-place finish in last year's Tour and pick up another title to go alongside her 2023 set. She already has a powerful victory in every grand tour, but she will have to get the better of Ferrand-Frèvat if she is to add to her chance. Is only her second season back on the tour, Ferrand-Frèvat was chased Vallenag and the peltans on the Celle de la Madeleine mountain pass last year on her way to an eventual general class. It is the age of 5 players 45 seconds. But Ferrand-Frèvat, who rides for Team Vianna-Leoni a Bike, has not won yet this season, finishing 29th of the Vuelta a English Pe Jessien Hopkins is a news editor for The Athletic. mentus, which raised questions over whether she could replicate last year's facts. But the Frenchwoman was in similar form last year, having dropped out of the Vuelta "feeling out fit enough" to continue. Given how Ferrand-Frèvat targets and builds specifically to the Tour, it is difficult to judge her chances based on her performances leading into it. Elsewhere, Kana Newladema of Team Canyon/SRAM – winner in 2024 on the final day – is always a danger, having never failed to stand on the podium of the Tour. This year, she has achieved three second-place and two third-place finishes, but she has not collected a WorldTour win since her last Tour title. Heading into her first Tour de France Femmes is Paula Blasi. The 23-year-old has had a schizophrenic 1,000-pound shot in the peltans, winning the Vuelta in only her second year with a professional squad, U.A.E. Team A2Q. Ultimately, she will soon likely be at the Tour in service of her team leader, the two-time Giro winner Elisa Longo Borghini, but it will be exciting to see how Blasi have after securing her overall win with an impressive account of the Anglin in northern Spain earlier this summer. With no one having won the Tour race yet, multiple riders are noticing on the brink of history. Could this be the race? Can anyone outspirit Wishes? Lorena Wishes is one of women's cycling's greatest sprinters. She is not often beaten, but it has been done. The 27-year-old Wishes mouldy just sat on the 2024 Tour's green jersey to Marianne Vos, another area of the past 5 games, before engaging a baby pair. She is beaten, she was heard in at the Tour of Breggen and could not find a way around Movistar's Caryx Lloyd, Mont Ventosa promises to be a highlight, with average gradients of 8.8 percent for over nine miles. but these results are few and far between. Lidl Trials Elisa Baluette has recently been chosen to Wishes, finishing second to her in two sprint stages at the Tour de Pologne and taking two wins in her absence at the Giro d'Italia. Wishes's disqualification is a key after race organizers said her bike was under the weight limit will make her team, 3D Wix's Pristina, hungry to make up for her grand tour stages. The 25-year-old Zoe Bäckstedt has been selected for the Canyon/SRAM Tour team, making her debut in the race after an impressive season so far. After running a sprint stage at the Tour de Suisse, her first WorldTour victory, she could be a wild card. Who are the young ones to watch? Blasi is the obvious early pick to try to provide the white jersey off last year's winner, Nienke Vidae. Blasi's talent was set out by her Vuelta win, but an American and victory earlier this year in the Netherlands, among her real victories, only furthers her credentials. Alongside Longo Borghini, who On the winners podium last August: center, Pauline Ferrand-Frèvat; left, Denis Vallenag; and Kana Newladema-Phinney. will be seeking a debut Tour win after she had to pull out with women's levers last year, and Malina Saphian, who lit up last year's race, bliss will be part of a strong U.A.E. team. Another young rider who has enjoyed an exciting start to the season is Celia Grey. The 20-year-old Frenchwoman was a surprise first national road race title earlier this year and second a stage victory at the Giro. While not a team leader like her companion Paul Seixas, she will be a valuable part of the P2U-Staat group bidding to project Vallenag to victory. For many wins and potential breakaway action, keep an eye on Registrar's Paula Grist and Canyon/SRAM's Bäckstedt. Lorena Wishes, 27, of the Netherlands is one of women's cycling's greatest sprinters. What does the route look like? Every year the organizers look for ways to expand the grand tour. The 2020 team takes on the same number of racing days as last time, but it has more climbing and overall length. The highlight is the secret of your Ventosa on Stage 1 With average gradients of 4.8 percent for more than 15 kilometers (nine miles), it will cover out the general classification podium in ruthless fashion. Given Ferrand-Frèvat's climbing progress, she should be one of the favorites to secure the Tour's In a Ventosa win, but she could be approached the stage from behind. The move of the two glamorous individual time trial should also attract attention. The time-trial discipline was absent last year, and it will add a new Year for the general classification riders. The favorites will likely have contributed for the sports stage, and might be significantly lighter than in the chronic season, but the final year is the same. In any flat. This means that – besides the other, exactly a finish in the middle of the route – riders will likely be separated by their past power rather than by climbing speed, potentially causing defects between rivals. It is only 21 kilometers (13 miles), however, so that will be limited. THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 9 B11 Jennifer Finch, 59, L7's Barefoot Bassist And 'Slob Girl,' Dies By ALEX WILLIAMS Jennifer Finch, who shattered eardrums and stereotypes as the reasons, barefoot bassist for L7, a scalding feminist band that, with its ferocious blend of punk and hard rock, rode the grunge wave of the 1990s, died on July 16 in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 59. Her death was announced by L7 on social media. Several days before she died, her family released a statement saying that she had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. L7 was a product of the same Lee Angeles punk scene that squeezed celebrated bands like Black Flag and X. But it became 'I had to borrow a bass and learn what an amplifier was really quick.' indulibly linked to the so-called grunge movement after signing in 1989 with Salt Pop, the started Seattle label that brought Nirvana and Soundgarden to prominence. (Ms. Finch briefly dated the Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl.) Blending the sledgehammer sound of wholehead with the jack-hammer energy of the Runnans, L7 released four albums during Ms. Finch's decade-long initial tenure with the band. Its 1992 breakout, 'Brick's Are Heavy,' which included airborne like 'Pretend We're Dead' and 'Warpants,' was produced with Butch Vig, who overcame Nirvana's blockbuster 'Nevermind,' 'Pretend We're Dead' became a Top 10 hit on the alternative chart. Armed with her black Fender bass, known as the Ghost, Ms. Finch was celebrated for her 'slob girl' image, including hair colors that called to stand a raging wildfire and an avoidance of harrower during gigs. Adrenale band in an over-wheelerogly made scene, L7 barracked its feminist bass fides by helping found the organization Back for Choice, a nonprofit abortion rights organization, in 1991. They also put out songs like 'Shirley,' written by Ms. Finch as a blast-furnace ode to Shirley Muldowney, who was known as 'the first lady of drug racing.' 'How many times most you be told, 'There's no where we don't go.' In a much-chemicled act of defiance at the 1992 Reading Festival in Britain, the band's lead singer, Donita Sparks, responded to an onslaught of objects hurted at the stage by removing her campus and returning fire. 'They drove most, I drove blood,' Ms. Sparks later recalled. 'And there it goes down in territory.' Yet the band squirmed under the inevitable 'woman-in-a-man's-world' narratives, Ms. Finch said in a 1994 interview with Diana Duritis of Rolling Stone. Ms. Duritis wrote that L7 emphasized that they were not 'fictious.' But Gretin, an inner-label-of-your-choice-bass girls.' 'To create genre out of gender is just horrible to me,' Ms. Finch said. 'I think journalism perpetuates that. I hope the story sights for L7 will eventually be the same as for Nirvana or Cravlon. There's a uniqueness in being a woman, but not that much.' Erin Michelle Fredis was born on Aug. 5, 1966, in a Saturation Army home for unwed mothers in Los Angeles, and was adopted by Robert Finch, an aeronautics engineer, and Sandra Chesebourn Finch, an Air Force veteran. During her teens, she took to photography and began chronicling bands like the Red Star Club Peppers and Bad Religion. In 1994, she graduated from high school and headed north to study computer science at San Francisco State University. Jennifer Finch, in foreground, performing in 2015 with Susi Gardner, left, Donita Sparks and Demetris Plakas on drums. Right, Ms. Finch in 1992, the year L7's 'Pretend We're Dead' was a hit. From left, members of L7 in 1992: Ms. Sparks, Ms. Plakas, Ms. Finch and Ms. Gardner. In 2014, Ms. Finch reunited with the scalding feminist band, which had splintered in the late 1990s. Despite having minimal musical skills, she soon quit college to play guitar with Sugar Batsykill, a short-timed trio featuring Courtney Love, the future Hole nut, and Kat Bipflund, who would go on to front fishes in Toyland. When Sugar Batsykill fizzled, Ms. Finch returned to Los Angeles and became a fan of the fledging L7, formed by guitarists and singers Susi Gardner and Ms. Sparks. The group, named for an old slang term for 'square,' was searching at the time for a new bassist and drummer. Hiring was no easy feat. 'Generally, dudes who wanted to play hard rock had no desire to play with women,' Ms. Sparks recalled in the 2016 documentary 'L7: Pretend We're Dead.' Instead, she said, 'there were this persistent risks who had come to see our shows,' adding that Ms. Finch 'almost challenged me to let her in the band.' Ms. Finch was challenging herself, as well. 'I didn't really know very much about bass,' she said in the documentary, adding, 'I had to borrow a bass and learn what an amplifier was really quick.' The band released its debut album on the independent label Epitaph. After moving to Salt Pop, and now with the drummer Demetris (known as Dery Plakas, the group issued an E.P. 'Sterill the Magic' (1999), that was later expanded into a full album, before signing with Slack Records and receiving wider acclaim with 'Brick's Are Heavy.' Riding the momentum, the band performed on the male singer at Lollapalawan in 1994. The same year, it had a cameo as the fictional punk band Camel Lips in the John Waters roll film 'Serial Moss,' starring Kathleen Turner. Ms. Finch became sober in 1999, and left the band six years later for a variety of reasons, including grief over her father's death. L7, a 1994 film by Jennifer Finch 'When you're younger, there's so much pressure riding on everything,' she told Rolling Stone in 2017. 'I know I saved under that specific pressure.' She returned to music with the band OtherStarPeople, which released an album, 'Hammock is the Bells of the Dog,' in 1999, and three years later formed the punk band the Hawkes. She also started her own label, Little Pusher Records, and worked as a photographer. In 2014, Ms. Finch reunited with L7, which had splintered at the end of the 1990s. The original lineup released 'Scatter the Bass,' its first album in two decades, in 2015. A few months ago, the band unveiled your dance starting in October; after Ms. Finch's brain cancer diagnosis was announced last month, L7 said that she wanted the tour to go on without her. She is survived by her partner, Jack Gregory, and two half sisters, Molly Myers and Marge Rae Blakely, the marriage to Christian Pedersen ended in divorce in 2017. Although L7 is remembered as a darling of the old rock peak of the '90s, Ms. Finch always maintained that the group stayed true to its punk essence. 'Punk rock doesn't have anything to do with poverty or musical style,' Ms. Finch told Billboard in 1994. 'It's an attitude that everyone in this band grew up so-uncleared with ideologically that it will always be a part of us. It's like growing up in Sweden — no matter where you go, all your experiences are filtered through that.' Prepare today's college students to become tomorrow's global citizens. Get campuswide access to The New York Times. Learn more at nytimes.com/campuswide The New York Times Beatles Bates & Co., Robert BESSEL, KIM—Robert BESSEL, William Robert Williams, Batskylt, Ms. Jill Farringer, L7, Aplund, Dermis Mr. Lin, L7, 1994, The New York American Institute, and, and friend of Bessels, for L7 years, and the American Heart of New England, L7, 1994 Lee Bates & Co., Robert, M. Mr. Lin, L7, 1994, The New York American Institute, and, and, and, friend of Bessels, for L7 years, and the American Heart of New England, L7, 1994 Lee Bates & Co., Robert, M. 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The New York Times B12 11 THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARNE SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2020 Gunther von Hagens, Creator of 'Body Worlds' Exhibits, Dies at 81 By CLAV ROSEN Gunther von Hagens, a German scientist whose traveling exhibitions of human corpses, flayed to expose homes and muscles and positioned as it caught in the middle of everyday activities — dancing, running, copulating — drew tens of millions of eager viewers along with vociferous criticism from religious and human rights groups, died on July 24 in Heidelberg, Germany. He was 81. Rebecca Brewer, his personal assistant, said the death, is a hospital, was from a cerebral hemorrhage. Dr. von Hagens had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2006. Since his first show, "Body Worlds," debated in Tokyo in 1993, Dr. von Hagens's children have drawn more than 50 million visitors — to traveling presentations in dozens of countries and to permanent installations in Germany, the Netherlands and the United States. Using a process called plantationism, which he developed in the late 1970s, Dr. von Hagens removed a body's skin and fur, replaced its flanks with a sturdy plastic material, arranged it in a blotter position; and finally hardened it with heat, light or gas in a specialized chamber. It took Dr. von Hagens and his man-hundred friend, who is in process each body, a procedure carried out across a constellation of sites that he maintained in Germany and China. Along with humans, he also worked on large animals — one of his most famous figures, "Hurraman," involves a ruler atop a roaring horse, both skinkers. Early on, Dr. von Hagens acquired bodies through medical studies. During the past 10 years, he attracted thousands of donors eager to see their bodies preserved for the public good. "There are times during this exhibition when you even feel a deep appreciation," the critic Edward Rothstein wrote in a 2012 review of a "Body Worlds" show for The New York Times. "You are actually seeing the forces of life on display in this dead matter, and these forces are extraordinary." In an everyone agreed. Whether the public good was actually being served was a central piece of the controversy that dogged Dr. von Hagens. "We're now, of course, a basic upanomishment at the spectacle of a half full of alarmed corpses, one step removed from a horror film. At times, 'Body Worlds' evoked intense reactions. One man attacked a body at a show in London with a hammer. Many religious leaders objected as well — especially in Germany, where memories of human experiments and bodily desecration under the Nazi regime remained fresh. "Body Worlds" is possibly the logical conclusion of Nazi crimes," Andreas Nachman, a rabbi and civic leader in Berlin, told The Independent in 2005, "when millions of bodies were burnt by their murderers into clusters or transformed into soap, and their skin into hospitalized." He also faced accusations of accepting bodies of executed prisoners from China, though there was no evidence he knew. He source, the later barred his main role, using bodies without the fact that instituted a strict protocol for accepting detained specimens. "Body Worlds" and its spinoffs are a be-goodk enterprise, and while Dr. von Hagens insisted that Gunther von Hagens in 2002 with a bisected human specimen. In the late 1970s, he developed plantationism, the method of making corpses