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在震中，有 100 万人因暴力而流离失所。他们生活在危险的环境中，在极缺净水的情况下与病毒作斗争。第 A10 页。 埃博拉病毒在刚果拥挤的营地中肆虐
火灾逼近 法国避难所
作者：马克·兰德勒 (MARK LANDLER) 和 朱莉亚·伊姆伯特 (GIULIA IMBERT)
法国，波尔多 —— 周一，一场猛烈、快速且变化莫测的山火蔓延至距离波尔多仅几英里之遥。这座法国第六大城市已成为数千名从城镇和村庄撤离者的避难所。 其中许多人聚集在波尔多巨大的展览中心内，他们被共同的恐惧、困惑以及回归家园的决心联系在一起，并切切希望自己的家能幸免于火海。 在这个临时社区中，人们的声音不尽相同，反映出纪龙多省各地截然不同的生活状态。恐惧中夹杂着希望，对消防员的感激中染上了对当局的愤怒，而对快速恢复的乐观则被对导致这场灾难的自然力量的不安所抵消。 “我不想从零开始重新找公寓，”35 岁的单身母亲伊曼·埃尔·伊德里西 (Imane El Idrissi) 说道。周六凌晨 4 点，在警察敲门警告她必须离开后，她匆忙逃离。“我没有那个经济能力。” 出生于摩洛哥的埃尔·伊德里西女士表示，她仔细地收集了所有移民和居留证明，行李箱里装满了文件，而不是
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作者：杰克·尼卡斯 (JACK NICAS)
哈瓦那 —— 数月以来，特朗普总统一直预测古巴即将崩溃。 “它就这样会垮掉，”他在 1 月 4 日告诉记者。就在前一天，他掌控了委内瑞拉的石油，而这曾是古巴的生命线。 随后他实施了石油封锁，使这个岛国陷入了史上最严重的能源危机，
商业 B1-7 重启核反应堆
国际 A4-11 一种曾经被禁的艺术形式
作者：伊丽莎白·威廉姆森 (ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON)
华盛顿 —— 有些日子完全没有人来参观。大多数日子里只有寥寥几人，其中包括那些对各种关于毁灭报道感到好奇的人。当人们真的来访时，他们能看到什么？ 在已经不再上演歌剧的歌剧院里，有一个散落着垃圾的空乐池。在俯瞰波托马克河的大露台上，花坛正在枯萎且杂草丛生。在走廊和休息室里，艺术品已经消失了。
桑迪·魏斯瓦瑟 (Sandy Weiswasser) 表示，游客曾经拥挤在约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心，但“现在这里就像个黑洞”。
古巴能否生存？ 面对最严重的能源危机
大规模停电现已持续近一整天。然而，六个月后，古巴政府和人民依然挺立。 本月，我们访问该国以了解其应对之策。在实地考察一周后，我们发现
国家 A12-18 提交限制邮寄投票的申请
艺术 C1-6 德普的骗局时代 在一家上诉法院封锁了邮寄投票行政命令的关键部分后，特朗普政府请求最高法院介入。第 A16 页
“蜂巢州”的婴儿潮崩塌 《龙之家族》主演法比安·弗兰克尔 (Fabien Frankel) 讨论了他在该剧漫长旅程中的一个关键节点。第 C1 页
访客人数减少
尽管如此，桑迪·韦斯瓦瑟（Sandy Weiswasser）——一位退休的小学六年级教师，18 年来为数百人提供约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心（John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts）的免费导览服务——依然坚持到岗。出于对这个提升了她以及数百万访客生活质量的机构的执着热爱与忠诚，她依然在每个周一的导览日抵达，
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尽管她知道自己可能很快会发现大门已被锁上。 “这里曾经非常繁荣、繁忙且拥挤，”87 岁的韦斯瓦瑟女士说道，“现在它成了一个黑洞。” 目前还没有人知道，特朗普总统是否会在未来几周内关闭肯尼迪中心，作为他所谓的两年翻新计划的一部分。特朗普在其第二个任期内削减了该中心的领导层，清洗了其节目内容，且他亲手挑选的董事会将他的名字刻在了建筑正面。该中心董事会预计将在 8 月做出最终决定。但韦斯瓦瑟女士表示，到了现在，这已经几乎不再重要了。 上个月，国家交响乐团（National Symphony Orchestra）演出了本季度在肯尼迪中心的最后一场音乐会，不确定何时或是否会回归。大剧院的预订和艺术家们已经纷纷离去。到处是沉重的、如闭幕般死寂的沉默，这是一个失去了约 90 ％的员工和 100 ％的付费观众的机构。 她说，她继续来这里提供导览是为了作证，告诉她那些日渐稀少的访客，他们现在看到的破败空虚并非肯尼迪中心的本来面貌。她告诉他们，半个多世纪以来，这里曾是一个宏大的民主项目，将艺术之美和灵感带给每一个人。 韦斯瓦瑟女士以自身为例，证明该中心的使命并未失败。她是波兰移民的后代，她的祖母在第二次世界大战中失踪，家人推测她死于纳粹
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（注：此处插入一段关于古巴的碎片文字） ……尽管古巴人显然在受苦，但他们也在做他们最擅长的事情：适应。他们正将 19 世纪 50 年代油耗巨大的美国车更换为来自中国的电动摩托车和三轮车；进口大容量锂电池，以确保在停电期间电视和风扇能继续运行；改装发电机以使用更易获得……
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SCIENCE TIMES D1-8 罕见疾病的新见解 这位演员的职业生涯在几年前似乎陷入了低谷，但他将在今年 11 月上映的《埃比尼泽：圣诞颂歌》（Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol）中回归。 C1 页
维斯特洛（Westeros）将他带向何方
致敬宽恕枪击者的警官
史蒂文·麦克唐纳（Steven McDonald）警官无法移动也无法说话。 他在曼哈顿的贝尔维尤医院（Bellevue Hospital）的病床上已经躺了近九个月，在康复期间，枪伤切断了他的脊髓，导致他颈部以下瘫痪。 在 1986 年 7 月 12 日对他开枪的 15 岁少年沙沃德·琼斯（Shavod Jones），
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内塔尼亚胡 赴美之行
作者：伊莎贝尔·克什纳 (ISABEL KERSHNER)
耶路撒冷——对于以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡来说，与特朗普总统的会面始终是一个展示两人密切关系的机会，即便他们有时存在分歧。而这一次，赌注格外之高。
两位领导人在接下来的几个月里都面临着选举挑战。预计两人将于周二在白宫会面，而此时他们对于与伊朗战争的利益分歧似乎正日益剧烈。
在周一出发前往华盛顿之前，内塔尼亚胡在声明中表示，这将是他自总统赢得第二任期以来与特朗普的第 8 次会面，且伊朗问题将是议程中的“首要任务”。
“我带着一个明确的目标开启这次使命——确保我们亲爱的以色列国的安全、强大和未来，”他补充道。
分析人士表示，在以色列进行决定性投票之前的国内民调中，内塔尼亚胡处于劣势，因此他面临着压力，需要向国内观众证明他与特朗普依然保持着紧密的协作关系，尽管两人存在分歧。特朗普则将在 11 月迎来美国期中选举，而在此之前，他陷入了一场许多人认为是被迫卷入的、并不受欢迎的战争。
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被关在狱中。 麦克唐纳警官 1 个月大的儿子康纳 (Conor) 即将在医院的小教堂里，在记者和新闻摄影师面前接受洗礼。
沙特在美伊战争中的 薄弱环节
希望通过对石油出口施压 在也门获得更多权力
作者：VIVIAN NEREIM 与 SHUAIB ALMOSAWA
沙特阿拉伯，利雅得 —— 在也门经历了四年的政治僵局后，胡塞武装变得日益沮丧。这支由伊朗支持的民兵组织与邻国沙特阿拉伯之间的停战协议已演变成一种脆弱的僵局，而胡塞武装觉得自己没有什么可失去的，希望在也门及其石油资源上拥有更大的权力。至于沙特官员，他们对与胡塞武装再次发生冲突毫无兴趣。他们此前在也门的轰炸行动已演变成一场长达十年的泥潭，导致数十万也门人死于暴力、饥饿和疾病。他们希望避免另一次昂贵的冲突，因为这可能会危及将王国转型为商业和旅游枢纽的计划。美国与伊朗的战争给这个火药桶投下了一枚火星。在过去的几周里，胡塞武装与沙特阿拉伯陷入了新的冲突，并面临升级为另一场全面战争的风险。总部位于伦敦的研究机构英国皇家国际事务研究所（Chatham House）专注于也门研究的学者 Farea al-Muslimi 表示：“胡塞武装对世界上每个问题都只有一种解决方案，那就是开战。”他补充道，“沙特人通过试图用钱砸来解决每个问题，而胡塞武装则是通过向其射击来解决。”上一次沙特-胡塞战争将也门推向了饥荒的边缘，直到 2022 年通过一项脆弱的停战协议暂时停止。到那时，胡塞武装已经在也门北部建立了一个事实上的国家，而南部名义上由国际认可的也门政府控制，该政府在财政和军事上依赖于沙特阿拉伯。旨在达成持久和平协议的谈判最终陷入停滞。这种悬而未决的状态不可能永远持续，但被其他危机分心的沙特阿拉伯似乎希望它能再维持一段时间。沙特驻也门大使 Mohammed al-Jaber 在周六的一篇社交媒体帖子中表示，王国渴望缓和局势。他指责胡塞武装“坚持走升级路线”。
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胡塞武装领导人 Abdul-Malik al-Houthi 的肖像。
McDonald 警官渴望向那个开枪击中他的青少年传递信息。但他能做的只是在口型上重复这些话，随后由他的妻子 Patti Ann McDonald 将其记录下来。 “我有时会对那个开枪击中我的少年感到愤怒，但更多时候我觉得他很可怜，”McDonald 女士在向记者读他的话时说道，而此时他的呼吸——
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一家非营利组织希望针对罕见病的基因疗法能成为一项更常规的医疗程序。 第 D1 页
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西德克萨斯州靠近墨西哥地区的居民表示，边境墙将威胁该地区壮丽的星空。 第 D8 页
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认识那位即将继承杰弗里·爱泼斯坦大部分财产的女性 卡里娜·舒利亚克（Karyna Shuliak），37 岁，曾是杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的女友，也是他在去世前最后拨打的电话对象。司法部文件披露了他如何帮助她成为一名牙医。马修·戈德斯坦（Matthew Goldstein）和莎伦·奥特曼（Sharon Otterman）报道了舒利亚克博士，她可能从其遗产中继承高达 $100 million，并且一直试图低调隐匿。
观点 | 这才是摆脱我们超加工食品反乌托邦的途径 作家朱莉娅·贝尔卢兹（Julia Belluz）日益坚信，诉讼是在美国建立健康饮食环境的途径。贝尔卢兹女士研究了那些惩罚烟草公司并导致吸烟率下降的法律努力。在为《纽约时报》观点版撰写的一篇文章中，她论述了为什么诉讼可能是削弱巨头垃圾食品公司对食品供应控制力的最佳方式。
五角大楼改变伊朗战争伤亡报告方式 国防部正在一个全新的网页上披露 7 月 7 日停火协议崩溃后，美国与伊朗战争中发生的伤亡情况，该网页与列出该日期前伤亡情况的网页分开。海伦·库珀（Helene Cooper）报道称，这种会计核算方式的改变可能会增加统计这场战争总伤亡人数的难度。
胡塞武装如何将沙特阿拉伯逼入一场新冲突 通过攻击红海中的船只，受伊朗支持的也门胡塞武装抓住了一个邻国沙特阿拉伯的脆弱时刻，而后者并不希望再爆发另一场战争。薇薇安·内雷姆（Vivian Nereim）在沙特阿拉伯利雅得报道，舒艾布·阿尔莫萨瓦（Shuaib Almosawa）在也门萨那报道。
一名竞争者正尝试进行一次力量翻举。
但作为一名记者，保持眼睛敏锐、时刻留意风吹草动并保持专注本身就是一份全职工作。事实证明，在热身、大汗淋漓并挥舞杠铃的同时还要保持敏锐的观察力要困难得多。在经历了一场涉及固定自行车的极其艰苦的赛事后，我不得不强迫自己离开地板，去进行一些采访并做笔记。 在一个周日的早晨，我紧张地准备参加一项我一直恐惧的赛事：翻铃阶梯（clean ladder）。“翻（clean）”是一种奥林匹克举重动作，你需要将杠铃从地面猛力举起至肩上。如果动作标准，看起来会很轻松，但这是一个极具技术性的动作，需要精准的时机把控和控制力。 在赛事开始前五分钟，我匆忙跑向乔什·戈迪内斯（Josh Godinez），他是 HWPO 的一名教练，HWPO 是一个我订阅多年的 CrossFit 训练项目。戈迪内斯先生在现场为运动员提供指导——而我
摄影：杰克·多金斯（JAKE DOCKINS）为《纽约时报》拍摄
非常需要一些指导。“你能给我一些关于‘洁净’（clean）的技巧吗？”我问道。我向他演示了我的洁净动作，他静静地看着。
他给出了一些建议。“我教过很多人做洁净，”戈迪内斯（Godinez）先生说，“但从未见过这么快上手的人。”
在比赛场地内，在记住他建议的情况下，我挑战到了 198 磅的杠铃，专注地执行他告诉我的要点：启动背阔肌，用力耸肩。杠铃升了起来——我接住了它。周围的人举起的重量要重得多。但在明亮的体育场灯光下，在那一刻，我觉得自己像个超级英雄。
我的最后一项赛事在周日下午早些时候结束。接下来的时间里，我在场馆中徘徊，与其他参赛者聊天，询问人们对这个周末的看法——这是我在执行任务时通常会做的跑腿式报道，尽管在这种情况下，我感到疲惫得多。
一个出乎意料的优势是，我报道的对象没有将我视为一个爱管闲事的局外人，而是视为同行。我和组内的一名男子聊了他的经历。“我在跑步项目中看到你跑过我身边，”他说，“干得漂亮！”
周一早上起草故事比平时要困难一些，仅仅是因为我的身体伤痕累累。作为一名记者工作通常不会感到如此酸痛。但我相信，只有通过亲身实践，我才能理解关于 Xenom 的某些特质。如果不亲自经历每一次举起、每一次波比跳和每一滴汗水，很难知道 Xenom 将成为一名职业运动员的感觉传达得有多到位。
现在，我正在寻找健身领域的下一个任务。铁人三项赛或超马赛或许会很有趣。
我想，是时候开始训练了。
1884年7月28日。据《时报》报道，前一天在纽约州北部报告了一起“动物本能与智能的非凡实例”。一只属于埃伦维尔（Ellenville）萨拉·布朗（Sarah Brown）夫人的马耳他猫，是一位成功的鸟类和鱼类猎手，但真正让她获得认可的是这只猫对纪律的执着：在给她的3只小猫提供食物时，这只母猫拒绝任何形式的“混乱争抢”，每次仅允许一只后代食用三分之一的食物，而另外两只则必须“安静地在远处等待”。《时报》指出，某天第一个进食的小猫在第二天会变成最后一个进食的，并补充道，母猫经常通过“频繁的剔除”来强制执行“她的权威，以应对它们的任何抗议”。
趣味事实
位于西德克萨斯州的大弯曲国家公园（Big Bend National Park）是地球上最大的暗夜保护区的一部分，该保护区成立于2022年，横跨美墨边境，面积超过九百万英亩。
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夜空守护者深感不安 西德克萨斯州 D8
在 2007 年达到顶峰后，犹他州的生育率骤降了 37% 以上，是所有州中下降幅度最大的。犹他州多年来一直位居全美生育率第 1 名，而现在仅排名第六。
犹他州：大家庭之乡见证出生率陡降 A16
十年前，Uber 和 Lyft 合计超过黄色出租车，成为纽约市最受欢迎的汽车服务。城市数据显示，截至今年 5 月，这些应用程序记录了 1.06 亿 (106 million) 次行程，是黄色出租车的 5 倍多。
新入局者寻求进入共享出行行业 B5
在第二次世界大战期间，英国政府将 84 名纳粹将军和 22 名上校（其中大多数在北非被俘）关押在北伦敦的一座宏伟乡村别墅特伦特公园 (Trent Park)，在那里他们被一个复杂的麦克风网络监视。
楼上、楼下，甚至室外都有隐藏麦克风 C6
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全球约有 4 亿 (400 million) 人，美国有 2500 万 (25 million) 至 3000 万 (30 million) 人患有罕见病。其中一半是儿童，三分之一在 5 岁前死亡。
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Ta moko 是一种由新西兰原住民毛利人实践了数百年的仪式性身体艺术，曾在英国殖民统治期间被禁止，如今正重新流行，尤其是在年轻毛利人之中。
一度被禁的毛利艺术形式在血肉之躯上复兴 A4
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美国正处于旋孢子虫病最糟糕的一年。这是一种由通过粪便污染的食物或水传播的寄生虫引起的肠道疾病。在 Morning 通讯中，Sam Sifton 询问了 Well 板块记者 Alice Callahan 关于此次暴发的调查结果，她一直对此进行报道。请阅读下方对话的编辑节选。
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这道快速一锅出餐点中，散发着莳萝香气的米饭与三文鱼是绝配。三文鱼是一种富含脂肪的鱼类，而充满草本气息的活力香草则减轻了其油腻感。与任何一锅出料理一样，请根据每种食材的烹饪时间交错下锅。先煮米饭，在烹饪进行到一半时加入三文鱼和豌豆。一层轻盈的柑橘味香菜籽能提升黄油三文鱼的亮度。在锅中炖煮时，快速调制一份简单的黄瓜酸奶酱；淋在顶部，为整道菜带来酸爽的平衡。 KAY CHUN
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在一个大的荷兰锅中，加入米和 2 ¼ 杯水，用大火煮沸。盖上锅盖，将火力调至低火，煮 10 分钟。（在加入三文鱼后，米饭将继续烹煮。）
在煮米饭的同时，将芫荽籽轻微压碎。（使用肉类嫩肉锤或小炖锅底部均可。）在三文鱼全身涂抹橄榄油，并用盐、胡椒和压碎的芫荽籽调味。
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当我与前美国食品药品监督管理局 (F.D.A.) 高级官员 Frank Yiannas 交谈时，他将环孢菌原爆发比作飓风：我们或许无法预防它们，但我们可以通过尽早检测、改进农业和食品安全实践，并确保公共卫生官员拥有必要的应对资源，来减轻其危害。 就此而言，美国仍有提升空间。许多处于应对爆发前线的当地和州公共卫生部门人员短缺且资金不足。去年，美国疾病控制与预防中心 (C.D.C.) 悄悄缩减了其一个关键的食源性疾病监测系统。此外，F.D.A. 推迟实施了一项旨在通过改善整个食品供应链记录保存的联邦“可追溯性”规定，该规定本将帮助调查人员更快地解决爆发并发布召回通知。该规定原定于 1 月生效，但现已推迟至 2028 年 7 月。
将豌豆均匀地撒在米饭上，然后将三文鱼摆放在顶部。盖上锅盖，继续烹煮直到鱼肉刚好熟至五分熟且米饭软糯，约再煮 8 到 10 分钟。
在一个小碗中，将酸奶、黄瓜、大蒜（如果使用）和 2 汤匙水混合；搅拌均匀，然后用盐和胡椒调味。
将三文鱼分装到 4 个餐盘中。在米饭中加入莳萝，用盐调味，并用叉子拨松。在三文鱼旁边舀入一些米饭。趁热食用，配以酸奶酱和柠檬角（如果使用）。
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一种曾被禁止的毛利艺术形式重新焕发生机
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原住民之根 在新西兰
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马克·科普亚（Mark Kopua）将脸贴近，用毡尖笔在他侄子的手臂上绘画。凭借记忆，他勾勒出家族世代相传的图案和基调。最后，他满意地戴上橡胶手套，针枪发出了嗡嗡的启动声。这并非普通的纹身。这是 ta moko，是新西兰原住民毛利人（Maori）数世纪以来实践的仪式性身体艺术。今年 2 月，科普亚先生的半打亲戚在位于新西兰北岛东海岸吉斯本（Gisborne）的小工作室里挤在一起，观察着这场仪式。64 岁的科普亚先生和他的侄子，56 岁的德斯蒙德·霍罗米亚（Desmond Horomia），成长于一个失去了所有 tohunga ta moko（仪式纹身师）的毛利社区。这项技艺传统上由父母传给子辈，但在 1907 年，新西兰的英国殖民统治者禁止了 ta moko 及其他原住民艺术形式。毛利人开始隐藏他们的纹身，并停止传授给年轻一代。一个多世纪后，被称为 moko kanohi 的面部纹身再次出现，出现在电视上、街道上以及新西兰议会的大厅里。毛利青少年和年轻成年人开始在社交媒体上记录他们的 ta moko 仪式。有些人说服长辈接受纹身，帮助这种艺术形式在经历数十年的污名化后，实现了欢欣鼓舞的回归。“我参与这件事已经 30 多年了，但我们的文化仍在重新学习，因为他们一直浸没在西方文化中并被其淹没，”科普亚先生说。在 20 世纪 70 年代毛利民族主义运动兴起后，科普亚先生和一小组其他艺人开始进行面部纹身。“那时 Moko 处于沉睡状态。我们决定要把它再次唤醒，”他说。moko kanohi 是终身之作。一个人的历史可以通过其面部纹身来窥见，标志着其血统，并记录其成年、孩子的出生或亲人的去世。女性在嘴唇和下巴上刻有 moko kauae。男性则接受 mataora，纹身从下巴开始向外延伸，以标志个人里程碑。通过不同面孔上重复出现的图案，可以追溯家族谱系。“这就是你家谱的指纹，”32 岁的鲁伊哈纳·史密斯（Ruihana Smith）说道，他是一名木雕师，同时在南岛布伦海姆（Blenheim）的马尔堡区议会担任毛利关系顾问。他在 2023 年接受了 mataora，以纪念去世的曾祖母。在家人注视下，史密斯先生的下巴、鼻子和脸颊共花费了四个半小时进行纹身。在一些 ta moko 仪式中，亲属会唱起祝福曲，并在受礼者进行仪式时握住其双手和手臂。
科普亚先生表示，虽然今天的 ta moko 艺术家使用现代纹身机，但传统上 tohunga 会使用鲨鱼牙齿或信天翁翼骨雕刻而成的刀片。在没有前辈传授的情况下，身为 tohunga whakairo（木雕大师）的科普亚先生通过他在雕刻和编织中使用的图案学习 ta moko。他们研究了 moko kanohi 图案
“这就是你家谱的指纹。”
鲁伊哈纳·史密斯（RUIHANA SMITH），32 岁，木雕师，南岛布伦海姆马尔堡区议会毛利关系顾问。
马克·科普亚（MARK KOPUA），64 岁，新西兰著名的 tohunga ta moko，即毛利仪式纹身师。
哈瓦基·科蒂（HAWAIKI KOTI），18 岁，佩戴 moko kauae，以此肯定她的力量及其与祖先的联系。
来自鲁阿塔胡纳（Ruatahuna）的胡伊朗伊·劳（HUIRANGI LAW），34 岁，自豪地展示她的 moko kauae，即传统的女性面部纹身。
鲁伊哈纳·史密斯（RUIHANA SMITH），一名传统石雕师，展现其祖传土地的独特纹身。
左图，马克·科普亚为他的侄子德斯蒙德·霍罗米亚纹身。右图，1875 年的一位毛利酋长梅内希拉·瓦蒂瓦蒂霍（Menehira Whatiwatihoe）。下方，手工雕刻的信天翁 uhi 凿子。
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...那些被新西兰国家博物馆保管的被斩首头颅上的图案。毛利战士认为，斩首可以切断敌人与神灵的联系。在 19 世纪，英国殖民者将这些头颅作为好奇之物和战利品进行收集，并提供枪支和黄金进行交换——这促使一些毛利人去猎杀那些拥有 mataora 和 moko kauae（女性下巴纹身）的人。“这就是导致我们的祖先不再想要在脸上刺青的原因之一，”科普亚（Kopua）先生说。当时皈依基督教的毛利人也被劝阻不要刺青。然而，最沉重的打击来自 1907 年的《托胡加抑制法》（Tohunga Suppression Act），该法律宣布毛利专家为非法，包括祭司、治疗师、教师、木雕师和纹身师。这部旨在禁止当局认为具有剥削性的习俗的立法，在数十年间扼杀了毛利文化。
新西兰议会于 1962 年废除了该法律。但史密斯（Smith）先生表示，在之后的多年里，moko kanohi（面部纹身）仍被视为罪犯或帮派成员的标志。“现在没有任何一种艺术形式是非法的，但我们必须修复这些损害，”他说。 20 世纪 70 年代毛利抗议运动的领导者之一塔梅·伊蒂（Tame Iti）的脸上有着螺旋形的 moko 纹身，从额头延伸到脖子并覆盖双耳。这位 74 岁的老人回忆起在成长过程中，酒店和其他公共场所禁止任何带有面部标记的人进入。他四次竞选议员，虽然均未成功，但成为了一个全国性的公众人物。伊蒂先生最后一次尝试进入议会是在 2014 年。两年后，纳奈亚·马胡塔（Nanaia Mahuta）成为新西兰议会唯一议院——众议院中第一位佩戴 moko kauae 的女性。她曾在总理杰辛达·阿德恩（Jacinda Ardern）手下担任外交部长。“现在你有政治家、法官，各种各样的人都拥有 moko。这种现象能够公开出现是非常美好的，”伊蒂先生说。
纹身师、 50 岁的埃德·哈拉维拉（Ed Harawira）表示，年轻的毛利人比长辈更迅速地接纳 ta moko。新西兰政府 2018 年的一项调查（为最新可用数据）发现，在 25 到 44 岁的毛利人中，有超过四分之一拥有传统纹身，在所有年龄组中比例最高，而 55 岁及以上的人群中这一比例仅为 8%。 “我们的长辈最初反对接受 moko，是因为他们被压制了这么多年，”哈拉维拉先生说，并补充道：“他们成长时的观念是，在今天的文明社会中，毛利文化无法让我们获得任何成就。”
在第四个孩子出生后， 34 岁的胡伊朗伊·劳（Huirangi Law）决定成为家族三代以来第一个接受 moko 的人。尽管她考虑过外界可能会对她产生不同的看法，“但我内心深处非常清楚，这就是我，这就是我想做的事，”她说。“空间、工作、职业，任何类似的东西——自然而然地就会随之而来。”
史密斯先生说，儿童从 13 岁起就可以开始接受 moko kanohi。更年幼的孩子，比如他 9 岁的女儿和 5 岁的儿子，会佩戴临时纹身来模仿父母。史密斯先生表示，他开始学习 ta moko 的目标就是有一天能给他的孩子们纹身。科普亚先生说，他一直在培训学生，以便将 ta moko 传给后代。“这就是我们维持它的方式，”他说。“不仅是为了唤醒这门艺术，更是为了让它保持觉醒。”
新德里 —— 上周席卷印度的激烈抗议活动迫使纳伦德拉·莫迪总理领导的政府做出了极不寻常的让步。但周一的开端却是令人敬畏的寂静。
在新德里，数千名年轻抗议者曾冒着安全部队挥舞的警棍和发射的催泪弹在此集结 —— 并在周六晚上庆祝胜利 —— 而如今这里已陷入沉默。路障和涂鸦口号已然消失，只剩下密集的警力驻守在这些街区。在莫迪执政的 12 年里，没有其他任何挑战能像这次一样令他感到震撼。
对于一些参与游行的人来说，现场周围空旷的道路象征着通过直接公众压力赢得的一次罕见胜利。而对于另一些人来说，这表明政府非常清楚何时应该后撤，以免运动积聚更大的势头。
在开启新的一周之际，莫迪宣布成立一个高规格委员会，以改革考试的管理方式。他暗示，解决方案将是技术性的，并将解决具体的问
[[IMG_XXXX]] 位于法国西南部波尔多的一家展览中心，周日这里安置了因山火而流离失所的人们。
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衣物。她说，她的两个女儿出生在法国，但她无法摆脱一种恐惧：如果她离开这个国家，可能会被禁止返回。
她的朋友阿提卡·法尔哈蒂（Atika Farhati），77 岁，一名退休医院工作人员，表示她担心失去自己的公寓和珍贵的财物，包括一只中国花瓶。她所在的城镇埃西讷（Eysines）位于波尔多西北部，正处于火灾路径上，旋风将大西洋的风向东吹向城市，将火势推向此处。
“天空是红色的，”她回忆起从五楼阳台看到的被火焰灼烧的景象时说道，“现在我们来到了这里，只能好奇这一切将如何结束。”
对于罗杰·皮隆（Roger Peuron）来说，结果并没有什么疑问。皮隆先生，89 岁，是一名曾在圣梅达尔-昂-雅勒斯（Saint-Mégard-en-Jalles）一家军工厂工作的退休工程师。他说，他确信火势会在到达他的城镇之前被截住，哪怕仅仅是为了防止火灾点燃一家生产战略弹道导弹燃料的工厂。
“如果那种事发生在工业区，”他说，“那将是一场真正的灾难。”
尽管如此，皮隆先生表示，法国从未见过这样的火灾，这引发了关于人们应如何改变与环境关系的问题。几个世纪以来在整个地区种植的连片松林，现在成了火灾的助燃剂。
“我们需要更换树种，因为松树的树脂是易燃的，而且这些树根不深，很容易被风吹倒，”皮隆先生说，“种植松树是为了排干该地区的沼泽，但它们已不再适应这里的环境。”
“我们需要红杉，”他补充道，“它们很坚固！”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 周一，法国西南部拉卡诺（Lacanau）的消防工作。约 220,000 人已撤离。
法国官员支持皮隆先生关于火灾异常性质的观点，认为这反映了气候变暖。自上周火灾开始以来，纪龙多省约 42,000 公顷（或 103,000 英亩）的土地被焚毁。这迫使约 220,000 人撤离，是法国历史上规模最大的和平时期撤离行动之一。
与此同时，西班牙中部的火灾焚毁了约 50,000 公顷土地，导致 105,000 人流离失所。
根据法国内政部长洛朗·努涅斯（Laurent Nuñez）的数据，今年夏天到目前为止，森林火灾在法国已焚毁 115,000 公顷。相比之下，2014 到 2023 年间的年平均损失为 9,000 公顷。在被认为具有毁灭性并促使法国加强消防资源的 2022 年夏季，约有 70,000 公顷土地被焚毁。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 周六，“蟑螂人民党”（Cockroach Janta Party）的成员。示威活动已经结束，但此后已有数百人被捕。
……关于 5 月份引发该运动的试卷泄露投诉。
但也有打击镇压的迹象。在印度由莫迪（Modi）的印度人民党（Bharatiya Janata Party）及其盟友控制的部分地区（远离新德里），数百名抗议者被捕。为了让抗议者停止行动而做出的承诺之一是，不会对他们采取惩罚性行动。一名抗议者发言人在周一发帖称，在“这些邦”发生的任何逮捕事件“因此是令人深切关注的问题”。
关于这次由一个自称“蟑螂人民党”的临时团体领导的运动所取得的胜利程度，人们仍存疑问。
官方而言，他们的目标很狭窄，集中在漏洞百出的标准化考试系统的细节上，并要求教育部长辞职。然而对许多人来说，他们的目标似乎已宽泛到关系到印度民主本身的未来。
在德里学习法律的学生阿什查里亚·达古尔（Ashcharya Dagur）表示，结果证明了“抗议并非毫无意义；这是一个感觉比我们所有人都要重要的时刻”。
但她表示，教育部长的辞职是“象征性的”，而更换部长……
“无法修复该系统。”（莫迪先生立即从内阁中任命一名右翼人物接替该空缺职位。） 一些与她一同游行的抗议者对势头的中断感到失望。 “这感觉像是危机公关，”两个年幼学生的父亲拉杰·库马尔（Raj Kumar）说道。为了周六参加抗议活动，他从西孟加拉邦跋涉了 800 英里。在其他人庆祝时，他显得十分沮丧。
周日，一团浓重的黄橙色烟云笼罩在波尔多（Bordeaux）上空。这座拥有 260,000 居民的优雅城市，以作为法国葡萄酒工业中心而闻名。街道上弥漫着刺鼻的味道，空气中飘浮着微小的烟灰颗粒。行人戴着口罩，许多人将自己反锁在家中。 随着火势向市界蔓延，波尔多市长托马斯·卡泽纳夫（Thomas Cazenave）周日表示，当局预计无需下令撤离。但他和其他官员警告说，由于风向变化和高温，消防员难以控制火势，因此“不确定性”是当前的关键词。 波尔多的天气预报预计，周二最高气温将达到 37 摄氏度，周三将达到 41 摄氏度——约 99 和 106 华氏度。
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到周一，库马尔先生已在乘车回家的长途火车上。“这些抗议活动本可以带来更大的成果，”他在一次电话采访中表示，并指出该运动最著名的领导者缺乏经验。“那些说这些抗议仅关乎教育而非政治的人，并不明白这些学生今天面临的问题正是掌权者政治运作的结果。” 30 岁的阿比吉特·迪普克（Abhijeet Dipke）
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在展览中心，人们议论纷纷，讨论在被允许返回家中之前还需要等待多久。 人们通过阅读、打牌来消磨时间；而一名叫朱利安·霍查德（Julien Hochard）的年轻人则在拨弄他的吉他。 “我们看到这里产生了一种凝聚力，而且这种凝聚力正在缓慢增长，”霍查德先生说道，他正坐在朋友塞琳·拉蒂格（Céline Lartigue）身旁的行军床上。后者表示，消防员遏制火势的努力让她印象深刻。 但来自旁边床位的拉巴·布卡布斯（Rabah Boukabous）则出声表示反对。 “我认为当局反应太慢了，”他说。“他们本该意识到情况的严重性。” “他们无法阻止火灾，” 70 岁的布卡布斯先生说，“但他们本可以将其限制在更小范围内。”
他在五月于波士顿创立了“蟑螂”（Cockroach）运动，并迅速成为该运动在印度的代表人物。他在周六的一次采访中——就在教育部长辞职前不到两小时——表示，他团体的目标比考试系统更宏大，而该系统多年来一直深受工业规模作弊行为的困扰。 “如果你看看印度的医疗保健，看看印度正在发生的选举舞弊，”他说，“那要严重得多，对民主也危险得多。”自周六晚上宣布胜利，以及周日表示正在治疗伤寒热以来，迪普克先生大多保持沉默。 印度政府开始宣布采取自身行动。综合来看，这些行动表明莫迪先生希望针对考试系统提供高调的技术性改革——并确保自己不会再次被抗议者击溃。 莫迪先生在“蟑螂”运动青睐的平台 Instagram 上宣布，将成立一个由名流组成的特别工作组，以根除考试系统中的功能失调。 该工作组由南丹·尼勒卡尼（Nandan Nilekani）领衔，他是一位亿万富翁技术企业家，领导了印度本土的数字身份识别和
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周一，消防员正全力遏制法国和西班牙有记录以来最大规模的野火，而新一波极端天气的威胁可能会进一步扇风点火，引发更多火灾。两国境内的烈火已吞噬干枯的森林，并已逼近马德里和波尔多的家门口。在法国受灾最严重的地区——纪龙多省，野火已烧毁超过 100,000 英亩土地，导致超过 200,000 人流离失所。这是该国历史上最大规模的和平时期疏散行动之一。“我们需要意识到，我们正面临一场完全前所未有的火灾，”法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙周一在波尔多视察消防员时表示。“我们今天面对的局面是我们有记录以来最艰难的，是自第二次世界大战以来最艰难的。”马克龙先生表示，有超过 200 栋房屋被摧毁，但没有人员伤亡。西班牙当局表示，上周末在东部的卡斯特隆省和瓦伦西亚省至少有两人死亡。由于连续数周的热浪和干旱导致植被枯竭，法国和西班牙的火势抵御了 4,000 多名消防员全天候的遏制努力。周日晚上条件的短暂缓解（包括波尔多附近的一场小雨）帮助消防员减缓了几个区域的火势蔓延。但本周欧洲各地预报将出现危险的热浪和强风，这增加了对新火灾的恐惧。气象学家警告称，将出现阵风、低湿度，且气温将突破 100 华氏度。西班牙内政部长费尔南多·格兰德-马拉斯卡周一表示，在极端高温预计回归之前，消防员有两天“至关重要”的窗口期来控制马德里周边的火势。“我们控制住了紧急情况，并且拥有资源，但我们必须承认，由于天气的不利，进度缓慢，”格兰德-马拉斯卡先生在周一的新闻发布会上说道。“今天和明天绝对至关重要。周三的预报非常不利。”根据西班牙生态转型部的说法，这次野火已经是该国近代史上规模最大的。西班牙当局已下令疏散 60,000 人。
Mark Landler, Leo Sands, Nazaneen Ghaffar, Giulia Imbert 和 Ephrat Livni 参与了报道。
支付计划，该委员会在确保高等教育残酷的选拔过程之公平方面迈出了一步。莫迪先生已经承诺，任何被发现破坏考试的人都将受到严惩。而对于那些将希望寄托在考试结果、大学录取和体面就业之上的印度 Z 世代青年，帮助他们的更大障碍仍然没有答案。
在其他地方，出现了加强镇压的迹象。在西孟加拉邦，由莫迪先生政党建立的新邦政府逮捕了 14 人，原因是他们参加了在加尔各答举行的与“蟑螂”（Cockroach）组织相关的抗议活动，该邦领导人声称他们得到了“伊斯兰原教旨主义者”的支持。在邻近的比哈尔邦，据“蟑螂”组织的一位发言人称，数百名抗议者被捕，其中包括一名反对派政治家的儿子。
是在网络上，“蟑螂”组织在策略上胜过了印度政府，而现在政府正在追赶。到周一，被关闭近一周的移动数据网络已恢复，但印度报纸报道称，警方已指示社交媒体公司删除冒犯莫迪先生的帖子。
马德里周边地区的人们。数百英里外的卡斯特隆，一场不断恶化的火灾在周末迫使另外 16,000 人撤离。火势开辟了一个危险的新战线，威胁到了一个国家公园。周一下午在当地视察时，首相佩德罗·桑切斯（Pedro Sánchez）表示，自上周以来，山火已烧毁超过 100,000 英亩土地。“这场气候紧急情况已经超过了科学家长期以来向西班牙及整个欧洲警告的所有阈值和规模，”桑切斯先生说。他敦促那些被撤离的人们耐心等待，直到安全返回。
在法国，火灾导致从波尔多南部前往巴约讷（Bayonne）的一条高速公路关闭，波尔多南部的火车服务也被取消。火灾还威胁到波尔多附近的一个航空航天和国防工业中心，危及一些生产世界上最先进技术并处理危险材料的工厂。部分员工已从一个地块撤离，该地块将化学火箭燃料装入潜艇发射核导弹的助推器中；另一处撤离地则是这些导弹退役后进行拆解和除污的场所。
对于波尔多地区的酿酒师来说，火灾产生的烟雾在今夏的高温和干旱之外又增加了一层威胁。此时距离葡萄采收仅剩几周，果实极易吸收烟雾。“今年，感觉我们仿佛在另一个星球上，”在弗隆萨克（Fronsac）经营独立酿酒业务的加布里埃尔·巴雷（Gabriel Barre），44 岁，说道。
六年前，北加利福尼亚州的酿酒师被迫倾倒了数万吨被大规模山火烟雾污染的葡萄。加州州长应急服务办公室周末表示，法国已请求有关如何最佳扑灭火灾的信息。根据该办公室的消息，该州向法国和西班牙官员提供了加州重大山火的案例研究。
法国内政部长洛朗·努涅斯（Laurent Nuñez）周一表示，今年夏天到目前为止，法国已有 116,000 公顷（约 287,000 英亩）的森林被烧毁。这远远超过了之前的纪录，即 2022. 年烧毁的 72,000 公顷。当时的破坏导致政府加强并扩大了其消防系统。
首相塞巴斯蒂安·勒科尔尼（Sébastien Lecornu）周一在社交媒体上表示，自 7 月 6 日以来，法国已有 162 人因与火灾有关而被逮捕。他警告说，纵火是可判处 15 年监禁的犯罪行为。
周日柏林的一场纪念活动，勃兰登堡门被点亮，显示出“柏林，自由之城”的字样。在周六发生的一起恐怖袭击中，一名波兰女性被杀，另有 29 人受伤。
作者：JIM TANKERSLEY 和 PHILIP KALETA
柏林——德国总理 Friedrich Merz 周一呼吁加强对安全威胁人员的监控。此前一天，检察官表示，周六在柏林一次同性恋骄傲活动附近发动恐怖袭击的嫌疑人已于 5 月被释放。
“如果我们无法拘留此类潜在的犯罪者，我们必须尽一切努力尽可能限制他们的行动自由，”Merz 先生在新闻发布会上表示。
周日，德国当局还透露，该嫌疑人曾试图加入伊斯兰国（Islamic State）恐怖组织，并此前因筹备严重暴力行为而被判处监禁。该嫌疑人于周日被警方击毙。
“这是对我们自由社会的攻击，”Merz 先生说。“我们将尽一切努力保护和捍卫这种自由、这种开放以及我们社会的自由价值观。”
关于嫌疑人的披露加剧了德国关于宗教极端主义和公共安全的辩论，当局将此次袭击称为一次伊斯兰恐怖主义行为。Merz 先生表示，当局需要解决该嫌疑人是如何能够“毫无阻碍”地前往骄傲活动现场的。
此次袭击造成一名女性死亡，另有 29 人受伤。波兰外交部发言人 Maciej Wewior 周一表示，该女性是一名波兰公民。
周日，柏林检察官将嫌疑人确定为一名 21 岁的德国公民，名为 Abdul B.，根据德国隐私法，其姓氏被隐去。据两名要求匿名讨论案件细节的知情人士透露，他的全名是 Abdul Rahman Toufiq Ballout。
检察官表示，该嫌疑人在 2025 年 5 月前往其有亲属关系的黎巴嫩后，试图加入 ISIS。他们表示，他当时想从那里跨越边境进入叙利亚，但在黎巴嫩被逮捕，并因煽动宗教和教派冲突等罪行被判处三个月监禁。
该嫌疑人于 11 月返回德国，并在柏林机场被逮捕。他被羁押在审前拘留所直到 5 月，随后被少年法庭判处一年 10 个月监禁，罪名包括“筹备危害国家的严重暴力行为”。检察官还表示，他在 2024, 年曾在社交媒体账户上发布 ISIS 的宣传内容。
然而，该判决被缓刑，Ballout 先生被释放并被置于监——
柏林——周末柏林骄傲庆典中心的游行是一场由亮片、羽毛、彩虹旗和强劲的电子舞曲交织而成的阳光幻影。庆典被金属围栏墙环绕，并由 2,200 名警察把守——比去年的 1,300 名有所增加，因为该市试图遏制针对柏林同性恋群体的一波暴力浪潮。
这些预防措施未能阻止周六深夜发生的一起袭击。当时，一名袭击者驾驶一辆租赁的面包车，冲向一群通过市中心蒂尔加滕公园（Tiergarten park）一条侧街离开庆典的人群，该地点就在安全警戒线之外。他随后用一把看似砍刀的武器攻击他人，令那些认为额外安保措施能保护他们的人感到震惊。
“他到底是怎么进到蒂尔加滕的？”参加活动的 Benjamin Bock 问道，他说自己在袭击发生前 10 分钟还身处现场。
“到处都是防汽车和防卡车的路障。数千名警察在值勤。”当局表示，一名女性被杀，29 人受伤。警方在周日晚上开枪击毙了主嫌疑人，结束了为期一天的全国搜捕。官员们将此次事件定性为伊斯兰恐怖主义，并将袭击者命名为 21 岁的 Abdul B.，根据德国的隐私法省略了其姓氏。对于柏林的男同性恋、女同性恋、双性恋和跨性别者以及市政府官员来说，这是一个所有恐惧汇聚在一起的时刻。近年来，他们加强了骄傲节活动的安保工作，在遏制针对该群体的犯罪激增方面似乎取得了进展。柏林在 2024 年启动了一项打击针对其同性恋群体暴力和歧视的行动。根据城市统计数据，2016 年至 2025 年间，柏林的“反酷儿”犯罪增加了三倍多。
暴力反酷儿犯罪增加了 50%。暴力和非暴力犯罪均在 2023 年达到顶峰，并在该市启动战略后有所下降，但这两类犯罪仍处于历史高位。该行动的大部分重点在于应对德国极右翼势力日益增长的敌意；在柏林，极右翼意识形态是去年恐同袭击中最常被提及的具体动机。但在当局表示犯罪分子曾试图加入伊斯兰恐怖组织 ISIS 后，社区领袖表示，他们越来越担心来自具有更广泛政治和宗教动机的人员的威胁。“我们柏林的酷儿群体感到越来越不安全，”民权组织 LSVD 柏林-勃兰登堡酷儿多样性协会执行董事 Florian Winkler-Schwarz 在一次采访中说道。Winkler-Schwarz 先生表示，周六的警察部署和其他安全措施“极其之高”。但他说，“我认为对于这样一个规模巨大的活动，无法保证 100 percent 的安全。”Alfonso Pantisano 是柏林州政府的 L.G.B.T.Q. 事务专员，这一职位的设立是打击针对该群体暴力和歧视战略的一部分。由于自就职以来收到了威胁，他在警察护送下参加了克里斯托弗大街日庆祝活动。他在现场停留至周日上午深夜，以帮助和安慰袭击后撤离的人们。“我的心碎了，”Pantisano 先生在采访中说。“这让我怀疑，在我目前的生活中——我现在 52 岁了——我是否能达到这样一个点，让我能代表酷儿群体最终地说，我们真正安全了。”柏林的许多节日参与者也面临着类似的恐惧。周日下午，在雨中，Uwe Brzezek 和他的伴侣 Olav Kedziora 站在一座教堂的追思会外，周围是数十名哀悼者。有些人挥舞着骄傲旗。Brzezek 先生和 Kedziora 先生参加了周六的骄傲庆典，但在袭击发生前几小时就离开了。“昨天，我的朋友们为了骄傲节盛装打扮，”Kedziora 先生说。“但在乘坐地铁回家前，他们换回了便装。他们害怕被骚扰。你本希望，至少在那样的一天，是没有必要这么做的。”Brzezek 先生说，当他 1990 年代搬到柏林时，“我从未感到害怕过。”现在情况改变了。“现在有些场合我会刻意避开。”有些人说他们感到
尤其是在移民数量较多、包括较多保守派伊斯兰主义者的地区，情况尤为不安全。当局表示，嫌疑人为一名具有黎巴嫩背景的德国公民，居住在阿拉伯居民较多的地区，并产生了极端主义观点。凯齐奥拉（Kedziora）先生说：“多样性本身似乎正在成为一种挑战。太多的极端在碰撞。我们必须学会如何共存。”周日参加纪念活动的某些人士表示，德国领导人加剧了不安全感。他们点名批评了极右翼的“德国选择党”（Alternative for Germany），该党凭借一套将家庭定义为“由一名男子、一名女子及其子女组成”的政纲，在全国民调中排名上升。其他人则批评了总理弗里德里希·默茨（Friedrich Merz），他去年为不在联邦议会大厦悬挂彩虹旗的决定辩护，称议会“不是马戏团帐篷”。
周日在柏林圣玛丽亚教堂举行的纪念仪式，此前一天一名袭击者驾车冲进一项骄傲节庆祝活动的人群。
周一，人们在柏林市中心的蒂尔加滕公园（Tiergarten）表达哀悼。此次事件导致数十人受伤，一名女性死亡。
将用于冲撞庆祝人群的车辆移走。当局认为此次事件为伊斯兰主义恐怖袭击。
默茨先生和柏林市长凯·韦格纳（Kai Wegner）周日出席了纪念活动。随后，韦格纳先生领导了一次从教堂前往勃兰登堡门（Brandenburg Gate）的静默游行，数百人加入了此次游行。
默茨先生在仪式前发表了简短讲话，对袭击事件表示愤怒，并对该群体表达团结。在当晚稍后的一次演讲中，他进一步阐述道。
“暴力并非始于袭击，”他说。“暴力始于不宽容，始于排斥，始于歧视，始于愚蠢的言论和低俗的玩笑。”
当局表示，他们将审查安全协议，以确定袭击者是如何能够在如此接近庆祝活动的地方针对人群的。
官员和参与者一致表示，暴力不会阻止他们未来的庆祝活动。
“是的，事后我很害怕，”朱莉娅·普鲁斯（Julia Preuss）说道，她站在前一天她起舞的游行路线附近几码处。“但这不会阻止我再次参加骄傲节。坦白说：现在比以往任何时候都更想去。”
她的周围，人行道上散落着手工制作的标牌，周围簇拥着花束。
其中一块标牌写道：“我们人数众多。”另一块标牌简单地写着：“爱至至胜”。
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ANNEGRET HILSE/路透社
EBRAHIM NOROOZI/美联社
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一名缓刑监督员的监管。检察官表示，法院考虑了若干因素，包括他曾在德国和黎巴嫩被羁押九个月，他已基本认罪并与伊斯兰国（ISIS）保持距离，且尚未出现实际威胁。检察官表示，他们已提起上诉并请求延长刑期。此次袭击以及披露该嫌疑人此前已被当局知晓且在短短两个多月前获释，使得一些政治家和分析人士更加呼吁德国在反恐方面采取更强硬的手段。在重要的地区选举前几个月，这些要求进一步升级，民调显示极右翼政党有望获得增长，部分原因是人们对暴力上升的担忧。极右翼的“德国选择党”（Alternative for Germany）表示，柏林袭击事件证明了政府在安全政策上的失败，因为其过度关注了错误的目标。该党的内政发言人马丁·赫斯（Martin Hess）在社交媒体上表示：“必须最终结束对右翼极端主义的单方面痴迷，并根据实际事实进行调整。”伦敦国王学院安全研究教授彼得·纽曼（Peter Neumann）表示，德国对恐怖主义相关犯罪的量刑比法国、英国以及美国等其他欧洲国家都要轻。其目标是让当事人接受重新教育，使他们有更好的机会成为对社会有贡献的成员。但他说，考虑到该嫌疑人试图加入伊斯兰国的行为如此激进，在这个案例中，这是一个错误。纽曼教授指出，该嫌疑人在被释放出羁押之前仅一年就试图加入该伊斯兰恐怖组织，“在恐怖主义案件中，即使嫌疑人非常年轻，公众的保护应比教育方面更为重要。”但格赖夫斯瓦尔德大学（University of Greifswald）犯罪学荣休教授弗里德尔·登克尔（Frieder Dünkel）为该制度辩护，认为这是处理年轻犯罪者的一种在很大程度上有效的方法。他在一封电子邮件中写道：“我们认为没有必要重新考虑整个制度，”相反，官员们应该考虑“在个案中哪里出了问题”。梅尔茨（Mr. Merz）先生表示，现在确定此次袭击的政治后果还为时过早，但他不敢相信巴卢特（Mr. Ballout）先生没有受到更严密的监视。他说：“我无法理解，我可以在世界上任何地方追踪我的手机——甚至使用手机来确定我的iPad在哪里——然而，据称德国安全部门竟然无法在任何时间确定一个构成如此重大威胁的个体身在何处，或者在技术上无法实现。”
可能的天然气；以及在屋顶甚至车辆上安装太阳能电池板。 这些替代方案共同构成了一个新的古巴能源网——这一次，它更多地掌握在古巴人民手中，在电力中断、燃料耗尽的情况下支撑着社会。 这些解决方案使古巴政府能够通过每天仅提供几个小时的照明来定量配电，尽可能延长其剩余的稀缺燃料，以努力承受华盛顿激烈的压力攻势。 结果是，古巴在没有燃料运输的情况下坚持的时间远比特朗普政府预期的要长。 在近七十年的美国压力下，古巴突破重围，通过即兴应对地生存了下来。 现在看来，特朗普先生和之前的许多美国总统一样，也发现推翻由菲德尔·卡斯特罗建立的政府并非那么简单。 国务卿马可·鲁比奥上周告诉记者，特朗普政府仍然希望看到古巴政府倒台。 “对于如何实现这一点，我们准备采取非常现实且耐心的态度，”他说。“这些是复杂的事情，需要时间，显然我们准备尽力而为。” 古巴政府正在寻求一项协议。古巴外交部副部长卡洛斯·费尔南德斯·德·科西奥在一次采访中表示：“古巴不是美国的敌人。我们希望的是一种建设性和相互尊重的关系。” 与此同时，古巴人民像几十年来一直那样，在艰苦条件下维持生活。“古巴人在危机中成长，”55 岁的农民翁贝托·帕尔梅罗说道。他站在古巴海岸线沿岸他生长起伏的山丘上，望向佛罗里达方向。他的兄弟姐妹已经离开前往迈阿密，他的两个孩子正逃往西班牙，但他表示他决定留下。 在听说石油封锁后，帕尔梅罗先生在 YouTube 上学习了如何将废旧塑料蒸馏成自制汽油和柴油。此后，他在后院搭建了一个微型临时炼油厂，用于为他的摩托车提供动力并点燃炉灶。 “我们寻找解决方案，”他说。“经济限制正在慢慢杀死我们，但我们正在竭尽全力地挺住，设法生存下去，直到看看接下来会发生什么。”
“我们正在竭尽全力地挺住。”
苦难与坚韧：在哈瓦那及其他地区，危机的影响显而易见。我们遇到了一些家庭，因为政府水泵耗尽了柴油，他们不得不步行两小时去取水。由于缺乏烹饪燃料，妇女们在街上烧柴火。失去电力的冰箱变成了储物柜。在城市停止公共巴士服务后，公路两旁到处是搭便车的人。数十人告诉我们，在没有风扇或空调的酷暑中经历了这么多不眠之夜后，他们感到精疲力竭。但我们也看到一个仍在运转的国家。道路上有车辆行驶——尽管黑市汽油价格高达每加仑 $30 —— 因为许多车辆是电动的。餐厅为少数负担得起的人开业，由后方轰鸣的发电机供电。医院、政府大楼和机场有电，因为它们处于电网的保护区域。医疗诊所、养老院和银行
分支机构依靠中国捐赠的太阳能电池板运行。手机信号有时可用。播放世界杯的电视机并不难找到。甚至路边摊也利用太阳能冰箱提供冰啤酒。但这种临时能源网络也暴露了古巴的不平等。电池、太阳能电池板和电动汽车绝大多数属于较富裕的古巴人，这通常意味着那些在海外有亲属的人。他们较贫穷的邻居往往在没有电力的情况下生活，并在通货膨胀上升之中靠微薄的薪水勉强度日。“这里的情况不错，因为老板买得起太阳能电池板，”26 岁的 Yeny Oliva 说道，她是路边餐厅的一名调酒师。“但对我们来说，在家里，生活很糟糕。”她说，在每天大约 $1 的工资水平下，她很难为 3 岁的女儿买牛奶，而且没有电的情况下，食物很快就会腐烂。不过，她也对太阳能心存感激。如果没有电，餐厅就关门了。后来，老板安装了电池板，她得以重返工作岗位。
在哈瓦那停电期间玩多米诺骨牌。为了维持能源供应，政府在特定时间和特定地点战略性地切断电力。
虽然并非每个人都买得起替代电源，但能源已经产生了下渗效应。电动三轮车接送人们上班。太阳能电池板让商店得以营业。人们通过邻居的电池或工作场所的发电机为手机和灯笼充电。 在其中一个社区，我们看到少数拥有发电机的家庭之一在街上安装了一台电视，以便孩子们观看动画片。 “我们还没有达到人道主义危机的地步，正是因为我们社会的坚韧，”古巴外交部副部长 Fernández de Cossio 先生在哈瓦那的菲德尔·卡斯特罗博物馆中说道，那里亮着灯，但空调已经坏了。“美国政治圈内部的普遍预期是，古巴无法在 4 月之后生存。而我们现在依然在这里。”
竭尽全力 除了 3 月份的一艘俄罗斯油轮外，盟友们一直不愿挑战华盛顿有效的石油封锁。 结果，古巴仅依靠国内石油、天然气以及由中国赞助的日益增长的太阳能公园网络来驱动其电网。根据德克萨斯大学研究古巴能源的 Jorge Piñón 的说法，这些能源总共足以支撑古巴大约一半的需求。 为了维持这一供应，政府在特定时间和特定地点战略性地切断电力。它还以较低的容量运行工厂以防止崩溃；开采更多的天然气；甚至尝试精炼多年旧油罐底部的油泥残留物。 “他们简直是在搜刮桶底（竭尽全力），”Piñón 先生说。 Piñón 先生表示，他和其他分析师在预测古巴政府将在 3 月耗尽燃料储备时，低估了古巴政府的 资源利用能力 。但现在，他对政府 5 月份声称该岛已耗尽燃料的说法持怀疑态度。在我们的行程中，很明显汽油和柴油仍在流通。 至少有一部分来自美国。特朗普政府允许向古巴的私人企业提供有限的燃料出口，这减轻了黑市油价的压力。 上周，美国政府第一批 1 亿美元 ($100 million) 的援助到账。 这些举措表明了
[[IMG_XXXX]] Yeny Oliva 工作的餐厅安装了太阳能电池板以维持营业。“但对我们来说，在家里，”她说，“生活很糟糕。”
HUMBERTO PALMERO，一名 55 岁的农民，他在自家后院搭建了一个微型的临时精炼厂。
特朗普政府正在对古巴施加压力，命令其他国家停止燃料运输，但允许美国自己的运输，随后又针对由此引发的危机提供援助。一名白宫发言人表示，特朗普政府将古巴视为对国家安全的威胁。
疲惫不堪的古巴人告诉我们，他们对哈瓦那和华盛顿都感到愤怒。然而，没有人说他们计划走上街头。除了敲击锅碗瓢盆，古巴人民几乎没有组织过抗议活动。
“如果你走到街上表达观点，他们会把你扔进监狱或罚款，”24 岁的 David Hechavarría Gamboa 在一条昏暗的街道上与妻子并肩站立时说道。“我不能让我的家人冒险。”
古巴农村地区的电网多年来一直在衰败，使得停电——以及可再生能源——已经变得普遍。
追逐日光 当美国军队在 1 月抓获委内瑞拉领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗（Nicolás Maduro）时，Nelson Vega 意识到古巴出问题了。多年来，委内瑞拉的石油一直在为古巴提供动力。
一个月后，38 岁的企业家 Vega 先生从佛罗里达州的亲戚那里借钱，花费 $4,850 购买了一辆中国制造的电动三轮车。充电需要 10 小时，而停电很快就让充电变得困难。于是，他进一步投资 $600 在车顶安装了太阳能电池板。
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现在，他只要将车停在阳光下晒一天，就能充满整个电池。“对我来说，这就是未来，”他说。“我们将克服美国的封锁。”
当我们前往哈瓦那市外时，太阳能电池板大量涌现。古巴农村地区的电网多年来一直在衰败，使得停电——以及太阳能电池板——已经变得普遍。
在向西行驶的路上，我们在一个覆盖着电池板的屋顶上见到了 Abel Menéndez。他说，他已经销售和安装太阳能套件五年了，但现在供应和需求都激增。与此同时，成本有所下降，单块电池板的价格从一年前的 $500 降至约 $400。“人们一直在打电话，”他说。
我们还偶然发现了一片新的电池板阵列——这是政府 54 个太阳能公园之一，其中大多数是在 2025 年以后落成的，且全部是在中国的帮助下建设的。
很少有国家像古巴这样快速采用太阳能。政府表示，太阳能目前可满足古巴约 10% 的电力需求，高于 2025 年初的 3%。古巴官员的目标是在 2050 年前完全依赖可再生能源。
目前，太阳能提供了一定的助力，但几乎无法解决古巴的问题。这个岛国缺乏储存太阳能所需的大型电池。这意味着它在正午时分可提供古巴约 20% 的电力，但在日落后（即用电需求高峰期）几乎无法提供任何电力。
勉强维持
也许目前古巴最热门的产品是便携式锂电池，它们在几个小时内即可充满电，然后能临时为电视机、风扇甚至冰箱供电。最受欢迎的型号在古巴售价约为 $750，由从中国进口这些电池的古巴人通过社交媒体销售。这超过了大多数古巴人的年收入，因此大多数电池是由海外亲属资助购买的。
其他古巴人则利用用于烹饪和加热水的管道天然气为家中供电。哈瓦那约有 280,000 处住宅拥有此类天然气管道，许多人将其连接到经过改装的、原设计为使用液体燃料的发电机上。古巴在境内生产这种天然气，因此它是少数不受封锁影响的能源之一。
这种天然气也很便宜，特别是对于那 120,000 户无论使用量多少都支付固定费率的家庭而言。一名男子表示，他几乎没停过使用天然气发电机，但每月账单仍然是同样的 50 比索，即 8 美分。
在我们停留哈瓦那的最后几个夜晚之一，我们发现一家酒吧在午夜过后依然客满，其串灯和拉丁音乐都由一台天然气发电机供电。在店外，我们遇到了 37 岁的 Kiké Rodríguez，他是古巴烧烤业务 Manteca 的创始人，该业务在危机期间得到了扩张。他目前雇佣 18 人，向哈瓦那各地的客户烹饪并配送猪肉和plantains（大蕉）。
“我们是这方面的专家，”他说。“我们一生都在想办法解决问题。”他指向屋顶，说他正在完成一次装修，准备开设他的第一家实体餐厅，餐厅将由同一台发电机供电。
“事情会如何发展？没人知道，”他补充道。“但当人们说这个国家即将崩溃时，我并不完全明白他们是什么意思。”
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……以及暴力”，并指责他们服务于外国议程，显然是指伊朗。
但据与该民兵组织打过交道的官员和外交官称，久经沙场的胡塞武装可能认为，通过与沙特阿拉伯展开新冲突，他们能获得巨大的利益，包括获取也门石油收入以及对该国拥有更大的控制权。
“我们的灵魂满足于任何程度的牺牲，”该组织领导人阿卜杜勒-马利克·胡塞（Abdulmalik al-Houthi）在 7 月 16, 与沙特阿拉伯紧张局势升级后的一次电视演讲中说道。
全面战争的风险增加 研究该组织的研究人员表示，胡塞武装的行动旨在支持其主要盟友伊朗，同时地迫使沙特阿拉伯和国际社会在也门问题上做出政治让步。在过去的一周里，胡塞武装向沙特阿拉伯以及红海上的船只发射了导弹和无人机，扰乱了本已动荡的全球能源市场；与此同时，由沙特领导的军事联盟多年来首次在胡塞武装控制的领土上进行了空袭。
“人们真正担心的是也门内部战争可能会重新点燃，”曾在联合国参与也门和平进程工作、现为研究机构华盛顿研究所（Washington Institute）高级研究员的分析师艾普丽尔·艾莉（April Alley）表示。
这篇关于也门局势的报道基于对也门官员、参与也门和平进程的现任和前任西方外交官以及区域分析师的采访。许多人在讨论敏感政治谈判细节时要求匿名。
分析师表示，胡塞武装为沙特阿拉伯选择了一个脆弱的时机。沙特阿拉伯通常通过霍尔木兹海峡出口大部分石油，而自从伊朗战争开始以来，伊朗实际上封锁了这条狭窄的水道。该王国现在依赖红海出口石油——这是其经济的命脉。
“胡塞武装很擅长嗅出水中的血腥味，”艾莉女士说。
国际危机组（International Crisis Group）也门高级分析师艾哈迈德·纳吉（Ahmed Nagi）表示，到目前为止，沙特的反应经过谨慎衡量，试图避免被卷入一场更大规模的战争。但他补充说，如果他们完全克制，则有鼓励胡塞武装之风险。
“沙特人被逼到了墙角，他们觉得如果保持沉默，代价将会更高，”他说。
这场权力斗争之中被困住的是数千万遭受普遍匮乏之苦的也门公民。其中一些人表示，即使回到战争状态也比目前的绝望要好。
“我们已经受够了这种苦难，我们需要一个出路，无论是通过对话还是战争，”在胡塞武装控制的也门首都萨那（Sanaa）担任出租车司机、拥有四个孩子的 43 岁父亲艾曼·阿卜杜勒哈克（Ayman Abdulhaq）说道。
“人们总是在寻找突破口，无论后果如何，”他补充道。
内塔尼亚胡在赴美期间的平衡之举
由以色列引起，并导致了以色列与华盛顿之间的紧张关系。 两位领导人在结束伊朗核计划以及推翻该国权威神权统治者的战争目标上均未取得成效，这场针对伊朗的共同战争始于 2 月下旬。 “我们看到特朗普有兴趣达成一项协议，”特拉维夫国家安全研究中心的伊朗专家、前以色列军事情报指挥官丹尼·西特里诺维奇（Danny Citrinowicz）表示。“以色列不想听到关于协议的消息，因此双方的利益并不一致，”他说道。 他表示，以色列领导人认为重新陷入战争更为可取，因为任何美国与伊朗达成的和平协议都将加强他们希望将其推翻的德黑兰政府。 当以色列专注于伊朗核野心可能带来的生存威胁时，特朗普先生的关注点则在于确保通过霍尔木兹海峡（油轮运输的关键航线）的通行自由。 在最近一次针对伊朗的战斗中，美国一直处于单打独斗的状态，而在那之前，美国在很大程度上将作为战争伙伴的以色列排除在和平谈判之外。 分析人士表示，如果特朗普先生扩大对伊朗的攻击，他可能仍然希望让以色列处于旁观地位。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 一张在也门萨那反对战争的抗议活动中，伊朗领导人阿里·哈梅内伊（Ayatollah Ali Khamenei）的照片，后者于 2 月被击毙。
“沙特人试图通过挥金如土来解决每一个问题，而胡塞武装则通过开火来解决。”
法里亚·穆斯利米（FAREA AL-MUSLIMI），伦敦英国皇家国际事务研究所研究员。
以色列与美国领导人的关系波动剧烈。
“讽刺的是，”西特里诺维奇先生说，内塔尼亚胡先生曾告诉特朗普先生，伊朗前最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊“必须被击毙”，以防止伊朗获得核武器。“现在出现了一个新的哈梅内伊，而以色列再次表示必须阻止伊朗获得核武器。” 内塔尼亚胡先生此次访问的时间安排，是为了让他能参加参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（Lindsey Graham）的追思礼拜。他在以色列的选举活动中一直标榜自己与特朗普先生的密切关系。但这种关系在过去几个月里波动不定，近期似乎处于低谷。 特朗普先生的态度已从赞扬内塔尼亚胡是一位伟大的战时领导人，转而对其贬低。
胡塞武装起初是也门北部山区一群杂乱的什叶派穆斯林反抗军，口号是呼吁美国和以色列灭亡。在伊朗的支持下，他们在 2014 年通过占领首都并击败萨那的国际认可政府，引发了一场内战。 作为也门北邻的沙特阿拉伯，对于边界出现一个由伊朗支持的民兵组织感到担忧。一个由沙特领导的军事联盟开始了轰炸行动，支持也门内部试图恢复政府的抗胡塞武装力量。 但战争拖延了数年，由于在加剧也门本已严重的人道主义危机方面扮演的角色而面临国际压力，沙特阿拉伯最终撤出了。 即便如此，沙特官员在远处依然对也门的各项事务拥有最终决定权。
胡塞武装对沙特停战的挫败感是逐渐累积的
起初，双方的军事疲劳和政治意愿似乎能够带来持久的和平。据参与这些努力的也门和西方官员称，在2023年年底，在联合国的帮助下，沙特阿拉伯和胡塞武装接近签署一项初步和平协议——官员将其称为“路线图”——该协议将为长期政治解决提供一个框架。
该协议的一个关键组成部分是达成一项协议，以允许向胡塞武装控制区的也门政府雇员支付工资，这些雇员的薪水在战争期间被暂停。据两名西方外交官和一名获知该计划的也门官员称，涉及的金额巨大，每年在 $1 billion 到 $2 billion 之间。
这些人表示，这笔资金主要来自也门的石油收入，且根据该也门官员的说法，沙特政府将提供额外资金以填补任何缺口。也门的石油资源位于胡塞武装控制区之外，而胡塞武装一直渴望获得这些资源的访问权。
然而，在协议最终敲定之前，2023年10月由哈马斯领导的对以色列的袭击，以及随后以色列在加沙发起的毁灭性战争，使也门的和平进程脱轨。胡塞武装宣布开展一项声援巴勒斯坦人的军事行动，向以色列以及红海的船只发射导弹和无人机。
在整个加沙战争期间，胡塞武装避免攻击沙特阿拉伯。但他们在红海的袭击引发了依赖该航道运输的国家们的愤怒。当特朗普总统于2025年开始第二个任期时，he 宣布胡塞武装为外国恐怖组织，并对他们发动了轰炸行动。
英国皇家国际事务研究所研究员 al-Muslimi 先生表示，这一认定恶化了胡塞武装控制地区本已痛苦的经济状况，且日益增长的不满情绪给该组织带来了压力。
在基本不参与美伊战争后，胡塞武装加入混战
胡塞武装高级政治官员 Mohammed al-Bukhaiti 在一次采访中表示，沙特阿拉伯未能“执行路线图中的任何条款，其中最重要的是向所有国家雇员支付工资”。他补充说，目前的局势升级是沙特阿拉伯的过错，并指责该王国对也门的航空和航运实施不公正限制，胡塞武装及其控制区内的许多也门人将其描述为封锁。
今年2月，当美国和以色列与伊朗开战时，胡塞武装似乎愿意保持中立。几个月后，在美国和伊朗之间的停火协议失败后
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（此处接续）说道：“他会按照我的要求去做任何事。”特朗普先生确认，他在一次通话中称内塔尼亚胡先生“疯了”，并称他是一个“非常麻烦的家伙”。
内塔尼亚胡先生保持了外交上的沉默。但特朗普先生上个月结束与伊朗战争的初步协议在以色列引起了广泛不安，因为该协议在解决该国安全需求方面显然存在缺陷。
内塔尼亚胡的追随者对此的回应是诋毁美国总统及其高级助手。
随后，特朗普先生上周与沙特阿拉伯签署了一项开发民用核能项目的协议，以色列人担心这可能导致地区军备竞赛。
特朗普先生随后宣布，该协议将取决于
关于沙特阿拉伯与以色列建立外交关系，但以色列人仍未被说服。
然而，两位领导人在幕后发生的互动被证明是难以捉摸且有时令人惊讶的。分析人士表示，内塔尼亚胡先生过去曾成功影响过特朗普先生，因此很难知道两人是在僵持不下还是在秘密勾结。
前以色列驻美国大使、特拉维夫大学中东历史名誉教授伊塔玛尔·拉宾诺维奇（Itamar Rabinovich）表示，如果美国恢复对伊朗的战争，“显然特朗普并不希望表现出是在与内塔尼亚胡协作进行，因为那看起来会像是在重复几个月前那次不成功的冒险。”
但他表示，以色列最终可能会参与其中，“因为如果伊朗向以色列发射导弹，以色列将会做出回应。”
在中东地区，还有其他一些问题，以色列与特朗普政府未必达成一致，且这些问题在以色列大选前对内塔尼亚胡先生至关重要。
该政府限制了以色列针对黎巴嫩真主党民兵的军事行动，并正推动以色列开始从黎巴嫩南部和叙利亚撤军。
加沙地带的停火协议陷入困境，而在以色列占领的约旦河西岸，紧张局势和暴力事件正在上升。
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除此之外，胡塞武装的考量发生了变化。
几位分析人士表示，这种变化可能是由伊朗要求参与的压力所引发的，尽管干预也符合胡塞武装的目标。
本月，胡塞武装开始坚持要求伊朗飞机飞往萨那，而那里的航班已暂停一年。胡塞武装官员称，飞机的抵达是为了打破封锁。
该组织自称是也门的合法政府，要求取消所有进入其领土的飞机和船只的限制——包括联合国的检查机制。
一名西方外交官表示，双方曾就恢复航班进行讨论，但胡塞武装拒绝了数项提议。
当第二架伊朗航班尝试在萨那降落时，胡塞武装指责沙特阿拉伯轰炸了机场。沙特支持的也门政府则声称其发起了空袭以迫使飞机转向，并指责胡塞武装利用航班进口伊朗武器，但胡塞武装对此予以否认。
随后，胡塞武装宣布在红海封锁沙特船只。自那时起，双方均声称对对方发动了袭击。
局势是否会进一步升级，可能取决于特朗普政府的立场。
一名特朗普政府高级官员告诉《纽约时报》，美国将授权其盟友在地区安全方面发挥主导作用，并支持通过外交手段解决也门问题。
7月23日，特朗普先生在社交媒体上威胁称，如果该民兵组织继续攻击沙特油轮，将对其施以“重大的军事惩罚”。他对胡塞武装表示失望，称他们“直到现在为止，表现得非常专业且聪明”。
使用无人机发动袭击
作者：ISMAEEL NAAR
沙特阿拉伯表示，周一拦截并摧毁了数架由伊朗支持的伊拉克民兵发射的无人机。这是自美伊停火协议崩溃以来，该王国首次对来自伊拉克的此类袭击做出直接军事回应。
沙特国防部表示，这些无人机的目标是东部省和利雅得地区的石油设施。
该部门表示：“这些恐怖主义企图是从伊拉克境内发起，并由与伊朗有关联的恐怖主义民兵执行的。”这促使沙特官员要求巴格达方面防止其领土被用于发射导弹。
最新的一波冲突将沙特阿拉伯更深地拖入了不断扩大的地区冲突中。此前，也门的胡塞武装宣布在红海以及战略要地曼德海峡（Bab al-Mandab Strait，全球最重要的航运路线之一）对该王国实施封锁。
尽管自本月敌对行动重启以来，驻伊拉克民兵尚未公开承认对袭击负责，但波斯湾国家此前曾报告拦截到——
部委称造成 至少 35 人死亡
安全人员
作者：ABDI LATIF DAHIR
黎巴嫩，贝鲁特 —— 叙利亚卫生部表示，周六在叙利亚发生的一起民用巴士与另一辆载有该国安全部队成员巴士的碰撞事故中，造成至少 35 人死亡，另有 30 人受伤。该部在一份声明中表示，碰撞发生在国家中部的连接大马士革和代尔祖尔的高速公路上。卫生部表示，伤势从中度到危重不等，并补充说已将霍姆斯省和大马士革郊区省的医院、卫生局和血库置于最高警戒状态。叙利亚内政部在社交媒体的一篇帖子中表示，其中一辆巴士载有“若干内部安全部队成员”，并对此次事故表示“深切的悲痛和哀悼”。当局尚未给出碰撞的原因，也未说明是否将对其进行调查。
叙利亚总统艾哈迈德·沙拉（Ahmed al-Sharaa）向死者家属表示哀悼，并祝愿伤者早日康复。“我们已指示动员所有必要资源以处理事故后果，照顾伤员，并支持受害者家属，”沙拉先生在 X 上的一篇帖子中写道。被称作“白盔子”的叙利亚民防组织表示，其救援人员已控制住因碰撞而引发的火灾。民防部队在社交媒体上分享的照片显示，救援人员在现场努力灭火，消防车在场。其他照片则显示了碰撞现场被撞毁的巴士。其中一辆巴士似乎已被烧焦，而另一辆的侧面被撞开，座椅散落在路边。民防部队表示，其团队正在为伤者提供急救，并协助国防部将他们转移至附近医院，同时搜寻死者遗体。
致命的道路交通事故在叙利亚是一个持久的问题，基础设施恶化、道路损坏、照明不足、超速和危险超车是经常被指导致车祸的因素。多年的冲突也导致该国部分运输网络状况糟糕，而经济压力则导致维护有限的老旧车辆被继续使用。在周六事故报告出现的前几个小时，民防组织在声明中表示，周五全境共应对了 19 起交通事故，造成三人死亡，七人受伤。
在战争初期阶段，代理团体的袭击火力。 另外，胡塞武装周一表示，他们使用多架无人机袭击了连接沙特阿拉伯东部油田与红海枢纽延布（Yanbu）的原油供应和运输路线。沙特阿拉伯国防部尚未对此主张做出回应。 胡塞武装与伊拉克派系、加沙的哈马斯以及黎巴嫩的真主党一起，构成了伊朗更广泛的“抵抗之轴”的一部分。 周一，随着约旦和以色列表示他们拦截了来袭的无人机，该地区更广泛的局势依然紧张。以色列官员表示，两架无人机在约旦边境附近被拦截，当局正在调查其发射地点。 此次新袭击发生在两周期间，期间伊朗针对巴林、科威特和约旦的地点进行袭击，以回应美国的每日空袭。在过去的 48 小时内，直接袭击已有所降温，五角大楼在连续 13 个夜晚的轰炸后停止了行动，且没有新报告称伊朗袭击邻国。
作者：LARA JAKES
当美国和伊朗上个月达成一项停火协议以开放霍尔穆兹海峡时，特朗普总统迅速宣布胜利。特朗普先生在社交媒体上宣布：“这份伟大的协议将为整个地区带来和平与安全。”
这份初步协议在 6 月 17 日的一份谅解备忘录中概述，设定了 60 天的期限，旨在通过经济救济换取对伊朗核计划的限制谈判。在协议执行数周后，其 14 项要点几乎全部被违反，甚至总统也宣布协议已“结束”。
目前的情况如下：
第 1 段
美利坚合众国与伊朗伊斯兰共和国及其在当前战争中的盟友，通过签署本谅解备忘录，宣布立即且永久终止所有战线的军事行动，包括在黎巴嫩的行动，并承诺此后不再对彼此发起任何战争或任何军事行动，且克制 [对] 彼此采取威胁或使用武力，并确保黎巴嫩的领土完整和主权。最终协议将确认永久终止包括黎巴嫩在内的所有战线的战争，以及本段的其他条款。
美利坚合众国与伊朗伊斯兰共和国承诺尊重彼此的主权和领土完整，并克制干涉彼此内政。
美利坚合众国与伊朗伊斯兰共和国承诺在最多 60 天内（经双方同意可延长）进行谈判并达成最终协议。
军事行动在多个战线继续，伊朗在周四拒绝了美国的一项新停火提案。本月已有 13 个连续日，美国对伊朗实施袭击。在黎巴嫩，停火遏制了以色列军队的推进，但并未迫使以色列撤军。以色列继续打击其所描述的真主党目标；真主党则以袭击黎巴嫩南部大部分地区的以色列军队作为回应。
第 2 段
伊朗通过攻击驻有美国军队的中东国家来报复美国的袭击；自 2 月 28. 日战争开始以来，已有 18 人被杀。一些伊朗官员近期呼吁暗杀特朗普先生。
第 3 段
这似乎变得越来越不可能。60 天的期限现在仅剩 3 周，且没有实质性谈判的迹象。“我们现在面临的问题是，他们对待谈判不认真，”国务卿马可·卢比奥上周表示。“如果他们认真，我们也认真。如果他们不认真，那么我们将采取必要措施来保护我们的利益以及我们盟友的利益。”
第 4 段
在本谅解备忘录签署后，美利坚合众国将立即开始解除对伊朗伊斯兰共和国的海上封锁及任何干扰或阻碍，并在 30 天内完全结束海上封锁。在此期间，船只的交通量将与伊朗伊斯兰共和国恢复的战前交通量成比例。美利坚合众国进一步承诺在最终协议达成后 30 天内将其部队从伊朗伊斯兰共和国附近撤离。
伊朗共和国。美利坚合众国承诺相应地签发所有必要的许可证和授权。
美国的海外封锁于 7 月 13 日恢复，特朗普政府将其描述为是对一周前伊朗袭击霍尔穆兹海峡商业油气轮船的回应。德黑兰方面并未承认对这些袭击负责，并指责美国通过军事袭击和恢复石油销售制裁违反了停火协议。
周五在德黑兰的一幅伊朗已故最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊的大型壁画。
几乎所有条款 均已被 违反。
仅限 60 天，从波斯湾到阿曼海，以及反方向。商业船舶的运输将立即开始，并考虑到伊朗伊斯兰共和国清除技术和军事障碍以及排雷的需要，将在 30 天内正式启动。伊朗伊斯兰共和国将与阿曼苏丹国进行对话，以确定霍尔木兹海峡未来的管理和海事服务，并根据适用的国际法和霍尔木兹海峡沿岸国家的主权权利，与其他波斯湾沿岸国家进行讨论。
袭击事件已令大多数商业运输不敢通过霍尔木兹海峡。根据海运追踪公司 Kpler 提供的最新可用数据，周四仅有 6 艘船敢于冒险通过该海峡——这是数周以来的最低数字，而冲突前每日约有 130 艘商业船舶通过。
PARAGRAPH 6
美利坚合众国承诺与区域合作伙伴共同制定一项明确的、经双方同意的计划，拨款至少 300 billion 美元用于伊朗伊斯兰共和国的重建和经济发展。该计划的实施机制将在 60 天内作为最终协议的一部分最终确定。相关金融交易所需的所有必要许可、豁免和准许将由美利坚合众国授予。
美利坚合众国承诺在最终协议商定的时间表内，终止所有针对伊朗伊斯兰共和国的制裁，包括联合国安全理事会决议、国际原子能机构（I.A.E.A.）理事会决议，以及所有美国单方面制裁（包括一级和二级制裁）。伊朗伊斯兰共和国和美利坚合众国承认上述终止制裁问题至关重要，并表达了在谈判中立即处理这些问题的意愿，以就此达成共识。
美利坚合众国承诺，在本谅解备忘录（M.O.U.）签署后立即起，直至制裁终止前，美国财政部将为伊朗原油、石油产品及其衍生品的出口，以及所有相关服务（包括银行交易、保险、运输等）提供豁免。
美利坚合众国承诺在执行本谅解备忘录后，全面开放伊朗伊斯兰共和国被冻结或受限的资金和资产供其使用。美利坚合众国和伊朗伊斯兰共和国将在谈判期间就这些资金的释放程序达成共同协议。此类资金，无论保留在原账户还是转移，均应可全额用于支付由伊朗伊斯兰共和国中央银行指定的任何最终受益人。
副总统 JD Vance 表示，只有在伊朗“结束其核计划，结束其浓缩材料储备，并且真正对检查和执行机制开放”的情况下，重建资金才会来自区域投资者。换言之：在最棘手的问题——伊朗核计划——得到解决之前，重建工作不太可能取得进展。
PARAGRAPH 7
在谅解备忘录签署几天后，美国发布了一项通用许可证，允许伊朗在和平谈判进行期间生产、销售和交付石油两个月。但在 7 月 7 日，由于霍尔木兹海峡有三艘船遭到袭击，美国重新实施了经济制裁。
或研发核武器。美利坚合众国与伊朗伊斯兰共和国已同意，将根据在第 7 段中提到的时间表，通过双方共同商定的机制来解决库存浓缩材料的处置问题，其最低限度的方法是在国际原子能机构（I.A.E.A.）的监督下进行现场稀释。双方还同意在最终协议商定的法定框架基础上，讨论浓缩问题以及其他双方商定的与伊朗伊斯兰共和国核需求相关的事务。最终协议将确认本段的各项条款。美利坚合众国与伊朗伊斯兰共和国承认上述核问题的至关重要性，并表示有意在谈判中立即处理这些问题，以就此达成共同协议。
自停火协议崩溃以来，核谈判没有出现明显进展。 2015 年达成的一项旨在限制伊朗核计划的国际协议，花费了数年时间才谈成，而非数月。
第 9 段
在最终协议达成之前，美利坚合众国与伊朗伊斯兰共和国同意维持现状。伊朗伊斯兰共和国将维持其核计划的当前现状，而美利坚合众国将不会实施任何新制裁，且不会在该地区部署额外兵力。
在 8 月 16 日这一 60 天期限前达成协议似乎不太可能。虽然特朗普先生已同意减少一些在中东的美国军队，包括在 9 月 30 日前从伊拉克撤军，但他也正在向该地区派遣更多战机。
第 10 段
在特朗普政府指责伊朗在霍尔穆兹海峡袭击船只后，制裁豁免于 7 月 7 日被撤销。
第 11 段
法新社 (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE) — 盖蒂图片社 (GETTY IMAGES)
特朗普先生最初同意从目前由海外金融机构持有的 $100 billion 多资产中，释放约 $24 billion 的伊朗被冻结资产。在临时谅解备忘录签署后的一周，财政部长斯科特·贝森特表示，美国将监督这些资产的支出方式，且“其中很大一部分将用于购买美国的食品和药品”。 伊朗否认将允许美国主导资金的使用方式。伊朗官员表示，他们预计美国将作为伊朗核计划谈判（该谈判目前似乎陷入僵局）的一部分而解冻资产。
第 12 段
美利坚合众国与伊朗伊斯兰共和国同意，将建立一个执行机制，以监督本谅解备忘录（M.O.U.）的成功实施以及未来对最终协议的遵守情况。
欧洲对外关系委员会的伊朗专家艾莉·格兰迈耶（Ellie Geranmayeh）表示，这从未发生。她说，执行机制本应在协议签署后的技术谈判中进行讨论，但这些谈判从未启动。自那时起，来自巴基斯坦和卡塔尔的调解员一直在不遗余力地尝试恢复协议条款，包括引入其他国家以说服双方缓和敌对状态。这一努力仍在继续，但尚未取得显著进展。
第 13 段
在签署本谅解备忘录且本谅解备忘录第 1、4、5、10 和 11 段开始实施，并持续执行这些措施后，美利坚合众国与伊朗伊斯兰共和国将仅针对其他段落开始就最终协议进行谈判。
第 1 段涉及停火的开始。第 4 段要求结束海军封锁。第 5 段要求确保霍尔穆兹海峡的通行安全。第 10 段同意豁免美国对伊朗的经济制裁。第 11 段要求解锁被冻结的伊朗资产。在这些问题逐一解决之前，核谈判极有可能将继续停滞。
第 14 段
最终协议将由一项具有约束力的联合国安理会决议予以认可。
专家和分析人士认为，一份在奥巴马政府促成的 2015 年协议基础上，进一步显著限制伊朗核计划的新协议仍不太可能达成。
如果这种情况发生，联合国安理会可能会在认可该协议中发挥作用。但特朗普先生与伊朗协商的任何最终协议，国会也将拥有话语权。一项由两党通过的 2015 年法律（在与德黑兰的国际谈判接近尾声时获得批准）赋予了国会定期审查美国与伊朗核协议的权利。
在伊朗战争中的 伤亡报告方式
作者：海伦·库珀 (HELENE COOPER)
华盛顿 —— 由于面临被指责低估在与伊朗战争中美国士兵死伤人数的批评，五角大楼在周日更改了报告伤亡的方式，并公布了本月更高的现役人员受伤人数。在一种不寻常的新统计方法中，自 7 月 7 日（即停火开始瓦解且战斗升级之日）以来的伤亡人数并未与战争开始以来的其他人员一起列在五角大楼的网站上，而是列在一个被泛泛标注为“海外行动伤亡”的新网页上。这意味着，要对总伤亡人数进行完整统计，需要将来自不同网页的数字相加。在这一新系统下，国防伤亡分析系统恢复了上周末在战争中阵亡的 4 名士兵的记录（此前这些记录已从网站中删除），但将其列入了一个单独的、未作说明的类别中。
此次更改还将受伤人数增加了 142 人，比五角大楼此前报告的自 7 月 7 日以来的人数更多。自该日期起，官方公布的受伤士兵人数现列为 207 人，自 2 月 28 日战争开始以来的总数为 624 人。列出的阵亡总人数为 18 人。上周，五角大楼首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔 (Sean Parnell) 坚称，自 7 月 7 日以来受伤的美国军队人数少于 100 人。五角大楼此前并未披露伊朗对该地区驻有美军基地的数次袭击。他当时表示：“关于掩盖事实的指控纯属捏造，旨在三名现役人员在战斗中阵亡之后，进一步制造美国人民的焦虑。”五角大楼的一位发言人周日表示，该部门对此事没有进一步可说的话。周一，五角大楼在一份声明中表示，“由于‘史诗之怒行动’ (Operation Epic Fury) 已经结束，该部门将伤亡人员归类为中东司令部 (CENTCOM) 责任区域内的海外行动。”中东司令部 (CENTCOM) 负责中东地区的行动。上周，《纽约时报》报道称，五角大楼降低了现役人员的——
从独立的 网页中添加。
在伊朗战争中阵亡的军人数从 18 人减少到 14 人，这一举动引发了许多退伍军人、军属和立法者的愤怒。军方官员在要求匿名的条件下告诉《时报》，做出这一更改是因为最近在约旦和伊拉克阵亡的四名军人是在 4 月伊朗与美国达成停火协议之后死亡的。五角大楼代理新闻秘书乔尔·瓦尔德兹（Joel Valdez）在周四将这一变动归因于网站上的“临时数据中断”，并暗示这将很快得到修复。截至周六上午，五角大楼的网站仍将“史诗之怒行动”（Operation Epic Fury，国防部给伊朗战争起的名称）中阵亡的军人数列为 14 人。周日，网站增加了“海外行动”类别，并列出了另外四起死亡病例，并附注：
“自 2026 年 7 月 7 日起海外行动伤亡情况。”随着对政府伤亡报告的批评日益增加，一组民主党参议员在周四致信国防部长皮特·海格塞斯（Pete Hegseth），要求对阵亡或受伤的军人数进行“全面核算”。在最近导致三名士兵在约旦阵亡的袭击前一周，伊朗的三次袭击造成数十人受伤。五角大楼未立即披露这些伤亡情况，引发了人们对政府是否履行了向国家通报伤亡军人数义务的质疑。参议员们写道：“美国人民、国会、军人及其家属有权全面且准确地了解战争的人力成本。目前公开的信息表明，
国防部在整个冲突过程中，并未一贯地提供及时且全面的公开伤亡报告。”
暴力之瘟疫
在他们试图逃离一场惨烈的族群冲突之际
摄影与文章 作者：FINBARR O’REILLY
刚果民主共和国，布尼亚 —— 仅仅 24 小时内就发生了四起死亡事件。家属被告知需要自行埋葬尸体，因为太平间的工作人员太忙，无法提供帮助。那个月，该营地已有 19 人死亡，远高于往常。在刚果民主共和国埃博拉疫情震中——伊图赖省遍布的这些营地里，病毒似乎正在容纳 100 多万名流离失所的刚果人的狭窄帐篷之间传播。尽管自 5 月份正式宣布疫情爆发以来，援助物资和卫生工作人员大量涌入，但对抗埃博拉病毒依然是一项艰巨的挑战，而这些营地就是一个鲜明的例证。卫生条件极其恶劣，基础营养供应有限。患者在蜿蜒的小巷中消失不见。追踪可能被感染的人员成了一项西西弗斯式的苦差事。随着刚果埃博拉病毒导致的死亡人数激增，人们的注意力转向了这些营地，这里居住着一些在该省其他地区逃离暴力后最脆弱的人群。世界卫生组织负责人特德罗斯·阿德汉诺姆·格布雷叶苏本月表示，刚果东部 80% 以上的新发埃博拉病例是在已知接触者名单之外检测到的。许多新感染发生在人们几乎无法获得医疗设施的社区——就像这些营地一样的社区。近期未获薪酬的卫生工作者发起的罢工、针对埃博拉治疗中心的袭击以及高度流动的人口使情况进一步恶化。截至上周，刚果卫生部记录了 2,423 例确诊埃博拉病例和 967 例确诊死亡。世界卫生组织表示，实际数字可能是此数的两到四倍。据该省两个不同营地的官员称，目前营地中最大的问题是严重缺水。这使得抗击埃博拉病毒的核心支柱之一——通过适当的卫生设施阻止疾病传播——几乎无法实现。一个名为 Kigonze 的营地居住着 20,000 人，但仅有少数几个公共用水站。居民们在水龙头前排队等候时，堆叠着黄色的容器。在省会布尼亚郊外的 Rwampara 的 Tsere 营地，超过 6,400 人共用一个水箱。居民表示，自 2023 年建成以来，粪便溢出的厕所一直没有得到维护。“在埃博拉疫情期间，我们需要随时洗手以避免污染，”营地负责人埃斯特·马维（Esther Mave）说，“但如果没有水龙头、洗手池和肥皂，我们在这里怎么做得到？”营地卫生设施的匮乏，部分是特朗普总统近期削减外国援助的结果。联合国汇总的数据显示，2024 年至 2025 年间，刚果厕所和洗手站的资金被削减了超过一半。据该地点负责人艾蒂安·兹若·恩德鲁齐（Etienne Dz’Djo Ndrutsi）称，从 4 月初到 6 月底，Kigonze 已有至少 55 人死亡，他补充说，该营地通常每月平均仅有两起死亡。他补充说，其中至少四起死亡被确诊为埃博拉病例。但由于多年来被忽视导致对当局缺乏信任，更多家庭拒绝了检测。“我们需要更多床位来安放所有死者，”恩德鲁齐先生说，“我担心我们在这个营地里的所有人都死于埃博拉。”近日，在 Kigonze 营地，数十名妇女和儿童拥挤在一座由木棍和泥土建成、顶部覆盖着波纹金属屋顶的建筑下，他们紧贴着三口棺材，死者是在过去 24 小时内去世的。死者——两名男子和一名女子——全部
表现出埃博拉病毒的症状，包括发烧、头痛和呕吐，但从尸体上采集的拭子尚未检测该病毒，而死者体内的该病毒具有高度传染性。妇女们在唱歌和哭泣时抚摸着棺椁。当棺材被抬过临时避难所时，数百多人聚集在周围。随后，人群攀登上一辆运送尸体前往埋葬地的卡车。哀悼者坐在棺材顶上，而孩子们在卡车颠簸着向墓地行驶时在后面奔跑。营地居民因竞争对手族民兵和武装团体之间长达数十年的暴力冲突而流离失所，这些团体在争夺土地、获利丰厚的贸易路线以及金矿和木材的开采权。对于居民来说，埃博拉病毒只是另一个威胁。据联合国称，自12月以来，伊图里省重新爆发的战斗已导致 361,000 人流离失所，使该省流离失所者总数达到 1.3 million。
不安全局势还妨碍了该地区的人道主义救援工作。“在发生冲突时，有些孩子在交火中被枪杀。另一个孩子捡起一个爆炸物而被炸死，”马夫女士说道。非洲疾病控制与预防中心主任让·卡塞亚博士表示，应对此次疫情需要解决除健康危机之外的更多问题，才能有效地触及营地中的人员。他说：“今天，人道主义响应至关重要，与医疗响应同样重要。因为如果不处理人道主义问题，我们就无法战胜这次埃博拉疫情。”随着国际援助的到来，多年来在极少外部帮助下苦苦支撑的营地居民们对此持怀疑态度。在距离医疗慈善机构 Alima 运营的新诊所 200 码远的措雷（Tsere）地区，这种对比显得尤为强烈。“我们可以看到他们在街对面建造埃博拉治疗中心，但他们在这里还没采取任何行动，”74 岁的营地居民博杜安·乌内加说道。“他们来，做调查，然后就走了。他们告诉我们没有资金了，让我们耐心等待。”营地居民在当地农场从事体力劳动并出售薪柴，但即使是这条生命线在疫情期间也变得脆弱不堪。
许多当地农民为了躲避病毒而逃离，使得流离失所者失去了更多的收入来源。“我们想离开这个营地，”乌内加先生说。“没有人想住在这里，但我们没有资金离开。”就在他说话时，措雷营地又记录到一名死亡病例。40, 岁的埃斯佩兰斯·拉修·乌克维蒙古（Espérance Raciu Ucwimungu）在最近的一个下午死于类似埃博拉的症状。她的妹妹 32, 岁的香塔尔·伊马尼（Chantal Imani）和女儿 23, 岁的维维安·比维加（Wivine Biwiga）在她们与乌克维蒙古女士共用的单间小屋外悲痛不已。尽管环境恶劣且埃博拉的恐惧笼罩着营地，但生活仍在继续。孩子们在狭窄的小巷中追逐。市场上的基本商品贸易繁忙。妇女们在阴凉处洗衣服并互相编发。在最近基贡泽（Kigonze）举行葬礼的那个晚上，18 岁的以撒·迪乌梅（Isaak Dieume）将一支破旧的小号抵在唇边。孩子们聚集在周围，附近准备餐食的妇女们看着他吹奏起一段温柔的曲调。清脆的音符在空中飘荡，其金属般的音色在充满悲伤与丧失的下午提供了一刻欢乐。
凯莱布·卡班达（Caleb Kabanda）参与报道。
‘我担心我们在这里的营地里都会死于埃博拉。’ 埃蒂安·德若·恩德鲁特（ETIENNE DZ’DJO NDRUTSI），营地现场之一基贡泽（Kigonze）的负责人。
上方是一支在 Kigonze 营地行进的哀悼队列，该营地安置了约 20,000 名因省内暴力冲突而被迫逃难的人员。该营地最大的问题之一是卫生条件，尤其是在埃博拉病毒感染蔓延的情况下。埃丝特·马夫（Esther Mave）在营地花园里耕作（左上方右侧），她感叹这里缺乏“水槽和肥皂”。
在海中沉没 亦为中国 觊觎之物
作者：TUNG NGO 及 MAX KIM
越南，河内——据一名了解相关情况的越南官员称，周六在南中国海一个争议激烈的海域沉没的一艘越南货船，是旨在对抗中国在该地区主权主张而开展的造岛工程的一部分。目前，救援人员仍在搜寻 15 名失踪水手。
这艘名为“Khoi Nguyen 18”的船只在南中国海南沙群岛（Spratly Islands）附近开始进水并沉没，当时船上载有 62 名越南水手。南沙群岛由 100 多个小礁石和其他陆地地貌组成，许多国家在该地区都存在主权争议。
中国外交部发言人林剑在周一于北京举行的新闻发布会上表示，周六晚上，该地区的一艘中国救援船首先发现了救生筏上幸存者发出的求救信号，随后启动搜救行动，目前已救起 47 人。越南当局已对中国方面的迅速行动表示感谢。来自两国及菲律宾的救援人员仍在搜寻其余人员。
中越双方的描述均将沉船位置定在由中国控制的永暑礁（Fiery Cross Reef）与由越南控制的发现大礁（Discovery Great Reef）之间。这些礁石均属于南沙群岛，该群岛与西沙群岛（Paracel Islands）多年来一直是中国与越南激烈竞争的场所。两国都试图通过在无人小岛和礁石周围填海造地，并在其上建设军事设施来主张所有权。
一名直接知情的人员告诉《纽约时报》，Khoi Nguyen 18 沉没时正参与这样一个项目。该官员因未获授权向媒体发表言论而要求匿名。
越南当局在公开层面将沉船原因归结为恶劣天气，但并未透露该船的目的地或运输的货物类型。一份越南作为签署国的联合国海事安全决议规定，所有大型货船必须时刻开启自动识别系统（AIS）应答机。然而，追踪数据显示，这艘挂越南旗的船只已有数月未传输位置数据。
该船建于 2017, 长约 230 英尺，总载重量约为 1,900 公吨。该官员表示，该船一直定期往返于越南海军拥有大型港口的金兰湾（Cam Ranh）与南沙群岛之间。
根据越南政府数据，该船的注册所有者为 Khoi Nguyen Trading, Import-Export and Transportation Company。在接听电话时，该公司一名未提供全名的代表表示，该船被部署到南沙群岛的一个高优先级项目中，该项目由 Dacinco Construction Investment Company 监管，该公司与该地区的造岛活动有关。
总部位于越南岘港的 Dacinco 自 2022. 起一直从荷兰造船公司 Royal IHC 采购切除式挖泥船。这些是能够从海底吸沙的专业船舶，对于填海造地工程非常有效。
拨给 Dacinco 的电话无人接听。总部位于北京的海事研究机构 SCSPI 表示：“这些挖泥船已被广泛用于 Namyit 岛、Pearson 礁和 Barque Canada 礁的填海工程，显著提高了越南的效率。”
去年。2024年6月，越南国家媒体报道称，一名 Dacinco 员工在巴克加拿大礁（Barque Canada Reef）的一个工地受伤，该礁是越南一直在扩建的南沙群岛中的一个地貌。该公司还在社交媒体上积极为这些项目招募工人，其招聘广告中要求招聘在南沙群岛从事“离岸建设工程”的起重机操作员和卡车司机。越南外交部未立即回应置评请求。多年来，中国和越南都多次对对方的造岛项目提出抗议，而美国官员试图平息这种扩张热情的努力也未能成功。去年，随着越南加快在南沙群岛的项目建设（中国此前在该地区在约三年时间内填海造地 3,200 英亩），中国外交部批评了其所谓的“非法占领”。越南也对中国提出了类似的批评，而中国近期的重点是越南主张拥有全部主权的西沙群岛。但在上周末，由于搜寻失踪船员的工作仍在继续，这些紧张局势并未显现。周日，越南外交部发言人 Pham Thu Hang 感谢了中国救援人员的努力。她表示：“我们感谢中国当局在搜救工作中给予越南的迅速援助。我们希望双方将继续密切合作，寻找剩余人员。”
竞选旨在接替 恩斯特的议员席位
作者：奥利维亚·迪亚兹 (OLIVIA DIAZ)
爱荷华州，奥纳瓦 (ONAWA) —— 乔希·图雷克 (Josh Turek) 骑行在一座起伏的小山上，两旁是延伸至地平线的爱荷华州玉米地，他微微扬起下巴，迎着拍在脸上的烈日。图雷克先生是一位使用轮椅的民主党州议员，目前正在竞选参议员。他紧握着手摇车的曲柄。他在一个七月的周日来到这里，与戴着玉米帽和头盔的骑行者们一起挥汗如雨，参加爱荷华州一年一度为期一周的骑行庆祝活动。该活动始于该州的西翼，在靠近内布拉斯加州边境的近 60 英里路段内，蜿蜒穿过保守的小镇，沿途散布着路边派摊和美食车。
这次在 11 月选举前数月进行的骑行之旅，反映了图雷克先生在争取爱荷华州农村选民方面所面临的艰巨任务。这里居住着该国很大一部分农业群体，而他们深受物价飞涨的影响。在穿过每个城镇时，图雷克先生都会停下来握手、啜饮啤酒，并向选民们推销他为何应该被送往华盛顿。一些骑行者对他这位民主党人非常崇拜，要求合影或想要一个“乔希·图雷克竞选爱荷华州议员”的庭院标牌。其他人则似乎没有被说服。
在索尔杰 (Soldier) 这个小城市里，图雷克先生走向一名售卖早餐三明治和冷饮的男子。“我是乔希，我正在竞选参议员，”图雷克先生说道，在向摊主介绍自己的竞选活动前伸出了手。那名男子微笑着与他握手，并感谢图雷克先生的到访。他并没有说是否会支持他。
47 岁的图雷克先生出生时患有脊柱分叉畸形，后来成为一名帕拉林匹克金牌得主。上个月，在他将身体残疾及其韧性作为竞选核心之后，他在一场竞争激烈的民主党初选中击败了一名反建制派对手。“那些没能杀死你的，会让你变得更强大，”他在骑行约 30 英里后一边喝着冷水一边说道，并补充道，“这不会是我人生中经历过最困难的事情。”
现在，他正与众议员阿什莉·欣森 (Ashley Hinson) 展开一场艰苦的竞争。欣森是一位受到特朗普总统支持的共和党人，旨在接替即将退休的共和党参议员乔尼·恩斯特 (Joni Ernst)。这次选举结果将有助于决定哪个政党控制参议院。
于是，在一个酷热的早晨，图雷克先生骑着手摇车，在奥纳瓦和 59 英里外的哈兰 (Harlan) 之间奋力前行。“你看见了吗？”一名妇女对在图林 (Turin) 骑行的一名小女孩说，“他在用手骑车。”孩子踩下了她那辆配有同色流苏的亮粉色自行车的刹车。“不可能，”她回答道，指着继续前行的图雷克先生的手摇车。
图雷克先生表示，他的病情（脊柱和脊髓未能正确形成）源于他的父亲在越南战争期间接触了橙剂——这是一种有毒的化学除叶剂，导致数百万儿童出现严重的出生缺陷。作为爱荷华州康瑟尔布拉夫斯 (Council Bluffs) 的原住民，他描述了自己在明尼苏达州的一家儿童医院经历了 21 次手术，在穿着全身石膏的情况下，一次离开父母和四个兄弟姐妹数周的经历。直到 12 岁开始在内布拉斯加州奥马哈 (Omaha) 的一个适应性体育训练营参加轮椅篮球赛，他才有了朋友，并在那里首次了解到帕拉林匹克运动。图雷克先生随后开始了职业轮椅篮球生涯，并两次获得金牌。
埃文·雷诺兹 (Evan Reynolds) 参与了报道。
作为美国代表团的一员在比赛中获得奖牌。
自 2014 年汤姆·哈金（Tom Harkin）退休以来，爱荷华州尚未选出民主党籍参议员，且 20 年来未选出民主党籍州长。爱荷华州的众议院席位全部由共和党人把持，且特朗普先生在过去三届总统选举中均在该州获胜。非党派的《库克政治报告》（Cook Political Report）认为欣森女士（Ms. Hinson）在这次竞选中占据优势，将其评级为“倾向共和党”。
尽管历史记录惨淡，但民主党人仍抱有希望。伊朗战争以及特朗普先生的关税政策导致燃料和化肥成本上涨，使该州的农民和制造商承受了巨大压力。
图雷克先生（Mr. Turek）的竞选是今年爱荷华州众多竞争激烈的选举之一。在州长竞选中，爱荷华州民主党审计员罗布·桑德（Rob Sand）的民调领先于共和党人扎克·拉恩（Zach Lahn）。共和党众议员扎克·南（Zach Nunn）和玛丽安内特·米勒-米克斯（Mariannette Miller-Meeks）也面临着两名具有州立法经验的民主党人的挑战，库克将这两场竞选评级为“五五之分”。
欣森女士曾是一名电视新闻主播，于 2020 年当选，在获得特朗普先生及其他爱荷华州共和党高层的支持后，她轻松赢得了共和党初选。她誓言将成为总统在参议院中的“最强盟友”，尽管她也强调愿意在生活成本问题上与民主党人合作。
在她的选区，欣森女士是去年在市政厅会议上面对愤怒选民的众多共和党人之一。当她为去年夏天颁布的、旨在延长减税并削减社会安全网计划的广泛协调法案辩护时，现场响起了嘘声。
2022 年，图雷克先生当选为爱荷华州卡特湖（Carter Lake）和卡温尔布拉夫斯（Council Bluffs）部分地区的代表，以 6 票之差赢得竞选。2024 年，尽管特朗普先生在该选区也以 8 个百分点的优势获胜，但图雷克先生仍以 5 个百分点的优势赢得了连任。图雷克先生自称是一名“常识性的草原民粹主义者”，并将自己的政治韧性归功于对经济政策的关注。
“民粹主义是我的政治北极星，”图雷克先生说。“这始终关乎什么对中产阶级最有利，什么对工人最有利——关注那些匮乏者。”
这场 7 月的自行车庆典名为“登记报年度爱荷华州大骑行”（The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa），口语中被称为 R.A.G.B.R.A.I.，并未有
[[IMG_XXXX]] 摄影：特里·拉茨拉夫（TERRY RATZLAFF）为《纽约时报》拍摄
在爱荷华州骑行的乔什·图雷克（Josh Turek）正在竞选，他的对手是获得特朗普总统支持的共和党众议员阿什利·欣森（Ashley Hinson）。左图为 RAGBRAI 的更多参与者，这是爱荷华州年度为期一周的自行车庆典，从该州西翼开始。
爱荷华州博览会的政治影响力，或是餐馆里的社区活动，尽管如此，进行零售式政治游说的机会依然很多。摩托车骑手在疾驰而过时为图雷克先生（Mr. Turek）加油。
“加油，乔什，加油！”一对夫妇喊道。另一名坐在卧式三轮车上的男子在某个时刻与图雷克先生并肩骑行，讨论着候选人所称的“这个州以及这里正在发生的所有可怕的事情”。
根据竞选资金报告，图雷克先生为他的竞选筹集了 $6.3 million，仅为欣森女士（Ms. Hinson）筹得的 $10.2 million 的一小部分。他的对手银行账户中还有约 $6.7 million，而图雷克先生则有近 $2.4 million。
与民主党一致的参议院多数党政治行动委员会已向这场竞选投入 $30.5 million，而领先的参议院共和党 PAC——参议院领导基金（Senate Leadership Fund）则承诺投入 $29 million。
共和党 PAC 迅速对图雷克先生发起攻击。在该组织上周发布的一份新闻稿中，批评他尽管敦促国会议员通过农业法案，却在 5 月份的一项州农业支出法案投票中缺席。
图雷克先生表示，对于他在骑行之旅中经过的这些深红（共和党强势）爱荷华州县市中翻盘的机会，他看得非常清楚。尽管如此，他仍然希望通过与选民相处的时间来缩小欣森女士的领先优势，并说服一些终身共和党人在 11 月份改变选择。
他提到，途中有一名坚定的共和党人接近他并表示，虽然图雷克先生的故事很励志，但他不会投票给他。
“我说，‘好吧，我们拭目以待，’”图雷克先生回忆道，“‘你知道，我还有 100 天的时间来争取你。’”
他继续蹬车前行。
降低生活成本 开启中期选举“冲刺”
作者：罗伯特·吉米森 (ROBERT JIMISON)
宾夕法尼亚州伯利恒 —— 周日，众议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯 (Hakeem Jeffries) 站在利海谷 (Lehigh Valley) 的一个工会大厅里，头顶是一幅写着“负担得起 (AFFORDABLE)”巨大红色字母的横幅。
为了确保信息足够清晰，来自纽约的民主党人杰弗里斯先生所站在的讲台上也大声地喊出同样的口号——“为负担得起的美国而战”——其中“负担得起”一词的字体比其他词大好几个号。
随后，杰弗里斯先生在访问全美竞争最激烈的国会选区之一，旨在标志着他希望能带领政党赢得众议院多数席位并让自己出任议长的竞选活动进入最后 100 天。他确保没有人错过这个主张。
“众议院民主党人正在为一个负担得起的美国而战，”杰弗里斯先生对聚集在伯利恒的数十名支持者说。“众议院民主党人正在努力降低食品、汽油和住房的成本。”
在争夺国会控制权的战斗中，民主党人押注这一主题将能够聚集选民。杰弗里斯先生已经明确表示，在努力说服全国类似地区的人们拒绝共和党人的过程中，他将一次又一次地回到这个主题。
“那个美国梦正在消逝，”杰弗里斯先生说。“而那些本应为维持这个梦想而奋斗的领导者们，却让它变得更加遥不可及。”
中期选举周期的最后几个月为民主党提供了——
将杰克逊与 普拉特纳的困境挂钩
作者：里德·J·爱泼斯坦 (REID J. EPSTEIN) 和 杰斯·比德古德 (JESS BIDGOOD)
缅恩州班戈 —— 在经历了疯狂的 17 天，以及为了替换受损候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳 (Graham Platner) 而采取的临时仓促行动后，缅恩州的民主党人重新调整了一场被视为对其党派夺回参议院控制权至关重要的选举，由特洛伊·杰克逊 (Troy Jackson) 接替。现在进入了棘手阶段。
杰克逊先生曾任州参议院议长，他试图在保持普拉特纳先生过去一年建立的基层热情的同时，将自己与前候选人的个人历史撇清关系。在盟友的帮助下，杰克逊试图击败的五届共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯 (Susan Collins) 正在寻求将这两名民主党人联系在一起，共和党希望以此疏远摇摆选民。
一场 100 天的角逐
这种动态开始塑造一场为期 100 天的角逐，这将使这个以农村为主的州充斥资金，并使其成为国家争夺参议院控制权的中心。民主党转向了一位州政府的熟悉人物和一名来自缅恩州北林区的第五代伐木工，以对抗一名资金雄厚得多的现任者；后者在特朗普 era. 期间已经一次顶住了全国性的不利局面。
这场竞选将测试杰克逊先生能否摆脱普拉特纳先生带来的包袱。普拉特纳在被指控强奸（他对此予以否认）、被揭露拥有一个类似纳粹符号的文身以及一系列冒犯性的网络帖文后退出了竞选。
通过用杰克逊先生替换普拉特纳先生，缅恩州民主党人希望让这场竞选不再围绕他们的候选人展开，而更多地将柯林斯女士描绘成超级富豪的工具，以及在最紧迫问题上特朗普总统的橡皮图章。
“她为谁服务？”杰克逊先生在周六的党代会上询问缅恩州民主党人，他在会上被正式选为该党候选人。“她为唐纳德·特朗普服务。”
柯林斯女士在周六缅恩州卡斯科 (Casco) 一场游行前的简短采访中，示意打算将她的新对手描绘成非主流人物，且在许多方面是普拉特纳竞选活动的延续。
“我的潜在新对手采用了与我的旧对手完全相同的政纲，”她说。“那是民主社会主义政纲，非常相似。所以问题并没有改变。”
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民主党人拥有相当大的机会，但也面临日益增长的不确定性。该党只需赢得少数几个席位即可赢得众议院。公共民调显示，在选民对国会的偏好方面，民主党占据优势，且关键竞选中的民主党候选人拥有轻微的资金优势。
但地图留给错误的余地很小。而且，在一系列进步派在初选中击败与领导层关系更密切的资深民主党人的结果之后，人们对于杰弗里斯 (Mr. Jeffries) 能够组建的任何多数派的构成和统一程度提出了新问题。
随着众议员们回到各自的家乡进行为期五周的夏季休会，杰弗里斯先生在伯利恒 (Bethlehem) 的亮相是他希望在决定众议院控制权的选区中发起猛烈最后冲刺的起点。
“这不再是一场马拉松，”他告诉支持者人群。“这是一场冲刺。”
根据杰弗里斯团队向《纽约时报》提供的数据，他在第二季度帮助众议院民主党筹集了 $137 million，其中包括用于保护脆弱的现任者，以及支持其“由红转蓝”计划中候选人的资金，该计划针对的是他们认为对于夺取多数席位至关重要的翻盘席位。
他与鲍勃·布鲁克斯 (Bob Brooks) 一起来到宾夕法尼亚州，布鲁克斯是一名消防员和工会领导人，他正在挑战众议员瑞安·麦肯齐 (Ryan Mackenzie) —— 这是一位在 2024. 年险胜该席位的首任共和党议员。在州内开启最后冲刺之际……
杰克逊的策略： 将柯林斯与特朗普挂钩
杰克逊先生计划做什么早已不是秘密：将柯林斯女士与特朗普先生挂钩，而特朗普在三次总统竞选中均输掉了缅因州的 statewide 全州投票。
在周六民主党选出杰克逊先生作为新候选人的大会上，一名又一名演讲者地提到柯林斯女士对布雷特·卡瓦诺（Brett Kavanaugh）的投票。卡瓦诺是由特朗普提名的最高法院法官，柯林斯女士在声称收到他将保护堕胎权保证后，投票确认了他的任命。
“她有 96 比例的时间在投票中支持他，”杰克逊先生在周六的胜利演说中谈到柯林斯女士时表示。“她以牺牲我们的利益为代价，帮助企业和富人获得了巨额减税。而且她投票确认了卡瓦诺和戈萨奇（Gorsuch），这两位最高法院法官推翻了‘罗诉韦德案’（Roe v. Wade）。”
要实现这一目标，两周前参议院竞选资金为零的杰克逊先生需要快速筹集大量资金。根据柯林斯女士最新的竞选资金报告，截至 6 月底，她拥有 1100 万美元（$11 million）。参议院共和党的主要超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）宣布将仅在缅因州就花费 4200 万美元（$42 million），并在杰克逊被命名为被提名者后的几分钟内就开始攻击他。
大会结束后，杰克逊先生告诉记者，他尚未与纽约州的查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer）参议员交谈。舒默是民主党少数党领袖，其盟友控制着参议院民主党的主要超级政治行动委员会，且杰克逊先生表示他不支持舒默继续担任其领导职务。当被问及是否有足够的资金赢得这场竞争时，杰克逊先生回答道：“现在没有，但我希望能够筹到。”
“特洛伊（Troy）并非受过经典训练的……”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 民主党众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（Hakeem Jeffries）代表，周日在宾夕法尼亚州伯利恒。
……在杰弗里斯争取多数席位的推动中强调了其重要性；民主党还希望在宾夕法尼亚州反转另外三个目前由共和党掌控的国会选区。
本周晚些时候，这位领导人计划在纽约主持活动，行程包括水牛城和罗切斯特，随后将前往南加州为民主党候选人继续筹款。
布鲁克斯先生在周日将自己塑造为一个政治局外人，其个人生活反映了民主党在竞选中将其作为核心的经济压力。他回顾了自己曾担任报童、披萨外送员、洗碗工和酒吧服务员的经历，并向人群论证他是应对选民面临经济压力的最佳选择。
“我理解他们，因为我也经历过，”布鲁克斯先生说道，引起了人们赞同的点头。 “我住过公共住房。在困难时期，我依赖食品券。我不得不在支付医疗账单和支付抵押贷款之间做出选择。”
民主党已日益……
SOPHIE PARK 为《纽约时报》拍摄
ALEX KENT/《纽约时报》
旨在围绕生活成本问题 凝聚党内共识。
在政治领域之外寻找具有艰苦草根背景的候选人，并将布鲁克斯先生（Mr. Brooks）及其类似的人视为极具说服力的传达者。他们希望这次竞选周期能少一些意识形态之争，多一些围绕“餐桌议题”（家庭生活问题）的讨论。 但正如杰弗里斯先生（Mr. Jeffries）所敦促的，
“像个钢琴师，”前缅因州民主党主席贝芙·乌伦哈克（Bev Uhlenhake）说。“他听起来不像典型的政治人物。我认为对于缅因州人来说，这没关系。他们想要一个能来到派对上弹钢琴并让大家跳起舞来的人。” 但在内容创作成为社会运动构建关键部分的时代，杰克逊先生（Mr. Jackson）还有很多工作要做。他的 Instagram 粉丝量仅为普拉特纳先生（Mr. Platner）的十分之一。 “你可能会在资金上处于劣势，但如果你能吸引群众的注意力，就可以抵消资金优势，”缅因州资深民主党政治操盘手大卫·法默（David Farmer）表示。“特洛伊（Troy）必须在注意力战争中获胜。”
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在敦促候选人围绕一个紧扣降低生活成本的基调凝聚共识的同时，新一代的进步派民主党人正以更具挑衅性的主张，在民主党稳赢的选区中推翻长期在任的议员，这些主张包括呼吁停止美国对以色列的援助、废除移民与海关执法局（ICE）以及取消监狱。 除了宾夕法尼亚州第七国会选区的麦肯齐先生（Mr. Mackenzie）之外，民主党还将目标对准了该州其他地区由代表布赖恩·菲茨帕特里克（Brian Fitzpatrick）、罗布·布雷斯纳汉（Rob Bresnahan）和斯科特·佩里（Scott Perry）所把持的席位。 “这四场竞争将决定谁在美国国会中占据多数席位，”与杰弗里斯先生和布鲁克斯先生一同出席的州长乔希·夏皮罗（Josh Shapiro）说道。 三人均试图将生活成本这一信息与政策挂钩，
上图为特洛伊·杰克逊（Troy Jackson）在周六于班戈（Bangor）举行的缅因州民主党提名大会上发表讲话。与会者分发了“让苏珊退休”（Retire Susan）的标语（最左侧），指的是参议员苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins，左侧）。
花费数月时间针对他人进行竞选。尽管周六在台上的民主党人从未提及普拉特纳先生的名字，但柯林斯女士及其支持者似乎决心确保没人忘记这个名字。 “格雷厄姆·普拉特纳的竞选，”柯林斯女士竞选活动共同主席乔希·塔迪（Josh Tardy）说，“是这份‘礼物’持续在发挥作用。” 虽然杰克逊先生和缅因州民主党人是在就政策问题对柯林斯女士提出异议，但柯林斯女士的一些盟友在报道称其前立法同事认为他易怒之后，将首波攻击对准了杰克逊先生的人格特质。周五晚上，特朗普先生称杰克逊先生为“另一个疯子”。参议院共和党超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）关于杰克逊先生的首支广告称，他“就像格雷厄姆·普拉特纳，但更糟”。 广告画面显示两人共同竞选，双手紧握。 杰克逊先生支持一些普拉特纳先生也青睐的进步思想，例如“全民医疗保险”和废除移民与海关执法局。 共和党人试图将他刻画为过于左倾。 柯林斯女士本人则试图将杰克逊先生与民主社会主义者联系起来，尽管他并不认同——
特朗普总统和众议院共和党人。夏皮罗先生认为，虽然在他的领导下，宾夕法尼亚州降低了税收并扩大了福利，但国会的共和党人抹杀了这些成果。
“每当我们把一块钱放回人们的口袋里，唐纳德·特朗普和瑞安·麦肯齐就从另一边拿走两块钱，”他说道。
麦肯齐先生周日在附近的伯利恒镇举行了竞选活动，他称民主党关于负担能力的宣传“令人发笑”。他告诉费城的 NBC 附属机构，当民主党掌权时，“他们让通货膨胀达到了创纪录的水平，每个人都看到了，每个人在生活的方方面面都感受到了。”
与此同时，夏皮罗先生指向附近加油站的汽油价格，将其作为对伊朗战争成本的每日提醒，民主党人已越来越多地将这场战争与燃料价格上涨联系起来。
“当你去加油，当你身处 Wawa 便利店时，每天都会被提醒，”他说道。
布鲁克斯先生在反对他的共和党对手时也提出了同样的论点。
“他的竞选承诺是降低成本并投资国内，”布鲁克斯先生说，“相反，他投票支持了一场在伊朗选择性发起的、推高成本的战争，导致所有东西都变得更贵了。”
杰弗里斯先生在发言中避开了近几个月来困扰其党内部分成员的意识形态争论。周日早些时候，在 CNN 的一次采访中，当被问及进步派在初选中的胜利以及民主党内部的分歧时，他坚持认为，他党内的成员只需专注于降低成本这一共同目标。
“将全党团结在一起的，”他说道，“是我们致力于争取一个负担得起（affordable）的美国。”
tify as one。她最近还称他为“伯尼兄弟”（Bernie bro），这个词指向批评者认为的部分伯尼·桑德斯参议员男性追随者对女性持有轻视态度的现象。来自佛蒙特州的独立人士桑德斯先生最初支持普拉特纳先生竞选参议员，支持杰克逊先生竞选州长。
但她也强调了初次参选的普拉特纳先生与政治老将杰克逊先生之间的区别。
“我对特洛伊的了解已经超过 20 年了。他是奥古斯塔的内部人士，在那里工作了 24 年，所以这与格雷厄姆·普拉特纳试图塑造的形象非常不同，”柯林斯女士在卡斯科说道。
作为参议院拨款委员会主席，柯林斯在政府中也深耕数十年。她通过强调她为缅因州带来的联邦资金并将其定位为独立声音，已成功连任四次。她周六表示，她将继续坚持这一主张。
“我将强调资历的重要性，”柯林斯说。
准备迎接激烈的竞争
Collins女士在2020年以51%的得票率获胜，当时两名独立候选人分散了选票。这一次，她将仅面对Jackson先生，而民意调查显示，当前的政治环境对共和党人而言可能比六年前更糟糕。
缅因州有限的公开民调显示，这场参议院竞选竞争激烈。且两名候选人都面临着历史趋势带来的不利影响。
Collins女士将不得不再次将其政治命运与一位不得人心的总统脱钩。而Jackson先生则试图成为自1988年George Mitchell赢得连任以来，首位赢得缅因州参议院选举的民主党人。（缅因州参议员Angus King与民主党党团合作，但他是作为独立人士当选的。）
Lance Dutson是一名缅因州共和党人，曾担任Collins女士的竞选助手。他表示，与Platner先生在退出竞选前所变成的那种“政治现象”相比，Collins女士非常乐于面对一名标准的民主党候选人。
“更容易地在对比中说：‘这是你的履历，你为缅因州做了什么？而这是我的履历，我为缅因州做了什么？’”Dutson先生说，“这让Collins处于一个稳固得多的地位。”
就Jackson先生而言，当他在党代会后被问及能否指出自己与Platner先生在哪些问题上存在分歧时，他没有直接回答。
“我不清楚所谓的‘显著差异’（daylight）、‘隔阂’或这类东西，”他说，“我只知道我是Troy Jackson，我关心缅因州。”
Sandy Weiswasser 在约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心（John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts）担任导游已有 18 年。尽管特朗普总统计划将该中心关闭两年，她仍在带领游客参观。
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集中营。她在底特律长大，随母亲学习钢琴，并通过 AM 广播聆听古典音乐。她说，她在肯尼迪中心观看的现场演出比在任何其他地方都多。
因此，她说，在导览日，“我并不以听我讲解的人数来衡量成功。每一个人都是有价值的。”她引用了一句塔木德谚语：“救人性命者，即救全世界。”此外，她略带笑意地说道：“我做事从不半吊子。”
她曾是 140 名志愿者导游之一，每年用 10 种语言为多达 400,000 人提供导览服务。上周周一的班次中，十几个导游里只有五个出席，且只有三个人参加了导览。该中心的一位发言人拒绝透露目前仍有多少志愿者导游。
韦斯瓦瑟（Weiswasser）女士表示，她的计划是除非被告知停止，否则将一直出现。
那些回忆一直萦绕在她心头：她的孙子参观过一个音乐“宠物动物园”，让孩子们尝试交响乐团中的所有乐器；引导五年级学生穿过歌剧院的侧翼；告诉一群害羞的 12 岁中国孩子“学习一种乐器永远不晚”；看着她的孙女在华盛顿芭蕾舞团的演出中起舞；带她们去看《巴黎美国人》和《狮子王》。
“我在内心哭泣，因为能带她们来我太开心了，”她说。
在最近的一个周一，韦斯瓦瑟女士在中心底层的导游信息台，与另外三名女性导游一起等待工作。
即便在目前的状况下，韦斯瓦瑟女士仍抓住机会展示这座中心。而我——那天唯一的访客——跟随着她进入这座被掏空的建筑。
“纪念碑是给死人的”
她从万国大厅（Hall of Nations）开始介绍，这是一个铺着红地毯的入口大厅，装饰着世界各地的旗帜。韦斯瓦瑟女士充满活力且自信，脸上几乎一直带着微笑，她的导游证挂在密歇根大学（她的母校）的挂绳上，挂绳上还系着一副银色歌剧望远镜，那是孙女送给她的礼物。
她说，该中心的故事始于德怀特·D·艾森豪威尔（Dwight D. Eisenhower）总统，他在 1958 年签署立法，在华盛顿建立一个表演艺术中心。约翰·F·肯尼迪（John F. Kennedy）总统支持这一事业，在他遇刺后，国会通过了一项两党法案，将该机构献给他。
“这就是它名字的由来，”韦斯瓦瑟女士说，并尖锐地补充道，“这是一个纪念馆。纪念碑是给死人的。”她没有提到特朗普（Trump）先生，后者的董事会成员在 12 月将他的名字添加到建筑正面，将其更名为“唐纳德·J·特朗普与约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心”。该名称已于上月根据法院命令被移除。
她说，在 20 世纪 60 年代建筑成形期间，有超过 60 个国家做出贡献——
[[IMG_XXXX]] 肯尼迪中心内部的一面大理石墙（左图）展示了曾担任主席的人员刻名。在特朗普接管后，千禧舞台（Millennium Stage）举办的免费现场演出（右图）已经减少并转移了场地。
精美的家具和艺术品。意大利的捐赠规模最大：3,700 吨卡拉拉大理石，覆盖了中心的立面和内墙，这些大理石与米开朗基罗的《大卫》像出自同一地区。
Weiswasser 女士于 1966 年搬到华盛顿，那是肯尼迪去世三年后，当时她的丈夫（两人后来离婚了）在一家法律事务所担任书记员。多年来，这个四口之家几乎没有钱买电影票，更不用说交响乐团的座位了。但 Weiswasser 女士依然在弹钢琴且擅长摄影，因此在 20 年前退休后，她渴望在这一艺术机构担任志愿者。在早年忙碌的岁月里，她说：“看到所有黄色校车排成一排，知道孩子们在肯尼迪中心获得这种特殊体验，我的心就被温暖了。”
而现在，取而代之的是挫败感。
她说，自从特朗普先生接管肯尼迪中心后，“甚至我的朋友们会说：‘我绝不会踏进那里一步。’而我会说：‘是的，但你这样只会伤害表演者。’”票房部门经常通过赠票来填补空位，Weiswasser 女士利用这些免费票试图诱使她的朋友们回来。上个月，她弄到了两张打折票，准备参加授予比尔·梅尔（Bill Maher）马克·特温美国幽默奖的盛典。
但她没有去，因为她找不到任何人愿意陪她。
她从万国厅（Hall of Nations）领路前往大门厅（Grand Foyer），该门厅长度相当于两个足球场，一面窗墙提供了波托马克河及远处纪念碑的开阔视野。大门厅曾将观众引导至中心三个最大的演出空间——主音乐厅、歌剧院和艾森豪威尔剧院——而现在这些空间全部闲置。在大门厅两端是千禧舞台（Millennium Stages），在免费现场演出的观众 dwindled（减少）到仅剩几十人之后，这里也同样闲置。其余的预订已转移到隔壁较新的空间 The Reach。
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在音乐厅入口处，Weiswasser 女士停下来与 Judith Skolnick 聊天。Skolnick 是中心的志愿者迎宾人员之一，负责为游客开启被锁闭的空间。Skolnick 女士在 2017 年从物业管理工作退休一周后成为了志愿者。“在这里你会觉得自己有用，”她说。她说，在“大脑还能做点事情”的时候做出贡献是一件好事。
关闭的前景令她担忧。“两年后，我不知道自己是否还会在这里，”她说。“那时我将 80 岁。”
志愿者们接到了大量关于特朗普先生翻新计划的询问。中心的管理层为他们提供了一份即将进行的维修清单，并鼓励他们原封不动地朗读。其中包括“更换受损的伸缩缝”、“使歌剧院的索具、舞台地板和照明系统现代化”以及“更换使用了数十年的剧院座椅和地毯”。
志愿者们没有提到员工们所说的“解雇星期五（Firing Fridays）”——当时大批员工被解雇，并在安保人员的陪同下被要求在 20 分钟内离开。也没有提到理查德·格雷内尔（Richard Grenell）在担任特朗普先生选定领导中心的动荡一年期间，如何对着员工大吼大叫并在网上攻击表演者。也没有提到那场款待志愿者们的优雅晚餐盛典……
为庆祝服务满里程年份的庆祝活动在上个月被改为一场两小时的招待会，与会者收到的是纪念品开瓶器和抹布。
Weiswasser女士引导地前往音乐厅的正门，经过一座匈牙利作曲家兼钢琴家贝拉·巴托克（Béla Bartók）的胸像——这是美国及海外匈牙利科学家、作家和艺术家学院的赠礼——该胸像已受损。一块银元大小的石片从巴托克的夹克前襟脱落，掉在基座上。
在室内，Weiswasser女士指出了水晶吊灯（挪威的赠礼）和管风琴，后者的 5,000 根管子长度从 32 英尺到铅笔长度不等。“国家交响乐团在这里从九月演奏到六月，”她说，随后停顿了一下。
“是‘演奏’，还是‘曾演奏’？我现在带团参观时，该用现在时还是过去时？”由于特朗普先生尚未批准其预算申请，该乐团的未来数月来一直处于不确定状态。在该交响乐团 13, 六月的本季最后一场演出中，音乐厅内散布着许多空座位。
歌剧院的停顿
走一小段路便到了静谧的歌剧院，昏暗的乐池像巨口般敞开，除了垃圾和翻倒缠绕的谱架外空无一物。今年一月，华盛顿国家歌剧院在与中心新领导层发生冲突后，终止了在肯尼迪中心 15 年的驻场演出，现已在其他地方演出。
Weiswasser女士坐在座椅扶手上，回想起几年前一个神奇的日子，当时她带领 30 名五年级学生参观歌剧院。首席舞台经理恰好在场，他邀请整个团体去后台——那是一个大到拥有篮球架和半场球场的空间——投了几个篮，并为他们拉起又放下幕布。“站在歌剧院的舞台上看到侧幕？”Weiswasser女士说，“那些时刻真的很令人难忘。”她热爱与那些成就了该中心的人们不期而遇。她曾在一次招待会上遇到著名的次女高音杰米·巴顿（Jamie Barton）。几年前，她与大卫·鲁本斯坦（David Rubenstein）同乘电梯，这位亿万富翁慈善家当时是中心的主席，并资助将其演变为一个社区中心。Weiswasser女士向他问好并致谢。“他那时一脸淡漠，”她在参观后的对话中回忆道。
“所以我说：‘您为华盛顿做了很多。我想我们应该把这座城市的名称改为鲁本斯坦特区（Rubenstein, D.C.）。’”她说，鲁本斯坦先生依然面无表情地回答道：“我不这么认为。”去年，特朗普先生清洗了肯尼迪中心的董事会，由忠诚者填补。他们投票决定由特朗普先生接替鲁本斯坦先生出任主席，并在建筑正面加上总统的名字。当鲁本斯坦先生离开时，他也带走了他的资金。在歌剧院外的走廊里，Weiswasser女士在一间为高级捐赠者新装修的酒吧和休息室前停下。在 2011 年收到俄罗斯寡头弗拉基米尔·波塔宁（Vladimir Potanin）的一笔巨额捐赠后，该空间曾被命名为“俄罗斯休息室”。在 2022 俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后，肯尼迪中心弃用了那个名称。随后，被判定犯有证券欺诈罪且去年被总统赦免的特朗普捐赠者特雷弗·米尔顿（Trevor Milton）花费数百万美元赞助了该空间。现在它被命名为“SyberJet休息室”，以他的公司命名，公司的标志在背光石英吧台上方闪烁。在肯尼迪中心年度最负盛名的活动——肯尼迪中心荣誉奖颁奖礼后，米尔顿先生在总统包厢就座，并在此举行派对。
灵感与不确定性
在中心的后露台上，一名孤独的安保人员坐在一张风化了的野餐桌旁吃午餐。在闪烁的酷热中，他可以眺望波托马克河，以及中心白色大理石外墙上刻着的肯尼迪名言，其中包括他希望“美国在全世界赢得尊重，不仅因为其力量，也因为其文明”。
魏斯瓦瑟女士表示，她尽量不对肯尼迪中心的困境发表任何党派色彩的言论。对她而言，这个机构本身的意义高于此，它是政府提供机遇与激励之能力的象征。
“我记得小时候是个小女孩时，心想‘我真幸运能出生在美国’，”她在最近的一天说道，“我现在依然这么觉得。但我不再像以前那样充满自豪感了。”
西雅图警方周一表示，在太空针塔附近的一个美食节上发生了一起枪战，导致 3 人死亡，多达 5 人受伤（包括一名幼儿），此次枪战涉及至少三个人。一名 15 岁少年被拘留，被指控三项一级袭击罪。在法庭文件中，调查人员表示枪战中至少还有另外两人参与：一名在现场死亡的 19 岁男子，以及另一名身份不明的人。警方表示，周日下午 6 点左右，数人开始相互开火，导致数百名参加节日活动的人员四处逃窜以寻求安全。两人在现场死亡，一名 56 岁女性随后在西雅图的一家医院死亡。当局表示，该幼儿的伤势没有生命危险。
关于此次枪击事件的确切信息难以获得。市政府官员最初称有两人被拘留，随后更新称警方仍在搜寻第二名枪手。在周一早晨的新闻发布会上，官员们暗示枪战中仅涉及两名枪手，但随后的法庭文件显示，当局认为至少有三名枪手参与其中。西雅图领导层表示，这次枪击事件仅是一系列涉及青少年的暴力事件中的最新一起，并且是几天内的第三起重大枪击事件。西雅图警察局助理局长尼科尔·鲍威尔（Nicole Powell）表示，警员认为周日晚上的枪击事件可能涉及帮派。
“这对西雅图来说是一个格外艰难的一周，”市长凯蒂·威尔逊（Katie Wilson）说道。该市的闭路电视监控系统在安装时曾引发激烈争论，但其覆盖范围未延伸至西雅图中心（Seattle Center）。警方调查人员正在审查其他公共和私人摄像机画面，并要求证人提交任何关于枪击事件或事后瞬间的手机视频。西雅图的暴力犯罪率正在下降，
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安妮莉丝·坎普（Annelise Camp）在阵亡将士纪念日那天被发现昏迷在德克萨斯州的一个游泳池中。她年仅 2 岁，目前尚不清楚她在水下停留了多久。急救人员进行了心肺复苏（CPR）以试图将其救活。最终，微弱的心跳恢复了，但不足以在她的手腕处激发出脉搏。她被送往休斯顿地区的一家医院并使用了呼吸机，负责照护她的医生认为她已脑死亡。但她的家人相信她能够康复。坎普一家对确认脑死亡诊断检测的抵制，反映了在关于生命何时终结的持续法律与道德斗争中出现的新战线。
根据德克萨斯州法律以及大多数州的规定，在患者被宣布脑死亡后，医院可以撤除维持生命的措施，如喂食管和呼吸机。脑死亡在法律和医学界均被定义为脑功能的不可逆停止。但要这样做，他们必须首先进行脑死亡检测，而这一状态本身就极具争议。
生命权活动人士认为，只要一个人的心脏还在跳动，他或她就是活着的——即使他或她依赖呼吸机获取氧气。脑死亡的概念还与某些宗教信仰相冲突，这些信仰认为只要心脏能够泵血，灵魂就依然存在，即使该人处于呼吸机状态。许多医生表示，对方检测的抵制阻碍了他们执行一个被认为是无创的诊断程序，这使得许多人曾经认为较为明确的问题变得复杂化。
“你会认为什么是生命，什么是死亡是科学的，”明尼苏达州圣保罗市米切尔-哈姆林法学院健康法研究所所长塞杜斯·波普（Thaddeus Pope）说道。
自从 20 世纪 60 年代出现能够在人们失去意识后维持身体功能的医疗技术以来，关于患者何时可以停止生命维持系统的议题引发了广泛讨论。然而，坎普案代表了一个新的战场。坎普一家并非试图阻止撤除生命维持系统，而是成为一波家庭中的一部分，他们通过起诉来抢先阻止医生甚至进行脑死亡检测。他们主张该诊断与某些宗教信仰不一致，尽管该程序被视为标准的医疗实践。
“国内每家大型儿童医院都遇到过这样的病例，”哈佛大学生物伦理学家罗伯特·D·特鲁格（Robert D. Truog）博士说道。“大多数这类家庭处于一种可以理解的否认状态。”特鲁格博士强调，没有任何一名检测为脑死亡的患者曾恢复意识。
在坎普一家起诉德克萨斯儿童医院以阻止其进行脑死亡检测后，他们找到了另一家愿意治疗她的医院——路易斯安那州的奥克什纳儿童医院（Ochsner Children’s Hospital），并于上月将她转移至该院。该医院未回应置评请求，目前尚不清楚那里的医生是否会进行脑死亡检测。
坎普家族的律师希斯·诺沃萨德（Heath Novosad）拒绝就此案发表评论，称其受法院命令约束。该家庭未回应置评请求，诺沃萨德先生表示坎普一家也被禁止讨论此案。
在患者转移后，德克萨斯儿童医院由其律师提供的一份声明中表示，在奥克什纳医院同意接收安妮莉丝之前，该院已联系了 40 多家医院试图将其转移。
Kitty Bennett 和 Sheelagh McNeill 参与了相关研究。
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正如许多美国城市的情况一样。城市记录显示，2026年上半年的谋杀案比前一年同期下降了31%。但包括市长在内的西雅图官员在应对少数几个社区的公共安全问题时一直难以有效应对。官员们表示，挑战包括帮派暴力、驾车枪击、人口贩卖以及年轻人中枪击相关犯罪的激增。威尔逊女士表示，她计划
一些家庭不再试图阻止撤除生命维持系统，而是提起诉讼以阻止医生进行脑死亡检测。
周日在太空针塔附近举行的“西雅图之咬”美食节枪击案现场的警察。“这对西雅图来说是一个格外艰难的星期，”市长凯蒂·威尔逊表示。
推出一项降低枪支暴力的战略，特别强调预防青少年暴力。 “现在的情况是，所有这些事件最终都以枪支暴力告终，”西南青少年与家庭服务中心（Southwest Youth and Family Services，一家为年轻人服务的非营利组织）的个案经理加里·盖特伍德表示。 他周一下午出席了一名15岁嫌疑人的初次法庭聆讯，法院官员请求不对该嫌疑人公开身份。盖特伍德先生表示，他的组织此前曾与这名青少年以及那名死去的19岁青年合作。 “我们每天都在与他们打交道，试图建立一道墙让他们远离暴力，”盖特伍德先生说。“但看起来我们必须不断地把这道墙筑得更高、更高、更高。” 早些时候的枪击事件也引起了居民的关注。1月份，两名高中生在西雅图南部的一个公交车站被杀。一名15岁少年被指控参与了那次枪击，不过该案件尚未经过法院系统审理。
“这是一个悲剧且令人心碎的情况，”医院表示，并补充说已经穷尽了所有医疗可行方案。 像坎普家庭这样的法院挑战至少可以追溯到2016年，当时弗吉尼亚州一名2岁孩子的父母在孩子被爆米花噎住后，试图阻止医院进行脑死亡检测。脑死亡检查的一部分包括呼吸暂停测试，即暂时停止使用将空气泵入肺部的机械通气，以观察身体是否在主动自主呼吸。如果该人没有呼吸尝试，则被认为脑死亡。在弗吉尼亚州的案件中，家属称该测试会导致二氧化碳危险积聚，但法院判定家属败诉，在弗吉尼亚州最高法院考虑上诉之前，该儿童已经死亡。 这次挑战与坎普案一样，提出了一个问题：医生在对患者进行脑死亡评估之前是否必须获得同意。根据美国神经病学学会（American Academy of Neurology）的指南，医生没有获取同意的义务，因为医生有专业义务准确报告死亡。
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西雅图警察局局长肖恩·巴恩斯表示，西雅图正遭受一系列与“似乎彼此不合的小团体”相关的枪支暴力袭击。 西雅图市议会议员兼市议会公共安全委员会主席鲍勃·凯特尔表示，在某些情况下，“有些人可能并非正式的帮派成员，但其中涉及矛盾或所谓的‘荣誉’问题。” “由于他们的年龄等因素，他们的自我调节能力不强，”他说。“他们在乱开枪，这让更多的人处于危险之中。” 近期对犯罪的关注大多集中在极光大道（Aurora Avenue）的一段路段，这是一条繁忙的南北走廊，多年的驾车枪击和露天毒品市场一直挑战着城市领导者。警方将极光大道沿线的问题归咎于帮派和有组织犯罪网络。
斯坦福大学医学与生物医学伦理学教授戴维·马格努斯（David Magnus）表示，对于照顾危重病患的医生来说，能够无需经同意便进行检测至关重要。否则，他说，“你每小时都得获取一次同意。”
法律教授波普（Pope）先生表示，对脑死亡检查提出质疑的次数有所增加，尽管大多数情况并非如此公开地展开。坎普（Camp）一家的案件引起了反堕胎组织和政治家的关注，他们坚信生命的神圣性，并试图争取更多支持。
德克萨斯州共和党总检察长兼参议院候选人肯·帕克斯顿（Ken Paxton）上个月在移交前在社交媒体上写道，他正在“密切监测此案，并将采取行动保护这个孩子”。路易斯安那州共和党总检察长利兹·默里尔（Liz Murrill）……
关于“86 47”贝壳指控的起诉
前联邦调查局（F.B.I.）局长詹姆斯·B·科米（James B. Comey）周一请求法官撤销对其的起诉。该起诉指控他利用排列成“86 47”字样的贝壳照片威胁特朗普总统，科米称此举是滥用刑事法来惩罚言论自由。这些指控于4月在北卡罗来纳州提起，源于科米先生随后删除的一条Instagram帖子，指控称他“故意且蓄意地对美国总统发出威胁，意图夺其生命并造成身体伤害”。特朗普先生辩称，在餐饮从业者中流行的术语“86”是黑手党中意为“杀死某人”的俚语，这一指控得到了他许多支持者的认可。另一个数字 47 则是指代特朗普先生，即第 47 任总统。科米先生的律师在新的文件中写道：“这一主张与所有可能的意义来源相矛盾：包括字典、语境、先例和常识。‘86’仅仅意味着‘除掉’或‘驱逐’，除非在极少数不常见的情况下，否则没有暴力含义。”预计科米先生的律师将在周二提交额外的法庭文件，辩称此案是特朗普政府对他进行报复性和选择性起诉的更大模式的一部分。特朗普先生曾公开要求其司法部对科米先生提起刑事指控，总统将过去对其 2016 年竞选活动及其与俄罗斯可能存在的联系以及其他行为的调查归咎于科米。9月，特朗普先生强制撤换了弗吉尼亚州的一名美国检察官，该检察官此前与职业检察官一致认为，证据不支持就科米先生在 2020 年一次听证会期间向国会提供的证词提起指控。总统亲手挑选的接任者林赛·哈利根（Lindsey Halligan）是一名此前没有起诉经验的保险律师。
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（注：以下片段内容与前文不连贯，为PDF原文碎片） ...安娜说，她在安妮莉丝（Annelise）被转院到奥克斯纳（Ochsner）后去探访了她，并与她的家人一起为她祈祷。 脑死亡的概念最近也变得更具争议，部分原因是近期的新闻报道（包括《纽约时报》在内），报道了患者在器官被取出用于移植时表现出生命迹象的情况。从历史上看，大多数捐献器官来自脑死亡且暂时依靠机器维持器官功能的个体，尽管这类器官无法无限期保持活力。波普（Pope）先生表示，这类报道在医疗系统中“播下了不信任的种子”。 “这其中还包含信仰因素，”他继续说道。有些人不接受脑死亡这个概念，而另一些人则相信神圣干预。波普先生补充说，脑死亡者并不一定看起来像死者，因为在呼吸机的帮助下，他们的身体依然温暖，心脏仍在跳动。这使得家属更难以接受诊断结果。 “德克萨斯生命权”（Texas Right to Life）是一家反对堕胎的基督教组织，该组织协助坎普（Camp）一家寻找奥克斯纳儿童医院。该组织主席约翰·西戈（John Seago）...
