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巴基斯坦的商业主们一直渴望能有机会恢复与伊朗漫长边境沿线的贸易。第 A4 页。 准备迎接和平，开放商业贸易
针对《纽约时报》 的传票
作者：迈克尔·M·格林鲍姆 (MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM) 与 乔纳·E·布罗姆维奇 (JONAH E. BROMWICH)
美国司法部在周四撤回了此前要求获取《纽约时报》记者电话记录和大陪审团证词的传票。这些记者此前报道了由卡塔尔捐赠的、特朗普总统新空军一号飞机的安保能力。 在一名联邦法官就美国司法部处理这些传票的方式（《纽约时报》曾寻求撤销这些传票）对其律师进行了近 1 小时的质询后，政府采取了此次行动。该新闻机构称，这些传票旨在恐吓其记者。 阿伦·苏布拉马尼安法官在曼哈顿美国地方法院的一次听证会上表示，如果政府遵循适当的程序，并不妨碍其再次向《纽约时报》记者发出传票。 此案是特朗普政府试图加大对独立新闻机构压力的一个高关注度实例。在特朗普先生对《纽约时报》披露其新飞机的相关信息感到愤怒后，政府发出了这些传票，其中部分传票是由联邦特工在记者家中递交的。特朗普总统本月曾驾驶该飞机前往土耳其并热切地向外界展示。 在《纽约时报》发布报道后不久，白宫指示联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔开展泄密调查，以揭露向该报提供信息的机密来源。
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作者：克里斯蒂娜·朱厄特 (CHRISTINA JEWETT) 与 达娜·G·史密斯 (DANA G. SMITH) 专家组支持扩大 3 种有争议药物的使用范围
食品药品监督管理局的一个顾问小组在周四驳回了该机构科学家的担忧，投票支持允许广泛生产认知尚浅的多肽疗法。其中几位顾问本身就是实验性多肽的销售商。 在为期两天的会议的第一天接近尾声时，针对 3 种不同多肽产品的投票结果显示
国家 A11-17 昂贵的风暴重建
国际 A4-10 俄罗斯零售支柱成为目标
作者：CHOE SANG-HUN
首尔——暴雨猛烈地拍打着一艘单薄的木船，船在汹涌的海面上颠簸，发动机在波涛中艰难运转。三年前的一个暴风雨之夜，这艘船正试图逃离北朝鲜。
船上有九个人，包括两个小孩和一名怀孕六个月的女性。乘客中只有寥寥几人具有航海经验。他们避开了巡逻船，飞速驶过全球守卫最严密的海洋边界。
在他们的船冲入韩国海域后不久，一艘韩国海军的高速军舰迅速向其逼近，激起巨大的水花
[[IMG_XXXX]] 金侑美（Kim Yu-mi），一名北朝鲜脱北者，于六月出现在她位于首尔的母亲公寓入口处。 作者：WOOHAE CHO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
以咄咄逼人的态势地围拢。船上的狙击手将激光瞄准镜对准了木船上三名成年男性的胸口。
一个声音通过扩音器轰鸣地响起：“你们迷路了吗？发动机出问题了？”
北朝鲜人大声喊道：“请帮帮我们。我们要脱北。”
红点依然顽固地固定在他们的胸前。韩国方面不愿冒任何风险：这三名男子穿着北朝鲜军装，这是为了这场高风险逃亡而进行的伪装。在绝望中，这几名男子向船舱狭小的货舱内大喊，让其他乘客出来，以证明他们是平民。
首先被拉上来的是两个孩子，一个 5 岁的小女孩和一个 3 岁的小男孩，两人都因为晕船而脸色苍白、身体消瘦。直到那时，红点才消失。
这群北朝鲜人由金一赫（Kim Il-hyeok）及其弟弟二赫（Yi-hyeok）带领，他们由血缘和婚姻联系在一起。两兄弟当时均在 30 多岁，随行人员包括他们的母亲及其家属：一赫当时怀孕的伴侣，以及二赫的妻子、他们的两个孩子，还有他的岳母和内兄。
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乘海逃往韩国
相同的计票结果为 8 比 6，赞成允许专业药房生产并销售多肽治疗药物。关于另外 3 种多肽的投票定于周五进行。
这些投票不具约束力，但它们是对食品药品监督管理局（FDA）科学家的指责，后者表示，目前考虑的多肽药物的风险和收益尚未得到充分研究。
监管食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）长期以来一直支持取消对多肽的限制。在周四听证会前的几周里，他的办公室在由学者和医生组成的审核委员会中提名了 8 名新成员，其中 6 人曾销售多肽产品（其中一些已被禁用），且这些产品的健康声明缺乏足够的科学依据。
商业 B1-5 撤离开放网络 在成功与争议之间，Tarik Skubal 对关注并不陌生。随着美国职业棒球大联盟（M.L.B.）交易截止日期的临近，这位老虎队的王牌投手将再次成为主角。 第 B6 页
随着谷歌将更多人工智能（A.I.）整合到搜索中，人们在谷歌上花费的时间增加了。有些人对此表示不满。第 B1 页
投资者押注油价将下跌 期货合约反映出一种预期，即低供应和中期选举可能会导致紧张局势缓解。 第 B1 页
“我认为，我们看到了对咨询委员会程序的极其严重的滥用，旨在实现没有科学依据的目标，”公众利益科学中心（Center for Science in the Public Interest）主席彼得·卢里（Peter Lurie）博士说道。
委员会面临的具体问题是，食品药品监督管理局（FDA）是否应允许专业药房生产 7 种多肽产品，这些产品三年前因安全顾虑被该机构禁用。
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周末艺术 C1-8 展示她自己的天赋 作者：ASIM HAFEEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
加剧恐惧
特朗普扩大威胁
本文由 Max Bearak, Leo Sands 和 Thomas Fuller 撰写。
周四，油价自五月以来首次触及每桶 $100，此前与伊朗结盟的武装分子表示，他们在红海袭击了两艘沙特油轮，这引发了人们对另一条关键航道可能被封锁的恐惧，并将给全球经济带来一系列连锁反应。特朗普总统表示，他将要求伊朗为胡塞武装（控制着也门大部分地区）的任何进一步袭击承担责任。他还威胁要扩大战争规模，将该组织本身纳入其中。这一警告是在美国和伊朗在整个中东地区连续第 12 个夜晚进行相互打击之后发出的。胡塞武装声称的这次海上袭击，是该组织本周早些时候宣布封锁沙特船只以来的首次。特朗普先生在帖子中写道，如果胡塞武装再次袭击任何船只，“伊朗以及当然包括胡塞武装本身，都将受到严重的军事惩罚，我对他们感到非常失望，因为直到现在，他们的行动一直非常专业且聪明。”随着伊朗与美国之间的停火协议支离破碎，众议院的民主党人和少数共和党人周四第二次投票，要求特朗普先生寻求国会授权以维持美国军队参与战争。总统实际上忽略了上个月的一次类似谴责。参议院以 49 对 47 的投票结果反对采取其自身的战争权力决议。当美国和伊朗在六月份达成协议停止敌对行动并重新开放霍尔木兹海峡时，油价骤降至战前水平。依赖中东供应的国家们对这次喘息机会感到欣悦，此前这场危机导致数千架航班被取消，并削减了数亿人的预算。使用柴油进行灌溉和机械作业的农民以及化肥等石油化工产品的使用者受创尤为严重。在协议公布时，特朗普先生宣布：“全世界的船只，启动发动机。让石油流动起来！”本月早些时候停火协议的崩溃以及每日空袭的恢复，已经使石油进口国重新进入危机模式。而现在，胡塞武装分子的介入
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以向无证移民施压
特朗普政府正在积极部署一种强有力的工具，以压力促使无证移民自行驱逐出境——即总额可高达 $1.8 million 的民事罚款。 超过 100,000 人收到了来自国土安全部的信函，告知他们在移民法官判定其没有合法留在境内权利后，在美国停留的每一天需缴纳 $998。 对未能遵守“遣返”命令而开出的罚款，自 1996. 年移民立法通过以来便已获准。然而，直到特朗普总统之前，没有哪位三军统帅实施过此类处罚。他在第一任期内尝试这样做时遇到了后勤障碍，从未取得进展。 但在去年重返白宫并开始其
体育 B6-10 拥抱聚光灯
非正规赛季的星光
沙特与以色列 建立关系
条款变更使沙特王国 在加沙战争愤怒情绪中陷入困境
作者：DAVID E. SANGER 与 KAROUN DEMIRJIAN
华盛顿 —— 在美国与沙特阿拉伯签署一项具有里程碑意义的核协议一天后，特朗普总统向该王国出售反应堆增加了一项新条件，宣布整个协议现在取决于沙特是否愿意与以色列建立外交关系。
特朗普先生在其社交媒体网站的一篇帖子中表示，该协议“完全取决于沙特阿拉伯是否加入备受推崇且成功的亚伯拉罕协议”，指的是一系列使以色列与包括巴林和阿拉伯联合酋长国在内的其他国家关系正常化的协议。
[[IMG_HAIYUN JIANG/THE NEW YORK TIMES]] 王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼与特朗普总统。
在该政府周三宣布协议已签署的公告中，并未提及任何此类条件，且协议文本尚未公布。但特朗普先生的社交媒体帖子让该协议的近期前景变得不明朗。沙特政府已明确表示，在没有为建立巴勒斯坦国开辟路径的情况下，无意承认以色列。
特朗普先生的帖子并未提——
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新关税，新战略
在之前的关税即将到期之际，特朗普政府准备实施与强迫劳动挂钩的新全球关税。B1 页。
作者：MIRIAM JORDAN
大规模驱逐行动中，特朗普总统下令采取“一切适当行动，以确保对非法在美人员的所有罚款和处罚进行评估和征收”。
现在，随着政府寻求增加对无证移民的财务压力，据移民律师称，罚款的速度正在加快。
对于收到通知的移民来说，这些通知成了痛苦的最后通牒：要么放弃他们建立的生活，要么在政府采取债务催收行动时面临财务崩溃的威胁。即使在五年的法定期限内，累计处罚金额每人可达 $1.8 million。
Vivi Vasquez 是一名墨西哥移民，在美国生活了 17 年，并且有一项……
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视频 五角大楼一直扣押关于伊朗战争的细节。Helene Cooper 解释了透明度的缺乏如何反映出五角大楼关于作战安全的声明与美国公众知情权之间的紧张关系。请观看 nytimes.com/video。
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音频 在 “Cannonball” 播客中，Wesley Morris 和 The Ringer 内容负责人 Sean Fennessey 深入探讨了史诗电影《奥德赛》以及导演克里斯托弗·诺兰职业生涯的演变。nytimes.com/cannonball
及美国经济未来的咨询
The Morning 通讯团队经常邀请读者就新闻提出问题，然后寻找最能解答这些问题的《纽约时报》驻地记者。近期，读者询问的问题包括国家债务、驱逐出境以及一项旨在增加住房供应的新法律等。SAM SIFTON
最近，我们的一位美国参议院候选人“暂停了竞选”。现在缅因州的格雷厄姆·普拉特纳（Graham Platner）也这么做了。当候选人在选举前退出时，竞选捐款会如何处理？DANA SAXON，
密歇根州，格罗斯波因特法姆斯（GROSSE POINTE FARMS, MICH.）
负责竞选资金报道的西奥多·施莱费尔（Theodore Schleifer）写道：退出（或落选）的候选人几乎总是保留他们筹集到的资金。他们没有退还现金的义务——只是不能将其据为己有用于个人用途。落选候选人可以将数百万美元资金持有多年，将资金转移给州党组织等其他实体，或将其用于资助未来的竞选活动。唯一会向捐赠者退款的情况是，如果候选人接受了明确指定用于大选的资金，但未能进入大选阶段。
那些突然被驱逐出美国的人，其资产会如何处理？许多人拥有房产、银行账户等。联邦政府会接管这些资产吗？HEATHER CULLEN，
安大略省，滑铁卢（WATERLOO, ONTARIO）
负责移民报道的米里亚姆·乔丹（Miriam Jordan）写道：被驱逐出境的人保留其房屋、车辆、银行账户和个人物品的法律所有权。然而，从实际操作来看，他们在海外可能难以获取自己的资产。这意味着他们面临失去毕生积蓄和财产的风险。律师通常建议有被驱逐风险的人员向信任的朋友或家庭成员授予委托书，以管理其事务。
现在《住房之路法案》（ROAD to Housing Act）正式成为法律，这对我们这些租房者（以及希望成为未来购房者的人）意味着什么？我可以期待任何快速的补救措施吗？ANNA LAMB，雪松城，
犹他州（CEDAR CITY, UTAH）
负责房地产报道的 Ronda Kaysen 写道：这部法律采取的是长期策略。其逻辑是，如果你消除监管、分区和融资障碍，房屋建筑商将会建造更多房屋，从而稳定或降低房价。但该法案在几个方面将产生立即影响。它保护了农村社区现有的租房补贴。它将私有化公共住房中租户的保护措施法典化。此外，它授权开展一项针对小额抵押贷款的试点计划，这类贷款除了在农村地区外很难获得。关于预制房屋（也就是你可能认为的拖车房）的规则也有所变化。法律将使购买此类房屋的贷款申请变得更容易，并取消了房屋必须安装在钢底盘上的要求，这可能会降低建造和购买成本。
视觉资料揭示美国军事基地近期受损情况 在中东地区，《纽约时报》对视频片段和卫星图像的分析揭露了在最近一次冲突爆发期间，伊朗打击中东地区美国目标的更多细节。《时报》记者写道，这些攻击导致了生活区、工作区、无人机掩体、雷达系统及其他建筑受损。
如何吃掉一条 2,000 磅的鱼？这些虎鲸选择将其粉碎 在墨西哥下加利福尼亚州海岸附近，一群虎鲸采取了一种残酷的方式来猎杀太阳鱼（世界上最大的骨鱼）：通过一种不寻常的动作，虎鲸们将这些巨鱼撞碎。一位海洋生物学家告诉《时报》：“这就像踢足球一样，每个人都有自己的角色。”
“查理·柯克纪念公路”标志遭到抵制 来自越南退伍军人：田纳西州萨姆纳县的越南退伍军人反对在一段公路路段设立旨在纪念遇害保守派活动人士查理·柯克的官方标志，该路段自 1987. 起就被指定为越南退伍军人大道。这些标志于上月首次出现在纳什维尔北部的萨姆纳县 386 号州道上。
观点 | Z世代失去了雄心。也许他们找到了更好的东西。“认同自己的工作已不再是当下的氛围，”记者兼作家埃米·尼特费尔德在为《时报》观点板块撰写的特邀文章中写道。“最有动力的人们仍在奋斗，但他们的雄心与我在大学时代的样子截然不同。”这篇文章收到了超过 2,000 条读者评论。
民主党人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳本月结束了他在缅因州竞选美国参议员的活动。
一座正在南卡罗来纳州建设的房屋。一项新法律消除了房屋建设的一些障碍。
新的儿童储蓄账户是否是某种特朗普骗局？“如果看起来好得令人难以置信，那它很可能就是骗局。”陷阱在哪里？来自阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利的 JEAN TRIBBLE 问。
个人理财记者塔拉·西格尔·伯纳德写道：不是骗局！任何持有社会保障号码且年龄在 18 岁以下公民都可以开设这种税收优惠投资账户，而 2025 年至 2028 年出生的婴儿可以获得联邦政府 1,000 美元的存款。这是免费资金，没有任何附加条件。 个人每年最多可向这些账户存入 5,000 美元。慈善家和政府可以进行无限制存款。科技亿万富翁迈克尔·戴尔及其妻子，以及美国芯片制造商美光公司已经向该计划承诺巨额资金。 先锋领航（Vanguard）估计，一个从出生起每年获得 1,000 美元的孩子到 18 岁时将拥有约 32,000 美元。届时，人们被允许将资金提取用于特定目的，如大学教育或购房。（他们也可以让其作为退休账户继续增长。）这是一个不错的起跑优势。
在回答之前关于国家债务的问题时，您提到一些经济学家预测美国将在 20 年左右发生违约。这对我们的经济意味着什么？来自新奥尔良的 JONNIE BETH BRYAN 问。
《早报》记者埃文·戈雷利克写道：这有点像多米诺骨牌。借贷成本可能会飙升，导致企业资金枯竭，从而使经济陷入危机。 沃顿学院经济学家肯特·斯梅特斯表示，解决方案一直是一样的——提高税收或削减支出——但如果我们等待太久，这些方法将失效。还有一个最后的选择：印钱。但这样做会使货币贬值，让每个人都变得更穷。 这是一个进退两难的局面。因此，我们集体在打赌，在这种情况发生之前，我们能通过增长走出这个困境。如果经济规模扩大——例如由于人工智能带来的生产力繁荣——政府可能会收取足够的税收来偿还数十年前的债务。
请将您的疑问发送至 Morning 团队：nytimes.com/morning-questions。
那些可怜的异性恋者
2003年7月24日。“《异装男改造直男》（Queer Eye for the Straight Guy）‘与其说是关于性身份，不如说是关于紧急生活方式修复，’”电视评论员亚历山德拉·斯坦利（Alessandra Stanley）在她的《纽约时报》评论中写道。这部真人秀节目讲述了五名男同性子被指派在每一集中改造一名“可怜的异性恋者”的形象和家居环境，该节目于当月在 Bravo 频道首播。在当晚于 NBC（Bravo 的母网）播出的首集节目中，这组被称为“ Fabulous Five”的男人们指导了一名木匠布莱恩·谢佩尔（Brian Schepel）。这个过程并非没有挑战：“当室内装饰师汤姆（Thom）告诉他，在他那狭小、拥挤且肮脏的公寓里所有东西都很丑时，他回答道：‘嘿，但它们风格很统一，对吧？’”
该系列节目后来将标题缩写为《Queer Eye》，共播出了五季，于 2007 年完结。Netflix 在 2018 年用新卡司重启了该节目；其第 10 季也是最后一季于 1 月发布。
RYAN DAVID BROWN 为 纽约时报
WILL CROOKS 为 纽约时报
趣味事实
一份新报告称，到 2050, 年，纽约州在与气候变化相关的基础设施支出上预计将超过 5000 亿（half a trillion）美元。
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 我在访问诊所时感到震惊的是，外国人与反移民活动人士之间的争论集中在如今成为南非人意味着什么。
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 反移民活动人士将出生在南非的人拒之门外，因为他们的父母来自其他非洲国家。他们并不关心这个人是否合法在境内。
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 他们已将自己的不满转化为一场全国性的反移民运动，这在南非引发了其他非洲国家的强烈批评。
风暴损害的昂贵维修 只会变得更加糟糕 A11
根据 Cloudflare 的数据，越来越多的人通过 A.I. 聊天机器人进行互联网搜索，而访问网站的人数则在下降。目前，总共有超过 50 percent 的网络流量为非人类流量。
谷歌使用 A.I. 圈禁互联网 B1
巴基斯坦经济严重依赖于中国和沙特阿拉伯等外国贷款方。巴基斯坦有 4 个邻国，但由于紧张局势持续，它与其中 2 个邻国（印度和阿富汗）没有正式贸易。
伊朗的巴基斯坦邻国渴望 达成一项协议，任何协议，以结束战争 A4
罗马雷·比尔登（Romare Bearden）的《工厂工人的午餐桶》（Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket）是一幅 1978 年的拼贴画，描绘了寄宿之家的住户，它启发了奥古斯特·威尔逊（August Wilson）撰写《乔·特纳来了又走》（Joe Turner’s Come and Gone）。该剧在百老汇的复排版将于周日闭幕。
启发了一位剧作家的 艺术作品 C1
在西班牙，一个古老的刻板印象认为，来自该国温暖地区的足球队采取一种专注于控球的风格，而来自寒冷多风北部的球队则踢物理对抗强且直接的足球。
炎热天气提升了 世界杯比赛水平 B7
堕胎在 30 个州和华盛顿特区被广泛合法化；自 2022 年最高法院推翻“罗诉韦德案”（Roe v. Wade）以来，有 13 个州基本上禁止了该手术；另有 6 个州规定了在怀孕 6 到 12 周之间实施限制。
州议会通过法案 以放宽堕胎限制 A16
迷你填字游戏
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7/24/2026 作者：乔尔·法格利亚诺 (JOEL FAGLIANO)
横向
1 海绵宝宝用作电话的东西
6 电话接听词
7 遵循伊斯兰饮食法
8 手表的显示屏
9 “小心你的 ___！”
纵向
1 “安静，你这个！”
2 咖啡 ___ 棒脆 (Coffee ___ Bar Crunch，经典的 Ben & Jerry’s 口味)
3 《办公室》中的演员 肯珀 (Kemper)
4 秘鲁的驮畜
5 对有趣的迷因（meme）做出反应，非正式用语
读者之角 来自评论论坛
德克萨斯州正在敲定该州 5.4 million 名公立学校学生的必读清单。教育记者莎拉·默沃什（Sarah Mervosh）公布了该清单，重点是经典文本，包括《圣经》摘录。她询问读者：如果你负责，你会如何修改此清单？以下回复经过编辑。
作为一名专注于初中和高中课程的读写教授，我会去掉许多被视为经典的图书和剧本，融入更多当代小说和青少年小说。后者可以教授相同的主题和文学常规，同时能吸引年轻读者！经典文学是为具有足够背景知识和成熟度的成年观众而写的。教育者能做的最糟糕的事就是让学生厌恶阅读，而这份清单恰恰会这么做。
— 约翰·W·怀特 (JOHN W. WHITE)，科罗拉多州，波尔德
我绝对不会在其中加入任何来自《新国际读本》圣经的阅读材料。那个版本的文学价值已被抽干，剩下的全是平庸的文字。
—— 杰德·莱文（JED LEVIN），纽约州，黑斯廷斯-昂-哈德逊
在 20 世纪教授英语时，我认为有必要让孩子们阅读在文化上对他们步入社会至关重要的内容：识别文学典故（寓言、圣经、神话、莎士比亚）；将他们的世界理解为多元文化且种族多样；通过文学帮助他们认识自己；为了乐趣而广泛阅读，甚至是他们在老师轻微指导下自行选择的“垃圾”读物。德克萨斯州的经典教材让我想起了 50 和 60 年代的英语课程。
—— 杰奎琳·马丁代尔（JACQUELINE MARTINDALE），威斯康星州，太阳草原
现场报道 分享报道项目的关键洞察
Nozie Khoza（中心）和“三月与三月”（March and March）运动敦促外国人离开南非。
《纽约时报》约翰内斯堡分社社长约翰·埃利根（John Eligon）一直在报道南非日益增长的反移民情绪，当地活动人士正采取极端手段骚扰来自非洲其他国家的移民。他的最新文章于周四出现在首页。埃利根先生在下方分享了他的报道笔记。
在过去一年的南非，我听到了几个关于反移民活动人士阻止外国人进入公共医疗设施的故事。于是我决定亲自去核实。
为了帮助您 帕玛森鸡肉堡食谱
当帕玛森鸡肉被重新打造为适合阳光明媚的日子和温暖夜晚的快捷汉堡时，它避免了许多鸡肉堡的缺陷。由于加入了帕玛森芝士、香草、大蒜和番茄膏，这个肉饼既多汁又美味。如果没有一层马苏里拉芝士，这些汉堡就不能算作是对帕玛森鸡肉的恰当致敬。 ALI SLAGLE
时间：30 分钟
产出：4 人份
1 汤匙加 ½ 茶匙橄榄油，根据需要增加 1 磅鸡肉末或火鸡肉末 ½ 杯加 2 汤匙细磨帕玛森芝士 ¼ 杯切碎的罗勒或欧芹叶 2 汤匙番茄膏 2 瓣大蒜，细磨 犹太盐（如 Diamond Crystal 品牌） 4 片（每片 ¼ 英寸厚）大熟番茄片 ½ 杯磨碎的新鲜或低水分马苏里拉芝士 4 个汉堡面包或恰巴塔面包卷 芝麻菜，用于配餐
我与一名活动人士共同生活了几个月，以了解她的观点。她代表了许多认为移民是其痛苦根源的南非人。
请在 nytimes.com/africa 阅读埃利根先生的报道。
DANE TASHIMA 为《纽约时报》拍摄
用中火在大型煎锅中加热 ½ 茶匙橄榄油。放入面包，切面朝下，煎至金棕色，约 2 到 3 分钟。转移至盛盘中。
用中火在煎锅中加热 1 汤匙橄榄油。如有必要，分批放入肉饼，煎至底部呈棕色，约 3 到 5 分钟。（如果肉饼烧焦，请降低火力。）翻转肉饼，在顶部铺上芝士混合物，用锅盖或烤盘盖住煎锅，继续烹饪直到芝士融化且肉饼完全熟透，约 3 到 5 分钟。关火。
JOAO SILVA/《纽约时报》
面对腐烂的水果 在停火协议结束后
作者：ELIAN PELTIER
巴基斯坦，卡拉奇 —— 巴基斯坦的企业主们正渴望和平。芒果出口商古拉姆·穆斯塔法（Ghulam Mustafa）在由巴基斯坦调停、美国与伊朗于上月签署停火协议后，立即将装满饱满水果的集装箱运往巴基斯坦与伊朗的边境。但停火协议已经崩溃，货车被迫折返，穆斯塔法先生的芒果正在腐烂。“我们发送产品，却不知道它们能否过境还是会被拦截，”穆斯塔法先生说道。近日的一个早晨，我在他的办公室与他交谈，他当时正在观看司机发来的视频，视频中显示满箱的水果已经变质，从未到达伊朗买家手中。对于他以及卡拉奇（巴基斯坦最大的城市及其商业中心）的其他企业主来说，伊朗战争结束所带来的经济利益至关重要。和平不仅意味着燃料价格下降，还意味着终于有机会利用好紧邻 565 英里边境的庞大贸易伙伴。
巴基斯坦经济陷入困境，严重依赖中国和沙特阿拉伯等外国贷款方。作为一个拥有 250 million 人口的国家，巴基斯坦有四个邻国，但由于持续紧张的关系，与其中两个（印度和阿富汗）没有正式贸易。来自第三个邻国中国的投资今年下降了近 30 percent。贸易商和企业家们将希望寄托在与第四个邻国伊朗改善关系上。“巴基斯坦的情况非常紧急，”常驻卡拉奇的经济学家凯撒·本加利（Kaiser Bengali）表示，“我们通过借新还旧来偿还旧贷款。任何方面的缓解都是受欢迎的。”
两国政府都承诺将促进贸易。本周，伊朗内政部长埃斯坎达尔·莫梅尼（Eskandar Momeni）率领代表团访问巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰堡，代表团成员包括伊朗边境省省长、国家石油公司负责人以及伊朗交通、农业和城市发展部门的高级官员。但在卡拉奇许多强大且有影响力的工业家心中，却感到失望和惊恐。亚斯敏·达达博伊（Yasmin Dadabhoy）经营建筑材料和能源业务，她在停火期间曾简短考虑前往伊朗洽谈建筑交易。达达博伊女士说，当时的情绪是：“生意将回归，阳光灿烂，重建一切。”她补充道：“这一切在眨眼之间就结束了。现在到处在轰炸。”与许多巴基斯坦人一样，达达博伊女士赞扬了该国政府和军事领导层的努力，但她认为美国和伊朗应该再次坐下来谈判。“那些‘大人物’需要尽快解决问题，”她说。
腐烂的水果，破灭的希望
被困在边境的不只有穆斯塔法先生的芒果。来自巴基斯坦的大米和纺织品，以及来自伊朗的石油和钢铁，目前仅在极小规模地流动。贸易商和企业主表示，石油和基本食品的走私仍在继续，但由于伊朗的战争以及武装团体在巴基斯坦俾路支省（Balochistan）边境省份的袭击，走私也变得更加困难且成本更高。
作为国家骄傲的来源，巴基斯坦的芒果去年带来了 $110 million 的出口收入。但由于产量下降和运费上涨（航空运费翻倍，海运运费增加近六倍），该国主要的果蔬贸易协会已将今年的出口目标下调了近 30 percent。
由于水果在伊朗边境腐烂，贸易商将价格降低了一半并在拍卖会上出售。
他们也失去了耐心。巴基斯坦的最高领导人，总理谢-
谢巴兹·谢里夫（Shehbaz Sharif）和陆军参谋长阿西姆·赛义德·穆尼尔（Asim Syed Munir）元帅在今年 4 月于伊斯兰堡主持了数十年来美国与伊朗高级官员之间的首次会议，随后又协助促成了两国之间的停火，因此在国内赢得了一些赞誉。
但这些好感可能已经耗尽。
“领导人们在作秀，”在卡拉奇从事芒果批发贸易的阿夫扎尔·汗（Afzal Khan）说道。他补充说，“Showbaz”这个绰号正在广泛流传——这是对谢里夫先生名字的谐音戏称，反映出人们认为他的角色更多是表演性的，而非实质性的。
“解决方案在特朗普先生手中，”总部位于卡拉奇的水果和蔬菜出口商艾特巴尔·阿里·赛义德（Aitbaar Ali Syed）表示，“如果他愿意，他可以解决所有这些问题。”
受制于制裁
与伊朗打交道的巴基斯坦企业主表示，美国的制裁阻碍了他们扩大贸易的尝试。
几十年前，沙希德·哈米德·贾弗里（Shahid Hamid Jafri）的父亲用纺织品换取伊朗的地毯。如今，贾弗里先生主要经营巴基斯坦的关键矿产，仅向伊朗出口极少量的巴基斯坦大米。（食品等必需品不受制裁影响。）他说，如果能完全进入，伊朗市场将具有“巨大的、巨大的潜力”。
官方数据显示，巴基斯坦与伊朗的贸易额约为 $3 \text{ billion}$——远低于巴基斯坦去年向美国出口的 $5.4 \text{ billion}$ 的货物贸易额。
但卡拉奇工商会主席穆罕默德·雷汉·哈尼夫（Muhammad Rehan Hanif）表示，当伊朗企业主访问商会时，由于制裁的原因，双方很难讨论任何具体事项。
“当银行看到‘伊朗’这个词时，他们就吓坏了，”来自一家巴基斯坦主要贸易组织的阿斯凡迪亚尔·汗·曼多凯尔（Asfandyar Khan Mandokhail）说道。
贸易商们表示，如果没有制裁，巴基斯坦可以增加向伊朗出口玉米、大米、纺织品、医药产品和手术设备。伊朗向巴基斯坦供应燃料和天然气的价格将比沙特阿拉伯和其他海湾国家便宜得多。
相反，在大多数贸易中，巴基斯坦和伊朗必须依赖以货易货、通过第三方路线（如阿拉伯联合酋长国的港口）以及陆路或海上的走私，而后者非常普遍。目前没有关于非正式贸易规模的官方数据，但据估计其规模达数十亿美元。
“当你把伊朗石油与来自其他地方的货物混合时，你无法证明它是伊朗的，”一家与伊朗贸易大米和食用油等产品的主要航运公司董事长马哈茂德·穆尔维（Mahmood Moulvi）说道。在描述伊朗产品如何进入巴基斯坦时，穆尔维先生表示，企业主几乎不可能合法地进行贸易，因此他们使用走私者或通过第三国转运产品。
观察与等待
[[IMG_XXXX]] PHOTOGRAPHS BY ASIM HAFEEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES 上周在巴基斯坦卡拉奇的主要果蔬市场，一名等待客人的甜瓜摊主，以及芒果贸易商、批发商兼出口商古拉姆·穆斯塔法（Ghulam Mustafa）。他的水果正在腐烂浪费。
企业主们表示，通过取消制裁使贸易合法化，将消除支付走私者所涉及的费用和风险，并且他们将能够销售更多种类的伊朗消费产品，从西瓜到打发奶油或糖果。
如今，即使是走私商品的贸易似乎也在枯竭。
上周的一个早晨，我逛了逛卡拉奇一个市场的巷子，那里曾销售多种多样的伊朗糖果。现在只有少数几种有售：名为 Stunner 的伊朗版士力架（Snickers）巧克力棒，以及名为 Bisoreno 的奥利奥（Oreo）饼干。
巴基斯坦主要石油游说团体的副主席塔里克·哈桑（Tariq Hasan）表示，走私石油的进口量也减少了一半。
由于美国的制裁，连接这两个国家的天然气管道项目也陷入停滞；伊朗已经完成了建设，但巴基斯坦尚未开始其部分工程。
分析师和企业主表示，除了合法化并增加伊朗石油进口的机会外，巴基斯坦能获得的最大奖赏将是参与伊朗战后重建的机会。
建筑业高管达达博伊（Ms. Dadabhoy）女士指出，巴基斯坦拥有伊朗所需的工人及建筑材料。
“我们现在在观望，因为在不确定性面前，企业家不敢冒险，”她说。
更加动荡的世界 潜藏着一场新军备竞赛的 阴暗可能
By MARK LANDLER
巴黎 —— 当德怀特·D·艾森豪威尔总统在 1953 年前往联合国，提议向各国提供核技术和诀窍，以换取和平利用核能的承诺时，这项政策有一个令人难忘的简写名称：“原子能为和平”。七十年后，它可能会有一个不那么理想主义的名字：核对冲（nuclear hedging）。特朗普总统本周宣布与沙特阿拉伯达成的民用核协议，反映了一个动荡的世界：美国的盟友们正寻求核能力，以对冲掠夺性邻国、有害的能源中断以及美国不断缩小的安全保护伞。这也反映出白宫渴望为美国公司争取利润丰厚的交易，愿意为某个危险地区的受宠合作伙伴放宽不扩散标准。沙特阿拉伯的这项协议最终可能允许其为核反应堆浓缩燃料，并限制国际检查员为确保其和平意图而可以访问的地点。这两项让步在近期美国的民用核协议中都是闻所未闻的，将加剧人们对沙特人可能转向核武器计划的担忧。沙特实际领导人穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼王储并未掩饰这种可能性。他警告说，如果伊朗获得核弹，沙特也将效仿。特朗普先生周四试图减轻此类担忧，宣布该协议仅限于核技术的民用用途。但鉴于此类协议的历史波折，以及本次协议缺乏细节，他的言论不太可能平息人们对新全球军备竞赛的担忧。“我们回到了核对冲时代，”麻省理工学院核安全与政治学教授维平·纳朗（Vipin Narang）表示。“许多面对安全局势恶化且不确定是否能依赖其前-
与以色列建交成为核协议的前提条件
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（此处接前文）探讨沙特政府建立与以色列外交关系的条件。沙特官员未对多次置评请求做出回应。当一名记者追问白宫发言人卡罗琳·莱维特 (Karoline Leavitt) 为何周三宣布协议时未提及该条件时，她表示总统是“最终的交易达成者”，且已“多次”提到沙特阿拉伯加入协议的必要性。她对总统的条款态度坚决。“如果他们不加入亚伯拉罕协议，交易就取消，”莱维特女士说。
通过将该协议与外交承认以色列挂钩，特朗普先生正重新转向约瑟夫·R·拜登总统在其任期最初几年所尝试的计划，即将核合作作为一项更广泛的外交谅解的一部分，从而改变中东的格局。但该计划在 2023 年 10 月 7 日由哈马斯领导的针对以色列的恐怖袭击后瓦解，特朗普先生随后将核协议与外交努力分开。他现在改变了主意，但此时他的能源部长克里斯·赖特 (Chris Wright) 已经与沙特阿拉伯能源部长签署了协议。赖特先生表示，协议现在将提交国会审查，但据推测，特朗普先生在与沙特就新条件进行争论期间，可能会推迟其传输。
总统的帖子让沙特官员陷入了尴尬的境地。以色列在沙特阿拉伯极不受欢迎，尤其是由于 10 月 7 日袭击后其在加沙战争中的表现。华盛顿智库“国防优先事项” (Defense Priorities) 中东项目主任罗斯玛丽·凯拉尼克 (Rosemary Kelanic) 表示，以色列在那里持续的军事活动以及以色列政府对建立巴勒斯坦国的抵制，使得同意特朗普先生的条件变得“在政治上如此有害，以至于可能危及沙特政权的生存”。该王国的王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼并非选举产生的领导人，但他确实需要民众的支持。凯拉尼克女士（认为）同意特朗普先生的条件……
（此处接前文）正式或非正式的保护者。” “我们将看到一连串的国家寻求追求军事计划的能力，” 纳兰教授说，他在拜登政府期间曾在五角大楼从事核政策工作，而这种计划可能会产出武器。布兰代斯大学政治学教授加里·萨莫尔 (Gary Samore) 曾为奥巴马和克林顿政府的军控谈判提供建议，他表示这些国家有时被称为“友好扩散者”。专家们表示，并非所有、甚至并非任何一个国家最终会追求制造原子弹。最后一个加入核武装国家俱乐部的国家是 2006 年的北朝鲜。
但这确实预示着一个危险的新时期，全球核市场可能会变得更加随意且缺乏规则约束。由于美国全球态势的转变而感到不安的核买家可能会提出更高的要求，而像俄罗斯和中国这样的竞争卖家可能会利用沙特的先例来满足这些要求。 “这与特朗普对美国作为安全保证人的信誉所造成的损害紧密相关，” 萨莫尔先生说。
在德国、波兰、韩国和日本等国家，没有核武器的政府正在讨论追求核武器的必要性。受到核武装北朝鲜威胁的韩国在美国的支持下，已经启动了一项开发核动力潜艇舰队的计划。日本防卫大臣小泉进次郎本周表示，尽管由于广岛和长崎在战时的毁灭而根深蒂固地厌恶核武，但他的国家需要面对核武器在国防中的作用。波兰总统卡罗尔·纳夫罗茨基 (Karol Nawrocki) 表示他的国家应该追求核计划，而德国总理弗里德里希·默茨 (Friedrich Merz) 则加入了一项……
一个由法国和其他欧洲国家组成的高级别核能指导小组。
穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼11月在白宫。即便他是沙特阿拉伯的实际统治者，他仍然需要民众的支持。
说道，“会毒害其政府的合法性。” 因此，如果假设特朗普总统所言属实——尽管事实未必如此——沙特阿拉伯现在陷入了困境。特朗普总统经常将社交媒体帖子和其他声明作为谈判工具。 “我认为沙特人不想公开讨论这件事，”凯拉尼女士说。“他们希望这件事能悄悄地过去。” 不出所料，以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡热情地欢迎特朗普总统要求沙特阿拉伯与以色列关系正常化的主张。他在一份声明中表示：“美国和以色列针对德黑兰种族灭绝政权的联合军事行动，以及以色列对伊朗恐怖轴心的粉碎，创造了扩大和平圈的可能性。”他补充道，“正如特朗普总统所说，沙特阿拉伯加入亚伯拉罕协议将是中东和平的一次历史性飞跃。” 特朗普总统还断言，协议条款将不允许沙特阿拉伯浓缩自己的核材料，但未提供进一步解释。虽然该协议尚未公开，但官员们的描述截然不同，称协议允许两年的研究期，期间沙特和美国官员将确定该王国是否存在可行的浓缩核燃料经济路径。据熟悉该安排的官员称，美国可能会在若干年内阻止这一行动，但并非永久封杀。 特朗普总统则持有相反观点。
一艘法国核潜艇。随着美国撤退，法国与其他国家一样，扩大了其能力。
法国与英国一样，是西欧两个核大国之一，已誓言扩大其军备，并向邻国提供某种形式的延伸威慑，以弥补特朗普总统的撤退。为了展示合作，巴黎最近向一个德国空军基地派遣了一架具备核打击能力的战斗机。 “接下来的半个世纪将是核武器时代，”法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙在3月表示。他当时在宣布其国家核学说的转变，转向“前向威慑”——即利用法国的核武器来防止针对其国境以外领土的袭击。 在这次演讲中，马克龙总统谈到了一个充满核闪点的世界：印度、巴基斯坦、北朝鲜和中国。但专家表示，法国向欧洲邻国提供威慑可能会降低其兴趣
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“将不会有材料浓缩，”他声明道，并补充说美国“不反对民用（非浓缩）核设施”。 沙特阿拉伯可能自行生产燃料的可能性——以及其中部分燃料在未来可能被转用于核武器项目的风险——是针对该协议批评的核心。NAT1 但王储不太可能放弃浓缩权，或同意一个已有 140 多个其他国家签署的、最具侵入性的国际检查协议。 特朗普总统的声明是在以色列领导人对这项新兴协议表达担忧之后发表的，他们担心这可能会引发地区军备竞赛，并暗示以色列在这一过程中被边缘化。 特朗普总统新提出的条件可能会成为协议本身的障碍，因为沙特官员多次表示，如果没有建立巴勒斯坦国家的路径，他们将不承认以色列。 特朗普总统此前一直推动扩大亚伯拉罕协议，这些协议是他第一任期内开始促成的。 第一批协议在 2020. 年宣布，涉及以色列与巴林和阿联酋。此后，摩洛哥和苏丹也加入了该协议。
盟友在获取核能力方面。虽然法国的核保护伞不能替代美国提供的保护伞，但它仍能起到威慑作用。
“美国曾经拥有的最好的非扩散工具就是其军事联盟，”德克萨斯大学安全研究教授马修·富尔曼（Matthew Fuhrmann）表示。“如果美国没有像现在这样向这么多国家提供核保护，我们将处于一个拥有更多核武器国家的世界上。”
他说，法国加强角色将降低其他欧洲国家寻求核武的风险。“但我认为这并不能降低它们进行对冲的欲望，”他补充道，并指出仅仅拥有民用核计划就能让各国在面对美国等核大国时拥有筹码。
考虑到法国在历史上一直是核技术最频繁的销售国之一，它现在扮演缓和角色显得颇具讽刺意味。
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法国曾帮助以色列、伊拉克和巴基斯坦建立核计划。
富尔曼教授表示，民用核协议的进度在近年来有所下降，部分原因是 2011. 年日本福岛核事故后，全球对核能的需求骤减。但在 2022 年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后，对能源安全的担忧激增；而在美以针对伊朗的战争导致德黑兰封锁霍尔木兹海峡的海运交通后，这种担忧再次跳升。
在与美国达成协议方面，沙特阿拉伯正在效仿阿拉伯联合酋长国，后者在 2009. 年与奥巴马政府签署了民用核协议。该协议不允许阿联酋浓缩核燃料，从而切断了其制造武器的路径，并规定了严格的检查。专家将其称为非扩散的“金标准”。除了放宽这些限制外，特朗普先生最初取消了其前任约瑟夫·R·拜登总统（President Joseph R. Biden Jr.）坚持的一项条件，即沙特阿拉伯必须与以色列关系正常化。周四，特朗普先生改变了主意，表示他实际上将此作为协议的要求。沙特政府未立即发表评论，但多次明确表示，如果没有建立巴勒斯坦国的路径，它将不承认以色列。
分析人士表示，协议最初的让步反映了特朗普先生意识到，美以针对伊朗的战争已使沙特阿拉伯及整个地区陷入不稳定。“这次交易是对伊朗战争导致对华盛顿信任和信心遭到侵蚀的切实证实，”布鲁金斯学会（一家华盛顿研究机构）副总裁兼外交政策项目主任、伊朗专家苏珊·马洛尼（Suzanne Maloney）表示。“海湾国家领导人没有替代美国安全保护伞的现实选择，”她补充道，“但他们也亲眼看到了其局限性和缺陷。因此，他们决心扩大自己的自主权和能力。”
针对伊朗的战争是另一个让各国不愿追求武器计划的因素。随着其核设施被埋在废墟之下，伊朗制造炸弹的任何雄心都被推迟了。但即便如此，这也可能产生双向影响，因为其他渴望成为核大国的国家可能会得出结论：避免此类先发制击的最佳方式就是尽快获得核地位。
专家表示，向沙特阿拉伯提供利益可能不会让利雅得在短期内走上制造炸弹的道路。但其他能力更先进的国家可能会要求同样的条款。如果美国不再坚守不向非核国家提供敏感浓缩技术的底线，他们可能会成功。“对我来说，这项交易的危险在于其先例，”萨莫尔先生（Mr. Samore）说。“是什么能阻止俄罗斯达成类似这样的协议？”
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这场战争，以及他们对使用另一条关键航道之船只的攻击，通过切断另一条通往亚洲的航运路线，深化了石油冲击。
乌克兰战争也导致了石油市场的动荡，不仅干扰了黑海的运输，还影响了俄罗斯炼油厂的燃料生产。
美国股市周四大幅低开。此外，作为影响抵押贷款和学生贷款利率的关键指标，10 年期国债收益率飙升至 4.7% 以上，创下数月以来的最高水平。
欧洲中央银行上个月成为首家因与 伊朗 的战争而提高利率的主要央行，目前将其维持在
由 Shirin Hakim, Robert Jimison, James McManagan, Sanjana Varghese, Aruni Soni 和 Euan Ward 共同报道。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 2022 年美国、约旦及其他 28 个国家在约旦举行的一次军事演习。 伊朗 已对约旦境内的美国军队发动空袭。
作者：RAJA ABDULRAHIM
约旦，安曼 —— 近三十年来，约旦一直是美国在中东地区开展军事行动的重要基地。如今，约旦正在为此付出代价。近几日，伊朗加剧了对该王国的空袭，目标是驻扎在那里的美国军事力量。但即便约旦境内警报大作，它仍未限制美国军队的驻留。分析人士表示，该国对美国的极度依赖，使其无法削减这些军事活动。
在数十年的关系中，约旦在经济和军事援助方面依赖美国提供数十亿美元，并依赖美国在这个危险地区提供保护。与一些拥有丰富石油和其他自然资源的海湾阿拉伯邻国不同，约旦是一个资源匮乏的国家，严重依赖外国援助。据约旦官员称，去年美国向该王国提供了 $1.65 billion 的经济和军事援助。
美国官员表示，虽然该地区其他一些美国盟友在与伊朗的战争期间限制了华盛顿在其领土上驻军以及在其领空飞行的能力，但约旦没有条件施加此类限制。
“约旦是中东的一个弱国，”天普大学政治学教授、《约旦：偶然熔炉中的政治》一书的作者肖恩·约姆（Sean Yom）说。“它规模相当小，且被地区威胁所包围。它确实需要某种大国赞助人或外部保护者，而美国在过去几代人中一直扮演着这个角色。”约姆先生表示，约旦从美国获得的援助可追溯至 20 世纪 50 年代，其规模之大，其他任何国家都无法提供。
自美国和以色列在 2 月下旬对伊朗发动战争以来，伊朗的部分报复行为包括对中东的美国盟友发动袭击。在战争最初的几个月里，伊朗主要针对
周四的会议。但该银行行长克里斯蒂娜·拉加德（Christine Lagarde）告诉记者，“不确定性依然很高。”
胡塞武装的袭击增加了更大范围经济动荡的可能性，尤其是在航运业。
本周部分前往亚洲的船只被迫绕道，经由苏伊士运河、地中海并绕过非洲南端。这些延误和增加的成本削弱了一条横跨阿拉伯半岛管道的效能，沙特阿拉伯在战争期间严重依赖该管道作为石油出口的替代路径。
由于波斯湾基本被封锁，目前的油价比美国和以色列在 2 月对伊朗发动战争前高出了 40 百分比。根据 AAA 的数据，周四美国的汽油平均价格为 $4.09，比一周前上涨了 15 美分。
沙特当局在周四——
以色列和美国在海湾地区的盟友，但它同时也向约旦发射了数百架无人机和导弹。这次冲突迅速打击了约旦的旅游业，该产业为该国提供高达 18 percent 的收入，而此时正值旅游旺季的开始。尽管大多数导弹和无人机都被拦截，但航空公司取消了航班，潜在游客也取消了酒店预订。
现在，随着美国与伊朗的停火协议瓦解，双方都升级了袭击，且伊朗在近几周扩大了打击目标。约旦军方表示，周日约旦的防空系统击落了三枚伊朗导弹，另有一枚落在无人居住区。
“伊朗这种打击邻国、垂直升级的策略，旨在给这些邻国施压，旨在给美国施压，”国家安全咨询约旦政府的智库——战略研究中心主任哈桑·阿尔莫马尼（Hassan Almomani）表示。
据伊朗半官方新闻机构法尔斯通讯社（Fars News Agency）报道，伊朗最近表示，其对约旦的部分打击目标是阿兹拉克（Azraq）穆瓦法克·萨尔蒂（Muwaffaq Salti）空军基地（美国空军的枢纽）的燃料库，以及其他基地的飞机掩体。此前，伊朗表示其目标是美国军队使用的雷达和通信系统。
周五，在伊朗对穆瓦法克·萨尔蒂基地的袭击中，两名美国士兵丧生，第三名失踪。在本周早些时候针对约旦境内美军的三次其他袭击中，数十名美国士兵受伤，多架黑鹰直升机受损。
美军长期以来一直在约旦空军基地开展行动，该王国一直是美国军事活动的基地，例如打击伊斯兰国、在叙利亚内战期间训练反政府武装战士以及入侵伊拉克。根据一份国会报告，目前该国有近 4,000 名美国服役人员。穆瓦法克·萨尔蒂及其他基地已进行改造，以适应美国军队的永久驻扎。
“从美国的角度来看，约旦的基础设施在一段时间内一直相当稳健，”五角大楼前中东顾问、现为华盛顿近东政策研究所高级研究员的格兰特·鲁姆利（Grant Rumley）表示。他将其比作一艘“陆基航空母舰”。
鲁姆利先生表示，穆瓦法克·萨尔蒂基地地理位置相对偏远，使得美军在行动时不会引起不必要的关注。而且由于约旦距离伊朗比海湾国家更远，驻约旦美军在应对导弹和无人机袭击时有更多时间做出反应。
美国官员表示，在与伊朗战争爆发前及战争初期，美军将部分部队从几个海湾阿拉伯国家转移到了约旦和邻国以色列等相对更安全的地方。
无论是美国还是伊朗，都没有表现出回归谈判的强烈意愿。近日，伊朗和美国官员反而誓言将以新的袭击回击对方的攻击。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 周四，在伊朗支持的胡塞武装表示击中了两艘沙特油轮后，也门亚丁港外的一艘船。
（注：此处原文排版中，关于 Encelia 船只的段落被切割并插入了图片说明，翻译如下：） ……确认一次对其船只 Encelia 的袭击，但未说明袭击来源。该方表示船员安全。沙特方面尚未对胡塞武装关于第二艘船的说法发表评论。
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“伊朗的战争揭示了约旦对美国有多么重要，”阿尔莫马尼先生说道。他表示，今年华盛顿将对约旦的军事援助增加了 5 亿美元。约旦官员经常强调他们与美国关系的战略重要性。在 4 月与特朗普总统的一次通话中，阿卜杜拉二世国王强调了华盛顿在中东的枢纽作用，特别是对于缓解与伊朗冲突的前景。根据约旦国家新闻社 Petra 的报道，本月约旦军队负责人尤塞夫·胡奈提少将与美国负责国际安全事务的国防部助理部长丹尼尔·齐默曼讨论了进一步扩大军事合作。
约旦政府很少公开讨论美国广泛的军事存在。约旦也没有公开批评美国对伊朗的空袭，或与以色列共同发起战争，尽管分析人士称，该政府从一开始就强烈反对这场冲突。约旦官员多次谴责伊朗在其领土上的袭击，上周外交部长艾曼·萨法迪表示，伊朗为其袭击提供的理由——即存在美国基地——是虚假的。“约旦没有美国基地，”他在阿斯彭安全论坛的一次小组讨论中地说道。“我们有美国军队在约旦，这是我们长期军事合作的一部分。他们的存在是由一项充分尊重我们主权的国防协议所管理。”
尽管遭到袭击，约旦不会考虑重新评估其与美国的同盟关系，阿尔莫马尼先生说。“在任何情况下，约旦都不能改变其战略伙伴关系，”他说道。
约姆先生表示，约旦国内没有放弃依赖美国的实质性要求。“没有一个严肃的政治利益相关者建议约旦将其每年从美国获得超过 $1.5 billion 的经济和军事援助替换为，比如说，欧盟的资金或中国的支持，”他说道。
美国中央司令部（负责协调中东的军事行动）表示，其在夜间发起了一波打击，旨在削弱伊朗威胁商业航运的能力，目标是无人机和导弹存储地以及防空设施。
这种语言——美国军方每天都在使用——并没有明确承认美国打击了可用于民用目的的基础设施，如道路和港口。根据国际法，此类袭击可能被视为战争罪。特朗普先生曾威胁说，“只要伊朗伊斯兰共和国在霍尔木兹海峡向船只开火”，他就会攻击一座桥梁或发电厂。
伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队在夜间表示，已对约旦和科威特的美国军事目标发动袭击，包括一座通信塔，并指责美国军队攻击了伊朗境内同等的基础设施。
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关于伊朗战争权力的投票
作者：ROBERT JIMISON
华盛顿 —— 众议院周四第二次投票，要求特朗普总统结束在伊朗的战争，或寻求明确的授权以继续战争。在特朗普总统再次未经国会批准就加强在中东的军事行动之际，此次投票对他构成了另一次两党共同的谴责。四名共和党人加入了民主党人的行列，支持这项措施。尽管该措施不具备法律效力，但它是国会对特朗普先生处理冲突方式表示不满的最新证据。不久之后，在共和党内几位对战争持怀疑态度的关键人物要么改变立场，要么未参与投票的情况下，共和党人在参议院阻止了类似措施的审议。众议院的此次行动是在美国在伊朗连续第12个夜晚进行袭击之后采取的，此前一项停火协议已经崩溃，而许多共和党人曾希望该协议能带来外交突破，从而在他们必须面对11月中期选举的选民之前，尽早结束这场战争。
该措施以 214 对 208 的投票结果获得通过。加入民主党阵营投赞成票的共和党人包括：密歇根州代表 Tom Barrett、俄亥俄州代表 Warren Davidson、宾夕法尼亚州代表 Brian Fitzpatrick 和肯塔基州代表 Thomas Massie。这与上个月帮助民主党通过类似战争权力决议的四人组相同。“我的立场没有改变，”在众议院中政治处境最脆弱的共和党人之一巴雷特先生在投票后的一份声明中表示，“只有国会有权授权在伊朗采取军事行动。我仍然准备与任何人合作，在不让美国陷入另一场无休止战争的情况下消除对我国的敌对威胁。”这项由华盛顿州民主党代表 Pramila Jayapal 发起的决议，是众议院在离开华盛顿进入为期五周的夏季休会前投票通过的最后一批事项之一。
上周发布的一项《华盛顿邮报》- Ipsos 民调显示，仅有 29 percent 的美国人支持在伊朗的战争。一项 Politico 的民调发现，自认为是“MAGA”选民的特朗普支持者表示，他们继续支持的前提是有条件的，其中 37 percent 的人表示，只有在美国物价不上涨的情况下，他们才会继续支持这场冲突。周四，全球油价首次在5月之后达到每桶 $100。科罗拉多州民主党代表 Jason Crow 表示，公众支持率的下降可能会促使更多共和党立法者更强力地反对特朗普政府在战争中采取的单边做法。“当我们九月份回来时，我打赌会有更多人加入我们并说：‘好了，让我们结束这一切吧’，”他在周四说道。
众议院的投票凸显了随着战争的拖延，国会共和党人与白宫之间日益扩大的分歧。越来越多的共和党立法者开始更公开地质疑缺乏国会授权或磋商，以及政府未能制定明确的终局计划。但特朗普先生并未表现出让立法部门参与的意愿，也没有表现出削减行动规模的迹象。相反，他坚称自己拥有继续军事行动的不受限权力。特朗普先生在面对国会本月的早期谴责时对此不屑一顾，当时众议院和参议院都
《纽约时报》展示了周四伊拉克两处边境口岸遭到袭击的情况，画面中人们拎着行李箱在爆炸中逃离。
第一次袭击发生在周四凌晨，地点位于胡齐斯坦省沙拉姆切边境口岸的伊朗侧附近。伊朗和伊拉克媒体报道称，该口岸的一个警察休息站遭到了美国空袭。美国中央司令部未立即回应关于此次袭击的提问。
其他片段显示，边境口岸设施内的一个小型区域内有一座电信塔受损。
在一次看似报复性的袭击中，科威特与伊拉克之间的阿布达利边境口岸也在周四下午遭到袭击。
科威特国防部发言人萨乌德·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹·奥泰比将军在一份声明中表示，该口岸遭到了“敌方无人机的袭击”，但未指明来源，且没有人员伤亡。
通过了一项类似措施，这是自2月份冲突开始以来，立法者首次投票表示反对。众议院共和党领导人目前正推进一项旨在为战争支付费用的预算计划，这使共和党成员陷入了一个在政治上并不讨好的境地：他们必须投票资助一场不受共和党领导的国会授权、且国会对其几乎没有行使监督权的、不受欢迎的冲突。
面对特朗普总统对国会行动的无视，外交事务委员会最高级别的民主党人、纽约州代表格雷戈里·W·米克斯表示，他已开始启动针对政府无视决议而提起诉讼的程序。米克斯先生在周四的一次采访中说：“我们现在面临的情况是，我们已经两次通过了战争权力决议。”
周四在参议院，一项类似的决议在仅有一名共和党人——缅因州参议员苏珊·柯林斯支持后陷入停滞。此前曾投票要求特朗普总统停止敌对行动或寻求继续行动授权的路易斯安那州共和党参议员比尔·卡西迪改变了立场。肯塔基州参议员兰德·保罗和阿拉斯加州参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基（另外两名支持类似努力的共和党人）没有投票。
这已经是民主党第12次强制进行此类投票，他们誓言将继续这样做，并恳请共和党人停止听命于特朗普总统，加入结束战争的努力。
“随着战争进一步升级，随着更多美国军人被杀，更多平民被杀，随着油气价格和其他价格上涨，这给了本届国会最终承担责任的机会，”发起该措施的马里兰州民主党参议员克里斯·范霍伦在投票前表示。“我们知道总统不尊重法律，但我们对选民负有责任。”
宾夕法尼亚州民主党参议员约翰·费特曼是其党内唯一反对该措施的成员，这与其过去在该问题上的投票一致。
卡西迪先生表示，在听取政府官员的多次简报后，他改变了立场，尽管他对冲突仍有顾虑。他周四说：“那么，我是否认可战争的执行方式？不一定。”但他表示，他不赞同立即要求撤军。
北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯反对周四的措施（正如他之前反对类似努力一样），他表示如果冲突继续拖延，他可能会改变立场。但他指出，两党的总统在不同时期都曾逃避要求在军事行动中与国会协商的法定职责。
“我的
“对于为何没有真正早日适用《战争权力法》的合理解释，就在于此前所玩的所有把戏，”蒂利斯先生说道。鉴于特朗普总统于 7 月 10 日正式通知国会与伊朗的敌对行动已重启，他表示，总统应该在 9 月 10 日之前——即战争权力法规定的 60 天窗口期结束前——可以在没有国会授权的情况下采取行动。（这部 1973 年的法律实际上禁止总统在没有国会批准的情况下命令美军进入冲突状态，除非美国遭到攻击；但如果总统未能获得授权，该法提供了一个 60 天的期限来终止此类行动。）
穆瓦法格·萨尔蒂空军基地 (Muwaffaq Salti Air Base)
7 月 17 日牺牲的三名士兵—— 泰勒·詹姆斯·费汉 (Tyler James Feehan) 中尉，25 岁； 伊莎贝拉·冈萨雷斯 (Isabella Gonzales) 二等兵，19 岁；以及 安吉尔·兰珀萨德 (Angel Rampersad) 军士，28 岁——均被分配到 美国空军枢纽穆瓦法格·萨尔蒂空军基地的导弹防御部队。 在这次致命袭击发生前的几天里，伊朗已经至少攻击过该基地一次。卫星图像显示，一个机场机库在 7 月 15 日至 7 月 17 日早晨之间的某个时间点被摧毁。 在 7 月 17 日夜晚的袭击之后，社交媒体上出现了一段视频，显示一个飞行物在几栋类似于预制房屋的建筑附近爆炸。目前尚不清楚这是否就是导致士兵死亡的同一次爆炸，也不清楚所使用的武器是导弹、无人机还是两者的结合。在某个时刻，看来
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左图为经《纽约时报》验证的视频截图，显示 7 月 17, 夜间一个飞行物击中该空军基地。右图为在网络上传播并经《时报》验证的照片，显示该基地最近一次袭击后的情况 17.