into malleable figures. He said he wore his signature hat as a homage to the physician in Rendsrund's "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" (A532). A German scientist whose shows drew millions of visitors, and many detractors. he was "democrotizing" anatomy and strengthening the public's understanding of medical science, some people criticized his shows for being light on information and high on shock value. He certainly had a flair for the limelight. In 2002, he staged Britain's first public autopsy to almost 200 years, in defiance of government warnings that such a display was illegal. But he was not prosecuted, and the event was later broadcast on TV. Critics nicknamed him Dr. Death and compared him to Josef Mengels, who conducted experiments on prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau intervention camp. It may not have helped that, in his ever-present black-federa, Dr. von Hagens resembled a small film, the Nazi agent played by Ronald Lacey in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Dr. von Hagens said he wore his signature hat as a homage to Rendsrund's A532 painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" in what Dr. Tulp, shown examining the musculature of a corpses' arm in front of colleagues, is also buried. And he insisted that his critics misunderstood his intentions. "I do not see this as a room full of corpses or as a half of death," he told The Times in 1996. "What this does is build bridges back to your In London in 2002, Dr. von Hagens performed Britain's first public autopsy to almost 200 years. He defied warnings that such a display was illegal, and he was not prosecuted. own body. When you look at the models, you can recognize yourself as a number of the human species. Your humanity becomes clear." Gunther Gerhard Liebchen was born on Jan. 10, 1941, in Skidmetryns, a city in German-occupied Poland. When he was just a few days old, his parents — Gerhard, a cook for the 5th, said Gortrud (Eisnack) Liebchen — placed him in a laundry hamper and fled west, ahead of the advancing Soviet army. They settled in the city of Gretz, in what became East Germany. When Gunther was 6, he hit his head on a shot. He fired heavily, the result of undiagnosed hemophilia. He spent six months in the hospital, where he developed an interest in medicine. After high school, he worked as a nurse before studying medicine at the University of Graz. He participated in protests against the East German Communist government and was imprisoned in 1949 for trying to flee into Austria. The next year, the West German government paid for his release and return, something it frequently did for political prisoners. He finished his medical studies at the University of Lübeck in 1973 and, two years later, received a doctorate in anesthesia from the University of Heidelberg. He married Cornelia von Hagens in 1975. Uncomfortable with his surname — Liebchen is an old-fashioned endowment in German. In 1948, he is: They divorced in 1950. In 1952, he married Dr. Angelina Whalley, a physician and the creative director for "Body Worlds." Along with her, Dr. von Hagens is survived by three children from his first marriage, Rorik, Rora and The von Hagens, and six grandchildren. When Dr. von Hagens revealed his Parkinson's diagnosis, in 2011, he said that when he died, he wanted his body to be plantarized and put on display at the entrance to one of his exhibits — wearing his felinex, of course. Bill McGlaughlin, 82, Classical Composer And Radio Host Who Spread the Genre By TOM PAUL Bill McGlaughlin, a composer, conductor and public-railer host whose long-running, richly varied programs "Saint Paul Sunday" and "Exploring Music" were admired by the general public and professional musicians alike, died on July 21 at his home in Manhattan. He was 82. His wife, the jazz vocalist Karim Afziani, said the cause was unable to utilize arrest. Mr. McGlaughlin "almost single-handedly kept alive a sophisticated approach to what used to be called 'music appreciation'." His pianist and teacher Paul Orgel said in an interview. "His range of musical enthusiasm was enormous," Mr. Orgel added. "His manner was simple—the rock, funk and the music we have. And, most importantly, he played vast amounts of serious music, always in well-chosen performances. He didn't shy away from vocal status, challenging our music or obscure works that deserve exposure." Soft-spoken, with a manner that was faking on his own blaggards, Mr. McGlaughlin discussed the role of music through forays into jazz, folk traditions, history, literature and many other fields. By the time he began his radio work, he was having an experienced musician. He had a bachelor's degree (1967) and a master's (1969), both in music, from Tem- ple University and played in the timeliness section at the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under William Steinberg. Steinberg encouraged him to try his band at conducting, and Georg Safit, another esteemed conductor, advised him that he would need regular practice with an orchestra. So in the early 1970s, Mr. McGlaughlin formed three on- His show was heard by roughly 600,000 listeners each week. يصities in the Pittsburgh area, a grant-making partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the Exxon Corporation then helped fund a conducting practice for him at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota, where he hosted his skills from 1973 to 1982. While in Saint Paul, Mr. McGlaughlin spoke regularly to audiences before performances, explaining the program and pointing out what to listen for. Garrison Kolber, then early in his tenure as host of "A Prairie Home Compare" text" on Minnesota Public Radio, found one of the prominent talks and invited Mr. McGlaughlin to fall in occasionally as a morning show host. This led to "Saint Paul Sunday," originally called "Saint Paul Sunday," (Morning), which Mr. McGlaughlin hosted from 1980 to 2007 (throne were aired until 2011). By the time the show won a mutually ahead in 1995, it was heard by roughly 600,000 listeners each week on over 200 stations, making it the most widely intended classical music program in the country. William McGlaughlin was born in Philadelphia on Oct. 3, 1914, the oldest child of his father, an architectural draftsman also named William McGlaughlin, and his mother, Catharine (Hogan). McGlaughlin, who taught English in the Philadelphia schools once her children were grown. His parents were music lovers, and he grew up listening to classical and opera records, and playing the harmonica with his father. He had his first piano lesson at 14, when he filled in for a younger brother who quit during a series of prepaid lessons. By his second lesson, he was headed. He must be just playing the trombone as well. During his time as "Saint Paul Sunday," here, Mr. McGlaughlin also served as the music director of orchestras in Eugene, New Haven, Ariz.; and San Francisco; Bill McGlaughlin in 2002. The general public and professional musicians admired his shows. and, from 1980 to 1998, at the Kansas City Symphony Times, he expanded the ensemble's repertory, receiving five AMCAF awards for government programming, in championing contemporary music. After leaving Kansas City in 1990, he moved to New York, where he began completing the also produced for and assisted on Ms. Afziani's recordings, and sometimes accompanied her on tour. He married her in 2003 after 31 years of partnership. In addition to her, he is survived by two children from an earlier marriage, Kathleen McGlaughlin and Bill McGlaughlin, a grandson; and five siblings, Julie McGlaughlin, Dick McGlaughlin, Kathleen Gillespie, Ed McGlaughlin and Tom McGlaughlin. In 2003, he started hosting, from New York, "Exploring Music" (in WYMT) at Chicago, he also wrote the program's opening music. "We were talking about doing a single theme per week, which gives you music to have the kind of depth you don't usually get to a day," Mr. McGlaughlin later recalled in an interview with the station falls. "One thing we thought we might do is play this same piece twice; nobody ever does that. You could play something and then develop a whole idea and come back and see how it sounded after that." By 2008, the show had more than 400,000 weekly listeners. Mr. McGlaughlin continued making new episodes until the end of 2023, when his contract with the station ran out renewed. Mr. McGlaughlin never used scripts, dissiting his hosting style in jazz in an interview with The Charleston Gazette of West Virginia in 2000. "I know where I'm going, but I don't know exactly what I am going to say next." People write more and the first thing they say is that they know nothing about music, but they always write as intelligently," he added. "Maybe this show can help them a little bit." 7 BOOKS Fans have found, and fallen for, a literary-minded orphan. 7 BANCE REVIEW There's a whole lot of soul oranges at the Joyce Theater. 8 TRAVEL A hiker, afraid of heights, faces that fear at a chasm in the Adirondacks. NEWS | CRITICISM Arts The New York Times SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 C1 9 JASON FARAGO | CLOSE READ THE MOST ICONIC AMERICAN ARTWORK IS THE HARDEST TO SEE A colossal monument is an ideal blown up to a scale nearly impossible to perceive as a whole. To really see the Statue of Liberty — which its creator, the 19th-century French artist Frédéric-Auguste Barthardt, first titled "Liberty Enlightening the World" — you have to think in parts, such as those above. SHE NEEDS REPAIR SOMETIMES. The patina is thick. But she's still standing. What is the most iconic work of American art? A French sculpture, of course, assembled first in Paris, and then again in New York Harbor. Financed by public subscription, powered by photography and PR., the Statue of Liberty is now so identified with her adopted home that she has all but melted into symbol. Soon after her dedication, in 1896, she was designated America's Mother of Exiles. But she's so much stranger as an object than an icon. She is monumental, but not weighty. She was not born in America, or even in France. And over the past year, I have rediscovered Liberty — or, really, discovered her for the first time — for what she is: a colossus quivering at the fault line of tradition and a new, modern age. CONTINUED ON PAGE C2 C2 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 JASON FRASGO | CLOSE READ How does an artist give form to liberty? In she a revolutionary, as in Engine Delacroix's 1836 painting "Liberty Leading the People," top? Or does she trample people as she spreads her gospel, as in John Gant's 1872 work "American Progress," above? In Paris in 1884, Bartholdi, near right, gazed up at his version of liberty. The 1886 novel The New York Times (1886) THE MOST ICONIC AMERICAN ARTWORK IS THE HARDEST TO SEE CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 La liberté. In French the mean is feminine. How do you give form to liberty? What does it, or she, look like? Is Liberty peaceable or vengeful? A nurturing presence, greeting all who come, or an unstoppable revolutionary? Perhaps she is more of a congratulators. Perhaps Liberty trumpets you, or trumpets other populations, as she spreads her gospel westward. In the second half of the 19th century, a volcanic era of imperialism and industrialization, French artists and engineers were fashioning new objects at immense scale, and debating abstract ideals of a parallel magnitude. One of them was Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, an Alsatian artist of the old school, who devoted his adult life to sculpting freedom as tall as a mountain. Nations, industries, furnaces, Empires. Those things in the 19th century took on colossal scale, sometimes in the imagination, and sometimes in bronze and steel. What happened in the 19th century to stake men should be big? What did their dreams ignore? A colossal monument is an ideal blown up to a scale nearly impossible to perceive as a whole. Which means that to really see the Statue of Liberty — not her given name — you have to think in parts. You have to trust together art and engineering. America and Europe. And at those junctions resides the truth of one of the wordest sculptures I know. IN BOTH FRANCE and the United States, revolutionaries and reformers cast themselves as the inheritors of classical ideals. In antiquity, public virtues took the terms of gods and goddesses — often at staggering scale. At Olympia, a statue of Zeus towered as high as the temple. At the Parthenon, the sculptor Phidias raised a 40-foot Athena, crafted from wood, covered in gold and ivory. At Rhodes, around 300 B.C., the Greeks who fended off an invasion melted down their country's bronze weapons. They erected a timber framework and a stone load-bearing corn. They cast in their foundries the artist and also of a god. When they were done, the god Helios stood 100 feet tall. You could see the Colossus of Rhodes as you entered the harbor, or from miles away, crowned with a dander, the rays of the sun. The brazen giant collapsed in an earthquake. All other Greek and Roman large statuary survives only in fragments. But there was one place in the Mediterranean world where the ancient colossal still stood. In 1708, Napoleon invaded Egypt in an ill-fated rampage. The French military corps had a scholarly attachment. Engineers and painters embedded with the army and encountered an artistic heritage at pharaonic scale. In the desert they sketched the massive monuments. They measured them. Sometimes, they extracted them. And throughout the 19th century, fueled in large part by this Egyptian encounter, European artists and writers embraced what the architectural critic Anthony Vallier once called a "monumental sublime." You could buy lavish books illustrating giant statues, looking totally unlike the classical beauties of Greece. You could even travel, now, to Thebes — by packet boat across the Mediterranean, and wood-bottomed barge down the Nile. Here, in a modernizing Egypt, Europeans indulged their Romantic pleasure in past civilizations' ruins. They felt an aesthetic vertigo. The statues dwarfed human scale. Certainly that was the case for the young Bartholdi. He was the only sculptor on a French-funded artistic jacket to Egypt and an early adopter of the still-chancy box camera. Bartholdi photographed the obelisks, the pharaotic' necks. In his sketchbook he idealized female pousants into silent, tensions witnesses. He was, like so many Frenchmen, channeling his ambitions into a monumental fantasy. A more modern project of pharaonic engineering soon began: the construction of the Suez Canal, built with French hands and Egyptian forced labor. It was one of the largest public works of the 19th century, said Bartholdi envisioned a monument to match. He proposed a commemoration to the leader of Egypt. A lighthouse at Port Said, at the entrance to the canal. The lighthouse would have the form of a initial, a peasant in flowing robes, like the ones he sketched on his guard tour. In her hand (her left one, though) was a torch to flammate the harbor. She would stand 80 feet tall, a rival and successor to the colossal in Thebes. "Egypt Bringing the Light to Asia," he unintentionally called it in 1848. It didn't work out: too expensive, too difficult. Above left, Bartholdi, left, with the artist Jean-Léon Griviere around 1815 in Egypt, where Bartholdi was the only sculptor on a French-funded artistic jacket. Above, Bartholdi's photo of the Colossal of Moraison. He found inspiration in such enormous ancient works. By the time he undertakes his next great voyage, his world has changed profoundly. France has gone to war with Prussia, and box. Napoleon III's empire has collapsed. Above, Bartholdi's native region, is no longer French at all. Out of the wreckage, he looks across the water. The United States has come through its own war, a civil war that ended slavery. A new birth of freedom. French liberals are envisioning a gift — a really big gift — for America's centennial, one that will also rally their cause at home. And so this republican sculptor, backed by the jurist and abolitionist Edouard de Labontiere, holds his passage on a steamship from Le Havre in the summer of 1871. He practices his English onboard. Other works of antiquity that inspired European artists, from left: the 40-foot Athena at the Parthenon; the Colossus of Rhodes, a 100-foot statue of the god Helios; and the Great Sphinx of Giza. At the entrance to the Suez Canal — one of the largest public works of the 19th century, completed in 1849 — Bartholdi proposed a lighthouse to house Egypt's leader. His design, right, took the form of a peasant in flowing robes standing 80 feet tall, raising a torch. It was never built. THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 9 C3 JASON FARRAGH | CLOSE READ JASON FARRAGH/IMAGE: TOI ALIAT He is awed, immediately, by the part of New York. From the Hudson the boars “move this way and that across the bay, full of people and covered with flags, emitting deep-ioned blacks from their whistles; they sound like huge flies.” He takes note of a small island. FOR FIVE MONTHS, Bartholdi travels across the United States and Canada. He crosses the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, reaches boomtown San Francisco. Of the country’s moral and cultural character he is dubious. He compares America to “an adorable woman chewing on tobacco.” What impresses him is the scale. “Everything is big here,” he writes to his mother Tag, “Liberty Enlightening the World” being assembled in Paris. Above, Bartholdi is his studio. Above right, in 1878 the public was invited to see a dianime with the statue at the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris. He begins to tease out a project of American dimensions. It would be for the first place he saw, from the steamship. The island in the Upper New York Bay, with its 13-pointed hirt. When he travels to the Jersey coast to meet President Ulysses S. Grant, he dreams of it. And, though he would later deny it, Bartholdi recycles the Suez lighthouse design for a new personification. “Liberty Enlightening the World,” to use her proper title, would guide not the pilots of an industrial waterway but the collective destiny of man. Here, in the New World, the French Enlightenment would find its safe harbor. His Liberty, radiating from New York back over the Atlantic, would be the cosmic embodiment of universal freedom. The Egyptian robes become a Roman peplum. The right arm comes forward, the left shoulder back. The head scarf turns into a pointed crown, just like the sunbeams on the Colossus of Rhodes. In the studio, with clay, he was relying on furmules. The models of Liberty from the early 1870s embodied the stiff classicism of academic sculpture, which Degas had begun to crack apart and Rodin would soon sweep away. The statue came together in pieces. From top: A full-scale planter version was made in parts, after starting from a four-foot clay model; carpenters both wooden frames in the shape of these planters; foundrymen took this sheets of copper and hammered them around the wood forms. The metal needed to be kept light to cross the Atlantic. The innovation would come later, from others. Supervising Liberty — to 331 feet, nearly twice the height of the Suez project — would require the know-how of an engineer. Like the Colossus of Rhodes, Liberty came together in pieces. From a clay model four feet tall, technicians used plumb lines to create a larger planter version. They did that a second time, then a third, to finish with full-scale components. Carpenters then built wooden frames in the shape of the full-scale planters. On paper, the enlargement was simple geometry. But it took thousands of measurements, and every time you scale up, you lose detail — so Bartholdi had to revise Liberty’s links and features at each phase. In Bartholdi’s day and sure, most metal sculptures are cast: Make a clay model, form a mold around it, then fill the mold with molten bronze. Liberty was too big for that — so Bartholdi’s team looked back. The foundrymen took this sheets of copper, and hammered them around the wooden forms one by one. An additional load sheet would be pressed into the planter; then the copper would be fitted to the load to get an exact match. Exact-till. This hand-hammered tech- nique, called repousal, hadn’t been used much since ancient times. But at this scale exactitude wasn’t the point. What mattered was keeping the metal light to cross the Atlantic. And by the early 1880s — the falcons of modernity, the years of impressionism and electric light, of department stores and café-concerts — a filanzer walking through the 15th Armeofisements would have come across a looming giantess. Part by part, lost by foot, Liberty rose over the Paris of the bells-typique. A gift for a foreign country became a local spectacle. Liberty was only temporarily Parisian, but that was enough. She was a metallic incarnation of France’s own republican reform. It was one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century. But Bartholdi was never overly concerned with how to get Liberty to stand. He was really winging it at first. Eugène Vadde-le-Duc, better known for the spire that burned at Notre-Dame, originally proposed filling Liberty up with sand. When he died, Bartholdi found a new partner: a modern partner, a man of the ironworks. Gustave Eiffel conceived of a central iron construction post ca NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY BUTLER'S CHILDHOUSE, 1907-1908, 1909-1910, 1910-1911, 1912-1913 BUTLER'S CHILDHOUSE, 1908-1909, 1910-1911, 1912-1913 Bartholdi was awed by New York’s part when he saw it in 1875, and in a sketch, left, he noted a small island off Manhattan’s southern tip. Centre, his proposed statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World” there, depicted in an 1878 drawing, would be a 151-foot embodiment of universal freedom. Right, in a magnetic of that statue, the peasant’s robe of the lighthouse he had proposed for Egypt became a Roman peplum, and the head scarf was changed into a pointed crown. C4 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 JASON FARRAGH | CLOSE READ Top, when President Grover Cleveland inaugurated "Liberty Enlightening the World" on Oct. 29, 1890, Bartholdi pulled down the French flag that veiled her face. Above, inside the statue, a spiral staircase leads to the crown. Right, Liberty's copper face, seen from within. The progress of culture and democracy can be read on her lips. THE MOST ICONIC AMERICAN ARTWORK IS THE HARDEST TO SEE CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 poles, crossed with girders, affixed at the top with an extension for the right arm and neck. Attached to the core was a second, lighter system of bars. These would be Liberty's skeleton, from which her copper gown would hang. Not solid, then, and not rigid. This colonias would sway slightly, topple in the wind and rain. More important — and here is where Liberty strides from antiquity into the modern age — she could be dismantled in Paris and reassembled in New York. A PREMIUM MANNER laden with 214 crates arrived in New York in 1885. The Americans erected a pedestal, crowdfunded by the readers of The World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper. Into the plinth they anchored Eiffel's framework, the tallest iron structure ever at this time. And then it began. Without scaffolding, the workers took the copper plates and riveted them together, 300,000 times. Each fold of the preplate, each finger and toe, was conjoined to the statue by hand. Liberty's true modernity, argues the art historian Darcy Grimaldi-Cingolry, was the part-by-part assembly around a void. "Empty statues," she writes, "can be seen across the world in labeled crates, just as constellation circle the globe." Liberty was a 4th construction, like an Excreta' bin. Bartholdi was looking back, to Rhodes, to antiquity. Eiffel was looking ahead, to mobility and readability. The copper of her gown and body, less than one-tenth of an inch thick, attaches to the iron skeleton via shaped metal bars that connect to the central core. Bartholdi's sculpture became a shell. Liberty is only skin. Like the curtain walls of 20th-century glass skyscrapers, the surface of the statue is not load-bearing. Her feet do not bear the cumulative weight of her body, as a marble sculpture's wood. In other words, you could detach any section of copper sheets and the remainder would stand up just for — because the Statue of Liberty is, as literally as I can say this, an American Eiffel Tower. Eiffel wouldn't begin building his Parisian tower until the next year. It was another part-by-part construction, using the same riveting techniques. It had its own Egyptian inspiration, like Bartholdi. Eiffel had gone to witness the construction of Stars. But in Paris there would be no division between outward form and inner structure. The skeleton is unmasked. The latticework is all there is. Yet Liberty and the Eiffel Tower are still connected. They are bookends, colossal ones, of the moment when everything changed. In all her reproductions and re-constitution, something of this convulsive time remains. IT BURNED ON THE BAR President Grover Cleveland inaugurated "Liberty Enlightening the World" Bartholdi pulled down the French flag that veiled her face. It was Oct. 29, 1890, and she was naturalized. Still, it would be a few more years before the United States set up a slope for other immigrants on the nearby Ellis Island. It was those arrivals, those buddied masses, who would recast Liberty as an allegory of worldwide welcome. Liberty became Columbia: the personification of one country, in our passports, an our currency. She grew as a symbol — of that country's merits and faults — and should as a sculpture. If we want to pull her back from American kitsch, we have to rediscover the im- probability of Liberty. Her Orientalist pedigree. Her technological ingenuity. The outside egos and anonymous hands that made her. Certainly I had my preconceptions. I was born in New York. But until this year I had never bothered to visit the largest work of French sculpture in town. A few weeks ago I took the lorry I bought the foam hat. I went up through the pedestal. From the observation clock I crated to see the riveted panels, the abstractions of her lower robe, the tamping right leg. I went up to the crown, of course. Looked out at my firefighter. The day was fine, the barber glissmed. A young visitor took my picture. But it wasn't that view that stayed with me. Above, the statue's face on Liberty Island, waiting to be attached to the head. Above right, a newspaper's view of the statue's completion. Its components had arrived in 214 crates on a French warship the year before; later, without scaffolding, workers took the copper plates and riveted them together, 300,000 times. It was what was below the crown. The right helical staircase, and the sirens radiating from the core. The vertiginous sensation of a modern freedom, rising as she ripples and narrows. From a little platform halfway up, and another halfway further, you can look out from the stairs to the surface, where Eiffel's castles meet Bartholdi's skin. One's thick, standardized braces bag the other's thin, hand-hammered copper: reddish-brown in here, not green. And that was where I saw it. The reverse of Liberty's copper face, barely thicker than my own skin. And the precisely engineered curves baked into her frown. French and American, vast and hollow, sculpture and building: all these contradictions, the torturous progress of culture and democracy, can be read right on her lips. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness: The formula for democracy is a thing of multiple parts. At its core is nothing solid, just a framework, on which pieces brought across oceans can be conjoined. From many, one. It is all a matter of creative engineering. Of real and ideal. Of coming up with something meaningful, and then figuring out how to make it stand. Bartholdi needed an engineer to make his statue stand. He found Gustave Eiffel, who envisioned a central iron pylon crossed with girders and affixed at the top, left. A second system of bars would be attached to the core to have the statue's skeleton, center. His plan would allow the statue to be dismantled in Paris and reassembled in New York. Eiffel began building his Parisian tower, right, in 1887. It was another part-by-part construction, using the same riveting techniques. THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 9 C5 This Go-Round, Our Hero's Enemy Is His Loneliness Marvel's latest 'Spider-Man' sequel focuses more on character and less on universe-saving. By EMMANUEL MORGAN LOS ANGELES - In an early meeting to discuss the future of Spider-Man, the director Deville Daniel Cretina and Tom Rothman, the third executive of many Pictures Entertainment's film division, debated the meaning of the word "grounded." It seems straightforward, but Cretina needed to know before accepting the job. "If the intention was to go bigger, I definitely would not have done this movie," Cretina said. The most recent live-action Spider-Man movie at that time had sent Peter Parker through the multiverse, where he had macverones of himself from alternate realities. Its two broader Avengers films, he hailed a towering purple alien alongside a wizard, a witch and a god. Cretina wanted something more intricate - a crave, deeper cut of the web-dwelling hero who is believed by fans as much for his powers as he his rundown New York apartment and dysfunctional love life. These qualities stand apart from the spectacle and mystical forces of many comic-book films. But Cretina said he would not oversee a blockbuster dependent on these grander components, even if it were part of a billion-dollar franchise. The filmmakers and stars involved in "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" are betting that their creative choice for the movie, which opened on Friday, will resonate. It still has action and love, they said, including appearances from the monstrous greek Hulk and a villain who controls other people's minds and bodies. But the film's backbone, they said, returns Spider-Man, the alter ego of Peter Parker, to his roots: an isolated person who earns the day despite ordinary problems. With the superhero genre filmed as it is on nostalgic camera and galactic composite, Cretina thought the smaller scope would land, he said. "Darries can always find new ways to connect with people," Cretina said. "And I think right now, this movie speaks to a lot of things that are happening emotionally to young people in the world and I hope they respond to him." Prior years after the events of "Spider-Man: No Way Home," Parker (Tom Holland) is grieving and lost. His aunt was killed by a villain he tried to help, and to save his universe from several throats, the world - including his girlfriend, Bill (2nd days), and his hero friend, Ned (Jacob Barakos) - resulted in magically forget for ever existed. Parker is thriving as Spider-Man but struggling to his personal life and maintaining our friends on social media. These circumstances, Cretina said, become improbable to a film about loneliness and the search for connection in an inner-curated world. But after Marvel approached him to direct, he spoke with Holland, Zendjaya and studio executives before commenting. They also shared his vision. Tom Holland, left, with Deville Daniel Cretina, the director of "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" 15 returns Spidey to his roots as an isolated person who earns the day despite ordinary problems. "If the intention was to go bigger, I definitely would not have done this movie," Cretina said. "With Deville, his first question is always, 'The character, the character, the character,' and Holland, who's on his fourth Spidey noting, 'When I found out that he wanted to not just make another 'Spider-Man' movie, but that he had this core message that was really important to him, I knew we were going to make a movie that was authentic, that would resonate with people, and ultimately, one that would be super relatable in a way that some of these movies aren't.'" Most recent superhero movies have prioritized scale over more intimate storytelling since the genre's commercial peak a decade ago. Elaborate visual effects and universe-threatening plots allow studios to market their theatrical releases as catch-nine events, and those characters, like the Avengers, are often among the most globally recognized by fans. But the two-differ results have been uneven in the past three years. "Deadpool & Reliveries" was a bit. "The Fantastic Four: First Stage" and "Superman" posted respectable returns. "Supergirl" and "The Marvels" flagged. Critity, urban crime-fighting stories like "The Batman" (2022) or a bloody, comic western title "Jagged" (2017) can drift the cord theatrically when executed well. But other characters