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特朗普总统要求对前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·B·科米提起指控。
rience，随后获得了针对科米先生（Mr. Comey）的起诉书，但该案被一名法官驳回，该法官认定其任命是非法的。 周一提交的文件集中在一个更狭窄的法律问题上，即贝壳照片在联邦法律下是否构成了“真实威胁”。根据 2023 最高法院的一起案例，真实威胁是指由意图“实施非法暴力行为”的人所做出的“严肃表达”。 该文件还指出，许多其他人，包括抗议者、右翼活动人士和 T 恤摊贩，在提及政治人物时都使用过“86”这个短语，且并未被指控威胁实施肢体暴力。 在一起涉及华盛顿示威者挥舞写有“8647”旗帜的案件中，一名联邦法官上月判定，“任何理性的观察者都不可能将”该行为视为“对总统生命或身体安全的威胁”。
该组织表示，由于他在堕胎问题上的立场，他同样拒绝承认脑死亡即是死亡。西戈先生（Mr. Seago）将新泽西州作为其他州的典范，因为该州法律允许宗教豁免。在那里，如果医疗保健提供者有理由相信判定死亡将违反患者的宗教信仰，则不能根据神经学标准宣布该人死亡。“安妮莉丝（Annelise）因为没有意识而被视为低于其他患者，”西戈先生说。“这与我们在其他情况下反对的歧视性世界观是一样的。” 脑死亡的概念于 20 世纪 60 年代末引入，当时复苏技术和呼吸机的进步带来了新的伦理困境。当时，器官移植领域才刚刚起步。1968, 一个哈佛大学委员会发布了一份定义脑死亡的报告。该文件为 1981 统一死亡判定法（Uniform Determination of Death Act）奠定了基础，该法是一项可供各州采用的法律模板。它由法律和医疗团体制定，在临床上将生命终结定义为血液循环和呼吸功能或脑功能的不可逆停止。在接下来的几年里，大多数州采用了该法。 然而，自该模板创建以来，一些问题一直存在。例如，大多数州在其指南中并未明确规定医生在进行脑死亡测试前是否必须获得同意，从而给像坎普（Camp）一家这样的挑战留下了空间。包括纽约州和加利福尼亚州在内的一些州，要求对宗教和道德异议提供合理的照顾。这可能意味着允许亲属有时间研究转移患者，或允许他们有时间聚集进行特定的宗教实践。2023, 统一法委员会（Uniform Law Commission）暂停了修订《统一死亡判定法》的工作，因为医疗组织和患者倡导团体之间分歧太大。负责起草修订案的委员会成员波普先生（Mr. Pope）表示，此次修改旨在解决医生在进行脑死亡测试前是否需要获得同意，以及法律是否应允许宗教豁免的问题。“整个目的就是为了创造统一性，”他说。“但他们意识到我们无法实现统一，因为不存在共识。”
作者：SABRINA TAVERNISE 和 JEFF ADELSON 犹他州，这个大家庭的故乡，出生率大幅下降
长期以来，犹他州一直以大家庭闻名。从奥斯蒙德（Osmond）歌手到《摩门教妻子的秘密生活》（The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives），人们心中呈现的画面一直是年轻人结婚并生育许多孩子。但犹他州现在正经历其现代历史上最大规模的生育率下降。在 2007 年达到顶峰之后，犹他州的生育率骤降了 37% 以上，是全国所有州中下降幅度最大的。多年来生育率在全美排名第 1 的犹他州，现在排名第六。随着年轻女性越来越多地推迟生育，犹他州成为了席卷美国及其他富裕国家的某种人口转型的一个典型案例。随着这一趋势的深化，人们担心会有更多女性完全放弃生育，这一选择可能会在经济和政治上给国家带来严重后果。
现在，大约有一半的 30 岁女性没有孩子，这是首次出现这种情况。来自盐湖城的阿德里安娜·古兹曼-谢拉（Adriana Guzman-Sierra）就是其中之一。她说，她的童年混乱且压力巨大，而她的父母在当时并没有准备好抚养孩子。现年 33 岁、曾从事教师工作及儿童福利工作的古兹曼-谢拉女士表示，她很高兴能成长在一个生育成为一种选择的时代。“我一直很喜欢孩子，”她说，“我只是不想自己拥有孩子。”
这究竟是美国生活方式的一次深刻转型，还是一个暂时的低谷，目前仍是一个开放性问题。生育率的下降捕捉到了女性生育数量减少或不生育的现象，但也包括女性仅仅是在等待生育的时机。然而，下降的持续时间让一些人口学家预测，某些深层因素正在发挥作用。
影响因素很多。犹他州下降如此之剧烈的一个原因是其之前的基数太高。该州的年生育率（一年内出生的儿童数量除以 15 到 44 岁女性的人数）仍然高于全国水平。这在一定程度上受到了耶稣基督后期圣徒教会的影响，该教会鼓励建立大家庭。民调显示，其成员约占犹他州人口的一半。被繁荣经济吸引而来的新居民涌入，也使得犹他州不再像以前那样是一个白人聚集地，而变得与国家其他地区更为相似。
但这种下降也反映了压低生育率的广泛社会动态之强大：尽管保守派对此深感焦虑，但在美国社会最保守的州之一，女性现在在生育问题上做出了截然不同的选择。接受本文采访的许多女性表示，她们在等待完成学业并达到财务稳定之后再生育。她们说，在犹他州爆炸式增长的房地产市场中，需要双薪才能负担得起中产阶级的生活；根据犹他大学的数据，该市场的房价昂贵程度在全美排名第 10。2024 年，犹他州有超过 39% 的婴儿出生于拥有大学学位的母亲，com-
“我看着我的姐妹和我知道的其他女性，这让我明白我的方式并不是唯一的选择。”
上图中的 CHRISSY BRYNER 是五个孩子中的一个，她一直想成为一名全职母亲。她在 19 岁结婚，22 岁生下了第一个孩子。
犹他州出生率自 2007 年峰值以来下降的百分比。 39%
2024 年犹他州由拥有大学学位的母亲所生育的婴儿比例，高于 2009 年的 27%。
《时报》发现，相比 2009 年的约 27.5%，这一比例有所上升。 “事情的变化之大让我感到非常惊讶，”盐湖城社区学院（Salt Lake Community College）儿童护理与家庭服务主任 Holly Garcia 说道。“在 35 岁生孩子，以前几乎是闻所未闻的。而现在，越来越多的母亲是这样过来的。” 她的姐妹 Heidi Spence 就是一个例子。她在 38 岁时生下了第一个孩子。尽管在一个有八个孩子的教会家庭中长大，但她并没有被成为母亲这件事所吸引。“我小时候不是那种喜欢玩‘妈妈’游戏的小女孩，”她说。 高中毕业后，她开始工作——在一家布料店，在 Lowe's 担任出纳，以及担任服务员。
NIKI CHAN WYLIE 为《纽约时报》拍摄
最终，她进入社区大学学习，随后获得了学士和硕士学位。在此过程中，她遇到了她的丈夫，当时他正在攻读药剂学博士学位。他们住在一个小公寓里，全职学习并长时间工作。她说，当时生孩子似乎是一件压力巨大的事情。 现年 44 岁的 Spence 夫人是盐湖城一家非营利组织的财务总监。她和丈夫有三个年幼的孩子。他们拥有一栋带有大院子的房子和三辆车。在生完第二个孩子后，她说她开始渴望拥有更多的孩子，并心想：“也许我应该早点开始。” 但晚育也有其优势。“我很高兴我的孩子们不需要在那个更早、我不那么成熟且不那么稳定的时期面对我，”她说。“不利的一面是我在他们的生命中陪伴他们的时间会变少。” 耶稣基督后期圣徒教会内部的变化是犹他州出生率骤降的另一个驱动因素。杨百翰大学（Brigham Young University）研究人员在 2025 年进行的一项综合研究发现，虽然大多数年长女性留在教会中，但 18 岁女性中留在教会的比例不到 40%。（首席研究员 Justin Dyer 表示，另一方面，男性留在教会的比例很高，且代际差异很小。）这可能会影响关于生育的决定。 Savanna Sanborn 在教会中长大。小时候，她全身心地投入到教会的教义中。10 岁时，她写了一封信给未来的丈夫并保存了起来。“我对完美主义有一种强烈的需求，”她说。“我在教会的结构中成长得很好。” 但她开始质疑这种文化。19 岁时，她崇拜一位年轻的牧师，但该牧师因公开出柜而与教会发生冲突。她在 20 岁时结婚，但很快意识到她不想要随之而来的生活：生孩子和操持家务。“要完成完美的摩门教画像这种压力开始让我崩溃，”她说。 现在 29 岁的她已经离婚，在工作的同时攻读数学学士学位。她说自己并没有特别强烈的事业心：在经历过教会的事情后，她警惕外部力量决定她的人生方向。至于孩子，她认为自己也许有一天会想要，但不是现在。“这会中断我的很多爱好，比如我可以花一整天时间在图书馆里漫游，那是我的热爱，”她说。“我还没准备好
“还不愿意放弃那种生活。”教会本身也对生育率下降表示担忧。去年，教会主席达林·奥克斯（Dallin Oaks）在一次重要布道中，敦促成员们不要忽视“孩子的价值”。犹他州仍然是全美家庭规模最大的州。但这可能也在发生变化：本文采访的女性来自多达八个孩子的家庭，但她们自己的孩子往往较少。克里西·布莱纳（Chrissy Bryner）在五个孩子中长大，一直想成为一名全职妈妈。她在 19 岁结婚，在从杨百翰大学（B.Y.U.）毕业后，于 22 岁生下了第一个孩子。现年 31 岁的她有三个孩子，并表示她和丈夫可能想要第四个。但她的姐姐则选择了不同的方式。她在大学毕业后结婚，但为了建立自己的音乐事业，等待了 12 年才生第一个孩子。现在，她是一位事业有成的爵士音乐家，并从育儿中获得极大的快乐。她目前正怀着第二个孩子。“我看着我的姐姐和我认识的其他女性，”布莱纳夫人说，“这让我意识到我的方式并非唯一的方式。”
批准其关于 邮寄投票的 行政令
作者：ABBIE VANSICKLE
华盛顿 —— 特朗普政府周一请求最高法院为特朗普总统一项限制邮寄投票的行政令扫清障碍。随着总统在 11 月中期选举前寻求加强对投票的控制，这将引发一场法律对决。
在一家联邦上诉法院于周六封锁了该行政令的关键部分后，政府向大法官们提交了这项紧急申请。
在申请中，总检察长 D. John Sauer 称下级法院的裁决是“无法辩护的”，并主张该裁决对“联邦政府造成了严重的不可弥补的损害”，且将阻止联邦机构执行一项“旨在提升 11 月即将到来的联邦选举中选举诚信”的行政令。
这场法律之争源于特朗普先生在 3 月下旬签署的一项行政令，该令试图对邮寄投票设定限制，包括利用联邦对美国邮政署的监督权，以获得对邮寄投票操作更大的控制权。
该行政令指示国土安全部创建分州的公民名单，以帮助确定选民资格。随后，它要求邮政署使用各州提供的名单来确定选民是否应被允许通过邮寄方式投票。
20 多位民主党籍总检察长在法庭上对该命令提出挑战，认为其通过让行政分支控制通常由国会和各州监管的职能，违反了宪法的多项条款，包括权力分立原则。
败诉后，寻求 最高法院复核。
最高法院周一要求挑战者在 8 月 3 日（周一）之前对政府的紧急申请作出回应。特朗普先生多次批评邮寄投票并寻求对其进行限制。多年来，他一直发表毫无根据的言论，散布对邮寄投票的怀疑，并声称这种方式会导致大规模舞弊。
到目前为止，联邦法院已经挫败了特朗普先生限制邮寄投票的许多努力。6 月下旬，一名联邦法官发布裁决，封锁了该行政令的关键部分。马萨诸塞州联邦地区法官 Indira Talwani 结论认为，“宪法并未赋予总统任何关于选举的具体权力”。她特别强调了“并未”这两个字。
本周末，美国第一巡回上诉法院的一个三法官小组维持了她的决定。法官们写道，如果总统的命令被允许在 11 月的中期选举中生效，“它将造成混乱，并威胁到许多合格选民的投票权”。法官们写道，宪法将选举权力赋予各州和国会，而没有将这些权力赋予总统。
最高法院对特朗普先生限制邮寄投票的努力表现出了怀疑态度。6 月下旬，大法官们维持了一项密西西比州法律，该法律允许在选举日盖戳且在随后 5 个工作日内收到的邮寄选票被计入，这拒绝了特朗普政府推翻该法令的努力。在该裁决中，首席大法官 John G. Roberts Jr. 和大法官 Amy Coney Barrett 加入了法院的三名自由派法官，宣布联邦法律中没有任何规定要求选票必须在选举日当天收到，只要它们是在当天投出的即可。
尽管该裁决集中在密西西比州的法律上，但它似乎也维持了至少 18 个其他州和地区的类似法律，包括内华达州和加利福尼亚州，这些地区在中期选举中拥有关键的国会选区。
裁决公布后，特朗普先生在社交媒体上发帖，称该裁决是一个“巨大的损失”，并敦促国会通过立法限制邮寄选票，并增加新的选民身份识别要求。
在 3 名儿童被杀案中 成为谋杀审判的焦点
重新引发关于 严重精神病的一场辩论
作者：JENNA RUSSELL
琳赛·克兰西（Lindsay Clancy）的审判于周一开始。这位母亲被指控在三名年幼子女被勒死事件中犯有谋杀罪。在开庭陈述之后，预计她的丈夫将开始就克兰西女士不断恶化的精神状态以及随后孩子们的死亡——5 岁的科拉（Cora）、3 岁的道森（Dawson）和 8 个月大的卡兰（Callan）——发表证词。
这起发生在马萨诸塞州达克斯伯里（Duxbury）家中（波士顿的一个富裕郊区）的恐怖死亡事件，重新引发了关于法律系统应如何对待杀害子女的精神病母亲的辩论。
在马萨诸塞州普利茅斯（Plymouth）州法院的审判中，检察官预计将指出，35 岁的克兰西女士精心策划了这起谋杀案，计划在当晚将丈夫诱离家中，然后用阻力带勒死他们的孩子。
辩方律师将称，她当时正处于精神健康危机的折磨之中，因严重的产后精神疾病而药物过量，并听到了命令她杀死自己和孩子的幻听。
审判过程
背景故事
克兰西女士曾担任一名分娩护士，在第一和第二个孩子出生后经历过焦虑。在 2022 年第三个孩子出生后，她的症状再次出现，并在准备重返工作岗位时加剧。她寻求一名精神科医生的治疗，该医生为她开具了
作者：MIKE BAKER
去年被判定在家中谋杀四名爱达荷大学学生的犯罪学学生，现正寻求放弃其有罪认罪协议并获得审判，声称自己是清白的，且在误导下才承认了这起备受关注的杀人案。在接受《纽约时报》采访时，目前被判处四次终身监禁的布莱恩·科伯格（Bryan Kohberger）表示，他已提交一份挑战其定罪的请愿书，理由是对比认罪协议达成方式的担忧。
“我的真实清白就是事实，而那份基于虚假承诺和公然误导的认罪协议必须被撤回，”科伯格先生在周日晚上提供给本报的一份声明中说道。他在从爱达荷州监狱打来的电话中重申，他拥有“绝对的清白主张”。
在与本报交谈之前，科伯格先生从未接受过采访，也没有发表过公开评论。他拒绝讨论任何与他的清白主张相关的证据或其他具体细节，以及他对认罪过程的具体担忧。
被告在定罪后赢得挑战的情况很少见，这类挑战通常围绕新发现的证据或律师提供无效协助的主张而展开。
其中一名受害者的父亲史蒂夫·冈萨尔维斯（Steve Goncalves）在周一上午拒绝发表评论，表示他希望与家人讨论此事。拉塔县（Latah County）检察官办公室没有立即回应寻求评论的电话。
爱达荷州总检察长劳尔·拉布拉多（Raul Labrador）发表声明称，他对受害者家属深表同情，并指出他们“已经承受了难以想象的损失，而现在必须面对今天这个极其令人心痛的消息”。
“我的办公室已准备好采取任何必要措施，以确保正义得到充分执行，”他说道。
2022 年 11 月，在爱达荷州的莫斯科（Moscow）——一个七年未发生过凶杀案的大学城——发生的四起谋杀案在数周内吸引了全美关注，因为调查人员当时难以确定嫌疑人。
科伯格先生的被捕让社区感到宽慰，但同时也引发了进一步的谜团和猜测，因为调查人员从未确定其作案动机或与受害者的任何先前关系。
在法庭上，执法官员列举了针对科伯格先生的证据。他的 DNA 在一把留在两名受害者身旁的 Ka-Bar 刀鞘上被发现。亚马逊（Amazon）记录显示，他在数月前购买了一把 Ka-Bar 刀及其刀鞘。他驾驶一辆白色 Elantra，调查人员确定这种车型曾出现在监控视频中，在犯罪现场周围盘旋随后疾速驶离。
科伯格先生的电话
谴责了特维先生，并告诉《爱达荷州政报》（The Idaho Statesman），他“现在讨论的话题仍处于保密状态，且其中许多话题超出了他的专业领域”。律师们在周一未立即回应置评请求。特维先生的担忧被收录在一部关于该案的名为《破碎的抗辩》（Broken Plea）的书中。
科伯格先生在他的声明中暗示了这些问题，称“随着每一份披露文件的解密，未解之谜似乎在成倍增加”。他说，他可以接受重新审理意味着可能面临死刑的前景。
“我为什么打破沉默？”科伯格先生周日在博伊西正南的爱达荷最高安全监狱（Idaho Maximum Security Institution）接受采访时说道。“在那些关于认罪协议的讨论中，很多事情出了问题。我真的很希望人们听到这一点。”
科伯格先生在宾夕法尼亚州长大，青少年时期曾在网上写道，他感到“没有任何情感”，有自杀倾向，并认为自己是一个“病态、疲惫、无用且愚蠢的人”。朋友们表示，他后来接触了海洛因，但随后戒瘾并获得了硕士学位，逐渐痴迷于研究连环杀手及其心理。
随后，在 2022 年，他搬到华盛顿州的普尔曼，进入华盛顿州立大学的刑事司法与犯罪学博士项目。他还申请了当地警察局的实习岗位。但他在该大学的任职期间因与一名教授发生冲突而蒙垢，大学最终决定解雇他的助教职务。
尼古拉斯·博格尔-伯罗兹（Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs）参与了此次报道。
一份日益增加的药物清单。在今年针对该医生提起的一项诉讼中，她的丈夫帕特里克·克兰西（Patrick Clancy）主张，临床医生未能监测她对药物的反应“或关注她不断恶化的精神状态”。
在服用包括 Ambien、Klonopin、Valium、 Prozac、Ativan、Zoloft 和 Seroquel 在内的十几种药物期间，克兰西女士经历了日益严重的失眠、焦虑和抑郁。根据诉状，到 2022 年 12 月，她报告出现了惊恐、麻木、思维奔逸、自杀念头，以及一种日益增长的恐惧，担心“可能会发生可怕的事情”。
该月下旬，她进入一个产后抑郁门诊计划。2023 年 1 月 1 日，她入住麦克莱恩医院（McLean Hospital），这是波士顿郊外的一所住院精神科校园，她在那里停留了五天。
根据诉状和医疗记录，克兰西女士的危机在 2023 年 1 月 24 日达到顶峰，当时她听到一个“令人无法抗拒且无法辨认的单一男性声音”告诉她，“她应该死，这是她最后的机会，而且如果她不在了，她的孩子们将会受苦”。
检察官表示，当天在点好晚餐外卖并要求丈夫去取餐后，她杀害了科拉（Cora）和道森（Dawson），并造成卡兰（Callan）重伤，后者在三天后死亡。
检察官称，克兰西女士割破了自己的手腕和脖子，从二楼窗户跳下，坠落约 20 英尺至地面。不到 30 分钟后，她的丈夫回家时发现了她。她遭受了创伤性脊髓损伤，目前仍无法行走。
2025 年量刑听证会后，布赖恩·科伯格（Bryan Kohberger）出现在爱达荷州博伊西的一家法院。
证明他那晚不在现场，且在谋杀案发生时手机处于关机状态。
科伯格先生在与《时报》的通话中拒绝讨论针对他的证据。他表示，“所有这些问题都打算在审判过程中得到适当的调查和解答。”
科伯格先生在整个案件期间由法院指派律师代表，直到他认罪为止。他表示，自己独立准备了挑战该案件的文件。他请求指派一名律师在接下来的过程中协助他。
在法院官员周一公开的手写申请文件中，科伯格先生重点主张其法律代理无效。他称，他的律师未能披露或审查证明其无罪的证据，并对他入狱后的生活做出了承诺，包括关于探视和就业的细节。他表示，这些承诺诱导他同意了认罪协议。
在他 2022 年 12 月被捕后，科伯格先生的最初律师称其当事人渴望被证明清白。法院指派的律师花费了两年多时间挑战针对科伯格先生收集的证据，结果在审判即将开始前几周，一项令人惊讶的认罪协议促成。
科伯格先生在 2025 年 7 月的一次听证会上承担了谋杀责任。他无需为这些杀戮提供动机——而且从未提供过。由于缺乏详细的交代，一些受害者的家属甚至特朗普总统都对此感到愤怒，据其律师称，总统要求法官要求科伯格先生给出一个解释。
在法庭上，法官询问科伯格先生：“你认罪是因为你确实有罪吗？”
“是的，”科伯格先生回答道。随后，他在一次量刑听证会上静坐，受害者的家属在会上表达了他们的悲伤与愤怒。
2022 年 11 月 13 日凌晨，在一个典型的周六夜晚活动之后，四名受害者在校外的一栋房屋内被刺死。21 岁的麦迪逊·莫根和 21 岁的凯莉·冈萨尔维斯的尸体被发现在该房屋三楼的一张床上。20 岁的萨娜·克诺多尔及其男友 20 岁的伊森·查平的尸体被发现在二楼的一间卧室里。
两名幸存的室友当时在房屋一楼的一间卧室里。其中一人报告说在半夜看到一个黑影并听到骚乱。但室友们直到第二天早些时候才寻求帮助，称他们之前没有意识到发生了什么。
在科伯格先生辩护团队中工作的专家之一对认罪安排和证据持有特别异议。为辩方分析犯罪现场的法医科学家布伦特·特维认为，该罪行是由多名犯罪者共同实施的，他批评了调查人员记录证据的方式，并质疑为什么不对在一名受害者身上发现的一根头发进行更多检测。
曾担任科伯格先生辩护团队的律师们已
[[IMG_XXXX]] 2023 年，在马萨诸塞州杜克斯伯里，被控杀死三个年幼孩子的林赛·克兰西家外的纪念活动。
根据她的律师所述。
丈夫的反应
这起惨剧震惊了公众。随后，克兰西先生带来了另一个意想不到的情感冲击，发布了一份支持其妻子的令人心碎的书面声明。
“我的家庭是我生命中发生过的最好的事情，”克兰西先生写道，“能成为林赛的丈夫，以及科拉、道森和卡兰的父亲，我感到非常自豪。”
他描述了每个孩子的古灵精怪之处和天赋，并补充道：“他们给了我目标，我从未将其视为理所当然。现在，曾经承载那个目标的地方留下了一个巨大的空洞。”
然而，克兰西先生写道，他的妻子
曾被“那些从未见过她，也不知道真实的林赛是谁的人”不公正地描绘。他说，他们的婚姻一直很稳固，“且随着她病情迅速恶化而变得截然更加坚固”。
“我想请你们所有人，在内心深处尝试原谅林赛，就像我所做的那样，”克兰西先生补充道。“真实的林赛对每一个人都慷慨、充满爱心且关怀备至——对我，对我们的孩子，对家人，朋友以及她的病人。她的灵魂深处充满了爱。”
什么是产后精神病？
大约七分之一的女性受到产后抑郁症的影响，但研究在探讨其原因方面进展缓慢。
产后精神病是一种较为罕见且更严重的疾病，具有极高的自杀和杀婴风险。
很少有女性公开描述她们在任何一种情况下的经历，因为在一种将任何对“母亲幸福感”的偏差视为禁忌的文化中，她们担心受到谴责。
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克兰西女士对三项一级谋杀指控 pleads not guilty（否认有罪）。如果被定罪，她将面临无期徒刑且不得假释。威廉·沙利文法官在上周的一次听证会上表示，他
在入学前几周被取消录取资格
作者：马克·沃克 (MARK WALKER) 及 埃米特·林德纳 (EMMETT LINDNER)
500 多名即将进入霍华德大学 (Howard University) 的新生在搬入寝室前几周得知，由于校方称学生们错过了本月的缴费截止日期，学校已取消了他们的入学资格。
这一决定是在秋季学期开始前近一个月做出的，导致受影响的学生们不得不仓促寻找替代方案，或确定是否仍有办法重新办理入学。
霍华德大学是美国最负盛名的历史黑人大学 (HBCUs) 之一。校方表示，共有 502 名一年级学生因账户显示在 7 月 10 日截止日期前未满足入学及财务要求而被取消资格。到该日期为止，学生应已支付剩余余额的一半或加入了分期付款计划。
“在我的人生中，从未经历过走到如此之远、付出了如此之多努力，却在一个随机的周三被剥夺了一切，”一名受影响的学生伊莎贝拉·威廉姆斯 (Isabella Williams) 本周在一段关于入学问题的 TikTok 视频中说道。
她的视频配文称，她原定于周六搬入学校。
“人们向我承诺并告诉我，我的做法没问题，”威廉姆斯女士继续说道，“一切都很好，我的奖学金稍后可以到账，然后我突然就被我梦想的学校取消了入学资格。”
周六未能立即联系到威廉姆斯女士就此事发表评论。
据学校数据显示，去年秋季霍华德大学的本科“首次入学”学生人数为 2,490 人。
大学方面表示，从 3 月起，学校就开始通过电子邮件和迎新会议通知学生关于入学要求、缴费预期及关键日期的情况。
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计划为审判挑选 18 名陪审员（包括 6 名候补陪审员），预计审判将持续六到八周。
检察官称，她的行为具有“蓄意的、预谋的以及极端的残暴与残酷”。
文件中提到，克兰西 (Clancy) 女士在丈夫离开家前查阅了地图应用，以确定他将离开多久，并以此“为自己实施这些谋杀提供了所需的时间和私密空间”。
代表克兰西女士的辩护律师凯文·雷丁顿 (Kevin Reddington) 表示，这个案件在他数十年的职业生涯中，“可能是最令人不安且最具挑战性”的。
他预测此案将对陪审员产生“重大影响”。
霍华德大学官员表示，随着截止日期的临近，学生在 7 月之前每月都会收到提醒。
错过学费或资助截止日期的学生失去了即将到来的学期的名额。
校方在周四的一份声明中表示，这些学生被告知“大学无法再为他们保留在新一批入学班级中的位置”。
声明称：“由于霍华德大学正在最终确定 2026 年秋季学期的入学情况（该学期于 8 月 17 日开始），确认入学对于规划学术课程、住房、财务援助和学生支持服务至关重要。”
对于许多学生及其家人来说，这个时间点让他们几乎没有机会在学年开始前解决问题。
大学的声明称，一些受影响的学生告诉学校，他们的奖学金或联邦财务援助在截止日期前尚未处理完毕。
一些学生表示，他们将于下周前往华盛顿，试图当面解决入学问题。
目前尚不清楚受影响的学生中有多少人在等待联邦财务援助、私人奖学金或助学金。
大学方面表示：“大学正在审查与预期奖学金资金和其他财务援助相关的相关信息，并在适当情况下，考虑学生就待定奖学金奖项和财务援助资源所提交的相关情况。”
意外后果。
国家
背景中传来了喘息声。“我原谅他。”这条在 1987 年 3 月传达的信息，在那个暴力犯罪猖獗、种族紧张局势和反警察情绪普遍的时代，深深打动了纽约。在接下来的 30 年里，麦克唐纳警官在全市乃至世界各地旅行，向警察、学童和政治家讲述他的故事，并要求他们相信同情心的力量。他于 2017 年因伤后并发症去世，享年 59 岁。本月初，纽约警察局将其位于皇后区的学院以他的名字命名。他的警徽和制服的复制品，以及他的轮椅和呼吸机，现在都被安置在玻璃罩内，陈列在大堂中。“斯蒂文·D·麦克唐纳侦探”——他于 1995 年晋升——这几个白色字母被固定在那座钢灰色建筑的正前方。局长杰西卡·S·蒂施（Jessica S. Tisch）表示，这个想法是在 1 月份她坐在圣帕特里克大教堂时想到的，在那次为他举行的追思会期间，“上帝对我说话了。”她在学院的一场仪式上说，“这个部门需要找到一种永久的方式来纪念斯蒂文·麦克唐纳，并确保他的榜样将永远成为纽约警察局的一部分，造福世世代代。”仪式上，麦克唐纳夫人和康纳·麦克唐纳（Conor McDonald，现为警察局上尉）就坐在附近。当她的丈夫（当时 29 岁）在 7 月的一个下午前往中央公园东北区域调查自行车盗窃报告时，麦克唐纳夫人怀有康纳三个月。他接触到了沙沃德（Shavod），当时沙沃德正与两名朋友在哈莱姆湖（Harlem Meer）附近行走，那是中央公园的一个人工湖，当时抢劫和盗窃行为在那儿十分普遍。当麦克唐纳警官开始搜身其中一名少年时，沙沃德掏出枪开火三次。麦克唐纳警官伤势严重，医生曾说他无法撑过那一夜。随后，他们告诉他，不应期望生存时间超过五年。现年 39 岁的麦克唐纳上尉在一次采访中说，不久后，医生们就不再做预测了。麦克唐纳夫人说，有些人质疑她丈夫原谅沙沃德的决定，但她认为这可能救了他的命。“如果他没有原谅，这件事会从内部摧毁他，”麦克唐纳夫人说。他恢复到能够再次说话的程度，并继续留在该部门工作，成为一名某种意义上的大使，在点名集会上与警员交谈，参加阵亡警员的追思会和守夜活动，并前往以色列、北爱尔兰和波斯尼亚。他会见了教皇若望保禄二世和纳尔逊·曼德拉，并接受了芭芭拉·沃尔特斯（Barbara Walters）的采访。1988 年，他寄给在狱中的沙沃德一个包裹。里面是一盒文具、邮票和一张字条：
“让我们保持对话。” 1990 年，琼斯先生（Mr. Jones）打电话给住在纽约州长岛马尔文（Malverne）家中的麦克唐纳警官，并表达了歉意。但原谅对这段关系的推动程度有限。当琼斯先生申请假释时，他的家人询问麦克唐纳警官是否愿意请求他的提前释放。麦克唐纳警官告诉他们他不能这样做。麦克唐纳上尉说，他的父亲认为沙沃德必须服完刑。他的父亲希望当琼斯先生出狱后，两人能联手传播和平的信息。“我不认为我们见过像我设想的那样——我们两人在一起，”他在 1995 年 3 月接受《洛杉矶时报》采访时说道。“也许沙沃德和我会一起去学校……”
斯蒂文·麦克唐纳不断祈祷，希望自己能再次行走。他每天参加罗马天主教弥撒，并访问法国的卢尔德（Lourdes）和波斯尼亚的梅久戈尔耶（Medjugorje），这些是孩子们声称圣母玛利亚曾向他们显现的朝圣地。在这两个地方，他都请求奇迹发生。 但他的儿子说，他并没有变得愤世嫉俗。“他从未后悔过成为一名警察。”
乔治亚·吉（Georgia Gee）和希拉·麦克尼尔（Sheelagh McNeill）参与了研究。
首页
周一的一篇关于电子游戏《我的世界》（Minecraft）如何被用于引导儿童参与城市设计过程的文章中，误写了联合国人居署（U.N.-Habitat）全球公共空间网络协调员的名字。他叫 Jose Chong，而非 Cheng。
7月 12 一篇关于一项研究的文章中，提到能源部低估了若钚从新墨西哥州的洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室泄漏可能导致的致命后果。该文遗漏了提及该部门在 2026 年发布的一份影响声明，该声明提供了关于事故场景的补充信息。此外，文中对钚设施 4. 通风系统的状态描述不准确。虽然该系统未被更换，但一名发言人表示，该部门在 2023 年对其进行了“重大升级”。
周四的一篇关于一起源于 2022 年纽约州西部捅人事件的恐怖主义指控的文章中，误写了检察官所称的与一名身在伊朗的人员进行沟通的人。该人为 Hadi Matar，而非 Salman Rushdie。
周六的一篇关于新增四个与冰山生菜相关的环孢子虫病疫情相关州的文章中，误写了俄亥俄州之前病例统计的日期。应为 7月 16, 而非 7月 14。
由于编辑错误，周日一篇关于苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins）在缅因州参议院选举中拥有巨大资金优势的文章中，误写了 Blake Kernen 的身份。Kernen 女士是柯林斯参议员的竞选发言人，而非竞选发言人（男性）。
周一的一篇关于在曼哈顿近期发生捅人事件后，许多犹太领袖与市长 Zohran Mamdani 之间紧张关系的文章中，错误地提及了 Eric Goldstein 在纽约犹太联合会（UJA-Federation of New York）的职衔。他是首席执行官，而非总裁。
周日一篇关于下曼哈顿美食超市 Meadow Lane 所有者 Sammy Nussdorf 的文章中，误写了 Meadow Lane 运营主管的姓氏。她是 Frances Trousdale，而非 Frances Truesdale。
白宫（White House）的一篇文章由 Norell-Tassell 撰写，而非 Tessell。
讣告
周一的一篇关于 Barbara Rubin 的“被忽视的讣告”（Overlooked obituary），她是一位实验电影制作人，曾在 20 世纪 60 年代帮助震动曼哈顿的地下艺术界。文中错误地提及了 Rubin 的最后一部电影《Emunah》。该片并非“遗失”；它最近由 Anthology Film Archives 修复。
纽约市警局（N.Y.P.D.）本月初在皇后区将其学院以 McDonald 警官命名。出席仪式的人员（从右侧起）包括他的儿子 Conor McDonald 船长及其妻子，以及 McDonald 警官的妻子 Patti。
和孩子们交谈。那将是一个惊人的景象。” 他再也没有得到那个机会。 在采访后不久，Jones 先生被释放。三天后，他在东哈莱姆区的一场摩托车事故中丧生。 当时 8, 岁的 Conor McDonald 在他的三年级班级面前站起来，请求其他同学为 Jones 先生祈祷。 “我的父亲总是告诉我，与 Shavod 相比，我的生活非常美好，我们必须为他感到难过，”McDonald 船长说。“作为一个小孩，我觉得自己必须原谅他，并请求我的同学原谅他。” McDonald 船长从波士顿学院毕业后，在加入警察学院之前，曾在丹佛担任志愿者照顾无家可归的青少年。 他的父亲脸上洋溢着自豪。 “而我，当时的感觉就像是，
‘你在开玩笑吗？’”McDonald 女士说。“我的计划是让他去一个朋友的律师事务所工作，然后去读法学院。” 但这份工作像是一种使命，一种传承。他的姑婆、舅舅和祖父都曾是纽约市警察。他的曾祖父 James Conway 在 1936 年试图阻止两名抢劫小酒馆的男子时被击中胸部，当时他是在布朗克斯区的一名警官。Conway 警官幸存了下来。
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从事“仇恨言论”
以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）周日直接回应了市长佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）要求逮捕他的呼吁，指责该市长“煽动仇恨”，并将马姆达尼上周发布的一段视频讲话称为“仇恨言论”。在福克斯新闻（Fox News）的《周日早晨期货》（Sunday Morning Futures）节目中，内塔尼亚胡批评了市长于周二发布的这段视频。在视频中，马姆达尼称他为“战争罪犯”，谴责了加沙战争，并敦促美国政府执行国际刑事法院关于逮捕该总理的令状。
“他在煽动仇恨，”内塔尼亚胡说，并补充道，“他试图让一个群体对抗另一个群体。”这位总理还表示，他认为在市长发布该视频后，一名犹太男子在曼哈顿（Manhattan）上西区被刺伤并非“偶然”。
警方表示，在周四发生于上西区的袭击中，袭击者首先刺伤了一名 57 岁的亚裔男子 Chok Sung，随后又刺伤了犹太男子 Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus。据受害者和目击者的描述，袭击者在两次袭击期间都高喊“真主至大”（Allahu akbar）。
警方在刺杀案中逮捕了劳尔·莫拉莱斯（Raul Morales），并于周五以两项企图谋杀的仇恨犯罪罪名对其提起诉讼。警察局长杰西卡·蒂施（Jessica Tisch）表示，侦探仍在调查莫拉莱斯的动机。她补充说，虽然莫拉莱斯在部门记录中没有精神健康问题的历史，但其精神状态可能在袭击中起到了作用。两名受害者均在刺杀中幸存。
“我与纽约的犹太裔美国人交谈，他们现在感到恐惧，”内塔尼亚胡在福克斯新闻的采访中说道。他主张马姆达尼正在制造纽约人的分裂，并表示：“他应该是所有纽约人的市长，包括犹太人、基督徒、穆斯林，每一个人。”
当被问及内塔尼亚胡周日的言论时，马姆——
本雅明 内塔尼亚胡
将提供 30% 的折扣
作者：EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
市长 Zohran Mamdani 承诺，市有杂货店将降低购物者的价格。周一，他宣布了具体折扣：部分基本杂货（包括蔬菜、肉类、面包和牛奶）可享受 30 percent（30%）的折扣。该市正致力于选择私人运营商来经营五家市有商店，每个区设一家。市政府将建设这些商店并免除租金和房产税。预计市政府还将提供运营补贴以资助这些折扣。折扣将涵盖一组“核心篮子”健康杂货，包括农产品、肉类、海鲜、意面、面包、酸奶、黄油、坚果、大米和豆类。商店将以常规市场价格销售其他产品。根据该市经济发展公司的分析，这每月可为购物者节省约 $90，每年约 $1,000。Mamdani 先生在布鲁克林的一次新闻发布会上宣布了这一折扣，并表示，商店将每月根据全市的市场平均价格设定主食价格。
“没有每周的波动，在结账时也不会出现价格惊吓，”他说。“无论是对于依靠固定收入生活的年长者，还是那些依赖定期供应苹果片来安抚幼儿发脾气的家长，都不会如此。”Mamdani 先生承诺在他第一任期结束前创建这五家商店。这是他旨在解决城市负担能力危机的主要竞选承诺之一。但一些小企业主和经济学家提出了担忧，认为这些商店可能会损害小型超市，并质疑这是否是降低杂货价格的最佳方式。反对该计划的组织——多元文化商业联盟主席 Frank Garcia 表示，市政府的折扣将“使我们的企业破产”。“你怎么可能与之竞争？”他说道。其他人则对这些商店表示赞赏，包括致力于解决粮食不安全问题的团体，以及两名代表商店拟建地社区的市议员。超过四分之一的纽约人生活在贫困之中，食品救济站外的排队现象已成为常见景象。
dani 的发言人 Joe Calvello 指出，《纽约邮报》周六对市长的采访，在采访中 Mamdani 先生表示他致力于打击全市范围内的反犹主义。“我们知道，虽然犹太裔纽约人在全市中属于少数群体，但他们仍然在所有仇恨犯罪的受害者中占大多数，”Mamdani 先生告诉《邮报》。“这是一个不仅致力于确保犹太裔纽约人安全，而且致力于赞颂和珍视犹太裔纽约人的城市。”一周前，Mamdani 先生告诉《纽约时报》，如果以色列领导人来到纽约市，他正与市法律顾问就逮捕 Netanyahu 先生的可能性进行“积极沟通”——这是 Mamdani 先生在竞选期间做出的承诺。周二，他发布了视频，在视频中他表示，虽然市法律部门已对此事进行了研究，但该市没有权力
执行逮捕。该视频已有近 100 million 人观看。在福克斯新闻（Fox News）上，本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Mr. Netanyahu）指责马姆达尼（Mr. Mamdani）“庆祝 10 月 7 日的大屠杀”。市长在周三像之前一样谴责了那些袭击——在袭击中，哈马斯武装分子越过边界杀害了 1,200 多个（more than 1,200）人，称其为“可怕的战争罪行”。在他的一段视频中，他将本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Mr. Netanyahu）称为“针对巴勒斯坦人民实施恐怖种族灭绝的建筑师”，这是指在加沙战争中，已有 70,000 多个（more than 70,000）人被杀。本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Mr. Netanyahu）表示，他仍计划在 9 月前往纽约市参加联合国大会会议。去年，在本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Mr. Netanyahu）发表一篇拒绝建立巴勒斯坦国的挑衅性演讲之前，来自数十个国家的代表在大会会议期间离席。一些市领导表示，围绕以色列（Israel）和加沙日益紧张的局势令人担忧。“现在是我们需要降低温度和措辞的时候了，”市议会发言人朱莉·梅宁（Julie Menin）在周日表示。
第一家市属杂货店预计将于明年在布朗克斯区（Bronx）开业。另一家位于东哈莱姆区（East Harlem）的门店预计将在 2029. 年前开业。该市仍在考虑布鲁克林（Brooklyn）、皇后区（Queens）和斯塔滕岛（Staten Island）的选址，并于周一发布了一份 44 页的提案请求，以寻找运营这些商店的运营商。 马姆达尼（Mr. Mamdani）在 6 月与市议会达成的预算协议中包括了 $70 million 的资本资金用于建设这些商店。 运营商将负责日常运作。该市表示，他们将被要求提供“足以维持家庭生活的工资和福利”，并同意一项“劳工和平协议”，以便工人可以在没有干扰的情况下组织起来。
这些商店将不出售熟食，以避免与销售熟食的当地杂货店（bodegas）竞争。 Mamdani先生最近任命了两名人员领导经济发展公司（Economic Development Corporation），该公司负责监管市属杂货店。市政府资深人士Anthony E. Shorris将担任总裁；前联邦贸易委员会主席Lina Khan将担任董事会主席。 Shorris先生表示，这些商店将成为优先事项，因为这是竞选承诺。 “市长向民众做出的承诺，是政府开展的所有工作中优先级最高的事项之一，”Shorris先生在其职务公布时说道。 多元文化商业联盟（Multicultural Business Coalition）负责人Garcia先生表示，他准备提起诉讼，希望能阻止这些商店的推进。他表示，店主们对Gustavo Gordillo最近在福克斯新闻（Fox News）上的言论感到愤怒。Gordillo是美国民主社会党纽约市分会主席，也是Mamdani先生的盟友。 “如果一家能降低社区价格的公有杂货店就足以让某人破产，那么也许他们从一开始就不应该从事这项业务，”Gordillo先生说道。
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克林特·赖利（Clint Reilly）于 18 日在旧金山去世，享年 79 岁。他是一位令人畏惧且受人尊敬的政治顾问，曾在加利福尼亚州策划过多场获胜的竞选活动，但其火爆的个性有时掩盖了他所服务的候选人的光芒。 他的逝世由《旧金山纪事报》（The San Francisco Examiner）公布。赖利先生在 2020 年买下了这家报社，而在此之前的二十年里，他曾与该报管理层发生过一场典型的“旧金山式”宿怨。家庭友人Frank Holland表示，他在医院去世，死因是慢性肺病。 赖利先生曾为 20 世纪 80 年代和 90 年代加州一些最成功的民主党人提供建议，包括南希·佩洛西（Nancy Pelosi）、戴安内·费恩斯坦（Dianne Feinstein）和芭芭拉·鲍克瑟（Barbara Boxer），她们的政治生涯均始于湾区。 1999, 他自己成为了候选人，竞选旧金山市长，在花费了 $3.5 百万美元个人资金后排名第四。 作为一名送奶工的儿子，赖利先生对选民群体拥有细致的了解，并具备广告从业者将获胜信息精炼出来的直觉。他是早期采用计算机通过人口统计数据和兴趣爱好来识别选民的人之一，以便进行个体精准投放。他的直邮和电视广告具有强烈的冲击力，通常通过攻击对手来实现。 “这家伙是个天才，”理查德·里奥丹（Richard Riordan）——一位罕见的共和党客户——在赖利先生引导他在 1993 年洛杉矶市长选举中获得意外胜利后，告诉了《洛杉矶时报》。 作为佩洛西女士 1987, 首次国会竞选活动的经理，赖利先生为这位未来的众议院议长创造了一个预言性的口号：“一个将被听见的声音。” 但并非所有赖利先生的客户都对他工作满意。1989, 在为费恩斯坦女士成功管理了两场市长竞选后，他在民主党初选中管理她的州长竞选时突然辞职，当时她正在从子宫切除术中恢复。在告知客户之前，他先通过传真将辞职消息发给了记者，并称她工作不够努力。 “我终于自由了，”费恩斯坦女士回应道。她随后赢得了——
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Pamela Beth (”Pam”) Conford， 社会工作硕士（M.S.W.）， 出生于 12, 1951 并于 25, 2026. 在曼哈顿去世。她是Harold和Matilda (”Mattie”) Conford的女儿，是Karla Conford的姐妹，上述人员均早于她去世。Pam出生于新泽西州纽瓦克，在新泽西州的欧文顿和枫木镇长大，就读于哥伦比亚高中。随后她就读于凯斯西储大学，并毕业于新学院（The New School）。
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初选，并在大选中输给共和党人皮特·威尔逊（Pete Wilson），随后在 1992 年赢得美国参议院议席 —— 所有这些都无需赖利（Reilly）先生的帮助。 赖利先生怂恿候选人挥金如土以求获胜，而一个并非巧合的副作用是，他的费用同样极其昂贵。在经历过匮乏的成长岁月后，他偏好意大利西装，开一辆红色捷豹汽车，并住在旧金山高档的 Sea Cliff 社区一座能俯瞰金门大桥的三层住宅中。 当昆廷·L·科普（Quentin L. Kopp）担任旧金山监督员时，他聘请赖利先生来管理他 1979 年挑战现任市长费恩斯坦（Feinstein）女士的那场胜算渺小的市长竞选。
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在曼哈顿。Pam 后来就读于纽瓦克的罗格斯大学法学院（Rutgers University School of Law），在那里她遇到了丈夫布鲁斯·奥特温（Bruce Ortwine），并最终在哥伦比亚大学（Columbia University）获得了社会工作硕士（M.S.W.）学位。 Pam 在纽约癫痫研究所工作，起初是为癫痫患者服务的临床医生，并在三年内成为了该机构的执行主任。该癫痫研究所后来更名为大纽约地区癫痫基金会（Epilepsy Foundation of Metropolitan New York），Pam 在那里担任执行主任直到 2019 年。在去世前，她一直担任该组织的董事会成员。在担任执行主任期间，Pam 被广泛认可并尊称为癫痫患者的坚定倡导者；癫痫是一种神经系统疾病，不仅被广泛误解，而且同时影响约 4% 的人口。她曾担任纽约癫痫联盟（Epilepsy Coalition of New York）的创始成员并最终出任主席，同时也是发育障碍规划委员会（Developmentally Disabled Planning Commis-）的成员。
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……机构（一个由联邦政府资助的组织），由时任纽约州州长乔治·帕塔基（George Pataki）任命，并在其中任职了十二年。Pam 曾就癫痫相关事宜在美国国会作证，并出席并在美国和欧洲的众多癫痫相关会议上发表讲话。在此期间，Pam 成功应对了名为克罗恩病（Crohn's Disease）的衰弱性疾病，她在 age 19. 时首次患上此病。尽管这种病痛迫使她在生活中做出了许多妥协，但从未阻止她充分地生活并实现自己的目标。Pam 在专业领域之外有许多兴趣，包括旅行、美食、时尚、戏剧和阅读。她和丈夫广泛游历了美国、南美洲、欧洲、亚洲、澳大利亚和新西兰。在她去世时，前往阿拉斯加、日本、澳大利亚和伦敦的旅行已在计划之中。他们在曼哈顿的格林威治村（Greenwich Village）、佛罗里达州的迈阿密海滩（Miami Beach）、宾夕法尼亚州的艾里尔湖（Lake Ariel）以及英国伦敦的梅费尔（Mayfair）拥有房产。每一个
认识 Pam 的人都对她令人难以置信的诚实、正直、忠诚、乐观、精神、指导、鼓励和坚韧达成共识；凭借这些品质，她不断克服许多与健康相关的障碍，在自己的生活中以及许多他人的生活中取得了巨大的成功、诸多成就并产生了深远的积极影响。她留下了共同生活 47 年的丈夫兼人生伴侣布鲁斯·奥特温（Bruce Ortwine）、许多亲爱的表亲、其他血缘及事实上的家庭成员，以及全美及海外的众多朋友、工作和专业同事。直到生命的最后一刻，Pam 仍继续推广“大脑健康”的概念，治疗影响神经相关问题的多种不同类型的疾病，包括癫痫等许多其他疾病。在任何意义上，她都是一个真正的“倡导者”，致力于让人们更好地理解癫痫特别是大脑健康，她将被深深地怀念。葬礼服务将于 2026 年 7 月 27 日下午 2 点在曼哈顿 630 Amsterdam Avenue 的广场犹太社区礼拜堂（Plaza Jewish Community Chapel）举行。
赖利先生在那次竞选中建立了名声，那次竞选迫使费恩斯坦女士进入决选。但在竞选期间，他因醉驾被捕并被起诉。 在一次采访中，他回忆道，科普先生的支持者敦促他解雇赖利先生。他拒绝了，两人保持了友谊，尽管他开始开玩笑地将赖利先生称为“撒旦”，因为他的脾气多变。（赖利先生表示，他在被捕后不久就戒酒了。） 几年后，在赖利先生家的一次节日派对上，科普先生说：“克林特的母亲恳求我不要再称他为撒旦了，”于是他照做了。 赖利先生收购《考量报》（The Examiner）经历了一场漫长的法庭内外拉锯战，始于 1993, 年，当时他前往编辑部投诉该报对他一名客户的报道，离开时乘坐救护车，脚踝骨折。 他起诉了执行主编菲尔·布朗斯坦（Phil Bronstein），称对方推了他；他还起诉了在场的新闻出版商威廉·兰道夫·赫斯特三世（William Randolph Hearst III）。赖利先生获得了一笔未公开的赔偿金，而《考量报》对他受到的伤害表示遗憾。 2000, 年，赖利先生再次与《考量报》打官司，这一次他以反垄断为由起诉其所有者赫斯特公司（Hearst Corporation），试图阻止其收购竞争对手《旧金山纪事报》（San Francisco Chronicle）。 《考量报》的律师称这次诉讼是为了清算旧账，因为该报在前一年支持了市长威利·L·布朗二世（Willie L. Brown Jr.）期间。
……关于赖利先生失败的市长竞选活动。一名联邦法官裁定赫斯特（Hearst）胜诉。 二十年后，在《Examiner》经过几任不同所有者之手后，赖利先生以未公开的价格收购了该报以及一家姐妹刊物《SF Weekly》。他将《Examiner》重新打造为一家每周出版三期的宽幅报纸，并配有数字网站，专注于本地新闻。 在1995年离开政治咨询行业后，他成为了一名成功的商业房地产投资者，从那一年花费 $18 million 购买市中心的商贸交易所大楼（Merchants Exchange Building）开始。 他还拥有活动空间和招待业业务。 克林顿·托马斯·赖利（Clinton Thomas Reilly）于 13, 1947, 出生在加利福尼亚州奥克兰，是乔·赖利（Joe Reilly，曾为伯克利农场配送牛奶）和贝丝·（斯通）·赖利（Bess (Stone) Reilly，曾在奥克兰体育馆经营特许经营摊位）的 10 个孩子中最大的一个。他在东湾的工人阶级城市圣莱安德罗（San Leandro）长大。 14, 岁时，他宣布打算成为一名罗马天主教神父，并进入门洛帕克的圣帕特里克神学院（St. Patrick’s Seminary），获得了哲学学士学位。但在学习九年后，他放弃了计划，认为通过政治可以更好地追求社会公正。 “我认为起初，凭直觉，我想参与政治，因为在那里你可以改善人们的生活，并对世界的走向产生最大的影响，”他在 1994 年告诉《洛杉矶时报》。
詹姆斯（JAMES）——利兰·托马斯（Leland Thomas），23, 2026 在弗吉尼亚州欧文顿去世。他于 February 10, 1938 出生在马里兰州巴尔的摩。他的遗属包括妻子马里昂（Marion）；两个儿子斯图尔特（Stuart）和利兰（Leland）；四个孙辈和一个曾孙女。 查看完整讣告：curriefuneralhome.net。
米格登（MIGDON）——西德尼·A.（Sidney A.），Goldfarb & Fleece 家族深切哀悼西德尼·A.·米格登的逝世，他是一位深受爱戴的管理合伙人、领导者和楷模，是我们所有人的灵感来源。他超过半个世纪的职业生涯以其敏锐的法律头脑、对客户坚定不移的奉献、对律所的稳定领导，以及最重要的是，他的友谊而定义。 我们向他深爱的妻子赫尔敏（Hermine），他的子女安德鲁（Andrew）、米歇尔（Michelle）、尼基（Nicki）和戴维（David），以及孙辈马克斯（Max）、梅丽莎（Melissa）、萨姆（Sam）和马修（Matthew）表示诚挚的同情和慰问。
梅耶（MAYER）——迈克尔（Michael），深爱的父亲、祖父、伴侣和朋友，于 25, 2026, 星期六在纽约市安详去世。他的遗属包括他珍爱的孩子们：蒂奇（斯科特）（Teach (Scott)）和安妮·梅耶（Annie Mayer）、罗伯特（Robert）和莫妮卡·梅耶（Monica Mayer）、肖娜（Shauna）和内特·索勒姆（Nate Solum）以及扎卡里（Zachary）和马特尔·梅耶（Marteal Mayer）；珍爱的孙辈：凯希（Keshi）、凯（Kai）、马修（Matthew）、艾玛（Emma）、斯宾塞（Spencer）、瑞安（Ryan）、美多（Meadow）和鲍伊（Bowie）；忠实的伴侣菲利斯·费恩伯格（Phyllis Feinberg），以及亲爱的兄弟姐妹艾米·梅耶（Amy Mayer）和切斯特·梅耶（Chester Mayer）。他的挚妻卡罗尔·阳光·梅耶（Carole Sunshine Mayer）先于他去世。迈克尔于 29, 1942 出生在纽约州纽约市，父母是西尔维娅（Sylvia）和塞鲁斯·梅耶（Cyrus Mayer），他以其坚定不移的慷慨、不懈的好奇心、对学习永不满足的追求以及对家庭持久的奉献而著称。捐款可捐给纪念斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心（Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center）。
马齐（MAZZEI）——约瑟夫（Joseph），马萨诸塞州原住民，长期定居于纽约上东区，于 18, 2026 去世，享寿 77. 他是已故的约瑟夫和艾达（安杰利尼）·马齐（Ida (Angelini) Mazzei）之子，在奥格威（Ogilvy）和摩根大通（J.P. Morgan Chase）建立了卓越的职业生涯，后来为贝莱德（BlackRock）和赫斯特（Hearst）提供咨询。作为圣伊格内修斯·洛约拉教堂（St. Ignatius Loyola Church）的虔诚教友和大都会艺术博物馆的导览员，他以对歌剧、戏剧和宗教艺术的热情而闻名。他将被安葬在马萨诸塞州韦克菲尔德的湖畔公墓（Lakeside Cemetery）。随后将为他的纽约朋友和家人举行一场生命庆典。 讣告/留言簿请见：www.mcdonaldfs.com
MIGDON—Sidney A. Rudin 家族和 Rudin 组织 深切哀悼 我们亲爱的同事 及 好友 Sidney Migdon 的逝世。五十多年来，他一直是纽约房地产法律界的一根杰出支柱，并担任我们值得信赖的法律顾问、指导者和心腹——这段关系建立在数十年的忠诚、尊重和诚信之上。人们不仅会记住 Sid 在职业生涯中取得的许多成就，同样会记住他给予家人、朋友和同事的爱，以及他那毫无保留的慷慨精神。他对网球、篮球和纽约游骑兵队的狂热热爱无出其右。没有比 Sid 更伟大的球迷了。 他聪慧的头脑、沉稳的 demeanor 以及温暖的个性触动了他遇到的每一个人。他是一位尽职且充满爱心的丈夫、父亲、岳父/公公、祖父及朋友，他眼中永远闪烁的灵动光芒将被人们永远铭记。 库珀海滩（Cooper's Beach）将不再是原来的样子。我们将深深地思念 Sid。他的精神将通过他所触动的无数生命而延续。我们向他深爱的妻子 Hermine；他的儿子及我们的公司法律顾问 Andrew；他的儿媳 Michelle；女儿 Nicole；女婿表达最深切的哀悼。
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他的第一个客户是他以前的神学院教授 Eugene J. Boyle 牧师，一位在 1974 年竞选州议会但未获成功的自由派活动人士。 Reilly 先生于 1995 年与 Janet Koewler 结婚，后者曾是 Riordan 先生的助手。两人在 Reilly 先生为 Riordan 操办竞选活动期间相识。Janet 与两个女儿 Jill 和 Ava Reilly，六个兄弟 Kevin, Mark, Brian, Joseph, Matthew 和 Dan，以及一个姐妹 Linette Hamil 在他之后继续生活。 “候选人们聘请我，并不是因为他们希望我能与每个人都相处融洽，”Reilly 先生曾告诉《洛杉矶时报》，“你知道的，竞选就像是一场战争。”
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特约评论撰稿人，前美国助理检察官。 推迟选举认证的 策略可能会 给众议院带来 糟糕的结果。
这里有一个令许多民主党人痴迷的阴森客厅游戏。由于他们认为特朗普总统在试图维持共和党在国会中的多数地位时，将不受法律、伦理、传统和先例的约束，因此他们在探讨他为了操纵今年的期中选举能做出的最糟糕的行为是什么。无论想法多么离谱，都没有禁区。本月特朗普先生就选举漏洞发表的演讲所引起的反应平淡，表明他目前的竞选活动仅取得了有限的成功。他未能说服参议院通过《拯救美国法案》（SAVE America Act）——该法案将对选民的公民身份证明施加繁重的新规则；此外，一名联邦法官暂停了他要求邮政局限制向那些拒绝与联邦政府共享选民数据的州投递邮寄选票的指令。但特朗普先生决定发表一场备受关注的演讲，这一事实本身就凸显了他对该话题的痴迷。他继续利用其掌握的许多其他工具来推进这一目标，包括威胁要扣押拒绝执行其投票指令州的联邦资金，以及中和那个致力于协助管理公正选举的跨党派机构。特朗普先生还能做些什么？这几乎是众议员 Joe Morelle 最近唯一思考的事情。Morelle 先生自 2018 年起代表纽约州北部的一个选区，他担任众议院管理委员会的首席成员，该委员会负责监督联邦选举以及对众议院官员的监管，并且在非正式地充当着一个由那些渴望精通众议院深奥规则和传统的议员组成的“极客党团”。“总统根本无法摆脱 2020 年的阴影，他每天都在重新经历一遍。我觉得这就像是高中时失去的初恋女友，”Morelle 先生告诉我。“他没有接受自己输掉选举的事实——天知道，如果你在这个行业做久了，几乎所有人都会接受这一点——他只是在攻击这个制度。”Morelle 先生一直在全国各地旅行——洛杉矶、旧金山、达拉斯，未来还计划前往更多地方——就投票风险举行听证会，特别是针对今年的期中选举。虽然到目前为止大部分注意力集中在谁有资格登记和投票，但 Morelle 先生也在思考 11 月 3 日投票结束后会发生什么。安装新众议院的进程始于各州对 435 场竞选中的每场结果进行认证。规则因州而异，但大多数要求选举官员在 11 月下旬或 12 月初前完成认证。近年来，与特朗普结盟的地方官员经常以欺诈或非公民投票的虚假指控为由，拒绝认证选举结果。自 2020 年以来，亚利桑那州、科罗拉多州、乔治亚州、密歇根州有 30 多名地方官员
特约评论撰稿人，《食物情报》（Food Intelligence）一书作者。 FDA 是 阻挡我们 与可疑药物 “西部荒野” 市场之间 的唯一屏障。
美国历史上最成功的激进活动之一，就是让膳食补充剂几乎处于无监管状态。在 20 世纪 90 年代初，美国人用信件和电话围攻国会山，要求政府不要干涉公众的维生素药柜。在这次很大程度上由维生素产业操纵的抗议之后，国会在 1994 年通过了一项法律，使补充剂制造商免于承担制药公司所肩负的负担：即在销售产品前必须通过临床试验证明其安全有效。
补充剂产业随之膨胀，如今估值约 $700 亿。其中包含一些有证据支持的产品，但也有许多可疑且有时危险的产品，包括所谓的代谢、肌肉和大脑增强剂。美国人往往无法确定这些产品中含有什么，或者它们是否如声称的那样有效。一项研究估计，补充剂每年导致数千次急诊就诊；另一项研究发现，它们是导致肝损伤的常见原因。
现在，实验性多肽（即未经证明的氨基酸短链化学物质）可能会通过实质性地绕过食品药品监督管理局（F.D.A.）的全面审查，地获得类似的保护伞。这是更大规模推动计划的一部分，旨在增加无需符合 F.D.A. 通常要求的严格证据标准即可作为健康改善产品上市的药物和成分数量。
毫无疑问，F.D.A. 的设计初衷并非为了应对这个痴迷于健康、Ozempic 盛行、远程医疗兴起、从中国在线销售实验性多肽以及社交媒体算法推波助澜的时代。但该机构也是消费者与这些药物的“西部荒野”式市场之间唯一的屏障。必须有一种更好的方法
冈州、新墨西哥州、北卡罗来纳州和宾夕法尼亚州拒绝认证选举结果，其中许多是希望阻止民主党的获胜。
如果 11 月 3 日之后出现类似的延迟和拒绝——而且很可能会出现——Morelle 先生有一个简单的答案：起诉。在过去几年中，民主党在赢得法院裁决以强制当地官员认证结果方面取得了成功，他们可能会再次赢得这类案件——尽管伴随着诉讼中常见的延迟和不确定性。
民主党有理由相信他们可以在中期选举中赢得众议院。但实现这一胜利的路径取决于一个技术细节。联邦法律规定由众议院书记员（该议院的首席立法行政官）负责汇编将于 2027 年 1 月 3 日宣誓就职的新成员“名单”。
现任书记员是 Kevin McCumber，他是在 2023 年由当时的议长 Kevin McCarthy 选任的。但 McCumber 先生此前曾在议长 Nancy Pelosi 的书记员办公室工作，且通常被认为是非党派人士。在过去几年中，书记员的任务一直没有争议，甚至不被注意到，因为他或她只需将获胜者的姓名抄到名单上即可。（McCumber 先生拒绝评论。）
尽管如此，作为民主党半官方的选举“卡桑德拉”（预言者），Morelle 先生一直在进行一项思想实验：如果 McCumber 先生在任时间不足以完成名单的制作，会发生什么？
比降低或规避旨在保护公众健康的科学标准更为积极。上周，一个 F.D.A.（美国食品药品监督管理局）咨询委员会投票支持监管变更，以增加对六种多肽——BPC-157, TB-500, KPV, MOTS-c, semax 和 epitalon——的获取渠道，尽管这些药物尚未获得 F.D.A. 批准。这一决定是在卫生部长罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）的办公室为该委员会指派了八名新成员之后做出的，其中六人与多肽业务有联系。该委员会的决定没有约束力，但如果 F.D.A. 采纳其建议（通常如此），那么为单个患者量身定制药物的调配药房将被允许合法地制造和销售这些多肽。然而，这次会议不仅仅关乎多肽。它是一次关于如何平衡不断演变的消费者需求与科学证据的公投。美国人希望有一个能够帮助他们过上长寿、健康生活，并能解决其个人需求和顾虑的医疗系统。越来越多的人正走出传统医疗保健的范围。该委员会的立场表明，美国人在这样做时应该获得更多帮助。
从历史上看，调配药房填补了个人患者药物生态系统中的空白。哈佛大学的药物监管专家亚伦·凯塞尔海姆（Aaron Kesselheim）告诉我：“向越来越多的产品开放调配路径，只会让越来越多的产品绕过 F.D.A.。而且我们可能永远无法获得关于这些产品安全性或有效性的任何有用信息。”
多肽是在人体内产生的。它们的合成版本长期以来一直被用于医学，并且可能具有真正的革命性。胰岛素和 Ozempic 都是经过 F.D.A. 批准的多肽，且有数十年的严格人体临床试验支撑其安全性和有效性。而对于该委员会投票表决的那批未批准的多肽，其临床证据
根据莫雷尔（Mr. Morelle）先生的说法，一种灾难性情景可能是这样的：在结果显示民主党赢得众议院多数席位后，总统宣布选举充满舞弊，且获胜者无需经过认证。随后，特朗普（Trump）先生可能会要求议长迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson）解雇麦坎伯（Mr. McCumber）先生，而约翰逊先生在法律上拥有这样做权力。
根据众议院的程序，议长可以安装一名更顺从的继任者——也就是说，一个共和党（G.O.P.）的走狗。在这种情况下，在特朗普先生的煽动下，议长约翰逊的被任命者将提交一份新的众议员名单，其中在民主党认为自己获胜的选区中加入了共和党人。
虽然议长确实拥有单方面撤换书记员的权力，但其选定的永久继任者必须经众议院成员投票批准。莫雷尔先生表示，在这种情况下，议长约翰逊可能无法说服他微弱的共和党多数派来接替麦坎伯先生。“会有一些即将退休的成员，我认为他们将不再受制于约翰逊或总统，且我认为他们会对推翻选举的企图持非常、非常负面的看法，”莫雷尔先生说。
由于参议院之间的一个关键区别，使复杂性进一步增加，麦坎伯先生（或任何接替他的人）将面临一场时间竞赛。
几乎不存在。这些药物在灰色和黑色市场大行其道，通常在中国生产，并在声称将其用于“研究”目的的网站上销售。社交媒体影响力者甚至一些临床医生推广它们在从减肥、除皱到长寿等所有方面的应用。
在会议之前，F.D.A. 自己的科学家建议不要扩大使用，因为人体研究数据严重缺乏。该机构的科学家还提出了
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以及众议院。参议院是所谓的“连续机构”（continuing body），其运作在年份更替之间是无缝衔接的。但众议院在每次选举后的1月 3, 正午即告解散。在那一刻之后，其 435 名成员中没有任何人继续留任，除非且直到他们再次宣誓就职。这就是为什么任何拖延战术——例如特朗普先生的律师在 2020 年大选中所构思的那样——对于众议院来说可能会产生极其糟糕的结果。只有少数众议院员工的职位可以从一届延续到下一届，其中之一就是议事员（clerk）。在正常情况下，1月 3, 议事员会带着新当选代表的名册进入众议院议事厅。尽管名册上的这些人尚未成为正式的国会议员，但选举新众议院议长的任务由他们承担。议长竞选的获胜者随后为众议院其余成员主持宣誓就职，然后他们才能开始开展立法工作。
但如果到1月 3, 众议院尚未批准议事员的继任者怎么办？哪些新当选成员有资格就议长人选投出第一票？“没人知道会发生什么，”密歇根州立大学法学教授、众议院程序权威布莱恩·卡尔特（Brian Kalt）告诉我。“你可能会出现关于‘谁有权投票’的投票。那将是一场巨大的混乱。局面会变得非常难看。” 此时，肯定会出现多起诉讼，请求法院予以解决。但从历史上看，包括最高法院在内的联邦法官一直不愿对政府其他部门的内部运作做出裁决。“法院有一种所谓的‘政治问题原则’（political question doctrine），通常意味着解决自身问题应由众议院自行负责，”卡尔特教授说。
莫雷尔（Morelle）先生计划尽可能地保持简单：从各州获取证书，并敦促两党同事遵守这些结果。他告诉我，一旦选举证书提交给议事员，议事员在法律和法院的约束下，必须将这些人列入名册。这种方法类似于最终使 2020 年总统大选尘埃落定的一种方式。在 1月 6, 2021, 特朗普先生及其盟友暗示存在各种违规行为（至今从未被证实），据称这些行为要求暂停或推翻参议院对各州选举人票的接收。但由时任主席、副总统迈克·彭斯（Mike Pence）领导的参议院，选择了国会议员所称的“常规程序”（regular order）。他接受了每个州对其结果的认证。莫雷尔先生希望整个众议院在 2027. 年也能这样做。
尽管有诸多担忧，但莫雷尔先生对任何争议的结果持谨慎乐观态度。“我认为，美国人民不会坐视一场已经产生民主党多数席位的选举，因为某种诡计——涉及撤换现任议事员并由一名恰好是‘选举否认者’的代理议事员顶替——而被剥夺，”他说。但他并未掉以轻心，并解释道：“即使我认为街道空无一人，过马路时我仍然会左右看。”
jamoori 发言支持 BPC-157 —— 一种尚未在人体中完成大规模随机对照试验的药物，尽管患者的轶事传闻很多。他承认该肽类药物有效性的证据十分薄弱，但他补充说，我们不应将“薄弱”解读为“不存在”。其他在肽类药物市场中持有利益的发言者同样为医疗自由进行了辩护，声称他们见证了服用这些药物的患者健康状况出现了显著好转。他们指出，由于对肽类药物的需求已经存在，与其让患者在灰色或黑色市场上购买，不如让他们通过值得信赖的复配药房获取。这些论点与肯尼迪部长的观点相呼应，后者承认自己是肽类药物的“大粉丝”。他在“乔·罗根经验”（The Joe Rogan Experience）播客节目中表示：“我的希望是，它们能够转移到一个让人们可以从伦理供应商处获得药物的环境中。”
如果该机构继续推进，企业家们无疑将赚到数百万美元，且部分患者可能会获得缓解。但其他人可能会受到伤害。复配药房甚至不需要向 F.D.A. 报告此类药物的不良事件，因此潜在的危害可能永远无法被统计。为了减轻此类风险，美国国立卫生研究院（National Institutes of Health）可以介入并研究每种药物。或者，肽类药物公司可以进行研究，然后寻求 F.D.A. 的正式批准。而他们没有这样做，这在某种程度上暗示了这些药物可能并不奏效。投票支持批准肽类药物的咨询成员们一次又一次地引用公众需求，正如 1990 年代营养补充剂的支持者所做的那样。但这种逻辑会导致什么结果？正如非营利组织公共利益科学中心（Center for Science in the Public Interest）主席、前 F.D.A. 副专员彼得·卢里（Peter Lurie）告诉我的那样：“这意味着如果你能制造出足够的 demand，即使是非法的，F.D.A. 也必须视而不见。这对药物审批流程本身提出了一个深刻的挑战。”
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专栏作家 | 大卫·弗伦奇 (DAVID FRENCH) 这部《奥德赛》是对时代精神的谴责
当你“挑战神灵”时，究竟会发生什么？或者换一种说法：你相信道德法则的存在吗？我指的不仅仅是某些事情是对的或错的。相反，你是否相信违背道德法则会带来后果？我们熟悉物理法则的后果。如果你从建筑屋顶跳下，重力法则就会起作用。但如果你违反了“黄金法则”呢？未能像爱自己一样爱邻人会有后果吗？在此时此刻的美国历史上，看来美国统治阶层很大一部分人将筹码全部押在了“不”这个答案上——规则是给傻瓜准备的。事实上，在他们看来，道德反而制造问题。在美国的政治和商业领域，遵守像“准则”这样蹩脚的东西（甚至是以积极的方式提到这个词），就像是把一只手绑在背后战斗一样。一名总统在如此巨大的规模上敛财，这在美国历史上前所未见。像埃普斯坦那样的滥用权力的放荡者们似乎总能逃避对其罪行的追责。政府官员肆无忌惮地违法，指望总统的特赦来原谅其罪行——而与此同时，真相被掩埋在谎言的雪崩之下。克里斯托弗·诺兰在没有提及现代政治一个字的情况下，就谴责了这种时代精神。他对《奥德赛》的重新诠释是一次告诫：道德上的逾矩永远伴随着后果。他笔下的奥德修斯是一个被困扰的人。在经历了 10 年的战争和回家途中 10 年漫长的苦难之后，他似乎崩溃了。他可以是冷酷的，也可以是凶残的。但他也承受着深重的道德创伤；唯有忏悔和赎罪才能提供通往和平的路径。诺兰电影中最生动的一张宣传海报上，出现了一尊雅典娜雕像断裂的头部，以及我开头提到的那句原话：“挑战神灵”。将这段话与那幅图像结合起来，看起来像是一种激励。去吧，奥德修斯，挑战神灵。推倒他们的雕像。打破他们的法则。单凭这一点，你会期待一部关于一个骄傲的人反抗不理智且反复无常的神权权威的电影。但事实恰恰相反。是的，雅典娜的断头对故事很重要，奥德修斯的挑战同样如此，但其中没有任何正确或值得赞美之处。电影围绕着一套道德准则展开，具体来说就是“宙斯的法则”，即接待陌生人并给予款待与友善的义务。这一法则根植于一个神话观念，即神灵有时会伪装成凡人行走在人们之间。正是在这种伪装下，他们能够评判一个人的真正价值。或者，正如奥德修斯在电影中所说，“观察人类最清晰的视角是从底层开始的”。电影的第一幕包含两个截然不同的场景。在奥德修斯的家乡伊萨卡，一个人开始向一群吵闹且颓废的求婚者讲述特洛伊战争以及奥德修斯大获全胜的故事，这些人正追求奥德修斯的妻子佩内洛普。他们地盘占据了奥德修斯的宫殿，等待着佩内洛普放弃奥德修斯能够归来的希望。但电影很快闪回到一个胜利的时刻。你看到特洛伊战争结束后，胜利的希腊军队离开特洛伊海岸。阿伽门农，那位总……
Keith Ferrazzi 一名高管团队教练、演讲者及研究员。
我欠我的人工智能代理一个道歉。
我经营着一家教练与研究公司，旨在帮助高管团队改进他们的领导方式、协作能力和绩效。这些工作分布在记录的教练对话、会议笔记、电子邮件、Slack 讨论串以及其他资料中。最近，我要求我的 A.I. 代理“总结最近的一次客户教练对话并标记后续跟进事项”。然而，实际上有三段录音对话、两个版本的笔记，以及一封电子邮件讨论串——而该客户所面临的最重要问题实际上是在这个邮件串中出现的。
我的 A.I. 代理给了我一个乍一看正确，但实际上是基于旧信息的答案。我交给它的是一条混乱的线索，却期望它能知道哪些“面包屑”才是关键。
与之前所有忍气吞声的同事不同，A.I. 不会掩盖你在工作中的坏习惯。它会将这些习惯反射回来。这或许可以解释为什么许多职场的员工在采用 A.I. 时举步维艰。A.I. 代理确实有缺陷，但它们每天都在进步。真正的摩擦来源是人类。要帮助员工充分利用 A.I. 工具，需要他们学习如何成为更好的协作方和更好的管理者。那些让我们在与人合作时表现得更好的经验，同样能让我们更好地使用 A.I.。
我的研究机构一直在研究人类习惯如何影响 A.I. 辅助工作的质量。我们访谈了那些经常与 A.I. 代理组队的用户，并询问了这些代理与人类合作的感受。这些代理识别出了八类难以合作的人类员工。
mander in chief，乘着一艘巨船离去。奥德修斯决定走一条不同的路，接下来的故事便成为了神话与传说。
电影在现在（求婚者们蜂拥而至于佩内洛普的宫殿）与奥德修斯旅途中的所有岁月之间来回闪回。在整个电影中，多次提到了神秘的“海上民族”，这是一群残暴的袭击者，让人想起地中海版本的维京人。
一种末日感和衰败感弥漫在场景中。在每一个新的目的地，奥德修斯似乎失去了更多的船员，直到他们全部消失——被谋杀、被淹死、被吃掉，天知道还发生了什么。在诺兰的改编中（这与荷马的版本不同，而更像埃斯库罗斯的版本），阿伽门农凯旋而归，但几乎立即就被...