一张经《时报》验证的视频截图显示了伊朗袭击该前哨基地后的情况。
作者：大卫·M·哈尔芬格 (DAVID M. HALBFINGER)
耶路撒冷 —— 对于特朗普总统周四声明美国与沙特的核协议将取决于沙特阿拉伯加入《亚伯拉罕协议》，以色列反应谨慎。 以色列官员热烈欢迎与沙特阿拉伯建立外交关系的可能性，但分析人士认为，特朗普先生的要求可能提供了一个毫无实质内容的干扰项，旨在掩盖一项对以色列而言显然糟糕的协议。 总统在社交媒体上的声明立即成为了以色列的新闻议程焦点。周三，美国与沙特协议的签署在以色列引起了警觉，引发了人们对中东军备竞赛的担忧，以及对该国最强大的盟友在该地区另起炉灶的恐惧，且不
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伊朗袭击如何破坏美国军事设施
作者：ARIC TOLER 和 CHRISTOPH KOETTL
在停火协议破裂后的两周内，伊朗对中东地区的九处美国地点发动袭击。这表明，尽管特朗普总统政府多次声称该国的军事能力已经削弱或被摧毁，但伊朗仍维持着对精确目标造成破坏的能力。 《纽约时报》对美国军事基地及其他地点的视觉分析发现，袭击导致了生活区、工作区、无人机掩体、雷达系统和其他建筑受损。 其中一次袭击针对约旦的穆瓦法格·萨尔蒂空军基地（Muwaffaq Salti Air Base），造成三名美国士兵死亡，其余人员受伤。一名军方官员告诉《纽约时报》，本月在约旦及其他国家，有近十名军人在伊朗的导弹和无人机袭击中受重伤，被空运至德国的一家美国军事医院接受治疗。 包括穆瓦法格·萨尔蒂空军基地在内的四个地点在战争初期的几个月内就曾遭到袭击，当时伊朗在七个国家共击中了 18 处美国使用的军事地点。
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美国军队驻扎的约旦胡赛因国王国际机场（King Hussein International Airport）也遭到了袭击，该国另外两座空军基地的机库和雷达系统也被击中。 《纽约时报》还证实了伊朗的卫星图像，显示科威特艾哈迈德·贾比尔空军基地（Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base）的一个雷达系统在周一左右被摧毁，而该系统完工仅六个月。 战争早期的多数袭击目标是军事基础设施，如雷达系统、防空综合体和飞机机库。然而，部分袭击击中了人员设施，包括 3 月份对科威特一个临时指挥所的袭击，导致六名美国士兵死亡。在 4 月，
Riley Mellen, Sanjana Varghese 和 Eric Schmitt 参与了报道。 注：《纽约时报》已核实所有图像均准确描绘了破坏情况。
拍摄者在碎片落下时退入掩体。目前没有可用片段显示该基地的防空系统是否被激活。 袭击后不久，一张显示大量建筑起火的照片开始流传。《纽约时报》核实了该图像和视频的原始来源，目前尚不明确，但极有可能是由基地人员拍摄的。 伊朗随后发布了几张卫星图像，显示至少 20 处建筑被完全或部分摧毁。 除了对看似生活区的袭击外，伊朗的袭击还破坏了该空军基地的两个机库和三个无人机掩体。
独立于以色列。 周四，总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）继续对协议本身保持沉默。但他利用特朗普总统要求沙特阿拉伯与以色列关系正常化的要求，主张美国与以色列针对伊朗的战争已经“创造了扩大和平圈的可能性”。 “正如特朗普总统所言，沙特阿拉伯加入《亚伯拉罕协议》将是中东和平的一次历史性飞跃，”内塔尼亚胡在的一份声明中表示。“以实力促和平。” 但国家安全分析师对特朗普总统承诺的价值表示怀疑，因为沙特阿拉伯领导人将与以色列关系正常化的前提条件设定为在建立巴勒斯坦国方面取得实质性进展，而内塔尼亚胡坚决反对这一点。
7 月 7 日以来伊朗的袭击地点
视频片段和卫星图像显示，在最近的冲突升级期间，伊朗的袭击击中了中东的数个美国军事地点。
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来源：自 7 月 7 日以来经《纽约时报》核实的袭击。 SAMUEL GRANADOS AND LEANNE ABRAHAM/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Copernicus 于 7 月 20 日拍摄的卫星图像。 LEANNE ABRAHAM/THE NEW YORK TIMES
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国防部长皮特·海格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）告诉一个国会委员会，“所有可能的措施”都已被用于保护驻海湾基地的美国服务人员。包括穆瓦法克·萨尔蒂（Muwaffaq Salti）空军基地在内的四个地点，在战争早期的袭击之后，在过去两周内再次遭到打击。在巴林的一处海军设施中，伊朗在春季的单向无人机攻击中瞄准了仓库、雷达站点和通信系统。现在，卫星图像显示一个仓库在两周前遭到打击。
卫星图像还显示，科威特的阿里·萨勒姆（Ali Al Salem）空军基地受到了相对较轻的损坏，该基地在春季也曾遭到打击。
此外，在伊拉克埃尔比勒国际机场的一个美国军事地点，一座大型军事帐篷被摧毁，该地点在战争早期也曾遭到打击。
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约旦 一座机场、一个前哨站 以及三个空军基地 似乎受损
法尔斯通讯社（FARS NEWS AGENCY），经由 TELEGRAM
由伊朗发布的高分辨率卫星图像（随附此处可见的红色标注）显示，伊拉克埃尔比勒的一座机场内的一顶美国军事帐篷受损。
由伊朗发布的高分辨率卫星图像（随附红色标注）显示，约旦北部的 22 号塔（Tower 22）前哨站的一座建筑受损。
“我们不应该看特朗普刚刚说了什么；我们应该看协议里写了什么，”特拉维夫国家安全研究所的沙特阿拉伯和核扩散专家约埃尔·古赞斯基（Yoel Guzansky）表示。该协议的文本尚未公开。“我认为他的初衷是好的。但他并不总是与现实接轨。”
古赞斯基先生表示，他反对美国与沙特的协议，因为存在核扩散的风险——万一沙特与美国决裂，或者该协议激励像土耳其或埃及这样的沙特竞争对手去追求自己的核武器。
他还反驳了内塔尼亚胡（Mr. Netanyahu）的论点，后者认为美国与伊朗的战争成功创造了和平机会；古赞斯基则暗示，这场战争未能实现其目标，反而增加了沙特人的筹码。
科威特 空军基地 被瞄准
左图：由伊朗发布的高分辨率卫星图像（随附红色标注）显示，约旦穆瓦法克·萨尔蒂空军基地的数座建筑受损。
下方：伊朗的袭击还破坏了该基地（美国空军中心）的两个机库和三个无人机掩体。
古赞斯基先生说，如果战争结果不同，“如果在二月份我们推翻了政权并将核材料取出，在伊朗不再拥有核计划之后，特朗普是否还能允许沙特进行浓缩？那么沙特将很难提出要求。”
浓缩问题一直是以色列批评该协议的核心。熟悉条款的官员将该协议描述为允许两年的研究期，在此期间，沙特和美国官员将确定该王国浓缩核燃料是否具有可行的经济路径。
特朗普先生在周四使情况变得混乱，他在帖文中称“将不会有核材料的浓缩”。
但一些分析人士指出，这种
确定美国军事基地的受损情况一直受到该地区缺乏高分辨率卫星图像的阻碍。政府已要求美国主要卫星提供商暂不提供视觉资料——这是一种早于特朗普政府时期的长期做法——理由是会对美国部队产生风险。
但这些基地的位置是公开信息，且伊朗经常在宣传活动中广泛传播其对这些及其他美国目标的打击图像。
《纽约时报》利用一系列视觉证据评估了损失，包括经由被袭击地点内部拍摄的视频所证实的部分伊朗卫星图像，以及来自美国国家航空航天局（NASA）和欧洲空间局的照片及低分辨率卫星图像。
一名国防部发言人告诉《纽约时报》，“出于行动安全原因，该部门拒绝就卫星图像发表评论”，并补充说，“由于对约旦事件的调查仍在进行中，我们目前没有可宣布的消息。”
Tower 22 前哨基地
伊朗还袭击了 Tower 22，这是美国在约旦与叙利亚北部边境的一个军事前哨基地。破坏情况首先在周一拍摄的低分辨率欧洲卫星图像中可见，这有助于确认袭击的时间范围。次日，伊朗媒体发布了一张更高分辨率的卫星图像，清晰地显示该前哨基地的其中一座建筑已被摧毁。
周二一段来自未知来源但经《纽约时报》核实的视频在 Telegram 上流传，视频显示 22. 的一栋建筑已化为瓦砾。该建筑的南翼被夷为平地。一名在讨论行动事项时要求匿名的美国官员告诉《纽约时报》，有少量服役人员在袭击中受伤。该官员表示，伤势并不严重，这些服役人员在接受治疗后已重返岗位。
2024, 一次针对 22, 前哨基地的无人机袭击导致三名美国服役人员死亡，美国称此次袭击是由伊朗支持的民兵组织实施的。
延迟将至少为特朗普总统关于以色列与沙特阿拉伯关系正常化的承诺提供实现的可能。
“坦率地说，特朗普正在阐明某种隐含在已签署协议中的内容，”前以色列军事情报局局长塔米尔·海曼（Tamir Hayman）表示。他说，两年的期限“让特朗普能够向沙特阿拉伯施压以实现正常化”。
“这很聪明，因为在这一期间特朗普仍身在白宫，”海曼先生补充道，“而且以色列内部可能会发生变化，从而允许沙特统治者向正常化迈进，而这在今天是不可能的。”
以色列的这种变化可能最早在 10 月发生，届时内塔尼亚胡先生及其政府将面临选举。
通过打击零售经济场所 升级进攻
作者：VALERIE HOPKINS 和 ALINA LOBZINA
柏林——俄罗斯企业一直通过税收增加、燃料短缺导致的成本上升以及制裁引发的供应链中断感受到乌克兰战争的影响。现在，又出现了一个需要应对的风险：乌克兰无人机对其设施的袭击。随着乌克兰发起一项旨在让普通俄罗斯人切身感受到冲突的行动，它开辟了一个新战线，目标是指向在线市场 Wildberries。该平台是俄罗斯零售经济的支柱，也是俄罗斯现代生活的强力象征。
近日，乌克兰袭击了属于 Wildberries（俄罗斯版的亚马逊）的 5 个仓库，以及其他大型零售商的存储地点。俄罗斯当局表示，周六的袭击造成 8 人死亡，周三有 1 人死亡。据报道，仅周六的袭击就摧毁了 Wildberries 6 到 9 之间百分比的仓储能力。
乌克兰对俄罗斯经济目标的远程打击，包括对石油加工设施长达数月的袭击行动，旨在向弗拉基米尔·V·普京总统施压以结束战争，部分手段是通过削弱其为战争融资的能力。石油设施遇袭导致燃料短缺，引发了加油站排队现象，并可能影响即将到来的收获季节。普京先生表示没有放弃其在冲突中目标的意向，且俄罗斯经济虽然被战争削弱，但并未处于崩溃边缘。尽管如此，分析人士表示，如果对俄罗斯商业基础设施的袭击持续下去，其连锁反应可能会在各种其他战争相关压力之上，带来严峻的经济挑战，减少税收并加剧通货膨胀。
乌克兰在俄罗斯五个地区的目标定位了 Wildberries 仓库，包括据报道周四早晨在莫斯科南部的沃罗涅日地区进行的袭击。在莫斯科地区的一个城市——埃莱克特罗斯塔尔的一处仓库火灾，耗时三天才被扑灭。在最初的袭击发生次日，俄罗斯对乌克兰首都基辅发动了自 2022 年战争爆发以来规模最大的导弹袭击，发射了至少 35 枚弹道导弹和高超音速巡航导弹。
乌克兰表示，其袭击是对俄罗斯攻击其邮政递送中心及其他民用基础设施的报复；莫斯科开展的这项多年计划比基辅针对俄罗斯的袭击破坏性大得多。上周，俄罗斯对东北部城市哈尔科夫的一个邮政终端袭击造成 3 人死亡，20 人受伤。乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基还表示，Wildberries 设施是合法目标，因为该公司向俄罗斯军队销售商品。
克里姆林宫发言人 Dmitri S. Vinograd，以及 Cassandra Milana Mazaeva 和 Nataliya Vasilyeva 参与了报道。
作者：安德鲁·E·克雷默 (ANDREW E. KRAMER)
乌克兰，基辅 —— 在成为总统之前，弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基曾在一部喜剧电影中饰演拿破仑，片中将他的角色塑造为一个固执的傻瓜，即便在率领军队走向毁灭时也拒绝改变方向。作为总统，泽连斯基先生与他所塑造的这位法国将军截然相反 —— 也许，他灵活得有些过头了。分析人士表示，他如此频繁地推翻关于人事任命和政策的决定，导致混乱和人员更迭成为了其战时领导风格中的风险。
在最近的动荡中，在过去一周半的时间里，泽连斯基先生在一场关于军事战略和武器采购的争议中，最初支持一位经验丰富的资深将领，而对方阵营是一位深受民众欢迎的改革派国防部长。他于上周解雇了该部长。随后，在周二深夜，他又解雇了那位将领，并任命一名比其年轻一代且与刚被撤职的国防部长结盟的军方首脑接任。
这是一个令人费解的逆转，除了重申他致力于通过改革加强军队外，泽连斯基先生没有对此做出公开解释。这一事件使乌克兰陷入了自 2022 年俄罗斯全面入侵以来国内政治最严重的动荡之中。抗议者因国防部长米哈伊洛·费多罗夫被解职而愤怒地走上街头，而泽连斯基先生最近的翻盘行为并未平息进一步示威的呼吁。
在泽连斯基先生的盟友看来，他愿意倾听公众意见并做出转向，是乌克兰民主强而有力的标志，并且与俄罗斯的专制统治形成了鲜明对比。在战争进入近四年半、总统任期进入第七年之际，大多数乌克兰人表示他们信任泽连斯基先生作为领导者。
但当战争的熔炉要求坚定的领导力时，他频繁的转向可能会传递出软弱的信号。对泽连斯基先生的一项批评是，他将演艺圈的本能带入了政治，追求最响亮的掌声，并在寻找认可的过程中走之字形路线。
“好消息是，他会修正航向，”伦敦查塔姆研究所（Chatham House）乌克兰项目负责人奥里西亚·卢采维奇（Orysia Lutsevych）说。
但她补充道，坏消息是他如此频繁且公然地这样做。“他会妥协。作为一个人，他有些犹豫。他不自信，”卢采维奇女士说。
在解雇费多罗夫先生之后，泽连斯基先生又转而向他提供政府内部的其他职位。周四，在经过数日关于费多罗夫先生是否同意新任命的揣测后，他在一份声明中表示，他仅接受重新担任国防部长的邀请。
“没有其他角色，”他说，“拥有实际的权力”去打击武器采购中的腐败、实现军队现代化，并完成国防部在他任内启动的其他计划。
佩斯科夫否认了这一指控。
Wildberries 拥有一项不销售军用级武器的政策，但它确实销售士兵使用的商品，例如可以通过简易装置安装炸药的商业无人机，以及光纤电缆、战术服装和其他所谓的军民两用产品。
对于通过该网站销售商品的俄罗斯小企业家来说，Wildberries 遭受的袭击是灾难性的，该网站是俄罗斯最大的在线市场。
其中一名叫蒂穆尔（Timur）的人在周六早上醒来时得知，由于发生在莫斯科东南部的埃莱克特罗斯塔尔（Elektrostal）和坦博夫地区（Tambov region）科托夫斯克（Kotovsk）的 Wildberries 仓库袭击，他损失了价值约 $25,000 的服装和鞋类。
蒂穆尔在接受电话采访时对与外国记者交谈感到紧张，并要求隐去姓氏以避免遭到报复。他表示，他最担心的是他和其他俄罗斯企业家目前面临的不确定性。
他周二表示，目前尚不清楚接下来会发生什么，“因为最可能的情况是，这些并非唯一会被攻击的仓库。”
几小时后，另外两家存放其服装的 Wildberries 仓库（位于南部的斯塔夫罗波尔和克拉斯诺达尔地区）遭到无人机袭击。他的损失翻了一番。
提穆尔（Timur）说，他经营自己的业务已经五年了，“而它可能在一周之内就崩塌”，这种不稳定性是乌克兰人近四年半来一直面临的处境。
他警告称，这将对俄罗斯经济产生影响，表示持续的袭击可能会导致 Wildberries 的商业模式崩溃，从而引发价格上涨和物资短缺。
咨询公司欧亚集团（Eurasia Group）的欧洲主管亚历山大·科利安德尔（Alexander Kolyandr）呼应了这一观点。科利安德尔先生说：“公司本身和所有卖家缴纳的税款可能都会比去年少，考虑到其规模，这可能会是一笔相当大的数额，尤其是在俄罗斯预算赤字扩大的时期。”
此外，他表示，保护、重建和为仓库投保的成本将转嫁给消费者，这将加剧已经处于高位的通货膨胀。
据俄罗斯报纸《商业评论报》（Kommersant）和《福布斯俄罗斯》（Forbes Russia）报道的专家估计，周六在莫斯科和坦博夫地区发生的袭击所摧毁的货物价值，几乎与 Wildberries 去年的全部利润相当。
该公司首席执行官塔蒂亚娜·金（Tatyana Kim）承诺，将向遇难工人的家属提供约 $25,000 的经济赔偿，向伤者提供该金额的一半。
本月初，Wildberries 和另一家大型在线市场 Ozon 修改了条款和条件，规定公司在法律上没有义务对无人机袭击造成的损失提供赔偿。
然而，金女士在周三……
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通过拒绝让米哈伊洛·费多罗夫（Mykhailo Fedorov）重返国防部长之职，总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基（Volodymyr Zelensky）面临着制造一个对手的风险。
……短暂的六个月任期。
泽连斯基先生已示意，他将提名另一位候选人担任国防部长。如果他坚持这一计划，泽连斯基先生面临的一个风险是，费多罗夫先生可能会成为一个潜在的政治对手。
在对军事领导层的转向中，泽连斯基先生并未公开承认错误。据乌克兰新闻媒体报道，在上周与他所属政党成员的一次闭门会议上，他描述了国防部长与最高将领奥列克桑德尔·瑟尔斯基（Oleksandr Syrskyi）之间冲突所带来的困境。
费多罗夫先生是自动化武器的倡导者，他曾指责瑟尔斯基将军拖延机器人化战略。据新闻报道，泽连斯基告诉他的政治盟友，他曾考虑通过解雇两人来解决分歧，但担心领导层变动过于突然。因此，他仅解雇了部长，表明他站在了将军一边。
在俄罗斯入侵之前，泽连斯基先生的政府就像一扇“旋转门”。他在就任总统之初设定了宏大的议程，包括将农业用地私有化以及彻底改革国有企业的治理。但他在不到一年时间里就撤换了首个内阁。
在新冠疫情期间的一个时间点……
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上周，在乌克兰无人机袭击后，莫斯科近郊埃莱克特罗斯塔尔（Elektrostal）一家 Wildberries 物流中心火灾现场升起的浓烟（上图）；以及周三一名离开莫斯科 Wildberries 零售店的男子。
金 announced 了对那些“最脆弱”的小卖家的赔付计划。她没有透露具体金额。
Wildberries 上的许多卖家使用贷款为产品提供资金，包括 Timur，他提到利率高达 35%。根据商业报纸《Ведомости》（Vedomosti）的报道，如果一些供应商无法在未来几天内缴纳到期税款，他们的银行账户可能最早在下周被冻结。
在英国雷丁大学教授国际法且曾担任美国军方法律顾问的迈克尔·施密特（Michael Schmitt）表示，如果一个仓库之类的民用设施被用于、或正被准备用于军事目的，则可成为合法的军事目标。
他说，战斗人员必须考虑内部具体存放什么样的物资，对该地点的未来军事用途有高度确定性，并努力减轻对平民的伤害。
战略与国际研究中心（Center for Strategic and International Studies）的研究员玛丽亚·斯涅戈瓦亚（Maria Snegovaya）表示，俄罗斯的经济放缓（部分与乌克兰的远程打击有关）与对战争支持率的下降相吻合。
但俄罗斯国内有些人表示，袭击频率的增加可能会让俄罗斯人团结在领导人周围。
“敌方开始替我们的宣传部门工作了，也就是向国民解释一场真正的战争正在进行，没有人能仅仅通过低调来躲避，”俄罗斯军事博主罗曼·萨蓬科夫（Roman Saponkov）在 Telegram 上写道。“起初他们关掉了加油站的燃料，现在他们盯上了 Wildberries 的仓库。接下来，就轮到啤酒厂和美甲店了。”
大流行期间，他在一个月内更换了两次卫生部长。
在全面入侵后的最初几年里，泽连斯基先生保留了大多数关键部长和安全部门领导人的职务。但他在本月发起的一场政府洗牌（包括撤换费多罗夫先生）是该年内的第二次。
去年夏天，泽连斯基先生在政府削弱反腐机构的计划上又做了一次反转。他及其政党议员通过了这些变更，随后在群众的大规模示威中又撤销了决定。
本月政府重组中的某些任命得以维持，且几乎没有引起争议。
泽连斯基先生由经济学家尤利娅·斯维里登科（Yuliia Svyrydenko）替换为前能源高管谢尔盖·科列茨基（Serhiy Koretsky）担任总理。此举被视为在为俄罗斯预计将在冬季对乌克兰能源网发起的袭击做准备。
但一个主要问题仍然存在：泽连斯基先生最终是否会通过恢复费多罗夫先生的国防部长职位而完全反悔。基辅独立分析组织 Penta 的负责人弗拉基米尔·费先科（Volodymyr Fesenko）表示，这样做将削弱泽连斯基先生的地位。
“如果费多罗夫在当前情况下回到国防部长的岗位，乌克兰将出现一个平行的权力中心，”费先科先生说。“这将是泽连斯基政治生涯终结的开始。”
被揭露后 逃离日本
本文由 Michael Schwirtz, Adam Goldman 和 Jane Bradley 撰写。
一名处于向俄罗斯走私高科技武器部件秘密行动中心的俄罗斯间谍，在《纽约时报》披露其活动后已离开日本，一名乌克兰高级情报官员周四表示。该特工马克西姆·弗拉基米罗维奇·菲尔琴科夫（Maksim Vladimirovich Filchenkov），49 岁，此前在俄罗斯国家航空公司（Aeroflot）任职，在日本从事潜伏工作。菲尔琴科夫先生的角色曾是《时报》一项调查的焦点，该调查旨在探讨俄罗斯如何利用日本薄弱的间谍法。菲尔琴科夫先生离开的消息最早由日本主要全国性报纸《读卖新闻》（Yomiuri Shimbun）报道。该报称，在《时报》于 7 月 12 日发布调查报告后，这名俄罗斯人离开了日本。确认该间谍离开的乌克兰官员要求匿名，因为他未获授权公开讨论情报事项。
这名俄罗斯间谍在日本的存在让乌克兰感到沮丧，乌克兰曾多次警告称，尽管日本实施了出口限制和经济制裁，其高科技组件仍被运往俄罗斯。根据乌克兰政府的估计，90% 的俄罗斯导弹和无人机含有日本组件。“这绝对是个好消息，也是一个关于必须采取何种行动的重要例证，”曾在 2020 到 2024 年期间担任乌克兰驻日本大使的谢尔盖·科尔松斯基（Sergiy Korsunsky）表示。他表示，他曾向日本官员表达过对其技术流向战场的担忧。
菲尔琴科夫先生是俄罗斯军事情报局（G.R.U.）一个名为“第 20 局”的秘密单位的一员。该局官员伪装成外交官或商人，致力于购买或窃取战场技术并将其走私到俄罗斯。这使得曾在日本服役的资深官员菲尔琴科夫先生成为供应俄罗斯战争机器的关键环节，因为他与将货物从日本运往俄罗斯（通常通过中间国家）的物流公司建立了商业关系。
菲尔琴科夫先生未回应寻求评论的信息。他拒绝会见今年访问俄罗斯航空公司的记者。熟悉俄罗斯情报行动的前情报官员表示，身份被揭露的间谍通常会返回莫斯科从事文职工作或培训新一代间谍——这意味着菲尔琴科夫先生的潜伏生涯可能已经结束。但官员们表示，第 20 局仍然是克里姆林宫获取武器部件努力的关键部分。
日本政府尚未直接回答关于菲尔琴科夫先生或第 20 局的问题，但表示《时报》的报道表明有必要更好地打击外国间谍活动。日本内阁高官木原实（Minoru Kihara）表示，该国“必须以更大的严谨性来处理这一问题”。日本正致力于建立一个情报机构，这是其自第二次世界大战以来未曾拥有的。该国在乌克兰与俄罗斯的战争中支持了乌克兰，这场战争给双方都造成了沉重伤亡。在 2022 年俄罗斯全面入侵后，日本与美国及欧盟一起实施了经济制裁。日本随后开始向乌克兰发送防弹背心和头盔等军事援助，打破了二战后的先例。今年 5 月，日本开始向“北约乌克兰安全援助与培训”团队派遣人员，该团队负责协调对乌克兰的安全支持。在一次采访中，外交官科尔松斯基先生表示，俄罗斯开始囤积
在入侵乌克兰前不久，[俄罗斯]大量向日本制造商订购技术产品，时间大约在 2021. 年。在战争初期，乌克兰调查人员回收的武器零部件大多来自中国和伊朗。但随着战争从炮战转向无人机战争，他们开始在俄罗斯武器中发现更多的日本技术。“在我任职期间，我们曾多次将从乌克兰当局获得的关于其技术出现在无人机和火箭弹中的信息转交给日本当局，”科尔孙斯基先生（Mr. Korsunsky）表示。“很明显，供应所有这些备件的渠道并未关闭。”事实上，在 5 月一枚俄罗斯巡航导弹摧毁了基辅的一栋住宅楼并造成至少 24 人死亡后，调查人员发现该导弹是由日本组件引导的——根据乌克兰的一项评估，这些组件是被广泛禁止出口到俄罗斯的。
高市引用 其偶像之名 推动民族主义日本
作者：JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ
东京 —— 最近的一个下午，在东京一座静谧的大厅里，日本首相高市早苗站在其导师、已故日本领导人安倍晋三的巨幅肖像前鞠躬。
距离安倍先生——这位日本政坛巨擘以及该国任职时间最长的首相——在火车站外发表演讲时被枪杀，已经过去了四年。
作为其门生的高市女士此次前来表达敬意，并誓言继承他的愿景。她告诉在场的右翼政治人物、活动人士、记者和商业领袖，她有时仍会想象他坐在首相办公室的沙发上。
“我永远无法取代安倍首相的地位；与他相比，我的日子里充斥着批评，”她说道，“即便如此，我仍想成为像他那样战斗的政治家。我告诉自己，我必须如此。”
自九个月前赢得选举以来，作为日本首位女性首相，高市女士频繁利用她与安倍先生的关系，为其民族主义议程争取支持，在重要演讲中经常提及他及其政策。
她赞扬他关于建立一个更强硬的日本的愿景，认为这应该是整个亚洲力量与稳定的驱动力。她引用他的遗产，呼吁增加军事开支，并建立日本自第二次世界大战以来首个情报机构。在争取特朗普总统和印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪等外国领导人的支持时，她也提及了他的名字。
然而，由于安倍先生打破了战后数十年的和平主义，支持改变学校中关于二战历史的教学方式，且在其任期内经济不平等加剧，他在日本依然是一个存在争议的人物。
上野久子（Hisako Ueno）参与了报道。
令莫迪政府措手不及
作者：ALEX TRAVELLI
新德里 —— 印度权力强大且极其注重形象的总理纳伦德拉·莫迪（Narendra Modi）突然面临一个他在进入执政第 13 年时未曾预料到的政治问题。在今年的大部分时间里，莫迪先生一直关注经济焦虑问题，而美国与伊朗之间战争的外部影响加剧了这种焦虑。他的政府不得不应对进口石油和天然气短缺的问题，并将成本在企业和普通公民之间分摊。但现在，另一种经济压力追上了他，并促使数千名学生在首都发起抗议：印度资金不足的教育系统中那些崩塌且有时腐败的机制，以及该系统培养的数百万毕业生面临的严重就业短缺。在抗议持续 25 天，以及警方使用警棍和催泪瓦斯驱散抗议者近三天后，莫迪先生仍在努力寻求一个有意义的回应。周四，他在社交媒体上发布称：“没有什么比我们年轻人的福利和未来更重要！”他承诺将设立快速审理法庭来惩罚破坏考试的个人，但除此之外没有其他措施。对于走上街头的抗议者来说，这听起来既迟且弱，进一步激怒了其中许多人。该运动的要求正迅速扩大，从最初集中在要求对取消大学入学考试负责，扩展到包括为周一冲突中受伤的抗议者提供赔偿等其他要求。许多抗议者是学生，另一些人已有工作，但他们对教育和就业前景持有共同的绝望感和愤怒感。孟买、班加罗尔、艾哈迈达巴德和其他城市也出现了规模较小的抗议活动，提出的要求令莫迪先生在短期内难以、甚至不可能予以回应。20 岁的大学生阿尔什·古普塔（Arsh Gupta）表示，是“很多种情绪”促使他在周四前往中心抗议现场的。他说，最初的考试失败“绝非小事”，但更多地是其他问题驱动了他，最主要的是“一种我们生活在独裁统治下的感觉”。
在抗议活动的前沿
一名 41 岁的男子因抗议执政的自由民主党与边缘宗教团体统一教会的联系而被杀，这引发了一系列反应。虽然许多人感到愤怒，但也有一些人同情刺客，指出其童年生活艰辛。另一些人则表示，为安倍先生举行国葬是浪费钱。（其刺客山上彻也于今年被判处终身监禁。）
尽管安倍先生的遗产具有复杂性，但高市女士已成为他的主要捍卫者之一，称赞他是一位变革型领导人，提升了日本在国际舞台上的地位。这种对安倍先生任期胜利式的描述近期在日本各地公开展出，包括由安倍先生在商业和政府部门的盟友创建的“安倍晋三数字博物馆”举办的一场门票售罄的展览。该展览展出了 100 多件与其生活相关的物品，包括 2022 年 7 月 8 日他在高市女士的家乡、古都奈良被枪击时所持的麦克风。安倍先生的遗孀安倍昭江在周日参观奈良展览时表示，她丈夫的遗志已“托付给”了高市女士。
新的挑战 高市女士在 20 世纪 90 年代与安倍先生相识，当时两人均是崭露头角的政治家，她后来在安倍先生的内阁中任职。在日本人正面临与中国、俄罗斯以及北朝鲜紧张局势升级的时刻，高市女士一直试图将自己塑造为安倍遗产的继承者。
“她正在拥抱安倍所做的一切并将其发扬光大，”外交关系协会的高级研究员谢拉·A·史密斯（Sheila A. Smith）说道。
分析人士表示，现在的问题是高市女士能否将安倍先生的愿景应用于应对新的挑战。其中包括：
■ 北京正在迅速扩大其在亚洲的军事和经济影响力，并且发起了一场为期数月的运动，旨在惩罚高市女士，原因是她发表了支持台湾的言论，而中国声称台湾是其领土。
■ 随着日本在数十年来首次与通货膨胀作斗争，且日元持续疲软，该国的经济前景变得更加复杂。
■ 该国的人口下降也在加速，损害了经济，导致劳动力短缺，并削弱了诸如军事征兵等国防优先事项。
东京早稻田大学的政治学教授中林美惠子（Mieko Nakabayashi）表示，高市女士正死守安倍先生的剧本，而忽视了新的现实。她指出高市……
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……是“蟑螂人民党”（Cockroach Janta Party），这并非一个真正的政党，而是一个以印度最高法院首席大法官的一句侮辱性词汇命名的运动。该运动旨在针对这些更长期的危机。C.J.P. 的发言人表示，教育系统处于混乱状态，要求腐败且笨拙的官员必须承担责任。
印度的经济增长率可能处于健康水平，但这给抗议者带来的希望微乎其微。虽然记录的整体失业率看起来较低，在 4 到 7 之间，但大多数工人处于非正式部门，从未被统计在内。年轻成年人，尤其是那些获得了学位并希望将其投入使用的人，是最为沮丧的。
根据阿齐姆·普雷姆吉大学（Azim Premji University）发布的《2026 年印度就业状况》报告，近 40 ％的年轻人处于失业状态。在周一警察采取武力镇压后，抗议者的愤怒进一步升级，且似乎已转向反对整个印度政府。
这一切都不在莫迪先生 2026 年的计划之内。
伊朗战争带来了一系列严峻的挑战，但也是一个实现突破的机会。在莫迪先生的政党努力在一系列邦选举中赢得权力时，经济困难已累积数月。
在 5 月份赢得西孟加拉邦政府控制权并达到顶峰后，莫迪先生转而致力于抑制通货膨胀并管控公众的预期。
莫迪先生开始警告印……
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……预示着痛苦的时期即将到来。食品价格上涨，卢比汇率暴跌。
大约在同一时间，一起国家医学院入学考试题目泄露事件曝光，导致数百万学生的考试结果被取消。C.J.P. 几乎立即就接管了这些考生的诉求。
然而，这次抗议的领导层分散且非专业化。这使其不同于 2020 到 2021 年间在德里周边进行了一年多围攻式抗议的农民，也不同于目前一场代表查谟和克什米尔的抗议——后者的选出领导人正试图恢复其邦地位。
这些大多由中产阶级组成的抗议者，无法轻易被视作边缘群体。
他们提出的问题也无法在一夜之间得到解决。印度就业危机的起因早已酝酿多时。学生们投入了大量时间，其家庭也投入了大量资金在那些通常无法让他们适应职场的课程上。
经济学家兼《印度就业现状》报告主笔 Amit Basole 指出，印度的年轻毕业生一直以来都处于不成比例的高失业状态。但近年来，失业人数剧增，与此同时，他们家庭为教育承担的债务也随之增加。
“这是一个系统性的失败。如果政府不负责，那么谁负责？”周四在德里参加抗议的 22 岁商业专业毕业生 Pranavi Tripathi 问道。
高市对扩张性财政政策的支持，一些分析人士认为这可能会加剧通货膨胀。
“她的受欢迎程度取决于安倍先生的遗产，”中林女士说。“她最大的卖点在于，无论付出什么代价，她都试图实现安倍先生想要做的一切。”
高市在安倍先生 2006 年的首任首相期间以及从 2012 年开始的第二任期内都为其工作。她随后升至权力巨大的总务大臣一职。
在那段时间里，她成为了其政策的坚定捍卫者，包括试图修订日本宪法以解除其限制的努力。
伊斯兰文明中心：
这一构思最早由乌兹别基斯坦总统于 2017 年在联合国讲台上提出，现已演变为一座受帖木儿时代 (era.) 传统启发而建的宏伟建筑群。伊斯兰文明中心集博物馆、图书馆、档案馆、研究部门、修复实验室和教育空间于一体。
2026 年 3 月 17 日，该中心向公众开放。如今，它已成为一个新一代的文化、学术和教育机构。
联合国教科文组织总干事哈立德·埃尔-埃纳尼 (Khaled El-Enany) 表示：“这个中心是全世界的灯塔，也是乌兹别基斯坦作为文明十字路口之历史地位的象征。”
该建筑群的精神与建筑核心是古兰经大厅，位于一个宏伟的 65 米高穹顶之下。这里收藏着《奥斯曼古兰经》(Uthman Mushaf)，它是伊斯兰世界最伟大的神圣宝藏之一，并被列入联合国教科文组织《世界记忆名录》。
联合国旅游组织秘书长谢哈·努瓦伊斯 (Shaikha Al Nowais) 评价道：“祝贺你们创造了这样一个非凡的故事。我想我以前从未见过类似的东西。”
该中心已获得六项国际奖项和荣誉，其中包括被吉尼斯世界纪录认定为全球最大的伊斯兰文明博物馆。在 2026 年全球清真旅游峰会上，它获得了“年度最佳伊斯兰遗产景点”奖。它还被凡尔赛奖 (Prix Versailles) 评为全球最美丽的博物馆之一，并被《史密森尼杂志》(Smithsonian Magazine) 列为年度最受期待的博物馆开馆项目。
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军事，以及他强调廉价资金和政府刺激措施的经济计划。 “我不仅被他作为政治家的品质所吸引，也被他作为一个人的人格所吸引，”高市女士在展览中展出的一封信中提到她与安倍先生共事时的感受。
安倍的学习曲线 咨询公司 Japan Foresight 的创始人、安倍先生传记作者托比亚斯·哈里斯 (Tobias Harris) 表示，高市女士是否完全掌握了安倍任期内的教训仍有待观察。他指出，考虑到安倍在第二任期中的成功，她认同安倍的斗志这一点值得关注。
展览追溯了该地区从古代到现代的历史，向游客介绍伊斯兰文明之前的文明、第一次和第二次文艺复兴时期以及“新乌兹别基斯坦”的成就。展厅中展出了 2,000 多件独特的文物，其中许多已回迁至该国。
该中心国际活动的一个重要里程碑是于 2026 年 7 月 7 日至 15 日举行的首届国际论坛——“伊斯兰文明：和平、宽容与启蒙之路”。此次论坛聚集了来自 50 个国家的约 500 名代表，包括国际组织负责人、政府部长、大穆夫提、顶尖博物馆和图书馆馆长以及知名学者。
土耳其共和国总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安向与会者发送了一封信息，并在活动期间被朗读。他表示，这一具有深远意义且建设性的倡议不仅对乌兹别基斯坦，而且对整个伊斯兰世界和人类的共同未来都具有巨大的历史意义。在沙夫卡特·米尔济约耶夫总统的英明领导下，乌兹别基斯坦正成为这一历史使命的领导者和旗手。
在首届伊斯兰文明国际论坛上，穆斯林世界联盟秘书长穆罕默德·本·阿卜杜勒·卡里姆·阿尔-伊萨 (Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa) 将乌兹别基斯坦描述为“伊斯兰文明史上最灿烂的篇章之一”。论坛闭幕时，一项宣言获得一致通过。
“我们，第一届伊斯兰文明国际论坛的参与者，向乌兹别克斯坦共和国总统沙夫卡特·米尔济约耶夫表达深切的感激之情。正是通过这一历史性举措，乌兹别克斯坦已成为全球研究和推广伊斯兰文明遗产的领先中心之一，同时也成为了一个重要的和平、启蒙和跨文化对话的国际平台，”论坛参与者们宣称。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 左图：本月在奈良举办的纪念日本前首相安倍晋三的展览。上图：2014 年的安倍先生与现任首相高市早苗。
部分源于对这些冲动的克制。 “我们一次又一次地看到了她不顾一切地碾压对手的意愿，”哈里斯先生说。“但正如安倍所体会到的，这样做是有代价的。”
安倍晋三数字博物馆为此次展览从个人捐赠者处筹集了超过 $338,000 的资金。在最近的一天，参观者在墙上留下了诸如“您曾是我们的希望！”和“我们将继承您的使命”之类的留言。一家商店出售以安倍为主题的日历和纸牌，其中包含他与特朗普总统一起打高尔夫球的场景。
该展览成为了其支持者的聚集地，在东京和奈良吸引了近 7,000 名参观者，其中包括六名以上的高市女士内阁官员。
安倍先生的支持者们对高市女士抱有希望，尽管他们表示，她将面临与安倍先生不同的挑战，包括能源供应的中断、外国战争以及美国的政治动荡。
在东京经营一家气象数据公司的 48 岁女性加藤富美代在参观展览时，看到安倍先生的个人物品——一本童年笔记本、一张父亲的肖像画、一张结婚照——时流下了眼泪。她表示，高市女士似乎在继承他的遗志，但现在断定她是否会成功还为时过早。
“安倍是一个伟大的人，”她说。“他无法被轻易取代。”
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这家人在 2023 年脱北，是极少数在领导人金正恩在冠状病毒大流行期间实施严厉封锁后，仍成功逃离北朝鲜的人之一。他们抵达这个接纳他们的国家时，带来了关于一个与外界隔绝之国的罕见见解。他们逃亡过程中的某些细节此前尚未报道。 “那个夜晚，”伊赫的妻子侑美说，“我们从一片黑暗之海跨越到了自由之海。”
封锁
“我们从一片黑暗之海跨越到了自由之海。”
父亲的愿望
在韩国进行的数月采访中，日赫说话时的神态依然带着他在北朝鲜作为一名自封的“麻烦制造者”时养成的那种自信。侑美则比较含蓄，说话时将腿紧紧地蜷缩在胸前。她的母亲要求不具名，但同意被拍照，她在说话时字斟句酌，担心自己的言论会影响留在北方的亲属。但他们都坚定地讲述了为何必须离开北朝鲜。（其他大家族成员拒绝接受采访。）
兄弟俩来自北朝鲜西南部的表城郡。在 20 世纪 90 年代末的饥荒期间，他们的父亲——一名铁路安全官员——带回了来自受灾最严重省份的阴森描述：在火车站外发现的儿童瘦骨嶙峋，身体冻得僵硬，被扔上前往墓地的卡车时，发出的声音就像冻鱼一样。他是家中第一个对那个无法养活人民的统治阶级失去信心的人。在儿子们成年后的一个夜晚，他带他们去一座山上，指向韩国边境对面的一簇灯光。“那是我们应该去的地方，”他说，“为了生存，为了挺起脊梁。”
侑美住在附近的沿海城镇江龙。在那里，她可以看到从水对面不远处的仁川国际机场起飞的飞机在阳光下闪烁——那是可能性闪烁的愿景，但对于被禁止旅行且无法连接互联网的北朝鲜人来说，那是无法触及的。“我们的国家感觉就像一座没有围栏的监狱，”她说。从幼儿园开始，孩子们就唱着《我们没什么可羡慕的》这首国歌，与此同时，他们被动员去挑河水，或在山上搜寻草药和松子。在漫长的工作日之后，成年人必须参加强制性的“生活回顾会”，写自我批评和忠诚誓言。
2013 年，当金正恩访问侑美城镇附近的一个岛屿时，士兵和村民们欢呼着涌入海中。她知道那一幕是排演出来的；她说，普通居民被禁止离开家门。在宣传攻势面前，禁忌文化悄悄传播。通过从中国走私的 USB 闪存盘，韩国的电影和电视剧在民间流传。在江龙，这些设备还通过韩国活动人士从水对面漂流过来的塑料瓶进入，随瓶而来的还有大米和小型圣经。官员们警告说这些瓶子里装有毒药，但韩国的娱乐产品赢得了人心。日赫崇拜少女时代（Girls’ Generation）等 K-pop 团体，并将头发剪成像 BigBang 成员太阳（Taeyang）那样的小飞盘发型。他因“资本主义堕落”而被逮捕，在支付贿赂后才被释放，头发被剃光。他曾和朋友们一次
秘密地观看了汤姆·克鲁斯主演的电影《瓦尔基里》（Valkyrie），讲述的是刺杀希特勒的阴谋。当阴谋者失败并被执行死刑时，他的朋友们流下了眼泪。兄弟们心中关于脱离北朝鲜的想法同样令人感到危险。他们的父亲禁止他们结婚，理由是家庭成员越多，在脱北时被抓住的风险就越大。随后，父亲利用关系将幼子 Yi-hyeok 转移到康龙（Kangryong），他在那里学习航海，绘制哨所地图，并与官员建立联系。Yi-hyeok 成为了一名潜水员，通过地表软管提供的新鲜空气，在海底采集海鲜。他最终遇到了 Yu-mi。Il-hyeok 则在北朝鲜的影子经济中活动，通过行贿来获取机会并摆脱麻烦。他为餐厅屠宰动物，经营一座小型金矿，并购买从国家粮仓偷来的大米，然后以盈利价转售。他同时也
对自己所利用的这个体制感到幻灭。随后，在 2014 年，他们的父亲意外去世。韩国之梦似乎随之而逝。哥哥 Il-hyeok 坐立不安，而 Yi-hyeok 则比较沉稳。他在 2017 年与 Yu-mi 结婚，夫妻俩很快有了两个孩子。他加入了一家军方经营的渔业公司，负责运营三艘船。尽管联合国实施了禁令，但中国买家在康龙公开活动，在行情好时，Yi-hyeok 的收入可以超过普通工人的年薪。Il-hyeok 开始与一名幼儿园教师约会。脱北不再是首要任务。“当我提起这件事时，我兄弟让我闭嘴，”Il-hyeok 回忆道。疫情改变了一切。
“我想这样，”Yu-mi 说道。 Il-hyeok 曾拍摄过一名身穿破衣烂衫、牙齿脱落的憔悴男子在乞讨食物。那名男子说，士兵枪杀了一名试图采集螃蟹的村民。 “他们很残暴，”他疲惫地低声说道，“即使你不给施舍，也不该打碎乞丐的碗。” 公开处决变得更加频繁，目标是那些被指控犯有谋杀等暴力罪行的人（这类罪行在封锁期间激增），或者是传播“非社会主义”内容（如韩国电视剧）的人。包括这对兄弟在内的数千人被强迫观看行刑现场响起的步枪枪响。人群在沉默中散去。 “目的是为了 instill 恐惧，”Il-hyeok 说，“为了抹除对外界的所有幻想。” 当局也在向他逼近。 他想娶他的女朋友，一个农民的女儿。在一个声称没有阶级的体制中，娶一个在集体农场工作（即使是教师）的女性，意味着 Il-hyeok 的地位下降。双方家庭都反对这门亲事。但这对情侣还是搬到一起住了。随后，在 2022 年，金正恩禁止未婚同居。违者将被送往劳改营。 “我必须在她和北朝鲜之间做出选择，”Il-hyeok 说，“我选择了韩国——以及一场真正的阶级革命。”
‘我必须在她和北朝鲜之间做出选择。我选择了韩国。’
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Kim Il-hyeok 于 2023 年与他的兄弟 Kim Yi-hyeok 以及其他七名家庭成员一起逃离北朝鲜，现居住在首尔（见上图），他于上个月在首尔结婚。
KIM IL-HYEOK，他曾因与伴侣非法同居而可能被送往劳改营。
Kim Yu-mi，Il-hyeok 的嫂子，与她的母亲和孩子在首尔她母亲的公寓里。左图显示了她一行人逃离北朝鲜的路线。
KIM YU-MI，她曾担心再也见不到自己的孩子。
沿海地区部署了监控摄像头以威慑脱北行为。
兄弟俩在电话中用暗语交流。“好天气”意味着风暴即将来临，会迫使巡逻艇返回港口。“我们捕获了丰收——快到这里来”则意味着日赫（Il-hyeok）应该带着他们的母亲和女友前往干龙（Kangryong）。
2023年5月6日当晚，天气和鱼获都非常理想。
由美（Yu-mi）的母亲是一位52岁的寡妇，她在出发前仅五小时才决定加入。
“尝试逃亡可能会死，”她说，“但如果我的家人到达韩国而我留下，那样也跟死没什么区别——因为我会成为叛徒的亲属。”
日赫的姐夫（也是他的捕鱼伙伴）乘船悄悄离开并在近海等待。家中的其余成员穿过一座布满地雷的沿海山丘，到达一片僻静的海滩。为了更方便地携带日赫两个年幼的孩子，兄弟们将他们装进麻袋并扛在肩上。在扎紧袋口之前，由美捕捉到孩子们在抬头看着她。“我想这可能是我最后一次见到他们了，”她说，“我哭了，我的丈夫也流下了眼泪。”日赫的姐夫发现了预先约定好的信号——海滩上三次闪烁的手电筒光——随后操纵船只驶入，接走其余的大家族成员。晚上10点左右，这艘30英尺长的船启动离岸，发动机被调至仅比快走稍快的速度，试图悄悄向仅九英里外的韩国延坪岛（Yeonpyeong Island）驶去。在甲板下方，由美突然感觉到发动机全速轰鸣，货舱被黑色废气填满，导致妇女和儿童晕船。她最小的孩子翻起了白眼。她抱着孩子上去呼吸新鲜空气——结果发现甲板上的男人陷入了恐慌。
“就在那时，我看到一艘北朝鲜巡逻艇的探照灯在身后的波浪中扫视，”她说，“我的心沉到了谷底。”
兄弟俩此前已经商定，如果无法甩掉安保船只该怎么做：给妇女和儿童系好救生衣并配备手电筒，将他们送入海中，信任洋流会将他们带向南方。男人则会操纵船只远离以充当诱饵，用20英寸的刀和自制的辣椒炸弹进行最后的抵抗。为了减轻船身重量，日赫将任何沉重的物品全部扔进海里——斧头、扳手、渔网，以及他哥哥用于头盔潜水的空气压缩机。他跑回甲板下方，为他的伙伴系上救生衣，然后冲回室外。她当时认为他即将把她扔进海里以拯救他人。他的母亲则认为儿子选择了先救女友而不是救母亲。
“这给我在与他们相处时带来了无穷的麻烦，直到我能说服他们，他们误会了我，”他说。
渐渐地，身后的探照灯消失了。兄弟俩后来推测，他们扔进海里的渔网可能缠住了追击船只的螺旋桨。这场长达两小时的豪赌在午夜后不久结束，当时一艘韩国船只拦截了他们，所有九名家庭成员都被接上了船。一名军官迎接他们：“欢迎来到天堂。”
新的开始
在他们下船之前，军官举起拳头喊道：“Fighting!” 这个英语单词在韩国常被用作鼓励，但对北朝鲜人来说很陌生。“但他面带微笑并与我们握手，”由美说，“所以我们认为他在祝愿我们好运。”
在韩国，由美学习并获得了会计员证书，并在一家学校找到了工作。她的弟弟进入大学就读，而日赫则重新从事头盔潜水采集海鲜的工作。“我的弟弟开玩笑说这里的潜水装备太先进了，如果他愿意，在水下都能睡着，”日赫回忆道。
日赫的女友在韩国生下了他们的第一个孩子。这对夫妇于2024年结婚，不久后又迎来了一个女儿。日赫正在逐渐适应韩国的资本主义经济，尝试在餐厅做兼职，并操作叉车和挖掘机。他投身于韩国喧闹的民主社会中。
民主带来的震撼是巨大的。电视机提供了无穷无尽的频道——这与北朝鲜截然不同，那里只有政府广播。在故乡，日赫（Il-hyeok）那辆旧摩托车是珍贵的地位象征；而现在，他发现自己置身于挤满现代汽车的高速公路中。城市广场上回荡着抗议声。宥美（Yu-mi）的母亲对能同时出热水和冷水的水龙头感到惊叹。在养老院工作的第一天，当同事们要求提供“餐巾纸”（napkins）时，她愣住了——这是另一个她从未听过的英文词汇。两兄弟的母亲被一部妻子扇丈夫耳光的电视剧震惊了。而当日赫第一次尝试离开韩国首都首尔时，他尽职地打电话给一名警察侦探以请求许可。那名侦探只是大笑。
然后是选举。在北朝鲜，人们身着正装排队领取仅有一个名字的选票。他们用双手将票投入“同意”箱，并向金正恩的父亲和祖父（在他之前统治国家的人）的画像深深鞠躬。没有人敢靠近“反对”箱。当日赫和他的妻子在六月作为韩国公民投票时，他们发现投票者穿着短裤和拖鞋，戴着耳机抵达。选票上是一串令人眼花缭乱的名字列表。
然而，韩国并非天堂。在抵达韩国 19 个月后，义赫（Yi-hyeok）于 2024. 年末在一场潜水事故中丧生。两兄弟的母亲和日赫的妻子被诊断出患有癌症。日赫对首尔飙升的房价地发泄挫败感。他正省下每一分钱，好让家人搬出那间狭小、由政府补贴的租赁公寓。尽管如此，他坚称逃离北朝鲜是“100”分之百正确的选择。
在去世前，义赫曾出现在电视上，解释说他逃离是为了让孩子们免受北朝鲜学校的思想灌输。他的女儿现在是韩国学校的一名二年级学生，他的儿子在幼儿园。孩子们对新生活的适应最快，迅速接受了炸鸡和比萨等韩国主食。“我的丈夫在去世前给了我和孩子们他所承诺的自由，”宥美说道。兄弟俩还实现了父亲最后的遗愿：当他们的船逃离北朝鲜时，他们随身携带了他的骨灰。
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作者：HILARY HOWARD
三年前，一场特大暴雨淹没了纽约州的海兰法尔斯（Highland Falls）。浑浊的河水冲过主街，一名女性在离开家后被水流卷走。如今，这个位于哈德逊河谷（Hudson Valley）的村庄每年必须花费 50 万美元，仅仅是为了支付借款进行关键维修而产生的利息。
对于纽约市大都市区来说，破坏性的风暴并不新鲜。仅在今年夏天，强降雨和强风就导致康涅狄格州的电线杆倒塌，新泽西州和布朗克斯区的汽车被淹，并将纽约市时尚的 SoHo 区部分地区变成了涉水池。
随着气候变化，这些风暴将变得更强且更频繁。它们的代价也将变得更高。根据一份新报告，预计到 2050, 纽约州在与气候变化相关的基础设施支出上将超过 5000 亿美元。
开展此次分析的非营利组织 Rebuild by Design 成立于飓风“桑迪”（Hurricane Sandy）之后，旨在与纽约市机构合作开展与洪水相关的防护计划。该团体搜寻了全州范围内的公共记录，寻找应对全球变暖影响的计划，包括等待资金的政府提案、正在进行的项目以及飓风“桑迪”之后完成的项目。随后，它汇总了这些工作的成本，得出了 $519 billion 的总额。
而且，这甚至还没有包括未来灾害的成本——而这一成本很容易达到数亿美元。Rebuild by Design 的负责人艾米·切斯特（Amy Chester）表示，这些工作的资金将由地方和州政府承担，这也可能意味着居民需要缴纳更高的税款。“此次分析中显示的需求远远超过了可用资源，”她说。
海兰法尔斯村长詹姆斯·迪萨尔沃（James DiSalvo）对此深有体会。海兰法尔斯属于海兰兹镇（Highlands），位于纽约市以北约 55 英里。 “我借了 $6 million，玩了一种我称之为‘钢铁侠足球’的游戏，”他说。“我做一部分工程，拿到回款，再做一部分工程，再拿到回款。”
尽管如此，村子里仍然需要更多资金。迪萨尔沃先生表示，2024, 该村的预算增加了 7 percent 以上，税收增加了 5 percent 以上。
报告发现，政府已承诺支付或正在规划的联邦、州和地方计划共有 700 多个。这些项目旨在应对海平面上升、侵蚀、电网脆弱性、雨水管理、风暴损坏以及下水道升级。
在纽约市，由于面临严重的基础设施、洪水和极端高温问题——并且已经制定了多项计划来解决这些问题——气候变化准备工作的成本分摊到每位居民身上约为 $50,000。规模较小的城镇可能还没有保护社区的成文计划，因此它们的预计成本要低得多。
在海兰法尔斯，工程和支出仍在继续。村里的水箱受损，目前仍在维修中。“这需要花极长的时间，”迪萨尔沃先生说。“再说一次，如果我有无限的资金，情况就完全不同了。”
这个村庄建在一座大山的侧面，有一条小溪流经。洪水是由
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作者：AMY GRAFF 和 BEA MALSKY
在过去一周的北美地区，随着明尼苏达州和安大略州肆虐的山火释放出巨大的烟柱，空气质量读数飙升，远超健康专家认为具有危险性的 300 以上评级。在某些地方，读数甚至超过了 1,000。
这并不是山火烟柱在远离燃烧地点的地区造成空气污染的第一次，而且极可能不会是最后一次。但两名空气质量专家的分析发现，美国中西部和东北部许多城镇的某些污染水平创下历史之最——甚至高于 2023 年的测量值，当时加拿大也发生了火灾，刺鼻的空气在东海岸大部分地区笼罩了数日。
数十年来的 最高污染物读数。
美国使用由环境保护局创建的空气质量指数来衡量空气质量，以帮助人们了解空气污染对健康的风险。读数分为六个颜色代码类别，从最清洁空气的绿色（50 及以下）到最危险空气的栗色（300 以上）。
该指数衡量五种主要空气污染物——地面臭氧、颗粒物、一氧化碳、二氧化硫和二氧化氮——以及在特定环境下它们如何影响空气健康状况，其测量通过政府运行的官方传感器网络以及精确度较低但分布更广的社区传感器完成。
应《纽约时报》请求，两名空气质量专家——华盛顿大学助理教授 Marissa Childs 和石溪大学助理教授 Minghao Qiu 研究了其中一种污染物，即 PM 2.5（直径为 2.5 微米或更小的颗粒物）。
它是山火烟雾的主要成分，可以进入血液和肺部，长期接触可能导致死亡。
研究人员发现，上周芝加哥、底特律、密尔沃基和俄亥俄州的托莱多，在 24 小时期间内的平均读数均创下过去 20 年来的最高记录。
“空气质量包含许多组成部分，”
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这并非由水道溢出引起，而是由数小时内降下的 9 英寸雨以及随之产生的山坡径流造成的。道路和桥梁被冲毁。DiSalvo 先生说，在他童年时代的家门前，“鱼在街道上游泳”。
市长表示，值得注意的是，该村许多 100 年历史的挡土墙坍塌了，事实证明这是修复费用最昂贵的项目。
其中一些墙位于私人财产上，但由于该村不位于洪泛平原内，房主在申请联邦紧急管理署报销或获取洪水保险时遇到了困难。这种情况在全国范围内正变得越来越普遍。
此外，联邦紧急管理署（FEMA）要求县级单位积累一定的经济损失金额，总统才能宣布进入灾难状态，
红色标注的地点在今年野火烟雾数日不散后，记录到了有史以来最高的小颗粒空气污染物水平。
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明尼苏达州 (Minn.) 新罕普尔夏州 (N.H.)
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注：由 Marissa Childs 和 Minghao Qiu 基于 Jan. 1, 2006, 和 July 18, 2026, 期间（且至少拥有五年数据的地区）的最大日均 PM 2.5 浓度分析得出。来源：美国环境保护局。
2026 记录到的 最高日均 PM 2.5 水平
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2023年7月，九英寸的降雨冲毁了纽约州海兰法尔斯 (Highland Falls, N.Y.) 的街道、桥梁和挡土墙。上图为三年前的主街，下图为上个月。该村每年必须花费 50 万美元，仅用于支付维修借款的利息。
从而使其有资格获得联邦援助。今夏早些时候的暴风雨甚至远未达到该标准，这意味着居民和地方政府将自行承担所有维修费用。“这些成本将以增税、保险费上涨、损失赔偿、房屋维修和企业亏损的形式转嫁给家庭，”Rebuild 的 Chester 女士表示。
在某些情况下，即便某个州超过了 FEMA（联邦紧急事务管理局）的援助门槛，总统仍有权拒绝提供帮助。今年 2 月，一场暴风雪导致纽约大部分地区瘫痪，霍楚州长 (Gov. Kathy Hochul) 向特朗普总统申请宣布重大灾难状态。本月，他否决了州长的请求。
纽约州的国土安全与应急服务局表示，纽约州仍致力于在灾难后帮助居民。但资金必须有来源。Rebuild by Design 的报告呼吁针对日益极端的天气和海平面上升制定一项全面的全州计划。阿尔巴尼大学的环境专家 Ríobart É. Breen 表示，如果没有这样的计划，“社区将被迫制定不完整、不协调且通常缺乏资源的气候适应策略”，这将导致保护水平参差不齐。
报告称，鉴于联邦政府反对其他灾难资金来源，这样一份计划尤为重要。2024, 晚些时候，霍楚州长签署了一项法律，要求主要化石燃料公司协助支付由极端天气造成的损失维修费（燃烧石油和天然气会使地球升温，从而加剧风暴和干旱）。
这项名为《气候变化超级基金法》(Climate Change Superfund Act) 的法律要求这些公司在 25 年内向一个用于基础设施维修、升级以及灾后恢复工作的账户支付 $75 billion。但在 2025, 早些时候，该法律在法院遭到挑战，由西弗吉尼亚州领衔的 22 个州认为，单个州不应主导联邦能源政策。
今年夏天，纽约人可能会得知这数十亿资金的最终命运，预计雪城的一位法官将对该案做出裁决。
中西部较低地区以及距离火灾现场最远的东北部部分地区（包括纽约），其数值并未超过 2023 年设定的水平。
空气质量恶劣的创纪录天数令健康专家感到担忧，他们建议人们在这些日子里留在室内，以避免接触危险空气。
专家表示，虽然这些空气污染的剧烈峰值值得关注，但长期的持续暴露会对呼吸道和心血管健康造成更大的损害，并降低整体预期寿命。
“这次严重的空气污染事件成为了新闻头条，这确实应该如此，但在全球许多地方，该问题长期存在的低强度负担，才使空气污染成为地球上对人类健康最大的外部威胁，”芝加哥大学能源政策研究所清洁空气计划主任克里斯塔·哈森科夫（Christa Hasenkopf）说道。
与许多其他国家相比，美国的空气质量被公认为高于平均水平，且几十年来情况一直在逐渐改善。
“过去十年中野火活动的增加破坏了这一趋势，导致全国空气质量陷入某种平台期，并在一些局部地区导致情况恶化，”研究机构 Berkeley Earth 的首席科学家罗伯特·罗德（Robert Rohde）说道。
作者：ALAN BLINDER 以及 REBECCA DAVIS O’BRIEN
根据周四的一份法院文件，特朗普政府目前已放弃强制宾夕法尼亚大学提交校园内犹太人士名单的请求。
尽管政府有所退让，但这并未解决平等就业机会委员会（Equal Employment Opportunity Commission）针对宾大反犹主义担忧而开展的长期调查。但政府此举似乎意味着，至少在宾大的案例中，这种在政治上动荡且在法律上充满争议的策略已经结束。
政府在法院文件中未对其决定做出解释，且 E.E.O.C. 的一名发言人拒-
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作者：CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE 以及 SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
特朗普总统的科学顾问周三告诉立法者，特朗普政府计划大幅改革国家的科学研究方法，包括将研究资金从大学转向个人研究员和私人公司。在一次众议院听证会上，迈克尔·克拉特西奥斯（Michael Kratsios）呼应了他在周二发布的一份题为《科学：一个新黄金时代》的报告中所阐述的观点。他表示，政府将优先考虑人工智能、机器人技术和核能，同时减少政府对所谓的“生命科学”的关注。
“我们在美国实现突破性进展的能力已经放缓，”克拉特西奥斯先生在周三的听证会上告诉立法者，“也许我们应该尝试除多年来一直采用的方法之外的其他突破方式。”
民主党人反驳称，特朗普政府通过解雇联邦科学机构的工作人员、寻求大幅削减研究计划、取消或冻结拨款、惩罚特朗普总统不满意的大校，以及迫使美国一些顶尖研究人员迁往其他国家，从而损害了科学研究。
“让我提议一个替代标题：‘在中华人民共和国释放科学的黄金时代’，”众议院科学委员会最高级别的民主党人、加利福尼亚州代表佐伊·洛夫格伦（Zoe Lofgren）在听证会开始时对克拉特西奥斯先生说道。“本届政府一直在系统性地破坏美国的科学事业。”
白宫将周二的报告描述为“80 年多以来对美国科学技术事业的第一次全面反思”，此前的一次反思是由曼哈顿计划（该计划制造了世界上第一颗原子弹）的组织者范内瓦·布什（Vannevar Bush）撰写的。布什博士 1945 年的报告为现行制度奠定了基础。
Adam Sella 和 William J. Broad 参与了报道。
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担忧。这些产品大多为注射剂，其中一些小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Mr. Kennedy）曾使用并大肆宣传，目前被作为“研究级”产品销售，不旨在广泛使用。尽管有此限制，它们仍在网上销售，并声称具有多种益处，包括肌腱修复和大脑健康。
在周四的第一次投票中，六名多肽销售商与一名配药药剂师和一名药房业务主管共同投票，支持将一种名为 BPC-157 的多肽添加到定制药房可配药的产品列表中。
八名新任委员会成员投票支持扩大该多肽的获取渠道。在公开证词中，该产品被描述为具有多种用途，例如帮助心脏病患者和患有子宫内膜异位症的人群。
那些仅自称为研究员、医生或药剂师的多肽贸易从业者表示，他们被刚才作证的公众成员的报告所打动。
“即使根据我们掌握的有限数据，在风险方面也没有显著信号，”费城地区一家销售 BPC-157 用于“治疗”的诊所创始人阿萨雷·克里斯蒂安（Asare Christian）说道。
他补充道：“我们在面对所有患者时始终在承担风险，”
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然而，此举代表了特朗普政府的一次罕见退让，该政府一直试图将调查和削减资金作为对抗顶尖大学的筹码。
针对宾大（Penn）的调查始于 2023 年 12 月，当时由特朗普总统在首任任期内任命的平等就业机会委员会（E.E.O.C.）专员安德里亚·卢卡斯（Andrea Lucas）向该大学提起民权指控，理由是存在“针对犹太教教员、工作人员和其他雇员的骚扰模式或惯例”，特别是在 2023 年 10 月 7 日哈马斯对以色列袭击之后。
但直到特朗普先生重新……
在这种模式下，政府资助基础研究，大学进行研究，而私人公司将其商业化。克拉齐奥斯（Mr. Kratsios）关于削弱大学作用的建议将颠覆这一自二战结束以来一直实行的体系。他呼吁政府降低对“生命科学”的优先级——生命科学涵盖分子生物学、遗传学等生物医学领域，以及旨在测试新疗法的临床试验——这引起了生物医学研究人员和学术医学中心的警觉。他们担心这意味着美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）的资金将减少。杰里米·M·伯格（Jeremy M. Berg）曾在布什和奥巴马政府期间领导 NIH 旗下的国家通用医学科学研究所，他称该报告“极其缺乏事实依据”。他表示，克拉齐奥斯先生如此狭隘地聚焦于人工智能，忽略了科学的偶然性。
“我认为他们正试图将其转变为风险投资模式，”匹兹堡大学计算与系统生物医学专家伯格博士（Dr. Berg）说道。“我不明白联邦政府为什么要投资于此。”
与大多数总统科学顾问不同，克拉齐奥斯先生并非科学家。他拥有硅谷背景，曾在彼得·蒂尔（Peter Thiel）经营的投资基金工作，后者是支持特朗普先生首次竞选总统的著名风险投资家。克拉齐奥斯先生的教育背景也与前任不同：之前的科学顾问都拥有博士学位，而克拉齐奥斯先生拥有普林斯顿大学的政治学学士学位，没有其他学位。
这份由同时领导白宫科技政策办公室的克拉齐奥斯先生提交的报告，以对联邦……的广泛指责开始
政府对科学研究资助的方式。克拉齐奥斯先生认为，尽管近几十年来对研究的投资有所增加，但投资结果未能跟上步伐。他写道：“科学生产力已经放缓。”在他引用的例子中包括：“尽管自 20 世纪 90 年代以来生物医学资金大幅增加，但重大突破的速率似乎有所放缓，且药物审批陷入停滞。”
为了解决这个问题，克拉齐奥斯先生呼吁减少研究人员申请资助所需花费的时间，并指示科学机构想出更好的方法来衡量其投资回报。
他还指示联邦科学机构专注于白宫设定的少数几个优先事项，包括物理科学、化学和生物科学。他写道，这些领域对于他所谓的特朗普总统政府的“国家使命”至关重要——该清单包括人工智能、核聚变、机器人技术、量子计算和太空探索。
该报告对于联邦政府应减少资助的科学研究领域则表述得不够明确。报告称，联邦机构“在生物科学领域应将基础研究置于生命科学干预措施之上，而后者是我们作为医生所做的。”
在投票之前，卫生与公共服务部为入选人员辩护。该部门在一份声明中表示：“所有委员会成员都经过了所有食品药品监督管理局（FDA）咨询委员会成员必须经过的相同伦理审查和审核程序。”“无法满足现有伦理要求的候选人已被排除在考虑范围之外。”
南加州大学的肝移植医生布赖恩·P·李博士表示，他投票支持“否”，是因为安慰剂（伪药）可以使 30 percent 的患者认为自己的病情有所改善。他表示，多肽的数据显示其效果甚至比标准安慰剂更小，且存在潜在风险。
他说：“我认为这次背书可能会带来潜在危害，出于良知，我不能投赞成票。”
委员会还投票支持扩大以乳膏或凝胶形式使用多肽 KPV 的范围。人们认为这种多肽能信号引导身体减轻炎症，但尚未经过深入研究。
委员会在当天结束时投票支持注射用 TB-500, 一种据食品药品监督管理局（FDA）称，最初作为兽药开发，用于提高马或灰马性能的多肽。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 迈克尔·克拉齐奥斯，总统的科学顾问，将人工智能、机器人技术和核能视为优先事项。他曾在硅谷工作。
回到了白宫。平等就业机会委员会（E.E.O.C.）迅速开始向宾大施压，要求其交出关于反犹太主义投诉的记录，以及一份与“犹太教、信仰、祖籍/国籍相关”的“所有俱乐部、团体、组织和娱乐团体”的清单。
政府还要求提供这些团体的成员名册，以及在宾大犹太研究项目中工作过的人员名单。
宾大配合了政府的部分要求，但对其他要求表示抵制，该委员会于 11 月起诉以强制执行其发出的传票。该大学及其盟友警告称，政府的要求违宪且危及...
赛狗。 在讨论那种注射药物时，德克萨斯大学 MD 安德森癌症中心的医学教授伊丽莎白·雷贝洛 (Elizabeth Rebello) 博士提出了一个问题，强调了这一过程是多么的例外： “食品药品监督管理局 (FDA) 是否批准过一种此前未在人体中进行研究、且以这种形式交付的药物？” 食品药品监督管理局 (FDA) 的官员回答道： “没有。” 卢里 (Lurie) 博士作证称，委员会将最初创造对多肽需求的人员（供应商）纳入其中是不恰当的。 “现在我们被要求屈服于这种需求，因为他们协助创造的‘魔鬼’已经出笼，现在想把它关回瓶子里已经太晚了，”他说道。 周四的其他证词表明，多肽的使用可能会激增。 大型在线药物供应商 Hims 的首席医疗官阿南特·温贾穆里 (Anant Vinjamoori) 博士告诉委员会，如果食品药品监督管理局 (FDA) 将其列入配制清单，该公司将提供多肽并从中获得“商业利益”。 “我不会告诉你们 BPC-157 的证据很充分，”他说道。“它并不充分，我也不会夸大其效。” 他补充道：“我想请求的是，请不要将此解读为完全不存在。” 他推测，其益处可能存在于细胞层面，并且
针对相关人员。 “平等就业机会委员会 (E.E.O.C.) 坚持要求宾大在未经受影响员工同意——且事实上是在员工反对的情况下——提供这些信息，而完全无视了政府实体试图识别并收集犹太血统人士信息的、令人恐惧且有据可查的历史，”该大学在 1 月的一份法庭文件中表示。 政府坚持认为，它需要这些信息来调查宾大校园内的反犹主义，并称该大学的反应过于夸张且极端。 “我们不是在寻找一份犹太人名单、犹太人登记册或一个目录。”
白宫和卫生与公众服务部的发言人没有回答关于他们所指的“生命科学”和“基础研究”具体含义的问题。 负责监督美国生物医学研究企业的卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪 (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) 表示，该报告与他自己的重点一致，即利用人工智能来揭示他所称的慢性病（尤其是儿童群体中）“流行病”的根本原因。 他在一份声明中说：“美国将通过利用人工智能的力量，引领下一代医学发现。” 该报告并未提及特朗普总统政府决定解雇科学机构大量工作人员的决定。它呼吁政府投资于年轻研究人员，但并未指出该政府解雇了数十名年轻科学家，并终止了数百项针对早期职业研究人员的资助。 它对于超过
为那些传统疗法未能改善的患者提供一种选择。 多肽是氨基酸链，可促使细胞执行诸如减轻炎症或增加胶原蛋白生产等操作。一些经过食品药品监督管理局 (FDA) 全面审查的多肽包括胰岛素或 GLP-1 等药物。 但名为 BPC-157 和 MOTS-c 等未经证实的多肽在社交媒体上获得了立足点，用户在那里展示他们的“堆栈” (stacks)，即多种多肽的组合。
tides，并称赞它们在减轻体重、增加肌肉和让皮肤光彩焕发方面的功效。为了规避内容审查，人们经常将它们称为“peppers”。 其中一些疗法得到了在啮齿动物或培养皿中进行的研究支持，表明它们可能有助于伤口愈合、骨质疏松或炎症。但同样数量有限的研究表明，它们可能会造成伤害，例如严重的过敏反应或增强肿瘤生长的潜能。 关于这些多肽在人体内如何发挥作用的数据极少或完全没有。
“犹太人名录，”委员会律师德布拉·劳伦斯（Debra Lawrence）在3月的一次听证会上告诉法官。“那么，一份能够识别潜在受害者和证人联系方式的电子表格如何？这就是我们在这里寻求的所有内容。” 费城联邦地区法院法官杰拉尔德·J·帕佩特（Gerald J. Pappert）在该月裁定，大学在很大程度上必须遵守传票，不过他暂缓执行该决定，以便宾夕法尼亚大学（Penn）提出上诉。 帕佩特法官的决定暗示其对委员会开展调查的方式感到不安，尤其是要求提供与“犹太教相关”团体相关的信息。
白宫寻求将国家科学基金会的资金削减 40 percent，以及白宫管理与预算办公室在5月提出的一项建议，即联邦科学研究资助应由政治任命官员进行筛选，以阻止那些“弘扬反美价值观”的计划。 在周三的听证会上，民主党人就这些问题向克拉齐奥斯（Kratsios）先生施压，询问这些做法如何与其承诺恢复所谓的“金标准科学”相一致。 北卡罗来纳州代表德博拉·罗斯（Deborah Ross）对克拉齐奥斯先生说，允许政治任命官员拦截他们不赞同的资助，“与任何对强有力科学研究的承诺完全不相容”。“你所吹嘘的胜利仅仅是廉价且闪亮的干扰项。” 作为回应，克拉齐奥斯先生并没有直接为政府关于政治监督资助的建议辩护。“我期待与O.M.B.密切合作，以确保我们的事业继续保持世界级水平且
“我们缺失安全性，我们缺失有效性——我们缺失关键证据，”心脏病专家兼斯克里普斯研究转化研究所（Scripps Research Translational Institute）创始人埃里克·托波尔（Eric Topol）博士说道。 “我并不一定带有多肽很糟糕的偏见，”他补充道。“我只是想看到证据，而我们目前没有任何证据。” 食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的记录显示，六名销售多肽的委员会成员包括自称的长寿医生，他们将多肽用于整体健康，甚至用于治疗某些特定疾病。 他们的一些诊所还提供其他未经证实的治疗方法，如臭氧疗法和能量疗法。 其中一名成员加布里埃尔·阿里扎伊迪（Gabriel Alizaidy）博士是Maximus的科学总监，这是一家远程医疗公司，每月以约 $200 的价格销售生长激素多肽。 该公司因其关于复合减肥药物的宣传而收到了食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的警告信。 另一位专家组成员是鲍比·哈什巴格（Bobby Harshbarger），他是田纳西州参议员兼药剂师。他的母亲，田纳西州共和党代表戴安娜·哈什巴格（Diana Harshbarger）同样是一名药剂师，她在11月写信给肯尼迪（Kennedy）先生，敦促他在周四和周五允许更广泛地使用一些正在考虑的多肽。 在去年与生物黑客加里·布雷卡（Gary Brecka）的一次播客节目中（布雷卡在其网站上销售多肽），克拉齐奥斯先生...