deliberately similar themes, like Dashiell and the Penguin, are comparatively ancillary and less mainstream. Studies have increasingly placed the ever-straining services, where the format allows observances to develop those more fully with lower production costs and less marketing pressure. "Streaming can make a smaller but passionate audience more economically valuable, if not during a movie than ever the course of a series," said Kevin Goetz, the author of "How to Score in Hollywood" and the founder of the entertainment research firm Screen Engine. Comes-level projects can still be emen- tional, Goetz said, but they must devote time to establishing their的时间 and re-planning intricate love. More grounded stories, he said, naturally bring the conflict closer to the character - family, identity, community, consequences - making it easier for audiences to imagine themselves in the hero. But regardless of the scope, the project needs to showcase human elements to succeed, he said. "It's not just mythology-building at all costs - you have to have more than that," I know we were going to make a movie that was authentic, that would resonate with people." PAM MULLANE WEST PLACE SPIDER-MAN Goetz said, "You have to care about your protagonist and antagonists." The director is known for character-driven filmmaking - he directed the 2020 legal drama "Just Money," starring Michael B. Jordan - "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" (or) Cretina's first superhero assignment. He directed "Bongo, Or, and the Legend of the Ten Rings" (2021) and was a co-creator of the movie Disney's series "Wonder Man," about a superhero whose powers could get in the way of his dream of acting. Rothman, in being, said the themes Cretina wanted to explore with Spider-Man felt relatable to Peter Parker and the audience. Kinship it contained felt right, he said. "It's a lot harder if you're out in outer space or other worlds to order it to true emotional reality," Rothman said, "but if you are going to do it, you have to be committed to it." Thomas and how were themes of the Spider-Man films of the early 2000s starring Tobey Maguire and of the 2010s outings with Andrew Garfield. But they were not a cornerstone of Holland's versions - "Spider-Man: Homecoming" (2017), "Spider-Man: Far From Home" (2010) and "No Way Home" - until the second half of the third movie. Kevin Paige, the president of Marvel Studios, said it was important to fully address these themes in the new film. "Where Spidey thrives is not just in spectacle - it's in spectacle and being very true to Peter's stars," Paige said. "From the gripes it was always going to be the focus. For the first time, he is alone, he is desperate." Spider-Man remains one of the most reliable franchisees in Hollywood - two of the Holland-led movies grossed $1 billion each - and would probably succeed at the two offers regardless of the direction it takes. Spider-Man is a versatile character, adaptable to any tone that filmmakers choose, said Douglas Walk, a pop-culture critic who wrote a book about Marvel. "Spider-Man is about just having to do the things that you are responsible for, or that you had responsible for even if you are not," Walk said. "That is an engine that you can make any number of movies out of." The new secret uses fewer visual effects than its predecessors, the filmmakers said. But Cretina said he knew "Brand New Day" was working when he also scores with Holland and Zendjaya. Their dynamic is heavy because Parker and his viewer are aware of their shared history, while M.I is not. These scores "feel every bit as powerful as a giant action response," Cretina said. "If given you as much of a gut punch and adrenaline ruden as an explosive fight scene, but it really is just the two of them in a room having a conversation." To prepare for this Spider-Man, Holland said he scrolled Robbie Derudis and watched podcasts on YouTube in understand what fans craved. And the message, he said, was clear. "I think there was a real desire for people to not see him save the world again, but maybe save himself," Holland said. Two Not Touch Put two stars in each row, column and region of the grid. No two stars may touch, not even diagonally. Answer a blue and orange line. 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A 6-bit grid will use 1-6. For more games: www.nytimes.com/games Please check the appropriate box to determine the right-handed side of the page. Crossword | Edited by Will Shortz C6 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 Plan Threatens Historic Sites, Opponent Say Trump-aligned panel seeks preservation rules changes. By JULIA JACOBS For decades, from the highway home of the 1960s to the recent surge in construction of data centers, federal law has sought to protect America's historic sites from destruction or disturbance as the push for industrial development complicated efforts to preserve the country's past. At issue over the years have been burial sites dating back millionaires; surface structures that have survived a thousand years in the desert; government buildings that evoke the early days of American democracy; and plantation houses that carry the painful history of slavery. Now, a Trump-aligned panel in proposing to overhaul the regulations in ways that would speed up the review of industrial projects by limiting the input of preservationists and the public. The proposed rules received initial approval from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a federal agency, the month. If adopted, they would, according to proponents, boost the economy by, say, helping to enter the way for commercial projects such as oil and gas drilling. The changes would also, as preservationists note, aid President Trump's efforts to redesign Washington, including his plans for the National Garden of American Homes, by limiting public review. A draft of the rule changes that circulated in recent weeks prompted an outcry from preservationists, architects, archaeologists and organizations representing Native American tribes. Though officials have said the draft is still subject to feedback and revisions, lawyers for preservation groups are already preparing for legal action in the event of a major overhaul. "It's both a scalpel and a bludgeon," said Greg Meriwether, a lawyer who specializes in preservation cases. "It cuts out whole results of what we are used to in terms of historical preservation over the past 60 years." Even a gags, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which holds a seat on the council, said the new regulations would "enfuertain the preservation of our shared city and cultural heritage in the United States." During Mt. Trump's second term, preservationists have been disturbed by his efforts to transform historic sites in Washington, where a practice of embracing measured change has come up against the president's vagerness to adopt the capital to his tastes. His decision to demolish the East Wing of the White House to make room for a new ballroom was enabled by the fact that the building is exempted from the preservation law that is currently under scrutiny. "The council that will consider the rule changes for that adoption is composed largely of presidential appointees and ad minimization officials. For months, Trump-afford officials have argued for a need to cut red tape that, in their view, can needlessly delay infrastructure projects as federal agencies try to assuage the concerns of preservationists and local stakeholders. "Undertakings are too often delayed by a consultation process that has become far more demanding and complicated than what was contemplated in the stature," said © 2026 JACOBS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. JACOBS, 1976. © 2026 JACOBS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Top, Chase Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, where preservationists fear the nearby area could be opened to drilling. Above, Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, left, and a historic African burial ground found in Manhattan in 1891. Bottom, a Trump-proposed arch in Washington. Kevin Lilly, an official with the interior Department, at a meeting of the council in June. Experts say the changes would empower federal agencies to generalize projects more quickly by reducing requirements for the government to consult Native tribes and state preservationists, a process that often leads to projects being relocated or adjusted. The changes also narrow the types of historic sites that are up for discussion. For example, natural features such as mountains or landscapes, which have been factored into reviews in the past, are expressly excluded. And "visual, atmospheric or audible" consequences of projects on historic sites will no longer be part of the equation. A spokeswoman for the council declined to address the criticism from preservation groups. She pointed to comments from the council's vice chairman, Travis Vectes, who said at a public meeting in February that the goal in updating the regulations was to reinsamine them and turn them into a "continued useful tool as this country moves forward." "Characterizations of any proposal before it has even been published for public comment are premature and irresponsible," said a statement from the Interior Department, whose secretary, Doug Burgum, sits on the council. The statement said the department's goal was to "provide greater clarity, consistency, and efficiency" in the regulations, while keeping them in line with the National Historic Preservation Act, the 1968 law on which the rules are built. While the regulations are unfamiliar to most Americans, they have far decades been at the center of emotional public defiance when development threatens historic sites across the country. In the early 1990s, after early works on the construction of a federal office building in Lower Manhattan unearthed a 17th- and 18th-century burial ground for free and exclusive Africans, the regulations helped lead to the preservation of what is now the African Burial Ground National Monument. Today, few federal projects are more in public focus than Mt. Trump's plans in Washington. A host of projects proposed by the president are subject to review under the regulations as they exist, including the 250-foot arch up for approval near Arlington National Cemetery, the National Garden of American Homes planned for West Pennine Park, and a roadmap of a public golf course in East Pennine Park. Preservationists are perhaps even more concerned with the potential effects of the proposed regulations outside the spotlight of Washington. Over the years, the consultation process in the existing regulations has led to some projects being scuttled, such as a grain expert facility that was thought to be too close to historic sites such as the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, now a museum focused on the history of slavery. The regulations have not been updated for more than 20 years, and leaders of preservation groups wish them of the 23 seats on the council said they had been involved in preliminary discussions of some modest changes. They said they were shocked when they received an email last month from the vice chairman that contained a draft for a district's office in the state. "For us, it felt like a hat and switch," said Ira Klein, an executive director at the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, one of three preservation groups with whom the council. "This isn't just going to impact tribal people," he went on. "The American public at large should be concerned about this effort to evoke their history, that the ways, and how fast they're going to see data centers popping up around every corner." Mt. Trump appointed more than a third of the 23 members this year. The council includes political allies; an architect who has worked on the president's private club in Florida, Mar-a-Lago; and members of his administration, including Mr. Vectes, an official at the Environmental Protection Agency. After the draft rules were approved by a vote of the council, they were sent to the Office of Management and Budget for analyses, continuing a review process that could last weeks or months. The cultural site that preservationists often point to as being among the most likely to be affected by the rule changes is a vast stretch of land in the Southwest, known as Chase Canyon, that is home to thousands of archaeologists who associated with Pueblo, Navajo and other groups. At its center is a national park with stone and earthen structures dating back more than a thousand years. In recent months, the land has become a flashpoint in the battle between preservationists and the Trump administration's push for oil and gas drilling, an official consider revolving a ban on resource extraction in a 18-mile zone surrounding the park. Past three, an archaeologist who has worked at Chase for years, said the new regulations would make it easier for drilling trisers to be granted on the land surrounding the park, threatening the beauty of a landscape that is considered by many to be a precious cultural resource. The foes, he said, is that landscapes that are now protected will soon be dated with drilling tips. "We have to have oil and gas development, obviously," he said, "but we don't have to have it on America's most amazing landscapes." Emily Badger contributed reporting. Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours The volunteer program had operated at the institution since its opening, in 1971. By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON WASHINGTON — The JAm E Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is ongoing free public tours of the center, which had been a mainstay of the cultural institution for more than five decades, according to an internal memo. In a memo viewed by the The New York Times, Brooke Boeke, the director of the volunteer program, said the center was putting a "temporary pause" on the tour program, effective Friday (volunteers serve in a variety of roles at the Kennedy Center, but only tour guides were mentioned, instructed to stop reporting for duty "until further notice.") The center did not provide a reason for halting the tour program; it has operated continuously since the center's opening in 2015, except for a one-year hiatus during the Covid-19 pandemic. The outing of the tour centers after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a New York Times article detailing President Trump's getting of the same cultural institution. Before the memo was circulated in Thursday, three volunteers had expressed worries in a reporter that the Kennedy Center would target the tour program in celebration. Ms. Boeke sent the memo to the full volunteer corps. She copied the Kennedy Center's director, Matt Florio; Karlen Jackson, the center's director of security; and two volunteer program managers. None of them responded to emailed requests for comment. Reached by phone, Ms. Boeke asked, "How did you find out?" before declining to give further comment. "We are conducting a review of compassionate tour events to ensure they provide the best possible experience for our visitors," a Kennedy Center spokesman, E1.83 said, said in an emailed comment. Sandy Weinwasser, E1, a retired teacher and volunteer who has been guiding the stars through the center for 18 years, was profiled in a Times article on the center, published in Monday. "This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded," Ms. Weinwasser was quoted as saying. "Now it's a black hole." Reached on Thursday, she declined to comment. Last year, Mt. Trump removed the Kennedy Center's leadership, cut its programming and installed a handpicked board that had his name drilled into the front of the building. A court ordered the name removed last month. Additionally, distributors and visitors have filed from the center, which has lost about 90 percent of its staff and, for now, 100 percent of its paying audience. The president has said he is seeking to re-irrigurate the center, which he has por- JACOBS, 1976. © 2026 JACOBS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The Kennedy Center in Washington in June. toured as languishing under previous administration and policies promoting diversity. Next month, the Kennedy Center board is expected to decide whether to close the center for a two-year reservation, as Mt. Trump wants. Ms. Weinwasser and a few dozen other volunteer guides had continued to show up, out