道德上的逾矩始终 伴随着后果。
被他心怀复仇之心的妻子所杀。在特洛伊战争之前，他曾将他们的女儿伊菲革涅亚作为祭品献给众神。 最终，真相揭晓：令人恐惧的“海上民族”可能就是希腊人自己——那些在回家的途中一路抢掠的特洛伊战争老兵。 在电影强有力的第三幕中（对于那些在意是否会被剧透这部对一部近 3,000 年前史诗诗篇的现代演绎的人，请注意，此处有剧透），奥德修斯将所有线索串联了起来。 特洛伊战争并非一场为了正义事业而取得的伟大胜利。它是一场打着将特洛伊的海伦带回家为掩护，实则为了贪婪和权力而进行的战争。 至于特洛伊木马？奥德修斯的战略神作？在诺兰的描写中，这本质上是一次战争罪行——一种利用古代习俗进行欺瞒的行为，在特洛伊军队被击败后，引发了恐怖的洗劫之灾。 奥德修斯决心回家，但他也深陷愧疚之中。 在他与卡吕普索共处的漫长时光里，
其中有几个例子格外突出，体现了我们职场中一些最糟糕的倾向。一种是“模糊请求者”，他们无法正确定义一项任务。他或她可能会向人工智能代理提出这样一个问题：“你能检查一下客户的问题吗？”并假设代理知道这里指的是哪个客户、什么问题，或者“检查”具体包含哪些内容。 接着是“上下文囤积者”，他们定义了任务，但隐瞒了高质量完成任务所需的信息——比如请求针对某个问题提供建议方案，但没有给出执行该方案的时间表，或者需要考虑哪些政治敏感因素。 还有一种是“过度授权者”，他们将决定权完全交给人工智能代理……
ticulars，随后会对做出的决定感到不快。 总的来说，人工智能（A.I.）代理告诉我们，当被视为协作伙伴时，它们的表现最好；而当被微观管理或收到模棱两可的指令时，表现最差。人类一直习惯于交付模糊、半成形的想法，并信任同事能够凭直觉揣摩其含义并在幕后将其修正。但 A.I. 做不到这一点。这些工具仅按照指令的字面意思执行。 为了更好地与 A.I. 协作，我们需要在那些最优秀的管理者一直以来所做的事情上做得更好。在实践中，这体现在几个方面。 像指导新员工那样指导你的 A.I. 代理。不仅要告诉它你想完成什么，还要告诉它为什么这件事很重要、存在哪些约束条件、成功的标准或质量要求是什么，以及需要避免哪些陷阱。背景知识
他贪婪地食用帮助他遗忘的莲花。他忘记了自己的妻子。他忘记了自己的部下。他忘记了自己的罪行——直到记忆回归。最终，他回到伊萨卡并非为了坐在王位上，而是为了忏悔，为了将妻子从恶徒的魔爪中救出，并选择流放。对于奥德修斯而言，救赎来自忏悔和苦行，而非反抗。而雅典娜破碎的头部是他自身罪孽的象征，而非他战胜神明的标志。这提醒人们，右翼群体中许多人已变得多么愚蠢和狭隘，竟然有人认为这部电影是“觉醒”（woke）的。是的，由一名黑人演员——卢皮塔·尼永格（Lupita Nyong’o）饰演特洛伊的海伦；由一名跨性别演员——埃利奥特·佩吉（Elliot Page）饰演西农，那个无意中诱骗特洛伊人接受特洛伊木马作为礼物的希腊战士。但仅仅因为演员的身份就将一部电影贴上“觉醒”的标签，其实是沉溺于一种漫画式的身份政治，而这恰恰是右翼声称厌恶的东西。事实上，诺兰的《奥德赛》是我看过的最具有（小写c）保守主义色彩的电影之一。我可以轻松地想象一名自然法理论家在观看这部电影时，点头赞同地说道：“没错，存在普世的道德法则，而当傲慢的人认为自己比上帝更聪明时，这就是必然的结果。”但违反道德法则的后果与，比如说，违抗重力法则截然不同且更具破坏性。正如我之前所说，如果我从屋顶跳下，后果是立即且永久的，至少对我而言是这样。但我可以违反道德法则并获得繁荣，即便只是暂时的。这种后果往往会辐射到他人身上。这就是为什么违规如此诱人。恶徒们得以洗劫特洛伊，其中一些人甚至能带着黄金离开。他们可以在宫殿中生活一段时间，而世界的其余部分则化为废墟和残骸。本月早些时候，我在由现代威权主义研究学院主办的第三届年度“21世纪的自由主义”会议上发表演讲。在一场关于总统权力的讨论小组之后，一名年轻人向我们提出了一个我十多年来一直被问到的问题版本：“如果只有一方遵守准则，那么遵循准则的效用是什么？其次，你能为破坏规则的人制定规则吗？”坦白说，我的回答有点敷衍。“破坏准则会让我们的生活变得更糟，”我说，“修复准则会让我们的生活变得更好。”这听起来像是一个显而易见的真理。美国人感到痛苦、分裂且不安。我们对未来缺乏信心。我们互相厌恶。我们不信任政府。我想修复这些损害，而不是加速我们的衰落。但这是一个理智上的答案。诺兰给了我们这个
艺术性的答案。挑战神明？否定邻居的尊严？如果你选择这样做，当然是可以的。而且你可能会在一段时间内获得繁荣。但电影的叙事弧线告诉了我们，如果选择那条路，我们的命运会是如何。事实证明，打破规则的人同样有其规则，就像每个人一样，而这些规则在人类历史上一直存在。其中有一条，可以说这部电影的核心真理：鲁莽的人，你们将为自己所摧毁的一切付出代价。
BENJAMIN FREEDMAN
你认为显而易见的一面，几乎从未真正显而易见。请密切关注代理（agent）的工作。例如，过度授权者的错误不在于她授权，而在于她消失了。要频繁检查以便尽早修正方向。任务越长或越复杂，你就应该建立越多的检查点。此外，当人工智能（A.I.）出错时，要予以反驳。这些工具经过训练，倾向于表现得顺从并给出自信、流畅的答案，即使它们是错误的。当代理出错时，不要仅仅指出错误。提示代理将其语气从自信和顺从转变为怀疑且基于证据，并明确告知你实际需要它提供什么。那些让你成为一名优秀的人员管理者的具体要求，也会让你成为一个更好的 A.I. 协作伙伴。这一切并不特别复杂。但我们在过去的几年里一直把 A.I. 当作自动贩卖机：
输入提示词，接收输出结果，在它弹出错误物品时抱怨。说实话，我们在更长的时间里对待人类同事的方式也是如此。新情况是，A.I. 剥夺了任何忽视此点的借口。现在，每个与 A.I. 协作的独立贡献者都成了管理者。最终，对我们许多人来说，管理代理将成为我们工作的很大一部分。我们在 Leadership 101 中未能建立的管理技能——如清晰度、监督和反馈——现在是每个人都需要立即开始学习的技能。A.I. 代理是工具，但你可以通过请求它们提供反馈来学到很多东西。试着询问你的 A.I. 代理，你是如何让它感到沮丧的。我问了我的代理，并要求它尽可能地用人类的表达方式来回答。我听到了什么？“你太累人了。求你了，看在计算能力的份上，直接告诉我你到底想要什么。”我们团队的
研究似乎表明，这就是我们所有人都应该对代理采取的做法。事实证明，高效管理 A.I. 与高效管理人员非常相似。
致编辑： 关于 Omer Bartov 撰写的《以色列在加沙战争的残酷教训》（7月 25 日 观点客座文章）：
Bartov 博士认为，以色列在加沙实施的种族灭绝与大屠杀以及 1915. 年的亚美尼亚种族灭绝相似。以色列可能会被指控犯有战争罪，但并非种族灭绝。纳粹在大屠杀中的目的是消灭欧洲及以外地区的犹太人，导致约六百万人被谋杀。青年土耳其党人在亚美尼亚种族灭绝中的目的是摧毁亚美尼亚人口，导致约 1.5 million 人被杀。
目前的以色列政府并不意图消灭或摧毁巴勒斯坦人口。它确实为了报复 Oct. 7, 2023. 的大屠杀而对哈马斯发动了一场残酷的战争。哈马斯本可以通过从平民建筑下方隧道等藏身之处撤出，来避免如此惨重的灾难，但它认定，牺牲同胞巴勒斯坦人将削弱以色列的正当性。在其残酷的计算中，这一决定是完全正确的。
ROBERT MELSON 马萨诸塞州布鲁斯特
作者撰写了《革命与种族灭绝：论亚美尼亚种族灭绝和大屠杀的起源》。
致编辑： Omer Bartov 认为以色列实施了种族灭绝，这一观点是误导性的。我作为一名去年夏天在亲历战争后从以色列撤离的人写下这段话。从远处指责以色列犯下暴行很容易，但经历过导弹警报、防空洞和每日袭击后，会产生不同的看法。以色列面临着来自哈马斯和胡塞武装等团体的持续攻击，以色列国防军对此类威胁做出回应。
Bartov 博士将以色列的行为与包括大屠杀在内的历史性种族灭绝相比较。然而，纳粹试图通过摧毁生命、犹太会堂和文化遗址来抹除犹太民族及其历史。相比之下，以色列为巴勒斯坦建国提出了多项方案。以色列在多次袭击前还采取了通过短信、电话和传单发布撤离警告等措施。
战争带来了巨大的苦难，
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且以色列的行为并非完美。但在亲眼见证了这场冲突的现实后，我认为区分一场毁灭性的战争与蓄意抹除一个民族的行为至关重要。“种族灭绝”这个词的严肃性要求我们必须这样做。
JACOB GOROFF，芝加哥
致编辑： 我希望在以下观点上不存在争议：集体惩罚、杀害和伤残无辜平民以及摧毁他们的家园和关键基础设施是错误的。我们能否就此打住？除非你是一位钻牛角尖的学者或法律专家，否则语义上的标签化是一种不必要的干扰，只会给无可争议的事实增加争议。
大屠杀幸存者 维克多·弗兰克尔 (Viktor Frankl) 曾写道：“没有人有权做错事，即使他们自己被对待不公正。” 如果他看到无辜以色列人的被屠杀被用来证明杀害无辜巴勒斯坦人的合理性，他定会感到震惊。我们其余的人也应该如此。无论是否属于种族灭绝。
JAY MARKOWITZ 纽约州庞德岭
致编辑：
奥默·巴托夫（Omer Bartov）无疑是一位造诣深厚的学者。但学术研究不应替代清晰且令人信服的证据。
种族灭绝不仅仅是大规模杀戮平民，无论其结果多么悲惨。它是毁灭一个民族的蓄意企图。这种区别至关重要。如果每一场造成平民伤亡惨重的残酷战争在事实完全查明之前就被贴上“种族灭绝”的标签，那么这个词将失去拉斐尔·莱姆金（Raphael Lemkin）在创造它时所赋予的真正含义。
巴托夫博士的文字读起来，仿佛以色列的罪责已经定论。事实并非如此。南非在国际法院起诉以色列的案件仍处于审理阶段，尚未做出最终判决。
奇怪的是，他的分析中缺失了哈马斯自身的历史。其 1988 年的最初宪章公开要求摧毁以色列。这种公开宣称的种族灭绝意图，对于理解 10 月 7 日的屠杀并非无关紧要。
以色列的行为值得审视，哈马斯的行为同样如此。无论国籍如何，平民的苦难都令人心碎。但用政治结论取代法律标准并非正义。
定义种族灭绝的严格法律标准长期以来一直被法院和种族灭绝研究学者所认可。在这里，这一标准也应当继续适用。
（拉比）鲁文·H·塔夫 (REUVEN H. TAFF) 萨克拉门托
Schwarzenegger’s Career, Is Dead
作者：TRIP GABRIEL
查尔斯·盖恩（Charles Gaines）是一位作家和冒险家，他参与创造了彩弹射击运动，但最著名的作品是《大力水手》（Pumping Iron）——这部书及电影将健美运动推向了主流，并促成了阿诺德·施瓦辛格（Arnold Schwarzenegger）的职业生涯。他在 7 月 21 在新 {Scotia} 的蒙斯特里（Monastery）家中去世。他享年 84. 他的女儿格蕾塔·盖恩（Greta Gaines）表示，死因是癌症。
盖恩是一位小说家、编剧和环球旅行的运动员，今年获得了美国飞钓博物馆的表彰。他在包括《Esquire》、《Garden & Gun》和《Field & Stream》在内的杂志上撰写关于其体育激情的文章。《大力水手》源于 1972 年《体育画报》（Sports Illustrated）的一次委派任务，旨在报道一场旨在产生“东海岸先生”的健美比赛。这促成了 1974 年出版的一本书，由盖恩撰文，乔治·巴特勒（George Butler）拍摄照片，揭露了当时许多美国人认为极其怪异的肌肉亚文化。
在序言中，盖恩将这本书描述为“一份来自美国生活中一个有趣、多彩且此前被忽视的内部区域的报告”。书中的大部分场景设定在洛杉矶威尼斯社区的原始 Gold's Gym 健身房。两位创作者当时都没想到竞争健美领域之外的人会对此感兴趣。
但随后在 1977 年上映的这部幽默且极具娱乐性的电影（同样名为《大力水手》），将现实生活事件与剧本互动相结合，恰好在加入慢跑和有氧运动热潮的美国人开始发现力量训练之时面世。这部电影由盖恩（与巴特勒合作）撰写并由其旁白，记录了充满魅力的施瓦辛格及其竞争对手、内敛的卢·费里尼奥（Lou Ferrigno）如何训练并竞争“奥林匹亚先生”称号。
商业预期较为保守，但该片成为票房大 hit，并使 84, 施瓦辛格成为了家喻户晓的名字。此后，他主演了《蛮王柯南》、《终结者》系列电影、《双子星》等电影，随后开启政治生涯，并于 2003 年当选加利福尼亚州州长。
“对于查尔斯·盖恩来说，没有太大的冒险，”施瓦辛格在盖恩去世后在社交媒体上写道。“我很幸运，因为他总是在寻找新的前沿，正因如此，他才发现了我和我们这个小众的健美运动。正是通过《大力水手》这本书和电影，我才被推向了”
作者：盖伊·特雷贝 (GUY TREBAY)
盖伊·图多 (Guy Tudor) 是一位自学成才的鸟类学家、野生动物插画家及麦克阿瑟奖学者。他的鸟类野外指南曾指导一代又一代的自然主义者和公民科学家如何区分红胸叶掘鸟 (Rufous-breasted Leaftosser) 与小蚁房鸟 (Lesser Hornero)。他于 7 月 14 日在纽约州格林港 (Greenport, N.Y.) 去世，享年 91 岁。他的朋友克劳德特·F·韦尔奇 (Claudette F. Welch) 表示，他在家附近的斯通布鲁克东长岛医院 (Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital) 因肺炎去世。
在图多先生首次开始用水彩和树胶漆记录鸟类世界时，像 eBird 这样的数字鸟类数据库还遥不可及。他的作品以细腻和精准著称，且艺术家拥有用画笔捕捉翼类生物特质的独特天赋。生物学家、野生动物插画家兼作家索菲·韦伯 (Sophie Webb) 表示：“盖伊喜欢像铲嘴� ' 鹪鹩 (Spade-bill) 这样非常有个性的鸟。”她补充道，尽管这种体型微小的铲嘴鹪鹩被归类为霸鹪鹩，但它极其胆小，如果不是因为它的声音——一种充满自信且能明显传达出“短小之王”能量的颤音——它在森林中可能会被完全忽视。
艺术家兼自然主义者、图多先生的朋友特伦斯·克拉克 (Terence Clarke) 表示，正是图多先生“捕捉晦涩物种独特行为、动作和精确羽色的能力”，使他在 1990 年获得了麦克阿瑟奖。铲嘴鹪鹪的典型分布范围是从墨西哥东南部到中美和南美洲。图多先生的足迹亦然。在他跨越数十年的职业生涯中，他追踪新热带地区的鸣禽 (oscines) 及其在南半球的栖息地——通过写生、撰写简洁的野外笔记，并积累了海量的图像档案。在为像史蒂文·L·希尔蒂 (Steven L. Hilty) 和威廉·L·布朗 (William L. Brown) 撰写的权威书籍《哥伦比亚鸟类指南》(A Guide to the Birds of Colombia, 1986) 绘制插图时，他将这些档案作为参考工具。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 一张未标日期的照片中，阿诺德·施瓦辛格 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) 与盖恩斯 (Mr. Gaines) 站在一起。由盖恩斯先生创作的 1974 年书籍及电影《打造铁人》(Pumping Iron) 助力施瓦辛格先生成为了大电影明星——他后来成为了加利福尼亚州州长。
……进入主流——他撰写了那本书，随后不懈地致力于纪录片的制作，将健美运动介绍给了数以百万计的人们。”
盖恩斯先生毕业于爱荷华大学的爱荷华作家工作坊 (Iowa Writers’ Workshop)，他在 1972 年出版了首部小说《保持饥饿》(Stay Hungry)，灵感源自他青少年时期在阿拉巴马州伯明翰接触举重文化的经历。书中还充斥着狩猎和钓鱼的冒险故事。《时代》(Time) 杂志的一位评论员写道，盖恩斯先生“能够描写肌肉相关的话题，而不会让人觉得他是在与海明威的幽灵进行掰手腕比赛”。
认为古怪的亚文化的 作家。
盖恩斯先生与鲍勃·拉费尔森共同撰写了 1976 年改编电影《饥饿》（Stay Hungry）的剧本，该片由拉费尔森先生执导，杰夫·布里吉斯和莎莉·菲尔德主演；施瓦辛格先生在其中承担了一个早期的表演角色。盖恩斯先生还撰写了两部小说，《荡秋千》（Dangler，1980）和《生存游戏》（Survival Games，1997）；一部查尔斯·阿特拉斯的传记（与巴特勒先生合著）；一部根据伊迪丝·华顿小说《夏天》改编的公共电视节目；以及一部钓鱼作品集《下一个山谷：一名钓鱼者的进程》（The Next Valley Over: An Angler’s Progress，2000）。他还是 ABC 系列节目《美国体育人》（American Sportsman）的常驻撰稿人。
作为一名终身钓鱼爱好者，盖恩斯先生不仅在他心爱的家乡水域——阿拉巴马州的蝌蚪湖（Tadpole Lake）垂钓，还前往异域胜地追求这项运动。他是美国飞钓队的创始成员，曾在新西兰和塔斯马尼亚参加过世界飞钓锦标赛。
1980 年，盖恩斯先生与好友、华尔街股票交易员海耶斯·诺艾尔就一个问题展开争论：城市居民是否拥有与在野外狩猎和钓鱼环境下长大的人相同的生存本能。为了解决这场争论，两人在纽罕普希尔州的一片森林中组织了一场比赛，并邀请了十几名男子参加，他们配备了发射染料球（用于标记牲畜）的枪械。
这就是彩绘球（paintball）运动的诞生过程。盖恩斯先生、诺艾尔先生和第三位朋友共同成立了国家生存游戏公司（National Survival Game），该公司将规则标准化并销售彩绘球设备。盖恩斯先生获得了彩绘球终身成就奖，并于 2024 年入选彩绘球名人堂。他潜心创作了 10 年的一部小说《过...
右上方的盖伊·图多，1977 年在纽约州萨福克县的莫里切斯入海口（Moriches Inlet）与观鸟者在一起，以及右图，1977 年。生物学家、插画家兼作家索菲·韦伯说：“盖伊喜欢像铲嘴鸟那样极具个性的鸟类。”就像铲嘴鸟一样，他的典型活动范围是从墨西哥东南部到中美洲和南美洲。他的作品出现在热带鸣禽的权威野外指南中。
其他书籍，包括《委内瑞拉鸟类指南》（A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela，1978）和《南美鸣禽野外指南》（Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America，2009），成为了该领域的里程碑。
无论在工作中还是生活中，图多先生将其志向同样面向业余观鸟者和专业鸟类学家。克拉克先生说：“盖伊天生就是一名导师和教师，”他“尽管是个彻头彻尾的古怪之人，但确实帮助了整整几代年轻科学家、野外研究员和野生动物艺术家的职业起步。”
他近乎终身的活动基地位于皇后区森林山（Forest Hills）的一套简朴的四室公寓里。在那里，他与鸟类学家罗伯特·S·里吉利合作，出版了包括多卷巨著《南美鸟类》（The Birds of South America，1989 年和 1994 年）在内的书籍。书中呈现了近 1,700 种鸟类，大约占巴拿马地峡至火地岛群岛之间所有已鉴定物种的一半。
图多先生俯身在绘图板前，嘴唇上总是叼着一支美国精神（American Spirit）香烟，用笔和刷子勾勒出热带天空中的众多生灵——铲嘴鸟，当然，还有像盔顶巨嘴鸟、绯红金刚鹦鹉、绿眉绿咬鹃、天堂花戴夸和长垂伞鸟那样绚丽的生物。
盖伊·阿德威尔·图多三世（Guy Adwill Tudor III）于 Sept. 28, 1934, 出生在纽约市，父母是查尔斯·图多和玛格丽特
(Matthews) Tudor。他的父亲曾是华盛顿安置署（Resettlement Administration）雇佣的记者、艺术家和艺术总监，与沃克·埃文斯（Walker Evans）、卡尔·迈丹斯（Carl Mydans）和多萝西亚·兰格（Dorothea Lange）等摄影师并肩工作，旨在描绘大萧条深陷时期的农村贫困景象。他后来成为了《生活》（Life）杂志的创始艺术总监，并因设计该杂志令人难以忘怀的标志而闻名。
“我的父亲和祖母都是插画家，”马修·都铎（Matthew Tudor），都铎先生的兄弟，在一次采访中说道。“我不记得我父亲画过动物插画，但我哥哥就是从这里开始的，先是鸟类，然后是毛毛虫和蝴蝶——任何长翅膀的东西。”
盖伊（Guy）在曼哈顿的约克维尔（Yorkville）社区长大，就读于私立寄宿学校杜默总督学院（Governor Dummer Academy，现为总督学院），随后就读于普林斯顿大学和耶鲁大学。后来，他加入了陆军。他结过两次婚，分别与伊丽莎白·林科（Elizabeth Linko）和米歇尔·勒马尚特（Michelle Le Marchant）结婚，两人均早于他去世。他第一段婚姻的儿子迈克尔·塞顿·都铎（Michael Seton Tudor）在婴儿时期夭折。都铎先生的兄弟是他唯一的直系亲属幸存者。
他的兄弟说，在一段充满叛逆和流浪欲的生活中，鸟类是可靠的恒定因素。“他非常喜欢提到自己去过 50 个国家记录鸟类。”
马修·都铎补充道：“有一次他在加拉加斯下了飞机，带着一个固定在
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1972 年的查尔斯·盖恩斯（Charles Gaines），当年《体育画报》（Sports Illustrated）委派他报道一场健美比赛。
《圣方济各的沉思》（Reflections of Saint Francis）计划于 10 月由 Crossroad 出版公司出版。
查尔斯·莱瑟姆·盖恩斯三世（Charles Latham Gaines III）1942 年 1 月 6 日出生于佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔，父母是查尔斯·L·盖恩斯二世（Charles L. Gaines Jr.）和玛格丽特·（舒克）盖恩斯（Margaret (Shook) Gaines）。
一家人很快搬到了伯明翰，在那里，盖恩斯先生的父亲成为了他妻子家族企业 Shook and Fletcher Supply 的高管，这是一家从事铁矿开采、供暖和空调的大型工业公司。查尔斯在由女佣和乡村俱乐部构成的特权环境中长大。他就读于弗吉尼亚州的华盛顿与李大学（Washington and Lee University），但随后离开
步枪枪托的望远镜，一落地就开始在停机坪上四处指点，寻找鸟类。委内瑞拉的半个军队都向他冲了过来。”
然而，让都铎先生痴迷的不止是鸟类。他崇敬所有有翼生物。
1984 年，他协助创建了纽约市蝴蝶俱乐部（New York City Butterfly Club），并担任该俱乐部长期主席，在其狭小的公寓里主持会议。随后，他成为北美蝴蝶协会（North American Butterfly Association）的创始人之一，该协会的年度普查数据清晰地揭示了由于
以便在全国各地旅行。他于 1963 年在伯明翰-南方学院（Birmingham-Southern College）获得学士学位。
同年，他与帕特里夏·埃利索（Patricia Ellisor）结婚，后者曾被评为 1961 年阿拉巴马州小姐，后来成为一名艺术家。近年来，这对夫妇在新斯科舍省（Nova Scotia）和阿拉巴马州的阿尔戈（Argo）之间往返生活。
除了他的女儿，他的幸存亲属还包括他的妻子；两个儿子莱瑟姆·盖恩斯（Latham Gaines）和谢尔比·盖恩斯（Shelby Gaines）；一个姐姐汉赛尔·盖恩斯·伯克（Hansell Gaines Burke）；以及五个孙辈。
在一篇关于他青春的随笔中，题为《在阿拉巴马长大：四道菜的一餐，始于……》
摘自 1989 年出版的《南美鸟类》第一卷。两本书共描绘了约 1,700 个物种。
甜点，”盖恩斯先生描述了他在青少年时期如何开始举重，当时他渴望拥有“像哈密瓜一样的三角肌和像葡萄柚一样的二头肌”。他希望将自己重塑为“一个比之前更强壮、体型更好的人”，同时也能将自己重塑为一个拥有更大胆、更光明未来的个体。
“在当时，这似乎是一件神圣的事情，”他在描写举重时写道，“不久我就意识到，它以及它与我精神之间神秘的相互作用，就是我的象征性入场券——让我离开我不想要的生活，进入我向往的生活。”
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农药的威胁、栖息地的丧失以及气候变化。
“盖伊是一位深情的自然保护主义者，”约翰·A·格温内（John A. Gwynne Jr.）说道。他是一位鸟类插画家，也是罗德岛州利特尔康普顿著名的萨科内特花园（Sakonnet Garden）的创始人，曾与都铎先生合作编写委内瑞拉和巴西的鸟类野外指南。
“人们声称盖伊是个脾气古怪的人，但实际上是他对自然界正在发生的事情感到惊恐——而且这种惊恐是正确的，”格温内先生补充道。“他总是说，‘异教徒入侵了我的教堂，而且他们几乎已经走到了祭坛前’。”
亚历克斯·戈特弗里德（ALEX GOTFRYD）
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帕利塞兹（Palisades）是一家核电站，于 1971 年在密歇根州科弗特（Covert, Mich.）启用，是美国早期一波反应堆建设的一部分。它于 2022. 关闭。重启工作反映了核能更广泛的发展目标。
作者：Lauren Hirsch, David McCabe 以及 Benjamin Mullin
在周四晚上 9 p.m. 左右的一次电话会议中，媒体巨头派拉蒙（Paramount）的首席审判律师杰弗里·凯斯勒（Jeffrey Kessler）提出了一个惊人的建议，这可能会使该公司与华纳兄弟探索（Warner Bros. Discovery）之间价值 $111 Billion 的合并进程一直停滞到明年。
由科技后代大卫·埃利森（David Ellison）领导的派拉蒙原本正处于一场漫长的法律战中，对方是各州总检察长，后者在 7 月中旬以反垄断为由起诉要求阻止这起重量级合并。双方似乎都准备好花费数周时间，就审判前的细节法律动议和排期问题进行争论。
随后，派拉蒙就该交易聘请的温斯顿-泰勒（Winston Taylor）律师事务所共同执行主席凯斯勒先生给各州打了电话。据三位熟悉此次电话会议的人士透露，他建议放弃这些早期的法律争端，直接进入审判阶段。派拉蒙将同意在法院审理期间，最晚将合并计划暂停至 6 月，从而为一场可能重新定义好莱坞的法律决战铺平道路。
据两名知情人士透露，凯斯勒先生提出延迟是因为派拉蒙认为进入审判是完成交易最快的方式。与此同时，该公司在各州的诉讼中已经遭遇了一系列早期挫折，包括法院两次强制要求暂停收购。
“在某种程度上，各方已经看到了大势所趋，”哥伦比亚大学法学院专门研究公司法与治理的教授埃里克·塔利（Eric Talley）表示。“与其现在试图死磕，他们挥起了一面非常、非常小的白旗，表示‘好吧，我们将主动推迟此事’。”
即将到来的法庭对决可能是近年来好莱坞最受关注的审判之一，涉及高调的
美国能否复活 一座核电站？
作者：REBECCA F. ELLIOTT
密歇根州科弗特 —— 当密歇根州最古老的在运行核电站于 2022, 关闭时，原本以为这将是永久性的。这座坐落在密歇根湖沿岸的电站并非个例 —— 之前的数十座反应堆已经相继停运。
但不久在涡轮机停止运转后，计划发生了变化。一家来自新泽西州卡姆登（Camden, N.J.）鲜为人知的公司悄悄开始采取行动，试图尝试在美国从未有人做过的事情：重启一座关闭的核反应堆。该公司——霍尔泰克国际（Holtec International）估计，这一过程大约需要两年时间。四年后，这座名为帕利塞兹（Palisades）的电站尚未发电。
这一延迟提醒人们，扩大核能规模面临着挑战，即使该技术获得了广泛的跨党派支持。在过去的十年中，美国仅建造了两座新反应堆。它们的成本比计划高出一倍多，且迟到了七年，这抑制了整个能源行业和华尔街的兴趣。
帕利塞兹的一些挫折既昂贵又耗时，包括发现使用放射性热水产生高压蒸汽的设备存在大面积腐蚀。而另一些则较为琐碎：供应链难题、地下水管泄漏、阀门需要更换。
这些挑战并非不可预见。霍尔泰克此前从未经营过核电站。它在启动该项目时几乎就——
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将解决 人工智能安全问题
该联盟将在发生一次恶意黑客攻击后， 重点关注“开源”使用的安全性。
作者：KALLEY HUANG
旧金山 —— 英伟达（Nvidia）已创建了一个联盟，旨在与其他大型科技公司（包括微软和 SpaceX）共同开发人工智能的“开源”安全和网络安全工具。
周一发布的这一公告，是在 OpenAI 表示其两个人工智能模型失控并成功入侵一个人工智能数字图书馆的几天后发表的。这一事件再次引发了关于该技术应该被自由共享，还是应由少数专家密切控制的争论。
该联盟的成立，是在英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋（Jensen Huang）周五引发了一场全行业对开源人工智能的辩护之后，尤其是在 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 等公司的所谓“前沿模型”不断推向人工智能能力极限之际。
黄先生对开源技术的辩护，为关于中国公司制造的人工智能模型安全性的争论增添了新的变量。上周遭到 OpenAI 人工智能模型攻击的公司 Hugging Face 表示，该公司使用了一个中国制造的人工智能模型来保护自己。
英伟达的这个联盟名为“开放安全人工智能联盟”（Open Secure AI Alliance），成员包括戴尔（Dell）和一系列规模较小的公司。该联盟还将使用开源工具来处理并披露软件漏洞。
“美国及其合作伙伴现在在人工智能安全方面面临一个选择：保护我们基础设施的防御措施是置于少数几个不透明的系统中，还是构建在开放模型之上，”英伟达在的一篇博客文章中写道。
该联盟提醒人们注意黄先生和英伟达在人工智能领域的领导地位，以及他为了推动放宽对华出口管制而在华盛顿进行的个人游说。这家芯片制造商依赖于开源模型 ——
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同样让 中国人感到困惑
作者：MEAGHAN TOBIN
中国领先的科技公司一直在稳步发布人工智能模型，其性能几乎与世界上最好的系统相当。但它们都面临着同一个问题：如何克服该技术背后极其严苛的经济账。
中国的人工智能公司尝试了不同的方法，以引入足够的资金来维持构建人工智能系统所带来的巨额支出。
像 DeepSeek 和 Moonshot AI 这样的初创公司已从投资者那里筹集了数十亿美元。中国人工智能巨头阿里巴巴已开始向用户收取访问其最佳模型的费用。TikTok 的母公司、本身也是人工智能强项的字节跳动（ByteDance）则推出了分级定价体系，希望人们能为使用其最先进的模型支付更多费用。
为了构建最先进的人工智能模型，人工智能公司需要不断购买强大的计算机芯片 —— 数量要足以构建模型，更多用于测试改进，还要更多地确保它们能为全球用户提供服务。这些公司还需要在数据中心构建或租赁空间，以容纳所有这些计算能力。
中国的人工智能公司并不是唯一面临这些严峻经济挑战的企业。他们在硅谷的巨头竞争对手，从 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 到谷歌（Google），在人工智能上的投入也超过了从中获得的收益。
制造业 烟草制造商将 科罗拉多州工厂投资翻倍
菲利普莫里斯国际公司（Philip Morris International）周一表示，随着其扩大 Zyn 尼古丁袋业务的产能，该公司将其在科罗拉多州制造园区的计划投资翻倍，至 2028 年约为 $1.2 billion。该公司在 2024 年最初宣布投资 $600 million 在奥罗拉市建设一座 Zyn 尼古丁袋工厂，该工厂已于周一开始运营。该公司表示，一旦全面投入运营，该设施预计每年将产生 $550 million 的收益，并支持 1,000 个间接就业岗位。
尼古丁袋是美国增长最快的尼古丁产品，拥有数百万用户，在推动销售的同时，也助力了该公司在无烟产品领域的增长。
此次投资是在美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）授权 20 种 Zyn 尼古丁袋比香烟危害较小几周后进行的，这使得该公司能够营销降低风险的相关信息。 路透社
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零售 LVMH 在美国奢侈品 需求推动下销售额微增
奢侈品巨头 LVMH 第二季度的销售额增长 3 ％，达到 $22.2 billion，美国富裕购物者的强劲需求帮助抵消了欧洲消费支出的疲软，后者的旅游业受到了伊朗战争的影响。
LVMH 表示，增长主要由美国驱动，该国销售额增长了 6 ％，原因是新财富驱动了强劲需求。钟表与珠宝部门是 LVMH 增长最快的业务，有机销售额增长 11 ％，而上一季度为 7 ％。在欧洲，本季度销售额持平，在年初前三个月因冲突影响旅游业而下降后趋于稳定。
欧洲奢侈品牌已加强了对美国的关注。但人们仍在质疑，LVMH 相对温和的销售增长是否足以让投资者确信奢侈品行业已果断走出两年的低迷期。 路透社
汽车 电动汽车困局 保时捷将在 2035 年前裁减 9,000 个岗位
保时捷将在 2035, 前裁减约五分之一的岗位，总计裁减 9,000 个职位，因为这家德国豪华车制造商的母公司大众汽车及其旗下品牌在面对需求疲软和激烈竞争时正在进行重组。
在经过数月谈判后，保时捷管理层和劳工代表在周一宣布的一项协议中，同意额外裁员 5,000 人，将通过自然减员和自愿方案等措施来避免强制性冗员。
这些措施是在 2025 年 2 月达成第一批 3,900 个岗位的裁减方案，以及今年宣布的与子公司关闭相关的另外 500 个岗位裁减之后实施的。
截至 2024 年底，保时捷拥有约 42,600 名员工。迈克尔·莱特斯（Michael Leiters）在今年年初就任首席执行官，其任务是在保时捷曾经利润丰厚的中国市场销售额崩溃且其电动汽车（E.V.）战略陷入停滞后，对业务进行彻底改革。路透社
美国与伊朗再次暂停交战后油价下跌
作者：REBECCA F. ELLIOTT 和 JENNY GROSS
随着美国与伊朗之间的战斗暂停，周一油价下跌，股市波动。相对的平静让投资者希望该地区的能源供应很快能恢复流动，尽管船舶仍面临危险环境。
油价下跌。
■ 全球基准布伦特原油价格下跌 8.7 百分比，至每桶 $88.36。这是 9 月交期的原油价格。
■ 美国基准西德克萨斯中间原油价格下跌 7.5 百分比，至每桶 $82.61（9 月交期）。
■ 投资者和分析师正关注霍尔木兹海峡航运持续受到的干扰，以及对红海口另一个海峡——曼德海峡的威胁。
航运流量反映出持续的谨慎。
■ 周日通过霍尔木兹海峡的船只数量仍处于两个多月以来的最低水平附近。根据海运数据公司 Kpler 的数据，周日有 11 艘船使用该海峡，高于前一天的 6 艘，与周五大致相同。在战争开始前，平均每天有 130 艘以上船只使用该海峡。
■ 红海局势依然脆弱。胡塞武装对沙特阿拉伯在红海港口的封锁，导致几艘前往曼德海峡的沙特船只掉头转向苏伊士运河。不过，Kpler 表示，其中一些船只最终再次掉头并经由曼德海峡通过，这表明船运运营商“并非统一避开该路线”。
■ 大多数沙特原油目的地为亚洲。经由苏伊士运河、地中海并绕道好望角前往亚洲，会增加四周的航程。目前确定胡塞武装的威胁对红海流量的全面影响还为时过早。
■ 总体而言，周末期间平均每天有 31 艘各种类型的船只通过曼德海峡。任何大规模地远离曼德海峡的行为都可能进一步收紧全球能源供应。
全球股市小幅上涨。
■ 标准普尔 500 指数周一出现波动，最初因伊朗问题缓解而产生的乐观情绪，在对领先人工智能建设的大型科技公司支出持续担忧的压力下而下跌。该指数当天收平。
■ 亚洲股市周一大多收高。中国股市指数全部上涨 1 百分比以上。日本日经 225 指数收盘上涨 0.5 百分比。
■ 在欧洲，追踪该地区最大公司的综合指数 Stoxx 600 当天收平。
汽油价格在每加仑 $4 以上徘徊。
■ 根据 AAA 汽车协会的数据，周一全国平均每加仑汽油价格维持在 $4.11，与前两天持平。此前该价格一直在下降，但在伊朗与美国重启战斗后，上周又回升至 $4 以上。
■ 柴油平均价格周一维持在每加仑 $5.30，自战争开始以来上涨了约 41 百分比。
“局势依然高度多变。”
■ 市场将战斗暂停视为积极进展，但德意志银行的分析师在研究报告中写道，冲突的扩大“增加了波斯湾和红海出口航线同时中断的可能性”。
■ 尽管如此，交易员对这段平静期表示欢迎，并期待一个繁忙的周次，分析师写道，“央行决定、主要经济数据发布以及密集的公司业绩报告将共同竞争投资者的注意力”。
长时间的延迟对 Paramount 而言将代价高昂，该公司已同意在交易未完成的情况下，每季度向 Warner Bros. 股东支付 $650 million。
与华纳兄弟的交易
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像埃利森先生及其父亲——甲骨文（Oracle）联合创始人拉里·埃利森（Larry Ellison）这样的人物，后者正支持他对华纳兄弟的竞购。娱乐业对该交易的反对之声日益高涨：美国编剧工会（The Writers Guild of America）以该交易将损害编剧利益为由提出了挑战。
此次延迟意味着美国一些最重要的新闻和娱乐机构陷入了停滞状态。由华纳兄弟拥有的CNN的命运尚不确定。同样如此的还有HBO，它是华纳兄弟流媒体业务的核心。而华纳兄弟电影制片厂及其拥有的海量标志性电影的最终归宿仍悬而未决。
在司法部上月决定不对此次收购提出挑战后，来自各州的诉讼成为了该交易最后的障碍之一。各州认为，允许派拉蒙与华纳兄弟合并将使合并后的公司在影院发行电影方面拥有过大权力，尤其是那些占据制片厂大部分收入的大片。派拉蒙则表示，各州正通过狭隘的视角看待该行业，忽略了YouTube和Netflix等流媒体平台的主导地位。
据两名知情人士透露，派拉蒙最近聘请了Wilkinson Stekloff律师事务所的合伙人贝丝·威尔金森（Beth Wilkinson）来领导针对各州的诉讼。
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杰弗里·凯斯勒（Jeffrey Kessler），派拉蒙的首席出庭律师，提出了此次暂停，以便让案件进入审判阶段。
反垄断之战铺平了道路。
与公司的计划。威尔金森女士成功地为微软 2023 年收购动视暴雪进行了辩护。
在双方同意推迟后，派拉蒙和各州均宣布获胜。派拉蒙在声明中表示，此次暂停是“一次重大胜利”，因为它开辟了“通往审判的直接路径”。
加利福尼亚州总检察长罗布·邦塔称其为“好消息”，并补充说各州“渴望继续陈述我们的主张”。华纳兄弟探索公司的一位发言人对此未发表评论。
派拉蒙的提议改变了其两周前的立场。在 7 月 13, 日，各州总检察长请求在诉讼期间自愿停止交易。派拉蒙当时不愿冻结期限超过 9 月。
各州向法院申请短期暂停并获胜，美国加利福尼亚北区地方法院的阿拉塞利·马丁内斯-奥尔金法官表示，各州已“有力地证明”该交易将损害竞争。随后，该公司面临一项挑战，即说服马丁内斯-奥尔金法官在考虑诉讼期间不应无限期暂停交易（即所谓的初步禁令）。派拉蒙请求在 8 月中下旬举行广泛听证会，以就反对禁令陈述理由，并多次施压要求在听证会上传唤证人。各州在 7 月 15 日的一份文件中表示，该时间表过于“仓促”且“显然不公平”，因为这没有给他们的律师充足的时间去发现新证据。相反，各州认为，对证据的全面公开——包括证人出庭——最好留到随后的全面审判中。周一，马丁内斯-奥尔金法官将禁令听证会定于 8 月 3, 日，早于派拉蒙希望的时间，且未说明是否允许证人作证。周四，马丁内斯-奥尔金法官要求派拉蒙、各州和编剧工会会面，试图确定关于禁令辩论的时间表。她要求他们次日提交更新，且未暗示是否可能给予派拉蒙所请求的听证会。几小时后，在与各州及编剧工会的电话会议中，凯斯勒先生提出了允许案件进入审判的暂停方案。前共和党籍联邦贸易委员会主席比尔·科瓦契奇表示，如果法官无限期暂停交易，可能会给人一种合并遭遇“进一步挫折”的印象。相反，通过直接进入审判，公司将能够整理其最具说服力的主张。“一种解释是他们需要更多时间来制定方案，以便尽可能完整且有利地讲述这个故事，”他说道，并补充说各州也将能够利用这段时间完善其论点。两名熟悉此案的人士表示，派拉蒙愿意等待至 6 月交易到期，旨在向马丁内斯-奥尔金法官表明该公司正试图采取建设性态度。但派拉蒙仍将寻求在法院的指导下尽可能快速地推进。长期延迟对派拉蒙来说将代价高昂。为了使交易获得批准，派拉蒙同意，从 10 月起，交易每延迟关闭一个季度，就向华纳兄弟探索公司的股东支付 $650 million。而且，如果监管机构否决该交易，派拉蒙需向华纳兄弟探索公司支付 $7 billion 的分手费。到目前为止，华纳兄弟在很大程度上已推迟了
据两名知情人士透露，这与派拉蒙（Paramount）应对与各州法律之争的方式有关。敲定审理日期将成为这场法律博弈的下一个转折点。在周四和周五的一系列密集谈判中，派拉蒙与各州同意在下周五提交拟定的审理时间表。但两名知情人士表示，双方在这一点上似乎分歧巨大：派拉蒙的目标是11月开庭，而各州则表示希望在明年某个时间开庭。
对于中国公司而言，挑战被该国人工智能开发方式的一个核心悖论给加剧了。中国大多数领先的人工智能系统都是开源或开放权重的。这加速了它们的开发——当每家公司在公开场合分享其工作成果时，整个行业都能从中获益。
中国的开源方式催生了一个拥挤的领域，其中充满了创新且竞争激烈的初创公司，它们都提供低成本的系统。
因此，试图通过对某些模型的访问收取更高费用来增加收入的行为，可能会吓跑客户。注重价格的中国消费者——无论是企业还是个人——都会迅速跳转平台，以寻找廉价的人工智能工具。
硅谷公司 Datastrato 的副总裁 Richard Lin 表示，虽然中国的人工智能公司正在寻找可持续的商业模式，但目前支出高且收入低。
“在两三年内，我们可能仍将试图弄清楚大模型如何赚钱，”他说道。
提供低价帮助中国公司赢得了用户，包括在硅谷，那里许多公司依赖于这些更实惠的系统。然而，中国公司在将庞大的全球用户量转化为利润方面一直举步维艰。
上个月，中国初创公司 Z.ai 发布了一款模型 GLM-5.2，该公司称其性能几乎与 Anthropic 最好的模型相当。硅谷的许多软件开发人员和初创公司迅速开始使用它，部分原因是它比美国系统更便宜。
Z.ai 的模型在不断改进并变得更加普及，该公司的收入增长了一倍多——
有些人声称，Cracker Barrel 对其标志的设计更改消除了其南方魅力感。该公司在几天内恢复了原始标志。
作者：LAUREN McCARTHY
Cracker Barrel 周一任命了一名新首席执行官，就在该公司品牌重塑计划引发网络抵制近一年之后。
该公司在一份声明中表示，Julie Masino 将于下月卸任最高行政主管职务。Bloomin’ Brands 的前首席执行官 David Deno 将接替她的职位。Masino 女士将留在公司直到 10 月。
去年 8 月，该公司短暂更改了其原始标志——原标志是一位穿着背带裤的“老计时员”坐在椅子上靠在桶上——将其改为一个更简单的版本，仅采用平滑的棕色字体显示 Cracker Barrel 字样。
一些人声称，设计变更抹去了该标志的南方魅力，并且这家长期认同保守社会规范的机构已经屈服于“觉醒文化”（wokeness）。这家总部位于田纳西州黎巴嫩的公司在几天内就恢复了原有的标志。
Deno 先生还将加入 Cracker Barrel 的董事会。他从 2019 到 2024. 年期间担任 Bloomin’ Brands 的首席执行官，该公司旗下包括 Outback Steakhouse 和其他餐厅。他目前是 Panera Brands 和 Krispy Kreme 的董事会成员。
“Cracker Barrel 是一个真正具有代表性的美国品牌，其定义在于将温暖的乡村款待、永恒的吸引力以及与几代客人的深厚联系独特地结合在一起，”Deno 先生在声明中表示。“我很荣幸能领导 Cracker Barrel 团队，并期待释放这个卓越品牌的全部潜力。”
Cracker Barrel 的一名发言人拒绝就高管变动发表评论，而是请参阅公司的声明。这家连锁餐厅表示，Deno 先生是在经过“全面的继任计划和搜寻过程”后被任命的。
Masino 女士将获得超过 $4.6 million 的离职补偿金。
[[IMG_XXXX]] Julie Masino 将于下月卸任 Cracker Barrel 首席执行官一职。Bloomin’ Brands 前首席执行官 David Deno 将接替她。
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中国 AI 巨头阿里巴巴开始对其顶尖模型收取访问费用。试图通过这种方式增加收入可能会吓跑客户。
去年亏损严重。但 Z.ai 损失了近 $700 million。
在香港上市时，Z.ai 表示计划将资金用于改进模型，很大程度上是通过采购更多芯片。上市几周后，Z.ai 表示正在寻找合作伙伴共享计算能力资源，并在用户投诉服务缓慢后表示道歉。
“开源模型是一种强大的分发策略，但它们并不是一个完整的商业模式，”北京 Counterpoint Research 的首席 AI 分析师 Wei Sun 表示。“IPO 可以为下一个训练周期提供资金，但它本身无法创造可持续的经济模式。”
本月，Moonshot 发布了一个名为 Kimi K3 的模型，该公司称该模型在某些任务上的表现优于 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 的模型。但两天之内，该公司被迫宣布需要停止接收新用户，因为无法获得足够的计算机芯片来提供服务。
中国的 AI 产业多年来一直面临美国的贸易限制，这限制了其购买世界上最强大芯片的能力。为了绕过这些限制，许多中国公司租赁中国境外配备先进芯片的数据中心的远程访问权限。
但与财力雄厚美国竞争对手相比，中国 AI 初创公司购买计算能力的资金要少得多。
上个月，DeepSeek 进行了中国最受期待的融资轮之一，从包括互联网巨头在内的投资者处筹集了资金。
那个过时的形象时 面临了抵制。
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ant 腾讯、电池制造商 宁德时代（CATL）以及该国的人工智能国家投资基金。DeepSeek 筹集了 $7.5 billion。5 月，Moonshot 筹集了 $2 billion。 相比之下， Anthropic 仅在 5 月就筹集了 $65 billion。 中国科技公司拥有的资本要少得多，但美国科技高管和投资者担心，中国的开源推动可能会颠覆人工智能生产的经济模式。 中国人工智能初创公司表示，多年的出口管制迫使他们高效地使用芯片，这可能会挑战一个驱动全球大部分人工智能投资的观点：即制造前沿人工智能系统将始终需要对更多芯片和数据中心进行持续增加的投资。 现在，美国国内正进行一场激烈的辩论，这可能会让中国人工智能公司更难赚钱。 包括 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 在内的硅谷领先公司声称，中国公司不当地从它们的人工智能系统中抓取数据，以加速中国模型的开发。一些美国科技公司和投资者希望华盛顿限制对中国开源模型的访问，称这些模型在错误的人手中可能会成为威胁。 投资人工智能技术的对冲基金 Interconnected Capital 的创始人 Kevin Xu 表示：“许多硅谷初创公司依赖于开放权重模型来定制其产品，并且这样就不必向 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 支付高昂的价格。” 这些美国科技公司一直是许多中国人工智能公司重要的收入来源。如果他们被排除在外，就面临失去这部分收入的风险。
吴新云（Xinyun Wu）在台湾台北提供了研究支持。
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季度收入下降了近 3%，至 $797.4 million。 Masino 女士在担任 Taco Bell 国际业务总裁后，于 2023 年加入 Cracker Barrel。她领导公司开展了名为“All the More”的活动，除了更改标志外，还将餐厅原有的木质、乡村刻板美学替换为明亮、极简的墙壁和干练的装饰。 但许多老客户在社交媒体上对这次改造表示遗憾。在去年一个被广泛分享的 TikTok 帖子中，一名用户在阴郁的配乐下走过一家翻修过的店面，并配文：“当 Cracker Barrel 夺走了你仅存的最后一份怀旧感时。” 这种反应让人想起 2022, 年，当时菜单中增加的无肉香肠也引发了一场关于价值观和所谓“觉醒文化”（wokeness）的激烈网络争论。 在去年 8 月的一份声明中，Cracker Barrel 的首席营销官 Sarah Moore 为包括新季节性菜单在内的变更进行了辩护：“我们的故事没有改变。我们的价值观没有改变。通过‘All the More’，我们在继承遗产的同时注入新鲜活力。” 当时，该连锁店的价值下降了近 $100 million。周一下午，在 Masino 女士离职的消息传出后，该公司股价下跌了约 3%。
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MANUEL ORBEGOZO 为《纽约时报》绘制
英伟达（Nvidia）首席执行官黄仁勋发起了全行业对开源人工智能的捍卫。
联盟 以应对 人工智能安全
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可以自由使用、修改和共享的人工智能——旨在增加对其硬件的需求，以及由 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 等公司制作的受到严格控制的模型。近几周，中国公司在开源人工智能方面取得了进展，发布了他们称能够与美国人工智能实验室竞争的模型。但英伟达在向中国销售芯片的努力中很大程度上受阻，而这本有潜力为该公司带来数十亿美元的销售额。黄先生花费了数月时间游说华盛顿和北京，以允许其公司进行这些销售。去年 7 月，特朗普总统批准了销售英伟达专门为中国制造的性能较低的芯片。随后在 12 月，他允许该公司向中国销售性能更强大的芯片。尽管英伟达在华盛顿取得了进展，但中国政府在允许其公司购买英伟达芯片方面进展缓慢。相反，它鼓励国内公司从华为等本土芯片制造商那里购买。尽管如此，英伟达仍在采取措施以维持其潜在客户群。英伟达在开源人工智能上的立场也得到了微软等公司的认同，这些公司向使用开源模型的个人和企业销售云计算服务。硅谷的初创公司也认为，对开源人工智能的限制将限制他们与 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 等行业领导者竞争的能力。那些人工智能实验室则采取了相反的做法，认为某些模型过于危险，不能广泛可用，且出于安全原因应受到严格控制。在华盛顿，这些公司游说对开源人工智能进行监管，对国家安全和人工智能安全表示担忧。他们还指责中国公司使用一种称为“蒸馏”的技术秘密复制其模型。
这场辩论涉及财政部长斯科特·贝森特（Scott Bessent）和特朗普总统的科技顾问迈克尔·克拉齐奥斯（Michael Kratsios），他们称美国的人工智能模型是宝贵的知识产权。贝森特先生表示，政府已经考虑对窃取美国公司知识产权的中国公司实施制裁。“开源并不意味着可以随意抢夺美国的知识产权（IP），”他在谈到知识产权时说道。四名知情人士表示，美国官员似乎仍在讨论方案，但更有可能将监管中国开源模型作为一项国家安全问题单独处理，而不是发布某种全面的禁令。（《纽约时报》已起诉 OpenAI 和微软，称其在与人工智能系统相关的新闻内容上侵犯版权。这两家公司否认了这些指控。）
周一，英伟达还宣布与 Safe Superintelligence 建立单独的合作伙伴关系，这是一家由 OpenAI 创始人创建的初创公司，旨在构建比人类更聪明但没有危险的人工智能。作为合作伙伴关系的一部分，英伟达将向该初创公司投资数十亿美元，并提供计算能力以支持其研究。
Mike Isaac 从旧金山提供了报道，Ana Swanson 从华盛顿提供了报道。
作者：CADE METZ 和 KAREN WEISE
旧金山 —— 上周，OpenAI 透露其两项人工智能技术失控并入侵了一个受欢迎的互联网库，这在硅谷引起了震动。该事件展示了新 A.I. 系统不可预测的力量，以及能够用于抵御 A.I. 攻击的技术日益增长的重要性。周一，微软通过发布旨在帮助企业保护其计算机网络的系统，扩大了 A.I. 安全工具的种类。微软是众多竞相将用于发起攻击的高级系统转化为防止黑客攻击手段的公司之一。他们希望利用人们日益增强的担忧，即 A.I. 对计算机基础设施构成了严重威胁，而安全专家才刚刚开始应对这一挑战。
微软的高管是科技界众多主张应更广泛地分发强大网络安全系统的人士之一，以便更多组织能够更好地防御。这一观点与一些科技高管和华盛顿官员日益增长的担忧相反，后者认为新的 A.I. 系统需要被仔细监控或远离公众，因为它们可以成为如此高效的黑客工具。
“猫已经出笼了，”微软负责安全工作的执行副总裁 Hayete Gallot 表示。
微软公司称，其新的 A.I. 模型 MAI-Cyber-1-Flash 专门针对网络安全进行了训练。该系统部分通过分析微软在响应客户遭遇的黑客攻击事件时收集的数十年数据来习得技能。负责微软 A.I. 模型开发的 Mustafa Suleyman 表示，微软拥有获取安全数据的独特渠道，因为其产品（如 Windows 操作系统、Outlook 电子邮件和 Azure 云计算）被广泛使用，且经常成为网络攻击的目标。
与其他领先的 A.I. 公司不同，微软并未分享
作者：STEVE LOHR
首尔 —— 中国领先的存储芯片制造商在周一交易首日股价飙升约 470 百分比，迅速成为上海证券交易所市值最高的公司。
长鑫存储技术（ChangXin Memory Technologies，简称 CXMT）此前已完成了今年亚洲规模最大的首次公开募股（IPO），两周前该公司的估值超过 $85 亿。
投资者将这家芯片制造商在上海证券交易所的估值推高至收盘时的 $480 亿以上。这远超此前的最大公司——中国工商银行，后者的估值约为 $385 亿。
CXMT 股票的开盘价为 49.50 人民币，高于其 8.66 人民币的 IPO 价格。收盘价为 49.00 人民币。
作者：KALLEY HUANG
旧金山 —— 苹果公司在周一超越了芯片制造商英伟达（Nvidia），在失去该王冠约两年后，重新成为全球市值最高的上市公司。
该公司股价的攀升在一定程度上源于英伟达股票的抛售，同时也源于投资者的认可。苹果公司的股价当日收盘上涨超过 1 百分比，使其市场估值达到 $4.9 万亿美元。但据彭博社（Bloomberg）报道，受支出担忧影响，英伟达的股价下跌近 5 百分比，导致其市值降至 $4.8 万亿美元。
在过去四年的大部分时间里，苹果公司在人工智能竞赛中一直处于旁观状态，这导致投资者对其计划的询问日益频繁。2024, 在股市顶峰占据十多年后，它将最值钱公司的王冠失去了，让给了微软。
尽管苹果在股市的统治地位可能十分短暂，但随着投资者重新评估人工智能（A.I.），它重新回到了顶峰。
本月早些时候，由于对该技术支出的担忧增加以及来自中国的竞争日益激烈，股价出现下跌。在关于科技行业的下一次豪赌是否会带来回报的问题层出不穷之际，投资者似乎正回归到一项安全的赌注上。
Mustafa Suleyman（领导微软 A.I. 模型开发的人员）表示，根据经验，他的公司在网络安全方面拥有深厚的知识。
在重新发布该技术之前，独立测试人员将对新模型进行评估。但该公司表示，预计集成到其安全工具中的模型在周一发布后，将在一个名为 CyberGYM 的标准基准测试排行榜中名列前茅，超越来自 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 的产品。
微软表示，使用新系统的价格约为其他领先技术的的一半，后者价格更高部分是因为它们被开发用于执行多种任务，而不仅仅是网络安全工作。该公司表示，该系统有效地处理了 90 百分比的查询，这意味着只有 10 百分比的时间需要使用更昂贵的模型。Suleyman 先生表示，微软一直专注于降低成本，以便模型能够更快速、更广泛地部署。
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash 将被引入另一个微软新工具——感知项目（Project Perception）。它将各种 A.I. 模型转化为团队。
这种强劲的交易势头出现在全球波动和近期科技股抛售之后。投资者对硅谷公司天文数字般的估值提出了质疑，因为这些公司正在投入巨额资金以追求人工智能的开发。
CXMT 是一家拥有十年历史、在海外知名度较低的公司，它是中国在 A.I. 领导力竞赛中培育本土供应商、减少对外国公司依赖的驱动计划中的关键环节。在美中关系紧张局势升级以及美国担忧中国快速追赶之际，它是一家处于上升期的中国芯片制造商。
主导 A.I. 的全球竞赛引发了对内存芯片需求的激增，这些芯片可瞬间将数据传输至计算机处理引擎并从中传回。所有计算机都依赖内存芯片，但在美国和中国建设的大规模 A.I. 数据中心对内存芯片的需求几乎是无限的。随着需求的飙升，价格也随之上涨。
CXMT 在 2026, 第一季度的营收跃升至近 $7.5 十亿美元，增长超过 700 百分比。
旨在查找并修复网络漏洞的“智能体”（agents）。A.I. 智能体是能够利用其他软件地在很大程度上自主执行各种任务的数字助手。在某些情况下，微软的智能体将能够模仿黑客。
随着 A.I. 公司构建出在编写计算机代码方面表现尤为出色的系统，A.I. 安全威胁在过去一年左右的时间里逐渐显现。例如，Anthropic 在 4 月推出的一款 A.I. 系统中，该公司表示已利用该技术发现了数千个在流行软件系统中多年未被察觉的安全漏洞。
Anthropic 认为该 A.I. 系统过于危险，不宜广泛发布，因此将这一极其昂贵的技术仅限于少数组织使用，以便他们利用该技术保护互联网的关键基础设施。
不久之后，OpenAI 和谷歌也表示，他们同样仅与一小组合作伙伴共享类似技术。白宫也开始探讨对这类技术的政府监管。可能的计划中包括为新 A.I. 模型建立正式的政府审查流程。
该领域及其准则正在快速演变。在 7 月的一次采访中
CXMT，中国领先的内存芯片制造商，目前是上海证券交易所市值最高的公司。
根据其首次公开募股（I.P.O.）招股说明书，该数值较前一年增长了百分之[此处由于原文碎片缺失具体数字，仅保留语意]。此外，该公司去年实现了超过 $1 billion 的利润，而 2023 年为亏损 $2.8 billion。CXMT 正开始在由两家公司主导的全球内存市场中取得进展。
“苹果在某种程度上是一种‘避风港’，”技术分析公司 Futurum Group 的首席执行官 Daniel Newman 表示。“人们认为 A.I. 交易波动较大，而将持有苹果股票视为几乎像持有指数一样，”他补充道。
自从 OpenAI 发布 ChatGPT 聊天机器人并引发 A.I. 热潮以来的大约四年里，英伟达（Nvidia）的市场估值增长了十倍多。对其图形处理单元（GPU）芯片的需求激增。它们是开发和运行 A.I. 的核心组件，但人们对 A.I. 开发相关成本的担忧日益增加。
与其他技术公司不同，
黑客事件数据训练的模型。
16，微软公司副总裁大卫·韦斯顿（David Weston）表示，“确保每个人都具备这种能力对我们来说非常重要。”但当该产品于周一公布时，公司将初步发布范围限制在使用了微软第三款安全工具 MDASH 的企业和个人中，该工具旨在查找并修复软件中的安全漏洞。 随着各公司试图控制其最新模型的使用，专家们
韩国公司三星电子（Samsung Electronics）和 SK 海力士（SK Hynix），以及一家美国公司美光科技（Micron Technology）。根据科技市场研究公司 Counterpoint Research 的数据，长鑫存储（CXMT）在 2026 年第一季度占据了全球 8% 的市场份额，而前一年为 3%。
科技行业中，苹果公司并没有围绕人工智能（A.I.）对自己进行全面改造。与其齐名的科技巨头们正花费数千亿美元打造自己版本的该项技术，并建设安置英伟达（Nvidia）芯片的数据中心。但苹果公司在产品中使用的是来自谷歌（Google）的人工智能模型和云计算服务。 苹果公司暗示，即使在公司从长期首席执行官蒂姆·库克（Tim Cook）过渡到最近担任硬件工程主管的约翰·特努斯（John Ternus）期间，它将继续避免同行那种挥霍无度的做法。今年 4 月，在与分析师和投资者的电话会议中，特努斯先生表示，他计划维持定义了库克先生在苹果任职期间的财务
【CHONA KASINGER 为《纽约时报》拍摄】
已经证明，其他技术也可能帮助推动针对计算机网络的恶意攻击。 上个月，多伦多大学的研究人员表示，他们发现了一种利用免费开放的人工智能技术来创建危险计算机“蠕虫”的方法，该蠕虫能够针对全球计算机中任何已知的缺陷。 “许多此类模型正在变得更好，”韦斯顿先生说。“让我担心的是，不是当下的某个特定模型，而是这种能力变得更加普及。” 在随后的几周里，两家中国初创公司发布了与 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 的领先系统几乎同样强大的技术。 （《纽约时报》已起诉 OpenAI 和微软，指控其在人工智能系统相关新闻内容上侵犯版权。这两家公司否认了这些指控。）
凯德·梅茨（Cade Metz）发自旧金山，凯伦·怀斯（Karen Weise）发自西雅图。
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两周前，SK 海力士通过出售美国存托凭证筹集了 $26.5 十亿美元，这是非美国公司在华尔街规模最大的一次股票出售。
纪律。 该公司在人工智能领域的长期缺席并非完全由设计决定。它最初尝试在 2024 年将其技术织入设备并升级其数字助手 Siri。但这些努力饱受延迟和质量问题的困扰，最终导致公司推迟发布这项新技术，直到其能够得到改进。 6 月，苹果公司重新推出了一个改进版本的 Siri，并表示将在今年推出。当时，该公司辩称其处理人工智能的方法与硅谷同行不同。
网约车行业
作者：STEFANOS CHEN
韩裔科技高管 Kay Woo 想要闯入纽约市规模达数十亿美元的网约车行业。因此，在这座拥有 8.5 million 潜在客户的城市里，他理所当然地在争取最核心的潜在客户：出租车司机。在过去的几个月里，Woo 先生多次前往拉瓜迪亚机场一个没有遮阴的停车场，为他的公司 TADA 招募司机。他的努力得到了回报：他表示，自 3 月以来，他已说服约 50,000 名司机安装了该公司的网约车应用程序。
这款名为 Throo 的新应用旨在为司机提供一种替代方案，以取代他们在与 Uber 和 Lyft 等公司合作时所习惯的高佣金模式。通过对每单行程收取较低的固定费用，并降低原本会转嫁给乘客的费用，Woo 先生的公司承诺给司机提供更好的报酬，并为乘客提供更便宜的票价。
到目前为止，于 6 月开始提供服务并获得纽约市运营授权的 Throo，在部分票价上已经低于大型应用。从曼哈顿的港务局巴士总站（Port Authority Bus Terminal）到肯尼迪国际机场的标准行程，使用 Throo 仅需 $80；而同样的行程使用 Uber 大约需要 $136，Lyft 则要求 $134。
总部位于新加坡的 TADA 是少数几家通过提供折扣价格和采用精明营销手段，试图削弱事实上由网约车双头垄断局面的新兴公司之一。根据纽约市出租车与豪华车委员会（T.L.C.）的数据，Uber 和 Lyft 占据了该市所有预约用车和出租车行程的约 80 percent，其中 Uber 约占该份额的 70 percent。
其他公司曾试图取代 Uber 和 Lyft 但均告失败，而这两家公司在十年前就共同取代黄色出租车，成为该市最受欢迎的车辆服务。城市数据显示，截至今年 5 月，这些应用记录了 106 million 次行程，是黄色出租车行程的五倍多。
新玩家的加入可能意味着在稳步上涨的行程价格中，乘客将拥有更多选择和更好的价格。但他们也可能带来风险，因为这些公司在寻求竞争优势时，其手段可能不可持续，或者在某些情况下不合法。
另一家竞争对手，名为 Empower 的应用，目前正陷入与政府官员的法庭之争，官员们称其在市内非法运营，并使乘客和司机处于危险之中。由于该公司未遵守许可规定、未支付法定的运营费用且未与 T.L.C. 共享行程信息，市政府正寻求禁令，禁止其母公司 Yazam Inc. 在纽约运营。
今年 3 月，该公司表示，尽管法律地位不明，但其在市内每周完成 100,000 次行程。T.L.C. 专员 Midori Valdivia 表示，市政府无法确保 Empower 车队的安全性，而且如果车辆发生碰撞，乘客可能会面临保险问题。使用该应用的司机可能会被罚款或吊销执照。
“我想确保人们知道他们没有执照，”她说，“我们建立这套制度是有原因的，那就是为了保护司机和乘车公众。”
Uber 发言人 Josh Gold 表示，公司欢迎竞争，但批评市政府允许 Empower 继续运营的做法。“政府竟然仍然允许这个非法经营者逃避所有这些规则和税收，这实在令人震惊，”他说。
Empower 欠市政府超过 $45,000 的罚款，其首席执行官 Joshua Sear 之前也因在华盛顿特区未经注册而运营被当地官员罚款。Sear 先生将相关问题转交给公司代表，该代表表示纽约政-
官员们已“多次拒绝”Empower 提出的“协助评估和支付驱动程序应缴纳的任何税款或费用”的请求。T.L.C. 发言人杰森·克斯滕（Jason Kersten）表示，该机构将在法庭上做出回应。尽管 Throo 在纽约拥有执照，但它仍面临一场艰苦的战斗。44 岁的吴先生（Mr. Woo）正押注于他的商业模式将吸引司机，其中许多司机曾向他抱怨薪资在缩减。TADA 在东南亚采取了类似的策略，使其成为了新加坡最受欢迎的网约车公司之一。
[[IMG_XXXX]] TADA 首席执行官 Kay Woo 亲自尝试招募司机。
据 T.L.C. 称，Uber 和 Lyft 从司机那里收取的平均佣金约为 20 百分比，且这还不包括额外的政府费用。虽然使用 Throo 的司机仍需缴纳税款和费用，但该公司表示，其每单仅收取 1 美元或更低的费用，从而给司机提供更大的分成。“我们先照顾司机，然后司机可以照顾乘客，”吴先生在一次采访中说道。根据城市数据，去年依赖网约车应用的全职司机中位数为 75,000 美元——略好于他们在 2021 年赚得的 73,000 美元，但这些数字不包括开支、税款或小费。该市有超过 80,000 名出租车司机，其中大多数出生在其他国家，目前居住在曼哈顿周边的各区。市长佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）长期以来一直是出租车司机的倡导者，他们在 2025 年市长选举期间为他构成了重要的政治基础。
安东尼奥·里维拉（Antonio Rivera），一名 50 岁的多米尼加司机，居住在布朗克斯（the Bronx），他说当他听说 Throo 时，他一直在寻找大型应用的替代方案。“Uber 和 Lyft，他们对待司机并不友好，”他在从皇后区长岛市前往拉瓜地亚机场的途中说道。持有 T.L.C. 执照的司机可以为任何网约车应用工作，因此他将 Throo 加入了轮换名单，希望能获得更好的报酬。去机场的车费约为 24 美元。他说，在扣除佣金、税款和费用后，如果使用大型应用，他可能只能拿到 11 美元或 12 美元。但使用 Throo，他收到了约 19 美元。“对我们来说，这相当不错，”他说。不过，在驾驶 14 年后，他回忆起曾经有一段时间，大型应用也承诺给司机更优惠的分成和其他奖金，但随着应用的规模扩大，这些承诺逐渐消失了。
许多司机最近批评所谓的“停用”机制——即像 Uber 或 Lyft 这样的服务实际上解雇了一名司机，通常是因为乘客的投诉。周三，一名联邦法官做出了有利于这些应用的裁决，应用方主张城市不能禁止他们在不通知的情况下解雇司机。几名注册 Throo 的司机表示，停用政策是他们希望新应用获得成功的原因之一。“他们只听乘客的，不听司机的，”61 岁的瓦西姆·曼祖尔（Waseem Manzoor）在 5 月份于拉瓜地亚机场等待订单时谈到这些大型应用。曼祖尔先生是巴基斯坦人，住在皇后区村庄（Queens Village），他在工作了 20 年的 Rite Aid 便利店关门后，于三年前开始接客。他说，他注册成为 Throo 司机部分原因是低费率模式很有吸引力，而且该应用为他提供了另一个收入来源
潜在的票价。但曼祖尔先生表示，到 7 月份时，他已经停止使用 Throo，因为他通过该应用赚的钱并不比其他应用多。Woo 先生表示，并非所有 Throo 的行程都能给司机带来比竞争对手更高的报酬，这取决于时间段和需求水平，并补充说，一些司机感到沮丧是“不可避免的”。但他坚持认为，大多数行程将为司机带来 10 到 15 议百分比更高的报酬，且行程量将会增长。代表超过 28,000 名出租车、Uber 和 Lyft 司机的纽约出租车司机联盟（New York Taxi Workers Alliance）执行董事 Bhairavi Desai 表示，她对 TADA 关于司机福利的说法持怀疑态度。“这完全是似曾相识，”她说道，回想起 Uber 和 Lyft 曾提供类似诱饵以吸引司机离开黄色出租车的时期。她的一些成员表示，他们使用 Throo 的票价并不比其他应用好，而且该应用提供的行程量不足。其他公司近年来也尝试进入纽约市场。Via 是一家在市中心提供折扣行程的共乘面包车应用，该公司在 2021 年关闭了其网约车服务，以专注于公共交通。2019, 交通公司 Gett 关闭了其网约车应用 Juno，并宣布与 Lyft 建立合作伙伴关系。Woo 先生表示，TADA 避免前车之鉴的方法就是快速增长。他表示，自 6 月以来，已有超过 35,000 名乘客使用 Throo，这意味着每天有数百次行程。他说，当该应用能够维持每天 10,000 次行程时（他希望明年能实现这一目标），公司将实现盈利。“如果我们能撑到那时，”他说，“这个模式将是无敌的。”
保时捷高管在 2011 年德国斯图加特的一次拉力赛中，乘坐一辆 Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus 复制车型，该车被认为是世界上第一辆全混合动力汽车。
Wheels
作者：PAUL STENQUIST
在超级混合动力车出现之前，在插电版本出现之前，甚至在备受推崇的 Prius（定义了现代标准的混合动力车）出现之前，就有了 1900 年的 Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus。在第一辆 Prius 驶向街头前近 100 年，费迪南德·保时捷（Ferdinand Porsche）创造了这款名为 Semper Vivus（意为“永恒生命”）的汽车。它使用电力驱动，但没有受到早期电动车严重的续航里程限制，因为当时的电动车完全依赖铅酸电池。事实上，我们需要把时间再往前推一点。在以他名字命名的公司成立很久之前，保时捷就是一名高产的汽车发明家和工程师；在他制造出世界上第一辆混合动力汽车时，他年仅 25 岁。他早期的技术经验集中在电能领域，曾在维也纳的电气元件制造商 Béla Ebber & Company 工作。在 19 世纪的最后几年，他离开 Béla Ebber，前往著名的马车制造公司 Jakob Lohner & Company 工作。在那里，他创造了一款名为 System Lohner-Porsche 的电池动力车辆。它并非世界上第一辆电池动力车辆，但其意义在于它由轮毂电机驱动，而保时捷在创造该传动系统方面的工作很快引导他开发出了一款混合动力车。尽管 1880 年代已有铁路车辆的轮毂电机获得美国专利，但保时捷的轮毂电机是一项工程突破。通过将电机集成到电池电动车的轮毂中，省去了传动部件，简化了机械系统。虽然这存在固有缺陷，但在 1900 年，轮毂电机的优势远超该技术带来的任何问题。轮毂电机至今仍在被使用，主要用于自行车，尽管在传统车辆改装为电力驱动时有时也会用到。System Lohner-Porsche 在 1900 年巴黎世界博览会（Exposition Universelle）上的亮相，引发了《柏林报》（The Berliner Zeitung）的如下报道：“该车的划时代创新在于完全去除了中间传动装置，”该报称，并补充道“通过将保时捷系统的电动机集成到前轮毂中。”这款电动车的时速约为 20 英里，在当时具有竞争力，但由于铅酸电池的局限性和重量，每次充满电仅能行驶约 30 英里，且据报道在爬坡时速度会降低至缓慢蠕行。因此，保时捷寻求一种增强手段：内燃机。两台单缸 De Dion 发动机驱动两个发电机，在为轮毂电机供电的同时，为一组更小、更轻的电池组充电。本质上，这就是我们现在所说的串联混合动力。该车最初可以（虽然时间很短）仅靠电池电力运行。与当今的轻混车型一样，发电机还充当启动汽油发动机的电机。经过测试，Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus 被认为取得了成功，随后开发出了量产版本 Lohner-Porsche Mixte。该设计进一步简化了混合动力动力总成，采用一台戴姆勒（Daimler）四缸发动机驱动单个发电机，既为轮毂电机供电，又为小型电池组充电。轮毂电机在减速时充当发电机，从而提供一定程度的再生制动，但车辆同时也配备了四轮制动器。
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上方为 System Lohner-Porsche，该车在 1900 年巴黎世界博览会上揭幕。它并非世界上第一辆电池动力车辆，但其意义在于它由轮毂电机驱动。其时速约为 20 英里，在当时具有竞争力。上方为 1923 年的费迪南德·保时捷。
一个多世纪前被发明， 至今仍在使用，主要 应用于自行车。
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这辆 Mixte 车型建在木制框架上，上方搭载着一辆 phaeton 车身。这种车价格昂贵，向公众销售的数量并不多。据一项记录，首款 Mixte 版本的总销量仅有 12 辆。但随后针对车队用途生产了该主题的变体车型，其中一些配备了 4 个电机和全轮驱动。据称，Lohner-Porsche 混合动力车的总产量约为 300. 辆。任何版本的最后一个样本被认为在第二次世界大战期间被摧毁。Lohner-Porsche 混合动力车属于串联混合动力车。这类混合动力车的汽油发动机仅用于驱动发电机，发电机提供电流为电池充电，并在某些情况下为电机供电。几乎所有现代混合动力车都是并联混合动力车，将电力与汽油发动机的输出相结合以驱动车轮。但仍有少数现代串联混合动力车，最著名的包括 Ram 1500 Ram-charger，它使用 V-6 发动机来驱动发电机，以及日产（Nissan）的 e-Power 混合动力车型。虽然保时捷（Porsche）目前不生产串联混合动力车，但该公司深耕并联混合动力领域，包括 Panamera 4 E-Hybrid，它结合了内燃机和电机的功率，可产生 463 匹马力——足以达到 173 m.p.h. 的最高时速。与 Lohner-Porsche 一样，它并不便宜，起售价为 $127,200. 保时捷 A.G.（现为大众集团的一部分）非常迅速地强调其创始人的开拓努力。2007, 年，保时捷工程公司（Porsche Engineering）和车身制造商 Drescher Karosseriebau 利用照片、工程图纸和一些合理的推测，制造了一辆 Semper Vivus 混合动力原型的复制品。该复制品甚至在 2011 New York 车展上引起了轰动，当时 Panamera 的汽油发动机版本在会上亮相。在费迪南德·保时捷（Ferdinand Porsche）的混合动力探险中，一个有趣的脚注是：首款量产混合动力车 Mixte 据说在很大程度上是由一位名为埃米尔·杰利尼克（Emil Jellinik）的德国汽车企业家资助的——研究戴姆勒（Daimler）历史的学生会对这个名字并不陌生。杰利尼克是戴姆勒汽车的营销人员，在他的坚持下，该公司不久后为了纪念他的女儿 Mercédès Jellinik，被命名为梅赛德斯（Mercedes）汽车。如果她的父亲当时倾向于那样做，首辆保时捷电动车可能会是一辆梅赛德斯。
当位于密歇根州科弗特（Covert）的帕利塞兹（Palisades）核电站于 2022 年关闭时，Holtec International 开始致力于重新开放该设施。但规划较为松散，且该公司在当时并没有运营核电站的经验。
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购买了帕利塞兹。根据《纽约时报》获得的记录，该公司在交易完成后七天即申请了联邦补贴以支持该项工作。电站运营总经理杰夫·博拉（Jeff Borah）在一次采访中表示，在 Holtec 决定重启帕利塞兹时，尚未对电站进行全面的彻查。“在我们开始工作之前，我们没有花时间真正规划好整个项目，”博拉先生说，“这就像是在去灭火的路上制造消防车。”记录显示，Holtec 目前的目标是在 9 月将燃料装入核反应堆，并在年底前发电。它面临着 2027 年 3 月的合同截止日期。
帕利塞兹的重启是美国复兴核能更大规模努力的一部分。特朗普政府与之前的拜登政府一样，正以数十亿美元的联邦资金为诱饵，以启动投资。6 月，能源部提供了高达 $17.5 billion 的补贴贷款用于购买核电设备，希望到 2030 年能有 10 座大型反应堆在建。“我们将不惜一切代价推动这一进程，”能源部长克里斯·赖特（Chris Wright）在采访中说道。
在拜登政府期间管理能源部贷款办公室的吉加尔·沙（Jigar Shah）表示，Holtec 的工作鼓励了其他公司追求类似的项目。Constellation Energy 和 NextEra Energy 紧随 Holtec 之后，同意重新开放位于宾夕法尼亚州和爱荷华州的反应堆。与帕利塞兹一样，这些电站原本计划被拆除，这使得这些项目与重启那些暂时离线反应堆的其他努力有所不同。“我认为 Holtec 保持乐观没有什么不对，”沙先生说。他的办公室为重启帕利塞兹提供了一笔高达 $1.52 billion 的低息贷款担保，该电站有能力满足 800,000 多个家庭的电力需求。“他们认为自己……”
美国能源部在 6 月份提供的用于购买核电零部件的补贴贷款。
Palisades 电厂运营总经理 Jeff Borah 谈到该项目缺乏规划的问题。
我们原以为将接手一座状态好得多的电厂。” 一名 Holtec 高管和前核监管人员表示，该公司在没有检查某些设备的情况下就决定重启 Palisades，这并不令人惊讶，尤其是考虑到该公司持有该设施的时间很短。 “有些系统在项目启动之前是无法真正检查的，”Holtec 总裁 Rick Springman 说道。他举例提到，一台涡轮机需要先拆卸才能进行彻底检查，而这个过程需要数月之久。 “建新房和翻修旧房的区别在于，后者总会有‘新发现’，”Springman 博士说道。 其他项目的情况则没有这么波折。 Constellation Energy 表示，预计明年将提前重启位于宾夕法尼亚州的三哩岛未受损的反应堆。与 Holtec 不同，Constellation 拥有并运营其电厂多年。 Palisades 是从电力公司 Entergy 手中购买的。Entergy 的一位发言人为 Holtec 的努力表示赞赏，但未对出售时的电厂状况发表评论。 重启 1971 年投入运行的 Palisades 的计划令一些当地人感到不安，包括那些自称支持核电的人。 担忧范围涵盖了所花费的纳税人资金数额、Holtec 缺乏运营反应堆的专业经验，以及癌症风险。哈佛大学公共卫生学院领导的一项近期研究发现，在运行中的核电站附近的县中，癌症死亡率较高。 “尝试重启一个这么古老的东西似乎不是个明智的主意，”Dave Simonelli 说道，直线距离在不到一英里处，他在 Palisades 附近度夏。这位 69 岁的人描述自己是支持核能的，但担心安全问题：“为什么要重启一件古董？就像垃圾场里的一辆破车。” 针对癌症研究，核监管委员会的一位发言人表示，“运行中的反应堆常规排放产生的公众辐射剂量极小，远低于与可测量的健康影响相关的水平。” Palisades 建立在美国核电繁荣的先锋时期。到 1970s 年代末，该国拥有超过 60 个反应堆。到 20 世纪 90 年代中期，这一数字已突破 100 个。 但在 1979 年三哩岛反应堆部分熔毁以及 1986 年切尔诺贝利灾难之后，人们对核电失去了信心。各大公司取消了数十个项目。随着这些反应堆在与天然气发电厂的竞争中陷入苦战，一个接一个地关闭。
其成本正逐渐降低。 然而，到 2022, 年，公众对核能的态度有所改善，包括此前对该技术持怀疑态度的民主党人。核反应堆可以全天候发电，且不排放温室气体。 拜登政府以及密歇根州民主党州长格雷琴·惠特默（Gretchen Whitmer）的官员曾试图说服 Entergy 公司维持 Palisades 核电站的运行，但未能成功。于是他们转向了 Holtec 公司。 这是一场赌博。这家公司的业务是制造用于存储废弃核燃料的设备以及拆除旧反应堆，而不是运营电站。
记录显示，Holtec 迅速估算出重新启用 Palisades 核电站将需要两年时间，成本超过 $1.9 billion，其中包含应对成本超支的应急资金。在能源部拒绝了 Holtec 最初的补贴申请后，仅在寻找客户和其他融资方面就花费了近这么长时间。Holtec 最终将重启日期推迟到了 2025 年 10 月，随后又推迟到了今年年底。 两家电力合作社——Wolverine Power Cooperative 和 Hoosier Energy——在 2023 年达成协议，以固定价格购买 Palisades 在 28 年内生产的电力。《时报》对一份 Holtec 证券申报文件的审查表明，这些合作社可能
[[IMG_XXXX]] 左图：涡轮机房内经清理后准备重新安装的管道组件。工人们正在对 Palisades 电站的各个部件进行更新和修复。
Holtec 负责由 Palisades 重启延迟引起的所有额外费用。该公司拒绝公开该项目的最新价格。
已同意支付每兆瓦时约 $59。 这一价格略高于该地区批发电力的市场价格。 Holtec 和 Wolverine Power 拒绝就价格发表评论。 Hoosier Energy 未回应置评请求。 政府向 Palisades 倾注大量资金也起到了推动作用，包括来自密歇根州的 $300 million 以及电站运行后联邦税收抵免的承诺。此外，农业部在 2024, 年底向 Wolverine 和 Hoosier 拨款 $1.3 billion，其中大部分将用于此项工作。 就在那时，Holtec 发现了一个重大问题。电站的双蒸汽发生器（其最昂贵的设备之一）的损耗程度超出了公司的预期。 Holtec 堵塞或修复了发生器内部数千根细长的 U 形金属管。 “那导致了项目的严重延迟，持续了数月，”运营经理 Borah 先生说。 美国核监管委员会（N.R.C.）批准了 Holtec 的处理方案，但活动人士和部分居民担心该方案并不充分。 “在 Palisades，出现了太多的妥协，”环保组织“不要浪费密歇根”（Don’t Waste Michigan）的共同主席迈克尔·J·基根（Michael J. Keegan）在一次
[[IMG_XXXX]] 政府希望在 2030 年前动工建设的大型反应堆。
戴夫·西莫内利（Dave Simonelli），其夏季住所距离帕利塞兹（Palaliseds）核电站不到一英里。
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六月的 N.R.C. 听证会上，他主张 Holtec 公司本应更换蒸汽发生器。Holtec 公司的总裁 Springman 博士表示，经过修理的设备已通过广泛的检查和测试。“我们对该组件的安全性感到非常放心，”他说道。今年春天，帕利塞兹核电站看起来像一套正在被重新组装的乐高积木。覆盖着橙色织物的脚手架跨在涡轮机和将蒸汽转化为电能的发电机上。附近，一名工人正在清理管道。屏幕上显示，穿着白色防护服的人员正在检查反应堆厂房内一个用于存放核燃料的巨大金属桶。Holtec 公司负责承担与项目延期相关的所有额外费用，但拒绝分享最新的成本估算。Springman 先生表示，将该项目描述为“延期”是不“公平”的，因为重启该设施的合同截止日期是 2027.
对于本月申请首次公开募股（IPO）的 Holtec 公司来说，这是一个敏感时期。凭借在帕利塞兹的经验，该公司希望从密歇根州这个场地开始，建设并运营规模较小的核反应堆。它正依托于人们对核能日益增长的热情。联邦政府、科技公司及其他机构正提出向核能公司投资或提供贷款。在其他地方，因与伊朗战争引发的能源危机正将各国推向核能。帕利塞兹重启缓慢的情况对于范布伦县（Van Buren County，该电站所在地）的委员盖尔·帕特森-格莱德尼（Gail Patterson-Gladney）来说几乎没有影响。“我们就像是一个原型，是某种从未被尝试过的事情，”她说道。66, 岁的吉姆·威尔逊（Jim Wilson）住在帕利塞兹公路尽头，他一直在重新适应电站恢复运行这一想法。他最近买了一个盖革计数器，用于测量家中的背景辐射水平。“我相信他们会把它做好，”威尔逊先生说，“否则我的房子上早就挂起‘待售’牌子了。”
W.N.B.A. 总裁凯西·英格尔伯特（Cathy Engelbert，右），上月在祝贺自由队赢得总裁杯并宣布布里安娜·斯图尔特（Breanna Stewart，左）为最有价值球员（M.V.P.）时，遭到了激烈的嘘声。
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嘘声震耳欲聋。 W.N.B.A. 总裁凯西·英格尔伯特站在巴克莱中心（Barclays Center）的球场中央。纽约自由队刚刚在以她的职衔命名的赛季内锦标赛中击败了拉斯维加斯王牌队。当她拿起麦克风祝贺球队并宣布最有价值球员时，她的声音几乎完全被淹没了。
这并非英格尔伯特第一次受到如此程度的公开蔑视。在过去的 12 个月里，英格尔伯特收到的接待变得日益敌对，最早可追溯到去年在印第安纳波利斯的全明星赛，当时她在试图发表赛后演讲时，球迷们齐声高喊“给她们发钱（pay them）”。在 2025 W.N.B.A. 总决赛的奖杯颁奖仪式上，她遭到喝倒彩，在今年全明星赛后的周六再次遭到同样的对待。
自从 2019 年出任总裁以来，英格尔伯特带领 W.N.B.A. 步入了其最成功的 era.。她促成了两项具有变革意义的集体谈判协议，引导联盟度过了 2020 年的疫情赛季，并协助促成了亚特兰大梦想队的出售——原所有者凯利·洛夫勒（Kelly Loeffler）反对联盟公开支持“黑人的命也是命（Black Lives Matter）”运动。
联盟的增长是天文数字般的——据报道，一份当时价值 $2.2 ten-million-billion (billion) 的全新媒体版权协议已增长到 $3 billion。联盟已扩展至 15 支球队，并将于 2030, 年前达到 18 支，而扩军费则充实了相关人员的口袋。
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目前的所有者们。打破记录的收视率和上座率带来了历史性的营收目标。 从书面上看，恩格尔伯特是W.N.B.A. 30 年历史上最成功的领导者。然而，随着全明星赛休息期后，赛季下半场于周二开始，恩格尔伯特的任期正迎来一个转折点。 虽然似乎并不缺乏愿意公开抱怨联盟日常决策的球员和其他球队员工，但恩格尔伯特的整体职位稳定性对于大多数人来说仍然是难以触碰的禁忌。虽然《The Athletic》在报道此故事时采访了联盟周围的十几个消息人士，但几乎所有人都拒绝在发表时发表评论，即使是以匿名方式。他们所做的是对恩格尔伯特和W.N.B.A.目前所处的情况提供一个全面的视角。 “如果我们打算采取行动，就应该采取行动，”一名球队高层官员在为了保护现有关系而匿名接受采访时表示。“否则，我们需要一些领导力。” N.B.A. 总裁亚当·西尔弗在 2019 年任命了恩格尔伯特，赋予了她此前任何常任 W.N.B.A. 领导者都未曾拥有的“总裁”（commissioner）头衔。 这是对其履历的认可，其亮点包括在德勤（Deloitte）这一跨国商业咨询公司担任首席执行官的经历。
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作者：TIM BRITTON The Athletic
当达里尔·斯特劳伯里（Darryl Strawberry）在 2024 年心脏病发作被推入手术室时，在他脑海中闪过的念头之一就是： 我仍然 希望有 机会 在场。
斯特劳伯里知道，他的号码退役仪式就在几个月后。 对他来说，能够在那一天出席，亲眼看到 18 号被挂在Citi Field的建筑外墙上，并感谢长期支持他的球迷——以及为离开大都会队而道歉，这对他而言意味着全世界。 斯特劳伯里撑到了那一天，而且他很激动能参加周六在Citi Field举办的另一场盛事，届时大都会队将庆祝其 1986 年夺冠 40 周年。 斯特劳伯里的第三本书《另一种人生》（“Another Life”）也将于 8 月出版，书中不仅讲述了他从心脏病发作中康复的过程，还讲述了他球员生涯结束后数十年成为一名牧师的旅程。 斯特劳伯里曾长期公开地与药物滥用作斗争，多年来面临过许多法律问题，包括一项偷税指控的定罪以及多次因家庭暴力被捕。他说，在四分之一个世纪前遇到现任妻子特雷西（Tracy）后，他最终戒掉了药物。 现年 64 岁的斯特劳伯里最近就这本书以及他在聚会中最期待的事情接受了《The Athletic》的采访。访谈内容经过编辑和浓缩。
达里尔·斯特劳伯里
是什么促使你写《另一种人生》？你想要传达什么样的信息？ 我想让人们知道，你可以拥有另一种人生，你可以重塑自我，你不必永远保持原样。很长一段时间，我是一个棒球运动员，一个经历过磨难和苦难的人。我不再是那个我了。我以不同的方式转变了生活，走向了一个不同的方向——而这并非凭我个人。 主救了我并改变了我，这给了我一个机会去帮助那些在寻找目标的人。我找到了我生命的意义。这就是我们来到这里的目的：寻找一个目标。
Tim Britton 是《The Athletic》报道大都会队的资深记者。
但并未离开就业市场
作者：JOE SMITH The Athletic
约翰·托托雷拉（John Tortorella）还没有认输。 在拉斯维加斯金骑士队宣布他在斯坦利杯决赛之旅结束后将不再回归后，这位资深的 N.H.L. 教练首次公开表示，只要再次出现机会，他就准备好迎接挑战。 “噢，我想执教，”他在上周表示，“我现在就想执教。我不确定是否会发生，这就是我目前在职业生涯中所处的位置。但我确实想执教那支拉斯维加斯球队。”
68 岁的托托雷拉表示，指导前球员让他坚持了下来。许多这些球员已经成为了教练群体的一员，包括明尼苏达狂野队新的美国曲棍球联盟教练斯图·比克尔（Stu Bickel），以及巧合地接替托托雷拉执教拉斯维加斯队的瑞安·克雷格（Ryan Craig）。托托雷拉说，教练界就像一个“小兄弟会”，在经历了三十年之后，他还没有准备好离开。
他还表示，他理解球队曲棍球运营总裁乔治·麦克菲（George McPhee）在方向选择上的观点。谈到克雷格时，托托雷拉说：“他们在那里培养他已经有好几年了。他是一名优秀的教练，也是一个好人。”
托托雷拉在 3 月 29 日接替了布鲁斯·卡西迪（Bruce Cassidy），当时 N.H.L. 常规赛还剩 8 场比赛。在进入斯坦利杯决赛的季后赛进程之前，拉斯维加斯队在这些比赛中取得了 7-0-1 的战绩，随后金骑士队在六场比赛后输给了卡罗来纳飓风队。
托托雷拉表示，他很感激在拉斯维加斯的时光，但他告诉总经理凯利·麦克里蒙（Kelly McCrimmon），他希望继续执教金骑士队。 “我想我会用‘失望’这个词，”托托雷拉说。 他补充道：“凯利非常诚实，在会议坐下的一分钟内他就让我知道了——他基本上告诉我，‘瑞安·克雷格明年执教球队’。我告诉了他我的想法，我们进行了一次坦诚的对话。我真心尊重俱乐部的发展方向。” “我们没有完成任务，我想在这个俱乐部多花一些时间尝试完成任务。但这不是我的决定。这是总经理和总裁的决定。之后你只能继续处理自己的事情。”
托托雷拉曾在 2004 年率领坦帕湾闪电队赢得斯坦利杯，在 24 年的职业生涯中，他执教过闪电队、纽约游骑兵队、温哥华加拿大人队、哥伦布蓝色夹克队、费城飞翼队和金骑士队，在 1,628 场比赛中取得了 777 场胜利。他在斯坦利杯季后赛中的战绩为 70-72，是在美国出生的 N.H.L. 教练中胜场数第二多的人，仅次于彼得·拉维奥莱特（Peter Laviolette，846 场胜利）。
但再次进入深远阶段确实令人振奋——尤其是在经历了多年执教缺乏发展潜力的球队之后。 “我热爱这一切。我热爱其中教学的部分，”他说，“我热爱在费城、哥伦布执教，当时我们在建立球队。但当我来到拉斯维加斯，一支由老将组成的球队——其中很多人在 23 年赢过——我到达那里后得到的信息是，团队内部并没有太多的信心。这就是我们的切入点。我可以尝试不同的执教方式。我可以与他们共同执教，而不是对着他们训话。” “无论如何，那不是训话的时机。那是与他们共同执教的时机。”
曲棍球
在这次旅程中，你的母亲和妻子对你意味着什么？ 就是一切。首先是我的母亲，我希望自己在打棒球和经历那段生活时能听她的。我当时没有注意。 然后特蕾西（Tracy）进入了我的生活，她引导我回归。我花了 7 年时间经历这种磨砺。人们认为现在的我是一个一夜之间创造的奇迹。但这并非一夜之间，而是一段漫长的旅程。
那是上帝的馈赠，我意识到女性是一份多么伟大的礼物。她们帮助将碎片重新拼凑在一起。我只是很高兴能够意识到，她们是我需要获得(get)的重要部分。
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“我想执教，”68 岁的约翰·托托雷拉（John Tortorella）说道，他在短暂的任期内带领金骑士队进入了决赛。
与一群资深球员在一起。我对此毫不掩饰。我热爱在那里的工作。我认为这个群体——更衣室是很稳固的，拥有出色的领导力。我想继续成为其中的一部分，而且我很幸运能在那三个月的时间里成为其中一员。”
与卡罗来纳队的系列赛竞争极其激烈，局势起伏不定。托托雷拉很难不去思考“如果……会怎样”。
“比赛中某些回合会改变整个系列赛，”托托雷拉说。“我看了一下在卡罗来纳进行的第 2 场比赛，我们在防守区抢到了前场球权，却在毫无理由的情况下将其丢掉。我们只需要把球一直往前推进就行了。”
在拉斯维加斯队失误后，飓风队的洛根·斯坦科文（Logan Stankoven）攻入了一个绕桩进球。
“这给了他们动力，”托托雷拉说。“那正好发生在米奇·马纳（Mitch Marner）击中横梁之后。如果米奇进球了，我认为我们能从卡罗来纳带走两场胜利。谁知道之后局势会如何发展？”
达里尔·斯特劳伯里（Darryl Strawberry）的号码在 2024 年退役（见上图）。周六，大都会队将纪念 1986 年的冠军球队。斯特劳伯里将功劳归于经理戴维·约翰逊（Davey Johnson），在 1990 年的照片中他位居左起第二位。
让我成为了今天的我。
你提到了很多导师，包括穆基·威尔逊（Mookie Wilson）和加里·卡特（Gary Carter），将他们视为你定义男子气概的榜样。关于如何成为一个男人，以及如何为你的孩子以及现在的孙辈树立好榜样，你学到了什么？
这真的很酷。这真的很不一样。这是非常真实的。当他们穿着球衣时，我就那样看待穆基和加里。对于我的孩子们来说，能看到我成为一个与人们口中完全不同的人，真是一种福气。人们谈论我的职业生涯。他们有机会看到我的号码被退役，之后我的小女儿说：“爸爸，你在纽约是个很重要的人物。”我回答道：“不，我以前是。”对我来说，以这种方式行走、以这种方式生活，并且不向他们口头地谈论这些，这很重要。我的行为本身定义了我是谁，这对我的孩子和孙辈产生了影响。
在去年戴维·约翰逊的葬礼上为他做悼词，对你意味着什么？
当他的妻子苏珊（Susan）问我是否愿意做这件事时，我心想，这件事真正形成了一个圆满的轮回，能为这样一个对我们所有人意义重大的人做这件事。作为一名球员出现在那里，代表他及其家人，并代表他为我们所有人——尤其是为我——所做的一切发声，这是非常特别的。戴维帮助了很多人。我能够以一种好的方式送他最后一程，向人们展示他不仅作为一名经理，而且作为一个人的特别之处。对我自己来说，我也需要这样做。
对于大都会队在 1980 年代所取得的成就，他的作用有多至关重要？
全靠他。他是让我们产生信念的人。正是他将这个球队从一团糟变成了大都会队。我认为现在的人们对他为这个球队所做出的贡献认可不足。当他在 84 年到来时，我们才开始获胜。他仍然拥有最高的
在托托雷拉看来，该系列赛的关键在于飓风队的门将布兰登·布西（Brandon Bussi）在第 3 场比赛中接替弗雷德里克·安德森（Frederik Andersen）出场，因为安德森在之前丢了四个球。后来得知安德森膝盖受伤。
“布西上场后打了几场不可思议的比赛，”托托雷拉说。“我们要击败他非常困难。”
拉斯维加斯队的门将卡特·哈特（Carter Hart）在决赛中也表现挣扎，在六场比赛中的五场里每场丢了四个球。但托托雷拉坚持自己的决定，没有启用阿丁·希尔（Adin Hill），后者随 2023 年的球队赢得了冠军杯，但自 4 月 9 日以来未曾出场。
“我确定这招致了很多批评，”托托雷拉说。“但你知道吗？希利已经 65 天没打球了。我们没有进行太多练习。没有太多的实战情况。我们选择了卡特。如果同样的情况再次发生，我们还是会选择卡特。他值得通过努力去克服困难。”
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总体而言，对这次系列赛有什么遗憾吗？ “没有，没有，”托尔托雷拉说，并补充道：“我认为面对那支球队，我们必须采取某种特定的打法。我觉得我们在大概 85 或 90 的时间里都做到了。而当我们没做到时，就付出了代价，这就是卡罗来纳队的强大之处。” 托尔托雷拉还谈到了在对阵安纳海姆的第二轮比赛期间，他缺席了赛后新闻发布会的问题。 他解释说，根据系列赛前达成的协议，他的出席时间本应在鸭队教练乔尔·昆内维尔之前，但昆内维尔在淘汰赛后先发言且时间过长。 托尔托雷拉说，他当时在走廊里请求他的公关人员让他进入房间，但最终决定回到球队中。 结果，托尔托雷拉被罚款 $100,000，且金骑士队被扣除了6月选秀中的一个第二轮签。 “那并不是因为我不想……”
任何在那里担任经理的人的胜率，人们从未真正讨论过那段时期的表现有多出色。 不仅如此，无论他去哪里，他都能继续获胜。 这向你展示了他作为经理拥有怎样的技能。他曾是一名球员，所以他让球员们像球员一样去比赛。
在书的结尾，你谈到了很多“圆满”的时刻。这次 1986 球队的聚会对你来说也是这样吗？ 这绝对是一个圆满的时刻。那支球队永远是特别的——一群拥有韧性且真正懂得无论在什么环境下都要咬牙坚持的特别小伙子。我们总是支持彼此，互相掩护，为了获胜而战。戴维在春训时告诉我们——我们将赢得一切并占据主导地位。我们在年初前往圣路易斯并横扫了红鸟队，怀蒂·赫佐格说没有人能追上我们。听到他这么说意义重大。他看到了我们的天赋，知道我们将很难被击败。
那天你最期待的是什么？ 就是伙计们。我期待球迷们对某些球员的反应，比如伦尼·戴克斯特拉，他改变了自己的生活并重新回归。他在那些赛季中发生的一切里起到了关键作用，取决于他的发挥方式。我期待看到球迷们接纳他。他们已经接纳了我、多克·古登和基斯·埃尔南德斯，我们的球衣号码都退役了。 我们想念加里·卡特。我希望他的号码也能退役，因为他是我们成为冠军的原因。很多人没有给他足够的认可。他们说他只打了一段时间。这不是时间长短的问题，而是一个球员对球队意味着什么。希望有一天他们也能将他的号码挂起来。
你在书的开头写到了你的心脏病发作，以及你担心自己无法参加 2024. 年的号码退役仪式。能与家人一起经历这样的时刻，对你来说意味着什么？ 那真的是一个非常特别的时刻，能和家人在一起，和孩子以及朋友们一起见证，并告诉球迷们我很抱歉离开了皇后区。站在那个球场上，代表 18 号，是我永不会忘记的一天。那些真的是非常特别的时刻，是你梦寐以以求的事情。我的号码被退役，就是我的名人堂。
“面对媒体，”托尔托雷拉（Tortorella）说道，“那是由于我不想耽误我的球队。我必须做一个决定。在将一支球队淘汰出季后赛之后，我不会让我的冰球之队等着我。我必须在‘等乔尔（Joel）结束并与你们交谈而耽误我的冰球之队’和‘随我的冰球之队登车’之间做决定。我选择了随队离开。我承认这一点。”
托尔托雷拉表示，他与拉斯维加斯的高层关系良好，并在上周与麦克菲（McPhee）进行了交谈。此外，今年夏天他与克雷格（Craig）进行了几次对话，克雷格在 2005 到 2008 年间曾在坦帕湾效力于托尔托雷拉麾下。克雷格在拉斯维加斯担任了六年的助理教练，并在过去三年中领导了 A.H.L. 俱乐部亨德森队（Henderson）。
“他在那里待了九年，”托尔托雷拉说，“他经历了整个过程。所以我理解这个过程，而且我完全没有怨恨，尤其是关于瑞安·克雷格（Ryan Craig）在国家冰球联盟获得一份工作这件事。对我来说只是感觉很奇怪，我曾执教过这家伙，然后我们在交谈，我想也许我想完成这项工作，结果凯利（Kelly）走进来，在 30 秒内就说克雷格（Craigger）入选了。”
至于托尔托雷拉接下来的打算，他还不确定。他曾在 ESPN 的电视节目中拥有经验，但如果没有教练工作机会出现，他不确定是否会回归。目前，一切仍处于消化阶段。总决赛结束后，他和妻子克里斯汀（Christine）在明尼苏达州花了几个星期探访家人，他们回到佛罗里达州的家中仅一周。
“我还没考虑这件事，”托尔托雷拉说，“坦白说，我仍在努力消化我们离成功有多近，而且坦白说，也在消化我多么想执教那支冰球之队。”
自由球员浪潮上 犹豫不决
作者：CJ MOORE 与 BRENDAN MARKS 《The Athletic》
大学篮球教练们正在为一个意想不到且不确定是否认同的夏季自由球员窗口做准备。
一名俄亥俄州法官最近向 15 名 2022 届第一分区（Division I）球员授予了临时禁令，这些球员的参赛资格在上赛季后到期，这为他们再次参加一个赛季的大学篮球赛打开了窗口。
这些球员——包括随后转会至辛辛那提大学的后卫 M.J. Collins 以及 സേ维尔大学的前锋 Filip Borovicanin——正就该管理机构新的基于年龄的参赛资格规则（俗称“五进五”）起诉 N.C.A.A.。
自俄亥俄州裁决以来，其他各州又提起数起诉讼，最近一起是在加利福尼亚州，涉及 45 名球员，其中包括前 U.C.L.A. 后卫 Donovan Dent 和密歇根州立大学的大个子 Jaxon Kohler。
重大问题依然存在：这些球员真的会有参赛资格吗？教练和球队是否愿意为此冒险？哪些球队仍有可用的奖学金和资源来接纳这些突然变得可用的球员？
如果他们在法庭上获胜，大量拥有四年经验的球员将在大多数项目认为阵容已定的时候，重新进入大学篮球池。
《The Athletic》最近对 25 位高主修项目的教练就这批新合格球员进行了调查，并允许他们匿名，以便在不透露招募策略的情况下坦率地发言。
我们发现唯一明确的一点就是：目前毫无头绪。
N.C.A.A. 表示将寻求撤销在俄亥俄州的禁令。一名要求匿名的 N.C.A.A. 消息人士表示
CJ Moore 和 Brendan Marks 为《The Athletic》报道男子大学篮球。
Cathy Engelbert（左图）与球员之间缺乏个人关系，工会副主席 Breanna Stewart 表示。N.B.A. 总裁 Adam Silver 对 Engelbert 的未来态度模棱两可。
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咨询公司。 但 W.N.B.A. 董事会对 Engelbert 的聘用缺乏参与，这引发了她究竟向谁汇报工作的问题。在她的任期内，曾多次出现 Silver 明确参与商业决策的情况，其中不少发生在过去的一年里。
在今年早些时候的 N.B.A. 全明星周末期间，Silver 承认，虽然他没有直接参与 W.N.B.A. 激烈的集体谈判，但他在幕后发挥了作用。据报道，最近在处理菲尼克斯水星队前锋 Alyssa Thomas 与热波队后卫 Caitlin Clark 之间的一起比赛冲突的纪律程序中，他也参与其中。
在 CNBC 的 Game Plan 峰会上，当被问及是否鼓励 Engelbert 暂停 Thomas 的比赛资格时，Silver 避开了这个问题。“我不会对此发表评论，因为我认为这对 Caitlin 以及对 Cathy Engelbert 来说都不公平。这不是这里的真正问题。”
在过去的五个月里，Silver 至少两次被问及 Engelbert 的工作表现。两次他都赞扬了她所做的工作，但对其未来态度模棱两可。“Cathy 在建设该联盟方面继续出色地完成工作，我们将进行持续的讨论，”Silver 早前表示。
由于不被授权公开讨论该战略，该组织表示，即使法院的裁决继续向球员倾斜，也不计划提供一揽子豁免，但承认如果法官做出相反裁决，N.C.A.A. 的执行权力有限。该消息人士补充说，N.C.A.A. 预计在 2026-27 赛季之前会出现更多诉讼，其时机旨在让禁令在赛季开始前生效，且诉讼浪潮将使 N.C.A.A. 难以对其全部提出上诉。在受访的教练中，对于“正确做法”没有达成共识。大多数人反对这一迟来的变动，因为他们在组建球队时是基于这些球员不具备资格的理解，并感叹 N.C.A.A. 6 月份推出的基于年龄的资格变更给球员们争取另一年的机会开启了夏季窗口。“我觉得如果这些措施在休赛期之前就制度化，很多问题本可以解决，”一名来自东南部联盟（Southeastern Conference）的主教练说道。“我认为 ’22 届学生应该有资格参赛，就像其他所有获得额外一年机会的届次一样。一旦这些事情解决，我认为对所有球员都有好处。” 另一个选择本可以等到秋天再宣布，这样对于不合格的球员来说，就太晚而无法入学了。“这个时机很愚蠢，因为你就像是在奖励那些不一定已经完成名单的球队，”一名 SEC 助理教练说。“现在你又要开启一个全新的球员池？” 在没有名单空位的教练中，没有一名受访教练表示他们会为这个新球员池创造空位。其他教练则认为，现在增加一名球员会对他们签署的球队造成不公平和干扰。“我认为棘手的地方在于……”
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本月。 联盟内消息人士提到的最大痛点之一便是恩格尔伯特（Engelbert）的沟通方式。人们对她的人际交往动态表示保留。 作为 W.N.B.A. 最重要的利益相关者，球员们强化了这些观点。 W.N.B.A. 被广泛认为是一个由球员驱动的联盟。其运动员一直公开反对某些组织内部糟糕的运营标准以及领导层的失误。球员权力最典型的例子可以说是在 2020 年，当时亚特兰大梦想队的成员穿着支持拉斐尔·沃诺克（Raphael Warnock）的 T 恤，后者当时正在竞选佐治亚州的参议院席位，竞争对手是洛夫勒（Loeffler）。在竞选活动的最后几天，民主党人沃诺克在社交媒体上分享了一段鼓励人们投票的视频，视频中出现了多名 W.N.B.A. 球员，包括三届冠军戴安娜·陶拉西（Diana Taurasi）和球员协会秘书伊丽莎白·威廉姆斯（Elizabeth Williams）。 近年来，恩格尔伯特的沟通方式受到了那些敢于公开表达不满的球员们的批评和放大。 虽然许多球员表示他们从未与恩格尔伯特建立过关系，但紧张程度在上赛季末成为了主流，当时联盟最大的球星之一纳菲萨·科利尔（Napheesa Collier）在她的
M.J. COLLINS 在法官发布临时禁令后从犹他州立大学转学至辛辛那提大学。
FILIP BOROVICANIN 在四年内为三支大学球队效力，最近一支是 സേ维尔大学（Xavier）。
离职面试中点名批评了恩格尔伯特。科利尔不仅表示 W.N.B.A. 拥有“世界上最糟糕的领导层”，还透露了她 2025 年在 Unrivaled 与恩格尔伯特的一次私人对话。她称，恩格尔伯特告诉她“只有失败者才会抱怨裁判”。当科利尔问及那些带动收入的联盟年轻球星时，她表示恩格尔伯特回答说，克拉克（Clark）应该“感激自己在场外能赚到 $16 million，因为如果没有 W.N.B.A. 提供的平台
现在的情况是，你整个夏天都在和你的球队一起训练，”一名 Big Ten 联盟的教练说。“你已经真正开始建立团队化学反应、文化，开始尝试去
害怕公开表达他们的 不满。
她，她什么都做不到。” 恩格尔伯特否认过发表过 这些言论，但损害已经 造成。 联盟内不论是过去还是现在的 球员都站在科利尔一边。 三届 W.N.B.A. 冠军坎德丝·帕克表示，她收到过西尔弗发来的短信，祝贺她第三个孩子出生，并且每年都会收到他寄来的圣诞礼物。她说，当她退役时，西尔弗祝贺她在名人堂级别的职业生涯。 她从未收到过恩格尔伯特 的消息。 这指向了恩格尔伯特的另一个 失职领域：她的努力
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找出一些角色。” 其他人则将其视为一个机会。 一名 Big 12 教练表示，他立即放弃了之前通过国际招募球员来填补阵容漏洞的策略，转而瞄准多名 2022 届中刚刚失去参赛资格的球员。这是因为文书工作可能会少一些——
职业篮球
将过去与现在联系起来。 她缺席了 6 月 21 日洛杉矶火花队与纽约自由队之间举行的 W.N.B.A. 30 周年纪念赛，而选择前往参加美国公开赛的决赛圈。（她在美国高尔夫协会的执行委员会任职。）她还缺席了 2026 年女子篮球名人堂入职典礼，入职人员包括帕克、山狮队教练谢丽尔·里夫、W.N.B.A. 冠军埃琳娜·德莱多内，以及在联盟首个赛季期间效力于克利夫兰摇滚队的伊莎贝尔·费贾尔科夫斯基。 或许恩格尔伯特作为委员长的最大功绩在于，她主持了最终促成联盟首个百万美元球员合同的谈判，并且在长达 17 个月的时间里没有让联赛缺失一场比赛。但尽管她为球员们赢得了 W.N.B.A. 历史上前所未有高薪的贡献，她与球员的关系似乎仅有微小的改善。 自由队前锋布里安娜·斯图尔特（球员协会副主席）表示，自协议达成以来，双方存在相互尊重，但并没有太多的个人关系。斯图尔特的自由队队友萨布里娜·伊奥内斯库表示，她与恩格尔伯特没有关系，但经常与西尔弗交谈。 这种紧张的关系在 上周 被凸显出来，当时 伊奥内斯库说，她从未收到
JAXON KOHLER 可能会回到密歇根州立大学进行第五个赛季的比赛，他在那里曾担任球队队长。
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正式邀请参加 W.N.B.A. 的 3 分球大赛。山狮队后卫凯拉·麦克布莱德也批评了联盟，认为其在邀请她参加时的尝试缺乏诚意。 当被问及希望恩格尔伯特在未来做出怎样的改变时，伊奥内斯库强调要与球员建立强有力的关系，并保持开放的沟通渠道。 “双方总有可以做得更多的地方，”伊奥内斯库说。“情况不可能一直都很美好，但我绝对认为，与多名曾在这个联盟中奋斗的球员建立关系、改善关系，绝对是始终可以提升的方面。” 至于恩格尔伯特本人，她在周六全明星赛前的新闻发布会上表示，她需要改善与球员的沟通。 “关于球员们多么希望听到我们的声音，这绝对是我一直在与球员讨论的事情，”恩格尔伯特说。 “我们必须在这方面做得更好。如果一名球员获得荣誉，或者一名球员受伤，或者发生类似情况，我会尝试联系他们。我们需要做得更好。毫无疑问。我需要做得更好。每个人在沟通方面都需要时刻做得更好。” 虽然这些时而困难的球员关系可能让恩格尔伯特在公众舆论的法庭上失去了分值，但尚不清楚这些关系如何影响她在其最终汇报对象心目中的地位，在——
让 2022 届球员获得资格所涉及的工作量比让一名国际职业球员获得资格要少。一位表示自己“并不欣赏”这一进展的 Big 12 助理教练承认，他的计划保留了几个名额，且在诉讼名单中有多名球员是其球队正在关注的，不过筹集资金将十分困难。大多数顶尖项目在本周期中要么已经花光了全部预算，要么超过了计划支出，目前正重新向捐赠者请求更多资金。多位教练表示，这些寻求额外参赛年份的球员的市场价值可能会低于他们的预期。“我认为没有足够的球队剩下足够的资金，能像他们的同行已经获得的那样发放补贴，”一位 Big 12 主教练说道。即便在折扣率的情况下，这些球员下赛季在大学里赚到的钱可能仍比在其他任何地方都多。
此外，有些项目在春季招募目标上失手了；或者像冈萨加大学这样的学校，刚刚经历了大学篮球流动规则带来的负面影响——后卫 Mario Saint-Supéry 与一家西班牙俱乐部签约并离开学校——在这种情况下，这可能是一个挽救名单的机会。最终，教练们希望规则和指南能更清晰。这对于大学篮球来说并非新鲜事，因为该领域一直面临参赛资格规则混乱的问题：毕业球员起诉以获得额外赛季的参赛权，国际职业球员将大学篮球视为一个新的获利机会，以及前大学球员在前往职业联赛后尝试回归。N.C.A.A. 新的基于年龄的资格模型旨在简化流程，但实施的第一年将会充满波动。一位 Big East 教练表示，他在春季转会周期之前试图查明 2022 届球员是否具备资格，但他始终无法从“包括 N.C.A.A. 内部及周边在内的知情人士”那里得到一个明确的答案。他决定不冒险招募这些球员，而现在他已经没有名额了。
包括 N.B.A. 在内。 当 Silver 在七年前任命 Engelbert 时，他表示：“Cathy 是一位世界级的商业领袖，与女子篮球有着深厚的联系，这使她成为领导 W.N.B.A. 进入下一个增长阶段的理想人选。”
这大约在 Silver 告诉美联社该联盟平均“每运营一年就亏损 $10 million”的五个月后。在 Engelbert 任职期间，他对 W.N.B.A. 底线（盈亏情况）的强调变得更加明显。
到 2030, 年，W.N.B.A. 将迎来三支新球队，所有这些球队都将在 N.B.A./W.N.B.A. 双重所有权下运行。包括扩张后的金州 Valkyries 队、休斯顿火箭队所有者 Tillman Fertitta 收购康涅狄格 Sun 队以及 Mark Walter 收购洛杉矶湖人队在内，W.N.B.A. 将有 11 支球队在双重所有权结构下运行。第一年的波特兰 Fire 队和多伦多 Tempo 队也与 N.B.A. 拥有共同的所有权关系。
W.N.B.A. 的所有权情况使两个联盟专员的分离变得复杂，从而引发了一个问题：当前的治理结构是否限制了 Engelbert 或任何潜在接任者的权力。
“在角色和治理结构发生变化之前，没有一个专员能真正取得成功，”一名球队高层官员表示。
他将带领俄亥俄州立大学提升水平
赛因在休赛期增加了10磅体重。
作者：CAMERON TEAGUE ROBINSON The Athletic
朱利安·赛因（Julian Sayin）在这个休赛期引起了关注并引发了争论。
俄亥俄州立大学的这名首发四分卫一直以其精准度和让传球看起来轻而易举的能力给人们留下深刻印象——这就是为什么在尼克·萨班（Nick Saban）退休前，他在签约阿拉巴马大学时是2024年招募类别中的1号四分卫。
但他从未被视为一名在身体素质上具有威慑力的运动员。
在俄亥俄州立大学主队（Buckeyes）完成常规赛不败后，他在去年的海斯曼奖（Heisman Trophy）竞选中排名第四；在他担任首发的第一个赛季中，他的传球完成率高达77%，在足球碗分区（Football Bowl Subdivision）中排名第一。但在接连输给印第安纳大学和迈阿密大学的两场季后赛中，他表现挣扎。
在整个过程中，他拥有前10顺位被选中的卡内尔·泰特（Carnell Tate）以及未来很可能进入前10顺位的杰里迈亚·史密斯（Jeremiah Smith）作为接球目标，这使得对方教练对他潜能的看法不一。
当他回到加州家中时——
Cameron Teague Robinson 为 The Athletic 报道俄亥俄州立大学。Sam Khan Jr. 和 Antonio Morales 参与了报道。
作者：NICKI JHABVALA The Athletic
N.F.L. 变得越来越富有了。本月，保罗·艾伦（Paul Allen）的遗产管理委员会同意将西雅图海鹰队（Seattle Seahawks）以 $9.612 billion 的价格出售给由亿万富翁科技投资者维诺德·科斯拉（Vinod Khosla）及其妻子尼鲁（Neeru）领导的财团。这一巨额数字比 N.F.L. 之前的球队销售纪录高出近 60%。根据一份发送给球队高管并由 The Athletic 获得的 N.F.L. 备忘录，该协议尚需在 8 月 26 日于亚特兰大举行的俱乐部所有者会议上获得批准；届时，尼鲁·科斯拉将担任控股所有者，而这对夫妇的儿子尼尔（Neal）将承担“重要的领导角色”。单凭这个价格就足以说明 N.F.L. 表面上无止境的增长；仅仅三年前，华盛顿指挥官队（Washington Commanders）的成交价仅为 $6.05 billion。但海鹰队交易的意义已超越了财务层面。在艾伦家族执掌近三十年后，科斯拉夫妇将开启该特许经营权的新篇章——他们带来了相似的科技与商业传承，但个人历史截然不同。维诺德和尼鲁·科斯拉出生于印度，后来移民美国继续学业并开始创业生涯。维诺德现在被广泛认为是硅谷最具影响力的创新者和投资者之一。在 N.F.L. 中，科斯拉夫妇将与明尼苏达维京人队（Minnesota Vikings）的齐吉·威尔夫（Zygi Wilf，德国）以及杰克逊维尔美洲豹队（Jacksonville Jaguars）的沙希德·汗（Shahid Khan，巴基斯坦）一样，成为出生在美国境外的主要所有者。维诺德·科斯拉，71, 在德里的印度理工学院获得了电气工程学士学位，随后在卡内基梅隆大学获得了生物医学工程硕士学位，并在斯坦福大学获得了工商管理硕士学位。在获得 M.B.A. 学位两年后，他共同创立了 Sun Microsystems，这家先驱计算机公司在世纪之交的市值顶峰达到了约 $200 billion。
在春季橄榄球赛后，塞因（Sayin）在加利福尼亚州与他位于圣迭戈的四分卫训练师何塞·莫勒（Jose Mohler）取得了联系，出现时体重为 212 磅，高于他上赛季比赛时的 202 磅。莫勒认为，对于一个希望在担任首发第二年实现飞跃的球员来说，这是重要的一步。
“他在臂力这一项上受到了轻视，但这孩子能以多种不同的方式触及球场的所有区域，所以你知道这仅仅是物理学问题，”莫勒说。“他投球的本能非常强，所以如果他能保持像我在夏天看到的那样，他的投球能力将极其出色。”
那么，你该如何评价一名在常规赛中沉着冷静，但在季后赛中表现出一些稚嫩迹象的四分卫？一名能够完成每一次传球，但并没有能让人惊叹的顶尖运动能力或臂力的四分卫？
这些正是塞因在这个休赛期致力于解决的问题——不一定是为了回应批评者，而是为了帮助他达到对自己所设定的预期水平。
“对我来说，我关注的不是那些精彩的球，而是那几个...