尽管如此，帕佩特法官表示，宾大（Penn）的宪法主张“很容易被排除”，随后该校向美国第三巡回上诉法院提起上诉。
周四，这场争议在政府与宾大向第三巡回法院提交六页文件后结束，其结果出人意料，且并未引起过多关注。在提交的文件中，平等就业机会委员会（E.E.O.C.）表示，将“不再采取任何进一步措施来执行该传票”。该委员会还承诺，在当前的调查期间，不会“以其他方式寻求宾夕法尼亚大学提供传票所要求的任何材料”。
白宫未立即对此发表评论。
“值得信赖且负责任，”他说道。
克拉齐奥斯先生表示其与政府行动存在一定分歧的一个领域是国家科学基金会的拨款速度。
来自加利福尼亚州的民主党代表乔治·怀特赛兹展示了对比今年与往年资金授予率的图表，要求克拉齐奥斯先生解释为什么资金拨付速度有所下降。
当克拉齐奥斯先生表示这是一个由国家科学基金会回答的问题时，怀特赛兹称这一回答不可接受。
“你是总统的科学顾问，”怀特赛兹说，“为什么会发生这种情况？”
“我看到了这些图表，如果能确保我们重新回到往年的水平，我将不胜欣喜，”克拉齐奥斯说。“我会尽我一切可能地帮助推动那条线（回升），因为我认为为科学家提供适当的资金对我们来说至关重要。”
肯尼迪表示，食品药品监督管理局（FDA）对于多肽和未经证实的干细胞治疗等项目应该“只进行科学研究”，而“不要告诉人们，也不要告诉医生，他们可以开什么药或不能开什么药”。
“如果你想服用一种实验性药物，你可以这样做，”肯尼迪先生说。“你应该能够这样做。”
最近，肯尼迪先生表示，2023年对多肽的禁令迫使人们使用存在安全隐患的灰色市场多肽。他主张，将多肽加入到可在监管药房中制备的化合物清单中将提高安全性。
许多人提供了证词，重复这一观点并建议食品药品监督管理局在纯度测试或要求报告损害等条件下提供多肽。
但食品药品监督管理局的官员表示，他们没有权力干预州药剂师委员会——而后者正是生产多肽产品的专业药房的主要监管机构——从而促成这些事情的实现。
“我认为委员会可能不完全理解的一点是，因为我听到了太多关于‘我想要护栏’的呼吁，”食品药品监督管理局药品质量办公室官员拉塞尔·韦斯迪克说。“但我并不拥有这些监管权限。”
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一项国家安全问题。 周四，苏布拉马尼安法官将重点放在政府是否遵守了法律及其自身关于新闻媒体调查的规定上。 他表示，向记者发出传票“不是你首先要做的事情——而是最后才做的事情”。 他补充道：“这是一个遵守法律基本准则的问题。” 在周四的听证会之后，美国司法部批评了苏布拉马尼安法官，在一份声明中称其“行为凌驾于长期以来明确的原则和常识之上”。
及记者的电话记录。
“请不要误会，这项调查仍在进行中，”美国司法部表示，“我们将追究那些通过泄露机密信息威胁国家安全的人的法律责任，这是一种严重的联邦犯罪。” 白宫未回应置评请求。 在《纽约时报》采取行动阻止传票后，政府请求法官将其效力推迟两周，以便进一步调查。 但在周四于联邦法院 23 楼举行的听证会上——
以增加对无证移民的压力
人道主义签证申请。凭借工作许可，她合法地在一家便利店工作并照顾老人。 瓦斯克斯女士期待她的签证申请有最新进展，于是打开了一个 4 月份寄到的印有国土安全部（D.H.S.）标志的信封。她发现的不是关于签证的消息，而是一封格式化信函，政府在其中勾选了一个方框，声明她“故意”未能离开美国。 根据《纽约时报》审阅的这份文件，她欠政府 $1,820,352,。同一个信封里还夹着一张名为“通过 CBP Home 自行递解出境，按您的意愿离开”的传单，指的是由海关及边境保卫局运营的一款应用程序。该程序为那些使用该应用自行递解出境的人提供所有罚款的“宽免”。
通过设立信托来保护 他们的毕生积蓄。
“我无法入睡，每天早晨出门上班时都感到紧张，”瓦斯克斯女士说，她有三个在美国出生的孩子，年龄分别为 10, 12 和 14 岁。 法律援助组织和代表个人客户的律师已提起多起联邦诉讼寻求阻止该政策，主张这些经济处罚违反了正当程序，并违反了第八修正案关于禁止过度罚款的规定。 在反对暂停该政策动议的法院文件中，政府辩称，一个人留在国内寻求其他形式的移民救济这一事实“并不是一个决定性因素”。
Seamus Hughes 贡献了相关研究。
作者：迈克尔·威尔逊 (MICHAEL WILSON)
新泽西州州长米基·谢里尔 (Mikie Sherrill) 周四回绝了美国司法部的要求。美国司法部要求该州移交大约 6,600 名非公民的姓名及其他个人信息，这些人是在 2023 和 2024 年被错误地添加到选民名册中的。州长本周宣布，这些选民中大约有 400 人随后在新泽西州投了票。尽管这些人已披露自己并非公民，但由于车辆管理局 (Motor Vehicle Commission) 的软件错误，他们仍被允许投票。
“联邦政府，即特朗普政府，想要将此事武器化用来对付人们，而不是专注于加强法制建设，这对我来说并不令人惊讶。”
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在曼哈顿的住宅中，阿伦·苏布拉马尼安法官对政府最初的处理方式和延迟请求表示怀疑，这一点很快就显现了出来。
在 10 分钟内，他向美国司法部提出了一个严峻的选择。
“要么我们撤销传票，要么你们撤回传票，”法官告诉曼哈顿美国检察官办公室的高级官员肖恩·巴克利 (Sean Buckley)，后者代表政府发言。
随后，阿伦·苏布拉马尼安法官在长达一小时的听证会中大部分时间里对检察官进行了盘问，他的举止有时像一名训斥学生的老师。他很少向《纽约时报》的律师提问；在某个时刻，他甚至向其中一名律师道歉，并承诺给他们时间对政府的一些陈述做出回应。
在法官的质询下，政府承认其提交的文件中存在事实错误。政府承认，在请求另一位联邦法官阻止一家电话公司披露记录请求时，它省略了重要信息——包括该案件涉及记者记录这一事实。
“无意之失，以及‘事后看来我们本该采取不同做法’，这些事情正在累积，”法官说道。
巴克利先生辩称，《纽约时报》对敏感国家安全事项的报道性质允许其在标准程序中获得例外。但他
法制下的辩护，且并不改变对一个人“故意或自愿违反”驱逐令的底层认定。联邦特工在洛杉矶、芝加哥和明尼阿波利斯的广泛搜查，是特朗普总统打击行动中最可见且最剧烈的前线。但这些罚款是政府采取的平行手段的一部分，旨在榨干无证移民，增加他们在美国生活的难度。
给瓦斯克斯女士 (Ms. Vasquez) 的信函规定，她从邮件寄出之日起有 15 天的时间对处罚提出异议。在截止日期前仅剩不到一周时，她的律师提出了上诉。一个月后，在等待决定期间，瓦斯quez女士收到了第二封更具威胁性的信函。信中称，除非她立即付款，否则政府将把她的债务移交给私人催收机构；发起联邦催收诉讼；向信用局报告，这“可能会对您的信用评级产生不利影响”；并在她未来的移民程序中考虑这笔债务。
“我们在几个月前开始看到这种情况，现在已经成为一个大趋势，”新泽西州的移民律师约翰·莱沙克 (John Leschak) 表示，他代表瓦斯克斯女士并成功使罚款被撤销。“这些人以自己的名义拥有房屋、汽车和企业，”他说。“政府称这些财产都面临被没收。”
据《纽约时报》采访的十几位律师称，像瓦斯克斯女士那样获胜的情况并不典型。他们表示，在接连不断的案例中，上诉都被驳回了，其中包括一名 68 岁的老人，他是其妻子的主要照顾者，而他的妻子是一名患有癌症的美国公民。该男子在 2012 年被下令驱逐，但在国土安全部暂停其驱逐后被允许留在美国。几个月前，他收到了一封格式信函，称
“确保我们举行自由且公正的选举，”民主党人谢里尔（Sherrill）女士在周四的新闻发布会上表示。“我们不会将这类个人身份识别数据移交给联邦政府，因为我们已经看到他们将其武器化。”
州长发言人肖恩·希金斯（Sean Higgins）表示，谢里尔女士“将利用所有可用的法律手段来保护新泽西州居民的个人信息”。
州长表示，这些非公民被列入选民名单“并非其自身过错”，且将被从名单中移除。
特朗普政府表示，已准备好逮捕或驱逐那些已经投票的人。
“他们将面临起诉以及被驱逐出美国，”负责美国司法部民权部门的哈米特·迪伦（Harmeet Dhillon）在与右翼播客主持人本尼·约翰逊（Benny Johnson）的一次节目中说道。
该部门发言人基尔斯滕·佩尔斯（Kiersten Pels）在一份声明中表示，“任何非公民在联邦选举中投票都是违法的，每一次非法投票都会削弱”美国公民的“声音”。
在周二的一封信函中，迪伦女士给该州五个工作日的时间来移交选民的姓名、地址和国籍。
迪伦女士在周三出演福克斯新闻（Fox News）时表示，她认为这还不是全部。“这仅仅是我们对此项调查的开始，”她说道。
一名联邦法官在周四的听证会上，对特朗普政府处理传票的方式提出了质疑，而《纽约时报》称这是企图恐吓自由新闻业。
当法官向他施压时，他难以确定该例外情况的确切法律依据。
苏布拉马尼安法官似乎对政府在向另一位联邦法官申请不披露命令时，省略了相关细节感到尤为困扰。如果政府在几天后没有主动提供，无论《纽约时报》还是苏布拉马尼安法官都不会意识到这一请求。
处理该申请的检察官凯文·萨利文（Kevin Sullivan）当时坐在旁听席上，但苏布拉马尼安法官要求他走到法庭前面解释这些违规行为。
“你还会再这么做吗？”法官在询问结束时问萨利文先生。
在第二任期内，特朗普总统加强了对未能遵守“驱逐”命令的移民的罚款征收。
他被指控蓄意拒绝离境，并欠政府 $579,838。
“你不能允许人们留在这里，然后反过来就因此对他们罚款，”该男子的律师、在底特律执业的里姆·赫赖扎特（Reem Khraizat）说道。
赫赖扎特女士提交了一项上诉，其中包括医疗保健提供者的支持信，证明其妻子的病情以及她对他人的依赖。
“ICE（移民及海关执法局）在甚至没有处理上诉中提出的事实的情况下，就重新确认了该决定，”赫赖扎特女士说。
国土安全部表示，在 Jan. 20, 2025, 与今年 7 月中旬之间，ICE 已向在驱逐令到期后仍留在美国的非公民开出 103,000 份以上的罚单，寻求总计超过 $84 billion 的款项。
根据该机构的数据，截至 July 16, ，已征收超过 $1.2 million。
为了保护他们的毕生积蓄，一些移民已经将自己的名字从财产契据中删除，或将他们微薄的资产转移到信托基金中。两名协助移民进行遗产规划的律师如此表示。
“本届政府只是在尽可能多地开出罚单，以此恐吓和骚扰人们，迫使他们离开这个国家，”Public Justice的一位资深律师查尔斯·摩尔（Charles Moore）说道。Public Justice是一家非营利法律组织，目前正代表移民在马萨诸塞州的一项诉讼中寻求阻止这一做法。
国土安全部没有就有多少移民选择通过“自我驱逐”来规避处罚，以及有多少案件已被移交给债务催收机构的问题做出回应。
尽管该政策面临法律挑战，但政府的执行力度依然强劲。摩尔先生正在为马萨诸塞州诉讼申请集体诉讼认证，他表示，国土安全部已将部分债务移交给私人催收机构，扣押了退税，并强制执行工资扣缴；此外，美国司法部已将数十名移民起诉至法院，以强迫其支付款项。
阿菲塞图·切德雷（Afissetou Tchedre）是一名多哥国民，嫁给了一名美国军人。今年，美国司法部起诉她，试图追回超过 $1.3 百万美元的款项。根据今年5月在纽约联邦法院提交的一项反诉称，政府扣押了这对夫妇最后一笔退税的全部金额，共计 $10,662.。
切德雷女士自 2011. 起就居住在美国。在她的避难申请被拒绝后，她的丈夫（两人育有四个在美国出生的孩子）提交了申请以资助她获得绿卡。她的律师哈桑·沙菲库拉（Hasan Shafiqullah）表示，他认为国土安全部在评估罚款之前甚至没有审核她的案件，否则
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“不，法官阁下，绝对没有，”检察官回答道。
听证会结束后，阿伦·苏布拉马尼安法官要求政府向其提供有关申请不公开命令的内部沟通记录，这表明法官可能尚未对此事结案。
巴克利先生（Mr. Buckley）也承认，电话记录传票
谢里尔（Sherrill）女士表示，她认为导致该错误的软件供应商 Idemia 正在新泽西州被逐步淘汰。
总部位于弗吉尼亚州的技术公司 Idemia 的官员表示，验证居民是否有投票资格是该州选举分局的责任。
州长表示，谢里尔政府内部官员于上周意识到该错误。谢里尔女士称，该错误在 2024 年菲利普·D·墨菲（Philip D. Murphy）担任州长期间就被发现并纠正，但从未公开披露。
州长表示，该州“目前没有证据表明任何选举受到影响”，包括 2024 年总统大选。
不小心涵盖了 《纽约时报》记者的亲属—— 包括其中一人的母亲和 另外两人的配偶——称其为 一项错误，且是“试图快速 采取行动的结果”。 在周四的一小时质询后， 检察官突然请求休息，以便 与《纽约时报》的律师进行商议。 十分钟后，在其他律师 聚集商议而离开法庭的 巴克利先生回到了法庭， 并宣布政府将撤回其 传票。 《纽约时报》对听证会的 结果表示赞赏。该报的 首席新闻编辑室律师 大卫·麦克罗（David McCraw） 在一份声明中表示：“今天的 程序是对我国致力于保障 新闻自由的一次重要肯定。 我们很高兴政府最终承认 传票违反了法律，但这些 传票根本就不应该被签发。” 随着听证会接近尾声， 苏布拉马尼安法官询问了 《纽约时报》的律师、来自 Debevoise & Plimpton 律师事务所的 大卫·A·奥尼尔（David A. O’Neil） 是否还有补充。 奥尼尔先生表示，政府的 行为“充满了恶意”，并对 他所称的已影响到记者 报道能力的“寒蝉效应” 表示遗憾。 “我们否认任何关于 恶意的指控，”巴克利先生说， “我就说到这里。” 苏布拉马尼安法官张了张嘴， 似乎想要回应，但随后 显然改变了主意。 “明白了，”他说。
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机构官员理应意识到， 特谢德雷（Tchedre）女士 有权留在该国。 “政府知道她正在采取 步骤以获得合法身份，” 纽约法律援助协会的律师 沙菲库拉（Shafiqullah）先生表示。 由于这次罚款，特谢德雷 女士失去了她的就业授权， 她的律师目前正致力于 追回被没收的资金。 在第一个特朗普政府期间， 通知是通过挂号信发送的， 这要求接收者必须签字签收—— 这一要求导致许多通知 因无法投递而被退回给 国土安全部（D.H.S.）。 约瑟夫·R·拜登总统在就任后 撤销了该政策，但特朗普总统 在其第二任期的第一天通过 一项行政命令和一项迅速 颁布的政策恢复了该政策， 且罚款金额更高。 而这一次，信件是通过 普通邮件发送的。
一份新的德克萨斯州书单
从四年级开始，德克萨斯州的学生每年将至少阅读一段圣经摘录。
《四月雨之歌》(April Rain Song)，朗斯顿·休斯 (Langston Hughes) 著
《秃鹰》(The Bald Eagle)，诺曼·珀尔 (Norman Pearl) 著
《贝伦斯坦熊与黄金法则》(The Berenstain Bears and the Golden Rule)，斯坦·贝伦斯坦 (Stan Berenstain) 著
《萨尔的蓝莓》(Blueberries for Sal)，罗伯特·麦克洛斯基 (Robert McCloskey) 著
《戴帽子的猫》(The Cat in the Hat)，苏斯博士 (Dr. Seuss) 著
《奇卡 奇卡 蹦蹦》(Chicka Chicka Boom Boom)，比尔·马丁二世 (Bill Martin Jr.) 与 约翰·阿尚博 (John Archambault) 著
《灰姑娘》(Cinderella/Cenicienta)，弗朗西斯卡·博阿达 (Francesca Boada) 改编
《经典童谣》(Classic Nursery Rhymes)（精选摘录：“Baa Baa Black Sheep”、“Hickory Dickory Dock”、“Humpty Dumpty”、“Jack and Jill”、“Little Boy Blue”、“Little Miss Muffet”、“Mary Had a Little Lamb”、“Old King Cole”、“One Two Buckle My Shoe”），尼古拉·巴克斯特 (Nicola Baxter) 编
《经典童谣》(Classic Nursery Rhymes)（精选摘录：“Jack Be Nimble”、“Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater”、“Simple Simon”、“Sing a Song of Sixpence”、“There Was an Old Woman”、“Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”、“Yankee Doodle”），尼古拉·巴克斯特 (Nicola Baxter) 编
《乔治·华盛顿与樱桃树》(George Washington and the Cherry Tree)（摘自《儿童美德书》），威廉·J·贝内特 (William J. Bennett) 编
《金发女孩和三只熊》(Goldilocks and the Three Bears)，吉姆·艾尔斯沃思 (Jim Aylesworth) 著
《蚱蜢与蚂蚁》(The Grasshopper and the Ants)，杰里·平克尼 (Jerry Pinkney) 著（改编自伊索寓言）
《奶奶蜘蛛如何带来火种》(How Grandmother Spider Brought Fire)（一个乔克托族故事）（摘自《故事满满的一年：来自世界各地的 52 个民间故事与传说》），安吉拉·麦考利斯特 (Angela McAllister) 著
《传承之被》(The Keeping Quilt)，帕特里夏·波拉科 (Patricia Polacco) 著
《L 代表孤星州：德克萨斯字母表》(L Is for Lone Star: A Texas Alphabet)，卡罗尔·克莱恩 (Carol Crane) 著
《小红母鸡》(The Little Red Hen)（摘自《儿童美德书》），威廉·J·贝内特 (William J. Bennett) 编
《狮子与老鼠》(The Lion and the Mouse)（摘自《儿童美德书》），威廉·J·贝内特 (William J. Bennett) 编
《露娜热爱艺术》(Luna Loves Art)，约瑟夫·科尔 (Joseph Coelho) 著
《乔治·华盛顿绘本》(A Picture Book of George Washington)，大卫·A·阿德勒 (David A. Adler) 著
《托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生绘本》(A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison)，大卫·A·阿德勒 (David A. Adler) 著
《逃跑的小兔子》(The Runaway Bunny)，玛格丽特·怀斯·布朗 (Margaret Wise Brown) 著
《雪之日》(The Snowy Day)，埃兹拉·杰克·基茨 (Ezra Jack Keats) 著
《三只小猪》(The Three Little Pigs / Los tres cerditos) 双语故事书，帕特里夏·赛伯特 (Patricia Seibert) 著
《龟兔赛跑》(The Tortoise and the Hare)（摘自《儿童美德书》），威廉·J·贝内特 (William J. Bennett) 编
《一只非常饥饿的毛毛虫》(The Very Hungry Caterpillar)，艾瑞·卡尔 (Eric Carle) 著
《你是特别的》(You Are Special)，麦克斯·卢卡多 (Max Lucado) 著
低年级学生将阅读广受欢迎的经典之作，如《金发女孩和三只熊》，以及旨在培养良好人格的书籍，如《贝伦斯坦熊与黄金法则》。
德克萨斯州的这份书单灵感源自一种古典教育法，该方法强调阅读经受住时间考验的著作，并专注于培养知识修养和道德品格。这种方法——可见于部分私人基督教学校和公立特许学校——在保守派圈子中日益流行。
《亚伯·林肯：热爱书籍的男孩》 Kay Winters 著
《奶奶》Arthur Dorros 著
《科学家艾达·特威斯特》Andrea Beaty 著
《阿米莉亚·贝德莉亚的上学第一天》 Herman Parish 著
《邻里间美好的一天》（选段：“你愿意做我的邻居吗”、“我喜欢真实的你”、“孩子们可以”、“口袋里的微笑”、“不慌不忙”、“你能听到什么？”、“我想像爸爸妈妈那样”、“夏雨”、“你勇敢吗？”、“国王与海洋”、“那么你的心中就充满了爱”、“真相将使你自由”、“你是特别的”、“完美的一天”、“我为你感到骄傲”）Fred Rogers 著
《狼来了》（摘自《儿童美德书》）William J. Bennett（编）
作者：SARAH MERVOSH
威廉·莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》。乔治·奥威尔的《动物庄园》。以及《创世记》中亚当和夏娃的故事。 这些以及其他文本很快将成为德克萨斯州全州 5.4 million 名公立学校学生的必读书目。 虽然各地的教师和学校通常会为英语课制定阅读清单，但德克萨斯州目前在尝试做一件不寻常的事：试图创建一套全州所有学生都必须阅读的通用书籍经典。 该清单于上月由共和党领导的德克萨斯州教育委员会批准，目前正在定稿过程中。它将于 2030 年起正式生效。 在许多学生在校及在家阅读完整书籍数量减少的当下，该清单因优先考虑阅读而获得部分人士的称赞。 但它也引发了激烈的争议，部分原因是其中包含了圣经选段。该清单侧重于经典文本，且通常由白人男性作者撰写，这在这样一个高度多样化的州引发了关于什么才算作“核心文学”的辩论。（教师仍可以在必读书目的基础上布置额外的书籍。） 以下是各年级的必读书目。
《邀请》（摘自《人行道尽头的地方》）Shel Silverstein 著
《杰克与豆茎》Thomas Nelson 著
《约拿与大鱼》摘自 约拿书 1:1-5, 10-17, 2:10
《蓝色波波尼特传说》Tomie dePaola 著
《保罗·里维尔的一生》Maria Nelson 著
《能行的小火车》Watty Piper 著
《玛德琳》Ludwig Bemelmans 著
《半只小鸡：西班牙语与英语民俗故事》Alma Flor Ada 著
《现在与本：本杰明·富兰克林的现代发明》Gene Barretta 著
《弗雷德里克·道格拉斯绘本》 David A. Adler 著
《了不起的美国人：波卡洪塔斯》Sharon Coan 著
《小红帽》James Marshall 著
《彼得兔的故事》Beatrix Potter 著
《丑小鸭》Jerry Pinkney 著
《披着羊皮的狼》（摘自《伊索寓言：经典版》）Charles Santore 与伊索 著
将圣经章节纳入其中——从一年级的《约拿与大鱼》开始——引发了广泛讨论。 支持者认为，理解文学和文化中的圣经典故是全面教育的一部分；批评者则称这是试图将基督教注入公立学校的违宪行为。 圣经章节来自新约和旧约（后者是犹太人共有的文本），但主要引用了新教基督徒青睐的版本，例如《钦定版》、《英语标准版》以及为三年级阅读水平改编的《新国际读者版》。
《美国是……》（“America Is . . . ”）——路易丝·博登 (Louise Borden) 著
《美女与野兽》（“Beauty and the Beast”）——玛丽安娜·梅耶 (Marianna Mayer) 著
《阿拉莫的蓝波波》（“Bluebonnet at the Alamo”）——玛丽·布鲁克·卡萨德 (Mary Brooke Casad) 著
《莎拉·诺布尔的勇气》（“The Courage of Sarah Noble”）——爱丽丝·达尔格里什 (Alice Dalgliesh) 著
《大卫与歌利亚》（“David and Goliath”，摘自《儿童英雄之书》）——威廉·J·本内特 (William J. Bennett) 编
《披狮皮的驴》（“The Donkey in the Lion’s Skin”，摘自《伊索寓言：经典版》）——伊索 (Aesop) 著（查尔斯·桑托尔 Charles Santore 插画）
《向上掉》（“Falling Up”，摘自《向上掉》）——谢尔·西尔弗斯坦 (Shel Silverstein) 著
《詹姆斯·麦迪逊：第 4 任总统》（“James Madison: The 4th President”）——乔什·格雷格里 (Josh Gregory) 著
《约翰·亨利》（“John Henry”）——朱利叶斯·莱斯特 (Julius Lester) 著
《约翰尼·苹果籽》（“Johnny Appleseed”）——斯蒂文·凯洛格 (Steven Kellogg) 改编并绘图
《舀水女的故事》（“The Legend of the Dipper”，摘自《儿童美德之书》）——威廉·J·本内特 (William J. Bennett) 编
《保罗·班扬》（“Paul Bunyan”）——斯蒂文·凯洛格 (Steven Kellogg) 改编并绘图
《摩西：哈里特·塔布曼引领她的族人走向自由》（“Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom”）——卡罗尔·波士顿·韦瑟福德 (Carole Boston Weatherford) 著
《拼布被》（“The Patchwork Quilt”）——瓦莱丽·弗鲁诺伊 (Valerie Flournoy) 著
《萨姆：分钟人》（“Sam: The Minuteman”）——纳撒尼尔·本奇利 (Nathaniel Benchley) 著
《斯特拉卢娜》（“Stellaluna”）——贾内尔·坎农 (Janell Cannon) 著
《苏珊·B·安东尼》（“Susan B. Anthony”）——劳拉·K·默里 (Laura K. Murray) 著
《秋千》（“The Swing”）——罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森 (Robert Louis Stevenson) 著
《队友》（“Teammates”）——彼得·戈伦博克 (Peter Golenbock) 著
《感恩节的故事》（“The Thanksgiving Story”）——爱丽丝·达尔格里什 (Alice Dalgliesh) 著
《尝试，再次尝试》（“Try, Try Again”，摘自《儿童美德之书》）——威廉·J·本内特 (William J. Bennett) 编
《我们这些孩子：美国宪法序言》（“We the Kids: The Preamble of the Constitution of the United States”）——大卫·卡特罗 (David Catrow) 著
《小熊维尼》（“Winnie-the-Pooh”，第 1 章 “我们被介绍给小熊维尼和一些蜜蜂，故事由此开始”以及第 2 章 “维尼去拜访并陷入困境”）——A.A. 米尔恩 (A.A. Milne) 著
低年级学生将阅读几篇摘自《儿童美德之书》（“The Children’s Book of Virtues”）的文章，这是一部由罗纳德·里根总统时期的前教育部长威廉·J·本内特编辑的选集。该书在诗作《尝试，再次尝试》中弘扬勇气与毅力等美德，在《舀水女的故事》中弘扬对他人的善良。 他们还将阅读本内特先生的另一本书《儿童英雄之书》（“The Children’s Book of Heroes”）中关于大卫与歌利亚的故事。
《亚伯拉罕·林肯》（“Abraham Lincoln”，摘自《美国人之书》）——斯蒂芬·文森特·贝内特 (Stephen Vincent Benét) 与 罗丝玛丽·贝内特 (Rosemary Benét) 著
《阿基米德与科学之门》（“Archimedes and the Door of Science”，第 1 章 “谁是阿基米德？”，第 4 章 “阿基米德与他的杠杆”，第 9 章 “阿基米德与数字”）——珍·本迪克 (Jeanne Bendick) 著
《夏洛特的网》（“Charlotte’s Web”）——E.B. 怀特 (E.B. White) 著
《敌人派》（“Enemy Pie”）——德里克·蒙森 (Derek Munson) 著
《渔夫和他的妻子》（“The Fisherman and His Wife”）——蕾切尔·伊莎多拉 (Rachel Isadora) 著
《乔治·华盛顿》（“George Washington”，摘自《美国人之书》）——斯蒂芬·文森特·贝内特 (Stephen Vincent Benét) 与 罗丝玛丽·贝内特 (Rosemary Benét) 著
《伊卡洛斯与代达罗斯》（“Icarus and Daedalus”，摘自《经典朗读神话：希腊与罗马神话伟大故事》）——威廉·F·罗素 (William F. Russell) 著
《迈达斯王与黄金之触》（“King Midas and the Golden Touch”）——夏洛特·克拉夫特 (Charlotte Craft) 著
《咆哮！——但以理与狮子坑——儿童改编版》（“ROAR! — Daniel and the Lion’s Den — Children’s Adapted Version”）——CBN 著
《朗菲厄斯女士》（“Miss Rumphius”）——芭芭拉·库尼 (Barbara Cooney) 著
《知识的寻求者：破译埃及圣书体的男人》（“Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs”）——詹姆斯·朗福德 (James Rumford) 著
《聪明》（“Smart”）——谢尔·西尔弗斯坦 (Shel Silverstein) 著
《牧羊少年与狼》（“The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf”，摘自《伊索寓言》）——伊索 (Aesop) 著（杰里·平克尼 Jerry Pinkney 改编并绘图）
《石头汤》（“Stone Soup”）——玛西亚·布朗 (Marcia Brown) 著
《本杰明·富兰克林》（“Benjamin Franklin”，生命故事/传记双语版）——吉莉安·戈斯曼 (Gillian Gosman) 著
《灵聪明鼠斯图尔特》（“Stuart Little”）——E.B. 怀特 (E.B. White) 著
《托马斯·杰斐逊》（“Thomas Jefferson”，摘自《美国人之书》）——斯蒂芬·文森特·贝内特 (Stephen Vincent Benét) 与 罗丝玛丽·贝内特 (Rosemary Benét) 著
《托马斯与图书馆女士》（“Tomas and the Library Lady”）——帕特·莫拉 (Pat Mora) 著
《太多的塔马利》（“Too Many Tamales”）——加里·索托 (Gary Soto) 著
《乡下鼠和城里鼠》（“The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”，摘自《伊索寓言：经典版》）——伊索 (Aesop) 著（查尔斯·桑托尔 Charles Santore 插画）
《你如何面对问题？》（“What Do You Do With a Problem?”）——小B·山田 (Kobi Yamada) 著
《风在柳梢梢》（“The Wind in the Willows”，章节包括 “河岸”、“开阔的道路”、“野林”以及 “獾先生”）——肯尼斯·格雷厄姆 (Kenneth Grahame) 著
该清单重点关注美国开国之父，符合共和党关于开展更具爱国主义教育的愿景。但这些书籍同时也承担着社会研究教学的任务，而社会研究在小学中通常缺乏专门的教学时间。在其他年级，学生还会阅读关于苏珊·B·安东尼、弗雷德里克·道格拉斯和波卡洪塔斯的内容。
《蚂蚁与鸽子》（摘自《伊索寓言》），伊索著（由 Jerry Pinkney 改编并绘图）
《风之少年》（图画书版），William Kamkwamba 和 Bryan Mealer 著
《勇敢的艾琳》，William Steig 著
《梦想》，Langston Hughes 著
《数星星》，Lois Lowry 著
《罗宾汉与金箭》（摘自《罗宾汉与金箭及其他传奇》，第 11-21 页），Geraldine McCaughrean 著
《海之热》，John Masefield 著
《石狐》，John Reynolds Gardiner 著
《亚瑟王及其骑士的故事》（第一部分“赢得王权”，第 1 和 2 章），Howard Pyle 著（由 Tania Zamorsky 改编）
《松迪亚塔：马里的狮子王》，David Wisniewski 著
《宝岛》（经典冒险系列），Robert Louis Stevenson 著（由 Jacqueline Dembar Greene 改编）
《谁是列奥纳多·达·芬奇？》（第一章“谁是列奥纳多·达·芬奇？”，第二章“不被想要的男孩”，第三章“艺术工作室”以及第四章“更广阔的世界”），Roberta Edwards 著
《谦卑的必要性（路加福音 14:7-11）》，新国际读者版：新约
从四年级开始，学生每年将阅读至少一段圣经摘录。其他圣经篇章包括红海分开（五年级）、“浪子回头比喻”（九年级）以及哥林多前书中的“爱的定义”（12 年级）。
《唐吉诃德历险记》（Dover 儿童节俭经典系列），Argentina Palacios 著
《击球手凯西》，Ernest Lawrence Thayer 著
《德克萨斯殖民地：传教团与定居者》，Stephanie Kuligowski 著
《翻译版独立宣言：其真实含义是什么？》，Amie Jane Leavitt 著
《给我自由，否则给我死亡》（在第二次弗吉尼亚会议上的演说），Patrick Henry 著
《独立之钟 —— 1776 年 7 月 4 日》，匿名著
《狮子、女巫和衣橱》，C.S. Lewis 著
《五月花号公约》，William Brewster, William Bradford, Edward Winslow 著
《猴王》（摘自《伊索寓言》），伊索著（由 Charles Santore 改编并绘图）
《保罗·里维尔的骑行》，Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 著
《幻影收费站》，Norton Juster 著
《萨姆·休斯顿：一位无畏的政治家》，Joanne Mattern 著
《托马斯·杰斐逊》，Mike Venezia 著
《谁是戴维·克罗克特？》（选段：“谁是戴维·克罗克特？”、“一个开拓者家庭”、“年轻的戴维”、“独立自主”、“克罗克特发声”、“戴维前往华盛顿”、“阿拉莫”、“民间英雄”），Gail Herman 著
五年级的阅读清单侧重于美国革命。这与德克萨斯州上个月通过的新社会研究标准一致，该标准要求学生在五年级学习美国革命。
《跨越五个四月》，Irene Hunt 著
《亚伯拉罕·林肯，信仰与勇气之士：我们最钦佩的总统的故事》（第七章，“回归上帝之路”），Joe Wheeler 著
《蓝色与灰色》，Francis Miles Finch 著
《致“美国军队士兵”的第 108 号总令》，尤利西斯·S·格兰特著
《葛底斯堡演说》，亚伯拉罕·林肯著
《万物 the Great and Small》，James Herriot 著
《狗之权力》，Rudyard Kipling 著
《白鹭》，Sarah Orne Jewett 著
《不要忧虑（马太福音，第 6 章，第 25-34 节）》，标准英语版：新约
《野之宁静》，Wendell Berry 著
从初中和高中开始，学生每年将阅读两本主书。在六年级，这两本书是《跨越五个四月》和《万物 the Great and Small》。列在主书下的其他文本将在同一个主题单元中教授。例如，《万物 the Great and Small》与两首诗、一个短篇故事和一段圣经摘录配对。
《安妮日记》（Anne Frank 著）， 由 B.M. Mooyaart 从荷兰语译出
《匹配的祝福》（Hannah Szenes 著）
《致纽波特希伯来教区的一封信》 （乔治·华盛顿 著）
《牧羊人之诗》（《诗篇》第 23 章）， 钦定版：希伯来圣经/旧约
《局外人》（S.E. Hinton 著）
《八福》（《马太福音》第 5 章 第 1- 12 节）， 钦定版：新约
《不要温顺地走进那个良夜》 （狄兰·托马斯 著）
《母亲对儿子》（兰斯顿·休斯 著）
《金色的事物无法永恒》（罗伯特·弗罗斯特 著）
《谢谢你，夫人》（兰斯顿·休斯 著）
《未选择的路》（罗伯特·弗罗斯特 著）
在全国范围内，教授哪些书籍以及在哪个年级教授存在很大差异。这些决定通常反映了当地的政治环境、学术严谨程度以及教师自身的裁量权。 作为对比，在纽约市的一所特许学校网络——成功学院（Success Academy），七年级的学生阅读以下书籍：雷·布拉德伯里的《如此邪恶之物，由此而来》；威廉·戈尔丁的《蝇王》；哈珀·李的《杀死一只嘲鸣鸟》；威廉·莎士比亚的《仲夏夜之梦》；奇马曼达·恩戈齐·阿迪契的《紫色扶桑》；以及其他短篇故事和文本，例如玛雅·安杰卢的诗作《笼中鸟》。
《记忆传授者》（Lois Lowry 著）
《哈里森·伯杰龙》（摘自《欢迎来到猴子屋》，Kurt Vonnegut 著）
《竞技场中的人》（摘自西奥多·罗斯福 1910 年发表的演讲《共和国的公民身份》）， 西奥多·罗斯福 著
《哦，我！哦，生命！》（沃尔特·惠特曼 著）
《万物皆有时》（《传道书》第 3 章）， 钦定版：希伯来圣经/旧约
《黑夜》（埃利·维塞尔 著）
《哀歌》第 3 章， 塔纳赫：犹太出版协会 1917 版
《冷漠的危险》（摘自《白宫千年之夜演说官方文本》）， 埃利·维塞尔 著
《幸存者》（Primo Levi 著）
在八年级，学生将阅读《记忆传授者》和《黑夜》。 在阅读《黑夜》的同时，学生还将阅读《哀歌》第 3 章，这是唯一一次明确从塔纳赫（即希伯来圣经）中提取犹太-基督教共有文本的实例。 名单中没有来自其他宗教文本的阅读材料，例如《古兰经》或《薄伽梵歌》。
《动物农场》（乔治·奥威尔 著）
《聪明青少年的俄罗斯革命指南》 （Felix Rhodes 著）
《我，铅笔》（Leonard E. Read 著）
《吕克昂演说》（亚伯拉罕·林肯 著）
《奥兹曼迪亚斯》（珀西·比希·雪莱 著）
《远大前程》（查尔斯·狄更斯 著）
《维多利亚时代英国生活简史》（ 摘录第 1, 2 和 6 章）， Michael Paterson 著
《爱并非全部》（Edna St. Vincent Millay 著）
《浪子回头之比喻》（《路加福音》 第 15 章，第 11-32 节）， 标准英语译本：新约
在九年级，主要书籍是《动物农场》和《远大前程》。 该清单的一个目标是确保学生能够从头到尾阅读完整的书籍——最好是纸质形式——在技术和社交媒体干扰日益严重的时代，这种情况已变得越来越罕见。
《尤利乌斯·凯撒之悲剧》 威廉·莎士比亚 著
《道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟将军在西点美国陆军军官学校对学员发表的告别演说》（摘录第 3 段：职责、荣誉、国家） 道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟 著
《里根总统悼词》 玛格丽特·撒切尔 著
《伯里克利斯的葬礼演说》（摘自《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》第 2 卷第 34 46 章） 修昔底德 著（M.I. Finley 编辑，Rex Warner 翻译）
《乌鸦》 埃德加·爱伦·坡 著
《神曲·地狱篇》 但丁·阿利吉耶里 著
《约伯记》（《约伯记》，第 1-7,11,14,19,28,38-42 章） 新国际读者版本：希伯来圣经/旧约
《我已抵达山顶》 马丁·路德·金 著
第 1 章 “‘中’世纪？”，第 2 章 “人们及其生活方式”，第 3 章 “核心理念：基督徒的救赎”，第 4 章 “王权、领主权与政府”（摘自《中世纪：极简导论》） 米里·鲁宾 著
该名单严重偏向经典作品，且作者通常为早期时代的白人男性，例如威廉·莎士比亚约在 1599 年创作的《尤利乌斯·凯撒之悲剧》，以及但丁在 14 世纪创作的《地狱篇》。 尽管名单中包含了马丁·路德·金牧师博士著名的《我已抵达山顶》演说，但整体名单因极少包含著名的黑人和西班牙裔作者（如托妮·莫里森、佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿或桑德拉·西斯内罗斯）的文本而面临批评。
《华氏 451》 雷·布拉德伯里 著
“亲爱的麦卡锡先生，我是真实存在的”（摘录，《棕榈星期日：自传式拼贴》第 1 部分） 库尔特·冯内古特 著
“什么是资本主义？”（摘录，《资本主义：未知的理想》第 1 部分） 安·兰德 著
《谄媚的润滑剂》（摘录，《被选中者的愿景》第 1 章） 托马斯·索维尔 著
《野地》（摘录自《插图之书》） 雷·布拉德伯里 著
《红字》 纳撒尼尔·霍桑 著
《亚当与夏娃》（《创世记》，第 2 和 3 章） 新国际读者版本：希伯来圣经/旧约
《牧师的黑面纱》 纳撒尼尔·霍桑 著
《我们戴着面具》 保罗·劳伦斯·邓巴 著
该名单最初包含从幼儿园到 12 年级共约 300 篇文本。在那个版本中，11 年级学生阅读《了不起的盖茨比》、《鼠辈与人们》、《炼金术师》和《熔炉》。但由于对时间的担忧，随着名单被精简至不足 200 篇文本，这些书被删除了。
《哈姆雷特》 威廉·莎士比亚 著
《哈姆雷特及其问题》（摘自《神圣之林：关于诗歌与批评的论文集》） T.S. 艾略特 著
《如果》 鲁德亚德·基普林 著
《J·阿尔弗雷德·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》 T.S. 艾略特 著
《傲慢与偏见》 简·奥斯汀 著
《爱的定义》（《哥林多前书》，第 13 章） 英语标准版本：新约
“‘希望’是那长着羽翼的东西” 艾米莉·狄金森 著
《奥克斯尼·科尔恩的牧师之女》 安东尼·特罗洛普 著
《当我二十一岁时》 A.E. 豪斯曼 著
同样值得关注的是：名单中缺失的内容。 学生将阅读两部莎士比亚的作品——《哈姆雷特》和《尤利乌斯·凯撒》——但没有《罗密欧与朱丽叶》，而根据全美英语教师协会的数据，后者是美国高中课堂上被布置阅读次数排名第 1. 的书籍。 在高中阶段，没有任何过去 50 年内创作的当代书籍。 该名单还避开了近年来成为禁书目标中一些争议最频繁的书籍。例如，《The Hate U Give》和《杀死一只嘲笑鸟》均未出现在德克萨斯州的名单中。
错过 数百万 补偿金
作者：马修·哈格 (MATTHEW HAAG)
每年，纽约市有超过 200,000 名残障学生接受法定特殊教育服务，包括物理治疗和言语治疗。这对该市而言是一项巨大的成本——每年高达数亿美元——尽管其中大部分可以通过医疗补助 (Medicaid) 报销。但根据该市审计长办公室的一项新审计，市教育局在 2023 年中期至 2025 年中期期间，未能申请至少 $431 million 的报销款。该部门要么缺乏可用于报销的适当文件，要么未申请偿还，在各市级机构被要求削减预算并寻找新收入来源之时，错失了巨额资金。
市审计长马克·莱文 (Mark Levine) 表示，未索赔报销金的总额是一个保守估计，实际数字可能要高得多。他呼吁
教育局——该部门预算约为 $40 billion，是所有市级机构中规模最大的——雇佣更多人员以提高其报销率。“在当前的财政环境下，如此规模的资金被白白浪费，确实是不可接受的，”莱文先生在一次采访中说道，“这相当令人不安。”
这个问题并非新出现。近 15 年来，包括前任审计长在内的市领导多次呼吁教育局最大限度地回收特殊教育服务的医疗补助报销款。根据审计长办公室的几项估计，自 2011 年以来，该部门未能回收至少 $1.2 billion 的医疗补助资金。
在给审计长办公室的一封信中，学校系统的首席财务官塞丽塔·斯科特 (Seritta Scott) 表示，教育局已在
提高医疗补助报销回收方面采取了“重大步骤”，并将于年底前推出进一步升级措施，包括一个可自动处理报销申请流程的系统。斯科特女士表示，该部门对审计员所采用的方法论持有异议，且 $431 million 的损失报销金是
医疗补助计划（Medicaid）退款 至少有 $431 million。
一个基于错误假设的严重高估。她补充说，该部门“承认最大限度提高医疗补助报销的重要性”。教育部发言人尼科尔·布朗斯坦（Nicole Brownstein）重申了该机构对审计结果的担忧，称其中包含扭曲调查结果的“假设和误解”。“我们将继续寻求每一个在操作上可行的报销机会，以最大限度地利用可用资源，并确保每个学生都能获得他们应得的资源，”布朗斯坦女士在的一份声明中表示。学校系统表示，审计长的估算应扣除超过 $232 million。例如，学校官员主张，审计长将不符合医疗补助报销条件的疗程也计入了在内。在纽约市，大约 145,000 名残疾学生来自低收入家庭，他们接受的法定服务可以通过医疗补助进行报销。报销流程和要求可能非常冗长且艰辛，仅一个文书错误就可能导致申请被拒绝。共有 10 种服务可以报销，包括职业治疗、物理治疗和言语治疗，以及听力评估和心理评估。但审计结果显示，该部门长期以来仅寻求职业治疗、物理治疗和言语治疗的报销，而且即使是这些项目，近年来提交申请的疗程也仅占约一半。审计长办公室启动此次审查是为了跟进 2021, 年发布的一项审计结果，该结果发现该部门在 2017 年 7 月至 2019. 年 6 月期间遗漏了 $180 million 的医疗补助报销。审计人员建议该部门寻求除职业治疗、物理治疗和言语治疗之外的其他服务的报销。在最新的审计中，列文先生（Mr. Levine）表示，他担心在被审查的三年期间，提交医疗补助偿付的治疗疗程百分比有所下降。“在我们面临所有这些压力的时候，趋势正在向错误的方向发展，”他说。政府监督机构 Reinvent Albany 的执行主任约翰·凯尼（John Kaehny）表示，他认为需要一场财务危机才能给该部门带来足够的压力以改善其回收工作。“这里的系统性缺陷在于，教育部在招聘、尤其是留住具备确保这些报销申请能够提交之技能的员工方面存在巨大困难，”凯尼先生说。
与共和党的 菲利 在关键选区对决
作者：蒂姆·鲍尔克 (TIM BALK)
据美联社报道，温和派民主党人 阿米什·沙赫 博士 (Dr. Amish Shah) 周三赢得了一个亚利桑那州关键选区的众议院初选，击败了一位由众议院民主党竞选机构支持的中间派候选人。
沙赫博士是一位急诊科医生，曾任州议员，并一直宣扬敲门拜访的效力。他在大选中将面对共和党提名人、前 NFL 职业踢球手 杰·菲利 (Jay Feely)。
沙赫博士与菲利先生——后者在初选中得到了 特朗普总统 的支持——有一些共同的历史：在 2008 年，沙赫博士曾是纽约喷气机队的场边医生，而菲利先生则是该队的踢球手。
两人正竞选接替众议员 大卫·施魏克特 (David Schweikert) 的席位，后者是一位决定放弃席位竞选州长的共和党人。随着民主党试图利用特朗普先生的不受欢迎程度夺回国会下议院的控制权，这场竞选预计将成为 11 月全国最昂贵的众议院选战之一。
沙赫博士曾在 2024 年竞选该席位，但以微弱差距输给了施魏克特先生。该选区围绕着斯科茨代尔 (Scottsdale)，并包括凤凰城 (Phoenix) 的一部分。
沙赫博士周三在初选中击败了前共和党人、前广播记者 玛琳·加兰-伍兹 (Marlene Galán-Woods)，这代表了众议院民主党竞选机构——民主国会竞选委员会 (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) 的最新一次失策。
在周二于凤凰城举行的选举之夜派对上，沙赫博士表示，他预计如果他在初选中获胜（当时结果尚未公布），他将很快与竞选委员会的领导层进行沟通。
“我希望我能得到他们的全面……”
塞贾尔·戈文达劳 (Sejal Govindarao) 参与了报道。
被监禁的委内瑞拉领导人将就美国将其引渡提出质疑。
负责审理 尼古拉斯·马杜罗 (Nicolás Maduro) 案件的联邦法官周三为这位被捕的委内瑞拉领导人设定了 2027 年 6 月的审判日期，为这一进展缓慢的高关注度案件引入了一些截止日期。
在检察官和马杜罗先生的律师周二晚上表示已对此达成一致后，法官 阿尔文·K·海勒斯坦 (Alvin K. Hellerstein) 在周三的出庭前将审判日期定在 6 月 1 日。
与所有提前很久设定的审判日期一样，该日程是暂定的，可能会发生变化，特别是如果马杜罗先生对其案件提出的挑战被更高法院评估时。
马杜罗先生及其妻子 西莉亚·弗洛雷斯 (Cilia Flores) 在美国军队的一次行动中从加拉加斯的一个院落被抓获。
作者：MADALEINE RUBIN
马萨诸塞州西部一所私立女子寄宿学校的前校长被起诉一项鲁莽危害儿童罪。
伯克希尔县地区检察官办公室表示，密斯霍尔学校（Miss Hall’s School）的前校长简·诺里斯（Jean Norris）被指控在任职期间收到关于一名教师不当行为的“大量报告”，但未能采取适当行动。
地区检察官蒂莫西·J·舒格鲁（Timothy J. Shugrue）周三表示，该指控是一项针对该校性虐待指控的更大规模调查的一部分。密斯霍尔学校的一名原教师马修·鲁特莱奇（Matthew Rutledge）于 3 月被起诉三项强奸罪，涉嫌袭击两名在 2001 和 2010 年间就读于该校的学生。
对该校的调查引发了人们对马萨诸塞州法律的关注，该法律将 16 岁视为一个人能够同意进行性行为的年龄。本月，该州通过立法，规定当性活动涉及对儿童拥有信任或权威地位的成年人时，该年龄上限提高至 18 岁。
诺里斯女士的律师约瑟夫·C·默施曼（Joseph C. Merschman）未立即回应关于起诉的置评请求。鲁特莱奇先生的律师诺拉·阿杜科尼斯（Nora Adukonis）未能立即联系到以进行置评。鲁特莱奇先生对指控表示不认罪。
密斯霍尔学校的校友梅丽莎·法雷斯（Melissa Fares）曾表示她遭到鲁特莱奇先生的虐待，她认为诺里斯女士被起诉是一个她从未想过会到来的“重大时刻”。
“问责不仅限于实施虐待的人，”法雷斯女士在一份声明中说。“它还延伸到那些在儿童处于风险时，纵容、忽视或未能采取行动的人。”
密斯霍尔学校位于马萨诸塞州皮茨菲尔德农村地区，靠近纽约州边界，招收 9 到 12 年级约 200 名学生。
2024 年，在法雷斯女士公开指控鲁特莱奇先生（当时在该校任教）对其进行虐待后，警方开始对鲁特莱奇先生展开调查。
Dr. Amish Shah, above, a moderate Democrat, defeated Marlene Galán-Woods in a primary in a district that includes a part of Phoenix. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had backed Ms. Galán-Woods. Jay Feely, below right, a former N.F.L. kicker, is the Republican nominee.
一名在密斯霍尔学校任教 33 年的男子面临三项强奸罪指控。曾有一名指控他与学生“发生性关系”的学生被强迫向他写道歉信。
法定同意年龄提高至 18 岁。
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REBECCA NOBLE/路透社
盟友——已经赋予了德尔西·罗德里格斯（Delcy Rodríguez）权力，她曾是马杜罗先生的副总统，现在领导委内瑞拉。 波拉克先生可能会主张，特朗普政府在使罗德里格斯女士合法化的同时，也证明了马杜罗先生本身具有合法性。 如果这些主张失败，预计马杜罗先生将对一份起诉书的细节提出挑战，该起诉书指控他腐蚀委内瑞拉政府并利用该政府在全球范围内出口可卡因。如果必要，马杜罗先生的律师预计将在明年年初提出这些辩护。 马杜罗先生身穿一套卡其色连身衣出现，在戴上耳机聆听翻译之前，与他的律师们握了手。
DAVID DEGNER 为 纽约时报
专业不当行为。去年发布的一份详尽报告中的调查结果包括相关证据，表明鲁特莱奇先生在约 20 年间虐待了五名女孩。 这促使地区检察官办公室对该案进行更深入的调查。 大陪审团在 3 月对鲁特莱奇先生提出了三项强奸指控，指控他袭击了两名学生。 法雷斯女士和另一名学生希拉里·西蒙（Hillary Simon）告诉 纽约时报，她们已经在大陪审团面前作证，并且
对杰伊·菲利（Jay Feely）的背书，”他说道，引发了笑声。周三晚上，华盛顿州代表、竞选委员会主席苏赞·德尔本（Suzan DelBene）在一份声明中表示，沙阿博士将“始终把社区放在首位”。“亚利桑那州人已经知道并信任阿米什将致力于降低生活成本，这就是为什么他们将在今年 11 月热情地选举他，”德尔本女士补充道。该委员会向这场昂贵的初选投入了资金，试图提升温和派加兰-伍兹（Galán-Woods）女士的地位，并在其网站上将她描述为“亚利桑那州人值得拥有的直率之人”。她是格兰特·伍兹（Grant Woods）的遗孀，伍兹曾是亚利桑那州总检察长，也是约翰·麦凯恩（John McCain）的盟友，但后来因特朗普先生而反对共和党。众议院民主党的竞选机构今年介入了几场竞争激烈的民主党选战，为那些党内领导层认为在重要比赛中会是更强普选竞争者的候选人投入资金。尽管该委员会支持的多名候选人赢得了初选，但其他人则失利了：众议院民主党竞选机构支持的温和派候选人在缅因州北部的关键选区以及加利福尼亚州中央谷地的关键选区输给了进步派。在亚利桑那州支持加兰-伍兹女士的干预行为令一些民主党人感到惊讶，因为他们认为她与沙阿博士之间几乎没有意识形态上的分歧。沙阿博士则反过来抨击国家民主党领导人在这场竞选中扮演的角色。“亚利桑那州的选民不希望华盛顿特区的人干预、操纵结果并告诉选民应该选择谁，”他在一次采访中表示。“这种情况不应该发生。”来自相邻选区的进步派民主党代表阿德利塔·格里哈尔瓦（Adelita Grijalva）表示赞同。在一次采访中，她表示这一结果表明众议院民主党的竞选机构需要“远离初选”。“我希望这是一个教训，”格里哈尔瓦女士说。
他，是一场外国法院的诉讼程序。这次出庭时间很短，仅 15 分钟，随后他向旁听席快速挥手后离开了法庭。
周三是他自三月以来首次出庭。尽管这位委内瑞拉领导人在法院内外依然能吸引人群，但数月的拘留似乎在一定程度上削弱了公众的兴趣。
周三在曼哈顿下区法庭外的聚集人数比他早期的出庭时要稀疏，尽管这位委内瑞拉独裁者往往能激起的强烈情绪依然显而易见。一名披着委内瑞拉国旗的示威者举着一块牌子，要求马杜罗先生“在监狱里腐烂”，并加上了脏话。
指控涉及对他们的袭击。
对诺里斯女士的起诉是在 Aleta 法律事务所地发现学生和职员曾多次对拉特利奇先生的行为表达担忧之后。报告发现，诺里斯女士知道其中一些担忧并咨询了法律顾问，但她并未对他采取任何实质性的行动。
报告称，在诺里斯女士任职期间的一次事件中，学校停课一名学生，该学生曾告诉一群同龄人，拉特利奇先生正在与学生“发生性关系”。诺里斯女士当时称该学生的言论为诽谤，学校要求该学生给拉特利奇先生写一封“道歉信”。
在周三的一次采访中，西蒙女士表示：“终于感觉我们被倾听了。”
随着警方开始初步调查，拉特利奇先生在 Miss Hall 学校任职 30 年多后，于 2024 年辞职。
此后，学校修改了某些政策，包括关于学生和教师会面地点及方式的规定，并就虐待幸存者提出的法律索赔达成了和解。学校领导层也为该机构在数十年涉嫌虐待事件中所扮演的角色道歉。
报告发现，多年来，学校允许虐待行为在不受制约的情况下继续发生。报告指出，包括诺里斯女士在内的几名教职员与拉特利奇先生保持着密切关系。
“几十年来，吉妮·诺里斯有权力制止马修·拉特利奇，但她选择保护他，而不是保护她照顾的孩子，”法雷斯女士说道。
通过一项法案 以放宽 堕胎规定
作者：珍娜·罗素 (JENNA RUSSELL)
一项旨在放宽马萨诸塞州孕晚期堕胎准入条件的法案于周三在州众议院获得通过。预计参议院将在下周立法会期结束前对该措施进行投票。
如果该法案成为法律，马萨诸塞州将成为对孕晚期堕胎限制最少的州之一。
现行州法律限制在怀孕 24 周后进行堕胎，但设有若干例外情况。倡导者表示，这些例外情况不足以确保所有需要堕胎护理的女性无需离开本州即可获得治疗。这些例外情况允许在孕妇生命受到威胁、身体或心理健康面临风险、存在“致命性胎儿异常”或“严重胎儿诊断”的情况下进行孕晚期堕胎。
新法案将允许在医生认为合适的情况下，在 24 周后进行堕胎。
“我们发现这种护理极其复杂，无法涵盖每一个可能的例外情况，”众议员克里斯 (Representative Chris) 说道——
24周后 相关手术可能合法。
tine Barber，一名赞助该立法的民主党人。“这应该是医生与患者之间的事情。”马萨诸塞州拥有一名民主党州长，且立法机构由民主党控制。众议院以 119-33 的投票结果通过了该法案。若要使其成为法律，参议院必须在当前立法会期于 7 月 31 日结束前予以批准。当周三被问及是否会将其签署为法律时，州长 Maura Healey 的发言人未立即回应。反对堕胎团体“马萨诸塞州生命公民协会”（Massachusetts Citizens for Life）在一份声明中表示，虽然该法案的赞助者拥有“好意”，但该法案引发了严重的担忧。“经历着难以想象、令人心碎的妊娠并发症的女性绝对值得获得她们所需的所有支持，但这并不是该法案所提供的支持，”该组织主席 Myrna Maloney Flynn 在声明中说道。“相反，这项法案确保了堕胎产业利润的增加以及由纳税人资助的晚期手术。”
自从最高法院在 2022. 年推翻“罗诉韦德案”（Roe v. Wade）以来，全美的堕胎法律发生了显著演变。一些州增加了新的限制，或在几乎所有情况下禁止堕胎；而其他州（包括马萨诸塞州）则试图通过将堕胎权写入州法规并调整措辞以扩大获取渠道来保护该权利。根据医疗保健研究机构 KFF 的数据，在 30 个州和华盛顿特区，堕胎在很大程度上是合法的；自 2022, 年最高法院裁决以来，13 个州在很大程度上禁止了该手术，另有 6 个州在妊娠 6 和 12 周之间实施了限制。
在马萨诸塞州，立法者在 2020, 年更新了法律，并在 2022, 年再次更新，当时他们为涉及“严重胎儿诊断”的病例增加了 24 周限制的例外情况。然而，堕胎权利倡导者表示，在定义例外情况的法律措辞可能被不同解读的情况下，障碍依然存在。新英格兰倡导团体“现在实现生殖公平”（Reproductive Equity Now）的临时共同执行主任 Claire Teylouni 表示，在 2021, 年的一个案例中，一名孕妇的胎儿在 33 周时在子宫内发生中风，尽管法律中有例外规定，但她仍无法获得堕胎护理。“她很震惊自己必须离开马萨诸塞州才能获得这项护理，”Teylouni 女士说。“医疗提供者表示，他们希望能够利用其专业知识做出决定——我们对待几乎所有其他医疗保健领域的方式都是如此。”
马萨诸塞州提出的这项新立法，允许医生根据酌情判断进行晚期堕胎，与缅因州在 2023. 年通过的一项法律相似。该法案得到了马萨诸塞州健康与医院协会、马萨诸塞州医学会、母胎医学学会以及马萨诸塞州美国产科与妇科医师学院的支持。根据研究和政策团体古特马赫研究所（Guttmacher Institute）的数据，2025, 年马萨诸塞州的临床医生提供了 23,340 次堕胎手术，比 2024 年轻微增长了 1.2 比率。
因杀害议员 被判终身监禁
作者：ERNESTO LONDOÑO
明尼阿波利斯 —— 在一名男子杀害一名明尼苏达州议员及其丈夫，并枪击另一名议员及其妻子的一年多后，一名联邦法官周四命令该男子在监狱中度过余生。
检察官将这些袭击描述为有针对性的政治暗杀，这在全州引发了紧急搜捕，并让明尼苏达州居民陷入恐惧。袭击者在半夜伪装成执法人员，前往民主党议员的家中。
该男子万斯·博尔特（Vance Boelter），59 岁，在检察官宣布不打算寻求死刑后，于 6 月承认了两项谋杀、跟踪和枪支犯罪指控。
美国地方法院法官约翰·R·图海姆（John R. Tunheim）判处其两项终身监禁外加 40 年监禁，这是政府与被告在认罪协议中达成一致的处罚。
“这是一次对选出的公职人员及其家属的残暴袭击，这实际上是对民主本身的袭击，”图海姆法官说。“我们心爱的州可能”
作者：MARK SOMMER 和 SANTUL NERKAR
布法罗 —— 1989, 年，伊朗政府在萨尔曼·鲁什迪（Salman Rushdie）出版《撒旦诗篇》后号召处死他。在隐姓埋名多年后，鲁什迪先生恢复了正常生活，开始公开露面并舍弃了武装安保。
这种常态在 2022, 年 12, 月 8 日被打破，当时一名年轻且失望的男子在纽约州西部的演讲台上冲向正在发表演讲的鲁什迪先生，并将其捅了 15 刀。这次袭击导致这位作家一只眼睛失明，神经受损，全身布满伤痕。
周四，79 岁的鲁什迪先生极其痛苦地详细回忆了他如何遇到捅刀者哈迪·马塔尔（Hadi Matar）。当马塔尔先生靠近并将鲁什迪先生猛力推向地面时，鲁什迪先生向右侧瞥见了他，马塔尔先生的脸被一个黑色面具遮住了。
“我试图逃跑，但他压在我身上，不停地捅，”鲁什迪先生在布法罗联邦地方法院说道，他穿着一件深色
两起男子被捅事件 可能是仇恨犯罪
本文作者为 Maia Coleman, Chelsia Rose Marcius 和 Stella Raine Chu。
警方表示，周四下午，一名 51 岁的男子在曼哈顿上西区中央公园附近光天化日之下捅伤两人，随后被拘留。
警方称，袭击者被确认为劳尔·莫拉莱斯（Raul Morales），他在下午 1:30 左右在中央公园西路和阿姆斯特丹大道分别袭击了两名男子，导致两人受伤在街头。预计两人均能幸存。
据警局发言人称，莫拉莱斯先生首先在西 84 街和中央公园西路走到一名 57 岁的男子面前，用刀捅了他的背部。发言人说，随后他前往西 86 街和阿姆斯特丹大道，靠近另一名男子，这次用螺丝刀捅了他的躯干。
Stella Raine Chu 参与了报道。
作者：YAN ZHUANG 和 JACEY FORTIN
当地官员表示，一名威斯康星州警察在试图实施逮捕时被刀伤，随后枪击一名男子导致其死亡，此事在麦迪逊市引发了抗议活动。
麦迪逊警察局表示，该男子在周三下午与警方发生冲突期间掏出了一把刀。局长约翰·帕特森（John Patterson）在周三的新闻发布会上表示，警员在开枪之前曾尝试使用泰瑟电击枪使该男子失去行动能力。
共有四名警员参与其中，
在某种意义上再也无法回到过去。” 这次袭击在 2025 年 6 月 14 日凌晨杀害了资深立法者、曾任明尼苏达州众议院民主党议长的梅丽莎·霍特曼（Melissa Hortman）及其丈夫马克（Mark）。当天早些时候，州参议员约翰·霍夫曼（John Hoffman）及其妻子伊薇特（Yvette）受重伤但幸存下来。
在一个对政治暴力担忧加剧的时代，明尼苏达州的这次袭击显得格外突出，部分原因是波尔特（Boelter）先生从未提供过明确的动机。
在周四的法庭上，波尔特先生表达了悔意。“对于每一个因我而遭受损失、痛苦、心碎、困惑、悲伤、羞愧或孤独的人，我深表歉意，”他说。
在听证会早些时候，当受害者的亲友谈到无数失眠之夜，以及挥之不去的脆弱感和被粉碎的纯真时，挤满人的法庭里不时传来人们轻声啜泣的声音。
被枪击的霍夫曼女士说，她再也没法让自己给陌生人开门。去世夫妇的儿子科林·霍特曼（Colin Hortman）回忆起去年在自己的婚礼上，父母的缺席让他感到多么心碎。在
穿着西装，脚穿软底鞋，留着修剪整齐的山羊胡。
在某个时刻，联邦检察官蒂莫西·C·林奇（Timothy C. Lynch）指示鲁什迪（Rushdie）先生摘下自袭击以来一直佩戴的特殊眼镜。其中一片镜片是透明的，而另一片则是深色遮光镜，覆盖住他受损的眼睛。
“如你们所见，那里现在什么都没有了，”鲁什迪先生在摘下眼镜后说道。
去年，在纽约州梅维尔（Mayville）针对马塔尔（Matar）先生州级指控的审判中，鲁什迪先生就这次捅刺事件作证。马塔尔先生被判定企图谋杀罪成，被判处 25 年监禁。
他目前正因联邦犯罪接受审判，鲁什迪先生的证词是政府起诉的关键部分：即马塔尔先生不仅企图杀死鲁什迪先生，而且他是听从了黎巴嫩境内受伊朗支持的民兵组织真主党的指示，通过执行法特瓦（fatwa，宗教法令）实施了恐怖袭击。
马塔尔先生的律师纳撒尼尔·L·巴隆二世（Nathaniel L. Barone II）辩称，虽然他的当事人对鲁什迪先生感到沮丧，但
目前尚不清楚导致这次发生在上西区核心地带的中午袭击的具体原因，该地区是一个犯罪率较低的住宅区。但蒂施（Jessica Tisch）警察局长在周四表示，根据受害者和证人的描述，莫拉莱斯（Morales）先生在袭击两名男子时大喊“真主至大”（Allahu akbar）。
蒂施女士表示，部门正在评估这些捅刺行为是否旨在构成仇恨犯罪，侦探们仍在调查莫拉莱斯先生的动机。她补充说，虽然莫拉莱斯先生在警察局没有记录在案的心理健康问题历史，但他的心理状态似乎在袭击中起到了一定作用。
据一名知情执法官员称，第一名受害者被确认为一名 57 岁的亚裔男子，名为 Chok Sung。该官员表示，第二名受害者是 50 岁的犹太男子摩西·叶扎克·格伦豪斯（Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus）。
两名男子均被急救人员送往圣
帕特森局长表示，其中一名警察开枪。另一名警员也在搏斗中受伤，但具体原因尚不明确，他补充说，该伤口看起来并非由刀伤引起。局长表示，所有四名警员都将被给予行政休假。
麦迪逊市市长萨蒂亚·罗德斯-康威在周四的新闻发布会上确认，该男子名为科里·鲁伊斯，38 岁。麦迪逊警方没有公布开枪警员的姓名。
“对于麦迪逊社区来说，这是一个极其艰难的时刻，”罗德斯-康威女士说道，并补充道，“作为一座城市，一个社区，一个社会，我们必须做得更好。”
他说，他没有跳母子之舞，而是在招待会上与妹妹和其他人一起痛哭。
他的妹妹索菲回忆起在父母被杀害仅几小时后，她和哥哥在一家兽医诊所不得不做出的痛苦决定。家里心爱的狗吉尔伯特在枪击中受了重伤。她询问兽医如果是在她的处境下会怎么做。医生告诉她们，她会让这只动物安乐死。
“科林和我同意他应该……”
鲁什迪的作品，他既没有听从真主党的命令，也没有执行伊朗政府的指令。
如果马塔尔先生被判定联邦指控有罪——两项向恐怖组织提供物质支持的罪名，以及一项跨境恐怖主义罪名——他可能会在监狱中度过余生。
几十年来，鲁什迪先生一直是伊斯兰极端分子愤怒的目标。1988 年，伊朗政府因《撒旦诗篇》对他发布了死刑判决（fatwa），这部小说塑造了一个虚构版本的先知穆罕默德，激怒了许多穆斯林。
在死刑判决发布后的近 10 年里，鲁什迪先生大部分时间在伦敦隐居，并受到持续的安保保护。但在 1998 年，随着伊朗恢复与英国的外交关系，一名伊朗政府官员撤回了针对鲁什迪先生的死亡威胁。
他在周四的法庭上表示，英国情报部门向他保证了他的安全。
鲁什迪先生开始在纽约过上基本正常的生活。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 中央公园西路和西 84 街附近的警员，两名受害者中的第一位在此遇袭。
西奈山的莫宁赛德分院。
据另一位知情执法官员称，在刺杀事件后，莫拉莱斯先生步行回到他位于阿姆斯特丹大道的纽约市住房管理局大楼的家中。他进入了位于 11 层的公寓，随后被紧急服务组的警员在那儿拘留。
“我想赞扬一名好心人的勇敢之举，他引导我们的警员找到了……”
枪击视频在事件发生后不久在社交媒体上广泛传播。
帕特森局长表示，该片段仅是所发生事情的“一个视角”，并补充说，“目前并非所有视角都在网上。”
据警方称，威斯康星州司法部表示正在调查这次枪击事件，事件发生在州议会大厦附近马奎特社区的一条繁忙街道上。
警方称，警员于周三下午接报有人偷窃自行车并试图进入停放的车辆。
她说，他“想和他的父母在一起”。
根据提供攻击细节的认罪协议，博尔特先生花费数月时间搜集关于明尼苏达州民选官员的信息。在枪击当晚，他驾驶一辆安装了应急灯的 SUV 前往霍夫曼夫妇的郊区住宅。
他穿着一件假警察制服并戴着硅胶面具，通过声称自己是执法人员进入屋内，并枪击了……
[[IMG_XXXX]] 作者萨尔曼·鲁什迪去年。2022 年的袭击导致他一只眼睛失明，神经受损，全身布满伤疤。
他于 2022 年 8 月抵达该露天剧场，发表了一篇聚焦于生活在政治流亡中的作家的演讲。
联邦检察官称，马塔尔先生策划这次袭击已有数月之久。他研究了法特瓦（宗教禁令），剪辑了亲伊朗的宣传视频，并向他人表达了他想要杀死鲁什迪先生的欲望，因为他认为鲁什迪的行为是对神圣的亵渎。
周四，鲁什迪先生回忆起一连串的刺伤，包括腹部的几处伤口，
【OCR清理说明：the perpetrator was hiding, as well as our NYPD cops who brought an end to the incident without further injuries,” Ms. Tisch said in a statement on social media.】 “……袭击者藏身之处，以及及时结束此次事件且未造成进一步伤亡的纽约市警察局（NYPD）警员，”蒂施女士在社交媒体的一份声明中表示。
玛丽安娜·埃伦伯格（Marianna Ellenberg）教授表示，周四下午她正陪父亲去该社区看医生，随后偶然发现了刺杀事件后的现场。当他们的车从 84 街转入中央公园西路时，埃伦伯格女士说她看向窗外
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在女儿在场的情况下地面对霍夫曼夫妇。女儿随后报警，引发了持续近两天的搜寻。
波尔特先生随后开车前往另外两名民主党立法者的家中，但并未与他们相遇。接着，他前往霍特曼家中，告诉他们自己是一名警察，正根据一起枪击报告进行“福利检查”。
当时正在睡觉的马克·霍特曼（Mark Hortman）询问了袭击者的姓名和警号。在一段时间后
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他的左手，以及造成最持久损害的右眼。他说，马塔尔先生的刀刺穿了他的视神经，且距离他的大脑仅一毫米。
“我能感觉到疼痛，我大喊道：‘我的眼睛怎么了？’”鲁什迪先生回忆道。
他将救命之恩归功于一名消防员，对方用大拇指压住动脉以减缓出血。尽管如此，鲁什迪先生说，他意识到有一片“巨大的且在扩张的血湖”。
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看到一名男子“像雕像一样静静地站着”，身体里插着某种东西。
曼哈顿肖姆林（Manhattan Shomrim，一个志愿者社区巡逻组织）的成员迈克尔·雅各布斯（Michael Jacobs）和莫里斯·达汉（Morris Dahan）表示，一名旁观者通知他们前往该社区，抵达后发现格伦豪斯先生受伤躺在地上。
“他躺在地上，胸口插着一把螺丝刀，”达汉先生说。他和雅各布斯先生立即拨打了 911。
据当地新闻媒体报道，周三晚上，数百名抗议者从马奎特（Marquette）社区向国会大厦游行。组织者
取消了原定于当晚在国会大厦附近举行的音乐会。
2015 年，在同一个社区，一名白人警察枪杀了一名 19 岁的黑人男子安东尼·罗宾逊（Anthony Robinson），随后引发了抗议活动。地区检察官认为该警员的行为具有正当理由，因此未提起指控。
民主党人罗兹-康威（Rhodes-Conway）女士表示，周三的枪击事件令她“愤怒且悲痛”。威斯康星州州长、民主党人托尼·埃弗斯（Tony Evers）在谈到被杀男子时表示，“他的生命至关重要”，并敦促抗议者以和平方式示威。
（接前页/此处缺失部分） 帕特森局长在新闻发布会上表示，嫌疑人骑自行车逃离。
当警察追上他时，该男子要么是摔了下来，要么是被从自行车上拽下来的。帕特森局长表示，在随后与四名警员的搏斗中，他掏出了一把刀并伤了一名警员。
警方表示，在警员尝试使用泰瑟枪（Taser）未果后，受伤警员开枪射击。
鲁伊兹先生被送往医院，并在那里被宣布死亡。
在短暂的交火后，博尔特先生枪击了霍特曼先生，随后跑上楼，在那里枪击了霍特曼女士。
博尔特先生是一名职业生涯奔波不定的明尼苏达州传教士，他对这次袭击发表了难以令人信服的言论。在投案自首前，他在给联邦调查局局长的一封信中声称，这次袭击是由明尼苏达州的民主党领导人煽动的。随后，他告诉记者，枪击事件与其声称开展的一项关于疫苗的调查有关。
在本周的一份法院文件中，博尔特先生的律师表示，他希望在佛罗里达州的一家联邦设施中服刑。他们写道：“博尔特先生知道，表达悔意并不能消除他所造成的痛苦。但认罪并同意接受最高刑罚，确实表明了博尔特先生真诚的悔意。”
在另一份文件中，检察官表示，该枪手是受政治动机驱使，暗示其意图是增强保守派在该州势均力敌的立法机构中的权力。
检察官写道：“他知道明尼苏达州立法机构的权力分配如此接近，以至于通过杀死四名州立法者，不可避免的结果将是两个议院的权力平衡发生转移。”
他被安置在担架上，由直升机送往宾夕法尼亚州伊里的医院，在那里度过了 17 天，随后被转至纽约市纽约大学朗格尼医学中心的拉斯克康复中心，在那里度过了一个月左右。 在经历了七个月的物理治疗后，他才能再次正常使用受伤的手。 他说，他现在无法开车，伤势也让他难以书写。 他现在住在纽约市，在纽约大学担任客座教授。2024, 他出版了一本关于这次袭击及其后果的回忆录，名为《刀：谋杀未遂后的沉思》(Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder)。在书中，他想象了与马塔尔先生的一次对话，他曾希望能与对方见面。 在某个时刻，巴罗内先生质询了鲁什迪先生关于《撒旦诗篇》的主题，以及他是否应该预料到该书在伊斯兰极端分子中引发的反应。 “我不认为这本书在受审，”鲁什迪先生回答道，“是另一个人在受审。”
美食 周三一篇关于餐厅的评论中的图片说明拼错了 Bar Panisse 一名调酒师的姓氏。他是 Gabe Newbrun-Mintz，而非 Newburn-Mintz。
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Josh Lipsky 大西洋理事会国际经济副总裁兼主席。
特朗普总统最具有影响力的建设项目可能不是宴会厅或拱门，而是他的关税之墙。他最近威胁要将某些加拿大商品的关税提高到 50%，尽管这一举措十分激进，但与接下来的行动相比，其重要性还远远不足。到本月底，预计政府将对数十个国家征收重大关税，旨在确保曾经的临时体制在本次总统任期结束后依然长期存在。与包括刚刚威胁加拿大的在内的大多数前几轮关税不同，新关税得到了对其他国家涉嫌不公平贸易行为进行数月调查的支持。还没有任何法院推翻过这种类型的关税。但 2028 年后撤销特朗普先生关税的最大障碍将不是法律，而是财务。随着国家债务达到了惊人的 $39.6 trillion，负责出售这些债务的市场已迅速对每天因关税而流入政府的资金产生依赖。考虑到债券市场决定了美国人进行一些最重要购买（包括汽车和房屋）时的借款成本，很少有政治家愿意触怒债券市场。与其被这些力量所制约，下一任总统可以找到一种方法将其转化为国家的优势。这是一个几乎没有人预料到的局面。就在 15 个月前，最初挫败特朗普先生关税计划的正是债券市场。在 2025, 4 月的所谓“解放日”，总统威胁要将美国几乎所有进口商品的关税提高到近一个世纪以来的最高水平。债券市场陷入恐慌，担心全球贸易战会导致价格上涨和增长放缓，随后出现骤跌，导致特朗普先生在一周后暂停了计划。“我一直在关注债券市场。债券市场非常诡谲，”他当时承认。但特朗普先生依然坚信关税是他可用且最好的经济武器，用来修复他认为不公平的贸易体系，因此从未放弃这一战略。在接下来的几个月里，他不断对包括美国主要贸易伙伴在内的国家增加关税。这一次，债券市场对此不屑一顾。由于欧洲、印度和日本都拒绝采取报复行动，全球贸易战的风险降低，这无疑起到了帮助作用。与此同时，美国每周约增加 $40 billion 的国家债务。得益于流入财政部的新关税资金，华尔街发现这个数字更容易被接受。在“解放日”三个月后，特朗普政府利用其拥有的资金
Jessica Grose 一名评论专栏作家。
我在最后一集的中间，彻底爱上了《五星级周末》（The Five-Star Weekend）。这部在Peacock平台播出的剧集讲述了中年女性的友谊，并展现了南图基特岛（Nantucket）绝美的风光。（提前预警：从此处起包含大量剧透。）就在那时，女主角霍利斯（Hollis）——一个追求完美、压抑自我，并在剧集过程中发现亡夫出轨的女性——与她的三位好友将满满一桶他留下的蛋白粉倒入大西洋，背景音乐则是娜塔莉·默查特（Natalie Merchant）甜美的歌声。这一令人满足的场景契合了这部略显直白的剧集，同时也展现了霍利斯延迟爆发的悲伤甚至愤怒。詹妮弗·加纳（Jennifer Garner）以细腻优雅的演技饰演霍利斯，她是一名美食博主，将自己的“与霍利斯共饥饿”（Hungry With Hollis）品牌打造成为一项成功且有利可图的业务。她的亡夫马修（Matthew，由乔什·汉密尔顿饰演，在整部剧的闪回中出现）是一名外科医生，他
从未认真对待她的工作，并且显然对不再是她世界的中心而感到愤恨。在生命的最后一天，马修在制作蛋白奶昔的同时，微妙地贬低霍利斯的职业。霍利斯确实就他轻蔑的语气与他对峙，说道：“我拥有让我自豪并正在建立的事业，而你却让我感到愧疚。承认吧，这让你心烦。”但最终她还是退让并道歉，在递给他一个自制的三明治让他带在旅途中后离开，而她后来才发现那次旅行是为了去巴黎见他的情妇。当剧集回到现实时间线，霍利斯看到了占据宝贵架位的大桶蛋白粉，她与另外三位中年女性将这个象征着“健身房肌肉男”式、自私男性气概的强力符号抛向大海。但最后一集也让我意识到《五星级周末》没有做的一件事：羞辱它的主演。
这些朋友——塔图姆（Tatum，克洛伊·塞维尼饰）、德鲁-安（Dru-Ann，雷吉娜·霍尔饰）和布鲁克（Brooke，达西·卡登饰）——被赋予了尊严和主体性，而这在其他电视剧和电影中 40 岁和 50 岁左右的女性身上是看不到的。甚至连马修的情妇也被同情地对待；剧组本可以选择将她写成垃圾，但并没有这样做。我不喜欢《欲望之城》（Sex and the City）重启剧《就这样吧》（And Just Like That）的原因之一
通过关税来说服国会 它有一种支付“一个伟大美丽法案”（One Big Beautiful Bill）中大规模减税资金的方法。“国会预算办公室发布的一份 10 年期预测显示，目前已经实施的关税收入在接下来的 10 年里将筹集 2.8 万亿美元，”国家经济委员会主任凯文·哈塞特（Kevin Hassett）指出。他说，这就是
就是因为它似乎沉溺于让其女主角看起来很愚蠢，并让衰老的变幻莫测显得令人沮丧且恶心。最好的例子是在第一季中，当凯丽·布雷肖（Carrie Bradshaw）在为死去的丈夫哀悼并从髋部手术中恢复时。她的好朋友米兰达（Miranda）本应帮助她，却因为喝醉并与人在凯丽的厨房里出轨而分心。无法独立去洗手间的凯丽，最后试图对着一个空的低糖Snapple瓶子小便，结果弄湿了床单。 这部剧本可以用一百万种其他方式来阐述凯丽的困境——她感到抑郁且被抛弃——但它选择了一个极其令人尴尬的方式，而且这甚至并不怎么好笑。 另一个似乎以让女性看起来糟糕为乐的戏剧化描写是
市场已对贸易税 产生依赖。
复仇幻想剧《寻求帮助》（Send Help）。这部电影在某种程度上——至少在前半三分之一的篇幅中——成功地让 gorgeous 的 47 岁瑞秋·麦克亚当斯（Rachel McAdams）显得极其糟糕。她饰演的角色琳达·利德尔（Linda Liddle）是一家咨询公司的员工，虽然为人古板且被忽视，但能力极强，而她社交上的笨拙和缺乏体面令她的同事们感到厌恶。有一个特别的瞬间：琳达在吃金枪鱼三明治，就在她的新老板走过她的办公桌时，三明治弄得她满脸满手都是。一段关于此场景的 Instagram 帖文配文道：“兄弟简直被恶心到了。”
我明白这是刻意为之——电影始终站在她的一边，导演山姆·雷米（Sam Raimi）热衷于让观众感到反感，而且琳达最终确实摧毁了那些厌恶她的人——但我仍然对这种将中年女性
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“就在那里的赤字削减。”到 2025, 年底，政府获得了创纪录的 $264 十亿净关税收入——是前一年收入的三倍多。
在不到一年的时间里，美国的金融市场经历了从厌恶关税，到能够忍受关税，再到需要依赖关税来应对国家赤字的过程。
40多岁和50多岁 女性的剧集， 让中年生活 显得如此神奇。
最新的证据出现在今年冬天。2月，最高法院推翻了总统利用《国际紧急经济权力法》征收关税的权力。投资者由于担心退款成本以及收入流中断，迅速抛售债券。债券市场担心的并非关税的引入，而是失去关税的可能性。特朗普总统已经准备好了一套计划。几小时内，政府便推出了备用关税，到当天结束时，市场已恢复平静。当这些备用关税于本周到期时，政府将再次介入并实施新关税，而法院一直认为总统有权征收此类关税。在接下来的 10 年里，这些关税可能会产生近 $1 trillion 的收入。在那段时间里，我们日益难以为继的国家债务可能会给未来的总统带来更大的
财政压力。无论 2028, 年谁获胜，避免触怒债券市场的欲望可能都会处于高位。特朗普总统的继任者将拥有选择权。下一任总统可以在重新平衡收入来源的同时保留部分关税——而且他们应该这样做。特朗普总统近期的贸易策略是对所有人征收关税，无论对方是朋友还是敌人。那么，采取一种更有针对性的方法如何？逻辑上的重点应该是中国。考虑到中国目前拥有历史上最大的贸易顺差，反对中国的理由比过去十年中的任何时候都更有力。明智之举应该是与我们的盟友达成协议。美国可以部分降低对合作伙伴的关税，以换取他们在提高中国关键部门关税方面提供的帮助。欧洲领导人感受到从汽车、化学品到
钢铁和太阳能电池板等各领域汹涌而至的中国出口压力，他们可能会比过去几年更容易接受这种安排。一种在关税和贸易限制上协调一致、并明确产品原产地的方法，将在保护美国国内就业方面产生实质性影响，并有助于减轻习近平主席几乎必然采取的报复措施。这样我们既能保持实质性的关税收入，又能针对我们最大的贸易竞争对手制定稳定的政策。当然，许多公司仍然会选择支付关税，而不是将其整个制造基地连根拔起。这是可以理解的。但这些企业支付的关税随后应被用于帮助确保下一代先进技术在本土制造。特朗普总统在贸易方面决定所带来的冲击波，将在其总统任期结束后依然持续。在可预见的未来，全球最大的经济体将变得更加
贸易保护主义。金融市场在这一新现实中找到了慰藉。如果我们要承担成本，那么我们都应该获得某种持久的回报。
女性看起来如此完全地可怜。（而且在此要明确一点，《And Just Like That》并不是一部好剧，而《Send Help》则是一部伟大的电影。）这一切让我回到了《The Five-Star Weekend》。这部剧的神奇之处部分在于它揭示的不同人生路径。塔图姆（Tatum）是霍利斯（Hollis）在南图基特岛成长期间的童年好友，她火辣且毒舌，但极其忠诚。塔图姆在岛上经营一家干洗店——在富豪群体中扮演中产当地人的角色——并且非常迷恋她的第一个孙辈。她正在应对一个潜在的癌症诊断，并与霍利斯就阶级问题进行争论。但她从未离开霍利斯——她完全献身于她的朋友以及她那深爱她锋芒丈夫（高中时的甜蜜恋人）。德鲁-安（Dru-Ann）是一名将职业生涯置于首位的体育经纪人，在由于……而被软抵制后，这一选择受到了一些质疑。
骑在她的某个客户身上太用力了。德鲁-安（Dru-Ann）的选择被认为与霍利斯（Hollis）或泰特姆（Tatum）一样令人钦佩。她似乎并不特别为自己没结婚或没孩子而感到悲伤，并且与霍利斯那个大学年龄的女儿（也就是德鲁-安的教女）关系非常亲密。布鲁克（Brooke）是一名家庭主妇，丈夫是个混蛋，在剧集描绘的这个周末里，她意识到自己被女性吸引。剧集以她探索与在岛上结识的一位导游之间萌芽的关系，并誓言要为自己规划新生活而告终。当然，《五星级周末》（The Five-Star Weekend）在某种程度上仍然是一个光鲜的乌托邦，与大多数人的真实生活相当脱节。霍利斯那栋昂贵住宅的室内装饰看起来像是从家居杂志里截取出来的，而且每个人都穿得极其精致。甚至连被设定为穷亲戚的泰特姆，也住在一家温馨时尚、带有海景的木质护墙板房子里。尽管如此，加纳女士（Ms. Garner）、塞维尼女士（Ms. Sevigny）、霍尔女士（Ms. Hall）和卡登女士（Ms. Carden）的出色表演，使得这部剧即便在细节上并不总是写实时，依然让人觉得能产生共鸣。作为一个 40 多岁的女性，我发现被拉入这个美丽的世界是一种解脱，在这里，中年被视为一种积极的发展——甚至是一个转向更真实自我的潜在转折点。噢，还有蒂莫西·奥利凡特（Timothy Olyphant）饰演的那个一直暗恋霍利斯的男友，而她也从未停止想念他。我看过奥利凡特先生出演的《正义之途》（Justified），所以我绝对能对此产生共鸣。
对话 | 弗兰克·布鲁尼 与 布雷特·斯蒂芬斯
弗兰克·布鲁尼：布雷特，我们那位油腔滑调且发型油腻的国防部长刚刚趾高气扬地走到国会，请求大约五万亿（gazillion）美元，好让我们赢得一场特朗普总统一再向我们保证已经赢了的战争。请告诉我，即使是你这样的一只鹰派，也不希望给皮特·海格塞斯那样一张空白支票。
布雷特·斯蒂芬斯：首先，我喜欢“油腔滑调”（unctuous）这个词；它让我想起《傲慢与偏见》里的柯林斯先生。说到海格塞斯，我脑海中浮现的其他词汇是：油腻的、肿胀的、夸张的且令人难以忍受的。其次，在资金方面，我会给他比他要求的更多的钱。
弗兰克：你一定在开玩笑。你在铺垫一个笑话，对吧？快告诉我答案。
布雷特：完全是认真的。伊朗战争暴露了我们武器储备的严重短缺，特别是像“战斧”巡航导弹和“爱国者”拦截导弹这类精确制导武器，如果在台湾发生战争或出现其他紧急情况，我们将需要大量此类武器。这实际上应该是一个两党一致支持的问题：乔·拜登总统的国家安全顾问杰克·苏利文也对这类关键短缺发出过警告。而且，我们还需要投资关键基础设施，以便在廉价无人机时代保护我们的部队。《纽约时报》在 12 月发表了一系列令人警醒且细节详尽的社论，阐述了这些观点。
弗兰克：你的观点有一个巨大的问题，就是它没有考虑到哪些政府官员在拿这笔巨款，以及他们是否值得信任。特朗普政府的成员是不值得信任的。我们在军事方面已经看到了这一点，无论是在具体还是普遍层面。具体而言：许多专家认为，他要求建造的那些“特朗普级”战舰，与其说是为了应对未来战争的性质，不如说是为了满足他的虚荣心。普遍而言：我们陷入这场伊朗 debacle（惨败），不是因为我们的军火库，而是因为我们那些愚蠢的领导人，他们的规划如此业余——如此像大学兄弟会——以至于根本没有考虑到霍尔木兹海峡可能关闭的情况。是的，让我们给这些无能之辈再多挥霍数百亿美元吧。
布雷特：你指出的问题确实存在：谁能信任这帮人处理任何事情？但问题在于，军事支出投资是长期的，未来的总统必须依靠现任总统的一些决定，以便在日后保卫我们及其盟友。例如，我认为在俄罗斯或伊朗发射弹道导弹齐射的时代，美国大力投资于弹道导弹防御、大规模部署无人武器，或者用已经在试飞的隐形 B-21 轰炸机取代我们老旧的 B-52 和 B-1 轰炸机机群，这些都不应该是争议点。抛开那些几乎肯定永远不会被建造的特朗普战舰不谈，公众需要明白军事事务正在经历一场革命，而我们需要掌握它。 至于伊朗，我希望特朗普能摧毁伊朗唯一剩下的未受损核设施，并为了捍卫国际法，强迫伊朗开放海峡。比起他的鹰派作风，我更担心他的 TACO 倾向。
弗兰克：在面对特朗普和伊朗时，你的希望之持久，令人印象深刻且令人心酸。
布雷特：你没直接说我“被诊断为妄想”，真是非常有礼貌了。
在我们完全清楚这次环孢子虫（cyclospora）疫情是否以及如何能够被预防之前，但毫无疑问，特朗普总统的削减——以及将小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪交给美国人身体健康管理这种疯狂之举——已经严重损害了美国人，并让我们在面对更多且更糟糕的情况时变得脆弱。这个政府并不怎么在乎检查和医学专业知识。绝不能纵容精英，绝不能阻碍企业利润。一个“再次伟大”的美国，难道就是我们在观看炸弹落下时，还得不停地往返于洗手间之间吗？更多的弹药，更多的成人纸尿裤：这就是特朗普的遗产，至少在隐喻层面上是这样。
Bret：我认为你所说的是某种程度上的一种迷思。在 2010, 贝拉克·奥巴马担任总统时，我们的国防开支接近国内生产总值的 5 百分比。去年我们的支出仅略高于 3 百分比。这在历史上处于低位。联邦预算的大部分流向了社会保障、医疗保险、医疗补助、退伍军人福利和债务偿还等项目，而非国防。至于环孢子虫，除了给了我一个形容 JD Vance 嘴里说出的一切东西的新词外，我认为把这种在任何政府（无论是共和党还是民主党）中都可能发生的疫情归咎于任何官员，甚至是小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪，是有失公平的。
Frank：我很庆幸你提到了 Vance。这给了我们一个共识点，而我稍后会将其转化为一个紧张点。但首先：感谢你最近的专栏
总统的那些谄媚之辈 处理任何事情？
关于他，你写道：“这个幼稚且阴险的机会主义者取代目前统治我们的那个反复无常的跳梁小丑，这一前景可能是当今世界政治中最令人恐惧的念头。”我想给你个拥抱。我想吻你。不过我就克制到此为止。
布雷特：让我在这里公开表态：即便我很愿意投票给马可·鲁比奥而不是几乎任何一个民主党人，但在 2028 年，只要能不选万斯，我会投票给任何一个民主党人。
弗兰克：哎呀。预想中的紧张点消失了。鉴于最近关于她的种种议论，我原计划问你，你会选择亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯而不是万斯吗？
布雷特：会。至少她在向一个稍微理智的方向演变。而且她现在可能已经在地图上找到了台湾。
弗兰克：加文·纽森呢？你曾写过许多段文字极其刻薄地抨击他。
布雷特：虽然很难地吞咽，但还是会。纽森虚荣心极强，经常出错，且比石油泄漏还要圆滑：换句话说，他是一个典型的政治家，但值得肯定的是，他有时能从错误中学习。而万斯则是纯粹的机会主义者且无限可塑，一个让我毛骨悚然的《乐尼图尼斯》式的阴谋论者。
弗兰克：伯尼·桑德斯，如果他与阿卜杜尔·埃尔-赛义德搭档竞选？
布雷特：你能建议另一个副总统人选吗？但就伯尼而言，一段纯粹的、不加掩饰的社会主义时期，其一线希望在于能让后代对这种诱惑产生永久的智识免疫。
约翰·弗朗西斯·彼得斯 为《纽约时报》
布雷特：多年前，我一个高中朋友开始认真对待他的天主教信仰；这让他变成了一个更善良、更谦卑、更有自我意识且始终得体的人。万斯的皈依似乎达到了完全相反的效果。他心目中的教皇模范不是利奥十四世，而是庇乌十二世。他全身都是博吉亚家族的风格，毫无若依蒂瓦的影子。他将皈依作为通往权力的跳板，而不是防御权力诱惑的盾牌。
弗兰克：当万斯或任何其他人这样做时，我感到深切的被冒犯——而且有非常非常多的人在这样做。对于我们之中像你高中朋友那样真正虔诚且心怀善意的人来说，这太不公平了。我不希望对宗教感到愤世嫉俗。克里斯托弗·希钦斯那一派从未吸引过我。它没有充分考虑到，有多少好事是因为善人们的属灵感召而发生的。
布雷特：同意。以赛亚·伯林说得对，“在我看来，枯燥的无神论者对某些形式的深刻人类经验视而不见、听而不闻”。
弗兰克：但在 MAGA 宇宙中，有一大群人将宗教视为一场哑剧，允许他们尽情地犯那七宗罪。（而且这些人最近正疯狂地作恶，贪婪和暴食尤其得到了充分的锻炼。）只要口头说够教条，在对话中撒入足够多的基督相关引用，也许在脖子上挂个十字架，那么各种残酷和腐败都会被原谅。这似乎就是海格塞斯的算盘。
布雷特：长期以来，共和党以及任何将自己树立为道德阵营的政治运动都存在这个问题：他们反对所有恶习，除了那些他们恰好被吸引的恶习。事实上，如果说特朗普有什么可取之处，那就是他从未真正把自己伪装成任何人心目中的圣人。而且他撕掉了曾经定义该党的一些伪善正经的面具。请注意，我对特朗普说了一些适度的赞美，正如你正确指出的那样，他拥有一种万斯永远无法具备的、无法根除的真实感。
弗兰克：即便特朗普和万斯也无法毁掉这个国家许多最伟大的快乐和自豪之源。比如……牧场沙拉酱 (ranch dressing)！ 在世界杯期间，有很多文章在写外国游客对美国饮食文化中各种奇特之处的痴迷。在《华尔街日报》中，本·科恩注意到他们对牧场沙拉酱的喜爱，而这恰好与 Hidden Valley Ranch 品牌扩大该酱料影响力的努力不谋而合。这里有一段关于此的描述，提到了该品牌的总经理尼克·希金斯 (Nick Higgins)：
在加州奥克兰的 Hidden Valley 总部里，希金斯和他的同事们研究各种食物，并问自己一个简单的问题：它能配牧场酱吗？答案是肯定的。当然可以。蔬菜、沙拉、披萨、鸡翅、薯条、鱼子酱、酸黄瓜、茅屋奶酪、冰淇淋——这些全部都极其适合配牧场酱。既然任何东西都能配，那么所有东西都在被“牧场化”。
这就是美国式的独创精神，布雷特！
布雷特：还有一篇值得注意的《日报》故事：在赛事接近尾声时，该报的约书亚·罗宾逊 (Joshua Robinson) 和乔纳森·克莱格 (Jonathan Clegg) 报道了游客们迷恋美国的另一种方式，无论他们对我们的政治持有何种看法：
他们爱上了 Waffle House 的薯饼。他们发现了 Buc-ee’s 的牛胸肉三明治。他们感叹公共交通选择的匮乏，随后又对 Waymo 感到惊叹。所有这一切都令人大开眼界。我们购物中心的规模，我们高速公路的尺寸，以及 Costco 冷冻食品区那丰饶如角之号的景象。
致编辑： 关于“在内塔尼亚胡问题上陷入僵局，曼达尼转而通过视频发声”（首页，7月23日）： 纽约市长佐兰·曼达尼在周二发布的视频中承认，如果以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡来到纽约，他没有权力将其逮捕。 当然，人们可以为以战争罪逮捕内塔尼亚胡先生提出强有力的论据。但鉴于市长在这方面的无能为力，他为什么要消耗自己的政治资本来使他的选民和全国民众两极分化？毕竟，如果他有更高的政治抱负，他可能需要向这两方寻求支持。 作为一名同情陷入以色列与哈马斯冲突之中的巴勒斯坦人民困境的犹太人，以及一个对以色列政府及其支持者的最恶劣行径感到非常失望的人，我的愿望是，那些处于国家和地方影响力位置的人能为同情心树立好榜样，而不是制造无谓的两极分化，从而进一步加剧紧张局势。 请思考，曼达尼先生。
致编辑： 关于“聘请深度思考者进行人工智能研究？这无需多虑”（周日商业版，7月5日）： 我们并不认同这篇文章中传达的兴奋之情，即人工智能公司及相关非营利组织聘请哲学家就伦理问题提供建议的趋势。当然，哲学可以帮助阐明人工智能产业带来的许多伦理和政治问题。但我们认为，这些问题所要求的深刻且批判性的探究，不可能来自那些在公司发工资名单上的哲学家。 人工智能产业引发的最紧迫的伦理问题包括：使用窃取的人类创意和智力劳动来训练人工智能；将严重的抉择外包给无法追责的私人所有机器；以及能耗与城市相当的数据中心对环境产生的影响。这篇文章没有提到其中任何一项。解决这些问题需要对人工智能产业实施深远的民主控制——而这正是人工智能公司激烈抵制的事情。 相反，文中介绍的哲学家们则专注于诸如“人工智能福利”之类的问题：也就是说，关于人类是否应对语言模型或类似产品持有道德关怀的问题。其中一位被介绍的哲学家在结束与语言模型 Claude 的互动时，有时会输入“ilu”（“I love you”的缩写）。 看来，人工智能产业现在得到了它想要的哲学家。最终，提出真正困难问题的工作可能就留给了其他人。无论如何，世界都将不得不面对其后果。
乔纳森·金格里奇 (JONATHAN GINGERICH) 格蕾丝·赫尔顿 (GRACE HELTON)
作者分别为一名法学教授和一名哲学教授。
致编辑： 我很惊讶《跑者何时必须停下》（科学时报，7月 7日）一文没有提到最直接的替代方案：快走。我是一位 81 岁的医生，从 1968 年开始，我绝对保证每天早晨至少跑步两英里（除了 1976 年我患肺炎期间）。我跑得很慢；我从未跑过马拉松，也对跑步作为一种群体活动没有兴趣。对我而言，这是一种有益的成瘾。它对心脏和大脑都有好处。在旅行时，它还成了我观光的手段。五年前，在经历了两次背部手术后，我将跑步改为快走。我发现快走的速度竟然和之前的跑步一样快！它提供了有氧锻炼，且肌肉骨骼损伤要少得多。我希望在未来的几年里继续这样做（尽管速度必然会稳步下降）。
关于你如何利用你的影响力平台以及如何花费你的政治资本，长久且艰苦地思考。
斯蒂文·西奇 (STEVEN SEECHE) 马萨诸塞州剑桥市
致编辑： 市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼 (Zohran Mamdani) 最近发布的关于他是否可以逮捕 以色列 总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡的视频，在社交媒体上获得了数千万次观看。该视频之所以重要，不仅是因为在许多人看来这是反犹主义和反犹太复国主义的表达，而且因为它使得马姆达尼先生目前领导的这座城市——近一百万犹太人的家园——对犹太人而言变得不再安全。 自从马姆达尼先生上台以来，该市的反犹主义事件急剧增加。他声称他的言论符合他对巴勒斯坦社区的责任，但犹太社区怎么办？他在该视频中的言论只会煽风点火，加剧反犹仇恨。
谢尔顿·兰德斯曼 (SHELDON LANDESMAN)，皇后区
致编辑： 市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼花了大半周的时间公开琢磨，如果在 9 月联合国大会期间，总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡来到纽约，是否应该将其逮捕，随后又宣布他没有采取该行动的任何依据。这次噱头对于让任何一名纽约人生活在更经济、更安全、更清洁或更健康的城市没有任何帮助。市长在提议该行动时就清楚自己无法实施。而且这与他在竞选时承诺将重点满足在纽约市生活和工作的人们之需求完全背道而驰。 事实上，这一策略在时机上几乎带有特朗普式的风格——通过一个抢占头条的声明，转移人们对其政府在应对军团菌病公共卫生威胁时反应冷淡的注意力。
理查德·W·马克 (RICHARD W. MARK)，纽约
致编辑： 关于《健康保险处于风口浪尖》（商业，7月 14日）： 健康保险计划在竞争极其激烈的市场中运行，并受到联邦和州级别的严格监管，其透明度和问责要求在医疗保健领域中独树一帜。健康保险计划为消费者谈判争取了巨大的节省，并提供全面的福利、服务和处方药覆盖，以改善患者的治疗结果。 相比之下，医院系统和医疗提供者团体在过去二十年里稳步整合以获得市场权力，挫败竞争并提高价格。与此同时，品牌药企利用所谓的限定市场独占期来延迟竞争，并系统性地向美国患者过度收费。 没有证据表明，随意破坏旨在更好地整合保障与护理的努力会使医疗保健变得更经济。我们需要常识性的跨党派改革，以促进护理交付和处方药领域的竞争，保护消费者免受医疗提供者和药企的反竞争行为影响，并摆脱按服务付费医疗模式的扭曲激励。
迈克·塔芬 (MIKE TUFFIN)，华盛顿
作者是 AHIP 的主席兼首席执行官，AHIP 是健康保险行业的全国贸易协会。
致编辑： 关于“孕肚的欢欣揭晓”（周四时尚版，7月16日）： 在我 94 岁的人生中，有 10 年的时间里，我曾怀孕 45 个月。我从未像穿着孕妇装时那样感到自己如此美丽。没有人会对里面潜藏着什么产生怀疑。 仅仅因为孕肚正在经历一项进行中的创造，并不意味着每个人都能获得前排座位。
这位分子生物学家曾获诺贝尔奖
作者：DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN
贯根进（Susumu Tonegawa）是一位日本分子生物学家，他因揭示人体如何产生足够的抗体以对抗多种感染而于 1987 年获得诺贝尔奖，随后通过发现记忆如何存储，推进了人们对大脑运作方式的理解。他于 7 月 11 日在加利福尼亚州圣马特奥的家中去世，享年 86 岁。贯根博士担任教授的麻省理工学院宣布了他的逝世。贯根博士于 1994 年创立的麻省理工学院皮考尔学习与记忆研究所（Picower Institute for Learning and Memory）所长 Myriam Heiman 在一份声明中表示：“很少有科学家能如此深刻地重塑我们对生物学的理解。他知识上的无畏、非凡的创造力以及对基本问题的不懈追求，在免疫学和神经科学领域都开辟了全新的前沿。”
几十年来，科学家们一直对在被称为 B 淋巴细胞的白细胞中产生的抗体感到困惑。这些对抗疾病的抗体形状像字母 Y，由两条长链和两条短链对称的蛋白质组成，这些蛋白质由氨基酸构建，全部由硫原子桥连接在一起。大多数长蛋白和部分短蛋白被认为是恒定的，因为它们在所有抗体中都相同。在每条链的末端是可变氨基酸，使抗体能够与一系列感染中的抗原结合并使其失效。一个常见的类比是，恒定氨基酸就像钥匙的柄，而可变氨基酸则是转动锁芯的锯齿。就像钥匙一样，每组锯齿的组合都是唯一的。即便如此，科学家们仍对其如何能产生足够的组合来对抗数百万种感染感到困惑。一种观点认为这是一种进化适应，通过基因（即所谓的生殖系）代代相传。但人体只有大约 20,000 个基因，因此似乎不太可能拥有足够的——
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CIPOREN—William “Bill”. 1938-2026 于 2026 年 7 月 20 日逝世， 是 Irving 和 Esther Ciporen 挚爱的儿子， 也是 Marvin, Ellen 和 Fred 的兄弟。 是 Erica, Kevin, Jeremy, Amanda, Rachel 和 Laura 忠诚且爱戴的叔舅， 也是 Jackson, Sofie, Theodore, Jake 和 Leo 的曾叔舅。 他在军队中为国效力，并在为 HRA 工作期间援助了纽约脆弱的家庭和儿童。 他热爱他的家人和朋友，热爱 Mirage Diner 和 The New Glory House。 葬礼于 7 月 26 日上午 11:30 在 Plaza Jewish Community Chapel - 630 Amsterdam Ave 举行。 Shiva 悼念活动于 7 月 26 日下午 3:00 - 6:00 在 Marvin 和 Ellen 家举行。 请以他的名义向您喜爱的慈善机构捐款。
ESPOSITO—John Louis, Ph.D.