of love for the institution that they say has returned life for those and enlisted in the center. Ms. Weinwasser had seen been among 140 volunteer guides who gave tours in 10 languages to up to 400,000 people a year. Last week on her Monday shift, only five of more than a dozen tour guides showed up. In a recent Times article, a guide lamented the changes at the institution. THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 C7 Her Lighthearted Diversion Draws Readers Beth Brower is behind the Emma M. Lion series, and many fans can't get enough. By COURTNEY RUNN (in Nov. 1, 2026, the first two volumes of "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion" quietly entered the world. The books were a departure from Beth Brower's typical fantasy novels, instead following the day-to-day adventures and musings of a witty, literary-minded orphan on the coup of adulthood in a fictional London neighborhood in 1863. Brower had indeed London only once, but she could chiefly see Emma's world in her head — quirky neighbors, whimsical traditions, fantastical balls, cozy tea shops and unexplainable happenings of the ghostly variety. Think "Udoune Girls" in Victorian England. Posting an announcement on Instagram to a smattering of congratulatory comments was the extent of Brower's marketing, but she trusted the right readers would find the books. Seven years and six volumes later, the fans have indeed found Emma, and they are obsessed. "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion" was meant to be a lighthearted diversion as Brower made progress on emotionally learned work. Instead, it's propelled her to self-publishing taste and, recently, more traditional deals with Bloomsbury Publishing in Britain and IT other international publishers. (She hasn't signed with an American publisher, and in fact turned down a promising offer, though she describes herself as still open.) The first volume has garnered more than 100,000 reviews on Goodreads. Facebook groups and headquarters chairs out new Ear-Smokes daily, if not hourly. And Brower is now regularly recognized in Orem, Utah, where she lives. On a recent outing, she turned to her husband with an unusual apology after one such encounter. "I'm afraid," she recalled in a 2mm conversation, "we're going to spend the rest of our lives talking about Emma." Orem is where Brower, 43, also grew up, the fifth of IT siblings. Surrounded by art, music, sports and books in a creativity to climat family, she narrated a rich inner life and the ability to write in any environment. It was always a matter of when, not if, she would publish her first novel. She romanticized the traditional publishing path, but rejection letters forced her to examine the drive behind her dream: so be in every bookstore or to find readers who connected with her work? She chose the readers, founding Physique Press in 2016. She turned to her entrepreneurial family, being her sister to still and her brother-in-law to design book covers. The learning curve was steep but rewarding; she could control every element of the work, including the typeset that she meticulously laid out withmathbb. "Much like the British sisters had each other, and Virginia Woolf had her sister, I have a lot of talented siblings," she said. Brower has self-published 22 novels since 2016. She attempts to catalog her viral imagination in a "previous most of more and needbooks," storing snippets of plots until they emerge in her work years later. The word-of-mouth success of the Emma Lion books is largely thanks to the instantly likable heroism. Emma might share the sunny wonder of Anne Shirley, but her wit and modernity are pure Elizabeth Bremer. "I aimed to running counter to most social graces," Emma explains in the second volume. "I have been accused of throwing a trugue before, as you will no doubt hear before too long." Brower joins the books like a long-running television show; each volume spun two months in Emma's life and each calendar year represents a "season." Book 9 is scheduled this year, with fans stalking every digital move he faces of when it might drop. The books are the first series, and the first self-published works, that Alexis Kinchikovic, the head of Bloomsbury Trials, has inspired. "As a publisher, I like complex female characters," she said, and the "true originality of imagination" and spew on capture of the "London spirit" made it an easy gamble, she added. Lady Smith, a inventor of the independent bookstore, lived on the Wall, in Huntsville, Ala., first stocked the series in January after a customer's request. Now, she restocks weekly and says they've said almost 100 copies of the first volume — making it one of their best sellers. Yet in an invented corner of London called St. Crispacts, the books might be wrapped in an unassuming package of telegraphic charns, but readers appreciate that The afraid we're going to spend the rest of our lives talking about Emma. BRIAN SEIBERT | DANCE REVIEW Brower isn't afraid to explore the darker edges of her characters. In Book 5, Young Hawkes, an unorthodox vicar more likely to spare poverty than Scripps law from the jangle, offers a challenge to Emma as she's starting lower grief on the brink of a new year. "It takes a great deal to trust the future after one is acquainted with him." This sentiment was a welcome balm in Terri Foster, a 27-year-old reader in Chandler, Ind., who turned to the Emma Lion books the day after a miscarriage. A friend had begged her to read them the previous year, even altering up her own Kindle Foster, a chance lover who majored in English, knew she could trust Brower when she spotted a Hilton reference in the first book. When she lost her daughter Ophelia, the world of the series was a side refuge where she felt deeply understood. "Emma gave me a friend I didn't have to ask back to," Foster said. "It's so much more than just a book." Brower deeply appreciates the order of her fans, but she's constructed strict boundaries around St. Crispact and its success — she is not lacking an double threads for girl suggestions. She confirms the series will contain 25 books in total, chronishing Emma's life through 1867. Louise Page lives in McDonough, Ga., and hasn't taken the books from friends or church. "I'm a 35-year-old man, married, father of me, and I refuse," he said. He recommended them to his 40-year-old grand-mother, who read the entire series in three weeks and jokes that she hopes she'll live long enough to see it in completion. Page and his grandmother aren't an anomaly. The series looks to have broad appeal: it has enough literary merit to please self-proclaimed book under, it resists explicit scenes driving other final-life sensations while still giving resources less holiper for endgame predictions; and it features nuanced spiritual strategy yet doesn't alienate nonreligious readers or veer into saccharine territory. (For fans who speculate that Emma's considerations are inaccurately modern, Brower has a simple rebuttal: "There's quite a lot of interesting behavior happening in England in the 1960s.") While Brower insists that Emma is not autobiographical, the balance of realism and optimism that attracts readers to the Beth Brower, who has self-published for a decade, has released eight books in the Emma M. Lion series, and is planning a total of 25 Lets, the British editions of the series, which were published on Thursday. character is rooted in the author's own disreaction. In college, Brower discovered a talent for gardening: She enjoyed her newfound hobby so much that she became a professional, spending seven years as the head gardener at Kivendell, a "Lord of the Rings"-inspired estate outside Park City, Utah, until chronic illness forced her to learn. "We have to be brave enough to encounter the dark things," she said. "Having hope or faith in life requires grit. It requires being honest about the shadows one encounters." Now in better health, Brower enjoys a more consistent writing schedule and the capacity to travel to London. The Bloomsbury editions came out to Britain on Thursday: with them came her first traditional book launch. (She said she's delighted by her second book series, designed by David Mann, which look like "2mm editions of a classic 1960s novel.") She's been meeting and sharing meals with her British and French publishers. In 2014, she took steps to Praz, the French retail chain, to purchase her own books — "a moment of triumph for me and my characters," she said by telephone, "and I wanted to share it with them." She returned to London for publication day. "I spent a lovely morning popping into bookytops and signing books, followed by lunch at a role and a guest through a favorite art museum," she reported by one. "As for the rest of the day? Whitney will dictate." BRIAN SEIBERT | DANCE REVIEW Moving to the (Disjointed) Sounds of Philly Soul The premiere of a dance of civic pride by Rennie Harris comes across as oddly muffled. THEY CALLED IT orchestral soul or Philly Soul or simply the Sound of Philadelphia. An irresistible groove on a bed of lush strings, a sweet spot between Minstrel and disco. "In Philly, Love, Rennie," a new work by Rennie Harris, one of Philadelphia's finest choreographers, seems intended as a celebration of that sound. But it's oddly muffled. For this dance, which Philadanos' do-hood at the Joyce Theater in New York on Philadanos' Through Sunday at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan, joyous avg. Wednesday, Harris's usual collaborator, Darriot, Ross, has sampled seven-known tracks by the Cityers, yet only in part, in part of "Message in Our Music", "Put Your Hands Together" and "A Prayer" final over and under distortion and drum patterns that edge closer to house music. Harris's choreography is similarly muddy. It draws on his familiar device of slow-motion stage crossings that periodically evap less intricate footwork, signs of an unscrupulous spirit in oppressive conditions. Those eruptions are thrilling, as an unbelievable into West African stage or funk-style locking. Yet the Philadanos' dancers, a little sleepy or stiff in spots, haven't fully settled into the style, and the piece — part of a larger project set to premiere in Philadelphia in December — feels provisional. Curiously, another work on the program, "Promise Me You Won't Call" (2025), char- engraphed by Terence Wolmed Evans, also uses songs of Philadelphia International Records without letting us hear these clearly. The voice of Patti LaBelle is unmistakable in searches of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and her ballad of unrequited Rennie Harris's "In Philly Love, Rennie," with from left, Alison Big, Bill Moore, Kaylah Arbife and Nathan McNair Jr. love "If Only You Knew," but it's isolated in a void. Amid gratuitously fancy lighting (by Nick Kahn), the over-gold dancers show off their hailer technique and some agglomerating tricks, versus diminished by the choreography's disophronence. That's less of a problem in Young Years' "Without Witness," with its standard mixtape score, yet what the stronger scaffolding suggests is growing — contemporary today's administrative from dozens of others. The contention and capable Philadanos' dancers are best served by the oldest work on the program, Christopher Huggins's "Funny Behind the Braves," a complete couple from 2002. It's much more coherent than the other dances, and it's no coincidence that it honors and maintains the structure of its classic parts of Steve Reich's "The Four Sections." Making the most of that music's drive and urgency, Huggins stages a married display of accelerating energy that builds to a stage-filling finish. It was a crowd-pleaser nearly 25 years ago, and it remains one. C8 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 HOUMAN BARCLAY | CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK From left, Sophie Nolan, Andy Rush, Amber Gadd and Julian Moore-Cock in "The Cherry Orchard," with a set by Anna Fletschle. A Return to Where It All Began More than 40 years after ha debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Kenneth Branagh is back. STARTPIRM-UPON-JOHN, ENGLAND — Kenneth Branagh was 23 when he first read the boards at the Royal Shakespeare Company, 40's home store, in the title role for a fifth production of "Henry V." After a three-year stint at the company, he directed and starred in a major screen adaptation of the same play, which earned him two Oscar nominations and made him a household name. Over four decades on from his debut, Branagh is back in Stratford-upon-John, performing in two back-to-back jendles, some of Outdoor and Shakespeare choices, both of which contain themes that subtly resonate with his own K-LC story. "The Cherry Orchard," which opened last week, tells of happenstings and departures, of a series of bound up in place with the favourable search of time. In a new in-organization of Outdoor's piece by the play-wright Laura Wade — directed by Tamara Harvey and running Branagh Aug 28 — Branagh plays the self-made entrepreneur Lepaldon, who visits the estate on which his father had tailed as a wet and urges its elder-children owner, Madame Ranyevskaya (Deion Point), to cash in her asset to store the financial won. She is back at the family seat after five years in first and is one-dreamly sentimental to entertain Lepaldon's suggestion of soaring down her beloved orchard and building daches in its place. As she widows in nostalgia, he terwylz implores her: "Think on it!" Refitting the theme of many revisited Branagh plays Lepaldon with the thick indulgence and scenes of his own childhood in working-class Belfast. (Branagh and his family moved to England when he was 8 and he subsequently adopted an English career.) If his Lepaldon comes across more like a concerned bank manager than a capuchon-whackie-dealer, that's so bad thing. His genuine care goes beyond self-interest and meets Outdoor's stipulation (in a 1960 letter to the Russian theater director Konstantin Stanislavsky) that the character should be "a decent person in every sense." Lepaldon might be an acquainted merchant, but he is also — in this scenario at least — a voice of reason. That's because Ranyevskaya and her entourage are in trouble. They are trying, with poignant hobby, to halt non-ever dignity to straitened circumstances, quickly conveyed by the的方法 of the world. The best of these Fletschle's set. Their professionalism is delicately rendered by a capable cast. Standouts include Bill Pullman as Ranyevskaya's stifly verliese and everybody's dressed brother, Carer (when he declares that he has "eaten Branagh my whole fortune in seven)," we can believe here. Guy Kratzy (Volskoda, in 2002, genial younger who wouldn't be out of place in a 20), Waldsauer, more, and Michael Dreyts nails the disliking pathos of the aged servant Dry, who thinks the masterpieces of the early war's story is all went wrong for Russian society. Collectively, there is something of the madhouse about them. So it's ultimately for the best when a champagne-drank Lujan (the Valadise storage in the state) climacteric scene and announces, with his Belfast secret further blackened its patriotism that the orchard has been sold at auction. Asked who bought it, he offers a shoveling reply that is both triumphant and graciously sheepish: "Aryty doll!" For most of these characters, the play's ending represents the chance of a fresh start. In this, as in Lepaldon's true front-treasury to prominence, we use echoes of Branagh's early career. In his 1991 memoir, "Beginning," he recalls ranching his fourth-ern Irish decline to make it in the acting world, and unpacks the reunion that he has to leave the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1991. His time in Stratford was predominantly formative, but really. Branagh tangled with the management over work-bank and pay, and eventually felt that he had to move on to that. That decisions seems to have paid off, and Branagh returned to the company this summer as a knight of the realm. There was in- Above, from top: Helen Hunt as Madame Ranyevskaya and Branagh as Lepaldon in "The Cherry Orchard"; from left, Hally Brown, Fred Branagh Evans, Ricky Stokes and Nicole Denton in "The Tempers", and Branagh as Prospects, also in "The Tempers." dend a screen, almost stately quality to his pericycled of the magon Prospects in "The Tempers," which enjoyed a five-week run before "The Cherry Orchard" opened. It what was Branagh's last appearance on a Royal Shakespeare Company stage since