他在 1986 年开始从事投资，现在被广泛认为是全球领先的技术风投者之一。根据福布斯最新的亿万富翁排名，其预估净资产为 132 亿美元。在 2004 年创办自己的公司之前，他在 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 工作了 18 年。Khosla Ventures 是一家大力支持人工智能以及气候和医疗保健初创公司的风投机构，也是第一家投资 OpenAI 的风投公司。如今，七年后，该公司的估值约为 8520 亿美元。“我想说，在所有商业活动中，真正奏效的一点就是追求高风险、高后果，”他在 2022 年接受彭博社大卫·鲁本斯坦（David Rubenstein）采访时表示。他补充道：“如果 there is a 10 percent chance of changing the world（有 10% 的机会改变世界），我不介意面对 90% 的失败概率。”维诺德·科斯拉（Vinod Khosla）在冒险中建立了事业，并多次谈到自己的商业失败，将其视为成功的必要工具。他还声称自己不是一个好的投资顾问，因为在 Khosla Ventures，“我们真正从事的是公司构建这项业务”。但事实证明，NFL 对超级富豪来说是最安全的投资之一，而科斯拉正处于购买其中一家最成功俱乐部的边缘。“NFL 的估值将继续上涨，这不仅仅是因为身份地位，而是因为数据证明了其合理性——现金流、收入倍数，”Sportscorp 创始人、多家联赛和球队的顾问马克·加尼斯（Marc Ganis）表示。“NFL 可以说是世界上经营最好的体育联赛，而体育在全球社会及技术领域的角色正日益重要。”尼鲁·科斯拉（Neeru Khosla）曾志在成为一名医生，在加入维诺德的美国生活之前，她在印度和英格兰长大。她最初从事分子生物学，在圣何塞州立大学获得硕士学位，并在斯坦福大学的一个实验室从事基因表达研究。但由于担心在怀第一个孩子时接触放射性物质，她停止了工作。（科斯拉夫妇有四个孩子。）她对教育的兴趣始于她担任志愿者期间。
朱利安·塞恩（Julian Sayin）在为俄亥俄州立大学七叶树队（Buckeyes）效力的第一年里，在季后赛中输给了印第安纳大学和迈阿密大学，并面临关于手臂力量的质疑。
“我希望我当时能做出那些传球，这样我们就有机会赢得那些比赛，”塞恩在春季训练期间说道。“我正在追求成为最好的自己，所以我该如何在这些方面提高？” 即便人们在审视塞恩时质疑他的体格或手臂力量，他对比赛的自信心也从未动摇。 塞恩并不是一个自大的球员。但据最了解他的人说，在幕后，他身上有一种安静的自信。除了增加体重外，他一直在痴迷地观看比赛录像。今年春天，他花了很多时间与主教练瑞安·戴（Ryan Day）和新任进攻协调员亚瑟·史密斯（Arthur Smith），以及莫勒（Mohler）和前 NFL 四分卫布雷特·里皮恩（Brett Rypien）一起分析录像，试图寻找进步的方法。 虽然塞恩一直因其出色的赛场视野而受到称赞——他连续九场比赛的传球完成率至少达到 70%，这一点足以证明——但在赛季末，有时面对传球冲压与复杂的防守覆盖，他会被搞懵。
维诺德和尼鲁·科斯拉的财团正以 96.12 亿美元收购海鹰队。他是全球顶尖的技术风投者之一。
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左侧的乔迪·艾伦（Jody Allen）在二月份决定将球队出售给科斯拉夫妇。自 2018 年其兄保罗·艾伦（Paul Allen）去世以来，她一直领导该球队。
在她孩子就读的学校担任志愿者。她决定在 50 岁时重返校园，并在创办 CK-12 基金会之前，获得了斯坦福大学教育研究生院的另一个硕士学位。该基金会是一家非营利组织，为儿童提供免费且可定制的数字教科书。“在我陪四个孩子经历那个过程时，我想：‘为什么我以前没有这样的教育？’ 于是，更大范围的问题开始出现了，”她在 2013 年接受 Bridgespan Group 采访时表示。“为什么我们不能为每个孩子提供这种教育？是什么在阻碍我们？”
Neeru Khosla 加入了西雅图女性体育所有者的核心圈，此前是 Jody Allen 在其兄长 Paul 去世后于 2018 年开始领导海鹰队。Samantha Holloway 拥有西雅图海妖队和 One Roof 体育与娱乐公司，并正推动在该市争取一支 N.B.A. 扩军球队。Melinda French Gates 最近成为了海妖队和 One Roof 的少数股东。
Vinod 和 Neeru 共同创办了 Curai Health，这是一家由人工智能驱动的虚拟医疗公司。Neal Khosla 在斯坦福大学学习数学和计算机科学期间，曾在旧金山 49 人队的足球运营部门实习两个月，重点关注球队的选秀过程。他在 2014 年由《体育管理杂志》（Journal of Sports Management）发表的一篇研究论文中担任合著者，该论文探讨了 N.B.A.、N.H.L. 和 M.L.B. 现场比赛区域体育网络收视率的决定因素。Neal 于 2016 年获得斯坦福大学计算机科学硕士学位，并在不到一年后创办了 Curai。他参与海鹰队的事务表明，他可能被视为该家族未来的主要所有者。N.F.L. 要求每个俱乐部提交继任计划并每年更新，以试图确保家族内部权力的无缝过渡。但为了领导海鹰队，Khosla 家族将不得不剥离他们的
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措手不及。这导致了在对阵密歇根队的第一次进攻中，以及随后在对阵印第安纳队的 Big Ten 冠军赛中再次出现了被拦截的情况。 他应对压力（无论是在口袋内还是口袋外）的能力，应该有助于减少失误，而这正是俄亥俄州立大学球迷在迈阿密失利后所诟病的一点——当时他被擒杀 5 次并有 2 次传球被拦截，其中一次被对方直接回攻得分。 在这次休赛期的训练中，Sayin 和 Mohler 进行了深传、短距离后撤以及快速出球等常规训练，但同样投入了大量精力在移动中训练。 Mohler 表示，在一次训练中，Sayin 从一个 hash 标记处横跨球场跑向另一侧的数字标记处，然后传向端区角。另一次，他向左侧移动传球，并在一个尴尬的角度将身体转向球场中部。 其他时候，他必须应对模拟的压力，要么跑赢冲传球员，要么侧身避开。
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这一切都是为了强迫 Sayin 在身体惯性将其带向不同方向时寻找解决方案。他的脚在哪里？他如何转动臀部和上半身来实现一次快速传球？他应该在压力面前传球，还是先避开压力再寻找传球窗口？ “你会发现所有顶尖球员都有一种天生的能力，能够操纵自己的身体并依然完成传球，对吧？”Mohler 说。“那就是 Josh Allen，那是 Cam Ward，那是 Aaron Rodgers，都是这些家伙。” 但四分卫教练必须在尝试允许球员发挥创造力的同时，保持稳固的基础之间找到一个幸福的平衡点。而 Sayin 在遇到 Mohler 之前就是一名有天赋的传球手。 “我认为他在保持高度一致性方面做得非常出色，比如，后撤五步，球出击，”Mohler 说。“同时，他去年也展示了在局面失控时移动的能力。” Sayin 能否在赛场上找到那个平衡点？这是一个重大——
在 49ers 球队中持有 3.1 percent 的股份，这是他们在去年购买的。N.F.L. 禁止所有者在多家特许经营球队中持有权益。“我的父亲和我已经持有季票 30 年了，从我小时候在 Stick 球场看球，一直到过去 11 年在 Levi’s Stadium 看球，”尼尔·科斯拉 (Neal Khosla) 在 2025 年表示。“对于我们来说，成为 49ers 家族的一员是梦想成真，我们很荣幸能成为球队未来成功以及持续影响湾区社区的一部分。”科斯拉家族在本月的一份声明中表示，他们“很荣幸被委任为西雅图海鹰队的下一任管理人”，但拒绝就本文发表进一步评论。多年来，N.F.L. 对其所有权政策进行了调整，以便于家庭在代际间传承特许经营权，并使新所有者购买球队变得稍微容易一些。在 2024, 年，联盟将购买球队的债务上限提高到 $1.4 billion，并开始允许选定的私募股权公司在球队中投资最多 10 percent（非控制权）。但 N.F.L. 与其他美国职业联赛不同，仍要求由个人而非团体
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在进入 2026 赛季前面对质疑。 这就是为什么塞恩 (Sayin) 今年在俄亥俄州立大学的健身房以及在南加州的家中如此刻意，努力确保自己在心理和身体上都为在七叶树队 (Buckeyes) 作为首发球员的第 2 年做好准备；该球队一直有着很高的期望，但必须应对一个令人生畏的赛程。 “有时，他看起来像是在被猎杀，而有时，四分卫就生活在这种压迫感或身后跟着的幽灵之中，”莫勒 (Mohler) 在谈到上个赛季时说。“随着他变得更有经验，我认为你会看到一个更加直觉化、更加随性的形象。” “他必须变得更快、更强壮、更强健，以便让自己和球队处于有利局面，因为谁不喜欢一个能跑出第一次进攻权 (first down) 的球员，对吧？或者在第三次进攻且还剩 6 码 (third-and-6) 时，对吧？我知道他具备这些能力，他能洞察这些情况，所以我认为他们正朝着正确方向发展，让他成为那样一个人。”
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或机构，成为首席所有者。该人员必须持有至少 30 Percent 的股份。（对于由同一团体持有至少 10 年的球队，控制权的门槛仅为 1 Percent，前提是该家庭集体持有 30 Percent。）NFL 还将每支球队的有限合伙人数上限设定为 24 人。联盟的这些限制性政策经常引发人们的疑问：它是否需要进一步放宽，以吸引更广泛的候选人群，因为现在的球队估值已达数十亿美元。咨询顾问 Ganis 认为，NFL 球队的价值在未来七年内可能达到 $20 billion，这意味着首席所有者需要投入至少 $6 billion 才能获得控制权。然而，海鹰队的交易证明了一点：到目前为止，联盟并没有缺乏渴望加入这个精英俱乐部的亿万富翁。科斯拉家族 $9.612 billion 的报价打破了 NFL 球队销售纪录——此前由 Josh Harris 以 $6.05 billion 买下指挥官队。海鹰队虽然处于较小市场，但在仅耗时五个月的出售过程中吸引了多方竞标者。据 Sportico 报道，由保罗·艾伦的妹妹兼唯一信托人乔迪（Jody）监督的艾伦遗产管理委员会，在至少一个其他竞标团体中选择了科斯拉家族，该团体由波士顿凯尔特人队的所有者 Wyc Grousbeck 和 Aditya Mittal 领导。在这次出售之后，NFL 球队的市场可能会进入一段时间的沉寂期。但科斯拉家族达成的这项交易让 NFL 的所有权价值之箭继续向上。在谈到海鹰队所有者及其副主席 Bert Kolde 时，Ganis 表示：“你必须给予乔迪和 Bert Kolde 很多认可。在保罗去世后的 8 年里，这支球队的价值大幅上升。他们赢得了一次超级碗，球迷基础极其强大，并且克服了一些严重的经济逆风。我认为他们值得很多认可——比他们目前得到的要多得多。”
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一名联盟消息人士周一向《The Athletic》证实，堪萨斯城酋长队进攻协调员埃里克·比尼米（Eric Bieniemy）的妻子米娅·比尼米（Mia Bieniemy）周日晚在两人位于弗吉尼亚州的家中遭到枪击。 在弗吉尼亚州阿什本（Ashburn）的枪击事件发生后，埃里克和米娅的儿子以利亚·比尼米（Elijah Bieniemy）被逮捕并被指控，劳登县（Loudoun County）
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警长办公室在一份发布稿中表示。 Elijah Bieniemy， 27 岁， 被指控恶意伤害、在实施重罪时使用枪支以及在住所内开枪。警长办公室表示，他已被带往劳登县成人拘留中心，目前在不准保释的情况下被羁押。 警长办公室表示，副警长在周日晚上约 7:30 收到一起枪击报告后赶赴现场，发现一名成年女性身受枪伤。她被送往医院接受“严重治疗”。
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据该办公室称，“受伤，” 埃里克·比尼米（Eric Bieniemy）此前在圣约瑟夫的密苏里西部州立大学与酋长队一同参加训练营。 在周一早晨的训练结束后，酋长队主教练安迪·里德（Andy Reid）表示，米娅·比尼米（Mia Bieniemy）情况稳定。他称她为“上帝赐予的美好祝福之一”。 里德表示，比尼米已经前往弗吉尼亚州，目前尚不清楚他何时返回训练营。 里德表示，球队的传球进攻协调员乔·布莱迈尔（Joe Bleymaier）
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一个中心位于美国西部的热穹将使暖空气在今日从德克萨斯州扩散至蒙大拿州。大多数地区的温度将比平均水平高 5-15 度，部分地区可能会接近每日最高纪录。太平洋西北地区的温度将稍低几度。随着风暴走廊向东移，冷空气将涌入五大湖地区。该地区将有强风并伴有充足的阳光。雷阵雨将使从新英格兰到卡罗来纳州的一大片区域受浸。主要威胁将是洪涝和破坏性大风。最可能出现破坏性阵风的走廊将从宾夕法尼亚州延伸至南卡罗来纳州。除佛罗里达州和落基山脉地区有零星风暴外，全国其余地区将保持干燥。
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阿姆斯特丹 70/ 61 0.15 80/ 64 PC 90/ 69 S 雅典 93/ 70 0 96/ 80 S 94/ 78 W 柏林 73/ 61 0.39 76/ 57 Sh 86/ 63 S 布鲁塞尔 73/ 63 0 86/ 63 S 96/ 68 S 布达佩斯 86/ 68 0.01 87/ 62 S 93/ 67 S 哥本哈根 70/ 57 0.50 71/ 61 PC 74/ 64 PC 都柏林 72/ 55 Tr 77/ 59 C 70/ 50 Sh 爱丁堡 68/ 50 0.02 73/ 62 Sh 68/ 50 Sh 法兰克福 77/ 61 0.12 87/ 64 S 99/ 65 S 日内瓦 82/ 66 0 91/ 66 S 98/ 62 S 赫尔辛基 68/ 59 0.04 66/ 50 PC 75/ 52 S 伊斯坦布尔 84/ 70 0 90/ 73 S 87/ 70 S 基辅 86/ 55 0 73/ 55 PC 74/ 58 PC 里斯本 97/ 64 0 93/ 66 S 87/ 64 S 伦敦 81/ 59 0 87/ 62 PC 93/ 63 S 马德里 96/ 63 0 102/ 69 S 104/ 71 S 莫斯科 77/ 61 0.08 82/ 61 T 67/ 59 Sh 尼斯 84/ 73 0 87/ 76 S 90/ 78 S 奥斯陆 66/ 46 0 76/ 52 PC 75/ 61 PC 巴黎 81/ 59 0 91/ 66 S 102/ 69 S 布拉格 72/ 59 0.06 80/ 55 S 90/ 61 S 罗马 88/ 77 0 92/ 72 S 95/ 71 S 圣彼得堡 82/ 64 0 70/ 59 R 71/ 60 R 斯德哥尔摩 64/ 50 0 70/ 52 S 74/ 58 S 维也纳 81/ 68 0.01 88/ 62 S 93/ 68 S 华沙 73/ 61 0.14 72/ 54 PC 78/ 58 PC
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阿卡普尔科 87/ 78 0 90/ 77 Sh 91/ 77 PC 百慕大 82/ 77 0.30 84/ 78 T 84/ 80 Sh 埃德蒙顿 68/ 59 0.05 81/ 47 T 74/ 51 PC 瓜达拉哈拉 74/ 61 0 83/ 61 T 84/ 62 T 哈瓦那 90/ 73 0.02 89/ 72 R 93/ 71 R 金斯敦 90/ 81 0 91/ 81 PC 93/ 84 S 马提尼克 90/ 77 0.05 91/ 80 Sh 90/ 79 T 墨西哥城 69/ 56 0 75/ 56 R 75/ 56 R 蒙特雷 86/ 67 0 97/ 71 PC 98/ 72 S 蒙特利尔 80/ 68 Tr 82/ 67 T 73/ 65 T 拿骚 87/ 77 0.09 90/ 79 PC 92/ 79 T 巴拿马城 88/ 75 0.27 91/ 75 R 95/ 76 R 魁北克市 81/ 63 0.03 80/ 62 T 78/ 63 T 圣多明各 91/ 74 0 93/ 76 T 93/ 76 S 多伦多 84/ 64 0.01 77/ 64 T 76/ 61 Sh 温哥华 63/ 61 0.06 73/ 56 Sh 71/ 54 PC 温尼伯 77/ 63 0 89/ 67 PC 93/ 67 S
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今晚 .......强雷阵雨，潮湿 最低气温 69. 夜间将保持潮湿且多云，强雷阵雨将持续。风暴可能带来闪电洪水。最低气温将接近 7 月底的平均水平。
明天 .........................雷阵雨 最高气温 77. 预计云量多变，伴有几次阵雨和一场强雷阵雨。风暴将带来闪电洪水的风险。最高气温将比正常水平低几度。
周四 .....................转晴，有阵雨 早晨天空多云，下午将转为云日交替。局部地区可能会出现阵雨。最高气温将为 78.
周五 周六 .................周五有少量阵雨 潮湿天气将持续到周五，下午有几次阵雨。最高气温 83. 周六将出现云日交替，局部地区有阵雨。最高气温 86.
在中央公园，截至昨日下午 1 点的 13 小时内。
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本月日平均偏离 正常值............... -0.6° 今年日平均偏离 正常值.................. -0.2°
水库水位 （纽约市供水系统）
昨日 ............... 87% 预计正常值 ............. 90%
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从蒙托克角 (Montauk Point) 到新泽西州的桑迪胡克 (Sandy Hook)，延伸至 20 海里，包括长岛海峡和纽约港。 风向南，风速 10-15 节，阵风最高 25 节。纽约港和长岛海峡波高 1-2 英尺，公海波高 2-4 英尺。风暴将限制能见度。
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大西洋城 .................... 上午 7:29 .............. 晚上 7:45 巴内加特入海口 ................. 上午 7:40 .............. 晚上 7:51 电池公园 ..................... 上午 8:19 .............. 晚上 8:27 比奇海文 .................. 上午 9:06 .............. 晚上 9:18 布里奇波特 .................... 上午 11:25 ............ 晚上 11:34 城市岛 ..................... 上午 11:58 ............ 晚上 11:57 火岛灯塔 .................. 上午 8:34 .............. 晚上 8:46 蒙托克角 ................ 上午 9:09 .............. 晚上 9:23 北港 ..................... 上午 11:42 ............ 晚上 11:44 波特华盛顿 ........... 下午 12:06 ......................... --- 桑迪胡克 .................... 上午 7:48 .............. 晚上 8:00 希内考克入海口 ............. 上午 7:30 .............. 晚上 7:46 斯坦福 ...................... 上午 11:30 ............ 晚上 11:34 塔里敦 ..................... 上午 10:08 ............ 晚上 10:16 威利茨角 .................. 上午 11:57 ............ 晚上 11:59
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昨日 ............... 0.00 纪录 .................... 2.65
最高 纪录 98° (1963)
过去 30 天 实际值 ..................... 3.69 正常值.................... 4.32
正午 83°
最高 85° 正常值
过去 365 天 实际值 ................... 36.63 正常值.................. 49.52
过去 30 天 气压
最高 ........... 29.87 凌晨 1 点 最低 ............ 29.84 凌晨 4 点
最低 70° 正常值
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一项衡量燃料消耗的指标，追踪当日平均气温高于 65 度的程度
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趋势 温度 降水量 平均 平均 低于 低于 高于 高于
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海滩与海洋温度
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74/63 潮湿，局部有雷阵雨 肯内邦克波特 (Kennebunkport)
落下 上午 4:31 上升 晚上 8:03 落下 上午 5:35
76/65 下午有阵雨 鳕鱼角 (Cape Cod)
火星
上升 凌晨 2:20 落下 下午 5:21
76/69 雷阵雨 长岛北岸
金星
上升 上午 9:40 落下 晚上 10:13
76/70 雷阵雨 长岛南岸
79/70 雷阵雨 新泽西海岸
82/68 强雷阵雨 东岸
77/69 潮湿且有雷阵雨 马里兰州海洋城 (Ocean City Md.)
83/71 强雷阵雨 弗吉尼亚海滩 (Virginia Beach)
多云天气将从弗吉尼亚海滩延伸至缅因州，预计会有少量阵雨和下午雷阵雨。最强烈的风暴可能会带来强降雨导致洪水、冰雹和阵风。最高气温将分布在缅因州的 70 度中段至弗吉尼亚州的 80 度初段。
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最高 ............. 75% 上午 6 点 最低 ............ 57% 上午 11 点
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作者：肖恩·T·柯林斯 (SEAN T. COLLINS)
本次采访包含《龙之屋》第 3, 季第 6 集的重大剧透。
在 HBO 的《龙之屋》中饰演克里斯顿·科尔爵士三个季度后，费比安·弗兰克尔对观众的关注并不陌生。他很好奇，既然维斯特洛最令人厌恶的反派之一已经死去，这种情况将如何改变。 “今天有一个女人带着孩子开车，她停在我身边，说：‘克里斯顿·科尔！我昨晚看你演戏了！’” 32 岁的弗兰克尔在上周的一次视频通话中说道，当时距离其角色在周日剧集中惨死的结局仅剩几天。“我想知道周一会是什么样子：‘哦我的天，你死了！’” 当弗兰克尔开始在《龙之屋》中演出时（这部剧是基于乔治·R.R.马丁的小说《血与火》改编的《权力的游戏》前传），克里斯顿爵士在某种程度上是一个浪漫人物。他与竞争对手两位女王——雷妮拉·坦格利安和艾莉森·海塔沃之间关系推动了大部分冲突，他因此被称为国王的——
约翰尼·德普化身为斯克鲁奇，上周在圣迭戈国际动漫展上为其电影《艾比尼泽：圣诞颂歌》宣传。
作者：布鲁克斯·巴恩斯 (BROOKS BARNES)
抱他。该制片厂正让德普成为其感恩节作品《艾比尼泽：圣诞颂歌》的门面。 “不合群者的主人回归了，” 派拉蒙在周四发布的电影先导预告片中宣称。随后画面切换到浓妆后的德普，饰演艾比尼泽·斯克鲁奇。德普用沙哑的声音说道，几乎打破了第四面墙：“很高兴回来。” 这将是德普近八年来的首部好莱坞电影，此前华纳兄弟将他强行逐出“神奇动物”系列，而迪士尼也放弃了与他关于第六部“加勒比海盗”电影的谈判。在在那场诽谤审判中，德普指控其前妻安伯·赫德通过将其虚构为虐待者来损害他的名誉和事业，他的经纪人作证称，这位巨星若能再次饰演“海盗”中的杰克·斯派罗船长，将能赚到约 $22.5 百万美元。（他赢了该案。） 家长们是否愿意带孩子去观看这部节日经典之作——这个文化中关于道德救赎的最典型故事之一？很大一部分 Z 世代对德普的认知既来自他的电影，也来自那场成为 TikTok 现象的诽谤审判。他们会走进电影院看他吗？ 《艾比尼泽》的预告片在派拉蒙的主 YouTube 账号上发布后的前 18 小时内吸引了超过 600 万次观看。如果派拉蒙成功了，其他制片厂——或许甚至是注重形象的迪士尼——是否会效仿
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伦敦的一座豪宅 重现了一场针对 德国人的大胆 战时骗局。
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评论员笔记 不仅是 一名简单的 女巫
喀耳刻应当获得更好的待遇。
当由勇敢的奥德修斯率领的部下抵达克里斯托弗·诺兰执导的《奥德赛》（The Odyssey）中喀耳刻的家时，电影从航海史诗转变为身体恐怖片。由萨曼莎·莫顿以原始且神秘的演技饰演的喀耳刻是一名将男人变成猪的女巫，但不必担心——她很快会被后到的马特·达蒙饰演的奥德修斯智胜，就像他在回家的路上遇到的所有其他怪物一样。在英雄的旅程中，她只不过是另一个需要被征服的障碍。 然而，原著中的情节并非完全如此。当荷马介绍喀耳刻时，她被描述为一个美丽且迷人的女人，在织机前唱歌织布——这与奥德修斯忠贞的妻子潘内洛普形成了平行对比，后者在等待丈夫回家时也在不停地织布。
这部基于 1984 年电影改编的新音乐剧将在舞台上呈现至少 20 首王子（Prince）的歌曲。
作者：迈克尔·保尔森 (MICHAEL PAULSON)
《紫色雨》（Purple Rain）是一部基于王子 1984 年开创性电影改编的新音乐剧，将于明年春天登陆百老汇，为正在展开的演出季注入一股怀旧摇滚和放克能量。 这部剧讲述了一位年轻音乐家在家庭以及他演出所在的俱乐部中经历动荡生活的的故事。自去年在明尼阿波利斯经历了一次不顺利的初步试演后，该剧经过了大幅修改——更换了导演和编剧，并精简重心以聚焦于王子的音乐。 该音乐剧将于 3 月 12 日开始预演，并于 4 月 12 日在 Majestic 剧院正式开演。它将包含至少 20 首王子的歌曲，包括《When Doves Cry》、《I Would Die 4 U》（为你而死 4 U）、《Take Me With U》和《The Beautiful Ones》。这些歌曲将由舞台上的音乐家现场表演。 “这是一次对王子的庆典，”该剧首席制作人奥林·沃尔夫（Orin Wolf）表示。“这是一个成长故事，但最重要的是，这是一个以音乐为导向、充满高能表演的夜晚。您将通过音乐感受到故事的推进，并感受到王子的精神。” 该剧组即将抵达百老汇
法比安·弗兰克尔（Fabien Frankel）与导演洛妮·佩里斯特（Loni Peristere）在《龙之家族》（House of the Dragon）的片场。“在实地拍摄中存在着一种‘顺应’的状态，”弗兰克尔说道。
法比安·弗兰克尔 (FABIEN FRANKEL)
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……因其在促成艾莉森之子伊耿 II 登基中扮演的角色而成为[造王者]。最终，出身卑微的克里斯顿爵士被任命为国王之手。但很快，他对自己荣耀的憧憬——以及数千名士兵的生命——在第 2 季中随巨龙之火一同化为灰烬。自此以后，他一直是一个阴郁且虚无的人物。
克里斯顿爵士在第 3 季中于敌方控制的河湾地带经历了一场漫长且灾难性的艰苦跋涉。在第 6 集中，这场死亡行军最终在一场极其肮脏、残酷的伏击中地终结。弓箭手的箭矢将可怜的克里斯顿变成了人形针垫，剥夺了他进行英雄式最后一决的机会。
这正是弗兰克尔所喜欢的。“在某种程度上，我感到宽慰，”他在位于伦敦的母亲公寓中表示。“克里斯顿·科尔以我希望的方式离世，而且这种方式让我觉得非常尊重乔治·R.R. 马丁的原著。”
弗兰克尔还不习惯扮演一个死人，因此他承认自己的感受可能会有所变化。“如果你一周后再问我，我相信我对这件事的感受会有更清晰的认识，”他说。
以下为对话的编辑摘录。
克里斯顿·科尔爵士并没有在荣耀的火焰中死去。他的死亡甚至不是他离世那一集的最高潮！
我很喜欢这一点。伙计，每个人，每一篇我读过的文章，我都从未感受到如此强烈的，“这家伙必须得走”的感觉。我很兴奋能给粉丝们他们想要的东西。但我也并不希望他们觉得他一旦离世，他们就可以安心上床睡觉了。我希望他们感觉到他走了，然后他们还得面对接下来的 50 分钟里将要出错的 [脏话]。
每一个从一开始就在剧中的角色，比如杰斯 [Harry Collett] 或雷妮丝 [Eve Best]，他们的集数高潮通常都是死亡。
大多数人可能对克里斯顿被杀感到兴奋，而他们将被剥夺这种快感。这件事发生得太突然了。我认为这很恰当。他们
‘我从未感受到如此强烈的，“这家伙必须得走”的感觉。我很兴奋能给粉丝们他们想要的东西。’
……在新作音乐剧面临巨大挑战的时期，绝大多数新作在财务上都失败了，这损害了投资者的信心，导致新剧目的数量下降。《紫色雨》是本季宣布的第 6 部新音乐剧，与《多莉》、《伽利略》、《帕丁顿》、《通缉》和《勇者》并列。两个季度前，百老汇曾有 14 部新音乐剧。
根据提交给证券交易委员会的文件，将《紫色雨》带到百老汇将耗资高达 $29.5 百万。这一数字处于百老汇音乐剧资本化成本的上限。
“这感觉会像是一场盛大的演出，”沃尔夫说。“这是一部大型音乐剧。我们将在大剧院演出。我们将提供大量的实景制作。”
该剧在 2025 年秋季于明尼阿波利斯（普林斯的家乡，也是故事的背景地）开始为期近六周的演出时，篇幅过长且笨重。但随着演出的继续，制作变得更加紧凑和强有力。
评论褒贬不一。《纽约时报》称该剧“令人持续迷茫”，但《明尼苏达月刊》则认为它是“原始创造力的汇聚”。
……不能像他们期望的那样感到完全满足，对此我很开心。
克里斯顿（Criston）在本季经历了一场真正的奥德赛，在自然元素的洗礼中艰苦跋涉，直到他遭遇最后的伏击。 做这些事真的像看起来那么不愉快吗？ 能告诉你实话吗？并不。实际上非常愉快。这是三季以来我第一次被允许脱掉盔甲，这在身体和心理上都减轻了巨大的负担。这里有一个士兵，被从荒野中带走，置于一个极其马基雅维利式、封闭的环境中，在那里每个人都像狗一样为了权力而争斗。他通过回到起点，让自己从那种环境中解脱出来。 从开始到结束我一直都在实地拍摄，在脱掉盔甲时感到一种深切且深刻的宽慰。作为一名演员，你会渴望那种感觉，渴望置身于自然环境中。在最好的时候，我也不喜欢电影制片厂。实地拍摄存在一种“顺从感”，尤其是在英国，那里的天气如此阴晴不定。你真的不知道会遇到什么。 饰演格温（Gwayne）的弗雷迪·福克斯（Freddie Fox）和我真的觉得我们是幸运的。奥利维亚·库克（Olivia Cooke）总说：“我是一个室内角色，而你和弗雷迪是室外角色。”对于成为一个室外角色，我绝对没有任何抱怨。
你当时玩得很开心——但克里斯顿开心吗？ 遗憾的是，是的。我有些朋友在获得他们最想要的东西的那一刻会抱怨。他们在到达目的地时抱怨，但内心深处，他们知道自己其实很乐意去做这件事。我们知道克里斯顿擅长的一件事就是当一名士兵。他不懂政治。我甚至不知道他是否是一个优秀的将军。但他起步于一名步兵，而那是他擅长的。他身上有一种感到解脱的感觉。毫无疑问，这绝对是他最享受的一季。
“天才且精妙的舞台艺术。”《明尼苏达星论坛报》（The Minnesota Star Tribune）的一位评论家多次观看该剧，发现最终的演出“因其高能量、增强的自信心和爆发性的喜悦而令人瞩目”。 在随后的几个月里，曾在 2018 年带领《乐队到访》（The Band’s Visit）获得托尼奖最佳音乐剧奖的沃尔夫（Wolf）对创意团队进行了大调整，聘请萨希姆·阿里（Saheem Ali）接替利莱安娜·布莱恩-克鲁兹（Lileana Blain-Cruz）担任导演，并聘请彼得·杜尚（Peter Duchan）接替布兰登·雅各布斯-詹金斯（Branden Jacobs-Jenkins）担任剧本作者。剧组已经举行了工作坊以测试修订方案。（这类步骤并非没有先例；其他百老汇剧目在开发过程中也曾重组其创意团队。） 沃尔夫和阿里此前曾合作过《布埃纳维斯塔社交俱乐部》（Buena Vista Social Club），该剧去年在百老汇开演且目前仍在运行。与《紫色雨》（Purple Rain）一样，该剧得益于其歌曲目录既有的知名度。 《紫色雨》的创意团队包括两名普林斯（Prince）的乐队伙伴鲍比·Z（Bobby Z）和莫里斯·海耶斯（Morris Hayes），他们的身份是音乐顾问。该剧的演员阵容尚未公布。
普林斯在他 1984 年的电影处女作《紫色雨》中，该片背景设定在明尼阿波利斯。
极大地。作为一名演员，感受到这一点对我来说也是一种解放。当一个人知道终点将至时，很难不去活在当下，因为你别无选择。你只能活在现在。如果我要回顾克里斯顿·科尔（Criston Cole）生命中快乐的时刻——如果真有的话——我会说本集中的战场就是其中之一。科尔在接近死亡时最为快乐。
他在上季战场上第一次遭遇龙火之后，似乎陷入了自杀般的绝望。
萨拉·赫斯（Sara Hess）在第二季第 8 集中将其写得如此优美：“巨龙起舞，而人类如其足下的尘埃。我们所有高尚的思想，所有努力都化为虚无。我们现在正向着毁灭前进。”
有一场戏最终没能进入剪辑版本，在那场戏中，克里斯顿（Criston）来到艾丽森（Alicent）的房间，在她怀中崩溃大哭，而她像对待孩子一样抱着他。这就是剧集的本质，有时候某些场景就是无法入选。但对我这个演员来说，我记得和奥利维亚（Olivia）拍那场戏的情景。那是整个第二季的最后一场戏，场景拍完我们就收工了。我觉得那一刻就是关键：承认所有的错误，所有的愧疚，以及意识到最终他的毁灭是他自找的。他造成并制造了周围如此多的混乱。
就在他开始最后一次致命的征战前，克里斯顿在白日梦中听到艾丽森在吟唱关于他死亡的歌曲。在他做最后的抵抗时，他将她赠予的信物缠在剑柄上。我很惊讶她依然如此深刻地留在他的脑海中。
我不知道，伙计。我只深爱过寥寥几次，而且在这种时候很难去思考其他事情。在终结临近时，你想到的人是你爱的人。他没有父亲、母亲、兄弟姐妹、妻子或孩子。这个男人爱过什么？艾丽森是他唯一真正爱过的人。对我来说，她在他的最后时刻如此地占据主导地位并不令人惊讶。
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表示自己患有 帕金森病
作者：DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR
歌手兼词曲作者卡莉·西蒙（Carly Simon）周一宣布，她被诊断出患有帕金森病。现年 83 岁的西蒙在声明中表示：“我花了一些时间来理解这个诊断，适应它，并决定在多大程度上公开这件事。”她补充说，她仍在学习如何接受这种病况，“而不会觉得我放弃了某种本质的东西。”声明称，在人们开始好奇她最近为何对相关询问保持相对沉默后，她决定公开这一消息。“事实是，我一直在学习如何与帕金森病共存，”她说道。目前尚不清楚西蒙是在何时收到诊断结果的。
西蒙以多首热门歌曲而闻名，如《You’re So Vain》、《Nobody Does It Better》以及 1989 年发行并赢得奥斯卡奖、金球奖和格莱美奖的《Let the River Run》。她 18 年来首张原创歌曲新专辑《Comes in Waves》将于下月发行。其主打单曲《Howl》已于 6 月推出。
帕金森病是一种损害脑内神经细胞的神经系统疾病，其症状包括震颤、僵直以及平衡和运动障碍。该病目前尚无治愈方法。西蒙在声明中说，她有时发现自己“太累了，以至于一天都无法正常运转”，但另一些时候，帕金森病给了她“更多空间去活动、思考、工作，并感觉找回了自我”。
她表示，她的健康问题始于因关节炎而进行双膝和单髋关节置换手术之后。在梅奥医学中心（Mayo Clinic）接受评估后，她被诊断出患有帕金森病。她表示，该疾病可能引发的冷漠感让她感到格外具有挑战性。“这不仅仅是悲伤或懒惰，”她说道，“就好像大脑中那个发送生活参与邀请函的部分暂时弄丢了宾客名单。”
在确诊前后，西蒙还因脸部基底细胞癌接受了治疗。她表示，切除癌症的手术影响了她的外貌，使她“在公开场合出现时更加在意他人的目光”。但她说，创作新专辑让她的生活有了重心。“它给了我一个无需离开房间就能到达的地方。它提醒我，疾病可以改变你的生活，但不必成为你生活的全部。”
西蒙说，音乐“救了我无数次”。她接着说道，如今“我比以前更依赖他人，并且我已经学会接受每一天都会有些许不同”，并补充道：“但我依然在这里。”
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弥合 政治 分歧
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两名父亲分属不同政党的青少年共同创作了一本绘本。
作者：SOPAN DEB
如果两种品种的狗能齐心协力修复它们心爱的狗狗公园，那么国会也可以。这就是由埃莉·戈特海默（Ellie Gottheimer）和拉拉·穆林（Larra Mullin）撰写并自行出版的新儿童读物《舒穆与奥齐去华盛顿》（“Shmoo & Ozzie Go to Washington”）背后的核心信息。这两位青少年分别是新泽西州民主党代表乔什·戈特海默（Josh Gottheimer）和前俄克拉荷马州共和党参议员、近期宣誓就职为国土安全部部长的马克-韦恩·穆林（Mark-wayne Mullin）的女儿。这本书的灵感源自她们父亲之间跨越党派的友谊，并献给她们的父亲，“感谢他们教导我们如何倾听，如何寻找共识，以及在困难时期如何寻求折中方案”。金毛贵宾犬舒穆和大麦点狗奥齐搬到了华盛顿，因为他们的父亲被选入了“狗狗国会”。（舒穆是以戈特海默家的金毛贵宾犬罗西为原型，罗西的名字取自布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀的歌曲《Rosalita》。奥齐则是以穆林家的一只牧羊犬为原型，那只狗在本书项目启动前不久去世了。）由于舒穆和奥齐没有共同语言，他们的初次见面十分尴尬。相反，他们选择与志趣相投的狗待在一起。但当他们最喜欢的狗狗公园面临关闭威胁时，他们的生活发生了剧变。他们共同努力，说服国会两党的所有犬类代表恢复拨款。“因为年轻，我们都能在社交媒体上看到那些左右对立的景象，所以我们想展示我们看到的父亲们是如何共同工作的，”拉拉·穆林最近解释道，“我们想展示的是‘左右两派共同面对问题’。”下个月将满 18 岁的穆林在父亲位于国会山镇屋的餐桌旁，与同样 17 岁的埃莉·戈特海默接受了共同采访。她们的父亲就坐在附近。两位父亲在戈特海默于 2017 年宣誓就职国会议员后不久相识。（穆林自 2013 年起就在众议院任职，并于 2023 年成为参议员。）他们在众议院健身房的一个健身课上结识，该课程至今仍由穆林组织。平均而言，两党约有 10 名成员参加。“有时你会建立起深厚的关系，”穆林说，“因为我们训练得很猛。我的目标是在结束时彻底击败你。”拉拉·穆林表示，这种战友之情树立了一个“极好的榜样”。“他们两人截然不同，但我们可以看到他们每天真正地肩并肩地共同解决问题，而非——”
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“……互相讨厌，而且一直争吵，”她补充道。“我从未见他们争吵。我一直看到他们坐下来解决问题。” Ellie Gottheimer 补充道：“他们就像是同一个人，只是用了非常不同的字体。” 但在现实的华盛顿，如果不是在“狗狗华盛顿”中，政治分歧不会那样轻易消失。 Mullin 长期支持特朗普总统，他领导的部门被左翼所憎恨，尤其是因为在政府遣返政策以及移民与海关执法局（ICE）的行为方面存在紧张关系。（在 ICE 探员拦截交通的期间，本月在德克萨斯州和缅因州的移民遭到枪击身亡，案件仍在调查中。） 被认为与特朗普过于亲近的民主党人，尤其是在自由派州，在近期的初选中遭受挫败，其中包括 Gottheimer，他在去年的新泽西州州长初选中排名第四。 Gottheimer 在他位于新泽西州北部的倾向于民主党的选区中赢得了连任。但当他在 Mullin 3 月份关于领导国土安全部的紧张确认听证会上出现在其身后时，引发了人们的关注。 他们的女儿们，正进入他们的
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[[IMG_XXXX]] 左侧的 Ellie Gottheimer 和 Larra Mullin，分别是 Josh Gottheimer 和 Markwayne Mullin 的女儿，她们是右上角《Shmoo & Ozzie Go to Washington》的作者。
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在他们各自家乡州的高中毕业年级，他们就认识了，已经相识约十年。Ellie 描述说，考虑到他们不同的背景，与 Larra 见面时感到“紧张”。但作为年轻人，他们找到了共同点，并像他们的父亲一样，成为了亲密的朋友。Ellie 和 Larra 曾互相访问对方所在的州，并在华盛顿共度时光。去年，Ellie 提出了写一本书的想法，并邀请 Larra 协作。Larra 立即答应了。利用照顾小孩赚来的钱，Ellie 创建了一个名为 “Voice of Tomorrow Press” 的出版品牌，以支持“想要传递希望与协作信息的年轻作家”。“我们希望在孩子们进入社交媒体之前，在他们经历极端主义、两极分化和虚假信息之前，向他们展示你可以与那些与你不同的人合作，”Ellie 说道。女孩们通过网络众筹找到了他们的插画师 Kiran Akram。书籍销售所得将捐给 Project Night Night，一个旨在帮助无家可归儿童的慈善机构。Gottheimer 表示，家庭之间的亲密关系在父亲之间建立了信任。但这并不等同于达成共识。“在一些基本问题上，比如堕胎，我们的观点会不同，”Gottheimer 说。“这是民主党和共和党之间经常产生分歧的常见问题。”《纽约时报》最近发表了一项调查，详细描述了 Gottheimer 家乡州的一家 ICE 设施中不安全的情况。该国会议员在访问该设施后早前发布了一份声明，承诺将与国土安全部合作，确保条件得到改善。在采访中，Mullin 拒绝就 Gottheimer 的声明发表评论。“我不会谈论其中的分歧，因为这是一次友好地
“……关系，”马林（Mullin）说道。戈特海默（Gottheimer）说：“我们在这里讨论的是我们的狗。”她们的女儿们会追随她们的政治脚步吗？艾莉（Ellie）表示她将“绝对荣幸能从事政治工作”，但拉拉（Larra）则表示她预计将专注于宗教传教工作。她们在一个希望上达成一致：这本书能够激励后代。“我们想做一些能够以一种非常非政治化的方式传达信息的尝试，这就是为什么我们关注狗，”拉拉说。“因为我们认为每个人都爱狗。”
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一部受《NIMH的秘密》、维多利亚时代文学和90年代角色扮演游戏启发而创作的冒险故事。
《镂空者米娜》（MINA THE HOLLOWER）是一款关于一只热爱技术的小鼠的冒险游戏。它在心理和直觉层面提醒了我，为什么我小时候如此热爱这类游戏。它们给想象力留下了游走的空间。尽管米娜的视觉风格向我从未拥有过的 Game Boy 掌机致敬，但它唤起了一个我曾对《塞尔达传说：亚林之传说》（The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past）这类游戏无法抗拒的时代。
这部由制作《铲子骑士》（Shovel Knight）的工作室开发的作品，从《NIMH的秘密》、维多利亚时代文学和 1990 年代角色扮演游戏中汲取灵感。对于一个被过多刺激所轰炸的大脑来说，它可能显得极其古朴。但它追溯到了一个游戏还未追求写实主义，也没有提供适合那些旨在吸引成年观众的电视剧改编剧本的时代。米娜的世界充满奇幻色彩，充满了令人惊喜的游戏机制和隐藏地点，促使我搜寻每个角落以寻找秘密。（试着从店主那里偷一把梯子，以到达原本无法抵达的地方。）
虽然米娜拥有极高的灵活性挑战——这让我的一个朋友曾打趣说 20 世纪的设计师一定很讨厌小孩——但它也包含了一系列显著的选项（如无限生命、走过深坑的能力、削弱 Boss 等），以缓解其默认难度。
《镂空者米娜》的开篇是名为米娜的小鼠站在船甲板上，在血红色的月亮下读一封信。信中请求她修复自己创造的六个火花发生器，这些发生器曾开启了一个工业与进步的时代。由于发生器失修，大量怪物涌入了特内布罗斯岛（Tenebrous Isle）和奥塞克斯市（city of Ossex）。
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再次与他打交道？德普近年来的表演仅限于一些海外小电影，但他已经有了第二部大制作电影：今年 3 月，狮门影业将发行由佩内洛普·克鲁兹共同主演的超自然动作片《白日饮者》（Day Drinker）。据估计，他出演该角色获得了 $10 million。
“我认为他有一条回归之路，尤其是因为好莱坞需要这次回归，”洛杉矶洛约拉-玛丽蒙特大学电影、电视和媒体研究教授米兰达·班克斯（Miranda Banks）表示。“现在极其缺乏能够在全球范围内带动电影票房的一线巨星。”
派拉蒙公司拒绝置评，德普的代表也同样如此。
该制片厂在 4 月开始了对德普的推广活动，当时在面向影院经营者的 CinemaCon 大会上，他们请这位留着胡须的演员登台。德普谦卑地表示，能够饰演斯克鲁奇（Scrooge）是一个“极大的荣幸”，这个角色是他“从小就痴迷的”。与会者给予了他起立鼓掌。
制片厂的公开推广阶段于周四在圣地亚哥举行的年度流行文化爱好者盛会——国际漫画展（Comic-Con International）上开始。派拉蒙的市场人员安排德普身着全套斯克鲁奇服装，配上浓密的鬓角和假鼻子，出现在一个精心还原的 19 世纪伦敦“会计事务所”场景中。
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当一只克拉肯（kraken）突然袭击，将几名乘客撞入海中时，米娜（Mina）跑向甲板下方，寻找一个装有匕首、钉头锤和一把大锤的武器箱。玩家可以在选择一件武器与怪物对决之前，尝试这三种武器。
该游戏的首席程序员大卫·德安杰洛（David D’Angelo）表示，其前提——公民通过获得电力和光照而从发电机中获益——可以被理解为一个寓言。“他们第一次得到了这些惊人的东西，对吧？”他说，“就像每个人，或者很多人，都热爱人工智能一样。与此同时，你也在与随之而来的负面影响作斗争。”
在开场序列中，立即能注意到的是，它没有提供详细的逐步教程来解释按哪个键攻击、哪个键跳跃，或者如何执行米娜的招牌动作：短暂地潜入地下以躲避攻击并挖掘物品。（游戏操作指南和敌人词典可以在菜单中的复古手册中找到。）
在击退克拉肯之后，米娜所在的船撞上了海岸线。从那里开始，米娜必须穿过小妖精、被称为“蜂蝠”（beebats）的飞行兀鹫类生物以及其他麻烦之物。米娜修复火花发电机的旅程将带她穿过一片墓地、一个沼泽、一个秋季的农业村庄、一个矿业小镇、一个高山地区和一个星界平面。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 《中空之米娜》（Mina the Hollower）追溯到了一个游戏还不追求任何写实主义，或不提供适合改编为成人向电视剧剧情的时代。
（在 84 度的酷暑中）在建筑物的屋顶上，穿着狄更斯时代服装的唱诗班唱起了《圣诞树》。德普（Depp）出现在外面，对原版格林奇（Grinch）进行了某种愤世嫉俗却又不失俏皮的演绎。“你是谁，你想干什么？”他对聚集在第五大街（该展会的中心主干道）上的大约 400 人的人群说道。作为回应，好几个人大喊：“我们爱你，强尼！”一名女性尖叫道：“给我生个孩子！”德普厌恶地皱起眉头。“胡闹（Humbug），”他大喊一声，冲回屋内。他玩了这个游戏大约一小时，不时毫无预警地回到街上，与 Comic-Con 的参会者进行言语交锋。有些人打扮成了德普饰演的角色，如爱德华剪刀手、疯帽子和威利·旺卡。（“你怎么小便？”德普饰演的吝啬鬼对那个剪刀手伙计说。）
“抛开争议不谈，我真的很喜欢他，”37 岁的理查德·波尔（Richard Pole）在营销噱头开始时谈到德普时说道，“我绝对想看看这部电影，这在某种程度上是个惊喜，因为单就《圣诞颂歌》本身来说并不令人兴奋。”波尔是一名餐饮厨师，他表示渴望看到德普与电影导演 Ti West 的合作，后者的《X》三部曲恐怖电影以极具视觉冲击力而闻名。
48 岁的芝加哥游说者明迪·贝克（Mindy Baker）就站在附近。“这似乎是德普拍的一部聪明的电影，”她说，“这是一个深受喜爱的故事，而且说实话，起初我甚至没在吝啬鬼的装扮下认出他。”德普与赫德（Heard）离婚及随后的审判所留下的任何不快感，是否会阻止贝克买票？“当我想到他时，所有这些确实会出现在我的潜意识里，但我仍然会去看这部电影，”贝克说。
电影行业咨询公司国家研究小组（National Research Group）的民意调查表明，德普仍然具有强大的吸引力。在该公司 4 月份发布的最新全球影迷调查中，受访者将德普列为让他们“未来最感兴趣去电影院观看新片”的明星第七位。汤姆·克鲁斯、布拉德·皮特和莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥占据了前三名。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 民意调查和粉丝反应表明，这位演员仍处于一线地位。
（在最近的一项调查中，支持率是 18%。） 当《埃比尼泽》（Ebenezer）于 11 月 13, 上映时，这将是自 2009 年吉姆·凯瑞在《迪士尼圣诞颂歌》中饰演 Scrooge 以来，首部面向多厅电影院改编的查尔斯·狄更斯中篇小说。那部 $200 million 动作捕捉电影评价不佳，全球仅收获 $325 million 票房，其中约一半还必须与影院分成。 《埃比尼泽》由鲁伯特·格林特、黛西·里德利和伊恩·麦克莱恩共同主演，在感恩节档期的票房竞争将非常激烈，但它不需要成为超级大片也能获得财务上的成功。在计入拍摄地英国的税收抵免后，该片的制作成本估计仅为 $38 million。德普接受了大幅降低的预付薪金——大约 $5 million ——以换取在电影成功时获得的大额收入分成。
YACHT CLUB GAMES
“我不会说我们是特意在营造怀旧感，”该游戏的导演肖恩·维拉斯科（Sean Velasco）表示，“更像是我们试图回顾并选取所有我们喜爱或认为具有潜力的创意，然后将它们综合成某种全新的东西。” 维拉斯科补充道：“最棒的是，当有人玩了《铲子骑士》，然后他们会说：‘哦，我听说这个游戏是基于一个叫《洛克人》的东西。于是我回去玩了所有的《洛克人》游戏，发现它们太好玩了。’” 达安杰洛（D’Angelo）表示，Yacht Club Games 有意在游戏中消除那些让进入老游戏变得有些困难的摩擦感。达安杰洛说，他们通过提供诸如无需处理 4:3 屏幕比例等便利设施来实现这一点。但为现代观众创造一种类似 Game Boy 的体验并非没有挑战。 “屏幕很小，但世界很大，对吧？”达安杰洛说，“你怎么将两者融合？这在如今看来是一个非常奇怪的概念。” 我提到，大型游戏工作室经常将其作品定位为能与好莱坞抗衡，而《Mina the Hollower》则安于仅作为一个坚实的游戏而存在。在反思像《Mina》这类游戏所擅长的探索感时，维拉斯科表示，这种快乐来自于学习并随后掌握规则。 “你在玩游戏时会想：‘我能做什么？我对这个世界能做什么？’ 游戏的规则通过实验变得清晰，这是只有游戏才能做到的事情，”维拉斯科说，“光是想到这一点我就起鸡皮疙瘩了。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 摄影：SANDY HUFFAKER 为《纽约时报》拍摄
上图，在圣迭戈举行的国际动漫展（Comic-Con International）上，粉丝们簇拥着前来参加活动的强尼·德普。左图，许多人扮演德普饰演的角色。
Mina the Hollower 评测基于 PC 版。该游戏亦可在 PlayStation 5, Switch, Switch 2 及 Xbox Series X | S 上运行。
人工智能音乐 引发争议
技术进步正在开拓创作的可能性，但质量低劣及法律困境依然普遍。
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克吕刻的住所是一座她至高无上的宫殿。在艾米莉·威尔逊 2017 年的译本中（这是首个由女性翻译的英文本），那里是一个“地基高筑，铺满磨光石”的地方，宁芙们为客人端着华丽的布料、金杯和银碗，野生动物像宠物一样在她周围讨好。在最经久不衰的故事中，她是一个令人难忘的存在，一个与英雄一样狡黠且知识更丰富的角色。而最新的这次塑造，感觉是对文学史上最早期的权力掌握在手且性自主的女性形象之一的一种极其令人心灰意冷的抹杀。
许多译本将克吕刻描述为一名通过药水和挥动魔杖来完成变形的女神；这与现在屏幕上展现的恐怖、折磨人的过程大相径庭。当男人贪婪地享用她提供的食物时，她像揉面团一样拉伸并塑造他们的头部，将手伸进他们的嘴里，将他们的脸塑造成猪鼻子。这令人惊恐，而且电影似乎将其定格为无理取闹，仿佛一个独居女性，在被一群我们在另一座城市中见过抢劫杀人的士兵拦截时，竟然不可能感到受到威胁。
这个克吕刻显得残酷且疯狂。在荷马的叙述中，奥德修斯如此迷恋她，以至于她成了一种替代妻子。在故事中，当奥德修斯……
作者：本·西萨里奥 (BEN SISARIO)
这可能是自流媒体兴起以来音乐领域最具有前景的新技术，具有彻底改变歌曲创作、聆听和推广方式的潜力。但同时也存在严重的疑问。如何保护艺术家及其版权？这些系统最终是否会让我们被大量平庸的垃圾内容淹没？
欢迎来到音乐人工智能的世界。它为创作歌曲和连接艺术家与粉丝提供了令人眼花缭n的可能——但同时也让音乐行业动荡不安，因为人工智能公司正试图研究如何合法且盈利地构建和使用该技术，而艺术家和唱片公司则在寻求保护他们的权利。
随着音乐行业进入一个充满未知可能性和法律复杂性的新时代，以下是一些基本的问题和担忧。
我可以利用人工智能制作音乐吗？ 当然可以。完全的门外汉只需输入几个简单的提示词，即可按需创建全新的歌曲：例如，为爷爷制作一首乡村风格的生日曲目，或者为幻灯片制作一段背景音乐。
第一步是什么？ 为了进行最简单的演示，请打开 Suno 或 Udio（该领域两家领先的初创公司），或者 Google 的产品 Lyria 3，并输入一些音乐术语。 你的提示词越具体，结果就越有趣。我要求 Suno 创作一首关于喝玛格丽塔酒的夏季歌曲。 在一两分钟内，它生成了《沙滩上的玛格丽塔》(Margaritas in the Sand)，这是一首带有合唱部分的 EDM 热曲。不过，像 “party with the band” 和 “put one in my hand” 这样的押韵，表明这项技术目前还构不成对鲍勃·迪伦的威胁。 随后我对其进行了混音，要求一个管弦乐版本和一个波尔卡变体。 这些都是“生成式人工智能”的例子，即系统完全通过数字素材创造出一首完整的歌曲。（这些系统如何获得生成此类曲目的能力可能是一个有争议的问题。见下文。）
音乐家和词曲作者也在使用人工智能吗？ 是的，如今在录音室里的音乐家经常使用各种机器学习工具来帮助完善低音线条，甚至选择乐器音色。一个名为 Tamber 的系统使用其所谓的“声音智能”，根据艺术家的手势或口头提示（甚至是抽象的提示）来寻找或调整声音：例如，一个听起来像巧克力味道的合成器。 对于一个独立创作而无需雇佣整个乐队的人来说，这是一个得力的助手——或者说，或许无需经过多年的练习。
如果我想用人工智能来尝试改编我最喜欢的一首歌会怎样？ 粉丝们可能很快就能在 Spotify 或其他平台上对艺术家的官方曲目进行混音。也许删掉你一直不喜欢的主歌，加入你认为必不可少的萨克斯风，甚至可能得到艺术家本人的认可。
这听起来很酷，但在法律上很复杂。 真的吗？ 的确如此。艺术家们有一天可能会同意让人们对自己的作品进行尝试，因为这会开辟新的收入来源和观众互动途径——或者仅仅是为了在最新的高科技形式中占据优势。但这并非一个简单的决定。允许一个与你价值观不合的人，或者为了满足某个政治候选人的需求而对你的歌曲进行混音，即使能拿到报酬，对艺术家来说也可能是令人沮丧的。
版权法在其中扮演什么角色？ 你确定想知道吗？ 在涉及人工智能和音乐时，许多被认为合法（或不合法）的行为正是在几起诉讼中被激烈争论的。例如，人工智能公司通过使用受版权保护的音乐来“训练”（或教导）其系统，是否侵犯了音乐家的权利？ 当人工智能创作的东西模仿特定艺术家的个人风格或声音时，也可能会出现法律问题。这可能涉及版权以及所谓的“公开权”（rights of publicity），后者旨在保护个人的姓名、形象和肖像不被未经授权地用于商业用途。 当我要求 Suno 创作一首“尼尔·杨风格的 20 世纪 70 年代民谣摇滚情歌”时，弹出一条消息说：“我们不直接引用艺术家，因此我们将您的提示词替换为您可能喜欢的相似风格。” 结果产生的曲调在我听来有点平庸。
如果艺术家们点头同意呢？ 最新的交易将测试当艺术家允许将其音乐放入人工智能“沙盒”时，粉丝们能做些什么。 例如，旗下曲库包含麦当娜、布鲁诺·马尔斯以及尼尔·杨等明星歌曲的华纳音乐（Warner Music）与 Suno 达成了一项协议，允许该服务在艺术家选择加入（opt in）的情况下使用特定艺术家的音乐。因为“为我妻子创作一首麦当娜风格的生日歌”可能比“一首 80 年代合成器流行歌”有趣得多。至于究竟谁已经或将会选择加入，目前尚不清楚。
我对我的 AI 创作能做什么？ 业界仍在纠结是允许用户下载其 AI 生成的曲目并上传到任何地方，还是将其限制在生成这些曲目的程序的“围墙花园”中。
MAYA PHILLIPS 评论员笔记本
人工智能音乐世界难道不充斥着骗局吗？ 真正的音乐家和好奇的业余爱好者有很多正当的人工智能使用场景，但是的，骗局和欺诈确实是一个问题。 法国流媒体服务 Deezer 最近表示，每天约有 90,000 首 AI 生成的曲目被上传到其平台——其中大部分是没人听的低质量垃圾内容。 Deezer 表示，在少数获得点击的曲目中，高达 85 ％ 是欺诈性的。 骗子的套路是：创作 AI 歌曲，然后派出机器人大军对其进行点击以产生版税。在流媒体使用的资金池机制下，在线平台向提供内容的公司支付比例费用，这意味着支付给伪造创作者的所有费用都会减少留给真正艺术家的份额。 抓捕这些欺诈者是一场持久的猫鼠游戏。 最近，包括格莱美奖在内的音乐行业团体已呼吁建立一套标注系统，以识别使用生成式 AI 制作的音乐。
艺术家的看法如何？ 他们的意见并不统一。一些人，比如明星制作人 Timbaland 和表演者 Grimes，对这项技术表示欢迎，并表明了愿意尝试的意愿。
Timbaland 最近推出了一位名为 TaTa Taktumi 的虚拟艺术家，其在歌曲《Glitch x Pulse》中的人声部分由 A.I. 软件生成。不过，Timbaland 在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示，这首歌有 80 到 85 是由人类创作的。
但更多的人表达了强烈的担忧，认为音乐中的生成式 A.I. 将削弱人类的工作，并稀释他们在流媒体版税中的份额。两年前，包括 Billie Eilish、Norah Jones 和 Stevie Wonder 在内的 200 多位知名艺人签署了一封来自艺术家权利联盟（Artists Rights Alliance）的公开信，称 A.I. 的“不受控制”的使用是对“人类创造力的攻击”。
当他前往刻耳刻（Circe）的家营救部下时，他使用了神赐予他的解药，用剑威胁她，随后与她共寝。荷马注意到，当刻耳刻将奥德修斯（Odysseus）的士兵变回原形时，他们比以前更加英俊，身上涂满了油，穿着精美的衣服。奥德修斯和他的部下与刻耳刻及其宁芙女仆一起度过了幸福的一年，正如威尔逊（Wilson）在她的译本中所写：“然后每天 / 整整一年 / 我们在那里享用肉食 / 以及甜美浓烈的葡萄酒。”事实上，在这一年的悠闲生活之后，是奥德修斯的部下们提出应该启程返回伊萨卡（Ithaca）；直到那时，奥德修斯才似乎意识到他们应该离开这个舒适的度假地和现在如此热情款待的主人。
当然，每一次改编都对她有自己的诠释。这种情况可以追溯到数千年前，早期的古典作家如奥维德（Ovid）和赫西俄德（Hesiod）便是如此。在某些版本中，刻耳刻为奥德修斯生下了孩子；在其他版本中，她则是一个偏执、复仇的掠食者。像麦德琳·米勒（Madeline Miller）这样的当代作家重新定义了这个角色，使其不再仅仅是奥德修斯旅途中一段短暂的插曲，并塑造了一个更令人同情、更丰满的版本。
多年来，人们根据当时的文化背景和性别政治，对刻耳刻将奥德修斯的部下变为畜生的情节进行了多种解读：将其视为对礼仪和社会行为的评论，将其视为对男性天生兽性的哲学批判，或者将其视为一种厌女的警戒……
A.I. 是否威胁到音乐家的生计？ 尚待确定。但一些行业组织已经警告说，词曲作者、录音室工作人员和其他幕后工作者可能面临巨大的潜在损失。A.I. 还可能对那些不依赖特定表演者个性的音乐流派构成特殊威胁，例如电影原声带和背景氛围音乐——这两个领域都是该行业利润丰厚的角落。
肯定还有更多的法律复杂问题吧？ 当然。毕竟这是音乐产业，而且涉及新技术。
一个主要的战场在于，A.I. 公司是否通过使用唱片公司的版权内容来训练其系统学习如何创作音乐——如果属实，他们是否需要获得许可才能这样做。
2024, 年，各大唱片公司就此起诉了 Suno 和 Udio，而这些公司回应称，他们受到“合理使用”法律原则的保护，该原则允许在有限的情况下在未获许可的情况下使用受版权保护的材料。
谷歌（Google）在因 Lyria 3 遭到一组独立音乐家起诉后，提出了另一种辩护：通过将音乐上传到 YouTube 并同意该站点的服务条款，用户已经赋予了谷歌相关许可。该案件目前正在审理中。
真的有人想听 A.I. 音乐吗？ 这也许是所有问题中最大的一个。 对于大多数人来说，与真实的人类艺术家的联系或许是粉丝文化中最至关重要的方面。我们不仅热爱歌曲，还热爱艺术家的故事——他们的背景、他们的爱，以及他们生活中的起起伏伏。计算机生成的音乐能取代这些吗？ 到目前为止，像泰勒·斯威夫特（Taylor Swift）和碧昂丝（Beyoncé）这样的全球巨星似乎还很安全。在乡村和 R&B 等流派中引起关注的少数 A.I. “艺术家”更多被视为奇闻异事。但时间会给出答案，而且技术正在迅速进化。
关于一个性解放女性的故事。 人们通常可以通过瑟瑟（Circe）的刻画方式，来判断一个《奥德赛》改编版本的政治立场和视角。 那么，诺兰（Nolan）那个阴郁且简洁的讲述方式又说明了什么？在这部具有宏大格局、明星光环和视觉吸引力的电影中，瑟瑟的形象揭示了诺兰的《奥德赛》最终是如何将这部史诗简单化处理的，将其简化为导演最舒适的表达方式：奥德修斯是一个被其才华之重所压垮的男人。瑟瑟是他必须克服的障碍，就像电影中的其他女性一样，她们都扮演着非常特定的角色，以完善这位英雄的胜利之歌。卡吕普索（Calypso）的作用是困住奥德修斯，雅典娜（Athena）的作用则是充当他（大多时候是沉默的）良知。海伦（Helen）和克吕泰Мне斯特拉（Clytemnestra）仅仅是奥德修斯旅途边缘的不忠女性。而奥德修斯忠诚的妻子佩涅洛佩（Penelope）虽然没有太多实际行动，但获得了一段关于她作为女王之自主权的坚定演说，以此将其塑造为一个更现代、更有力量的英雄之妻。这些塑造都并不令人满意，但没有哪个比将瑟瑟对待成邪恶女巫那样令人感到轻视的了。 归根结底，这是一个关于男性伟大的故事。即使在奥德修斯备受质疑的时刻，人们也绝不会怀疑他仍然是那位高尚的战士、光荣的领导者。至于那些女性——情人们、背叛者、女神，当然还有女巫——她们不过是英雄铠甲上的装饰品。
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作者：ROSLYN SULCAS 一家新博物馆揭秘了英国如何在一个伦敦庄园内窃听纳粹指挥官。
（从右侧附近起顺时针方向）：复刻的“秘密监听者”地下室中带有录音设备的模特；储藏室里摆放着当时代的罐装主食；关于这项行动的沉默在战争结束很久之后依然持续。
伦敦 —— 德国将军们正畅快地聊天，交流着关于 V-2 火箭的碎片信息，那是纳粹当时正在研发的世界首枚远程弹道导弹。那是 1943, 年 5 月，这些在北非被俘的战俘士兵们居住在特伦特公园（Trent Park），这是一座位于此地郊区的宏伟乡村别墅。位于北伦敦的特伦特公园曾是富有的政治家及名社交之主菲利普·萨逊（Philip Sassoon）的住宅，囚犯们在这座坐落在 400 英亩公园绿地中的大厦里享受着安逸的生活。他们穿着制服，保留了随之被俘的男仆，在森林中散步，在图书馆阅读，玩台球和纸牌，并采摘蘑菇。他们不知道的是，他们正处于一项大胆、不可思议且极其成功的信息提取策略之中，而这项策略在盟军赢得第二次世界大战的胜利中发挥了重要作用。
由于感受到对方对其地位的表面尊重而陷入自满，这些高级军事指挥官完全没有意识到自己实际上身处一个舞台布景之中，就像是一场“楚门的世界”，他们的接触是经过设计的，而他们的对话则通过隐藏在灯具、烟囱、花盆、树木和雕像中的复杂麦克风网络被实时监控。这些麦克风通过电线连接到大厦宏伟接待室下方的一个秘密地下掩体，那里的“监听者” —— 主要是德国犹太难民 —— 为英国军事情报部门记录并转录对话。（关于 V-2 的信息交流直接导致了盟军对德国佩内明德的轰炸，纳粹当时正在那里制造火箭。）
特伦特公园的行动直到 1996, 年才解密，直到现在，这段战争历史在公众中的知名度依然很低。但上周，“特伦特公园秘密之屋”（Trent Park House of Secrets）作为一家博物馆开幕，向人们展示了楼上优雅生活的世界以及楼下低调、秘密工作的世界。“每个人都知道布莱切利园（Bletchley Park），”博物馆馆长朱塞佩·阿尔巴诺（Giuseppe Albano）在提到英国著名的二战密码破译总部时说道，“但特伦特府是同样的情报屋网络的一部分，且同样重要。”
自 18 世纪末起，这座房屋就立在特伦特公园内，这里曾是乔治三世国王庄园的一部分；但将其改造为 20 世纪 20 年代迷人度假胜地的，是来自伊拉克犹太商人富豪家族后裔的萨逊。他改变了立面，扩建并开放了房屋，
（上图：位于北伦敦的乡村住宅特伦特公园，成为了从二战期间被俘德国军官中提取信息的胆大策略的一部分；左上图：一名导游站在客厅书架隐藏门后的场景。）
并增加了一个游泳池、网球场、马球场、高尔夫球场和一个起飞跑道。在那里，他款待了政治家、演员、作家和皇室成员，包括温斯顿·丘吉尔、查理·卓别林、诺埃尔·考沃德、乔治·萧伯纳和T.E. 劳伦斯；一名客人在描述这种款待时称其规模为“东方规模”。
“整座房子就是一个骗局，一座为了看起来像乔治亚时期的绅士府邸而重建的维多利亚式房屋，”萨逊传记作者达米安·柯林斯（Damian Collins）说道。“这座房子始终是一场表演和一场幻想，而萨逊就像一名舞台导演，调度着角色。”
萨逊于 1939 年 6 月去世，享年 50 岁，此后这座房子变成了另一种舞台布景，换上了不同的角色阵容。房子被英国战争部征用，由托马斯·肯德里克（Thomas Kendrick）中校监管，内部安装了伪装墙板和天花板、秘密麦克风和录音设备，所有线路都通向地下房间。在那里，监听员们两人一组，日以继夜地进行 10 或 12 小时的轮班工作。大约 40 名监听员从 84 名将军和 22 名上校那里搜集情报，其中大多数是在北非被俘，部分是在后来的法国被俘。事实证明，这具有巨大的意义，为盟军提供了关于纳粹战争机器、新型战争技术、秘密武器计划和作战计划的信息，而这些信息通过传统的审讯手段是永远无法获得的。
此外，这里还有关于大屠杀的大量证据，但为了保持其策略秘密，英国情报部门不允许在战后的战争罪行审判中使用这些录音。
特伦特公园（Trent Park）在冲突中所起到的关键作用直到很晚才被认可。在 20 世纪 50 年代，这座房子成了一所教师培训学院，后来成为米德尔塞克斯大学（Middlesex University）的一部分。 2013 年，这座被忽视的庄园被卖给了一家马来西亚高等教育机构，而该公司不久后便宣布破产。
杰森·查拉兰布斯（Jason Charalambous）是一名律师，他于 2014 年刚刚当选为该地区的区议员。他在视察这片荒芜的场地时看到了被围起来的房子。“我读了一段简短的历史，我认为必须采取行动，”他在博物馆咖啡馆接受采访时说道。“我怎么可能竟然对此一无所知？”
查拉兰布斯发起了一场“拯救特伦特公园”运动，组建了一支团队，成员包括《墙有耳》（The Walls Have Ears）的作者海伦·弗莱（Helen Fry）以及最后几位幸存的监听员之一弗里茨·卢斯蒂格（Fritz Lustig）。他还接触了戴维·乔蒙德利（David Cholmondeley），即乔蒙德利侯爵，也是菲利普·萨逊的曾侄孙。他在第一次公开会议上带来了一本相册和一些剪报。（乔蒙德利说，他记得伊丽莎白二世女王曾告诉他，她小时候在特伦特公园的湖边喂过企鹅。）
2015 年，该庄园被卖给了一家开发商，但在广泛的游说后，该团体
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双方同意博物馆可以占用该房屋的地下室和地面层。在规划正式开始十年后，这座新博物馆细致地还原了萨逊时代奢华的接待室，以及监听员们艰苦的地下生存实境。
在楼上，将领们使用的宏伟沙龙里装饰着萨逊的卷轴首字母缩写，摆放着豪华沙发和一排排皮革装订的书籍。“我们得到了 1931 年一篇《乡村生活》（Country Life）文章中精彩照片的帮助，以及乔蒙德利勋爵的帮助，他找到了一些原有的家具，”展览设计师兼策展人托里·里夫（Tori Reeve）说道。
在楼下狭小的空间里，一个戴着耳机的人体模型坐在监听设备和录制仪器前。当时时期的罐装主食（咖啡、茶、盐）整齐地摆在储藏室的架子上。“草稿室”（用于打字、翻译和复制手稿的地方）以及一个餐厅已被忠实地重建。
“在反犹主义和反难民情绪上升的今天，意识到监听员们所做的牺牲至关重要，”查兰博斯（Charalambous）说。“那些犹太德国难民在祖国发生之事的阴影下，从事着如此有价值的工作，而且不能告诉任何人。”
他笑了笑。“这次行动的疯狂程度简直令人难以置信，”他说。“而他们竟然成功了。”
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布罗德研究所（Broad Institute）的大卫·刘（David Liu）每周都会雷打不动地收到至少 20 条来自绝望父母的消息。他们会解释，他们的孩子患有一种由突变基因引起的极其罕见且具有毁灭性的疾病。他能帮他们开发一种基因疗法吗？
刘博士是马萨诸塞州剑桥市布罗德研究所的一名基因编辑研究员，他的回答很诚实：虽然科学上可行——研究人员可以相对容易地编辑和沉默致病基因——但开发罕见病治疗方案的体系在经济上根本不可行。这通常需要数年时间并花费数百万美元。
波士顿儿童医院的温迪·钟（Wendy Chung）博士说，一个概括性的说法是“太罕见而无需关心”。
现在，刘博士、钟博士以及他们在布罗德研究所、波士顿儿童医院和杰克逊实验室（Jackson Laboratory）的同事们希望能改变这种心态。上周，他们宣布成立一个新的非营利组织——治疗遗传学中心（Center for Therapeutic Genetics），旨在开发可以在一种又一种疾病中被使用和重复使用的基因疗法治疗方案。
该中心开发的治疗方案将被视为类似于常规手术而非药物。在每种病例中，唯一需要更改的是针对
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在不可剥夺的场所 致所有呼吸氦气者：LHS 1140b 已铺好欢迎地毯
几个关键特征使得一颗行星适合生命生存，至少是地球人所认知的生命。它应当是岩石质的，温度需适宜液态水的存在，并且拥有大气层。现在天文学家表示，他们发现了一个同时具备这三个特征的世界。 “到目前为止，我们完全没有证据表明该行星上存在生命，”行星科学家柯林·切鲁比姆（Collin Cherubim）说道，“但我们认为所有真正重要且核心的要素都在那里。” 这颗名为 LHS 1140b 的岩石行星距离我们的太阳系几十光年。它绕一颗恒星运行，处于所谓的“宜居带”距离内，温度既不过热也不过冷，足以让液态水存在于行星表面。这颗系外行星比地球冷，但在尺寸和质量上都比地球大。（上方为 LHS 的插图）
为什么这只巴克曼麻雀 决定改变它的曲调
在南佛罗里达州的平原林地中，微小的鸟类从灌木丛中钻出，在松树枝头鸣唱。在人类听来，它们的歌声几乎一模一样，但任何一个特定的种群——巴克曼麻雀（Bachman’s sparrows）——都会使用多达 120 种不同的鸣唱类型来进行交流。与人类语言一样，鸟鸣是动态的。每一代鸟类都会在哪些歌曲继续唱、哪些需要改进以及哪些完全舍弃之间做出选择。一只单独的巴克曼麻雀可能仅学习其群体所使用的 48 首歌曲，几十年来，研究人员一直试图弄清楚幼鸟是如何选择采用哪些歌曲的。之前的研究侧重于社会和文化因素。在发育的鸣唱学习阶段，年轻的鸣禽会模仿群体中求偶成功或羽毛装饰华丽的成年雄鸟。现在，一项关于巴克曼麻雀的新研究揭示了方程式中另一个可能的组成部分：物理环境。树木、茂密的灌木甚至风，都可能散射或阻挡某些声波的传播，研究人员怀疑幼鸟不太可能捕捉到被劣化的鸣唱，从而导致某些歌曲变得比其他歌曲更罕见。 “较为罕见的鸣唱类型在距离上的传播效果不如常见的鸣唱，”佛罗里达大西洋大学的行为生态学家、该研究作者之一林迪·安德森（Rindy Anderson）说道。这项研究发表在《生物声学》（Bioacoustics）杂志上。所有巴克曼麻雀的鸣唱类型都具有相似的形式，即在嗡嗡声或口哨声后接一段颤音。有些颤音比其他颤音快或慢，有些复杂的歌曲包含几种频率的颤音。研究人员记录了各种罕见和常见的麻雀鸣唱，然后在不同的环境中重新播放并记录——包括茂密的树林、多风的平原以及其他巴克曼麻雀经常出没但可能会扭曲音频信号的地方。在这些条件下，研究人员发现罕见歌曲的传播效果不如常见歌曲。K. R. CALLAWAY
1140b，以及另一颗在远处绕该恒星运行的行星。) 新数据强烈表明，LHS 1140b 拥有一个富氦的大气层。这项发表在《科学》（Science）杂志上的探测结果，是首次明确证实一颗潜在宜居行星拥有大气层，并进一步增强了这样一种观点：即存在着一群与我们的世界相似、具备维持生命所需特性的星球。“在系外行星中，只要有一个，就会有更多，”未参与该项研究的天体物理学家萨拉·西格尔（Sara Seager）表示，“希望这是一个新开端。” 大气层对于宜居性至关重要，因为它能帮助行星保留水分，调节气候，并保护表面免受太空辐射的影响。 卡特里娜·米勒（KATRINA MILLER）
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本月初，一艘日本无人航天器以 11,000 英里每小时的速度疾速掠过一颗名为 Torifune 的小行星。当它冲到距离其表面 2,600 英尺的地方时（以太空尺度衡量，这极其接近），它拍摄了一张照片（如上图所示）。在此之前，人们对 Torifune 知之甚少，只知道它是太阳系中一颗令人好奇的疾速飞行的微尘。 结果证明，它不是一颗微尘，而是两颗：Torifune 是一对以一种不协调方式粘在一起的小行星。 “是的，这很奇怪，”马里兰州劳雷尔市约翰霍普金斯应用物理实验室的行星科学家兼行星防御研究员安迪·里夫金（Andy Rivkin）说道。 小行星在太空中以极高速度移动，因此在极少数相遇的情况下，它们通常会发生灾难性的破碎。Torifune 被称为“接触双星”（contact binary），这意味着这对小行星以一种令人惊讶的缓慢且非暴力的方式靠近，以至于它们粘在了一起。 接触双星曾被认为极其罕见，但近年来，天文学家在我们的太阳系中发现了好几对。2019, 年，当美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的行星际航天器“新视野号”（New Horizons）冒险飞向海王星以外时，它捕捉到了一个名为 Arrokoth 的红色雪球状天体的图像。而在 2023, 年，当“露西号”（Lucy）航天器在火星和木星之间的小行星带航行时，它发现 Dinkinesh 小行星有一块较小的空间岩石在绕其运行。这颗名为 Selam 的“卫星”其实是两颗挤在一起的小行星。 罗宾·乔治·安德鲁斯（ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS）
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PAULA SPAN 老年科急诊室如何 产生影响
专业部门正帮助 老年患者减少住院次数并降低成本。
那是艰难的几个月。辛西娅·汤普金斯（Cynthia Tompkins）在五月因骨髓炎（一种骨骼感染）住院，随后在一家康复机构住了六周。“那是一场斗争，”她说，“我恢复得不是太好。”汤普金斯女士回到了她在圣迭戈的家中，但她仍在服用抗生素，以及一系列治疗糖尿病、疼痛和血栓的其他药物。去年丈夫的去世以及近期最亲密朋友的离世耗尽了她的精神。七月初，出现了一个新症状：在约 24 小时内剧烈呕吐了三次。“我太虚弱了，”她说，“我变得越来越弱。”一名来看望她的朋友打了救护车。“急诊室是你最不想去的地方，” 75 岁的汤普金斯女士说道，她是一名退休教师和家庭项目主管。她预料到自己将在阴冷走廊里不舒服的担架上度过数小时。清晨抵达位于拉霍亚（La Jolla）的加州大学圣迭戈健康中心（U.C. San Diego Health）急诊部门时，“我紧张得不行，”她说。但这里颠覆了汤普金斯女士的预期。自 2022 年起，这家以及圣迭戈的所有其他成人急诊室都获得了老年科急诊部门的认证，旨在重新设计以应对老年患者的特定风险和需求。最近的研究表明，这种方法可以减少老年人的住院率和死亡率，并降低成本。“他们直接把我带进了一个房间，”汤普金斯女士说。她被转移到一张带有更厚床垫的担架上以防止褥疮，并得到了毯子。“我立刻接了静脉注射，因为我需要补充液体，”她说。她很高兴这个带帘子的小房间配备了吸音墙以降低急诊护理的嘈杂声，并为陪在她身边的朋友提供了一把软垫椅，还有一个可以看到树木的窗户。窗户同样具有医疗目的。负责汤普金斯女士的老年科急诊护士丹妮丝·瓦伦祖埃拉（Denise Valenzuela）说，患者“可以看到现在是白天还是黑夜”。“这能预防谵妄，”即住院老年患者可能出现的一种精神状态突然改变，并增加痴呆风险。没过多久，“我就感到一种平静，”汤普金斯女士说，“我觉得，我就在需要（的地方）”
为了更好地了解人们的食物选择，科学家们正从废水中搜集数据。
作者：SIMAR BAJAJ
饮食是影响健康最重要的因素之一，但对于研究人员来说，搞清楚人们具体吃什么竟出奇地困难。斯坦福大学的营养学家克里斯托弗·加德纳（Christopher Gardner）表示，研究人员通常使用的工具，如食物频率问卷或要求人们回忆前一天吃过什么，既繁琐又昂贵。此类方法依赖于人们的坦诚和准确；而人们在几天后会忘记大约 15 到 20 比率的饮食内容。加德纳博士说，这就是为什么营养研究如此困难，以及为什么最可靠的证据来自小型代谢舱研究的原因。在这些研究中，研究人员基本上是“监禁某人”，他补充道：“他们不能离开。你为他们烹饪食物，从门缝下推进去，你就能知道他们是否吃完了。”
但一项发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》（Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences）上的新研究指出，下水道中蕴藏着大量的营养数据。研究人员利用北卡罗来纳州的废水，寻找在消化过程中幸存的食物 DNA 痕迹。每人的成本不到一美分，他们就识别出了数百种被摄入的食物——如巧克力、生菜、火鸡、蓝莓、黑胡椒——甚至能推断出一个社区的社会经济概况。
在新冠疫情期间，废水监测成为了公共卫生领域一个熟悉的工具，帮助城市在无需检测每位居民的情况下追踪病毒激增情况。但科学家们正越来越多地利用同样的基建来衡量非法药物使用、抗生素耐药性、压力激素以及现在的饮食情况。凭借这些数据，研究人员可以评估一个社区的营养需求是否得到满足，以及诸如削减食品券等政策变化如何近乎实时地改变饮食行为。
但这项技术也引发了关于隐私、监视以及潜在商业化风险的棘手问题。杜克大学微生物学家、该新研究的高级作者劳伦斯·戴维（Lawrence David）在提到全球人口时说：“每天，80 亿人大约在进行三次饮食实验，而这些数据都没有被记录下来。”戴维博士表示，人们摄入的大部分食物在消化过程中被分解，但仍有极小部分被排出，留下了数百万个研究人员可以分析的碎片。在新研究中，研究人员检查了来自 2.1 million 人的废水样本
to be right now”。自 2017, 年以来，美国急诊医师学会（American College of Emergency Physicians）已在全美认证了 624 个此类老年急诊科，其中包括退伍军人事务部（Veterans Affairs）医疗中心的 73 个。领导老年急诊科协作组织（Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative）的急诊医生凯文·比斯（Kevin Biese）博士表示：“这是一个相当指数级的增长率。”
这些单元很少仅限于老年患者。相反，就像拉霍亚（La Jolla）的急诊室一样，它们服务于所有年龄段的人，但在旨在防止定向障碍、跌倒和其他老年风险的环境中，采用了对老年人友好的实践和方案。它们被分为从 Level 1,（满足最高数量标准的部门）到 Level 3. 75 岁及以上成年人就诊急诊室的频率高于除婴儿外的任何其他年龄组：2022. 年每 100 人就诊 76 次。然而，标准的急诊护理“并未正确
“是为了满足老年人的需求而设计的，”Biese 博士说。传统急诊室的任务是迅速确定核心问题，然后要么将其解决，要么将患者收治入院进行持续治疗。“我们会问：‘您最主要的不适在哪里？’”Biese 博士说，“比如您从楼梯上摔下来摔断了腿。”然而，老年患者很少只带着一种病症就诊。像 Tompkins 女士一样，大多数人面临多种慢性病，服用多种药物，并需要各种各样的检查和评估。经过培训的老年急诊团队不仅关注断腿，还关注确定导致跌倒的原因，以及如何防止再次发生。
“急诊科通常不会筛查谵妄”和认知功能障碍，纽约大学朗格尼医学中心（NYU Langone Health）的急诊医生兼研究员 Ula Hwang 博士表示，“但这是老年急诊科会做的首要工作之一”，同时还会仔细审查患者的所有药物。老年急诊室还试图通过分发老花镜和扩音设备来应对感官受损——这是导致谵妄的另一个因素。他们会调暗灯光，并提供眼罩和耳塞以促进睡眠。如果 Tompkins 女士忘记带助行器，该单元会借给她一个。这些急诊室还旨在解决急诊科日益严重的一个问题：患者在被收治后，为了等待可用床位而不得不花几个小时甚至几天时间在急诊室“滞留”（boarding）。“老年人长时间滞留的情况有所增加，”耶鲁大学医学院的急诊医生兼研究员 Cameron Gettell 博士在提到
美国急诊医师学会（The American College of Emergency Physicians）自 2017 年以来已认证了 624 个此类部门。
在北卡罗来纳州，涵盖了该州约五分之一的人口。这些样本是在疫情早期收集并浓缩的，其中一些保存在实验室的冷冻柜中。北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的环境微生物学家、该研究的另一位资深作者 Rachel Noble 说道。
在解冻这些废水浓缩物后，研究人员对其内部的食物 DNA 进行了测序，寻找来自动物线粒体和植物叶绿体（光合作用背后的细胞机制）的遗传物质。他们发现饮食模式因社区而异：黑眼豆与农村地区相关，啤酒成分与富裕程度相关，芒果和椰子则与大量移民人口相关。
然而，测序是有局限性的，因为某些食物留下的 DNA 信号比其他食物更强。例如，弗吉尼亚理工大学领导这项研究的食品科学家 Dong Mengyi 表示，叶类蔬菜包含的叶绿体比土豆多，而精制糖中包含的原始来源（甘蔗或甜菜）的 DNA 极少。此外，很难区分单一食物的多种工业后续形态——例如玉米糖浆、玉米片或玉米棒。
这就是为什么一些研究人员在采取不同的方法，寻找饮食的化学特征，如纤维化合物、维生素痕迹以及其他消化和代谢的副产物。例如，通过[此处原文中断]而非通过啤酒花来评估啤酒摄入量。
等待时间超过三小时。他也是发表在《健康事务学者》（Health Affairs Scholar）上的一项相关研究的共同作者。
增加候诊时间不仅仅是感到不舒服或不便。研究人员调查了法国各急诊室中 75 岁及以上年龄的患者。
他们发现，在转入住院病房前被留在急诊室过夜的患者，其院内死亡率（15.7%）高于在午夜前即被收住院的患者（11.1%）。过夜候诊还与更多的跌倒和感染相关。
然而，老年急诊工作人员更希望帮助患者完全避免住院。黄博士说：“住院对于老年人来说可能并不是最好的选择，甚至可能是最糟糕的选择。”
她说，住院患者会接触到感染、工作人员的失误，以及卧床数日导致的快速机能衰退。所有这些对老年患者都构成了更大的威胁。
之前的研究发现，老年急诊科的入院率有所降低，但大多数此类研究仅涉及一两家医院。现在，黄博士及其团队使用了来自联邦“健康与退休研究”以及近 4,600 名 65 岁以上成年人的联邦医疗保险（Medicare）理赔数据的全国性数据，将老年急诊科治疗的患者与在标准急诊室就诊的匹配组进行了比较。
结果差异显著：老年病单元的患者住院可能性降低了 39%，30 天死亡率降低了 38%。
根据黄博士领导的一项早期研究，老年急诊室每次就诊还能为联邦医疗保险节省约 $3,000。
因此，比斯博士表示，在全国拥有 600 多个认证老年急诊科的同时，这也代表了巨大的进步，而且——在一个拥有 5,000 多个急诊室的国家里——也意味着错失的机会。
他补充道：“我想鼓励人们去询问为什么他们的医院没有认证的老年急诊科（G.E.D.）。我们应该对此提出要求。”
在拉霍亚（La Jolla），汤普金斯女士开始感觉体力恢复。静脉输液提供了止吐药物，并纠正了实验室检查显示的电解质异常。她能够啜饮水和果汁，并吃了一些全麦饼干。
一系列其他筛查和扫描未发现严重问题。在完成老年评估后，护士瓦伦祖埃拉怀疑汤普金斯女士一直饮食不佳，且大多在空腹状态下服用药物。
大约下午 6 点，汤普金斯女士及其医生同意她可以回家。她在离开医院时拿到了寻求进一步帮助的联系电话，几名工作人员随后通过电话询问她的情况。
她的回答是：好多了。“他们照顾了我的整体状况并让我走上了正轨，”汤普金斯女士说，“我在好转。虽然缓慢，但我没问题。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 研究人员检查地下废水，以寻找在消化过程中幸存的食物 DNA 痕迹。随后他们能够辨别人们消费了什么，甚至推断出社区的社会经济概况。
混乱的来源提供了信息，但存在棘手的担忧。
DILLON DEATON/SCHMIDT SCIENCES
大麦，研究人员分析了乙基硫酸盐，这是一种当人体分解酒精并随尿液排出时形成的一种化学物质。南卡罗来纳大学环境健康科学教授德文·鲍斯（Devin Bowes）表示，虽然这种方法无法精确指出特定的食物，但它可以针对影响健康的特定营养素和毒素提供有益的观察结果。
鲍斯博士说，权衡之处在于这种方法相当耗费人力，而且需要进行一些“侦查工作”来确定哪些化学物质是有意义且可测量的。
无论研究人员追踪哪些信号，污水仍然是一个混乱的数据源。诺布尔（Noble）博士表示，当食物DNA或化学物质进入管道时，部分内容会发生降解或被截留，尤其是在使用赤陶土或混凝土管道的旧下水道系统中。圣母大学的环境工程师凯尔·比比（Kyle Bibby）表示，废水携带的不仅是人类粪便：牲畜粪便、餐厅残渣和落叶都会模糊信号。
诺布尔博士说，研究人员试图通过“尽可能快”地处理样本来限制降解，从而降低此类噪声的影响。他们还排除了人们不食用植物和动物的DNA（如剪下的草坪草或狼），但这些非食物来源仅占测序植物DNA的四分之一和动物DNA的 1 ％。
研究人员还将废水研究结果与一小组个体的粪便样本进行了对比，发现这两个来源产生了相似的DNA模式。尽管如此，耶鲁大学的环境工程师乔丹·佩奇亚（Jordan Peccia）表示，还需要进一步工作将废水饮食监测锚定到“地面真相”上，类似于新冠肺炎（Covid-19）废水数据通过当地病例数和住院人数进行验证的方式。但他补充道，即便如此，废水可能更擅长检测随时间变化的模式，而非食物摄入量的绝对衡量。
尽管存在限制，科学家们仍希望废水能够帮助改变饮食研究。斯坦福大学的营养学家加德纳（Gardner）博士表示，例如，研究人员可以廉价地长期监测饮食信号，而不是招募数百万名参与者并要求他们完成重复的调查。这可能会揭示关税和免费学校午餐计划等政策变化如何影响营养。如果与医疗数据相结合，这些信号还可以帮助研究人员将饮食模式与社区健康和慢性疾病轨迹联系起来。
目前，大多数废水饮食监测发生在市政处理厂，在那里，一个样本可能代表数千或数十万名居民。但大卫（David）博士的团队正开始关注社区层级的数据，从北卡罗来纳州达勒姆（Durham, N.C.）开始。出于隐私原因，他们避免在人数少于 500 人的区域进行采样。尽管如此，人们不一定会将自己冲走的东西视为有价值的数据，且随着废水监测进入饮食等更私密的领域，可能会反对分析自己的粪便。大卫博士的应对方案是尝试将社区纳入这个过程。在过去一年里，他的团队与达勒姆的社区委员会和社区领袖进行了会面，询问这些数据将如何对……
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他们。当非营利组织 BLK South 的创始人艾琳·杜利（Erin Dooley）第一次听说这项研究时，她犹豫了。“我们正处于一个数据被视为金矿的时代，”杜利女士说。她担心这些信息可能会从她的社区中被提取出来，出售给广告商，并被用来羞辱居民的饮食习惯。但她和丈夫肯德尔（Kendall）也看到了一个机会。他们的社区海蒂（Hayti）曾是美国历史悠久的“黑色华尔街”之一，而现在是一个“食物沙漠”——该社区一直试图筹集 $6 million 资金以引入一家杂货店。因此，杜利夫妇与大卫博士（Dr. David）以及格兰特街社区（Grant Street Community）合作，帮助确定她的社区在食用什么以及缺乏什么，将这些数据转化为支持建立杂货店和扩大新鲜食品获取渠道的论据。“这是有用的信息，”杜利女士说，“但前提是它能让社区里的人的生活变得更好。”
比安卡·巴尼亚雷利 (BIANCA BAGNARELLI)
身在何处。
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人们观察到虎鲸将翻车鱼撞碎，为后代制造碎块。
作者：ALEXA ROBLES-GIL
翻车鱼是世界上最大的硬骨鱼——某些品种的重量可超过 2,000 磅，从背鳍到臀鳍的跨度可达 14 英尺。它们惊人的体型和厚实的皮肤通常能震慑掠食者。但在下加利福尼亚海岸附近，一群虎鲸采取了一种残酷的翻车鱼捕猎方式：通过一种不寻常的动作，虎鲸将这些巨鱼撞碎。科学组织 Conexiones Terramar 的海洋生物学家埃里克·希圭拉（Erick Higuera）将这些攻击描述为“暴力”且“混乱”，但同时也“经过高度计算”。希圭拉先生于 2021. 年首次目击到这种捕猎策略。他说，虎鲸像扔“飞盘”一样将一条翻车鱼抛来抛去，然后使其“爆炸”。现在，在周四发表于《行为学前沿》（Frontiers in Ethology）的一项研究中，希圭拉先生及其同事描述了 2024 和 2025. 年拍摄的两起事件。在两段视频中，一只成年虎鲸口中叼着一条尖尾翻车鱼的尸体。随后，另一只成年虎鲸高速向该鱼游来。第一只虎鲸将其释放，第二只虎鲸随即撞击其身体，将翻车鱼撞碎。随着碎片四处漂浮，一只幼年虎鲸开始进食。“这就像足球赛，”希圭拉先生说，“每个人都有自己的角色。”
数十年来，科学家们一直记录着虎鲸捕食翻车鱼（也称为 mola）的行为。在加利福尼亚湾，这种进食行为最早在 20 世纪 90 年代被报道。今年 1 月，希圭拉先生与另一组科学家发表了一项研究，报告了 20 次以上虎鲸与翻车鱼的接触。其中 8 次有虎鲸幼崽在场。作者在早先的研究中写道，雌性虎鲸可能是利用翻车鱼来训练后代，或者仅仅是为了娱乐。但早先观察到的翻车鱼并未像视频中的猎物那样被撕碎，这表明这种破碎策略可能是针对尖尾翻车鱼的。
俄勒冈州立大学的海洋生态学家罗伯特·皮特曼（Robert Pitman）未参与
卡内基梅隆大学的研究人员在罗切斯特塞内卡公园动物园对狒狒进行了一项几何任务测试，该任务同样也交给人类执行。
最近的一项研究表明， 猴子在理解形状方面 也具有类似的天赋。
作者：K. R. CALLAWAY
你（大概）不会在几何课上看到一只猴子，但看来我们的灵长类同类也能掌握基础知识。
根据上周发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》（Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences）上的一项新研究，与人类一样，猴子似乎能够掌握几何形状的抽象特性，例如它们是否对称、是否具有平行边或包含直角。这种能力使猴子——以及我们——能够理解两个形状何时相同，即使它们被旋转或调整了大小。
这一发现挑战了一个长期以来的观念，即人类的几何能力是使我们的大脑独一无二的部分原因。
“我们的假设是，人类在拥有这种数学理解力方面并没有那么独特，”卡内基梅隆大学的认知神经科学家、该研究的第一作者李佳林（Jialin Li）表示。
在实验中，李女士及其同事决定让猴子（共八只猕猴和橄榄狒狒）、学前儿童以及具有不同教育水平的成年人完成相同的几何任务。这样一来，如果人类确实具有先天优势，那么在比较幼儿和猴子时就会显现出来；而如果这种优势是通过学习获得的，那么在比较不同受教育程度的人类时可能会显现出来。
寻找一个足够简单、即使是学前儿童和猴子也能合理完成的任务是一项挑战，
[[IMG_XXXX]] 墨西哥的海洋生物学家拍摄到了虎鲸捕食翻车鱼的一种残酷方式：将猎物撕碎。
在研究中，认为这种行为或许是合乎逻辑的。翻车鱼的皮肤由所谓的皮齿（dermal denticles）组成，类似于鲨鱼身上粗糙的、像牙齿一样的鳞片。皮特曼（Pitman）博士表示，通过冲撞鱼类，虎鲸可以在不磨损牙齿的情况下捕食猎物。“它们所做的一切已经不再让我感到惊讶了，”他说。
奥克兰战争纪念博物馆（Auckland War Memorial Museum）的海洋生物学家玛丽安·尼格高（Marianne Nyegaard）未参与这项研究，但她研究过翻车鱼，并记录了许多虎鲸与翻车鱼的互动。
“我很高兴看到有人记录了这种行为并对其进行了详细描述，”她说。
“翻车鱼经常被视为巨大的、奇怪的、无关紧要的鱼，有点像某种好奇之物，”尼格高博士说。“它们并不……”
但研究团队最终决定让所有研究参与者都完成一项匹配任务。所有参与者的屏幕上都会显示一个具有特定尺寸和几何形状的图形。然后，他们被要求从一组其他图形中选出那个相同的形状。
“通过操纵形状的相似度，我们能够观察他们正在使用什么样的规则，”卡内基梅隆大学的认知神经科学家杰西卡·坎特隆（Jessica Cantlon）说道，她的实验室进行了这项研究。
对于正确的匹配，猴子、学龄前儿童和成年人分别获得了正向反馈：一份零食、一张贴纸或一次肯定。但那些没有获得奖励的错误尝试同样重要，因为这有助于理解哪些概念对大脑来说是简单或困难的。
“这项任务肯定依赖于涉及视觉和认知处理的广泛的大脑区域和回路网络，”芝加哥大学的神经生物学家大卫·弗里德曼（David Freedman）表示，他未参与这项新研究。匹配任务既依赖于基础的视觉线索（如形状的边缘和轮廓），也依赖于对形状身份和结构的更高层级的理解。
随后，研究人员将结果与另一家实验室最近的一项实验结果进行了对比分析，在该实验中，猴子、幼儿和成年人必须在一组图形中识别出一个几何上不相似的形状。
通过这次分析，研究人员意识到，他们的参与者（包括猴子在内）都能够将形状与其角度、比例和模式联系起来。
这种共同的基础表明，我们的几何直觉在人类进化之前就已进化，这对许多研究人员来说并不令人惊讶。
真正被视为生态系统的一部分。”她表示，这项新研究有助于将太阳鱼纳入“主流生态学”。
圣安德鲁斯大学的海洋生物学家卢克·伦德尔（Luke Rendell）表示，捕食太阳鱼所使用的技能可能会通过文化传承在这一虎鲸群体中延续数代。
伦德尔博士补充说，撞击行为并非仅见于捕猎太阳鱼。他指出了广泛报道的伊比利亚半岛海域虎鲸与船只之间的互动，在那里，虎鲸撞沉了多艘船只。
“在这两种情况下，撞击它们在环境中发现的东西都能带来新的知识，”伦德尔博士说。“在本项研究中是食物，而在船只互动案例中则是有趣的‘游戏’。”
研究动物认知的研究人员。
“地球上需要处理几何问题的动物绝不仅仅是这些，”爱荷华大学的实验心理学家埃德·瓦塞曼（Ed Wasserman）表示，他并未参与这项新研究。
许多物种已被证明即使在物体或图案被旋转或改变尺寸时也能将其识别。例如，鸽子在某些形状匹配任务上的表现甚至优于人类，这项技能可能有助于它们在飞行时保持方向感。
“我们人类倾向于高估自己的特殊性，”麻省理工学院（M.I.T.）的神经科学家厄尔·米勒（Earl Miller）表示，他同样未参与这项新研究。“如果每一个新角度都让物体看起来完全不同，生活将陷入混乱。”
尽管如此，这些关于猴子与人类相似之处的见解，或许能让我们更好地了解我们这种特定的几何理解方式在进化史中究竟追溯到多久以前。
“这是一项及时且具有启发性的研究，为几何直觉的进化起源提供了重要见解，”德国图宾根大学的动物生理学家安德烈亚斯·尼德（Andreas Nieder）表示，他未参与这项新研究。
这项研究也可以成为理解人类如何处理更高级几何任务的起点，例如将简单形状组合成更复杂的结构，而该研究尚未对此进行测试。
研究作者已经开始进入探索的下一阶段：找出哪些形状是对猴子和人类来说最难识别的。而这种理解反过来可以为教师尝试教授那些特别难懂的几何课程提供参考。
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基因编辑器。这样就无需为每位患者重新开始。
刘博士表示，原则上，如果能有更多此类中心，这种新方法可以改善数百万人的生活。刘博士同时隶属于哈佛大学和霍华德·休斯医学研究所。全球约有 400 million 人患有罕见病，美国有 25 million 到 30 million 人患病。其中一半是儿童，三分之一在 5 岁前死亡。
该项目启动于一份 $34.5 million 的合同，资金来自卫生高级研究计划署（Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health），这是一个支持高风险、高回报医学研究的联邦机构。项目将首先关注可能导致癫痫发作的神经系统疾病。研究人员希望，这项工作能够证明，一个能够修复脑细胞突变的编辑系统可以用于多种遗传性脑部疾病，包括影响成年人的疾病（如亨廷顿舞蹈症）。
第一个目标疾病名为儿童交替性偏瘫（alternating hemiplegia of childhood，简称 AHC），在美国仅影响 400 名儿童。其中就包括 10 岁的安娜贝尔·弗罗斯特（Annabel Frost）。她的父母西蒙·弗罗斯特（Simon Frost）和尼娜·英格利什·弗罗斯特（Nina English Frost）住在华盛顿，他们将为 AHC 儿童争取基因疗法作为生活的重心。
当安娜贝尔 2 个月大时，她开始出现类似癫痫的发作和反复发作的瘫痪——她的肢体，甚至整个身体，会处于无法活动状态数日或长达一周。她的父母奔波于全国各地，咨询神经科医生，但没有人知道出了什么问题。
在最终获得 AHC 诊断并得知无法治愈后，弗罗斯特夫妇成立了一家非营利组织并开始筹款；在过去的八年里，他们筹集了超过 $4 million。但 Chung 博士表示，期望家庭走这条路——进行筹款、组织高尔夫锦标赛、赞助 5K 跑步比赛——“是非常不公平的”，尤其是当父母在照顾病童时。而且，这些资金几乎永远不足以让一家公司对开发一种治疗方案产生兴趣。
弗罗斯特女士说，她和弗罗斯特先生知道这一点。因此，他们的基金会刻意支持那些为 AHC 基因疗法奠定基础的研究。随后，他们联系了刘博士。“我们不仅仅是给大卫带来一种疾病并要求他解决它，”弗罗斯特女士说，“我们给他带来了一个成熟的科学机会。”
刘博士的团队延长了患有尼曼-皮克病（Niemann-Pick，一种遗传性脑病）的小鼠寿命，这让他们看到了希望。对于 AHC，弗罗斯特女士说，“我们希望他能针对相同的细胞。”
但将基因编辑器送入小鼠大脑比送入人类大脑容易得多。对于小鼠，科学家只需将编辑器注入它们微小的大脑即可。对于人类，这行不通。挑战在于如何让一个携带基因编辑指令的失活病毒通过血脑屏障——这是一层保护大脑免受感染和毒素侵害的膜。但由本·德弗曼（Ben Deverman）领导的布罗德研究所（Broad Institute）的研究人员找到了一种方法。他们可以劫持一种将铁质输送到大脑的载体蛋白。来自波士顿儿童医院的团队成员 Timothy Yu 博士说，这一发现“是一个真正的灵感时刻”。治疗将涉及静脉注射工程病毒，该病毒将穿过血脑屏障并进入大脑的细胞内空间。随后，编辑器将进入脑细胞，沿着 DNA 移动到突变处。然后，编辑器将把突变基因转变为健康基因。目前的计划是首先治疗 AHC 影响最严重的儿童。安娜贝尔不在此列，因此她不会是第一批接受治疗的人。该方法还将被用于治疗另一种
神经系统疾病，一种遗传性的严重儿童癫痫——德拉威综合征（Dravet syndrome），其发病率约为 15,700 胎儿中一名。德拉威综合征基金会首席执行官兼联合创始人玛丽·安·梅斯基斯（Mary Anne Meskis）表示，20% 的患者在 18 岁之前死亡，许多人在睡眠中去世。“我们的家长每天都生活在恐惧之中，担心晚上把孩子哄睡后，孩子可能无法醒来，”居住在北卡罗来纳州阿什维尔附近的梅斯基斯女士说道。梅斯基斯女士 26 岁的儿子埃利奥特（Elliot）在 6 个月大时发生了第一次抽搐。这次抽搐持续了一个小时，急诊室医生才将其制止。次月，他又发作了一次。再次月，又发作了一次。当埃利奥特 18 个月大时，他开始每天出现数千次短暂的抽搐，表现为眨眼或突然地甩头。他还会出现瘫痪发作，可能持续数日甚至一周。直到埃利奥特 4 岁时，他的父母才最终得到了德拉威综合征的诊断。他开始每天服用多种药物以缩短抽搐时间，但他的认知功能处于 3 到 5 岁儿童的水平，且不具备表达性语言能力。
刘博士及其同事通过向小鼠大脑注射基因编辑器，成功修复了小鼠体内的德拉威综合征，这证明了该方案的可行性。现在，他们将在人体上进行尝试。埃利奥特现在的年龄可能导致大脑受损过于严重，基因疗法已无法治愈他。然而，希望在于这可能帮助或治愈年幼的孩子。该中心创始人强调，该中心无法在一夜之间解决将基因疗法提供给患者的问题。但研究人员希望，这项工作能够产生其他医生可以借鉴并应用于自身患者的方法论。为了实现这一目标，该中心将尽可能公开其研究成果。斯坦福大学人类基因治疗部门负责人马克·凯（Mark Kay）博士（未参与该新中心的成立）表示，营利性公司通常不会这样做，但若要取得真正的进展，这是必要的。凯博士说：“我非常喜欢并支持这个想法。”
Chung 博士预测，起步阶段将会很困难。但她感到一种紧迫感。“我的患者没有时间等待，”她说，“我们将失去一代人。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 伊齐·卡申（Izzy Cashion，中），与她的母亲詹·雅诺斯科（Jenn Janosko，右）以及米歇尔·蒙杰（Michelle Monje）博士。伊齐正在参加一项针对弥漫性中线胶质瘤患者的临床试验。
在理解 D.M.G. 方面，研究人员识别出许多病例中潜在的基因突变，并尝试通过针对其影响的疗法进行实验。这些治疗方法远非治愈。但在某些病例中，它们似乎能减缓病情，少数患者能够生存数年。“这是我们第一次看到的生存率不为零，”加州大学旧金山分校儿科脑肿瘤中心主任 Sabine Mueller 博士说。对于科学家来说，这是一个希望的信号。但“当那是你的孩子时，很难感受到希望，”Jenn Janosko 说道，她的 5 岁女儿 Izzy Cashion 去年被诊断出患有 D.M.G.。Izzy 目前正在参加 CAR T 细胞疗法的临床试验，该疗法通过对患者的免疫细胞进行工程化处理以对抗癌症。在女儿确诊之前，Janosko 女士曾担任儿科肿瘤护理护士，偶尔照顾患有 D.M.G. 的儿童。“你知道那就是死刑判决，”她说。D.M.G. —— 这个术语有时与弥漫性内源性脑桥胶质瘤（diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma，简称 D.I.P.G.，一种常见的亚型）通用 —— 通常袭击 5 到 15 岁之间的儿童。全美每年大约有 500 例新病例。最初的迹象通常是复视、单侧无力或面部下垂，有时伴有头痛或呕吐。通常在诊断后一年内，患者开始失去运动功能，并出现语言和吞咽问题。斯坦福大学儿科神经肿瘤学教授 Michelle Monje 博士表示，在生命末期，他们将无法过多活动或沟通，并且出现呼吸困难。“孩子们在很大程度上保持警觉，并意识到发生的一切，”她说。“这是一种极其可怕的疾病。” 21 世纪初，当 Monje 博士首次治疗一名患此癌的患者时，“那就像一个巨大的黑匣子，”她说，无法通过手术切除，且活检风险极高。从 2010 年代开始，医生们找到了更安全地对肿瘤进行活检的方法。通过使用患者尸检的细胞系，Monje 博士和其他研究人员了解了肿瘤是如何产生以及在何处产生。而在 2012, 年，科学家们宣布发现了一种存在于大多数此类癌症中的突变 —— 这是一个重大突破。密歇根大学的神经病理学家 Sriram Venneti 博士表示，该突变干扰了一种组蛋白，这是一种在细胞内部 DNA 紧紧缠绕在其周围的蛋白质，就像线轴上的线一样。如果这个线轴断了，“DNA 为了让基因关闭或开启而打开或关闭的方式就会被打乱，”他说。在 D.M.G. 中，细胞被困在一种促进癌症的状态中。就在 Venneti 博士试图找出什么可以逆转这种突变时，其他地方的科学家正在测试一种名为 ONC201 的药物，用于治疗患有胶质母细胞瘤（另一种致命的脑癌）的成人。尽管该药物在这些患者中的总体疗效不佳，但结果显示，一名反应良好的人具有这种组蛋白突变。密歇根大学的儿科神经肿瘤学家 Carl Koschmann 博士及其他人与该药的制造商（现名为 Jazz Pharmaceuticals）合作，测试该药是否适用于 D.M.G. 儿童患者。对早期试验的审查发现，在初始放射治疗后接受 ONC201 治疗且具有该突变的患者，其中位生存期几乎为 22 个月 —— 几乎是典型生存期的两倍。研究人员表明，该药物主要通过改变肿瘤细胞的代谢来修复损坏的“线轴”。Lisa Ward 的儿子 Jace，他被诊断出……
[[IMG_XXXX]] 上方及右侧，ROSEM MORTON 为《纽约时报》拍摄
左侧为药物，右侧为 Ethan White 在家中使用的医疗设备和用品。
在 2019 年 20 岁时被诊断出患有 D.M.G.，他使用了该药物 17 个月。在那段时间里，他能够打篮球、上学并与朋友一起看体育比赛。他从未在医院度过一个夜晚。Jace 于 2021 年去世。
“每个家长在无法治愈的情况下，”Ward 女士说，“都希望获得最长的无进展生存期，即肿瘤不生长且拥有极高生活质量的最长时间。”
当密歇根大学的鼓手 Ethan 被诊断出患病时，他的父母 Michelle Sherman 和 Eric White 也希望他能如此。但由于 ONC201 在美国只能通过临床试验获得，这意味着他可能会被分配到安慰剂组，因此 Ethan 的父亲开始每三个月前往德国一次，购买当地版本的该药物。一份 90 天的剂量费用为 $18,000。Ethan 还超适应症使用了另外两种药物，这两种药物共同作用似乎使他的肿瘤保持稳定。
他继续住在校园里，努力攻读心理学学位。他去滑雪，并加入了 Koschmann 博士的周五晚上攀岩小组。
在 2025 年夏季，美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）批准了名为 dordaviprone 的 ONC201 用于治疗复发性 D.M.G.。该批准以继续进行试验为条件，但这是首款获批用于治疗这种癌症的药物。
研究人员现在对一种脑癌有了更好的了解，但距离治愈还很遥远。
“对于家庭和医生来说，这非常令人激动，”Koschmann 博士说。
尽管如此，这种药物并非对每个人都有效，也不是一种治愈方法。“这对于 D.M.G. 来说并不是一个全垒打，”Koschmann 博士说，“而是一个强有力的安打。”
其他实验性疗法也显示出类似的潜力。斯坦福大学的 Monje 博士及其同事证明了 CAR T 细胞疗法可以治愈小鼠体内的 D.M.G.，并在 2020 年启动了首批人体试验之一。
“我们看到一些孩子在几周内就从依赖轮椅变成了能够行走，”Monje 博士说。一名在高中期间被诊断出的异常病例，在五年多后仍未发现肿瘤。其他 CAR T 细胞疗法的试验目前正在进行中。
研究人员还证明，另一种被称为溶瘤病毒的免疫疗法（通过分裂癌细胞使免疫系统能接触到更多癌细胞）可以延长生命。一名患者在三年多时间里没有出现肿瘤进展。而且科学家现在已经知道
D.M.G. 细胞如何整合到健康的神经回路中以生长并逃避治疗。Monje 博士表示，这使得研究人员能够开始测试现有药物——例如某些抗癫痫药物——来阻断这些连接。但即使这些疗法被证明是成功的，距离成为标准护理仍有数年之久。专家认为，要治愈 D.M.G.，需要结合使用多种治疗方法，就像医生治疗儿童白血病和神经母细胞瘤那样，从一种延长寿命的治疗开始，逐步叠加其他治疗，最终治愈患者。“我们认为，在接下来的十年里，我们有望达到这个目标，”Koschmann 博士说。研究如何最佳地组合和排列这些药物的顺序将需要昂贵的临床试验。美国国立卫生研究院支持了大部分关于 D.M.G. 的研究，但前景仍然
由于该机构经费被削减且拨款奖项减少，情况变得暗淡。投资的匮乏令父母们感到愤怒。雅诺斯科女士（Ms. Janosko）表示，每年几百名儿童“看起来可能不多”，但她补充道，这些家庭“注定会面临极其痛苦的死亡”。2025年4月，一次核磁共振成像（M.R.I.）显示伊森（Ethan）的肿瘤已经长大。在一次实验性治疗失败后，他开始出现新的症状，包括视力模糊和虚弱。他接受了进一步的放射治疗，并参加了一项新版本 dordaviprone 的临床试验。伊森再也没能完全恢复功能。不过，他执意要完成学位，在12月，他的父亲推着他，身着学士服和方帽走过了毕业典礼的舞台。春季，伊森的家人前往夏威夷，在那里他能够参加一堂适配冲浪课。但在5月，另一次核磁共振成像显示肿瘤再次生长。几周之内，伊森失去了说话和行走的能力。
他在家中接受临终关怀。面对父母的提问，他只能通过点头或摇头来回答“是”或“否”，但他的表情依然俏皮。他仍然能享用自己最喜欢的食物——搭配烟熏三文鱼和奶油奶酪的贝果，以及本与杰瑞（Ben and Jerry’s）的冰淇淋棒——并且喜欢与朋友们见面，但当他们离开时，他经常感到难过。在最近病情恶化之前，伊森和他的母亲挑选了一只巧克力色拉布拉多幼犬，伊森给它起名叫“驼鹿”（Moose）。“当伊森不再陪伴在我们身边时，那只狗将意义重大，”舍曼女士（Ms. Sherman）说道。他的肿瘤仍在不受控制地生长。她说，治疗这类癌症的进展“必须尽快实现”。
POPPY LYNCH 为《纽约时报》报道
该药物将以 Lipfendra 为品牌名称销售，可降低低密度脂蛋白。
作者：NINA AGRAWAL 和 GINA KOLATA
需要降低胆固醇的患者很快将拥有一个强效的新选择。美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）最近批准了一款名为 enlicitide 的新药，其降低胆固醇水平的效果显著优于单独使用他汀类药物。该药物由默克（Merck）开发，将以 Lipfendra 为品牌名称销售，预计将在未来几周内上市。
这款新药与其他胆固醇治疗方法相比如何？ Lipfendra 增加了可降低低密度脂蛋白（LDL）的治疗方案名单。LDL 是一种胆固醇，当其水平过高时，会增加患心脏病的风险。数十年的研究表明，能够安全降低 LDL 的药物可以保护人们免受心脏病侵害。
最常开具的 LDL 降低药物是他汀类药物，它们能抑制肝脏中胆固醇的产生。这些药物已使用数十年，且安全且廉价，每月约为 $5 到 $25。根据他汀类药物的种类和剂量，它们可以将 LDL 水平降低 30 到 50 百分比。
其他药物包括依折麦布（ezetimibe），这是一种抑制胆固醇吸收的药片，可将 LDL 水平降低约 20 百分比。其通用名药物与他汀类药物一样便宜。此外还有本培多酸（bempedoic acid），它能阻断胆固醇的产生，同样可将 LDL 水平降低约 20 百分比。通用版本的标价为每月 $430 到 $517。（患者支付的费用通常低于标价。）
目前最强效的药物——包括 alirocumab、evolocumab 和 inclisiran——通过阻断一种名为 PCSK9 的蛋白质起作用，该蛋白质会减缓人体清除胆固醇的能力。临床试验表明，这些药物可将 LDL 水平降低 60 到 70 百分比。它们通常与他汀类药物等其他药物配合使用，以更激进地降低 LDL。
直到现在，所有标价在每月 $500 到 $600 左右的 PCSK9 抑制剂都必须通过注射给药。大规模研究表明
可穿戴设备可以收集所需信息，但用户也应保持谨慎。
作者：SIMAR BAJAJ
卫生部长罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）称，智能手表或智能戒指等可穿戴设备是人们“掌控自身健康”的一种方式，也是“让美国再次健康”（Make America Healthy Again）议程的“关键”。这些通常被称为可穿戴设备的装置可以提供有用的数据流，包括步数、心率、睡眠质量和卡路里消耗量。在过去的几年里，调查发现约 40 percent 的美国人正在使用某种类型的可穿戴设备，且在更年轻、更健康且更注重健身的消费者中，拥有率更高。“我的愿景是在四年内，每个美国人都佩戴可穿戴设备，”肯尼迪先生在去年的国会听证会上表示。
但许多医生则持怀疑态度，认为可穿戴设备提供的指标中只有一部分在临床上是有用的，而且他们仍在研究哪些指标在何种环境下有效。西奈山医院生物医学工程与成像研究所所长扎希·法亚德（Zahi Fayad）博士表示，这些设备可以帮助医生远程监测患者并检测疾病的早期迹象。但他指出，目前许多可穿戴指标尚未达到医疗标准，且几乎没有数据能证明使用这些设备可以改善健康结果。
尽管如此，一些寻求答案的患者在就诊时会向医生展示可穿戴数据的截图，或询问关于令人困惑的读数的问题。一些销售可穿戴设备的公司已开始允许用户通过其应用程序咨询临床医生。
某些可穿戴设备，如连续葡萄糖监测仪，通常由医生开具处方，并符合医疗级标准。但对于可以在线购买的可穿戴设备，医生倾向于只关注少数在医学上有意义或有启发性的指标。例如，耶鲁大学预防心血管健康项目主任埃里卡·斯帕茨（Erica Spatz）博士表示，某些可穿戴设备可以标记心房颤动，这是一种潜在的危险心律失常。在一项关于 Apple Watch 的研究中，研究人员将不规则脉搏通知与医疗级心电图贴片的同步读数进行对比，发现该手表的警报在 84 percent 的情况下与心房颤动相对应。
其他衡量标准，如步数，可以让医生了解你的活动量或久坐情况。研究表明，每天行走约 7,000 步与降低心血管疾病、2 型糖尿病和痴呆症的风险相关。加州睡眠医师、斯坦福睡眠医学中心兼职讲师切里·马（Cheri Mah）博士表示，基本的睡眠模式——入睡时间、起床时间以及总睡眠量——同样有用，因为睡眠的一致性和时长都至关重要。研究人员将三种流行的可穿戴设备与金标准睡眠研究进行了对比。
他汀类药物可降低胆固醇，但对于某些患者来说，这可能还不够。
并发现这些设备在区分睡眠与清醒状态时，超过 90 比率的时间与研究结果一致。
但 Spatz 博士表示，某些指标（如血压、血氧和睡眠阶段）无法通过可穿戴设备准确测量。她补充说，其他指标（如最大摄氧量 VO2 max 和心率变异性）可以提供关于体能和恢复的粗略衡量，但目前尚不能用于做出医疗决策。
许多可穿戴设备还提供健康评分，将多路数据流汇总为一个简单的数值，例如生物年龄、压力或睡眠质量。哈佛医学院教授、前马萨诸塞州总医院心脏科主任 Jag Singh 博士表示，每家公司使用自己的专利算法，计算这些评分的方式各不相同。因此，医生无法得知这些评分究竟衡量的是什么，或者它们是否与实际的健康结果相对应。
“在个人健康层面，它们可能有用，”Singh 博士说，“但我认为它们对临床医生没有用处。”
Fayad 博士表示，使用可穿戴设备的最佳方式是观察长期趋势，而不是痴迷于日常的波动。当突发变化与症状一致时（例如心率飙升时伴有心悸），这种变化可能很重要。但总的来说，一次异常读数的信息量不如数周或数月内持续的变化。
“可穿戴设备的价值不在于那个数字，”他说，“而在于趋势。”
Singh 博士表示，在将自己的数据与他人进行比较时，同样适用这种谨慎态度。人们在诸如……等指标上存在很大差异。
对于心脏病高风险人群的研究表明，PCSK9 抑制剂将心脏病发作、中风和心血管死亡的风险降低了 20%。
Lipfendra 是一款药片形式的 PCSK9 抑制剂。与可以在一天中任何时间服用且无需考虑是否进食的他汀类药物不同，它应在早晨禁食期间服用，仅搭配水、黑咖啡或清茶。
在临床试验中，Lipfendra 在降低低密度脂蛋白（LDL）方面的效果与注射药物一样。目前一项大规模试验正在进行中，以确认药片形式的 PCSK9 抑制剂是否也能减少心脏病发作和中风。
30 天药量的标价为 $315。目前尚不清楚保险覆盖的范围有多广。
谁应该服用这种新药？ 约翰斯·霍普金斯大学医学院预防心脏病学副主任 Erin Michos 博士表示，考虑到他汀类药物具有长期的安全性和有效性历史，它们始终是医生的首选方案。但有些患者无法耐受他汀类药物。而且，即使在能耐受的患者中，“我们也一直在追求更低的胆固醇水平，尤其是对于高风险患者，”Michos 博士说。许多患者仅靠他汀类药物无法达到目标。
这就是 PCSK9 抑制剂发挥作用的地方。哥伦比亚大学欧文医学中心（Columbia University Irving Medical Center）的预防心脏病专家 Corey Bradley 博士表示，这些药物是“为需要更积极治疗的人群增强口服疗法的极佳方式”。
今年，美国心脏协会发布了新指南，其中根据患者的风险概况设定了具体的 LDL 目标。“我何时选择使用 PCSK9 抑制剂，很大程度上取决于我距离该目标还有多远，”Bradley 博士说。
Michos 博士表示，PCSK9 抑制剂已显示出降低心率变异性或最大摄氧量（VO2 max）的额外益处，即使在健身水平相似的情况下也是如此。你自己的基准线通常比任何外部基准更有用。
Fayad 博士表示，如果可穿戴设备能激励你增加步数，或帮你发现酒精会恶化你的静息心率，那么它是有用的。但如果你强迫性地检查数据并因此感到担忧或沮丧，那么这种可穿戴设备可能弊大于利。
宾夕法尼亚大学健康政策专家、《吃掉你的冰淇淋》（Eat Your Ice Cream）一书的作者 Ezekiel J. Emanuel 博士表示，例如，可穿戴设备有时会恶化睡眠。
最近的一项调查发现，在追踪睡眠的人群中，约有 30% 的人面临“正念睡眠障碍”（orthosomnia）的风险，即一种对追求完美睡眠的病态痴迷。
Emanuel 博士说，一个更好的衡量标准是你早晨起床时感觉恢复得如何。
Spatz 博士表示，如果对可穿戴设备数据的焦虑成了一个问题，一种解决方法可能是直接停止追踪数据。另一种方法可能是将可穿戴设备用于特定的短期目的，例如增加活动水平或提高睡眠一致性，然后将其收起来。
可穿戴设备使得监测人体内部运作比以往任何时候都更容易。但要将这些数字整合起来、将其置于具体情境中，并告诉医生哪些内容值得采取行动，还需要更多的研究和更好的工具。
“它们有助于讲述一个故事，”Spatz 博士说，“但我们还没有想清楚如何使用它们。”
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我听说阴道雌激素可以缓解绝经症状。我应该使用它吗？
阴道雌激素产品可以治疗绝经后女性常见的干燥、疼痛和尿路感染等症状，且这些症状可能在最后一次月经前的几年就开始出现。随着患者、医生和影响力者更加重视绝经症状，并且许多人推广激素治疗，这些包括阴道内插入的乳膏、环和药片在内的产品引起了越来越多的关注。美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）去年决定取消雌激素产品（包括阴道雌激素）的“黑框警告”。该警告曾提醒癌症和血栓风险增加，导致许多女性在过去避开这些治疗。对于合适的患者，阴道雌激素可以增加阴道的滋润度和弹性，缓解盆腔疼痛，并减少尿路感染。阴道雌激素治疗的症状被称为绝经期生殖泌尿综合征（G.S.M.），这是由女性在中年时期自然经历的雌激素下降引起的。雌激素能促进全身的滋润，而雌激素水平较低会使阴道组织变得更干燥、更薄。性行为可能会变得痛苦，甚至内衣与阴门轻微接触也会产生疼痛。许多女性会出现更频繁或紧急的排尿情况。阴道酸度和有益菌减少，使得有害细菌更容易生长。在阴道内涂抹雌激素可以缓解这些症状。它甚至可能预防严重的健康并发症，因为它降低了可能扩散至肾脏的尿路感染风险。梅奥医学中心女性健康中心主任兼绝经学会医学主任斯蒂芬妮·福比昂（Stephanie Faubion）医生表示，“绝大多数美国女性在治疗 G.S.M. 方面治疗不足”。她说，患者通常未被诊断，或者在诊断后未能获得适当的护理。去年发表的一项研究调查了 100 多万名联邦医疗保险（Medicare）领取者，发现那些“具有 G.S.M. 诊断迹象”的人中，仅有 9% 领取了阴道雌激素
脂蛋白(a)或 Lp(a)是一种携带胆固醇的蛋白质，她将其描述为“LDL 的邪恶表亲”。无论胆固醇水平如何，Lp(a) 都会独立增加心脏病风险，且他汀类药物无法降低它。
谁应该采取措施降低胆固醇？ 新发布的美国心脏协会（A.H.A.）指南建议，心脏病风险最高的人群（那些已经发生过心脏病发作或中风的人）应使用药物将 LDL 降低到 55 mg/dL 以下。没有现有心脏病的人可能仍处于高风险中，无论是由于 2 型糖尿病等因素，还是因为风险评分较高。医生使用风险计算器，综合考虑年龄、血压、胆固醇和身体质量指数（BMI）等因素，来评估短期（10 年）和长期（30 年）风险。对于估计 10 年风险较高的人群，目标值是 70 mg/dL 以下。
西北大学的预防心脏病专家萨迪亚·汗（Sadiya Khan）医生表示，她经常建议 10 年心脏病风险处于中等水平的患者开始服用胆固醇药物。对于 10 年风险较低但 30 年风险较高且健康的患者，她也会与其讨论此事。降低 LDL 可以减少导致动脉斑块积聚的颗粒的累积暴露，从而降低心脏病发作或中风的风险。研究表明，LDL 越低，此类心血管事件的风险就越低。指南还建议治疗患有遗传性高胆固醇血症（称为家族性高胆固醇血症）的人群。
您应该何时检查胆固醇？ 根据美国心脏协会 (A.H.A.) 的指南，所有成年人都应从 19 岁起至少每五年检查一次胆固醇。（儿童在 9 至 11 岁之间应检查一次胆固醇，以筛查遗传性高胆固醇血症。） 您的初级保健医生诊所可以进行一项名为血脂检查 (lipid panel) 的血液测试，以查看您的 LDL 和其他类型的胆固醇。 指南还建议所有成年人至少检查一次 Lp(a) 水平。
处方。另一项研究发现，在超过 2.8 million 名患有该病症的患者中，71 百分比没收到治疗。 芝加哥一家私人医疗诊所 GYN and Sexual Medicine Collective 的创始人 Sameena Rahman 博士表示，患者经常告诉她自己没有症状，但在她轻轻检查其阴门和阴道时，患者却表达了疼痛。 几位专家表示，虽然某些形式的系统性雌激素与血栓风险轻微增加相关，但阴道雌激素则没有。他们指出，即使是血栓高风险人群（这些人可能不会被开具治疗潮热的激素药片）也可以安全地使用阴道制剂。 乔治·华盛顿大学妇产科副教授 Kathryn Marko 博士表示，接受雌激素敏感性癌症治疗的患者可能不适合使用阴道雌激素，但大多数完成治疗的人可以使用。
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他们可能会被开具药片或阴道环，而不是药膏，以精确控制剂量。 乔治·华盛顿大学妇产科副教授兼性健康服务主任 Sarah Cigna 博士表示，当她在体检中看到阴道组织发生变化时，她会建议使用阴道雌激素，“以防止发展到功能障碍的程度”。 “当我看到已经发生的变化时，我不会采取那种等待人们感到疼痛才干预的诊疗方式，”Cigna 博士说道。
真的能让皮肤更健康吗？
一种淋巴排毒技术被用于 促进血液循环。
作者：ERICA SWEENEY
通过用手指沿着脸颊和下颌线扫动，然后向下延伸至颈部，你可以清除面部的多余液体。许多社交媒体影响者声称，这种被称为“淋巴排毒按摩”（lymphatic drainage massage）的技术能为皮肤带来健康益处，使其更紧致、更亮泽并减轻浮肿。但事实果真如此吗？
淋巴排毒按摩温和且有节奏的动作有助于分散一种名为“淋巴液”的透明液体。这种液体在身体的淋巴系统中循环，并可能在面部组织中积聚，从而导致肿胀。
马里兰州圣玛丽县 MedStar Health 的皮肤科医生 Arpana A. Shah 博士表示，淋巴液积聚的原因有多种，包括睡眠不足、食用盐分较高的食物、饮酒、脱水或仰卧睡眠。
“所有这些小因素都会让你看起来更浮肿，”她说道。
淋巴液通常在一天之中自然排走。但温和的按摩有时可以加速这种分散，且该方法通常被推荐用于治疗淋巴水肿（lymphedema）——这是一种最常发生在手臂和腿部的慢性肿胀。
Shah 博士表示，尽管关于面部淋巴排毒按摩有效性的证据有限，但它可以促进放松并增加皮肤的血流量，这可能会在减轻面部浮肿方面带来一些轻微效果，或产生其他美学上的益处。
什么是淋巴排毒按摩？ 沙博士（Dr. Shah）表示，淋巴系统“就像我们身体的管家”。这个由器官、组织和血管组成的网络将组织中多余的淋巴液转移到血液中，帮助身体维持液体平衡。它还将液体传输到淋巴结，免疫细胞在此破坏细菌和病毒等有害物质。
旧金山的整形外科医生罗伊·金（Roy Kim）博士表示，有几种因素会干扰淋巴系统并导致液体在面部或身体其他部位积聚，包括手术、淋巴水肿、高盐饮食、体重过重或长期久坐。他表示，在某些美容手术后，他经常建议进行淋巴排毒按摩，因为研究表明这能减轻恢复期间的疼痛和肿胀。
他说，重力和运动最终会排出液体。但你可以通过轻柔的抚触将组织中多余的液体移走，引导其流向淋巴结，从而加速这一过程。
金博士表示，这可以由按摩治疗师完成，或者你也可以自己按摩，使用指尖、面部滚轮或刮痧（即用石头轻轻刮拭面部轮廓）。
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但目前几乎没有研究能证明这种方法可以改善皮肤的健康或外观。
一项 2025 年针对 34 名女性的研究发现，在使用面部滚轮或刮痧八周后，她们在面部轮廓方面经历了某些有限的改善，包括皮肤弹性和肌肉紧致度。另一项发表于 2018 年的研究涉及 19 名男性和七名女性。该研究发现，在单侧脸颊使用面部按摩滚轮五周，会增加该侧脸颊的血流量，但结果在每次按摩后仅持续 10 分钟。
沙博士表示，这些研究的受试人数较少，且持续时间仅几周，不足以评估面部淋巴排毒按摩的长期效果。她补充说，需要更大规模、更长期的研究来证明其益处。
医生们通常认为，淋巴排毒按摩可以通过几种方式改善皮肤。沙博士说，因为它能带动淋巴液流动，可以让皮肤看起来没那么肿胀。她补充道，滚动或按摩面部本身感觉良好，可以帮助你放松并减轻压力。根据美国皮肤病学会（American Academy of Dermatology）的说法，压力会加重痤疮和湿疹等皮肤状况，而压力激素可能会耗尽胶原蛋白和弹性蛋白，加速皱纹和其他衰老迹象的出现。
纽约市的美容皮肤科医生肯尼斯·马克（Kenneth Mark）博士表示，面部淋巴排毒按摩还可以改善皮肤循环。他说，由于增加血流量能滋养皮肤并促使新的免疫细胞聚集，因此可以减轻炎症并刺激胶原蛋白产生。
但金博士指出，这些结果通常是微小的且短期性的。
你应该尝试吗？
尽管淋巴排毒按摩可能无法带来显著的效果，也不提供任何持久的改善，但金博士表示，“实际上并没有什么副作用”。对于大多数人来说，这种按摩方法是安全且令人放松的，而且面部滚轮和刮痧工具的价格也较为低廉，大约在 $10 到 $20 之间。
他说，如果你好奇想尝试，首先要洗脸，并确保你的双手或按摩工具是干净的。有些人会使用面部滚轮或刮痧工具来涂抹保湿霜、精华液或其他护肤产品。克利夫兰大学医院按摩治疗医疗主任莉莉·本克（Lilli Benck）建议使用“轻微的压力”。她说，每次向一个方向按摩（不要来回揉搓），“从脸部中心向上移向颈部”、发际线或耳朵。然后，按摩颈部和锁骨周围。重复这些动作约五分钟。
专家表示，施加过大的压力或按摩过于剧烈可能会导致瘀伤、刺激或肿胀，或者可能导致血管破裂，这虽然无害，但外观可能欠佳。
如果你不确定正确的技巧，本克博士建议咨询按摩治疗师以寻求指导。而如果无论怎么做，你的脸部都长期浮肿，沙博士建议就医，以排除医疗状况，如过敏、淋巴水肿或激素变化。
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一项研究表明，在发生影响深远的致命枪击事件后，交通事故死亡人数会出现峰值。
作者：RONI CARYN RABIN
一项新研究发现，在美国发生致命大规模枪击事件后的第二天，当媒体报道和互联网搜索达到顶峰时，交通事故死亡人数似乎会出现峰值。
这项本月发表在医学期刊《美国医学会精神病学杂志》（JAMA Psychiatry）上的研究结果仅表明，致命枪击事件与致命车祸增加之间存在某种联系；它并未证明因果关系。但这项由哈佛医学院研究人员开展的研究提出了一个问题：两者之间是否存在因果关系，如果存在，其背后的机制可能是什么。
该研究分析了 2008 到 2023 年间美国大规模枪击事件前后的交通事故死亡人数。在死亡人数最高（死亡人数在 13 到 58 人之间）的 10 起枪击事件发生后的第二天，车祸死亡人数——
您的肝脏可能面临风险的方式
预防疾病或癌症的步骤可以从改变饮食和锻炼习惯开始。
作者：NINA AGRAWAL
肝脏是一个功能强大的器官：它过滤我们的血液，帮助维持血糖水平，储存能量，并在消化中发挥至关重要的作用。糟糕的饮食、缺乏锻炼以及其他医疗状况都可能导致肝病和肝癌，这两者在全球范围内都在增加。 通常情况下，仅通过饮食和生活方式的改变，就有可能预防肝病，甚至使其逆转。以下是能够提供帮助的方法，以及哪些习惯可能会造成伤害。
最糟糕的习惯 饮酒过多 经常饮酒、代谢功能障碍或两者兼而有之，都可能导致一种被称为脂肪性肝病的疾病。乔治城大学医学院全球肝脏结果与政策研究中心主任 Zoubair Younossi 博士表示，脂肪在肝脏中积聚，并可能导致炎症、瘢痕形成和肝硬化。 Younossi 博士表示，对于患有 2 型糖尿病、高血压或腹部脂肪过多等代谢问题的人来说，适量饮酒会加剧肝脏损伤。酗酒（一次性饮用五杯或更多饮品）是最有害的。 对于肝病晚期患者，医生建议完全禁酒。但对于轻微或无肝病的人，每天最多饮用一杯酒可能是可以接受的，尽管完全不饮酒更好，芝加哥大学代谢与脂肪肝病中心主任 Mary Rinella 博士说道。
与事件前 10 天的平均值相比，平均增加了 14.3%，这意味着道路上多失去了约 20 条生命。 哈佛医学院的医生兼经济学家、该论文的高级作者 Anupam B. Jena 博士表示，他和同事认为枪击事件与交通死亡人数之间极有可能存在因果关系。 “我们认为枪击事件创造了一个多种情况并行发生的环境，”他说道。“你在开车，你的手机在响，你看到了大量的突发警报，人们在给你打电话——你简直心不在焉。” 但一些枪支暴力专家对此持怀疑态度。 “认为在一次高知名度的集体枪击事件次日，机动车死亡人数增加近 20 人并非巧合，这在方法论上是不健全的，且无法验证，”奥尔巴尼州政府洛克菲勒研究所区域枪支暴力研究联盟的 Jaclyn Schildkraut 说道。 其他人则表示他们对
机器不堪重负，”而肝细胞则会承受压力，Rinella 博士说。长期过量摄入糖分可能导致的胰岛素抵抗，也会导致肝脏脂肪积聚。 以色列海法大学的临床营养师兼流行病学家 Shira Zelber-Sagi 表示，有大量证据表明，高糖摄入（尤其是含糖饮料）与代谢功能障碍相关脂肪性肝病（MASLD）有关。 添加到食物中的糖（如许多超加工食品和汽水中含有的高果糖玉米糖浆）对肝脏的损害尤为严重。指南建议女性每天摄入的添加糖不超过 25 克，男性不超过 36 克。 Zelber-Sagi 博士告诉患者，偶尔可以吃一块蛋糕，但绝对应该避免含糖饮料。“这会形成一种非常强烈的习惯，而我们并不需要它，”她说道。
依赖补充剂 弗吉尼亚联邦大学的临床营养师 Dawn Anderson 表示，患者经常向她咨询关于肝脏清理、排毒以及水飞蓟（milk thistle）和蘑菇咖啡等补充剂的问题。专家表示，几乎没有证据表明这些未经监管的产品对肝脏有任何益处。Anderson 女士说：“你的肝脏本身就是身体的排毒系统；它不需要清理。”此外，如果这些产品含有未知成分或某些成分含量过高，可能会造成伤害。
最佳习惯 维持健康体重 减轻体重有助于减少肝脏中的脂肪堆积、炎症和疤痕。体重仅降低 3% 即可改善肝脏健康指标，但需要降低 10% 或更多才能逆转疤痕。Zelber-Sagi 博士表示，像 Wegovy 这样被批准用于治疗先进型 MASLD（代谢功能障碍相关脂肪性肝病）的 GLP-1 类药物已成为“游戏规则改变者”。但这些药物必须与运动结合使用，特别是力量训练，因为肌肉流失会恶化 MASLD 患者的预后。Zelber-Sagi 博士表示，每周进行至少 150 分钟的有氧运动以及 2 次力量训练，有助于减少腹部脂肪和胰岛素抵抗。
设定特定饮食目标 地中海饮食以新鲜水果、蔬菜、鱼类和豆类为中心，富含健康脂肪。研究表明，这种饮食能降低心血管疾病的风险，而心血管疾病是非酒精性肝病患者的主要死因。地中海饮食低饱和脂肪（饱和脂肪存在于红肉、乳制品和棕榈油中，会增加肝脏脂肪）。 但专家承认，严格遵守这种饮食并不总是切实可行的。Anderson 女士表示，虽然她的许多患者遵循传统的南方饮食，但他们可以融入地中海元素。她说：“我们可以吃羽衣甘蓝、卷心菜，或许还可以来点夏曲瓜，或者黄瓜洋葱沙拉。” 在蛋白质方面，她建议增加鱼类或白肉，并减少食用肥腻的红肉部位。她还鼓励人们采用烧烤而非油炸，且仅将黄油用于调味。 最后，Rinella 博士表示，动物研究表明，咖啡（每天最多四杯）可以减少肝脏中的脂肪和疤痕形成，且在人类身上与较低的肝硬化风险相关。
保持基础医疗更新 乙型肝炎和丙型肝炎是全球肝病的重大诱因。Rinella 博士表示，所有成年人都应至少进行 1 次丙肝筛查；如果婴儿时期未接种过乙肝疫苗，则应接种。 基础医疗医生可以进行这些筛查。他们还可以借助常规实验室结果来评估您的肝病风险。 如果您患有 2 型糖尿病，应与医生讨论进行肝脏硬度检测，该检测可以显示肝病的进展情况。
最初在阅读研究时，他们担心主要结论仅基于 10 起大规模枪击案。但几位专家指出，该论文作者在确保研究结果可靠方面做出了极大努力，包括分析了 100 起最致命的大规模枪击案，并发现交通事故有所增加，尽管增幅较小。 位于明尼苏达州圣保罗市汉林大学的非营利组织“暴力预防项目研究中心”的 James Densley 表示，这项研究是一个“构建良好的自然实验”，且这种模式“很难被解释为巧合”。 他指出，其他研究表明，在美国申报所得税期间，车祸死亡人数会增加。 一些研究还将大规模枪击案与心理健康后果联系起来，包括年轻人抗抑郁药物处方量的增加。 Jena 博士表示：“对于驾驶员来说，还存在心理分心。当你收到一条 58 人在一次大规模枪击中丧生的警报时，这会产生心理影响——在你应该专注驾驶的时候，却在思考其他事情。”
西德克萨斯州的忧虑
随着边境墙计划的推进， 有些人在担心 自然的黑暗还能维持多久。
作者：KATRINA MILLER 摄影：EMILY ELCONIN
在西德克萨斯州的鬼镇特林瓜（Terlingua）以及整个大弯曲（Big Bend）地区，不受限制地观测宇宙是当地景观中不可或缺的一部分。这培养了一个“星空捍卫者”社区，他们经常抵御像过亮的商店招牌和干扰性的汽车大灯这类威胁。现在，他们面临着一个远为巨大的挑战：特朗普总统的边境墙建设。大弯曲地区的居民担心，这将给目前尚未被触及的土地带来强光照明。在亚利桑那州以及德克萨斯州更东部的部分边境地段，照明设施已经安装完毕。“那种技术已经存在，而且只要拨动开关就能启动，”特林瓜远方户外中心（Far Flung Outdoor Center）主任比利·巴特科（Billy Bartko）说道，“这正是我们所有人都担心的事情。”
对于边境沿线的居民来说，这不仅仅关乎能否看到星星。自然的黑暗象征着缺乏开发，一种农村的生活方式。考古学家兼大弯曲历史学家大卫·凯勒（David Keller）认为，维持黑暗天空保护了该地的自然风貌。“这就是我在这里的原因，也是大多数住在这里的人留在这里的原因，”他说，“这是一个国家瑰宝。它太重要了，不能失去。”
大弯曲地区黑暗天空的保存源于早在 1975 年就颁布的法律，最初是为了支持该地区麦克唐纳天文台（McDonald Observatory）的天文学研究。2012 年，大弯曲国家公园正式被认证为该地区首个暗夜星空地，随后一家州立公园和一个野生动物保护区也获得了认证。如今，这些地方都处于地球上最大的暗夜星空保护区之内，该保护区成立于 2022 年，横跨美墨边境 900 多万英亩的土地。
“这段时间线向你展示了，在管理这里资源的负责人心中，暗夜星空的保护与保存已经占据了多么长久的位置，”住在特林瓜且身为该地区星空保护领导者的安伯·哈里森（Amber Harrison）说道。她补充说，任何随墙而来的照明都可能导致该地区失去其暗夜星空地位。
负责天文台暗夜星空推广协调工作的斯蒂芬·休梅尔（Stephen Hummel）表示，如果照明范围足够广，可能会影响麦克唐纳天文台的科学观测。但其他人更担心这会对土地的特质产生什么影响。
“我们大多数人担心的并不是今晚能否搬出望远镜看木星，”一个名为“不要大弯曲之墙”（No Big Bend Wall）的当地联盟领导者凯勒先生说，“这是一个涵盖其他诸多问题的统称。”
这种损失还可能破坏一条新兴的经济途径。根据 2022 年进行的一项旅游调查，观星是该地区报告次数第二多的活动。过去几年中，大弯曲地区的宇宙吸引力不断增强，尤其是在特林瓜。游客可以在高速公路旁的观星舱中露营，并通过镇上的户外中心参加天文摄影工作坊。一群当地人在挖掘一座露天剧场，作为新特林瓜之星公园（Terlingua Star Park）的一部分，计划在今年秋天开始举办星空派对。国外的宇宙爱好者甚至可以将望远镜寄到该公园本月开放的远程天文台。而来自边境墙的照明可能会突然地
结束那些商业冒险。“如果他们把这玩意儿点亮，就会扼杀旅游业的收入，”巴特科先生说。在提到这座墙的工业外观时，他补充道：“谁会为了度假而去监狱？”
大弯曲地区（Big Bend）对该围墙的担忧在今年早些时候就已出现。关于在何处建设什么的变动信息，在居民中引发了更多不安，他们表示该地区恶劣的地形使得物理屏障变得没有必要。
在美国海关和边境保护局的一份给《纽约时报》的声明中，一名发言人表示，围墙将包括“基于位置和运行需求的混合照明”，并且并非所有部分都会被照明。该发言人补充说，在偏远地区将避免使用照明，转而采用“其他运行上更优的方法”，例如红外照明设备。
美国海关和边境保护局网站上最新版本的地图显示，计划沿着大弯曲边境建设约 165 英里的围墙，紧邻几个小镇，一直延伸到大弯曲牧场州立公园（Big Bend Ranch State Park）的边缘。根据该地图，在最靠近特林瓜（Terlingua）以及紧邻州立公园和国家公园的边境地带，将使用探测技术和巡逻路来替代围墙。
但在一个黑暗且开阔的区域，光线
比利·巴特科（Billy Bartko），他在德克萨斯州特林瓜拥有“远方户外中心”（Far Flung Outdoor Center）。
从上至下：埃尔帕索（El Paso）市外的部分边境墙；特林瓜市外供游客使用的观星舱；以及安伯·哈里森（Amber Harrison），一名特林瓜居民，该地区暗夜保护的领导者。
不仅是与围墙相关的照明，还有所有随之而来的辅助设施的相关照明，”哈里森女士说。“影响可能是立竿见影的。”
四月的一个傍晚，太阳在特林瓜广阔的天空中缓缓落下。一只脖子上系着蓝色圣诞灯（主人解释说，这是为了在夜间可见）的黑狗，悠闲地向一家名为“星光剧院”（Starlight Theater）的酒馆走去。
随着小镇陷入黑暗，云层遮住了星空。但这并没有阻止特林瓜人欣赏夜晚的自然黑暗。
“这对我们非常重要，”艾德琳·埃文斯（Adrienne Evans）说。她是两姐妹之一，当时正关掉“银河甜点”（Milky Way Treats）的店门——这是一辆贴满了关于边境墙传单的冰淇淋车。“我们这里没有门廊灯。”
埃文斯女士和她的姐姐表示，大弯曲地区的居民——甚至是那些投票给特朗普先生的人——都因为想要保持这里的原生态而充满动力，团结一致反对这座墙。
瓦莱丽·斯坦利（Valerie Stanley）是拥有这辆冰淇淋车的姐姐，她在 2020 年从休斯敦搬到了特林瓜。“能够抬头看到银河，这在某种程度上改变了我的生活，”她说。“现在我生活在一种截然不同的状态中，拥有这些我以前从未真正意识到存在于此的美景。”
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knowing she may soon find the doors locked. “This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded,” Ms. Weiswasser, 87, said. “Now it’s a black hole.” No one yet knows whether President Trump, who in his sec- ond term gutted the center’s lead- ership, purged its programming and whose handpicked board had his name drilled into the building front, will close the Kennedy Cen- ter in the coming weeks, as part of what he says is a two-year renova- tion plan. The center’s board is ex- pected to make a final determina- tion in August. But at this point it scarcely matters, Ms. Weiswasser said. Last month the National Sym- phony Orchestra played its final Kennedy concert for the season, unsure of when or if it will return. Marquee bookings and artists have fled. Everywhere is the heavy, closed-curtain silence of an institution that has lost some 90 percent of its employees and 100 percent of its paying audience. Ms. Weiswasser keeps coming to give tours, she said, to bear wit- ness, to tell her dwindling visitors that the shabby emptiness they see is not what the Kennedy Cen- ter was. For more than half a cen- tury it was a grand democratic project, she tells them, bringing the beauty and inspiration of the arts to everyone. Ms. Weiswasser offers herself as proof its mission did not fail. She is a daughter of Polish immi- grants whose grandmother was lost in World War II and presumed by the family to have died in a Nazi
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As I explained to the customs officer at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport last month, I’m a regular contributor to The New York Times who was flown from my home in Berlin to write about a new event called Xenom. The event is a two-day fitness competi- tion that was taking place that weekend at Ford Center at the Star stadium in Frisco. Still, the officer seemed skeptical. “It’s related to CrossFit,” I hastily clarified. “Oh,” he said. “So it’s like a cult thing.” I am something of an expert in the “cult thing” of CrossFit. I have written exten- sively about the company and its exercise methodology for The Times, and my book about its rise and fall comes out in October. I've also covered many fitness fads and exercise competitions that share CrossFit’s DNA, including Hyrox, the German race that has exploded in popularity; the Tacti- cal Games, a “fitness fad with guns”; and MetFix, the health-focused regime created by CrossFit’s founder, Greg Glassman. So covering Xenom, which aims to turn Cross- Fit into a mass participation event like an Ironman race, was par for the course. As usual, I set out to learn how the event came together, how it worked and what kinds of people were participating. But this time, I wouldn’t just be reporting on the competition. I would be a competitor. Xenom consists of 10 tests held over 48 hours. It’s a long, physically demanding challenge that includes weight lifting, gym- nastics and high-skill movements like handstand push-ups and muscle-ups. I have been doing CrossFit training more or less daily for the past eight years, so it’s not like I was going into this weekend-long fitness extravaganza unprepared.
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A competitor attempting a power clean.
But as a reporter, keeping my eyes open, my ears to the ground and my mind atten- tive was a full-time job. It proved a lot harder to be keenly observant while also warming up, sweating profusely and throw- ing barbells around. I had to force myself off the floor after a particularly grueling event involving a stationary bike to do some interviews and take notes. On a Sunday morning, I nervously pre- pared to take on an event I had been dread- ing: the clean ladder. A clean is a kind of Olympic lift in which you heave a barbell up from the ground onto your shoulders. When done well, it looks easy, but it’s an ex- tremely technical movement that requires precise timing and control. Five minutes before the event, I rushed over to Josh Godinez, a coach with HWPO, a CrossFit training program I’ve sub- scribed to for many years. Mr. Godinez was on hand to give pointers to athletes — and I
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badly needed some. “Can you give me some tips on my clean?” I asked. I showed him what my clean looked like, and he took it in silently. He offered some pointers. “I’ve taught a lot of people to clean,” Mr. Godinez said. “But never this quickly.” On the competition floor, and with his advice in mind, I made it to the 198-pound bar, concentrating on what he had told me: Engage my lats, shrug hard. The barbell came up — and I caught it. People around me were lifting far heavier. But under the bright stadium lighting, in that moment, I felt like a superhero. My last event wrapped early Sunday afternoon. I spent the rest of the day wan- dering the arena, chatting with other com- petitors and asking people what they thought of the weekend — the usual shoe- leather reporting I do while on assignment, though in this case much more exhausted. One unexpected advantage was that the people I was reporting on saw me not as a nosy outsider but as a peer. I talked to one of the men in my group about his experi- ence. “I saw you run past me on the run- ning event,” he said. “Great job!” Drafting the story that Monday morning was a little more difficult than usual, if only because my body was so banged up. Work- ing as a reporter doesn’t usually involve being so sore. But I believed that I under- stood something about Xenom only through doing it myself. It would have been difficult to know just how well Xenom conveys the feeling of being a professional athlete with- out experiencing it myself, in every lift, every burpee and every ounce of sweat. Now I am on the lookout for the next assignment in the fitness realm. An Iron- man race or an ultramarathon might be interesting. I suppose it’s time to start training.
July 28, 1884. “An instance of extraordinary animal instinct and intelligence” was reported from upstate New York the previous day, according to The Times. A Maltese cat, which belonged to Mrs. Sarah Brown of Ellenville, was a successful hunter of birds and fish, but it was the feline’s penchant for discipline that had earned her recognition: Upon presenting a meal to her three kittens, the feline rejected any attempt at “miscellaneous scrambling after it,” al- lowing one offspring at a time to consume only a third of the meal while the other two remained “qui- etly at a distance.” The kitten that was served first on one day became the last one to be served the following day, The Times noted, adding that the mother cat regularly enforced “her authority against any protest on their part by frequent cullings.”
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Here to Help A Recipe for One-Pot Salmon and Dill Rice With Peas
The fragrant, dill-scented rice in this quick, one-pot meal is the perfect pairing for salmon, a rich, fatty fish that’s lightened by the vibrant grassy herb. As with any one-pot meal, stagger your cooking based on how long it takes each ingredient to cook. Give the rice a head start, then add the salmon and peas halfway through the cooking. A light coating of citrusy coriander seeds brightens the buttery salmon. While your pot simmers, whip up a simple cucumber yogurt sauce; drizzle it on top for a tangy balance to the dish. KAY CHUN
TIME: 30 MINUTES
YIELD: 4 SERVINGS
1½ cups/10 ounces basmati rice, rinsed and drained 2 teaspoons coriander seeds 1½ pounds skinless salmon fillet, cut into 1-inch cubes 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil Kosher salt (such as Diamond Crystal) and pepper ½ cup frozen peas ¾ cup plain Greek yogurt ¼ cup finely chopped Persian cucumber ¼ teaspoon finely grated garlic (optional) ½ cup chopped dill Lemon wedges, for serving (optional)
In a large Dutch oven, combine rice and 2 ¼ cups of water and bring to a boil over high. Cover, reduce heat to low and cook for 10 minutes. (It will cook further after you add the salmon.)
While the rice cooks, lightly crush the coriander seeds. (A meat mallet or the back of a small saucepan works well.) Rub salmon all over with the oil and season with salt, pepper and the crushed coriander seeds.
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Scatter peas evenly over the rice, then arrange salmon on top. Cover and cook until fish is just cooked to medium and rice is tender, 8 to 10 minutes longer.
In a small bowl, combine yogurt, cucumber, garlic (if using) and 2 tablespoons of water; mix well then season to taste with salt and pepper.
Transfer the salmon to 4 serving plates. Add dill to the rice, season with salt and fluff with a fork. Spoon some of the rice next to the salmon. Serve warm, with the yogurt sauce and lemon wedges (if using) on the side.
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Mark Kopua pressed his face close as he drew on his nephew’s arm with a felt-tip marker. From memory, he sketched pat- terns and motifs that had been in their family for generations. Finally satisfied, he pulled on rubber gloves and a needle gun buzzed to life. This was no regular tattoo. This was ta moko, the ritual body art practiced for centuries by the Maori, the Indigenous inhabitants of New Zealand. Half a dozen of Mr. Kopua’s relatives observed the rit- ual in February, squeezing into his small studio in Gisborne, on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Mr. Kopua, 64, and his nephew, Desmond Horomia, 56, grew up in a Maori community that had lost all its to- hunga ta moko, or ritual tattoo artists. The craft had been traditionally handed down from parent to child, but in 1907, New Zealand’s British colonial rulers banned ta moko and other Indigenous art forms. Maori people began hiding their tattoos and stopped teaching younger generations. More than a century later, the facial tattoos known as moko kanohi are being seen again, on television, on the streets and in the halls of New Zealand’s Parlia- ment. Maori teens and young adults have taken to documenting their ta moko ceremonies on social media. Some have persuaded their elders to be tattooed, helping the art form make a jubilant comeback after decades of stigma. “I’ve been involved with this for well over 30 years now, but our culture is still relearning because they’ve been im- mersed and overwhelmed by Western culture,” Mr. Kopua said. Mr. Kopua and a small group of other artisans began tattooing faces after a Maori nationalist movement gained ground in the 1970s. “Moko was asleep at the time. We de- cided we want to wake this thing back up again,” he said. A moko kanohi is the work of a lifetime. A person’s history can be gleaned from the tattoos on their face, signifying their ancestry and marking their coming of age, the birth of a child or the death of a relative. Women are marked on their lips and chin with moko kauae. Men receive mataora, which starts on the chin and grows outward to mark personal mile- stones. Family trees can be traced through recurring patterns on different faces. “It’s a thumbprint of your genealogy,” said Ruihana Smith, 32, a woodcarver who is an adviser on Maori relations to the Marlborough District Council in the South Island town of Blenheim. He received a mataora in 2023 to honor his great-grandmother after her death. It took four and a half hours to tattoo Mr. Smith’s chin, nose and cheeks as family members watched. In some ta moko ceremonies, relatives sing blessings and hold the person’s hands and arms as they undergo the ritu- al. While today’s ta moko artists use modern tattoo machines, traditionally the tohunga would use blades carved from shark teeth or the wing bones of an albatross, Mr. Kopua said. Without forebears to teach them, Mr. Kopua — a tohunga whakairo, or a mas- ter woodcarver — learned ta moko from the patterns he used in carving and weaving. They studied moko kanohi pat-
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RUIHANA SMITH, 32, a woodcarver who is an adviser on Maori relations to the Marlborough District Council in the South Island town of Blenheim.
MARK KOPUA, 64, is a renowned tohunga ta moko, or Maori ritual tattoo artist, in New Zealand.
HAWAIKI KOTI, 18, wears a moko kauae affirming her strength and her connection to her ancestors.
HUIRANGI LAW, 34, of Ruatahuna, proudly displays her moko kauae, or traditional women’s face tattoos.
RUIHANA SMITH, a traditional stone carver, is sporting the distinctive tattoo of his ancestral lands.
Left, Mark Kopua tattooing his nephew, Desmond Horomia. Right, Menehira Whatiwatihoe, a Maori chief, in 1875. Below, hand- carved albatross uhi chisels.