John Louis Esposito, Ph.D.， 86 岁，来自佛罗里达州马可岛（Marco Island, FL） 以及宾夕法尼亚州纽敦广场（Newtown Square, PA）的 Dunwoody 退休社区， 于 2026 年 7 月 15 日因心脏手术并发症去世。 出生于布鲁克——
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他还探讨了记忆是如何在脑中存储的。
为了创造与对抗如此多种疾病所需的所有排列组合。另一种理论认为，身体在体细胞中建立防御机制——换句话说，出生时的抗体基因数量有限，但身体能够通过修改这些基因，随着时间的推移实现多样化并增强防御能力。长期以来，科学家们缺乏进行此类实验所需的技术，而这类实验可能有助于他们解开这个谜团。
1974 年，故根博士在瑞士巴塞尔免疫学研究所工作期间，决定着手解决这一问题。在一项耗时数月且劳动强度极大的过程中，他和一名助手制作了信使 RNA（将 DNA 的遗传信息传递给其他基因的单链分子）的杂交探针，以此来检查被称为骨髓瘤的癌症 DNA 以及小鼠胚胎组织的 DNA。这些探针结合了
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lyn, NY, 他是已故的 John 和 Mary Esposito 之子。 John 是乔治城大学（Georgetown University）宗教与国际事务以及伊斯兰研究的杰出名誉教授。Esposito 博士是乔治城大学沃尔什外交学院（Walsh School of Foreign Service）穆斯林-基督徒理解中心（Center for Muslim - Christian Understanding）的创始主任，在校园内指导了数千名学生，并担任了数十个硕士和博士委员会的成员。Esposito 博士经常在主流媒体上亮相，为美国、欧洲、亚洲和中东的报纸及杂志撰稿并接受采访。他的文章曾发表在《华尔街日报》、《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《经济学人》、《卫报》以及《伦敦时报》上，并接受了 CNN、ABC Nightline、CBS、NBC、半岛电视台和 BBC 的采访。在他的职业生涯中，他撰写了 50 余本书籍，并担任了牛津大学出版社（Oxford University Press）多个百科全书项目的总编辑。 他是 Oxford Islamic Studies 在线平台的创始编辑，该平台在哈佛大学中东图书馆员的评论中，在 1-10 的评分量表中获得了 10 分的满分。 为了表彰他在学术研究以及知识分子和公共生活方面做出的卓越贡献，John 还被授予了七个荣誉博士学位。John 的一生反映了美国和美国人民最好的传统，植根于宗教自由、言论自由和知识探索。
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直到他不幸去世，John 仍然在领导一个在目前时刻比以往任何时候都更为关键的项目：桥梁计划：促进多元主义并消除伊斯兰恐惧症（The Bridge Initiative: Promoting Pluralism and Ending Islamophobia），该项目专注于监测、记录和打击伊斯兰恐惧症。 John Esposito 留下了结婚 61 年的妻子 Jean Esposito，她是他在所有努力中的伙伴和主要支持者，也是 John 生命中持久的爱。他是养子 Emilio Gonzalez 细心的父亲；是 Jennifer, Emily, Nathalie 和 Amy 崇拜的祖父；是 Richard Esposito（Lida Syrko Esposito）及已故 Louis Esposito（Frances Ferguson Esposito）忠诚的兄弟；以及 Donna Esposito Kimble, John, Michael, Ricky 和 Peter Esposito 最亲爱的叔伯。 亲友受邀参加 John 的生命庆典，时间为 7 月 24, 周五下午 6 点至 9 点；以及 7 月 25, 周六上午 9 点至 10 点的遗体瞻仰，地点在 The Donohue Funeral Home, 3300 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073，随后于上午 10:30 在 St. Anastasia Church, 3301 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073 举行葬礼弥撒。安葬仪式为私人进行。 代替送花，亲友可以通过任何形式的捐款来支持他终生的努力，从而极大地帮助延续 John 的工作。请使用以下链接之一： 数字捐赠： https://giving.georgetown. edu/cmcubridge 实物支票（应开给 Georgetown University's Bridge Initiative on Islamophobia at ACMCU）： https:// acmcu georgetown. edu/uncategorized/
通过互补的 DNA 片段，使科学家能够识别他们分析的组织中的特定 DNA 序列。利用该信息，他们能够绘制并比较骨髓瘤组织和胚胎组织中的模式。结果截然不同，使他们看到抗体是通过结合一些可变氨基酸（通常与恒定氨基酸相结合）来创建新的氨基酸链而制造的。在创建某些新链时，DNA 链中的部分编码已被改变；在某些情况下，编码已被完全删除。他们最终明白，抗体可以通过多种方式创建，考虑到身体必须面对的大量外源抗原，这一点至关重要。争论结束了：正如 Tonegawa 博士所称的，体细胞学派（somaticeans）获胜了。在 1976, 年，他发表了一系列论文中的第一篇
关于他的发现发表了具有影响力的论文。他继续推进研究，与巴塞尔实验室的其他人员合作，并在 1987 年成为首位获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的日本科学家，以表彰他“发现了抗体多样性产生的遗传原理”。诺贝尔委员会指出，Tonegawa 博士的发现之应用可包括提高疫苗效力、开发免疫疗法以及研究如何对抗抗体开始攻击健康细胞时发生的自身免疫性疾病。
1994, 作为麻省理工学院（M.I.T）的教授，Tonegawa 博士将注意力转向了一个新课题：神经科学。在创立麻省理工学院学习与记忆中心（现为 Picower 研究所）后，他专注于理解记忆如何在大脑中存储。利用最先进的技术，他研究了海马体（大脑中负责将新信息整合进记忆的部分）及其他部位的一组被称为“印迹”（engrams）的细胞。Tonegawa 博士发现，记忆是在印迹细胞中由多种元素创建的，包括经历
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FITZGERALD—Kenyon Bailey, Jr. March 9, 1939 - July 20, 2026. 深情的丈夫、父亲、祖父及陆军退伍军人，于 20, 2026, 逝世，享年 87。出生于纽约市，1960 年毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学，担任 McAteer & FitzGerald 的负责人。他于 1961 年与 Frances Sweeney FitzGerald 结婚；她于 2015 年先他而去。居住于康涅狄格州威尔顿和纽约州特威莱特公园。遗属包括女儿 Irene Rivlin、Louise North 和 Lydia FitzGerald，以及四个孙辈。捐款可赠予纽约州海恩斯瀑布的 Memorial Church of All Angels。
ROTH—Eric M.
我们亲爱的朋友兼合伙人 Eric M. Roth 于 2026, 星期三（July 22, 2026,），在家人的陪伴下离世。Eric 在毕业于纽约大学法学院和康奈尔大学后，于 1979 年加入 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 律师事务所。
1987 年接受瑞典国王卡尔十六世古斯塔夫颁发的诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
以及对空间、时间 和物体物理特性的 感知。 在一次采访中，接替 Tonegawa 博士 担任学习与记忆中心主任的 神经科学家 Tsai Li-Huei 将这一过程比作 管弦乐团结合多种 乐器以创作出一首 音乐的方式。 在对小鼠的测试中，Tonegawa 博士 向印迹细胞提供了 新信息，从而创造出 崭新且独特的记忆。 Heiman 博士表示，这些 改变记忆的实验 最终可能通过修改 甚至抑制负面记忆， 用于治疗创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD) 以及像阿尔茨海默病这样的 退行性脑部疾病。 Tonegawa Susumu 1939 年 9 月 5 日 出生于日本名古屋， 是 Tsutomu 和 Miyoko Tonegawa 的次子。他的父亲 是一家纺织公司的工程师， 为了工作，全家经常搬家。 在京都大学，Susumu 被分子生物学所吸引。 1963 年毕业后， 他在该大学病毒研究所 Itaru Watanabe 的实验室中 工作了几个月。
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合约，并在 1984 年 成为合伙人，直到 30 多年后退休。Eric 是 我们诉讼部门的核心 成员和领导者。作为一名 才华横溢且真正不知疲倦的 律师，他在我们的一些 里程碑式案件中发挥了 关键作用，包括 IBP 诉 Tyson 案 （首例导致合并协议 具体履行 的案件）， 以及代表 Silverstein Properties 处理的 9/11 保险案件， 这些案件帮助资助了 下曼哈顿的重建。 最重要的是， Eric 是我们律所 几代年轻律师 深受信任的导师 和老师。Eric 还 致力于回馈社会，资助了 纽约大学法学院的 Eric M. 和 Laurie B. Roth 法学教授席位， 并数十年在 Mobilization for Justice 董事会任职， 该机构为弱势的 纽约人提供法律服务。 Eric 是一位献身于家庭的 丈夫、父亲和祖父， 我们的心与他结婚 50 年的妻子 Laurie， 他的孩子 Ariel 和 Jason， 以及他心爱的孙辈们 在一起，向他们表达 我们最深切的哀悼。 我们将深切地怀念他。 葬礼仪式将于 2026 年 7 月 24 日 星期五上午 9:45 在 Beth El Synagogue Center， 1324 北大道，新罗谢尔， 纽约 10804 举行。 葬礼仪式的直播链接 可见：www.bethelnr.org/ pray/beth-el-livestream/.
ROTH—Eric。 纽约 UJA 联合会 哀悼我们的 朋友 Eric Roth 的逝世， 他是 Laurie 挚爱的 丈夫， 其家族对 UJA 和犹太 社区的持续承诺 提升了我们至关重要的工作。 我们向 Laurie； 他们的孩子 Jason (Rachel) 和 Ariel Nelson (Brad)； 他们的孙辈；以及整个家庭 表示衷心的哀悼。 Suzanne F. Peck，主席； David H. Wasserman， 董事会主席； Eric S. Goldstein，首席执行官
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UNTERMAN—Caitlin。 Caitlin，35岁，原籍弗吉尼亚州格雷塔（Greta, VA），于2026年6月27日突然去世。她于1990年8月8日出生于纽约州纽约市，父母为Lee Unterman和Gail Trimmer Unterman。在毕业于弗吉尼亚州斯坦纳兹维尔（Stanardsville, VA）的William Monroe高中以及弗吉尼亚州林奇堡（Lynchburg, VA）的Randolph学院后，她从事科学教师职业。她还是一位热衷的骑马者和训练师，甚至在这一领域拥有自己的企业。Caitlin将因她的笑容与欢笑、古灵精怪且时而泼辣的个性、对动物的热爱与关怀、对朋友、家人和学生的慷慨，以及她在任教学校和马厩中强烈的工作伦理，以及她追求并能够充实生活的愿望而被人们铭记。Caitlin的遗属包括她的母亲Gail Trimmer Unterman；她的哥哥及其伴侣Matthew Unterman和Elizabeth Concra；她的继母Julie Brown；以及她的叔伯姑姑William和Glenda Trimmer以及Sidney和Karen Trimmer。她先于其父Lee Unterman及其祖父母William和Irene Trimmer以及Israel和Ruth Unterman去世。追思会和最后的告别骑行将于2026年7月25日周六下午1:00在弗吉尼亚州斯坦纳兹维尔的Grace Episcopal Church举行。请以捐款代替鲜花，捐款可通过Caitlin的GoFundMe账户、林奇堡人性协会（Lynchburg Humane Society）、皮特西尔维尼亚宠物中心（Pittsylvania Pet Center）或Hope's Legacy马匹救援组织进行。麦迪逊的Preddy殡仪馆负责相关安排。
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1946年7月24日 - 2026年7月16日。 Rima Vargas-Vetter，一位模特、舞者、编舞家、艺术家及虔诚的艺术倡导者，于2026年7月16日在法国巴黎去世，这座城市塑造了她生命中的诸多部分。她享年79岁，1946年7月24日出生于印第安纳州。Rima的职业生涯始于T台和舞台。1973年，她在传奇的“凡尔赛之战”时装秀上为Pierre Cardin走秀，这次具有里程碑意义的事件让法国顶尖高级定制设计师与一群美国年轻设计师对垒，并助力美国时尚在世界舞台上开启了新纪元。
在渡边博士（Dr. Watanabe）的建议下，他前往加州大学圣地亚哥分校学习，那里开设了新的分子生物学博士项目。他于1968年获得博士学位，随后在附近的索尔克生物研究学院（Salk Institute for Biological Studies）的Renato Dulbecco实验室从事博士后研究，后者是未来的诺贝尔医学奖得主。1971年，利根川博士（Dr. Tonegawa）前往巴塞尔免疫学研究所工作。1981年，他被Salvador E. Luria招至麻省理工学院（M.I.T.），后者曾因在病毒研究方面的贡献于1969年共享诺贝尔奖。 利根川博士的第一段婚姻（与Kyoko Sakita）以离婚告终。他于1985年与Mayumi Yoshinari结婚。后者与两个孩子Hidde和Hanna在世。第三个孩子Satto于2011年去世。 在2017年于东京举行的一次诺贝尔奖得主会议上，利根川博士被要求定义什么是创造力。“我不觉得我是一个非常有创造力的科学家。我希望我能更有创造力，”他回答道，引发一阵笑声。 “但如果你强迫我想想，”他补充道，“我可以提出三个简单的概念。1，你必须对某件事非常好奇。2，你必须有一种不可遏制的冲动去解决你提出的问题。3，我认为尝试将至少两个人们不一定会有交集的不同领域知识相结合是有帮助的。”
在同一个十年里，她的工作将她带到了巴黎，在那里她为编舞家彼得·戈斯（Peter Goss）跳舞，在摩纳哥与传奇人物约瑟芬·贝克（Josephine Baker）共舞，并与卡彭蒂尔（Carpentiers）合作，为当时尚处于起步阶段的法国电视网 2 频道（Channel 2）设计节目，在频道成立之初帮助将舞蹈带入一个全新的媒介和全新的观众面前。随后，她参加了鲍勃·福西（Bob Fosse）的里程碑式百老汇音乐剧《Dancin'》的首次全国巡演，并在福西 1979 年的电影《All That Jazz》中饰演“Rima”。她还出现在弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉（Francis Ford Coppola） 1984 年的电影《棉花俱乐部》（The Cotton Club）中。Rima 后来回到了课堂，于 1992, 年在纽约新学院（New School）获得荣誉学士学位，主修艺术史和雕塑双专业——这证明了她持久的好奇心和不断成长的动力。
毕业后，她将注意力转向绘画，在随后的多年里创作了许多水彩画布作品。随后，她多年担任纽约青年交响乐团（New York Youth Symphony）的信托员以及 Elisa Monte Dance 的董事会主席，指导该公司转型为如今广为人知的总部位于哈莱姆的舞蹈公司 Emerge125，将她一生对艺术的奉献转化为对他人的指导和支持。最重要的是，Rima 以其对爱她的人们所展现的慷慨精神而闻名。人们将记住她的创造力、她的优雅，以及她在舞台、银幕和不同大洲之间建立的丰盈而充满活力的生活。她的遗属包括陪伴她 46 年的丈夫兼伴侣保罗·乌克纳（Paul Ukena），以及众多深爱她的堂表亲、侄子和侄女。
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尽管有战争， 油价 仍将下跌
作者：JOE RENNISON
油价的短期前景日益黯淡。针对伊朗在霍尔木兹海峡的袭击，特朗普总统承诺将攻击桥梁和发电厂。在也门的受伊朗支持的胡塞武装已宣布封锁红海，以阻止沙特阿拉伯的石油出口。国内石油储备已跌至 20 世纪 80 年代初以来的最低水平。对此，国际油价在周四早些时候触及每桶 $100。
然而，投资者对未来的走向似乎并不担忧。他们继续押注于，最终与伊朗战争的此次升级将是短暂的，而近几周大幅上涨的油价将在接下来的几个月内下跌。
石油交易主要在期货市场进行，在该市场中，在未来某个日期买入或卖出大宗商品的价格是固定的。最常被引用的油价是那些最接近当前日期的价格，反映了交易者对市场的即时关注。
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新关税 填补失效缺口
作者：ANA SWANSON
华盛顿 —— 特朗普政府将于周五对来自 80 多个国家的商品征收约 10 percent 的关税，这是其旨在实施广泛保护主义政策的最新尝试，该政策此前已多次在法庭上遭到质疑。
关税范围将在 10 percent 至 12.5 percent 之间，并于周五 12:01 a.m. 起生效，取代原定于同一时间失效的 10 percent 全球关税。在最高法院推翻了特朗普先生去年征收的关税后，他在二月份发布了此前的那项关税。
此举提供了新的证据，表明特朗普先生意图改变全球贸易，尽管面临多次法庭质疑，以及不得不承担更高税单的美国消费者和企业的抗议。
在过去的 17 个月中，特朗普政府在尝试建立一套旨在保护美国经济免受……时，在各项贸易法之间轮番切换。
电动汽车中 加入苹果地图
作者：JACK EWING
福特汽车周四表示，其新型电动汽车中的驾驶辅助系统将使用 Apple Maps 软件，这将使这家科技公司在车辆运行中占据比以往更核心的地位。
许多车型中可用的 Apple CarPlay 允许驾驶员将车辆屏幕与其 iPhone 连接，从而可以使用 Apple Maps 或 Siri 等应用程序。
但与福特的协议更进一步，允许苹果软件在汽车和卡车自主运行时的导航中发挥作用。
在另一项首次尝试中，苹果和福特的工程师正在共同努力，以提高将于明年进入经销商展厅的汽车的自动驾驶能力。此前，苹果与汽车制造商倾向于分别工作。苹果软件将内置于车辆中，这意味着车主无需 iPhone 即可使用。
该自动驾驶系统——
经济 失业金申请人数回落 至 ’69 年以来最低水平
上周，首次寻求失业救济的美国人数意外下降至 1969 年 9 月以来的最低水平，这表明美国就业市场继续保持稳定，使得联邦储备委员会官员能够继续将注意力集中在遏制通货膨胀上。 根据劳工部周四公布的数据，州失业救济的首次申请人数下降了 22,000 人——这是三个月以来最大的一次下降——
航空 美国航空下调预测 归咎于喷气燃料成本
美国航空（American Airlines）周四下调了 2026 年的盈利预测，警告称喷气燃料成本的再次飙升可能导致该公司在今年尽管营收创纪录、票价上涨且旅行需求强劲的情况下，依然仅能维持盈亏平衡。 根据路透社的计算，达美航空、联合航空、美国航空、西南航空和阿拉斯加航空的综合燃料支出比去年同期高出近 $8 billion；而今年第一季度与去年同期相比，增幅约为 $1.2 billion。 美国航空目前预计全年的调整后结果将在
零售 面对预算紧张的购物者 艾伯森公司下调展望
由于这家杂货商削减了年度核心销售额和利润预测，同时加速价格投资以更好地竞争预算紧张的购物者，艾伯森（Albertsons）的股价周四大跌 24.5%，势头直指其最糟糕的一天。 较高的汽油和食品价格迫使美国家庭在消费时变得更加挑剔，并更多地在沃尔玛等大型零售商以及包括 Aldi 在内的自有品牌和折扣杂货商处购物，这损害了艾伯森及其同行地销售额。 艾伯森首席执行官苏珊·莫里斯（Susan Morris）在一份声明中表示：“由于行业单位趋势疲软以及消费者更加谨慎，核心杂货业务面临着越来越大的压力。” 莫里斯女士在财报电话会议后表示，低收入客户“最大的流失”是流向了如沃尔玛和亚马逊这类纯价格竞争者，并指出竞争对手也在加大投资以维持低价。路透社
季节性调整后 187,000 人的范围，介于每股亏损 65 美分至盈利 65 美分之间，中值点为盈亏平衡。 其之前的预测范围为每股亏损 40 美分至盈利 $1.10。根据 LSEG 的数据，分析师平均预期每股盈利 65 美分。 路透社
6 月份的失业率意外下降至一年低点 4.2%，尽管这更多是劳动力人口减少的结果，而非招聘繁荣所致。 经济学家指出，此次下降部分归因于与年度夏季临时关闭汽车工厂以重新调整明年车型生产相关的季节性特性，新申请人数在下周很可能会回升。路透社
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特斯拉、Alphabet 及油价上涨拖累华尔街
美联社报道
由于周四中东地区冲突升级，威胁到全球原油流通，布伦特原油价格飙升至 5 月以来的最高点。与此同时，华尔街两家最具影响力的公司——Alphabet 和特斯拉——股价大幅下跌，将美国股市拖入一个月来最严重的跌幅。标准普尔 500 指数下跌 1.2 百分比，并有望出现 3 月以来首次连续两周下跌。道琼斯工业平均指数下跌 506 点，或 1 百分比；纳斯达克综合指数则下跌 2.2 百分比。在油价上涨的压力下，股市下跌，因为油价上涨增加了企业的成本，并削弱了消费者的消费能力。国际基准布伦特原油的价格上涨 7 百分比，结算于 $100.69。日内曾触及 $102，这是市场上交易最活跃的布伦特合约自 5 月以来的最高价。起因是：
两艘沙特阿拉伯油轮在红海遭到袭击。这威胁到了石油公司将原油从中东运往全球客户的另一条通道，与霍尔木兹海峡同属重要路径。为了强调该海路对经济的重要性，特朗普总统威胁称，如果伊朗支持的也门胡塞武装继续袭击船只，将面临“重大军事惩罚”。就在几周前，由于人们希望战争规模缩小能完全重新开放霍尔木兹海峡，布伦特原油价格曾跌至每桶 $72 以下，大致回到了美国和以色列袭击伊朗开始战争之前的水平。油价上涨将加剧通货膨胀，而就在此时，通胀的减速程度已经超过了经济学家的预期。这反过来可能会促使美联储和其他央行提高利率，从而导致经济增速放缓，并压低股票及其他投资的价格。
欧洲央行在周四的会议上维持其主要利率不变。但交易员押注，美联储在下周会议上提高联邦基金利率的可能性为 36 百分比。根据 CME 集团的数据，这高于一周前看到的近 12 百分比的概率。
如果美联储加息，将是 2023 年以来的首次。
油价上涨将 10 年期国债收益率从周三晚间的 4.67 百分比推高至 4.70 百分比，而与伊朗战争开始前仅为 3.97 百分比。这是一个显著的增幅，并且已经使美国长期抵押贷款利率达到近一年来的最高水平。
汽油价格往往随油价上涨而上升。根据 AAA 的数据，全美普通汽油的平均价格为每加仑 $4.09。这仍低于 5 月份约 $4.56 的高点，但一个月前仅为 $3.93。
在华尔街，由于担忧成本增加，燃料支出庞大的公司股价出现剧烈下跌。
美国航空下跌 8.4 百分比，尽管该公司报告了春季大幅增长的利润
低于分析师的预期。 西南航空（Southwest Airlines）下跌了 6.2 百分比，尽管该公司报告的利润和营收也高于分析师的预期。 对美国股市造成沉重压力之一的是特斯拉（Tesla），在该公司报告最新季度的利润低于分析师预期后，其股价大跌 14.5 百分比。由于它是 S&P 500 指数中市值最大的股票之一，其股价对该指数的影响力超过了几乎所有其他股票。 少数几家规模更大的公司之一是 Alphabet，尽管这家 Google 的母公司交付了高于分析师预期的利润和营收，但其股价仍下跌了 7.1 百分比。 投资者转而关注 Alphabet 计划在人工智能投资上投入多少资金。Alphabet 提高了全年的资本支出预测，因为其上季度的投资额较去年同期翻了一番，达到近 $45 亿。 首席执行官 Sundar Pichai 表示，人工智能帮助其云业务营收增长在上一季度加速至 82 百分比，但人们仍然担心投入到人工智能中的所有资金是否能在生产力和利润方面获得回报。
2个月来 最高水平： 每桶 $100
近期价格回升 反映出交易员对 战争日益增长的担忧。
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由于美国与伊朗之间不断扩大的战争抑制了中东地区的能源流动，全球油价在周四首次触及每桶 $100，这是自5月以来的最高点。
过去几周布伦特原油的价格回升，反映了市场对冲突扩大的担忧，目前的冲突范围已从波斯湾延伸至红海。这两条航道对于全球能源贸易都至关重要。
胡塞武装威胁要阻止船只往返于红海的沙特阿拉伯港口，这使得该地区的航行变得复杂。此前，该地区一直被视为霍尔木兹海峡的替代方案，而伊朗和美国正在霍尔木兹海峡争夺控制权。
周三，也门境内受伊朗支持的组织胡塞武装声称，他们使用导弹和无人机袭击了两艘沙特油轮。
如果胡塞武装成功阻止沙特阿拉伯使用红海，他们将切断全球约 4% 的石油供应，并使沙特阿拉伯这一全球最大产油国之一几乎无法进入全球市场。
“冲突已进入一个明显更加危险的阶段，”RBC资本市场（RBC Capital Markets）的分析师在周三写道。尽管油价在近几周大幅上涨，但“我们仍将其视为该地区压力极速积聚的滞后指标，”他们补充道，并预测一场“全面的地区战争”可能会将油价推向每桶 $150。
自战争开始以来布伦特原油价格的涨幅。美国油价也处于类似的轨迹上。
根据AAA的数据，截至周四，美国普通汽油的全国平均价格为每加仑 $4.09。
布伦特原油价格目前比战前高出近 40%。（美国油价约为每桶 $91，呈类似轨迹。）更昂贵的石油将进一步推高全球加油站的价格，对于已经面临汽油和柴油价格居高不下的驾驶员来说，这是个糟糕的消息。即便在6月份油价有所回落、一度低于战前水平时，这些交通燃料的价格依然处于高位。当时有更多石油通过霍尔木兹海峡流动，但可将原油转化为汽车和飞机燃料的炼油厂数量却减少了。这部分是因为与伊朗的战争，部分是因为乌克兰对俄罗斯炼油厂造成了重大破坏——严重到俄罗斯在7月初禁止柴油出口以维持国内供应。
根据AAA汽车俱乐部的资料，周四美国每加仑普通汽油的价格比战前高出 37%，全国平均价为每加仑 $4.09。柴油价格比2月份美以袭击伊朗开始时高出 39%。
目前仍在运行的炼油厂正获得巨额回报。根据大宗商品研究公司Argus Media的数据，在美国，将原油加工成汽油和柴油的利润率接近多年最高点。
国际能源署执行主任法提赫·比罗尔（Fatih Birol）本周表示，红海航运受到的威胁，加上美国与伊朗在波斯湾附近持续的战斗，正加剧人们对石油供应前景的担忧。比罗尔先生说：“要避免全球能源安全进一步恶化，必须达成一项包含完全且无条件重新开放霍尔木兹海峡的方案，以解决当前的冲突。”
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布伦特原油（国际石油基准）的当前期货合约本月上涨了近 40 百分比，达到每桶 $100。这是一个巨大的波动，逆转了 3 月份因战争引发的初步飙升之后的大部分价格下跌。
但若进一步审视今年剩余时间布伦特原油的预期价格，则会发现对当前敌对行动的反应较为温和。12 月的预期价格在同一时期上涨幅度不足 20 百分比，约为每桶 $86。
这包括周四的一次剧烈上涨，当时由于美国和 伊朗 之间的局势进一步升级，当前期货合约上涨了 6 百分比以上。而 12 月的价格仅上涨了 2.4 百分比。
投资者和分析师表示，当前市场价格与今年晚些时候价格之间的差异，反映出一种预期，即当前的战斗——以及由此导致的石油离开该地区的封锁——将不会持久。
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外国竞争。这些关税将根据 1974 年《贸易法》的第 301 条发布，该条款允许总统对从事不合理或歧视性贸易实践的国家征收关税。政府方面援引了外国未能通过或执行禁止强迫劳动产品进入本国的法律，称这使遵循此类法律的美国企业处于不利地位。加拿大在这一安排下将被征收 10 percent 的关税，而该国已经禁止进口强迫劳动商品。欧盟同样被征收 10 percent，其禁令计划于 2027. 12月生效。但特朗普政府官员表示，这些政府并未有效执行这些法律。美国可以说拥有任何国家中最严格的强迫劳动进口限制。近一个世纪以来，美国一直禁止进口由奴隶劳动制造的商品，尽管它仍然允许在劳工组织认为具有强制性的条件下使用监狱劳工。2021, 美国通过了一项法律，禁止从中国一个被发现强迫劳动猖獗的地区进口商品。一名高级政府官员表示，特朗普政府在之前的贸易谈判中还促使加拿大和墨西哥采取禁止强迫劳动进口产品的措施，且在过去一年协商的贸易协议中，另有 10 个国家承诺实施禁令。但批评者表示，美国的劳工保护也存在缺陷。有些人则认为，政府利用强迫劳动仅仅是为了重新实施被最高法院推翻的关税的最便捷手段。乔治城大学法学院客座学者、前拜登政府官员彼得·哈雷尔（Peter Harrell）表示，加拿大和欧盟与中国之间较小的关税差距“恰恰证明了美国贸易代表办公室（USTR）正将这项强迫劳动调查作为借口，来实施特朗普总统基于其自身经济理论和偏好而想要强加的关税”。他补充道：“这其实与强迫劳动无关。”尽管美国贸易代表杰米森·格里尔（Jamieson Greer）和其他美国官员在公开场合表示，他们不能预判贸易调查的结果，但知情人士称，政府官员在私下向多个外国政府保证，他们的关税税率最终将与去年谈判的协议相同。“特朗普的下一个贸易计划是命令 USTR 在解决强迫劳动的掩护下，重建其违法的全球关税，”来自俄勒冈州的民主党参议员罗恩·怀登（Ron Wyden）在周三的一次国会听证会上地表示。“如果政府想认真对待强迫劳动，第一步应该是审视其自身的执行记录。”新关税将豁免石油和天然气及某些国家资源，以及已涵盖在《美国-墨西哥-加拿大协定》下的商品，或特朗普先生对汽车、钢铁和其他商品征收的国家安全相关关税。未来几周可能会有更多关税出台。
“如果可以避免的话，他们不希望这件事变得过于夸张，”花旗银行股票交易策略主管斯图尔特·凯泽（Stuart Kai-ser）表示。 即便如此，本月原油价格的上涨幅度也略高于战争期间上涨幅度的一半。
始于2月下旬。当时，价格上涨了 60 多个百分点，并在3月底达到峰值。分析师和投资者认为，低石油库存和中期选举可能会促使特朗普总统政府尝试缓解紧张局势，就像在4月份所做的那样。 然而，如果投资者开始认为战争已经失控且无法降级，石油期货合约可能会再次大幅上涨。 目前，远期石油价格保持较为温和的事实，有助于股票投资者
[[IMG_XXXX]] 周一，卡车在密歇根州休伦港等待从安大略省进入美国。特朗普总统本周对加拿大进口商品征收了新关税。
政府已提议对 15 个国家和欧盟实施另一批关税，同样使用了 301, 条款，以抵消白宫所称的其制造业部门的不公平行为。一名政府官员周四表示，调查仍在继续。特朗普总统长期以来一直坚持认为，美国对进口商品的关税过低，他在就任时就希望改变这一体系。但他的努力遇到了许多停顿、重启和挫折，这反映出总统在关税政策上的法律权力在某些方面是有限的。宪法赋予国会监管贸易的权力，但立法者制定了众多法律，允许总统在某些情况下发布关税。但通常，这些法律旨在帮助总统应对某些国家或行业的贸易不公平行为，而不是整体取代美国的关税体系。哈雷尔先生表示，特朗普总统对 301 条款的使用远比该法令意图的范围要广，而且很可能会在法庭上受到挑战。他表示，虽然 301 条款本应被用来创造筹码以促使一个国家解决不公平贸易行为，但“特朗普正在重新解释该法令，试图对几乎所有进口商品征收永久性关税”。他补充道：“他们正表明在关税问题上，他们可以跑得比法院快，他们将迫使法院不断地在后面追赶。”最高法院在2月份宣布了特朗普总统偏好的法律工具无效，当时法院称他使用国际紧急法征收关税是非法的，并下令退还约 $160 billion 的关税收入。特朗普总统去年曾使用该紧急法宣布对外国实施“解放日”关税，并惩罚加拿大、墨西哥和中国在将芬太尼运往美国过程中所起到的真实或所谓的作用。在最高法院裁决后，特朗普总统转向 1974 年《贸易法》第 122 条作为
[[IMG_XXXX]] 德克萨斯州的一个抽油机和钻井平台。较为温和的远期石油价格帮助投资者保持乐观。
也保持乐观。他们继续将注意力集中在市场中更积极的趋势上，例如新一轮的季度财务业绩显示上市公司持续强劲增长，尤其是那些与人工智能建设相关的公司。 “归根结底，唯一的
临时替代方案，该法律此前从未被用于征收关税。第 122 条允许总统通过征收关税来解决国际收支问题，但它有 150 天的时间限制，将于周五早些时候到期。 特朗普总统对第 122 条的使用也面临法律挑战。一群小企业和一个州联盟分别起诉了政府，声称政府未满足该法律的严格标准。5月，联邦贸易法院的大多数法官表示同意，判定了针对特朗普总统的第二次重大关税失败。 政府对该裁决提出了上诉，且法院已允许政府继续征收 10 percent 的税收
“真正对投资者产生影响的将是收益结果如何展开，”Cboe Global Markets 零售扩张与替代投资产品负责人 JJ Kinahan 表示。 自战争开始以来，标准普尔 500 指数已上涨约 8 percent，收复了 3 月份的初始跌幅，并攀升至历史最高点。
随着上诉程序的推进，进口情况将受到影响。政府接下来的手段是 301, 条款，该条款经过了更多实战检验。特朗普总统在第一任期内曾利用该条款对中国征收关税，且其应用方式已在多次法院挑战中幸存。但该条款此前从未被如此广泛地使用，即同时对数十个国家征收关税。
本周早些时候，政府还转向了另一项晦涩的贸易法，当时特朗普总统签署命令，对价值数十亿美元的加拿大出口商品征收 50 percent 的关税。这部法律是 1930, 年的《关税法》（Tariff Act of 1930），也被称为《斯穆特-霍利关税法》（Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act），由国会制定，旨在大萧条开始期间保护美国企业，
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尽管最近几周对与伊朗战争的担忧再次加剧，但一些投资者表示，他们注意到许多人由于担心错过潜在收益而厌恶抛售股票。 “贪婪是股市中一股强大的力量，”Tallbacken Capital 创始人 Michael Purves 说道。
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尽管许多历史学家认为该法案实际上加深了危机。政府所使用的该法案中 338 条款此前从未被用于征收关税。 周三在国会作证时，格里尔（Mr. Greer）先生表示，无论采取何种法律手段，政府仍坚持征收关税。 “本届政府所使用的具体权限已经改变，但贸易战略没有改变，”格里尔先生说。“我们致力于继续使用关税并谈判协议，以支持我们经济的再工业化，保护美国工人并提高其工资，以及缩小我们的贸易逆差。”
Tony Romm 参与了报道。
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人工智能。谷歌推出了 AI 模式，该模式将超链接的搜索结果替换为由其 AI 聊天机器人 Gemini 编写的对话式回答。最近，谷歌首次在 25 年中对其标志性的搜索框进行了更改，以便用户在查询中添加照片和视频，并指派 AI “智能体”为其执行搜索。这些举措的效果正变得清晰：人们在谷歌上花费的时间比以往任何时候都多。
谷歌在五月的开发者大会上表示，用户编写的查询长度是他们向传统搜索提出的关键词密集型问题的三倍。根据《纽约时报》统计的三项研究人员研究显示，人们在 AI 模式下花费的时间比在传统谷歌搜索中多出 1 到 9 分钟。一份来自专注于搜索和营销的时事通讯 Growth Memo 十月份的研究发现，在约 75 比例的会话中，用户从未离开 AI 模式进入网络。
对于依赖谷歌将其数十亿用户引导至其网站的出版商、企业、银行及其他机构而言，随着该公司日益将...
会话中，用户 从未离开 AI 模式。
将 A.I. 整合进搜索。他们表示，谷歌的 用户在搜索后不再离开 谷歌，而只是阅读其 A.I. 生成的答- 案，这意味着 来到他们网站的人数减少，搜索流量 有所下降。 技术 网站 The Verge 的总编辑 Nilay Patel 多年来一直警告出版商， 他们将面临“谷歌零点”（Google Zero），即谷歌带来的 流量骤减至零的时刻。 “对于出版商来说，谷歌零点 已经到来了，”他说。“直到 AI 模式出现，人们才 意识到这种缓慢的侵蚀即将达到一个临界点。” 这些变化威胁到了开放的网络，并表明 A.I. 如此迅速地颠覆了技术格局。被公认为 在 1989 年发明万维网的计算机科学家 Tim Berners-Lee 曾设想，网络将成为一种 无国界的全球协作工具，人们可以 创建自己的网站，并在他人创建的 站点之间自由穿梭。 多年来，这一愿景的大部分已被 逐渐削弱，因为像苹果（Apple）和 Meta 这样的科技巨头创建了“围墙花园”，或 名为技术生态系统的环境，用户 可以在其中一站式获取几乎所有 所需内容。现在 A.I. 毫无疑问地加速了 这一趋势，Berners-Lee 先生在
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一篇 2024 年的论文。伯纳斯-李先生写道，科技公司建立的帝国将用户锁定在其中，且专注于最大化利润而非增强公共效用。“人工智能的飞速发展加剧了这些担忧，”他补充道，“证明了网络上的问题并非孤立存在，而是与新兴技术深度交织在一起。”
谷歌否认其正在危及开放网络。在去年 8 月的一篇博客文章中，搜索部门副总裁利兹·里德（Liz Reid）表示，公司的理念没有改变，且发送的点击量仍保持在数十亿次的“相对稳定”水平。她表示，关于搜索流量下降的报告是“不准确的”，且依赖于“有缺陷的方法论”。
“我们非常关注——或许比任何其他公司都更关注——网络生态系统的健康，”里德女士说。
自发布该博客文章以来，谷歌在搜索中加入了更多人工智能。它还创建了一些旨在将用户从 AI 模式推向更广阔网络的功能，包括在某些回答中提供网站预览，以及一个允许用户设置“首选来源”的工具，以便人工智能更频繁地引用他们喜爱的新闻机构。该公司还创建了一个个人资料页面，帮助出版商和创作者在搜索中推广其作品。
“谷歌的 AI 搜索功能每周向网络发送数十亿次点击，在满足人们对获取信息方式不断演变的偏好的同时，为网站带来大量流量，”一名谷歌发言人在一份声明中表示，并补充说公司的 AI 功能突出了指向网络的链接。他表示，那项发现用户 75 Percent 的时间停留在 AI 模式的研究是有缺陷的，因为它依赖于较小的样本量，并且给用户布置了不能反映正常用户行为的特定任务。
即便如此，根据内容分发网络公司 Cloudflare 的说法，越来越多的搜索正由 AI 聊天机器人完成，而访问网站的人数正在下降。过去，人们可能会通过谷歌搜索一名足球运动员在世界杯上的表现，然后点击进入体育网站或社交媒体帖子查看评论；而现在，机器人会爬取网络获取该信息，并将运动员的统计数据返回给用户，而用户则留在谷歌页面上。
Cloudflare 表示，目前总共有超过 50 Percent 的网络流量是非人类流量。它补充道，在 2025 年 6 月至 2026, 年 4 月期间，金融、出版和零售等行业企业的网站人类流量下降了近 40 Percent。
Cloudflare 表示，网络的根本经济模式已经改变，如果任其不管，像谷歌这样聊天机器人风格的搜索工具可能会使开放网络陷入危险。
谷歌的 AI 以及其他热门聊天机器人已经冲击了维基百科。维基媒体基金会表示，过去一年其网站的人类访问者下降了 8 Percent。与此同时，它发现抓取其网站数据以训练 AI 模型的机器人有所增加。
“我的工作是确保人们不会因为谷歌的用户界面改变而忘记我们，”维基媒体基金会首席产品和技术官塞琳娜·德克尔曼（Selena Deckelmann）说。她表示，维基百科已经开始推广自己的应用程序和社交媒体渠道，以便在谷歌生态系统之外与读者建立联系。它还开始向谷歌和其他 AI 公司收取访问其训练数据的费用。
上个月，英国竞争与市场管理局要求谷歌更改其在英国的 AI 搜索工具，以解决出版商的担忧。该监管机构表示
Google 必须在聊天机器人的回答中包含清晰的链接以标注内容来源，此举旨在帮助将流量导向相关网站。该公司还被要求允许网站运营者选择退出（opt out）将其内容显示在 A.I. 摘要中，并将在全球搜索范围内实施这些变更。对于一些开放网络的支持者来说，人们能够离开 Google 生态系统这一事实就足够了。但这对于一些网站运营者来说几乎没有安慰作用。今年 5 月，拥有 The Verge 的 Vox Media 开始出售其部分网站。Vox Media 的首席执行官吉姆·班考夫（Jim Bankoff）表示，“搜索流量的骤减”影响了他的决定。帕特尔（Mr. Patel）先生表示，Google 经常声称其正在“发送更多流量，且网络规模比以往任何时候都更大”。“而紧接着这件事的，就是一群业务正被摧毁的出版商。”
一张 Google 在时代广场投放的广告，该公司于周三公布了其财务业绩。其母公司 Alphabet 表示，在 A.I. 方面的投资正在获得回报。
作者：KATE CONGER
旧金山 —— Google 的母公司 Alphabet 周三表示，在人们广泛质疑科技公司对这项强大技术的巨额投入是否合理之际，其在人工智能领域的投资正获得回报，并推动其各项业务的增长。
这家硅谷巨头投入了数十亿美元来开发前沿的人工智能模型，并建设为该技术提供算力的数据中心。该公司表示，截至 6 月的三个月内，其营收总额为 $119.8，同比增长 24。
特别是，Google 的云业务（允许公司租赁算力及人工智能工具）激增 82，达到 $24.8。
利润增长至 $112.1，是去年同期 $28.2 的四倍。这主要得益于 Google 近年对 SpaceX 和 Anthropic 等其他人工智能相关公司的大规模投资。Google 表示，与这些投资相关的收益估值约为 $99，并为总利润贡献了 $77，尤其是 SpaceX 在 6 月上市之后。
Google 还表示，在建设数据中心和其他人工智能开发技术方面的支出将高于此前的预测。它估计，该项支出将达到 $195 至 $205
因其搜索引擎实践
作者：ADAM SATARIANO 和 JEANNA SMIALEK
伦敦 —— 欧洲联盟监管机构周四对谷歌处以 $1 billion 的罚款，理由是其利用搜索引擎的主导地位非法削弱竞争。这一决定可能会加剧跨大西洋的贸易紧张局势。
特朗普总统曾威胁要报复欧盟，因为在他看来，欧盟在不公平地针对美国科技公司。
在欧盟和其他主要贸易伙伴被考虑征收新一轮关税之际，谷歌的这项裁决出台了。
布鲁塞尔的监管机构在解释周四这笔 890 million 欧元的罚款时表示，谷歌利用其作为全球最大搜索引擎的地位，不公平地提升了其在购物、旅游、游戏和语言翻译等领域的服务。监管机构称，谷歌将其自有服务更显著地显示在搜索结果顶部，而将竞争服务排在较低位置。
负责此次调查的欧盟委员会还得出结论，这家科技巨头在其 Google Play 应用商店中采用了不公平的限制，阻止应用开发者与用户沟通，或进行可能降低谷歌可收取费用的交易。
作为欧洲联盟的执行机构，该委员会表示，谷歌违反了《数字市场法》（Digital Markets Act，简称 D.M.A.）。该法案于 2022 年通过，旨在阻止最大的科技平台利用其相互关联的服务将用户锁定在内部并挤出竞争对手。
当局认为，最大的科技公司在互联网搜索、智能手机、电子商务和社交媒体等领域已变得如此强势，以至于它们充当了看门人的角色并阻碍了——
今年达到了 $1，是去年 $85 的两倍多，且高于此前 $190 的预测。
“我们的人工智能投资正在重新定义我们业务每个部分的可能性，”Alphabet 首席执行官 Sundar Pichai 在一份声明中表示。
该结果超过了华尔街对 $116.5 营收和 $35 利润的预测。
随着人工智能技术改变工作、职场以及公司自身的互联网搜索业务，谷歌一直致力于在人工智能领域保持领先。为了与 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 等竞争对手竞争，谷歌在 6 月份表示，它将通过出售股票筹集 $80 资金以资助其数据中心项目，随后在周三上调了整体支出预测。
有些人质疑这种支出是否过高。上周，股市下跌，原因是人们担心来自中国的人工智能竞争在增加。此前，一家名为 Moonshot AI 的中国初创公司发布了一项人工智能技术，其功能几乎与 Anthropic 领先的美国模型 Claude Fable 5 一样强大。
到目前为止，人工智能一直是谷歌业务的助力。该公司将人工智能融入搜索，其 Gemini 聊天机器人可以生成答案，用户还可以指派人工智能“代理”或机器人代表他们进行持续搜索。YouTube 上的广告主拥有新的人工智能工具，而观众则拥有人工智能——
决定其他企业的命运，并可能损害竞争。
“最好的产品应该因为其更优秀而获胜，而不是因为它们被运行搜索引擎的公司所拥有，”欧盟委员会负责竞争政策的执行副主席特蕾莎·里贝拉（Teresa Ribera）在周四的一份声明中表示。“这就是《数字市场法案》（D.M.A.）的承诺，即为了所有欧洲公民的利益，在数字市场中保护公平、选择和创新。”
谷歌有 60 天的时间来遵守这一决定，包括提高竞争对手在线服务的显著程度，否则将面临高达其全球营收 5 ％的进一步处罚。
在过去十年中，该公司一直是欧盟监管机构的频繁目标，自 2017. 年以来已被罚款超过 €10 billion。谷歌首席法律顾问肯特·沃克（Kent Walker）表示，周四的决定将要求对产品设计进行更改，这将损害欧洲用户的服务。
“这不是公平竞争；这是产品降级，”他说道。“监管应该改善产品，而不是使其变得更糟。”
与谷歌的整体业务相比，这笔罚款规模很小。周三，谷歌的母公司 Alphabet 报告季度利润为 $112.1 billion，这得益于对 SpaceX 和 Anthropic 的投资。
美国贸易代表詹米森·格里尔（Jamieson Greer）批评了欧盟的决定，称其为“针对美国科技公司日益激进做法的最新举措”。他表示，这些行动危及了“大西洋两岸贸易稳定性的延续”。
预计白宫将于周五宣布对欧盟贸易征收新关税。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 监管机构表示，谷歌通过展示策略不公平地提升了其自有服务的地位。
经过精心挑选的视频推荐。 同时，各家公司都在争相使用谷歌的云计算服务来运行其人工智能（A.I.）项目。
摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）分析师布莱恩·诺瓦克（Brian Nowak）表示，谷歌是“目前定位最好的 A.I. 公司之一”。
对谷歌 A.I. 服务的需求如此之大，以至于该公司无法跟上进度。谷歌表示，其云业务的潜在合同积压额总计 $514 billion，高于一年前的 $106 billion。
谷歌表示，这些增长与 A.I. 相关投资有关。
谷歌首席财务官阿纳特·阿什肯纳齐（Anat Ashkenazi）表示，这些积压合同中的一半以上将在未来两年内处理完毕。
由于用户大量涌向 YouTube 和搜索，谷歌广告业务在本季度的营收增长 14.4 ％，达到 $81.6 billion。
今年 5 月，该公司扩展了其在搜索领域的人工智能产品，在 25 年来首次对其标志性的搜索栏进行了彻底改造，引入了新的 A.I. 工具，并增加了让用户将连续搜索任务分配给 A.I. 智能体的功能，这些智能体可以自主行动，发挥数字个人助理的作用。该公司表示，A.I. 的注入吸引了用户，其 A.I.