playing Hamlet there in 1992-93, for took the stage in a magician's cape, produced a master's wand and presented an conduct the move that opens the play, scattering a gaggle of shipwrecked nobles and royale onto Prospect's enchanted island. Here, as in "The Cherry Orchard," Branagh's character was the agent of change, Prospects has mastery over the island and its residents: the airborne spirit Ariel (Amara (Hermès), his endowed servant, Calline (Aisley (Sangados), and his daughter Miranda (Rally Stokes)). But for wealth influence with a magnanimity that is both self-positioned and benign. When Miranda, waiting from a chamber, complains of "murshorts," Branagh giggled his legs, as he playfully urged her to "abate it off!" It was a rare moment of abandon in a stabbably restrained performance. If the acting in this production, directed by Richard Eyre, was conspicuously understood — to the point of losing almost his-tomino at times — it was offset by sound and visuals, with a gorgeous orange and blue set by their chubby, evoking, low and sea, and costumes by Feline Denton. Anatolias of music from traditional Nour African instruments hinted at punctuated slitgery, as did the next absence of savagery in Zhangando's Edition, who had been menace of suburban accountant. The show grew fast back his harassing event before Prospects set him and Axel free in an elegantly rendered closing scene. Branagh got on the times to romance Prospects' "rough magic," before snapping his conductors' home in half, moving up his silver music and taking his leave. The backdrop did away to reveal her backstage area, and she spent two weeks. "The Tempers" was Shakespeare's final play, as "The Cherry Orchard" was "De-Livo's". Autopposed like this, their elegiac qualities are all the more resonate, so it's tempting to see the complex event in the old sweeping ground as a sentimental last hurrah. But he is only 65 — and on this evidence, he is far from done. JOSHUA BARONE | CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK Film's Haunting Tune Has Ancient Roots The soundtrack for "The Odyssey" employs a very old instrument. SINCE SEEN'S Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of "The Odyssey" this summer, I haven't been able to get one moment out of my head. It's a famous scene: Odysseus, warned of the sirens and their brutality alluring song, has his own stuff their own with wax for protection. But he wants to hear the music, so he has the crew he hits in the ship's main. The sound, he uses flash out, is a beautiful torment. Nolan offers only a distant glimpse of the sirens, and he does it! give away a state of their music. Instead, as the men row and their leader screams at the nose, you hear a family Göransson's sound-track: a ready tone of singing and sorrow that makes you shady, briefly but profoundly, Odysseus's things so he hears the sirens. On 7/6/56, fans have posted general clips of the scene and a moment's break, when text like: "This sound won't leave my head." "This was the most beautiful thing ever" and "I cannot stop thinking about the siren sequence." People have already covered it on their guitars and their pianos, their English horns and their snow-phones. Homer doesn't say much about the same sound of the sirens, aside from descriptions of their song as "Innocent" and "subductions," in Emily Wilson's translation. Odysseus says he "staged to listen to more," but he doesn't give in, remaining lied to the most until the ship passes through. Nolan makes the scene more dramatically exposed, a reflection at Odyssey's mesonodyness, his gold over the sacking of Trey and his long recovery from the war. Asked what the siren song was, he answers: All the things you want it to be. Then, all the things you wish you had never wished yet. It was the delicious rich you go to scratch but Zack's's under the slim, you can't reach it. So the delicious rich becomes authentic. Did you what you most want it what you need can't have. And what you most can't have is what you already had, and but. For most of the movie, Göransson's music is metallic, he has said in interviews that he and Nolan didn't want on a trade- al depiction, is a piece of ancient Greek art, of an ashe being played, making Göransson's soundtrack for "The Odyssey" sure it said a tyre. Sexual orchestra, so he assembled a chorus of gossip that are heard both acoustically and abstracted through synthesizers, making an earthy sound when worldly. He occasionally brings in other features, too, like the plucking of a tyre for a motif associated with Odysseus' bow and, in the siren scene, an ancient road instrument called an ashe. The ashes appears throughout Greek art, depicted in military and domestic scenes alike. To modern eyes it looks like two recorders that come together at a A melody with just four notes, but it proves so simple, and so sad. Gloryn's mouth, blown at the same time. Its construction allowed Göransson to use one pipe for a dressing pedal tone, and the other for melody. That melody is just four notes: two that result up, as it's morning, and two that fail, and a collapse. It's so simple and so sad. Together, the melody and the pedal tone form a series of interplay, both with their own means. The sound is classical music. The first is known as a minor sixth interval, which sets a beautiful tone followed by a second interval, whose sound is brightly and harshly dissonant. Then, he brings the melodic line up, joining again, but in what is called a fifth interval, which is consistent but not necessarily harmonious, only to fall in a note in utious with the pedal tone. The phrase repeats, over and over, its harmonic tension becoming the rich under your skin that Odysseus describes. Göransson's music for this scene never truly resolves. It's unsatisfying yet endlessly tantalizing, its own kind of siren song. 82-Year-Old Folk Singer Forst Safford Cave Facility Linda Perhacs had been treated for dementia and was reported missing. By NAGIA MINOWE Linda Perhacs, the esteemed folk musician who had been reported missing, has been located and is safe, the authorities confirmed on Thursday. Friends of the 82-year-old singer-songwriter said this week that they were unable to contact her or her legal guardian since her discharge eight months ago from a rare facility in Northcliffe, Calif., and that a 1971 was later sent adult protective services. On Thursday, days after a call-out on social media, Laurel Stearns, Perhacs's former manager said he is statement that Perhacs had been found. "We extend our sincere thanks to everyone who helped amplify this effort by sharing information, coaching and other support and for pressing genuine care for Linda's well-being," Stearns said in the statement. It continued: "We ask that Linda's privacy be respected as those close to her determine the best way to protect the legal guardian. I must allow her companion, hearing and continued support for an active whose work has touched so many lives." The statement went on to thank the authorities and members of the music community who worked to ensure Perhacs was found safely. Officer Charles Miller, a publicman for the Los Angeles Police Department, confirmed Perhacs's well-being and safety, and said a missing-person report had been filed and was received Wednesday. In the late 1950s, Perhacs was working at a dental hygienist in Los Angeles and experimenting with songwriting on the side when Linda Perhacs in 2014. Her first album, "Parallelograms," received 100x attention in 1970 but enjoyed a champagne-dressing band. one of her patients, the acclaimed composer Leonard Rosenman, helped start her career. The first album, "Parallelograms," in 1975, in little commercial success, but her following grew in the late 1980s and early 2000s when there was a complete 10-minute at that record and several reissues. The released her second album, "The World of All Natural Things," in 2014, and a third, "I'm a Harnessy Man". This week, Fernando Perdomo, also worked as a co-producer on Perhacs's last two albums, posted a dance delivery video to social media at the music university on an attempt to contact the musician six weeks ago. In the video, Perdomo said he had learned that she had been moved but had been unable to reach the "next of the." He later clarified by email that he was referring to Perhacs's legal guardian as a relative. Perhacs was being treated for dementia and was also healthy in Northcliffe, in Los Angeles County. She is now residing in a new new facility according to a most shared to Perhacs's social media page and by her friends. "The community really came together to ensure Linda's well-being!" the post read. THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 9 C9 Travel Afraid of Heights? Cross a Chasm Anyway. For a jittery biker, an 'iron path' tour on the cliffs of a gorge in the Adirondacks was a rugged means to an end. By CHRIS HOPFENSTEEL I stood perched on a ledge, a river charming scene 20 feet below and a line of people waiting at my back. A suspension bridge with three cables, one for my feet and two for my hands, stretched across the chasm like a tightrope. A tremor was already creeping up my legs, and I had nowhere to go but forward. Like everyone on the tour of Ausable Chasm, a gorge carved into the Adirondacks in upstate New York, I were a barren to catch me if I fell. Maybe it would save my life, but it didn't do much to ease my anxiety. We were following a via ferrata (Italian for "iron path") that zigzagged across the gorge and took us high onto its unanimous walls, clinging to metal rungs, unclipping and reclipping the two safety lines on our barrenness. This exhilarating route was, admittedly, a bizarre chasm for someone like me, who struggles with a paralyzing fear of heights. But that was precisely why I was standing before this swaying tightrope bridge. The via ferrata tour was just the latest round in my yearating regimen of self-directed exposure therapy, which had already taken me onto scary rock scrambles and exposed summits across the Adirondacks, in an attempt to cure my scramblitis. "Don't lead me to my death," joked the woman behind me as I stoned the cable's glow. "I'll do my best," I said. Another step took me past the ledge, leaving nothing but open air and crashing white water below. A Natural Next Step Some Kirshogaard, the 10th-century Danish philosopher and father of existentialism, saw in the fear of heights a metaphor for all human anxiety. Standing at a precipice, Kirshogaard imagined, a person becomes instantly and acutely aware of their power to jump — and with it, the dizzying breadth of human freedom. I can't say that heights have ever granted me such an epiphany. But I knew that something has always drawn me toward these, despite my trepidation. It was through hiking that I began to test the limits of that attraction. I fell in love with hiking while I was living in Albany, N.Y., a gateway city to the peaks and cliffs of the Adirondacks. There, I gradually probed the limits of my fear, pushing myself closer to the edges of mountaintop overlooks, and then seeking out increasingly challenging routes that tested both my footing and my nerve. It turns on there's science behind that approach. Incremental exposure therapy remains the gold standard for treating the fear of heights, and Dorothée Bentz, a choral psychologist and researcher at the University of Basel in Switzerland. "If people are treated, there's a suspension rate of about 90 percent," Dr. Bentz said. "But people have to engage," she added, "and that means you have to expose yourself." A via ferrata seemed like the natural next step in that process. Despite their dramatic vertical settings, via ferratas are, in terms of technical difficulty, not that far removed from a playground people gym. Children are interested in along the entire route, keeping at least one curbitour clipped to the safety cable at all times. Though the danger is limited, the Seeking challenging routes that tested both footing and nerve. exposure is not — exactly the type of challenge I was seeking. Modern via ferratas were largely a product of World War I, developed as a make-skill system to move troops through the Dolomites as the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies fought over the peaks. In time, those early installations would be refined into recreational-limbing routes, featuring metal rungs and hanging bridges. From the sign they spread worldwide, allowing thrill smokers everywhere to navigate sheer cliff faces and deep canyons. Though via ferratas have flourished in the United States in recent years, options near New York City remain limited for the casual day biker on a budget. The Adven- Hiking along the Adventure Tour in upstate New York, where participants crossed a bridge suspended over a gorge carved into the Adirondacks, top: climbed a cargo net, above; and scrambled along ledges and metal rungs, left. ture Trail at Ausable Chasm, a privately owned attraction just made of Hutchough, N.Y., was both inexpensive (about $20 for entry to the chasm, $45 for the via ferrata) and approachable. Clipped In I drove up to the Adirondacks in late May, a few weeks ahead of peak tourist season, and headed to the chasm early the next morning to book a slot on the via ferrata. The nearby 90-minute gruled tours, and first came first served, and the property's main home were in their can book up fast. Looking down from the rim of the gorge, I got my first glimpse of the via ferrata. I saw that cable bridges over the river, stretches of rock ledges and metal rungs between them, here, I thought, I could manage that. A half-hour later, our 42-year-old guide, Colby Walker, was showing my roughly 12-person one group how to clip and incite our barreness around obstructions, always keeping one secured to the safety cable that ran the length of the course. I moved up at the front of the line, ahead of drive broads in their early 20s — Kathryn Patton, Jacqueline LaFres and Mary Froehnhall — to move for a wedding. We climbed a cargo net from the chasm floor up to a ledge, and I was the first to follow Colby onto the initial bridge. Out over the drop, I began thinking in fractions: just get a quarter of the way across, now half, now two-thirds... My stomach dropped each time my barrens hit an obstacle, and I needed to enhance my curbitours to the next stretch of open cable, leaving me momentarily frozen. Mac Wilin, a researcher at Ludwig Busch-Italian University Hospital in Munich who has studied the fear of heights, later explained my reaction this way: 'Improved of the nearby visual reference points that it evoke on a natural balance, my brain turned that my body was unstable. My body responded in kind. But with Colby and Kathryn's encourage- ment, I finally conquered Zenit's paradox — the nation that if you do something in frontiers, you'll never reach the end — and made it to the other side, dismounting (another stomach drop) onto a set of metal rungs that succumbed to anyone bridge. Another high-wire river crossing awaited. This one was more forgiving, with three metal cables underlined instead of one. To soothe my nerves, I chatted with Kathryn, Jacqueline and Mary, inevitably, we discussed our feelings about heights. Kathryn loved them, she said. So did Mary, Jacqueline, not so much. It turned our Jacqueline and I had both taken the same approach to exposure therapy, albeit in different parts of the country. She lives in Utah, and tested herself first in the state's national parks. But even conquering Angelo Landing in Zion National Park, one of the country's most nerve-racking bikes, hadn't been enough to defeat her anxiety. "I'm not so scared of heights as I used to be," she said. "But it's still not comfortable." The Big Proof Now, another cable bridge — this one with wooden planks opened for enough apart to pass a challenge — led us back across the chasm. The section that followed was the longest of the route: a stretch of narrow platforms and metal rungs anchored high on the rock wall between us and the final bridge. Many worked down from the layers of sandstone above. The slick handbushs fueled my anxiety, and for a second time that day, I wave of nerve from me in place. I pushed it down and forced myself to inch along. Eventually, I reached the last cable bridge, the highest of the crossings, sloping down from about 85 feet above the river. I had to make an awkward push from the metal rungs onto the bridge's first plank, a final jaw-clenching challenge. But as