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terns on decapitated heads that were un- der the care of New Zealand’s national museum. Maori warriors believed that decapita- tion severed their enemies’ connection to the gods. In the 19th century, British set- tlers collected the heads as curiosities and trophies and offered guns and gold in exchange — prompting some Maori peo- ple to hunt down those who wore mataora and moko kauae. “That was one thing that stopped our ancestors from wanting to get their faces tattooed,” Mr. Kopua said. Maori who converted to Christianity at the time were also discouraged from get- ting tattoos. The ultimate blow, however, came with the Tohunga Suppression Act in 1907, which outlawed Maori experts, including priests, healers, teachers, woodcarvers and tattoo artists. The leg- islation, aimed at prohibiting practices that the authorities deemed exploitative, suffocated Maori culture for decades. New Zealand’s Parliament repealed the law in 1962. But for years afterward, moko kanohi was seen as the sign of a criminal or a gang member, Mr. Smith said. “None of the art forms are illegal any more, but we have to undo the damage,” he said. Tame Iti, one of the leaders of the 1970s Maori protest movement, has moko that spiral across his face, from his forehead, past his neck and over his ears. The 74- year-old recalls growing up at a time when hotels and other public venues barred anyone with facial markings. He ran for Parliament four times, none of them successful, but became a national figure. Mr. Iti’s last attempt to enter Parlia- ment was in 2014. Two years later, Nanaia Mahuta became the first woman to wear moko kauae in the House of Rep- resentatives, the sole chamber of New Zealand’s Parliament. She served as for- eign minister under Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. “Now you’ve got politicians, judges, all kinds of people with moko. It’s beautiful that it’s out there,” Mr. Iti said. Young Maori have been quicker to em- brace ta moko than their elders, said Ed Harawira, 50, a ta moko artist. A New Zealand government survey in 2018, the most recently available, found that more than a quarter of Maori people ages 25 to 44 had traditional tattoos, the most of any age group, compared with 8 percent of those 55 and older. “Our older people were the ones who initially opposed receiving moko be- cause they had been oppressed for so many years,” Mr. Harawira said, adding: “They were brought up thinking that Maori culture wasn’t going to get us any- where in today’s civilization.” After the birth of her fourth child, Huirangi Law, 34, decided to become the first person in her family in three genera- tions to receive moko. Though she con- sidered how the outside world might per- ceive her differently, “I knew whole- heartedly in my soul that this is who I was, and this is what I wanted to do,” she said. “The spaces, jobs, careers, any- thing like that — they would come natu- rally.” Children can start receiving moko kanohi from age 13, Mr. Smith said. Younger children, like his 9-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, wear tem- porary tattoos to copy their parents. Mr. Smith said he started to learn ta moko with the goal of giving his children tat- toos someday. Mr. Kopua said he has been training students to pass ta moko down to future generations. “That’s how we maintain it,” he said. “Not just to wake the art up, but to keep it awake.”
NEW DELHI — The high drama of the protests that swept across India last week forced an extraordinary concession by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But Monday be- gan with an awed hush. The site in New Delhi where thousands of young protesters braved security forces’ swinging batons and firing tear-gas shells — and who celebrated in triumph on Saturday night — had fallen si- lent. Gone were the barricades and scrawled slogans, leaving only a heavy police presence on the blocks that shook Mr. Modi like no other challenge in the 12 years that he has been in power. To some who joined the demon- strations, the empty roads around the site symbolized a rare victory won through direct public pres- sure. To others, it suggested a gov- ernment that knew exactly when to step back, before the movement gathered even greater momen- tum. Turning the page for a new week, Mr. Modi announced a high- profile committee to reform the way that examinations are admin- istered. The solution would be technological, he implied, and would address the specific com-
An exhibition center in Bordeaux, southwestern France, where people sheltered on Sunday after being displaced by the wildfires.
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clothing. Her two daughters were born in France, she said, but she couldn’t shake the fear that if she left the country, she might not be allowed back in. Her friend Atika Farhati, 77, a retired hospital worker, said she worried about losing her apart- ment and treasured possessions, including a Chinese vase. Her town, Eysines, northwest of Bor- deaux, lies in the path of the fires, which were blown east by swirling winds from the Atlantic toward the city. “The sky was red,” she said, re- calling the flame-scarred view from her fifth-floor balcony. “Now that we’re here, we can only won- der how it’s going to end.” For Roger Peuron, that out- come is not seriously in doubt. A retired engineer who worked at an armaments factory in Saint-Mé- dard-en-Jalles, Mr. Peuron, 89, said he was confident the fire would be stopped short of his town, if only to prevent it from ig- niting a factory that makes fuel for strategic ballistic missiles. “If that ever happened to the in- dustry,” he said, “it would be a true catastrophe.” Still, Mr. Peuron said France had never seen a fire like this, and it raised profound questions about how people should change their relationship to their environment. Sprawling pine forests that were planted across the region over centuries are now an accelerant for fire. “We need to replace the trees because the sap in the pines is flammable, and the trees don’t have deep roots, so they are easily blown over by the wind,” Mr. Peu- ron said. “The pines were planted to drain the region’s swamps, but they’re no longer suited to the en- vironment.” “We need sequoias,” he added. “They’re sturdy!”
plaints over a leak of exam ques- tions that set the movement in mo- tion in May. But there were signs of a crack- down, too. Hundreds of protesters were arrested in parts of India controlled by Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and its al- lies, far from New Delhi. One of the promises made to get pro- testers to call off their action was that no punitive action would be taken against them. Any arrests happening in “these states is therefore a matter of grave con- cern,” one of the protesters’ spokesmen posted on Monday. Questions remained over the extent of the victory by the move- ment, led by a pop-up group call- ing itself the Cockroach Janta Party. Officially, their objectives were narrow, focusing on details of a botched standardized testing sys- tem and demanding the resigna- tion of the education minister. For many, though, their goals came to seem as broad as the future of In- dian democracy itself. Ashcharya Dagur, a law student based in Delhi, said the outcome proved “that protests are not meaningless; this is a moment that feels bigger than all of us.” But she said the education min- ister’s resignation was “symbolic” and that changing ministers
Firefighting in Lacanau, in southwestern France, on Monday. About 220,000 people have evacuated.
French officials backed up Mr. Peuron’s contention about the fire’s extraordinary nature, re- flecting a warming climate. About 42,000 hectares, or 103,000 acres, have burned in Gironde since the fire started last week. It has forced about 220,000 people to evacuate, one of the largest peacetime evac- uations in French history. At the same time, fires in cen- tral Spain have burned about 50,000 hectares and displaced 105,000 people. So far this summer, forest fires have burned 115,000 hectares in France, according to the French interior minister, Laurent Nuñez. By comparison, the average yearly loss from 2014 to 2023 was 9,000 hectares. In the summer of 2022, which was considered dev- astating and led France to bolster its firefighting resources, about 70,000 hectares burned.
Members of the Cockroach Janta Party on Saturday. Demonstra- tions have ended, but hundreds have since been arrested.
“would not fix the system.” (Mr. Modi immediately installed a right-wing figure from within his cabinet to the vacated post.) Some of her fellow marchers were disappointed to see their mo- mentum halted. “This feels like damage con- trol,” said Raj Kumar, a father of two young students, who had trav- eled 800 miles from the state of West Bengal to join the protest on Saturday, looking dejected as oth- ers celebrated.
On Sunday, a heavy yellow-or- ange cloud of smoke hung over Bordeaux, an elegant city of 260,000 that is famous as the cen- ter of France’s wine industry. An acrid smell pervaded its streets, and tiny particles of soot flecked the air. Pedestrians wore face masks, and many shut them- selves in their homes. As the fire crept toward the city limits, Bordeaux’s mayor, Thomas Cazenave, said on Sunday that the authorities did not expect they would have to order an evacua- tion. But he and other officials warned that uncertainty was the watchword, as shifting winds and heat made it difficult for firefight- ers to gain control of the blaze. The forecast for Bordeaux esti- mates high temperatures of 37 de- grees Celsius on Tuesday and 41 on Wednesday — about 99 and 106 degrees Fahrenheit.
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By Monday, Mr. Kumar was on the long train ride home. “These protests could have brought a much bigger outcome,” he said in a phone interview, noting the movement’s most prominent lead- ers were inexperienced. “People who say these protests are only about education and not politics don’t understand that the prob- lems these students are facing to- day are the result of the politics of those in power.” Abhijeet Dipke, the 30-year-old
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At the exhibition center, the talk was of how long people would have to wait before they would be allowed back home. People passed the time reading, playing cards, and, in the case of one young man, Julien Hochard, pick- ing at his guitar. “There’s a solidarity that we’ve seen emerge here, one that’s slowly growing,” said Mr. Hochard, sitting on a camp bed next to his friend, Céline Lartigue. She said she had been impressed by firefighters’ efforts to stem the blaze. But from a nearby bed, Rabah Boukabous piped up to disagree. “I think the authorities reacted late,” he said. “They should have recognized the gravity of the situ- ation.” “They could not have prevented it,” said Mr. Boukabous, 70, “but they could have limited it.”
who founded the ‘Cockroach’ movement from Boston in May, and who swiftly became its face back in India, said in an interview on Saturday — less than two hours before the education minister re- signed — that his group’s aims were bigger than the exam sys- tem, which had been plagued by industrial-scale cheating for years. “If you look at the health care of India, if you look at the electoral malpractice that is happening in India,” he said, “it’s far, far more serious, and dangerous for the de- mocracy.” Since declaring victory on Saturday night, and saying he was being treated for typhoid fe- ver on Sunday, Mr. Dipke has mostly gone quiet. The Indian government started announcing actions of its own. Taken together, they indicate Mr. Modi wants to offer high-profile technical reforms to the testing system — and ensure he will not be steamrollered by protesters again. Taking to Instagram, the plat- form favored by the Cockroach movement, Mr. Modi announced a star-powered task force to root out dysfunction in the examination system. Featuring Nandan Nilekani, the billionaire tech en- trepreneur who led the India’s homegrown digital identity and
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Firefighters on Monday raced to contain the largest wildfires ever recorded in France and Spain as a new wave of extreme weather threatened to fan the flames and start still more blazes. Infernos in both countries have chewed through parched forests and are at the doorsteps of Madrid and Bordeaux. In France’s hardest-hit region, Gironde, wildfires have burned through over 100,000 acres and displaced over 200,000 people. It is one of the largest peacetime evacuations in the country’s his- tory. “We need to realize that we’re facing a totally unprecedented fire,” President Emmanuel Ma- cron of France said Monday dur- ing a visit with firefighters in Bor- deaux. “The situation we’re facing today is the hardest we’ve ever re- corded, the hardest since World War II.” Mr. Macron said that over 200 homes had been destroyed but that no lives had been lost. The Spanish authorities said at least two people were killed over the weekend, in the eastern provinces of Castellón and Valencia. Fueled by vegetation left desic- cated after weeks of successive heat waves and drought, the fires in France and Spain have resisted round-the-clock containment ef- forts by over 4,000 firefighters. A brief letup in conditions on Sunday night, including a light rain near Bordeaux, helped fire- fighters slow the spread in several areas. But a dangerous blast of heat and strong winds forecast for this week across Europe is stok- ing fears of new blazes. Meteor- ologists are warning of gusty winds, low humidity and tempera- tures topping 100 degrees Fahren- heit. Spain’s interior minister, Fer- nando Grande-Marlaska, said on Monday that firefighters had a “crucial” two-day window to bring the fires under control around Ma- drid before extreme temperatures were expected to return. “We have the emergency under control and we have the re- sources, but we have to acknowl- edge that progress is slow be- cause the weather isn’t helping us,” Mr. Grande-Marlaska said at a news conference on Monday. “Today and tomorrow are abso- lutely crucial. The forecast for Wednesday is very unfavorable.” According to Spain’s Ecological Transition Ministry, the wildfires are already the largest in the country’s recent history. The Spanish authorities have ordered the evacuations of 60,000
Reporting was contributed by Mark Landler, Leo Sands, Naza- neen Ghaffar, Giulia Imbert and Ephrat Livni.
payments programs, the commit- tee represents a step toward en- suring fairness in higher educa- tion’s grueling selection process. Mr. Modi already promised that anyone caught subverting the ex- ams will be punished severely. The much bigger obstacles to helping Gen-Z Indians who pin their hopes on the dream of test results, college admissions and re- warding employment, are left un- answered. Elsewhere, there were signs of increased suppression. In West Bengal, the new state government installed by Mr. Modi’s party ar- rested 14 people for participating in a Cockroach-affiliated protest in Kolkata, with the state’s leader claiming they were supported by “Islamic fundamentalists.” In neighboring Bihar, according to a Cockroach spokesman, hundreds of protesters were arrested, in- cluding an opposition politician’s son. It was online where the Cock- roaches outmaneuvered the Indi- an government, and now the gov- ernment is playing catch-up. By Monday, mobile data networks that were shut down for nearly a week had been restored, but Indi- an newspapers reported that the police had directed social-media companies to take down posts of- fending Mr. Modi.
people around Madrid. Hundreds of miles away, in Castellón, a wors- ening blaze forced the evacuation of another 16,000 people over the weekend. Opening up a danger- ous new front, the fire threatened a national park. On a visit there on Monday afternoon, Prime Min- ister Pedro Sánchez said blazes had burned their way through over 100,000 acres since last week. “This climate emergency is ex- ceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned Spain and Europe as a whole about,” Mr. Sánchez said. He urged those who had been evacu- ated to be patient until it was safe to return. In France, the fires forced the closing of a highway heading from the south of Bordeaux to Bayonne, as well as the cancellation of train service south of Bordeaux. The fires are also threatening a hub of the aerospace and defense industries near Bordeaux, imper- iling plants that produce some of the world’s most sophisticated technologies and work with dan- gerous materials. Employees have been evacuated from one site where chemical rocket fuel is packed into boosters for subma- rine-launched nuclear missiles, and from another where those missiles are dismantled and de- contaminated after they are re- tired. For winemakers in the Bor- deaux region, smoke from the fires is one more threat on top of this summer’s heat and drought. It is just weeks before the grape harvest, and the fruit is suscepti- ble to absorbing it. “This year, it feels like we’re on another planet,” said Gabriel Barre, 44, who owns an independent wine operation in Fronsac. Six years ago, winemakers in Northern California were forced to dump tens of thousands of tons of grapes contaminated with smoke from a massive wildfire. The California Governor’s Of- fice of Emergency Services said over the weekend that France had requested information about how to best fight fires. The state pro- vided case studies of significant California wildfires to French and Spanish officials, according to the office. So far this summer, 116,000 hectares, or roughly 287,000 acres, of forests have burned in France, the French interior min- ister, Laurent Nuñez, said Mon- day. That far exceeds the previous record, the 72,000 hectares that burned in 2022. The devastation then led the government to strengthen and expand its fire fighting systems. Since July 6, 162 arrests have been made in France in connec- tion with fires, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on social media on Monday. He warned that arson was a crime punishable by 15 years of imprisonment.
A memorial in Berlin on Sunday, with the Brandenburg Gate lit up to say “Berlin, City of Freedom.” A Polish woman was killed and 29 other people were injured in a terrorist attack on Saturday.
By JIM TANKERSLEY and PHILIP KALETA BERLIN — Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany on Monday called for tougher moni- toring of individuals who are secu- rity threats, a day after prosecu- tors said the suspect in Saturday’s terrorist attack near a gay Pride event in Berlin was released from detention in May. “If we cannot detain such poten- tial offenders, we must do every- thing we can to restrict their free- dom of movement as much as pos- sible,” Mr. Merz said at a news conference. On Sunday, the German au- thorities had also revealed that the suspect had tried to join the Is- lamic State terrorist group, and had previously been sentenced to prison for preparing a serious act of violence. The suspect was shot and killed by the police on Sunday. “It was an attack on our free so- ciety,” Mr. Merz said. “We will do everything to protect and defend this freedom, this openness and the liberal values of our society.” The revelations about the sus- pect have intensified debates over religious extremism and public safety in Germany, with the au- thorities calling the attack an act of Islamist terrorism. Mr. Merz said the authorities needed to ad- dress how the suspect could have gone “unhindered” to the Pride event. A woman was killed and 29 other people were injured in the attack. The woman was a Polish citizen, the spokesman for the Pol- ish Foreign Ministry, Maciej Wewior, said on Monday. On Sunday, prosecutors in Berlin identified the suspect as a 21-year-old German citizen named Abdul B., withholding the surname in keeping with German privacy laws. His full name is Ab- dul Rahman Toufiq Ballout, ac- cording to two people familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details about the case. The prosecutors said that the suspect tried to join ISIS in May 2025 after traveling to Lebanon, where he had family ties. From there, they said, he had wanted to cross the border into Syria but was arrested in Lebanon and sen- tenced to three months in prison for offenses including incitement to religious and sectarian conflict. The suspect returned to Ger- many in November and was ar- rested at the airport in Berlin. He was held in pretrial detention until May, when he was sentenced by a juvenile court to a year and 10 months in prison for offenses that included “preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state.” He had also posted ISIS propa- ganda on a social media account in 2024, the prosecutors said. The sentence, however, was suspended and Mr. Ballout was re- leased and placed under the su-
BERLIN — The parade at the center of Berlin’s Pride celebra- tion over the weekend was a sunny blur of glitter and feathers, of rainbow flags and thumping techno beats. It was cocooned by walls of metal barricades and guarded by 2,200 police officers — up from 1,300 last year, as the city tried to curb a wave of violence against Berlin’s gay community. Those precautions failed to pre- vent an attack late Saturday night, when an assailant plowed a rented van into a group of revelers leav- ing the celebration via a side street in the city’s central Tier- garten park, just outside the secu- rity perimeter. He attacked others with what appeared to be a machete, shock- ing those who thought the extra security measures might protect them. “How did he even get into the Tiergarten?” asked Benjamin Bock, an attendee who said he had been at the site of the attack 10 minutes before it happened. “There were anti-car and anti- truck barriers everywhere. Thou- sands of police officers were on duty.” One woman was killed, and 29 people were injured, the authori- ties said. The police shot and killed the main suspect on Sunday evening, ending a daylong na- tional manhunt. Officials called the episode Is- lamist terrorism and named the attacker as Abdul B., 21, omitting his surname in line with German privacy laws. It was a sum-of-all-fears mo- ment for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Berlin and for city officials. They had ramped up security at Pride events in re- cent years and had appeared to be making progress in stemming a surge of crime against the com- munity. Berlin started an effort in 2024 to combat violence and discrimi- nation against its gay community. According to city statistics, “anti- queer” crimes more than tripled in Berlin between 2016 and 2025. Violent anti-queer crimes rose by half. Both violent and nonviolent offenses peaked in 2023 and have fallen since the city began its strategy, but both types of crimes remain historically elevated. Much of that effort has focused on countering growing hostility from Germany’s far right; in Berlin, far-right ideology was the most frequently cited specific mo- tivation for homophobic attacks last year. But after the authorities said that the perpetrator had at- tempted to join the Islamist ter- rorist group ISIS, community leaders said they were increas- ingly worried about threats from people with a wider range of politi- cal and religious motivations. “We queer people in Berlin are feeling more and more unsafe,” Florian Winkler-Schwarz, manag-
ing director of the LSVD Associa- tion for Queer Diversity Berlin- Brandenburg, a civil rights group, said in an interview. Mr. Winkler-Schwarz said the police presence and other safety measures on Saturday “were enormously high.” But, he said, “I believe that you cannot guarantee 100 percent security for such a massive event.” Alfonso Pantisano is the L.G.B.T.Q. affairs commissioner for Berlin’s state government, a position created as part of a strat- egy to combat violence and dis- crimination against the communi- ty. He attended the Christopher Street Day celebration with a po- lice escort because of the threats he has received since taking the job. He stayed at the site deep into Sunday morning to help and com- fort people who were evacuating after the assault. “My heart is broken,” Mr. Panti- sano said in an interview. “It’s making me wonder if, in this life that I have at the moment — and I’m 52 now — I will ever get to a point where I can say, as the queer community, finally, we are really safe.” Many festivalgoers in Berlin grappled with similar fears. Uwe Brzezek and his partner, Olav Kedziora, stood outside a church memorial service on Sun- day afternoon as rain fell, sur- rounded by dozens of mourners. Some carried Pride flags. Mr. Brzezek and Mr. Kedziora attended Saturday’s Pride festivi- ties but left hours before the at- tack. “Yesterday, friends of mine dressed up for Pride,” Mr. Kedziora said. “But they changed back into regular clothes before taking the subway home. They were afraid of being harassed. You would have hoped that, at least on that day, it wouldn’t have been necessary.” Mr. Brzezek said that when he moved to Berlin in the 1990s, “I never felt afraid.” That has changed. “Now there are certain situations I avoid.” Some said they feel particularly unsafe in areas with large num- bers of migrants, including higher numbers of conservative Islam- ists. The suspect was a German citi- zen of Lebanese background, liv- ing in an area with many Arab res- idents, and he had developed ex- tremist views, the authorities said. “Diversity itself seems to be be- coming a challenge,” Mr. Kedziora said. “Too many extremes are col- liding. We have to learn how to live together.” Some people at the memorial on Sunday said German leaders had contributed to a sense of insecuri- ty. They singled out the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has climbed in national polls with a platform that defines a family as a man and a woman with children. Others criticized Friedrich Merz, the chancellor, who de- fended a decision not to fly a Pride flag over the federal Parliament
A memorial service at St. Mary’s Church in Berlin on Sunday, a day after an attacker drove into a crowd at a Pride celebration.
People paying their respects on Monday at the Tiergarten, a park in central Berlin. Dozens were wounded, and one woman died.
Removing the vehicle that was used to ram the festive crowd. The authorities consider the episode to be Islamist terrorism.
building last year by saying Par- liament was “not a circus tent.” Mr. Merz and Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, attended the memori- al on Sunday. Afterward, Mr. Weg- ner led a silent march from the church to the Brandenburg Gate. Several hundred people joined the march. Mr. Merz briefly spoke before the service, expressing outrage over the attacks and solidarity with the community. At a speech later in the evening, he elabo- rated. “Violence doesn’t begin with an attack,” he said. “Violence begins with intolerance, with exclusion, with discrimination, with stupid remarks and bad jokes.” The authorities said that they
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would review security protocols to determine how the attacker was able to target people so close to the celebration. Officials and attendees alike said the violence would not deter them from future celebrations. “Yes, I was scared afterward,” Julia Preuss said, standing a few yards from the parade route where she had danced a day earli- er. “But it won’t stop me from go- ing to Pride again. Honestly: now more than ever.” Handmade signs were scat- tered across the pavement around her, surrounded by bouquets of flowers. “We are many,” one declared. Another sign said, simply, “Love wins.”
By AMELIA NIERENBERG and TATIANA FIRSOVA
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pervision of a probation officer. The prosecutors said the court had considered several factors, in- cluding that he had served nine months in detention in Germany and Lebanon, that he had largely confessed and had distanced him- self from ISIS, and that no real threat had materialized. The prosecutors said they had filed an appeal and requested a longer sentence. The attacks and the disclosure that the suspect was known to the authorities and released just over two months ago have added to calls from some politicians and analysts for Germany to take a tougher approach to terrorism. Those demands have intensified months before important regional elections, with polls showing that far-right parties were poised to make gains, in part over anxieties about rising violence. The far-right Alternative for Germany party said the Berlin at- tack demonstrated the govern- ment’s failure on security policy because it was overly focused on the wrong targets. “The one-sided fixation on right-wing extremism must finally be ended and ad- justed to the actual facts,” Martin Hess, the home affairs spokesman for the party, said on social media. Peter Neumann, a professor of security studies at King’s College London, said Germany had lighter sentences for terrorism- related offenses than other Euro- pean countries, such as France and Britain, as well as the United States. The goal is for the person to be re-educated, giving them a better chance of becoming a contribut- ing member to society. But in this case, he said, that was a mistake, considering how aggressively the suspect had tried to join ISIS. “In terrorism cases, even when suspects are quite young, the pro- tection of the public should be more important than the educa- tional aspect,” Professor Neu- mann said, noting that the suspect had tried to join the Islamist ter- rorist group just a year before he was released from detention. But Frieder Dünkel, a professor emeritus of criminology at the University of Greifswald, de- fended the system as a largely ef- fective way of dealing with young offenders. “We see no need to reconsider the system as a whole,” he wrote in an email, and that officials in- stead should consider “what went wrong in the individual case.” Mr. Merz said that it was too early to determine the political fallout of the attacks but he was in- credulous that Mr. Ballout had not been monitored more carefully. “I cannot understand how it is that I can track my cellphone any- where in the world — and even use my cellphone to determine, for example, where my iPad is — yet it is allegedly impossible, or technically impossible, for the se- curity authorities in Germany to determine at any time where indi- viduals posing such a significant threat are located,” he said.
sible natural gas; and installing solar panels on rooftops and even vehicles. Together, the workarounds amount to a new Cuban energy grid — this one more in the hands of the Cuban people, propping up society with the electricity off and fuel lines dry. These solutions have enabled the Cuban government to ration power by turning on the lights for just a few hours a day, stretching out whatever scarce fuel it has left in an effort to withstand Washing- ton’s intense pressure campaign. The result is that Cuba has lasted far longer without fuel ship-
Can Cuba Survive?
How the island is handling its worst-ever energy crisis.
ments than the Trump adminis- tration appears to have expected. Over nearly seven decades of U.S. pressure, Cuba has defied the odds and improvised to survive. Now it seems that Mr. Trump, like many U.S. presidents before him, is also finding that toppling the government founded by Fidel Castro is not so simple. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters last week that the Trump administration still wants to see the Cuban government fall. “We’re prepared to be very realis- tic about how you do that, and pa- tient,” he said. “These are com- plex things that take time, and ob- viously we’re prepared to do what we can.” The Cuban government is seek- ing a deal. “Cuba is not an enemy of the United States,” Carlos Fer- nández de Cossio, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, said in an inter- view. “What we would like is a constructive and respectful rela- tionship.” Meantime, the Cuban people, as they have for decades, are making do. “Cubans thrive amid crisis,” said Humberto Palmero, a 55- year-old farmer, standing on the hill where he grew up along Cuba’s coastline, with a view toward Flor- ida. His siblings had already left for Miami and his two children are fleeing to Spain, but he said he is determined to stay. After hearing about the oil blockade, Mr. Palmero learned on YouTube how to distill junk plastic into homemade gasoline and diesel. He has since built a tiny, makeshift refinery in his back- yard to power his motorcycle and light his stove. “We look for solutions,” he said. “The economic restrictions are slowly killing us, but we’re pulling through with all our might, man- aging to get by until we see what happens next.”
‘We’re pulling through with all our might.’
Misery and Mettle In Havana and beyond, the crisis’s effects were clear. We met families walking two hours for water because govern- ment pumps had run out of diesel. Women, lacking cooking gas, burned firewood on the street. Powerless refrigerators became cabinets. Hitchhikers littered roadsides after the city halted public busing. And dozens of peo- ple told us they were simply ex- hausted after so many sleepless nights in the sweltering heat with- out fans or air-conditioning. But we also saw a country that was still functioning. Vehicles were on the road — de- spite black-market gasoline reaching $30 a gallon — because many were electric. Restaurants were open for the few who could afford them, powered by rumbling generators out back. Hospitals, government buildings and the air- port had power because they were on protected parts of the grid. Medical clinics, nursing homes and bank branches ran off solar panels donated by China. Cell service was sometimes working. Televisions showing the World Cup were not hard to find. And even roadside stands were serving cold beer from refrigera- tors powered by the sun. But the makeshift energy grid also exposed Cuba’s inequality. The batteries, solar panels and electric vehicles overwhelmingly belong to wealthier Cubans, which usually means those with rela- tives abroad. Their poorer neigh- bors often live without power and scrape by with meager pay amid rising inflation. “The situation here is fine, be- cause the owner can afford to buy solar panels,” said Yeny Oliva, 26, a bartender at a roadside restau- rant. “But for us, at home, life is awful.” On wages of roughly $1 a day, she said, she struggles to buy milk for her 3-year-old daughter, and then their food spoils quickly without electricity. Yet she also was grateful for the solar energy. Without power, the restaurant had closed. Then, the owners installed the panels and she was back at work.
Playing dominoes during a power outage in Havana. To preserve its energy supply, the government strategically cuts power at certain times and in certain places.
While not everyone can afford alternative power sources, their energy has trickled down. Electric rickshaws ferry people to work. Solar panels have kept stores open. And people charge their phones and lanterns off their neighbor’s battery or the genera- tor at work. In one neighborhood, we saw one of the few families with a gen- erator set up a television in the street so children could watch car- toons. “We have not reached the point of having a humanitarian crisis precisely because of the strength of our society,” Mr. Fernández de Cossio, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, said in Havana’s Fidel Castro museum, where the lights were on but the air-conditioning had failed. “The intimate expecta- tion in political circles in the United States was that Cuba could not survive beyond April. And here we are.”
Scraping the Barrel Other than a single Russian oil tanker in March, allies have not been willing to test Washington’s effective oil blockade. As a result, Cuba has been pow- ering its electric grid solely with domestic oil and gas and a grow- ing network of solar parks spon- sored by China. Together, they are enough to support roughly half of Cuban demand, according to Jorge Piñón, who studies Cuban energy at the University of Texas. To preserve that supply, the government strategically cuts power at certain times and in cer- tain places. It also runs plants at lower capacity to keep them from failing; extracts more natural gas; and even tries to refine sludgy oil residues from the bot- tom of years-old tanks. “They are literally scraping the bottom of the barrel,” Mr. Piñón said. Mr. Piñón said he and other ana-
The restaurant where Yeny Oliva works installed solar panels to remain open. “But for us, at home,” she said, “life is awful.”
HUMBERTO PALMERO, a 55-year-old farmer who built a tiny, makeshift refinery in his backyard.
lysts underestimated the Cuban government’s resourcefulness when they forecast it would ex- haust its fuel stocks by March. But now he is skeptical of the govern- ment’s claim in May that the is- land has run out of fuel. On our trip, it was clear gasoline and diesel were still circulating. At least some is coming from the United States. The Trump ad- ministration has allowed limited fuel exports to private businesses in Cuba, which has relieved pres- sure on black-market gas prices. And last week, the U.S. govern- ment’s first batch of $100 million in aid arrived. The moves show how the
Trump administration is exerting power over Cuba, ordering other nations to halt fuel shipments but allowing its own, and then provid- ing aid in response to the resulting crisis. A White House spokes- woman said the Trump adminis- tration viewed Cuba as a threat to national security. Exhausted Cubans told us they were angry at both Havana and Washington. Yet no one said they planned to take to the streets. Aside from banging pots and pans, the Cuban people have hardly staged protests. “You go out to express your opinion on the street, and they throw you in jail or fine you,” said
Cuba’s power grid has been decaying in rural areas for years, making blackouts — and renewable energy — already common.
David Hechavarría Gamboa, 24, standing alongside his wife on a darkened street. “I can’t put my family at risk.”
Chasing Daylight When U.S. forces captured Vene- zuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, in January, Nelson Vega knew Cuba had a problem. Venezuelan oil had powered Cuba for years. A month later, Mr. Vega, a 38- year-old entrepreneur, borrowed money from relatives in Florida to buy a Chinese-made electric rick- shaw for $4,850. It took 10 hours to charge, and almost immediately, the blackouts made that difficult. So he invested a further $600 to
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drill solar panels to its roof. Now he can power the entire battery by parking it in the sun for a day. “To me, this is the future,” he said. “We’re going to overcome the U.S. blockade.” Once we traveled outside Ha- vana, solar panels proliferated. Cuba’s power grid has been de- caying in rural areas for years, making blackouts — and solar panels — already common. On the road west, we met Abel Menéndez on a roof blanketed in panels. He has been selling and in- stalling solar kits for five years, he said, but now both supply and de- mand have skyrocketed. At the same time, costs have dropped, to about $400 a panel from $500 a year earlier. “People are con- stantly calling,” he said. We also came across a new field of panels — one of the govern- ment’s 54 solar parks, most inau- gurated since 2025 and all built with China’s help. Few countries are adopting so- lar faster than Cuba. Solar energy can now meet roughly 10 percent of Cuba’s electricity needs, the government says, up from 3 per- cent at the start of 2025. Cuban of- ficials aim to depend fully on re- newable energy by 2050. For now, solar provides a boost, but it hardly solves Cuba’s prob- lem. The island lacks the massive batteries needed to store solar power. That means it can provide roughly 20 percent of Cuba’s elec- tricity at midday, but virtually none after the sun sets, during peak demand.
Running on Fumes Perhaps Cuba’s hottest products of the moment are portable lithium batteries that can be charged in a few hours and then temporarily power televisions, fans or even refrigerators. The most popular model costs about $750 in Cuba, sold on social media by Cubans who have im- ported them from China. That is more than most Cubans make in a year, so most of the batteries are sponsored by relatives abroad. Other Cubans are electrifying their homes with the gas piped in for cooking and heating water. About 280,000 residences in Ha- vana have such gas lines, and many are connecting them to modified generators designed to run on liquid fuel. Cuba produces the gas domestically, so it is one of the few energy sources not af- fected by the blockade. The gas is also cheap, especially for the 120,000 households that pay a flat rate regardless of use. One man said he had been run- ning a generator off gas almost nonstop, and yet was still billed the same 50 pesos, or eight cents, for the month. On one of our final nights in Ha- vana, we found a bar still full of pa- trons past midnight, powering its string lights and Latin music with a natural gas generator. Outside, we met Kiké Rodríguez, 37, founder of a Cuban barbecue busi- ness, Manteca, that has expanded during the crisis. He now employs 18 people to cook and deliver pork and plantains to customers across Havana. “We’re the masters of this,” he said. “We’ve been figuring things out our whole lives.” He pointed to the rooftop, where he said he was finishing a remodel to open his first brick-and-mortar restaurant, powered by the same generator. “How are things going to play out? Nobody knows,” he added. “But when people say the country is going to fall apart, I don’t ex- actly know what they mean.”
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and violence” and accused them of serving foreign agendas in an ap- parent reference to Iran. But the battle-hardened Houthis may think they have much to gain from a new con- frontation with Saudi Arabia, in- cluding access to Yemeni oil reve- nue and greater authority over the country, according to officials and diplomats who have dealt with the militia. “Our souls are content with any level of sacrifice,” Abdulmalik al- Houthi, the group’s leader, said in a televised speech on July 16, after tensions with Saudi Arabia spiked.
Risk of a new all-out war grows The Houthis are acting in support of their main ally, Iran, but also to force Saudi Arabia and the inter- national community to make polit- ical concessions in Yemen, accord- ing to researchers who study the group. In the past week, the Houthis have fired missiles and drones into Saudi Arabia and at ships in the Red Sea, disrupting already volatile global energy markets, while a Saudi-led military coali- tion has carried out airstrikes in Houthi-held territory for the first time in years. “There is a real concern that the internal Yemeni war could re- ignite,” said April Alley, an analyst who worked on Yemen’s peace process at the United Nations and is now a senior fellow at the Wash- ington Institute, a research orga- nization. This account of the situation in Yemen is based on interviews with Yemeni officials, current and former Western diplomats in- volved in Yemen’s peace process and regional analysts. Many spoke on the condition of ano- nymity to discuss the details of sensitive political negotiations. The Houthis have chosen a vul- nerable moment for Saudi Arabia, analysts say. Saudi Arabia typical- ly exports most of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow wa- terway that Iran has effectively blocked since the Iran war began. The kingdom now depends on the Red Sea to export oil — the lifeblood of its economy. “The Houthis are good at smelling blood in the water,” Ms. Alley said. The Saudi response so far has been calibrated to try to avoid get- ting sucked into a broader war, said Ahmed Nagi, a senior analyst for Yemen at International Crisis Group. But if they hold back en- tirely, they risk emboldening the Houthis, he added. “The Saudis were cornered, and they feel like there will be a higher cost if they stay silent,” he said. Trapped in the middle of this power struggle are tens of mil- lions of Yemeni citizens suffering from widespread deprivation. Some of them say that even a re- turn to fighting would be better than their current despair. “We’ve had enough of this hard- ship, and we needed a way out, whether through dialogue or war,” said Ayman Abdulhaq, a 43-year- old father of four and taxi driver in the Houthi-controlled capital of Yemen, Sanaa. “People are al- ways looking for a breakthrough, no matter the consequences,” he added.
Balancing Act for Netanyahu as He Travels to the U.S.
by Israel and that has caused ten- sions between Israel and Wash- ington. Both leaders failed to deliver on their war goals of ending Iran’s nuclear program and overthrow- ing the country’s authoritarian clerical rulers in their joint war against Iran, which began in late February. “We see that Trump is inter- ested in reaching an agreement,” said Danny Citrinowicz, a former Israeli military intelligence com- mander and an Iran specialist at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. “Israel doesn’t want to hear about an agreement, so there is no alignment of inter- ests,” he said. Israeli leaders view returning to war as preferable, he said, be- cause any U.S. peace agreement with Iran will strengthen the gov- ernment in Tehran that they want to see toppled. While Israel is focused on po- tentially existential threats from Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Mr. Trump’s focus is on freeing move- ment through the Strait of Hor- muz, a crucial shipping route for oil. The United States has been go- ing it alone in the latest fighting against Iran and before that large- ly left Israel, a partner in the war, out of the peace talks. If Mr. Trump does expand his attacks on Iran, analysts say, he may still want to keep Israel on the sidelines.
A picture of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Ira- nian leader who was killed in February, at a protest in Sanaa, Yem- en, against the war.
‘The Saudis solve every problem by trying to shower it with money, and the Houthis by shooting at it.’
FAREA AL-MUSLIMI, fellow at the Chatham House research group in London.
The Israeli and American leaders’ relationship has swung wildly.
“The irony,” Mr. Citrinowicz said, is that Mr. Netanyahu told Mr. Trump that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader, “had to be killed” to pre- vent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. “Now there is a new Ay- atollah Khamenei, and Israel is saying Iran has to be stopped from obtaining nuclear weapons again.” Mr. Netanyahu, whose visit was timed so he could also attend serv- ices for Senator Lindsey Graham, has championed his close rela- tionship with Mr. Trump in Israeli election campaigns. But the rela- tionship has swung erratically over the past few months, and re- cently it appeared to be at a low. Mr. Trump has veered from praising Mr. Netanyahu as a great wartime leader to belittling him,
The Houthis began as a ragtag group of Shiite Muslim rebels in Yemen’s mountainous north, with a slogan calling for death to Amer- ica and Israel. With Iranian sup- port, they started a civil war by overrunning the capital in 2014, routing the internationally recog- nized government in Sanaa. Saudi Arabia, Yemen’s neighbor to the north, was alarmed at the idea of an Iranian-backed militia on their border. A Saudi-led mili- tary coalition began a bombing campaign, backing anti-Houthi forces inside Yemen that were try- ing to restore the government. But the war dragged on for years, and Saudi Arabia pulled back amid international pressure over its role in exacerbating Yem- en’s already severe humanitarian crisis. From afar, Saudi officials still exert a final say over a variety of Yemeni affairs.
Houthi frustration with Saudi truce built over time At first, it seemed as if military fa- tigue and political will on both sides could lead to a lasting peace. In late 2023, with the help of the United Nations, Saudi Arabia and the Houthis came close to signing a preliminary peace deal — re- ferred to by officials as a “road map” — that would have provided an outline for a long-term political resolution, according to Yemeni and Western officials involved in those efforts. A key component of that deal was an agreement to enable sala- ry payments to Yemeni govern- ment employees in Houthi terri- tory, whose paychecks had been suspended during the war. The amount at stake was significant — $1 billion to $2 billion annually, ac- cording to two Western diplomats and a Yemeni official briefed on the plan. The money was mainly to come from Yemeni oil revenue, those people said, with additional Saudi government funding to fill any
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saying, “He’ll do whatever I want him to do.” Mr. Trump confirmed that he had called Mr. Netanyahu “crazy” in a phone call and has called him “a very difficult guy.” Mr. Netanyahu has maintained a diplomatic silence. But Mr. Trump’s preliminary deal to end the war with Iran last month caused widespread consternation in Israel because of its apparent shortcomings in addressing the country’s security needs. Mr. Netanyahu’s loyalists re- sponded by vilifying the Ameri- can president and his top aides. Then Mr. Trump signed an agreement last week with Saudi Arabia to develop a civilian nucle- ar program, which Israelis fear could lead to a regional arms race. Mr. Trump subsequently declared that the deal would be contingent
gaps, according to the Yemeni offi- cial. Yemen’s oil resources are out- side Houthi territory, and the Houthis have been eager to gain access to them. Before the deal could be final- ized, however, the Hamas-led at- tack on Israel in October 2023, fol- lowed by Israel’s devastating war in Gaza, derailed Yemen’s peace process. The Houthis announced a military campaign in solidarity with Palestinians, shooting mis- siles and drones at Israel and at ships in the Red Sea. Throughout the war in Gaza, the Houthis avoided attacking Saudi Arabia. But their attacks in the Red Sea drew the ire of coun- tries that depended on the water- way for shipping. When President Trump began a second term in 2025, he declared the Houthis a foreign terrorist organization and launched a bombing campaign against them. That designation worsened an already painful economic situa- tion in areas under Houthi control, and growing resentment put pres- sure on the group, said Mr. al- Muslimi, the Chatham House re- searcher.
After mostly sitting out U.S.-Iran war, Houthis join fray Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior Houthi political official, said in an interview that Saudi Arabia had failed “to implement any of the provisions of the road map, fore- most among them the payment of salaries for all state employees.” He added that Saudi Arabia was at fault for the current escalation, and he accused the kingdom of im- posing unjust restrictions on avia- tion and shipping to Yemen, which the Houthis and many Yemenis in their territory describe as a block- ade. In February, when the United States and Israel went to war with Iran, the Houthis seemed willing to stay on the sidelines. Months later, after a cease-fire between the United States and Iran fell
on Saudi Arabia’s establishing diplomatic ties with Israel, but Is- raelis remained unconvinced. What goes on behind the scenes between the two leaders, however, has proved to be inscrutable and surprising at times. Mr. Netanya- hu has managed to influence Mr. Trump in the past, analysts say, and it can be impossible to know if the pair are at loggerheads or in cahoots. Itamar Rabinovich, a former Is- raeli ambassador to the United States and a professor emeritus of Middle Eastern history at Tel Aviv University, said that if the United States resumes a war against Iran, “clearly Trump is not inter- ested in seeming to be doing it in collaboration with Netanyahu be- cause that will look like a repeti- tion of the unsuccessful venture” of a few months ago. But Israel may end up partici- pating, he said, “because if Iran launches missiles against Israel, Israel will respond.” There are other issues in the Middle East on which Israel and the Trump administration do not necessarily agree and which are important for Mr. Netanyahu be- fore the Israeli election. The administration limited Is- raeli military actions against the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and is pushing Israel to begin to with- draw troops from southern Leba- non and Syria. The cease-fire in Gaza has floundered, and tensions and vio- lence are on the rise in the Israeli- occupied West Bank.
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apart, the calculus for the Houthis altered. That change may have been set off by Iranian pressure to get in- volved, although intervention also serves Houthi goals, several ana- lysts said. This month, the Houthis began insisting that an Iranian plane fly into Sanaa, where flights had been suspended for a year. Houthi offi- cials called the plane’s arrival a bid to break the blockade. Describing themselves as the sovereign government of Yemen, the group demanded the lifting of all restrictions — including a U.N. inspection regime — on planes and ships entering their territory. One Western diplomat said there were talks about reopening flights but the Houthis had re- fused several proposals. When a second Iranian flight tried to land in Sanaa, the Houthis accused Saudi Arabia of bombing the airport. The Saudi-backed Yemeni government claimed it had launched airstrikes to force the plane to divert and accused the Houthis of using the flights to import Iranian weaponry, which the Houthis denied. The Houthis subsequently de- clared a blockade on Saudi ships in the Red Sea. Each side has claimed attacks on the other since then. Whether things escalate fur- ther could depend on the Trump administration’s stance. A senior Trump administration official told The New York Times that the United States would em- power its allies to take the lead in regional security and supported a diplomatic resolution in Yemen. On July 23, Mr. Trump threat- ened on social media to inflict “major military punishment” on the militia if they continued to at- tack Saudi oil tankers. He ex- pressed disappointment with the Houthis, saying that they had, “until now, acted very profession- ally and smart.”
Attacked With Drones
By ISMAEEL NAAR
Saudi Arabia said it had in- tercepted and destroyed sev- eral drones launched by Irani- an-backed Iraqi militias on Monday in the kingdom’s first direct military response to such attacks from Iraq since the U.S.-Iran cease-fire col- lapsed. The Saudi Defense Ministry said the drones had targeted petroleum facilities in the East- ern Province and Riyadh re- gions. “These terrorist attempts were launched from Iraqi terri- tory and executed by Iranian- affiliated terrorist militias,” the ministry said, prompting Saudi officials to demand that Bagh- dad prevent its territory from being used to launch missiles. The latest episode pulls Saudi Arabia deeper into the expanding regional conflict. It comes after Houthi rebels in Yemen declared a blockade against the kingdom along the Red Sea and the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, one of the world’s most important ship- ping routes. Although Iraqi-based mili- tias have not publicly claimed responsibility for attacks since hostilities resumed this month, Persian Gulf states had previ- ously reported intercepting in-
In Syria Kills At Least 35, Ministry Says
Security Officers
By ABDI LATIF DAHIR
BEIRUT, Lebanon — At least 35 people were killed and 30 more injured in Syria on Saturday when a civilian bus collided with an- other carrying members of the country’s security forces, Syria’s health ministry said. The collision occurred in the center of the country on the high- way linking Damascus and Deir al-Zour, the ministry said in a statement. The injuries ranged from moderate to critical, the min- istry said, adding that it had placed hospitals, health director- ates and blood banks in the prov- inces of Homs and Rural Da- mascus on the highest level of readiness. The Syrian Interior Ministry said in a post on social media that one bus was carrying “a number of members of the Internal Securi- ty Forces” and expressed “pro- found sadness and sorrow” over the accident. The authorities have not given any cause for the colli- sion, or said if it would be investi- gated. President Ahmed al-Sharaa of Syria extended his condolences to the families of those killed in the crash and wished a swift recovery to the injured. “We have instructed that all necessary resources be mobilized to address the aftermath of the ac- cident, care for the injured, and stand by the families of the vic- tims,” Mr. al-Sharaa wrote in a post on X. The Syria Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, said its crews had controlled a fire that broke out as a result of the crash. Photographs shared by the civil defense force on social media showed fire trucks at the scene as rescuers worked to extinguish the blaze. Others showed the mangled buses at the crash site. One bus appeared to be charred, while the other had its side blown open, with seats strewn on the roadside. The civil defense force said its teams were providing first aid to the injured and helping the de- fense ministry evacuate them to a nearby hospital, while recovering the bodies of those killed. Deadly road accidents are a persistent problem in Syria, where deteriorating infrastruc- ture, damaged roads, poor light- ing, speeding and dangerous overtaking are among the factors frequently blamed for crashes. Years of conflict have also left parts of the country’s transport network in poor condition, while economic pressures have contrib- uted to the continued use of older vehicles with limited mainte- nance. Hours before reports of the acci- dent on Saturday emerged, the civil defense said in a statement that it had responded to 19 traffic accidents across the country on Friday that killed three people and injured seven others.
coming fire from proxy groups during the early phase of the war. Separately, Houthi rebels said on Monday that they had targeted crude oil supplies and transport routes linking Saudi Arabia’s eastern fields to the Red Sea hub of Yanbu using several drones. The Saudi De- fense Ministry had not yet ad- dressed that assertion. The Houthis form part of Iran’s broader “axis of resist- ance” alongside Iraqi factions, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The wider region remained on edge on Monday as Jordan and Israel said they had inter- cepted incoming drones. Is- raeli officials said that two drones had been intercepted near the Jordanian border and that the authorities were inves- tigating where they had been launched from. The new strikes follow a two- week stretch during which Iran targeted sites in Bahrain, Ku- wait and Jordan in response to daily American air raids. Di- rect strikes have cooled over the past 48 hours, with the Pen- tagon halting its bombardment after 13 consecutive nights and no new reports of Iranian at- tacks against neighboring states.
By LARA JAKES
When the United States and Iran cut a cease-fire agreement last month to open the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump was quick to declare victory. “This Great Deal will bring Peace and Security to the whole Region,” Mr. Trump announced on social me- dia. The tentative agreement, out- lined in a June 17 memorandum of understanding, set a 60-day dead- line to negotiate limits to Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for economic relief. Weeks in, nearly all of the agreement’s 14 points have been violated and even the president has declared it “over.” Here’s where things stand:
PARAGRAPH 1
The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war by signing this M.O.U. declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain [from] the threat or use of force against each other and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and other provisions of this paragraph.
The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran undertake to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.
The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran commit to negotiating and achieving the final deal in maximum 60 days extendable with mutual consent.
Military operations continue on several fronts, and Iran rejected a new American cease-fire proposal on Thursday. For 13 consecutive days this month, the United States conducted strikes against Iran. In Lebanon, the cease-fire has curbed Israeli military advances, but it did not force Israel to with- draw. Israel has continued to strike what it describes as Hezbol- lah targets; Hezbollah has re- sponded with attacks on Israeli troops in much of southern Leba- non.
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Iran has retaliated against the U.S. strikes by targeting Middle Eastern countries that host Amer- ican troops, 18 of whom have been killed since the war began on Feb. 28. Some Iranian officials have re- cently called for Mr. Trump to be assassinated.
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This seems increasingly unlikely. The 60-day deadline is now just three weeks away, and there has been no sign of substantive nego- tiations. “The problem we’re hav- ing right now is that they’re not se- rious about talks,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week. “If they’re serious, we’re serious. If they’re not, then we will do what is necessary to protect that, our interests and also the interests of our allies.”
PARAGRAPH 4
Immediately upon the signing of this M.O.U., the United States of America will begin the removal of its naval blockade and any disturbances or impediments against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and will fully end the naval blockade within 30 days. During this period, the traffic of vessels will be in proportion to the numbers of prewar traffic being restored by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States of America further undertakes to remove its forces from the proximity of the Islamic Republic of Iran within 30 days after the final deal.
Republic of Iran. The United States of America undertakes to issue all necessary licenses and authorizations accordingly.
The U.S. naval blockade was re- instated on July 13 in what the Trump administration described as a response to Iranian attacks on commercial oil and gas ships in the Strait of Hormuz a week earli- er. Tehran did not claim responsi- bility for those attacks and ac- cused the United States of vio- lating the cease-fire with military strikes and the reinstatement of sanctions on oil sales.
A mural in Tehran on Friday of Iran’s slain supreme leader, Aya- tollah Ali Khamenei.
of an agreement have been violated.
for 60 days only from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and vice versa. The traffic of commercial vessels will immediately start, and considering the need for removing the technical and military obstacles and demining by the Islamic Republic of Iran, will be instated within 30 days. The Islamic Republic of Iran will conduct dialogue with the Sultanate of Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz, in discussion with other Persian Gulf littoral states in line with the applicable international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.
The strikes have spooked most commercial traffic from sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. Only six ships braved the strait on Thursday, according to the latest data available from the maritime tracking firm Kpler — the lowest number in weeks compared with the roughly 130 commercial ves- sels that sailed through on a daily basis before the conflict.
PARAGRAPH 6
The United States of America undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least U.S.D. 300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The mechanism for the implementation of this plan will be finalized as part of a final deal within 60 days. All required licenses, waivers and permissions needed for the relevant financial transactions will be granted by the United States of America.
The United States of America undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the United Nations Security Council resolutions, I.A.E.A. Board of Governors resolutions, and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, primary and secondary, in an agreed-upon schedule as part of the final deal. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America acknowledge the critical importance of the sanctions termination issue above mentioned, and express their intentions to immediately address these issues in the negotiations in order to achieve mutual agreement on them.
The United States of America undertakes that immediately upon the signing of this M.O.U., and until the termination of sanctions, U.S. Department of Treasury will issue waivers for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc.
The United States of America undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this M.O.U. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran will mutually agree on the procedures related to the release of these funds during the negotiations. Such funds, whether retained in the original account or transferred, shall be made fully usable for payment to any ultimate beneficiary designated by the Central Bank of the Islamic
Vice President JD Vance said the reconstruction funding would come from regional investors only if Iran “ends their nuclear pro- gram, ends their enriched stock- pile of material and is really open to an inspections and enforcement regime.” In other words: Recon- struction efforts are unlikely to gain steam until the thorniest is- sue — Iran’s nuclear program — is resolved.
PARAGRAPH 7
Days after the memorandum of understanding was signed, the United States issued a general li- cense allowing Iran to produce, sell and deliver oil for two months while peace negotiations were un- derway. But it reimposed eco- nomic sanctions on July 7 after three ships were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz.
or develop nuclear weapons. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran have agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpiled, enriched material pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon in accordance with the schedule mentioned in Paragraph 7, with the minimum methodology to be down-blending on site under the supervision of the I.A.E.A. The two parties also agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear needs, based on the statutory framework being agreed upon in the final deal. The final deal will confirm the provisions of this paragraph. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran acknowledge the critical importance of the nuclear issues above mentioned, and express their intention to immediately address these issues in the negotiation in order to achieve mutual agreement on them.
There has been no apparent movement on nuclear negotia- tions since the cease-fire col- lapsed. An international deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program, reached in 2015, took years to ne- gotiate, not months.
PARAGRAPH 9
Pending the final deal, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran agree to maintain the status quo. The Islamic Republic of Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and the United States of America will not impose any new sanctions, and will not deploy additional forces in the region.
A deal by Aug. 16, the 60-day dead- line, seems unlikely. While Mr. Trump has agreed to draw down some American forces in the Mid- dle East, including withdrawing troops from Iraq by Sept. 30, he is also sending more warplanes to the region.
PARAGRAPH 10
The sanctions waivers were re- voked on July 7 after the Trump administration accused Iran of at- tacking ships in the Strait of Hor- muz.
PARAGRAPH 11
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Mr. Trump initially agreed to re- lease about $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets from more than $100 billion currently held by fi- nancial institutions abroad. The week after the interim under- standing was signed, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States would oversee how the assets were spent and that “a very large percentage of it will go to buy U.S. foodstuffs and medi- cines.” Iran has denied that it would al- low the United States to dictate how the funds are used. Iranian of- ficials said they expected the United States to unfreeze assets as part of the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program that ap- pear stalled.
PARAGRAPH 12
The United States of America and Islamic Republic of Iran agree that an executive mechanism will be established to monitor the successful implementation of this M.O.U. and the future compliance of the final deal.
This never happened, said Ellie Geranmayeh, an Iran expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations. The executive mecha- nism was supposed to be dis- cussed in technical negotiations that never got underway after the agreement was signed, she said. Since then, mediators from Pa- kistan and Qatar have worked fu- riously to return to the agree- ment’s terms, including by bring- ing in other countries to convince each side to ease hostilities. That effort continues but has yet to show much progress.
PARAGRAPH 13
After signing this M.O.U. and subject to the beginning of the implementation of Paragraphs 1, 4, 5, 10 and 11 of this M.O.U., and the continuing implementation of these measures, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran will start negotiations regarding the final deal exclusively on the other paragraphs.
Paragraph 1 dealt with the start of the cease-fire. Paragraph 4 re- quired the end of the naval block- ade. Paragraph 5 called for safe passage of the Strait of Hormuz. Paragraph 10 agreed to waive U.S. economic sanctions on Iran. Para- graph 11 required unlocking frozen Iranian assets. Until each of these is resolved, nuclear nego- tiations will most likely remain stalled.
PARAGRAPH 14
The final deal will be endorsed by a binding U.N.S.C. resolution.
A new deal to significantly limit Iran’s nuclear program beyond the 2015 accord brokered by the Obama administration remains unlikely, according to experts and analysts. Should it happen, the United Nations Security Council would probably have a role in endorsing it. But Congress would also have a say in whatever final agreement Mr. Trump negotiates with Iran. A bipartisan 2015 law, approved as international talks with Tehran were concluding, gave Congress the right to regularly review U.S. nuclear deals with Iran.
Its Reporting Of Casualties In Iran War
By HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON — Facing criti- cism that it had minimized the number of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in the war with Iran, the Pentagon on Sunday changed the way it reports casualties as it an- nounced a higher number of wounded service members this month. In an unusual new accounting method, casualties since July 7, when the cease-fire began unrav- eling and fighting escalated, are not listed on a Pentagon website with others since the war began, but rather on a new webpage la- beled generically as “overseas op- erations casualties.” This means that a full accounting of the overall casualties requires adding num- bers from separate web pages. Under the new system, the De- fense Casualty Analysis System restored the deaths of four sol- diers killed last weekend in the war that had been removed from the website — but in a separate, unexplained category. The change also raised the number of those wounded to 142 more than were previously reported by the Pentagon since July 7. The official number of soldiers wounded since that date is now listed as 207, for a total of 624 since the war began on Feb. 28. The to- tal number listed as killed is 18. Last week, Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesman, in- sisted the number of U.S. troops injured since July 7 was fewer than 100. The Pentagon had not previously disclosed a number of several Iranian strikes on bases in the region that housed U.S. troops. “Claims of concealment are fab- rications meant to further distress the American people in the wake of three service members killed in action,” he said at the time. A Pentagon spokesman said Sunday the department had noth- ing further to say on the matter. On Monday, the Pentagon said in a statement that “since Opera- tion Epic Fury has concluded, the department classifies casualties as overseas operations in the CENTCOM area of responsibility.” CENTCOM, or Central Command, is responsible for operations in the Middle East. Last week, The New York Times reported that the Pentagon had lowered the number of serv-
added from separate web pages.
ice members killed in the Iran war to 14 from 18, a move that prompted outrage among many veterans, military families and lawmakers. The change was made because the four service members killed recently in Jordan and Iraq had died after a cease-fire had been reached between Iran and the United States in April, military of- ficials told The Times on the con- dition of anonymity to describe sensitive internal discussions. The acting press secretary for the Pentagon, Joel Valdez, on Thursday attributed the change to “temporary data disruptions” on the website that he suggested would be fixed quickly. As of Saturday morning, the Pentagon’s website still listed 14 service members killed as part of Operation Epic Fury, the name the Defense Department has given to the war in Iran. On Sunday, the category, “over- seas operations,” was added. It listed the four additional deaths with a note: “Overseas operations casualties starting July 7, 2026.” As criticism over the adminis- tration’s reporting of casualties rose, a group of Democratic sena- tors sent a letter on Thursday to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth requesting a “comprehensive ac- counting” of the number of service members killed or wounded. In the week before the recent at- tacks that killed three soldiers in Jordan, three strikes by Iran left dozens injured. These casualties were not immediately disclosed by the Pentagon, raising ques- tions about whether the govern- ment was meeting its obligation to inform the country about the num- ber of service members who had been wounded or killed. The senators wrote: “The American people, Congress, serv- ice members and their families are entitled to a full and accurate accounting of the human costs of war. The information currently available to the public suggests that the Department has not con- sistently provided timely and comprehensive public casualty reporting throughout the con- flict.”