以及其他国家。 一名欧盟官员表示，周四宣布这项罚款是因为该方案已经准备就绪——并未考虑美国的贸易进展——且特朗普政府对此不会感到惊讶。 自从重返白宫的最早日子起，特朗普先生就警告称，将对针对美国科技公司的监管采取“响应性行动”。 上个月，特朗普先生威胁要对针对美国公司征收数字服务税的国家征收关税。12月，美国贸易代表办公室表示，包括瑞典音乐服务公司 Spotify、德国工业巨头西门子（Siemens）和法国人工智能开发商 Mistral 在内的欧洲公司可能会成为收费或新限制的目标。 美国监管机构也将目标对准了谷歌。去年，作为一项具有里程碑意义的垄断案件的一部分，该公司被命令与竞争公司共享搜索结果和部分数据，该案件与周四布鲁塞尔的裁决有某些相似之处。 长期以来，欧盟一直是全球在
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以聊天机器人风格的搜索功能，每月活跃用户数达到10亿。 谷歌的订阅业务（包括支付 YouTube 服务费用以及支付谷歌人工智能使用费的用户）增长了 15 百分比，达到 $12.9 billion。谷歌表示，该公司的旗舰人工智能应用 Gemini 的每月活跃用户数达到了 950 million，且日活跃用户在过去一年中增长了三倍。 该公司还表示，世界杯足球赛也助力了搜索和 YouTube，搜索在赛事期间达到了有史以来的最高使用量，且有 1.7 billion 人在 YouTube 上观看与世界杯相关的剪辑。“这充分凸显了人们在重要时刻多么依赖谷歌，”皮查伊（Pichai）先生说。 周二，谷歌推出了三款人工智能模型，旨在比之前的版本更高效且成本更低。该公司的旗舰模型 Gemini 3.5 Pro 原定于 6 月发布，但尚未提供。皮查伊先生表示，Pro 模型仍处于测试阶段，且公司还在测试另一款模型，Gemini 4。 他承认谷歌的模型落后于竞争对手，尤其是在编程任务方面，但他表示预计 Gemini 4 将帮助公司提高竞争力。 “在许多属性上，我们仍然处于前沿，”皮查伊先生说。
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数据隐私、竞争和有害在线内容等领域最为激进。 尽管该地区的领导人已采取措施放宽人工智能和其他技术的规则以促进经济增长，但该集团仍推进了对该行业一些最大公司的调查和处罚。 本月，欧盟监管机构命令谷歌取消限制竞争人工智能公司接触安卓智能手机用户的规定。Meta 本月被告知要对 Instagram 和 Facebook 进行重大设计更改，以降低这些服务的成瘾性。 欧洲监管机构还将目标对准了中国公司。阿里巴巴旗下的 AliExpress 上周因在其平台上销售非法、不安全和假冒产品而被罚款相当于 $629 million。2 月，字节跳动旗下的 TikTok 被告知要进行更改，以降低其服务的成瘾性。 欧盟还在考虑一项禁止青少年使用社交媒体的法律。
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福特公司正在设计一套控制汽车转向、制动以及应对交通状况的系统。但该系统将使用苹果软件来识别互通立交、入匝道、出匝道及其他公路特征的位置，并实现从一个地点到另一个地点的导航。目前的福特车辆拥有自己的导航系统。
“苹果地图将内置在车辆中，因此您无需支付任何额外费用，”福特首席执行官吉姆·法利（Jim Farley）在一次采访中表示。“这是福特最重要的公告之一，”他补充道。
许多汽车制造商一直不愿与苹果和谷歌等科技公司过于密切地合作，担心会将收入以及与客户的关系交给财力远超自身的公司。苹果 $4.8 万亿美元的股市估值令福特 $58 十亿美元的估值相形见绌。
许多较新的汽车公司（如特斯拉和 Rivian）从未允许其客户在车内使用 CarPlay 或谷歌的对应产品 Android Auto。特斯拉和 Rivian 开发了自己的软件系统，允许用户下载由其他公司制作的某些应用程序。一些传统汽车制造商的高管计划效仿这一模式。
通用汽车（General Motors）表示，计划在所有新车中用通用软件取代 CarPlay。车辆仍将能访问来自苹果、谷歌及其他公司的某些应用程序，但汽车制造商将控制操作系统。
但传统汽车制造商在设计自己的软件方面一直举步维艰，而软件已成为汽车设计中日益关键的组成部分。中国汽车制造商一直在不断增长——
尽管汽车销量有所回升
作者：JACK EWING
特斯拉周三报告季度利润下降，原因是该公司销售了更多电动汽车，但每笔销售赚取的资金减少。特斯拉表示，第二季度净利润为 $1.1 十亿美元，而一年前为 $1.2 十亿美元。销售额大幅增长至 $28.2 十亿美元，而此前为 $22.5 十亿美元。根据该公司汇总的预测，分析师此前预计销售额为 $27.6 十亿美元，利润为 $1.3 十亿美元。
特斯拉还报告称，由于将资金投入到尚未产生显著收入的新技术（如自动驾驶出租车）中，运营支出和资本支出大幅增加。特斯拉还投资建设用于生产电池、半挂卡车和其他产品的工厂。
近期极少有汽车制造商报告利润大幅增长。整体销售增长缓慢，部分原因是关税和伊朗战争，且传统制造商正努力与快速增长的中国公司（如比亚迪和吉利汽车）竞争，后者正向欧洲、拉丁美洲和许多亚洲国家推进。
通用汽车周二表示，其第二季度利润较一年前下降 30%，至
特斯拉的股票市值，也是所有汽车制造商中最高的。
$1.3 billion，尽管该公司表示每辆车的收益更高。 特斯拉本月报告称，汽车销量高于分析师预期，这主要是因为欧洲市场的增长弥补了美国市场的下滑。 这本应是利润增长的好兆头。但由于特斯拉削减了价格，提供更便宜版本的 Model Y 和 Model 3 车型以及折扣利率的汽车贷款，其影响被削弱了。 汽车销售占特斯拉收入的 70% 以上，但投资者更关注该公司开发自动驾驶出租车和类人机器人的努力。特斯拉 $1.2 trillion 的股票市值是其他任何汽车制造商价值的许多倍，其基础在于这些产品的成功。 有迹象表明，在特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克未能兑现关于 Robotaxi 服务现已广泛部署的承诺后，投资者正失去耐心。该公司在德克萨斯州、加利福尼亚州和佛罗里达州运营的出租车数量相对较少，且其中一些车辆仍由特斯拉员工或承包商在驾驶座上操控。根据监管网约车服务的加利福尼亚州公共事业委员会，特斯拉在加利福尼亚州没有提供完全自动驾驶付费乘车服务的许可。根据车辆管理局，特斯拉在德克萨斯州获准运营 69 辆自动驾驶出租车。谷歌母公司 Alphabet 旗下的 Waymo 在包括亚特兰大、休斯顿和洛杉矶在内的 11 个美国城市提供无人驾驶出租车服务。Waymo 在德克萨斯州拥有 628 辆自动驾驶车辆的许可证。“其措辞听起来像是他们在开拓这项业务，”弗吉尼亚大学达顿商学院代理院长迈克尔·莱诺克斯在谈到特斯拉时表示。“但他们远落后于 Waymo。” 今年特斯拉股价下跌了 14%，而纳斯达克综合指数则上涨了 11%。“人们肯定被 Robotaxi 推广缓慢的问题所困扰，” RBC 资本市场首席汽车分析师汤姆·纳拉扬表示。但他补充说，许多投资者希望特斯拉谨慎行事。如果该公司在无需重大硬件升级的情况下完善该技术，道路上已有数百万辆特斯拉将能够作为自动驾驶出租车运行，从而使公司快速超越竞争对手。“也许最初的推广速度较慢，”纳拉扬先生说。“但如果成功了，理论上任何一辆特斯拉都可以成为 Robotaxi。” 在周三讨论公司财务业绩的电话会议中，马斯克先生承认，发生一起事故将是对其 Robotaxi 雄心的严重打击。“如果我们哪怕伤到一个人，都会成为全球头条新闻，”他说道。尽管人们对特斯拉自动驾驶技术的安全性存疑，但（车辆）数量
苹果公司和福特公司的工程师正在合作提高汽车的自动驾驶能力，预计这些汽车将于明年进入经销商展厅。
分析师表示，这些车辆在欧洲和亚洲迅速增长，部分原因是其车载软件更容易使用且功能更强。最成功的中国汽车制造商之一是小米，该公司凭借智能手机成名。 福特公司越来越多地转向合作伙伴关系，以降低成本并加快新车开发速度。该公司周四表示，它将组建一个
付费使用特斯拉驾驶辅助系统的车主人数增加了 50% 以上，达到 1.5 million。在美国，该软件的订阅费用为每月 $99。特斯拉的财务表现也受到了预期的影响，即马斯克先生将尝试把这家汽车制造商与他控制的火箭公司 SpaceX 进行合并，后者近期完成了首次公开募股。马斯克先生回避了关于该话题的问题。他在提到特斯拉和 SpaceX 已经在人工智能和卫星互联网等领域开展合作的同时表示：“我们不能在业绩电话会议上讨论公司合并的事宜。”
与中国汽车制造商吉利汽车（Geely Auto）成立合资企业，在西班牙瓦伦西亚的一家福特工厂生产几款新车型。 两家公司将共同开发一款福特混合动力车型，并于 2028 年起在该工厂生产。福特还将在那里生产新款 Bronco 运动型多用途车，而吉利将制造两款新电动车型。
作者：BENJAMIN MULLIN
纽约广受欢迎的 PBS 频道 Thirteen 的母公司 WNET 集团周四表示，其下一任首席执行官将由 CNN 和 ABC 新闻的资深人士 Edward O’Keefe 担任。
48 岁的 O’Keefe 先生将于 9 月上任。在一次采访中，他表示 WNET（是《自然》、《阿曼普尔公司》和《伟大演出》等节目的制作方）将尝试新兴的叙事形式以及艺术、文化和儿童节目等热门主题领域。
O’Keefe 先生表示，作为一家公共媒体机构，“WNET 既不受制于面临挑战的广播模式，也不受华尔街对无尽增长欲望的驱动。” “WNET 可以自由地专注于真正重要的事情：故事，以及无论身在何处都渴望听到这些故事的观众。”
由于国会去年决定取消 50000 万美元（$500 million）的年度联邦资助，公共广播行业已陷入动荡，这使得各台经理和高管们
作者：DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY
一项全面的加密货币法案将在今年夏天在参议院迎来最终投票，得到了共和党人和部分民主党人的支持——并得到了一个投入数千万美元来塑造该法案的行业的支持。
但最近出现了一个主要的僵持点：特朗普总统在六月份披露的 $1.4 billion 加密货币收入，这是在他家族的加密业务网络经历了一年惊人的赚钱之后披露的。
现在，随着这项被称为《透明度法案》（Clarity Act）的里程碑式立法接近通过，参议院民主党人正在推动在法案中加入严格的措辞，以禁止公职人员出售数字货币。周三，共和党参议员发布了该法案的新草案，其中包含了一部分此类限制，包括将总统和其他美国官员发行或赞助加密货币定为违法的措辞。
民主党人和进步派倡导团体立即予以反击，认为该草案在阻止特朗普先生利用加密货币中饱私囊方面做得还不够。随着中期选举临近，这场辩论威胁要吞噬《透明度法案》，显示出特朗普先生的加密货币交易如何在华盛顿引起连锁反应。
贸易团体数字商会（Digital Chamber）的首席执行官科迪·卡博内（Cody Carbone）表示，伦理问题已“成为该法案能否获得两党支持的关键”。“民主党人已将其视为他们最重要的议题。”
福特公司在欧洲的销量有所下降，部分原因是它没有能吸引欧洲消费者的车型。根据欧洲汽车制造商协会的数据，福特公司六月份在欧盟的市场份额为 2.5%，低于一年前的 3.1%。
福特是第一家同意使用苹果公司产品的主要汽车制造商。
爱德华·奥基夫（Edward O’Keefe）曾领导西奥多·罗斯福总统图书馆。
……正急于筹集资金。 WNET 集团避免了最糟糕的情况，并维持了其 $270 million 捐赠基金。但为了弥补 $12 million 预算缺口，该公司在去年秋天裁减了一些员工。 奥基夫先生最大的优先事项之一将是研究如何……
通过《透明度法案》是加密货币行业的首要任务。在拜登政府期间，证券交易委员会开展了针对加密货币公司的激进执法行动，提起诉讼并主张数字货币应像股票和债券一样受到监管。特朗普政府扭转了方向，撤销了几乎所有这些诉讼。
该法案去年在众议院通过，将有效地把这一政策立场法律化，以便加密货币公司可以在美国自由运营，而无需担心未来政府的监管打击。
民主党人几个月来一直对该法案表示担忧，指出这将把行业监管权交给一个人员不足且执法能力有限的联邦机构。
但没有任何问题比特朗普先生的加密货币投机更受关注。上个月，总统发布了强制性财务披露报告，显示他在第二任期的第一年内赚了超过 $2 billion，其中大部分来自加密货币。
这些收益是以普通投资者的损失为代价的，他们在购买了特朗普先生所谓的“模因币”（meme-coin，一种以波动性著称的新奇加密货币）后，总共损失了 $3.8 billion。
据民主党工作人员和行业专家称，《透明度法案》的最新草案中没有任何内容能阻止特朗普先生继续从他的模因币或其他加密货币投机中获利。
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苹果公司服务与健康高级副总裁埃迪·库（Eddy Cue）表示，这是一款全新的汽车软件。但在一次采访中他提到，苹果计划将其提供给其他汽车制造商。
法利先生（Mr. Farley）表示，与苹果公司合作可以让福特公司降低开发成本，并使其计划于明年开始销售的新型电动皮卡能够提供先进的驾驶功能。
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重新调整 WNET 和 Thirteen 以适应传统电视观众减少的时代。他表示，尽管 WNET 的创建是为了服务纽约地区，但数字渠道为该机构提供了“无限的机会”来触达全球观众并最大化其影响力。
审阅该条款的专家地表示。“参议院多数党发布的一项法案，实际上无法阻止他赚取那些资金的主要方式——或者说无法阻止他继续赚取，”倡议组织透明国际美国分会（Transparency International U.S.）副执行主任斯科特·格雷塔克（Scott Greytak）说道。“这将使底层的业务、收入流和家庭安排在很大程度上不受影响。”
《透明度法案》（Clarity Act）是加密货币行业多年游说的结果。在 2024 年大选期间，一个
投票日期临近，争论仍在持续。
一个支持加密货币的超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）网络花费了超过 $130 million 来选举对该行业友好的立法者。这些支出已获得回报。去年 7 月，特朗普总统签署了一项名为《GENIUS 法案》的亲加密货币法案，该法案监管一种被称为稳定币的数字货币。同月，众议院投票通过了《透明度法案》的一个版本。该法案随后在参议院遇到了障碍，包括来自银行业的抵制。但在 5 月，一个跨党派的参议员小组投票将其从参议院银行委员会推进。 现在，该立法正等待参议院全体会议的投票，距离 8 月的休会仅剩几周时间，而这次休会被广泛视为国会在中期选举前对该法案采取行动的最后期限。 政治局势十分复杂。共和党持有微弱的多数席位。
这款皮卡将是由前特斯拉高管 Alan Clarke 领导的福特团队开发的几款电动汽车中的首款。 福特计划将这款皮卡的售价定在 $30,000 左右，明显低于目前市面上大多数电动汽车的价格。 福特工程师在开发功能更强大的 Blue Cruise 版本中占据主导地位，这是一款自动驾驶软件，允许福特车主在某些高速公路上将双手离开方向盘。但 Farley 先生表示，他们也在与苹果工程师合作。 他表示，这项技术将允许汽车从高速公路入口自动驾驶至出口，如果没有苹果的技术，这将无法实现。“在这个价格点上，我们非常希望实现自动化的免之手驾驶体验，”Farley 先生说。 他表示，苹果和福特计划继续为车辆增加功能。最近，福特更新了部分 Mustang Mach-E 车辆的软件，以便在通过苹果地图导航至充电站时调整电池温度。这样做可以让汽车充电速度更快。此前，只有在驾驶员使用福特导航系统时才可能进行电池预处理。 “这只是一个开始，”Cue 先生说。“对于我们的地图，我们在未来几年有很多计划。因此，我们很高兴能与福特工程师合作，探讨如何让其变得更好、更好。” 苹果的一个秘密团队曾多年致力于自动驾驶汽车原型的开发，但在搁置该项目之前从未公开披露任何产品。 Cue 先生表示，福特所使用的技术来自苹果地图团队。“它利用了我们过去十年所做的一切，”他说。
“整个媒体生态系统正在经历一场混乱的动荡，”O’Keefe 先生说。“而在这场混乱中，存在机会。” O’Keefe 先生在电视领域拥有数十年经验，在 2014 年加入 CNN 担任副总裁之前，曾担任 ABC 新闻数字化部门的执行制片人。 在 2019 年离开该网络后，他成为了哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院的创业研究员。他于同年加入了西奥多·罗斯福总统图书馆，并领导了一项在北达科他州恶地（Badlands）建设一个 $450 million 中心的筹款活动。 WNET 董事会主席 James Attwood 表示，该组织目前的财务稳定使其并不能免于媒体行业面临的更广泛挑战。这也是董事会聘请 O’Keefe 先生的原因之一，因为他具有创建数字化业务的经验。 “这并不意味着我们的商业模式不需要进化，”Attwood 先生说。“我们的分发模式在某种程度上已经过时了。”
在参议院中，这意味着《透明度法案》（Clarity Act）将需要至少部分民主党人的投票才能通过。而特朗普总统在加密货币领域的交易行为，甚至促使那些对该行业持友好态度的民主党人也变得立场坚定。
周三公布的伦理条款出自参议院共和党人与白宫之间的讨论，白宫一直支持该法案。一名白宫官员在一份声明中称其为“历史上最全面、范围最广的伦理条款”，并表示政府已“竭尽全力”寻找解决方案。
但批评者很快指出了明显的漏洞，一名曾任监管官员将其形容为“简直是笑话”。该法案将禁止公职人员在任职期间发行或担保数字货币。该规定同样适用于配偶——但不适用于子女。
拟议的限制措施似乎不太可能遏制特朗普总统的赚钱行为。他最大的两个加密货币项目是在他就任总统前不久启动的——其中一个案例是在他就职前仅 72 小时。
专家表示，该规定将一直有效至 2029, 年 1 月，这意味着未来的美国司法部将无法就违规行为起诉特朗普总统。
尽管如此，参议院共和党人仍赞扬该条款是一项历史性的妥协，解决了民主党人的顾虑。
“历史将记住这一时刻，一位总统选择了一套比法律要求更高的伦理标准，”来自怀俄明州的共和党参议员辛西娅·卢米斯（Cynthia Lummis）周三表示。
在 8 月 3 日的交易截止日之后，塔里克·斯库巴尔（Tarik Skubal）要么将成为一支新球队的巨大资产，要么将继续担任底特律队的 1 号先发投手，肩负起带领球队在逆境中冲击季后赛的任务。
斯库巴尔并没有回避关注，而是坦然接受随成功而来的代价。
作者：CODY STAVENHAGEN The Athletic
底特律——今年 1 月，老虎队投手塔里克·斯库巴尔意识到他的肘部有些不对劲。他连续两年获得赛扬奖，正处于合同年，有机会在仲裁中赢得创纪录的薪水。老虎队被预测将成为美国联盟最强的球队之一。只要他能健康地度过 2026 赛季，他可能会签下一份投手历史上最丰厚的合同。考虑到这一切，他尽力忽略了那些症状。
“如果我可以回到过去，我大概应该在 1 月就做一次核磁共振（M.R.I.），然后在休赛期就把这个问题彻底解决掉，”斯库巴尔说。“但当时还有其他因素在起作用。我当时正在经历仲裁——我认为球队决定将我起诉到法院，这在潜意识里可能产生了一些影响。”
这种坦白正是斯库巴尔最严厉的批评者和最忠实的粉丝们会仔细研究的。他的话很重要，因为他是棒球界最令人生畏的左投手之一。他并不盲目，他很清楚每当麦克风靠近时，都可能产生成为头条的新闻。
“我明白我的职业生涯中所发生的一切在公众面前是多么透明，”斯库巴尔说。
不过，有时这种关注会让他感到压力。
6 月在老虎队的更衣室里，斯库巴尔谈到了这种新的现实——正是这种现实导致许多运动员在看到记者时会退缩，在聚光灯亮起时寻求隐私。而他的处理方式有所不同。作为一名年轻球员时他较为内敛，但随着知名度的提高，他变得开朗了。
但当你成为了塔里克·斯库巴尔，即使是解释一个充满挑战的年份中人性化的一面，也意味着分享一些可能会被外界过度解读并演变成独立话题的事情。
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Visma-Lease a Bike 队的乔纳斯·温格高（Jonas Vingegaard）在 5 月赢得环意赛（Giro d’Italia）的途中。他还赢得了去年的环西赛（Vuelta a España）。
但依然是顶级车手， 温格高会回归吗？
作者：JACOB WHITEHEAD The Athletic
“我们坚信我们能在这场比赛中创造一些特别的成就，”一名 Visma-Lease a Bike 队的工作人员在西班牙巴塞罗那环法赛（Tour de France）开赛首日的团体计时赛早晨说道。“坦白说，我们为乔纳斯在第三周计划了一些惊人的安排。”
来自丹麦的两届环法冠军乔纳斯·温格高再也没有得到那个机会。在周日第 15 赛段最后 13 英里的路途中，他因为锁骨骨折而结束了比赛。他参加本次比赛的最后画面是他在被引导离开赛道前抱住手臂的样子。
到那时，温格高已经落后总冠军 Tadej Pogacar 接近 5 分钟，后者几乎是不可能被追上的。但如果没有温格高的尝试机会，环法赛无疑逊色了许多。他与 Pogacar 之间的竞争将定义这个自行车时代。
“我刚才和家人简单聊了聊，”温格高在事故后告诉丹麦广播公司 TV2。“对我来说那是最重要的。我们已经制定了接下来的计划，我也和团队的一些成员谈过了。现在垂头丧气是没有用的——”
退役，而现在 则是锁骨骨折。
ing 你的头脑。这只会让情况 变得更糟。” 他的肢体语言像是一个筋疲力尽的人。人们有理由询问他何时可能重返环法自行车赛（Tour de France）。 29 岁的温格高（Vingegaard）依然是世界上第二顶尖的爬坡手。他是目前的环西班牙赛（Vuelta a España）和环意赛（Giro d’Italia）冠军。但他也坦言，自行车运动这种全身心投入的体育项目对他的广泛生活产生了影响。 上周在赛事的第一个休息日接受 TV2 采访时，他透露自己去年曾考虑过退役——并提到了他的体重、训练所花的时间以及对身体的损耗。在所有自行车队中，Visma 队的训练结构是最严格的之一。 “我去年说过，如果情况一直这样，我就无法再坚持下去了，”温格高告诉他的团队。“我想团队也意识到了情况就是如此，而且他们也能从我身上看出我去年并不快乐。他们接受了我们必须做出改变，而我们确实改变了。” 在 2025 年环法自行车赛期间，温格高的妻子特丽娜（Trine）也表达了类似的观点：他的工作是在“过度榨干柠檬”，而且“他需要充电才能发挥出最佳水平”。 尽管温格高赚到了丰厚的财富，但这种观点是可以理解的，尤其是在 2024 年巴斯克之行（Tour of the Basque Country）遭遇车祸的背景下，那次事故导致他多根肋骨骨折且双肺穿孔。在 7 月 4 日本届赛事的开赛日夺得黄衫后，他说过这件事“将永远成为我人生之书的一部分，我躺在地上，认为自己快要死了”。
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锁骨骨折虽然是较轻的伤势，但每个骑手都有极限。这是波加查（Pogacar）连续第三次主导该赛事，而在过去的两周里，温格高比以往任何时候都显得更加遥远。在第 14 赛段，也就是他最后一个完整的比赛日中，艾萨克·德尔托罗（Isaac del Toro）和保罗·塞克萨斯（Paul Seixas）在冲刺阶段将他挤在身后，分获第二和第三名。如果这不能证明未来已至，那也预示着未来正快速到来。温格高已经没什么遗憾了。他赢得了该运动中所有主要的赛段赛奖项，而且似乎对单日赛没什么兴趣。目前看来，在 27 岁的年轻人波加查依然保持如此强势状态的情况下，很难想象温格高能再赢得一次环法自行车赛。机会之窗似乎正在关闭。与此同时，Visma 队内部首次出现了动荡。几位关键人物已经离职——例如赛事主管格里沙·尼尔曼（Grischa Niermann）、体育总监梅里恩·泽曼（Merijn Zeeman），以及温格高的长期教练蒂姆·海姆斯克克（Tim Heemskerk），后者表示他“难以继续发挥创造力和热情”。如果温格高选择离开，将不会太令人意外，但这对这项运动来说将是非常令人悲哀的。这不是说他应该离开；而是担心他会离开。温格高不太可能像克里斯·弗鲁姆（Chris Froome）那样退场。弗鲁姆在 41 岁时，在为以色列-Premier Tech 队奋斗了五年且举步维艰后，在本届环法赛开始前两天确认退役。相反，人们更容易将温格高与汤姆·杜穆林（Tom Dumoulin）和西蒙·叶茨（Simon Yates）等骑手对比，后者分别在 31 岁和 33 岁时退役，且 Visma-Lease a Bike 是他们的最后一支车队。但另一种可能性是寻求改变。在环法赛的围场中，一直有关于北欧车队 Uno-X Mobility 给出巨额报价的传闻，该车队在本届环法赛中表现出色，并夺得了一个赛段冠军。
与索伦·瓦伦斯基奥尔德 (Soren Waerenskjold) 共同夺冠，并与托斯泰因·特拉恩 (Torstein Traeen) 共同获得亚军。Uno-X 可能希望将这位丹麦人作为其项目的门面——潜在地在丹麦提供更多时间。温格高 (Vingegaard) 是一位罕见的职业自行车运动员，他仍然在他成长的地方训练和居住，而不是在吉罗那、摩纳哥和安道拉的聚集区。温格高并不以仓促做出决定而闻名。在现代自行车运动中，锁骨骨折是一项可以在六周内康复的伤病，尤其是像他那样经过手术治疗后。他本赛季剩余时间的计划将揭示很多信息，无论他是瞄准秋季的一日赛，还是本赛季已经结束。后者的情形只会引发猜测。作为一名在合同期内且依然拥有顶尖能力的车手，人们希望他能够继续下去。毕竟，温格高对成绩的执着程度往往超过他的表象。“从远处看，你不会觉得他在意他赢得的所有胜利，”他的朋友内森·范·胡伊东克 (Nathan Van Hooydonck) 在事故发生前几天说道，他曾是一名 Visma 车手，目前在球队的商业部门工作。“但他能把所有 50 场胜利全部列举出来。”他的团队以及其他人应该祈祷这次挫折仅仅是一个注脚，而不是温格高人生之书的新篇章。自从实现了连续五次登上环法领奖台以来，温格高首次站在了十字路口。他究竟有多想继续追逐？
炎热天气提升了世界杯比赛水平
作者：迈克尔·考克斯 (MICHAEL COX) 《竞技网》(The Athletic)
多年来我们一直被告知，在夏季于北美举办世界杯的问题在于气候。高温、高湿以及墨西哥城的一英里高海拔，将共同导致一场低质量足球赛事的产生。但到六周结束时，即便在一场令人失望的决赛之后，也很难找到有人抱怨比赛的整体质量。这次世界杯被广泛认为是一届令人愉快的赛事，优秀的足球队伍最终取得了成功。成名球星们展现出了我们此前罕见的最顶尖状态。而这在一定程度上正是由于气候条件的缘故。现代俱乐部足球的祸根是对“压迫”（pressing）的痴迷。前压、挤压比赛空间并在前场尝试夺回球权，是一种完全可行且通常成功的策略，尤其是在将其视为对控球质量的有用补充时。
在两支技术出色的球队之间的较量中，这可以创造出高节奏、令人激动的足球。问题在于，在过去的十年里，压迫不再被视为一种补充，而成为了许多球队的首要目标。压迫被认为是最好的防守方式。压迫被认为是最好的进攻方式。压迫成为了每个球员的基本素质，甚至包括那些处于创意和进攻位置的球员。压迫是战术性的，需要智慧和凝聚力，但它也关乎能量、韧性以及在对抗中获胜。这种情况在上一赛季的英超联赛中显而易见。英格兰顶级联赛是世界上最强的国内联赛。其俱乐部现在经常在欧罗巴联赛和欧协联中轻松获胜，而 2025-26 赛季的英超冠军阿森纳（Arsenal）仅在点球大战中失利，才没能赢得欧冠冠军，从而错过完成欧洲三大杯全满贯的机会。但英格兰球队主要是通过压制而非通过技术胜过外国对手，而在国内比赛中，他们现在则在努力地互相压制。英超联赛中几乎没有一个球员达到了通常对“赛季最佳球员”所期待的水准；没有人有时间在持球时传出一记积极的前传，也没有空间制造出意想不到的惊喜。每个人都精疲力竭。上赛季的许多比赛变成了关于领地的争夺，而且在获得定位球之前根本无法创造出清晰的机会。从美学质量来看，这是英超二十年来最糟糕的状态。
而在世界杯上几乎看不到这种情况。锦标赛足球通常不利于压迫，因为如此多的比赛被压缩在如此短的时间窗内，且缺乏俱乐部球队数月共同训练所带来的凝聚力。在高温环境下，即便在五名（或六名）换人名额的时代，也根本不可能在 90（或 120）分钟内进行高强度压迫。很少有球队在前场进行高压，更少有球队主要以压迫为定义。
在全部 104 场比赛中，我想不起有任何一场比赛在专家被问到什么让他们对球队表现印象深刻时，他们会提到其压迫能力。
最终的冠军西班牙队当然压迫得很好，而且其在无球状态下的积极站位被概括为——
迈克尔·考克斯为《竞技网》报道足球赛事。
（图注）右上：挪威的埃林·哈兰德（Erling Haaland）正在补充水分以应对迈阿密的高湿度。中上：西班牙的佩德里（Pedri）。在西班牙，人们说来自温暖地区的球队踢的是控球足球。
有助于遏制 不间断的冲刺。
事实是，门将乌奈·西蒙（Unai Simon）在半决赛和决赛中的主要职责是在高防线后方、禁区外的区域进行清道夫式的补位，而不是真正地扑救射门。 但西班牙首先且显然是一支基于控球的球队。压迫是次要因素，而且他们能够在短时间内进行高效压迫，是因为他们花费了大量时间掌控球权，从而控制比赛。 大概唯一一支主要专注于压迫的球队是奥地利，他们在 32. 强赛中被西班牙以 3-0 完胜，这场比赛令人畅快。西班牙进行压迫是因为他们想要夺回球权。而奥地利似乎很高兴没有球权，因为这样他们就可以进行压迫，但一旦拿到球，他们就几乎不知道该怎么处理。 西班牙那天的表现是他们在整个赛事中最令人兴奋的一次。 当然，有些比赛并不是在酷暑中进行的，有些是在带有空调的圆顶体育场中进行的。但即便如此，也很难完全忽视过去一个月左右所经历的气候条件，而且人们总是需要为下一场比赛节省体力。 同样，有时气候确实成了问题。 英格兰与挪威之间的一场四分之一决赛在——即便以佛罗里达的标准衡量——也极其潮湿的迈阿密举行，东部时间下午 5 点开球，这大概是一个糟糕的赛程安排。你不会希望埃尔林·哈兰德（Erling Haaland）在比赛一小时后就几乎无法移动，尤其是在比赛的关键阶段。但即便如此，在赛前新闻发布会上听挪威教练斯塔勒·索尔巴肯（Stale Solbakken）谈论气候将如何影响比赛依然很有意思。 “强度是足球的重要组成部分，”他说。“在我们要走向的方向上，球员们变得越来越快，他们能进行更多次数的冲刺。但在这里，我们必须考虑到天气因素。” 索尔巴肯表示，天气会影响每支球队的压迫。
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“追球会让球员在最终抢到球时感到非常疲惫，”他说。“我认为两支球队都需要具备控球能力。” 减少追逐？更多地关注控球时的操作？听起来不错。 世界杯历史上最被低估的一个因素是：那些真正炎热的赛事往往是真正优秀的赛事：例如 1970, 1974, 1982 和 1986. 许多被遗忘的版本则是在冬季举行的，比如 1962 年在智利和 2010 年在南非。 在西班牙，一个古老的刻板印象是：来自该国温暖地区的球队踢控球足球，而来自寒冷多风北部的球队则奉上充满身体对抗和直接的足球，这绝非巧合。优秀的足球是在炎热天气中踢出来的。而本届世界杯的主角正是利昂内尔·梅西、基利安·姆巴佩以及西班牙所有出色的传球手。 当然，与此相关地存在着严重问题：极高温度对球员和支持者来说都可能构成真正的健康风险，而气候变化在未来几十年内可能会给我们所有人带来严重后果。但在足球的身体对抗元素有可能会压倒技术层面的当下，一个体面的解决方法就是在那些无法进行不间断冲刺的环境条件下进行比赛。
这位落基山击球手 现已成为交易目标
作者：SAM BLUM The Athletic
科罗拉多落基山队的历史 记录中充斥着顶尖击球手 和华丽的统计数据。像 Todd Helton、Larry Walker、Matt Holliday 和 Nolan Arenado 这样的球员，曾打出 .379 的击球率， 获得 150 分打点，击出 59 支两垒安打—— 这些数字有时简直像漫画一样夸张。 然而，在这些伟大球员中，没有人的客场 进攻统计数据能超过在丹佛 库尔斯球场（Coors Field）这个对击球手极为有利的环境下的表现。 那些超高的平均值和 统计总数是建立在“一英里高空”基础之上的。库尔斯球场作为 大联盟（M.L.B.）中海拔最高的棒球场， 提供了一个无可否认的客观事实：你在那里的击球表现 一定会比在任何其他地方都好。 这就是为什么捕手 Hunter Goodman 的 2026 赛季如此
是该项运动中 最不出名但最出色的 球员之一。
令人费解。在他的 31 支本垒球中， 有 18 支是在离开丹佛后击出的。 26 岁的 Goodman 在主场的 击球率为 .233，上垒率加长打率（O.P.S.）为 .815， 而客场的击球率为 .282，O.P.S. 为 .964。 这不能被归结为样本量小或 四舍五入的误差。即便在 Goodman 周日在主场击出三支本垒球， 以及周二击出制胜本垒球之后， 这些数字所讲述的故事依然难以解释。 “我甚至不想尝试去解释这一点，因为那会变成一团乱麻，”落基山队经理 Warren Schaeffer 表示。“在任何一场比赛中，他都能做出任何事情。” Goodman 异常的赛季
Sam Blum 为 The Athletic 报道大联盟（M.L.B.）相关消息。
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他在谈到核磁共振（M.R.I.） 和仲裁听证会时，语气中并没有任何恶意。 “它发生了，”他说。“事实就是如此。我感觉很好。我现在很健康。” 1 月，老虎队申请在 2026 赛季向 Skubal 支付 1900 万美元。 曾在西雅图大学首次接触 Skubal 的经纪人 Scott Boras 则要求 3200 万美元。 双方之间几乎没有经过协商。一个由 3 人组成的 仲裁 小组 最终 判给 Skubal 3200 万美元， 这在棒球界针对服务年限不足六年的球员所采用的体系中创下了薪资记录。 这对 Skubal 以及未来的其他年轻王牌投手来说是一个胜利。 仲裁过程开启了 Skubal 作为 大联盟（M.L.B.）中心人物的六个月—— 他是仲裁趋势的引领者、美国球队的争议焦点、从受伤王牌转变为医疗奇迹。 现在，随着 8 月 3 日的交易截止日期临近，他正处于
就为老虎队投球。
市场上的最重要球员。 他要么成为被交易至争冠球队的巨大资产，要么成为一名 1 号先发，承担起带领球队在逆境中冲击季后赛的任务。 “当你被推上神坛时，”老虎队捕手杰克·罗杰斯（Jake Rogers）说，“随之而来的有好事也有坏事。” 人们很容易忘记，29 岁的斯库巴尔（Skubal）并非一直注定如此。他曾是一个亚利桑那州的少年，唯一获得的第一分区（Division I）邀请来自西雅图大学——那所学校在当时甚至没有自己的棒球场。 他在 2017. 年接受了汤米·约翰手术。他在 2018, 年成为第九轮选秀球员，当时受困于控球问题。在他职业生涯的前九场出场中，有八场是从牛棚中被调出的。他必须向自己的组织证明自己能胜任先发。 他是一个勤奋的底层奋斗者，一名强悍篮球教练之子。他在一个喧闹的家庭中长大，他的竞争动力源于哥哥对他投篮的干扰。 现在他来到了这里，处于
给落基山队及其拿着联盟最低薪水的明星捕手带来了一个极具吸引力的问题：他们是否应该交易他？他是比赛中最不为人知但表现最出色的球员之一，但他的价值极有可能是天文数字，部分原因是由于他并不被视为一名“落基山商人”（Rocky Mountain merchant）。尽管他将在下赛季的仲裁中获得加薪，但在 2029 年赛季结束后进入自由球员市场之前，他仍将是非常实惠的。在七月中旬的一次采访中，落基山队的棒球运营总裁保罗·德波德斯塔（Paul DePodesta）没有给出绝对的结论，但明确表达了他的想法。“当你拥有你认为能够成为冠军球队一部分的优秀球员时，”德波德斯塔说，“我认为你是不愿意让他们离开的。”他说，落基山队目前正在确定哪些球员是他们未来发展的基石，以及这些球员是否能成为冠军阵容的真正构建模块。德波德斯塔在加入球队的第一年主导了剧烈的转变。落基山队上赛季以 43-119 的战绩结束。虽然本赛季 41-63 的记录使他们处于国家联盟的垫底位置，但这确实提供了一种希望，即如果能保留合适的成员，这个年轻的核心可以成长为更强大的整体。据一名要求匿名以便坦率表达的知情人士透露，落基山队尚未与古德曼（Goodman）就续约展开谈判。该消息人士表示，他对此类对话持开放态度。在被问及是否对是否被交易有偏好时，古德曼说：“这在我的控制范围之外，我对此没有什么能做或能说的可以改变现状。”随后他补充道，他非常享受在落基山队的时光。而且，今年他在离开这座在统计学上具有劣势的主场球场后，发挥出了他的
棒球商业风暴的中心。他同时也是球员协会执行小组的成员。“最近他的肩上承载了很多东西，”罗杰斯说。“坦率地说，他依然是那个样子，这相当令人钦佩。”尽管他可以表现得非常激烈，但斯库巴尔以微笑和一种与其地位不相称的亲和力，处理了从无名之辈到顶尖投手的转型。“在这一年里，他能够将很多不同的事情分开处理，”老虎队经理 A.J. 欣奇（A.J. Hinch）说，“无论是伤病、个人的合同情况，还是作为一支上半年表现极不稳定的球队的王牌投手。我赞赏他的职业道德。我赞赏他为了让自己成为塔里克·斯库巴尔（Tarik Skubal）而所做的一切准备。”尽管外界对他未来有诸多猜测，但去年冬天情况变得模糊不清，当时一个像利马豆一样大的游离体在
他的肘部产生了不适，随后手臂开始出现一种顽固且粘稠的感觉。他试图通过理性分析来淡化这些症状。“也许这只是生长痛，因为我正在为了另一个赛季的投球而恢复状态，”斯库巴尔（Skubal）说，“每个休赛期都会出现一些独特的问题，你得在工作量方面对其进行管理和治疗。我原以为一旦恢复体能，达到 95-100 次投球的阈值，症状就会减轻。但事实并非如此。”到二月，就在他的仲裁听证会平静解决后的几天，风暴开始聚集。交易传闻平息了。老虎队签下了另一位著名的先发投手弗兰伯·瓦尔德斯（Framber Valdez）。球队带着创下队史纪录的 $204 百万美元薪资总额进入了一个以世界大赛为抱负的赛季。不久，斯库巴尔报到了春季训练营。但与此同时，他也准备离开，去参加世界棒球经典赛的美国队。
投手是习惯的生物，常规生活的中断可能会危及手臂健康。休赛期与匹兹堡海盗队投手保罗·斯肯斯（Paul Skenes）的一次对话，帮助斯库巴尔坚定了参加经典赛的决定。大联盟（M.L.B.）宣传这两位投手的参与将有利于美国队夺得第二次经典赛冠军。但联盟没有注明的是：斯库巴尔已同意仅进行一次出场。他说他从未计划在整个赛事期间停留。这在斯库巴尔手臂出现任何问题之前就已决定。
二月份，当他有限的参与情况公开后，网上的反应立即且激烈。球迷们称他为懦夫，称他自私。随着这一决定演变成一场肥皂剧，斯库巴尔可能并没有给自己带来什么好处。在经典赛对阵英国队的出场中，到了中段局数，他在电视直播中发言，显然受到了赛事情绪和肾上腺素的影响。
赛后，他更加坦率地表示：“我当时非常致力于完成先发并回到训练营，”他说，“显然，情况已经发生了变化。”
斯库巴尔在对国家的忠诚和对老虎队的承诺之间纠结。他的长期未来无疑是另一个复杂因素。在陷入这种绝境后，他决定不再为美国队投球。
他顶着暴雨从春季训练营开车前往迈阿密，观看赛事的决赛。当美国队输给委内瑞拉队时，斯库巴尔在休息区观看。那些批评……
[[IMG_XXXX]] 亨特·古德曼（Hunter Goodman）在最近一次明尼苏达州的比赛中击出本垒球。他在远离丹佛那个有利于击球手的球场时，有更好的进攻统计数据。
在他存在 32 个赛季的整个过程中，始终带着星号。这无疑会使他对他队更具吸引力——也许是纽约洋基队，这是在交易传闻中与他联系最紧密的俱乐部——因为签下他将被认为风险较低。
德波德斯塔（DePodesta）假设，在高原地区担任捕手可能会影响击球手的进攻，这使得他的比赛在其他地方可能更完整这一观点具有可信度。
洛基队历史上最优秀的击球手并非捕手。不过，值得注意的是，科罗拉多队效力八年的捕手克里斯·伊亚内塔（Chris Ianetta）有两个赛季的客场表现更好。
其他强击手呢？情况并非如此。赫尔顿（Helton）在库尔斯球场的击球率为 .345，而其职业生涯击球率为 .316。1995, 丹特·比谢特（Dante Bichette）在丹佛击出 31 支本垒球，在客场击出 9 支，在最有价值球员投票中获得第二名。十五年后，特洛伊·图洛维茨基（Troy Tulowitzki）的 O.P.S.
[[IMG_XXXX]] 在他唯一一次参加世界棒球经典赛中，塔里克·斯库巴尔（Tarik Skubal）对阵英国队投了三局。
主场率几乎高出 .200。 在他唯一的一次全明星赛季中，埃里克·杨（Eric Young Sr.）主场打击率为 .412，而客场仅为 .219。 一些家喻户晓的球员，以及一些名不见经传的球员，都在这座球场的助力下成就了职业生涯。 “我认为球员们久而久之会被这件事困扰，”执教两年、在落基山组织工作了 20 年的经理谢弗（Schaefer）说。“这里出现过一些非常优秀、顶尖的、名人堂级别的球员。也许人们对他们说了一些不公平的话，因为他们在库尔斯球场（Coors Field）比赛。但这终究还是棒球比赛。” 这就是为什么随着截止日期的临近，古德曼（Goodman）的这个赛季如此神秘，且可能具有如此重大意义的原因。 他对自己在主客场表现截然相反（reverse splits）且无法解释的现象似乎感到有些不安，并表示他尽量不去想这件事。古德曼甚至指出，根据 Baseball Savant 的球场因素指标，库尔斯球场并不在全美最利于击球手击出本垒打的前五个球场之列。
他没说错；该球场排名第八。 尽管如此，即使他无法破解这个密码，库尔斯球场仍被评为整体上最利于击球手的球场，且领先幅度显著。 “我希望这种情况能开始平衡起来，”古德曼说。“我希望客场的表现能保持不变。” 在全明星赛前的几周里，古德曼曾公开表达希望参加本垒打大赛，以便在一个他的小市场球队无法提供的舞台上展示自己。 他连续第二次入选全明星赛，但联盟没有就本垒打大赛事宜与他联系。他说他并不在意。德波德斯塔（DePodesta）表示：“如果我们排名第一，毫无疑问他会参加本垒打大赛。” 然而，现在的问题变成了德波德斯塔是否会将古德曼放入一个排名第一的……
那些被起诉的感觉比平时更尖锐，更私人化。 “那些在世界棒球经典赛（W.B.C.）期间写关于我的话或对我发表评论的人，我不需要向他们恳求原谅，”斯库巴尔（Skubal）说。“我不在乎他们说什么。对我来说不重要。” 在这一年里，斯库巴尔的一举一动都成了讨论和争议的谈资，但涉及世界棒球经典赛的讥讽依然没有消散。 “有些球迷来现场看球，还是会对我说一些话，”斯库巴尔说。“我会说：‘如果你在围栏的另一边，你不会这么说。你不会盯着我的脸这么说。’ “如果他们想那样生活，那就让他们那样生活吧。我认为那不会是一个快乐的生活方式。” 4 月 29 日，那个游离体在全世界面前卡在了斯库巴尔的肘关节中。这件事发生在亚特兰大的一次先发登板期间。 投了两个别扭的球，然后他摇了摇手臂。 在私下里，斯库巴尔已经面对这种感觉几个月了，无论是在和年幼的儿子玩耍，还是在切早餐香肠时。 斯库巴尔在亚特兰大的那场比赛中坚持了下来，但担忧依然存在。 “那是三天后，”斯库巴尔说。“就在我牛棚训练后的第二天。那个游离体卡在了我的……
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肘部。我失去了大量的活动范围。我知道出问题了。”
他在大学期间撕裂过尺侧副韧带。他在 2022 年做过一次屈肌腱修复手术。无论这次是什么情况，感觉都不同。
“你会开始惊慌，对吧？”斯库巴尔说。“我想，‘我睡一觉，看看明天感觉如何。’醒来时感觉非常酸痛。试着接了接球，情况很不乐观。我大概还能投球，但那对我没有任何好处，对球队里的任何人也没有好处。然后你去做了核磁共振（M.R.I.），看看发生了什么，所有的碎片才开始拼凑在一起。”
斯库巴尔被从下一次先发名单中剔除，并安排了手术。常规观点认为他可能会缺席两到三个月——这或许足以毁掉一个本就摇摇欲坠的老虎队赛季。
“我认为，在球队最需要他的时候进行手术并缺席，将一直让他耿耿于怀，”欣奇说。
波拉斯安排了与尼尔·埃尔特拉切的会面，这位外科医生曾在 2022. 年为斯库巴尔进行屈肌腱手术。埃尔特拉切一直在悄悄测试一种直径仅 1.9 毫米的微创关节镜，等待一个使用它的完美病例。它被称为“纳米针”（NanoNeedle），它将
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球队，或者至少是一个仍有竞争力的俱乐部。
总的来说，他是这项运动中最出色的强打者之一。是的，他是比赛中最容易三振的击球手之一，但 2026. 年大多数优秀的长打者也是如此。古德曼的最大出球速度在所有球员中排名前 2%。他的强击率是 46.5, 远高于联盟约 37 这里的平均水平。
这些数据是基于他在除自己主场外的每个球场击球的表现。但洛基队，至少到目前为止，不希望他去其他任何地方打球。
当被问到古德曼对这支球队未来的重要程度时，舍弗说：“极其重要。他是阵容中部的危险击球手。充满活力地比赛。充满激情地比赛。相信我们在做的事情。日复一日的领导者。
“他处理业务的方式正是我们努力追求的目标。他就是这种精神的体现。”
在手术过程中引起更少的炎症和更少的出血。尽管它从未在顶级联盟的投手身上使用过，但这种微创方案意味着斯库巴尔能够快速恢复投球。因此，他可以迅速重返赛场。当埃尔特拉切告诉斯库巴尔关于纳米针的情况时，这位投手的反应非常直接：“好吧，”他说，“如果你觉得没问题，我也没问题。”当队友们得知他可能在大约一个月内回归时，老虎队休息室内的反应极其强烈。球队在五月份的战绩下滑至 6-22。 “这对每个人来说都是一个震惊，”罗杰斯说。“我的天。你要干什么？”现在，议论声正趋向巅峰。在交易截止日期前的 50 多场比赛中，评论家们开始称老虎队肯定是卖方。现在，自从 6 月 1, 以来，他们取得了美国联盟第二好的战绩，情况变得不那么确定了。每天都有新的报告或传闻引发社交媒体的狂欢。“通常当我的名字被提及在某些事情中时，球迷们就想读到相关内容，”斯库巴尔说。“这并不困扰我。真的不困扰。”即便外界的猜测声越来越大，即便续约的可能性似乎不存在，斯库巴尔依然在谈论在底特律赢得世界系列赛。斯库巴尔在手术 38 天后就参加了一场顶级联盟比赛，考虑到他周围发生的一切，这一壮举似乎已被遗忘。自从他接受所谓的“斯库巴尔镜”手术回归以来，他的球威一如既往地犀利。他在过去七次先发中的防御率为 2.97。连续两场五局的登场，增加了人们之前的抱怨，即他可能无法在投球数超过 95 球后持久。随后，在他最近一次对阵洛杉矶天使队的登场中，他统治了整整七局
零封局，有力地提醒人们，正是这种能力将他推向了如今这个尴尬的境地。“你想成为比赛中的最强者，”斯库巴尔（Skubal）说道，“那些顶尖球员可能在任何时候都面临最多的批评。我并不是说我不会失败。在我的职业生涯中，我还会经历很多次失败。但我保证，我永远不会停止努力，以成就更好的自己。”
表现参差不齐， 但 12 位球员 脱颖而出
孟菲斯灰熊队 卡梅伦·布泽尔 (Cameron Boozer)
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关于在夏季联赛中限制球员发挥的说法大概不成立了。布泽尔作为选秀中的 3 顺位，在拉斯维加斯的出场时间最长（177 分钟），而且这还是在他于盐湖城参加了两场比赛之后。孟菲斯队在拉斯维加斯的出场时间前七名球员中占据了四个席位，这得益于他们在冠军赛中多打了一场第六场比赛。总计，布泽尔在今年 7 月出战了八场比赛，共计 229 分钟。 布泽尔在我的选秀名单中是顶尖球员，尽管他的投篮命中率不算特别高，但他的其他表现吸引了我的注意。他在攻防两端担任大前锋时显得非常自然。他在防守时能够在外线快速移动，且在外线有足够的舒适度来创造出手机会。 在八场比赛中，布泽尔总共尝试了 32 次 3 分球并抢到了 12 次抢断，这两个信号都表明他具备足够的外线能力，可以与身材魁梧的扎克·艾迪 (Zach Edey) 搭档，担任全职的 4 号位。
达拉斯独行侠队 塞尔希奥·德拉雷亚 (Sergio de Larrea)
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不要担心 27.3% 的命中率。德拉雷亚的大部分投篮都来自 3 分线，且大多没进，远距离投篮 20 投 4 中。但这只是个小样本，因为他去年在西班牙的 3 分命中率为 38.8%，罚球命中率为 81.1%。 更值得注意的是，德拉雷亚是夏季联赛中最好的传球手，尤其是当达拉斯在最后两场比赛中更多地将球交给他掌控时。他在最后两场比赛中贡献了 26 次助攻，并在四场比赛中以 35 次助攻对 12 次失误结束了他的夏季之旅。 作为独行侠队在首轮末尾选中的球员（第 25 顺位），也是我心中最顶尖的潜力黑马之一，德拉雷亚表现得非常称职，能够为达拉斯极其薄弱的后场带来巨大提升。
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华盛顿奇才队 AJ 迪班查 (AJ Dybantsa)
我认为这个家伙可能很出色。迪班查仅出战了两场比赛，但在 51 分钟内砍下 50 分，并且在其他方面也贡献足够，证明这些分数并非虚有其表。值得注意的是，在他有限的出场时间里，他获得了八次“股票”得分（抢断加盖帽），这让那些担心他在杨曼大学 (Brigham Young) 防守录像表现的人们感到宽慰。此外，他在防守篮板上也有所贡献，且仅犯过一次规。 当然，主旋律是他的得分能力，而这一点在当前环境下得到了体现。在这种情况下，我认为对于大多数球员来说，这对其常规赛是一个更好的预兆。迪班查在球场上相对于大多数前锋来说体型庞大，且他在 6 英尺 9 英寸的身高下具备向下冲击和变换方向的能力，一旦他跑起来，就无法被防守。 在进入选秀之前，我将迪班查排在名单的第二位，而拉斯维加斯之行后唯一的疑问是，我是否将他排低了一个名次。
克利夫兰骑士队 梅里克·托马斯 (Meleek Thomas)
我知道一个身材矮小的后卫在夏季联赛中的疯狂得分表现应该被谨慎对待。但 115 分钟内砍下 109 分确实令人惊叹，尤其是对于一个次轮秀来说。 托马斯在夏季联赛中的统计数据比你想象的要更全面。在投进这么多球的同时，他在四场比赛中仅出现了六次失误。他还抢到了八次抢断。此外，他通过尝试 32 次 3 分球并命中 14 次，展现了作为定点射手的威力。（他在阿肯色大学唯一的一个赛季中，3 分命中率为 41.6%。） 由于托马斯签署的是一份为期四年的底薪合同，受限于奢侈税围栏 (apron) 的骑士队如果真的通过第 34 顺位找到了一名轮换球员，应该感到万分庆幸。
作者：约翰·霍林格 (JOHN HOLLINGER) 《竞技网》(The Athletic)
拉斯维加斯 —— NBA夏季联赛的第一条规则就是：无视你在夏季联赛中看到的一切。三年前，维克多·文班亚马的表现糟糕透顶，而休斯顿的卡姆·惠特莫被评为夏季联赛最有价值球员。这些表现如何转化为正式比赛中的结果？
即便如此，仍有相当多的证据表明，夏季联赛的表现对于真正重要的比赛（尤其是对新秀而言）至少具有一定的预测价值。然而，最困难的部分在于，如何无视那些摆在眼前、诱使你关注而牺牲其他一切因素的事情。如果你打算对夏季联赛进行评估，请让我从这里开始：得分。不。重要。
观看那些倾向于进攻的后卫在夏季联赛中单场砍下 30 分确实很有意思，但这些球员中的大多数在正式比赛中无法获得这种开绿灯的自由度。事实上，描述一个球员“是什么类型”的夏季联赛统计数据，比描述该球员“有多出色”的数据要有用得多。
也就是说，三分球出手频率、助攻、篮板和盖帽是比得分更稳定的类别，尤其是比命中率更具预测性。
芝加哥公牛 Caleb Wilson
Wilson在首场夏季联赛中命中 7 个三分球，这几乎 certainly 是一个极端案例。然而，他在四场比赛中尝试了 31 次三分球，这一点则更值得关注。
三分球频率是夏季联赛中的一个关键指标统计。在 2025-26 赛季北卡罗来纳大学的 24 场比赛中，Wilson仅尝试了 27 次三分球，但在拉斯维加斯的短短四场比赛中，他的出手次数就超过了这个数值。他在第一场比赛中的命中数（7 个）就追平了整个赛季的总数。Wilson如此频繁地在远端出手且结果并非惨不忍睹，这一个积极的信号，表明他能够拥有足够好的投射能力来为他的其他比赛维度创造空间。
Wilson 在罚球线上的表现糟糕至极，21 次出手仅命中 6 次，且在仅出场 110 分钟的情况下，失误数在所有夏季联赛球员中排名第一。尽管如此，仅凭三分球表现，就足以将他列入我的积极观察名单。
布鲁克林篮网 Egor Demin
对于篮网队 2025 年选秀的五名新秀来说，这次夏季联赛体验相当令人沮丧，但 Demin 是一个显眼的例外。他是一个出色的亮点，相比于一年前那个“只投三分”的夏天，他展现出了明显的进步。
即便在三分球手感相对冰冷的情况下（45 次尝试中仅命中 13 次），他依然能够掌控局面，两分球命中率高达 75.9%，每五分钟抢到一个篮板，并以 19 次助攻对 10 次失误结束比赛。在拉斯维加斯和加州经典赛之间的五场比赛中，Demin 还抢到了 9 次抢断。
凭借他的表现、乐透签球员 Mikel Brown Jr. 的积极信号，以及双向球员 Chaney Johnson（低调地表现得非常出色）的意外崛起，布鲁克林或许有足够的资本来弥补在 2025 年五名首轮秀上大部分的失策。
密尔沃基雄鹿 Brayden Burries
虽然大多数备受赞誉的 NCAA 新秀后卫都表现挣扎，但 Burries 是一个显眼的例外。这位来自亚利桑那大学的第 10 顺位新秀令人惊喜，可能是拉斯维加斯最优秀的球员。
他展现出一种特殊的技巧，在转换进攻中通过欧洲步强攻篮下以完成上篮。尽管他在三分线（26 次尝试命中 9 次）或罚球线（68%）的表现并不特别火热，但我们从他的大学成绩中知道 Burries 具备投射能力。相反，他在各项统计数据中脱颖而出，最显著的是他得到了 106 分，而仅出现了 3 次失误。
对于一名 6 英尺 4 英寸的后卫来说，Burries 在篮板球上也做了不错的工作，并在 125 分钟内累积了 12 次“抢断+盖帽”（stocks）。在处于重建期的雄鹿队中，他看起来像是一名开赛之夜的正选首发。
菲尼克斯太阳 Khaman Maluach
在经历了一个动荡的新秀赛季后， Maluach 看起来像是在拉斯维加斯进步最大的球员之一。 虽然关于他的手感和进攻意识的疑问依然存在，但 Maluach 巨大的体型是一个巨大的优势，这让他拥有很大的容错空间。这位身高 7-1 的南苏丹原住民在拉斯维加斯也经常成功抢到球，以 22.4 这一惊人的篮板率领跑夏季联赛；其中在防守篮板上的占比更是达到了离谱的 35.0 l百分比。 Maluach 在进攻篮板上的作用没有那么大，因为他花费了大量时间扮演挡拆后外弹出 (pick-and-pop) 的威胁，关于这一点，他在四场比赛中 20 次三分尝试中命中了 8 个。再加上他作为护筐者和篮下扣篮威胁的明显影响，太阳队在中锋位置上可能拥有一个足以进入轮换的球员，与经常受伤的 Mark Williams 搭档。
尽管如此，球员在夏季联赛的整体表现与随后常规赛的表现之间仍然存在某种相关性。现在这一点更为有用，因为 N.B.A. 的季前赛——此前曾是衡量未来成功更可靠的评判标准——已经变成了一场空洞的闹剧。 考虑到这一前提，让我们进入有趣的部分：哪些球员在夏季联赛中脱颖而出？尤其是，哪些球员的表现让你认为他们在接下来的赛季中可能会超出预期？ 这里有 12 位值得讨论的球员。
夏洛特黄蜂队 Hannes Steinbach
夏季联赛的篮板能力是可以转化为实际表现的，而 Steinbach 是拉斯维加斯最优秀的新秀篮板手。他在五场比赛中抢到了 46 个篮板，篮板率高达 20.4 l百分比。 这也许在预料之中，因为 Steinbach 在华盛顿期间就凭借对球的嗅觉和出色的手感引起了球探的注意。但在这种情况下，这不过是他强于预期的进攻表现之上的“点睛之笔”。Steinbach 能够冲向篮筐并在夏季联赛的对抗中完成终结，这让人们期待他能在黄蜂队的轮换中做到同样的事。 此外，在大多数新秀大个子犯规极其严重的环境下，Steinbach 在 121 分钟的比赛时间里仅被吹罚了 11 次个人犯规。
孟菲斯灰熊队 Javon Small
如果你想找一个冷门球员，试试这个。这位 2025 年的次轮秀与灰熊队签下了双向合同，并且将在一段时间内维持这一身份，因为灰熊队在赛季开始前需要处理掉他们的 19 份保障合同。然而，我打赌 Small 将成为今年的 Scotty Pippen Jr.：一名在双向合同状态下开启赛季，但整个赛季都在球队轮换名单中的球员。 Small 在夏季联赛中刷出了不错的数据，但除此之外，我必须强调他的防守、比赛掌控力和冲击篮筐的能力看起来非常专业。Small 在八场夏季联赛中贡献了 50 次助攻，仅有 13 次失误，抢到了 12 次抢断，甚至封盖了三次投篮。他作为外线威胁的表现也足够稳健，尝试了 43 次三分球并命中了 17 个。他确实有实力。
多伦多猛龙队 Allen Graves
Graves 是 2026 年选秀中最大的谜团。他在面对西海岸联盟 (West Coast Conference) 的弱队时积累的那些惊人的高级统计数据，在面对职业球员时会如何转化，尤其是考虑到他节奏缓慢且时而脱节的比赛风格？ 答案是：“太惊艳了！” 这位来自圣克拉拉大学、在第 19 顺位被选中的猛龙队首轮秀，是拉斯维加斯最出色的球员之一。他刷数据的能力也延续了下来：他在 110 分钟内贡献了 13 次“抢断+盖帽 (stocks)”，场均贡献 7 个篮板和 3 次助攻。此外，尽管人们担心他的出手速度慢，但他投三分毫无压力，平均每 5 分钟就出手一次。他看起来像是一个能立即进入轮换的球员。
洛杉矶湖人队 Arthur Kaluma
在所有参加夏季联赛的未签约老将球员中，卡卢马（Kaluma）最出众。球探们从他在克雷顿大学（Creighton）大二那年起就一直关注着这位 24 岁的小将。他拥有球队在小前锋位置上渴求的身材和运动能力，并且拥有极具威胁的投篮假动作。遗憾的是，他对比赛的感知和投篮触感一直没能跟上他的身体天赋。
这种情况或许正在改变：
一年前，卡卢马是南湾队（South Bay）表现更好的球员之一，且在夏季联赛中拥有统治级的表现，从而为他赢得了湖队的一份双向合同。他在七场比赛中（包括在加州经典赛的两场） 76.0 的真实命中率虽然难以持久，但这可能并不是一个太大的特例：卡卢马上赛季的真实命中率为 70.0，其中两分球命中率为 67.3。他在拉斯维加斯以及上赛季在 G 联赛中的外线投篮表现良好，并且凭借其身材和运动能力能创造足够的上篮机会，即使他在其他类别的各项数据仅处于平均水平，也能维持竞争力。
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几乎无雨 (LITTLE TO NO RAIN)
明尼阿波利斯 (Minneapolis) 格林湾 (Green Bay)
哈里斯堡 (Harrisburg) 纽约 (New York) 底特律 (Detroit) 布法罗 (Buffalo) 叙拉古 (Syracuse)
密尔沃基 (Milwaukee)
持续性 (PERSISTENT)
查尔斯顿 (Charleston) 里士满 (Richmond)
路易维尔 (Louisville)
波特兰 (Portland)
圣路易斯 (St. Louis)
纳什维尔 (Nashville)
迈阿密 (Miami)
波特兰 (Portland)
小石城 (Little Rock) 91/ 74 0 90/ 80 PC 96/ 77 T 洛杉矶 (Los Angeles) 89/ 70 0 92/ 69 S 90/ 70 S 路易维尔 (Louisville) 80/ 62 0 80/ 70 PC 84/ 71 PC 孟菲斯 (Memphis) 88/ 73 0 87/ 76 T 90/ 77 T 迈阿密 (Miami) 93/ 80 0.06 91/ 80 T 94/ 79 T 密尔沃基 (Milwaukee) 77/ 63 0 81/ 65 S 84/ 72 S 明尼阿波利斯-圣保罗 (Mpls.-St. Paul) 80/ 65 0 80/ 69 S 95/ 74 S 纳什维尔 (Nashville) 85/ 65 0 86/ 70 PC 83/ 74 T 新奥尔良 (New Orleans) 90/ 78 0.06 94/ 77 T 94/ 79 Sh 诺福克 (Norfolk) 79/ 72 0.41 79/ 71 Sh 80/ 67 C 俄克拉荷马市 (Oklahoma City) 96/ 74 0 96/ 75 PC 97/ 76 PC 奥马哈 (Omaha) 79/ 65 0.05 77/ 69 R 95/ 74 S 奥兰多 (Orlando) 95/ 76 0.10 95/ 77 T 94/ 78 T 费城 (Philadelphia) 85/ 66 0 85/ 65 S 85/ 65 S 凤凰城 (Phoenix) 113/ 95 0 116/ 95 S 118/ 92 S 匹兹堡 (Pittsburgh) 76/ 57 0 78/ 65 PC 80/ 63 Sh 波特兰，缅因州 (Portland, Me.) 78/ 54 0 79/ 56 S 77/ 53 S 波特兰，俄勒冈州 (Portland, Ore.) 83/ 62 0 86/ 60 PC 76/ 63 C 普罗维登斯 (Providence) 80/ 57 0 82/ 57 S 80/ 57 S 罗利 (Raleigh) 74/ 69 0.95 77/ 70 T 77/ 69 T 里诺 (Reno) 100/ 66 0 102/ 66 S 99/ 63 S 里士满 (Richmond) 79/ 65 0 81/ 68 PC 78/ 66 PC 罗切斯特 (Rochester) 77/ 53 0 81/ 59 S 85/ 64 C 萨克拉门托 (Sacramento) 92/ 57 0 94/ 58 S 95/ 61 S 盐湖城 (Salt Lake City) 96/ 75 0 103/ 79 T 103/ 78 PC 圣安东尼奥 (San Antonio) 102/ 78 0 96/ 77 PC 97/ 77 S 圣迭戈 (San Diego) 80/ 70 0 79/ 69 PC 78/ 71 PC 旧金山 (San Francisco) 70/ 58 0 70/ 58 PC 71/ 58 PC 圣何塞 (San Jose) 76/ 58 0 77/ 59 PC 80/ 58 PC 圣胡安 (San Juan) 91/ 78 0.04 92/ 80 T 91/ 79 T 西雅图 (Seattle) 78/ 59 0 82/ 58 PC 74/ 60 PC 苏福尔斯 (Sioux Falls) 79/ 65 0 78/ 69 PC 102/ 73 S 斯波坎 (Spokane) 99/ 66 0 96/ 67 S 91/ 59 S 圣路易斯 (St. Louis) 80/ 67 0 76/ 68 Sh 88/ 74 T 圣托马斯 (St. Thomas) 91/ 80 0.01 92/ 82 PC 93/ 80 T 叙拉古 (Syracuse) 78/ 55 0 83/ 60 S 85/ 64 PC 坦帕 (Tampa) 94/ 78 0.04 95/ 80 T 93/ 82 PC 托莱多 (Toledo) 79/ 56 0 80/ 58 S 84/ 67 PC 图森 (Tucson) 106/ 83 0.04 109/ 84 T 111/ 82 T 图尔萨 (Tulsa) 92/ 75 0 91/ 79 PC 98/ 81 S 弗吉尼亚海滩 (Virginia Beach) 76/ 72 0.63 79/ 71 T 77/ 69 C 华盛顿 (Washington) 84/ 67 0 84/ 68 PC 85/ 69 PC 威奇托 (Wichita) 88/ 74 0.02 91/ 75 R 97/ 78 S 威尔明顿，特拉华州 (Wilmington, Del.) 84/ 62 0 85/ 62 S 86/ 61 S
非洲 (Africa) Af A 昨日 (Yesterday) Ye Y 今日 (Today) 明日 (Tomorrow) To T
阿尔及尔 (Algiers) 100/ 75 0 99/ 76 S 95/ 75 S 开罗 (Cairo) 105/ 79 0 97/ 79 PC 103/ 75 S 开普敦 (Cape Town) 59/ 50 0.24 64/ 48 S 68/ 44 S 达喀尔 (Dakar) 90/ 73 0 91/ 82 PC 89/ 81 PC 约翰内斯堡 (Johannesburg) 67/ 42 0 67/ 37 S 66/ 39 S 内罗比 (Nairobi) 79/ 54 0 77/ 57 PC 76/ 57 R 突尼斯 (Tunis) 106/ 77 0 100/ 77 S 101/ 81 S
亚洲/太平洋 (Asia/Pacific) 昨日 (Yesterday) Ye Y 今日 (Today) 明日 (Tomorrow) To T
巴格达 (Baghdad) 115/ 92 0 114/ 84 S 114/ 85 S 曼谷 (Bangkok) 93/ 79 0.04 95/ 81 R 94/ 80 R 北京 (Beijing) 84/ 71 0.10 88/ 73 T 90/ 75 PC 大马士革 (Damascus) 102/ 72 0 99/ 69 W 98/ 68 W 香港 (Hong Kong) 92/ 82 0.03 92/ 82 S 93/ 81 PC 雅加达 (Jakarta) 91/ 77 0 89/ 75 PC 90/ 73 PC 耶路撒冷 (Jerusalem) 88/ 71 0 86/ 69 S 90/ 71 S 卡拉奇 (Karachi) 93/ 84 0 96/ 83 PC 95/ 83 PC 马尼拉 (Manila) 90/ 77 0.26 88/ 78 T 88/ 78 Sh 孟买 (Mumbai) 84/ 81 1.36 88/ 81 T 86/ 80 T
气象数据由 AccuWeather 提供
多伦多 (Toronto)
ee wauke 密尔沃基 (Milwau) wauk
克利夫兰 (Cleveland) Cleve Cleve 匹兹堡 (Pit sburg) tts tts gh g
芝加哥 (Chicago) ago
anapolis 印度 (India)
斯普林菲尔德 (Springfield) e
查尔斯顿 (Charleston) C e
e 路易维尔 (Louisville)
小石城 (Little Rock) 孟菲斯 (Memphis)
伯明翰 (Birmingham) m
亚特兰大 (Atlanta) 亚特兰大 (Atlanta) 亚特兰大 (Atlanta)
莫比尔 (Mo il) Mo 新奥尔良 (New Orleans) New New Or eans
巴吞鲁日 (Baton Rouge) o
奥兰多 (Orlando) Or 坦帕 (Tampa)
休斯顿 (ouston) Hou
天气模式显示为预计今日正午（东部时间）的情况。
阵雨和雷暴（部分地区为强降雨）今日将蔓延至东南部大部分地区。最广泛的风暴将出现在从密西西比州北部到北卡罗来纳州的区域，该地区的连续雷暴可能会导致闪电洪水。东北部和大湖区将保持干燥和温和。
预计下午和晚上，德克萨斯州西部和俄克拉荷马州，以及北达科他州和明尼苏达州北部将出现两个独立的强对流天气区域。这些雷暴可能会产生破坏性的阵风和冰雹。全天，爱荷华州和密苏里州将被雨水浸润。
在更西部的地区，雷暴将在落基山脉大部分地区出现，这可能会导致闪电洪水。强风和干燥条件可能会导致西北部地区面临极高火灾风险。
魁北克市 班戈
新德里 94/ 81 0.05 89/ 79 T 91/ 80 R 利雅得 113/ 86 0 111/ 88 PC 111/ 86 S 首尔 88/ 77 0.22 86/ 77 T 84/ 76 R 上海 98/ 81 0.06 99/ 81 PC 99/ 81 S 新加坡 87/ 77 0.05 89/ 79 T 86/ 78 T 悉尼 69/ 48 0 63/ 43 S 69/ 50 S 台北市 91/ 80 0.15 97/ 81 W 93/ 80 T 德黑兰 93/ 77 0.01 98/ 81 PC 102/ 84 PC 东京 95/ 82 0 92/ 78 T 91/ 77 C
欧洲 昨日 Ye Y 今日 To T 明日 To T
阿姆斯特丹 68/ 57 0.26 76/ 60 PC 77/ 64 S 雅典 93/ 79 0 85/ 66 Sh 84/ 64 R 柏林 70/ 57 0.27 74/ 51 PC 85/ 61 S 布鲁塞尔 72/ 59 0.03 77/ 58 C 82/ 62 C 布达佩斯 79/ 52 0.03 78/ 52 S 83/ 56 S 哥本哈根 73/ 59 0 70/ 59 PC 72/ 60 Sh 都柏林 70/ 55 0 75/ 56 C 69/ 57 Sh 爱丁堡 72/ 57 0 69/ 58 C 69/ 53 Sh 法兰克福 75/ 54 0 82/ 58 S 90/ 61 S 日内瓦 82/ 57 0 89/ 59 S 83/ 62 T 赫尔辛基 68/ 54 0.13 69/ 53 C 68/ 59 Sh 伊斯坦布尔 79/ 70 0 83/ 70 PC 75/ 67 R 基辅 74/ 54 0 74/ 58 PC 76/ 60 S 里斯本 81/ 66 0 79/ 66 S 80/ 65 PC 伦敦 79/ 61 0 86/ 60 PC 85/ 63 S 马德里 100/ 68 0 94/ 63 S 87/ 60 S 莫斯科 70/ 59 0.06 72/ 58 Sh 70/ 55 PC 尼斯 84/ 75 0 87/ 74 S 86/ 71 PC 奥斯陆 72/ 48 0 77/ 56 C 67/ 53 C 巴黎 77/ 61 0 85/ 62 PC 88/ 60 PC 布拉格 63/ 54 0.13 75/ 51 S 84/ 57 PC 罗马 90/ 72 0 93/ 66 S 88/ 75 S 圣彼得堡 67/ 55 0.08 71/ 59 Sh 76/ 61 Sh 斯德哥尔摩 64/ 48 0.02 71/ 56 C 65/ 57 C 维也纳 73/ 61 0.14 77/ 51 PC 84/ 60 PC 华沙 64/ 59 0.04 68/ 53 Sh 78/ 55 PC
北美 昨日 Ye Y 今日 To T 明日 To T
拿骚
阿卡普尔科 89/ 77 0 91/ 76 T 89/ 76 T 百慕大 88/ 82 0.02 86/ 80 T 88/ 80 T 埃德蒙顿 73/ 59 0 87/ 54 PC 83/ 55 PC 瓜达拉哈拉 79/ 60 0 84/ 62 T 84/ 61 PC 哈瓦那 91/ 71 0 91/ 71 R 92/ 72 T 金斯敦 90/ 79 0.04 91/ 80 T 92/ 80 C 马提尼克 90/ 79 0.01 90/ 79 T 90/ 77 T 墨西哥城 70/ 55 0 79/ 57 C 78/ 55 Sh 蒙特雷 92/ 76 0 88/ 69 T 94/ 68 PC 蒙特利尔 72/ 55 0.03 81/ 62 PC 85/ 66 S 拿骚 90/ 82 0.06 89/ 80 T 90/ 79 T 巴拿马城 86/ 75 0.09 86/ 75 T 91/ 76 R 魁北克市 64/ 52 0.04 80/ 58 PC 84/ 62 S 圣多明各 90/ 74 0.05 92/ 74 S 94/ 75 S 多伦多 75/ 54 0 78/ 64 S 81/ 66 Sh 温哥华 75/ 65 0.03 78/ 60 PC 71/ 59 R 温尼伯 79/ 63 Tr 86/ 61 T 85/ 64 S
南美 昨日 Ye Y 今日 To T 明日 To T
布宜诺斯艾利斯 55/ 48 Tr 60/ 52 Sh 59/ 53 PC 加拉加斯 89/ 77 0.01 91/ 77 R 90/ 76 R 利马 74/ 70 0 76/ 69 PC 78/ 68 S 基多 65/ 48 0 69/ 48 Sh 71/ 46 R 累西腓 82/ 73 0.42 82/ 76 Sh 82/ 75 Sh 里约热内卢 77/ 68 0 74/ 68 Sh 75/ 68 R 圣地亚哥 55/ 47 0 63/ 50 PC 61/ 46 R
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渥太华 Otta Otta
曼彻斯特 Ma M
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波士顿 Bos B
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纽约 N
费城 Phi
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杰克逊维尔 J
东北部的高压将导致该地区大部分地区天气晴朗或多云，气候干燥。唯一例外的是弗吉尼亚州的沿海地区，那里全天将有雷阵雨。任何雷阵雨都可能导致强降雨和洪水。
哈利法克斯 (Halifax) H
60s 60s 60 60
今晚 ................................................晴 最低 66. 高压将继续主导天气模式，导致天空晴朗，风力轻微且方向多变。气温将比 7 月底的正常水平低约 5 度。
明天 ..............................多为晴天 最高 82. 天空将保持多为晴朗，东-东北风轻微，风速为 4 到 8 英里每小时。最高气温将比该时节的正常水平低几度。
周日 ....................................多为晴天 最高 83. 天气将与前几日相似，阳光充足，气候继续干燥。东风轻微，风速为 4 到 8 英里每小时。
周一 周二 ................................周一有雷阵雨 周一将出现阴晴交替，下午有雷阵雨。最高 85. 周二将以多云为主，并伴有雷阵雨。最高 83.
在中央公园，截至昨日下午 1 点的 13 小时内。
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
100° 最高纪录 100° (2011)
周三 昨日
6 p.m.
12 a.m.
本月日均偏离值 本月日均偏离值 离常态............... -0.2° 今年日均偏离值 离常态............... -0.1°
水库水位 （纽约市供水）
昨日 ............... 87% 预估常态 ............. 91%
太阳、月亮与行星
月亮
满月 下弦月 新月 上弦月
7月29日 8月5日 8月12日 8月19日
10:35 a.m.
1:36 p.m.
6 a.m.
升起 5:45 a.m. 落下 8:20 p.m. 下次升起 5:46 a.m.
木星
升 6:04 a.m. 落 8:32 p.m.
土星
升 11:30 p.m. 落 12:00 p.m.
航海
从蒙托克角到新泽西州的桑迪胡克，延伸至 20 海里，包括长岛海峡和纽约港。 风向为东风，风速约 5 节。纽约港和长岛海峡的波高将为 1 英尺或更低，公海波高为 2-3 英尺。能见度无限制，可见地平线。
高潮时间
大西洋城 .................... 4:11 a.m. .............. 4:46 p.m. 巴内加特入海口 ................. 4:30 a.m. .............. 4:56 p.m. 巴特里 ..................... 5:00 a.m. .............. 5:28 p.m. 海文滩 .................. 5:40 a.m. .............. 6:13 p.m. 布里奇波特 ...................... 8:19 a.m. .............. 8:34 p.m. 城市岛 ....................... 8:58 a.m. .............. 9:12 p.m. 火岛灯塔 .................. 5:08 a.m. .............. 5:41 p.m. 蒙托克角 ................ 6:08 a.m. .............. 6:27 p.m. 北港 ....................... 8:36 a.m. .............. 8:51 p.m. 波特华盛顿 ............. 9:03 a.m. .............. 9:17 p.m. 桑迪胡克 .................... 4:22 a.m. .............. 4:55 p.m. 希尼考克入海口 ............. 4:14 a.m. .............. 4:44 p.m. 斯坦福 ........................ 8:27 a.m. .............. 8:39 p.m. 塔里敦 ....................... 6:49 a.m. .............. 7:17 p.m. 威利茨角 .................... 8:55 a.m. .............. 9:09 p.m.
最高 85° 常态
1 p.m. 78°
最低 71° 常态
(1890) 最低 58° 纪录 64° 6 a m.
落 1:05 a.m. 升 5:00 p.m. 落 1:45 a.m.
火星
升 2:26 a.m. 落 5:24 p.m.
金星
升 9:34 a.m. 落 10:20 p.m.
S M T W T F
最高 最高 实际 预报 范围
最低 最低
昨日 ............... 0.00 纪录 .................... 2.41
过去 30 天 实际 ..................... 4.10 常态.................... 4.24
过去 365 天 实际 ................... 36.64 常态.................. 49.52
过去 30 天 气压
最高 ......... 30.17 11 a.m. 最低 ............ 29.99 1 a.m.