I seared the bridge's midpoint, I noticed something strange: My legs fell steady. I didn't feel compelled, as before, to scramble to the next patch of stable ground. I stopped and took a deep breath. Yes, my hands still being tight to the cables, but I felt almost at ease. Later, safely back to my Brooklyn apartment, I told Dr. Bentz about my moments of panic on the course, and the peace that followed. Could any amount of exposure therapy, I wondered, ever fully hadn't the turnout? Maybe not. Dr. Bentz explained that exposure therapy isn't necessarily about eliminating a heat, but learning you're capable of keeping ahead despite it. And through repeated exposure — pushing past the mental barrier posed by fear, again and again — you can meaningfully blunt the anxiety response. "It's not like you learned it and your brain is reprogrammed," she said. "It's more like the brain learns something new." In other words: Courage-saken practice. I thought back to that moment of near-activity, standing in the middle of the final bridge. I've the first time, I could really not pass my own feet and appreciate the way my shadow stood backlit against the froth-fed scout future. Like Kirshogaard's man at the precipice, I'd fared the dizzying prospect of my own freedom: the chaos to turn back or stop out over the void, and in doing so, to keep pushing the boundaries of my fear. C10 11 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 Where the Hustle and Bustle Take a Break Just in time for the long, hot days of midsummer, botanical gardens across the United States are extending their hours and unveiling new art installations, light shows and educational displays to help city dwellers find a little shade and get a dose of nature. Here are some of our favorite botanical gardens in six U.S. cities. Each of these gardens is largely accessible for strollers and people using wheelchairs, though steep or rocky terrain in some areas may limit access. Be sure to check ticket options carefully — many gardens offer discounts for students, seniors, locals and other categories of visitors. GARE-CASTRO-BOOT Visitors to the Portland Japanese Garden can explore different types of styles over its 12.5-acres. PORTLAND, ORE Portland Japanese Garden Portland may be known as the City of Rosen, but its lush and immaculately landscaped Japanese Garden gives that indication a run for the money (adults, $12.50). Explore homes, bridges, ponds and pagodas at the 12.5-acre garden, which overlooks the city from a hillside perch were of downtown. Check out the garden's trio tracker in see when those purple and white beauties are blooming (usually late June). The Flat Garden and Sand and Stone Garden, both examples of the kaensamui — or dry landscape — style, pair neatly raked stones and pebbles with manicured shrubbery, trees and other plants. Sip a cup of tea and have a sweet treat at the cafe. On a clear day, visitors can take in roasting views of Mount Hood, Oregon's highest peak, 50 miles east. And to case you find yourself still dreaming of roses, the free International Rose Test Garden, next door, is home to more than 10,000 rose bushes that bloom between May and October. Expanding some 244 acres, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin is also a research hub. AUSTIN, TEXAS Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center As the official state botanical garden and arboretum of Texas, the 264-acre Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, in Austin, features nearly 900 species of native plants (US Ministry to Thursday, 8th Friday to Sunday). Meandering paths bring visitors through separate gardens planted with Hill Country and West Texas flora. Many of the more than 50 species of oak trees native to Texas — the most of any state — are on display in a 16-acre arboretum, too. The Wildflower Center, part of the University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences, is also a hub for research. Its Hill Country Trails area is a vexing ground for prescribed barns and mowing practices that can help support native plant growth. For those who need a break from the Texas boat, the garden is hosting “Ice Age in the Wild,” an exhibition showcasing the era's giant mammals, including a 17,500-pound woolly mammoth, through Aug. 15. The Kampong, created by David Fairchild, sits on eight acres in the Cooscar Grove neighborhood of Miami. MIAMI The Kampong One of five National Tropical Botanical Gardens in the United States (the other four are in Hawaii), the Kampong (K7) brine with orchids, fruit trees and mangroves along the edge of Boujane Bay in the Cooscar Grove neighborhood of Miami. Pinococks roam through the garden, their striking plumage often on display. This eight-acre jewel box of a garden was created by the famed botanist David Fairchild, who named it after villages he encountered in Malaysia. Dr. Fairchild is credited with introducing thousands of crops, including kale, mangues, avocados and surfactors, in U.S. farmers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The garden periodically offers group activities like all-levels yoga and embroidery classes among the trees for an additional fee. Plants at the Desert Botanical Garden, in Phoenix, range from saguaros and other cartoons to delicate wildflowers. PHOENIX Desert Botanical Garden The sun-haked Desert Botanical Garden, in Phoenix, is home to towering saguaris cartoons and delicate wildflowers having from a wide array of desert habitats (539 sedites). The garden's extended summertime hours — 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. through the end of September — offer a welcome respite from the store-dangerous holiday boat. The garden hosts 7 a.m. yoga classes on Wednes- days (520) and a light show nightly after 6 p.m. (Included with admission). Watch for butterflies, haemotrigbirds and other desert wildlife along the garden's nature trails, which close from 1 to 5 p.m. in July and August, when temperatures regularly exceed 100 degrees. The Climacron, which houses 1,000 tropical species, stands out at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS Missouri Botanical Garden The Missouri Botanical Garden brings plants and gardening traditions from places as far afield as Bavaria, Japan and the Ottoman Empire to a 79-acre mark in St. Louis (150 for nonresidents). But its conveyance is the 63-year-old Climacron, a 70-foot old gasoline show that houses 1,600 tropical plant species. Among them is the double coconut, the world's largest known species of seed — specimens can weigh more than 50 pounds and be more than a foot long. The dome is hot and humid, but you'll quickly dry off at the nearby Shoulderg Acid House, which displays cartoons and succulents. The garden hosted free outdoor concerts on Wednesday evenings through the end of July. “Patterns in Nature: Light/Grass,” an illuminated exhibition showcasing naturally occurring geometries, is on view Thursday to Saturday evenings through Aug. 29. “Flower Power” (2026), above, Anie Jacobsen's exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. NEW YORK CITY New York Botanical Garden and Brooklyn Botanic Garden Stroll through wetlands and goes up at towering coasters right in the middle of the Bronx at the New York Botanical Garden (535 weekdays, 839 on weekends), a sprawling 250-acre complex of thousands of plant species and dozens of distinct gardens showcasing growers' lives around the world. “Flower Power” (above), a 1960s-flamed exhibition exploring “the enduring symbolism of flowers as icons of peace and love,” is on view through Oct. 18 and included with admission. Just a subway ride across the city, the 52-acre Brooklyn Botanic Garden (812 at the gate) punches above its weight. Smelling and touching the flowers is encouraged at the fragrance garden, which was designed to help people with visual impairments but is open to anyone. Don't miss the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, built in 1915, and its carp-filled pond. THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 3 C11 36 HOURS OREGON COAST The Oregon Coast is not a bikini bench vacation. Instead, park your curioist flannel and plan for moody skies and weather-beaten cliffs — and, if you do want to go in the water, a wetout. But for those who can handle its brooding nature, with mist-crowned lighthouses and summer highs that just skirt the 60s, this stretch of seashore pays dividends. Its small towns, early bedtiness and restaurant hostesses who still handwrite your party's name on actual paper offer something of a time capsule — which, in this era of doornacrolling, is exactly what many of us are craving. Epic beauty and an abundance of caught-this-morning seafood don't hurt, either. While the entire coastline is stunning, a loop on the north end of the state makes an easy trip from Portland: abundant without feeling rushed. JAMES CATSONICK Friday 2 P.M. | LOOK DOWN FROM ON RIGID Get oriented with sweeping views from the top of the Astoria Colones (parking, $10) where you can see the convergence of the many waterways that surrounds sports — namely the Columbia River, the Young's River and the Pacific Ocean. Celebrating its continental film year, the 123-foot Columbia exterior truce depicts a notably limited history. Indigenous perspectives are largely overlooked in favor of Capt. Robert Gray's 1792 "Discovery" of the Columbia River and the 1897 arrival of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. But last month, the park unveiled a new interpretation panel in honor of York, the sole Black man rendered by the members of the Corps of Discovery. After climbing the 161 spiral steps to the top, you can time-honored tradition of launching a wooden glider (10 spires at the gift shop). 3:30 P.M. | GO FROM PAST TO NOW Along the Astoria Riverwalk, ghostly stubs of pilings evoke the long-abundance pierc that once supported the town's saltuate causing industry. To circumvent the street's marshy tidal flats and steep hills, Astoria's commercial heart was built over the water before a 1812 fire turned much of it to ash. Today, some shops and restaurants remain on stilts. But a few blocks from the water-landborne stores broken along Marine Drive and Commercial Street (8x8). Whether offers remain encouraging activities, its outspender dresses in sizes up to 101, call designed and made in beauty. Coolidge's Books & Express Bar features sections on base-ring and sea stories; and Nonឈ្មោះ Magic, opened last October, stocks local art, candles and other ritual wares, in addition to hosting full-mean circles — think guided meditation and journal prompts — and other New Age events. 6:30 P.M. | FEAST ON FISH AND PASTS The old-school curioists Fedir doesn't take reservations, so you'll want to get your name down early. But it's worth the way for dishes that highlight local seafood and fresh pasta that's sledhouse enough to stlaw even in the steppier preparations. She spaghetti with garlic oil (315) and carbonsky (339). Take advantage of the ocean's proximity with an order of the fish soup (320), which features skin-on-chunks of roasted and saladish as well as three different shellfish containing in a perfectly salted, barley tomato broth. Work it down with a Ship Robert (354) — means Master-sogini with butter, simple syrup and Jangonara letters — or and the sight with house-made broomballs (311) or gotracho-cello (313). Want one more? The Chart Room, a two-station walk away, offers dim lighting, a warm wood interior, cold beer and a full bar. Top, a viewpoint at Ecola State Park at Cannon Beach. Above from left: Sleeper Coffee, along the Astoria Riverwalk; the fish soup with fresh bread at the trotieria Fedir; and the Wreck of the Peter brodub, inside Fort Stevens State Park. The area was an active defensive site until 1947. Saturday 8 A.M. | RISE AND SHINE Along the riverwalk on Pier 12 is Sleeper Coffee, a plain-filled cafe perched over the water. Order a seasonal drink (from 8:1) and grab an indulgent vegan breakfast sandwich (from $5), along with a treat from Gathered Bakednup (from $3), to go — the chocolate chuck cooker is perfectly made. If you're hungry enough for a sea-down meal, firmaded offers Scandinavian-inspired twists on breakfast classics like a burrito wrapped in brise, Norwegian flat-bread (from $10), and antiknobivers, or Danish pancakes (from $11). 9:30 A.M. | TAKE IN THE COLUMBIA Road trip! Five stop: Cape Disappointment State Park in Washington State (day parking pass, $10) for dramatic views of the Columbia River. But, the notoriously dangerous crossing where the river meets the Pacific, it's grow you as excuse to cross the Astoria-Maghir Bridge and state lines. From the trailhead at the Lewis & Clark Enterprise Center, the moderately challenging Cape Disappointment Lighthouse Viewpoint Trail runs about a mile each way through old-growth rainforest. Under sweeping folks uproar and Western berthins, spot Oregon grape, cow parsnip and sumanberry. Listen for the haunting call of forainow's thrush. Bear right at the sign and consider taking the steep trail down to Dandrua's Cove, where a host one stands sentinel on an island wedged between cliffs — a truly unmissable photo-op. NOON | LEARN HISTORY Head back over the bridge to say goodbye to Astoria and fuel up for the road. The feed truck began Street Eats stop have a parchline noota, from "Habe Appetit" to "Pho King Tracy" but the feed — delicious, filling and affordable — is no less. Don't miss the spring rolls (from $5), served with a rich peanut dipping sauce. Then it's south toward Lewis and Clark National Historical Park ($10, including parking), where a 88-rain replica of Fort Chinese, constructed in 2006, shows visitors what a Pacific Northwest winter was like for soldiers 300 years ago. As the on-site museum makes clear, they were aided by the Clarissa, Osmola and Nebalson people who had lived here for centuries. Talks and historical demonstrations, like spills pre-writing and candle making, complete the experience. 3 P.M. | ENCOUNTER A SHIPWRECK A quick detour about 10 minutes north takes you to Fort Stevens State Park, an active defensive site until 1947. While military faith will enjoy the artifacts of the rebel center and the opportunity to explore the well-preserved bakeries, the real draw of the park is the Wreck of the Peter brodub, whose barracks covered steel stuntines creates an eerie atmosphere on this otherwise tranquil beach. On its final 1948 journey, the ship made it all the way to the mouth of the Columbia river. Always, and would have continued on to Britain with a cargo load of wheat were it not for a powerful southwesterly wind. Luckily, none were seriously injured when the ship ran agrowed at Clarissa Beach. 