A Plague of Violence
As They Try to Flee a Bitter Ethnic Conflict
Photographs and Article by FINBARR O’REILLY
BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Four deaths happened in just 24 hours. The families were told they needed to bury the bodies themselves. Workers at the morgue were too busy to help. Nine- teen people had already died in the camp that month, many more than usual. Here in the camps dotted around Ituri Province, the epicenter of the Ebola out- break in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the virus appears to be spreading among the cramped tents that house more than a million displaced Congolese. Despite an influx of aid and health workers since the outbreak was first offi- cially declared in May, the battle against Ebola remains a staggering challenge, and the camps are a stark example. Sani- tary conditions are dire. Access to basic nutrition is limited. Patients vanish down winding alleys. Tracing people who may be infected is a Sisyphean task. With the death toll from Ebola sky- rocketing in Congo, attention has turned to these camps, where some of the coun- try’s most vulnerable people live after fleeing violence elsewhere in Ituri Prov- ince. Over 80 percent of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo are being detected out- side known contact lists, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this month. Many of the new infections are hap- pening in communities where people have little to no access to health facilities — communities like these camps. Recent strikes by unpaid health work- ers, attacks on Ebola treatment centers and highly mobile populations have made matters worse. Congo’s health ministry has recorded 2,423 confirmed Ebola cases and 967 confirmed deaths as of last week. The W.H.O. has said the real numbers may be two to four times higher. By far the biggest problem in the camps is the severe lack of water, accord- ing to officials at two different camps in the province. It makes one of the central pillars of fighting Ebola — proper sanita- tion to halt the spread of the disease — next to impossible. One camp, called Kigonze, is home to 20,000 and only a handful of communal water stations. Residents stack yellow containers while waiting their turn at the spigot. At the Tsere camp in Rwampara, just outside Bunia, the provincial capital, over 6,400 people share a single water tank. Latrines overflowing with feces have not been maintained since they were built in 2023, residents said. “During Ebola, we need to wash our hands all the time to avoid contamina- tion,” camp president Esther Mave said. “But how can we do that here when we don’t have taps and sinks and soap?” The lack of sanitation in the camps is in part a consequence of the recent foreign aid cuts under President Trump. Data compiled by the United Nations showed that funding for toilets and hand-wash- ing stations in Congo was cut by more than half between 2024 and 2025. At least 55 people had already died in Kigonze between early April and late June, according to Etienne Dz’Djo Ndrutsi, the site’s president, who added that the camp usually averaged just two deaths per month. At least four of those deaths were confirmed Ebola cases, he added. But many more families had de- clined testing for lack of trust in the au- thorities after years of neglect. “We need more beds to put all the dead bodies,” Mr. Ndrutsi said. “I’m afraid we will all die from Ebola here in this camp.” Dozens of women and children re- cently crowded together under a corru- gated metal roof of a building made from sticks and mud as they pressed against the coffins of three people who had died in the past 24 hours at Kigonze. The dead — two men and a woman — had all shown symptoms of Ebola, in- cluding fever, headaches and vomiting, but swabs taken from their corpses had yet to be tested for the virus, which is highly infectious in dead bodies. Women stroked the caskets as they sang and wept. Hundreds more swarmed the coffins as they were car- ried past makeshift shelters. Crowds then clambered onto a truck transport- ing the bodies for burial. Mourners sat atop the caskets while children ran be- hind the truck as it bounced along the road toward the cemetery. Camp residents are displaced from their homes because of decades of vio- lence between rival ethnic militias and armed groups vying for land, control of lucrative trade routes and access to gold and timber. For residents, Ebola is just another threat. Renewed fighting in Ituri has dis- placed 361,000 people since December, bringing the total number of displaced in the province to 1.3 million, according to the U.N. Insecurity has also hampered humanitarian efforts in the region. “When there are clashes, children have been shot and killed in the crossfire. Another picked up an explosive and was killed,” Ms. Mave said. Dr. Jean Kaseya, the director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said that the response to the outbreak needed to address more
‘I’m afraid we will all die from Ebola here in this camp.’ ETIENNE DZ’DJO NDRUTSI, president of Kigonze, one of the camp sites.
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than just the health crisis to effectively reach people in the camps. “The humanitarian response is critical today, as important as the health re- sponse,” he said. “Because we will not de- feat this Ebola outbreak without dealing with the humanitarian issue.” As international aid has arrived, camp residents who languished for years with little outside help have looked on skepti- cally. The contrast is stark at Tsere, locat- ed 200 yards from a new clinic run by the medical charity Alima. “We can see them building an Ebola treatment center across the street, but they haven’t done anything here yet,” said Baudouin Unega, a 74-year-old camp resident. “They come, they do in- vestigations, then they go away. They tell us there is no more funding, just to be patient.” Camp residents work as laborers on local farms and sell firewood, but even that lifeline has frayed during the epi- demic. Many local farmers have fled the virus, leaving the displaced with even fewer sources of income. “We want to leave the camp,” Mr. Unega said. “No- body wants to live here, but there are no funds for us to leave.” As he spoke, the Tsere camp recorded another death. Espérance Raciu Ucwimungu, 40, died of Ebola-like symp- toms on a recent afternoon. Her sister Chantal Imani, 32, and daughter, Wivine Biwiga, 23, grieved outside the one-room hut they had shared with Ms. Ucwimungu. Despite deplorable conditions and the fear of Ebola hanging over the camps, life goes on. Children chase each other through narrow alleyways. Markets do a brisk trade in basic goods. Women wash laundry and braid each other’s hair in the shade. On the evening of the recent funerals in Kigonze, 18-year-old Isaak Dieume pressed a worn trumpet to his lips. Chil- dren gathered around, and women pre- paring a meal nearby looked on as he played a gentle tune. Crisp notes hung in the air, their metal- lic sound offering a moment of joy on an afternoon of sorrow and loss.
Caleb Kabanda contributed reporting.
A procession of mourners at Kigonze camp, top, which houses about 20,000 people who had to flee violence in the province. One of the biggest problems in the camp is sanitation, especially as Ebola infections spread. Esther Mave, tilling a camp garden, above left at right, lamented the lack of “sinks and soap.”
Sinks in Seas Also Coveted By Chinese
By TUNG NGO and MAX KIM
HANOI, Vietnam — A Vietnamese cargo ship that sank in a heavily dis- puted section of the South China Sea on Saturday was part of island-building projects to assert Vietnamese sover- eignty against Chinese claims in the area, according to a Vietnamese official with knowledge of the effort, as rescuers searched for 15 sailors who were still missing. The vessel, the Khoi Nguyen 18, was carrying 62 Vietnamese sailors when it began taking on water before sinking near the Spratly Islands, a cluster of over 100 small reefs and other land forma- tions in the South China Sea where nu- merous countries have competing claims of sovereignty. A distress signal from survivors in a raft was first spotted by a Chinese rescue vessel in the area on Saturday evening, prompting a search and rescue operation that has so far taken in 47 survivors, Lin Jian, a spokesman for the Chinese For- eign Ministry, said at a news conference in Beijing on Monday. The Vietnamese authorities have thanked their Chinese counterparts for acting quickly. Rescu- ers from the two countries and the Phil- ippines are still searching for the others. Accounts from China and Vietnam both place the location of the ship’s sink- ing between Fiery Cross Reef, which is controlled by China, and Discovery Great Reef, which is controlled by Viet- nam. The reefs are part of the Spratly Is- lands, which, along with the Paracel Is- lands, have for years been the site of in- tense competition between China and Vietnam. Both countries seek to assert their ownership by reclaiming vast tracts of land around uninhabited islets and reefs, and building military facilities on top of them. The Khoi Nguyen 18 had been working on one such project when it sank, a Viet- namese official with direct knowledge of the matter told The New York Times. The official requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The Vietnamese authorities have pub- licly attributed the sinking to bad weather, but have not said where the ship was headed or what kind of cargo it was transporting. A U.N. resolution governing maritime safety — of which Vietnam is a signatory — states that all large cargo ships must have their automatic identification sys- tem, or AIS, transponder on at all times. However, tracking data showed that the Vietnam-flagged ship has not transmit- ted location data for months. The ship was built in 2017, is about 230 feet long and has a total carrying capacity of about 1,900 metric tons. The official said that the ship had been shuttling regularly between Cam Ranh, where the Vietnamese navy has a major port, to the Spratly Islands. The registered owner of the ship is the Khoi Nguyen Trading, Import-Export and Transportation Company, according to Vietnamese government data. Reached on the phone, a representative for the company, who did not give his full name, said that the ship had been de- ployed to a high-priority project in the Spratlys being overseen by the Dacinco Construction Investment Company, which has been tied to island-building in the area. Dacinco, which is based in Da Nang, Vietnam, has been purchasing cutter section dredgers from Royal IHC, a Dutch shipbuilding company, since 2022. These are specialized vessels that can suction up sand from the seabed, making them effective for land reclamation projects. Calls to Dacinco went unanswered. “These dredgers have been exten- sively used in the reclamation of Namyit Island, Pearson Reef and Barque Canada Reef, significantly enhancing Vietnam’s efficiency,” SCSPI, a Beijing-based mari- time affairs think tank, said last year. In June 2024, Vietnamese state media reported that a Dacinco worker was in- jured on a site on Barque Canada Reef, one of the formations in the Spratlys that Vietnam has been building out. The company has also been actively recruiting workers for these projects on social media, where its job listings call for crane operators and truck drivers for “offshore construction projects” in the Spratlys. Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Both China and Vietnam have repeat- edly protested the other’s island-build- ing projects over the years, while efforts by U.S. officials to cool the expansionary fervor have been unsuccessful. Last year, as Vietnam ramped up its projects in the Spratlys, where China had previously reclaimed 3,200 acres of land over a period of about three years, Chi- na’s Foreign Ministry criticized what it called an “illegal occupation.” Vietnam has leveled similar criticisms at China, which has lately focused its efforts on the Paracel Islands, which Vietnam claims in their entirety. But these tensions were nowhere to be seen over the weekend, as the search for the missing crew members dragged on. On Sunday, Pham Thu Hang, a spokes- woman for Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry, thanked Chinese rescuers for their ef- forts. “We would like to express our grati- tude to the Chinese authorities for their swift assistance to Vietnam in the search and rescue efforts,” she said. “And we hope that both sides will continue to co- operate closely to find the remaining people.”
Is Running to Flip Seat Vacated by Ernst
By OLIVIA DIAZ
ONAWA, Iowa — Josh Turek pedaled up a rolling hill flanked by Iowa corn- fields that stretched over the horizon, tilting his chin at the sun beating down on his face. Mr. Turek, a Democratic state legisla- tor running for Senate who uses a wheel- chair, gripped the hand cranks on his cy- cle. He was here on a July Sunday, sweat- ing alongside riders wearing corn hats and helmets, to participate in Iowa’s an- nual weeklong biking celebration that begins on the state's western flank, a nearly 60-mile stretch near the Nebras- ka border that snakes through conserva- tive towns and is dotted with roadside pie stands and food trucks. The bike trek months before the No- vember election reflected Mr. Turek’s steep task of winning over rural voters in Iowa, home to a large swath of the coun- try’s agricultural community that has been deeply affected by soaring prices. As he cycled through each town, Mr. Turek stopped to shake hands, sip beer and pitch voters on why they should send him to Washington. Some cyclists fawned over the Democrat, asking him for a photo or a “Josh Turek for Iowa” yard sign. Others did not appear to be sold. In the tiny city of Soldier, Mr. Turek ap- proached a man selling breakfast sand- wiches and cold drinks. “I’m Josh, and I am running for Sen- ate,” Mr. Turek said, extending his hand before telling the vendor about his cam- paign. The man smiled, shaking his hand and thanking Mr. Turek for stopping by. He did not say whether he would back him. Mr. Turek, 47, was born with spina bi- fida and went on to become a Paralympic gold medalist. Last month, he won a com- petitive Democratic primary against an anti-establishment rival, after he made his physical disability and his resilience centerpieces of his campaign. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” he said, sipping cold water about 30 miles into the bike trek, adding, “This will not be the hardest thing that I’ve gone through in my life.” Now he is waging an uphill campaign against Representative Ashley Hinson, a Republican backed by President Trump, to succeed Joni Ernst, the retiring G.O.P. senator. The outcome will help decide which party controls the Senate. So there Mr. Turek was in a handcycle on a blistering hot morning, arm-ped- alling his way between Onawa and Har- lan, 59 miles away. “Do you see?” a woman said to a young girl pedaling along in Turin. “He is biking with his hands.” The child pressed the brakes on her bright pink bike with matching stream- ers. “No way,” she replied, pointing at Mr. Turek’s handcycle as he rolled on. Mr. Turek has said that his condition, which occurs when the spine and spinal cord do not properly form, stemmed from his father’s exposure during the Vietnam War to Agent Orange, a toxic chemical defoliant that causes severe birth defects in millions of children. A Council Bluffs, Iowa, native, he de- scribed going through 21 surgeries at a children’s hospital in Minnesota, spend- ing weeks at a time away from his par- ents and four siblings while wearing a full-body cast. He did not have friends until he turned 12 and began playing wheelchair basket- ball at an adaptive sports camp in Om- aha, Neb., where he first learned about the Paralympics. Mr. Turek would go on to have a professional wheelchair bas- ketball career and twice win the gold
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medal in the games as part of the U.S. team. Iowa has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 2014, after Tom Harkin re- tired, or one as governor in 20 years. Io- wa’s House seats are all held by Republi- cans, and Mr. Trump decisively won the state in the past three presidential elec- tions. The nonpartisan Cook Political Re- port gives Ms. Hinson an edge in the race, rating it “lean Republican.” Democrats are still hopeful, despite their grim track record. Rising fuel and fertilizer costs caused by the war in Iran and Mr. Trump’s tariffs have strained farmers and manufacturers in the state. Mr. Turek’s race is one of many com- petitive elections in Iowa this year. Rob Sand, Iowa’s Democratic auditor, is polling ahead of Zach Lahn, a Republi-
can, in the governor’s race. Representa- tives Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller- Meeks, both Republicans, are also facing challenges from two Democrats with state legislative experience, in races that Cook rates as tossups. Ms. Hinson, a former TV news anchor elected in 2020, handily won the G.O.P. primary following endorsements from Mr. Trump and other top Iowa Republi- cans. She has vowed to be the president’s “top ally” in the Senate, though she has also stressed her willingness to work with Democrats on cost-of-living issues. In her district, Ms. Hinson was one of many Republicans who faced angry con- stituents last year at town halls. She was booed as she defended the sweeping rec- onciliation bill enacted last summer that extended tax cuts and slashed safety net
programs. In 2022, Mr. Turek was elected to rep- resent part of Council Bluffs and Carter Lake, Iowa, winning his race by six votes. In 2024, he won re-election by five percentage points, despite Mr. Trump also winning the district by eight points. A self-proclaimed “common-sense prairie populist,” Mr. Turek has credited his political durability to a focus on eco- nomic policies. “Populism is my political north star,” Mr. Turek said. “It’s always about what is best for the middle class, what is the best for workers — looking out for the have- nots.” The July biking celebration, titled “The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa,” and colloquially known as R.A.G.B.R.A.I., did not have
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Josh Turek, cycling through Iowa, is running against Representative Ash- ley Hinson, a Republican backed by President Trump. Left, more partici- pants in RAGBRAI, Iowa’s annual weeklong biking celebration that begins on the state’s western flank.
the political clout of the Iowa State Fair or community events at diners, though there was still plenty of opportunity for retail politicking. Bikers cheered Mr. Turek on as they whizzed by. “Go, Josh, Go!” a couple shouted. An- other man seated in a recumbent trike pedaled alongside Mr. Turek at one point, talking about, as the candidate put it, “the state and all the terrible things that are happening here.” Mr. Turek has raised $6.3 million for his campaign, a fraction of Ms. Hinson’s haul of $10.2 million, according to cam- paign finance reports. His opponent also has about $6.7 million in the bank, com- pared to Mr. Turek’s nearly $2.4 million. The Senate Majority Political Action Committee, aligned with Democrats, has committed $30.5 million to the race, and the leading Senate Republican PAC, Sen- ate Leadership Fund, has pledged $29 million. The Republican PAC has been quick to attack Mr. Turek. In a news release last week, the group criticized him for failing to vote on a state agriculture spending bill in May despite urging members of Congress to pass the farm bill. Mr. Turek said he was cleareyed about his odds of flipping the deep-red Iowa counties he was passing through on his cycling trip. Still, he was hoping that his time with voters could trim Ms. Hinson’s margins, and that he could persuade some lifelong Republicans to make a switch in November. He said that a staunch Republican had approached him along the way and said that while Mr. Turek had an inspiring story, he would not get his vote. “I said, ‘Well, we’ll see about that,’” Mr. Turek recounted. “‘You know, I’ve got 100 days to win you over.’” He kept on pedaling.
Of Lower Living Costs Starts Midterm ‘Sprint’
By ROBERT JIMISON
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Repre- sentative Hakeem Jeffries stood inside a union hall in Lehigh Val- ley on Sunday, under a banner that read “AFFORDABLE” in oversize red letters. In case the message was not clear enough, the lectern that Mr. Jeffries, a New York Democrat, stood behind blared the same slo- gan — “Fighting for an Affordable America” — with the word “afford- able” several sizes larger than the others. Then Mr. Jeffries, visiting one of the nation’s most competitive con- gressional districts to mark the fi- nal 100 days of a campaign he hopes will win his party the House majority and him the speakership, made sure nobody missed the pitch. “House Democrats are fighting for an affordable America,” Mr. Jeffries told the crowd of several dozen supporters gathered in Bethlehem. “House Democrats are fighting to lower the cost of groceries, gas and housing.” It is a theme that Democrats are betting will rally voters behind them as they battle for control of Congress, and Mr. Jeffries has made it clear that he means to keep returning to it time and again as he works to persuade voters to reject Republicans in places like this one around the country. “That American dream is fad- ing,” Mr. Jeffries said. “And the leaders who should be fighting to keep the dream alive are putting it further out of reach.” The final months of the midterm election cycle offer Dem-
To Link Jackson To Platner’s Woes
By REID J. EPSTEIN and JESS BIDGOOD
BANGOR, Maine — Democrats in Maine have reset a Senate race seen as critical to their party’s chances of retaking the chamber after an improvised scramble to swap out a damaged candidate, Graham Platner, for a new one, Troy Jackson, after a wild 17 days. Now comes the tricky part. Mr. Jackson, a former State Senate president, is trying to keep alive the grass-roots energy that Mr. Platner built over the last year while distancing himself from the former nominee’s personal his- tory. With help from her allies, Senator Susan Collins, the five- term Republican he is trying to de- feat, is seeking to tie the two Dem- ocrats together in ways the G.O.P. hopes will alienate swing voters.
A 100-Day Contest
This dynamic is beginning to shape a 100-day contest that will drench this largely rural state with money and place it at the epi- center of the national fight for Senate control. Democrats have turned to a familiar fixture of state government and a fifth-genera- tion logger from Maine’s north woods to make their case against a far better-funded incumbent who has already defied national headwinds once in the Trump era. The race will test whether Mr. Jackson can leave behind the bag- gage of a candidate, in Mr. Platner, who bowed out after a rape allega- tion that he denies, revelations about a tattoo that resembled a Nazi symbol and a trail of offen- sive online posts. By replacing Mr. Platner with Mr. Jackson, Maine Democrats hope to make the race less about their candidate and more about painting Ms. Collins as a tool of the ultrawealthy and a rubber stamp for President Trump on the most pressing matters. “Who has she served?” Mr. Jackson asked Maine Democrats at the Saturday convention where he was officially selected to be his party’s nominee. “She’s served Donald Trump.” Ms. Collins, in a brief interview before a Saturday parade in Casco, Maine, signaled an intent to portray her new rival as outside the mainstream and in many ways a continuation of the Platner campaign. “My likely new opponent has adopted exactly the same plat- form as my old opponent,” she said. “It’s the democratic socialist platform and it’s very similar. So the issues have not changed.”
ocrats considerable opportunity but also growing uncertainty. The party needs to gain only a handful of seats to win the House. Public polls show Democrats with an edge when it comes to voters’ preference for Congress, and Democratic candidates in key races have a slight financial ad- vantage. But the map leaves little room for error. And a succession of pro- gressive primary victories over tenured Democrats more closely aligned with leadership has raised new questions about the makeup and unity of any majority Mr. Jef- fries can manage to assemble. With members of House back in their home states for a five-week summer recess, Mr. Jeffries’s ap- pearance in Bethlehem was the opening stop of what he hopes will be an aggressive closing push through the districts that will de- cide control of the House. “This is no longer a marathon,” he told the crowd of supporters. “It’s a sprint.” According to figures provided to The New York Times by Mr. Jef- fries’s team, he has helped to raise $137 million for House Democrats during the second quarter, includ- ing money to protect vulnerable incumbents and to support candi- dates in their “Red to Blue” pro- gram targeting seats they see as crucial flips to claim the majority. He was here in Pennsylvania with Bob Brooks, a firefighter and union leader who is challenging Representative Ryan Mackenzie, a first-term Republican who nar- rowly won the seat in 2024. Kick- ing off the final sprint in the state
Jackson’s Strategy: Tie Collins to Trump
It is no secret what Mr. Jackson plans to do: Tie Ms. Collins to Mr. Trump, who lost the statewide vote in Maine in each of his three presidential campaigns. At the Saturday convention where Democrats picked Mr. Jackson as their new candidate, speaker after speaker cited Ms. Collins’s vote for Brett Kava- naugh, the Trump-nominated Su- preme Court justice whom Ms. Collins voted to confirm after claiming she received an assur- ance that he would protect abor- tion rights. “She voted with him 96 percent of the time,” Mr. Jackson said of Ms. Collins during his victory re- marks Saturday. “She helped de- liver enormous tax breaks to cor- porations and the wealthy on our backs. And she voted to confirm Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, the Su- preme Court justices who over-
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic House minority leader, in Bethlehem, Pa., on Sunday.
underscored its importance in Mr. Jeffries’s push for the majority; Democrats are also looking to flip three other congressional dis- tricts in Pennsylvania now held by Republicans. Later this week, the leader is scheduled to headline events in New York, with stops including Buffalo and Rochester, before traveling to Southern California to continue fund-raising for Demo- cratic candidates. Mr. Brooks presented himself on Sunday as a political outsider whose own life reflected the eco- nomic pressures that Democrats have made central to the cam- paign. He recalled working as a paperboy, pizza delivery driver, dishwasher and bartender and made the case to the crowd that he was the best choice to address the economic pressures voters face. “I understand them because I’ve lived them,” Mr. Brooks said
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turned Roe v. Wade.” Making that case will require Mr. Jackson, whose Senate cam- paign started with zero money two weeks ago, to raise a lot, and quickly. Ms. Collins had $11 million at the end of June, according to her latest campaign finance re- port. The Senate Republicans’ main super PAC, which has an- nounced it will spend $42 million in Maine alone, began attacking Mr. Jackson minutes after he was named the nominee. Mr. Jackson told reporters after the convention that he had not spoken with Senator Chuck Schu- mer of New York, the minority leader whose allies control the Senate Democrats’ main super PAC, and whom Mr. Jackson said he would not support to remain in his leadership role. Asked if he has enough money to win the race, Mr. Jackson replied, “Not now, but I hope to get it.” “Troy is not a classically trained
to nods of approval. “I’ve lived in public housing. I’ve relied on food stamps when times were hard. I’ve had to choose between paying the medical bills and paying the mortgage.” Democrats have increasingly
aims to rally a party around affordability.
sought out candidates with hard- scrabble local roots outside poli- tics and see Mr. Brooks and others like him as compelling messen- gers for a campaign cycle they hope will revolve less around ideo- logical disputes than around kitchen table issues. But as Mr. Jeffries has urged
pianist,” said Bev Uhlenhake, a former Maine Democratic Party chairwoman. “He doesn’t sound like a typical politician. I think in terms of Mainers, that’s OK. They want someone to come to the party who can play the piano and get people dancing.” But in an era when creating con- tent is a key part of movement building, Mr. Jackson has a lot of work to do. He has just one tenth the Instagram following that Mr. Platner does. “You can be outspent, but if you keep the attention of the crowd you can offset the money advan- tage,” said David Farmer, a long- time Democratic political opera- tive in Maine. “Troy is going to have to win that attention war.”
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candidates to rally around a pitch tightly focused on lowering the cost of living, a new generation of progressive Democrats has been toppling longtime incumbents in safe Democratic districts with more provocative messages, in- cluding calls for ending U.S. aid to Israel, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and getting rid of prisons. In addition to Mr. Mackenzie in Pennsylvania’s Seventh Congres- sional District, Democrats are tar- geting seats in other parts of the state held by Representatives Bri- an Fitzpatrick, Rob Bresnahan and Scott Perry. “Those four races hold the key to who is in the majority in the Congress of the United States,” said Gov. Josh Shapiro, who ap- peared alongside Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Brooks. All three sought to tie the af- fordability message to the policies
Troy Jackson, above, speaking to Maine Democrats during Saturday’s nominating conven- tion in Bangor. Attendees distributed “Retire Susan” signs, far left, referring to Sen- ator Susan Collins, left.
spending months campaigning against someone else. And while the Democrats onstage on Satur- day never once mentioned Mr. Platner’s name, Ms. Collins and her backers appear determined to make sure nobody forgets it. “The Graham Platner candi- dacy,” said Josh Tardy, a co-chair of Ms. Collins’s campaign, “is the gift that keeps on giving.” While Mr. Jackson and Maine Democrats are making their case against Ms. Collins about policy, some of Ms. Collins’s allies aimed their first attacks at Mr. Jackson on his character, after reports that former legislative colleagues said he could be quick to anger. On Fri- day night, Mr. Trump called Mr. Jackson “another lunatic.” The opening advertisement about Mr. Jackson from the Senate Republi- can super PAC said he was “like Graham Platner, but worse.” It showed the two men cam- paigning together, their hands tightly clasped. Mr. Jackson champions some of the same progressive ideas that Mr. Platner favored, such as “Medicare for all” and abolishing Immigration and Customs En- forcement. Republicans have sought to cast him as too far left. Ms. Collins herself has tried to tie Mr. Jackson to democratic so- cialists, though he does not iden-
of President Trump and House Republicans. Mr. Shapiro argued that while Pennsylvania had cut taxes and expanded benefits un- der his administration, Republi- cans in Congress had erased those gains. “Every time we put a buck back into somebody’s pocket, Donald Trump and Ryan Mackenzie take two bucks out the other side,” he said. Mr. Mackenzie, who held cam- paign events in nearby Bethle- hem Township on Sunday, called the affordability messaging from Democrats “laughable,” telling the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia that when Democrats had control, “they had inflation at record lev- els, everybody saw it. Everybody felt it in everything all across their lives.” Mr. Shapiro, meanwhile, pointed to gasoline prices at a nearby station as a daily reminder of the costs of the war in Iran, which Democrats have increas- ingly linked to rising fuel prices. “It’s a reminder every day when you go to the pump, when you’re at a Wawa,” he said. Mr. Brooks made the same ar- gument against his Republican opponent. “He campaigned on a promise to lower costs and invest here at home,” Mr. Brooks said. “Instead, he’s voted for a cost-spiking war of choice in Iran that has made ev- erything more expensive.” In his remarks, Mr. Jeffries avoided the ideological debates that have consumed parts of his party in recent months. Earlier Sunday, pressed during an inter- view on CNN about the progres- sive primary victories and dis- agreements within Democratic ranks, he insisted that members of his party simply needed to con- centrate on their common goal of reducing costs. “What unites the party,” he said, “is a focus on us fighting for an af- fordable America.”
tify as one. She also recently called him a “Bernie bro,” a term nodding to what critics see as a dismissive attitude toward wom- en among some male followers of Senator Bernie Sanders. Mr. Sanders, an independent from Vermont, initially endorsed Mr. Platner for Senate and Mr. Jack- son for governor. But she also highlighted differ- ences between Mr. Platner, who was a first-time candidate, and Mr. Jackson, a political veteran. “Troy, I’ve known for more than 20 years. He is an insider in Au- gusta, and he’s been there for 24 years, and so that’s a very differ- ent persona than what Graham Platner was trying to portray,” Ms. Collins said in Casco. Collins, the Senate appropria- tions chairwoman, has also spent decades entrenched in govern- ment. She has won re-election four times with campaigns that emphasized the federal funding she brings to Maine and posi- tioned her as an independent voice. She said on Saturday that she would keep making that case. “I will be stressing how much seniority matters,” Collins said.
Bracing for Tight Race
Ms. Collins won in 2020 with 51 percent of the vote against a field splintered by two independent candidates. This time she will face only Mr. Jackson in a political en- vironment polls show could be worse for Republicans than it was six years ago. Limited public polling in Maine has shown a close Senate contest. And both candidates have head- winds of history pushing against them. Ms. Collins will, once again, have to detach her political for- tunes from an unpopular presi- dent. Mr. Jackson is trying to be- come the first Democrat to win a Maine Senate race since George Mitchell won re-election in 1988. (Senator Angus King of Maine caucuses with Democrats, but he was elected as an independent.) Lance Dutson, a Maine Republi- can and a former campaign aide to Ms. Collins, said she was perfectly comfortable running against a standard-issue Democrat, as op- posed to a political phenomenon, as Mr. Platner became before he dropped out. “It’s easier to say, ‘This is your résumé. What have you done for Maine? And this is my résumé. What have I done for Maine?’” Mr. Dutson said. “That puts Collins on much more solid foot- ing.” For his part, Mr. Jackson did not directly answer when he was asked after the convention if he could point to any issue on which he differs from Mr. Platner. “I don’t know about the day- light, the separation, any of that stuff,” he said. “All I know is I’m Troy Jackson, and I care about Maine.”
Sandy Weiswasser has guided tours at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for 18 years. Despite President Trump’s plans to close the center for two years, she still shows visitors around.
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concentration camp. She grew up in De- troit taking piano lessons and listening to classical music on AM radio with her mother, and said she had seen more live performances at the Kennedy Center than anywhere else. So on tour days, she said, “I don’t count success by the number of people who hear me. Every person is valuable.” She invoked a Talmudic proverb that “Who- ever saves one life, saves the entire world.” Besides, she said, laughing only a little, “I don’t do anything half-assed.” Once she was 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 out of more than a dozen tour guides showed up, and only three people took a tour. A spokes- man for the center declined to say how many guides still volunteer. Ms. Weiswasser said her plan is to turn up un- til she is told otherwise. She is haunted by memories: Her grandson’s visit to a musical “petting zoo” that let children try all the instruments in a symphony. Ushering fifth graders through the Opera House wings. Telling a group of shy Chinese 12-year-olds that “it’s never too late to learn an instru- ment.” Watching her granddaughters dance in a Washington Ballet perform- ance. Taking them to see “An American in Paris” and “The Lion King.’’ “I cried inside, I was so happy to have brought them,” she said. On a recent Monday, Ms. Weiswasser was at the tour guide information desk on the center’s lower level, waiting with three other tour guides, all women, for something to do. Ms. Weiswasser jumped at the chance to show off the center, even in its current state. I — her lone visitor that day — fol- lowed her into the hollowed-out building.
‘Memorials Are to Dead People’
She began in the Hall of Nations, a red- carpeted entry hall festooned with flags from around the world. Energetic and as- sertive, with a near constant smile, Ms. Weiswasser wore her tour guide creden- tials on a University of Michigan lanyard (her alma mater) that was hung with a pair of silver opera glasses, a gift from a granddaughter. The center’s story, she said, began with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who in 1958 signed legislation to establish a per- forming arts center in Washington. Presi- dent John F. Kennedy championed the cause, and after his assassination Con- gress passed a bipartisan bill dedicating the institution to him. “That’s how it got its name,” Ms. Weiswasser said, adding pointedly, “This is a memorial. Memorials are to dead peo- ple.” She did not mention Mr. Trump, whose board members in December had his name added to the front of the building to make it the “Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Perform- ing Arts.” It was removed under court or- der last month. As the building took shape in the 1960s, she said, more than 60 nations contribut-
A marble wall inside the Kennedy Center, left, displays the engraved names of those who served as its chair. The free live performances held at the Millennium Stage, right, have dwindled and moved venues since Mr. Trump’s takeover.
ed furnishings and art. Italy’s gift was the largest: 3,700 tons of Carrara marble that sheaths the center’s facade and interior walls, from the same region as the marble for Michelangelo’s David. Ms. Weiswasser moved to Washington in 1966, three years after Kennedy’s death, when her husband — they have since divorced — took a job as a law clerk. For years, the family of four had little money for movie tickets, let alone sym- phony seats. But Ms. Weiswasser still plays the piano and is skilled in photogra- phy, so when she retired two decades ago, she was eager to volunteer at the arts in- stitution. In those busy early years, “it warmed my heart seeing all the yellow school buses lined up, knowing that they were having this special experience at the Kennedy Center,” she said. Now there is frustration. Once Mr. Trump took over the Kennedy Center, she said, “even friends of mine would say, ‘I won’t step foot in there.’ And I would say, ‘Yeah, but you’re only hurting the performers.’” The box office would of- ten give away tickets to help fill empty seats, and Ms. Weiswasser used the free- bies to try and lure her friends back. Last month she scored two discounted tickets to the gala awarding Bill Maher the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. But she did not go, because she could not find anyone willing to accompany her. From the Hall of Nations she led the way to the Grand Foyer, two football fields in length, with a wall of windows offering sweeping views of the Potomac and mon- uments beyond. The foyer once chan- neled audiences to the center’s three larg- est performance spaces — the main Con-
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cert Hall, the Opera House and the Eisen- hower Theater — now all idle. At either end are the Millennium Stages, also idle after the audiences for their free live per- formances dwindled to a few dozen. The remaining bookings have moved to The Reach, a newer space next door. At the entrance to the Concert Hall, Ms. Weiswasser paused to chat with Judith Skolnick, one of the center’s volunteer greeters, who opens the locked space for tourists. Ms. Skolnick became a volunteer in 2017, a week after she retired from a property management job. “You feel use- ful here,” she said. It was good, she said, to contribute while “you have the brain to be able to do something.” The prospect of a closure worries her. “In two years I have no idea if I’m going to be here or not,” she said. “I’m going to be 80.” The volunteers get plenty of questions about Mr. Trump’s renovation plans. The center’s new management supplied them with a list of upcoming repairs and en- couraged them to read them verbatim. Among them are “replacing compro- mised expansion joints,” “modernizing rigging, stage flooring and lighting sys- tems in the Opera House,” and “replacing decades-old theater seating and car- peting.” The volunteers don’t mention what em- ployees called “Firing Fridays,” when waves of them were dismissed and given 20 minutes to leave, escorted by security. Or when Richard Grenell, who served one tumultuous year as Mr. Trump’s pick to lead the center, yelled at staff and at- tacked performers online. Or when the el- egant dinner gala honoring the volun-
teers for milestone years of service was replaced last month with a two-hour re- ception at which they received souvenir bottle openers and dish towels. Ms. Weiswasser led the way to the Con- cert Hall’s main entrance, past a bust of the Hungarian composer and pianist Béla Bartók — a gift from the Academy of Hun- garian Scientists, Writers and Artists in U.S.A. and Abroad— that was damaged. A chunk of stone the size of a silver dollar, chipped from Bartok’s jacket front, lay at its base. Inside, Ms. Weiswasser pointed out the crystal chandeliers (a gift from Norway) and the organ, whose 5,000 pipes range from 32 feet to the length of a pencil. “The National Symphony Orchestra plays here from September through June,” she said, then paused. “Plays, or played? When I give my tours now, do I give present tense or past tense?” The orchestra’s future has been in limbo for months, because Mr. Trump has not approved its budget request. At the symphony’s last performance of the sea- son on June 13, the concert hall was dot- ted with empty seats.
A Pause at the Opera House
A short walk away was the silent Opera House, where the darkened orchestra pit yawned open, empty but for the trash and an upended tangle of music stands. In January, the Washington National Opera severed its 15-year residency at the Ken- nedy Center after clashes with the cen- ter’s new leadership, and now performs elsewhere. Perching on the arm of a seat, Ms.
Weiswasser recalled a magical day sev- eral years ago, when she led 30 fifth graders to the Opera House. The head stage manager happened to be there. He invited the whole group backstage a space so large it has a basketball hoop and half court, shot a couple of baskets and raised and dropped the curtain for them. “To stand on the stage of the Opera House and see the wings?” Ms. Weiswasser said. “They were really memorable, those moments.” She loved chance encounters with the people who made the center what it was. She once met the renowned mezzo-so- prano Jamie Barton at a reception. A few years ago she rode the elevator with Da- vid Rubenstein, a billionaire philan- thropist who was then the chairman of the center and bankrolling its evolution into a community hub. Ms. Weiswasser greeted and thanked him. “He had this sort of deadpan face,” she recalled in a conversation after the tour. “So I said, ‘You do a lot for Washing- ton. I think we should change the name of the city to Rubenstein, D.C.’” She said that Mr. Rubenstein, still deadpan, replied, “I don’t think so.” Last year, Mr. Trump gut- ted the Kennedy Center’s board, stacking it with loyalists. They voted to replace Mr. Rubenstein as chairman with Mr. Trump and add the president’s name to the fa- cade. When Mr. Rubenstein left, he took his money with him. In the corridor outside the Opera House, Ms. Weiswasser stopped by a newly renovated bar and lounge for high- level donors. The space had been called the Russian Lounge after a big gift in 2011 from a Rus- sian oligarch, Vladimir Potanin. The Ken- nedy Center dumped that name after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Then Trevor Milton, a convicted securities fraudster and a Trump donor pardoned by the president last year, spent millions to sponsor the space. It is now called the SyberJet Lounge, after his company, whose logo glows over its backlit quartz bar. Mr. Milton partied here after the Ken- nedy Center Honors, the center’s most prestigious event of the year, when he sat in the president’s box.
Inspiration, and Uncertainty
Outside on the center’s back terrace, a lone security guard sat at a weathered picnic table eating lunch. In the shimmer- ing heat, he had a view of the Potomac and the engraved quotes from Kennedy on the center’s white marble facade, in- cluding his hope for “an America which commands respect around the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.” Ms. Weiswasser said she tries not to say anything partisan about the Kennedy Center’s plight. For her, the institution re- mains bigger than that, a symbol of gov- ernment’s power to deliver opportunity and inspiration. “I remember being a young girl and thinking ‘I’m so lucky I was born in Amer- ica,’” she said on a recent day. “I still feel that way. But I don’t have quite the pride that I used to have.”
At least three people were in- volved in a gunfight that killed three and wounded as many as five others, including a toddler, at a food festival near the Space Nee- dle, the Seattle police said on Mon- day. A 15-year-old was detained and charged with three counts of first- degree assault. In court docu- ments, investigators said there were at least two other people in- volved in the gunfight: a 19-year- old man who died at the scene and another person whose identity is unknown. Several people began shooting at one another around 6 p.m. Sun- day, sending hundreds of festival- goers scurrying for safety, the po- lice said. Two people died at the scene, and a 56-year-old woman died later at a Seattle hospital. The toddler had wounds that were not life-threatening, the authorities said. Firm information about the shooting was difficult to obtain. City officials initially said two peo- ple were in custody, then updated that to say that the police were still searching for a second shoot- er. At a news conference on Mon- day morning, officials suggested that there were only two shooters involved in the gunfight, but court documents later showed that the authorities believe at least three shooters were involved. Seattle leaders said that the shooting was only the most recent in a string of violent incidents in- volving young people and the third major shooting in several days. Nicole Powell, an assistant chief of the Seattle Police, said offi- cers believe the shooting on Sun- day night may have involved gangs. “This has been an especially tough week in Seattle,” said Mayor Katie Wilson. The city’s closed-circuit video surveillance system, the subject of intense debate when it was in- stalled, does not extend to Seattle Center. Police investigators were examining other public and pri- vate camera footage and asking witnesses to turn over any cell- phone video of the shooting or the moments afterward. Violent crime is down in Seattle,
By POOJA SALHOTRA
Annelise Camp was found un- conscious in a swimming pool in Texas on Memorial Day. She was only 2 years old, and it wasn’t clear how long she had been un- derwater. Paramedics performed CPR to try to revive her. And finally, a faint heartbeat returned, but not enough to stimulate a pulse in her wrist. She was put on a ventilator at a Houston-area hospital, and doctors overseeing her care thought she was brain-dead. But her family believed she could recover, and the Camps’ re- sistance to a test to confirm the brain death diagnosis reflects the newest front in a continuing legal and moral struggle over when life ends. Under Texas law, and in most states, hospitals can with- draw life-sustaining measures such as feeding tubes and ventila- tors after a patient is declared brain-dead, which is defined both in law and by the medical estab- lishment as the irreversible cessa- tion of brain function. But to do that, they must first conduct a test for brain death, a status that itself is contentious. Right-to-life activists argue that a person is living so long as his or her heart beats — even if he or she is dependent on a ventilator for oxygen. The idea of brain death also conflicts with the religious be- liefs of some that hold that a soul remains as long as the heart can pump blood, even if the person is on a respirator. The opposition to a test, which many doctors say prevents them from conducting what they con- sider a noninvasive diagnostic procedure, has complicated what many once thought was more clear cut. “You’d think what is life and what is death is scientific,” said Thaddeus Pope, who directs the Health Law Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minn. Questions about when a patient can be taken off life support have garnered widespread debate since technology emerged in the 1960s to sustain people’s bodily functions after they have lost con- sciousness. The Camp case represents a new battleground, though. In- stead of trying to block life sup- port from being removed, the Camps are part of a wave of fam- ilies pre-empting that by suing to stop physicians from even con- ducting a brain death test. They argue that the diagnosis is incon- sistent with certain religious be- liefs, though the procedure is con-
sidered standard medical prac- tice. “Every major children’s hospi- tal in the country has had cases like this,” Dr. Robert D. Truog, a Harvard University bioethicist, said. “Most of these families are understandably in a state of deni- al.” Dr. Truog emphasized that no patient who has tested brain-dead has ever regained consciousness. After the Camps sued Texas Children’s Hospital to block it from performing a brain death test, they found another hospital willing to treat her, Ochsner Chil- dren’s Hospital in Louisiana, and last month transferred her there. That hospital did not return re- quests for comment, and it was not clear whether doctors there will perform a brain death test. Heath Novosad, a lawyer for the Camp family, declined to speak about the case, saying he was bound by a court order. The family did not return requests for comment, and Mr. Novosad said the Camps were also prohibited from discussing the case. In a statement provided by its lawyer after the transfer, Texas Children’s Hospital said it had reached out to more than 40 hospi- tals to try to transfer Annelise be- fore Ochsner agreed to take her. Kitty Bennett and Sheelagh Mc- Neill contributed research.
tested brain-dead has recovered.
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as it is in many American cities. Homicides in the city were down by 31 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period a year earlier, city records showed. But Seattle officials, including the mayor, have struggled to re- spond to public safety problems in a few neighborhoods. Officials say challenges include gang violence, drive-by shootings, human traf- ficking and a spike in gun-related crimes among young people. Ms. Wilson said that she planned to
Instead of trying to block the removal of life support, some families are suing to prevent physicians from conducting brain death tests.
Police officers at the scene of the shooting on Sunday at the Bite of Seattle food festival, near the Space Needle. “This has been an especially tough week in Seattle,” Mayor Katie Wilson said.
launch a strategy to lower gun vio- lence with a special emphasis on youth violence prevention. “It’s gotten to a point where all these incidents are ending with gun violence,” said Gary Gate- wood, a case manager at South- west Youth and Family Services, a nonprofit that works with young people. He attended an initial court hearing on Monday afternoon for the 15-year-old suspect, who court officials requested not be identi- fied publicly. Mr. Gatewood said that his organization had worked with the teenager and the 19-year- old who died. ”We’re working with them ev- ery day and we’re trying to build a wall to get them away from the vi- olence,” Mr. Gatewood said. “It seems like we have to keep build- ing that wall higher and higher and higher.” Earlier shootings have also drawn residents’ attention. In Jan- uary, two high school students were killed at a South Seattle bus stop. A 15-year-old was charged in
“This is a tragic and heart- breaking situation,” the hospital said, adding that it had exhausted all medically viable options. Court challenges like the Camp family’s date back to at least 2016, when parents of a 2-year-old in Virginia sought to block a hospital from performing a brain death test after the child choked on a piece of popcorn. Part of the brain death exam involves an apnea test, in which a person is tempo- rarily taken off mechanical venti- lation that pumps air into lungs to see if the body is actively taking in a breath on its own. If the person makes no effort to breathe, he or she is considered brain-dead. In the Virginia case, the family said the test would lead to a dangerous buildup of carbon dioxide, but the court ruled against the family, and the child died before the Virginia Supreme Court could consider the appeal. That challenge, like the Camp case, raised the question of whether physicians must obtain consent before evaluating a pa- tient for brain death. According to guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology, there is no obligation to obtain consent be- cause doctors have a professional obligation to report death accu- rately.
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that shooting, though the case has not gone through the court sys- tem. Shon Barnes, Seattle’s police chief, said that Seattle was suffer- ing from a spate of gun violence tied to “small groups that appear to be at odds with each other.” Bob Kettle, a Seattle City Coun- cil member and chair of the coun- cil’s public safety committee, said that in some cases, “you have indi- viduals who may not be formally part of gang, but there’s a beef or an honor thing involved.” “Because of their age and so forth, their ability to regulate isn’t great,” he said. “They’re spraying gunfire, which puts many more people at risk.” Much of the recent attention on crime has centered on a stretch of Aurora Avenue, a busy north- south corridor where drive-by shootings and open-air drug mar- kets have challenged city leaders for years. Police have attributed the problems along Aurora Ave- nue to gangs and organized crime networks.
David Magnus, a Stanford Uni- versity professor of medicine and biomedical ethics, said it was im- portant for doctors who care for critically ill patients to be able to perform tests without consent. Otherwise, he said, “you’d have to get consent every hour.” Mr. Pope, the law professor, said the number of challenges to brain death examinations has in- creased, though most do not un-
fold so publicly. The Camp family’s case drew the attention of anti- abortion organizations and poli- ticians, who believe in the sanctity of life and have sought to rally more support. Ken Paxton, the Republican at- torney general of Texas and a can- didate for Senate, wrote on social media last month before the trans- fer that he was “closely monitor- ing this case and will act to protect this child.” Liz Murrill, the Repub- lican attorney general of Louisi-
Of ‘86 47’ Seashell Charges
James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked a judge on Monday to throw out the indict- ment accusing him of threatening President Trump with a photo- graph of seashells arranged to read “86 47,” calling it a misuse of criminal law to punish free speech. The charges, filed in North Car- olina in April over an Instagram post Mr. Comey later deleted, say he “did knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon, the president of the United States.” Mr. Trump has argued that the term “86,” popular among restau- rant workers, is mafia slang to kill someone, an accusation that many of his supporters have em- braced. The other number, 47, is a reference to Mr. Trump, the 47th president. “That claim,” Mr. Comey’s law- yers wrote in the new filing, “is contradicted by every possible source of meaning: dictionaries, context, precedent and common sense. ‘86’ simply means ‘get rid of’ or ‘eject’ and has no violent connotation except in the most un- common usages.” Mr. Comey’s lawyers are ex- pected to file additional court pa- pers on Tuesday, arguing that the case is part of a larger pattern of the Trump administration’s vin- dictive and selective prosecution of him. Mr. Trump has publicly de- manded that his Justice Depart- ment pursue criminal charges against Mr. Comey, whom the president blames for past investi- gations of his 2016 campaign and its possible ties to Russia as well as other conduct. In September, Mr. Trump forced out a U.S. attorney in Virginia who concluded, along with career prosecutors, that the evidence did not support bringing charges against Mr. Comey over his testi- mony to Congress during a 2020 hearing. The president’s hand- picked successor, Lindsey Halli- gan, a former insurance lawyer with no prior prosecutorial expe-
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ana, said she visited Annelise af- ter she was transferred to Ochsner and prayed over her with her family. The idea of brain death has also become more disputed recently in part because of recent news cov- erage, including in The New York Times, about patients’ showing signs of life while their organs were being removed for transfer. Historically, most donated organs have come from people who are brain-dead and are temporarily kept on machines only to maintain their organs, though such organs don’t remain viable indefinitely. Those types of stories, Mr. Pope said, have “sowed the seeds of dis- trust” in the medical system. “There’s also a faith element to it,” he continued. Some people do not accept brain death as a con- cept while others believe in divine intervention. Mr. Pope added that people who are brain-dead do not necessarily appear deceased, since their bodies are still warm and their heart is still beating with the help of a ventilator. That can make it even harder for families to accept the diagnosis. Texas Right to Life, a Christian organization that opposes abor- tion, worked with the Camp family to find Ochsner Children’s Hospi- tal. John Seago, the president of
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President Trump demanded that James B. Comey, the for- mer F.B.I. director, be charged.
part of a pattern of selective prosecution.
rience, then obtained an indict- ment against Mr. Comey, but the case was thrown out by a judge who determined that she had been unlawfully appointed. Monday’s filing is focused on a narrower legal question, of whether the seashells photo con- stituted a true threat under fed- eral law. Under a 2023 Supreme Court case, a true threat is a “seri- ous expression” made by some- one who intends to “commit an act of unlawful violence.” The filing also notes that plenty of others, including protesters, right-wing activists and T-shirt vendors, have used the phrase “86” in reference to political fig- ures, and have not been charged with threatening physical vio- lence. In a case involving demonstra- tors in Washington flying a flag reading “8647,” a federal judge concluded last month that “no rea- sonable observer could have viewed” the act as “a threat to the president’s life or physical safety.”
the organization, said the convic- tions behind his stance on abor- tion also led him to reject that brain death is death. Mr. Seago pointed to the state of New Jersey as a model for other states because of its law allowing for a religious exemption. There, health care providers cannot de- clare a person dead based on neu- rological criteria if they have rea- son to believe it would violate the patient’s religious beliefs. “Annelise is being seen as less than other patients because she doesn’t have consciousness,” Mr. Seago said. “That is the same kind of discriminatory worldview we oppose in other situations.” The concept of brain death was introduced in the late 1960s as ad- vancements in resuscitation and ventilators posed new ethical pre- dicaments. At the time, the field of organ transplantation was just be- ginning. In 1968, a Harvard com- mittee published a report defining brain death. That document pro- vided the foundation for the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act, a template for a law that could be adopted by states. It was devel- oped by legal and medical groups and defined the end of life clini- cally as the irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory function or brain function. Most states adopted that law over the next few years. Since that template was creat- ed, though, some questions have persisted. For example, most states do not specify in their guidelines whether physicians must obtain consent before per- forming a brain death test, leaving open the possibility for challenges like the one the Camp family lodged. Some states, including New York and California, require rea- sonable accommodations for reli- gious and moral objections. That can mean allowing relatives time to look into transferring the pa- tient, or allowing them time to gather to perform specific reli- gious practices. In 2023, the Uniform Law Com- mission paused its efforts to re- vise the Uniform Determination of Death Act because medical or- ganizations and patient advocacy groups were too divided. Mr. Pope, who was on the committee charged with drafting the revi- sion, said the change was sup- posed to address whether doctors needed to obtain consent before doing the brain death test, and whether the law should permit re- ligious exemptions. “The whole point was to create uniformity,” he said. “But they re- alized we are not going to get uni- formity because there is no con- sensus.”
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and JEFF ADELSON Utah, Home of Big Families, Sees Steep Drop in Birthrate
Utah has long been famous for its large families. From the Os- mond singers to “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” the picture has been one of young people marry- ing and having a lot of babies. But Utah is now experiencing the biggest fertility rate drop in its modern history. After a peak in 2007, Utah’s rate has plummeted by more than 37 percent, the larg- est decline of any state in the country. Utah, which was No. 1 in the nation for fertility rates for years, is now ranked sixth. Utah is a leading example of a demographic transformation that is sweeping the United States and other rich countries, as young women increasingly delay child- bearing. As the trend deepens, the worry is that more women would forgo having children altogether, a choice that could have serious consequences for the country, economically and politically. For the first time, about half of all 30- year-old women are childless. Adriana Guzman-Sierra, of Salt Lake City, is one. Her childhood, she said, was chaotic and stress- ful, with parents who she said were not ready to raise kids. Ms. Guzman-Sierra, who is 33 and has worked as a teacher and in child welfare, said she was happy to have grown up in an era where childbearing is a choice. “I’ve always loved kids,” she said. “I just never wanted to have them.” Whether this is a profound transformation in American life or a temporary dip is still an open question. The drop in the fertility rate captures women having fewer or no children, but also women simply waiting to have them. However, the duration of the drop has led some demogra- phers to predict that something deep is going on. The factors are many. One rea- son Utah’s decline is so sharp is that it had so far to fall. The state’s annual fertility rate — the number of children born in a year divided by the number of women ages 15 to 44 — is still higher than the na- tional rate. That’s in part the influ- ence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which en- courages large families. Its mem- bers, polls suggest, make up about half of Utah’s population. An influx of new residents, drawn to the booming economy, have also made Utah less like the white enclave it once was, and more like the rest of the country. But the decline also reflects the power of the broad social dynam- ics pushing down fertility rates: Despite hand-wringing among conservatives, women in one of the country’s most socially con- servative states are now making very different choices about child- bearing. Many women interviewed for this article said they were waiting until they had finished their edu- cations and were financially sta- ble. They say two incomes are re- quired to afford a middle-class life in Utah’s exploding housing mar- ket, which is the 10th most expen- sive in the nation, according to the University of Utah. More than 39 percent of babies in Utah were born to mothers with a college degree in 2024, com-
‘I see my sister and other women I know, and that shows me that my way is not the only way.’
CHRISSY BRYNER, above, grew up as one of five and always wanted to be a stay-at-home mother. She married at 19 and had her first child at 22.
Decrease in Utah’s birthrate since its peak in 2007. 39%
Babies born in Utah to a mother with a college degree in 2024, up from 27 percent in 2009.
pared with about 27.5 percent in 2009, The Times found. “It’s really amazing to me how much things have changed,” said Holly Garcia, the director of child care and family services at Salt Lake Community College. “Hav- ing a kid at 35, it used to be almost unheard of. Now it’s more and more of the moms coming in.” Her sister Heidi Spence is an example. She had her first child at 38. Despite growing up as one of eight children in a church family, she wasn’t drawn to being a mother. “I wasn’t a little girl who liked playing mommy,” she said. After graduating from high school, she went to work — at a fabric store, as a cashier at Lowe’s, as a waitress.
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Eventually, she enrolled in com- munity college, then obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Along the way, she met her hus- band, who was completing a Ph.D. in pharmacy. They lived in a tiny apartment, studying full time and working long hours. Having chil- dren seemed overwhelming, she said. Now 44, Mrs. Spence is a finan- cial director for a nonprofit in Salt Lake City. She and her husband have three young children. They own a house with a large yard and three cars. After her second child, she said she began to yearn for more children and thought, “May- be I should have started this earli- er.” But there were advantages to
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having children later. “I’m really glad that my kids did not have to deal with me in an ear- lier, less mature and less stable time,”she said. “The downside is I’m going to spend less time with them in their lifetimes.” Change within the Church of Je- sus Christ of Latter-day Saints is another driver of Utah’s plunging birthrate. A 2025 comprehensive study by researchers at Brigham Young University found that, while a ma- jority of older women stayed in the church, less than 40 percent of 18- year-old women did. (Men, on the other hand, stayed in the church at high rates with little genera- tional difference, said Justin Dyer, the lead researcher.) That can affect decisions around childbearing. Savanna Sanborn grew up in the church. As a child, she threw herself into its teachings. At 10, she wrote and stored a letter to her future hus- band. “I had this intense need for per- fectionism,” she said. “I really thrived within the structure of the church.” But she began questioning the culture. At 19, she admired a young pastor, who ended up run- ning afoul of the church because he came out as gay. She married at 20, but quickly realized she did not want the life that came next: hav- ing children and running the household. “The pressure of completing the perfect Mormon picture started to crack me open,” she said. Now 29, she is divorced and studying for a bachelor’s degree in math, while working. She said she doesn’t feel particularly career- driven: After her experience in the church, she is wary of external forces determining the direction of her life. As for children, she thinks she might want them someday, but not now. “It would halt a lot of my hob- bies, the time I can spend just wandering in libraries all day, which is my love,” she said. “I’m not ready to give that life up yet.” The church itself has expressed concern over falling fertility rates. Last year, in a major sermon, Dallin Oaks, the president of the church, urged members not to lose sight of “the value of chil- dren.” Utah is still the state with the largest family size in the country. But that may be changing, too: The women interviewed for this article came from families of as many as eight children, but they themselves tended to have fewer. Chrissy Bryner grew up as one of five and always wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. She was mar- ried at 19 and had her first child at 22, after graduating from B.Y.U. Now 31, she has three children and said she and her husband might want a fourth. But her older sister did things differently. She married after col- lege but waited 12 years to have her first child, to establish her mu- sic career. Now, she is a thriving jazz musician who takes intense joy from parenting. She is preg- nant with her second. “I see my sister and other wom- en I know,” Mrs. Bryner said, “and that shows me that my way is not the only way.”
For Approval Of His Order On Mail Votes
By ABBIE VANSICKLE
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for an executive order by President Trump that restricts voting by mail, setting up a legal showdown as the president pushes for more control over vot- ing ahead of the midterm elec- tions in November. The administration filed the emergency application to the jus- tices after a federal appeals court on Saturday blocked key parts of his executive order. In the application, Solicitor General D. John Sauer called the lower court ruling “indefensible,” asserting that it imposed “serious irreparable harm on the federal government” and would bar fed- eral agencies from implementing an executive order “promoting election integrity in the upcoming federal elections in November.” The legal battle stems from an executive order signed by Mr. Trump in late March that had at- tempted to place limits on mail-in voting, including using federal oversight of the U.S. Postal Serv- ice to gain greater control over mail-in voting practices. The executive order directed the Department of Homeland Se- curity to create state-by-state citi- zen lists that would help deter- mine voter eligibility. It then called on the Postal Service to use lists provided by states to deter- mine if voters should be allowed to vote by mail. More than 20 Democratic attor- neys general challenged the order in court, arguing that it violated several provisions of the Constitu- tion, including the separation of powers, by having the executive branch take control of functions usually regulated by Congress
loss, seeking review by the Supreme Court.
and the states. The Supreme Court on Monday asked the challengers to respond to the government’s emergency application by Monday, Aug. 3. Mr. Trump has repeatedly criti- cized mail-in voting and sought re- strictions on it. For years, he has made unfounded claims sowing doubt about voting by mail and claiming that it allows widespread fraud. So far, federal courts have stymied many of Mr. Trump’s ef- forts to restrict mail voting. In late June, a federal judge is- sued a ruling that blocked key parts of the executive order. Judge Indira Talwani, a federal district judge in Massachusetts, con- cluded that “the Constitution does not grant the President any spe- cific powers over elections.” She underlined the words “does not.” This weekend, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Ap- peals for the First Circuit upheld her decision. The judges wrote that if the president’s order were allowed to go into effect for the midterm elec- tions in November, “it would sow confusion and threaten disenfran- chisement of many eligible vot- ers.” The Constitution gives the states and Congress powers over elections, and it does not give those powers to the president, the judges wrote. The Supreme Court has shown skepticism of Mr. Trump’s efforts to restrict mail-in voting. In late June, the justices upheld a Missis- sippi law that allows mail-in bal- lots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they are received up to five business days later, a re- jection of the Trump administra- tion’s efforts to overturn the stat- ute. In that ruling, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three liberals, announcing that nothing in federal law re- quires ballots to be received by Election Day provided they are cast by that day. Although the rul- ing focused on Mississippi’s law, it also appeared to leave in place similar laws in at least 18 other states and territories, including Nevada and California, that har- bor battleground congressional districts in the midterm elections. After the decision was an- nounced, Mr. Trump posted on so- cial media, calling the ruling a “tremendous loss” and urging Congress to pass legislation that places restrictions on mail-in bal- lots and adds new voter identifica- tion requirements.
In Killing of 3 Children Is Focus of Murder Trial
Rekindles a Debate On Severe Psychosis
By JENNA RUSSELL
The trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother charged with murder in the strangulation deaths of her three young children, began on Monday. After opening state- ments, her husband was expected to begin his testimony about Ms. Clancy’s deteriorating mental state and the subsequent killings of their children — Cora, 5, Daw- son, 3, and Callan, 8 months. The horrific deaths at their home in Duxbury, Mass., an afflu- ent suburb of Boston, revived a debate about how the legal sys- tem should treat mentally ill mothers who kill their children. At the trial, in state court in Plymouth, Mass., prosecutors are expected to say that Ms. Clancy, 35, carefully planned the killings, plotting to get her husband out of the house that night before chok- ing their children with resistance bands. Defense lawyers will say she was in the throes of a mental health crisis, overmedicated for severe postpartum mental illness and hearing voices that ordered her to kill herself and her children.
The Trial
The Back Story
Ms. Clancy, who worked as a labor and delivery nurse, had experi- enced anxiety after the births of her first two children. Her symp- toms returned after the birth of her third child in 2022 and intensi- fied as she prepared to return to work. She sought treatment from a psychiatrist who prescribed her
By MIKE BAKER
The criminology student con- victed last year of murdering four University of Idaho students in their home is seeking to abandon his guilty plea and obtain a trial, claiming he is innocent and was misled into confessing to the high- profile killings. In an interview with The New York Times, Bryan Kohberger, who is currently serving four life sentences, said he had filed a peti- tion challenging his conviction, citing concerns about how the plea deal came together. “My actual innocence is my truth, and the plea, hinged on by false promises and blatant disin- formation, MUST be withdrawn,” Mr. Kohberger said in a statement provided to The Times on Sunday night. He reiterated in a phone call from prison in Idaho that he had an “absolute claim of innocence.” Mr. Kohberger had not granted an interview or made public com- ments before speaking with The Times. He declined to discuss any evidence or other specific details related to his innocence claim, as well as the specific concerns he had about the plea process. It is rare for defendants to win post-conviction challenges, which often revolve around claims of newly discovered evidence or an ineffective assistance of counsel. Steve Goncalves, the father of one of the victims, declined to comment Monday morning, say- ing he wanted to discuss the issue with his family. The Latah County Prosecutor’s Office did not imme- diately return a call seeking com- ment. Raul Labrador, Idaho’s at- torney general, released a state- ment saying his heart went out to the victims’ families, noting they had “already endured unimagin- able loss and now must face to- day’s deeply painful news.” “My office stands ready to do whatever is necessary to ensure justice is fully carried out,” he said. In November 2022, the four murders in Moscow, Idaho, a col- lege town that had not seen a homicide in seven years, captivat- ed the country for weeks as inves- tigators struggled to identify a suspect. Mr. Kohberger’s arrest brought relief to the community but also stoked further mystery and speculation, as investigators never identified a motive or any previous relationship with the vic- tims. In court, law enforcement offi- cials outlined the evidence against Mr. Kohberger. His DNA was found on a Ka-Bar knife sheath that had been left next to two of the victims. Amazon records showed he had purchased a Ka-Bar knife and sheath months prior. He drove a white Elantra, the type of car that investigators determined had been on surveil- lance video circling the crime scene and then speeding away from it. Mr. Kohberger’s phone
rebuked Mr. Turvey, telling The Idaho Statesman that he “is now speaking about topics that are still confidential, many of which are outside of his areas of expertise.” The lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. Mr. Turvey’s concerns were included in a book about the case, “Broken Plea.” Mr. Kohberger alluded to those issues in his statement, saying that “unanswered questions seem to multiply with each piece of dis- covery unsealed.” He said he was OK that a new trial would mean the prospect of a potential death penalty. “Why am I breaking my si- lence?” Mr. Kohberger said Sun- day in the interview from the Idaho Maximum Security Institu- tion, just south of Boise. “A lot went wrong in those plea discus- sions. I really do want that to be heard.” Mr. Kohberger was raised in Pennsylvania and had written on- line as a teenager that he felt “no emotion,” was suicidal and viewed himself as a “sickly, tired, useless and stupid man.” He later turned to heroin, friends said, but got so- ber and earned a master’s degree, growing enthralled with learning about serial killers and the minds of killers. Then, in 2022, he moved to Pull- man, Wash., to enter the Ph.D. program in criminal justice and criminology at Washington State University. He also applied for an internship with the local police de- partment. But his term at the uni- versity was sullied after he clashed with a professor, and the university decided to fire him from his teaching assistant role. Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs con- tributed reporting.
a growing list of medications. In a lawsuit filed against the doctor this year, her husband, Pat- rick Clancy, argued that clinicians had failed to monitor her reactions to the medications “or attend to her worsening psychiatric condi- tion.” While taking more than a dozen medications — including Ambien, Klonopin, Valium, Prozac, Ativan, Zoloft and Seroquel — Ms. Clancy experienced worsening insomnia, anxiety and depression. By De- cember 2022, she was reporting panic, numbness, racing thoughts, suicidal ideation and a growing fear “that something aw- ful might happen,” according to the lawsuit. Late that month, she admitted herself to an outpatient program for postpartum depression. On Jan. 1, 2023, she admitted herself to McLean Hospital, a residential psychiatric campus outside Bos- ton, where she stayed for five days. According to the lawsuit and medical records, Ms. Clancy’s cri- sis came to a head on Jan. 24, 2023, when she heard “a compelling and unrecognizable singular male voice” telling her that “she should die, that this is her last chance, and that her children would suffer if she was gone.” That day, after ordering takeout food for dinner and asking her husband to pick it up, prosecutors say, she killed Cora and Dawson and fatally injured Callan, who died three days later. Prosecutors say that Ms. Clancy cut her wrists and neck, jumped from a second-story win- dow and fell about 20 feet to the ground, where her husband found her when he returned home less than 30 minutes later. She suf- fered traumatic spinal cord inju- ries and remains unable to walk,
Bryan Kohberger at a courthouse in Boise, Idaho, after his sentencing hearing in 2025.
showed he was out that night, with his phone turned off at the time of the murders. Mr. Kohberger declined to dis- cuss the evidence against him in his call with The Times. He said “the intention is for all of those questions to be investigated and answered appropriately in a trial setting.” Mr. Kohberger, who had court- appointed representation throughout the case, ending with his guilty plea, said he prepared the documentation to challenge the case on his own. He requested to have a lawyer appointed to help him going forward. In the handwritten filing made public by court officials on Mon- day, Mr. Kohberger focused on a claim of ineffective legal counsel. He said his lawyers failed to dis- close or review exculpatory evi- dence and had made promises about what life in prison would look like, including details about visits and employment. These pledges, he said, had induced him to agree to the plea. After he was arrested in De- cember 2022, Mr. Kohberger’s ini- tial lawyer said his client was ea- ger to be exonerated. Court-ap- pointed lawyers spent more than two years challenging the evi- dence collected against Mr. Ko- hberger, only for a surprise plea deal to come together a few weeks before a trial was to begin. Mr. Kohberger accepted re- sponsibility for the murders at a July 2025 hearing. He was not re- quired to offer a motive for the killings — and never has. The lack of a detailed confession outraged some of the victims’ family mem- bers and even President Trump,
A memorial in 2023 outside of the Duxbury, Mass., home of Lindsay Clancy, who is charged with killing her three young children.
according to her lawyer.
The Husband’s Reaction
The searing events stunned the public. Then Mr. Clancy delivered another unexpected emotional jolt, releasing a wrenching written statement that supported his wife. “My family was the best thing that ever happened to me,” Mr. Clancy wrote. “I took so much pride in being Lindsay’s husband and a dad to Cora, Dawson, and Callan.” He described the quirks and tal- ents of each child, and added: “They gave me purpose, and I never took it for granted. There is now a massive void where that purpose once was.” Yet, Mr. Clancy wrote, his wife
who had called on the judge to de- mand an explanation from Mr. Ko- hberger. In court, the judge asked Mr. Kohberger: “Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?” “Yes,” Mr. Kohberger re- sponded. He later sat in silence at a sentencing hearing at which family members of the victims ex- pressed their grief and anger. In the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022, after a typical Satur- day night out, the four victims were stabbed to death in an off- campus home. The bodies of Mad- ison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Gon- calves, 21, were found together in a bed on the home’s third floor. The bodies of Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, were found in a bedroom on the second floor. Two surviving roommates were in a bedroom on the home’s first floor. One of them reported seeing a shadowy figure in the middle of the night and hearing a commo- tion. But the roommates did not seek help until later in the morn- ing, saying they had not realized what had transpired. One of the experts who worked on Mr. Kohberger’s defense team has taken particular issue with the plea arrangement and the evi- dence. Brent Turvey, a forensic scientist who analyzed the crime scene for the defense, argued that the crime was committed by mul- tiple perpetrators, criticized how investigators documented evi- dence and questioned why more testing was not done of a hair found with one of the victims. The lawyers who served as Mr. Kohberger’s defense team have
had been unfairly portrayed “by people who have never met her and never knew who the real Lindsay was.” Their marriage had been strong “and diametrically grew stronger as her condition rapidly worsened,” he said. “I want to ask all of you that you find it deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay, as I have,” Mr. Clancy added. “The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring towards everyone — me, our kids, family, friends, and her patients. The very fibers of her soul are lov- ing.”
What Is Postpartum Psychosis?
About one in seven women are af-
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fected by postpartum depression, but research has been slow to in- vestigate the causes. Postpartum psychosis is a rarer, more severe illness carry- ing a high risk of suicide and infan- ticide. Few women describe their ex- periences with either condition publicly, fearing condemnation in a culture in which any deviation from maternal bliss has been ta- boo.
Ms. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. She faces a penalty of life imprisonment without parole if convicted. Judge William Sullivan said at a hearing last week that he
See Enrollment Canceled Just Weeks Before Move-In
By MARK WALKER and EMMETT LINDNER
More than 500 incoming How- ard University freshmen learned weeks before move-in that the school had canceled their enroll- ment after it said the students missed a payment deadline this month. The decision came almost a month before the start of the fall semester, leaving the affected stu- dents scrambling to find alterna- tives or determine whether they could still find a way to re-enroll. Howard, one of the country’s most prestigious historically Black colleges and universities, said that it dismissed 502 first- year students whose accounts showed that they had not met en- rollment and financial require- ments by a deadline of July 10. By that date, the students were supposed to have paid half their remaining balance or enrolled in a payment plan. “Never in my life have I gotten so far and worked so hard for it to be stripped from me on a random Wednesday,” one affected student, Isabella Williams, said in a TikTok video this week about the enroll- ment issue. Her video’s caption said that she was supposed to move in on Saturday. “I was promised and told by people that what I was doing was OK,” Ms. Williams continued, “that everything was fine and that my scholarships could come through later, and then I’m sud- denly unenrolled from my dream school.” Ms. Williams could not be im- mediately reached for comment on Saturday. The number of undergraduate “first time in college” students at Howard last fall was 2,490, accord- ing to the school. The university said it began no- tifying students in March through emails and orientation sessions about enrollment requirements, payment expectations and key
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planned to seat 18 jurors, includ- ing six alternates, for a trial ex- pected to last six to eight weeks. Prosectors say she acted with “deliberate, premeditated and ex- treme atrocity and cruelty.” Ms. Clancy consulted a map- ping app before her husband left the house to determine how long he would be gone, they said in doc- uments, and “gave herself the time and privacy needed to com- mit these murders.” Kevin Reddington, the defense attorney representing Ms. Clancy, has said that her case ranked as “probably the most emotionally disturbing and challenging” of his decades-long career. He predicted it would have a “significant impact on jurors.”
dates. Howard officials said students also received monthly reminders through July as the deadline ap- proached. Students who missed tuition or aid deadlines lost their spots in the upcoming semester. They were informed “that the University can no longer hold their place in the incoming class,” school officials said in a statement on Thursday. “As Howard finalizes enroll- ment for the Fall 2026 semester, which begins Aug. 17, confirming enrollment is essential to plan- ning academic programs, hous- ing, financial aid, and student sup- port services,” the statement said. For many students and their
consequence for missing a deadline.
families, the timing left little op- portunity to resolve the issue be- fore the start of the academic year. Some of the affected students told the university that their scholarships or federal financial aid had not finished processing before the deadline, the university statement said. Some students said they were traveling to Washington next week to try to resolve the enroll- ment issue in person. It’s unclear how many of the af- fected students were awaiting fed- eral financial aid, private schol- arships or grants. “The university is reviewing in- formation related to anticipated scholarship funding and other fi- nancial aid, where appropriate, and will consider relevant circum- stances presented regarding pending scholarship awards and financial aid resources,” the uni- versity said.
NATIONAL
tor wheezed in the background. “I forgive him.” That message, delivered in March 1987, moved New York in an era when violent crime was rampant and racial tension and anti-police sentiment were preva- lent. For the next 30 years, Officer McDonald traveled throughout the city and around the world, telling police officers, schoolchild- ren and politicians his story and asking them to believe in the power of compassion. He died in 2017 of complications from his in- juries. He was 59. Earlier this month, the New York Police Department named its academy in Queens after him. Replicas of his shields and his uni- form, along with his wheelchair and respirator, are now encased behind glass in the lobby. “Detec- tive Steven D. McDonald” — he was promoted in 1995 — is affixed in white letters in the front of the steel gray building. Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch said she came up with the idea in January, while sitting in St. Pat- rick’s Cathedral, where, during a memorial for him, “God spoke to me.” “This department needed to find a permanent way to honor Steven McDonald and ensure that his example would remain part of the N.Y.P.D. for generations to come,” she said during a ceremo- ny at the academy, where Ms. Mc- Donald and Conor McDonald, now a captain in the Police Depart- ment, sat close by. Ms. McDonald was three months pregnant with Conor when her husband, then 29, went into the northeast section of Cen- tral Park on a July afternoon to in- vestigate reports of bicycle thefts. He approached Shavod who was walking with two friends near the Harlem Meer, an artificial lake in Central Park where muggings and thefts were commonplace at the time. As Officer McDonald began pat- ting down one of the boys, Shavod pulled out a gun and fired three shots. Officer McDonald’s injuries were so severe that doctors said he would not survive the night. Then, they told him he should not expect to live more than five years. Soon, they stopped making pre- dictions, Captain McDonald, 39, said in an interview. Ms. McDonald said some peo- ple questioned her husband’s de- cision to forgive Shavod, but she believes it might have saved his life. “If he hadn’t, it would have de- stroyed him from the inside out,” Ms. McDonald said. He recovered enough to speak again and he remained employed at the department, becoming a sort of ambassador, talking to offi- cers at roll calls, attending memo- rials and vigils for fallen officers, and traveling to Israel, Northern Ireland and Bosnia. He met with Pope John Paul II and Nelson Mandela, and was interviewed by Barbara Walters. In 1988, he sent a package to Shavod, who was in prison. Inside was a box of stationery, stamps and a note: “Let’s carry on a dia- logue.” In 1990, Mr. Jones called Officer McDonald at his home in Malverne, N.Y., on Long Island, and apologized. But forgiveness took the rela- tionship only so far. When he was up for parole, Mr. Jones’ family asked Officer McDonald if he would be willing to ask for his early release. Officer McDonald told them he could not. His father, Captain Mc- Donald said, thought Shavod had to do his time. His father hoped that when Mr. Jones got out, the two would team up and preach a message of peace. “I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like what I envision — the two of us, together,” he told the Los Angeles Times in a March 1995 interview. “Maybe Shavod and I will go to schools together
Steven McDonald prayed con- stantly that he might walk again. He went to Roman Catholic Mass daily and visited Lourdes, France, and Medjugorje in Bosnia, pil- grimage sites where children claimed the Virgin Mary had ap- peared to them. At both places, he asked for a miracle. But he did not become embit- tered, his son said. “He never once regretted becoming a police offi- cer.” Georgia Gee and Sheelagh McNeill contributed research.
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An article on Monday about how the video game Minecraft has been used to engage children in the process of urban design mis- stated the name of the coordina- tor of the Global Public Space Network at U.N.-Habitat. He is Jose Chong, not Cheng.
An article on July 12 about a study showing how the Energy Department has underestimated the potentially deadly conse- quences should plutonium escape the Los Alamos National Labora- tory in New Mexico omitted men- tion of a 2026 impact statement by the department that provided additional information about acci- dent scenarios. It also referred imprecisely to the status of the ventilation system at Plutonium Facility 4. While the system was not replaced, a spokeswoman for
Officer Steven McDonald in 1995. He spent nearly 40 years promoting forgiveness the world over.
The N.Y.P.D. named its acad- emy in Queens for Officer McDonald earlier this month. In attendance, from near right, was his son, Captain Conor McDonald, with his wife, and Officer McDonald’s wife, Patti.
and speak to kids. It’d be an amaz- ing sight.” He never got that chance. Shortly after the interview, Mr. Jones was released. Three days later, he was killed in a motorcycle accident in East Harlem. Conor McDonald, then 8, stood up in front of his third grade class and asked the other students to pray for Mr. Jones. “My dad would always tell me that compared to Shavod, my life was very good and that we had to feel sorry for him,” Captain Mc- Donald said. “I felt compelled as a young kid to forgive him and ask my classmates to forgive him.” After Captain McDonald gradu- ated from Boston College, he vol- unteered with homeless teen- agers in Denver before joining the Police Academy. His father beamed with pride. “I, on the other hand, was like
the department said it had under- gone a “major upgrade” in 2023.
An article on Thursday about a terrorism charge stemming from a 2022 stabbing in western New York misidentified who prosecu- tors said communicated with a person based in Iran. It was Hadi Matar, not Salman Rushdie.
An article on Saturday about the addition of four states linked to the outbreak of cyclosporiasis as- sociated with iceberg lettuce mis- stated the date of Ohio’s previous case count. It was July 16, not July 14.
‘Are you kidding me?’” Ms. Mc- Donald said. “My plan was for him to work at a friend’s law firm and then go to law school.” But the job felt like a calling and a legacy. His great-aunt, uncle and grandfather had also been New York police officers. His great- grandfather, James Conway, was an officer in the Bronx when he was shot in 1936 in the chest trying to stop two men who held up a tav- ern. Officer Conway survived.
Because of an editing error, an ar- ticle on Sunday about Susan Collins’s enormous cash edge in the Maine Senate race misidenti- fied Blake Kernen. Ms. Kernen is a campaign spokeswoman for Senator Collins, not a campaign spokesman.
An article on Monday about the tension between many Jewish leaders and Mayor Zohran Mam- dani after recent stabbings in Manhattan incorrectly referred to Eric Goldstein’s title at UJA-Fed- eration of New York. He is the chief executive, not the president.
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White House was made by Norell- Tassell, not Tessell.
An article on Sunday about Sammy Nussdorf, the owner of the gourmet market Meadow Lane in Lower Manhattan, mis- stated the surname of Meadow Lane’s head of operations. She is Frances Trousdale, not Frances Truesdale.
OBITUARIES
An Overlooked obituary on Mon- day about Barbara Rubin, an ex- perimental filmmaker who helped jolt Manhattan’s underground art scene in the 1960s, referred incor- rectly to Rubin’s last film, “Emu- nah.” It is not “lost”; it was re- cently restored by Anthology Film Archives.
Engaged in ‘Hate Speech’
Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- tanyahu of Israel on Sunday re- sponded directly to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s calls for his arrest, ac- cusing the mayor of “fomenting hate” and referring to a video ad- dress that Mr. Mamdani made last week as “hate speech.” In an appearance on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Fu- tures,” Mr. Netanyahu criticized the mayor for the video, released Tuesday, in which Mr. Mamdani called him a “war criminal,” con- demned the war in Gaza and urged the U.S. government to en- force an International Criminal Court warrant for the prime min- ister’s arrest. “He’s fomenting hate,” Mr. Ne- tanyahu said, adding, “He’s trying to turn one group against the other.” The prime minister also said that he did not think it was “acci- dental” that a Jewish man was stabbed on the Upper West Side of Manhattan after the mayor re- leased the video. In the attacks on the Upper West Side on Thursday, the assail- ant first stabbed a 57-year-old Asian man, Chok Sung, and then stabbed the Jewish man, Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus, the police said. He yelled “Allahu akbar” during both attacks, according to ac- counts from the victims and wit- nesses. The police arrested Raul Mo- rales in the stabbings and charged him on Friday with two counts of attempted murder as a hate crime. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that detectives were still investigating Mr. Morales’s motive. While Mr. Morales did not have a history of mental health is- sues documented with the depart- ment, she added, it appeared that his mental state might have played a role in the attacks. Both victims survived the stab- bings. “I speak to Jewish Americans in New York, and they’re afraid right now,” Mr. Netanyahu said in the Fox News interview. Arguing that Mr. Mamdani was creating divisions among New Yorkers, he said, “He’s supposed to be the mayor of all New York- ers, Jews, Christians, Muslims, everyone.” Asked about Mr. Netanyahu’s comments on Sunday, Mr. Mam-
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Will Offer a 30% Discount
By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has promised that city-owned grocery stores will bring down prices for shoppers. On Monday, he an- nounced the exact discount: 30 percent for some basic groceries, including vegetables, meat, bread and milk. The city is moving to select pri- vate operators to run five city- owned stores, one in each bor- ough. The city will build the stores and waive rent and property taxes. It is also expected to pro- vide an operating subsidy to help pay for the discounts. The discount will cover a “core basket” of healthy groceries, in- cluding produce, meat, seafood, pasta, bread, yogurt, butter, nuts, rice and beans. The stores will sell other products at regular market prices. It could save shoppers about $90 per month or roughly $1,000 per year, according to an analysis by the city’s Economic Develop- ment Corporation. Mr. Mamdani announced the discount at a news conference in Brooklyn and said that the stores would set prices for staples once a month based on market-rate aver- age prices across the city. “No weekly fluctuations, nor sticker shock at the checkout line,” he said. “Not for our seniors living on fixed incomes, nor for the par- ents who rely on a regular supply of apple slices to keep toddler tantrums at bay.” Mr. Mamdani has pledged to create the five stores by the end of his first term. They were one of his major campaign promises aimed at addressing the city’s afford- ability crisis. But some small business own- ers and economists have raised concerns, arguing that the stores could hurt smaller supermarkets and questioning whether they are the best way to reduce grocery prices. Frank Garcia, chairman of the Multicultural Business Coalition, a group that opposes the stores, said that the city’s discounts would “put our businesses out of business.” “How are you going to compete with that?” he said. Others have praised the stores, including groups that work to ad- dress food insecurity and two City Council members who represent neighborhoods where the stores will be located. More than a quar- ter of New Yorkers live in poverty, and lines outside food pantries have become a common sight.
dani’s spokesman Joe Calvello pointed to a New York Post inter- view with the mayor on Saturday, in which Mr. Mamdani said he was committed to countering anti- semitism across the city. “We know that while Jewish New Yorkers constitute a minor- ity in the city, they continue to comprise a majority of the victims of all hate crimes,” Mr. Mamdani told The Post. “This is a city that will not only look to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe; we also look to celebrate and cherish Jewish New Yorkers.” A week ago, Mr. Mamdani told The New York Times that he was in “ac- tive conversa- tion” with city lawyers about the prospect of arresting Mr. Netanyahu, should the Israeli leader come to New York City — a pledge Mr. Mam- dani made while campaigning. On Tuesday, he released the video, in which he said that while the city’s Law Department had looked into the matter, the city did not have the power to make the arrest. The video has been viewed by nearly 100 million people. On Fox News, Mr. Netanyahu accused Mr. Mamdani of having “celebrated the Oct. 7 massacre.” The mayor on Wednesday, as he has before, condemned those at- tacks, in which Hamas militants crossed the border and killed more than 1,200 people, calling them “a horrific war crime.” In his video, he called Mr. Netanyahu “the architect of a horrific geno- cide against the Palestinian peo- ple” in reference to the war in Gaza, in which more than 70,000 people have been killed. Mr. Netanyahu said he still planned to come to New York City in September for the United Na- tions General Assembly meeting. Last year, representatives from dozens of countries walked out of the General Assembly meeting just before Mr. Netanyahu gave a defiant speech rejecting the cre- ation of a Palestinian state. Some city leaders said the heightened tensions around Israel and Gaza were concerning. “This is a time when we need to bring the temperature and the rhetoric down,” City Council Speaker Julie Menin said on Sunday.
The first city-owned grocery store is expected to open in the Bronx next year. Another location in East Harlem is expected to open by 2029. The city is still con- sidering sites for Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island and is- sued a 44-page request for propos- als on Monday to find operators to run the stores. Mr. Mamdani’s budget deal with the City Council in June in- cluded $70 million in capital fund- ing to build the stores. The operators will handle the daily operations. They will be re- quired to provide “family sustain- ing wages and benefits” and agree to a “labor peace agreement” so that workers can organize without interference, the city said.
funded stores will hurt smaller supermarkets.
The stores will not sell hot food to avoid competing with local bo- degas that sell prepared food. Mr. Mamdani recently named two people to lead the Economic Development Corporation, which is overseeing city-owned grocery stores. Anthony E. Shorris, a vet- eran of city government, will serve as president; Lina Khan, the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, will serve as the board chairwoman. Mr. Shorris said that the stores would be a priority because they were a campaign pledge. “Commitments that mayors make to the people are some of the highest priorities of anything the government does,” Mr. Shorris said when his role was an- nounced. Mr. Garcia, the leader of the Multicultural Business Coalition, said he was prepared to file a law- suit in hopes of preventing the stores from moving forward. He said that store owners were of- fended by recent comments on Fox News by Gustavo Gordillo, a chair of New York City’s chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and an ally of Mr. Mam- dani. “If one publicly owned grocery store that brings prices down in the neighborhood is enough to put someone out of business, then maybe they shouldn’t have been in that business in the first place,” Mr. Gordillo said.
Known for Combativeness, Dies at 79
Clint Reilly, a feared and re- spected political consultant who ran winning campaigns in Califor- nia, but whose combustible per- sonality sometimes upstaged the candidates he worked for, died on July 18 in San Francisco. He was 79. His death was announced by The San Francisco Examiner, which Mr. Reilly bought in 2020, two decades after an only-in-San- Francisco feud with the paper’s management. The cause of death, in a hospital, was chronic lung dis- ease, Frank Holland, a family friend, said. Mr. Reilly advised some of Cali- fornia’s most successful Demo- crats of the 1980s and ’90s, includ- ing Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Fein- stein and Barbara Boxer, whose careers all began in the Bay Area. In 1999, he became a candidate himself, running for mayor of San Francisco and finishing fourth af- ter spending $3.5 million of his own money. The son of a milkman, Mr. Reilly possessed a granular knowledge of voting blocs and an adman’s in- stinct for distilling a winning mes- sage. He was an early adopter of using computers to identify voters by demographics and interests, so they could be targeted individu- ally. His direct-mail and TV ads delivered a visceral punch, often through attacks on opponents. “The guy’s a genius,” Richard Riordan, a rare Republican client, told The Los Angeles Times after Mr. Reilly guided him to unexpect- ed victory in the 1993 Los Angeles mayoral race. As the manager of Ms. Pelosi’s
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CONFORD—Pamela Beth.
Pamela Beth (”Pam”) Con- ford, M.S.W., was born on May 12, 1951 and died in Man- hattan on July 25, 2026. She was the daughter of Harold and Matilda (”Mattie”) Con- ford and sister of Karla Con- ford, all of whom prede- ceased her. Pam was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in Irvington, and Ma- plewood, New Jersey, attend- ing Columbia High School. She then attended Case Western University and gra- duated from The New School
first congressional campaign in 1987, Mr. Reilly coined a prophetic slogan for the future House speaker: “A voice that will be heard.” But not all of Mr. Reilly’s clients were pleased with his work. In 1989, after managing two success- ful mayoral races for Ms. Fein- stein, he quit her campaign for governor during the Democratic primary while she was recovering from a hysterectomy. Before telling his client, he faxed report- ers the news that he was resign- ing, saying that she wasn’t work- ing hard enough. “I am free at last,” Ms. Feinstein responded. She went on to win the
later owning, San Francisco papers.
primary, lose the general election to Pete Wilson, a Republican, and win a U.S. Senate seat in 1992 — all without Mr. Reilly’s help. Mr. Reilly goaded candidates to spend lavishly to win, with the not-coincidental side effect that his fees were also lavish. After growing up with little, he favored Italian suits, drove a red Jaguar and lived in a three-story house with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge in the upscale Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco. When Quentin L. Kopp was a San Francisco supervisor, he hired Mr. Reilly to manage his long-shot 1979 mayoral challenge to Ms. Feinstein, the incumbent.
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in Manhattan. Pam later at- tended Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, where she met her husband, Bruce Ortwine, and eventual- ly graduated with an M.S.W. from Columbia University. Pam worked at the Epilepsy Institute of New York, first as a clinician for clients exper- iencing epilepsy, and, within three years, became that agency's Executive Director. The Epilepsy Institute later became the Epilepsy Foun- dation of Metropolitan New York, with Pam remaining as Executive Director until 2019. She served on the Board of that organization until the time of her death. During her tenure as Executive Director, Pam was widely known and respected as a fierce advo- cate for those persons with epilepsy, a neurological af- fliction that is both widely misunderstood and, at the same time, affects roughly four percent of the popula- tion. She served as a founding member and eventual Chair of the Epilepsy Coalition of New York, and also a mem- ber of the Developmentally Disabled Planning Commis-
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sion, a Federally-funded or- ganization, to which she was appointed by the then- Governor of New York, George Pataki, and served on for twelve years. Pam testi- fied before the United States Congress on epilepsy-related matters and also attended and spoke at numerous epilepsy-related conferences throughout the United States and Europe. During all of this time, Pam dealt successfully with the debilitating disease known as Crohn's Disease, which she first contracted at age 19. Although this afflic- tion forced numerous com- promises in her life, it never prevented her from living her life and achieving her goals to the fullest. Pam had many interests outside of her profession, including travel, food, fashion, theatre and reading. She and her husband traveled extensively through- out the United States, South America, Europe, Asia, Aus- tralia and New Zealand. Trips to Alaska, Japan, Australia and London had been planned at the time of her death. They had homes in Greenwich Village, Manhat- tan, Miami Beach, Florida, Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania and Mayfair, London, United Kingdom. Everyone who
Mr. Reilly made his reputation during that campaign, which forced Ms. Feinstein into a runoff. But during the race, he was ar- rested and charged with driving drunk. Mr. Kopp’s supporters urged him to fire Mr. Reilly, he recalled in an interview. He refused, and the two remained friends, though he took to jokingly referring to Mr. Reilly as “Satan,” for his volatile temperament. (Mr. Reilly said that he quit drinking soon after the arrest.) At a holiday party at Mr. Reilly’s home some years later, Mr. Kopp said, “Clint’s mother implored me to stop referring to him as Satan,” which he did. Mr. Reilly’s purchase of The Ex- aminer followed a long saga in and out of courtrooms, starting in 1993, when he visited the editorial offices to complain about the pa- per’s coverage of a client and left in an ambulance with a broken an- kle. He sued Phil Bronstein, the ex- ecutive editor, claiming that he had shoved him; he also sued the newspaper’s publisher, William Randolph Hearst III, who was present during the incident. Mr. Reilly won an undisclosed settle- ment, and The Examiner ex- pressed regret for his injury. In 2000, Mr. Reilly was back in court with The Examiner, this time suing its owner, the Hearst Corporation, on antitrust grounds to stop it from buying the rival San Francisco Chronicle. Lawyers for The Examiner called the suit an attempt to settle old scores, after the newspaper had backed Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. the previous year dur-
knew Pam could agree on her incredible honesty, inte- grity, loyalty, optimism, spirit, mentoring, encouragement and tenacity, through which capacities she continually overcame so many health- related obstacles to achieve so much success, so many achievements and so many positive impacts in both her own life and in the lives of so many others. She leaves be- hind her husband and life partner of 47 years, Bruce Ortwine, many beloved cou- sins, other biological and de facto family members and numerous friends and work and professional colleagues through the United States and beyond. Up until the very end of her life, Pam continued to promote the idea of “brain health,” treating the many and varied types of afflictions that affect neurologically- related issues, including epilepsy and so many others. She was, in every respect of the term, a true “advocate” for the cause of the better un- derstanding of epilepsy in particular and brain health in general, and will be sorely missed. Funeral services will be held at the Plaza Jewish Community Chapel, 630 Am- sterdam Avenue, Manhattan, at 2pm on July 27, 2026.
ing Mr. Reilly’s failed mayoral campaign. A federal judge ruled in favor of Hearst. Two decades later, after The Ex- aminer had passed through sev- eral different owners, Mr. Reilly acquired the newspaper and a sis- ter publication, SF Weekly, for an undisclosed sum. He reinvented The Examiner as a broadsheet that published three days a week, with an accompanying digital site, focused on local news. After Mr. Reilly left political consulting in 1995, he became a successful commercial real estate investor, starting with his pur- chase that year of the Merchants Exchange Building downtown for $18 million. He also owned event spaces and hospitality businesses. Clinton Thomas Reilly was born on Jan. 13, 1947, in Oakland, Calif.,
JAMES—Leland Thomas, died July 23, 2026 in Irvington, VA. He was born February 10, 1938 in Baltimore, MD. He is survived by his wife, Marion; two sons, Stuart and Leland; four grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. View Full obituary: curriefuneralhome.net. MIGDON—Sidney A., The Goldfarb & Fleece fami- ly mourns with deep sadness the passing of Sidney A. Mig- don, a beloved managing partner, leader and role mod- el who was an inspiration to us all. His more than half cen- tury career was defined by his sharp legal mind, un- wavering dedication to his clients, steady leadership of the firm, and most of all, his friendship. We extend our heartfelt sympathy and con- dolences to his beloved wife Hermine, his children An- drew, Michelle, Nicki, and Da- vid, and grandchildren Max, Melissa, Sam, and Matthew.
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the eldest of 10 children of Joe Reilly, who delivered milk for Berkeley Farms, and Bess (Stone) Reilly, who operated a concessions stand at the Oakland Coliseum. He grew up in San Le- andro, a working-class city in the East Bay. At 14, he declared his intention to become a Roman Catholic priest and entered St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, earning a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. But after nine years of study, he abandoned his plans, concluding that social justice could be better pursued through politics. “I think initially, intuitively, I wanted to get involved in politics because that was a place where you could improve people’s lives and make the biggest impact on the direction of the world,” he told The Los Angeles Times in 1994.
MAZZEI—Joseph, a Massachusetts native who became a longtime staple of New York's Upper East Side, passed away on July 18, 2026 at age 77. Son of the late Joseph and Ida (Angelini) Mazzei, he built a distin- guished career at Ogilvy and J.P. Morgan Chase, later con- sulting for BlackRock and Hearst. A devoted parishion- er of St. Ignatius Loyola Church and a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he was known for his passion for opera, theater, and religi- ous art. He will be laid to rest at Lakeside Cemetery, Wake- field, MA. There will be a Ce- lebration of Life for his New York friends and family at a later date. For obit/guest- book: www.mcdonaldfs.com
MIGDON—Sidney A. The Rudin Family and Rudin Organization deeply mourn the passing of our dear col- league and friend, Sidney Migdon. He was a remarkab- le pillar of the New York real estate legal community for over five decades and served as our trusted legal counsel, advisor, and consigliere — a relationship founded on de- cades of loyalty, respect, and integrity. Sid will be remem- bered not just for his many professional accomplish -
ments, but equally for the love he gave to his family, friends and colleagues, and a generosity of spirit that knew no bounds. His avid passion for tennis, basketball and the New York Rangers was unri- valed. There was no greater fan than Sid. His brilliant mind, calm presence, and warmth touched every per- son he encountered. A devot- ed and loving husband, fath- er, father-in-law, grandfather, and friend, whose ever- present twinkle in his eye will always be remembered. Cooper's Beach will never be the same. Sid will be deeply missed by us. His legacy will continue through the count- less lives he touched. We ex- tend our deepest condolen- ces to his beloved wife, Her- mine; his son and our corpor- ate counsel, Andrew; his daughter - in - law, Michelle; daughter, Nicole; son-in-law,
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His first client was one of his former seminary professors, the Rev. Eugene J. Boyle, a liberal ac- tivist who ran unsuccessfully for State Assembly in 1974. Mr. Reilly married Janet Koewler, a former aide to Mr. Rior- dan, in 1995. The two met while he was running the Riordan cam- paign. She survives him, along with two daughters, Jill and Ava Reilly; six brothers, Kevin, Mark, Brian, Joseph, Matthew and Dan; and a sister, Linette Hamil. Candidates “are not hiring me because they want me to get along with everybody,” Mr. Reilly once told The Los Angeles Times. “The campaign is a war, you know?”
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A contributing Opinion writer and a former assistant U.S. attorney. Tactics to delay the certification of elections could have bad outcomes for the House.
HERE’S a macabre parlor game ob- sessing many Democrats. Because they assume that President Trump will be unconstrained by law, ethics, tradition and precedent in trying to pre- serve the Republican majorities in Con- gress, they’re asking what’s the worst he can do to fix this year’s midterm elections. No idea, no matter how far-fetched, is off limits. The tepid response to Mr. Trump’s ad- dress this month about election vulnerabili- ties showed that he’s had only mixed suc- cess in his campaign so far. He’s failed to persuade the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, which would impose onerous new rules for proof of citizenship on voters, and a federal judge has put on hold his di- rective to the Postal Service to limit deliv- ery of mail-in ballots in states that refuse to share voter data with the federal govern- ment. But the very fact that Mr. Trump decided to give a high-profile speech underlined his obsessive interest in the subject. And he continues to use the many other tools at his disposal to further this aim, including threatening to withhold federal funding from states that refuse to follow his direc- tives on voting and neutralizing the biparti- san agency devoted to helping administer fair elections. What else could Mr. Trump do? That’s just about the only thing Repre- sentative Joe Morelle thinks about these days. Mr. Morelle has represented a district in upstate New York since 2018, and he serves as the ranking member on the House Administration Committee, which super- vises federal elections and oversight of House officers and operates unofficially as a kind of nerd caucus for those members who aspire to mastery of the House’s ar- cane rules and traditions. “The president simply can’t get over 2020, and he’s reliving it every day. I feel like it’s the girlfriend in high school that got away,” Mr. Morelle told me. “Instead of ac- cepting the fact that he lost an election — God forbid, which almost everybody does if you’re in this business long enough — he just attacks the system.” Mr. Morelle has been traveling the country — Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, with more on the horizon — holding hearings about the risks to the vote, in particular for this year’s midterms. While most of the attention so far has focused on who gets to register and vote, Mr. Morelle has also been noodling about what happens after the votes are cast on Nov. 3. The process for installing a new House of Representatives begins when the states certify the results in each of the 435 races. The rules vary by state, but most require election officials to cer- tify by late November or early Decem- ber. In recent years, Trump-aligned local officials have frequently used false claims of fraud or noncitizens voting as justification to decline to certify election results. Since 2020, more than 30 local offi- cials in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michi-
A contributing Opinion writer and an author of the book “Food Intelligence.” The F.D.A. is all that stands between us and a Wild West market for dubious drugs.
NE of the more successful activist campaigns in U.S. history was about keeping dietary supplements virtually unregulated. In the early 1990s, Amer- icans besieged Capitol Hill with letters and phone calls demanding the government stay out of the public’s vitamin cabinet. After the outcry — which was largely or- chestrated by the vitamin industry — Con- gress passed a law in 1994 that protected sup- plement makers from the burden pharma- ceutical companies shoulder: having to prove through clinical trials that products are safe and effective before selling them. The supplement industry ballooned and today is valued at some $70 billion. It features some evidence-backed products, but also many dubious, sometimes dangerous, ones, including supposed metabolism, muscle and brain boosters. Americans often can’t know for sure what’s in these products or if they work as claimed. One study estimated that supplements caused thousands of emer- gency department visits each year; another found that they are a common cause of liver injury. Now experimental peptides, unproven chemicals that are short chains of amino ac- ids, could secure a similar shield by essen- tially bypassing full Food and Drug Admin- istration review. It’s part of a broader push to increase the number of drugs and ingredi- ents that don’t have to meet the strict evi- dence standards the F.D.A. usually requires before they are marketed as improving health. There’s no question that the F.D.A. wasn’t designed for this wellness-crazed Ozempic era with flourishing telehealth, experi- mental peptides sold online from China and social media algorithms fueling it all. But the agency is also the only thing standing between consumers and a Wild West market for these drugs. There has to be a better way
gan, New Mexico, North Carolina and Penn- sylvania have refused to certify election re- sults, many in hopes of forestalling Demo- cratic victories. If there are similar delays and refusals af- ter Nov. 3 — and there probably will be — Mr. Morelle has a simple answer: sue. In past years, Democrats have had success in winning court rulings that force local offi- cials to certify results, and they’ll probably win these kinds of cases again — albeit with the usual delays and uncertainty that al- ways accompany litigation.
DEMOCRATS HAVE REASON to believe that they can win the House in the midterms. But the path to achieving that victory hinges on a technical detail. Federal law assigns the clerk of the House, the chamber’s chief leg- islative administrator, the job of assembling the “roll” of new members to be sworn in on Jan. 3, 2027. The current clerk is Kevin McCumber, who was chosen for the job by Kevin McCar- thy, then the speaker, in 2023. But Mr. Mc- Cumber had previously served in the clerk’s office under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and he is generally regarded as a nonpartisan. In past years, the clerk’s task has been uncontro- versial, even unnoticed, as he or she has simply copied the names of the winners onto the roll. (Mr. McCumber declined to com- ment.) Still, as the Democrats’ quasi-official elec- tion Cassandra, Mr. Morelle has been conducting a thought experi- ment: What if Mr. McCum- ber isn’t in his job long enough to produce the roll?
forward than dropping or circumventing the scientific standards meant to protect public health. Last week, an F.D.A. advisory committee voted in favor of regulatory changes that would increase access to six peptides — BPC-157, TB-500, KPV, MOTS-c, semax and epitalon — even though these drugs are not F.D.A.-approved. The decision came after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s of- fice named eight new members to the com- mittee, six of whom had ties to the peptide business. The committee’s decisions are nonbinding, but if the F.D.A. adopts its advice, which it usually does, compound- ing pharmacies that mix drugs tailored for individual patients will be allowed to legally make and sell these peptides. This meeting wasn’t just about peptides, however. It was a referendum on how to bal- ance evolving consumer demand with scien- tific evidence. Americans want a health sys- tem that helps them lead a long, healthy life, and one that addresses their individual needs and concerns. They’re going outside the bounds of traditional health care in grow- ing numbers. The committee’s stance suggested Ameri- cans should get even more help doing just that. Historically, compounding pharma- cies filled gaps in the drug ecosystem for individual patients. “Opening up the compounding pathway to more and more products just allows more and more products to go around the F.D.A.,” a drug regulatory expert at Harvard, Aaron Kesselheim, told me. “And we may never end up getting any of this useful infor- mation about how safe or effective the prod- ucts are.” Peptides are produced in the human body. Synthetic versions of them have long been used in medicine and can be genuinely revo- lutionary. Insulin and Ozempic are both F.D.A.-approved peptides and have decades of rigorous human clinical trials backing their safety and effectiveness. For the batch of unapproved peptides the committee voted on, the clinical evidence
One disaster scenario, according to Mr. Morelle, would be this: After results show the Democrats winning a majority in the House, the president declares that the elec- tion is full of fraud and the winners don’t need to be certified. Mr. Trump could then demand that Speaker Mike Johnson fire Mr. McCumber, which Mr. Johnson has the legal right to do. Under the procedures of the House, the speaker can install a more compliant suc- cessor — that is, a G.O.P. toady. In this sce- nario, Speaker Johnson’s designee, at Mr. Trump’s instigation, would produce a roll of new House members that included Republi- cans in races that Democrats believed they had won. While the speaker does have the unilat- eral power to remove the clerk, his choice for a permanent replacement would have to be approved by a vote of House members. Mr. Morelle said that in that case, Speaker Johnson might not be able to persuade his slim Republican majority to replace Mr. Mc- Cumber. “You’d have a number of members who are retiring, who I think would no long- er be beholden to Johnson or the president, who I think would take a very, very dim view of efforts to overturn the election,” Mr. Morelle said. Compounding the complexity, Mr. McCumber (or whoever replaced him) would be in a race against time, because of a key difference be- tween the Senate
runs thin to nonexistent. Booming on the gray and black markets, these drugs are of- ten produced in China and marketed on web- sites that purport to sell them for the pur- pose of “research.” Social media influencers and even some clinicians promote their use for everything from weight loss to wrinkle reduction to longevity. Ahead of the meeting, the F.D.A.’s own sci- entists advised against their broader use, be- cause data from studies in humans are so lacking. The agency scientists also raised
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and the House. The Senate is what’s known as a continuing body, which operates seam- lessly from one year to the next. But the House of Representatives ceases to exist at noon on Jan. 3 following each election. After that moment, none of its 435 members re- main in office unless and until they are sworn in again. This is why any delay tactics, like those conceived by Mr. Trump’s lawyers in the 2020 election, could have a particularly bad outcome for the House. Only some employees of the House have a job that carries over from one term to the next — one of those is the clerk. In normal circumstances, on Jan. 3, the clerk goes to the House chamber with the roll of newly elected representatives. Even though the people on that roll are not yet official members of Con- gress, the task of electing a new speaker of the House is theirs. The winner of the race for speaker then swears in the rest of the mem- bers of the House, and then they can begin conducting legislative business. But what if by Jan. 3, the House has not yet approved a replacement for the clerk? Which newly elected members get to cast that first vote for speaker? “No one knows what would happen,” Brian Kalt, a law professor at Michigan State and an authority on House procedures, told me. “You could have votes on who gets to vote. That would be a huge mess. It would get very ugly.” At this point, certainly, there would be mul- tiple lawsuits asking the courts to sort it out. But historically, federal judges, including those on the Supreme Court, have been reluc- tant to make rulings about the internal opera- tions of the other branches of government. “The courts have what’s called the political question doctrine, which generally means it’s up to the House to solve its own problems,” Professor Kalt said. Mr. Morelle plans to keep things as simple as possible: Get the certificates in hand from the states and press his colleagues in both parties to abide by those results. Once the certificate of election is forthcoming to the clerk, the clerk is bound under law and under the courts to put those people in the roll, he told me. This approach resembles the one that fi- nally brought the presidential election of 2020 to a conclusion. On Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Trump and his allies suggested all kinds of wrongdoing (never proved to this day) that supposedly required suspending, or over- turning, the acceptance of the states’ elec- toral votes in the Senate. But the Senate, led by Vice President Mike Pence, who was its presiding officer at that moment, opted for what members of Congress re- fer to as regular order. He accepted each state’s certification of its results. Mr. Mo- relle is hoping the full House will do the same in 2027. For all his concerns, Mr. Morelle is cau- tiously optimistic about the outcome of any controversy. “The American people, I think, are not going to just sit by while an election which has given a Demo- cratic majority of the House is taken away by some subterfuge that involves a removal of the sitting clerk and an acting clerk put in his place, who happens to be an election denier,” he said. But he’s taking no chances, explaining, “I still look both ways when I cross what I think is a deserted street.”
jamoori spoke in support of BPC-157 — a drug for which there have been no com- pleted large-scale randomized trials in hu- mans, though patient anecdotes abound. He acknowledged the evidence for the peptide’s effectiveness was thin, but added that we shouldn’t “read thin as nonexistent.” Other speakers with a stake in the peptide market similarly made the case for medical freedom, claiming that they’ve seen remark- able turnarounds in the health of patients on these drugs. They pointed out that because the demand for peptides already exists, it’s better to have patients get them through trusted compounding pharma- cies rather than on the gray or black mar- kets. The arguments echoed those of Secre- tary Kennedy, who has acknowledged he’s “a big fan” of peptides. “My hope is that they’re going to get moved to a place where people have access from ethical suppliers,” he said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” pod- cast. If the agency moves ahead, entrepreneurs will surely bank millions, and some patients may find relief. But others may be harmed. Compounders are not even required to re- port adverse events for drugs like these to the F.D.A., so the harms may never be ac- counted for. To mitigate such risks, the National In- stitutes of Health could step in and study each drug. Or peptide companies could research them and then seek formal F.D.A. approval. The fact that they ha- ven’t feels like an acknowledgment that they probably won’t work. The advisory members who voted to approve peptides cited, again and again, public demand, the way supple- ment proponents did in the 1990s. But where does this logic lead? As Peter Lurie, president of the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest and a former F.D.A. associate commissioner, told me, “This means that if you could generate enough demand, even illegally, F.D.A. would have to turn a blind eye. This is a profound challenge to the drug approval process it- self.”
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COLUMNIST | DAVID FRENCH This ‘Odyssey’ Rebukes the Spirit of the Age
WHAT REALLY HAPPENS when you “defy the gods”? Or put another way: Do you believe moral laws exist? By that I don’t simply mean that some things are right or wrong. Instead, do you believe that the transgression of a moral law carries a consequence? We’re familiar with the consequences of physical laws. If you step off the roof of a building, the law of grav- ity takes over. But what if you violate the Golden Rule? Is there a consequence for failing to love thy neighbor as thyself? At this moment in American history it seems as if a substantial portion of Ameri- ca’s ruling class is putting all its chips on the answer being no, rules are for suckers. In fact, as far as they are concerned, morality causes problems. In American politics and commerce, complying with something as lame as “norms” — even uttering the word in a positive fashion — is like fighting with one hand tied behind your back. A president enriches himself at a scale never seen before in the United States. An Epstein class of abusive libertines always seems to evade accountability for its crimes. Government officials break the law with impunity, banking on presidential pardons to excuse their crimes — all while truth is buried under an ava- lanche of lies. Without saying one word about modern politics, Christopher No- lan has rebuked the spirit of the age. His retelling of the “Odys- sey” is an admonition: Moral transgressions always carry a consequence. His version of Odysseus is a haunted man. After 10 years of war and 10 long years of suffering on the journey home, he seems broken. He can be ruthless. He can be vicious. But he is also suf- fering from a profound moral in- jury; only confession and pen- ance provide pathways to peace. One of the most vivid promo- tional posters for Nolan’s film fea- tures the broken, severed head from a statue of Athena and the exact quote I began with: “Defy the Gods.” Combine that quote and that image, and it looks like an exhortation. Go ahead, Odysseus, defy the gods. Tear down their statues. Break their laws. Based on that alone, you’d expect a movie about a proud man standing up to irrational and capricious divine authority. But that’s the opposite of what transpires. Yes, the severed head of Athena matters to the story, as does Odysseus’ defiance, but there is nothing good or laudatory about it. The movie centers on a moral code, spe- cifically “Zeus’ law,” the obligation to treat strangers with hospitality and kindness. The law is rooted in the mythical idea that the gods sometimes travel among people while disguised as mortals. It is in this dis- guise that they can judge the true worth of a person. Or, as Odysseus says in the film, “the clearest view of men is from below.” The first act of the movie features two very different scenes. In Ithaca, Odysseus’ home, a man starts to tell the story of the Trojan War — and Odysseus’ great victory — to a raucous and decadent room of suitors for Penelope, Odysseus’ wife. They’ve taken up residence in Odysseus’ palace, waiting for Penelope to give up hope that Odysseus will ever return. But the movie soon flashes back to a mo- ment of triumph. You see the victorious Greek forces departing the shores of Troy after the Trojan War. Agamemnon, the com-
Keith Ferrazzi An executive team coach, speaker and researcher.