冷却度日
一项追踪日平均气温高于 65 度多少的燃料消耗指数。
趋势 温度 降水量 平均值 平均值 低于 低于 高于 高于
最近 10 天 30 天 90 天 365 天
图表显示近期温度和降水趋势与过去 30 年趋势的对比情况。
海滩和海洋温度
今日预报
76/55 晴朗 肯尼邦克波特
78/53 晴朗 鳕鱼角
82/64 晴朗 长岛北岸
80/67 晴朗 长岛南岸
80/64 晴间多云 新泽西海岸
81/62 局部晴朗 东海岸
75/66 局部晴朗 马里兰州海洋城
79/71 阴，有雷阵雨 弗吉尼亚海滩
纪录 最高温
S S M T
常态 最高温
常态 最低温
纪录 最低温
最高 ............. 62% 6 a.m. 最低 ................ 39% 正午
70s 70 70 70
色带 表示 水温。
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新闻 评论
启发 一名剧作家的 艺术作品
著名的维也纳工坊中 不为人知的设计师们致敬。
1914年4月5日，来自维也纳的两名20多岁的女性弗里达·拉古斯（Frieda Lagus）和加比·莫施尔（Gabi Möschl）在走下曼哈顿的登船梯时，展现出一种“女性男性化类型的最新且自信的 swagger（大步走）”，根据《布法罗早报》（The Buffalo Morning Courier）的一篇报道，她们引起了轰动。 其中一位亚马逊女战士头戴男式草帽，身穿一套她称之为“未来主义愿景”（Futurist Vision）的服装。根据一份震惊的《纽约论坛报》（The New York Tribune）报道，该服装的特点是裙子带有侧袋——位置就在“男装裤袋所在的地方”——并搭配一件“像男人一样”的夹克、白色衬衫和领带，完成了《早报》所称的“男性效果”。 这两位女性掌握了这种“效果”以及她们的 swagger，因为她们是伟大的维也纳工坊（Wiener Werkstätte）——即维也纳工作坊——的设计师。该设计工作室兼零售商成立于1903年，因其激进的现代商品而闻名于世。 现在，纽约的犹太博物馆在名为“现代性与富丽：维也纳工坊的女性”（Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte）的震撼展览中，为我们打开了一扇窗，让我们得以窥见这些激进的女性及其品味。该展汇集了在该公司三十年生命周期中设计的200件以上的物品。尽管博物馆选择关注那些出生为犹太人的工坊女性（约占该公司女性艺术家的25%），但我认为族群身份并非本次展览真正的核心；性别才是其至关重要的主题。 这次展览不仅仅是在做目前常见的——即通过聚焦那些被同时代男性所掩盖的才华女性的作品来使其成名——就像蒂法尼公司（Tiffany & Company）的女性员工最近获得了一些曾经仅属于她们老板的认可一样。 进一步地，它呈现了一个全新的维也纳工坊形象，以及在那里塑造了“女性应当如何存在”之全新理念的女性——她们不再是男性谦卑且得体的伴侣，而是拥有权力和勇气去留下印记的人。
BLAKE GOPNIK 艺术评论
作者：MAYA PHILLIPS
上面的艺术作品是罗马雷·比尔登（Romare Bearden）的《磨坊工人的午餐桶》（Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket）。这是一幅1978年的照片蒙太奇——由纸张和织物与水彩、绘图铅笔、不透明水彩和毛笔笔触组成的拼贴画——描绘了一家寄宿公寓的住户。该艺术家在去世时是美国最顶尖的拼贴画艺术家。 这幅拼贴画恰好也是美国戏剧伟大作品之一的构图关键。剧作家奥古斯特·威尔逊（August Wilson）凭借《栅栏》（Fences）和《钢琴课》（The Piano Lesson）获得过普利策奖，他从这件作品中汲取灵感，创作了《乔·特纳来了又走》（Joe Turner’s Come and Gone）。这部剧是他聚焦于匹兹堡以黑人为主的希尔区居民的“世纪周期”（Century Cycle）十部剧作中的一部杰作。 你可以看到一名身穿黄衣的女性在移动，而一名身穿深色外套、戴着帽子的男人瘫坐在桌边。仔细观察，你会发现他们的手粗糙且宽大。桌旁的一个孩子在喝一杯牛奶，而墙上相框里的一位白衣祖母形象在守护着。在画面的右上角，匹兹堡的工业背景清晰可见，钢铁厂中烟雾缭绕。
续见第C3页
2026年7月24日，星期五 C1
ROMARE BEARDEN FOUNDATION/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY
CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES AND HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART; PHOTOGRAPH BY CARTER SEDDON
占据墙面空间
《穿过海峡》（Sailing Through the Sound） 现展出在巴德学院的一场回顾展中， 此次展览聚焦于该画廊主本人的艺术作品。 评论，第6页。
包括在曼哈顿边缘举办的舞蹈节和丰富的电影之夜。
去年 Battery Dance 节上的 Battery Dance 成员。该活动将于 8 月 10 日至 16 日在 Robert F. Wagner Jr. 公园举行。
SUMMER FOR THE CITY 截至 8 月 8 日，地点在曼哈顿林肯中心； lincolncenter.org。
随着这个免费及随意付费的文化活动节接近尾端，林肯中心节日管弦乐团（Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center）的演出将继续，而 BAAND Together 舞蹈节将于周二开始。中国艺术周将于周日结束，届时将有齐羽的古筝爵士乐演出。来自非洲各地的音乐家将于 8 月 1 日在林肯中心广场的舞池进行表演；而从 8 月 5 日到 8 日，“舞蹈邂逅”（Dance Encounters）系列将呈现 Vangeline 的作品，她为 Milstein 反光池创作了一部作品。
BATTERY DANCE FESTIVAL 8 月 10-16 日，地点在曼哈顿 Robert F. Wagner Jr. 公园；batterydance.org。
在 8 月的一周内，从晚上 7 点开始，纽约运行时间最长的免费舞蹈节将在曼哈顿边缘的舞台上呈现各舞团的表演，以绝美的夕阳作为背景。今年的演出阵容包括 Soles of Duende、Bodysonnet、Jon Lehrer 舞蹈公司、Estúdio Movimento em Foco 以及当然还有 Battery Dance。
BATTERY PARK CITY SUMMER 截至 8 月 28 日，地点在曼哈顿下城的 Robert F. Wagner Jr. 公园、Rockefeller 公园及其他地点；bpca.ny.gov。
在曼哈顿下城这些风景如画的公园里，大约还剩一个月夏季活动。本周六，Battery Dance 将以“美国 250：共同前进”（America 250: Moving Together）庆祝美国半二百周年（Semiquincentennial）。“河流与蓝调”（River & Blues）系列将于周四以 Amelia Day 的音乐会收尾。而 Ailey II 将以一场表演和一个工作坊为本季画上句号。
INTREPID SUMMER MOVIE SERIES 截至 8 月 28 日，地点在曼哈顿西 46 街与 12 大街的无畏号博物馆（Intrepid Museum）；intrepidmuseum.org。
该博物馆的免费电影系列将继续以《国家宝藏》（National Treasure）和《美国之尾：费夫尔去西部》（An American Tail: Fievel Goes West）庆祝国家建国 250 周年。电影将在飞行甲板上放映，时间为截至 8 月份每月最后一个周五的日落时分。入场采取先到先得制。
SUMMER HD FESTIVAL 9 月 2-8 日，地点在曼哈顿林肯中心广场；metopera.org。
准备迎接大都会歌剧院（Metropolitan Opera）新剧季的最佳方式，莫过于坐在剧院外的广场上，欣赏一些由电影记录的顶级演出。今年的艺术节包括瓦格纳的《特里斯坦与伊索尔德》（Tristan und Isolde）、柴可夫斯基的《叶甫盖尼·奥涅金》（Eugene Onegin）和普契尼的《波希米亚人》（La Bohème）。这些免费放映大约在日落时分开始，入场采取先到先得制。
SHAKESPEARE FOR THE CITY 截至 9 月 8 日，地点在曼哈顿中央公园的 Delacorte 剧院；publictheater.org。
本季在 Delacorte 剧院演出的第二部莎士比亚剧作《冬天的故事》（The Winter’s Tale）将于周六开始为期一个月 的演出。随后，从 9 月 4 日到 8 日，Public Works 的“公共记录”（Public Record）将尝试在包含 100 多名表演者的现场录制中捕捉这座城市的夏末时代精神。
爵士音乐家 Esperanza Spalding 将于 8 月 8 日在总督岛（Governors Island）演出。
《波希米亚人》将是大都会歌剧院夏季 HD 艺术节的重点节目之一。
BRYANT PARK PICNIC PERFORMANCES 截至 9 月 11 日，地点在曼哈顿布莱恩特公园（Bryant Park）；bryantpark.org。
在这个中城的绿洲中，纽约吉他节（New York Guitar Festival）、合唱节（Choir Festival）和新兴音乐节（Emerging Music Festival）的阵容近期有所扩大，这些活动均在 8 月举行。同时，卡内基音乐厅全市系列（Carnegie Hall City-wide）将于周五呈献 NYC Ska 管弦乐团，7 月 31 日呈献 El Laberinto del Coco。本季将以一场纪念 9 月 11 日 25 周年的音乐会结束。
PARAMOUNT+ MOVIE NIGHTS AT BRYANT PARK 截至 9 月 14 日，地点在曼哈顿布莱恩特公园；bryantpark.org。
30 多年来，这项夏季活动给了我们至少一个喜欢周一的理由。今年的节目单包括《楚门的世界》、《老无所依》和《银河系特工》。请于下午 5 点到达以抢占位置，品尝由 Hester Street Fair 精选的食物，并享用来自 Stout NYC 的啤酒、葡萄酒或鸡尾酒。放映于晚上 8 点开始。
MOVIES WITH A VIEW 由 PERSOL 呈献 至 9 月 18 日在布鲁克林桥公园（Brooklyn Bridge Park）布鲁克林区 1 号码头海景草坪举行；brooklynbridgepark.org。
在周四晚上，这个布鲁克林桥公园系列活动提供了夏季观影的最佳方式之一——在户外欣赏电影，同时可以将下曼哈顿的天际线尽收眼底。今年的名册包括《独领风骚》、《为你做正确的事》和《伴娘》。在 8 月初，公众可以在网上投票决定 8 月 27 日放映哪部电影。放映于日落时分开始。
KAREN ALMOND/METROPOLITAN OPERA
BRIC CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! 至 9 月 19 日在布鲁克林区原野公园（Prospect Park）的 Lena Horne 露天音乐台举行；bricartsmedia.org。
本周末，BRIC 将在周五呈献“露天音乐台爵士乐”，由领衔嘉宾 Cindy Blackman Santana 乐队演出；周六，活动将回到皇冠高地（Crown Heights）的 Brower 公园，举行一场庆祝舞曲的街区派对。8 月的亮点包括 Lyricist Lounge 的 35 周年音乐会以及 Sasha Velour 的演出。Liz Phair 和 Sleater-Kinney 将于 9 月 19 日举行一场慈善音乐会为本季收官。许多演出免费且先到先得，但部分演出需付费入场。
ROB LEWIS
RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL 至 9 月 27 日在曼哈顿的总督岛（Governors Island）和 Robert F. Wagner Jr. 公园举行；lmcc.net/river-to-river-2026。
这场庆祝城市韧性与创造力的活动在 Wagner 公园继续进行，8 月 8 日将有 Esperanza Spalding 的音乐会，9 月 10, 12 和 13 日将呈献由编舞师 Bill T. Jones 委约创作的作品。在 L.M.C.C. 位于总督岛的艺术中心，Leslie Wayne 描绘融化冰山的风景画以及关于气候科学的多媒体作品将展出至 9 月 27 日。
SUMMER ON THE HUDSON 至 9 月 30 日在曼哈顿的河滨公园南区（Riverside Park South）和西哈莱姆码头公园（West Harlem Piers Park）举行；nycgovparks.org。
在本季过半之际，这个由河滨保护协会（Riverside Conservancy）和纽约市公园局（NYC Parks）共同举办的系列活动仍有大量活动可供参与。其中一个亮点是哈德逊古典剧团（Hudson Classical Theater Company），该剧团将在士兵与水手纪念碑附近结束其演出季，直到 8 月 16 日上演《跳舞的人》（The Dancing Men）。特别活动包括 8 月 15 日的 Fly NYC 风筝节，9 月 6 日的西区县集市，以及 8 月 30 日、9 月 5 日和 10 月 4 日的 Sketch Jam（一个激发内在艺术潜能的机会）。
SUMMERSTAGE 至 10 月 1 日在全市各公园举行；cityparksfoundation.org/summerstage。
这一夏季传统活动将继续庆祝其为城市公园带来音乐的 40 年。周日，Latinidades 节和纽约非裔拉丁裔节（Afro-Latino Festival NYC）将在中央公园的 Rumsey 操场呈献一场由 Luedji Luna 和 Susana Baca 参与的 showcase。Doug E. Fresh 将于 7 月 31 日出现在布朗克斯的 Crotona 公园。而查理·帕克爵士节（Charlie Parker Jazz Festival）将在 8 月底接管哈莱姆的 Marcus Garvey 公园，其阵容包括 Ravi Coltrane。许多演出免费且先到先得，但部分演出需付费入场。
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK SUMMER PROGRAMMING 至 10 月 17 日在布鲁克林桥公园举行；brooklynbridgepark.org。
这座公园的日程表依然充满了与其壮丽景色相称的文化体验。布鲁克林美式音乐（Brooklyn Americana Music）将在周五为绿道露台（Greenway Terrace）带来一个乡村、民谣和蓝草音乐之夜。在 6 号码头，Herbert Holler 的自由派对（Freedom Party）将于 8 月 29 日将迪斯科带到户外，而 DJ 团体 Papi Juice 将在 9 月 19 日主持最后一个周六晚舞会。印度灯礼仪式将于 8 月 8 日回到卵石海滩（Pebble Beach），而收获节（Harvest Festival）将为本季画上句号。
CLAUDIO RODRIGUEZ
克劳斯·金斯基在维尔纳·赫尔佐格导演的《阿吉雷，上帝之怒》中。
《阿吉雷拉，上帝之怒》(1972) 在 Tubi 播出
如同一个不可能的梦，一群男人在圣诞节早晨从云端降临。这是维尔纳·赫尔佐格这部史诗巨作的开篇，随后电影陷入了一场持久且迷人的疯狂深渊。 影片追踪了一群探险者寻找埃尔多拉多宝藏的旅程，他们被西班牙征服者唐·洛佩·德·阿吉雷拉（克劳斯·金斯基 饰）牵引。这是一次被汗水浸透的沉思，探讨人们在权力欲望和财富幻想中沉醉而产生的妄想。他们固执地向自己的黑暗之心推进，即便这让他们陷入谵妄并最终死去。 电影始于云端，终于猴群在大炮周围聚集、尸体四处散落的景象，而踱步的阿吉雷拉仍在喃喃自语，谈论着要征服的世界和要发现的宝藏。 历史及其暴力，以及我们通常所说的进步，是由这样的人塑造的。（伟大的电影亦然：你可以感觉到银幕上的疯狂同时也是这部以制作极其困难而闻名之作的记录。）但这个故事——它曾激励过如《现代启示录》等其他阴郁史诗——既幽默又平淡。这是一篇关于殖民主义的论著，其卓越之处在于揭示了征服的日常现实：饥饿的傻瓜们只是坐在那里，等待着，渐渐消亡。
《劫持佩勒姆123号》(1974) 在 YouTube 播出
这也许是最典型的纽约电影。这里展现了这座城市可能真实存在的样子：它形形色色的人群——警察与罪犯，政治家与普通人，通勤者与调度员——在彼此永无止境地烦扰的同时，互动并协作。换句话说，这是一部关于被困在地铁上的电影。 但其核心是一部老派惊悚片，且因其年代感而更显精彩。该片由约瑟夫·萨金特执导，讲述了一伙劫匪将地铁乘客扣为人质的故事，它是那种具有触感的 1970 年代犯罪片，地铁控制室的氛围与人质所在的车厢一样令人紧张刺激。 然而，由于那些出现在这些空间中的男人（包括沃尔特·马托），这部电影在粗粝之余也显得幽默且迷人。他们是 70 年代随处可见、让银幕充满活力的人群：粗鲁，面相苍老，且均为一流演员，看起来都像你邻居家那个脾气暴躁的管道工。
《乱》(1985) 在 Tubi 播出
人们可以用华丽的最高级词汇来定义黑泽明这部杰作的壮丽与悲剧。但所有这些词汇都会显得过于简略。更好的描述方式是反转定义，即这部电影本身定义了那些基本概念：如“史诗”、“色彩”、“电影”或“莎士比亚”等词汇。 作为对《李尔王》的宽松改编，黑泽明这部具有里程碑意义的史诗记录了一位国王突然决定将权力与土地让给儿子们后引发的崩溃。随之而来的迅速混乱给人一种矛盾感：它在寓言般亲密且内敛的氛围（仿佛在剧院舞台上演出）与规模宏大、气势磅礴且血染的场景之间交替切换。任何多余的文字在体验这部关于规模与运动、声音与色彩的巨作面前都显得苍白，它本身就足以说明一切。
《月球》(2009) 在 PlutoTV 播出
这是一部由一名主演支撑的两人戏，是一部由萨姆·洛克威尔带动的高度精炼的太空电影。他饰演萨姆·贝尔，一个在月球上的孤独男人，与一家能源公司签了三年的合同负责矿业运营。但在任期的最后几天，他的精神开始崩溃，一次意外让他发现空间站内竟然出现了另一个完全相同的萨姆·贝尔。至此，存在主义危机上演。 你会从中看到其他科幻电影的影子。这部由邓肯·琼斯执导的电影具有科幻电影短篇小说的自洽特质，而非一部宏大的太空歌剧。但对于这样一部低预算作品来说，这本身就是一种回报，它将资金利用到极致以构建一个完整的世界，并凭借洛克威尔这类演员的个人魅力将其成功呈现。
Dev Patel 在 David Lowery 导演的《绿骑士》（The Green Knight）中饰演 Gawain。
《绿骑士》（THE GREEN KNIGHT）（2021） 在 Tubi 播放
这就是全部吗？当 Gawain (Dev Patel) 在死亡之门前颤抖并问出这句话时，他已经走遍了远方：他被抢劫过，援助过一位幽灵圣徒，在半神之中行走，被诱惑者勾引——所有这一切最终引导他心甘情愿地俯身在斩首台上。我们经历冒险，仅仅是因为故事告诉我们要这么做吗？而我们随后献出头颅，仅仅是因为某种随意的荣誉理想如此要求吗？
“还能有什么别的？”绿骑士 (Ralph Ineson) 这样回答 Gawain。David Lowery 这部关于年轻的 Gawain 寻找骑士精神本质的迷人故事，似乎在面对这种关于生命和历史进程的回答时，既感到矛盾又深感着迷。
Lowery 的这部杰作是近年来最优雅、在形式上最具迁移感的奇幻作品之一，但作为一部关于寓言之随机且深远影响力的寓言，它展现出了最宏大的野心与独特之处。人们目睹并做了伟大而严肃的事情。他们在森林中遇到魔法，容易陷入愚蠢，寻得伟大并讲述相关故事，或被斩首——这一切仅仅是因为故事如此规定。还能有什么别的？
WERNER HERZOG 电影
ERIC ZACHANOWICH/A24 FILMS
这部改编自 1996 年一部阴暗且肮脏的电影的伦敦舞台剧选择了一条不同的路径。
伦敦 —— 这一直是一项艰巨的任务。丹尼·博伊尔 1996 年的电影《Trainspotting》（快跑），讲述了五名爱丁堡不适应社会的边缘人在毒品驱动下的不幸遭遇，看起来并不太适合改编成音乐剧。诚然，剧中充满了戏剧冲突：毒瘾主角马克·伦顿（Mark Renton）目睹朋友们的生活被毒品摧毁，最终他意识到，体面生活的平庸之举好过成瘾的肮脏，于是决定“选择生活”。但在产生这一觉悟之前，电影的基调——带着阴郁的讽刺，配以后朋克、独立音乐和电子乐混合的低俗原声带，以及充满讽刺且粗口连篇的攻击性——绝非教条主义。正是这一点使其才华横溢，而这很难转化为音乐剧。尽管如此，为了配合电影 30 周年纪念，音乐剧《Trainspotting: The Musical》试图填补这一空白。其 1993 年的小说原著作者欧文·威尔士（Irvine Welsh）为本次改编编写了剧本 —— 该剧由卡罗琳·杰伊·兰杰（Caroline Jay Ranger）执导，在当地的皇家海马基特剧院（Theater Royal Haymarket）演出至 9 月 5 日 —— 并与斯蒂芬·麦格伊内斯（Stephen McGuinness）共同创作了歌曲。尽管男主角刘易斯·基德（Lewis Kidd）在原演员排练期间受伤后紧急接演伦顿并付出了令人赞赏的努力，但这次尝试依然惨淡地失败了。在开场戏中，基德带领众人欢快地演绎了伊基·波普（Iggy Pop）的《Lust for Life》，但在接下来的两个半小时里，我们见识到了享乐主义所付出的代价。一名婴儿因被忽视而死亡。汤米（芬莱·保罗 饰）被忍耐已久的女友利兹（索菲·哈钦森 饰）甩掉，随后染上海洛因并死于艾滋病。为了避免类似的命运，伦顿突然戒毒，陷入幻觉，而其余演员则在他周围盘旋，随着电子舞曲扭动。焦虑的父母、女友和前任们的愤怒构成了该剧的情节核心。在音乐方面，这部剧毫无亮点。威尔士和麦格伊内斯的歌曲毫无记忆点。《Rolling With the Punches》是一首乏味的赞美韧性的赞歌，而《One Skin Too Few》则是一首关于年轻人在生活中失足的伤感民谣。一首激烈的曲目
为旧剧本 道歉
作者：REGGIE UGWU
前《赛恩菲尔德》（Seinfeld）演员杰森·亚历山大（Jason Alexander）在周二表达了道歉，此前他参与了一个在十多年前将演员考特尼·斯托登（Courtney Stodden）性化的喜剧小品，当时她年仅 17 岁。在这段 2012 年的剧本中（由已关停的喜剧网站 Funny or Die 发布），亚历山大扮演一名江湖骗子生活教练，他将一部手机在斯托登的胸部上摩擦，声称是为了测量她的“心脏质量”。在随后的剧本中，亚历山大的角色坐在斯托登及其当时的丈夫、演员道格·哈奇森（Doug Hutchison）之间，并将手放在她的膝盖上。
“回顾 2012 年我与斯托登女士共同参与的那个喜剧小品，我完全同意那是极其不恰当的，我深表遗憾，”亚历山大在一份早前由 TMZ 发布的声明中表示。“但更重要的是，对于此事给斯托登女士带来的任何伤害或痛苦，我深感抱歉。我向她致以最诚挚的歉意。”
斯托登最初因 2011 年在 16 岁时与当时 51 岁的哈奇森结婚而引起媒体关注。这对夫妇在新闻采访和电视节目（包括《伴侣治疗》和《名人老大哥》）中讨论过他们的关系和年龄差距。两人于 2020 年离婚。
亚历山大的一名代表未立即回应置评请求。斯托登在周三的一份声明中表示，她感谢这次公开道歉。但她补充道：“人们一直在问他是否私下道歉了，他没有。私下的道歉是有意义的，但有意义的行动会更有力量，”例如支持目前一项旨在结束儿童婚姻的加州法案。
周一，斯托登在 Instagram 上分享了一篇帖子，批评亚历山大参与该剧本，并指出他被列为该剧本的作者之一。“我没看到喜剧，”她写道，“我看到的是一个 17 岁的女孩，她的身体成了成人笑话的一部分。”近年来，斯托登一直就她未成年时受到成年人的对待发声。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 从左起，《Trainspotting：音乐剧》中的刘易斯·基德（Lewis Kidd）、基兰·安德鲁（Kieran Andrew）和谢里丹·汤斯利（Sheridan Townsley）。
Trainspotting：音乐剧 展出至 9 月 5 日，地点为伦敦皇家海马基特剧院（Theater Royal Haymarket）；trh.co.uk。
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从左至右：塞德里克·娱乐者（Cedric the Entertainer）、约书亚·布恩（Joshua Boone）和萨凡纳·科莫多尔（Savannah Commodore）在巴里摩剧院（Barrymore Theater）出演的奥古斯特·威尔逊（August Wilson）剧作《乔·特纳来了又走》（Joe Turner’s Come and Gone）。
输电塔和铁轨唤起了迁徙的记忆。作为匹兹堡之子的威尔逊立即被比尔登（Bearden）的作品所吸引，并深受启发。 这就是《工厂工人的午餐桶》（Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket）如何引导威尔逊写出他曾称之为自己最优秀剧作的过程。
拼贴黑人身份。当威尔逊谈到他的影响来源时，他会提到四个“B”：罗梅尔·比尔登（Romare Bearden）、阿米里·巴拉卡（Amiri Baraka）、豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯（Jorge Luis Borges）以及蓝调（blues）。他在 1977 年发现了比尔登，当时比尔登 1964 年创作的一系列拼贴画集《仪式之盛行》（The Prevalence of Ritual）引起了他的注意。比尔登利用拼贴画拼凑出黑人生活繁忙的肖像：黑人们在家里或街道上交流，演奏音乐或举行成年礼。“我看到的是以自身的条件，在宏大且史诗般的规模上呈现的黑人生活，”威尔逊写道。当他后来看到《工厂工人的午餐桶》时，他构思了一部借鉴比尔登描绘的新作的开端。《乔·特纳来了又走》随之诞生，这部作品自 1988 年在百老汇首演以来一直具有持久的生命力和现实意义，包括最近获得托尼奖提名的百老汇复排版。比尔登不仅在作品主题上给威尔逊带来了启发，在构图风格上亦然。在 1991 年的《纽约时报》中，在一篇改编自 92 街 Y 诗歌中心演讲的文章中，威尔逊写道：“我非常钦佩罗梅尔·比尔登；他是一名拼贴艺术家，他将碎片拼接在一起——我发现这也是我创作过程的一部分。我将一切拼凑在一起，并希望它能像拼贴画那样产生意义。”在比尔登和威尔逊看来，拼贴法是最适合描绘黑人经历之复杂性的方法。美国黑人生活的总体情况包括奴隶制与解放、朱巴舞（juba）与爵士乐、根源巫术与教会崇拜。它还包括像比尔登和威尔逊这样使用不同手段来表达这一切的艺术家。“我鼓起勇气，进入了罗梅尔·比尔登的世界，发现了一个按照我的形象创造的世界，”威尔逊在《比尔登：以自身的条件呈现的黑人生活》中写道。“一个由血肉、肌肉、血液、骨骸和火焰组成的世界。一个由纸屑、线条、质量、形式、形状和颜色组成的世界，以及所有优雅、鸟类、火车、吉他、洗浴的女性、拥有巨大双手和心灵的男人的融合，他们在生活中不断推进，直到生活回馈以某种亲缘关系。”
神秘的赫拉尔德·卢米斯（Herald Loomis） 在由黛比·艾伦（Debbie Allen）执导的最新复排版《乔·特纳来了又走》中，约书亚·布恩饰演阴郁的赫拉尔德·卢米斯。 威尔逊最初是在《工厂工人的午餐桶》中心那个“令人不安且沉思的人物”中看到了赫拉尔德。 赫拉尔德穿着一件长长的黑外套，从宽檐帽下窥视，像一个影子或恶魔般的幽灵。他看起来不像一个有血有肉的凡人；而是一个“并非被那些似乎在脚后跟处吠叫的地狱之犬驱动，而是被他对一个能与自身某些特质产生共鸣的世界的追求所驱动”的人，威尔逊写道。
关于经济不平等的歌曲《青年机会》（Youth Opportunities），显然受到了苏格兰朋克乐队 Exploited 乐队的一首同名歌曲的启发，但其强力和弦听起来更像重金属而非朋克。这首歌中的愤怒显得刻意，且在无意中显得有些庸俗。 这些歌曲倾向于中断剧情而非推动剧情发展，即便表演者也大声演唱了几首电影原声带中最著名的歌曲，包括卢·里德（Lou Reed）的《完美的一天》（Perfect Day）。
在舞台指示中写道。 与画中正走出房门的工人以及打扮准备出门的女人相比，剧本中这个忧郁的男子身影显得完全迷失。威尔逊被这个角色吸引，并开始想象他的故事。 在威尔逊接触到比尔登的画作时，他正在创作一系列名为《修复房屋》（Restoring the House）的诗篇，讲述一名获释奴隶寻找被卖给另一名种植园主的妻子的故事。威尔逊开始写一个名为《工厂工人的午餐桶》（The Matter of Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket）的短篇故事，描写比尔登画中那个神情沮丧的男人，但在写了大约十多页后，他放弃了短篇，转而开始创作一部剧本。 这个男人变成了赫拉尔德·卢米斯（Herald Loomis），在《乔·特纳来了又走》（Joe Turner’s Come and Gone）中寻找妻子的漂泊灵魂。
劳动之手 《工厂工人的午餐桶》中最显著的特征是画中巨大的手。走下楼梯的男人穿着外套、戴着帽子，一副工作装扮，一只巨大的手向前伸去拿他的午餐桶。他被赋予了一种目的感，那只巨大的手是一个视觉上的提喻，旨在象征一个劳动者。 在剧中，手代表了不同的黑人角色如何通过劳动获得生存，以及他们如何围绕自己的就业手段建立身份认同。拜纳姆（Bynum）是一名获释奴隶，他说他能分辨出一个人是否有一双摘过棉花的手；而出生在北方、自由生长塞斯（Seth）则激烈地否认自己曾摘过棉花。 于是，工作也成为了衡量角色与该国奴隶制历史联系深浅的标志。谁从这些劳动之手中获益？是一个白人雇主，一个白人奴隶主，还是由于自身？工作不仅仅是财务或经济问题；它与种族密不可分。
Verve乐队的《苦甜交响曲》（Bittersweet Symphony）被当作填充内容加入其中，但这首歌并未出现在电影中（该曲发行于 1997 年）。 演员们尽力让素材变得生动。灵巧的谢里登·汤斯利（Sheridan Townsley）在扮演风流的“病男孩”（Sick Boy）时并不完全令人信服——该角色的定义特征是对“任何种族、信仰和肤色”的女性感兴趣——但至少他拥有足以弥补缺陷的歌声。 饰演精神不稳定且强悍的弗朗西斯·贝格比（Francis Begbie，绰号法兰克）的弗兰基·奥康纳（Frankie O’Connor）
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在舞台上大步走动，不停地爆粗口（F-bombs 和 C-bombs），仿佛这种说话方式还没过时——而事实上，它确实有点过时了。罗伯特·卡莱尔（Robert Carlyle）在电影中赋予该角色的那种阴郁且带有喜剧色彩的威胁感，在这里并不明显。 表现最出色的是基兰·安德鲁（Kieran Andrew），他饰演那个身材细长、憨傻得可爱的扒手斯帕德（Spud），贡献了大部分笑点。他弄脏床单，在服用速度药后的求职面试中滔滔不绝地胡言乱语，并在某个时刻对伦顿（Renton）突然唱起歌来感到困惑，随后勇敢地加入其中。 遗憾的是，这已经达到了全剧的最高水准。那些较为风趣的时刻被毫无道理的情绪宣泄以及关于人们为何吸毒的陈词滥调的社会学论述所淹没。“海洛因热爱痛苦，而痛苦热爱陪伴”是一句
一场旨在唤起 电影体验记忆的 演出。
威尔士显然认为这段话足够强而有力，可以让伦顿不仅说一次，而且说两次。然而，抱怨《Trainspotting：音乐剧》乏味且在美学上不连贯，实际上是没抓到重点。因为像这样的演出的真正目的，并非为了创造新鲜的感官体验或从零开始讲述一个故事，而仅仅是为了触发人们第一次观看这部电影时的记忆，以及与那时更年轻的自己相关的其他回忆。
它的快感就像是游轮上的致敬乐队，而那些在 20 世纪 90 年代成年的一代人——其中许多人在去年欣然支付数百英镑购买 Oasis 乐队的门票——已经进入了他们的怀旧 era。 (在剧院酒吧里，我无意中听到一群 40 多岁的人用一种觉得新奇且有趣的神情，讨论着他们最近衰弱的膀胱。)
人们不禁会认为，对于这些目的来说，一部纯粹的拼贴音乐剧（jukebox musical）效果可能会更好。如果能看到剧团演绎 Underworld 乐队那首具有催眠般重复感的 11 分半钟电子经典曲目《Born Slippy》（该曲伴随电影中的高潮场景），肯定会很有趣。相反，他们重新演绎了《Perfect Day》，这感觉像是一种敷衍。但对于这种最低公分母式的怀旧来说，低创意风险是常态。至于“选择生活”（choosing life），也就那样吧。
由 David Gallo 设计的布景，同样唤起了匹兹堡那个增长与迁徙的时代：巨大的背景墙上展示着一座铁桥和钢铁厂的烟囱。
威尔逊将这部剧设定在“大迁徙”的早期，当时数百万黑人美国人为了寻找工作，从南部迁往东北部、中西部和西部。在剧本开头，赛斯嘲笑那些认为这么多黑人为了工作向北迁徙的想法，因为他们不知道“白人伙计们也在寻找”，而且很快就开始赚得比黑人工人更多。因此，钢铁厂可能代表了新的工作机会，但这是一个虚假的承诺，是美国梦给黑人美国人提供最少回报的另一个例子。
电影评论 女儿 身陷险境， 观众 深受震撼
尼古拉斯·温丁·瑞夫（Nicolas Winding Refn）10 年来的首部剧情长片是一部艳丽而可怖的童话。
在 2013 年接受《爱尔兰时报》（The Irish Times）采访时，丹麦电影制片人尼古拉斯·温丁·瑞夫被问到是否将自己视为一名色情制片人。 “是的，”他回答道，“对我来说，这一切都是癖好。我拍的是在不同时期能激起我欲望的事物。”到目前为止，这些事物包括冷艳的女性、掠夺性的男性、霓虹灯光和被截断的肢体，所有这些在《她的私人地狱》（Her Private Hell）中都复活了，这是他自 2016 年《霓虹恶魔》（The Neon Demon）以来首部院线剧情长片。在这里，这些元素汇集成一场类型的狂欢——恐怖片、谋杀谜团、心理剧——旨在服务于一个（由瑞夫和埃斯蒂·乔尔达尼 [Esti Giordani] 编写）如此可笑、表演如此程式化的情节，以至于人们不可能将其视为除了一部过度饱和、超现实的恶搞片以外的任何东西。或许是在恶搞瑞夫本人。只有他自己确切知道，但在我们思索之时，皮诺·多纳吉奥（Pino Donaggio）那华丽、令人晕眩的配乐吸引着我们的注意力。（我们确实需要某些东西，因为尽管瑞夫过去有许多低俗的沉溺，但他也从未如此矫揉造作或如此冷漠。）那部无处不在且具有催眠效果的配曲是这部电影的生命线，也是防止它完全脱离轴心旋转的锚点。音乐同时也是一个路标——通过多纳吉奥与达里奥·阿根多（Dario Argento）和布莱恩·德·帕尔玛（Brian De Palma）令人难忘的合作——指向了瑞夫最明显的影响来源。由艳丽暴力驱动的心理性欲主题是一个反复出现的兴奋点，而《她的私人地狱》也不例外。 电影设定在一座雾气弥漫的未来城市（在新闻稿中被准确地描述为“跳动的梦境”），聚焦于艾尔（Elle，索菲·萨彻 [Sophie Thatcher] 饰），一个在豪华酒店套房中拍摄低俗科幻片的年轻小星。艾尔几乎无法与她那些蹦跳着、装饰着锡箔纸的合作演员交流，因为她正被家庭剧所分心。她曾经最好的朋友多米尼克（Dominique，刘哈瓦娜-罗斯 [Havana Rose Liu] 饰）现在嫁给了艾尔的父亲，电影大亨强尼·桑德斯（Johnny Thunders，道格雷·斯科特 [Dougray Scott] 饰）。考虑到他们之间弹跳的性紧张关系，很难判断谁更嫉妒谁。在我们决定之前，场景切换到了二战后的东京，一名叫凯（Kay，查尔斯·梅尔顿 [Charles Melton] 饰）的美国二等兵正疯狂地寻找他认为被勾走地狱的女儿。当他不在一家儿童服装店（竟然是在那种地方）与一名体型丰满的袭击者搏斗时，凯对着镜头陷入了木僵状态，像是一个穿着军装的午后偶像。在其他地方，一个被称为“皮匠”（Leatherman）的怪物也在搜寻女儿，悄悄潜到她们身后，用戴着镶钻手套的手将她们撕成两半。艾尔可能处于危险之中，但她更应该担心一个用牙齿点燃火柴的父亲和一个会吠叫的继母。这里的角色与其说是在交谈，不如说是在喷吐古怪的无关联语（“我是雾气的受害者”），而他们如何能保持面无表情才是这部电影真正的谜团。其人工痕迹和做作程度简直爆表。 《她的私人地狱》令人困惑，且有时呈现出一种扭曲的美感，它重新审视了一些瑞夫那部远为优秀的 2013 年复仇故事《只有上帝原谅》（Only God Forgives）中的执念——被谋杀的女儿、截肢、有问题的教养方式。作为一名才华横溢的电影制片人，瑞夫将永远在我心中占据一席之地，因为他对他那血染的愿景有着不懈的坚持，无论评论家和观众如何唾弃。不过现在，他可能只是在重复自己。 “拍电影就像打仗，”强尼告诉艾尔。或许，甚至是与自己作战。
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《她的私人地狱》（Her Private Hell） 分级：R级（因雾中怪物、鼻中药物和眼中匕首）。 片长：1 小时 49 分钟。 正在院线放映。
动荡时期的浓情浪漫
在黎巴嫩，跨越过去与现在， 一对伴侣试图用共同的幻想与爱 来克服恐惧。
许多伟大的电影爱情故事 都以战争为背景—— 《卡萨布兰卡》、《齐瓦戈医生》、《冷战》、《红色》——其原因自然而然地显现出来。首先，冲突本身就适合讲述分离与重聚的故事。此外，爱情的赌注也随之提高。在任何一种生活中，你都可能失去挚爱；但在一个充满毁灭与死亡的时代，突然而悲剧性的失去似乎显得更为可信。 《一个忧伤而美丽的世界》符合经典战争浪漫剧的一些轮廓，其跨越数十年的爱情故事发生在黎巴嫩贝鲁特动荡不安的时期。但它讲述的故事与其说是史诗，不如说更为私密，且在某种程度上更具当代感，其核心是一个紧迫的问题：当世界充满了暴行，我们如何保持人性？ 编剧兼导演 Cyril Aris 对这个问题已经思考了很长时间。他的前一部电影《在火山边缘起舞》是一部在另一部电影拍摄期间拍摄的纪录片，而那部电影的拍摄被 2020 年贝鲁特震惊世界的港口爆炸事件所中断。这部电影展示了一群艺术家在面对远超其控制能力的干预力量时，正匆忙决定他们是否以及如何继续拍摄。这部纪录片引导出一个令人心碎的问题：在焦虑、恐惧和痛苦之中，你为什么——以及如何——能够创作艺术？ 在《在火山边缘起舞》拍摄期间正在制作的那部电影是《科斯塔布拉瓦，黎巴嫩》，该片由 Aris 剪辑，并于 2022 年在美国电影院上映。那部电影的导演 Mounia Akl（她与 Clara Roquet共同创作了剧本）在《一个忧伤而美丽的世界》中饰演 Yasmina，一位事业成功的女商人，她的生活因为爱情、命运或两者共同的作用而发生了转折。在遇到一位随和的餐厅经营者 Nino 之后
影评 必须有某种方法 来填补家庭的空虚
一对夫妇将一个替代他们儿子的仿生人带回家。
对于一位作品深植于人类戏剧——普通人的丧失、不言之爱以及家庭疏离——的导演来说，看到日本大师级导演是枝裕和在《盒子里的羊》（Sheep in the Box）中探索安卓机器人题材，可能会令人感到惊讶。然而，在一部始终被“缺失”这一概念笼罩的全部作品集中，这个关于一个机器人男孩回到一对悼念亡子的夫妇身边的故事，似乎是一个必然的演进。
毕竟，大多数关于人造生命的故事都在审视人性：什么才使一个人真正成为人类，拥有灵魂意味着什么，以及什么将我们连接在一起。再加上失去挚爱的痛苦以及填补空虚的渴望，这就构成了一部典型的是枝裕和作品。然而，从这个角度来看，《盒子里的羊》是对导演过往想法以及众多推测性科幻故事背后常见问题的半心半意地重复，与此同时，它抛弃了让该导演作品如此特别的那种细腻的情感触碰。
最直接的是，《羊》在整体结构上让人想起斯皮尔伯格的《人工智能》（A.I. Artificial Intelligence）：在失去幼子 Kakeru（Rimu Kuwaki 饰）后，一对夫妇将一个机器人模仿者带回家来替代他，最终这个克隆体发现自己与其他的安卓机器人产生了共鸣。
然而，是枝裕和的这部电影是一个充满折衷方案的故事，虽然在盘旋，但从未真正起飞。以他如何借鉴（或未能借鉴）斯皮尔伯格的电影来评判是枝裕和并不公平，但尽管如此，《羊》仍让人感觉它永远陷入在像《人工智能》那样电影的铺垫阶段，在真正的戏剧冲突展开之前的空间里打转。
片中有多条有趣的线索，但从未能完全展开：究竟是什么导致了 Kakeru 的死亡之谜；这在父母之间造成的内心裂痕；以及将机器人 Kakeru 与其他机器人联系在一起的生存矛盾。当电影达到一个情感激昂的冗长结尾时，感觉就像是在观看一个由那些神秘地被剪掉的片段所组成的超越性的顶点。
这里的素材全都是我们在是枝裕和之前的作品中见过的那些混乱且痛苦的人际冲突。《羊》最终生活在他的其他作品的阴影下。
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[[IMG_XXXX]] 上方及图中，Mounia Akl 和 Hasan Akil 出现在《一个悲伤而美丽的世界》（A Sad and Beautiful World）中，这是一个通过角色在童年和成年时的视角讲述的故事。
《盒子里的羊》 分级：PG。日语，带字幕。 片长：2 小时 6 分钟。正在院线上映。
(Hasan Akil)，意外地将车撞进了 Yasmina 母亲的店里，两人相遇，并很快意识到他们早已认识。当他们 7 岁时，他们曾是校友和青梅竹马。但 Yasmina 的家庭情况让她离开了 Nino，而他花了数十年时间希望与她重逢。
导演 Aris 将现在的时间线与童年时间线交织在一起，向我们展示了 Nino 和 Yasmina 成长为此类成年人的原因。两人在爆炸声的陪伴下长大，始终不确定听到的是导弹还是烟花。两人都渴望一个安全的栖息之所，并在这个彼此身上找到了那个地方。但是，由祖父抚养长大的 Nino 变成了一个乐观主义者，面对任何情况都能开个轻松的玩笑；而 Yasmina 则走向了另一个方向。父母的分手让她对爱情持怀疑态度，而她的童年经历使她不愿将孩子带到这样一个世界上。
Aris 成功地将 Nino 和 Yasmina 两个人的视角都注入到电影中。这部电影是幽默的，甚至是欢乐的，同时并未忽视就潜伏在角色家中围墙之外（有时在之内）的黑暗。他们跳舞、大笑、享受美食并庆祝。他们同样担忧，
最令人动容的电影，而是在零散地借鉴这些电影：例如《Still Walking》（步行的距离）中徘徊的逝去之子的幽灵；《Like Father, Like Son》（似父如子）中互换的儿子；以及《Shoplifters》（小偷家族）和《Nobody Knows》（无人知道）中被选定的家庭。
其核心在于，这部电影被一个欠发展的剧本所累，而且那些以往电影中天生具备的、微妙且富有诗意的观察在这里缺失了。不过也有例外时刻，包括一场与警察发生争执的戏份，此时一列火车在前景中剧烈地横穿屏幕。这让我们想起了是枝裕和（Kore-eda）经常诱发的那种令人心碎的情感冲击。这是一次强有力的震撼，但十分短暂——其余的一切都显得虚假。
《一个忧伤而美丽的世界》(A Sad and Beautiful World) 未分级。阿拉伯语，带字幕。 片长：1 小时 50 分钟。 电影院上映。
随着冲突再次点燃，关于食物的价格，关于夜晚无法供应的电力，关于这是否算是一种生活，或者他们去其他地方是否会过得更好。两种情绪有效地交织在一起，有时就在同一个场景中，尼诺（Nino）和亚丝明娜（Yasmina）回到了他们共同的童年幻想：他们可能会一起旅行去“那个岛”，一个他们能获得安全与温暖的地方，那里电力永远供应，阳光明媚，他们永远无需恐惧枪支、战争或导弹。大多数浪漫电影围绕着恋人们在克服重重障碍以共在一起时的相互渴望。在《一个忧伤而美丽的世界》中，同样的渴望之情弥漫在整个故事中，摄影师乔·萨德（Joe Saade）经常将除两人以外的暗示性人物剔除出画框，使我们能够专注于尼诺和亚丝明娜的情感及其之间强烈的连接。
有时，他们成功地创造了一个属于两个人的宇宙，外界无法侵入，正如人们在爱人面前的感觉一样。但到了故事的中点，我们意识到他们两人心中承载的隐痛不仅是为了对方。他们向往“那个岛”，向往他们共同想象的那个明亮之地，并意识到唯有彼此间的连接能给他们带来平静。他们共享的爱似乎不可摧毁，但一直笼罩在两人生活中的冲突无论如何都试图将其击碎。当周围的世界在崩塌时，是否可能过上真实的生活？当超出你控制的力量使生活条件变得危险时，你应该如何以及为何继续生活？电影给出的答案并非结论性的，因为也没有结论性的答案可以给出。世界是忧伤的，它又是美丽的，而我们只能去思考
我们该如何面对它。
从左起，绫濑遥（Haruka Ayase）、桑木莉梦（Rimu Kuwaki）和山本大刚（Daigo Yamamoto）在由是枝裕和（Hirokazu Kore-eda）执导的电影《盒子里的羊》（Sheep in the Box）中。
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的导演 现在让网球 与皮克球展开对决。
Eva Noblezada 出演《哈迪斯城：音乐剧》，该演出于去年在伦敦西区拍摄。
《哈迪斯城：音乐剧》 未分级。片长：2小时 12分钟。影院上映。
我们一路向下，进入哈迪斯城的资本主义地狱，摄像机通过舞台旋转盘的中心为观众提供视角。观看这部《哈迪斯城》的现场实录有其优势，这部作品于 2019 年带着新奥尔良风格的蓝调和爵士乐之声登上百老汇；即使是剧院中最好的座位也无法保证能获得这样的视野。 这部影片于 2025 年在伦敦西区拍摄，由百老汇首演的首席演员阵容出演，该制作凸显了为什么《哈迪斯城》能赢得包括最佳音乐剧在内的八项托尼奖。结果成了另一种意义上的胜利。饰演赫耳墨斯的 André De Shields 表现卓越，引导着一个如此为人熟知的故事，以至于粉丝们几乎可以自己地讲述一遍。 故事始于年轻的恋人俄耳甫斯（由 Reeve Carney 出色饰演）和欧律狄刻（Eva Noblezada 饰演，电影的亲近感放大了她的嗓音力量），他们的浪漫情缘在欧律狄刻因渴望摆脱贫困而受哈迪斯（由 Patrick Page 饰演，极具魅力）诱惑进入冥界时受到考验。在那里，哈迪斯与珀耳塞福涅（由 Amber Gray 饰演，极其放飞自我）的关系已经破裂。一个特写镜头揭示了
黄金时代的理念几乎总是 虚构的。但我认为客观事实是，当好莱坞全力追求 IP 时，制片厂喜剧陷入了困境，且至今未能恢复。大多数真正幽默的大众喜剧——基本上就是有笑话的电影——似乎已经迁移到了电视端。或者它们被降级到流媒体平台，在那里，即使是一部优秀的喜剧也永远无法产生像《伴娘》或《宿醉》那样的文化影响力。要让一部喜剧深入人心，你必须与他人分享笑声。 近期有几个例外，比如《芭比》、《波拉特：电影》和《裸枪》。而我最喜欢的制片厂喜剧之一，这部带有轻微荒诞色彩的《芭芭拉和星去维斯塔德尔马尔》，尽管是在疫情期间上映的，但仍设法成为了一部邪典经典。该片的导演 Josh Greenbaum 此后又拍了几部电影——平庸的会说话的狗喜剧《流浪狗》，以及优秀的纪录片《威尔与哈珀》——但他的最新作品《The Dink》回归了制片厂喜剧的公式：几位明星，一个傻傻的前提，以及一些肢体喜剧和笑料。 不幸的是，这部电影似乎注定会很快被遗忘，不仅仅是因为它直接上线流媒体。由 Sean Clements 编剧的《The Dink》
在 Rachel Chavkin 的舞台剧制作中，极少有人能看到欧律狄刻含泪的面庞。Brett Sullivan 将这部专业拍摄的影片导向了音乐会电影的风格，偶尔摇向热情洋溢的观众。尽管剪辑牺牲了舞台上的瞬间，但这次冒险得到了回报。他细腻的镜头语言随着 Anaïs Mitchell 深情的配乐节奏移动，让观众沉浸在音乐剧之中。 临近结尾，当悬念在赫耳墨斯鞋子踏入场景的特写中逐渐增强时，很明显 Sullivan 不仅仅是在致敬舞台剧。他向我们展示了只有电影才能呈现的东西。
CHRIS AZZOPARDI
《72小时》 因语言、主题等因素被评为 R 级。片长：1小时 45分钟。在 Netflix 上观看。
我们之中有谁在听到 Stevie Nicks 在 Fleetwood Mac 的歌曲《Landslide》中深情地沙哑唱出“Now I’m getting older too”时，没有在某个时刻深有感触地跟着点头？衰老是不可避免的。即使是 Kevin Hart 这样充满活力的喜剧表演者，其极速的能量暗示着某种永恒的青春，也无法免于中年疼痛的折磨。在由 Hart 的长期合作伙伴 Tim Story 执导的《72 Hours》中，这位演员饰演一名较年轻的男子。虽然
玛丽·斯汀伯根和杰克·约翰逊在由肖恩·克莱门茨编剧、乔什·格林鲍姆执导的喜剧片《The Dink》中。电影名称取自匹克球（pickleball）中的一种击球方式。
《The Dink》 分级：PG-13，因部分语言内容以及一名想过多讨论某些身体功能的医生而定级。片长：1小时42分钟。在 Apple TV 上映。
【该片】有其亮点，但始终未能完全统一，且电影在维持一致基调方面显得吃力。 《The Dink》由杰克·约翰逊饰演达斯蒂·博伊德（Dusty Boyd），他曾是一名网球神童，但职业生涯在一次受伤后不幸终结。现在，他在父亲查克（埃德·哈里斯饰）手下担任网球教练，查克拥有一家名为 Mountain Crest 的高级网球俱乐部。只要有机会，达斯蒂就会向他本该教授的那些感到无聊的儿童和前青春期少年们讲述自己的辉煌岁月，而他的朋友 PJ（亚伦·陈饰）则在一旁为他助威。 俱乐部内部正酝酿变化，因为查克将某种东西视为“体育界的冠状病毒”以及“人类本身的衰落”：那就是匹克球。会员们希望增加匹克球场；但查克不想增加。他设计了一个计划：一场决斗，一名匹克球运动员对阵一名网球运动员。获胜者将决定 Mountain Crest 的未来。 达斯蒂渴望被选为网球运动员，但他再次受伤而被排除在外，最终不得不勉强地通过打匹克球来在康复期间保持状态。他的匹克球搭档是坎迪丝
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哈特（Hart）现年 47, 岁，而他所扮演的广告主管乔·尼克森（Joe Nixon）仅 40 岁。 尽管如此，乔在单位里正逐渐被边缘化，部分原因是由于他针对 Z 世代受众推出的伏特加销售活动被认为太“尴尬”（cringe）。 他意外地被卷入一个 20 多岁兄弟团的短信群组中，对方正计划在迈阿密举行一场周末（以此得名）单身派对。于是，他为他们出资租了一处极其庸俗的临时住所，然后自己也闯入了这座豪宅。他的想法是将这个周末作为一次速成课，学习如何与年轻人沟通。这些年轻人包括本·马歇尔（Ben Marshall）、马塞洛·埃尔南德斯（Marcello Hernández）和卡姆·帕特森（Kam Patterson），他们全部是《周六夜现场》（Saturday Night Live）的演员。 他们扮演的是古怪且敏感的角色。而团里的帅哥则由梅森·古丁（Mason Gooding）饰演，而他实际上才是所有角色中最敏感的一个。这伙人的冒险让他们与毒贩发生了冲突，在吸入可卡因并（不顾劝告地）吞下尼古丁袋后，乔在半意识状态下采取了超级毒枭“里卡多·蒙塔纳”（Ricardo Montana）的人设。 幽默风格宽泛且粗犷，且往往能真正地引起笑声。年轻的喜剧演员们是哈特极佳的陪衬，而哈特本人依然是一位不可思议的天才。在应对对手令人印象深刻的辞令时，乔说道：“你说，我就像，‘噢！’” 这句台词在剧本页面上看起来平淡无奇，但当哈特在电影中说出这句话时，在一次早期的特别放映会上引起了全场爆笑。
格伦·肯尼（GLENN KENNY）
电影评论
几句充斥着脏话的措辞 不适合出现在这些页面上。庸才们 可能会抱怨吴宇森 刚刚在《静夜》（2023）中 使用了这个构思。而那些更开放 的人可能会想起，电影在 有声电影出现前曾有过三个 迷人的十年。现在正是 复兴之时。
导演是波特西·庞奇罗利（Potsy Ponciroli）， 根据查德·圣约翰（Chad St. John）的剧本拍摄； 这部电影肌肉发达的主角在 任何剧本中都会是一个沉默寡言的人。 前科犯约翰·米勒（John Miller，由艾伦·里奇森 Alan Ritchson 饰演） 刚向他的女友索菲亚（Sophia，由谢琳·伍德利 Shailene Woodley 饰演） 求婚，警察就向他们的家中 投掷了烟雾弹。 米勒被一名挥金如土的罪犯 雷诺兹（Reynolds，由本·福斯特 Ben Foster 饰演，戴着一副猥琐的眼镜） 和一名腐败警察萨维克（Savick，由帕布罗·施赖伯 Pablo Schreiber 饰演） 陷害在一场可卡因缉捕行动中。 米勒被判处 25 年监禁； 雷诺兹则娶了索菲亚。
庞奇罗利很享受用视觉方式讲述这个故事， 比如他将索菲亚和雷诺兹 享受婚后舞蹈的画面， 叠化至米勒在做俯卧撑并策划报复的场景。 电影对其噱头展现出一种幽默感， 尽管有时显得牵强。 萨维克对着米勒俏皮地做了一个“嘘”的手势； 审讯室的录音机 显然记录不下任何东西。
但动作戏和血腥场面 （包括一个出人意料的断肢） 显得几乎是欢快地残酷， 而一段不必要的尾声则被糟糕的妆造给毁了。 此外，如果你打算使用原声带选段——
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这位在 1996 年凭借其电影赢得奥斯卡奖的演员、导演兼编剧，被罗伯特·杜瓦尔称为“山区的奥逊·威尔斯”。
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谢琳·伍德莱和艾伦·里奇森 主演《汽车之城》(Motor City)，一部复古犯罪电影 由波茨·庞西罗利执导。
tions (唐娜·萨默, Fleetwood Mac) 来在口头上推进你的叙事，那么在标有“1977年底特律”的标题卡上配上一首 1982 年的歌曲，大卫·鲍伊的《猫人 (熄灭火火)》(Cat People (Putting Out Fire))，就显得很庸俗。就像庞西罗利那部致敬西部片的《老亨利》(Old Henry) (2021) 一样，《汽车之城》是一部更值得被尊重而非观看（或聆听）的电影。
本·肯尼格斯伯格
《玫瑰丛修剪》(Rosebush Pruning) 未分级。片长：1 小时 37 分钟。院线上映。
“我不写作，我不阅读，我不开车，”《玫瑰丛修剪》的叙述者说道。我们并不在意。这部电影的大部分内容也可以这么说，一个微小的挑衅，就像延时摄影中一朵枯萎的花，在电影结束时迅速萎缩并瓦解。
这句话出自埃德 (卡勒姆·特纳) 之口，他是住在西班牙一座现代主义别墅里的四个成年纨绔子弟之一，他们与父亲 (特雷西·莱茨) 住在一起，后者是一个盲眼的好色之徒。这些精英主义的兄弟姐妹，包括以穿着出众著称的安娜 (赖莉·基欧) 和罗伯特 (卢卡斯·盖奇)，不信任家庭之外的任何人，并崇拜他们的长兄杰克 (杰米·贝尔)。但杰克最近开始与玛莎 (艾丽·法宁) 约会，这扰乱了他们家庭封闭花园中脆弱的生态系统。片中早期暗示了乱伦；随后则将其明确化。即便将这种禁忌强加给一群貌美的演员，导演卡里姆·艾努兹仍未能激起任何兴趣。由埃夫西米斯·菲利普导演的剧本试图追求《狗牙》(Dogtooth) 那种变态的迷人感，那是他与长期合作者约尔戈斯·兰斯莫斯共同创作的电影。但在艾努兹手中，素材既令人厌烦又枯燥，既不足以通过冷面幽默达到荒诞主义，也不够微妙到成为一件奇珍。一场所有成员在场的午餐戏缓解了我们的一部分冷漠。在戏中，莱茨饰演的角色要求安娜描述玛莎的胸部。他争辩说，如果他能看见，早就看过了。在短暂的一刻，这位演员标志性的冷幽默发挥了作用，实现了对封闭富家子弟家庭的讽刺，而电影的其余部分只能对此望尘莫及。
纳塔莉亚·温克尔曼
(玛丽·斯汀伯根)，她最近离婚，且比达斯蒂大好几十年。但他们建立起了一段出人意料的友谊，达斯蒂很快发现，在成为独立个体之前，他还有很多教训要学习。《The Dink》——以皮克球中的一种特定击球方式命名——的演员阵容极其强大。本·斯蒂勒、克洛伊·费尼曼、帕顿·奥斯沃尔特和克里斯·帕内尔出演小角色，而网球传奇人物安迪·罗迪克和约翰·麦肯罗则以本人身份出现，这或许有些令人意外。约翰逊和斯汀伯根都具有极具吸引力的魅力，在很长一段时间里，这部电影在拍档喜剧和浪漫喜剧之间徘徊，并由一群饰演小角的古怪人物支撑。但即便有约翰逊和斯汀伯根的表演，也无法掩盖角色塑造的薄弱，而这正是建立故事冲突的关键。我们被反复告知达斯蒂不可靠且不成熟，但从一个场景到另一个场景，很难判断这是否真的是事实且他需要成长，或者这仅仅是他那个傲慢且轻视他的父亲所说的话。这是一个关于发育迟缓者走向成熟的故事，还是一个男人在思考如何克服糟糕父母的故事？同样，电影为坎迪斯安排了一个陈词滥调的支线剧情——她想向前夫展示他失去了什么——但这个情节被提起后又突然被抛弃，方式令人困惑。《The Dink》仍然值得观看，主要是因为角色们古灵精怪的傻气。（皮克球运动员可能也会喜欢其中关于网球的内斗竞争。）但最优秀的制片厂喜剧总是让人感觉有点不按常理出牌，让你不知道接下来会发生什么。通常它们会带有一点叛逆感且金句频出，拥有宽广的情怀以及让你想要支持的角色。《The Dink》达到了大约 70 % 的水准，但缺失的部分使其显得平庸。
一位像波洛克和罗斯科这样的“大人物”的拥护者，成为了本次回顾展的焦点。
当我最近读到关于杰克逊·波洛克 (Jackson Pollock) 的《数字 7A, 1948》(Number 7A, 1948)——一幅在拍卖会上拍出 181 百万美元的高价、由循环线条组成的长卷——时，我想到了贝蒂·帕森斯 (Betty Parsons) 以及她在销售他的作品时所遭遇的困难。她于 1946 年在东 57 街 15 号五楼的一个没有窗户的单间内开设了她的画廊。从这个卑微的起点出发，她不仅让世界首次瞥见了《数字 7A, 1948》，还展示了马克·罗斯科 (Mark Rothko) 模糊的色彩晕染、巴内特·纽曼 (Barnett Newman) 房间大小的红色画布，以及其他各种后来被誉为战后艺术经典杰作、但当时难以推销的绘画。如果说帕森斯帮助引入了她所谓的“那些伟大的大人物”，那么她也忍受了失望——看着他们离开她的画廊，转向那些承诺能利用美国艺术新兴市场的交易商。（市场？那是帕森斯买番茄的地方。）她继续经营她的画廊并挖掘新艺术家，直到 1982 年去世，享年 82 岁。有一位艺术家未能获得在画廊墙面展出的机会，那就是帕森斯本人，她其实是一位造诣颇深的画家和雕塑家。她说，给自己举办展览会“太尴尬了”。好消息是，受人尊敬的抽象画家艾米·西尔曼 (Amy Sillman) 和独立策展人凯利·塔克斯特 (Kelly Taxter) 采取了干预行动，在纽约州安南代尔-昂-哈德逊的巴德学院赫塞尔艺术博物馆 (Hessel Museum of Art) 组织了一场名为“贝蒂·帕森斯：一个扩展的世界”的展览，这是一场启发人心且迟到已久的回顾展。这次展览内容极其全面，展出了 81 幅绘画、水彩画、不透明水彩画和雕塑，追踪了她四十年的发展历程。展出还包括在两块大屏幕上循环播放的 24 分钟电影片段，记录了她作为画廊主的职业生涯。帕森斯在片中展现出强有力的个性，系着丝巾，戴着一串珍珠，用令人惊讶的低沉嗓音讲述艺术的奇迹。
在某些方面，她是一个不太像前卫艺术培育者的人。她出生于 1900 年，原名伊丽莎白·比恩·皮尔森 (Elizabeth Bierne Pierson)，是三个女儿中的次女。她在纽约一个老牌富豪家庭长大，该家庭夏天在罗德岛州的纽波特度假，冬天在佛罗里达州的棕榈滩过冬，并期望她作为一名名媛出道，然后成为一名妻子，就这样顺风顺水地度过一生。19 岁时，她嫁给了社交名流斯凯勒·利文斯顿·帕森斯 (Schuyler Livingston Parsons)，并采用了他的姓氏。三年后他们离婚，导致她的家人取消了她的继承权。她公开自己的女同性恋身份并没有重新获得家人的认可，而且她没有再婚，而是与她的许多女性朋友交往，包括她的定期网球伙伴，女演员葛丽泰·嘉宝 (Greta Garbo)。赫塞尔的展览暗示，帕森斯的故事是一个好奇且独立的女性在很长一段时间后才找到自己声音的故事。
她的早期作品是由她旅途中观察到的山脉和树干的相当不错的风景画组成。第二次世界大战后，当她 40 多岁并经营画廊时，她转向了抽象主义。她 50 年代的一些绘画，如小型而有力的《红色显赫》(Red Eminence) (1955)，具有一种令人想起波洛克的剧烈能量。但帕森斯并不认同他作品中壁画般的比例及其非黑即白的极端情感范围。相反，她的抽象画经常描绘开阔的空间和岛屿意象。它们唤起的不是一个特定的地方，而是一种空洞感，一种明亮地被照亮的缺席。以 1962 年的《橙色》(Orange) 为例，这是一幅大尺寸的近方形绘画，其中 11 个小色块漂浮在橙色背景上。最初看起来是一个优雅的极简抽象，但当你凝视时，它变成了一幅散布岛屿的俯视图。橙色颜料非常稀，以至于在画作底边汇聚成一条深色的潮线。或者， 《橙色》也暗示了 11
贝蒂·帕森斯：一个扩张的世界 (Betty Parsons: An Expanded World) 展出至 10 月 18 日，地点在纽约州安嫩代尔-昂-哈德逊 (Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.) 的巴德学院 (Bard College) 赫塞尔艺术博物馆 (Hessel Museum of Art)； 电话：845-758-7598，网址：bard.edu/ccs。
一些撕裂的、边缘参差不齐的纸屑被铺在一个平面上，仿佛帕森斯正利用她的画布来创作一幅拼贴画。在她的绘画作品中，她经常这样做，将零星的色彩孤立在一种让人联想到天空或海洋的空间里，寓意一种没有终点的航行愿景。
展览的后半部分致力于雕塑，这是帕森斯最令人难忘的作品。虽然她的绘画作品以其像煎饼一样扁平的色块，可能会让人们想到她曾展出的艺术家——如埃尔斯沃思·凯利 (Ellsworth Kelly) 和杰克·扬格曼 (Jack Youngerman) ——但她的雕塑则是乐观的美国物件，能瞬间被认出是她的个人风格。
在 60 年代，在搬进长岛北叉南肖尔德 (Southold) 的一座水滨住宅后，帕森斯开始制作彩绘木制组合作品，传达出手工制作物品的乐趣。她在海滩上收集废弃的木料碎片，然后将它们拼凑成能让人想起渔民棚屋、帆船和灯塔那种轻快建筑风格的结构。
她通常将她的雕塑绘制成摇曳的条纹图案，使部分木材裸露，将木纹的质感转化为一种视觉奖励。起初，这些作品看起来像民间艺术，但其水平和垂直的条纹赋予了它们一种形式上的严谨，让人想起现代主义的网格。它们的能量介于蒙德里安的绘画与沙滩上的海螺之间。
在赫塞尔博物馆，这些由墙面浮雕和桌面组合而成的雕塑被置于一个奇怪的、类似嘉年华的场景中，这可能会让人感到压抑。它们被聚集在古怪的绘画背景前——那是色调刺眼的宽条纹。据推测，这种装饰旨在认可帕森斯对条纹以及明亮、倔强的色彩的热爱。
然而，这种设计并没有服务于雕塑，也没有鼓励我们将它们视为独立的对象。这与帕森斯多次表达过对画廊装饰的厌恶相矛盾。她被认为发明了当代画廊的概念：一个纯洁的、刷成白色的矩形空间，清除掉过去的繁琐装饰——比如曾经让画廊看起来像爱德华时代客厅的酒红色壁纸和天鹅绒窗帘。
我从西尔曼那里了解到，她亲自绘制了墙壁和底座，并在过程中即兴创作。她认为自己的创作是展览设计，还是她个人绘画的高端艺术延伸？“都不是，”她说，“我认为这项工作是我在贝蒂和她的展览之间充当媒介的一种方式。”
她的评论捕捉到了艺术家有时会对另一位早于自己许多年出生的艺术家产生的一种强烈的精神纽带。但表达欣赏的方式有很多。当帕森斯决定给一件艺术品最高的赞美方式就是将其置于一片空白的墙壁前，让它占据空间，像一座独立的岛屿时，她建立了一个明智的先例。
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顶部：最左侧的《穿越海峡》(1982) 是在“贝蒂·帕森斯：一个扩展的世界”展览中，由艾米·西尔曼在墙上绘制的壁画背景前的贝蒂·帕森斯作品之一。 中部：帕森斯的《橙色》(1962) 在左，《旅程》(1975) 在右。上方从左至右：在西尔曼背景前的《向那边拉》(1982)；最左侧的《声音形式》(1978) 以及最右侧的《国王与王后》(1970)。
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在犹太博物馆，我们当然可以看到这些女性设计师创造的新颖物件，但我们也看到了她们如何将自己视作全新的创造。这两位震惊纽约的悍女是她们那个世纪“新女性”的早期化身，她们打造的商品帮助其他女性同样变得“新”起来。你可以说，这次展览中的众多物件，就像是在一幅大胆、自信的肖像画中落下的笔触，而这幅肖像正是女性创作者们渴望构建的——关于她们自己，并向所有姐妹展示的形象。
传统上，维也纳工作室（Vienna Workshops）以其两位创始人的作品而闻名：建筑师约瑟夫·霍夫曼（Josef Hoffmann）和画家科洛曼·莫泽（Koloman Moser）。他们的作品具有一种流畅的现代主义风格，预示了包豪斯（Bauhaus）的玻璃与铬合金，甚至预示了 iPhone 的极简主义。
但这几乎绝非本次展览中物件的外观或精神。该展由策展人克里斯蒂娜·帕森斯（Kristina Parsons）与展览的主要出借方——维也纳 MAK 设计博物馆共同筹备。（MAK 在 2021 年举办过一次规模大得多的展览，其目录非常精彩。）
当那些男性创始人正在为现代物件推敲一种新美学时，在奥地利男性被征召参加第一次世界大战后主导公司生产的 Werkstätte 女性们，则在打造某种更为大胆的东西：一种女性权力的全新美学。
她们没有追求工业产品的克制，而是采用了传统“女性工作”的手工工艺。
维也纳应用艺术博物馆与纽约犹太博物馆
这种风格或许在瓦莉·维塞尔蒂尔（Vally Wieselthier）的表现主义陶艺中达到了巅峰。她在 1927 到 1928, 期间担任 Werkstätte 陶瓷部门主管，之后在美国开启了卓越的职业生涯。在犹太博物馆中，维塞尔蒂尔创作的三尊女性头像拒绝了她上司设计中的流畅感：它们大胆地、几乎是粗犷地用黏土手工塑形，然后涂上能够捕捉到维塞尔蒂尔似乎渴望赞美的、那些艳丽的飞来波女郎（flapper）妆容的色彩。那个 era. 的一本古板美容书曾写道：“出门化妆时，不要试图与广告牌或色卡竞争。”维塞尔蒂尔的头像正自豪地这么做了。它们还戴着由 Werkstätte 女性设计并销售的、大胆且古怪的帽子，顶在她们敢于尝试的男孩般短发之上。维塞尔蒂尔的一尊极尽狂野的头像底部刻有巨大的字母“VW”，宣告这就是创作者的肖像。
现存的照片显示了 Werkstätte 的女性们实际上可以多么厚颜无耻，有时甚至敢于在镜头前抽烟。1938, 年，当维塞尔蒂尔因为被认为具有挑衅性的行为而被一家美国大学解雇时，她直接给富兰克林·D·罗斯福总统发了电报，要求道：“告诉这些人我是谁”，坚持认为她作为艺术家的才华应当为她发声。一名早期的见证者回忆道，Werkstätte 的女性们“拥有不落俗套的理想，通过情爱表达自我，尽可能获得更多的性经验”。她们的行为——包括在某些作品中捕捉到的同性之爱——是她们拒绝被局限的另一个标志。这些新女性设计的服装与仅仅几年前那种带骨撑和紧身胸衣的时尚截然不同。1912, 年，当时年仅 18 岁的弗里齐·贝尔格（Fritzi Berger）绘制并签署了一张 Werkstätte 专长的时尚明信片：画中的女性穿着一条黑裙，仅仅是一个纤细、贴身的管状物，毫无束缚结构的迹象；她的上衣则是
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同样呈管状，只不过是白色且带有大胆的生物形态漂浮其上。她的发型是波波头，这在当时真正地激进：在过去的 3,000 年大部分时间里，欧洲女性一直留长发。
Berger 呈现了一个不惧于创新且自由的女性形象。
即便维也纳的现代内衣也试图摆脱维多利亚时代的束缚。在犹太博物馆中，一幅由 Wilhelm List 约于 1911 年创作的画作显示，一名年轻模特坐在 Werkstätte 的椅子上，身上只涂了亮红色的口红，穿着一件吊带背心和当时流行的
[[IMG_XXXX]] 上方，1929 年 Wiener Werkstätte 的柏林分部，该分部吸引了才华横溢的女设计师和员工。其上，一张 Alexander Binder 拍摄的模特照片，穿着由 Felice Rix 设计的“Archibald”面料 Werkstätte 连衣裙 (1918)。左上方，一件由 Heddi Hirsch 设计的 Werkstätte 连衣裙（约 1919 年）。左侧，一张 1912 年由 Fritzi Berger 为该公司设计的明信片。最左侧，“Purpurnelke” (1924)；上方，一件 Rix 的纺织品样本；以及 Rix 设计的“Sheet Lightning”面料（约 1923 年）。
现代性与华丽：Wiener Werkstätte 的女性 展至 11 月 15 日，于曼哈顿犹太博物馆； 212-423-3200, thejewishmuseum.org。
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宽敞的新型“雨伞抽屉”；这可能会让今天那些挤在丁字裤里的女性感到嫉妒。
Werkstätte 的纺织品与服装一样，对公司的收入至关重要，且充满现代活力。1923 年，一名穿着 Felice Rix “Sheet Lightning”图案服装（黑色丝绸底色上闪烁着明亮的色块）的客户，几乎会不由自主地跳起查尔斯顿舞——同年，这种舞蹈在留声机中响起，引发了各地保守人士的强烈抗议。
1925 年在巴黎，Werkstätte 的女性面临着同样的反应，当时包括 Wieselthier 和 Rix 在内的设计师主导了该公司在具有里程碑意义的国际装饰艺术博览会（Art Deco 术语的起源）上的展出。一名男性评论家将她们的展示描述为“一场令人愤慨的傻妞生意”。两年后，正当 Wieselthier 创作她的女性头像时，以将装饰斥为犯罪而闻名的现代主义建筑师 Adolf Loos 发表了一篇针对 Werkstätte 及其女工艺美术师装饰冲动的抨击文章，将她们描述为“高级公务员的业余爱好者女儿”，仅仅是在结婚前消磨时间。
他的部分听众为了维护这些女性而大打出手。
这次展览让她们能够大声地为自己发声。
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《R.I.P. He Deserves It》（愿他安息，他罪有应得），由 Shani Strand 创作的视频投影作品。该作品带有闪光效果，画面中出现一个咧嘴微笑的皮埃罗（Pierrot），展现出一种复仇且俏皮的能量。
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展期至 Aug. 15. Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, Manhattan; 212-226-3970, artistsspace.org。
浓烈的柑橘与丁香熏香气是第一个信号，表明 Shani Strand 的展览旨在用感官刺激压倒参观者。她那墙面大小的视频投影则更进一步。它带有闪光效果，并以一个咧嘴微笑的皮埃罗作为主角——恐🤡症患者可能会想避而远之。
在名为《R.I.P. He Deserves It》的视频中，Strand 在某处显示了“反向殖民”（Colonization in Reverse）这一短语，这开始解释该作品中那种复仇且俏皮的能量。视频的主角由几位涂着马塞尔·马塞（Marcel Marceau）式白脸油彩的黑人女演员扮演——这本身就是对“黑脸”（blackface）的一种反转——Strand 的视频与其说是教化，不如说是一种令人不安的超现实主义。
在一个夜晚场景中，小丑手里拿着一把铲子，在荒凉的立交桥上款款而行。这不禁让人想起一长串将复仇渴望转化为超模走秀般步伐的女性角色：电影《杀死比尔》中的 Uma Thurman；艺术家 Pipilotti Rist 用花朵砸碎车窗；碧昂丝（Beyoncé）在音乐录影带《Hold Up》中拿着棒球棍的样子。
另一个展厅布满了 Strand 的雕塑，这里抛弃了高度的戏剧性，转而追求一种奇异的诗意。小粘土球、锻铁棒以及装饰着牛角的球体散落在地板上，周围环绕着树脂池，墙上留有金色污渍。Strand 的材料重现了非裔加勒比的历史：例如，牛角曾被逃离奴隶制的牙买加马拉仑（Maroons）用作管乐器。
但无需了解这些历史也能欣赏 Strand 的展览。在那些复仇的小丑、朦胧的熏香以及弃用底座而直接放置在地面上的雕塑中，一种旧世界秩序被颠覆的必然感油然而生。
展期至 Aug. 16. SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, Queens; 718-361-1750, sculpture-center.org。
Ellen Pau 在她首个美国回顾展——这部以视频为主的名为《She Moves》的作品中，同样使用了强烈的气味。
一种充盈在 SculptureCenter 里的宜人香气，其来源可追溯到 Pau 的展览所在的地下通道中的一个单一扩散器。展览中的气味成分是有机物，但闻起来与催泪瓦斯相似——那是香港民主派抗议者用雨伞和口罩面对的物质。
65 岁的 Pau 是一位著名的视频艺术家，也是香港媒体艺术之林的推动力量，她曾在放射科工作了近四十年。她的其中一段视频操纵了她就职医院的监控录像，创造出一个幽灵般的场景：医生和护士穿过走廊，在视野中若隐若现。
香港的政治和殖民历史在许多展出作品中若隐若现。在视频装置中——
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从 DOLPHINS 这个单词中取出五个字母，重新排列成另一支 N.F.L. 球队的名称。是什么？
昨日答案：芝加哥的一家奶酪工厂发生了严重事故。布里奶酪（Da brie）到处都是（谐音：Da debris，碎片到处都是）。 谜题由 WILL SHORTZ 创作
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SHANI STRAND，由纽约 ARTISTS SPACE 提供
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Pauline-Rose Dumas 在 Hesse Flatow 展览的装置全景，展出了纺织作品及金属雕塑。
ELLEN PAU, VIA KIANG MALINGUE, HONG KONG/NEW YORK, AND SCULPTURECENTER, NEW YORK; PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES BENTON
“Pledge”（誓言）是艾伦·鲍（Ellen Pau）的一件视频装置作品，片中一名女性反复将头部撞击在一个围栏上，是对香港政治的一种评论。
在名为“Pledge”的作品中，一名穿着蕾丝黑上衣、蜷缩着坐着的女性反复将头部撞击在一个围栏上，每次碰撞都伴随着巨大的金属撞击声。 她的被困状态是否象征着压抑女性和像鲍本人一样的香港酷儿群体的社会预期？或者是导致出现鞋盒大小公寓的天价房价？亦或是当代生活的孤独感？ 视频《52Hz》探讨了这种孤独，其中包含一个关于一名香港性工作者兼 A.S.M.R. 视频创作者的故事，她在去世数周后才被发现，其身体散发出的气味……
编辑：威尔·肖茨 (Will Shortz)
1 放射性的片段
5 可能从地球 软流层中 出现的成分
10 无人机 可能被误认为 的东西
15 泥饼 成分
16 正在发生时
17 石油行业的 罪犯？
19 “你的未来 改善指南” 网站
20 让人脸红 的东西
21 神道教文化中 被视为神使的 动物
22 含有黑醋栗 利口酒的 开胃酒
23 非浓郁的
24 像一个政治 多样化的美国 州
26 翻倍时， 像一个完美 的结果
27 抗议的开始
上一次谜题的答案
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公寓终于提醒了邻居 她的失踪。再一次， 刺鼻的气味等同于 暴力与绝望。
截止至 8 月 14 日。赫塞·弗拉托 (Hesse Flatow)， 曼哈顿，富兰克林街 77 号； 646-892-3032，hesseflatow.com。
保琳-罗斯·杜马斯 (Pauline-Rose Dumas) 是一位居住在法国蒙特勒伊的年轻艺术家，曾在柏林的一家工作室工作，接受过版画和纺织设计的培训。她开始以新的视角看待自己的工具。“当你连续几个小时盯着地板上的一根细针看时，它就变成了一种疯狂的建筑，”杜马斯告诉一位采访者。 她目前的展览似乎是这种视角改变——一种类似于《爱丽丝梦游仙境》般坠入兔子洞的体验——的结晶。当你长时间孤独地待在工作室中，且被陌生环境搞得迷失方向时，可能会产生这种体验。 她的展览中有纺织作品，以及金属雕塑，这些雕塑呈现出卷曲的弧线，不时地从抽象形态转化为可识别的缝纫工具配件，且被夸张地放大：如刺绣剪刀，或两股线交织的螺旋图案。它们让人联想到克拉斯·奥尔登堡 (Claes Oldenburg) 和库丝耶·范·布鲁根 (Coosje van Bruggen) 将日常物品放大到荒诞且宏伟规模的雕塑精神。杜马斯的一些雕塑（如巨大的缝纫针）刺穿了她的纺织作品，仿佛将它们钉在墙上。 如果这些织物作品不那么混乱且随形，几乎可以被称为拼布被 (quilts)。或许将它们描述为由一个好奇之心的剪贴簿所拼凑而成的“弗兰肯斯坦”内容更为恰当。花卉图案与一块印有日落时分发射塔的织物图像并列出现。起伏的接缝与坐标纸上的正弦波融合在一起。你会感觉到杜马斯已经抛弃了通常将工具、材料和想法分开的任何界限。她最终的探索结果令人愉悦。
28 “马克·吐温”的 传记作者 切诺 (Chernow)
29 非 抢尽风头的？
33 过渡到 论文陈述
34 “别为 小事发愁！”
35 西班牙语 指小词后缀
36 开火
37 大富翁游戏中的 17 个地块之一：缩写
38 酒由某人请客
40 末端数据
42 像一种强力 纽带
45 矿井线
46 具有 定义特征的 群体？
48 糟糕的心情
49 一种具有白色 果肉和深红色 果皮的热带水果
50 所有的 ___
51 “那是显而易见的”
52 一个高的可能是 充气的
53 2019 泰勒 (Tyler, the Creator) 格莱美 获奖专辑
54 与 rhymes 押韵
55 贝塔测试员，例如
通过保琳-罗斯·杜马斯与赫塞·弗拉托，纽约；摄影：珍妮·戈尔曼 (JENNY GORMAN)
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1 侮辱性话语， 非正式
2 美国足球 传奇 ___ 劳埃德 (Lloyd)
3 福克斯 (Fox) 或 福克斯 (Foxx)
4 可能是 可疑链接旁的 警告
5 金星，或 有时是 水星
6 俚语
7 傻瓜
8 幼儿在 点心时间 时的哭喊
9 公驴或母驴
谜题由杰弗里·肖科普夫 (GEOFFREY SCHORKOPF) 设计
18 现代 欺骗
21 有时在 营火上使用的 炊具
24 “放下它！”
25 巴巴多斯的 语言：缩写
26 诱饵行动的工具
27 荣誉
29 准备离开时说的话
30 被描述为“英国政治家首席护士”的学校
7/24/26
34 Gay ___ (1970年代运动)
39 发挥作用
40 准备/打算
41 名称源自希腊语中“不活跃”一词的元素
42 区域/小册子
43 专辑名称代表年龄的歌手
44 因同一角色在不同类别中获得艾美奖的获得者
46 对警报做出响应
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The price of oil hit $100 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since May after militants allied with Iran said they had hit two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, stok- ing fears that another crucial ship- ping route may be choked off with a cascade of consequences for the global economy. President Trump said he would hold Iran responsible for any fur- ther attacks by the Houthi mili- tants, who control much of Yemen. He also threatened to expand the war to include the group itself. The warning came after the United States and Iran traded strikes across the Middle East for a 12th consecutive night. The maritime strikes claimed by the Houthis were the first since the group announced a blockade on Saudi vessels earlier this week. If the Houthis hit any more ships, Mr. Trump wrote in his post, “major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves, who I am very disappointed with in that they have, until now, acted very professionally and smart.” With the cease-fire between Iran and the United States in tat- ters, Democrats and a handful of Republicans in the House of Rep- resentatives on Thursday voted for a second time to demand that Mr. Trump seek Congressional au- thorization to keep U.S. troops en- gaged in the war. The president ef- fectively ignored a similar rebuke last month. The Senate voted 49 to 47 against taking up its own war powers resolution. When the United States and Iran reached a deal in June to cease hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices plum- meted to prewar levels. Countries that rely on Middle Eastern sup- plies relished a reprieve from a crisis that forced the cancellation of thousands of flights and ate into the budgets of hundreds of mil- lions of people. Farmers who use diesel fuel for irrigation and ma- chinery as well as petrochemical products like fertilizer were espe- cially hurt. “Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!” Mr. Trump declared when the deal was announced. The collapse of the cease-fire earlier this month and the re- sumption of daily airstrikes had already put oil-importing coun- tries back into crisis mode. Now the entry of Houthi militants into
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To Pressure the Undocumented
The Trump administration is aggressively deploying a potent tool to pressure undocumented immigrants into self-deporting — civil fines that can total as much as $1.8 million. More than 100,000 people have received letters from the Home- land Security Department inform- ing them that they owe $998 for each day that they have stayed in the United States after an immi- gration judge has ruled they have no legal right to remain in the country. Fines for failing to heed a “re- moval” order have been permitted since the passage of immigration legislation in 1996. Until President Trump, however, no commander in chief had imposed such penal- ties. The effort to do so in his first term ran into logistical obstacles and never gained traction. But after returning to the White House last year and starting his
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and other states, including Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. There was no mention of any such condition in the administra- tion’s announcement that the deal had been signed on Wednesday, and the text of the deal has not been released. But Mr. Trump’s social media post put the agree- ment’s immediate future in doubt. The Saudi government has made clear it has no intention of recog- nizing Israel without creating a pathway toward the creation of a Palestinian state. Mr. Trump’s post did not ad-
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mass deportation campaign, Mr. Trump ordered “all appropriate action to ensure the assessment and collection of all fines and pen- alties” from people unlawfully in the country. Now, with the administration seeking to increase financial pres- sure on undocumented immi- grants, the pace of fines has been accelerating, according to immi- gration lawyers. For immigrants who receive one, the notices amount to an ago- nizing ultimatum: abandon the lives they have built, or face the threat of financial ruin if the gov- ernment moves to collect on the debt. Even under a five-year stat- utory limit, the accumulated pen- alties can reach a $1.8 million per person. Vivi Vasquez, a Mexican immi- grant, has lived in the United States for 17 years and has an ac-
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How to Eat a 2,000-Pound Fish? These Orcas Choose to Pulverize It. Off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, a group of orcas has adopted a brutal way of hunting sunfish, the largest bony fish in the world: With an unusual maneuver, the orcas smash the giants. “It’s like soccer,” one marine biologist told The Times. “Everyone has a role.”
‘Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway’ Signs Face Backlash From Vietnam Veterans Vietnam veterans in Sumner County, Tenn., are objecting to official signs honoring the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a stretch of a highway that has been designated Vietnam Veterans Boulevard since 1987. The signs first appeared on State Route 386 in Sumner County, north of Nashville, last month.
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Texas is finalizing its required reading list for the state’s 5.4 million public school students. The education reporter Sarah Mervosh published the list, which focuses on classic texts and includes excerpts from the Bible. She asked readers: If you were in charge, how would you alter the list? These responses have been edited.
As a literacy professor focused on middle and high school curricula, I would drop many of the books and plays considered the classics and infuse a lot more contempo- rary fiction and young adult fiction. The latter can teach the same themes and liter- ary conventions but do so while engaging younger readers! Canonical literature was written for adult audiences with enough background knowledge and maturity to appreciate them. The worst thing educators can do is to turn students off of reading, and this list will do just that.
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Nozie Khoza, center, and the March and March movement push foreigners to leave South Africa.
John Eligon, the Johannesburg bureau chief for The Times, has been covering rising anti- immigrant sentiment in South Africa, where activists are going to extreme lengths to harass immigrants from other countries on the continent. His most recent article ap- peared on the front page on Thursday. Mr. Eligon shared notes about his reporting below.
Over the past year in South Africa, I have heard several stories about anti-immigrant activists blocking foreigners from entering public health facilities. So I went to check it out for myself.
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— JED LEVIN, HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.
When teaching English in the 20th century, I thought it necessary to read what is cul- turally necessary for kids to get on in the world: to recognize literary allusions (fa- bles, biblical, mythological, Shakespear- ean); to understand their world as multi- cultural, as varied ethnically; to help them understand themselves through literature; to read widely for pleasure, even “trashy” stuff of their own choosing with a little guidance from teachers. The Texas canon reminds me of the English curriculum of the ’50s and ’60s.
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I spent several months with one of the activists to understand her arguments. She represents many South Africans who feel immigration is the source of their misery.
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Left With Rotting Fruit When the Truce Ended
By ELIAN PELTIER
KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistan’s business owners are desperate for peace. Ghulam Mustafa, a mango exporter, rushed containers of the plump fruit to the Pakistan-Iran border as soon as the United States and Iran signed a cease- fire agreement, brokered by Pakistan, last month. But the truce has collapsed, the trucks have turned back, and Mr. Mustafa’s mangoes are rotting. “We’re sending our products, and we don’t know whether they’ll cross or get stopped,” Mr. Mustafa said. I spoke to him on a recent morning in his office as he watched videos from his driver showing boxes full of spoiled fruit that never reached their Iranian buyers. For him and other business owners in Karachi — Pakistan’s largest city and its commercial hub — the economic stakes of an end to the war in Iran are high. Peace would mean not just lower fuel prices, but also a chance to finally take advantage of the huge trading partner right across the 565-mile border. The Pakistani economy is struggling and heavily reliant on foreign lenders like China and Saudi Arabia. A nation of 250 million people, Pakistan has four neighbors but doesn’t formally trade with two of them, India and Afghanistan, because of continuing tensions. Invest- ments from the third, China, are down nearly 30 percent this year. Traders and entrepreneurs had pinned their hopes on better relations with the fourth, Iran. “The situation is very urgent for Paki- stan,” said Kaiser Bengali, an economist based in Karachi. “We subscribe to loans to pay back old loans. Any relief from any side will be welcome.” Both governments have pledged to boost trade. This week, Iran’s interior minister, Eskandar Momeni, led a dele- gation to Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, that included the governor of Iran’s bor- der province, the head of the national oil company and top Iranian officials in transportation, agriculture and urban development. But many among Karachi’s powerful and influential industrialists are feeling disillusionment and alarm. Yasmin Dadabhoy, whose business specializes in construction materials and energy, briefly considered a trip to Iran for construction deals during the cease- fire. Ms. Dadabhoy said the mood at the time was, “Business will be back, sun- shine and rainbows, reconstruction and everything.” “It ended in a blink of an eye,” she add- ed. “Now there’s bombing everywhere.” Like many Pakistanis, Ms. Dadabhoy praised the country’s government and military leadership for their efforts, but she said the United States and Iran should sit down for talks again. “The big boys need to settle things down fast,” she said.
Spoiled Fruit, Soured Hopes
It’s not only Mr. Mustafa’s mangoes that are stuck at the border. Rice and textiles from Pakistan, and oil and steel from Iran, are moving in a trickle. Traders and business owners say smuggling of oil and essential food products is still going on, but that, too, has become more diffi- cult and expensive because of the war in Iran and attacks by armed groups in Pa- kistan’s border province of Balochistan. Pakistan’s mangoes, a source of na- tional pride, brought in $110 million in ex- port revenue last year. But the country’s main trade association for fruits and veg- etables has slashed this year’s export target by nearly 30 percent because of declining yields and rising freight costs, which have doubled by air and increased almost sixfold by sea. With fruits rotting at the border with Iran, traders have cut prices by half and sold them at auctions. They are getting impatient, too. Paki- stan’s top leaders, Prime Minister She-
hbaz Sharif and the army chief, Field Marshal Asim Syed Munir, earned some praise domestically for hosting the first meeting in decades between top U.S. and Iranian officials in Islamabad in April, and later for helping broker a cease-fire between the two countries. But that good will may have already been spent. “The leaders are showing off,” said Afzal Khan, a wholesale trader selling mangoes in Karachi. He added that the moniker “Showbaz” was circulating widely — a play on Mr. Sharif’s first name, reflecting the view that his role was more performative than substan- tive. “The solution is in the hands of Mr. Trump,” said Aitbaar Ali Syed, a fruit and vegetable exporter based in Karachi. “If he wants, he can solve all these prob- lems.”
Spooked by Sanctions
Pakistani business owners dealing with Iran say U.S. sanctions have hampered their quest to expand trade. Decades ago, Shahid Hamid Jafri’s fa- ther traded textiles for rugs from Iran. These days, Mr. Jafri deals mainly in Pa- kistan’s critical minerals and exports only a trickle of Pakistani rice to Iran. (Essential items like food are not subject to sanctions.) With full access, he said, the Iranian market would have “huge, huge potential.” Officially, Pakistan and Iran trade is about $3 billion — much less than the $5.4 billion in goods that Pakistan ex- ported to the United States last year. But Muhammad Rehan Hanif, the president of Karachi’s Chamber of Com- merce and Industry, said that when Ira- nian business owners visit the chamber,
the two sides struggle to discuss any- thing concrete because of sanctions. “When banks read the word ‘Iran,’ they get spooked,” said Asfandyar Khan Mandokhail, who is with a major Paki- stani trade organization. If not for sanctions, traders say, Paki- stan could increase its exports of maize, rice, textiles, pharmaceutical products and surgical equipment to Iran. Iran could supply fuel and gas much more cheaply to Pakistan than Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Gulf. Instead, for most trade, Pakistan and Iran must rely on barter, third-party routes, like ports in the United Arab Emirates, and smuggling over land or by sea, which is widespread. There is no of- ficial data on the volume of informal trade, but it is estimated to represent bil- lions of dollars. “When you blend Iranian oil with a
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ASIM HAFEEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
In the main fruit and vegetable market in Karachi, Pakistan, last week, a melon seller waiting for customers, and Ghulam Mustafa, a mango trader, wholesaler and exporter. His fruit is going to waste.
cargo coming from elsewhere, you can- not prove it’s Iranian,” said Mahmood Moulvi, the chairman of a major shipping company that trades rice and cooking oil with Iran, among other products. De- scribing how Iranian products reach Pa- kistan, Mr. Moulvi said it was nearly im- possible for business owners to do so le- gally, so they use smugglers or route products through a third country.