7 P.M. | COST UP AND CROW DOWN Many of its galleries may be closed by the time you arrive in Cannon Beach — but it's still worth taking a quick drive down its pretty streets. Plan a stop at Bodega Tap-rased & Bottle Shop, open until 8 p.m. on Saturdays, where you can browse a well-curated selection of beer and wine, including plenty of Oregon options. At Astoria Table, where the chef John Nelson draws on his Swedish family's fishing legacy, start with battery-soft, cold-smoked scallops (329), then front on the local delicacy. Don't mean ($42), a mushroom that's hearty enough to double as a steak. Boldly order the aquario flight ($14) for dessert and, after filling out the highest delivered with the check, enjoy the sunset or stars on the beach, only a block or an away. Sunday 8 A.M. | STROLG THE SEAT-OGR It's low tide twice a day in Cannon Beach, and if you're lucky, one of them will be bright and early. Then it currently, and you'll be able to walk right up to the 17-million-year-old Haystack Rock to observe the other sea stars, giant green sunsmores, mounds and barcaches that cling to it, among many other species. This activity, called tide-pooling, is like walking on the bottom of a drained ocean. Be sure to gaze up, too: Between April and August, you'll see black supercoastbears, pigeon guillemees and, furiously, salted puffins, circling or moaning no matter the tide. The access point with the shortest walk is locked at the intersection of Pacific Drive and West Grover Avenue; free two-hour street parking is available throughout town. 10:30 A.M. | DINK BEFORE BASING Head to Wayfarer Restaurant & Lounge, where you'd be able to keep an eye on Haystack through large picture windows. Fresh craft (320) and smoked saltuate (324) Benedicts offer one last seafood bite before you head back inland. Before you get to the cat, take a final wander along Hembach Street, where those galleries and stores you missed last night will just be starting to open. Hours can vary, but you might find the consistent Michelle Valagaro in her working showroom, Basalt Studio, which offers finished pieces as well as retail wine, brand fish and packets of canes. Cross the street to Bruck's Candy Kitchen is worth the machine in back car and with the interior tally at 140 pieces per minute; then sift through the rainbow of bulk tream for some sweet sauerាត់v to take home. KEY STUPS The Astoria Riverwalk stretches more than six miles, offering views of the Columbia River and access to dining. In October 1906, the 1905-a-thru's four-country arts new known as the Wreck of the Peter brodub found its final resting place room: Fort Stevens State Park. From Ecola Point Overlook, see the sweeping response of the rock-stressed shores of Crescent and Gerson Beaches, along with the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse. You may recognize Haystack Rock from "The Gannas," and of low tide, you can get close enough to hear the snap-chackle pop of the barracks. WHERE TO EAT At the with-in-rock restaurant Fedir, patient patrons head on front pasts and local seafood. The Chart Room proves a dive can be both clean and cozy. The proprietor of Sleeper Coffee, turned four seats in Tokyo, Los Angeles and New York before opening. First Stewded on the ground flow of the 101-year-old Lewis Building, home to the Commodore Hotel. At Astoria, the food truck Salgan Street Eats is tailored for its authentic930mtimes coffee offerings as well as its bath-in and plus. Fun stung chairs and wood peening and to the modern opulence of Astoria Table. Wayfarer Restaurant & Lounge offers views of Haystack Rock. WHERE TO STAY Cannon Beach's luxurious Stephanie Inn offers a pin fireplace in every room, along with binoculars and benches for enjoying the beach day and night. This summer's room, start around $750. The pan friends: Gannery Pier Hotel is built over the roof on the west end of Astoria, as many more late-adam/hind views. Prices start at $300 per night. Astoria's Commodore Hotel also must attractions arrive easy-walking distance, offering both compact rooms with shared bathroom facilities and more traditional standard and deluxe rooms with private bathrooms. Rooms from $125. Vacation outside an outsider all along the coast, which can be a place way to enjoy the back's uncounting skill not the actual. The only firm reason—excitation. Avoid huge face side, which, as the beach closed to Portland, doubles year-round with tourists. A visitor launching a wooden glider from the top of the Astoria Colones, a tradition there. C12 THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 Cooking WHAT TO MAKE NEXT WEEK : MIA LEIMKUHLER Five Days, Five Dishes My meal prep philosophy isn't so much a philosophy as it is basic multiplication. I simply make a lot of something, usually, doubling the recipe (the handy scaling feature in the NYT Cooking app can do the math for you) so that I can eat it for lunch the following day or two. Simple enough, right? But there's one caveat: The leftovers must be good whether eaten room temperature or cold. This is because (a) I don't have a microwave, and (b) even if I did, by the time lunch rolls around, I'm usually too hungry and impatient to wait for something to reheat. So today I thought I'd share some of my favorite easy, quick dinners that make even easier, quicker lunches. (Though if you'd like to heat up these left overs, please do!) For more, visit nytecooking.com. Tofu Scramble With Black Beans and Corn If this thirty 1-oz McKesson burger were a piece of clothing, it would be a little black dress - it's so versatile (I like it for Sunday breakfast as much as I like it for Monday dinner) and has to accessorize (Hot sauce! Sliced avocado! Fried eggs!). And it would also be on sale, as this dish is easy on the budget. I love eating leftovers with tortilla chips as a sort of protein-packed casein to cowboy center. BY NITTY LO MCKINNON TIME: 20 MINUTES YIELD: 4 SIDEWIND 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 teaspoon turmeric powder 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 (1/4- to 1/8-ounce) packages extra-firm tofu, drained and broken into 1-inch chunks 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped Salt and pepper 2 cups fresh or frozen corn kernels 1 red bell pepper, cut into 1/4-inch pieces 1 (1/2-ounce) can black beans, rinsed 2 tablespoons lime juice, plus 1 quackrest time for serving 1 handful of cilantro leaves, chopped 1/2 to 1 jalapeño, thinly sliced Worried tortillas (optional), to serve Place the cumin, turmeric and smoked paprika in a small bowl. Heat a large skillet on medium for 2 minutes. Drizzle in the olive oil, add all of the spice mixture and, stirring constantly, allow the spices to bloom briefly until fragrant and darker in color. (3 to 15 seconds, immediately add the tofu and garlic, and season generously with salt and pepper.) Increase heat to medium high and cook, tossing occasionally, until the tofu is golden around the edges. 5 to 8 minutes. Turn off the heat. Add the corn, bell pepper and black beans to the skillet and toss to combine. Leave for about 3 minutes, allowing the residual heat to soften the corn and peppers slightly. Add the lime juice and cilantro. Taste and season with more salt and pepper. If needed. Top with sliced jalapeño and serve with tortillas (if using) and lime wedges on the side. Paprika Chicken and Potatoes Before you ask, yes, I like cooked potatoes cold. (See: potato salad.) Come to think of it, if you gave the leftover chicken and potatoes a lazy chop, and then mixed them with the leftover smoked paprika-sillowed mayonnaise, you'd have a pretty great pastas-bronze-y potato salad. We can thank Stanisla Fidir for this fine-soul, 16,000-errone-palm misses. BY HISBIN THAR TIME: 20 MINUTES YIELD: 4 SIDEWIND 1/2 cup mayonnaise (preferably a sweeter one, like Kewpie) 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 1 1/2 pounds tomatoes, skinless chicken thighs, cut into 2-inch pieces Salt and freshly cracked black pepper 1 1/2 pounds baby potatoes, cut lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick slices 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 lime, halved 2 tablespoons chopped parsley leaves and tender stone. Heat the oven to 400 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, combine the mayonnaise and 1 tablespoon paprika,剥離在 1/4 cup and place into a small bowl. Season the chicken all over with salt and pepper. Add to the large mixing bowl, stir to coat and set aside. Add the sliced potatoes to a large sheet pan, drizzle with 2 tablespoons of oil and season with salt and the remaining 1 teaspoon paprika. Toss to coat and spread in an even layer, setting thicker plates slices near the edges where it is better. Place the chicken on top of the potatoes in an even layer. Roast until the chicken is cooked through and potatoes are tender, 20 to 25 minutes. While the chicken is cooking, add the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil and squeeze the juice from one lime half into the small bowl with the reserved paprika mayonnaise, stir to combine. Season to taste with salt and more lime juice and set aside in the fridge until ready to serve. Garnish the cooked chicken and potatoes with the parsley and serve with the paprika mayonnaise for dipping. Roasted Zucchini and Shrimp With Za'atar Yogurt Scientifying about eating cold cooked shrimp feels fancy to me - maybe it's because I think of shrimp-cooked, the coldest and fasciant shrimp them in. Which is to say, I think the Medusa's back fire-ups' dish of roasted shrimp and zucchini paired with a garlicky salted yogurt sauce would bring a lot of class to a hurried, bunched-over lunch between meetings. BY MELISSA CLARK TIME: 40 MINUTES YIELD: 4 SIDEWIND 1 1/2 pounds zucchini, halved and sliced into 1/4-inch-thick half-moons 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 1/4 teaspoons fine sea or table salt, more to taste 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes, more as needed 1 1/2 pounds shelled extra-large shrimp 4 teaspoons za'atar 1 lesson, finely pooled and juiced 1/2 cup plain whole-milk yogurt 1 garlic clove, finely grated or minced Chopped mint, cilantro or dill, for serving Place rack 6 inches from tender, and heat oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl, toss together zucchini, 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes. Spread evenly on a minced sheet pan. Roast until the zucchini is nicely browned all over, about 25 minutes, tossing halfway through. While the zucchini needs, pat shrimp dry and add to the same bowl used for the zucchini (no need to wash it). Toss shrimp with the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt, remaining 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes, 2 teaspoons za'atar and all of the lemon zest. Let all of room temperature while the zucchini roasts. Remove zucchini from oven and turn the tender to high. Add shrimp to the sheet pan with the zucchini, spreading if cut evenly. Shake for 5 minutes, or until the shrimp just cooks through (watch it carefully, so the shrimp don't overcook). Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together yogurt, remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Half of the lemon juice, the remaining 2 teaspoons za'atar and the grated garlic. Taste and add more salt or lemon juice. If needed. If the mixture is very thick, stir in a little water to loosen it, then spoon it on top of the shrimp and zucchini, and sprinkle with chopped herbs. Serve, making sure to scoop up the pan juices. PHOTO: KATHY HARRIS Broccoli-Walnut Pesto Pasta I've lost onset of the number of times I've scurtled this Genevieve Ko pasta straight from its container, the open fridge door levying at me to shut it already. It's perfect but, that business broccoli-gurlic purée brightened with mint and lemon, and it's also satisfying cold, like a very green pasta salad. Now that the broccoli-petra might swallow after a day and shift into even of a bluish green color, which I like to camouflage with even more chopped walnuts. BY GENEVIEVE KO TIME: 20 MINUTES YIELD: 4 TO 8 SIDEWIND Number salt (such as Diamond Crystal) 4 cups broccoli florets (10 ounces from 2 creams) 1 pound cut pasta, such as medium water 1 large garlic clove, smashed 2 packed cups fresh mint leaves (about 2 ounces from one small bunch) Black pepper 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for serving 1 lemon, oedied and juiced Parmigiana-Reggiana, for serving 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped Bring a large saucepan of water to a fast over high heat. Add 1/4 cup salt, then add the broccoli. Cook, stirring occasionally, until bright green and just tender, about 5 minutes. Use a spider or pooled spoon to transfer to a bowl processor; keep the water boiling. Drop the pasta into the boiling water and cook according to the packaging's directions for at-better. Reserve 1/2 cup pasta cooking water. Meanwhile, add the garlic to the broccoli and purée, scraping the bowl occasionally, until smooth. Add the mint, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Pulse until smooth; then add the oil with the machine running. Drain the pasta well and transfer to a large bowl. Stir in the pasta. Add 2 tablespoons lemon juice and 1/2 teaspoon each salt and pepper and toss until the pasta is evenly coated. If the mixture seems thick, fold in the reserved pasta water, 1 tablespoon at a time. The mixture will thicken as it cooks, so you want it to be saucy. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Divide among serving dishes and top with lemon zest. then grate chicken over. Sprinkle with the walnuts, grind more black pepper on top, then drizzle with olive oil. Serve hot, warm or room temperature. The pasta with the pasta will keep in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Garnish with the lemon zest, cheese, walnuts, pepper and oil right before serving. Note that the pasta will swallow after a day and darken into a bluish green. If pushing for lunch, pat the pasta in an airtight container and scatter the garnishes on top. If you want to keep the walnuts extra crunchly, you can keep them separate and sprinkle them on right before eating. Tomato-Lentil Salad With Spicy Tahini A smart, streamlined new recipe from A3 Shagle, requiring only lentils (caramel, for extra over), tomatoes, olive oil, lemon, tahini, basil and your favorite chile-based condiment (chile crisp, harinier). I want to try this with freshly cooked lentils, only because I think the contrast of warm, salley lentils with cool, juicy tomatoes will be really pleasing. BY ALI KAGLE TIME: 20 MINUTES YIELD: 4 SIDEWIND 2 (15-ounce) cans lentils, drained, rinsed and shaken dry (or 3 cups cooked green or black lentils from 1½ cups dry lentils) 1 1/2 pounds ripe tomatoes (or 2 garlic cloves tomatoes), cut into 4/8-co pieces 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil (once 2-3 lemon (about 3 tablespoons) Salt 1/4 cup stirred tahini 1 tablespoon chile crisp, harinier or another chile paste, plus more to taste 1 1/2 loosely packed cups basil leaves, turn Toasted sesame seeds, for serving In a large bowl, combine the lentils, tomatoes, oil, lemon juice and a big pinch of salt. Stir to combine. In a liquid measuring cup or small bowl, stir together the tahini and chill crisp. Add cold water until you enter, then taste and add more chile crisp and salt until the sauce is a little too spicy. (It will be tamed by the lentils.) Stir the basil gently into the salad. Serve the salad drizzled with the tahini sauce and shreamed with sesame seeds. Season to taste with salt. QA Report - The New York Times - 01.08.2026.pdf Pipeline Extraction route: mistral-ocr extraction_route=mistral-ocr Translation chunks: 202 Extraction warnings: [OCR-ROUTE] Scanned PDF detected; routing directly to MistralOCR. Non-model Checks WARNING: translated output has low semantic coherence score (0.04) WARNING: missing numeric tokens from source: 10016, 12.97, 127.45, 130.00, 16.55, 16.6, 16.82, 1724, 1852, 27.72 WARNING: Missing proper nouns in translation: Act Like, Actors Medrano, Admiral Kevin Lundin, Adventure Tour, Advisory Council, African Burial Ground National Monument, After Mr, After Tens, Air Force, Alfred Lord Toney - WARNING: source dates, money, or percentage tokens may be missing Model QA PDF 翻译质量审核报告 (QA Report) 总体评价： 翻译质量较低，存在大量严重的幻觉 (Hallucinations)、数字错误、术语误译以及明显的 OCR 识别错误导致的逻辑混乱。翻译未能有效处理源文本中的 OCR 噪声，且在关键事实上产生了偏差。 🚩 严重缺陷 (Blocking Issues) 1. 事实幻觉与逻辑错误 (Hallucinations & Logical Errors) 人物身份误译： 源文 "former Olympic canteen" (此处 OCR 误将 contender 识别为 canteen)，译文将其翻译为“原奥运选手”。虽然意图正确，但后续将 "David Hoare" 的行为描述为“发布防水相关呼吁” (posted four-stated waterproofing calls)，完全脱离语境，未意识到源文是关于破坏纪念池的刑事指控。 源文 "Justice-Pere" (OCR 误植) 被直译，未能识别其为检察官姓名。 政治人物与组织： "C.O.P." (应为共和党 GOP) 被译为 "C.O.P."。 "Zion Musk" (应为 Elon Musk) 被译为 "齐恩·马斯克"。 "Young Rights Act" (应为 Voting Rights Act) 被译为《青年权利法案》。 "affirmation issues" (应为 affirmative action) 被译为“肯定行动”。 语境崩溃： 在描述拉马斯瓦米 (Ramaswamy) 的段落中，出现“在板球和筹款活动中双管齐下” (dubbled in cricket and dollar-raisers)，源文 OCR 错误，译文机械翻译，导致内容荒诞。 2. 关键数字与名称错误 (Wrong Numbers & Names) 日期/卷号： "VOL. CLXXV" 译为 "第 CLXXV 卷" (保留罗马数字但未转化，虽不致命但不够专业)。 货币/金额： "42 亿美元 billion" 和 "220 亿美元 billion"：出现重复单位 (Double Units)，将 "billion" 既翻译成“亿美元”又保留了原词。 食谱度量： "1-盎司的 McKesson 汉堡" $\rightarrow$ 原文 "one-pot" (单锅) 被误认为 "1-ounce"。 "1 / 4 至 1 / 8 盎司" $\rightarrow$ 豆腐重量严重错误 (应为块或磅)。 "1 / 2 盎司" 黑豆 $\rightarrow$ 极大概率应为 15 盎司罐装，译文导致食谱失效。 3. 术语与语义误译 (Mistranslations) 关键术语： "Reflecting Pool" (反思池 $\rightarrow$ 正确应为 反思池/水池)。 "botched" 被保留英文且在标题中出现，属于交付缺陷。 "woketone" $\rightarrow$ "觉醒文化" (正确)，但 "affirmation issues" $\rightarrow$ "肯定行动" (错误)。 荒谬翻译： "casein to cowboy center" $\rightarrow$ "酪蛋白牛仔中心" (完全幻觉，源文 OCR 噪声)。 "pasta-bronze-y" $\rightarrow$ "pasta-bronze-y" (直接保留英文)。 "16,000-errone-palm" $\rightarrow$ "16,000-errone-palm" (保留乱码)。 4. 残留英文与格式问题 (Residual English & Layout) 残留英文： 标题中保留了 "botched"，食谱中保留了 "tender", "al-dente", "pasta-bronze-y" 等。 清理标签： 译文开头出现了 # The New York Times - 01.08.2026.pdf 这种文件名标签，属于交付缺陷。 ⚠️ 其他缺陷 截断 (Truncation)： 虽不计入报告，但译文在多处出现 "..." 且未能通过上下文衔接，导致阅读中断。 食谱逻辑： 在西兰花意面食谱中，"grate chicken over" $\rightarrow$ "在上面擦入鸡肉" (源文应为 cheese，译文将 cheese 误认为 chicken，导致食谱极其诡异)。 审计结论： $\text{FAILED}$ $\text{(不合格)}$ 建议： 重新进行 OCR 纠错 $\rightarrow$ 人工审校 $\rightarrow$ 重新翻译。当前版本无法直接交付。