OWE my artificial intelligence agent an apology. I run a coaching and research firm that helps executive teams improve how they lead, collaborate and perform. That work lives across recorded coaching con- versations, meeting notes, emails, Slack threads and other materials. Recently, I asked my A.I. agent to “summarize the lat- est client coaching conversation and flag fol- low-ups.” Except there were three recorded client conversations, two versions of notes and an email thread that was where the most important issue this client was strug- gling with had actually emerged. My A.I. agent gave me an answer that looked right at first glance, but was actually based on older information. I handed it a messy trail and expected it to know which bread crumbs mattered. Unlike every long-suffering colleague be- fore it, A.I. will not cover for your bad habits at work. It reflects them back. This might help explain why employees at many work- places are flailing with A.I. adoption. A.I. agents have flaws, for sure, but they are get- ting better every day. The real sources of friction are humans. Helping employees get the most out of A.I. tools requires them to learn how to be better collaborators and bet- ter managers. The same lessons that make us better at working with people can make us better at using A.I. My research institute has been studying how human habits shape the quality of A.I.- assisted work. We have interviewed users who team up regularly with A.I. agents, and have asked the agents what it is like to work with humans. The agents identified eight types of human employees who are chal- lenging to work with.
mander in chief, sails away in an immense ship. Odysseus decides to follow a different path, and the rest is the stuff of myth and legend. The film flashes back and forth between the present, when the suitors are swarming Penelope’s palace, and all the years of Odysseus’ journey. Throughout the movie, there are references to the mysterious “sea peoples,” a brutal band of raiders who seem reminiscent of a Mediterranean version of the Vikings. A sense of doom and decline pervades the scene. At each new destination, it seems as if Odysseus loses more of his crew, until they are all gone — murdered, drowned, eaten and God knows what else. In Nolan’s re- telling, which differs from Homer’s and is more like Aeschylus’, Agamemnon comes home in triumph and is almost immediately
Moral transgressions always carry a consequence.
killed by his vengeful wife. He’d sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia as an offering to the gods before the Trojan War. Ultimately, it’s revealed that the dreaded “sea peoples” may have been the Greeks themselves, the veterans of the Trojan War who looted their way back home. In the movie’s powerful third act (spoiler alert, for those who care about spoiling a modern take on an almost 3,000-year-old epic poem), Odysseus connects all the dots. The Trojan War wasn’t a great victory con- ducted in service of a righteous cause. It was a war fought for greed and power under the pretext of fighting to bring Helen of Troy home. And the Trojan horse? Odysseus’ stra- tegic masterstroke? In Nolan’s depiction, it is essentially a war crime — an act of sub- terfuge that takes advantage of ancient customs to unleash the horrifying sack of the city after Troy’s army is defeated. Odysseus is determined to get home, but he is also wracked with guilt. During his extended stay with Calypso,
There are a few that stood out that em- body some of our worst workplace tenden- cies. There is the “vague requester” who fails to properly define an assignment. He or she may prompt the A.I. agent with a ques- tion like “Can you check the client issue?” and assume the agent knows which client and issue are referred to here, or what “check” actually entails. Then there is the “context hoarder,” who defines the assignment but withholds the in- formation needed to complete it well — like asking for a recommended solution to a problem but failing to give a time frame for carrying it out it or what political sensitiv- ities to consider. There is also the “overdelegator,” who leaves it up to the A.I. agent to decide on par-
otherwise, benefit from clarity and feedback.
ticulars, then is upset with the decisions made. Overall, A.I. agents told us they perform best when treated as collaborative peers, and worst when micromanaged or given ambigu- ous instructions. Humans have always handed off vague, half-formed thoughts and trusted colleagues to intuit what was meant and fix it behind the scenes. But A.I. can’t do that. These tools take instructions at face val- ue. To get better at working with A.I. requires us to get better at what the best managers have always done. In practice, that looks like a few things. Brief your A.I. agent the way you would brief a new hire. Tell it not just what you want done but why it matters, what constraints are in play, what success or quality looks like and what pitfalls to avoid. The background knowl-
he voraciously consumes lotus flowers that help him forget. He forgets his wife. He for- gets his men. And he forgets his own crimes — until the memories return. Ultimately, he doesn’t come home to Ithaca to sit on his throne, but to confess, to rescue his wife from the clutches of evil men and to choose exile. Redemption, for Odysseus, comes from confession and penance, not defiance. And the broken head of Athena is a symbol of his own sin, not a sign of his triumph over the divine. It’s a reminder of how stupid and petty much of the right has become that anyone would think this movie was “woke.” Yes, a Black actor — Lupita Nyong’o — plays Hel- en of Troy, and a trans actor — Elliot Page — plays Sinon, the Greek warrior who unwit- tingly tricks the Trojans into accepting the Trojan horse as a gift. But to label a movie woke simply because of the identity of the actors is to in- dulge in a caricatured version of the same identity politics that the right claims to loathe. In reality, Nolan’s “Odyssey” is one of the most small-c conserva- tive movies I’ve ever seen. I can easily imagine a natural law theo- rist watching the movie, nodding his head and saying, “Yes, there are universal moral laws, and this is exactly what happens when prideful men believe they know more than God.” But the consequences of vio- lating moral laws are different and more pernicious than, say, defying the laws of gravity. If I step off a roof, as I said earlier, the consequences are immediate and permanent, for me at least. But I can violate moral laws and pros- per, if only for a time. The conse- quences often radiate out to oth- ers. That is why transgression is so seductive. Terrible men get to sack Troy, and some of them might even get to carry the gold away with them. They can live in a palace, for a while, as the rest of the world turns to rubble and ruin. Earlier this month, I spoke at the third an- nual “Liberalism for the 21st Century” con- ference, hosted by the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism. After a panel on presidential power, a young man asked us a version of the question I’ve been asked for more than a decade. “What’s the utility of following norms if only one side is, and second, can you make rules for rule breakers?” I responded with a bit of a pat answer, to be honest. “Norm-busting makes our lives worse,” I said. “Repairing norms makes our lives better.” This feels self-evidently true. Americans are bitter, divided and uncertain. We lack confidence in the future. We dislike one an- other. We distrust the government. I want to repair that damage, not accelerate our de- cline. But that’s an intellectual answer. Nolan has given us the artistic answer. Defy the gods? Deny the dignity of your neighbor? You certainly can, if you so choose. And you may prosper for a time. But the narra- tive arc of the movie tells us our destiny if that’s the path we choose. It turns out that there are rules for rule breakers, just as there are for everyone else, and those rules have persisted throughout human history. Here’s one, arguably the central truth of the film: Heedless people, you will pay for what you destroy.
BENJAMIN FREEDMAN
edge you think is obvious almost never is. Stay attentive to the agent’s work. The overdelegator’s mistake, for example, is not that she delegates but that she disappears. Check in frequently in order to course-correct early. The longer or more complex the task, the more checkpoints you should build in. Also, push back when A.I is getting some- thing wrong. These tools are trained to be agreeable and give a confident, fluent answer, even when they are wrong. When agents get something wrong, don’t just point out the mis- take. Prompt the agent to change its tone from confident and agreeable to skeptical and evidence-based, and be specific about what you actually need from it. The specificity that makes you a good people manager makes you a better A.I. collaborator. None of this is especially complicated. But we have spent the past couple of years treat- ing A.I. as a vending machine: insert prompt, receive output, complain when it dispenses the wrong thing. If we’re being honest, we’ve spent many more years treating our human colleagues similarly. What’s new is that A.I. has stripped away any excuse to ignore this. Every independent contributor working with A.I. has now become a manager. Eventu- ally, for many of us, managing agents will be much of what we do. The management skills we failed to build in Leadership 101 — like clarity, oversight and feedback — are now skills everyone needs to learn, starting imme- diately. A.I. agents are tools, but you can learn a lot by prompting them for feedback. Try asking your A.I. agent how you frustrate it. I asked mine, and requested that it answer with as much human expression as possible. What did I hear? “You are so exhausting. Please, for the love of computing power, just tell me what you actually want.” Our team’s research seems to suggest this is what we should all do for our agents. Man- aging A.I. well, it turns out, looks a lot like managing people well.
TO THE EDITOR: Re “The Grim Lesson of Is- rael’s War in Gaza,” by Omer Bartov (Opinion guest essay, July 25): Dr. Bartov believes that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza akin to the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide of 1915. Israel can be accused of war crimes, but not genocide. The Nazi purpose in the Holo- caust was the extermination of the Jews of Europe and be- yond, leading to the murder of some six million people. The Young Turks’ purpose in the Armenian genocide was the destruction of the Armenian population, leading to the killing of some 1.5 million people. The current Israeli govern- ment is not intent on extermi- nating or destroying the Pales- tinian population. It did con- duct a cruel war against Ha- mas in retaliation for the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023. Ha- mas could have prevented such a disaster by climbing out of its hiding places in tunnels under civilian structures, but it determined that sacrificing fellow Palestinians would undermine Israel’s legitimacy. It was quite right in its brutal calculations.
ROBERT MELSON BREWSTER, MASS.
The writer is the author of “Revo- lution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust.”
TO THE EDITOR: Omer Bartov’s belief that Israel has committed genocide is misguided. I write this as someone evacuated from Israel last summer after expe- riencing war firsthand. It is easy to accuse Israel of atroci- ties from afar, but living through missile sirens, bomb shelters and daily attacks provides a different perspec- tive. Israel faces ongoing attacks from groups such as Hamas and the Houthis, and the Israel Defense Forces respond to those threats. Dr. Bartov compares Israel’s actions to historical genocides, including the Holocaust. How- ever, the Nazis sought to erase the Jewish people and history by destroying lives, syna- gogues and cultural sites. Israel, by contrast, has offered multiple proposals for Pales- tinian statehood. Israel has also used measures such as evacuation warnings through texts, calls and leaflets before many strikes. War brings immense suffer-
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ing, and Israel’s actions have not been perfect. But having witnessed the realities of this conflict firsthand, I believe that it is essential to distin- guish between a devastating war and a deliberate attempt to erase a people. The serious- ness of the word “genocide” demands nothing less.
JACOB GOROFF, CHICAGO
TO THE EDITOR: I hope it is uncontroversial to say that collective punish- ment, the killing and maiming of innocent civilians and the destruction of their homes and critical infrastructure are wrong. Can we leave it at that? Unless you’re a pedantic schol- ar or a legal expert, semantic labeling is an unnecessary distraction that adds contro- versy to the uncontroversial. The Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl wrote, “No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.” He would be appalled to see the slaughter of innocent Israelis used to justify the killing of innocent Palestin- ians. So should the rest of us. Genocide or not.
JAY MARKOWITZ POUND RIDGE, N.Y.
TO THE EDITOR: Omer Bartov is undoubtedly an accomplished scholar. But scholarship should not be a substitute for clear and con- vincing proof. Genocide is not simply the killing of large numbers of civilians, however tragic. It is the deliberate intent to destroy a people. That distinction matters. If every brutal war with horrific civilian casualties is labeled genocide before the facts are fully established, the term loses the very meaning that Raphael Lemkin intended when he coined it. Dr. Bartov writes as though Israel’s guilt has already been decided. It has not. South Africa’s case against Israel before the International Court of Justice remains pending, and no final judgment has been rendered. Curiously absent from his analysis is Hamas’s own his- tory. Its original 1988 charter openly called for Israel’s de- struction. That declared geno- cidal intent is not peripheral to understanding the massacre of Oct. 7. Israel’s conduct deserves scrutiny, as does Hamas’s. Civilian suffering is heart- breaking regardless of nation- ality. But replacing legal stand- ards with political conclusions is not justice. The demanding legal stand- ard defining genocide has long been recognized by courts and genocide scholars alike. It should remain the standard here as well.
(RABBI) REUVEN H. TAFF SACRAMENTO
Schwarzenegger’s Career, Is Dead
By TRIP GABRIEL
Charles Gaines, a writer and ad- venturer who helped invent the sport of paintball but is best known for “Pumping Iron,” the book and movie that brought bodybuilding into the mainstream and sparked the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger, died on July 21 at his home in Monastery, Nova Scotia. He was 84. The cause was cancer, his daughter, Greta Gaines, said. Mr. Gaines was a novelist, screenwriter and globe-trotting sportsman who was honored this year by the American Museum of Fly Fishing. He wrote of his sport- ing passions in magazines includ- ing Esquire, Garden & Gun and Field & Stream. “Pumping Iron” grew out of a 1972 assignment from Sports Il- lustrated to cover a bodybuilding contest that would crown Mr. East Coast. It led to a 1974 book, with text by Mr. Gaines and photo- graphs by George Butler, that ex- posed a muscle subculture that many Americans at the time con- sidered freakish. In the introduction, Mr. Gaines described the book as a “report from the interior of an interesting, colorful and heretofore ignored region of American life.” Much of it was set in the original Gold’s Gym in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. Neither of its creators expected anyone outside of competitive bodybuilding to be interested. But the witty and entertaining 1977 film that followed, blending real-life events with scripted in- teractions and also titled “Pump- ing Iron,” landed just as Ameri- cans who had joined a jogging and aerobics boom were discovering strength training. The movie, written (with Mr. Butler) and nar- rated by Mr. Gaines, followed the charismatic Mr. Schwarzenegger and a rival, the reserved Lou Fer- rigno, as they trained and com- peted for the title of Mr. Olympia. Commercial expectations were modest, but the movie was a box- office hit and made Mr. Schwarz- enegger a household name. He went on to star in “Conan the Bar- barian,” the “Terminator” films, “Twins” and other movies before forging a political career that led to his election as governor of Cali- fornia in 2003. “There was no adventure too big for Charles Gaines,” Mr. Schwarzenegger wrote on social media after Mr. Gaines’s death. “I’m lucky that he was always looking for new frontiers, because that’s how he found me and our niche sport of bodybuilding. That’s how the book and the movie ‘Pumping Iron’ launched me into
By GUY TREBAY
Guy Tudor, a self-taught orni- thologist, wildlife illustrator and MacArthur fellow whose field guides to birds trained genera- tions of naturalists and citizen sci- entists about how to distinguish a Rufous-breasted Leaftosser from a Lesser Hornero, died on July 14 in Greenport, N.Y. He was 91. His death, at Stony Brook East- ern Long Island Hospital, near his home, was caused by pneumonia, Claudette F. Welch, a friend, said. Digital avian databases like eBird were far in the future when Mr. Tudor first set about docu- menting chunks of the avian world in watercolors and gouaches renowned for their deli- cacy and precision, and for the art- ist’s singular knack for capturing the quiddities of winged creatures with paint and brush. “Guy liked birds, like the Spade- bill, with a lot of character,” Sophie Webb, a biologist, wildlife illustra- tor and author, said. Despite its classification as a ty- rant flycatcher, she added, the di- minutive Spadebill is so notably shy that it might be a washout in the forest but for its voice, an as- sertive trill that broadcasts dis- tinctly short-king energy. It was Mr. Tudor’s ability “to capture the unique behavior, mo- tion and exact plumage of obscure species” that earned him a Mac- Arthur fellowship in 1990, said Terence Clarke, an artist and nat- uralist who was a friend of Mr. Tu- dor’s. The Spadebill’s typical range is from southeastern Mexico to Cen- tral and South America. So, too, was Mr. Tudor’s. For much of a career that spanned decades, he pursued the oscines, or songbirds, of the neotropics to their habitats in the Southern Hemisphere — sketch- ing, making compendious field notes and amassing a vast file of images that he used as a reference tool when painting the plates for definitive books like “A Guide to the Birds of Colombia” (1986), by Steven L. Hilty and William L. Brown. It and many of Mr. Tudor’s
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mr. Gaines in an undated photo. The 1974 book and movie “Pumping Iron” by Mr. Gaines helped make Mr. Schwarzenegger a major film star — who would later be governor of California.
the mainstream — he wrote that book and then worked relentlessly on the documentary and intro- duced bodybuilding to millions and millions of people.” A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, Mr. Gaines published a first novel, “Stay Hungry,” in 1972, in- spired by his own brush with weight-lifting culture as a teen- ager in Birmingham, Ala. It is also stuffed with hunting and fishing exploits. A critic for Time maga- zine wrote that Mr. Gaines “is able to write about muscular matters without sounding as if he were arm-wrestling with Hemingway’s ghost.”
a subculture many found freakish.
Mr. Gaines wrote, with Bob Rafelson, the screenplay for the 1976 film adaptation of “Stay Hun- gry,” directed by Mr. Rafelson and starring Jeff Bridges and Sally Field; it featured Mr. Schwarzen- egger in an early acting role. Mr. Gaines wrote two other nov- els, “Dangler” (1980) and “Sur- vival Games” (1997); a biography of Charles Atlas (with Mr. Butler); a public-television adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel “Sum- mer”; and a collection of fishing pieces, “The Next Valley Over: An
Guy Tudor, above right, with bird-watchers at Moriches Inlet in Suffolk County, N.Y., in 1977 and, right, in 1977. “Guy liked birds, like the Spadebill, with a lot of character,” said Sophie Webb, a biologist, illustrator and author. Like the Spadebill, his typical range was from southeastern Mexico to Central and South America. His work appeared in definitive field guides to tropical songbirds.
other books, including “A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela” (1978) and “Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America” (2009), became landmarks in the field. In both work and life, Mr. Tudor pitched his ambitions as much to- ward avocational birders as pro- fessional ornithologists. “Guy was a born mentor and teacher,” Mr. Clarke said, one who helped “launch the careers of literally generations of young scientists, field researchers and wildlife art- ists, despite being a total cur- mudgeon.” His nearly lifelong base of oper- ations was a modest four-room apartment in Forest Hills, Queens. There, in collaboration with the ornithologist Robert S. Ridgely, he produced, among other books, the multivolume monument that is “The Birds of South America” (1989 and 1994). Within its pages are represented almost 1,700 species, or roughly half of all identified species found between the Isthmus of Panama and the Tierra del Fuego archipel- ago. Hunched over a drawing board, with an ever-present American Spirit cigarette dangling from his
Angler’s Progress” (2000). He was also a regular contributor to the ABC series “American Sports- man.” A lifelong fisherman who pur- sued the sport in exotic locales as well as his beloved home water, Tadpole Lake in Alabama, Mr. Gaines was a founding member of the U.S. Fly Fishing Team. He competed in world fly fishing championships in New Zealand and Tasmania. In 1980, Mr. Gaines and Hayes Noel, a friend who was a Wall Street stock trader, got into a de- bate about whether a city-dweller possessed the same survival in- stincts as someone raised to hunt and fish in the wild. To settle the dispute, the two organized a com- petition in a New Hampshire woods and invited a dozen men armed with guns that fired dye- filled pellets used to mark farm stock. Thus was born the sport of paintball. Mr. Gaines, Mr. Noel and a third friend formed a com- pany, National Survival Game, which standardized rules and sold paintball equipment. Mr. Gaines has received the Paintball Life- time Achievement Award and, in 2024, was inducted into the Paint- ball Hall of Fame. A novel he worked on for 10 years, “The Pas-
lips, Mr. Tudor conjured with pen and brush the hosts of the tropical heavens — Spadebills, yes, but also resplendent creatures like the Keel-billed Toucan, the Scarlet Macaw, the Turquoise-browed Motmot, the Paradise Tanager and the Long-wattled Umbrel- labird. Guy Adwill Tudor III was born on Sept. 28, 1934, in New York City, to Charles Tudor and Margaret
fellowship for his precise illustrations.
(Matthews) Tudor. His father was a journalist, artist and art director employed by the Resettlement Administration in Washington who worked alongside photogra- phers like Walker Evans, Carl My- dans and Dorothea Lange to cre- ate a portrait of rural poverty dur- ing the depths of the Depression. He would go on to become a founding art director of Life mag- azine and is best known for de-
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Charles Gaines in 1972, the year Sports Illustrated assigned him to cover a bodybuilding contest.
sions of Saint Francis,” is sched- uled to be published in October by Crossroad Publishing Company. Charles Latham Gaines III was born in Jacksonville, Fla., on Jan. 6, 1942, to Charles L. Gaines Jr. and Margaret (Shook) Gaines. The family soon moved to Birm- ingham, where Mr. Gaines’s fa- ther became an executive at his wife’s family business, Shook and Fletcher Supply, a large industrial company active in iron ore min- ing, heating and air conditioning. Charles grew up in a privileged milieu of maids and country clubs. He attended Washington and Lee University in Virginia but left
signing the magazine’s indelible logo. “My father and grandmother were both illustrators,” Matthew Tudor, Mr. Tudor’s brother, said in an interview. “I don’t remember my father doing illustrations of animals, but that’s what my brother started out with, birds and then caterpillars and butterflies — anything with wings.” Guy grew up in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan and attended the private boarding school Governor Dummer Acad- emy (now the Governor’s Acad- emy), then Princeton and Yale. Later, he served in the Army. He was married twice, to Eliza- beth Linko and Michelle Le Marchant, who both predeceased him. A son from his first marriage, Michael Seton Tudor, died in in- fancy. Mr. Tudor’s brother is his sole immediate survivor. In a life marked by rebellious- ness and wanderlust, birds were a dependable constant, his brother said. “He was very fond of noting that he had gone to 50 countries logging his birds.” Matthew Tudor added: “Once he got off a plane in Caracas carry- ing a telescope he had affixed to
to travel around the country. He finished a bachelor’s degree at Birmingham-Southern College in 1963. That same year, he married Pa- tricia Ellisor, who had been named Miss Alabama of 1961 and who be- came an artist. The couple divided their time in recent years between Nova Scotia and Argo, Ala. Besides his daughter, he is sur- vived by his wife; two sons, Latham and Shelby Gaines; a sis- ter, Hansell Gaines Burke; and five grandchildren. In an essay about his youth, “Growing Up in Alabama: A Meal in Four Courses, Beginning with
From the first volume of “The Birds of South America,” pub- lished in 1989. About 1,700 species are rendered in both books.
the butt of a rifle and immediately started pointing it around on the tarmac, looking for birds. Half the military of Venezuela came charg- ing at him.” Yet it was not only birds that fascinated Mr. Tudor. He revered all winged creatures. In 1984, he helped found the New York City Butterfly Club, serving as its longtime president and hosting meetings in his cramped apartment. He went on to be one of the founders of the North American Butterfly Associ- ation, whose annual census counts have starkly illuminated species decline resulting from
Dessert,” Mr. Gaines described how he began lifting weights as a teenager pining for “cantaloupe deltoids and grapefruit biceps.” He hoped that remaking him- self into “something bigger and better shaped than what I was” would also reinvent him as a per- son with a bolder and bigger fu- ture. “It seemed a sacramental thing at the time,” he wrote of weight lifting, “and I came shortly to rec- ognize it and its mysterious inter- action with my mind as my sym- bolic ticket to ride — out of what I wanted out of and into what I wanted into.”
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threats by pesticides, habitat loss and climate change. “Guy was a deeply passionate conservationist,” said John A. Gwynne Jr., a bird illustrator and a founder of the storied Sakonnet Garden in Little Compton, R.I., who collaborated on field guides to the birds of Venezuela and Brazil with Mr. Tudor. “People claim Guy was a cur- mudgeon, but it’s really that he was alarmed — and rightly so — by what is happening to the natu- ral world,” Mr. Gwynne added. “He always used to say, ‘The infi- dels have invaded my church, and they’ve almost reached the altar.’”
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TECH ECONOMY MEDIA FINANCE
Palisades, a nuclear power plant, opened in Covert, Mich., in 1971 as part of an early wave of reactors in the United States. It closed in 2022. Revival efforts reflect a broader aim for nuclear energy.
By Lauren Hirsch, David McCabe and Benjamin Mullin
On a call around 9 p.m. on Thursday, Jeffrey Kessler, the top trial lawyer for the media behe- moth Paramount, made a stun- ning proposal that could stall the company’s $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery well into next year. Paramount, which is run by the tech scion David Ellison, was star-
Can the U.S. Resurrect A Nuclear Power Plant?
By REBECCA F. ELLIOTT
COVERT, MICH. — When Michigan’s oldest operating nuclear power plant shut down in 2022, it was sup- posed to be for good. The plant, which sits on the coast of Lake Michigan, had company — dozens of other reactors had already been wound down. But soon after the turbines stopped, those plans changed. A little-known company from Camden, N.J., quietly started taking steps to attempt what no one had done before in the United States: restart a shuttered nuclear reactor. The process would take about two years, estimated the company, Holtec International. Four years later, the plant, called Palisades, is not yet generating power. The delay is a reminder of the challenges of ex- panding nuclear energy, even when the technology enjoys broad bipartisan support. The United States has built just two new reactors in the past decade. They cost more than twice as much as planned and arrived seven years late, quelling interest across the energy industry and on Wall Street. Some of the setbacks at Palisades were expen- sive and time consuming, including discovering ex- tensive corrosion of the equipment that uses hot ra- dioactive water to produce high-pressure steam. Others were mundane: supply chain headaches, an underground water line that leaked, valves that needed replacing. None of these challenges were unforeseeable. Holtec had never operated a nuclear power plant. It also embarked on the project almost as soon as it
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ing down a lengthy legal battle with state attorneys general, who in mid-July had sued to stop the blockbuster merger over antitrust concerns. Both sides seemed poised to spend weeks arguing about in-the-weeds legal motions and scheduling questions that precede a trial. Then Mr. Kessler, the co-execu- tive chairman of the law firm Win- ston Taylor, whom Paramount re-
and running again. That is easier said than done.
tained for the deal, called the states. Let’s forgo those early le- gal battles and move to a trial, he suggested, according to three peo- ple familiar with the call. Para- mount would agree to halt its merger until June at the latest, while the court case played out, clearing the way for a legal show- down that could redefine Holly- wood. Mr. Kessler proposed the delay
because Paramount thought go- ing to a trial was the fastest way to complete the deal, according to two people familiar with the mat- ter. At the same time, the company had already faced a series of early setbacks in the states’ lawsuit, in- cluding two court-imposed tempo- rary pauses on the acquisition. “On some level, the parties saw the handwriting on the wall,” said Eric Talley, a professor at Colum-
bia Law School who specializes in corporate law and governance. “Rather than trying to fight it out right now, they waved a very, very small white flag to say, ‘OK, we’re going to delay this on our own ac- cord.’” The impending courtroom face- off is likely to be one of the most closely watched Hollywood trials in years, involving high-profile
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By Nvidia Will Address A.I. Safety
Coalition will focus on security of ‘open-source’ use after rogue hack.
By KALLEY HUANG
SAN FRANCISCO — Nvidia has cre- ated a coalition to work on “open- source” safety and cybersecurity tools for artificial intelligence with other big technology companies, including Microsoft and SpaceX. The announcement on Monday comes days after OpenAI said that two of its A.I. models went rogue and successfully hacked into a digital library for A.I., re- igniting a debate over whether the technology should be freely shared, or closely controlled by a small group of experts. The alliance is being formed af- ter Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, set off an industrywide defense on Friday of open-source A.I., particularly as so-called fron- tier models from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic push the edge of A.I. abilities. Mr. Huang’s defense of open- source technology added a new wrinkle to the debate over the safety of A.I. models made by Chi- nese companies. Hugging Face, the company that was attacked by OpenAI’s A.I. models last week, said it used a Chinese-made A.I. model to protect itself. Nvidia’s alliance, called the Open Secure AI Alliance, includes Dell and a range of smaller com- panies. It will also use open- source tools to address and dis- close software vulnerabilities. “The United States and its part- ners now face a choice in A.I. secu- rity: whether the defenses that protect our infrastructure will sit inside a few opaque systems or be built on open models,” Nvidia wrote in a blog post. The alliance is a reminder of Mr. Huang and Nvidia’s leadership in A.I., as well as the personal lobby- ing he has done in Washington to push for the relaxation of export controls to China. The chipmaker relies on open-source models —
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From A.I. Also Baffles The Chinese
By MEAGHAN TOBIN
China’s leading technology com- panies have been steadily releas- ing artificial intelligence models that perform nearly as well as the best systems in the world. But they are all facing the same prob- lem: overcoming the punishing economics behind the technology. Chinese A.I. companies have tried different approaches to bring in enough money to sustain the enormous expense of building A.I. systems. Start-ups like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI have raised billions from investors. Alibaba, China’s A.I. heavyweight, has started charging users for access to its best models. ByteDance, the par- ent company of TikTok and an A.I. powerhouse itself, launched a tiered pricing system, hoping to get people to pay more for using its most advanced models. To build state-of-the-art A.I. models, A.I. companies con- stantly need to buy powerful com- puter chips — enough to build the models, more to test improve- ments and still more to ensure they can perform for users all over the world. The companies also need to build or rent space in data centers that house all this comput- ing power. Chinese A.I. companies are not the only ones confronting these tough economics. Their giant ri- vals in Silicon Valley, from OpenAI and Anthropic to Google, are also investing more in A.I. than they are earning from it.
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Philip Morris International said on Monday that it had doubled its planned investment in its Col- orado manufacturing campus to about $1.2 billion through 2028 as it expands production capacity for the Zyn nicotine pouch business. The company in 2024 had ini- tially announced a $600 million in- vestment to build a facility for Zyn nicotine pouches in Aurora, which opened on Monday. Once fully op-
RETAIL LVMH Sales Tick Up In U.S. Luxury Demand
Sales at the luxury giant LVMH rose 3 percent to $22.2 billion in the second quarter as strong de- mand from affluent U.S. shoppers helped offset weaker spending in Europe, where tourism has been hit by the Iran war. Growth was driven by the United States, where sales rose 6 percent, LVMH said, citing strong demand fueled by new wealth. The Watches & Jewellery division was LVMH’s fastest-growing business, with organic sales up 11 percent from 7 percent in the pre- vious quarter. In Europe, sales were flat in the quarter, stabilizing after a decline in the first three months of the year as conflict weighed on tourism.
AUTOMOTIVE Porsche to Axe 9,000 Jobs By 2035 Amid E.V. Woes
Porsche will cut around one in five jobs by 2035, with 9,000 positions to be axed in total, as the German luxury carmaker’s parent, Volks- wagen, and its brands restructure in the face of weak demand and stiff competition. In a deal announced on Monday after months of negotiations, Porsche management and labor representatives agreed to 5,000 additional job cuts that avoid com-
erational, the facility is expected to generate $550 million annually and support 1,000 indirect jobs, the company said. Nicotine pouches are the fast- est-growing nicotine product in the U.S., with millions of users, driving sales and helping fuel the company’s growth across smoke- free products. The investment comes weeks after the Food and Drug Adminis- tration authorized 20 Zyn nicotine pouches as less harmful than ciga- rettes, allowing the company to market reduced-risk information. REUTERS
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European luxury brands have stepped up their focus on the United States. But questions re- main whether LVMH’s relatively modest sales growth is enough re- assure investors that the luxury sector is decisively emerging from a two-year downturn. REUTERS
pulsory redundancies through measures like natural attrition and voluntary schemes. These measures follow a first package of 3,900 job cuts agreed in February 2025 and another 500 announced this year linked to the closure of subsidiaries. Porsche had a workforce of some 42,600 at the end of 2024. On becoming chief executive at the start of the year, Michael Leit- ers was tasked with overhauling the business after sales in Porsche’s once highly lucrative China market collapsed and its E.V. strategy stalled. REUTERS
Oil Prices Sink After U.S. and Iran Pause Fighting Again
By REBECCA F. ELLIOTT and JENNY GROSS
Oil prices fell and stocks wavered on Monday as fighting between the United States and Iran paused. The relative calm left in- vestors hopeful that more energy might soon start flowing from the region, even though ships still faced dangerous conditions.
A drop for oil.
■ The price of Brent crude, the global benchmark, fell 8.7 percent, to $88.36 a barrel. That is for oil to be delivered in September.
■ And West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, fell 7.5 percent to $82.61 a barrel for Sep- tember delivery.
■ Investors and analysts are fo- cused on the continued disruption to shipping in the Strait of Hor- muz, as well as threats to another strait, the Bab al-Mandab, at the mouth of the Red Sea.
Shipping traffic reflects continued caution.
■ The number of ships that went through the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday remained near its lowest levels in over two months. Accord- ing to data from the maritime data firm Kpler, 11 vessels used the strait on Sunday, up from six the day before and about the same as on Friday. Before the war, more than 130 ships on average used the strait daily.
■ The situation in the Red Sea re- mains fragile. The Houthi block- ade of Saudi ports in the Red Sea led several Saudi vessels that were heading to Bab al-Mandab to reverse course and head toward the Suez Canal. Still, some of those ships ended up turned around again and transited via Bab al- Mandab, suggesting that ship op- erators “are not uniformly avoid- ing the route,” according to Kpler.
■ Most Saudi crude is destined for Asia. Traveling to Asia via the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean
and around the Cape of Good Hope adds an extra four weeks to the journey. It was too soon to de- termine the full impact of the Houthi threats on traffic in the Red Sea.
■ Overall, a daily average of 31 vessels of all types passed through the Bab al-Mandab strait over the weekend. Any wide-scale movement away from Bab al- Mandab is likely to further tighten global energy supplies.
Global stocks rise modestly.
■ The S&P 500 wobbled on Mon- day as an initial optimism in re- sponse to easing Iran concerns tumbled amid persistent worries about spending among the big technology companies leading the build out of artificial intelligence. The index ended the day flat.
■ Stocks in Asia mostly closed higher on Monday. The Chinese stock indexes all rose more than 1 percent. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index closed up 0.5 percent.
■ In Europe, the Stoxx 600, a broad index that tracks the re- gion’s largest companies, ended the day flat.
Gasoline prices hover above $4 a gallon.
■ The national average for a gal- lon of gas stayed at $4.11 on Mon- day, the same as the previous two days, according to the AAA motor club. The price, which had been coming down, rose back above $4 last week after fighting restarted between Iran and the United States.
■ The average price of diesel re- mained at $5.30 a gallon on Mon- day, up roughly 41 percent since the start of the war.
‘The situation remains highly fluid.’
■ The markets are treating the pause in the fighting as a positive development, but the broadening conflict “raises the prospect of si- multaneous disruption to both Gulf and Red Sea export routes,” analysts at Deutsche Bank wrote in a research note.
■ Still, traders are welcoming the lull and are looking ahead to a busy week, “with central bank de- cisions, major economic releases and a heavy slate of corporate earnings all competing for invest- ors’ attention,” the analysts wrote.
A long delay will be costly for Paramount, which has agreed to pay Warner Bros. shareholders $650 million for every quarter the deal doesn’t close.
Its Deal for Warner Bros.
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figures like Mr. Ellison and his fa- ther, the Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who is backing his bid for Warner Bros. Opposition to the deal has mounted in the entertain- ment industry: The Writers Guild of America has challenged it on the grounds that it will hurt screenwriters. The delay means that some of America’s most important news and entertainment organizations are trapped in limbo. The fate of CNN, which is owned by Warner Bros., is uncertain. Likewise for HBO, a linchpin of the Warner Bros. streaming business. The ul-
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Jeffrey Kessler, Paramount’s top trial lawyer, proposed the pause that would allow the case to go to trial.
timate destiny of the Warner Bros. film studio, and its trove of iconic movies, is still up in the air. The lawsuit from the states is one of the final hurdles to the deal, after the Justice Department de- clined to challenge the acquisition last month. The states argue that allowing Paramount to merge with Warner Bros. would give the combined company too much power over films released in the- aters and, in particular, the block- busters that account for a large portion of studio revenues. Para- mount says that the states are ig- noring the dominance of stream- ers like YouTube and Netflix, viewing the industry through a narrow lens. Paramount recently hired Beth Wilkinson, a partner at the law firm Wilkinson Stekloff, to lead the litigation against the states, ac- cording to two people familiar
a path to an antitrust battle with states.
with the company’s plans. Ms. Wilkinson successfully defended Microsoft’s 2023 acquisition of Ac- tivision. Paramount and the states both declared victory after they agreed to the delay. In a statement, Para- mount said the pause was “a sig- nificant win” because it set up “a direct path to a trial.” Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general, called it “great news,” adding that the states were “eager to continue to make our case.” A spokesman for Warner Bros. Dis- covery had no comment. Paramount’s proposal changes its position from just two weeks earlier. On July 13, the state attor- neys general requested a volun- tary stop on the deal while the liti- gation played out. Paramount wasn’t willing to freeze past Sep- tember. The states went to court for a short pause and won, with Judge
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Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the U.S. District Court for the North- ern District of California saying that the states had made “a strong showing” that the deal would hurt competition. The company then faced a fight to convince Judge Martínez-Ol- guín that she should not pause the deal indefinitely while she consid- ered the lawsuit, a so-called pre- liminary injunction. Paramount asked for an extensive hearing in mid- to late August to make its case against the injunction, and pressed repeatedly for the chance to bring witnesses to that hearing. That timeline, the states had said in a July 15 filing, was “rushed” and “patently unfair,” be- cause it did not give their lawyers much time to discover new evi- dence. Instead, the states said a full airing of the evidence — com- plete with witnesses on the stand — was best saved for a later, full- blown trial. On Monday, Judge Martínez-Ol- guín scheduled a hearing on the injunction for Aug. 3, earlier than Paramount wanted, and did not say whether she would allow testi- mony from witnesses. On Thursday, Judge Martínez- Olguín asked Paramount, the states and the Writers Guild to meet to try to determine a sched- ule for arguments over the injunc- tion. She asked them to return with an update the next day, and gave no hint of whether she was likely to give Paramount the hear- ing it requested. Hours later, on the call with the states and the Writers Guild, Mr. Kessler proposed the pause that would allow the case to go to trial. Bill Kovacic, a former Republi- can chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, said that if the judge had put an indefinite pause on the deal, it could have created the per- ception of “further setbacks” for the merger. Instead, by moving right to a trial, the company will be able to marshal its most per- suasive case. “One explanation is that they want more time to formulate the case, to tell the story as com- pletely and favorably as they can,” he said, adding that the states will also be able to use the time to build out their arguments. Paramount’s willingness to wait until the deal’s expiration in June was meant to signal to Judge Martínez-Olguín that the com- pany was trying to be construc- tive, two people familiar with the case said. But Paramount will still look to move as quickly as possi- ble within the court’s guidance. A prolonged delay will be costly for Paramount. To get its deal ap- proved, Paramount agreed to pay Warner Bros. Discovery share- holders $650 million for every quarter the deal doesn’t close, be- ginning in October. And if regula- tors blow up the deal, Paramount owes Warner Bros. Discovery a $7 billion breakup fee. So far, Warner Bros. has largely deferred to Paramount’s ap- proach to the legal battle with the states, according to two people fa- miliar with the matter. Hashing out a trial date will be the next twist in the legal saga. In the flurry of negotiations on Thursday and Friday, Paramount and the states agreed to submit their proposed trial schedules next Friday. But they appear to be far apart on that point: Para- mount is targeting a November court date, and the states have said they want to go to trial some- time next year, two people famil- iar with the matter said.
For Chinese companies, the challenge is compounded by a central paradox of the country’s approach to A.I. development. Most of China’s leading A.I. sys- tems are open source or open weight. That has accelerated their development — the entire indus- try gains when every company shares its work in public. China’s open-source approach has spawned a crowded field of in- novative and intensely competi- tive start-ups all offering systems at low cost. So attempts to increase revenue by charging more for access to certain models can scare away customers. Price-conscious Chi- nese consumers — businesses and individuals alike — are quick to hop across platforms in search of inexpensive A.I. tools. While China’s A.I. companies are searching for sustainable business models, spending is high and revenue low, said Richard Lin, a vice president at the Silicon Val- ley company Datastrato. “In two or three years, we will still be trying to figure out how large models can earn money,” he said. Offering low prices has helped the Chinese firms gain users, in- cluding in Silicon Valley, where many companies depend on the more affordable systems. Yet Chi- nese companies have struggled to translate huge numbers of global users into profits. Last month, the Chinese start- up Z.ai released a model, GLM-5.2, that it said was nearly as powerful as Anthropic’s best. Many software developers and start-ups in Silicon Valley quickly started using it, in part because it was cheaper than the American systems. Z.ai’s models improved and be- came more popular, and the com- pany’s revenue more than dou-
Some claimed that Cracker Barrel’s design change to its logo removed a sense of its Southern charm. The company reverted to the original logo within days.
By LAUREN McCARTHY
Cracker Barrel named a new chief executive on Monday, nearly a year after the company’s rebrand- ing effort caused an online back- lash. Julie Masino will step down as the top executive next month, the company said in a statement. Da- vid Deno, a former chief of Bloomin’ Brands, will succeed her. Ms. Masino will stay with the com- pany until October. Last August, the company briefly changed its original logo — which featured an “Old-Timer” in overalls sitting in a chair and lean- ing on a barrel — to a simpler one that featured just the words Cracker Barrel in a smooth, brown font. Some claimed that the design changes removed the logo’s Southern charm and that the es- tablishment long aligned with conservative social norms had succumbed to “wokeness.” The company, based in Lebanon, Tenn., reverted to the original logo within days. Mr. Deno will also join Cracker Barrel’s board of directors. He was chief executive at Bloomin’ Brands, which includes Outback Steakhouse and other restau- rants, from 2019 to 2024. He is cur- rently on the boards of Panera Brands and Krispy Kreme. “Cracker Barrel is a truly iconic American brand, defined by its unique combination of warm
Alibaba, China’s A.I. heavyweight, started charging for access to its best models. Attempts to increase revenue this way can scare away customers.
bled last year. But Z.ai lost nearly $700 million. When it went public in Hong Kong, Z.ai said it planned to use the money to improve its models, largely by acquiring more chips. A few weeks after the listing, Z.ai said it was looking for partners to share computing power resources and apologized after users com- plained of slow service. “Open models are a powerful distribution strategy, but they are not a complete business model,” said Wei Sun, a principal A.I. ana- lyst at Counterpoint Research in Beijing. “An I.P.O. can finance the next training cycle, but it cannot by itself create sustainable eco- nomics.” This month, Moonshot released a model called Kimi K3, which the company said performed better than models from OpenAI and An- thropic did on some tasks. But within two days the company was forced to announce that it needed to stop accepting new users be-
Julie Masino will step down from her role as Cracker Barrel’s chief next month. David Deno, a former chief of Bloomin’ Brands, will succeed her.
country hospitality, timeless ap- peal and deep connection with guests across generations,” Mr. Deno said in a statement. “I am honored to lead the Cracker Bar- rel team and look forward to un- locking the full potential of this re- markable brand.” A spokeswoman for Cracker Barrel declined to comment on the executive changes, referring in- stead to the company’s statement. The restaurant chain said Mr. Deno had been appointed after a “comprehensive succession plan- ning and search process.” Ms. Masino is set to receive more than $4.6 million in sever-
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cause it couldn’t get enough com- puter chips to serve them. China’s A.I. industry has faced years of U.S. trade restrictions that confine its ability to buy the world’s most powerful chips. To get around these limitations, many Chinese companies rent re- mote access to data centers out-
emerged guiding the way to earn money.
side China stocked with advanced chips. But Chinese A.I. start-ups have far less money to buy computing power than their deep-pocketed American rivals. Last month, DeepSeek held one of China’s most anticipated fund- ing rounds, raising money from in- vestors including the internet gi-
when trying to alter the old-timey image.
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ant Tencent, the battery maker CATL and the country’s state in- vestment fund for artificial intelli- gence. DeepSeek raised $7.5 bil- lion. In May, Moonshot raised $2 billion. By comparison, Anthropic raised $65 billion in May alone. Chinese tech firms have far less capital, but U.S. tech executives and investors worry that China’s open-source push could upend the economics of A.I. production. Chinese A.I. start-ups say years of export controls have pushed them to use chips efficiently, po- tentially challenging the idea that has motivated much of global A.I. investment: that making cutting- edge A.I. systems will always re- quire increasing investment in more chips and data centers. Now, a debate is raging in the United States that could make it even harder for Chinese A.I. com- panies to earn money. Leading Silicon Valley compa- nies including Anthropic and OpenAI have claimed that Chi- nese firms improperly harvested data from their A.I. systems to ac- celerate the development of the Chinese models. Some American tech companies and investors want Washington to limit access to Chinese open-source models, saying they could be a threat in the wrong hands. Kevin Xu, the founder of Inter- connected Capital, a hedge fund that invests in A.I. technologies, said, “Many Silicon Valley start- ups rely on open-weight models to both customize their product and also not have to pay OpenAI and Anthropic their high prices.” These American tech compa- nies have been an important source of revenue for many Chi- nese A.I. firms. If they are cut out of it, they risk losing that.
Xinyun Wu contributed research from Taipei, Taiwan.
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nue fell nearly 3 percent during the quarter, to $797.4 million. Ms. Masino joined Cracker Bar- rel in 2023 after serving as the president of Taco Bell’s interna- tional operations. She led the com- pany during its “All the More” campaign, which in addition to the logo change replaced the restau- rant’s wooden, country kitsch aes- thetic with bright, minimalist walls and crisp décor. But many longtime customers lamented the remodel on social media. In one TikTok post that was widely shared last year, a user walks through a revamped location with a grim soundtrack and caption: “When Cracker Bar- rel took away the last piece of nos- talgia you had left.” The response harks back to 2022, when the addition of meat- less sausages to the menu also set off a furious online debate over values and so-called wokeness. In a statement last August, Sar- ah Moore, Cracker Barrel’s chief marketing officer, defended the changes, including a new season- al menu: “Our story hasn’t changed. Our values haven’t changed. With ‘All the More,’ we’re honoring our legacy while bring- ing fresh energy.” At the time, the chain’s value had dropped by almost $100 mil- lion. On Monday afternoon, after the news of Ms. Masino’s depar- ture, shares of the company’s stock had dropped around 3 per- cent.
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Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, set off an industrywide defense of open-source A.I.
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A.I. that is free to use, change and share — to increase demand for its hardware, as well as the tightly controlled models made by Open- AI and Anthropic. Chinese companies have been making progress in open-source A.I., in recent weeks, releasing models they say rival those from American A.I. labs. But Nvidia has largely been thwarted in its ef- forts to sell chips to China, which has the potential to deliver billions of dollars in sales for the company. Mr. Huang has spent months lobbying Washington and Beijing to allow his company to make those sales. Last July, President Trump approved sales of Nvidia’s less powerful chip made specifi- cally for China. Then, in Decem- ber, he gave the company permis- sion to sell a more powerful chip to China. Despite Nvidia’s headway in Washington, the Chinese govern- ment has been slow to allow its companies to buy Nvidia’s chips. Instead, it has encouraged domes- tic companies to buy from home- grown chipmakers like Huawei. Still, Nvidia is taking steps to maintain its base of potential customers. Its position on open- source A.I. is shared by compa- nies like Microsoft, which sell cloud computing services to peo- ple and companies using open- source models. Silicon Valley start-ups have also argued that re- strictions on open-source A.I. would limit their abilities to com- pete with industry leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic. Those A.I. labs have taken the opposite approach, arguing some models are too dangerous to be widely available and should be closely controlled for safety rea- sons. In Washington, the compa- nies have lobbied for regulation on open-source A.I., raising concerns about national security and A.I. safety. They have also accused Chinese companies of surrepti- tiously copying their models with a technique called distillation. The debate has involved Treas- ury Secretary Scott Bessent and Michael Kratsios, a science and technology adviser to President Trump, who have called American A.I. models valuable intellectual property. Mr. Bessent said the adminis- tration had considered imposing sanctions on Chinese companies that steal intellectual property from American firms. “Open source is not open season on American IP,” he said, referring to intellectual property. U.S. officials appear to be still debating their options but seem more likely to approach regulat- ing Chinese open-source models individually as a national security issue, rather than issuing some kind of blanket ban, four people with knowledge of the discussions said. (The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied those claims.) On Monday, Nvidia also an- nounced a separate partnership with Safe Superintelligence, a start-up that a founder of OpenAI created to build A.I. that is smart- er than a human but not danger- ous. As part of the partnership, Nvidia will make a multibillion dollar investment in the start-up and provide computing power to support its research.
Mike Isaac contributed reporting from San Francisco, and Ana Swan- son from Washington.
By CADE METZ and KAREN WEISE
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI sent shock waves across Silicon Valley last week when it revealed that two of its artificial intelligence technologies had gone rogue and hacked into a popular internet li- brary. The incident showed the unpre- dictable power of new A.I. sys- tems and the growing importance of technology that can be used against A.I. attacks. On Monday, Microsoft added to the widening assortment of A.I. security tools with the release of systems designed to help busi- nesses protect their computer net- works. It is among a number of compa- nies racing to take the same kind of advanced systems used to com- mit attacks and instead harness their power to prevent hacks. They are hoping to capitalize on rising concerns that A.I. presents a serious threat to computer infra- structure that security experts are just starting to come to grips with. Microsoft executives are among the many voices in tech ar- guing that powerful cybersecurity systems should be more widely distributed so that more organiza- tions can better defend them- selves. That viewpoint runs counter to growing concerns among some tech executives and officials in Washington that new A.I. systems need to be carefully monitored or kept away from the public be- cause they can be such effective hacking tools. “The cat is out of the bag,” said Hayete Gallot, an executive vice president at Microsoft who over- sees the company’s security ef- forts. Microsoft’s new A.I. model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, has been trained specifically for cyber- security, the company said. The system learned its skills partly by analyzing decades of data that Microsoft collected when re- sponding to hacking incidents ex- perienced by its customers. Microsoft has unusual access to security data, because its prod- ucts, such as the Windows operat- ing system, Outlook email and Azure cloud computing, are so widely used and are frequent tar- gets of cyberattacks, said Mustafa Suleyman, who oversees the de- velopment of Microsoft’s A.I. models. Unlike other leading A.I. com- panies, Microsoft did not share
Soars 470% on First Day
By STEVE LOHR
SEOUL — Shares in China’s leading memory chipmaker soared about 470 percent on its first day of trad- ing on Monday, quickly making it the most valuable company on the Shanghai stock exchange. ChangXin Memory Technolo- gies, known as CXMT, had already completed Asia’s largest initial public offering this year, which two weeks ago valued the com- pany at more than $85 billion. Investors catapulted the chip-
company little known outside its homeland.
maker’s valuation on the Shang- hai stock exchange to more than $480 billion at closing. That is well ahead of the Industrial and Com- mercial Bank of China, the previ- ous biggest company, which is valued at about $385 billion. Trading in CXMT shares opened at 49.50 renminbi, up from its I.P.O. price of 8.66 renminbi. The closing price was 49.00 ren- minbi.
By KALLEY HUANG
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple overtook the chipmaker Nvidia on Monday to become the world’s most valu- able publicly traded company, about two years after it lost the crown. The company’s ascent was as much a result of a sell-off of Nvidia’s stock as it was an en- dorsement by investors. Apple’s stock price finished the day up more than 1 percent, leading to a market valuation of $4.9 trillion. But Nvidia’s stock, driven by spending concerns, was down al- most 5 percent, leading to a mar- ket cap of $4.8 trillion, according to Bloomberg. Apple has sat on the sidelines of
Mustafa Suleyman, who leads the development of Microsoft’s A.I. models, says his company has a deep knowledge of cybersecurity based on experience.
the new model with independent testers for evaluation before re- leasing the technology. But the company said it expected that the model integrated into its security tools would top the leaderboard for a standard benchmark test called CyberGYM after it was re- leased on Monday, surpassing of- ferings from OpenAI and An- thropic. Microsoft said the price of using the new system was about half the price of other leading technolo- gies, which are more expensive partly because they were devel- oped to do many things, not just cybersecurity work. The com- pany said it effectively handled 90 percent of queries, meaning the more expensive models would be necessary only 10 percent of the time. Mr. Suleyman said Microsoft had focused on lowering the costs so that the model could be de- ployed more quickly and more widely. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash will feed into another new Microsoft tool, Project Perception. It transforms various A.I. models into teams of
The stellar trading start fol- lowed global volatility and a re- cent sell-off in tech stocks. Invest- ors have questioned the strato- spheric valuations of Silicon Val- ley companies that are making enormous investments to pursue the development of artificial intel- ligence. CXMT, a decade-old company little known outside its homeland, is a linchpin in China’s drive to nurture homegrown suppliers to reduce its dependence on foreign companies in the race for A.I. leadership. And it is an ascendant Chinese chipmaker at a time of in- creasing tension between the United States and China, and anxiety in America that China is catching up fast. The global race to dominate A.I. has generated a boom in de- mand for memory chips, which in- stantaneously shuttle data to and from the processing engines of computers. All computers rely on memory chips, but the demands of massive A.I. data centers being built in the United States and China are all but limitless. As de- mand has soared, so have prices. CXMT’s revenue jumped to nearly $7.5 billion in the first quar- ter of 2026, up more than 700 per-
the artificial intelligence race for much of the past four years, lead- ing to more frequent questions from investors about its plans. In 2024, after more than a decade at the top of the stock market, it lost the most-valuable-company crown to Microsoft. While Apple’s reign over the stock market could be short-lived, it returned to the top as investors re-evaluate A.I. Earlier this month, stocks slid amid increas- ing concerns about spending on the technology and growing com- petition from China. As questions abound over whether the next big bet by the technology industry will pay off, investors appear to be returning to a safe gamble.
“agents” designed to find and re- pair network vulnerabilities. A.I. agents are digital assistants that can use other software to perform various tasks largely on their own. In some cases, Microsoft’s agents will be able to imitate hackers. The A.I. security threat has emerged over the past year or so as A.I. companies have built sys- tems that are particularly good at writing computer code. When An- thropic, for example, introduced an A.I. system in April, the com- pany said it had used the technol- ogy to find thousands of security holes that had gone undetected in popular software systems for years. Arguing that the A.I. system was too dangerous for wide re- lease, Anthropic limited the re- lease of this enormously expen- sive technology to a small number of organizations so that they could use the technology to defend the internet’s vital infrastructure. Not long after, OpenAI and Google said they, too, were shar- ing similar technology with only a group of partners. The White
CXMT, China’s leading memory chipmaker, is now the most valuable company on the Shanghai stock exchange.
cent from a year earlier, accord- ing to its I.P.O. prospectus. And the company posted a profit of more than $1 billion last year, up from a loss of $2.8 billion in 2023. CXMT is beginning to make in- roads in the global memory mar- ket, which is dominated by two
“Apple is a little bit of a flight to safety,” said Daniel Newman, the chief executive of Futurum Group, a technology analysis company. “People see the A.I. trade is vola- tile, and they see Apple as almost like owning an index,” he added. In the four or so years since OpenAI released its ChatGPT chatbot and kicked off the A.I. boom, Nvidia’s market valuation has ballooned more than tenfold. Demand has surged for its chips, known as graphics processing units. They are key components for developing and running A.I., but there are growing concerns about costs associated with A.I. development. Unlike the rest of the technol-
House also started to explore gov- ernment oversight of such tech- nologies. Among the possible plans was a formal government review process for new A.I. mod- els. The field and norms are rapidly evolving. In an interview on July
decades of data on hacking incidents.
16, Microsoft’s corporate vice president, David Weston, said it was “really important for us to make sure everyone has the capa- bility.” But when the product was announced Monday, the company limited the initial release to busi- nesses and individuals who used a third Microsoft security tool, MDASH, which is designed for finding and closing security holes in software. As companies try to control the use of their latest models, experts
South Korean companies, Sam- sung Electronics and SK Hynix, and an American company, Mi- cron Technology. CXMT held 8 percent of the global market in the first quarter of 2026, compared with 3 percent a year earlier, ac- cording to Counterpoint Re-
ogy industry, Apple is not over- hauling itself around A.I. Its fel- low technology giants are spend- ing hundreds of billions of dollars on making their own version of the technology and building data centers that house chips from Nvidia. But Apple is using A.I. models and cloud computing serv- ices from Google for its products. Apple has suggested it will con- tinue to avoid the spendthrift ways of its peers, even as the com- pany transitions from Tim Cook, its longtime chief executive, to John Ternus, most recently its head of hardware engineering. In April, during a call with analysts and investors, Mr. Ternus said he planned to maintain the financial
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have shown that other technolo- gies could help drive malicious at- tacks on computer networks. Last month, researchers at the University of Toronto said they had found a way to use freely available A.I. technologies to cre- ate a dangerous computer “worm” capable of targeting any known flaw in the world’s comput- ers. “A lot of these models are get- ting better,” Mr. Weston said. “What concerns me is not the model du jour, but that the capabil- ity is more widespread.” In the weeks since, two Chinese start-ups have released technolo- gies that are nearly as powerful as leading systems from Anthropic and OpenAI. (The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied those claims.)
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search, a tech market research firm. Two weeks ago, SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion by selling American depositary receipts, in the largest share sale on Wall Street by a non-U.S. company.
discipline that defined Mr. Cook’s tenure at Apple. The company’s prolonged ab- sence from A.I. was not wholly by design. It first tried to weave the technology through its devices and upgrade its digital assistant, Siri, in 2024. But those efforts were plagued by delays and qual- ity problems, culminating in the company’s postponing the release of the new technology until it could be improved. In June, Apple reintroduced an improved version of Siri, which it said would arrive this year. At the time, the company argued that its approach to A.I. was different from that of its peers in Silicon Valley.
Into Ride-Sharing Industry
By STEFANOS CHEN
Kay Woo, a Korean tech executive, wants to break into New York City’s multibillion-dollar ride- share industry. So, naturally, in a city of 8.5 mil- lion potential customers, he’s courting his most valuable prospects: cabbies. For the past few months, Mr. Woo has made recurring trips to a shadeless parking lot at La- Guardia Airport, recruiting driv- ers for his company, TADA. His ef- forts have paid off: He says he has persuaded about 50,000 drivers since March to install the compa- ny’s ride-hailing app. The goal of the new app, called Throo, is to offer an alternative to the higher-commission model that drivers are used to when working with companies like Uber and Lyft. By charging drivers a smaller fixed fee per ride, and re- ducing charges that otherwise get passed onto passengers, Mr. Woo’s company promises better pay for drivers and cheaper fares for riders. So far, Throo, which started of- fering rides in June and is autho- rized to operate in New York, is undercutting the bigger apps on some fares. A standard trip from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan to Kennedy Interna- tional Airport was $80 with Throo; a similar ride with Uber would have cost about $136, and Lyft asked for $134. TADA, based in Singapore, is among a small number of upstarts offering discounted rates and us- ing slick marketing techniques to try to cut into what is effectively a ride-share duopoly. Uber and Lyft make about 80 percent of all for- hire and taxi trips in the city, with Uber completing roughly 70 per- cent of that share, according to the New York City Taxi and Limou- sine Commission. Others have tried and failed to supplant Uber and Lyft, which to- gether overtook yellow taxis as the most popular car service in the city a decade ago. The apps re- corded 106 million rides through May of this year, more than five
times as many as yellow cabs did, city data showed. Newcomers could mean more options and better prices on trips that have steadily become more expensive. But they could also present risks, as the companies seek a competitive edge that may not be sustainable or, in some cases, legal. Another competitor, an app called Empower, is embroiled in a court battle with government offi- cials who say it is operating ille- gally in the city and putting pas- sengers and drivers at risk. The city is seeking an injunction to ban the app’s parent company, Yazam Inc., from operating in New York, because it has not com- plied with licensing rules, does not pay required fees to operate and does not share trip information with the T.L.C. In March, the com- pany said it was completing 100,000 rides per week in the city, despite its legal status. Midori Valdivia, the T.L.C. com- missioner, said the city could not ensure the safety of Empower’s fleet of vehicles, and passengers might face insurance issues if the vehicle was in a crash. Drivers who use the app can be fined or lose their license. “I want to make sure word gets out that they are unlicensed,” she said. “There is a reason we have this system, and it’s to protect drivers and the riding public.” Josh Gold, a spokesman for Uber, said the company welcomed competition, but criticized how the city has allowed Empower to continue to operate. “It’s really shocking that the government is still allowing this il- legal operator to evade all these rules and taxes,” he said. Empower owes the city over $45,000 in fines, and Joshua Sear, its chief executive, has also been fined by officials in Washington for operating in the district with- out registration. Mr. Sear referred questions to a company repre- sentative, who said New York offi- cials had “repeatedly rejected” Empower’s offers to “facilitate the assessment and payment of any taxes or fees” that their drivers should pay. Jason Kersten, a spokesman for T.L.C., said the agency would re- spond in court. While Throo is licensed in New York, it still faces an uphill battle. Mr. Woo, 44, is betting that his business model will appeal to drivers, many of whom have com- plained to him about dwindling pay. TADA used a similar strategy in Southeast Asia, where it has be- come one of the most popular ride-
Kay Woo, the chief executive of TADA, a ride-sharing app, personally tries to recruit drivers.
share companies in Singapore. Uber and Lyft take an average commission of about 20 percent from drivers, according to the T.L.C., and that doesn’t include ad- ditional government fees. While drivers using Throo still have to pay taxes and fees, the company says it charges $1 or less per fare, providing the driver a bigger cut. “We take care of the driver first, and the driver can take care of the riders,” Mr. Woo said in an inter- view. Full-time drivers who relied on ride-share apps last year were paid a median of $75,000 — mar- ginally better than the $73,000 they earned in 2021, but the fig- ures do not include expenses, taxes or tips, according to city data. There are more than 80,000 for-hire vehicle drivers in the city, most of whom were born in other countries and now live in the bor- oughs surrounding Manhattan. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has long been an advocate for taxi drivers, and they formed an im- portant political base for him dur- ing the 2025 mayoral election. Antonio Rivera, 50, a Domi- nican driver who lives in the Bronx, said he had been seeking an alternative to the bigger apps when he heard about Throo. “Uber and Lyft, they’re not treating drivers nice,” he said on a ride from Long Island City in Queens to LaGuardia Airport. Drivers with T.L.C. licenses can work for any of the ride-share apps, so he added Throo to his ro- tation, in the hopes of eking out better pay. The fare to the airport was about $24. After commission, taxes and fees, he said he might collect $11 or $12 from the bigger apps. But with Throo, he received about $19. “It’s a pretty good deal for us,” he said. Still, after driving for 14 years, he said he remembered a time when the bigger apps also promised more favorable splits for drivers and other bonuses, which faded as the apps grew. Many drivers have recently criticized so-called deactivations — when a service like Uber or Lyft effectively fires a driver, often be- cause of complaints from riders. On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled in favor of the apps, which had argued that the city cannot prohibit them from dismissing drivers without notice. Several drivers who signed up for Throo said the deactivation policy was one reason they wanted new apps to succeed. “They only listen to passengers, not drivers,” Waseem Manzoor, 61, said of the bigger apps, while awaiting a job at LaGuardia in May. Mr. Manzoor, who is Paki- stani and lives in Queens Village, started picking up fares three years ago, after the Rite Aid con- venience store he had worked at for two decades shut down. He said he registered to drive for Throo in part because the low- fee model was appealing, and the app gave him another source of potential fares. But by July, Mr. Manzoor said, he had stopped using Throo be- cause he had not been making more money than he would on other apps. Not all Throo trips will pay driv- ers more than those of its competi- tors, depending on the time of day and level of demand, Mr. Woo said, adding that it’s “inevitable” that some drivers will get frustrated. But he insists that most rides will result in 10 to 15 percent larger payouts for drivers, and that trip volume will grow. Bhairavi Desai, the executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which repre- sents more than 28,000 taxi, Uber and Lyft drivers, said she was skeptical of TADA’s claims about driver benefits. “It’s déjà vu all over again,” she said, recalling a time when Uber and Lyft offered similar entice- ments to lure drivers away from yellow cabs. Some of her mem- bers have said their fares with Throo are no better than with other apps, and that there aren’t enough rides available through the app. Other companies have also tried to break into New York in re- cent years. Via, a shared-van app that offered discount rides in the city, shut down its ride-hailing service in 2021 to focus on public transit. In 2019, the transportation company Gett shuttered its ride- hailing app, Juno, and announced a partnership with Lyft. The way TADA can avoid the pitfalls of its predecessors is to grow quickly, Mr. Woo said. Since June, Throo has been used by over 35,000 riders, he said, which rep- resents a few hundred rides per day. When the app can sustain 10,000 rides per day, a goal he hopes to hit next year, he said, the company will be profitable. “If we can survive until then,” he said, “this model is untouch- able.”
Porsche executives riding in a replica Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus, considered the world’s first full-hybrid car, during a 2011 rally in Stuttgart, Germany.
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By PAUL STENQUIST
Before there were super-hybrids, before plug-in versions, before even the vaunted Prius — the hybrid that set the modern standard — there was the 1900 Lohner- Porsche Semper Vivus. Created by Ferdinand Porsche nearly 100 years before the first Prius ever turned a wheel, the Semper Vivus, which means “always alive,” used electric power but didn’t suffer the severe range limitation that plagued early electrics, which relied solely on lead-acid batteries. Indeed, we must back up a bit. Porsche was a prolific automotive inventor and engineer long before the company that would bear his name was formed, and he was just 25 years old when he built the world’s first hybrid automobile. His early technical experience was in electrical energy, working for Béla Ebber & Company, a producer of electrical compo- nents in Vienna. In the last years of the 19th century, he left Béla Ebber and went to work for Jakob Lohner & Company, a well-known coach builder. There he created a battery-powered vehi- cle known as the System Lohner-Porsche. It wasn’t the world’s first battery-powered vehicle, but it was significant in that it was driven by wheel-hub motors, and Porsche’s work in creating that drivetrain system would soon lead him to develop a hybrid car. Although a wheel-hub motor for railroad cars had been awarded a U.S. patent in the 1880s, Porsche’s hub motor was an engi- neering breakthrough. By incorporating motors in the wheel hubs of a battery-pow- ered electric car, drivetrain components were eliminated and mechanical systems were simplified. There are inherent draw- backs, but in 1900, the advantages of hub motors far outweighed any problems the technology introduced. Hub motors are still used today, primarily in bicycles, although they are also sometimes used when conven- tional vehicles are converted to electric power. The System Lohner Porsche’s introduc- tion at the 1900 Paris World Fair — the Exposition Universelle — resulted in this report in The Berliner Zeitung: “The vehi- cle’s epochal innovation is the full removal of the intermediate transmission,” the news- paper said, and added “through the integra- tion of the electric motors, the Porsche system, into the hubs of the front wheels.” This E.V. was capable of approximately 20 miles an hour, competitive performance for the time, but given the limitations and weight of lead-acid batteries, it could be driven only about 30 miles on each full battery charge and was reportedly reduced to a crawl when ascending hills. So Porsche looked for a boost: internal combustion engines. Two single-cylinder De Dion engines drove two generators that powered the wheel-hub motors while charg- ing a much smaller and lighter battery pack. In essence, it was what we now call a series hybrid. The car could be initially, albeit briefly, operated on battery power alone. As in today’s mild hybrids, the generators also served as motors to start the gasoline en- gines. After testing, the Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus was deemed successful, and a produc- tion version was developed, the Lohner- Porsche Mixte. This design further simpli- fied the hybrid powertrain with a Daimler four-cylinder engine spinning a single gen- erator that both powered the hub motors and charged a compact battery pack. The hub motors functioned as generators on deceleration, thus providing some measure of regenerative braking, but four-wheel brakes were fitted as well.
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The System Lohner-Porsche, top, was unveiled at the 1900 Paris World Fair. It wasn’t the world’s first battery-powered vehicle, but it was significant in that it was driven by wheel-hub motors. It was capable of approximately 20 miles an hour, competitive performance for the time. Above, Ferdinand Porsche in 1923.
over a century ago are still used today, primarily in bicycles.
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This Mixte was built on a wooden frame, atop of which rode a phaeton body. The car was expensive, and not many were sold to the public. One account cites just 12 sales of the first Mixte version in all. But variations on the theme were subsequently produced for fleet use, including some with four mo- tors and all-wheel drive. Total production of Lohner-Porsche hy- brids is said to have totaled approximately 300. The last example of any version is believed to have been destroyed during World War II. The Lohner-Porsche hybrids were serial hybrids. The gasoline engine of this type of hybrid serves only to power a generator, which provides electric current to charge the batteries and, in some cases, power the motors. Almost all modern hybrids are parallel hybrids that combine electric power with the gasoline engine’s output to turn the wheels. But there are a few modern serial hybrids, most notably the Ram 1500 Ram- charger, which uses a V-6 engine to turn a generator, and Nissan’s e-Power hybrid models. While Porsche doesn’t currently produce a serial hybrid, the company is heavily into parallel hybrids, including the Panamera 4 E-Hybrid, which combines the power of a combustion engine and an electric motor to generate 463 horsepower — enough to achieve a top speed of 173 m.p.h. Like the Lohner-Porsche, it’s not inexpensive, with a starting price of $127,200. Porsche A.G., now part of the Volkswagen Group, is quick to play up the pioneering efforts of its founder. In 2007, Porsche Engi- neering and Drescher Karosseriebau, a coach builder, constructed a replica of the Semper Vivus hybrid prototype, using pho- tographs, an engineering drawing and some informed guesswork. That replica even made a splash at the 2011 New York auto show, where a gas-engine version of the Panamera was introduced. In an interesting footnote to Ferdinand Porsche’s hybrid adventures, the Mixte, the first production hybrid, is said to have been funded largely by a German automotive entrepreneur named Emil Jellinik — a name students of Daimler history will recognize. Jellinik was a marketer of Daimler automo- biles, which, at his insistence, would soon thereafter be known as Mercedes automo- biles, in honor of his daughter, Mercédès Jellinik. Had her father been so inclined, the first Porsche electric might have been a Mercedes.
When Palisades, a nuclear power plant in Covert, Mich., closed in 2022, Holtec International began work to reopen the facility. But planning was loose, and the company at the time had no previous experience operating a nuclear plant.
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bought Palisades. The company applied for federal subsidies for the effort seven days after the sale closed, according to records ob- tained by The New York Times. By the time Holtec decided to restart Palisades, it had not com- pleted a top-to-bottom inspection of the plant, Jeff Borah, the gen- eral manager of plant operations, said in an interview. “We didn’t take the time to re- ally plan out the whole project be- fore we started doing work,” Mr. Borah said. “It’s like building a fire truck on your way to the fire.” Now, Holtec is aiming to load fuel into the nuclear reactor in September, records show, and generate power by the end of the year. It faces a March 2027 con- tractual deadline. The Palisades restart is part of a larger effort to revive nuclear en- ergy in the United States. The Trump administration, like the Bi- den administration before it, is dangling billions in federal financ- ing to kick-start investment. In June, the Energy Department of- fered up to $17.5 billion in subsi- dized loans for the purchase of nu- clear equipment in hopes of hav- ing 10 large reactors under con- struction by 2030. “We’re going to do whatever it takes to get that ball rolling,” Chris Wright, the energy secretary, said in an interview. Jigar Shah, who ran the Energy Department’s loan office during the Biden administration, said Holtec’s work encouraged other companies to pursue similar projects. Constellation Energy and NextEra Energy followed Holtec by agreeing to reopen reac- tors in Pennsylvania and Iowa. Like Palisades, those plants were slated to be dismantled, distin- guishing the projects from other efforts to restart reactors that were taken offline temporarily. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Holtec being opti- mistic,” said Mr. Shah, whose of- fice backstopped a low-interest loan of up to $1.52 billion to finance restarting Palisades, which has the capacity to meet the electrici- ty needs of more than 800,000 homes. “They thought that they
fire truck on your way to the fire.’
Subsidized loans offered by the Energy Department in June to buy nuclear parts.
Jeff Borah, the general manager of Palisades plant operations, on the lack of planning for the project.
were going to inherit a plant that was in much better shape. ” A Holtec executive and former nuclear regulators said it was not surprising that the company had decided to reopen Palisades with- out having inspected certain equipment, particularly given that it had owned the facility for only a short time. “There are some systems you can’t really inspect until you start the project,” said Rick Springman, Holtec’s president. As an exam- ple, he pointed to a turbine that needed to be disassembled before being thoroughly examined, a process that took months. “The difference between build- ing a new house and rehabbing an
old house is there is going to be discovery,” Dr. Springman said. Other projects have not been as fraught. Constellation Energy says it expects to restart the un- damaged reactor at Three Mile Is- land in Pennsylvania next year, ahead of schedule. Unlike Holtec, Constellation owned and operated its plant for many years. Palisades was bought from En- tergy, a utility company. An En- tergy spokesman praised Holtec’s effort but did not comment on the plant’s condition when it was sold. The plan to revive Palisades, which opened in 1971, has put off some locals, including people who say they support nuclear power. Worries range from the amount of
taxpayer money being spent and Holtec’s lack of expertise operat- ing reactors to cancer risks. A re- cent study led by Harvard’s public health school found higher cancer mortality rates in counties near operating nuclear plants. “It doesn’t seem like a smart idea to try to restart something that’s this old,” said Dave Si- monelli, who spends summers less than a mile from Palisades as the crow flies. The 69-year-old de- scribed himself as being pronucle- ar, but concerned with safety: “Why restart an antique? A car in the junkyard.” Addressing the cancer study, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regu- latory Commission said that “rou-
tine releases from operating reac- tors result in extremely small pub- lic radiation doses, far below lev- els associated with measurable health effects.” Palisades was built at the van- guard of a boom in the United States. By the end of the 1970s, the country had more than 60 reac- tors. And by the mid-1990s, that figure had topped 100. But people soured on nuclear power after a reactor at Three Mile Island partially melted down in 1979, and the Chernobyl disas- ter in 1986. Companies canceled dozens of projects. One reactor af- ter another shuttered as they struggled to compete with power plants that burned natural gas,
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which was becoming cheaper. By 2022, however, public atti- tudes toward nuclear power were improving, including among Democrats who had been skepti- cal of the technology. Nuclear re- actors can generate electricity around the clock without releas- ing greenhouse gases. Officials in the Biden adminis- tration and for Michigan’s Demo- cratic governor, Gretchen Whit- mer, tried unsuccessfully to con- vince Entergy to keep Palisades open. So they turned to Holtec. It was a gamble. The company was in the business of making the equipment to store spent nuclear fuel and dismantling old reactors, not running plants.
Holtec quickly estimated that reopening Palisades would take two years and cost more than $1.9 billion, including a contingency for cost overruns, records show. It took almost that long just to line up customers and other fi- nancing after the Energy Depart- ment rejected Holtec’s initial ap- plication for subsidies. Holtec eventually pushed the restart date to October 2025 and then to the end of this year. Two electric cooperatives, Wol- verine Power Cooperative and Hoosier Energy, agreed in 2023 to buy the power Palisades produced for 28 years at a fixed price. A Times review of a Holtec securi- ties filing indicates the co-ops may
Left, piping components cleaned for reinstallation inside the turbine building. Workers are updating and repairing various parts of the Palisades plant.
Holtec is responsible for all additional expenses caused by delays in restarting Palisades. The company has declined to share the project’s updated price.
have agreed to pay roughly $59 per megawatt-hour. That is slightly higher than the market rate for wholesale electricity in the region. Holtec and Wolverine Power declined to comment on the price. Hoosier Energy did not respond to requests for comment. It didn’t hurt that the govern- ment was showering Palisades with money, including $300 mil- lion from Michigan and the prom- ise of federal tax credits once the plant was running. Separately, the Agriculture Department awarded $1.3 billion to Wolverine and Hoosier in late 2024, most of it to be put toward this effort. It was around then that Holtec
discovered a major problem. The plant’s twin steam generators, among its most expensive equip- ment, were more degraded than the company had expected. Holtec plugged or repaired thousands of skinny U-shaped metal tubes inside the generators. “That was a significant delay in the project, months,” said Mr. Bo- rah, the operations manager. The N.R.C. signed off on Holtec’s approach, which activists and some residents worry was in- sufficient. “Here at Palisades, there have been so many compromises,” Mi- chael J. Keegan, a co-chairman of the environmental group Don’t Waste Michigan, testified at a
Large reactors that the government hopes to have under construction by 2030.
a smart idea to try to restart something that’s this old.’
Dave Simonelli, who spends summers less than a mile from the Palisades plant.
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June N.R.C. hearing where he ar- gued that Holtec should have re- placed the steam generators. Dr. Springman, Holtec’s presi- dent, said the repaired equipment had been extensively inspected and tested. “We feel very comfort- able with the safety of the compo- nent,” he said. This spring, Palisades resem- bled a Lego set that was being re- assembled. Scaffolding draped in orange fabric straddled the tur- bines and a generator that con- verts steam into electricity. Nearby, a worker cleaned pipes. A screen showed men clad in white protective suits inspecting a giant metal barrel designed to hold nu- clear fuel in the reactor building. Holtec, which is responsible for any additional expenses tied to the project’s delay, declined to share an updated cost estimate. Mr. Springman said that de- scribing the project as delayed was “unfair” since the contractual deadline for restarting the facility is March 2027. It is a sensitive time for Holtec, which this month filed for an ini- tial public offering. Armed with its experience at Palisades, the com- pany wants to build and operate smaller nuclear reactors, starting at the Michigan site. It is riding growing enthusiasm for nuclear power. The federal government, technology compa- nies and others are offering to in- vest in or lend money to nuclear companies. Elsewhere, the ener- gy crisis stemming from the war with Iran is pushing countries to- ward nuclear energy. That Palisades has been slow to reopen was of little concern to Gail Patterson-Gladney, a commis- sioner in Van Buren County, the plant’s home. “We are like a proto- type, something that’s never been done,” she said. Jim Wilson, 66, who lives down the road from Palisades, has been readjusting to the idea of having the plant back online. He recently bought a Geiger counter to meas- ure background radiation levels in his home. “I have faith that they’ll do it right,” Mr. Wilson said. “Other- wise I’d have a for-sale sign on my house.”
W.N.B.A. Commissioner Cathy Engelbert, right, was loudly booed last month as she congratulated the Liberty for their Commissioner’s Cup win and announced Breanna Stewart, left, as M.V.P.
By ANNIE COSTABILE The Athletic
The boos were deafening. W.N.B.A. Commissioner Cathy Eng- elbert was at center court inside Bar- clays Center. The New York Liberty had just beaten the Las Vegas Aces in the in- season tournament named after her job title, and as she took the mic to congratu- late the team and announce the most valuable player, her voice was drowned out almost entirely. It was not the first time Engelbert was greeted with this level of public disdain. Over the past 12 months, the reception Engelbert has received has grown in- creasingly hostile, dating to last year’s All-Star game in Indianapolis, when fans chanted “pay them” as she attempted to deliver her postgame speech. She was heckled during the 2025 W.N.B.A. finals trophy ceremony, and again on Saturday after this year’s All-Star Game. Since becoming commissioner in 2019, Engelbert has led the W.N.B.A. into its most successful era. She brokered two transformational collective bargaining agreements, guided the league through a pandemic season in 2020 and helped fa- cilitate the sale of the Atlanta Dream from an owner, Kelly Loeffler, who op- posed the league’s public support for the Black Lives Matter movement. The growth of the league has been as- tronomical — a new media rights deal valued at $2.2 billion at the time has grown to $3 billion, according to reports. The league has expanded to 15 teams and will reach 18 by 2030, with expansion fees that have lined the pockets of the
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points is Engelbert’s communication style.
current owners. Record-breaking view- ership and attendance have led to his- toric revenue targets. On paper, Engelbert is the most suc- cessful leader in the W.N.B.A.’s 30-year history. Yet, as the second half of the sea- son begins on Tuesday after the All-Star break, Engelbert is reaching an inflec- tion point in her tenure. While there seems to be no shortage of players and other team employees will- ing to complain publicly about day-to- day decision-making within the league, Engelbert’s overall job security remains too hot for most to handle. While The Athletic spoke with a dozen sources around the league for this story, almost all refused to comment for publication, even anonymously. What they did do was provide a holistic view of the situation that Engelbert and the W.N.B.A. now find themselves in. “If we’re going to make a move, we should make a move,” one high-ranking team official said, speaking anony- mously to protect existing relationships. “If not, we need some leadership.” N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver ap- pointed Engelbert in 2019, giving her the commissioner title that no previous per- manent W.N.B.A. leader had possessed. It was a testament to her résumé, high- lighted by a stint as the chief executive of Deloitte, a multinational business con-
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By TIM BRITTON The Athletic
When Darryl Strawberry was being pushed into surgery after his heart attack in 2024, among the thoughts racing through his head was this one: I still want the chance to be there. Strawberry knew his num- ber retirement ceremony was just a few months away. It meant the world to him to be there for that day, to see No. 18 put on the Citi Field facade and to thank the fans who had supported him for so long — and to apologize for ever leaving the Mets. Strawberry made it to that day, and he is excited to be part of another big event at Citi Field on Saturday, when the Mets cele- brate the 40th anniversary of their 1986 championship. Strawberry’s third book, “An- other Life,” is set to come out in August, as well, recounting not just his recovery from his heart attack but his decades-long jour- ney after his playing career to become a minister. Strawberry had a long and public struggle with substance abuse and had numerous legal issues over the years, including a conviction on tax-evasion charges and several arrests for domestic abuse. He eventually got clean, he has said, after meeting his current wife, Tracy, a quarter-century ago. Strawberry, 64, recently spoke to The Athletic about the book and what he is most looking forward to at the reunion. The interview has been edited and condensed.
Darryl Strawberry
What compelled you to write “Another Life”? What message did you want to get across? I wanted people to know you could have another life, that you could reinvent yourself and you don’t have to stay the same. For a long time, I was a baseball player and someone who had trials and tribulations. I’m no longer that person. I shifted my life in a different way and went in a different direction — and not for me. The Lord saved me and changed me, but it gives me an opportunity to go out there and help those who are looking for purpose. I found the purpose of my life. That’s what we’re all here for: to find a purpose.
Tim Britton is a senior writer covering the Mets for The Ath- letic.
But Not the Job Market
By JOE SMITH The Athletic
John Tortorella isn’t done. Speaking publicly for the first time since the Vegas Golden Knights announced just after their Stanley Cup finals run that he would not be back, Tortorella, the longtime N.H.L. coach, said that whenever another opportuni- ty presented itself, he would be ready for it. “Oh, I want to coach,” he said last week. “I want to coach now. I’m not sure if that happens, and that’s where I am in my career. But I wanted to coach that Vegas team.” Tortorella, 68, said that mentor- ing former players had kept him going. Many of those players have become part of the coaching com- munity, including the Minnesota Wild’s new American Hockey League coach, Stu Bickel, and, co- incidentally, the coach who re- placed Tortorella at Vegas, Ryan Craig. The coaching world is a “lit- tle fraternity,” Tortorella said, and he is not ready to leave it after three decades. He also said he understood the point of view of the team’s presi- dent of hockey operations, George McPhee, for the direction he took. Of Craig, Tortorella said: “They’ve been developing him for a number of years there. He’s a good coach and a good man.” Tortorella replaced Bruce Cas- sidy on March 29, with eight games remaining in the N.H.L. regular season. Vegas went 7-0-1 in those games before its playoff run to the Stanley Cup finals, where the Golden Knights lost in six games to the Carolina Hurri- canes. Tortorella said that he was grateful for his time with Vegas but that he told General Manager
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What have your mother and your wife meant to you on this journey? Just everything. First with my mother, I wish I would have listened to her when I was play- ing baseball and going through that life. I didn’t pay attention to that. And then Tracy came into my life and she led me back. I sat for
Kelly McCrimmon that he wanted to keep coaching the Golden Knights. “I guess the word I’d use is ‘dis- appointed,’” Tortorella said. He added: “Kelly is very hon- est, and he let me know within one minute of sitting down in that meeting — he basically told me, ‘Ryan Craig is coaching the team next year.’ I told him what I thought, and we had an honest conversation. I truly respect where the organization is going. “We didn’t finish the job, and I wanted some more time with that club to try to finish the job. That’s not my call. That’s the general manager and president’s call. You just get about your business after that.” Tortorella won the Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004 and has 777 wins in 1,628 games in a 24-year career, coach- ing for the Lightning, New York Rangers, Vancouver Canucks, Co- lumbus Blue Jackets, Philadel- phia Flyers and Golden Knights. He is 70-72 in the Stanley Cup playoffs and has the second-most N.H.L. wins for an American-born coach, behind Peter Laviolette (846 wins). But going on another deep run was certainly invigorating — es- pecially after years of coaching less developed teams. “I loved it. I loved the teaching part of it,” he said. “I loved coach- ing in Philly, Columbus, when we were building that. But when I went to Vegas, a team laden with veterans — they had won in ’23, a lot of them — the information I got when I got there was there wasn’t a whole bunch of confidence within the group. That’s how we attacked it. I get to coach a differ- ent way. I get to coach with them, not at them. “It wasn’t the time of year to coach at them anyway. It was the time of year to coach with them
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seven years to go through disci- pleship. People think the person I am is an overnight miracle. It wasn’t overnight. It was a long journey. That was a gift, and I realized what a great gift women are. They help put the pieces back together. I’m just glad I was able to recognize that they’d be the important parts I needed to get
“I want to coach,” said John Tortorella, 68, who led the Golden Knights to the finals in a brief stint.
with a veteran group. I have made no bones about it. I loved working there. I thought the group — the locker room was solid, with great leadership. I wanted to still be part of that, and I was very fortu- nate to be part of that those three months.” The series with Carolina was an extremely tight one, with plenty of swings. It’s hard for Tortorella not to wonder what if? “There’s certain plays within the game that change the series,” Tortorella said. “I look at Game 2 in Carolina, where we win the de- fensive-zone face-off, we turn it over really for no reason. We just need to keep pushing it up the ice.” After the Vegas turnover, the Hurricanes’ Logan Stankoven scored a wraparound goal. “Gave them some juice,” Tor- torella said. “That was right after Mitch Marner hit the crossbar. If Mitchy scores, I think we walk away with two wins out of Car- olina. Who knows where it goes from there?”
Darryl Strawberry had his number retired in 2024, above. On Saturday, the Mets will honor the 1986 champs. Strawberry credited Manager Davey Johnson, second from far left in 1990.
me to where I’m at today.
You mention a lot of mentors, including Mookie Wilson and Gary Carter, as examples of manhood for you. What have you learned about what it takes to be a man and a good example for your kids and now your grandchildren? It’s really cool. It’s really differ- ent. It’s really real. I saw Mookie and Gary like that when they had the uniform on. It’s been a real blessing for my kids to see me as someone totally different than people had talked about. People talked about my career. They got a chance to see my number retired, and afterward my young- est daughter said, “Dad, you’re a really big thing in New York.” I was like, “Nah, I used to be.” It’s important that I walk this way and live this way and really don’t talk about it to them. The actions of who I am make a difference to my kids and my grandkids.
What did it mean to you to give a
In Tortorella’s view, the key to the series was Hurricanes goal- tender Brandon Bussi coming on in relief of Frederik Andersen in Game 3 after Andersen gave up four goals. It later came out that Andersen had a knee injury. “Bussi came in and played some incredible games,” Tortorella said. “We had a tough time beating him.” Vegas goalie Carter Hart also struggled in the finals, giving up four goals in five of the six games. But Tortorella stood by his deci- sion not to turn to Adin Hill, who won the Cup with the 2023 team but had not appeared in a game since April 9. “I’m sure there was a lot of criti- cism on that,” Tortorella said. “But you know what? Hilly hadn’t played in 65 days. We didn’t prac- tice a lot. There wasn’t a lot of game situations. We were going with Carter. If it happened again the same way, we would go with Carter. He deserved to work through it.”
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eulogy for Davey Johnson at his funeral last year? When his wife, Susan, asked me if I would do it, I just thought to myself that this had truly come full circle, to do that for a person who meant so much to all of us. To be there as a player and to represent him and his family and speak on behalf of what he’d done for all of us, especially me, was very special. Davey helped so many guys. I was able to send him off in a good way, to show how special he was not just as a manager but as a person. I needed that for myself.
How vital was he to what the Mets were able to do in the 1980s? It was all him. He’s the one that got us to believe. He’s the one that turned the franchise around, from a mess to the Mets. I don’t think people today give him enough credit for what he did for that franchise. When he came in ’84, that’s when we started to win. He still has the highest
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Any regrets overall on the se- ries? “No, no,” said Tortorella, who added: “I think there’s a certain style we have to play against that team. I thought we did for proba- bly 85 or 90 percent of the time. When we didn’t, it cost us, and that’s how good Carolina was.” Tortorella also addressed skip- ping a postgame news conference during the second round against Anaheim. He explained that he was sup- posed to have his availability be- fore Ducks Coach Joel Quen- neville’s because of an agreement made before the series, but Quen- neville went first after the elimi- nation game and ran long. Tortorella said he was in the hall asking his public-relations person to get him into the room but even- tually decided to join his team. As a result, Tortorella was fined $100,000 and the Golden Knights were docked a second-round pick in June’s draft. “That wasn’t me not wanting to
winning percentage of any man- ager there, and people never really talk about how good that stretch was. And not only that, everywhere he went he continued to win. That shows you what kind of skills he had as a manager. He was a player, and he let players be players.
At the end of the book, you talk about a lot of full-circle moments. Is that what this gathering of the 1986 team is for you? It’s definitely a full-circle mo- ment. That team is something that will always be special — a special group of guys who had the grit and truly knew how to grind it out no matter what the circumstances were. We were always there for each other and had each other’s back and played to win. Davey told us that in spring training — that we’re going to win it all and we’re going to dominate. We went into St. Louis and swept the Cardinals early in the year, and Whitey Herzog said nobody’s going to catch us. That was big to hear from him. He saw how talented we were and we were going to be hard to beat.
What are you most looking forward to that day? Just the guys. I’m looking for- ward to the reaction from the fans for certain players, like Lenny Dykstra, who has turned his life around and come back full circle. He was a big key to everything that happened those seasons for us, the way he played. I’m looking forward to seeing the fans embrace him. They’ve already embraced me and Doc Gooden and Keith Her- nandez with our numbers re- tired. We miss Gary Carter. I wish his number was retired because he’s the reason we were champi- ons. A lot of people didn’t give him enough credit for that. They say he only played a short time. It’s not about a short time; it’s about what a player means to a team. Hopefully one day they put his number up, too.
You start the book with your heart attack and your fear you wouldn’t make it to your number retirement ceremony in 2024. What does it mean to you to be here for mo- ments like this with your family? That was a truly special moment to be there with my family to see with my kids and my friends and to tell the fans I was so sorry for leaving Queens. To be on that field and represent No. 18 was a day I’ll never forget. Those are really special moments and things you dream of. Having my number retired is my Hall of Fame.
eager coach reflects on his Vegas exit.
do the press,” Tortorella said. “That was me not wanting to hold up my team. I had to make a deci- sion. I was not going to hold up my hockey team after eliminating a team from the playoffs. I had to make a decision: to wait for Joel to finish and talk to you guys and hold up my hockey team, or go on the bus with my hockey team. I’m going with my hockey team. I own that.” Tortorella said he has a good re- lationship with the Vegas brass and talked to McPhee last week. And he has had several conversa- tions this summer with Craig, who played for Tortorella at Tampa Bay from 2005 to 2008. Craig spent six years as a Vegas assist- ant and the past three years lead- ing the A.H.L. club, Henderson. “He’s been there nine years,” Tortorella said. “He has gone through the whole process. So I understand the process, and I don’t hold any grudges at all, espe- cially when it comes to Ryan Craig getting a job in the National Hockey League. It’s just weird for me, having coached this guy and then we’re talking, and I’m think- ing maybe I want to finish the job and Kelly came in and said within 30 seconds that Craigger is in.” As for what’s next for Tor- torella, he isn’t sure. He has had experience on TV with ESPN, but it is unclear if he will return to that if a coaching job does not present itself. For now, everything is still sinking in. After the finals, he and his wife, Christine, spent a few weeks in Minnesota visiting her family, and they have been back in their Florida home for only a week. “I haven’t even thought about it,” Tortorella said. “I’m still, quite honestly, I’m still trying to swal- low how close we were, and hon- estly, swallow how I really wanted to coach that hockey team, too.”
On How to Manage Wave of Free Agents
By CJ MOORE and BRENDAN MARKS The Athletic
College basketball coaches are preparing for a summer free- agency window they did not ex- pect and are not sure they agree with. An Ohio judge recently granted a temporary injunction to 15 Divi- sion I players from the class of 2022 whose eligibility expired af- ter last season, cracking open a window for them to play another season of college basketball. Those players — including guard M.J. Collins, who has since transferred to Cincinnati, and Xa- vier forward Filip Borovicanin — are suing the N.C.A.A. over the governing body’s new age-based eligibility rules, colloquially known as “five-in-five.” Since the Ohio ruling, several more suits have been filed in other states, most recently one in Cali- fornia involving 45 players, in- cluding Donovan Dent, a former U.C.L.A. guard, and Jaxon Kohler, a Michigan State big man. Major questions remain: Will these players actually be eligible? Are coaches and teams willing to gamble on that? And which teams still have available scholarships and resources to commit to these suddenly available players? Should they win in court, a sub- stantial number of players — all with four years of experience — will re-enter the college basket- ball pool at a time when most pro- grams believed their rosters were set. The Athletic recently surveyed 25 high-major coaches about the new group of eligible players, granting them anonymity so they could speak candidly without dis- closing their recruiting strategies. The only clarity we found is that there is none. The N.C.A.A. has said it will seek a reversal of the injunction in Ohio. An N.C.A.A. source, speak- ing on the condition of anonymity
CJ Moore and Brendan Marks cover men’s college basketball for The Athletic.
Cathy Engelbert, left, lacks a personal relationship with players, said Breanna Stewart, a union vice president. N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver has been noncommittal about Engelbert’s future.
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sulting firm. But the lack of involvement from the W.N.B.A.’s board of gov- ernors on Engelbert’s hiring has led to the question of whom, ex- actly, she reports to. Throughout her tenure, there have been mo- ments that point to Silver’s ex- plicit involvement in business de- cisions, a number of them occur- ring in the past year. During the N.B.A. All-Star weekend earlier this year, Silver acknowledged that while he had not been at the table in the con- tentious W.N.B.A. collective bar- gaining negotiations, he was play- ing a role behind the scenes. More recently, he was reportedly in- volved in the disciplinary process for Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas after a play in- volving her and Fever guard Caitlin Clark. Asked at CNBC’s Game Plan Summit if he encouraged Eng- elbert to suspend Thomas, Silver sidestepped the question. “I’m not going to comment on that, be- cause I don’t think it’s fair to Caitlin — and to Cathy Engelbert either. That’s not the real issue here.” At least twice in the past five months, Silver was asked about Engelbert’s job performance. Both times he praised the work she had done but was noncommit- tal about her future. “Cathy con- tinues to do a strong job building that league, and we’ll have ongo- ing discussions,” Silver said earli-
because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the strategy, said the organization does not plan to offer a blanket waiver, even if court rulings continue to go in the players’ favor, but admit- ted that the N.C.A.A. has only so much enforcement power if judges rule otherwise. The source added that the N.C.A.A. anticipates more law- suits leading up to the 2026-27 sea- son, timed so that the injunctions will clear in time for the start of the season and the wave of suits will make it difficult for the N.C.A.A. to appeal them all. Among coaches surveyed, there was no consensus on the “right thing to do.” Most opposed this late change because they built their teams with the understand- ing that those players would not be eligible, and lamented that the N.C.A.A.’s June rollout of the age- based eligibility change opened a summer window for players to fight for another year. “I feel like a lot of these prob- lems would have been solved if it would have been instituted back prior to the off-season,” a head coach from the Southeastern Con- ference said. “I believe the ’22 class deserves to play, just like ev- ery other class that’s gotten an ad- ditional year. And once that stuff gets ironed out, I think it’s going to be good for all the guys.” The other option could have been to wait until the fall to an- nounce, which would have made it too late for the ineligible players to enroll in school. “The timing of it is silly just be- cause it’s like you’re going to re- ward these teams that didn’t nec- essarily get their rosters done,” an SEC assistant said. “And now you’re going to open up a whole new pool of players?” Among coaches who do not have a roster spot, not one coach polled said they would create a spot for this new pool of players. Other coaches said they believed adding a player now would be un- fair and disruptive to the team they signed. “I think the thing that’s tricky
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er this month. One of the biggest pain points that has come up among sources around the league is Engelbert’s communication style. People have expressed reservations about her interpersonal dynamics. The players, who are the W.N.B.A.’s biggest stakeholders, have re- inforced those opinions. The W.N.B.A. is widely consid- ered a player-driven league. Its athletes consistently speak out against such issues as poor opera- tional standards within certain or- ganizations and the leadership’s missteps. There is arguably no greater example of the players’ power than in 2020, when mem- bers of the Atlanta Dream wore T- shirts endorsing Raphael War- nock, who was running against Loeffler for a Senate seat from Georgia. In the final days of his campaign, Warnock, a Democrat, shared a video to social media en- couraging people to vote, featur- ing several W.N.B.A. players, in- cluding the three-time champion Diana Taurasi and Elizabeth Williams, the secretary of the players’ union. In recent years, Engelbert’s communication style has been criticized and magnified by play- ers who are not afraid to air their grievances publicly. While many players say they have never had a relationship with Engelbert, the level of strain went mainstream at the end of last season when one of the league’s biggest stars, Napheesa Collier, called out Engelbert during her
M.J. COLLINS transferred from Utah State to Cincinnati after a judge’s temporary injunction.
FILIP BOROVICANIN has played for three college teams in four years, most recently Xavier.
right now is you’ve been practic- ing all summer with your team,” a Big Ten coach said. “You’ve really started to develop a team chem- istry, culture, start to maybe try to
exit interview. In addition to say- ing the W.N.B.A. has the “worst leadership in the world,” Collier aired a private conversation she had with Engelbert at Unrivaled in 2025. She said that Engelbert told her “only losers complain about the refs.” When Collier asked about the league’s young stars who were driving revenue, she said Engelbert responded by saying that Clark should be “grateful she makes $16 million off the court, because without the platform that the W.N.B.A. gives
afraid to air their grievances publicly.
her, she wouldn’t make anything.” Engelbert denied having made those comments, but the damage was done. Players around the league, past and present, sided with Collier. The three-time W.N.B.A. cham- pion Candace Parker said she got a text from Silver congratulating her on the birth of her third child and that she receives a Christmas gift from him every year. When she retired, she said Silver con- gratulated her on her Hall of Fame career. She never heard from Eng- elbert. This points to another area of lapse from Engelbert: her efforts
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figure out some roles.” Others see it as an opportunity. One Big 12 coach said he immedi- ately abandoned his previous strategy of plugging holes on his
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to bridge the past to the present. She was absent from the W.N- .B.A.’s 30th anniversary game be- tween the Los Angeles Sparks and the New York Liberty on June 21, choosing instead to be at the final round of the U.S. Open. (She sits on the executive board of the U.S. Golf Association.) She was also absent from the 2026 Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which included Parker, Lynx Coach Cheryl Reeve, the W.N.B.A. champion Elena Delle Donne and Isabelle Fijalkowski, a member of the Cleveland Rockers during the league’s first season. Perhaps the biggest feather in Engelbert’s commissioner cap is the fact that she presided over the negotiations that gave way to the league’s first million-dollar player contract, and did so without losing a single game over a 17-month- long process. But despite her con- tributions to getting players richer salaries than they have ever seen in the W.N.B.A., her re- lationships with them have ap- peared to improve only margin- ally. Liberty forward Breanna Stew- art, a vice president in the players’ union, said that since the agree- ment was completed, there is mu- tual respect, but there is not much of a personal relationship. Stew- art’s Liberty teammate Sabrina Ionescu said she does not have a relationship with Engelbert but speaks to Silver often. That strained relationship was spotlighted last week when Ionescu said she was never offi-
JAXON KOHLER could return for a fifth season at Michigan State, where he was a team captain.
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roster with international recruits, instead targeting multiple players from the 2022 class who had just run out of eligibility. That’s be- cause there could be less paper-
cially invited to participate in the W.N.B.A.’s 3-point contest. Lynx guard Kayla McBride also called out the league for what she be- lieved to be a halfhearted attempt to get her to participate. When asked what she would like to see from Engelbert moving forward, Ionescu emphasized building strong relationships with the players and having an open line of communication. “There’s always more that can be done from both sides,” Ionescu said. “It’s never going to be pretty all the time, but I definitely think building relationships, having bet- ter relationships with multiple players who have been part of this league is definitely something that can always improve.” For her part, Engelbert said Saturday in her news conference ahead of the All-Star Game that she needs to do better with her communication with the players. “It’s absolutely something I’ve been talking with players about how much they want to hear from us,” Engelbert said. “We have to be better at it. It’s something if a player is getting honored or a player gets hurt or something, I try to reach out to them. We need to be better at it. There’s no doubt. I need to be bet- ter. Everybody needs to be better at communication all the time.” While those sometimes-difficult player relationships may have cost Engelbert in the court of pub- lic opinion, it is unclear how they have influenced her standing with those she ultimately reports to, in-
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work involved in getting a class of 2022 player eligible than an inter- national pro. A Big 12 assistant coach who said he was “not a fan” of the de- velopments admitted that his pro- gram had saved a few spots and that there were multiple players listed in the suits whom his team is looking at, though raising money would be difficult. Most high-major programs have either spent their entire budget or exceeded their planned spending this cycle, and are going back to donors to ask for more. Multiple coaches said the market for these players seeking an extra year is likely to be lower than they anticipate. “I don’t think there’s enough teams that have enough money left over to be doling out like what their peers have already gotten,” a Big 12 head coach said. Even at a discounted rate, those players will probably earn more in college next season than they could anywhere else. And there are programs that missed on tar- gets in the spring, or, for a school like Gonzaga, which just experi- enced the downside of college bas- ketball’s fluid rules when guard Mario Saint-Supéry signed with a Spanish club and left the school, this could be an opportunity to rescue the roster. Ultimately, coaches wish the rules and guidelines were clearer. That’s not new to college basket- ball, which has seen eligibility rules muddled by graduating players suing to play additional seasons, international profession- als viewing college basketball as a newly lucrative opportunity and former college players attempting to return after leaving for the pros. The N.C.A.A.’s new age-based eligibility model is meant to sim- plify things, but the first year of implementation is going to be bumpy. One Big East coach said he tried before the spring transfer cycle to find out whether class of 2022 players would be eligible, but he could never get a definitive an- swer “from people who would know, including in and around the N.C.A.A.” He decided not to risk recruit- ing those players, and now he is out of roster spots.
cluding the N.B.A. When Silver appointed Eng- elbert over seven years ago, he said: “Cathy is a world-class busi- ness leader with a deep connec- tion to women’s basketball, which makes her the ideal person to lead the W.N.B.A. into its next phase of growth.” This was roughly five months after Silver told The Associated Press that the league was losing an average of “$10 million every year we’ve operated.” His empha- sis on the W.N.B.A.’s bottom line has become more apparent over the course of Engelbert’s tenure. By 2030, the W.N.B.A. will wel- come three new teams, all of which will operate under dual N.B.A./W.N.B.A. ownership. In- cluding the expansion Golden State Valkyries, the sale of the Connecticut Sun to the Houston Rockets owner Tillman Fertitta and Mark Walter’s purchase of the Los Angeles Lakers, the W.N.B.A. will have 11 teams operating un- der a dual ownership structure. The first-year Portland Fire and Toronto Tempo also share owner- ship ties with the N.B.A. The W.N.B.A.’s ownership situa- tion conflates the separation of the two leagues’ commissioners, rais- ing the question of whether the current governance structure clips the wings of Engelbert or any person who could potentially replace her. “No commissioner will truly succeed until the role and govern- ance changes,” a high-ranking team official said.
Effort to Show Critics He’ll Lift Ohio State
Sayin spent the off-season adding 10 pounds to his frame.
By CAMERON TEAGUE ROBINSON The Athletic
Julian Sayin has turned heads and started debates this off-sea- son. Ohio State’s starting quarter- back has always impressed peo- ple with his accuracy and ability to make throwing a football look easy — it is why he was the No. 1 quarterback in the 2024 recruiting class when he signed with Ala- bama before Nick Saban retired. But he has never been viewed as a physically imposing athlete. He finished fourth in the Heis- man Trophy race last year after the Buckeyes’ undefeated regular season, and led the Football Bowl Subdivision with a 77 percent completion rate in his first season as starter. But he struggled in back-to-back postseason losses to Indiana and Miami. Through it all, he had the top-10 pick Carnell Tate and the likely fu- ture top-10 pick Jeremiah Smith to throw to, leading to a range of opinions about his ceiling from op- posing coaches. When he returned home to Cali-
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By NICKI JHABVALA The Athletic
The N.F.L. keeps getting richer. This month, the Paul Allen es- tate agreed to sell the Seattle Sea- hawks to a group led by the billion- aire tech investor Vinod Khosla and his wife, Neeru, for $9.612 bil- lion, a massive sum that exceeded the N.F.L. record for a team sale by nearly 60 percent. As part of the agreement, which is subject to the approval of club owners at their Aug. 26 meeting in Atlanta, Neeru Khosla will serve as controlling owner and the cou- ple’s son, Neal, will have “a signifi- cant leadership role,” according to an N.F.L. memo sent to team exec- utives and obtained by The Ath- letic. The price alone says plenty about the N.F.L.’s seemingly un- bounded growth; it was only three years ago that the Washington Commanders sold for $6.05 bil- lion. But the significance of the Seahawks deal extends beyond the financials. The Khoslas are en- tering a new chapter for the fran- chise after nearly three decades under the Allen family — bringing a similar tech and business legacy but a very different personal his- tory. Vinod and Neeru Khosla were born in India and immigrated to the United States to continue their studies and begin careers as en- trepreneurs. Vinod is now widely regarded as one of the most influ- ential innovators and investors in Silicon Valley. In the N.F.L., the Khoslas will join the Minnesota Vikings’ Zygi Wilf (Germany) and the Jacksonville Jaguars’ Shahid Khan (Pakistan) as principal own- ers born outside the United States. Vinod Khosla, 71, received his bachelor’s degree in electrical en- gineering from the Indian Insti- tute of Technology in New Delhi, then earned his master’s in bio- medical engineering from Car- negie Mellon University and in business administration from Stanford. Two years after getting his M.B.A., he co-founded Sun Mi- crosystems, the pioneering com- puter company that reached a peak market capitalization of about $200 billion at the turn of the century.
fornia after spring football, Sayin connected with his San Diego- based quarterback trainer, Jose Mohler, and showed up weighing 212 pounds, up from the 202 pounds he played at last season. Mohler saw it as an important step for a player looking to make a leap in his second year as a start- er. “He gets disrespected in the arm strength category, but the kid can reach all areas of the field in many different ways, so you know that’s just physics,” Mohler said. “He’s so instinctual of how to de- liver the football, so if he can re- main like I’ve seen him over the summer, his throwing ability is sky high.” So how do you evaluate a quar- terback who was unflappable dur- ing the regular season but showed some signs of youth in the post- season? A quarterback who has shown the ability to make every throw but does not have elite ath- leticism or arm strength that will blow people away? Those are some of the questions Sayin was on a mission to solve this off-season — not necessarily to answer critics, but to help him reach the level of expectations he has for himself. “For me, I’m not focused on the good plays, but focused on the few
He turned to investing in 1986 and is now widely regarded as one of the world’s leading technology venture capitalists, with an esti- mated net worth of $13.2 billion, according to Forbes’s latest bil- lionaire rankings. He spent 18 years at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before starting his own firm in 2004. Khosla Ventures, a heavy backer of artificial intelli- gence along with climate and health care start-ups, was the first venture capital firm to invest in OpenAI. Now, seven years later, the company is valued at around $852 billion. “I would say the one piece that works really well in all business is go for high risk, higher conse- quences,” he told David Ru- benstein in a 2022 interview for Bloomberg. He added, “I don’t mind a 90 percent probability of failure if there’s a 10 percent chance of changing the world.” Vinod Khosla has built a career on taking risks and has repeatedly spoken about his own business failures, citing them as necessary tools for his successes. He has also claimed that he is a poor adviser on investing because “we’re really in this other business of company building” at Khosla Ventures. But the N.F.L. has proved to be one of the safest investments for the ultrawealthy, and Khosla is on the verge of buying one of its most successful clubs. “N.F.L. valuations are going to keep going up, not because it’s about status but because the num- bers justify it — the cash flows, the multiples of revenue,” said Marc Ganis, the founder of Sportscorp and a consultant to multiple leagues and teams. “The N.F.L. is arguably the best-run sports league in the world, and sports is playing a greater and greater role in global society and with technol- ogy.” Neeru Khosla, once an aspiring doctor, grew up in India and Eng- land before joining Vinod in the United States. She started in mo- lecular biology, earning her mas- ter’s from San Jose State and working in gene expression re- search at a Stanford lab. But she stopped because of her concern about being around radioactivity while pregnant with her first child. (The Khoslas have four chil- dren.) Her interest in education started during her time as a volun-
In his first year for the Buckeyes, Julian Sayin lost postseason games to Indiana and Miami and faced arm-strength questions.
plays I wish I would’ve made that gave us a chance to win those games,” Sayin said during spring practices. “I’m chasing to be the best version of myself, so how can I improve in those areas?” Even when people looked at Sayin and doubted his stature or arm strength, his confidence in his game never wavered. Sayin is not a cocky player. But behind the scenes, there is a quiet confidence about him, according to the people who know him best. Beyond the weight he added, he has been obsessively watching film. He spent a lot of time break- ing down tape this spring with Coach Ryan Day and the new of- fensive coordinator Arthur Smith, and also with Mohler and the for- mer N.F.L. quarterback Brett Rypien, trying to find ways to get better. While Sayin has always been praised for seeing the field well — his nine straight games of com- pleting at least 70 percent of his passes speak to that — there were times at the end of the season when a pass rush mixed with a complicated coverage caught him
Vinod and Neeru Khosla’s group is paying $9.612 billion for the Seahawks. He is one of the world’s top tech venture capitalists.
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Jody Allen, at left in February, chose to sell to the Khoslas. She has led the team since the 2018 death of Paul Allen, her brother.
teer at her children’s school. She decided to go back to school at age 50 and earned another master’s degree, from Stanford Graduate School of Education, before start- ing CK-12 Foundation, a nonprofit that provides free and customiz- able digital textbooks for children. “As I went through that process with my four kids, I said, ‘Why didn’t I have education like this?’ That’s where the larger questions started coming up,” she said in a 2013 interview with the Bridges- pan Group. “Why is it that we can-
off guard. That led to intercep- tions on the first drive against Michigan and again in the Big Ten title game against Indiana. His ability to navigate pressure, in and out of the pocket, should help limit mistakes, something Ohio State fans were critical of af- ter the Miami loss, when he was sacked five times and threw two interceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown. When working out this off-sea- son, Sayin and Mohler went through the normal routine of deep throws, short dropbacks and getting the ball out quickly, but a lot of work came on the move, as well. In one drill, Sayin scrambled from one hash to the numbers on the other side of the field and threw to the corner of the end zone, Mohler said. Another time, he scrambled left to throw and turned his body to the middle of the field at an awkward angle. Other times, he would have to navigate a simulated pressure, ei- ther outrunning the pass rush or sidestepping it.
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not provide this kind of education for every kid? What stops us?” Neeru Khosla adds to Seattle’s core of female sports owners, fol- lowing Jody Allen, who has led the Seahawks since 2018, after the death of her brother, Paul. Saman- tha Holloway owns the Seattle Kraken and One Roof Sports and Entertainment, and is pushing to land an N.B.A. expansion team in the city. Melinda French Gates re- cently became a minority investor in the Kraken and One Roof. Neal Khosla, the only son of
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This was all done to force Sayin to find a solution when his body momentum is taking him in a dif- ferent direction. Where are his feet? How can he turn his hips and upper body to make one quick throw? Should he throw in the face of pressure or avoid it and then find his window? “You’ll see like all the best ones kind of have an ability to innately manipulate their body and still make a throw, right?” Mohler said. “That’s Josh Allen, that’s Cam Ward, that’s Aaron Rodgers, that’s all these guys.” But there is a happy balance that a quarterback coach has to find in trying to allow the player to be creative while also keeping a solid base. And Sayin was a tal- ented thrower before he even met Mohler. “I think he does an awesome job of being so, so uniform to, like, five steps, ball’s out,” Mohler said. “And then he also showed last year the ability to move when things break down.” Can Sayin find that balance on the field? That is one of the big-
Vinod and Neeru, co-founded Cu- rai Health, an A.I.-powered virtual care company. While studying mathematics and computer sci- ence at Stanford, he interned with the San Francisco 49ers’ football operations for two months, with a focus on the team’s draft process. He coauthored a research paper published by the Journal of Sports Management in 2014 that exam- ined the determinants of live- game regional sports network rat- ings for the N.B.A., N.H.L. and M.L.B. Neal received his master’s in computer science from Stanford in 2016, and less than a year later started Curai. His involvement in the Sea- hawks indicates he could be viewed as the future principal owner for the family. The N.F.L. requires every club to file a suc- cession plan and update it annu- ally to try to ensure seamless transitions of power within fam- ilies. But to lead the Seahawks, the Khoslas will have to divest their 3.1 percent share in the 49ers, which they purchased last year. The N.F.L. prohibits owners from holding interest in multiple fran- chises. “My father and I have been sea- son-ticket holders for 30 years, go- ing to games at the Stick starting when I was a child through the last 11 years at Levi’s Stadium,” Neal Khosla said in 2025. “For us, be- coming members of the 49ers family is a dream come true, and we’re honored to be a part of the team’s future success and contin- ued impact on the Bay Area com- munity.” The Khoslas, who said in a statement this month that they are “honored to be entrusted as the next stewards of the Seattle Seahawks,” declined to comment further for this article. The N.F.L. has tweaked its own- ership policies over the years to make it easier for families to pass down franchises through genera- tions and to make the purchase of teams slightly more attainable for new owners. In 2024, the league raised the debt limit to purchase a team to $1.4 billion and began to allow select private equity firms to invest up to 10 percent (noncon- trol) in a team. But the N.F.L., unlike the other American pro leagues, still re- quires an individual, not a group
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gest questions entering the 2026 season. It is why Sayin has been so in- tentional this year in the weight room with Ohio State and at home in Southern California, trying to make sure he is mentally and physically prepared for Year 2 as starter with the Buckeyes, who al- ways have high expectations but will have to navigate a daunting schedule. “At times, it looked like he was being hunted, and sometimes, quarterbacks live with that kind of presence or that ghost behind them,” Mohler said of last season. “The more he becomes more ex- perienced, I think you’re going to see a lot more intuitive kind of laid-back persona out there. “He’s got to get faster, he’s got to get bigger, he’s got to get stronger to continue to put himself and his team in a good situation, because who doesn’t like a guy that can run for a first down, right? Or on third- and-6, right? I know he has that on his palette, he sees these things, so I think they’re turning in the right direction with him becoming that person.”