Watching and Waiting
Formalizing trade by lifting sanctions, business owners say, would eliminate the expense and risk involved in paying smugglers, and they would be able to sell a wider variety of Iranian consumer products, from watermelon to whipped cream or sweets. Today, even the trade in smuggled goods appears to be drying up. One morning last week, I wandered the alleys of a market in Karachi that once sold a wide variety of Iranian sweets. Only a handful were available: Iranian-made copies of Snickers bars, called Stunner, and Oreo cookies, called Bisoreno. Imports of smuggled oil have been cut by half as well, said Tariq Hasan, the vice chairman of Pakistan’s main petroleum lobbying group. A gas pipeline project to link the two countries has also stalled because of U.S. sanctions; Iran has completed construc- tion, but Pakistan hasn’t started its por- tion. Along with the chance to legalize and increase imports of Iranian oil, analysts and business owners say the big prize for Pakistan would be a chance to be in- volved in the postwar reconstruction of Iran. Ms. Dadabhoy, the construction exec- utive, noted that Pakistan had the work- ers and the construction materials Iran would need. “We are playing watch and wait, be- cause with uncertainty entrepreneurs don’t venture out,” she said.
More Volatile World Holds Dark Potential For a New Arms Race
By MARK LANDLER
PARIS — When President Dwight D. Eisenhower went to the United Nations in 1953 to offer countries nuclear technol- ogy and know-how in return for a promise to use them peacefully, the policy went by a memorable shorthand, “Atoms for Peace.” Seven decades later, it could go by a less idealistic name: nuclear hedging. President Trump’s civil nucle- ar agreement with Saudi Arabia, announced this week, reflects a volatile world in which America’s allies are seeking nuclear capa- bilities to hedge against preda- tory neighbors, harmful energy disruptions and the shrinking security umbrella of the United States. It also reflects a White House, hungry for lucrative deals for American companies, that is willing to loosen nonproliferation standards for a favored partner in a dangerous region. Saudi Arabia’s deal could even- tually allow it to enrich fuel for nuclear reactors and limit the sites that international inspec- tors could visit to ensure its peaceful intent. Both of those concessions, unheard-of in recent American civil nuclear agree- ments, will feed fears that the Saudis could pivot to a nuclear weapons program. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto Saudi leader, has made no secret of that possibility. If Iran obtains a nuclear bomb, he has warned, the Saudis will follow suit. Mr. Trump sought to allay such concerns on Thursday, declaring that the agreement was limited to civil uses of nuclear technol- ogy. But given the checkered history of such deals, and the lack of specifics about this one, his comments were unlikely to quell concerns about a new global arms race. “We’re back in an era of nucle- ar hedging,” said Vipin Narang, a professor of nuclear security and political science at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. “You’ve got a lot of nervous countries facing a deteriorating security situation who are un- sure they can rely on their for-
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dress the Saudi government’s conditions for establishing diplo- matic ties with Israel. Saudi offi- cials did not respond to repeated requests for comment. When a reporter pressed Karo- line Leavitt, the White House spokeswoman, on why the condi- tion was not mentioned in the an- nouncement of the deal on Wednesday, she said the presi- dent was the “final dealmaker” and had mentioned the need for Saudi Arabia to join the accords “on numerous occasions.” She was definitive on the presi- dent’s terms. “If they don’t join the Abraham Accords, the deal is off,” Ms. Leavitt said. In linking the deal to diplomatic recognition of Israel, Mr. Trump is veering back to the plan that Pres- ident Joseph R. Biden Jr. at- tempted in the first years of his ad- ministration, making nuclear co- operation part of a larger diplo- matic understanding that changes the dynamics of the Mid- dle East. But the plan fell apart af- ter the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel led by Hamas, and Mr. Trump later divorced the nuclear agreement from the diplomatic ef- fort. He has now reversed himself, but only after his energy secre- tary, Chris Wright, signed the deal with Saudi Arabia’s energy min- ister. Mr. Wright indicated that the deal would now be sent to Con- gress for review, but presumably Mr. Trump could hold up its trans- mission while he argues with the Saudis over the new condition. The president’s post put Saudi officials in an awkward position. Israel is extremely unpopular in Saudi Arabia, particularly over its conduct of the war in Gaza follow- ing the Oct. 7 attack. Israel’s con- tinued military activity there and the Israeli government’s resist- ance to the creation of a Palestin- ian state make agreeing to Mr. Trump’s condition “so politically toxic, it could jeopardize the sur- vival of the Saudi regime,” said Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East program at the Wash- ington think tank Defense Priori- ties. Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s crown prince, is not an elected leader, but he does need popular support. Agreeing to Mr. Trump’s condition, Ms. Kelanic
mal or informal protectors.” “We’re going to see a cascade of states looking for the capacity to pursue a military program” that could yield a weapon, said Professor Narang, who worked on nuclear policy in the Pentagon during the Biden administration. Gary Samore, a professor of politics at Brandeis University who advised on arms control negotiations in the Obama and Clinton administrations, said those countries were sometimes referred to as “friendly prolifera- tors.” Not all, or even any, of them will ultimately pursue a bomb, the experts said. The last coun- try to enter the club of nuclear- armed states was North Korea in 2006. But it does suggest a risky new period, in which the global nuclear market could become more freewheeling and less rulebound. Nuclear buyers, rattled by the shift in the global posture of the United States, are likely to make greater demands, while rival sellers, like Russia and China, could seize on the Saudi precedent to grant them. “It’s very connected to the damage Trump has done to credibility of the U.S. as a guar- antor of security,” Mr. Samore said. In countries such as Germany and Poland, South Korea and Japan, governments without nuclear weapons are debating the need to pursue them. South Korea, menaced by the nuclear- armed North, has initiated a plan to develop a fleet of nuclear- powered submarines, with the support of the United States. The Japanese defense min- ister, Shinjiro Koizumi, said this week that his country needed to confront the role of nuclear weapons in its defense, despite a longstanding aversion rooted in the wartime destruction of Hiro- shima and Nagasaki. Poland’s president, Karol Nawrocki, has said that his coun- try should pursue a nuclear program, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany has joined a high-level nuclear steer- ing group with France and other European countries.
Mohammed bin Salman at the White House in November. Even as Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, he still needs popular support.
said, “would poison the legitimacy of his government.” So Saudi Arabia is now in a bind, assuming Mr. Trump means what he says — which may not neces- sarily be the case. Mr. Trump has frequently used social media posts and other statements as a negotiating tool. “I don’t think the Saudis want to give this air,” Ms. Kelanic said. “They want it to quietly go away.” Not surprisingly, Prime Min- ister Benjamin Netanyahu of Is- rael warmly greeted Mr. Trump’s demand that the Saudis normalize relations with Israel. “The joint American and Israeli military ac- tion against the genocidal regime in Tehran and Israel’s crushing of Iran’s terror axis have created the possibility to expand the circle of peace,” he said in a statement. “As President Trump has said, Saudi Arabia’s joining of the Abraham Accords would be an historic leap forward for peace in the Middle East.” Mr. Trump also asserted that the terms of the deal would not al- low Saudi Arabia to enrich its own nuclear material, offering no fur- ther explanation. While the agree- ment has not been made public, officials have described it very dif- ferently, saying that it allows for a two-year study period, during which Saudi and American offi- cials will determine if there is a vi- able economic path for the king- dom to enrich nuclear fuel. The United States could block that move for a number of years, ac- cording to officials familiar with the arrangement, but not perma- nently. Mr. Trump argued otherwise.
A French nuclear submarine. France, like others, has widened its capability as the U.S. pulls back.
France, which along with Britain is one of Western Eu- rope’s two nuclear powers, has vowed to expand its arsenal and offer a form of extended deter- rence to its neighbors to compen- sate for Mr. Trump’s pulling back. In a show of cooperation, Paris recently sent a nuclear- capable fighter plane to a Ger- man air base. “The next half-century will be an age of nuclear weapons,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said in March. He was announcing the shift in his coun- try’s nuclear doctrine to one of “forward deterrence” — the use of France’s nuclear weapons to prevent attacks on territories beyond its own borders. During that speech, Mr. Ma- cron spoke of a world filled with nuclear flash points: India, Paki- stan, North Korea and China. But experts said that France’s offer of deterrence to European neigh- bors could mitigate the interest
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“There will be no enrichment of material,” he stated, adding that the United States “is not opposed to Civil (Non-Enriched) Nuclear Facilities.” The potential that Saudi Arabia could make its own fuel — and the risk that some of it could be di- verted to a nuclear weapons project in the future — lies at the core of criticism of the deal. NAT1 But the crown prince is unlikely to give up the right to enrich or agree to the most intrusive international inspections that more than 140 other nations have already signed on to. Mr. Trump’s statement comes after Israeli leaders voiced con- cerns over the emerging deal, worrying that it could fuel a re- gional arms race, and the implica- tion of Israel being sidestepped in the process. Mr. Trump’s newly stated condi- tion could create a roadblock to the deal itself, as Saudi officials have repeatedly stated that they will not recognize Israel without a pathway toward a Palestinian state. Mr. Trump has previously pushed to expand the Abraham Accords, agreements he began brokering during his first term. The first, between Israel and Bahrain and the Emirates, were announced in 2020. Since then, Morocco and Sudan have joined the pact.
of allies in acquiring nuclear capabilities. While a French nuclear umbrella would not be a replacement for the one provided by the United States, it could still act as a deterrent. “The best nonproliferation tool the U.S. ever had is its military alliances,” said Matthew Fuhrmann, a professor of securi- ty studies at the University of Texas. “If the U.S. did not extend nuclear protection to as many countries as it did, we’d be in a world with more nuclear weap- ons states.” France’s stepped-up role, he said, would reduce the risk of other European countries seek- ing a weapon. “But I don’t think it lowers their desire to hedge,” he added, noting that merely having a civil nuclear program gives countries leverage with nuclear powers like the United States. There is an irony to France’s playing a moderating role, given
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that historically, the country has been one of the most prolific sellers of nuclear technology. France helped to build nuclear programs in Israel, Iraq and Pakistan. The pace of civil nuclear agreements had fallen off in recent years, Professor Fuhrmann said, in part because the global demand for nuclear energy plummeted after the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan in 2011. But worries about energy security surged after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and jumped again after the American-Israeli war against Iran prompted Tehran to halt marine traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. In striking a deal with the United States, Saudi Arabia is following in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates, which signed a civil nuclear agreement with the Obama administration in 2009. That deal did not allow
the Emirates to enrich nuclear fuel, cutting off its pathway to producing a weapon, and pro- vided for stringent inspections. Experts labeled it the “gold standard” for nonproliferation. In addition to easing those restrictions, Mr. Trump initially dropped a condition pressed by his predecessor, President Jo- seph R. Biden Jr., that Saudi Arabia normalize relations with Israel. On Thursday, Mr. Trump re- versed course and said that he was, in fact, making that a re- quirement of the deal. The Saudi government did not immediately comment but has repeatedly made clear that it would not recognize Israel without also establishing a pathway toward a Palestinian state. The deal’s original conces- sions, analysts said, reflected Mr. Trump’s recognition that the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran had destabilized Saudi Arabia and the entire region. “This deal is a tangible confir- mation of the erosion of trust and confidence in Washington as a result of the Iran war,” said Su- zanne Maloney, an expert on Iran who is vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Insti- tution, a research organization in Washington. “Gulf leaders have no realistic alternative to the U.S. security umbrella,” she added, “but they also are seeing firsthand evi- dence of its limitations and liabil- ities. So they are determined to expand their autonomy and capabilities.” The war against Iran is an- other disincentive for countries to pursue a weapons program. With its nuclear facilities lying under rubble, whatever ambi- tions Iran has to produce a bomb have been set back. But even that could cut both ways, since other aspiring nuclear powers could conclude that the best way to avoid such pre-emptive strikes is to achieve nuclear status as quickly as possible. Conceding benefits to Saudi Arabia will probably not put Riyadh on the pathway to a bomb anytime soon, the experts said. But other countries, with more advanced capabilities, may de- mand the same terms. They might succeed if the United States no longer holds the line on giving nonnuclear states sensi- tive enrichment technology. “To me, the danger of this deal is the precedent,” Mr. Samore said. “What’s to stop Russia from making a deal like this?”
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the war, and their attacks on ships using another critical waterway, has deepened the oil shock by cut- ting off another shipping route to Asia. The war in Ukraine has also contributed to the oil market tur- moil, disrupting shipments in the Black Sea as well as fuel produc- tion at Russian refineries. U.S. stock markets opened sharply lower on Thursday. And the yield on the 10-year treasury bond, a key indicator that influ- ences mortgage and student loan rates, jumped past 4.7 percent, its highest level in many months. The European Central Bank, which last month became the first major central bank to raise inter- est rates in response to the war with Iran, held them steady at a
Reporting was contributed by Shirin Hakim, Robert Jimison, James McManagan, Sanjana Varghese, Aruni Soni and Euan Ward.
A military exercise in Jordan in 2022 of the U.S., Jordan and 28 other nations. Iran has launched airstrikes at U.S. forces in Jordan.
By RAJA ABDULRAHIM
AMMAN, Jordan — For some three decades, Jordan has been an important base for American mili- tary operations around the Middle East. Now, Jordan is paying a price. Over recent days, Iran has stepped up its airstrikes against the kingdom, targeting U.S. mili- tary forces there. But even as sirens are sounding over Jordan, it has refrained from limiting the American presence. The country’s exceptional de- pendence on the United States has kept Jordan from curtailing those military activities, analysts say. Jordan has come to rely on the United States for billions of dol- lars in economic and military aid, provided over their decades-old relationship, as well as for protec- tion in a dangerous region. Unlike some of its Gulf Arab neighbors with abundant oil and other natural resources, Jordan is a resource-poor country heavily reliant on foreign aid. Last year, the United States gave the king- dom $1.65 billion in economic and military assistance, according to Jordanian officials. And while some other Ameri- can allies in the region have re- stricted Washington’s ability to base troops on their territory and fly aircraft over it during the war with Iran, U.S. officials say, Jordan is not in a position to impose such limits. “Jordan is a weak state in the Middle East,” said Sean Yom, a professor of political science at Temple University and author of the book “Jordan: Politics in an Accidental Crucible.” “It’s fairly small and it’s surrounded by re- gional threats. And it does need some sort of great-power patron or outside protector, and the U.S. has played that role for several generations now.” The assistance Jordan gets from the United States, which dates to the 1950s, is far too large for anyone else to provide, Mr. Yom said. Since the United States and Is- rael launched the war against Iran in late February, it has retaliated in part by carrying out strikes on American allies in the Middle East. During the first months of the war, Iran primarily targeted
meeting on Thursday. But the head of the bank, Christine La- garde, told reporters that “uncer- tainty remains high.” The Houthi attacks raise the prospect of wider economic tur- moil, especially in the shipping business. Some ships bound for Asia this week have been forced to embark on lengthy detours through the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean Sea and around the southern tip of Africa. The delays and added costs blunt the effectiveness of a pipeline that crosses the Arabian Peninsula, which Saudi Arabia has relied on heavily during the war as an alternate pathway for oil exports. With the Persian Gulf largely closed off, oil prices are now 40 percent higher than they were be- fore the United States and Israel launched the war against Iran in February. The average price of gasoline in the United States was $4.09 on Thursday, according to AAA, a 15-cent jump from a week earlier. The Saudi authorities on Thurs-
Israel and U.S. allies in the Gulf, but it also directed hundreds of drones and missiles at Jordan. The conflict quickly hurt Jor- dan’s tourism industry, which pro- vides up to 18 percent of the coun- try’s revenue, just as the high sea- son was getting underway. Al- though most of the missiles and drones were intercepted, airlines canceled flights, and would-be vis- itors canceled hotel reservations. Now, with the U.S.-Iran cease- fire unraveling, both sides have ramped up attacks, and Iran has widened its targeting in recent weeks. On Sunday, Jordan’s air de- fenses shot down three Iranian missiles, the Jordanian military said, while a fourth landed in an unpopulated area. “This Iranian strategy of verti- cal escalation hitting its neighbors aims at creating pressure on those neighbors, aims at creating pres- sure on the United States,” said Hassan Almomani, director of the Center for Strategic Studies, a think tank that advises the Jorda- nian government on national se- curity. Iran said recently that some of its strikes on Jordan had targeted fuel tanks at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Azraq, a hub for the U.S. Air Force, and aircraft shel- ters at other bases, according to the Fars News Agency, a semioffi- cial Iranian news outlet. Previ- ously, Iran said it had targeted ra- dar and communications systems used by U.S. forces. Two U.S. soldiers were killed and a third was missing on Friday in an Iranian attack on the Muwaf-
A ship off the Port of Aden in Yemen on Thursday, after the Iran- aligned Houthis said they had hit two Saudi oil tankers.
day confirmed a strike on one of its ships, the Encelia, without specifying the origin of the attack. It said that the crew was safe. The Saudis have not commented on the Houthi claim regarding a sec- ond ship.
faq Salti base. Three other attacks on U.S. forces in Jordan earlier in the week wounded dozens of American soldiers and damaged a number of Blackhawk helicop- ters. American forces have long op- erated out of Jordanian air bases, and the kingdom has been a base for such American military activi- ties as the fight against the Is- lamic State, the training of rebel fighters during Syria’s civil war and the invasion of Iraq. There are now nearly 4,000 American serv- ice members in the country, ac- cording to a congressional report. Muwaffaq Salti and other bases have been adapted to accommo- date a permanent U.S. presence. “The infrastructure in Jordan has been pretty robust from a U.S. standpoint for a while,” said Grant Rumley, a former Middle East ad- viser at the Pentagon and now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He likened it to a “land-based aircraft carrier.” Muwaffaq Salti is also relatively remote, allowing U.S. forces to op- erate without attracting unwant- ed attention, Mr. Rumley said. And since Jordan is farther from Iran than Gulf countries, U.S. forces in Jordan have more time to respond to missile and drone at- tacks, he said. In the run-up to the war with Iran and in its early days, the U.S. military moved some of its troops from several Gulf Arab nations to relatively more secure locations in Jordan and neighboring Israel, U.S. officials said.
Neither the United States nor Iran has signaled much appetite for a return to negotiations. In re- cent days, Iranian and American officials have instead vowed to re- spond to each other’s attacks with fresh ones of their own.
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“War in Iran has revealed how important Jordan is to the United States,” said Mr. Almomani. This year, he said, Washington has in- creased military aid to Jordan by half a billion dollars. Jordanian officials often em- phasize the strategic importance of their relationship with the United States. In a call with Presi- dent Trump in April, King Abdul- lah II stressed Washington’s piv- otal role in the Middle East, specif- ically in prospects for de-escalat- ing the conflict with Iran. This month, Jordan’s army chief, Maj. Gen. Yousef Hunaiti, and the U.S. assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, Daniel Zimmerman, dis- cussed expanding military co- operation further, according to the Petra state news agency in Jor- dan. The Jordanian government rarely discusses the extensive U.S. military presence publicly. Nor has Jordan openly criticized the U.S. for its airstrikes on Iran or for launching the war alongside Israel, though analysts say the government was strongly op- posed to the conflict from the be- ginning. Jordanian officials have repeat- edly condemned Iran’s attacks on its soil, and last week Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said the Iranian justification for its strikes — that there are U.S. bases — is false. “There are no American bases in Jordan,” he said, speaking at a panel discussion at the Aspen Se- curity Forum. “We have American troops that are in Jordan as part of our longstanding military cooper- ation. Their presence is governed by a defense agreement that fully respects our sovereignty.” Despite the attacks, Jordan would not consider re-evaluating its alliance with the U.S., Mr. Al- momani said. “Under no circum- stances can Jordan change its strategic partnership,” he said. There is no meaningful demand in Jordan for giving up its depend- ency on the United States, Mr. Yom said. “No serious political stakehold- er is suggesting that Jordan re- place over $1.5 billion in economic and military assistance it receives from the United States every year with, say, European Union money or Chinese support,” he said.
U.S. Central Command, which coordinates military operations in the Middle East, said it had launched a wave of strikes overnight to degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping, targeting drone and missile stor- age sites and air defenses. That language, which the U.S. military has employed on a daily basis, does not explicitly acknowl- edge U.S. strikes on infrastructure that can be used for civilian pur- poses, like roads and ports. Such attacks could be considered war crimes under international law. Mr. Trump has threatened to at- tack a bridge or power plant “any time the Islamic republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said overnight that it had launched attacks on U.S. military targets in Jordan and Ku- wait, including a communications tower, accusing U.S. forces of at- tacking equivalent infrastructure in Iran. Videos circulating on social me- dia and verified by The New York
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On Iran War Powers Vote
By ROBERT JIMISON
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday voted a second time to direct President Trump to end the war in Iran or seek explicit au- thorization to continue it, dealing him another bipartisan rebuke as he again ramps up military opera- tions in the Middle East without approval from Congress. Four Republicans joined Demo- crats in backing the measure, which does not have the force of law but is the latest evidence of disapproval on Capitol Hill with Mr. Trump’s handling of the con- flict. Not long afterward, Republi- cans blocked a similar measure from consideration in the Senate, after key G.O.P. skeptics of the war either changed their stance or did not vote. The House action came after the United States concluded its 12th consecutive night of strikes in Iran, following the collapse of a cease-fire that many Republicans had hoped would yield a diplomat- ic breakthrough to wind down the war well before they must face voters in November’s midterm elections. The measure passed on a vote of 214 to 208. The Republicans who joined Democrats in favor were Representatives Tom Barrett of Michigan, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Brian Fitzpatrick of Penn- sylvania and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. That was the same quartet that helped Democrats push through a similar war pow- ers resolution last month. “My position hasn’t changed,” Mr. Barrett, who is among the most politically vulnerable Re- publicans in the House, said in a statement after the vote. “Only Congress has the authority to au- thorize military action in Iran. I remain ready to work with anyone to eliminate hostile threats to our nation without getting us into an- other endless war.” The resolution, sponsored by Representative Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington, was among the final matters the House voted on before leaving Washington for a five-week sum- mer recess. A Washington Post-Ipsos poll released last week found that only 29 percent of Americans support the war in Iran. A Politico poll found that Trump supporters who identified as “MAGA” voters said there were conditions to their con- tinued support, with 37 percent saying they would only continue backing the conflict if prices for Americans did not rise. Global oil prices hit $100 a barrel on Thurs- day for the first time since May. Representative Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado, said that the waning public support would likely push more Republican law- makers to speak out more force- fully against the Trump adminis- tration’s unilateral approach to the war. “When we come back in Sep- tember, I bet we have more people joining with us saying, ‘All right, let’s wrap this up,’” he said on Thursday. The House vote underscored the growing divide between Re- publicans on Capitol Hill and the White House as the war drags on. A growing group of Republican lawmakers has become more vo- cal about questioning the lack of congressional authorization or consultation, and also the admin- istration’s failure to lay out a clear endgame. But Mr. Trump has shown no willingness to involve the legislative branch and little sign of winding down the cam- paign. Instead, he has asserted that he has unchecked power to continue the military operation. Mr. Trump brushed aside Con- gress’s earlier rebukes last month, when the House and Senate both
Times showed two of Iraq’s border crossings attacked on Thursday, with people carrying suitcases fleeing the explosions. The first attack occurred in the early hours of Thursday near the Iranian side of the Shalamcheh border crossing in Khuzestan Province. Iranian and Iraqi media outlets reported that a rest station for police officers at the crossing had been hit by U.S. airstrikes. U.S. Central Command did not im- mediately respond to questions about the attack. Additional footage showed a damaged telecommunications tower inside a small compound within the border crossing facility. In what appeared to be a retalia- tory strike, the Abdali border crossing between Kuwait and Iraq was also hit on Thursday after- noon. Gen. Saud Abdulaziz al-Otaibi, a spokesman for Kuwait’s defense ministry, said in a statement that the crossing had come “under at- tack by hostile drones,” without specifying their origin, and that there had been no casualties.
passed a similar measure, the first time since the conflict began in February that lawmakers voted to disapprove of it. House Republican leaders are now pressing forward with a budget plan that would pay for the war, putting their members in the politically unappealing position of voting to finance an unpopular conflict that the Republican-led Congress has not authorized, and over which it has exercised little oversight. In the face of Mr. Trump’s disre- gard for the congressional action, Representative Gregory W. Meeks of New York, the top Dem- ocrat on the Foreign Affairs Com- mittee, said that he had begun the process to file a lawsuit against the administration for ignoring the resolutions. “We have a situation where we’ve passed, now twice, war powers resolutions,” Mr. Meeks said in an interview on Thursday. In the Senate on Thursday, a similar resolution stalled after only one Republican, Senator Su- san Collins of Maine, backed it. Senator Bill Cassidy, a Louisi- ana Republican who previously voted to direct Mr. Trump to end hostilities or seek authorization to continue them, changed his stance. Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, two other Republicans who had backed similar efforts, did not vote. It was the 12th time Democrats had forced such a vote, and they vowed to continue doing so as they implored Republicans to stop deferring to Mr. Trump and join the effort to wind down the war. “As the war escalates even fur- ther, as more American service members are killed, as more civil- ians are killed, as oil and gas prices and other prices go up, this is an opportunity for this Con- gress to finally take responsibil- ity,” Senator Chris Van Hollen, the Maryland Democrat who spon- sored the measure, said before the vote. “We know the president has no respect for the law, but we have an obligation to our constituents.” Senator John Fetterman, Dem- ocrat of Pennsylvania, was the only member of his party to op- pose it, in line with his past votes on the issue. Mr. Cassidy said he had switched his position after multi- ple briefings by administration of- ficials, though he still had con- cerns about the conflict. “Now, do I approve how the war is being carried out? Not neces- sarily,” he said on Thursday. But he said he was not comfortable calling for an immediate with- drawal. Senator Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican who opposed Thursday’s measure as he has previous such efforts, said that he might change his stance should the conflict continue to drag on. But he noted that presidents of both parties have at various times dodged the statute requiring con- sultation with Congress on mili- tary engagements. “My rationalization for not re- ally applying the War Powers Act earlier is all the games that have been played,” Mr. Tillis said. Given Mr. Trump’s formal notification to Congress on July 10 that hostil- ities with Iran had resumed, he said the president should have un- til Sept. 10 — the end of a 60-day window laid out in the war powers law — to act without authorization from Congress. (The 1973 law ac- tually forbids the president from ordering American forces into a conflict without congressional ap- proval unless the United States is under attack, but it provides a 60- day clock to terminate such an op- eration if he has not secured au- thorization.)
Muwaffaq Salti Air Base
The three soldiers killed on July 17 — First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25; Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19; and Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28 — were assigned to missile defense units at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, a hub for the U.S. Air Force. In the days leading up to the deadly at- tack, Iran had already struck the base at least once. Satellite imagery showed that an airfield hangar was destroyed sometime between July 15 and the morning of July 17. After the attacks on the night of July 17, a video emerged on social media showing a projectile explode near sev- eral buildings that resemble prefabri- cated housing. It’s unclear if this was the same explosion that killed the sol- diers or whether the weapons were missiles, drones or a combination of both. At one moment, it appears that
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Left, a still image from a video verified by The New York Times of a projectile striking the air base overnight on July 17. Right, a photograph, circulating online and verified by The Times, of the aftermath of the most recent strike on the base.
A still image from a video verified by The Times shows the aftermath of an Iranian strike on the outpost.
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
JERUSALEM — Israel responded cautiously to President Trump’s declara- tion Thursday that the U.S.-Saudi nucle- ar deal would be contingent on Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords. Israeli officials warmly welcomed the possibility of establishing diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia, but analysts sug- gested that Mr. Trump’s demand may of- fer a substance-free distraction from a deal that remained unmistakably bad for Israel. The president’s statement on social media instantly led the news agenda in Israel, where the signing of the U.S.- Saudi agreement had been met with alarm on Wednesday, raising concerns of a Middle East arms race and fears that the country’s most powerful ally was forging its own path in the region, inde-
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How Iranian Strikes Have Damaged U.S. Military Sites
By ARIC TOLER and CHRISTOPH KOETTL
Iranian attacks on nine U.S. locations across the Middle East in the two weeks since the cease-fire broke down show that Iran maintains an ability to inflict damage on precise targets, despite the Trump ad- ministration’s repeated claims that the country’s military capabilities have been diminished or destroyed. A New York Times visual analysis of U.S. military bases and other sites found that the strikes had caused damage to living quarters and working areas, drone shel- ters, radar systems and other structures. One of the attacks, on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded others. A military official told The Times that nearly a dozen service members were also wounded severely enough by Iranian missile and drone at- tacks in Jordan and other countries this month that they were flown to a U.S. mili- tary hospital in Germany for treatment. Four of the sites, including Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, had already been struck in the first months of the war, when Iran hit a total of 18 military sites used by the United States in seven countries.
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King Hussein International Airport in Jordan, where the U.S. military main- tains a presence, was also struck, and hangars and a radar system were hit at two other air bases in the country. The Times also corroborated Iranian satellite imagery that shows a radar system at Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait was destroyed around Monday, only six months after its construction had been completed. Most of the attacks earlier in the war targeted military infrastructure such as radar systems, air defense com- plexes and aircraft hangars. However, some strikes hit personnel facilities, in- cluding an attack on a makeshift com- mand post in Kuwait that killed six American soldiers in March. In April,
Riley Mellen, Sanjana Varghese and Eric Schmitt contributed reporting. Note: The Times has verified that all images provide an accurate depiction of the damage.
the person filming retreats into a shel- ter as debris rains down. There is no footage available that shows whether air defense systems for the base were activated. A photograph also began circulating soon after the attack that shows a num- ber of structures burning. The original source of both the image and footage, which were verified by The Times, is unknown, but they were most likely captured by personnel on the base. Iran later released several satellite images showing that at least 20 struc- tures were completely or partly de- stroyed. Along with the strike on the area that appears to be living quarters, Ira- nian strikes also damaged two han- gars and three drone shelters on the air base.
pendent of Israel. On Thursday, Prime Minister Ben- jamin Netanyahu continued to remain si- lent on the deal itself. But he seized on Mr. Trump’s demand for normalization of Saudi-Israeli ties to assert that the U.S.- Israeli war against Iran had “created the possibility to expand the circle of peace.” “As President Trump has said, Saudi Arabia’s joining of the Abraham Accords would be an historic leap forward for peace in the Middle East,” Mr. Netanya- hu said in a statement. “Peace through Strength.” But national-security analysts cast doubts on the value of Mr. Trump’s prom- ises, given that Saudi Arabia’s leaders have conditioned normalizing ties with Israel on solid progress toward a Pales- tinian state, which Mr. Netanyahu ada- mantly opposes.
Where Iran Has Struck Since July 7
Video footage and satellite images reveal that Iranian strikes have hit several U.S. military locations in the Middle East during the latest flare-up in fighting.
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Source: Strikes verified by The Times since July 7. SAMUEL GRANADOS AND LEANNE ABRAHAM/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Satellite image captured by Copernicus on July 20. LEANNE ABRAHAM/THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a congressional committee that “every possible measure” was used to protect U.S. service members on Gulf bases. Four sites, including Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, were struck again in the past two weeks after being attacked earlier in the war. At a naval facility in Bahrain, Iran targeted warehouses, a radar site and communications sys- tems in one-way drone attacks in the spring. Now, satellite imagery shows that a warehouse was struck two weeks ago. Satellite imagery also showed rela- tively minor damage to Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, which was also struck in the spring. And a large military tent was de- stroyed at a U.S. military site at Erbil International Airport in Iraq, which was also struck earlier in the war.
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JORDAN An airport, an outpost A and three air bases a appear damaged
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High-resolution satellite imagery released by Iran, which was distributed along with the annotation seen here in red, shows damage to a U.S. military tent at an airport in Erbil, Iraq.
High-resolution satellite imagery released by Iran, which was distributed along with the annotation seen in red, shows damage to a structure at the Tower 22 outpost in northern Jordan.
“We shouldn’t look at what Trump just said; we should look at what’s in the agreement,” said Yoel Guzansky, an ex- pert on Saudi Arabia and nuclear prolif- eration at the Institute for National Secu- rity Studies in Tel Aviv. The text of the deal had not been made public. “I think he meant well by this. But he’s not al- ways connected to reality.” Mr. Guzansky said he opposed the U.S.-Saudi deal because of the risk of nu- clear proliferation, should the Saudis ever break with the United States and should the deal inspire Saudi rivals like Turkey or Egypt to pursue their own nu- clear weapons. He also flipped on its head Mr. Netan- yahu’s argument that the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran had succeeded in creating an opportunity for peace, suggesting rather that the war had failed to meet its objec- tives and had added to the Saudis’ lever-
KUWAIT Air bases targeted
Left, high-resolution satellite imagery released by Iran, which was distributed along with the annotation seen in red, shows damage to several structures at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
Below, Iranian strikes also damaged two hangars and three drone shelters on the base, a U.S. Air Force hub.
age. Had the war gone differently, Mr. Guzansky said, “and in February we had toppled the regime and gotten the nucle- ar material out, would Trump have been able to give the Saudis enrichment, after there’s no more nuclear program in Iran? It would have been very hard for the Saudis to ask.” Enrichment has been at the center of Israeli criticism of the deal. Officials fa- miliar with its terms have described the agreement as allowing for a two-year study period during which Saudi and American officials will determine if there is a viable economic path for the king- dom to enrich nuclear fuel. Mr. Trump muddied the waters on Thursday, saying in his post “there will be no enrichment of nuclear material.” But some analysts noted that such a
Determining the damage to U.S. military sites has been hindered by a lack of high- resolution satellite imagery of the region. The government has asked major U.S. sat- ellite providers to withhold visuals — a longstanding practice that precedes the Trump administration — citing risks to U.S. troops. But the locations of the bases are public knowledge, and Iran regularly and widely circulates imagery of their strikes on these and other U.S. targets as part of its propa- ganda efforts. The Times assessed the damage using a range of visual evidence, including those Iranian satellite images that were corrobo- rated using videos captured from inside the locations that were attacked, and pho- tographs and lower-resolution satellite im- agery from NASA and the European Space Agency. A Defense Department spokesman told The Times that “for operational security reasons, the department declines to com- ment on satellite imagery,” adding that “because the investigation on the incident in Jordan is active, we do not have any- thing to announce at this time.”
Tower 22 Outpost
Iran also struck Tower 22, a U.S. military outpost on the northern Jordanian bor- der with Syria. The destruction was first visible in low-resolution European satel- lite imagery captured on Monday, which helped confirm the time frame of the at- tack. The next day, Iranian media pub- lished a higher-resolution satellite image that clearly showed one of the outpost’s structures had been destroyed. A video that began circulating on Tele- gram on Tuesday from an unknown source, but which has been verified by The Times, showed a building turned to rubble at Tower 22. The southern wing of the structure was leveled. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, told The Times that a small number of service members were injured in the attack. The official said that the injuries were not se- rious, and that the service members were treated and returned to duty. In 2024, a drone attack on the outpost, which the United States said was con- ducted by an Iran-backed militia, killed three American service members.
delay would offer at least a chance for Mr. Trump’s promise of Israeli-Saudi normalization to be fulfilled. “Truthfully, Trump is articulating something that is implicitly embedded within the agreement that was signed,” said Tamir Hayman, a former head of Is- raeli military intelligence. The two-year period, he said, “allows Trump to pres- sure Saudi Arabia to reach normaliza- tion.” “This is smart because during this pe- riod Trump is still in the White House," Mr. Hayman added, “and there could be a change in Israel that would allow the Saudi ruler to move toward normaliza- tion, which is not relevant today.” Such a change in Israel could occur as soon as October, when Mr. Netanyahu and his government are facing an elec- tion.
Attacks by Hitting Retail Economy Sites
By VALERIE HOPKINS and ALINA LOBZINA
BERLIN — Russian businesses have been feeling the effects of the war in Ukraine through tax in- creases, rising costs caused by fuel shortages, and supply chains disrupted by sanctions. Now, there is another risk to contend with: Ukrainian drone strikes on their facilities. As Ukraine wages a campaign to bring the conflict home to ordi- nary Russians, it has opened a new front aimed at the online mar- ketplace Wildberries, a pillar of the country’s retail economy and a potent symbol of modern life in Russia. In recent days, Ukraine has hit five warehouses belonging to Wildberries, a Russian analogue to Amazon, as well as storage sites for other large retailers. Eight people were killed in attacks on Saturday and one person on Wednesday, the Russian authori- ties said. The strikes on Saturday alone were reported to have wiped out between 6 and 9 percent of the storage capacity of Wildber- ries. Ukraine’s long-range strikes on Russian economic targets, includ- ing a monthslong campaign of at- tacks on oil processing facilities, are intended to pressure Presi- dent Vladimir V. Putin to end the war, in part by hampering his abil- ity to finance it. The oil strikes have caused fuel shortages that have led to lines at gas stations, and they could affect the coming harvest season. Mr. Putin has signaled no inten- tion of backing away from his ob- jectives in the conflict, and the economy, while weakened by the war, is not on the verge of collapse. Still, analysts said that if the at- tacks on Russia’s business infra- structure continued, the ripple ef- fects could pose severe economic challenges on top of a range of other war-related strains, reduc- ing tax collections and adding to inflation. Ukraine has targeted Wildber- ries warehouses in five regions across Russia, including a re- ported strike early Thursday in the Voronezh region, south of Moscow. A fire at a warehouse in Elektrostal, a city in the Moscow region, took three days to extin- guish. The day after the initial strikes, Russia unleashed the largest mis- sile attack on Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, since the war started in 2022, firing at least 35 ballistic and hypersonic cruise missiles. Ukraine has said that its strikes are in retaliation for Russian at- tacks on its postal delivery hubs and other civilian infrastructure, a yearslong campaign by Moscow that has been far more devastat- ing than Kyiv’s strikes against Russia. A Russian attack last week on a postal terminal in the northeastern city of Kharkiv left three people dead and 20 injured. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has also said that Wild- berries facilities are a legitimate target because the company sells goods to the Russian military. The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri S.
Cassandra Vinograd, Milana Mazaeva and Nataliya Vasilyeva contributed reporting.
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
KYIV, Ukraine — Before he be- came president, Volodymyr Ze- lensky played Napoleon in a co- medic film that portrayed his character as a headstrong idiot who refused to change course even as he led his army to ruin. As president, Mr. Zelensky has been the opposite of his depiction of the French general — being, perhaps, flexible to a fault. He has so often reversed decisions on ap- pointments and policies that con- fusion and personnel churn are risks in his wartime leadership, analysts say. In the latest turmoil, over the past week and a half, Mr. Zelensky sided at first with a seasoned com- manding general in a dispute with a popular, reformist defense min- ister over military strategy and what weapons to buy. He dis- missed the minister last week. Then, late Tuesday, he fired the general and appointed in his place a military chief a generation younger who is allied with the de- fense minister just ousted. It was a head-scratching rever- sal that Mr. Zelensky did not ex- plain publicly, other than to affirm his commitment to overhauls aimed at strengthening the army. The episode has left Ukraine in the grips of some of the worst tur- bulence in domestic politics since Russia’s all-out invasion in 2022. Protesters have taken to the streets in anger over the dismissal of the defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, and Mr. Zelensky’s latest about-face has not quelled calls
Peskov, has denied the accusa- tion. Wildberries has a policy of not selling military-grade weapons, but it does sell goods used by sol- diers, like commercial drones that can be jury-rigged with explo- sives, as well as fiber-optic cables, tactical clothing and other so- called dual-use items. The Wildberries attacks have been calamitous for small Russian entrepreneurs who sell goods through the site, the country’s largest online marketplace. One of them, Timur, woke up on Saturday morning to news that he had lost clothing and shoes worth about $25,000 as a result of the at- tacks on the Wildberries ware- houses in Elektrostal and in Ko- tovsk, in the Tambov region, southeast of Moscow. Timur, who was nervous about speaking with foreign journalists when reached by telephone and asked that his last name be with- held to avoid reprisals, said that his main concern was the uncer- tainty that he and other Russian entrepreneurs now faced.
for further demonstrations. To Mr. Zelensky’s allies, his will- ingness to listen to public opinion and make U-turns is a sign of the strength of Ukrainian democracy and an important contrast with autocratic Russian governance. Nearly four and a half years into the war, and seven years into his presidency, a majority of Ukraini- ans say they trust Mr. Zelensky as a leader. But his frequent swerves can project weakness as the crucible of war demands steadfast leader- ship. One criticism of Mr. Zelen- sky is that he has carried his show business instincts into politics, playing for the loudest applause and zigzagging in search of ap- proval. “The good news is, he course- corrects,” said Orysia Lutsevych, head of the Ukraine program at Chatham House in London. The bad news, she added, is how often and blatantly he does it. “He bends. He has some doubts as a person. He is unsure of himself,” Ms. Lutsevych said. After firing Mr. Fedorov, Mr. Ze- lensky turned around and offered him other jobs in the government. On Thursday, after days of specu- lation over whether Mr. Fedorov would agree to a new appoint- ment, he said in a statement that he would accept only an offer to return as defense minister. “No other role,” he said, “carries the actual authority” to fight cor- ruption in weapons purchases, modernize the army and finish other initiatives that the defense ministry had started during his
He said on Tuesday that it was unclear what would happen next “because most likely they are not the only warehouses that will be attacked.” Hours later, two more Wildber- ries warehouses that contained his apparel, in the southern Stavropol and Krasnodar regions, were hit by drones. His losses dou- bled. Timur said he had been building his business for five years, “and it can just collapse in a week,” he said, a precarity that Ukrainians have been living with for nearly four and a half years. He warned of the effects on the Russian economy, saying that continued strikes could cause the Wildberries business model to col- lapse, raising prices and bringing about shortages. Alexander Kolyandr, director for Europe at the Eurasia Group, a consulting firm, echoed that view. “The company itself and all the sellers will likely pay less in taxes than last year, and given the size, it might be pretty substantial, es-
By refusing to let Mykhailo Fedorov return as defense minister, President Volodymyr Zelensky risks creating an opponent.
brief six-month tenure. Mr. Zelensky has signaled that he will nominate another candi- date to be defense minister. If he sticks with that plan, one risk to Mr. Zelensky is that Mr. Fedorov will emerge as a potential political opponent. In his U-turn on military leader- ship, Mr. Zelensky has not openly conceded an error. At a closed- door meeting with members of his political party last week, he de- scribed a quandary in the clash between his defense minister and his top general, Oleksandr Syrskyi, according to Ukrainian news outlets. Mr. Fedorov, an evangelist for automated weaponry, had ac-
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pecially at a time when the Rus- sian budget is experiencing a wid- ening deficit,” Mr. Kolyandr said. Additionally, the cost of protect- ing, rebuilding and insuring the warehouses will be passed on to consumers, he said, contributing to already high levels of inflation. The attacks on Saturday in the Moscow and Tambov regions de- stroyed goods worth almost as much as Wildberries’ entire profit last year, according to expert esti- mates reported by Kommersant, a Russian newspaper, and by Forbes Russia. The company’s chief executive, Tatyana Kim, promised financial compensation of about $25,000 to families of the workers who were killed and half of that amount to the injured. At the beginning of the month, Wildberries and another large on- line marketplace, Ozon, changed their terms and conditions to stip- ulate that the company had no le- gal obligation to offer compensa- tion for losses caused by drone at- tacks. On Wednesday, however, Ms.
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cused General Syrskyi of stalling robotization strategies. Mr. Zelen- sky told his political allies that he had considered resolving the rift by firing both men but worried about overly abrupt changes in leadership, according to the news reports. So he dismissed only the minister, signaling that he had sided with the general. Before Russia’s invasion, Mr. Zelensky’s government was a re- volving door. He began his presi- dency with an ambitious agenda of privatizing agricultural land and overhauling governance of state-owned enterprises. But he ousted his first cabinet after less than a year. At one point during the Covid-19
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Smoke rising from a fire at a Wildberries logistics site in Elektrostal, near Moscow, last week, after a Ukrainian drone attack, above, and a man leav- ing a Wildberries retail outlet in Moscow on Wednesday.
Kim announced payouts to small sellers who were “most vulnera- ble.” She did not disclose the amounts. Many sellers on Wildberries fi- nanced their products with loans, including Timur, who told of inter- est rates as high as 35 percent. Some vendors risk having their bank accounts frozen as soon as next week if they are unable to make tax payments due in the coming days, according to the business newspaper Vedomosti. A civilian facility like a ware- house can become a lawful mili- tary target if it is being used, or is being prepared to be used, for mil- itary purposes, said Michael Schmitt, who teaches interna- tional law at the University of Reading in England and is a for- mer legal adviser to the U.S. mili- tary. Combatants, he said, must take into account exactly what kind of materials are inside, have a high degree of certainty about the site’s future military use and make ef- forts to mitigate harm to civilians. Maria Snegovaya, a researcher at the Center for Strategic and In- ternational Studies, said that Rus- sia’s economic slowdown, related in part to Ukraine’s long-range strikes, had coincided with declin- ing levels of support for the war. But some in Russia said that the increased drumbeat of attacks could rally Russians around their leader. “The adversary started doing the job of our propaganda, which is to explain to the nation that a real war is underway, and no one can just lie low,” a Russian military blogger, Roman Saponkov, wrote on Telegram. “At first they switched off fuel at the petrol sta- tion, now they took on Wildberries warehouses. Next, it will be beer factories and nail salons.”
pandemic, he replaced his health minister twice in one month. In the first years after the all- out invasion, Mr. Zelensky left in place most key ministers and se- curity service leaders. But a gov- ernment reshuffle he initiated this month, which included his re- moval of Mr. Fedorov, is the sec- ond in a year. And last summer, Mr. Zelensky made another switchback, on his government’s plan to weaken an- ticorruption agencies. He and his party’s lawmakers enacted the changes and then, amid mass demonstrations, reversed course. Some appointments in his gov- ernment overhaul this month stuck and generated little contro- versy. Mr. Zelensky replaced Yuliia Svyrydenko, an economist, with Serhiy Koretsky, a former energy executive, as prime minister. The move was seen as preparation for expected Russian wintertime at- tacks on Ukraine’s energy grid. But a major question remains over whether Mr. Zelensky will ul- timately reverse himself com- pletely by restoring Mr. Fedorov as defense minister. Doing so, said Volodymyr Fesenko, head of Penta, an independent analytical group in Kyiv, would weaken Mr. Zelensky’s position. “If Fedorov returns to the post of defense minister in the current situation, a parallel power center will emerge in Ukraine,” Mr. Fes- enko said. “This will be the begin- ning of Zelensky’s political end.”
Exposed, Flees Japan
This article is by Michael Schwirtz, Adam Goldman and Jane Bradley.
A Russian spy at the center of a secret operation to smuggle high- tech weapon components into Russia has left Japan after his ac- tivities were disclosed by The New York Times, a senior Ukrain- ian intelligence official said on Thursday. The operative, Maksim Vladi- mirovich Filchenkov, 49, had been working undercover in Japan as an employee of the Russian state airline Aeroflot. Mr. Filchenkov’s role had been the focus of a Times investigation into how Russia ex- ploited Japan’s weak espionage laws. Mr. Filchenkov’s departure was first reported by Yomiuri Shim- bun, a major national newspaper in Japan. The newspaper said the Russian exited Japan after The Times published its investigation on July 12. The Ukrainian official who confirmed the spy’s depar- ture did so on condition of ano- nymity because he was not autho- rized to discuss intelligence pub- licly. The Russian spy’s presence in Japan had frustrated Ukraine, which had repeatedly warned that, despite Japan's export re- strictions and economic sanc- tions, its high-tech components were still being shipped to Russia. Ninety percent of Russian mis- siles and drones contain Japanese components, according to Ukrain- ian government estimates. “This is definitely good news, and it’s an important example of what has to be done,” said Sergiy Korsunsky, who served as Ukraine’s ambassador to Japan from 2020 to 2024. He said he had raised concerns with Japanese of- ficials about their technology find- ing its way to the battlefield. Mr. Filchenkov was part of a clandestine unit known as the 20th Directorate of Russia’s mili- tary intelligence agency, the G.R.U. Posing as diplomats or businesspeople, its officers work to buy or steal battlefield technol- ogy and smuggle it into Russia. That made Mr. Filchenkov, a veteran officer who had previ- ously served in Japan, a key cog in supplying Russia’s war machine as he formed business relation- ships with logistics companies that ship goods from Japan to Rus- sia, often through intermediary countries. Mr. Filchenkov has not re- sponded to messages seeking comment. He declined to meet with reporters who visited the Aeroflot office this year. Former intelligence officials fa- miliar with Russian intelligence operations say that spies whose identities have been revealed of- ten return to Moscow and work desk jobs or train future genera- tions of spies — meaning Mr. Filchenkov’s undercover days are likely over. But officials say that the 20th Directorate remains a key part of the Kremlin’s effort to obtain weapon components. The Japanese government has not directly addressed questions about Mr. Filchenkov or the 20th Directorate but said that the Times report showed the need to better combat foreign espionage. Minoru Kihara, a top Japanese cabinet official, said the country “must address this issue with even greater rigor.” Japan is working to build an in- telligence agency, which it has not had since World War II. The coun- try has also backed Ukraine in its war with Russia, which has in- flicted heavy casualties on both sides. Immediately after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Japan, along with the United States and the European Union, imposed economic sanctions. Japan later began sending mili- tary aid like bulletproof vests and helmets to Ukraine, breaking with post-World War II precedent. And in May, Japan began sending per- sonnel to NATO Security Assist- ance and Training for Ukraine, a team that coordinates security support for the country. In an interview, Mr. Korsunsky, the diplomat, said Russia began stockpiling Japanese technology shortly before it invaded Ukraine, placing big orders with Japanese manufacturers around 2021. In the early days of the war, Ukrainian investigators recov- ered weapon parts mostly from China and Iran. But as the war shifted from artillery battles to drone warfare, they started dis- covering more Japanese technol- ogy in Russian weapons. “While I was in office, several times we transferred information we received from our authorities in Ukraine to Japanese authori- ties about its technology being found in drones and rockets,” Mr. Korsunsky said. “It was clear that the channels to supply all those spare parts were not closed.” Indeed, after a Russian cruise missile destroyed a residential building in Kyiv and killed at least 24 people in May, investigators found that the missile had been guided by Japanese components — ones widely banned from ex- port to Russia, according to a Ukrainian assessment.
Takaichi Invokes Her Hero to Drive A Nationalist Japan
By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ
TOKYO — Inside a hushed hall in Tokyo on a recent afternoon, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan stood before a giant por- trait of her mentor, Shinzo Abe, the slain Japanese leader, and bowed. It had been four years since Mr. Abe, a giant in Japanese politics and the country’s long- est-serving prime minister, was shot and killed while giving a speech outside a train station. Ms. Takaichi, his protégé, had come to pay her respects — and to vow to carry on his vision. She told the crowd of right-wing politicians, activists, journalists and business leaders that she sometimes still imagined him sitting on the couch of the prime minister’s office. “I could never fill Prime Min- ister Abe’s shoes; my days are filled with nothing but criticism when compared to him,” she said. “Even so, I want to be a fighter politician like him. I tell myself that I must be.” Since winning election nine months ago, Ms. Takaichi, Ja- pan’s first female prime minister, has frequently leveraged her ties to Mr. Abe to rally support for her nationalist agenda, often referring to him and his policies in major speeches. She has hailed his vision of a more muscular Japan that is a driving force for strength and stability across Asia. She has invoked his legacy to call for greater military spending and the establishment of Japan’s first intelligence agency since World War II. She has dropped his name while wooing foreign lead- ers such as President Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. Yet Mr. Abe remains a divisive figure in Japan because of his break with decades of postwar pacifism; his support for chang- ing how the country’s World War II-era history is taught in schools; and a rise in economic inequality during his tenure. His
Hisako Ueno contributed report- ing.
Catches Modi’s Government Off Guard
By ALEX TRAVELLI
NEW DELHI — Narendra Modi, the powerful and acutely image-conscious prime minister of India, is suddenly facing a polit- ical problem he had not anticipat- ed on entering his 13th year in of- fice. Mr. Modi has had his eye trained on economic anxieties for much of the year, which were sharpened by the external effects of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. His government had to man- age shortages of imported oil and gas, distributing the costs among businesses and ordinary citizens. But it was another sort of eco- nomic pressure that has now caught up with him and helped drive thousands of students to protest in the capital: The crum- bling and sometimes crooked ma- chinery of India’s underfunded ed- ucation system, along with a painful lack of jobs for the millions of graduates it produces. After 25 days of protest, and nearly three days since police used batons and tear gas to dis- perse protesters, Mr. Modi was still struggling for a meaningful response. On Thursday, he posted on social media that “Nothing is more important than the welfare and future of our youth!” He has promised fast-track tribunals to punish the individuals who spoiled the exam but nothing else. This sounded both late and lame to the protesters who were on the street, infuriating many of them further. The movement’s de- mands are widening rapidly from their initial complaints focused on over accountability for the scrap- ping of a college-entrance exam to, among other things, compen- sation for the protesters injured in clashes on Monday. Many of the protesters are stu- dents, and many others have jobs, but they share a sense of despera- tion and rage about education and employment prospects. Smaller protests have emerged in Mum- bai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and other cities, raising demands that Mr. Modi will find difficult if not impossible to answer in the short term. Arsh Gupta, a 20-year-old col- lege student, said “there are a lot of feelings” that brought him to the central protest site on Thurs- day. The original testing failure “is not a small thing at all,” he said, but he was driven more by other issues, most of all “the feeling that we’re living under a dictatorship.” At the forefront of the protests
killing, by a 41-year-old man who was protesting the governing Liberal Democratic Party’s ties to the Unification Church, a fringe religious group, prompted a range of reactions. While many people were outraged, some sympathized with the assassin, noting his difficult childhood. Others said that a state funeral for Mr. Abe was a waste of money. (His assassin, Tetsuya Yamagami, was sentenced to life in prison this year.) Despite Mr. Abe’s complicated legacy, Ms. Takaichi has emerged as one of his chief defenders, hailing him as a transformative leader who elevated Japan’s stature on the global stage. This triumphant account of Mr. Abe’s tenure has been on display recently across Japan, including at a sold-out exhibition by the Shinzo Abe Digital Museum, an organization founded by Mr. Abe’s allies in business and gov- ernment. The exhibition featured more than 100 objects from his life, including the microphone he was holding when he was shot on July 8, 2022, in the ancient city of Nara, Ms. Takaichi’s hometown. Mr. Abe’s widow, Akie Abe, said during a visit to the exhibi- tion in Nara on Sunday that her husband’s message “has been entrusted to” Ms. Takaichi.
New Challenges Ms. Takaichi, who met Mr. Abe in the 1990s, when they were both rising politicians, and later served in his cabinet, has sought to portray herself as the inheritor of his legacy, at a time when Japan is facing rising tensions with China, Russia and North Korea. “She’s embracing what Abe did and running with it,” said Sheila A. Smith, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The question now, analysts say, is whether Ms. Takaichi can adapt Mr. Abe’s vision to new challenges. Among them:
■ Beijing is rapidly expanding its military and economic influence in Asia, and has led a months- long campaign against Ms.
Anti-government banners in New Delhi. A youth movement has coalesced around anger about education and job prospects.
is the Cockroach Janta Party, not an actual political party but a movement that takes its name from an insult made by the chief justice of India’s Supreme Court. It is taking aim at these much longer-term crises. The education system is in disarray, the C.J.P.’s spokesmen said, demanding that corrupt and bungling officials must face accountability. India’s economy may be grow- ing at a healthy rate, but it offers the protesters little hope. While the gross rate of unemployment looks low, recorded as between 4 and 7 percent, most workers fall outside the formal sector and never get counted. Young adults, especially those who have earned degrees and want to put them to use, are the most frustrated. Nearly 40 percent are unem- ployed, according to the State of Working India 2026 report pub- lished by Azim Premji University. The protesters’ anger intensi- fied after Monday’s show of force by the police, and appears to have turned against the whole of India’s government. None of this was on Mr. Modi’s menu for 2026. The Iran war presented a tough series of challenges but also an op- portunity to make a fresh break. Economic difficulties had been piling up for months while Mr. Modi’s party was also fighting to win power in a series of state elec- tions. After winning control of state governments culminating with West Bengal in May, Mr. Modi turned to keeping down inflation and reining in the public’s expec- tations. Mr. Modi started warning Indi-
Takaichi to punish her for a comment she made in support of Taiwan, which China claims as its territory.
■ Japan’s economic outlook has grown more complicated as the country has grappled with infla- tion for the first time in decades, and with a stubbornly weak yen.
■ The country’s demographic decline is also accelerating, hurting the economy, causing labor shortages and undermining defense priorities like military recruitment. Mieko Nakabayashi, a political science professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, said Ms. Takaichi was clinging to Mr. Abe’s playbook while ignoring new realities. She pointed to Ms.
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ans that painful times were com- ing. Food prices were rising, and the rupee was nose-diving. Around the same time, it emerged that the questions to a national medical college entrance exam had been leaked, so the re- sults for millions of students were canceled. The C.J.P. took up the test-takers’ cause almost in- stantly. The protest’s leadership is, however, dispersed and nonpro- fessional. That makes it unlike the farmers who staged a siege-like protest around Delhi for more than a year from 2020 to 2021, or even a current protest on behalf of Jammu and Kashmir, whose elected leader is trying to restore its statehood. These mostly middle-class pro- testers cannot easily be made to look marginal. Nor can the issues they raise be answered overnight. The causes of India’s jobs crisis have been brewing for a long time. A great deal of students’ time and their families’ money has been invested in courses that routinely fail to equip them for the workplace. Amit Basole, an economist and lead author of the State of Work- ing India report, noted that young graduates in India have always been disproportionately unem- ployed. But their number has grown terrifically in recent years, along with the debt their families owe for their educations. “It’s a systematic failure. If the government’s not responsible, then who is?” asked Pranavi Tri- pathi, a 22-year-old business graduate protesting in Delhi on Thursday.
Takaichi’s support for expansion- ary fiscal policies, which some analysts say could exacerbate inflation. “Her popularity depends on Mr. Abe’s legacy,” Ms. Nakabayashi said. “Her biggest selling point is that she is trying to realize everything that Mr. Abe wanted to do, at whatever cost.” Ms. Takaichi worked for Mr. Abe during his first stint as prime minister in 2006 and dur- ing his second term, which began in 2012. She rose to the powerful position of minister for internal affairs and communications. During that time she became a fierce defender of his policies, including efforts to revise Ja- pan’s Constitution to unfetter its
The Islamic Civilization Center:
First presented by the President of Uzbekistan from the rostrum of the United Nations in 2017, the idea has taken shape as a monumental architectural complex inspired by the traditions of the Timurid era. The Islamic Civilization Center brings together a museum, a library, an archive, research departments, restoration laboratories, and educational spaces.
On March 17, 2026, the Center opened its doors to the public. Today, it stands as a new-generation cultural, scholarly, and educational institution.
“This Center is a beacon for the entire world and a symbol of Uzbekistan’s historic role as a crossroads of civilizations,” said UNESCO Director-General Khaled El-Enany.
The spiritual and architectural heart of the complex is the Holy Qur’an Hall, located beneath a maganificent 65-meter-high dome. It houses the Uthman Mushaf, one of the Islamic world’s greatest sacred treasures and an artifact inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.
Secretary-General of UN Tourism Shaikha Al Nowais remarked: “Congratulations on creating such a remarkable story. I do not think I have ever seen anything like it before.”
The Center has received six international awards and distinctions, including recognition by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest museum of Islamic civilization. At the Halal in Travel Global Summit 2026, it received the “Best Islamic Heritage Attraction of the Year” award. It was also named by Prix Versailles among the world’s most beautiful museums and listed by Smithsonian Magazine as one of the year’s most anticipated museum openings.
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military, and his economic pro- gram, which emphasized cheap cash and government stimulus efforts. “I was deeply drawn not only to his qualities as a politician but also to his character as a human being,” Ms. Takaichi said of her work with Mr. Abe, in a letter on display at the new exhibition.
Abe’s Learning Curve Tobias Harris, the founder of the advisory firm Japan Foresight and the author of a book on Mr. Abe, said that it remained to be seen whether Ms. Takaichi had fully grasped the lessons of his tenure. He said it was notable that she identified with Mr. Abe’s fighting spirit, given that Mr. Abe’s success in his second term
The exhibition traces the history of the region from ancient times to the present day, introducing visitors to pre-Islamic civilizations, the eras of the First and Second Renaissances, and the achievements of New Uzbekistan. More than 2,000 unique artifacts are displayed throughout its galleries, many of which were repatriated to the country.
A major milestone in the Center’s international activities was the First International Forum, “Islamic Civilization: A Path of Peace, Tolerance and Enlightenment,” held from July 7 to 15, 2026. The Forum brought together approximately 500 representatives from 50 countries, including heads of international organizations, government ministers, grand muftis, directors of leading museums and libraries, and prominent scholars.
The President of the Republic of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, sent a message to the participants, which was read aloud during the event, he said this meaningful and constructive initiative is of immense historical significance not only for Uzbekistan, but also for the entire Islamic world and the shared future of humanity. Under the wise leadership of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan is becoming a leader and standard-bearer of this historic mission.
At the First International Forum of Islamic Civilization, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa described Uzbekistan as “one of the brightest chapters in the history of Islamic civilization.” At the conclusion of the Forum, a Declaration was unanimously adopted.
“We, the participants of the First International Forum
of Islamic Civilization, express our profound
gratitude to the President of the Republic of
Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, for the historic
initiative through which Uzbekistan has become one
of the world’s leading centers for the study and
promotion of the heritage of Islamic civilization, as
well as an important international platform for
peace, enlightenment, and intercultural dialogue,”
the Forum participants declared.
An exhibition, left, celebrating Shinzo Abe, Japan’s former prime minister, in Nara this month. Above, Mr. Abe in 2014 with Sanae Takaichi, who is now prime minister.
came in part from tempering those impulses. “We have seen her willingness to bulldoze her opponents over and over again,” Mr. Harris said. “But as Abe learned, there is a cost to pay for that.” The Shinzo Abe Digital Mu- seum raised more than $338,000 from individual donors for the exhibition. On a recent day, vis- itors left notes on a wall with messages such as “You were our hope!” and “We will carry for- ward your mission.” A shop sold Abe-themed calendars and play- ing cards that included scenes of him golfing with President Trump. The exhibition became a gath- ering spot for his supporters, drawing nearly 7,000 visitors in Tokyo and Nara, including more than a half-dozen of Ms. Takaichi’s cabinet officials. Mr. Abe’s supporters are hope- ful about Ms. Takaichi, though they said she would face differ- ent challenges than Mr. Abe, including disruptions to the energy supply, foreign wars and political volatility in the United States. Fumiyo Kato, 48, who runs a weather data company in Tokyo, cried during a visit to the exhibi- tion as she viewed Mr. Abe’s personal artifacts: a childhood notebook, a portrait of his father, a wedding photo. She said that Ms. Takaichi appeared to be carrying on his legacy, but that it was too early to say whether she would succeed. “Abe was a great man,” she said. “He can’t be easily re- placed.”
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The family, who defected in 2023, were among the few who managed to escape North Korea after its leader, Kim Jong- un, imposed a crushing lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic. They arrived in their adopted country with rare in- sights into a nation that had been choked off from the outside world. Some details of their escape have not been previously reported. “That night,” said Yi-hyeok’s wife, Yu- mi, “we crossed from a sea of darkness to a sea of freedom.”
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‘We crossed from a sea of darkness to a sea of freedom.’
A Father’s Wish
Over several months of interviews in South Korea, Il-hyeok spoke with the same swagger that he had developed as a self-described “troublemaker” in North Korea. Yu-mi was reserved, pulling her legs tightly to her chest as she spoke. Her mother, who asked not to be named but agreed to be photographed, weighed ev- ery word, fearing how her comments might affect relatives left behind in the North. But they all spoke with conviction about why they had to leave North Ko- rea. (The rest of the extended family de- clined to be interviewed.) The brothers came from Pyoksong, a county in North Korea’s southwest. During the famine of the late 1990s, their father, a railway security official, returned with grim accounts from the hardest-hit provinces: The emaciated bodies of children found outside train stations were frozen solid, thumping like frozen fish when they were tossed onto trucks headed to burial grounds. He was the first in the family to lose faith in a rul- ing class that was unable to feed its peo- ple. One night after his sons reached adult- hood, he took them to a hill and pointed toward a cluster of lights across the South Korean border. “That’s where we should go,” he said. “To live and stand tall.” Yu-mi lived in the nearby coastal town of Kangryong. From there, she could see planes glinting in the sun as they rose from Incheon International Airport, just across the water — a shimmering vision of possibility, yet unreachable for North Koreans barred from travel and cut off from the internet. “Our country felt like a prison without bars,” she said. Beginning in kindergarten, children sang the anthem “We Have Nothing to Envy,” even as they were mobilized to haul river water or scour hills for herbs and pine nuts. After long workdays, adults attended compulsory “life review sessions,” writing self-criticism and pledges of loyalty. When Kim Jong-un visited an island near Yu-mi’s town in 2013, soldiers and villagers swarmed into the sea in jubilation. She knew the scene was staged; ordinary residents, she said, had been banned from leaving home. In the face of the propaganda, a contra- band culture spread. South Korean films and dramas circulated on USB drives smuggled from China. In Kangryong, the devices also arrived inside plastic bottles released by South Korean activists across the water, along with rice and mini-Bibles. Officials warned the bottles contained poison, but South Korean en- tertainment was winning. Il-hyeok idolized K-pop groups like Girls’ Generation and styled his hair in a mohawk like BigBang’s Taeyang. He was arrested for “capitalist delinquency” and released only after paying a bribe, his hair razored. He and his friends once secretly watched “Valkyrie,” the Tom Cruise film about the plot to kill Hitler. When the conspirators failed and were executed, his friends wept. The brothers’ notion of deserting North Korea felt just as perilous. Their father forbade them to marry, reasoning that the larger the family, the greater the risk of being caught while defecting. He then used connections to transfer Yi- hyeok, his youngest, to Kangryong, where he learned navigation, mapped guard posts, and cultivated ties with offi- cials. Yi-hyeok became a helmet diver, who harvests seafood from the ocean floor, breathing fresh air piped through a surface hose. He eventually met Yu-mi. Il-hyeok worked in North Korea’s shadow economy, bribing his way into opportunity and out of trouble. He butchered animals for restaurants, ran a small gold mine and bought rice stolen from state granaries, reselling it at a profit. He also grew disillusioned with the system he was gaming. Then, in 2014, their father died unex- pectedly. The South Korean dream seemed to die with him. Where Il-hyeok, the older brother, was restless, Yi-hyeok was steady. He mar- ried Yu-mi in 2017, and the couple soon had their two children. He joined a mili- tary-run fisheries company, operating three vessels. Despite a United Nations ban, Chinese buyers worked openly in Kangryong, and on a good day Yi-hyeok could earn more than a typical worker’s annual salary. Il-hyeok began dating a kindergarten teacher. Defection was no longer a pri- ority. “When I mentioned it, my brother told me to watch my mouth,” Il-hyeok re- called. The pandemic overturned everything.
wanted,” Yu-mi said. Il-hyeok once filmed a gaunt toothless man in rags begging for food. The man said soldiers had shot a villager who tried to gather crabs. “They are ruthless,” he said in a tired whisper. “Even if you won’t give alms, you shouldn’t break the beggar’s bowl.” Public executions grew more frequent, targeting those accused of committing violent crimes like murder, which surged during the lockdown, or of distributing “nonsocialist” content such as South Ko- rean dramas. Thousands, including the brothers, were forced to watch as rifle fire cracked across the execution grounds. The crowds dispersed in si- lence. “The goal was to instill fear,” Il-hyeok said. “To erase any fantasy about the out- side world.” The authorities were closing in on him, too. He wanted to marry his girlfriend, the
daughter of a farmer. In a system that claimed to be classless, marrying a wom- an who worked on a collective farm — even as a teacher — would mean a loss of status for Il-hyeok. Both families op- posed the match. The couple moved in to- gether anyway. Then, in 2022, Kim Jong- un banned unmarried cohabitation. Of- fenders faced labor camps. “I had to choose between her and North Korea,” Il-hyeok said. “I chose South Korea — and a true class revolu- tion.”
‘I had to choose between her and North Korea. I chose South Korea.’
PHOTOGRAPHS BY WOOHAE CHO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Kim Il-hyeok, who fled North Korea in 2023 with his brother Kim Yi-hyeok and seven other family members, lives in Seoul, above, where he married last month.
KIM IL-HYEOK, who could have been sent to a labor camp for illegally living with his partner.
Kim Yu-mi, Il-hyeok’s sister-in-law, with her mother and children in Seoul at her mother’s apartment. Left, showing the route her party used to escape North Korea.
KIM YU-MI, who had feared never seeing her children again.
lance cameras along the coast to deter defections. The brothers spoke in code over the phone. “Good weather” meant a storm was coming, forcing patrol boats back to port. “We’ve got a good catch — come down here” meant Il-hyeok should bring their mother and his girlfriend to Kan- gryong. The weather and the catch were ideal the night of May 6, 2023. Yu-mi’s mother, a 52-year-old widow, signed up last, just five hours before de- parture. “I could die trying to escape,” she said. “But if my family reached the South and I stayed behind, I’d be as good as dead anyway — the relative of traitors.” Yi-hyeok’s brother-in-law, his fishing partner, slipped away by boat and waited offshore. The rest of the family crossed a coastal hill strewn with landmines to reach a secluded beach. To carry Yi- hyeok’s two young children more easily,
the brothers sealed them inside burlap sacks and hoisted them onto their shoul- ders. Before they closed the sacks, Yu-mi caught her children looking up at her. “I thought it might be the last time I’d ever see them,” she said. “I cried, and my husband teared up, too.” Yi-hyeok’s brother-in-law spotted the prearranged signal — a flashlight blink- ing three times from the beach — and steered the boat in to pick up the rest of the extended family. Around 10 p.m., the 30-foot-long vessel pulled away, its en- gine throttled down to little more than a brisk walking pace as it tried to slip qui- etly toward Yeonpyeong Island in South Korea, just nine miles away. Below deck, Yu-mi suddenly felt the engine roar to full throttle, filling the hold with black exhaust and leaving the wom- en and children seasick. Her youngest child’s eyes rolled back. She carried him up for fresh air — and found the men on deck in a panic. “That’s when I saw a searchlight from a North Korean patrol boat sweeping across the waves behind us,” she said. “My heart dropped.” The brothers had already agreed on what to do if they couldn’t outrun a secu- rity vessel: strap life jackets and flash- lights onto the women and children and send them into the sea, trusting the cur- rent to carry them south. The men would steer the boat away as a decoy, making a last stand with 20-inch knives and home- made red-pepper bombs. To lighten the boat, Il-hyeok threw anything heavy overboard — axes, wrenches, fishing net, his brother’s air compressor for helmet diving. He ran below deck, fastened a life jacket onto his partner and rushed back outside. She believed he was about to throw her into the sea to save the others. His mother thought her son had chosen to save his girlfriend before his mother. “It gave me endless trouble with them, until I could convince them they’d misun- derstood me,” he said. Gradually, the searchlight behind them faded. The brothers later specu- lated that the fishing net they had thrown overboard had tangled in the pursuing boat’s propeller. Their two-hour gamble ended shortly after midnight, after the South Korean vessel stopped them and all nine family members were brought aboard. An officer greeted them: “Welcome to paradise.”
New Beginning
Before they disembarked, the officer raised his fist and shouted, “Fighting!” The English word — common in South Korea as encouragement — was unfamil- iar to the North Koreans. “But he was smiling and shaking our hands,” Yu-mi said, “so we assumed he wished us well.” In the South, Yu-mi studied to gain an accounting clerk certificate and found work at a school. Her brother enrolled in college, while Yi-hyeok returned to hel- met-diving for seafood. “My brother joked the diving gear here was so advanced he could fall asleep underwater if he wanted to,” Il- hyeok recalled. Il-hyeok’s girlfriend gave birth to their first child in the South. The couple mar- ried in 2024 and soon welcomed another daughter. Il-hyeok is finding his footing in the South’s capitalist economy, trying part-time jobs at restaurants and operat- ing forklifts and excavators. The plunge into the South’s noisy de- mocracy was overwhelming. Televisions offered endless channels — so different from the North, where only government broadcasts existed. Back home, Il- hyeok’s used motorbike was a prized sta- tus symbol; now he found himself on highways crowded with modern cars. City squares rang with protests. Yu-mi’s mother marveled at faucets that produced both hot and cold water. On her first day working at a nursing home, she faltered when colleagues asked for “napkins” — another English word she had never heard. The brothers’ mother was scandalized by a TV drama in which a wife slapped her husband. And when Il-hyeok first ventured be- yond Seoul, the South’s capital, he duti- fully called a police detective to ask for permission. The detective only laughed. And then there were elections. In the North, people lined up in formal dress to receive a ballot with only one name. They placed their vote in the “yes” box with both hands and bowed deeply to portraits of Kim Jong-un’s father and grandfather, who ruled before him. No one dared approach the “no” box. When Il-hyeok and his wife voted in June as South Korean citizens, they found voters arriving in shorts and slippers, ear- phones in place. The ballot was a bewil- dering list of names. Yet, South Korea was no paradise. After 19 months in the South, Yi-hyeok died in a diving accident in late 2024. The brothers’ mother and Il-hyeok’s wife were diagnosed with cancer. Il-hyeok vented frustration at Seoul’s soaring housing prices. He is saving ev- ery penny to move his family out of their cramped, government-subsidized, rental apartment. Still, he insisted the defection was “100 percent” the right choice. Be- fore his death, Yi-hyeok appeared on television, explaining that he fled to spare his children the indoctrination of North Korean schools. His daughter is now a second grader at a South Korean school, and his son is in kindergarten. The children adapted fastest to their new lives, quickly embracing South Korean staples like fried chicken and pizza. “My husband gave me and our chil- dren the freedom he promised before he died,” Yu-mi said. The brothers also honored their fa- ther’s final wish: When their boat fled North Korea, they carried his ashes with them.
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To Reach $519 Billion In New York by 2050
By HILARY HOWARD
Three years ago, a deluge over- whelmed Highland Falls, N.Y. A murky river rushed through Main Street, and one woman was swept away with the currents after leaving her home. Now, the Hudson Valley village has to spend half a million dollars a year just to pay the interest on the money it bor- rowed for crucial repairs. Damaging storms are nothing new to the New York City metropolitan area. This summer alone, heavy rains and winds have downed power lines in Con- necticut, submerged cars in New Jersey and the Bronx and turned parts of New York City’s fashionable SoHo neighbor- hood into a wading pond. With climate change, these storms will become stronger and more frequent. They will also become more expen- sive. New York State is projected to surpass half a trillion dollars on infrastructure spending related to climate change by 2050, according to a new report. Rebuild by Design, the nonprofit be- hind the analysis, was created after Hur- ricane Sandy to work with New York City agencies on flood-related protection ini- tiatives. The group scoured public records across the state for plans to pre- pare for the impact of global warming, in- cluding government proposals awaiting funding, projects underway and those completed after Hurricane Sandy. It then compiled the costs of that work to arrive at the $519 billion tally. And that doesn’t even include the cost of future disasters — a cost that can easi- ly reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars. Amy Chester, the director of Rebuild by Design, said paying for the work will fall on local and state governments, which could also mean higher taxes for residents. “The needs in this analysis far exceed the resources available,” she said. James DiSalvo, the mayor of Highland Falls, which is part of the town of High- lands and is about 55 miles north of New York City, knows this truth all too well. “I borrowed $6 million and played what I like to call Ironman football,” he said. “I would do some work, get paid back, do some more work, get paid back.” And still the village needed more money. In 2024, its budget increased by more than 7 percent and its taxes by more than 5 percent, according to Mr. Di- Salvo. The report found more than 700 fed- eral, state and local initiatives that gov- ernments had committed to paying for or were being planned. These projects ad- dressed sea level rise, erosion, grid vul- nerabilities, storm-water management, wind and storm damage and sewer up- grades. In New York City, which faces signifi- cant infrastructure, flooding and ex- treme heat problems — and also has sev- eral plans in place to address these is- sues — the cost of climate change prepa- rations breaks down to about $50,000 per resident. Smaller towns may not have plans on the books to protect their com- munities, so their projected costs are much smaller. In Highland Falls, the work and the ex- penses are ongoing. The village’s water tanks were damaged and are still being repaired. “It takes forever,” Mr. DiSalvo said. “Again, if I had an unlimited supply of money, it’d be a different story.” The village, which is built into the side of a large hill, has a brook that runs through it. The flooding was caused by
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By AMY GRAFF and BEA MALSKY
Across North America over the last week, as wildfires raging in Minnesota and Ontario released huge plumes of smoke, air quality readings soared far beyond the rating of above 300 that health experts considered hazardous. They even rose above 1,000 in some places. It’s not the first time plumes of smoke from wildfires have clogged the air far from where they are burning, and it most
the highest readings of a pollutant in decades.
likely will not be the last. But an analysis by two air quality experts has found that certain pollution levels in many towns and cities across the Midwest and north- eastern United States were the worst on record — even above those measured in 2023, when fires also burned in Canada and acrid air settled over much of the East Coast for days. Air quality in the United States is measured using the Air Quality Index, created by the Environmental Protec-
JAMES DiSALVO, above, the mayor of Highland Falls, N.Y., who is grappling with the cost of flood repairs.
the nine inches of rain that fell within hours and the downhill runoff it produced — not by the waterway over- flowing. Roads and bridges were washed out. In front of Mr. DiSalvo’s childhood home, “fish were swimming on the street,” he said. Notably, many of the village’s 100- year-old retaining walls crumbled, which proved to be the most expensive item to repair, the mayor said.
tion Agency to help people understand the risk of air pollution to their health. Readings fall into six color-coded catego- ries, ranging from green (50 and below) for the cleanest air to maroon (above 300) for air that is most hazardous. It is a measure of five major air pollut- ants — ground-level ozone, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide — and how un- healthy they are making the air at a spe- cific setting, as measured by a network of official government-run sensors and less-precise but more widespread com- munity sensors. At the request of The New York Times, two air quality experts, Marissa Childs, an assistant professor at the University of Washington, and Minghao Qiu, an as- sistant professor at Stony Brook Univer- sity, examined one of those pollutants, known as PM 2.5, which are particles that are 2.5 micrometers or smaller in size. It is a main component of wildfire smoke that can enter the bloodstream and lungs, and long-term exposure can be deadly. Last week, the researchers found Chi- cago, Detroit, Milwaukee and Toledo, Ohio, all experienced the highest aver- age readings over a 24-hour period re- corded in the last 20 years. “There are many components to air
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Some of those walls are on private property, but homeowners are experi- encing difficulty being reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or qualifying for flood insurance because the village does not sit in a flood plain. That scenario is becoming more common across the country. FEMA also requires counties to accrue a certain amount of financial damage be- fore the president can declare a disaster,
Locations in red had the highest-ever recorded levels of small air pollutants after wildfire smoke plumes lingered for days this year.