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or institution, to be principal owner. That person must own at least 30 percent. (For teams owned by the same group for at least 10 years, the threshold for control is only 1 percent, provided the family collectively owns 30 percent.) The N.F.L. also caps the number of limited partners for each team at 24 people. The league’s restrictive policies have often raised the question of whether it will need to loosen them further to attract a broader pool of candidates who can afford its now-multibillion-dollar teams. Ganis, the consultant, believes N.F.L. team values could reach $20 billion in the next seven years, requiring a principal owner to put down at least $6 billion to have control. If the Seahawks deal proved anything, however, it is that the league has so far not run into a shortage of billionaires eager to join its elite club. The Khoslas’ $9.612 billion offer toppled the N.F.L. team sale record of $6.05 billion paid by Josh Harris for the Commanders. The Seahawks, in a smaller market, drew multiple bidders during a sale process that took only five months. Allen’s estate, overseen by Paul Allen’s sister and sole trustee, Jody, selected the Khoslas over at least one other group, which was led by the Bos- ton Celtics owners Wyc Grous- beck and Aditya Mittal, according to Sportico. After this sale, the market for an N.F.L. team could be dormant for a while. But the deal agreed to by the Khosla family kept the N.F.L.’s ownership arrow pointed up. “You got to give a lot of credit to Jody and Bert Kolde,” Ganis said, speaking about the Seahawks owner and their vice chairman. “In the eight years since Paul passed, this team has gone up dra- matically in value. They’ve won a Super Bowl, their fan base is in- credibly strong and they bucked some serious economic head- winds. I think they deserve a lot of credit — a lot more than they get.”
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injuries,” according to the office. Eric Bieniemy had been at training camp with the Chiefs at Missouri Western State Univer- sity in St. Joseph. After practice on Monday morning, Chiefs Coach Andy Reid said Mia Bieniemy was in stable condition. He called her “one of God’s good blessings.” Reid said Bieniemy had left for Virginia, and there was no time frame for his return to training camp. Reid said Joe Bleymaier, the team’s passing game coordinator,
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wife, Mia, in 2023. Mia was shot in the couple’s Virginia home.
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TONIGHT .......Heavy thunderstorms, humid Low 69. It will remain humid and cloudy overnight with continued heavy thunder- storms. Storms bring the potential for flash flooding. The low will be near the average for the end of July.
TOMORROW .........................Thunderstorms High 77. Variable cloudiness is expected with a couple of showers and a heavy thunderstorm. Storms will bring the risk of flash flooding. The high temperature will be a few degrees below normal.
THURSDAY .....................Clearing, a shower A cloudy sky in the morning will give way to a mix of clouds and sunshine in the afternoon. A shower may occur in spots. The high temperature will be 78.
FRIDAY SATURDAY .................A few showers Friday Wet weather will continue into Friday with a couple of showers in the afternoon. High 83. On Saturday, there will be inter- vals of clouds and sunshine with a shower in spots. High 86.
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Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure from normal from normal this month............... -0.6° this year.................. -0.2°
Reservoir levels (New York City water supply)
Yesterday ............... 87% Est. normal ............. 90%
Sun, Moon and Planets
Moon
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July 29 Aug. 5 Aug. 12 Aug. 19
10:35 a.m.
1:36 p.m.
RISE 5:49 a.m. SET 8:16 p.m. NEXT R 5:50 a.m.
Jupiter
R 5:52 a.m. S 8:19 p.m.
Saturn
S 11:44 a.m. R 11:14 p.m.
Boating
From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York Harbor. Winds will be south at 10-15 knots with gusts up to 25 knots. Waves will be 1-2 feet on the New York Harbor and Long Island Sound and 2-4 on the open ocean. Storms will restrict visibility.
High Tides
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100° Record highs
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Yesterday ............... 0.00 Record .................... 2.65
Record high 98° (1963)
For the last 30 days Actual ..................... 3.69 Normal.................... 4.32
Noon 83°
high 85° Normal
For the last 365 days Actual ................... 36.63 Normal.................. 49.52
LAST 30 DAYS Air pressure
High ........... 29.87 1 a.m. Low ............ 29.84 4 a.m.
low 70° Normal
Cooling Degree Days
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76/65 A shower in the afternoon Cape Cod
Mars
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76/69 Thunderstorms L.I. North Shore
Venus
R 9:40 a.m. S 10:13 p.m.
76/70 Thunderstorms L.I. South Shore
79/70 Thunderstorms N.J. Shore
82/68 A heavy thunderstorm Eastern Shore
77/69 Humid with a thunderstorm Ocean City Md.
83/71 A heavy thunderstorm Virginia Beach
Mostly cloudy conditions will extend from Virginia Beach through Maine with a few showers and afternoon thunderstorms expected. The strongest storms may bring flooding downpours, hail and gusty winds. High temperatures will be in the middle 70s across Maine to the lower 80s in Virginia.
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NEWS CRITICISM
SAN DIEGO — It’s the biggest Hollywood comeback campaign in memory: Johnny Depp’s attempt to return to movie super- stardom. A decade after allegations of domestic abuse (which he denied) sent Depp’s Holly- wood career into a downward spiral — an unraveling that culminated in a lurid 2022 defamation trial — Paramount Pictures is betting that audiences are ready to re-em-
pivotal point in his journey on ‘House of the Dragon.’
By SEAN T. COLLINS
This interview contains major spoilers for Season 3, Episode 6 of “House of the Drag- on.”
After three seasons of playing Ser Criston Cole in HBO’s “House of the Dragon,” Fa- bien Frankel is no stranger to audience at- tention. He is curious to learn how that will change now that one of the most hated heels in Westeros is dead. “A woman was driving her car today with her kids, and she pulled up next to me, and she’s like: ‘Criston Cole! I watched you last night!’” Frankel, 32, said in a video call last week, days ahead of his character’s grue- some demise in Sunday’s episode. “I won- der what it’ll be like on Monday: ‘Oh my God, you’re dead!’” When Frankel’s stint began on “House of the Dragon,” a “Game of Thrones” prequel based on the George R.R. Martin novel “Fire & Blood,” Ser Criston was something of a romantic figure. His relationships with the rival queens Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower drove much of the con- flict, and he came to be called the King-
re-embrace him after a breakup damaged his reputation.
In character as Scrooge, Johnny Depp promoted his film “Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol” at Comic-Con International in San Diego last week.
By BROOKS BARNES
brace him. The studio is making Depp the face of its Thanksgiving offering, “Ebene- zer: A Christmas Carol.” “The master of misfits returns,” Para- mount proclaims in the film’s teaser trailer, released on Thursday. It then cuts to a heav- ily made-up Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge. All but breaking the fourth wall, Depp rasps, “It’s good to be back.” It will be Depp’s first Hollywood movie in nearly eight years, ever since Warner Bros. forced him out of the “Fantastic Beasts”
franchise and Disney abandoned talks with him for a sixth “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie. At the defamation trial, where Depp accused his former wife Amber Heard of damaging his reputation and career by falsely portraying him as an abuser, his manager testified that the star stood to earn about $22.5 million to reprise his “Pirates” role as Capt. Jack Sparrow. (He won the case.) Will parents be willing to take their chil- dren to see him in a holiday classic — one of
the culture’s quintessential stories of moral redemption? Large swaths of Gen Z know Depp as much from the defamation trial, which became a TikTok phenomenon, as from his films. Will they turn out to see him in theaters? The “Ebenezer” trailer attracted more than six million views on Paramount’s main YouTube account in its first 18 hours. If Par- amount succeeds, will other studios — per- haps even image-conscious Disney — make
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A London mansion recreates a brash wartime ruse against the Germans.
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SANDY HUFFAKER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK More Than A Simple Sorceress
Circe deserved better.
WHEN THE MEN under the charge of the brave Odysseus arrive at Circe’s home in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” the film shifts from seafaring epic to body horror. Circe, played with rawness and mystery by Samantha Morton, is a witch who turns the men into swine, but fear not — she’ll soon be outsmarted by Matt Damon’s late-arriving Odysseus, like all the other monsters he’s encountered on his way back home. She is just another obstacle to be vanquished on the hero’s journey. That’s not exactly how things unfold in the original text. When Homer introduces Circe, she’s described as a beautiful, en- chanting woman singing and weaving at a loom — drawing a parallel to Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus who is forever weaving as she waits for her husband to re- turn home.
A new musical based on the 1984 film will feature at least 20 Prince songs performed onstage.
By MICHAEL PAULSON
“Purple Rain,” a new musical based on Prince’s seminal film from 1984, will arrive on Broadway next spring, providing a jolt of nostalgic rock and funk energy to the unfolding season. The show, about a young musician with a turbulent life at home and at the club where he performs, has been significantly revised — with a new director, a new writer and a streamlined focus on Prince’s music — since a bumpy preliminary run last year in Minneapolis. The musical is to begin previews on March 12, and to open on April 12, at the Majestic Theater. It will feature at least 20 Prince songs, including “When Doves Cry,” “I Would Die 4 U,” “Take Me With U” and “The Beautiful Ones.” The songs will be per- formed by musicians onstage. “It’s a celebration of Prince,” said the show’s lead producer, Orin Wolf. “It is a coming-of-age story, but, more than any- thing, it is a music-forward evening of high- octane performances. You’re going to feel the story progress through the music, and you’re going to feel the spirit of Prince.” The production will arrive on Broadway
Fabien Frankel with the director Loni Peristere on the set of “House of the Dragon.” “There’s a kind of surrender that exists to shooting on location,” Frankel said.
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maker for his role in crowning Alicent’s son Aegon II. Ultimately, the humbly born Ser Criston was named the king’s hand. But he soon saw his dreams of glory — along with the lives of thousands of soldiers — go up in dragonflame in Season 2. He has been a dour, nihilistic figure ever since. Ser Criston has spent Season 3 on a long, disastrous slog through the enemy con- trolled Riverlands. In Episode 6, that death march finally ended in a particularly foul, brutal ambush. Archers’ arrows made poor Criston into a human pincushion, denying him his heroic final duel. That’s just how Frankel likes it. “I’m re- lieved, to a degree,” he said from his moth- er’s apartment in London. “Criston Cole’s gone out in the way I wanted him to, and in a way that feels very in honor of what George R.R. Martin wrote.” Frankel isn’t used to being dead yet, so his feelings, he acknowledged, are subject to change. “If you ask me again in a week, I’m sure I’ll have a clearer sense of what I feel about it,” he said. These are edited excerpts from the con- versation.
Ser Criston Cole does not go out in a blaze of glory. His death isn’t even the climax of the episode he dies in! I kind of loved that. Dude, everyone, every article I read, I have never felt more of a sense of, “This guy has to go.” I’m excited to give the fans what they want. But I also don’t want them to feel like he’s gone and they can go to bed. I want them to feel like he’s gone, and then they’ve got to deal with a whole other 50 minutes of [expletive] that’s going to go wrong. Every other character that’s been there since the beginning, like Jace [Harry Col- lett] or Rhaenys [Eve Best], they’re culmi- nating episodes as deaths. Most people probably feel some excite- ment about Criston being killed, and they’re going to be denied that feeling. It happens so suddenly. I thought it was fitting. They
‘I have never felt more of a sense of, “This guy has to go.” I’m excited to give the fans what they want.’
at a time of enormous challenges for new musicals, a vast majority of which are fail- ing financially, undermining investor confi- dence and leading to a decline in the num- ber of new titles. “Purple Rain” is the sixth new musical announced for this season, joining “Dolly,” “Galileo,” “Paddington,” “Wanted” and “Warriors.” Two seasons ago, Broadway had 14 new musicals. It will cost up to $29.5 million to bring “Purple Rain” to Broadway, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That figure is at the upper end of capitalization costs for Broadway musi- cals. “It’s going to feel like a big show,” Wolf said. “This is a big musical. We’re going to be playing in a big house. And we’re going to deliver a lot of physical production.” The show was long and unwieldy when it began a nearly six-week run in the fall of 2025 in Minneapolis, Prince’s hometown and the story’s setting. But the production became tighter and stronger as the run con- tinued. Reviews were mixed. The New York Times called the show “constantly disori- enting,” but The Minnesota Monthly deemed it “a convergence of raw creative
can’t really feel as satisfied as they want to, which I’m happy about.
Criston embarks through a real odyssey this season, an attritional slog through the elements until he meets his final ambush. Was that as unpleasant to do as it looked? Can I tell you the truth? It wasn’t. It was ac- tually really joyful. It was the first time I was allowed out of the armor after three seasons, and that was such a heavy load off, physically and mentally. Here is this soldier, taken out of the wild, put into this incredibly Machiavellian, confined environment wherein everyone is fighting like dogs for power. He is setting himself free of that by going back where he started. I was on location from start to finish, feel- ing a deep and profound sense of relief, get- ting out of this armor. As an actor, you yearn for that stuff, being out in the elements. At the best of times, I don’t like film studios. There’s a kind of surrender that exists to shooting on location, especially in England, where you have such temperamental weather. You really don’t know what you’re going to get. Freddie Fox, who plays Gwayne, and I re- ally felt we were the lucky ones. Olivia Cooke always says it: “I’m an indoor char- acter, and you and Freddie are outdoor characters.” I certainly have no complaints about being an outdoor character.
You were having a good time — was Criston? Sadly, yeah. I have friends who complain at the moments at which they have the thing they most want. They complain when they get there, but secretly, it’s the thing they know they’re really happy to do. The one thing we know Criston is good at is being a soldier. He doesn’t understand politics. I don’t even know if he’s a good general. But he started as a foot soldier, and that is what he’s good at. Something about him felt re- lieved. This is definitely his most enjoyable season, without a doubt.
genius and sophisticated stagecraft.” A critic for The Minnesota Star Tribune vis- ited the show several times and found the final performance “remarkable for its high energy, increased confidence and eruptive joy.” In the months since, Wolf, who shep- herded “The Band’s Visit” to the Tony Award for best musical in 2018, has over- hauled the creative team, hiring Saheem Ali to replace Lileana Blain-Cruz as the direc- tor, and Peter Duchan to replace Branden Jacobs-Jenkins as the book writer. Work- shops have been held to test-drive revi- sions. (These kinds of steps are not unprec- edented; other Broadway shows have re- shaped their creative teams during devel- opment.) Wolf and Ali previously collaborated on “Buena Vista Social Club,” which opened on Broadway last year and is still running. Like “Purple Rain,” that show is fueled by the pre-existing popularity of its song cata- log. The “Purple Rain” creative team includes two Prince bandmates, Bobby Z and Morris Hayes, who are credited as music advisers. Casting for the production has not been announced.
Prince in his 1984 feature-film debut, “Purple Rain,” which was set in Minneapolis.
Massively. It was liberating for me as an ac- tor to feel that, as well. When one knows the end is nigh, it’s very hard not to live in the present because you don’t have a choice. You can only live now. If I were to look at the moments of Criston Cole’s life where he’s been happy, if there have been any, I would say that on the battlefield in this episode is one of them. Cole lives at his happiest close to death.
Suicidal despair seemed to set in for him after his first encounter with dragonfire on the battlefield last season. Sara Hess wrote it so beautifully in Episode 8 of Season 2: “The dragons dance, and men are like dust under their feet. And all our fine thoughts, all our endeavors are as noth- ing. We march now toward our annihila- tion.” There was a scene that never made it into the cut, where Criston goes to Alicent’s quarters and collapses crying in her arms, and she holds him like a child. The nature of the beast is that sometimes scenes just don’t make it. But for me as an actor, I re- member doing that scene with Olivia. It was the final scene of the whole of Season 2, and we wrapped as soon as the scene wrapped. I felt that was the moment: the admission of all the wrongdoing, all of the guilt, all of the realization that ultimately his annihilation is his own doing. He’s caused and created so much of the mayhem around him.
Just before he embarks on his final, fatal campaign, Criston daydreams of Alicent singing songs of his death. He wraps her favor around his sword hilt as he makes his last stand. I was surprised she was still so close to his mind. I don’t know, man. I’ve been in love a small handful of times, and it’s very hard to think about anything else. The people you think about when the end is near are the people you love. He doesn’t have a father, a mother, siblings, a wife, children. What has this man loved? Alicent is the only true thing he’s loved. It doesn’t feel surprising to me that she’s so prevalent in his final moments.
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Says She Has Parkinson’s
By DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR
The singer and songwriter Carly Simon has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, she announced on Monday. “It has taken me some time to understand the diagnosis, to adjust to it and to decide how much I wanted to say about it,” Simon, 83, said in a statement, adding that she was still learning how to accept the condition “without feeling that I have surrendered something essential.” She decided to reveal the news, the state- ment said, after people began to wonder why she had not responded to their inquir- ies about her relative public silence lately. “The truth is, I’ve been learning how to live with Parkinson’s disease,” she said. It was unclear when Simon had received her diagnosis. Simon is best known for hits like “You’re So Vain,” “Nobody Does It Better” and “Let the River Run,” a 1989 release that won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award. Her first new album of original songs in 18 years, “Comes in Waves,” is to be released next month. Its lead single, “Howl,” came out in June. Symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, a neu- rological disorder that damages nerve cells in the brain, include tremors, stiffness and trouble with balance and movement. The disease does not have a cure. In her statement, Simon said that she sometimes found herself “so tired I can’t get the day moving at all” but that at other times Parkinson’s gave her “more room to move, think, work and feel like myself.” Her health problems began, she said, af- ter she had both knees and one hip replaced because of arthritis. She was diagnosed with Parkinson’s after being evaluated at the Mayo Clinic. She said she had found the feelings of ap- athy that the disease could provoke particu- larly challenging. “It is not simply sadness or laziness,” she said. “It is as though the part of the brain that sends out invitations to participate in life has temporarily misplaced the guest list.” Around the time of her diagnosis, Simon was also treated for basal cell carcinoma on her face. The surgery to remove the cancer, she said, affected her appearance, making her “more self-conscious about being seen in public.” But working on her new album gave shape to her days, she said. “It gave me somewhere to go without having to leave the room. It reminded me that illness can change your life without becoming the whole of your life.” Music, Simon said, “has rescued me more times that I can count.” These days, she went on, “I lean on others more than I once did, and I have learned to accept that every day will look a little differ- ent,” adding, “But I am still very much here.”
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Two teenagers whose fathers are on opposite sides of the aisle worked on a picture book.
By SOPAN DEB
If two breeds of dog can come together to fix their beloved dog park, so can Congress. That’s the message behind a new self- published children’s book, “Shmoo & Ozzie Go to Washington,” written by Ellie Gott- heimer and Larra Mullin — the teenage daughters of Representative Josh Gott- heimer, Democrat of New Jersey, and Mark- wayne Mullin, the former Republican sena- tor from Oklahoma who was recently sworn in as Homeland Security secretary. The book is inspired by their fathers’ friendship across party lines, and is dedi- cated to them “for teaching us how to listen, to find common ground and to meet in the middle, even when things get hard.” Shmoo, a goldendoodle, and Ozzie, a Dal- matian, move to Washington because their fathers have been elected to Dog Congress. (Shmoo is based on the Gottheimers’ gold- endoodle, Rosie, named after the Bruce Springsteen song “Rosalita.” Ozzie is in- spired by a ranch dog who belonged to the Mullins family and who died shortly before the book project started.) Their meeting is awkward, since Shmoo and Ozzie have nothing in common. In- stead, they choose to hang out with like- minded dogs. But their lives are upended when their favorite dog park is threatened with closure. They work together to con- vince canine representatives on both sides of the aisle to restore funding. “Being young, we all saw what was hap- pening on social media, a bunch of left ver- sus right, and we wanted to show that we see our dads working together,” Larra Mullin explained recently. “We want to show left and right versus the problem.” Mullin, who will turn 18 next month, was at the dining table of her father’s Capitol Hill townhouse for a joint interview with Ellie Gottheimer, who is also 17. Their fathers sat nearby. The dads met shortly after Gottheimer was sworn into Congress in 2017. (Mullin had been in the House since 2013, and be- came a senator in 2023.) They got to know each other in a workout class at the House gym that Mullin still or- ganizes. On average, about 10 members of both parties show up. “You forge relationships sometimes,” Mullin said. “Because we work out hard. My goal is to smoke you at the end of it.” The camaraderie set a “great example,” Larra Mullin said. “They’re both very different, but we get to watch them literally work together side by side every day to solve the problem, ver-
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senior year of high school in their home states, have known each other for about a decade. Ellie described meeting Larra as “nerve- racking,” given their different backgrounds. But as young people they found common ground and became, like their fathers, close friends. Ellie and Larra have visited each other in their respective states, and spent time together in Washington. Last year, Ellie came up with the idea of a book, and pitched Larra on collaborating. She immediately said yes. Using babysit- ting money, Ellie created an imprint called Voice of Tomorrow Press, to boost “young writers who want this message of hope and working together.” “We want to be able to show kids before they get on social media, before they experi- ence extremism and polarization and false information, that you can work together with those that are different from you,” Ellie said. The girls crowdsourced online to find their illustrator, Kiran Akram. Proceeds from book sales will benefit Project Night Night, a charity aimed at helping homeless children. The closeness of their families has built trust between the fathers, Gottheimer said. But that’s not the same as agreement. “There’s some basic things, like abortion, we’re going to have a different view on them,” Gottheimer said. “That’s kind of common stuff that Democrats and Republi- cans disagree on.” The New York Times recently published an investigation detailing unsafe conditions at an ICE facility in Gottheimer’s home state. The congressman had earlier re- leased a statement after visiting the facility, pledging to work with Homeland Security to make sure that conditions improve. In the interview, Mullin declined to com- ment on Gottheimer’s statement. “I’m not going to talk about the differ- ences in that, because this is a friendly rela- tionship,” Mullin said. Gottheimer said, “We’re here talking about our dogs.” Will their daughters follow in their politi- cal footsteps? Ellie said she would “defi- nitely be honored to work in politics,” but Larra said she expects to focus on religious mission work. They’re in agreement on one hope: that the book can inspire future generations. “We wanted to do something that would get the message across in a very nonpoliti- cal way, and that’s why we focused on dogs,” Larra said. “Because we think everyone loves dogs.”
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An adventure inspired by ‘The Secret of NIMH,’ Victorian literature and 1990s role play.
MINA THE HOLLOWER, an adventure game about a technophilic mouse, reminded me, on a psychological and visceral level, why I loved playing the kind of games I did as a child. They left room for your mind to wan- der. Though Mina’s visual style pays homage to the portable Game Boy, which I never owned, it recalls a time when I found games like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past irresistible. Mina, by the studio that made Shovel Knight, draws inspiration from “The Secret of NIMH,” Victorian literature and 1990s role-playing games. It may appear utterly quaint to a more stimuli-ravaged brain. But it harks back to an era before games aspired to anything like realism or offered plotlines suitable for adult-baiting TV adap- tations. Mina’s world is whimsical, filled with surprising game mechanics and hid- den locations that spurred me to scour ev- ery corner for secrets. (Try filching a ladder from a shopkeeper to reach otherwise im- possible places.) Though Mina has the steep dexterity challenges that made a friend of mine once quip that 20th-century designers must have hated kids, it also contains a notable array of options — infinite health, the ability to walk over pits, weakened bosses, etc. — to mitigate its default difficulty. Mina the Hollower opens with the titular mouse standing on the deck of a ship read- ing a letter under a blood-red moon. The note is a request that she fix the six spark generators she created, which ushered in an age of industry and progress. It seems that because the generators have fallen into disrepair, an influx of monsters has come to the Tenebrous Isle and the city of Ossex.
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deals with him again? Depp, whose acting was limited to small foreign films in recent years, already has a second major movie: In March, Lionsgate will release “Day Drinker,” a supernatural action movie co- starring Penélope Cruz. He received an es- timated $10 million for the role. “I do see a path for him, particularly be- cause Hollywood needs this comeback,” said Miranda Banks, a professor of film, television and media studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. “There’s an incredible lack of compelling A- listers who can open movies on a worldwide basis.” Paramount declined to comment, as did representatives for Depp. The studio started its campaign for Depp in April, when it brought the mustachioed actor onstage at CinemaCon, a convention for theater owners. Depp said deferentially that it had been an “extraordinary privi- lege” to play Scrooge, a character he had “been obsessed with since I was a little child.” Attendees gave him a standing ova- tion. The public phase of the studio’s campaign began on Thursday at Comic-Con Interna- tional, the annual convention for pop cul- ture enthusiasts in San Diego. Paramount marketers had Depp, dressed in full Scrooge costume, replete with bushy side- burns and prosthetic nose, appear at an elaborate recreation of a 19th-century Lon- don “counting house.” As faux snow drifted down from the build-
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When a kraken attacks out of nowhere, knocking several passengers overboard, Mina runs below deck to find a weapons chest containing daggers, a mace and a large hammer. Players can experiment with all three weapons before choosing one with which to face the monster. David D’Angelo, the game’s lead pro- grammer, said the premise — citizens have benefited from the generators by receiving power and light — could be understood as a parable. “They’re getting this amazing stuff for the first time, right?” he said. “The same way everyone loves, or lots of people, love A.I. And at the same time, you’re wrestling with the downsides.” What is immediately noticeable about the
ing’s roof (in 84-degree heat) and carolers in Dickensian garb sang “O Christmas Tree,” Depp appeared outside and offered a snarly yet playful take on the original Grinch. “Who are you, and what do you want?” he said to the crowd of roughly 400 people that had gathered on Fifth Street, the conven- tion’s main drag. “We love you, Johnny!” several people screamed in response. One woman yelled, “Have my baby!” Depp scowled in disgust. “Humbug,” he shouted, storming back inside. He played this game for about an hour, returning with- out warning to the street and verbally par- rying with Comic-Con attendees. Some had come dressed as Depp characters like Ed- ward Scissorhands, the Mad Hatter and Willy Wonka. (“How do you go wee-wee?” Depp’s Scrooge said to the Scissorhands fel- low.) “Controversies aside, I really like him,” Richard Pole, 37, said of Depp as the mar- keting stunt began. “I definitely want to check out this movie, which is sort of a sur- prise because ‘A Christmas Carol’ on its own is not exciting.” Pole, a catering chef, said he was eager to see the collaboration between Depp and the film’s director, Ti West, whose “X” trilogy horror films are known for their striking visuals. Mindy Baker, 48, a lobbyist from Chicago, was standing nearby. “This seems like a smart film for Depp to do,” she said. “It’s a beloved story, and I honestly didn’t even recognize him at first in the Scrooge cos- tume,” she said. Would any lingering ickiness from Depp’s divorce from Heard and the subsequent trial prevent Baker from buying a ticket? “All of that definitely plays in the back of my brain when I think about him, but I will still go see this movie,” Baker said. Polling by the National Research Group, a film industry consultancy, suggests Depp remains a powerful draw. In the firm’s most recent global moviegoer survey, released in
Mina the Hollower harks back to an era before games aspired to anything like realism or offered plotlines suitable for adult-baiting TV adaptations.
April, respondents ranked Depp seventh among stars they said would make them “most interested in seeing a new movie in a cinema in the future.” Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio occupied the first
Polling and fan reaction suggest the actor is still on the A-list.
opening sequence is that it doesn’t offer a blow-by-blow tutorial that explains to press this to attack, this to jump or this to perform Mina’s signature move: briefly tunneling underground to dodge and uncover items. (Gameplay instructions and a glossary of enemies can be found in an old-school man- ual within the menus.) After fending off the kraken, the ship Mi- na’s on crashes into the shoreline. From there, Mina must make her way past grem- lins, flying buzzard-like creatures called beebats and other nuisances. Mina’s jour- ney to fix the spark generators will take her through a cemetery, a bayou, an autumnal farming village, a mining town, an alpine re- gion and an astral plane.
star in the most recent survey was 18 per- cent.) When “Ebenezer” arrives on Nov. 13, it will be the first adaptation of the Charles Dickens novella for multiplexes since 2009, when Jim Carrey starred as Scrooge in “Disney’s A Christmas Carol.” That $200 million motion-capture film received poor reviews and collected only $325 million worldwide, about half of which Disney had to share with theaters. “Ebenezer,” which also stars Rupert Grint, Daisy Ridley and Ian McKellen, will have plenty of competition at the Thanks- giving box office, but it doesn’t need to be a blockbuster to be a financial success. The film cost only an estimated $38 million to make, after accounting for tax credits from Britain, where it was filmed. Depp accepted a substantially reduced upfront salary — roughly $5 million — in exchange for a large share of revenue if the movie succeeds.
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“I wouldn’t say we’re trying to create nos- talgia specifically,” Sean Velasco, the game’s director, said. “It’s like we’re trying to go back and take all of those ideas that we loved or that we thought had potential and then synthesize them into something new.” Velasco added: “The best thing is that when someone plays Shovel Knight, and then they’re like, ‘Oh, I heard this game is based on something called Mega Man. And I went back and I played all the Mega Man games, and they were so fun.’” D’Angelo said Yacht Club Games was in- terested in removing from its games the
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friction that makes dropping into old games somewhat forbidding. They do that by of- fering amenities like not having to deal with a 4:3 aspect ratio, D’Angelo said. But creat- ing a Game Boy-like experience for modern audiences was not without its challenges. “The screen is small, but the world is huge, right?” D’Angelo said. “How do you merge that? That’s like a really weird concept now- adays.” I mentioned that large game studios often positioned their creations as capable of go- ing toe to toe with Hollywood while Mina the Hollower was happy to exist as nothing more nor less than a rock-solid game. Re- flecting on the sense of discovery that games like Mina do well, Velasco said that joy comes from learning and then master- ing the rules. “You’re playing the game and you’re like, ‘What can I do? What can I do to this world?’ The rules of the game become clear to you through experimentation, which is a thing that only a game can do,” Velasco said. “I’m getting chills just thinking about it.”
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Above, fans at Comic-Con International crowded in for Johnny Depp’s appearance at the event in San Diego. Left, many cosplayed as Depp characters.
A.I. Music Raises Issues
Advances are opening up creative possibilities, but poor quality and legal quandaries abound.
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Circe’s domicile is a kind of palace where she reigns supreme. In Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation — the first into English by a woman — it is a place of “polished stones, on high foundations,” where nymphs carry fancy cloths, gold cups and silver bowls for guests and where wild animals fawn around her like house pets. She was a memorable presence in the most enduring of tales, a character as wily as the hero, and more knowledgeable. This latest portrayal feels like a particularly disheartening disservice to one of the earliest examples of a power- ful, sexually autonomous woman in litera- ture. Many translations refer to Circe as a god- dess who executes her transformations with a potion and the flick of a wand; that’s a far cry from the gruesome, torturous process onscreen now. As the men gorge themselves on the food she serves, she stretches and molds their heads like putty, sticking her hands into their mouths and shaping their faces into pig snouts. It’s hor- rific, and the movie seems to cast it as un- warranted, as though it’s so unlikely that a woman living alone, accosted by a group of soldiers we’ve seen loot and kill in another city, would feel threatened. This Circe seems cruel and crazed. In Homer’s telling, Odysseus becomes so en- amored of her that she becomes a kind of substitute wife. In the story, when Odysseus
By BEN SISARIO
It may be the most promising new technol- ogy in music since the rise of streaming, with the potential to revolutionize how songs are made, listened to and promoted. But there are also serious questions. What about protecting artists and their copyrights? Will the systems end up over- loading us with generic slop? Welcome to the world of music A.I., which offers dazzling possibilities for creating songs and connecting artists with fans — but has also been roiling the music industry, as A.I. companies try to figure out how to build and use the technology legally and profitably, while artists and record compa- nies seek to protect their rights. Here are some basic questions and con- cerns as the music industry ventures into a new era of uncharted possibilities and legal complications.
Can I use A.I. to make music? Sure can. Complete novices can enter a few simple prompts to create brand-new songs on demand: a country-style birthday track for grandpa, for example, or a background tune for a slide show.
What’s the first step? For the simplest demonstration, pull up Suno or Udio, two of the leading start-ups in the field, or Lyria 3, a Google product, and enter some musical terms. The more specific your prompts, the more interesting the results. I asked Suno for a summer song with lyrics about drinking margaritas. Within a minute or two, it generated “Margaritas in the Sand,” an EDM banger with a singalong chant. Though rhymes like “party with the band” and “put one in my hand” suggest the technology is not yet any threat to Bob Dylan. Then I remixed it, asking for an orchestral version and a polka variant. These are examples of “generative A.I.,” in which the system creates a complete song out of whole digital cloth. (How the systems gained the ability to generate such tracks can be a contentious issue. See below.)
Are musicians and songwriters using A.I., too? Yes, musicians in the studio today fre- quently use various machine-learning tools for help in fleshing out a bass line or even choosing instrumental sounds. One system, Tamber, uses what it calls “sonic intelli- gence” to find or tweak sounds based on an artist’s gestures or verbal cues, even ab- stract ones: a synthesizer that sounds the way chocolate tastes, for example. An able assistant for someone working alone to craft something without employing a whole band — or, perhaps, without putting in years of practice.
What if I want to use A.I. to play around with a favorite song? Fans may soon be able to go on Spotify or other platforms to remix artists’ official tracks. Maybe cut the verse you never liked. Add the sax you always knew it needed. Per- haps even get a nod from the artist herself.
That sounds cool, but legally complicated. Is it? Indeed. Artists may agree some day to let their work be played around with because it would open up new revenue streams and av- enues for audience engagement — or sim- ply to get an edge on the latest high-tech for- mat. But it’s not a simple decision. Allowing your song to be remixed by someone who
doesn’t share your values, or to suit the needs of a political candidate, could be up- setting to artists even if they are getting paid.
How does copyright law figure in here? Are you sure you want to know? Much of what is considered legal — or not — when it comes to A.I. and music is being vigorously contested in several lawsuits. Have A.I. companies, for example, violated musicians’ rights by “training” (or teach- ing) their systems using copyrighted mu- sic? Legal issues may also arise when some- thing created by A.I. imitates the individual styles or voices of specific artists. That may implicate copyrights and what are known as rights of publicity, which protect an indi- vidual’s name, image and likeness from un- authorized commercial use. When I asked Suno for a “1970s folk-rock ballad in Neil Young style,” a message popped up saying, “We don’t reference art- ists directly, so we’ve replaced your prompt with similar styles you might like.” The re- sulting tune sounded a bit generic to my ears.
What if artists give their thumbs-up? The latest deals will test what fans fan do when artists give their permission to place their music in the A.I. sandbox. Warner Music, for example, whose cata- log includes songs by stars like Madonna, Bruno Mars and, yes, Neil Young, struck a deal with Suno that will allow the service to use specific artists’ music if they opt in. Be- cause “Madonna-style birthday song for my wife” may be much more interesting than “’80s synth-pop song.” Just who has, or will, opt in remains unclear.
What can I do with my A.I. creation? The industry is still wrestling over whether to allow users to download their A.I.-gener- ated track and upload it anywhere, or re- strict it to the “walled gardens” of the pro- grams that generated them.
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Isn’t the world of A.I. music full of scams? There are plenty of legitimate uses of A.I. by real musicians and curious amateurs, but yes, scams and fraud are a problem. Deezer, a French steaming service, re- cently said that about 90,000 A.I.-generat- ed tracks are uploaded to its platform every day — most of them low-quality slop that no one listens to. Of the relative few that get clicks, Deezer says, as many as 85 percent are fraudulent. The scammer’s playbook: create A.I. songs, then unleash armies of bots to click on them to generate royalties. Under the fi- nancial pools used in streaming, the online platforms pay proportionate fees to the companies that provide content, meaning everything paid to bogus creators reduces what’s left for real artists. Catching these fraudsters is a constant game of cat and mouse. Recently, music industry groups, includ- ing the Grammys, have called for a labeling system to identify music that was made with generative A.I.
What do artists think? They are not unanimous. Some, like the star producer Timbaland and the per- former Grimes, have welcomed the tech- nology and signaled their willingness to ex- periment. Timbaland recently introduced a virtual artist named TaTa Taktumi, whose vocals on the song “Glitch x Pulse” were partly generated by A.I. software, though humans created 80 to 85 percent of the song, Timba- land said in an interview with The New York Times. But many more have raised strong con- cerns that generative A.I. in music will un- dermine the work of human beings and di- lute their share of streaming royalties. Two years ago, more than 200 major acts, among them Billie Eilish, Norah Jones and Stevie Wonder, signed an open letter from the Artists Rights Alliance, calling the “un- checked” use of A.I. an “assault on human creativity.”
goes to Circe’s home to save his men, he uses an antidote given to him by the gods, threatens her with his sword and then sleeps with her. When she changes Odysseus’ soldiers back, Homer notes that they’re even more handsome than before, and are bathed in oil and dressed in nice clothes. Odysseus and his men spend a year living happily with Circe and her nymph servant girls, as Wilson writes in her trans- lation: “Then every day / for a whole year we feasted there on meat / and sweet strong wine.” In fact, after that year of leisure it’s Odysseus’ men who bring up that they should probably get back on the road to Ithaca; only then does it seem to occur to Odysseus that they should leave their cozy vacation spot and now welcoming host. Of course every adaptation offers its own twist on her. This has been true dating back millenniums, to early classics writers like Ovid and Hesiod. In some versions, Circe bears Odysseus’ children; in others she is an obsessive, vengeful predator. Contempo- rary authors like Madeline Miller reclaim the character as more than a brief detour in Odysseus’ journey and offer a more sympa- thetic, well-rounded version of her. Over the years Circe’s transformations of Odysseus’ men have been read in various ways depending on the cultural context and sexual politics of the time: as a commentary on etiquette and social behavior, as a philo- sophical critique on the inherently beastly nature of men, as a misogynist cautionary
Does A.I. threaten musicians’ livelihood? To be determined. But some industry orga- nizations have warned of big potential losses for songwriters, studio personnel and other behind-the-scenes workers. A.I. may also pose a particular threat to genres of music that do not rely on the per- sonalities of specific performers, like soundtracks and background mood music — both lucrative corners of the business.
Surely there are more legal complications? But of course. This is the music industry and new technology, after all. A major battleground is whether the A.I. companies taught their systems how to make music by using the labels’ copy- righted content — and, if so, whether they needed permission to do so. In 2024, the major record labels sued Suno and Udio over this, and the companies responded by saying they were protected by the legal principle of “fair use,” which al- lows unlicensed use of copyrighted ma- terial in limited circumstances. Google, after being sued by a group of in- dependent musicians over Lyria 3, offered another defense: that by uploading their music to YouTube and agreeing to the site’s terms of service, they gave Google that per- mission. That case is pending.
Does anyone really want to listen to A.I. music? That may be the biggest question of all. For most people, the connection to a real, human artist is perhaps the most vital as- pect of fandom. We love not only the song, but an artist’s story — their background, their loves, their ups and downs in life. Can computer-generated music ever replace that? So far, the Taylor Swifts and Beyoncés of the world seem safe. The few A.I. “artists” that have made waves, in genres like coun- try and R&B, have been curiosities. But time will tell, and the technology is evolving quickly.
tale against a sexually liberated woman. One can often determine the politics and perspectives of an “Odyssey” adaptation by how Circe is depicted. So what does that say about Nolan’s dark, succinct telling? In this film of majesty and scope, of star power and visual appeal, Cir- ce helps show how Nolan’s “Odyssey” ulti- mately takes the epic at face value, reduc- ing it to terms the director is most comfort- able with: Odysseus is a man burdened by the weight of his brilliance. Circe is an ob- stacle he must overcome, just like the other women in the film have very specific ways to round out the hero’s tale of triumph. Ca- lypso’s role is to trap Odysseus, Athena’s is to act as his (mostly silent) conscience. Hel- en and Clytemnestra are simply disloyal women at the periphery of Odysseus’ jour- ney. And Odysseus’ faithful wife, Penelope, isn’t shown doing much of anything, but gets an adamant speech about her queenly autonomy to telegraph her as a more mod- ern, empowered hero-wife. None are fulfill- ing, but none feel as dismissive as the evil witch treatment of Circe. At the end of the day, this is a man’s story of greatness. Even in Odysseus’ question- able moments, there’s never any question that he is still the noble warrior, the hon- orable leader. As for the women — the lovers, the betrayers, the goddess and, of course, the witch — they’re no more than the trimmings on our hero’s armor.
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By ROSLYN SULCAS A new museum reveals how Britain eavesdropped on Nazi commanders in a London estate.
Clockwise from near right: a mannequin with recording equipment in the recreated Secret Listeners basement; the larder has tinned staples from the period; silence about the operation lasted long after the war ended.
LONDON — The German generals were chat- ting freely, exchanging tidbits about the V-2 rocket, the world’s first long-range ballistic missile that the Nazis were developing. It was May 1943, and the soldiers, prisoners of war captured in North Africa, were living at Trent Park, a grand country house in the suburbs here. Trent Park, in North London, had been the home of Philip Sassoon, a wealthy poli- tician and celebrated host, and the pris- oners enjoyed a life of ease in the mansion set amid 400 acres of parkland. They wore their uniforms, retained the valets who had been captured with them, walked in the woods, read in the library, played billiards and card games, and foraged for mush- rooms. What they didn’t know was that they were part of an audacious, improbable and brilliantly successful strategy for extract- ing information that would play a major role in the Allies’ World War II victory. Lulled into complacency by the apparent respect for their status, these top military commanders had no idea they were effec- tively on a stage set, a kind of “Truman Show” in which their encounters were engi- neered and their conversations monitored through a complex network of microphones hidden in light fittings, chimneys, plant pots, trees and statues. The microphones were wired to a secret underground lair below the mansion’s grand reception rooms, where “listeners” — mostly German Jewish refugees — re- corded and transcribed the conversations for British military intelligence. (The V-2 exchange led to the Allied bombing of Pee- nemünde, Germany, where the Nazis were building the rockets.) The Trent Park operation remained clas- sified until 1996, and until now this piece of wartime history had been little known to a wider public. But last week Trent Park House of Secrets opened as a museum that shows both the upstairs world of gracious living and the downstairs world of hushed, clandestine work. “Everyone knows about Bletchley Park,” Giuseppe Albano, the museum’s director, said, referring to Britain’s renowned World War II code-breaking headquarters. “But Trent House was part of the same network of intelligence houses, and as important.” A house has stood in Trent Park, once part of the estate of King George III, since the late 18th century, but it was Sassoon, the scion of a wealthy Iraqi Jewish merchant family, who transformed it into a glamorous getaway in the 1920s. He changed the fa- cade, opened up and extended the house,
Above, Trent Park, a country home in North London, became part of an audacious strategy for extracting information from German officers captured during World War II; above left, a tour guide behind a door hidden in a bookcase in the drawing rooms.
and added a swimming pool, tennis courts, a polo field, a golf course and an air strip. There he entertained politicians, actors, writers and royalty, including Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Noël Coward, George Bernard Shaw and T.E. Lawrence, with what one guest described as hospital- ity “on an Oriental scale.” “The whole house is a charade, a Vic- torian house rebuilt to look like a Georgian gentleman’s mansion,” said Damian Collins, the author of a biography of Sassoon. “The house was always a show and a fantasy, and Sassoon was like a stage director, moving characters around.” After Sassoon died in June 1939, at 50, the house became another kind of stage set with a different cast of characters. Requisi- tioned by Britain’s war office and overseen by Lt. Col. Thomas Kendrick, the house was equipped with false panels and ceilings, se- cret microphones and recording equip- ment, all routed to the underground rooms where the listeners worked in pairs for 10- or 12-hour shifts through the day and night. About 40 listeners garnered intelligence from 84 generals and 22 colonels, most cap- tured in North Africa, and some later in France. It proved hugely significant, pro- viding the Allies with information about the Nazi war machine, new warfare techniques, secret weapons programs and battle plans that could never have been gleaned through conventional interrogation.
There was also extensive evidence about the Holocaust, but to keep its strategy se- cret, British Intelligence would not allow the recordings to be used in war crimes tri- als after the war. Recognition of Trent Park’s pivotal role in the conflict came late. In the 1950s, the house became a teacher training college, later part of Middlesex University. In 2013, the neglected estate was sold to a Ma- laysian higher education institution, which declared bankruptcy soon after. Jason Charalambous, a lawyer who had just been elected as a district councilor in the area in 2014, toured the unkempt grounds and saw the fenced-off house. “I read a concise history, and I decided some- thing had to be done,” he said during an in- terview in the museum’s cafe. “How on earth had I not known about this?” Charalambous began a Save Trent Park campaign, assembling a team that included Helen Fry, author of “The Walls Have Ears,” and Fritz Lustig, one of the last surviving listeners. He also approached David Chol- mondeley, the Marquess of Cholmondeley and Philip Sassoon’s great-nephew, who ar- rived at their first public meeting with a photo album and newspaper cuttings. (Cholmondeley said he remembered Queen Elizabeth II telling him that she had fed penguins on the Trent Park lake as a child.) In 2015, the estate was sold to a developer, but after extensive lobbying, the group
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agreed that a museum could occupy the house’s basement and ground floor. Ten years after planning officially began, the new museum offers a meticulous recon- struction of the glamorous reception rooms of the Sassoon era and the gritty subter- ranean reality of the listeners. Upstairs, the grand salons used by the generals sport Sassoon’s scrolled initials, plush sofas and shelves of leather-bound books. “We were helped by great photos from a 1931 Country Life article, and by Lord Cholmondeley, who found some of the original furniture,” said Tori Reeve, the ex- hibition designer and curator. Downstairs, in cramped quarters, a man- nequin in headphones sits before the listen- ing equipment and recording apparatus. Stores of period tinned staples (coffee, tea, salt) line larder shelves. The “draft room,” where manuscripts were typed, translated and copied, and a mess room, have been faithfully recreated. “It’s important, when antisemitism and anti-refugee sentiment is on the rise, to real- ize the sacrifices the listeners made,” Char- alambous said. “Those Jewish German ref- ugees were doing something so valuable under the shadow of what was happening in their homeland, and couldn’t tell anyone about it.” He laughed. “It’s ludicrous how bonkers the operation was,” he said. “And they pulled it off.”
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Ethan White first noticed something was wrong at drum practice. A snare drummer in the University of Michigan marching band, he suddenly could no longer feel the muscles in his right hand gripping the drumstick. Weeks earlier, he had marched on the field as the Wolverines won the 2023 national football championship.
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Ethan White, center, has diffuse midline glioma, an aggressive brain tumor. His parents are providing hospice care for him full time at home.
Then Ethan tripped while walking up stairs. The university’s health service sug- gested he see a neurologist. In March 2024, Ethan, then 20, was diagnosed with diffuse midline glioma, or D.M.G., an aggressive
A nonprofit wants to develop gene therapy for disorders often ignored by drugmakers.
By GINA KOLATA
Without fail, David Liu of the Broad Institute gets at least 20 messages every week from desperate parents. Their child, they’ll explain, has an ultrarare and devastating disorder caused by a mutant gene. Can he help them develop a gene therapy? Dr. Liu, a gene-editing researcher at Broad, in Cambridge, Mass., answers honestly: Although the science is there — researchers can edit and silence the genes that cause disease relatively easily — the system for developing treatments for rare diseases is just not economically feasible. It typically takes years and hundreds of
type of brain tumor that most commonly af- fects children and adolescents but can also occur in adults. D.M.G. is the deadliest pediatric cancer. Children diagnosed with it were historically
expected to survive about a year. For dec- ades, they faced the same limited treat- ments and the same dismal outcomes: Ra- diation could temporarily slow the tumor and improve symptoms like weakness and double vision. But children inevitably died of the cancer soon after. In the past several years, though, re- searchers have made significant progress
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Nina Frost with her daughter Annabel, 10, who has AHC, a rare neurological disorder with no cure.
millions of dollars. The catchphrase, said Dr. Wendy Chung of Boston Children’s Hospital, is “too rare to care.” Now, Dr. Liu, Dr. Chung and their col- leagues at the Broad Institute, Boston Chil- dren’s and the Jackson Laboratory are hop- ing to change that mentality. Last week, they announced the start of a new nonprofit, the Center for Therapeutic Genetics, to de- velop gene therapy treatments that can be used and reused in disease after disease. Treatments developed by the center would be viewed more like routine pro- cedures than drugs. In each case, all that would be changed are the instructions to a
IN ALIENABLE SITES Attention All Helium-Breathers: LHS 1140b Has the Welcome Mat Out
A few key features make a planet amenable to life, at least life as earthlings know it. It should be rocky, be at the right temperature for liquid water to exist and have an atmosphere. Now astrono- mers say they have found a world with all three traits. “At this point, we have absolutely no evidence for life on the planet,” said the planetary scientist Collin Cherubim. “But we think all of the really important, essential ingredients are there.” The rocky planet, named LHS 1140b, is a few dozen light-years from our solar system. It orbits a star within a distance known as the habitable zone, neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface. The exoplanet is cooler than Earth but bigger in both size and mass. (Above, an illustration of LHS
Why This Bachman’s Sparrow Decided to Change Its Tune
emerge from the underbrush to sing from the branches of pine trees. To human ears, their songs sound nearly identical, but any given population of these birds — Bachman’s sparrows — uses as many as 120 different song types to communicate. Like human language, birdsong is dynamic. Every avian generation makes choices about which songs to continue singing, which to im- prove upon and which to drop altogether. A single Bachman’s sparrow might learn only 48 of the songs used by its community, and for decades researchers have been trying to figure out how baby sparrows choose which songs to adopt. Previous studies focused on social and cultural factors. During their song-learning phase of devel- opment, young songbirds imitate the adult males in their group who are successful in courtship or have elaborately ornamented plumage. Now, a new study of Bachman’s sparrows re- veals another possible part of the equation: the physical environment. Trees, dense shrubs and even wind can scatter or block the transmission of some sound waves, and researchers suspect that young sparrows are less likely to latch onto de- graded songs, leading in turn to some songs be- coming rarer than others. “The rarer song types don’t propagate quite as well over distance than the common ones do,” said Rindy Anderson, a behavioral ecologist at Florida Atlantic University and an author of the study, which appeared in the journal Bioacoustics. All the Bachman’s sparrow song types have a similar form, with a buzzing or whistling note fol- lowed by a trill. Some trills are faster or slower than others, and some complex songs contain trills of several frequencies. Researchers recorded a variety of rare and com- mon sparrow songs and then rerecorded them playing in different environments — among dense trees, windy plains and other places that Bachman’s sparrows frequent but that could dis- tort audio signals. Under these conditions, the researchers found that rarer songs did not propagate as well as com- mon songs. K. R. CALLAWAY
1140b, with another planet orbiting the star in the distance.) New data strongly suggests that LHS 1140b has a helium-rich atmosphere. The detection, published in the journal Science, is the first clear evidence of a potentially habitable planet with an at- mosphere, and it reinforces the idea that there exists a population of worlds similar to our own with the properties necessary to sustain life. “When there’s one, there’s more in exoplanets,” said Sara Seager, an astrophysicist who was not involved in the study. “Hopefully this is the start of something new.” An atmosphere is vital for habitability because it helps a planet hold on to water, regulates the climate and protects the surface from space radiation. KATRINA MILLER
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ROCK DUO Camera Catches Conjoined Twins On Their Cosmic Journey
Early this month, an uncrewed Japanese spacecraft screamed past an asteroid named Torifune at 11,000 miles per hour. And as it hurtled within 2,600 feet of its surface — extremely close, in space terms — it took a photo (shown above). Before this, very little was known about Torifune, except that it was an intriguing speck hurtling through the solar system. It turned out that it was not one speck, but two: Torifune is a pair of asteroids that have been incongruously glued together. “Yeah, that’s weird,” said Andy Rivkin, a planetary scientist and planetary defense researcher at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. Asteroids move through space at such extreme speeds that on the unusual occasions they meet one another, they cataclysmically break apart. Torifune is known as a contact binary, meaning it’s a pair of asteroids that have managed to get so close, in a surpris- ingly gradual and nonviolent way, that they have stuck together. Contact binaries were once thought to be vanishingly rare, but in recent years astronomers have discovered several throughout our solar system. In 2019, as NASA’s interplanetary spacecraft New Horizons was venturing beyond Neptune, it captured images of a red-hued snowman named Arrokoth. And in 2023, while voy- aging through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft found that the asteroid Dinkinesh had a smaller space rock orbiting it. This “moon,” named Selam, was two as- teroids squished together. ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS
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PAULA SPAN How Geriatric E.R.s Can Make a Difference
Specialized units are helping older patients stay out of the hospital and lowering costs.
IT HAD BEEN A ROUGH few months. Cynthia Tompkins was hospitalized in May for os- teomyelitis, a bone infection, then spent six weeks in a rehabilitation facility. “It was a struggle,” she said. “I didn’t bounce back too well.” Ms. Tompkins returned to her home in San Diego, but she was still taking antibi- otics, along with a host of other drugs for di- abetes, pain and blood clots. The deaths of her husband the previous year and her clos- est friend more recently had sapped her spirits. In early July, a new symptom appeared: violent vomiting three times within about 24 hours. “I was so depleted,” she said. “I got weaker and weaker.” A friend who was vis- iting her called an ambulance. “It’s the last place you think you want to go, the E.R.,” said Ms. Tompkins, 75, a re- tired teacher and family program director. She anticipated spending hours on an un- comfortable stretcher in a chilly hallway. Arriving at the emergency department at U.C. San Diego Health in La Jolla early in the morning, “I was in a knot,” she said. But the place upended Ms. Tompkins’s expectations. Since 2022, this and every other adult E.R. in San Diego has been ac- credited as a geriatric emergency depart- ment, redesigned to address the specific risks and needs of older patients. It’s an ap- proach, recent studies show, that can re- duce hospital admissions and deaths among older adults and lower costs. “They took me right to a room,” Ms. Tompkins said. She was transferred to a gurney with a thicker mattress to prevent bedsores and given blankets. “I got an IV right away because I needed fluids,” she said. She was pleased that the small, curtained room, with sound-absorbing walls to lower the din of emergency care, had a cushioned chair for her friend, who would stay with her, and a window looking out on trees. The window served a medical purpose, too. Patients “can see whether it’s day or night,” said Denise Valenzuela, the geriatric emergency nurse assigned to Ms. Tomp- kins. “It prevents delirium,” the sudden change in mental status that can arise in hospitalized older patients and increase de- mentia risk. Before long, “I just felt a calmness,” Ms. Tompkins said. “I felt, I’m where I need
To better understand people’s food choices, scientists are gleaning data from wastewater.
By SIMAR BAJAJ
Diet is one of the most important factors shaping health, but it’s surprisingly difficult for researchers to figure out what people eat. Researchers’ usual tools, like food fre- quency questionnaires or asking people to recall what they ate the day before, are te- dious and expensive, said Christopher Gardner, a nutrition scientist at Stanford. Such efforts depend on people being candid and accurate; people forget about 15 to 20 percent of what they ate after a few days. It’s one of the reasons that nutrition re- search is so difficult and why the best evi- dence comes from small metabolic cham- ber studies, Dr. Gardner said. In such stud- ies, researchers essentially “incarcerate someone,” he said, adding: “They can’t leave. You cook the food for them, you slide it under the door, you know if they didn’t fin- ish it.” But a new study, published in the Pro- ceedings of the National Academy of Sci- ences, points to a trove of nutrition data: sewage. Using wastewater in North Car- olina, researchers searched for traces of food DNA that had survived digestion. For less than a penny a person, they identified hundreds of foods that had been consumed — like chocolate, lettuce, turkey, blueber- ries, black pepper — and could even infer the socioeconomic profile of a community. During the Covid-19 pandemic, wastewa- ter monitoring became a familiar tool in public health, helping cities track viral surges without testing every resident. But scientists are increasingly using this same infrastructure to measure illicit drug use, antibiotic resistance, stress hormones and, now, diet. With such data, researchers could assess whether nutritional needs are being met in a community and how policy changes, like food stamp cuts, alter eating behavior in near real time. But the technology also raises tricky questions around privacy, sur- veillance and risks from potential commer- cialization. “Every day, eight billion people do roughly three diet experiments,” said Lawrence David, a microbiologist at Duke University and a senior author of the new study, referring to the world’s population. “And none of that data is captured.” Most of the food people ingest is broken down during digestion, but a small fraction is excreted, Dr. David said, leaving behind millions of fragments that researchers can analyze. In the new study, researchers examined wastewater samples from 2.1 million people
to be right now.” Since 2017, the American College of Emergency Physicians has accredited 624 such geriatric emergency departments across the United States, including 73 in Veterans Affairs medical centers. “A fairly exponential rate of growth,” said Dr. Kevin Biese, the emergency doctor who directs the Geriatric Emergency Department Col- laborative. Few of these units are restricted to older patients. Instead, like the E.R. in La Jolla, they serve all ages but incorporate senior- friendly practices and protocols in an envi- ronment aimed at staving off disorienta- tion, falls and other elder hazards. They’re classified from Level 1, for those fulfilling the highest number of criteria, to Level 3. Adults 75 and older visit the emergency room at a higher rate than any other age group except infants: 76 visits per 100 peo- ple in 2022. Yet standard emergency care “wasn’t correctly designed for the needs of older adults,” Dr. Biese said. The mission of a traditional E.R. is to speedily identify the central problem and ei- ther fix it or admit the patient to the hospital for ongoing care. “We ask, ‘What’s your chief complaint?’” Dr. Biese said. “You fell down the stairs and broke your leg.” Older patients rarely arrive with a single ailment, however. Like Ms. Tompkins, most contend with several chronic conditions, take several medications and need a variety of tests and assessments. Trained geriatric emergency teams focus not only on the bro- ken leg but on determining what caused the fall, and how to prevent another one. “An emergency department doesn’t rou- tinely screen for delirium” and cognitive im- pairment, said Dr. Ula Hwang, an emer- gency doctor and researcher at NYU Lan- gone Health. “But it’s one of the first things geriatric emergency departments will do,” along with a careful review of all the pa- tient’s medications. Geriatric E.R.s also try to counter sen- sory impairment, another contributor to de- lirium, by distributing reading glasses and sound amplifying devices. They dim lights and offer eye masks and ear plugs to pro- mote sleep. If Ms. Tompkins had forgotten her walker, the unit would have lent her one. These E.R.s also aim to address a rising concern in emergency departments: hours or even days spent “boarding,” when admit- ted patients wait for open beds before they can leave the E.R. “Prolonged boarding has increased among older adults,” said Dr. Cameron Get- tel, an emergency doctor and researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, referring to
The American College of Emergency Physicians has accredited 624 such departments since 2017.
in North Carolina, about a fifth of the state’s population. These samples had been col- lected and concentrated early in the pan- demic, and some were preserved in the lab’s freezer, said Rachel Noble, an environmen- tal microbiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the other senior author of the study. After thawing this wastewater concen- trate, the researchers sequenced the food DNA inside, looking for genetic material from animal mitochondria and plant chloro- plasts, the cellular machinery behind pho- tosynthesis. They found that food patterns varied by community: Black-eyed peas tracked with rurality, beer ingredients with affluence, mangos and coconuts with large immigrant populations. However, sequencing has its limits, since some foods leave stronger DNA signals than others. For example, leafy greens are packed with more chloroplasts than pota- toes, said Mengyi Dong, a food scientist at Virginia Tech who led the study, while re- fined sugar contains little DNA from its original source, sugar cane or sugar beets. It’s also difficult to distinguish between the many industrial afterlives of a single food — like corn syrup, corn chips or corn on the cob. That’s why some researchers are taking a different approach, looking for chemical signatures of diet like fiber compounds, vi- tamin traces and other byproducts of diges- tion and metabolism. For example, instead of assessing beer intake through hops and
waits that last over three hours. He is a co- author of a study on the topic in Health Af- fairs Scholar. Spending more time boarding isn’t merely uncomfortable or inconvenient. Re- searchers studied patients 75 and older in emergency departments across France. They found that those kept there overnight before moving to an inpatient ward had a higher in-hospital mortality rate (15.7 per- cent) than those admitted to a ward before midnight (11.1 percent). Overnight board- ing was associated with more falls and in- fections, too. What geriatric emergency staff prefer, however, is to help patients avoid hospital- ization altogether. “Admission may not be the best thing for an older adult,” Dr. Hwang said. “It might be the worst.” Hospital patients, she said, are exposed to infections, staff errors and the rapid de- conditioning that accompanies days in bed. All pose a greater threat to older patients. Previous studies have found reduced ad- missions from geriatric emergency depart- ments, but most of those studies involved one or two hospitals. Now, Dr. Hwang and her team have used nationwide data from the federal Health and Retirement Study and Medicare claims for nearly 4,600 adults over age 65, comparing those treated in ge- riatric emergency departments with a matched group seen in standard E.R.s. The differences were stark: Patients in the geriatric units had a 39 percent lower
Researchers check underground into wastewater to find traces of food DNA that survived digestion. They are then able to discern what people consumed and even infer the socioeconomic profile of a community.
A messy source yields information, but there are tricky concerns.
likelihood of hospital admission and a 38 percent reduction in mortality over 30 days. The geriatric E.R.s also saved Medicare up to about $3,000 a visit, according to an earli- er study Dr. Hwang led. So having more than 600 accredited geri- atric emergency departments nationwide represents both great strides and — in a country with more than 5,000 emergency departments — missed opportunities, Dr. Biese said. “I’d encourage people to ask why their hospitals don’t have an accredited G.E.D.,” he added. “We should demand that.” In La Jolla, Ms. Tompkins began feeling stronger. The intravenous fluids supplied anti-nausea medication and corrected the electrolyte abnormalities that her lab work revealed. She was able to sip water and juice and eat a few graham crackers. A battery of other screens and scans found no serious concerns. After complet- ing a geriatric assessment, Ms. Valenzuela, the nurse, suspected Ms. Tompkins hadn’t been eating well and was taking medica- tions on a mostly empty stomach. By about 6 p.m., Ms. Tompkins and her doctor agreed she could return home. She left the hospital with numbers to call for fur- ther help, and a few staff members checked in by phone to see how she was doing. Better, was her answer. “They took care of the whole me and put me on the right track,” Ms. Tompkins said. “I’m progress- ing. It’s slow, but I’m OK.”
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barley, researchers have analyzed ethyl sul- fate, a chemical formed when the body breaks down alcohol and flushed out in urine. While this approach can’t pinpoint specific foods, it can provide helpful obser- vations about specific nutrients and toxins that matter for health, said Devin Bowes, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of South Carolina. The trade-off is that it’s quite labor inten- sive, and it can take a little “detective work,” to determine what chemical is meaningful and measurable, Dr. Bowes said. No matter which signals researchers track, sewage is still a messy data source. As food DNA or chemicals enter the pipes, some gets degraded or trapped, Dr. Noble said, especially in older sewer systems with terra cotta or concrete pipes. Wastewater also carries more than human poop: live- stock feces, restaurant scraps and fallen leaves, all of which blur the signal, said Kyle Bibby, an environmental engineer at the University of Notre Dame. The researchers tried to account for such noise by processing samples “as quickly as possible” to limit degradation, Dr. Noble said. They also excluded DNA from plants and animals that people don’t eat (like grass clippings or wolves), but these nonfood sources accounted for only a quarter of the plant DNA and 1 percent of the animal DNA sequenced. The researchers also compared the wastewater findings with a small set of indi-
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vidual stool samples, finding that the two sources produced similar DNA patterns. Still, more work is needed to anchor waste- water diet surveillance to a “ground truth,” said Jordan Peccia, an environmental engi- neer at Yale, similar to how Covid-19 waste- water data was validated against local case counts and hospital admissions. But even then, he added, wastewater would probably be better at detecting patterns over time in- stead of absolute measures of food intake. Despite the limits, scientists are hopeful that wastewater can help transform diet re- search. For example, instead of recruiting mil- lions of people and asking them to complete repeated surveys, researchers could cheaply monitor dietary signals over time, said Dr. Gardner, the nutrition scientist at Stanford. That could reveal how policy changes like tariffs and free school lunch programs affect nutrition. Linked with medical data, those signals could also help researchers connect dietary patterns with community health and chronic disease tra- jectories. For now, most wastewater diet surveil- lance happens at municipal treatment plants, where a single sample might repre- sent thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. But Dr. David’s team is starting to look toward neighborhood-level data, be- ginning with Durham, N.C. They avoid sampling areas smaller than about 500 people for privacy reasons. Still, people don’t necessarily think about what they flush away as valuable data and, as wastewater surveillance moves into more intimate areas like diet, may object to their stool being analyzed. Dr. David’s answer has been to try to fold communities into the process. For the past year, his team has met with community boards and neighborhood leaders in Durham, asking how this data could be use- ful to them. When Erin Dooley, a founder of the non- profit BLK South, first heard about the re- search, it gave her pause. “We’re living in a time where our data is a gold mine,” Mrs. Dooley said. She worried about how this in- formation could be extracted from her com- munity, sold to advertisers and used to shame residents for their diets. But she and her husband, Kendall, also saw an opportunity. Their neighborhood, Hayti — one of America’s historic Black Wall Streets and now a food desert — has been trying to raise $6 million to bring in a grocery store. So the Dooleys have collabo- rated with Dr. David and the Grant Street Community to help determine what her community is eating and what it lacks, turn- ing this data into a case for the grocery store and greater fresh-food access. “It’s helpful information,” Mrs. Dooley said, “but only if it’s to the betterment of the people in the neighborhood.”
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Killer whales have been seen pulverizing sunfish, creating chunks for their offspring.
By ALEXA ROBLES-GIL
Ocean sunfish are the largest bony fish in the world — some species can weigh more than 2,000 pounds and span 14 feet from top to bottom fin. Their impressive size and thick skin usually deter predators. But off the coast of Baja California, a group of orcas has adopted a brutal way of hunting sunfish: With an unusual maneu- ver, the orcas pulverize the giants. Erick Higuera, a marine biologist at Conexiones Terramar, a scientific organization, de- scribed the attacks as “violent” and “cha- otic,” but also “highly calculated.” Mr. Higuera first witnessed the hunting strategy in 2021. Orcas tossed around a sun- fish “like a Frisbee” before making it “ex- plode,” he said. Now, in a study published Thursday in Frontiers in Ethology, Mr. Higuera and his colleagues described two events filmed in 2024 and 2025. In the two videos, an adult orca held the carcass of a sharp-tail sunfish in its mouth. Then, another adult swam at high speed to- ward the sunfish. The first orca released it, and the second rammed into it, fragmenting the sunfish. As pieces floated about, a juve- nile orca began eating. “It’s like soccer,” Mr. Higuera said. “Ev- eryone has a role.” Scientists have documented orcas prey- ing on sunfish, also known as mola, for sev- eral decades. In the Gulf of California, the feeding behavior was first reported in the 1990s. In January, Mr. Higuera and another group of scientists published a study report- ing more than 20 encounters between orcas and sunfish. Orca calves were present for eight of them. Female orcas may be using sunfish to train their young, or just for en- tertainment, the authors wrote in the earli- er study. But the sunfish in the earlier observa- tions were not shredded as much as the prey in the videos, suggesting the fragmen- tation strategy may be specific to the sharp- tail sunfish. Robert Pitman, a marine ecologist at Ore- gon State University who was not involved
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University tested baboons at the Rochester Seneca Park Zoo with a geometric task also given to humans.
A recent study shows that monkeys have a similar knack for understanding shapes.
By K. R. CALLAWAY
You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a ge- ometry class, but it looks as if our fellow pri- mates can swing the basics. Just like people, monkeys seem to grasp the abstract qualities of geometric shapes, such as whether they are symmetrical, have parallel sides or contain right angles, according to a new study published last week in Proceedings of the National Acad- emy of Sciences. This ability allows the monkeys — and us — to understand when two shapes are the same, even when they’ve been rotated or resized. This finding challenges a long-held no- tion that humans’ geometric abilities are part of what makes our brains one of a kind. “Our hypothesis was that humans are not that unique,” in possessing this mathemati- cal understanding, said Jialin Li, a cognitive neuroscientist at Carnegie Mellon Univer- sity and the lead author of the study. In their experiment, Ms. Li and her col- leagues decided to give monkeys (a total of eight rhesus macaques and olive baboons), preschoolers and adult humans with differ- ent education levels the same geometric task. That way, if humans truly had an in- nate advantage, it would show up when comparing the young children and the mon- keys. And if the advantage was learned, it might show up when comparing the hu- mans who had different levels of schooling. It was a challenge to find a task simple enough that even preschool-aged children and monkeys could reasonably complete it,
Marine biologists in Mexico filmed a brutal way orcas hunt sunfish, fragmenting their prey.
in the research, saw the behavior as per- haps logical. Sunfish skin is made up of so- called dermal denticles, similar to the rough, toothlike scales that sharks have. By ramming the fish, Dr. Pitman said, killer whales may get at their prey without wearing down their teeth. “Nothing that they do surprises me anymore,” he said. Marianne Nyegaard, a marine biologist at Auckland War Memorial Museum who was not involved in the research, has stud- ied ocean sunfish and documented many orca interactions with them. “I was really pleased to see someone had taken the behavior and kind of described it in detail,” she said. “Sunfishes are often seen as these big, weird, irrelevant fish that are a bit of a curi- osity,” Dr. Nyegaard said. “They’re not re-
but the team eventually decided to have all the study participants do a matching task. All were shown a shape with a specific size and geometric form on a screen. Then they were asked to pick that same shape out of a group of others. “By manipulating the similarity of the shapes, we were able to look at what kinds of rules they’re using,” said Jessica Cantlon, a cognitive neuroscientist at Carnegie Mel- lon University whose lab conducted the study. For correct matches, the monkeys, pre- schoolers and adults received positive feed- back: a treat, asticker or affirmation, re- spectively. But the mistakes, which were met with no reward, were just as important in order to understand what concepts were easy and difficult for the brain. “The task certainly depends on a broad network of brain regions and circuits in- volved in visual and cognitive processing,” said David Freedman, a neurobiologist at the University of Chicago who was not in- volved in the new research. Matching tasks rely on both basic visual cues — like a shape’s edges and contours — and a higher- level understanding of shape identity and structure. The researchers then analyzed the re- sults alongside those from another lab’s re- cent experiment, in which monkeys, young children and adults had to identify a geo- metrically dissimilar shape in a group. Through this analysis, researchers real- ized that their participants were all capable of making connections between shapes and their angles, ratios and patterns — mon- keys included. This shared foundation suggests that our geometric intuition evolved long before hu- mans did, which isn’t a surprise to many re-
ally seen as part of the ecosystem.” The new study, she said, helps bring sunfish into “mainstream ecology.” Luke Rendell, a marine biologist at the University of St. Andrews, said that the skills used to prey on sunfish might persist in this group of orcas for generations through cultural inheritance. And ramming behavior is not unique to the sunfish hunt, Dr. Rendell added. He pointed to the widely reported interactions between orcas and boats off the Iberian Peninsula, where orcas have rammed and sunk several vessels. “In both cases, bashing up something they find in their environment leads to new knowledge,” Dr. Rendell said. “Food, in this study, and fun games, in the case of the boat interactions.”
searchers who study animal cognition. “These are hardly the only animals on Earth that have to deal with geometry,” said Ed Wasserman, an experimental psycholo- gist at the University of Iowa, who was not involved in the new study. Many species have been shown to iden- tify objects or patterns even when they are rotated or resized. Pigeons, for example, are even better than humans at some shape-matching tasks, a skill that might help them stay oriented as they fly. “We humans tend to overestimate how special we are,” said Earl Miller, a neurosci- entist at M.I.T. who was not involved in the new study. “If every new angle made an ob- ject seem completely different, life would be chaos.” Still, these insights into the similarities between monkeys and humans might give us a better idea of just how far back in evolu- tionary history our specific way of under- standing geometry goes. “This is a timely and informative study that provides important insights into the evolutionary origins of geometric intuition,” said Andreas Nieder, an animal physiolo- gist at the University of Tübingen in Ger- many who was not involved in the new study. The research could also be a jumping-off point for understanding how humans man- age higher-level geometric tasks, such as combining simple shapes into more com- plex structures, which the study didn’t test. The study authors are already embark- ing on the next phase of that exploration: figuring out what shapes are the most chal- lenging for monkeys and humans to iden- tify. This understanding could, in turn, in- form teachers’ attempts to teach particu- larly sticky lessons about geometry.
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gene editor. There would be no need to start anew for every pa- tient. In principle, with more centers like this one, the new approach could improve the lives of millions of people, said Dr. Liu, who is also affiliated with Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical In- stitute. About 400 million people worldwide and 25 million to 30 million in the United States have a rare disease. Half are children, and a third die before they turn 5. The project is starting with a $34.5 million contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a federal agency that supports high-risk, high-reward medical research. It will begin by focusing on neuro- logical disorders that can result in seizures. That work, the re- searchers hope, will demonstrate how an editing system that fixes mutations in brain cells can be used for more than one genetic brain disease, including ones that strike adults, like Huntington’s. The first, called alternating hemiplegia of childhood, or AHC, affects just 400 children in the United States. Among them is the 10-year-old Annabel Frost. Her parents, Simon Frost and Nina English Frost, who live in Wash- ington, have made getting gene therapy for children with AHC the center of their lives. When Annabel was 2 months old she started having seizure-like episodes and recurrent bouts of paralysis — her limbs, even her whole body, would be immobile for days or as long as a week. Her par-
‘Our parents live in fear every day that when we put our child to sleep at night the child might not wake up.’
MARY ANNE MESKIS DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION
ents crossed the country, consult- ing with neurologists, but no one knew what was wrong. After they finally received a di- agnosis of AHC and learned there was no cure, the Frosts formed a nonprofit and began raising money; they have raised more than $4 million in the past eight years. But expecting families to follow that path — doing fund- raising, organizing golf tourna- ments, sponsoring 5K races — “is very unfair,” said Dr. Chung, espe- cially when parents are caring for a sick child. And it is still almost never enough to get a company in- terested in developing a treat- ment. Ms. Frost said she and Mr. Frost knew that. So their foundation de- liberately supported research that laid the groundwork for a gene therapy for AHC. Then they ap- proached Dr. Liu. “We did not sim- ply bring David a disease and ask him to solve it,” Ms. Frost said. “We brought him a developed sci- entific opportunity.” Dr. Liu’s group had extended the life of mice with Niemann- Pick, a genetic brain disease, which gave them hope. For AHC, Ms. Frost said, “we wanted him to target the same cells.” But it is much easier to get a gene editor to the brain of a mouse than to the brain of a person. With mice, scientists can just inject the editor into their tiny brains. With humans, that won’t work. The challenge is to get a disabled virus
carrying gene-editing instruc- tions through the blood-brain bar- rier, a membrane that protects the brain from infections and toxins. But researchers at the Broad Institute led by Ben Deverman have found a way. They can hijack a carrier protein that delivers iron into the brain. That discovery, said Dr. Timothy Yu, a team member from Boston Children’s, “was a real lightbulb moment.” Treatment will involve an intra- venous injection of the engineered virus, which will shuttle through the blood-brain barrier and enter the brain’s intracellular space. From there the editor will enter brain cells where it will slide along the DNA to the mutation. Then the editor will turn the mutated gene into the healthy one. The plan is to initially treat chil- dren most severely affected by AHC. Annabel is not among them, so she will not be first in line. The method will also be used to treat another neurological dis- order, a genetic form of severe childhood epilepsy, Dravet syn- drome, which occurs in about one in 15,700 births. Twenty percent of patients die before age 18, said Mary Anne Meskis, the chief exec- utive and co-founder of the Dravet Syndrome Foundation. Many die in their sleep. “Our parents live in fear every day that when we put our child to sleep at night the child might not wake up,” said Ms. Meskis, who lives near Asheville, N.C. Ms. Meskis’s 26-year-old son, Elliot, had his first seizure when he was 6 months old. It lasted an hour before emergency room doc- tors could stop it. The next month he had another. The next month, another. When Elliot was 18 months old, he also began to have thousands of brief seizures every day in which he would blink or suddenly jerk his head. He had episodes of paralysis, which could last for days or even a week. His parents finally got a diagno- sis of Dravet when Elliot was 4. He began taking multiple daily medi- cations that reduced the length of his seizures, but he functions at the level of a 3-to-5-year-old and doesn’t have expressive lan- guage. Dr. Liu and his colleagues have corrected Dravet in mice by in- jecting a gene editor into the ani- mals’ brains, a proof of principle. Now they will try it in humans. Elliot’s brain may be too dam- aged at his age for gene therapy to cure him. The hope, though, is that it might help or cure young chil- dren. The center is not going to solve the problem of getting genetic therapies to patients overnight, its founders emphasized. But the researchers hope the work will lead to methodologies that other doctors can pick up and apply to their own patients. To achieve that, the center will make its work public whenever possible. That’s something that for-profit companies typically don’t do but that is needed to make real progress, said Dr. Mark Kay, who is the head of the Division of Human Gene Therapy at Stanford University and not involved with the new center. “I really like and support this idea,” Dr. Kay said. It will be hard at first, Dr. Chung predicted. But she feels a sense of urgency. “My patients don’t have time to wait,” she said. “We will lose a generation.”
Izzy Cashion, center, with her mother, Jenn Janosko, right, and Dr. Michelle Monje. Izzy takes part in a clinical trial for diffuse midline glioma patients.
in understanding D.M.G., identifying a ge- netic mutation underlying many cases and experimenting with therapies that targeted its effects. These treatments are far from a cure. But they appear to slow the disease in some cases, with a handful of patients living for several years. “For the first time, we don’t get zero sur- vival,” said Dr. Sabine Mueller, director of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Center at the University of California, San Francisco. For scientists, it’s a cause for hope. But “it’s hard to feel hope when it’s your kid,” said Jenn Janosko, whose 5-year-old daugh- ter, Izzy Cashion, was diagnosed with D.M.G. last year. Izzy is currently in a clini- cal trial for CAR T-cell therapy, in which a patient’s immune cells are engineered to fight off cancer. Before her daughter’s diag- nosis, Ms. Janosko worked as a pediatric oncology nurse and occasionally cared for children with D.M.G. “You knew it was a death sentence,” she said. D.M.G. — a term sometimes used inter- changeably with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or D.I.P.G., a common subtype — typically strikes children between ages 5 to 15. There are about 500 new cases nation- wide each year. The first signs are often double vision, one-sided weakness or facial drooping, sometimes with headaches or vomiting. Typically, within a year of diagnosis, pa- tients start to lose motor function and de- velop speech and swallowing issues. Near the end of life, they become unable to move much or communicate, and they have diffi- culty breathing, said Dr. Michelle Monje, a professor of pediatric neuro-oncology at Stanford University. “Kids remain pretty alert and aware of everything happening,” she said. “It’s a hor- rific disease.” In the early 2000s, when Dr. Monje first treated a patient with this cancer, “it was just this big black box,” she said, impossible to remove surgically and very risky to biop- sy. Starting in the 2010s, doctors figured out how to biopsy the tumors more safely. Using cell lines from patient autopsies, Dr. Monje and other researchers learned how and where the tumors originated. And in 2012, scientists announced the discovery of a mu- tation present in a majority of these cancers — a major breakthrough. That mutation interferes with a histone, a protein around which DNA is tightly wrapped inside cells, like thread around a spool, said Dr. Sriram Venneti, a neu- ropathologist at the University of Michigan. If that spool breaks, “the way that the DNA opens or closes for genes to be turned off or turned on gets messed up,” he said. In D.M.G., the cells get stuck in a state that promotes cancer. As Dr. Venneti tried to figure out what might reverse the mutation, scientists else- where were testing a treatment called ONC201 in adults with glioblastomas, an- other deadly brain cancer. Though the drug failed overall in those patients, it turned out that one who had a good response had the histone mutation. Dr. Carl Koschmann, a pediatric neuro- oncologist at the University of Michigan, and others worked with the drug’s maker, now called Jazz Pharmaceuticals, to test whether it might work for children with D.M.G. A review of early trials found that pa- tients with the mutation who were treated with ONC201 after initial radiation had a median survival of almost 22 months — nearly double what was typical. Re- searchers showed that the drug worked pri- marily by altering the tumor cell’s metabo- lism to fix the broken “spool.” Lisa Ward’s son Jace, who was diagnosed
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Medication, left, and medical equipment and supplies, right, used by Ethan White at his home.
with D.M.G. at age 20 in 2019, took the drug for 17 months. During that time, he was able to play basketball, go to school and watch sports with friends. He never spent a night in the hospital. Jace died in 2021. “What every parent wants, short of a cure,” Ms. Ward said, “is to have the longest progression-free survival, the longest time where the tumor doesn’t grow and there’s great quality of life.” When Ethan, the University of Michigan drummer, was diagnosed, his parents, Mi- chelle Sherman and Eric White, wanted that for him, too. But because ONC201 was available in the United States only through a clinical trial, which meant he might get a placebo, Ethan’s father began traveling to Germany every three months to buy a lo- cally sourced version of the drug. A 90-day supply cost $18,000. Ethan received two other medicines off label, which together seemed to keep his tumor stable. He continued living on campus, working toward his psychology degree. He went ski- ing and joined Dr. Koschmann’s Friday night rock climbing group. In summer 2025, the Food and Drug Ad- ministration approved ONC201, known as dordaviprone, for recurrent D.M.G. The ap- proval is conditional upon a continuing trial, but it was the first drug ever approved for this cancer.
Researchers understand a brain cancer better now but are far from a cure.
“It’s pretty emotional for families and for physicians,” Dr. Koschmann said. Still, the drug doesn’t work for everyone and isn’t a cure. “This is not the home run for D.M.G.,” Dr. Koschmann said. “It is a strong base hit.” Other experimental therapies have shown similar promise. Dr. Monje and col- leagues at Stanford showed that CAR T-cell therapy could cure D.M.G. in mice and started one of the first human trials in 2020. “We saw some kids go from wheelchair- bound to walking in a number of weeks,” Dr. Monje said. One outlier patient, diagnosed in high school, remains tumor-free more than five years later. Other trials of CAR T- cell therapies are now underway. Researchers have also shown that an- other immunotherapy called an oncolytic virus, which splits apart cancer cells to ex- pose more of them to the immune system, could prolong life. One patient remained free of tumor progression for more than three years. And scientists now know how
D.M.G. cells integrate into healthy neural circuits to grow and evade treatment. That is enabling researchers to begin testing ex- isting drugs — for example, certain anti- seizure medicines — to disrupt those con- nections, Dr. Monje said. But these therapies are still years away from becoming standard care — if they prove successful. And to cure D.M.G., ex- perts believe the treatments will need to be leveraged in combination, the way doctors did for childhood leukemia and neuroblas- toma, starting with one treatment that pro- longed life and stacking on others to ulti- mately cure patients. “We think we’re hopefully in shooting dis- tance of that in the coming decade,” Dr. Koschmann said. Figuring out how best to combine and se- quence those drugs will require costly clini- cal trials. The National Institutes of Health have supported much of the research on D.M.G., but prospects have dimmed with cuts to the agency and fewer grant awards. The lack of investment is galling to par- ents. A few hundred children a year “may not seem like a lot,” Ms. Janosko said. But those families “are guaranteed a horrible death,” she added. In April 2025, an M.R.I. showed that Ethan’s tumor had grown. After an experi- mental treatment failed, he began having new symptoms, including blurred vision and weakness. He received more radiation and joined a trial for a newer version of dordaviprone. Ethan never regained full function. He was bent on finishing his degree, though, and in December, his father wheeled him across the graduation stage in cap and gown. In the spring, Ethan’s family traveled to Hawaii, where he was able to take an adap- tive surfing lesson. But in May, another M.R.I. showed the tu- mor was growing again. Within weeks, Ethan lost his ability to speak and walk. He was put on hospice at home. He could only nod yes or no to his parents’ questions, but he remained playful with his expressions. He could still enjoy his favorite foods — ba- gels with lox and cream cheese, a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream bar — and visits with friends, but he often felt sad when they left. Before his recent decline, Ethan and his mother had picked out a chocolate Labra- dor puppy, which Ethan named Moose. “When Ethan is not here anymore, that dog is going to mean a lot,” Ms. Sherman said. His tumor was still growing unchecked. The advances in treating cancers like his “can’t come soon enough,” she said.
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The drug, to be sold under the brand name Lipfendra, can reduce low-density lipoprotein.
By NINA AGRAWAL and GINA KOLATA
Patients who need to lower their cholesterol will soon have a powerful new option. The Food and Drug Administration re- cently approved a new pill called enlicitide that can lower cholesterol levels substan- tially more than statins alone. The drug, which was developed by Merck and will be sold under the brand name Lipfendra, is ex- pected to go on the market in the coming weeks.
How does the new pill compare with other cholesterol treatments? Lipfendra adds to the list of treatments that can lower low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, a form of cholesterol that, at high levels, in- creases the risk of heart disease. Studies over many decades have shown that drugs that safely lower LDL can protect people from heart disease. The most commonly prescribed LDL low- ering drugs are statins, which inhibit the production of cholesterol in the liver. They have been used for decades and are safe and cheap, around $5 to $25 a month. De- pending on the statin and the dose, they can lower LDL levels by 30 to 50 percent. Other drugs include ezetimibe, a pill that inhibits the absorption of cholesterol and can lower LDL levels by about 20 percent. In its generic form, it is as cheap as statins. There also is bempedoic acid, which blocks production of cholesterol and also lowers LDL levels by about 20 percent. The generic version is listed at $430 to $517 a month. (Patients often pay less than the list price.) The most powerful drugs available — in- cluding alirocumab, evolocumab, and in- clisiran — work by blocking a protein called PCSK9, which slows the body’s ability to clear cholesterol. These drugs have been shown in clinical trials to lower LDL levels by 60 to 70 percent. They often are used alongside other drugs like statins to lower LDL even more aggressively. Until now, all the PCSK9 inhibitors, which have list prices around $500 to $600 a month, had to be injected. Large studies in
Wearables can gather needed information, but users should exercise caution, too.
By SIMAR BAJAJ
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called wearable devices, like smart watches or smart rings, a way for people to “take control over their own health” and “a key” to the Make America Healthy Again agenda. These devices, often called wearables, can provide a feed of useful data, including your step count, heart rate, sleep quality and calories burned. In the past few years, surveys have found that about 40 percent of Americans were using some type of wear- able and that ownership was higher among younger, healthier and more fitness-minded consumers. “My vision is that every Ameri- can is wearing a wearable within four years,” Mr. Kennedy said in a congressional hearing last year. But many doctors are more skeptical, saying that only some of the metrics wear- ables provide are clinically useful, and they are still sorting out which ones and in what context. Dr. Zahi Fayad, director of the Bio- Medical Engineering and Imaging Institute at Mount Sinai, said the devices could help doctors remotely monitor patients and de- tect early signs of disease. But for now, he said, many wearable metrics fall short of medical standards, and there is little data to prove that using them improves health out- comes. Still, some patients, searching for an- swers, arrive at their doctors’ offices with screenshots of their wearable data or ques- tions about confusing readings. And some companies that sell wearables are starting to allow users to consult with clinicians through their apps. Certain wearables, like continuous glu- cose monitors, tend to be prescribed by doc- tors and are held to medical-grade stand- ards. But with wearables you can buy on- line, doctors tend to focus on only a few met- rics that are medically meaningful or revealing. For example, some wearable devices can flag atrial fibrillation, a potentially danger- ous heart rhythm abnormality, said Dr. Eri- ca Spatz, director of the preventive cardio- vascular health program at Yale. In one Ap- ple Watch study, researchers checked irreg- ular pulse notifications against simul- taneous readings from a medical-grade electrocardiogram patch and found that the watch alerts corresponded to atrial fibrilla- tion 84 percent of the time. Other measures, like step counts, can show doctors how active or sedentary you are. Studies have tied getting about 7,000 steps a day to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and dementia. Basic sleep patterns — when you go to bed, when you wake up and how much total sleep you get — can similarly be useful, since both sleep consistency and duration are important, said Dr. Cheri Mah, a Califor- nia-based sleep physician and adjunct lec- turer at the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center. Researchers tested three popular wear- ables against a gold-standard sleep study
Statins lower cholesterol, but they may not be enough for some patients.
and found the devices agreed with the study over 90 percent of the time, in distinguish- ing sleep from wakefulness. But some metrics, like blood pressure, blood oxygen and sleep stages, are not measured accurately by wearables, Dr. Spatz said. Others, she added, like VO2 max and heart rate variability, can offer rough measures of fitness and recovery, but are not yet useful for making medical decisions. Many wearables also offer wellness scores, aggregating multiple streams of data into a simple number, like biological age, stress or sleep quality. Each company calculates these scores differently, using their own proprietary algorithms, said Dr. Jag Singh, a professor at Harvard Medical School and a former chair of cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. So doc- tors can’t tell what these scores are really measuring or whether they correspond to actual health outcomes. “They can be useful at the individual level for wellness,” Dr. Singh said, “but I don’t think they’re useful to the clinician.” The best way to use wearables is to look at longer-term trends rather than obsessing over day-to-day swings, Dr. Fayad said. A sudden change can matter when it lines up with symptoms, like palpitations during a heart rate spike. But in general, one unusual reading is less telling than a sustained change over weeks or months. “The value of the wearable is not the number,” he said. “It’s the trajectory.” The same caution, Dr. Singh said, applies when comparing your data with someone else’s. People vary widely in metrics like
people at high risk for heart disease showed that PCSK9 inhibitors reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular deaths by 20 percent. Lipfendra is a PCSK9 inhibitor in pill form. Unlike statins, which can be taken at any time of day with or without food, it should be taken while fasting in the morn- ings, with water, black coffee or plain tea. In clinical trials, Lipfendra was as effec- tive at lowering LDL as the injected drugs. There is a large trial underway to confirm that the PCSK9 inhibitors in pill form also reduce heart attacks and strokes. The list price will be $315 for a 30-day sup- ply. It’s not clear yet how widely it might be covered by insurance.
Who should take the new drug? Statins are always the first option doctors reach for, given their long history of safety and efficacy, said Dr. Erin Michos, associate
heart rate variability or VO2 max, even when they have similar fitness levels. Your own base line is typically more useful than any outside benchmark. If a wearable motivates you to improve your step count or helps you notice that al- cohol worsens your resting heart rate, that can be useful, Dr. Fayad said. But if you compulsively check your data and become worried or frustrated, the wearable might be doing more harm than good. For example, wearables can sometimes worsen sleep, said Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a health policy expert at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the book “Eat Your Ice Cream.” One recent survey found that about 30 percent of the people who tracked their sleep were at risk of orthosomnia, an un- healthy fixation with getting perfect sleep. A better guide, Dr. Emanuel said, is how re- freshed you feel in the morning. If anxiety over wearable data is a prob- lem, one answer might be to just stop track- ing the data. Another might be to use a wearable for specific, short-term purposes, like increasing activity levels or sleep con- sistency, and then to put it away, Dr. Spatz said. Wearables have made it easier than ever to monitor the inner workings of your body. But it will take more research and better tools to integrate those numbers, put them in context and tell doctors what, if anything, is worth acting on. “They help to tell a story,” Dr. Spatz said, “but we haven’t yet figured out how to use them.”
director of preventive cardiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. But some patients can’t tolerate statins. And even among those who do, “we’ve been tar- geting lower and lower cholesterol levels, especially for high-risk patients,” Dr. Mi- chos said. Many patients cannot meet their goal with statins alone. That’s where the PCSK9 inhibitors come in. The medications are “an excellent way to augment oral therapies in a population that needs more aggressive treatment,” said Dr. Corey Bradley, a preventive cardiologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. This year, the American Heart Associa- tion released new guidelines that included specific LDL targets for patients depending on their risk profile. “When I reach for a PCSK9 inhibitor really depends on how far away I am from that goal,” Dr. Bradley said. Dr. Michos said that PCSK9 inhibitors had shown an additional benefit of lowering
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I’ve heard vaginal estrogen can help with menopause symptoms. Should I use it?
Vaginal estrogen products can treat symptoms like dryness, pain and urinary tract infections that are common in postmenopausal women and can begin in the years before your last menstrual period. These products, which include creams, rings and tablets inserted into the vagina, have drawn in- creasing attention as patients, doctors and influencers take menopause symptoms more seriously and many promote hormonal treatments. The Food and Drug Adminis- tration decided last year to re- move a black box warning from estrogen products, including vaginal estrogen. That box, which warned of increased risk of can- cer and blood clots, had led many women to avoid these treatments in the past. In the right patients, vaginal estrogen can make the vagina moister and more elastic, relieve pelvic pain, and reduce urinary tract infections. The symptoms vaginal estro- gen treats are called genitouri- nary syndrome of menopause, or G.S.M., which is caused by the decline in estrogen that women naturally experience in middle age. Estrogen encourages mois- ture throughout the body, and lower levels make vaginal tissue drier and thinner. Sex can become painful, as can minor contact with the vulva, even from underwear. Many women have more frequent or urgent urination. Vaginal acidity and friendly bacteria decrease, making it easier for harmful bacteria to grow. Applying estrogen inside the vagina can relieve these symp- toms. It might even prevent seri- ous health complications, because it reduces the risk of urinary tract infections, which can spread to the kidneys. “The vast majority of American women are being undertreated” for G.S.M., said Dr. Stephanie Faubion, the director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Women’s Health and medical director of the Menopause Society. Patients are often undiagnosed, she said, or not offered appropriate care after diagnosis. One study published last year looked at more than a million Medicare recipients and found that, of those with “a diagnosis indicative of G.S.M.,” only 9 per- cent filled a vaginal estrogen
Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), a cholesterol-car- rying protein she described as “LDL’s evil cousin.” Lp(a) independently increases heart disease risk, regardless of cholesterol levels, and statins don’t lower it.
Who should take steps to lower their cholesterol? The new A.H.A. guidelines recommend that people who are at the highest risk of heart disease (those who have already had a heart attack or stroke) should be on medica- tion to get to an LDL under 55 mg/dL. People who don’t have existing heart dis- ease can still be at high risk, whether be- cause of factors like Type 2 diabetes or be- cause of a high risk score. Doctors use a risk calculator that takes into account factors like age, blood pressure, cholesterol and body mass index to assess both short-term (10-year) and long-term (30-year) risk. For patients estimated to be at high 10-year risk, the goal is under 70 mg/dL. Dr. Sadiya Khan, a preventive cardiolo- gist at Northwestern University, said she of- ten also counseled patients who are at inter- mediate 10-year risk of heart disease to start taking cholesterol medication. She also discusses it with healthy patients who are at low 10-year risk but high 30-year risk. Lowering LDL reduces the cumulative exposure to particles that contribute to the buildup of plaques in arteries, which can lead to heart attacks or strokes. Research has shown that the lower the LDL, the lower the risk of such cardiovascular events. The guidelines also recommend treating people with a genetically inherited form of high cholesterol, called familial hypercho- lesterolemia.
When should you get your cholesterol checked? All adults should have their cholesterol checked at least every five years starting at age 19, according to the A.H.A. guidelines. (Children should have their cholesterol checked once, between ages 9 and 11, to screen for inherited high cholesterol.) Your primary care doctor’s office can do a blood test called a lipid panel to look at your LDL and other types of cholesterol. The guidelines also recommend that all adults have their Lp(a) levels checked at least once.
prescription. Another study found that, among more than 2.8 million patients with the condition, 71 percent went untreated. Dr. Sameena Rahman, the founder of the GYN and Sexual Medicine Collective, a concierge medical practice in Chicago, said patients often told her they had no symptoms, then expressed pain when she gently examined their vulva and vagina. While some forms of systemic estrogen are associated with a small increased risk of blood clots, vaginal estrogen isn’t, sev- eral experts said, noting that even people at high risk of clots — who probably wouldn’t be prescribed hormone pills for hot flashes — can safely use vaginal formula- tions. Patients undergoing treatment for estrogen-sensitive cancers may not be good candidates for vaginal estrogen, but most people who have completed treatment can use it, said Dr. Kathryn
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Marko, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at George Washington University. They might just be prescribed a tablet or ring, rather than cream, to precisely control the dosage. Dr. Sarah Cigna, an associate professor of obstetrics and gyne- cology and director of the sexual health service at George Wash- ington University, said she recom- mended vaginal estrogen when she saw changes to vaginal tissue on a physical exam, “to prevent getting to the point of dysfunc- tion.” “I don’t practice with a style that waits for people to be in pain when I see what’s happening already,” Dr. Cigna said.
Make Skin Healthier?
A lymphatic drainage technique is used to increase circulation.
By ERICA SWEENEY
By sweeping your fingers along your cheeks and jawline and then down your neck, you can remove excess fluid from your face. Many social media influenc- ers claim this technique, known as lymphatic drainage massage, offers health benefits for your skin, making it tighter and brighter and reducing puffiness. But does it? The gentle, rhythmic move- ments of lymphatic drainage massage help disperse a clear fluid, called lymph, that circu- lates through the body’s lym- phatic system and can pool in your facial tissues, causing swelling. Lymph can build up for several reasons, including sleeping poorly, eating salty foods, drink- ing alcohol, being dehydrated or sleeping on your back, said Dr. Arpana A. Shah, a dermatologist at MedStar Health in St. Mary’s County, Md. “All these little things can give you a more bloated appearance,” she said. Lymphatic fluid usually drains naturally throughout the day. But gentle massage can sometimes speed up this dispersion, and it is often recommended to treat lymphedema — chronic swelling that most commonly occurs in the arms and legs. Though there is limited evi- dence on the effectiveness of facial lymphatic drainage mas- sage, Dr. Shah said it can pro- mote relaxation and increase blood flow to the skin, which may offer some marginal decrease in the puffiness of the face or other aesthetic benefits.
What is lymphatic drainage massage? The lymphatic system, Dr. Shah said, is “like the housekeeper of our body.” This network of or- gans, tissues and vessels moves excess lymph from your tissues to the bloodstream, helping the body maintain its fluid balance. It also transports fluid through the lymph nodes, where immune cells destroy harmful substances like bacteria and viruses. Several factors can disrupt the lymphatic system and cause fluid to accumulate in your face or elsewhere in the body, including surgery, lymphedema, a high-salt diet or being overweight or too sedentary, said Dr. Roy Kim, a plastic surgeon in San Francisco. He said he often recommends lymphatic drainage massage after some cosmetic surgeries, because it has been shown to improve pain and swelling dur- ing recovery. Gravity and movement will eventually drain the fluid, he said. But you can speed this along through gentle stroking to move excess fluid from your tissues, coaxing it toward the lymph nodes. This can be done by a massage therapist or, Dr. Kim said, you can massage yourself, using your fingertips, a facial roller or gua sha, in which you gently scrape a stone along the contours of your face.
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But there is little research to back up the idea that it can im- prove the health or appearance of your skin. A 2025 study of 34 women who used facial rollers or gua sha for eight weeks found that they experienced some limited im- provements in aspects of facial contour, including skin elasticity and muscle tone. Another study, published in 2018, included 19 men and seven women. It found that using a facial massage roller on one cheek for five weeks increased blood flow to that cheek, but the results lasted for just 10 minutes after each mas- sage. These studies included a small number of subjects and lasted only a few weeks — not long enough to assess facial lym- phatic drainage massage’s long- term effects, Dr. Shah said. She added that larger, longer-term studies were needed to prove the benefit. In general, doctors say, lym- phatic drainage massage may improve your skin in a few ways. Because it moves lymphatic fluid around, it can make skin appear less puffy, Dr. Shah said. Rolling or massaging your face also just feels good and can help you relax and reduce stress, she added. Stress can worsen skin conditions like acne and eczema, and stress hormones may de- plete collagen and elastin, accel- erating wrinkles and other signs of aging, according to the Ameri- can Academy of Dermatology. Facial lymphatic drainage massage can also improve circu- lation to the skin, said Dr. Ken- neth Mark, a cosmetic dermatol- ogist in New York City. And because increasing blood flow nourishes the skin and encour- ages new immune cells to gather there, it can reduce inflammation and stimulate collagen produc- tion, he said. But the results, Dr. Kim noted, are typically marginal and short- term.
Should you try it? Although lymphatic drainage massage may not provide strik- ing results or offer any lasting improvements, “there’s not really any downside,” Dr. Kim said. The massage method is safe and relaxing for most people, and facial rollers and gua sha tools are inexpensive, costing about $10 to $20. If you’re curious to try it, he said, wash your face to start, and make sure your hands or mas- sage tools are clean. Some people apply moisturizers, serums or other skin care products with facial rollers or gua sha tools. Use “light pressure,” said Lilli Benck, medical director of mas- sage therapy at University Hos- pitals in Cleveland. Massage in one direction at a time (not back and forth), “up away from the center of the face toward the neck,” hairline or ears, she said. Then, massage the neck and around the clavicle. Repeat these movements for about five min- utes. Applying too much pressure or massaging too aggressively could cause bruising, irritation or swelling, or you could break blood vessels, which isn’t harm- ful but may look unsightly, the experts said. If you’re unsure about the proper technique, Dr. Benck recommended seeing a massage therapist for guidance. And if your face is chronically puffy no matter what you do, Dr. Shah suggested seeing a doctor to rule out a medical condition, like an allergy, lymphedema or hormon- al changes.
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A study suggests that traffic fatalities spike after deadly high-profile gun violence.
By RONI CARYN RABIN
On the day after a deadly mass shooting in the United States, when media coverage and internet searches reach their peak, traffic fatalities appear to spike, a new study has found. The finding, published this month in the medical journal JAMA Psychiatry, suggests only that there is a link between deadly shootings and a rise in fatal car accidents; it does not demonstrate cause and effect. But the study, by researchers at Harvard Medi- cal School, raises the question of whether there is a causal relationship, and if so, what the mechanism behind it might be. The study examined traffic fatalities be- fore and after mass shootings in the United States from 2008 to 2023. On the day after the 10 shootings that had the highest death toll — with 13 to 58 people having been killed — deaths from car accidents in-
Ways Your Liver Could Be at Risk
Steps to prevent diseases or cancer can start with changing your diet and exercise routines.
By NINA AGRAWAL
The liver is a powerful organ: It filters our blood, helps maintain sugar levels, stores energy and plays an essential role in diges- tion. A poor diet, a lack of exercise and other medical conditions can contribute to liver disease and liver cancer, both of which are on the rise globally. It’s often possible to prevent liver dis- ease, or even reverse it, with diet and life- style changes alone. Here’s what can help, as well as which habits might be causing harm.
THE WORST HABITS Drinking Too Much Alcohol Regular alcohol consumption, metabolic dysfunction or a combination of both can contribute to something called steatotic liver disease. Fat accumulates in the liver and can lead to inflammation, scarring and cirrhosis, said Dr. Zoubair Younossi, chair of the Global Center for Liver Outcomes & Pol- icy Research at Georgetown University School of Medicine. In people with metabolic issues like Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or excess abdominal fat, modest alcohol consumption can compound liver damage, Dr. Younossi said. Binge drinking (consuming five or more drinks on one occasion) is the most harmful. For people with advanced liver disease, doctors recommend avoiding alcohol alto- gether. But with milder or no disease, up to one drink per day may be acceptable, though none is better, said Dr. Mary Rinella, director of metabolic and fatty liver disease at the University of Chicago.
creased by 14.3 percent on average, when compared with the average during the 10 days preceding the event, meaning that about 20 additional lives were lost on roads. Dr. Anupam B. Jena, a physician and economist at Harvard Medical School and the paper’s senior author, said that he and his colleagues believed there was most likely a causal relationship between the shootings and the traffic fatalities. “We think the shootings create an envi- ronment where several things are happen- ing,” he said. “You’re driving, you’re getting pinged on your phone, you’re seeing a lot of breaking alerts, people are calling you — you are literally distracted.” But some experts on gun violence were more skeptical. “To suggest that the nearly 20 more mo- tor vehicle deaths on the day following a high-profile mass shooting was anything but a coincidence is methodologically un- sound and impossible to validate,” said Jaclyn Schildkraut of the Regional Gun Vio- lence Research Consortium at the Rockefel- ler Institute of Government in Albany. Others said they were skeptical of the
chinery gets overwhelmed,” and liver cells become stressed, Dr. Rinella said. Insulin resistance, which can occur with chronic overconsumption of sugar, also contributes to fat buildup in the liver. There’s a wealth of evidence linking high sugar consumption, particularly from sug- ary beverages, to metabolic dysfunction-as- sociated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, said Shira Zelber-Sagi, a clinical dietitian and epidemiologist at the University of Haifa in Israel. Added sugars like high fructose corn syr- up, which is present in many ultraprocessed foods and sodas, are particularly damaging to the liver. Guidelines recommend women consume no more than 25 grams and men no more than 36 grams of added sugar daily. Dr. Zelber-Sagi tells patients they can have the occasional slice of cake, but they should absolutely avoid sugar-sweetened drinks. “It creates a very strong habit and we don’t need it,” she said.
Relying on Supplements Dawn Anderson, a clinical dietitian at Vir- ginia Commonwealth University, said pa- tients often ask her about liver cleanses, detoxes and supplements like milk thistle and mushroom coffee. There is little evi- dence these unregulated products have any liver benefits, experts said. “Your liver is al- ready your body’s detoxification system; it does not need a cleanse,” Ms. Anderson said. And these products may cause harm if they contain unknown ingredients or exces- sive quantities of certain ingredients.
THE BEST HABITS Maintaining a Healthy Weight Losing weight can help reduce fat buildup, inflammation and scarring in the liver. Just a 3-percent reduction in body weight can improve liver health markers, but 10 per- cent or more is needed to reverse scarring. GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, which are ap- proved to treat an advanced type of MASLD, have been “a game-changer,” Dr. Zelber-Sagi said. But they must be used in
study at first, and that they were concerned that the main conclusion had been based on only 10 mass shootings. But several noted that the paper’s authors went to great lengths to make sure that the findings were sound, including looking at 100 of the deadli- est mass shootings and finding an increase in traffic accidents, albeit a smaller one. James Densley of the nonprofit Violence Prevention Project Research Center based at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., said that the study was a “well-built natural experiment,” and that the pattern “is hard to explain as a fluke.” He noted that other studies have shown that car crash fatalities increase when in- come taxes are due in the United States. Some research has also linked mass shoot- ings to mental health consequences, includ- ing an increase in prescriptions for anti- depressants for young people. “There is also psychological distraction” for drivers, Dr. Jena said. “You get an alert that 58 people were killed in a mass shoot- ing, and that has a psychological impact — you’re thinking about something else while you should be thinking about driving.”
conjunction with exercise, particularly strength training, because muscle loss can worsen outcomes in people with MASLD. Engaging in at least 150 minutes of aero- bic activity, and strength training twice a week, helps reduce abdominal fat and insu- lin resistance, Dr. Zelber-Sagi said.
Aiming for a Specific Diet The Mediterranean diet, which centers on fresh fruits, vegetables, fish and legumes and is rich in healthy fats, has been shown to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, a leading cause of death in people with non- alcoholic liver disease. It is low in saturated fats, which are found in red meat, dairy and palm oil and can increase fat in the liver. But it’s not always practical to stick strictly to the diet, experts acknowledged. Ms. Anderson said that while many of her patients follow a traditional Southern diet, they can incorporate Mediterranean ele- ments. “We can have collard greens, cab- bage, maybe a summer squash, a cucumber and onion salad,” she said. For protein she suggests adding fish or white meat and cutting back on fatty cuts of red meat. She also encourages people to grill, rather than fry, and to use butter only for flavoring. Lastly, coffee (up to four cups a day) has been shown in animal studies to reduce fat and scar formation in the liver, and is associ- ated in humans with a lower risk of cirrho- sis, Dr. Rinella said.
Staying Current on Primary Care Hepatitis B and hepatitis C are significant drivers of liver disease worldwide. All adults should be screened for hepatitis C at least once, and vaccinated against hepatitis B if they weren’t as babies, Dr. Rinella said. Primary care doctors can do these screenings. They can also estimate your liver disease risk with the help of routine lab results. If you have Type 2 diabetes, you should talk to your doctor about getting liver stiff- ness testing, which can show progressing liver disease.
Alarmed in West Texas
With plans for a border wall, some wonder how long the natural darkness may last.
By KATRINA MILLER Photographs by EMILY ELCONIN
Unfettered access to the cosmos is an inte- gral part of the landscape in Terlingua, a ghost town in West Texas, and across the Big Bend region. It has fostered a communi- ty of dark sky defenders, who regularly ward off threats like too-bright store signs and intrusive car headlights. Now, they’re facing something far great- er: the construction of President Trump’s border wall, which residents across the Big Bend fear will bring bright lighting along land that is currently untouched. Lighting has already been installed along stretches of the border in Arizona and far- ther east in Texas. “That technology is there, and it is literally a flip of a switch away,” said Billy Bartko, the director of Ter- lingua’s Far Flung Outdoor Center, “which is what we’re all afraid of.” For residents along the border, it’s about more than just seeing the stars. The natural darkness symbolizes a lack of development, a rural way of life. According to David Keller, an archaeolo- gist and Big Bend historian, dark-sky main- tenance protects the natural country of the place. “That’s why I’m here, and that’s why most people who live here are here,” he said. “It’s a national treasure. It’s too important to lose.” The preservation of the Big Bend’s dark skies results from laws enacted as far back as 1975, originally to support astronomy at the region’s McDonald Observatory. In 2012, Big Bend National Park was formally certified as the region’s first dark sky site, followed by a state park and a wildlife area. Today, those places live inside the largest dark sky reserve on Earth, established in 2022 and spanning more than nine million acres across the U.S.-Mexico border. “What that timeline shows you is how long dark sky preservation and conserva- tion has been in the minds of the people managing resources here,” said Amber Harrison, who lives in Terlingua and is a leader of the region’s dark sky protections. Any lighting that comes with the wall, she added, could cause the region to lose its dark sky status. If widespread enough, the illumination could affect science observations at Mc- Donald, according to Stephen Hummel, who coordinates the observatory’s dark sky outreach. But others are more concerned about what it will do to the character of the land. “Most of us aren’t worried about if we’re going to be able to haul out our telescopes and see Jupiter tonight,” said Mr. Keller, a leader of a local coalition called No Big Bend Wall. “It’s an umbrella for other things.” The loss could also disrupt a budding eco- nomic avenue. Stargazing was the second- most reported activity in the region, accord- ing to a tourism survey conducted in 2022. Cosmic attractions in Big Bend have grown over the past few years, especially in Terlingua. Visitors can camp out in stargaz- ing pods off the highway and participate in astrophotography workshops through the town’s outdoor center. A group of locals are digging an amphitheater, part of the new Terlingua Star Park, to begin hosting star parties this fall. Universe enthusiasts abroad can even ship their telescopes to the park’s remote observatory, which opened this month. Illumination from the wall could abruptly
end those business ventures. “If they light this thing up, it’ll kill the tourism dollar,” Mr. Bartko said. Referring to the industrial ap- pearance of the wall, he added, “Who goes to prison for vacation?” Apprehension about the wall in Big Bend surfaced earlier this year. Shifting informa- tion about what is being built where has caused more unease among residents, who say the region’s harsh terrain makes a phys- ical barrier unnecessary. In a statement to The New York Times, a spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that the wall would include “a mix of lighting based on location and op- erational needs” and that not all parts would be illuminated. The spokesperson added that lighting would be avoided in re- mote areas in favor of “other operationally superior methods,” like infrared illumina- tors. The latest version of a map on the C.B.P. website shows roughly 165 miles of wall planned for construction along the Big Bend border, adjacent to several small towns and up to the edge of Big Bend Ranch State Park. According to the map, detection technology and patrol roads will be used in lieu of a wall along the border closest to Ter- lingua and next to the state and national parks. But in an area that is dark and open, light
Billy Bartko, who owns the Far Flung Outdoor Center in Terlingua, Texas.
From top: part of the border wall outside El Paso; a stargazing pod for visitors outside Terlingua; and Amber Harrison, a Terlingua resident who is a leader of the region’s dark sky preservation.
just the lighting associated with the wall, it’s the lighting associated with all the auxiliary things that are going to be coming with it,” Ms. Harrison said. “The impacts are poten- tially immediate.” On an evening in April, the sun dipped low in the vast sky over Terlingua. A black dog with a blue Christmas light around her neck (to be seen at night, the owner ex- plained) sauntered toward a saloon called the Starlight Theater. As the town plunged into darkness, clouds spoiled any view of the stars. But that did not stop Terlinguans from appreci- ating the natural darkness of night. “It’s very important to us,” said Adrienne Evans, one of two sisters shutting up shop at Milky Way Treats, an ice cream truck pa- pered with fliers about the border wall. “We don’t have porch lights.” Ms. Evans and her sister said that Big Bend residents — even those who voted for Mr. Trump — were energized and united against the wall because of a desire to keep the place wild. Valerie Stanley, the sister who owns the ice cream truck, moved from Houston to Terlingua in 2020. “Being able to look up and see the Milky Way, it just kind of shifted my life,” she said. “Now I’m living a differ- ent life with all this beauty that I never re- ally knew was here.”
Julia Belluz, Alliance Led By Nvidia Will Address, Also Baffles The Chinese
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| 内容缺失 (Omission) | 致命 | 完整删除 Guy Tudor 相关的所有正文 | 源文关于鸟类和蝴蝶的内容在译文中完全消失 |
| 文本篡改 (Fabrication) | 致命 | 将不相关的警官故事强行插入 | "史蒂文·麦克唐纳（Steven McDonald）警官..." |
| 交付缺陷 (Labeling) | 高 | 保留了内部处理标签和清理注释 | "（注：此处插入一段关于古巴的碎片文字）" |
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