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which then qualifies them for federal aid. The storms earlier this summer did not even come close, which means residents and local governments will pay for any repairs. “These costs get passed on to families in the form of tax increases, in- surance hikes, damages, home repairs and business losses,” Ms. Chester of Re- build said. In some cases, a state might surpass the FEMA threshold to receive aid, but
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Nine inches of rain washed out streets, bridges and retaining walls in Highland Falls, N.Y., in July 2023. Above, Main Street three years ago, and last month, below. The village has to spend half a million dollars a year just to pay the interest on money it borrowed for repairs.
the president still has the authority to deny help. In February, when a blizzard shut down most of New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul requested a major disaster decla- ration from President Trump. This month, he denied the governor’s request. New York’s Homeland Security and Emergency Services agency said that New York State remains committed to helping residents after disasters. But the money has to come from some- where. The Rebuild by Design report calls for a comprehensive statewide plan for increasingly extreme weather and sea level rise. Without one, “communi- ties are left to develop incomplete, unco- ordinated and often under-resourced strategies for climate adaptation,” which results in uneven levels of protection, said Ríobart É. Breen, an environmental expert at the University of Albany. Such a plan is especially important, the report says, given federal opposition to other sources of disaster funding. In late 2024, Ms. Hochul signed a law re- quiring major fossil fuel companies to help pay to repair damage caused by ex- treme weather. (Burning oil and gas warms the planet, which can super- charge storms and droughts). Called the Climate Change Superfund Act, it requires those companies to pay $75 billion over 25 years into an account for infrastructure repairs and upgrades, as well as recovery efforts after disas- ters. But in early 2025, the law was chal- lenged in court, with 22 states, led by West Virginia, arguing that individual states should not dictate federal energy policy. This summer, New Yorkers could learn the fate of those billions, with a judge in Syracuse expected to rule on the case.
the lower Midwest and the parts of the Northeast farthest from where the fires were burning, including New York, did not top those set in 2023. Record-setting days with bad air qual- ity are concerning to health experts, who advise people to stay indoors to avoid ex- posure to hazardous air on these days. While these dramatic spikes in air pollu- tion are notable, experts said sustained exposure over time can cause more harm to respiratory and cardiovascular health and reduce overall life ex- pectancy. “This acute episode of high air pollu- tion is making headlines, as it should, but it’s the chronic lower-grade burden of the issue in many places around the world that makes air pollution the largest ex- ternal threat to human health on the planet,” said Christa Hasenkopf, the di- rector of the clean air program at the En- ergy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. The United States is recognized for its above-average air quality in comparison to many other countries and for decades conditions gradually improved. “The rise in wildfire activity over the last decade has undermined that trend contributing to something of a plateau in air quality nationally, and worsening conditions in some areas locally,” said Robert Rohde, the chief scientist at the research organization Berkeley Earth.
By ALAN BLINDER and REBECCA DAVIS O’BRIEN
The Trump administration has for now abandoned its quest to force the University of Pennsylva- nia to turn over names of Jewish people on campus, according to a court filing on Thursday. The administration’s retreat does not resolve the Equal Em- ployment Opportunity Commis- sion’s long-running inquiry into concerns about antisemitism at Penn. But the government’s move appears to spell the end, at least in Penn’s case, of a politically volatile and legally fraught tactic. The government did not explain its decision in the court filing, and a spokesman for the E.E.O.C. de-
Fund A.I. Over Colleges
By CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
President Trump’s science ad- viser told lawmakers on Wednes- day that the Trump administra- tion intended to drastically over- haul the country’s approach to sci- entific research, including by shifting research funding away from universities toward individ- ual researchers and private com- panies. At a House hearing, Michael Kratsios echoed points he laid out in a report released Tuesday, titled “Science: A New Golden Age.” He said the administration would pri- oritize artificial intelligence, ro- botics and nuclear energy while reducing the government’s focus on what he called “life sciences.” “Our ability to make transfor- mational breakthroughs here in the United States has slowed,” Mr. Kratsios told lawmakers in the hearing on Wednesday. “Maybe we should be testing other ways to make breakthroughs than what we’ve been doing for so many years.” Democrats countered that the Trump administration had harmed scientific research by fir- ing staff members at federal sci- ence agencies, seeking deep cuts to research programs, canceling or freezing grants, punishing uni- versities that Mr. Trump is unhap- py with, and pushing some of the best researchers in the United States to relocate to other coun- tries. “Let me propose an alternative title: ‘Unleashing the Golden Age of Science in the People’s Republic of China,’” Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House science committee, told Mr. Kratsios at the start of the hearing. “This ad- ministration has been systemat- ically destroying the U.S. science enterprise.” The White House billed Tues- day’s report as “the first compre- hensive rethinking of the U.S. sci- ence and technology enterprise in over 80 years,” since one written by Vannevar Bush, the organizer of the Manhattan Project, which produced the world’s first atomic bomb. Dr. Bush’s 1945 report set the stage for the current system,
Adam Sella and William J. Broad contributed reporting.
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cerns. The products, mostly injec- tions, some of which Mr. Kennedy has used and trumpeted, are cur- rently sold as “research grade” products not meant for wide- spread use. Despite the restric- tion, they are marketed online for a wide range of claimed benefits, including tendon repair and brain health. In the first vote on Thursday, the six peptide sellers joined with a compounding pharmacist and a pharmacy business executive to vote in favor of adding a peptide known as BPC-157 to a list of prod- ucts that bespoke pharmacies can dispense. The eight new committee mem- bers voted in favor of wider access to the peptide, which was de- scribed in open testimony as hav- ing a variety of uses, like helping cardiac patients and people with endometriosis. Those in the peptide trade, who identified themselves simply as a researcher, physician or pharma- cist, said they were swayed by re- ports from members of the public who testified moments earlier. “Even with the limited data that we have, it wasn’t a significant sig- nal in terms of risk,” said Asare Christian, the founder of a Phila- delphia-area clinic that sells BPC-157 “for healing.” He added: “We are always tak- ing risk with patients, with all the
clined to comment. The move, however, represents a rare pullback by the Trump ad- ministration, which has sought to use investigations and funding cuts as tools of leverage against elite universities. The investigation into Penn be- gan in December 2023, when An- drea Lucas — an E.E.O.C. com- missioner appointed by President Trump during his first administra- tion — filed a civil rights charge against the university, citing a “pattern or practice of har- assment against Jewish faculty, staff and other employees,” partic- ularly in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel. But the investigation gathered force only once Mr. Trump re-
in which the government funds basic research, universities con- duct it, and private companies commercialize it. Mr. Kratsios’ proposal to reduce the role of universities would up- end that system, which has been in place since the end of World War II. His call for the administra- tion to de-prioritize “life sciences,” which encompass molecular biol- ogy, genetics and other fields in biomedicine, as well as clinical tri- als aimed at testing new thera- pies, raised alarms among bio- medical researchers and academ- ic medical centers. They fear it will mean less funding for the Na- tional Institutes of Health. Jeremy M. Berg, who led the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, an arm of N.I.H., during the Bush and Obama administrations, called the report “tremendously misin- formed.” He said Mr. Kratsios was ignoring the serendipity of sci- ence by zeroing in so closely on ar- tificial intelligence. “I think they’re trying to turn it into a venture capital model,” said Dr. Berg, an expert in computa- tional and systems biology medi- cine at the University of Pitts- burgh. “Why the federal govern- ment should be investing in that, I don’t know.” Unlike most presidential sci- ence advisers, Mr. Kratsios is not a scientist. He has a background in Silicon Valley, where he worked at an investment fund run by Pe- ter Thiel, the prominent venture capitalist who backed Mr. Trump’s first presidential bid. Mr. Kratsios’ educational background is also unlike that of his predecessors: While previous science advisers held doctorates, Mr. Kratsios has a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton, and no other de- grees. The report from Mr. Kratsios, who also leads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, begins with a broad indict- ment of the federal government’s approach to funding scientific re- search. Mr. Kratsios argued that while investments in research had in- creased in recent decades, the re- sults of that investment had failed to keep pace. “Scientific produc- tivity has slowed,” he wrote. Among the examples he cites: “Despite massive increases in bio-
interventions we do as physi- cians.” Before the vote, the Depart- ment of Health and Human Serv- ices defended the selections. “All committee members underwent the same ethics review and vet- ting process required of all F.D.A. advisory committee members,” the department said in a state- ment. “Candidates that could not meet existing ethics requirements were removed from considera- tion.” Dr. Brian P. Lee, a University of Southern California liver trans- plant doctor, said he voted ‘no’ based on the fact that a sham med- ication, or placebo, can lead 30 percent of patients to believe their condition has improved. He said the data for the peptide indicated an even smaller effect than a standard placebo, and a potential for risk. “I think this endorsement can be potentially harmful, and I can- not, in good conscience, vote yes,” he said. The committee also voted in fa- vor of broadening access to the peptide KPV in the form of a cream or gel. The peptide is thought to signal the body to re- duce inflammation, but has not been studied thoroughly. The committee ended the day by voting in favor of injectable TB-500, a peptide that, according to the F.D.A., was initially devel- oped as a veterinary drug to boost performance in horse or grey-
turned to the White House. The E.E.O.C. quickly began pressing Penn to surrender records about antisemitism complaints and a list of “all clubs, groups, organizations and recreation groups” that were “related to the Jewish religion, faith, ancestry/national origin.” The government also de- manded membership rosters of those groups, as well as a list of people who had worked in Penn’s Jewish Studies Program. Penn complied with some of the government’s requests and balked at others, and the commis- sion sued in November to enforce a subpoena it had issued. The university and its allies warned that the government’s demands were unconstitutional and endan-
Michael Kratsios, the president’s science adviser, sees A.I., robotics and nuclear energy as priorities. He once worked in Silicon Valley.
medical funding since the 1990s, the rate of significant break- throughs appears to have slowed, and drug approvals have flat- lined.” To address that problem, Mr. Kratsios called for reducing the amount of time researchers have to spend applying for grants, and directing science agencies to come up with ways to better measure the returns on their in- vestments. He also directed federal science agencies to focus on a handful of priorities set by the White House, including physical sciences, chemistry and biological sciences. Those fields, he wrote, were crucial to what he called the Trump administration’s “national missions” — a list that includes ar- tificial intelligence, nuclear fu- sion, robotics, quantum comput- ing and space exploration. The report is less clear on the areas of scientific research for which the federal government should reduce funding. It says fed- eral agencies “should prioritize foundational research in the bio- logical sciences over the life sci-
hound racing. Discussing that injectable drug, Dr. Elizabeth Rebello, a medicine professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cen- ter, asked a question underscoring how exceptional the process was: “Has the F.D.A. approved a medi- cation delivered in this form that’s not been studied in humans previ- ously?” And F.D.A. official responded: “No.” Dr. Lurie testified that it was in- appropriate for the committee to include the vendors who had cre- ated demand for peptides to begin with. “Now we are being asked to suc- cumb to that demand because it is too late to put the genie that they have helped create back in the bottle,” he said. Other testimony on Thursday suggested that peptide use could surge. Dr. Anant Vinjamoori, the chief medical officer at Hims, a major online medication provider, told the committee that the company would offer peptides and “benefit commercially” from them if the F.D.A. added them to the com- pounding list. “I’m not going to tell you that the evidence for BPC-157 is strong,” he said. “It isn’t, and I won’t overclaim it.” He added: “What I’d ask is that you not read thin as nonexistent.” He speculated that the benefits could exist on a cellular level and
gered people. “The E.E.O.C. insists that Penn produce this information without the consent — and indeed, over the objections — of the employees impacted while entirely disre- garding the frightening and well- documented history of govern- mental entities that undertook ef- forts to identify and assemble in- formation regarding persons of Jewish ancestry,” the university said in a court filing in January. The government insisted that it needed the information to investi- gate antisemitism on Penn’s cam- pus and that the university’s re- sponse had been hyperbolic and extreme. “We’re not looking for a list of Jews or registry of Jews or a cata-
ences.” Spokesmen for the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services did not answer questions about what they meant by “life sciences” and “foundational research.” Health Secretary Robert F. Ken- nedy Jr., who oversees the U.S. biomedical research enterprise, said the report aligned with his own emphasis on using artificial intelligence to uncover the root causes of what he calls an “epi- demic” of chronic disease, espe- cially among children. “America will lead the next gen- eration of medical discovery by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence,” he said in a state- ment. The report does not address the Trump administration’s decision to fire large numbers of staff mem- bers at scientific agencies. It calls for the government to invest in young researchers, without not- ing that the administration fired scores of young scientists and ter- minated hundreds of grants to early career researchers. It is also silent on the more than
offer an option for patients who have failed to improve from tradi- tional therapies. Peptides are chains of amino ac- ids that prompt cells to perform actions like decreasing inflamma- tion or increasing collagen pro- duction. Some peptides that have been fully vetted by the F.D.A. in- clude drugs like insulin or GLP-1s. But unproven peptides with names like BPC-157 and MOTS-c have gained a foothold on social media, where users show off their “stacks,” or combinations of pep-
members underwent an ethics review.
tides, and extol their virtues for weight loss, muscle building and glowing skin. They are often re- ferred to as “peppers” to avoid content moderation. Some are backed by studies in rodents or in a petri dish suggest- ing that they could help with wound healing, osteoporosis or in- flammation. But a similarly lim- ited set of studies suggests they could cause harm, such as severe allergic reactions or the potential to enhance tumor growth. There is little to no data on how these peptides work in humans.
log of Jews,” Debra Lawrence, a lawyer for the commission, told a judge during a hearing in March. “How about a spreadsheet that identifies the contact information for potential victims and wit- nesses? That’s all that we’re look- ing for here.” The judge, Gerald J. Pappert of Federal District Court in Philadel- phia, ruled that month that the university largely had to comply with the subpoena, though he stayed his decision so Penn could appeal. Judge Pappert’s decision hinted at discomfort with how the com- mission had pursued its inquiry, particularly with a demand for in- formation tied to groups “related to the Jewish religion.”
40 percent funding cuts sought by the White House at the National Science Foundation, as well as a proposal in May from the White House Office of Management and Budget that federal grants for sci- entific research be screened by political appointees, to block ini- tiatives that “promote anti-Ameri- can values.” In Wednesday’s hearing, Demo- crats pushed Mr. Kratsios on those points, asking how they aligned with his pledge to restore what he called “gold standard sci- ence.” Letting political appointees block grants they disagree with is “simply incompatible with any kind of commitment to robust sci- entific research,” Representative Deborah Ross of North Carolina said to Mr. Kratsios. “The vic- tories that you’re touting are merely cheap, shiny distractions.” In response, Mr. Kratsios did not directly defend the adminis- tration’s proposal for political oversight grants. “I look forward to working closely with O.M.B. to ensure that our enterprise contin- ues to remain world class and
“We’re missing safety, we’re missing efficacy — we’re missing the critical evidence,” said Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and the founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. “I don’t have a bias that the pep- tides are bad, necessarily,” he add- ed. “I just want to see the evi- dence, and we don’t have any.” F.D.A. records show that the six committee members who sell pep- tides include self-described lon- gevity physicians who market peptides for overall health, and even for some specific diseases. Some of their clinics also offer other unproven treatments such as ozone therapy and energy heal- ing. One member, Dr. Gabriel Al- izaidy, is the scientific director at Maximus, a telehealth company that sells growth hormone pep- tides for about $200 per month. The company received a warning letter from the F.D.A. over its claims about compounded weight-loss medications. Another panelist is Bobby Harshbarger, a Tennessee state senator and pharmacist. His mother, Representative Diana Harshbarger, Republican of Ten- nessee, who is also a pharmacist, wrote to Mr. Kennedy in Novem- ber urging him to allow wider use of some of the peptides under con- sideration Thursday and Friday. On a podcast last year with Gary Brecka, a biohacker who sells peptides on his website, Mr.
Nevertheless, Judge Pappert said, Penn’s constitutional claims were “easily dispensed with” and the school appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Cir- cuit. On Thursday, the dispute ended with more surprise than fanfare when the government and Penn filed six pages with the Third Cir- cuit. In the submission, the E.E.O.C. said it would “not take any further measures to enforce the subpoena.” It also pledged not to “otherwise seek from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania any ma- terial sought by the subpoena” while the current investigation is pending. The White House did not imme- diately comment.
trustworthy and accountable,” he said. One area in which Mr. Kratsios indicated a measure of disagree- ment with the administration’s ac- tions was on the pace of grants from the National Science Foun- dation. Representative George White- sides, Democrat of California, dis- played charts comparing the rate at which money had been awarded this year with previous years, asking Mr. Kratsios to ex- plain why the funding had slowed. When Mr. Kratsios said that was a question for the National Science Foundation, Mr. Whitesides called the answer unacceptable. “You’re the president’s science adviser,” Mr. Whitesides said. “Why is this happening?” “I do see these charts, and noth- ing would make me happier to make sure that we are getting closer to where we were in previ- ous years,” Mr. Kratsios said. “I’ll do everything that I possibly can to help move that line, because I think it’s important for us to get the appropriate dollars out to sci- entists.”
Kennedy said the F.D.A. should “just do the science” on items like peptides and unproven stem cell treatments, “but not tell people, and not tell physicians, what they can and cannot prescribe.” “If you want to take an experi- mental drug, you can do that,” Mr. Kennedy said. “You ought to be able to do that.” More recently, Mr. Kennedy has said that the 2023 ban on the pep- tides has forced people to use gray-market peptides that present safety concerns. Adding them to the list of compounds that can be made in regulated pharma- cies would increase safety, he has argued. A number of people offered tes- timony repeating that argument and suggesting that the F.D.A. make the peptides available with conditions such as purity testing or requirements for reports of harm. But F.D.A. officials said they did not have power over state phar- macy boards — which are the dominant overseer of the special- ized pharmacies that would produce the peptide products — to make those things happen. “I think one thing maybe the committee doesn’t quite under- stand, because I’ve heard so many calls for ‘I want guardrails,’” said Russell Wesdyk, an official in the F.D.A.’s office of pharmaceutical quality. “I don’t have those regula- tory authorities.”
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a national security matter. On Thursday, Judge Subrama- nian zeroed in on whether the gov- ernment had heeded the law and its own regulations on investiga- tions involving the news media. He said subpoenas to reporters “are not the first thing you do — they are the last thing you do.” “It’s a matter of basic compli- ance with the law,” he added. After Thursday’s hearing, the Justice Department criticized Judge Subramanian, saying in a
testimony and phone records of journalists.
statement that his “conduct over- rides clear longstanding princi- ples and common sense.” “Make no mistake, this investi- gation remains ongoing,” the Jus- tice Department said, “and we will pursue justice against those threatening national security by leaking classified information, a serious federal crime.” The White House did not re- spond to a request for comment. After The Times moved to block the subpoenas, the government asked the judge to delay their ef- fect for two weeks so it could in- vestigate further. But at Thursday’s hearing, on the 23rd floor of the federal court-
To Increase the Pressure On Undocumented People
tive humanitarian visa applica- tion. With a work permit, she has legally worked at a convenience store and cared for seniors. Expecting an update on her visa application, Ms. Vasquez opened an envelope that arrived in April bearing a D.H.S. logo. In- stead of news about her visa, she found a form letter in which the government had checked a box next to a statement that she had “willfully” failed to depart the United States. She owed the government $1,820,352, according to the docu- ment, which was reviewed by The New York Times. Tucked in the same envelope was a flier titled, “Self-Deport with CBP Home and Leave on Your Own Terms,” refer- ring to an app run by Customs and Border Protection. It offered “for- giveness” for all fines to those who
create trusts to protect their life savings.
used the app to self deport. “I couldn’t sleep, and I was ner- vous every morning I left home for work,” said Ms. Vasquez, who has three U.S.-born children, ages 10, 12 and 14. Legal aid organizations and lawyers representing individual clients have filed several federal lawsuits seeking to block the pol- icy, contending that the financial penalties violate due process and the Eighth Amendment’s prohibi- tion on excessive fines. In court filings opposing the motion to pause the policy, the government has argued that the fact that a person remained in the country to pursue other forms of immigration relief “is not a de-
Seamus Hughes contributed re- search.
By MICHAEL WILSON
Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jer- sey pushed back Thursday on the Department of Justice’s demand that the state hand over the names and other personal infor- mation of roughly 6,600 nonciti- zens who were mistakenly added to voting rolls in 2023 and 2024. Roughly 400 of those voters lat- er cast ballots in New Jersey, the governor announced this week. They were allowed to vote be- cause of a software error at the Motor Vehicle Commission, de- spite having disclosed that they were not citizens. “It is not a surprise to me that the federal government, that the Trump administration, wants to weaponize this against people as opposed to focusing on making
house in Manhattan, it was quickly apparent that Judge Sub- ramanian was skeptical of the government’s initial approach and request for delay. Within 10 minutes, he had laid out a stark choice to the Justice Department. “Either we can quash the sub- poenas, or you could withdraw the subpoenas,” the judge told Sean Buckley, a top official in the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, who was speaking on behalf of the government. Judge Subramanian then grilled the prosecutors for the vast majority of the hourlong hearing, his demeanor at times re- sembling a teacher scolding his pupils. He asked few questions of The Times’s lawyers; at one point, he even apologized to one of them and promised time to respond to some of the government’s state- ments. Under the judge’s questioning, the government acknowledged factual errors in its filings. It con- ceded that it had omitted signifi- cant information — including that the case pertained to journalists’ records — when it asked a differ- ent federal judge to prevent a phone company from disclosing a record request. “The inadvertent errors and the ‘in hindsight we should have done things differently,’ these things are piling up,” the judge said. Mr. Buckley argued that the na- ture of The Times’s reporting on sensitive national security mat- ters had allowed for an exception to standard procedures. But he
fense under the statutes and does not change the underlying deter- mination that one willfully or vol- untarily violated” the removal or- der. Vast sweeps by federal agents in Los Angeles, Chicago and Min- neapolis have been the most visi- ble and volatile fronts in Mr. Trump’s crackdown. But the fines are part of a parallel effort by the administration to squeeze undoc- umented immigrants and make it harder for them to live in the United States. The letter to Ms. Vasquez gave her 15 days, from the date it had been mailed, to contest the pen- alty. With barely a week to go be- fore that deadline, her lawyer ap- pealed. A month later, while await- ing a decision, Ms. Vasquez re- ceived a second, more menacing letter. Unless she promptly paid, it said, the government would refer her debt to a private collection agency; initiate federal collection litigation; report her to credit bu- reaus, “which could adversely af- fect your credit rating”; and con- sider the debt in her future immi- gration proceedings. “We started seeing this a couple months ago, and it’s become a big trend,“ said John Leschak, an im- migration lawyer in New Jersey who represented Ms. Vasquez and was able to have the fines can- celed. “These are people who have homes, cars, businesses in their names,” he said. “The government says they stand to have all that confiscated.” Prevailing, as Ms. Vasquez did, is not typical, according to a dozen lawyers interviewed by The Times. In case after case, they say, appeals have been denied, includ- ing for a 68-year-old man who is the primary caregiver for his wife, a U.S. citizen who has cancer. The man was ordered removed in 2012 but allowed to remain in the United States after the Home- land Security Department paused his removal. A few months ago, he received the form letter, saying
sure that we’re running free and fair elections,” Ms. Sherrill, a Democrat, said at a news confer- ence on Thursday. “We are not in the practice of turning this kind of personally identifying data over to the federal government be- cause we have seen them weap- onize it.” Sean Higgins, a spokesman for the governor, said Ms. Sherrill “will use all the legal tools avail- able to her to protect New Jersey- ans’ personal information.” The governor has said the non- citizens had been added to the rolls “through no fault of their own” and would be removed from the rolls. The Trump administration said it was prepared to arrest or deport those who had voted. “They are subject to both pros-
A federal judge raised questions in a hearing Thursday about the Trump administration’s handling of the subpoenas, which The New York Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press.
struggled to identify the precise legal rationale for that exception when the judge pressed him. Judge Subramanian appeared especially troubled by the govern- ment’s omission of relevant de- tails from its request for the nondisclosure order from the other federal judge. Neither The Times nor Judge Subramanian would have been aware of that re-
In his second term, President Trump has stepped up the collection of fines from immigrants for failing to heed “removal” orders.
that he had willfully failed to de- part and owed the government $579,838. “You can’t allow people to stay here and then turn around and just fine them for it,” said the man’s lawyer, Reem Khraizat, who practices in Detroit. Ms. Khraizat filed an appeal that included letters of support from health care providers attest- ing to his wife’s condition and her reliance on him. “ICE reaffirmed the decision without even addressing the facts presented on appeal,” Ms. Khraizat said. The Homeland Security De- partment said that between Jan. 20, 2025, and mid-July of this year, ICE had issued more than 103,000 fines to noncitizens who remained in the United States past a depor- tation order, seeking a combined total of more than $84 billion. As of July 16, it had collected more than $1.2 million, according to the agency.
ecution as well as removal from the United States,” said Harmeet Dhillon, who runs the Justice De- partment’s civil rights division, in an appearance with the right- wing podcaster Benny Johnson. A spokeswoman for the depart- ment, Kiersten Pels, said in a statement that “it is illegal for any noncitizen to vote in a federal elec- tion, and every unlawful vote di- lutes the voice” of U.S. citizens. In a letter dated Tuesday, Ms. Dhillon gave the state five busi- ness days to hand over the voters’ names, addresses and national- ities. Ms. Dhillon said in an appear- ance on Fox News on Wednesday that she believed there was more to come. “That’s just going to be the beginning of our investigation into this,” she said.
quest had the government not vol- unteered it days later. The prosecutor who handled that application, Kevin Sullivan, was seated in the gallery, but Judge Subramanian asked that he walk to the front of the courtroom to explain the irregularities. “Are you going to do this again?” the judge asked Mr. Sulli- van at the end of his questioning.
Desperate to protect their life savings, some immigrants have removed their names from prop- erty deeds or transferred their modest assets into trusts, accord- ing to two lawyers who assist im- migrants with estate planning. “This administration is just churning out as many fines as it can to intimidate and harass peo- ple into leaving the country,” said Charles Moore, a senior attorney with Public Justice, a nonprofit le- gal organization, who is repre- senting immigrants in a Massa- chusetts lawsuit to block the prac- tice. The Homeland Security De- partment did not respond to ques- tions about how many immigrants had chosen to self-deport to avoid the penalties and how many cases had been referred to debt col- lection agencies. Even as the policy faces legal challenges, government enforce- ment continues to move forcefully. Mr. Moore, who is seeking class-
Ms. Sherrill has said the soft- ware vendor she blamed for the error, Idemia, was being phased out of use in New Jersey. Officials with Idemia, a technol- ogy company based in Virginia, has said it was the state’s Division of Elections’ responsibility to ver- ify whether residents were eligi- ble to vote. Officials within the Sherrill ad- ministration became aware of the error last week, the governor said. It had been discovered and cor- rected in 2024, while Philip D. Murphy was governor, but never publicly disclosed, Ms. Sherrill said. The governor has said and that the state had “no evidence, at this time, that any elections were swayed,” including the 2024 presi- dential contest.
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“No, Your Honor, absolutely not,” the prosecutor replied. After the hearing, Judge Subra- manian asked the government to provide him with its private com- munications regarding the appli- cation for the nondisclosure order, a sign that the judge may not be finished with the matter. Mr. Buckley also acknowledged that the phone record subpoenas
action certification for the Massa- chusetts lawsuit, said D.H.S. has referred some debts to private col- lection agencies, seized tax re- funds and garnished wages, and that the Justice Department has taken dozens of immigrants to court to compel them to pay. Afissetou Tchedre, a Togo na- tional married to an American service member, was sued by the Justice Department this year in its effort to collect more than $1.3 million. According to a counter- claim filed in federal court in New York in May, the government seized the full amount of the cou- ple’s last tax refund, $10,662. Ms. Tchedre has lived in the United States since 2011. After her asylum claim was denied, her hus- band, with whom she has four U.S.-born children, filed a petition to sponsor her for a green card. Her lawyer, Hasan Shafiqullah, said that he believed D.H.S. had not even reviewed her case before assessing the fine, otherwise
had inadvertently encompassed relatives of the Times reporters — including the mother of one and the spouses of two others — call- ing it an error and “a consequence of trying to move quickly.” After an hour of questioning on Thursday, prosecutors abruptly asked for a break so they could confer with The Times’s lawyers. Ten minutes later, Mr. Buckley, who had left the courtroom while the other lawyers huddled, re- turned and announced that the government would withdraw its subpoenas. The Times praised the outcome of the hearing. “Today’s proceed- ing was an important affirmation of our country’s commitment to a free press,” David McCraw, the pa- per’s top newsroom lawyer, said in a statement. “We are pleased that the government finally conceded that the subpoenas violated the law, but they should never have been issued in the first place.” As the hearing wound down, Judge Subramanian asked a law- yer for The Times, David A. O’Neil of Debevoise & Plimpton, if he had anything to add. Mr. O’Neil said the govern- ment’s conduct had been “replete with bad faith” and lamented a chilling effect that he said had af- fected the journalists’ ability to re- port. “We dispute any allegation of bad faith,” Mr. Buckley said, “and I’ll just leave it at that.” Judge Subramanian opened his mouth, as if to respond, then ap- parently thought better of it. “Understood,” he said.
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agency officials would have real- ized that Ms. Tchedre had the right to remain in the country. “The government had knowl- edge that she was taking steps to obtain status,” said Mr. Shafiqul- lah, a lawyer at the Legal Aid Soci- ety in New York. Ms. Tchedre lost her employ- ment authorization as a result of the fine, and her lawyer is fighting to recover the seized funds. During the first Trump adminis- tration, the notices were sent by certified mail, which obligates the recipient to sign for delivery — a requirement that led to many of the notices being returned to D.H.S. as undeliverable. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. rescinded the policy upon taking office, but Mr. Trump resurrected it on the first day of his second term through an executive order and a swiftly enacted policy that carried steeper fines. And this time, the letters were sent by ordinary mail.
A New Texas Book List
Beginning in fourth grade, students in Texas will read at least one ex- cerpt from the Bible each year.
“April Rain Song” by Langston Hughes
“The Bald Eagle” by Norman Pearl
“The Berenstain Bears and the Golden Rule” by Stan Berenstain
“Blueberries for Sal” by Robert McCloskey
“The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss
“Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
“Cinderella/Cenicienta” by Francesca Boada (adapted by)
“Classic Nursery Rhymes” (selected excerpts: “Baa Baa Black Sheep,” “Hickory Dickory Dock,” “Humpty Dumpty,” “Jack and Jill,” “Little Boy Blue,” “Little Miss Muffet,” “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” “Old King Cole,” “One Two Buckle My Shoe”) by Nicola Baxter (compiler)
“Classic Nursery Rhymes” (selected excerpts: “Jack Be Nimble,” “Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater,” “Simple Simon,” “Sing a Song of Sixpence,” “There Was an Old Woman,” “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” “Yankee Doodle”) by Nicola Baxter
“George Washington and the Cherry Tree” (excerpt from “The Children’s Book of Virtues”) by William J. Bennett (editor)
“Goldilocks and the Three Bears” by Jim Aylesworth
“The Grasshopper and the Ants” by Jerry Pinkney (retold from Aesop)
“How Grandmother Spider Brought Fire” (A Choctaw Story) (Excerpt from “A Year Full of Stories: 52 Folktales and Legends from Around the World”) by Angela McAllister
“The Keeping Quilt” by Patricia Polacco
“L Is for Lone Star: A Texas Alphabet” by Carol Crane
“The Little Red Hen” (excerpt from “The Children’s Book of Virtues”) by William J. Bennett (editor)
“The Lion and the Mouse” (excerpt from “The Children’s Book of Virtues”) by William J. Bennett (editor)
“Luna Loves Art” by Joseph Coelho
“A Picture Book of George Washington” by David A. Adler
“A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison” by David A. Adler
“The Runaway Bunny” by Margaret Wise Brown
“The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats
“The Three Little Pigs” / “Los tres cerditos” Bilingual Storybook by Patricia Seibert
“The Tortoise and the Hare” (excerpt from “The Children’s Book of Virtues”) by William J. Bennett (editor)
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle
“You Are Special” by Max Lucado
Young students will read popular classics, like “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” and books pro- moting good character, like “The Berenstain Bears and the Golden Rule.” The Texas list draws inspiration from a classical approach to education, which emphasizes reading books that have stood the test of time and focuses on building intellectual and moral character. The ap- proach — found in some private Christian and pub- lic charter schools — has grown popular in conser- vative circles.
“Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books” by Kay Winters
“Abuela” by Arthur Dorros
“Ada Twist, Scientist” by Andrea Beaty
“Amelia Bedelia’s First Day of School” by Herman Parish
“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” (selected excerpts: “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” “I Like You As You Are,” “Children Can,” “Smile in Your Pocket,” “Take My Time,” “What Can You Hear?,” “I’d Like to Be Like Mom and Dad,” “Summer Rain,” “Are You Brave?,” “The King and the Ocean,” “Then Your Heart is Full of Love,” “The Truth Will Make You Free,” “You’re Special,” “Perfect Day,” “I’m Proud of You”) by Fred Rogers
“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” (excerpt from “The Children’s Book of Virtues”) by William J. Bennett (editor)
By SARAH MERVOSH
“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. The story of Adam and Eve, from the Book of Genesis. These and other texts will soon be required reading for 5.4 million public school students across the state of Texas. While individual teachers and schools routinely make reading lists for English class, Texas is doing something unusual, attempting to create a common canon of books that all students statewide will be required to read. The list was approved last month by the Republican- led Texas State Board of Education and is in the process of being finalized. It will take effect starting in 2030. The list was applauded in some corners for prioritizing reading, at a time when many students are reading fewer whole books in school and at home. It was also highly contested, in part because it in- cludes excerpts from the Bible. It puts a focus on classic texts, often written by white and male authors, stirring debate about what qualifies as essential literature in a highly diverse state. (Teachers can still assign additional books on top of the ones required.) Here is a look at the required books for each grade.
“Invitation” (excerpt from “Where the Sidewalk Ends”) by Shel Silverstein
“Jack and the Beanstalk” by Thomas Nelson
“Jonah and the Whale” by Jonah 1:1-5, 10-17, 2:10
“The Legend of the Bluebonnet” by Tomie dePaola
“The Life of Paul Revere” by Maria Nelson
“The Little Engine That Could” by Watty Piper
“Madeline” by Ludwig Bemelmans
“Medio Pollito / Half Chicken: A Folktale in Spanish and English” by Alma Flor Ada
“Now and Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin” by Gene Barretta
“A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass” by David A. Adler
“Amazing Americans: Pocahontas” by Sharon Coan
“Red Riding Hood” by James Marshall
“The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter
“The Ugly Duckling” by Jerry Pinkney
“Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” (excerpt from “Aesop’s Fables: The Classic Edition”) by Charles Santore and Aesop
The inclusion of Bible passages — starting with Jo- nah and the whale in first grade — has prompted much debate. Supporters say understanding biblical refer- ences in literature and culture is part of a well- rounded education; critics call it an unconstitution- al attempt to infuse Christianity into public schools. The Bible passages come from both the New Testament and the Old Testament, a text shared by Jews, but primarily cite versions of the Bible pre- ferred by Protestant Christians, such as the King James Version, the English Standard Version and the New International Reader’s Version, an adapta- tion written at a third-grade reading level.
“America Is . . . ” by Louise Borden
“Beauty and the Beast” by Marianna Mayer
“Bluebonnet at the Alamo” by Mary Brooke Casad
“The Courage of Sarah Noble” by Alice Dalgliesh
“David and Goliath” (excerpt from “The Children’s Book of Heroes”) by William J. Bennett (editor)
“The Donkey in the Lion’s Skin” (excerpt from “Aesop’s Fables: The Classic Edition”) by Aesop (illustrated by Charles Santore)
“Falling Up” (excerpt from “Falling Up”) by Shel Silverstein
“James Madison: The 4th President” by Josh Gregory
“John Henry” by Julius Lester
“Johnny Appleseed” by Steven Kellogg (retold and illustrated by)
“The Legend of the Dipper” (excerpt from “The Children’s Book of Virtues”) by William J. Bennett (editor)
“Paul Bunyan” by Steven Kellogg (retold and illustrated by)
“Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom” by Carole Boston Weatherford
“The Patchwork Quilt” by Valerie Flournoy
“Sam: The Minuteman” by Nathaniel Benchley
“Stellaluna” by Janell Cannon
“Susan B. Anthony” by Laura K. Murray
“The Swing” by Robert Louis Stevenson
“Teammates” by Peter Golenbock
“The Thanksgiving Story” by Alice Dalgliesh
“Try, Try Again” (excerpt from “The Children’s Book of Virtues”) by William J. Bennett (editor)
“We the Kids: The Preamble of the Constitution of the United States” by David Catrow
“Winnie-the-Pooh” (Chapter 1 “In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin” and Chapter 2 “In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place”) by A.A. Milne
Young students will read several excerpts from “The Children’s Book of Virtues,” an anthology edited by William J. Bennett, the former education secretary under President Ronald Reagan. The book promotes virtues like courage and persever- ance, in the poem “Try, Try Again,” and kindness to others, in “The Legend of the Dipper.” They will also read about David and Goliath in another book by Mr. Bennett, “The Children’s Book of Heroes.”
“Abraham Lincoln” (excerpt from “A Book of Americans”) by Stephen Vincent Benét and Rosemary Benét
“Archimedes and the Door of Science” (Chapter 1 “Who Was Archimedes?,” Chapter 4 “Archimedes and His Lever,” Chapter 9 “Archimedes and Numbers”) by Jeanne Bendick
“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White
“Enemy Pie” by Derek Munson
“The Fisherman and His Wife” by Rachel Isadora
“George Washington” (excerpt from “A Book of Americans”) by Stephen Vincent Benét and Rosemary Benét
“Icarus and Daedalus” (excerpt from “Classic Myths to Read Aloud: The Great Stories of Greek and Roman Mythology”) by William F. Russell
“King Midas and the Golden Touch” by Charlotte Craft
“ROAR! — Daniel and the Lion’s Den — Children’s Adapted Version” by CBN
“Miss Rumphius” by Barbara Cooney
“Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs” by James Rumford
“Smart” by Shel Silverstein
“The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf” (excerpt from “Aesop’s Fables”) by Aesop (adapted and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney)
“Stone Soup” by Marcia Brown
“Benjamin Franklin” (Life Stories/Biografías Bilingual Edition) by Gillian Gosman
“Stuart Little” by E.B. White
“Thomas Jefferson” (excerpt from “A Book of Americans”) by Stephen Vincent Benét and Rosemary Benét
“Tomas and the Library Lady” by Pat Mora
“Too Many Tamales” by Gary Soto
“The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse” (excerpt from “Aesop’s Fables: The Classic Edition”) by Aesop (illustrated Charles Santore)
“What Do You Do With a Problem?” by Kobi Yamada
“The Wind in the Willows” (Chapters “The River Bank,” “The Open Road,” “The Wild Wood,” and “Mr. Badger”) by Kenneth Grahame
The list spotlights U.S. founding fathers, in line with a Republican vision for a more patriotic education. But the books are also doing double duty as so- cial studies instruction, which often gets little dedi- cated time in elementary school. In other grades, students also read about Susan B. Anthony, Frede- rick Douglass and Pocahontas.
“The Ant and the Dove” (excerpt from “Aesop’s Fables”) by Aesop (adapted and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney)
“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” (Picture Book Edition) by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
“Brave Irene” by William Steig
“Dreams” by Langston Hughes
“Number the Stars” by Lois Lowry
“Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow” (excerpt from “Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow and Other Legends,” pages 11-21) by Geraldine McCaughrean
“Sea Fever” by John Masefield
“Stone Fox” by John Reynolds Gardiner
“The Story of King Arthur and His Knights” (Part 1 “The Winning of Kinghood” Chapters 1 and 2) by Howard Pyle (adapted by Tania Zamorsky)
“Sundiata: The Lion King of Mali” by David Wisniewski
“Treasure Island” (Classic Adventures) by Robert Louis Stevenson (adapted by Jacqueline Dembar Greene)
“Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?” (Chapter 1 “Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?”, Chapter 2 “The Unwanted Boy”, Chapter 3 “The Art Studio” and Chapter 4 “The Wider World”) by Roberta Edwards
“The Necessity of Humility (Luke 14:7-11)” by New International Reader’s Version: New Testament
Beginning in fourth grade, students will read at least one excerpt from the Bible each year. Other biblical passages include the parting of the Red Sea (fifth grade), the “Parable of the Prodi- gal Son” (ninth grade) and “The Definition of Love” from First Corinthians (12th grade).
“Adventures of Don Quixote” (Dover Children’s Thrift Classics) by Argentina Palacios
“Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
“The Colonization of Texas: Missions and Settlers” by Stephanie Kuligowski
“Declaration of Independence in Translation: What It Really Means?” by Amie Jane Leavitt
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” (speech to the Second Virginia Convention) by Patrick Henry
“Independence Bell – July 4, 1776” by Anonymous
“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis
“The Mayflower Compact” by William Brewster, William Bradford, Edward Winslow
“The Monkey as King” (excerpts from “Aesop’s Fables”) by Aesop (adapted and illustrated by Charles Santore)
“Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster
“Sam Houston: A Fearless Statesman” by Joanne Mattern
“Thomas Jefferson” by Mike Venezia
“Who Was Davy Crockett?” (selected excerpts: “Who Was Davy Crockett?,” “A Pioneer Family,” “Young David,” “On His Own,” “Crockett Speaks Up,” “David Goes to Washington,” “The Alamo,” “Folk Hero”) by Gail Herman
The fifth-grade reading list focuses on the American Revolution. That aligns with Texas’s new social studies standards, also approved last month, which have students studying the American Revolution in fifth grade.
“Across Five Aprils” by Irene Hunt
“Abraham Lincoln, A Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President” (Chapter 7, “The Road Back to God”) by Joe Wheeler
“The Blue and The Gray” by Francis Miles Finch
“General Order 108 to the ‘Soldiers of the Armies of the United States’” by Ulysses S. Grant
“The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln
“All Creatures Great and Small” by James Herriot
“The Power of the Dog” by Rudyard Kipling
“A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett
“Do Not Be Anxious (Book of Matthew, Chapter 6, Verses 25-34)” by English Standard Version: New Testament
“The Peace of the Wild Things” by Wendell Berry
Starting in middle and high school, students will read two main books each year. In sixth grade, the books are “Across Five Aprils” and “All Creatures Great and Small.” Other texts listed under the main book are to be taught in the same thematic unit. For example, “All Creatures Great and Small” is paired with two po- ems, a short story, and a biblical excerpt.
“The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank, translated from Dutch by B.M. Mooyaart
“Blessed Is the Match” by Hannah Szenes
“Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport” by George Washington
“The Shepherd’s Psalm (Book of Psalms, Chapter 23)” by King James Version: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
“The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton
“The Eight Beatitudes (Book of Matthew, Chapter 5 Verses 1- 12)” by King James Version: New Testament
“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas
“Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost
“Thank You, M’am” by Langston Hughes
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
Around the country, there is wide variation in which books are taught, and in what grades. The decisions often reflect local politics, academic rigor and a teacher’s own discretion. As one point of comparison, at Success Acad- emy, a charter school network in New York City, stu- dents read the following books in seventh grade: “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Brad- bury; “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding; “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee; “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare; “Purple Hibiscus” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; and other short stories and texts, like the poem “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou.
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“Harrison Bergeron” (excerpt from “Welcome to the Monkey House”) by Kurt Vonnegut
“The Man in the Arena” (excerpt from “Citizenship in a Republic” speech by Teddy Roosevelt in 1910) by Teddy Roosevelt
“O Me! O Life!” by Walt Whitman
“To Everything There Is a Season (Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3)” by King James Version: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
“Night” by Elie Wiesel
“Book of Lamentations, Chapter 3” by Tanakh: Jewish Publication Society 1917
“The Perils of Indifference” (excerpt from “White House Official Transcript at Remarks of Millennium Evening”) by Elie Wiesel
“The Survivor” by Primo Levi
In eighth grade, students will read “The Giver” and “Night.” Alongside “Night,” students will also read Lam- entations, Chapter 3, the only instance in which a shared Judeo-Christian text is pulled explicitly from the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. There are no readings on the list from other reli- gious texts, like the Quran or the Bhagavad Gita.
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell
“The Clever Teens’ Guide to the Russian Revolution” by Felix Rhodes
“I, Pencil” by Leonard E. Read
“Lyceum Address” by Abraham Lincoln
“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
“A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain” (excerpt Chapters 1, 2 and 6) by Michael Paterson
“Love Is Not All” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Parable of the Prodigal Son (Book of Luke, Chapter 15, Verses 11-32)” by English Standard Translation: New Testament
In ninth grade, the main books are “Animal Farm” and “Great Expectations.” One goal of the list was to ensure students are reading whole books from start to finish — prefera- bly in paper form — something that has become in- creasingly rare in an era of tech and social media distractions.
“The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare
“General Douglas MacArthur’s Farewell Speech to the Corps of Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point” (excerpt paragraph 3: Duty, Honor, Country) by Douglas MacArthur
“Eulogy for President Reagan” by Margaret Thatcher
“Pericles’ Funeral Oration” (excerpt of Book 2 from Chapters 34 46 of “History of the Peloponnesian War”) by Thucydides (edited by M.I. Finley and translated by Rex Warner)
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri
“The Book of Job (Book of Job, Chapters 1-7,11,14,19,28,38-42)” by New International Reader’s Version: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chapter 1 “The ‘Middle’ Ages?,” Chapter 2 “People and Their Lifestyles,” Chapter 3 “The Big Idea: Christian Salvation,” Chapter 4 “Kingship, Lordship, and Government” (excerpts from “The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction”) by Miri Rubin
The list leans heavily on classics, often written by white and male authors in earlier eras, like “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare, dated around 1599, and “The Inferno,” by Dante, from the 14th century. Though the famous “I’ve Been to the Mountain- top” speech by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is included, the overall list has faced criticism for in- cluding few texts by prominent Black and Hispanic authors, such as Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston or Sandra Cisneros.
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
“Dear Mr. McCarthy, I am very real” (excerpt, Section 1 from “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”) by Kurt Vonnegut
“What Is Capitalism?” (excerpt, Section 1 from “Capitalism, The Unknown Ideal”) by Ayn Rand
“Flattering Unction” (excerpt, Chapter 1 from “The Vision of the Anointed”) by Thomas Sowell
“The Veldt” (excerpt from “The Illustrated Man”) by Ray Bradbury
“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Adam and Eve (Book of Genesis, Chapters 2 and 3)” by New International Reader’s Version: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
“The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The list initially had around 300 texts in total, from kindergarten through 12th grade. That version had 11th graders reading “The Great Gatsby,” “Of Mice and Men,” “The Alchemist” and “The Crucible.” But those books were cut as the list was pared down to just under 200 texts, out of concerns about time.
“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare
“Hamlet and His Problems” (excerpt from “The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism”) by T.S. Eliot
“If” by Rudyard Kipling
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
“The Definition of Love (Book of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13)” by English Standard Version: New Testament
“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson
“The Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne” by Anthony Trollope
“When I Was One-and-Twenty” by A.E. Housman
Just as notable: What is not on the list. Students will read two Shakespeares — “Ham- let” and “Julius Caesar” — but not “Romeo and Ju- liet,” the No. 1. most assigned book in U.S. high school classrooms, according to the National Coun- cil of Teachers of English. In high school, there are no contemporary books, written in the last 50 years. The list also avoids some of the most frequently contested books targeted by book bans in recent years. “The Hate U Give” and “To Kill a Mocking- bird,” for example, are absent from the Texas list.
Missing Out On Millions In Paybacks
By MATTHEW HAAG
Every year, more than 200,000 stu- dents with disabilities in New York City receive mandated special educa- tion services, including physical and speech therapy. It carries a significant cost to the city — hundreds of millions of dollars annually — although most of it can be reimbursed by Medicaid. But the city’s Department of Educa- tion failed to seek reimbursement for at least $431 million from mid-2023 to mid-2025, according to a new audit by the city’s Office of the Comptroller. The department either lacked the proper documentation to be reim- bursed or did not request repayment, missing out on substantial money at a time when city agencies have been asked to trim budgets and find new revenue. The city comptroller, Mark Levine, said that the total amount of un- claimed reimbursements was a con- servative estimate and that the true number could be much higher. He called on the Department of Educa- tion — which has a roughly $40 billion budget, the largest of any city agency — to hire additional people to improve its reimbursement rate. “The fact that we’re leaving money on the table to this scale really is not acceptable in this fiscal environment,” Mr. Levine said in an interview. “It is quite troubling.” The issue is not new. For nearly 15 years, city leaders, including past comptrollers, have repeatedly called on the Department of Education to maximize what it could recover in Medicaid reimbursements for special education services. Since 2011, the de- partment failed to recoup at least $1.2 billion in Medicaid funds, according to several estimates by the comptrol- ler’s office. In a letter to the Office of the Comp- troller, the school system’s chief finan- cial officer, Seritta Scott, said that the Department of Education had made “significant steps” to improve col- lection of Medicaid reimbursements and would roll out further upgrades, including a system that would auto- mate the reimbursement claims process, before the end of the year. Ms. Scott said that the department had concerns about the methodology used by auditors and that the $431 mil- lion in foregone reimbursements was
in Medicaid refunds, the comptroller says.
a significant overstatement based on incorrect assumptions. She added that the department “acknowledges the importance of maximizing Medic- aid reimbursement.” Nicole Brownstein, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, re- iterated the agency’s concerns with the audit, saying that it contained “as- sumptions and misconceptions" that skewed the findings. “We will continue pursuing every operationally feasible reimbursement opportunity to maximize available re- sources and ensure every student re- ceives the resources they deserve,” Ms. Brownstein said in a statement. The school system said that the comptroller’s estimate should have excluded more than $232 million. For example, school officials asserted that the comptroller had included sessions that were ineligible for Medicaid re- imbursement. In New York City, about 145,000 stu- dents with disabilities come from low- income families, and the legally man- dated services they receive could be reimbursed by Medicaid. The reim- bursement process and requirements can be tedious and painstaking, and just a single paperwork error can cause a claim to be rejected. Ten types of services can be reim- bursed, including occupational, physi- cal and speech therapy as well as hearing and psychological evalua- tions. But the department has long sought reimbursement only for occu- pational, physical and speech therapy, and even then, it submitted claims for about half of the sessions in recent years, according to the audit. The Office of the Comptroller started its review as a follow-up to an audit released in 2021, which found that the department missed out on $180 million in Medicaid reimburse- ments from July 2017 through June 2019. Auditors recommended that the department seek reimbursement for services beyond occupational, physi- cal and speech therapy. In the latest audit, Mr. Levine said he was concerned that the percent of therapy sessions submitted for Med- icaid repayment had declined over the three years that were scrutinized. “The trend is moving in the wrong di- rection at a time when we have all these pressures,” he said. John Kaehny, the executive director of Reinvent Albany, a government watchdog group, said that he believed it would take a financial crisis for there to be enough pressure on the de- partment to improve its collections. “The systemic flaw here is that the D.O.E. has enormous trouble recruit- ing and especially keeping employees with the skills to make sure these re- imbursements get submitted,” Mr. Kaehny said.
To Face G.O.P.’s Feely In a Swing District
By TIM BALK
Dr. Amish Shah, a moderate Democrat, won a House primary in a battleground Arizona district on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press, defeating a cen- trist candidate supported by House Democrats’ campaign arm. Dr. Shah, an emergency physi- cian and former state lawmaker who proselytizes about the power of door-knocking, will face Jay Feely, the Republican nominee and a former journeyman N.F.L. kicker, in the general election. Dr. Shah and Mr. Feely, whom President Trump backed in the primary, have some shared his- tory: In 2008, Dr. Shah was a side- line physician for the New York Jets and Mr. Feely was the team’s kicker. The two are racing to replace Representative David Schwei- kert, a Republican who decided to give up his seat to run for gover- nor. The contest is expected to be one of the most expensive House races in the country in November, as Democrats look to capitalize on Mr. Trump’s unpopularity to win back control of the lower chamber of Congress. Dr. Shah also ran for the seat in 2024, narrowly losing to Mr. Schweikert. The district sur- rounds Scottsdale and includes a part of Phoenix. Dr. Shah’s primary victory on Wednesday over Marlene Galán- Woods, a former Republican and onetime broadcast journalist, rep- resented the latest misfire by House Democrats’ campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. At his election night party in Phoenix on Tuesday, Dr. Shah said he expected that if he won the pri- mary — which had not yet been called — he would soon speak with leaders of the campaign commit- tee. “I hope that I can get their en-
Sejal Govindarao contributed re- porting.
The jailed Venezuelan leader will contest his extradition by the U.S.
The federal judge presiding over the case of Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday set a June 2027 trial date for the captured Vene- zuelan leader, introducing some deadlines into a high-profile case that has proceeded slowly. The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein, set the June 1 trial date after pros- ecutors and lawyers for Mr. Madu- ro said on Tuesday evening that they had agreed to it, ahead of a Wednesday court appearance. Like all trial dates set far in ad- vance, the schedule is tentative and could be subject to changes, particularly if Mr. Maduro’s chal- lenges to his case are evaluated by higher courts. Mr. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized from a Cara- cas compound in a U.S. military
By MADALEINE RUBIN
A former headmaster of a pri- vate girls’ boarding school in western Massachusetts has been indicted on one count of reckless endangerment of a child. Jean Norris, the former head- master of Miss Hall’s School, is ac- cused of failing to take appropri- ate action in response to “numer- ous reports” she had received of a teacher’s inappropriate behavior during her tenure, the district at- torney’s office in Berkshire County said. The district attorney, Timothy J. Shugrue, said on Wednesday that the charge was part of a larger in- vestigation into allegations of sex- ual abuse at the school. A former teacher at Miss Hall’s, Matthew Rutledge, was indicted in March on three counts of rape for alleg- edly assaulting two students who attended the school between 2001 and 2010. The investigation into the school drew attention to the Mass- achusetts law that deemed 16 to be the age when a person is able to consent to sex. This month, the state passed legislation that raised the age to 18 when the sexu- al activity involves an adult in a position of a trust or authority over the child. Joseph C. Merschman, a lawyer for Ms. Norris, did not immedi- ately respond to a request for comment on the indictment. Nora Adukonis, a lawyer for Mr. Rut- ledge, could not be immediately reached for comment. Mr. Rut- ledge has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Melissa Fares, an alumna of the school who has said that she was abused by Mr. Rutledge, said the indictment of Ms. Norris was a
Dr. Amish Shah, above, a moderate Democrat, defeated Marlene Galán-Woods in a primary in a district that includes a part of Phoenix. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had backed Ms. Galán-Woods. Jay Feely, below right, a former N.F.L. kicker, is the Republican nominee.
operation in January. They have pleaded not guilty to conspiracies to commit narco-terrorism and import cocaine, along with other counts. It is unclear whether other charges will be brought. Judge Hellerstein consented on Wednesday to the lawyers’ re- quest to have the pretrial proceed- ings take place in two stages. First, Mr. Maduro is expected to contest the notion that he can even be prosecuted by the Ameri- can government, claiming sover- eign immunity that would not re- quire him to litigate the case fur- ther. As his lawyer, Barry J. Pollack, explained in court on Wednesday, if that argument or others along the same lines were successful, Mr. Maduro would not have to challenge the particulars of the
A man who taught at Miss Hall’s School for 33 years faces three counts of rape. At one point, a student who accused him of “having sex” with students was forced to write him an apology letter.
“big moment” she never thought would come. “Accountability doesn’t stop with the person who commits abuse,” Ms. Fares said in a state- ment. “It extends to those who en- able it, ignore it, or fail to act when children are at risk.” Miss Hall’s School enrolls about 200 students in grades 9 to 12 in rural Pittsfield, Mass., near the New York border. In 2024, the police began inves- tigating Mr. Rutledge, then a teacher at the school, after Ms. Fares publicly accused him of as-
prosecution. Mr. Pollack had previously said that Mr. Maduro would also chal- lenge the legality of his extraordi- nary capture and argue that he has immunity as a head of state. The latter argument is likely to be particularly compelling and could eventually reach the Su- preme Court. Though the U.S. sec- retary of state, Marco Rubio, has repeatedly said that Mr. Maduro was not the legitimate president of Venezuela, the American gov- ernment — and Mr. Rubio person-
the age of consent to 18 this month.
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ally — have empowered Delcy Ro- dríguez, who was Mr. Maduro’s vice president and now leads Ven- ezuela. Mr. Pollack may argue that in le- gitimizing Ms. Rodríguez, the Trump administration has shown Mr. Maduro to have been legiti- mate in his own right. If those arguments fail, Mr. Ma- duro is expected to challenge the details of an indictment that ac- cuses him of corrupting Venezue- la’s government and using it to ex- port cocaine on a global scale. Mr. Maduro’s lawyers are expected to present those arguments, if neces- sary, early next year. Mr. Maduro appeared wearing a khaki jumpsuit and shook hands with his lawyers before putting on the headphones that allowed him to hear translations of what, for
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ual misconduct. The findings, re- leased in an extensive report last year, included evidence suggest- ing that Mr. Rutledge had abused five girls over about 20 years. That prompted the district attor- ney’s office to take a closer look at the case. A grand jury in March charged Mr. Rutledge with three counts of rape, accusing him of assaulting two students. Ms. Fares and Hillary Simon, another former student, told The New York Times that they had tes- tified before the grand jury and
dorsement over Jay Feely,” he said, drawing laughter. On Wednesday night, Repre- sentative Suzan DelBene of Wash- ington State, chair of the cam- paign committee, said in a state- ment that Dr. Shah would “always put his community first.” “Arizonans already know and trust Amish will work to make their lives more affordable, and that’s why they’ll enthusiastically elect him this November,” Ms. Del- Bene added. The committee had poured money into the expensive prima- ry race to try to elevate the moder- ate Ms. Galán-Woods, describing her on its website as “the straight- shooter Arizonans deserve.” She is the widow of Grant Woods, an Arizona attorney general and ally of John McCain who turned against the Republican Party over Mr. Trump. House Democrats’ campaign arm has waded into several com- petitive Democratic races this year, spending on candidates who party leaders believe would be stronger general-election con- tenders in important races. Although a number of the candi- dates the committee has backed have won their primaries, others have faltered: Moderate candi- dates backed by House Demo- crats’ campaign arm lost to pro- gressives in battleground districts in northern Maine and in the Cen- tral Valley of California. The intervention in favor of Ms. Galán-Woods in Arizona sur- prised some Democrats, who saw minimal ideological daylight be- tween her and Dr. Shah. Dr. Shah, for his part, assailed national Democratic leaders for the role they played in the race. “Arizona voters do not want people from D.C. meddling and putting their thumb on the scale and telling voters who they should be picking,” he said in an inter- view. “That shouldn’t be happen- ing.” Representative Adelita Gri- jalva, a progressive Democrat from a neighboring district, agreed. In an interview, she said the result showed that House Democrats’ campaign arm needed to “stay out of primary elections.” “I hope that this is a lesson,” Ms. Grijalva said.
him, was a foreign court proceed- ing. The appearance was a brisk 15 minutes, and he left the court- room with a quick wave to the gallery. Wednesday marked his first courtroom appearance since March. While the Venezuelan leader still draws a crowd inside and outside the courthouse, his months in detention appeared to have somewhat diminished public interest. The crowd outside the Lower Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday was more sparse than during his earlier court appear- ances, though the fierce emotions that the Venezuelan autocrat tends to inspire were still evident. One demonstrator draped in a Venezuelan flag held a sign calling for Mr. Maduro to “rot in prison” and adding an expletive.
the charges involved assaults on them. The indictment of Ms. Norris comes after Aleta Law found that students and staff members had repeatedly raised concerns about Mr. Rutledge’s behavior. Ms. Nor- ris was aware of some of these concerns and consulted legal counsel, the report found, but she took no substantive action against him. In one instance during Ms. Nor- ris’s tenure, the school suspended a student who had told a group of peers that Mr. Rutledge was “hav- ing sex” with students, the report said. Ms. Norris at the time called the student’s remarks defama- tory, and the school required the student to write an “apology” let- ter to Mr. Rutledge. In an interview on Wednesday, Ms. Simon said, “It finally feels like we’re being listened to.” Mr. Rutledge resigned from Miss Hall’s in 2024 after more than 30 years at the school as the police began their initial investi- gation. The school has since changed certain policies, including rules on where and how students and teachers can meet, and has settled legal claims filed by survivors of abuse. Its leaders have also apolo- gized for the institution’s role in decades of alleged abuse. Over the years, the school al- lowed the abuse to continue un- checked, the report found. It noted that several faculty members, in- cluding Ms. Norris, maintained close relationships with Mr. Rut- ledge. “For decades, Jeannie Norris had the power to stop Matthew Rutledge, and she chose to protect him over the children in her care,” Ms. Fares said.
Passes a Bill To Ease Rule On Abortions
By JENNA RUSSELL
A bill easing access to late-term abortion in Massachusetts passed in the state House of Representa- tives on Wednesday. The Senate is expected to vote on the measure before the legislative session ends next week. If the bill becomes law, Massa- chusetts would be among the states with the fewest restrictions on abortions late in pregnancy. Current state law limits abor- tion after 24 weeks of pregnancy, with several exceptions that advo- cates have said are not enough to ensure that all women in need of abortion care can get it without leaving the state. Those excep- tions allow late-term abortions if the life of the pregnant woman is in danger, if her physical or mental health is at risk, if there is a “lethal fetal anomaly” or if there is a “grave fetal diagnosis.” The new bill would allow an abortion after 24 weeks if a doctor deemed it appropriate. “We found that this care is so complicated, there is no way to en- compass every possible excep- tion,” said Representative Chris-
procedures could be legal after 24 weeks.
tine Barber, a Democrat who sponsored the legislation. “It should be between a doctor and a patient.” Massachusetts has a Democrat- ic governor and a Democrat-con- trolled legislature. The House approved the bill in a 119-33 vote. For it to become law, the Senate must approve it before the current legislative session ends on July 31. A spokeswoman for Gov. Maura Healey did not im- mediately respond when asked on Wednesday if she would sign it into law. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, an anti-abortion group, said in a statement that while the bill’s sponsors had “good intentions,” the bill raised serious concerns. “Women experiencing unimag- inable, heart wrenching preg- nancy complications absolutely deserve all the support they need, but that support is not what this bill provides,” the group’s presi- dent, Myrna Maloney Flynn, said in the statement. “Instead, this bill ensures increased abortion indus- try profits and taxpayer-funded late-term procedures.” Abortion laws around the coun- try have evolved significantly since the Supreme Court over- turned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Some states have added new restric- tions or banned abortion in almost all circumstances, while others, including Massachusetts, have sought to protect it by enshrining the right to abortion in state stat- ute and tweaking language to wid- en access to it. Abortion is broadly legal in 30 states and Washington, D.C.; 13 states have largely banned the procedure since the Supreme Court ruling in 2022, and six oth- ers have enacted limits on it be- tween 6 and 12 weeks of preg- nancy, according to KFF. a health care research group. In Massachusetts, legislators updated the law in 2020, and again in 2022, when they added an ex- ception to the 24-week limit for cases involving a “grave fetal di- agnosis.” Yet advocates for abor- tion said that roadblocks per- sisted in cases where the legal lan- guage defining the exceptions could be interpreted in different ways. In one case from 2021, a preg- nant woman whose baby suffered a stroke in utero at 33 weeks was unable to obtain abortion care, de- spite the exceptions in the law, said Claire Teylouni, interim co- executive director of Reproduc- tive Equity Now, a New England advocacy group. “She was shocked that she had to leave Massachusetts to get this care,” Ms. Teylouni said. “Providers say they want to be able to use their professional ex- pertise to make decisions — that’s how we treat almost every other area of health care.” The new legislation proposed in Massachusetts, allowing late- term abortions at a doctor’s dis- cretion, is similar to a law passed in Maine in 2023. The bill is backed by the Massa- chusetts Health and Hospital As- sociation, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Massachu- setts. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy group, 23,340 abortions were pro- vided by clinicians in Massachu- setts in 2025, a slight increase of 1.2 percent from 2024.
Is Given Life Sentence In Killing of Lawmaker
By ERNESTO LONDOÑO
MINNEAPOLIS — More than a year after a man killed a Minne- sota lawmaker and her husband and shot another lawmaker and the legislator’s wife, a federal judge on Thursday ordered the man to spend the rest of his life in prison. The attacks, described by pros- ecutors as targeted political as- sassinations, set off an urgent manhunt across the state and left Minnesotans in terror. The at- tacker went to the homes of Dem- ocratic lawmakers in the middle of the night, disguised as a law en- forcement officer. The man, Vance Boelter, 59, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder, stalking and firearm of- fenses in June after prosecutors announced that they did not in- tend to seek the death penalty. U.S. District Judge John R. Tun- heim imposed two life sentences plus 40 years in prison, a punish- ment the government and the de- fendant had agreed to as part of the plea deal. “This was a brutal attack on elected public officials and their families, which truly is an attack on democracy itself,” Judge Tun- heim said. “Our beloved state may
Of His Attacker, Recalls ‘Lake of Blood’
By MARK SOMMER and SANTUL NERKAR
BUFFALO — In 1989, the Irani- an government called for Salman Rushdie’s death after he pub- lished “The Satanic Verses.” After years in hiding, Mr. Rushdie re- sumed a normal life, making pub- lic appearances and ditching his armed security. That normality was shattered on Aug. 12, 2022, when a young, disillusioned man rushed onstage in western New York, where Mr. Rushdie was giving a talk, and stabbed him 15 times. The attack left the author blind in one eye, with damaged nerves and scars all over his body. On Thursday, Mr. Rushdie, 79, recalled in harrowing detail how he encountered his stabber, Hadi Matar. He saw Mr. Matar, whose face was obscured by a black mask, in a sideways glance to his right as Mr. Matar approached and threw Mr. Rushdie violently to the ground. “I tried to get away, but he was on top of me, stabbing away,” Mr. Rushdie said in Federal District Court in Buffalo, wearing a dark
Of Men Near Central Park Are Possible Hate Crimes
This article is by Maia Coleman, Chelsia Rose Marcius and Stella Raine Chu.
A 51-year-old man stabbed two people in broad daylight in the vi- cinity of Central Park on Manhat- tan’s Upper West Side on Thurs- day afternoon before being taken into custody, the police said. The assailant, identified as Raul Morales, attacked the two men in separate incidents on Central Park West and Amsterdam Ave- nue at around 1:30 p.m., leaving them injured on the street, the po- lice said. Both were expected to survive. Mr. Morales first walked up to a 57-year-old man on West 84th and Central Park West and stabbed him in the back with a knife, ac- cording to a spokesman for the Po- lice Department. He then went to West 86th Street and Amsterdam, the spokesman said, where he ap- proached another man, this time stabbing him in the torso with a screwdriver.
Stella Raine Chu contributed re- porting.
By YAN ZHUANG and JACEY FORTIN
A Wisconsin police officer has fatally shot a man after the officer was injured with a knife while try- ing to make an arrest, local offi- cials said, stirring protests in the city of Madison. The Madison Police Depart- ment said the man had pulled out a knife during a struggle with the police on Wednesday afternoon. Chief John Patterson, speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, said officers had first tried to inca- pacitate the man with a Taser be- fore he was shot. Four officers were involved,
in some sense never be the same.” The attack killed Melissa Hort- man, a veteran legislator who served as the Democrats’ speaker of the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark, in the early hours of June 14, 2025. Earlier that morning, John Hoffman, a state senator, and his wife, Yvette, were gravely wounded but survived. In an era when concerns about political violence have intensified, the Minnesota attack stood out, partly because Mr. Boelter has never offered a clear motive. In court on Thursday, Mr. Boel- ter voiced remorse. “To every per- son I have caused loss, pain, heartache, confusion, sadness, shame or loneliness, I am truly sorry,” he said. Earlier in the hearing, people in the packed courtroom wept qui- etly at times as relatives and friends of the victims spoke of sleepless nights and a lingering sense of vulnerability and shat- tered innocence. Ms. Hoffman, who was shot, said she could not bring herself to open her door to strangers any- more. Colin Hortman, the son of the couple who died, recalled how searing the absence of his parents felt at his wedding last year. In-
suit with soft-soled shoes and a closely cropped goatee. At one point, Timothy C. Lynch, a federal prosecutor, instructed Mr. Rushdie to remove the distinc- tive eye glasses he has worn since the attack. One lens was clear, while the other was darkly shaded, covering his damaged eye. “As you can see, there’s nothing there now,” Mr. Rushdie said after taking them off. Mr. Rushdie testified last year about the stabbing during Mr. Matar’s trial on state charges in Mayville, N.Y. Mr. Matar was con- victed of attempted murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He is now on trial for federal crimes, and Mr. Rushdie’s testi- mony is a critical piece of the gov- ernment’s case: that Mr. Matar did not just try to kill Mr. Rushdie, but that he had acted at the direc- tion of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon, and committed an act of terror by enforcing the fatwa, a religious edict. Nathaniel L. Barone II, Mr. Matar’s lawyer, has argued that while his client was upset over Mr.
It was not immediately clear what led to the midday attack in the heart of the Upper West Side, a residential neighborhood with low crime rates. But on Thursday, Po- lice Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that Mr. Morales had yelled “Allahu akbar” as he attacked both men, according to accounts from the victims and witnesses. Ms. Tisch said the department was evaluating whether the stab- bings had been intended as hate crimes and 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 Police Department, she added, it ap- peared that his mental state might have played a role in the attacks. The first victim was identified as a 57-year-old Asian man, Chok Sung, according to a law enforce- ment official with knowledge of the matter. The second victim was Moshe Yezhak Grunhaus, a 50- year-old Jewish man, the official said. Both men were taken by emer- gency medical workers to Mount
and one fired his weapon, Chief Patterson said. Another officer was also injured during the strug- gle, but it was unclear how, he said, adding that the injury did not appear to be from the knife. All four officers were to be put on ad- ministrative leave, the chief said. The mayor of Madison, Satya Rhodes-Conway, identified the man during a news conference on Thursday as Corey Ruiz, 38. The Madison police did not release the name of the officer who fired. “This is an incredibly difficult moment for the Madison commu- nity,” Ms. Rhodes-Conway said, adding, “As a city, as a community, as a society, we have to do better.”
stead of a son-and-mother dance, he said, he wept with his sister and others at the reception. His sister, Sophie, recalled the anguishing decision she and her brother had to make at a veteri- nary clinic just hours after their parents had been slain. The fam- ily’s beloved dog, Gilbert, had been severely wounded in the shooting. She asked the veterinar- ian what she would do in their shoes. The doctor told them she would put the animal down. “Colin and I agreed he would
Rushdie’s work, he was neither following orders from Hezbollah nor doing the Iranian govern- ment’s bidding. If Mr. Matar is convicted of the federal charges — two counts of providing material support to a terrorist group, and one count of terrorism that transcends na- tional boundaries — he could spend the rest of his life in prison. Mr. Rushdie has been a target of rage among Islamic extremists for decades. The government of Iran in 1988 issued a fatwa against him over “The Satanic Verses,” a novel that depicted a fictionalized version of the Prophet Muham- mad and outraged many Muslims. For nearly 10 years after the fatwa, Mr. Rushdie largely lived in isolation in London, with constant security. But in 1998, an Iranian government official dropped the death threat against Mr. Rushdie as Iran resumed diplomatic rela- tions with the United Kingdom. British intelligence services as- sured Mr. Rushdie of his safety, he said in court on Thursday. Mr. Rushdie began living a largely normal life in New York.
Officers near Central Park West and West 84th Street, where the first of two victims was attacked.
Sinai’s Morningside location. After the stabbings, Mr. Mo- rales walked to his home in a New York City Housing Authority building on Amsterdam Avenue, according to a second law enforce- ment official with knowledge of the matter. He went inside his apartment on the 11th floor, and was later taken into custody there by officers in the Emergency Service Unit. “I want to commend the brav- ery of a good Samaritan who led our officers to the location where
Video of the shooting circulated widely on social media soon after the incident. Chief Patterson said the footage was only “one perspective” of what transpired and added that “not all perspectives are online right now.” The Wisconsin Justice Depart- ment said it was investigating the shooting, which took place on a busy street in the Marquette neighborhood near the State Capi- tol, according to the police. Officers responded on Wednes- day afternoon to reports of a per- son stealing bicycles and trying to enter parked vehicles, the police
want to be with his parents,” she said. According to the plea agree- ment, which provided a detailed account of the attacks, Mr. Boelter spent months gathering informa- tion about Minnesota elected offi- cials. The night of the shootings, he drove to the Hoffmans’ subur- ban home in an S.U.V. outfitted with emergency lights. Wearing a fake police uniform and a silicon mask, he gained en- try by claiming to be a law en- forcement officer and shot the
The author Salman Rushdie last year. The 2022 attack left him blind in one eye, with damaged nerves and scars all over his body.
He had arrived at the amphithe- ater in August 2022 to deliver a speech that focused on writers liv- ing in political exile. Mr. Matar, according to federal prosecutors, had plotted the at- tack for months. He researched the fatwa, spliced together pro- Iran propaganda videos and told others about his desire to kill Mr. Rushdie for what he saw as his blasphemy. On Thursday, Mr. Rushdie re- called a flurry of stab wounds, in- cluding several to his midsection,
the perpetrator was hiding, as well as our NYPD cops who brought an end to the incident without further injuries,” Ms. Tisch said in a statement on social media. Marianna Ellenberg, a profes- sor, said she was taking her father to a doctor’s appointment in the neighborhood on Thursday after- noon when she came across the af- termath of the stabbing. As their car turned from 84th Street onto Central Park West, Ms. Ellenberg said she looked out the window to
said. The suspect fled on a bicycle, Chief Patterson said at the news conference. When the police caught up to him, the man either fell or was pulled off the bicycle. During the ensuing struggle with four officers, he pulled out a knife and injured one of them, Chief Pat- terson said. After the officers unsuccess- fully used a Taser, the injured offi- cer fired his gun, the police said. Mr. Ruiz was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. On Wednesday evening, hun- dreds of protesters marched from the Marquette neighborhood to the Capitol, according to local news media reports. Organizers
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Hoffmans in the presence of their daughter. The daughter called the authorities, setting off a search that lasted nearly two days. Mr. Boelter then drove to the homes of two other Democratic legislators, though he did not en- counter them. Next, he went to the Hortmans’ home, where he told them he was a police officer doing a “welfare check” in response to reports of a shooting. Mark Hortman, who had been sleeping, asked for the attacker’s name and badge number. After a
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his left hand and, what would bring the most lasting damage, his right eye. Mr. Matar’s knife pierced his optic nerve and stopped within one millimeter of his brain, he said. “I could feel the pain, and I yelled out, ‘What happened to my eye?’” Mr. Rushdie recalled. He credited a firefighter with saving his life, by using his thumb to slow the bleeding of an artery. Still, Mr. Rushdie said, he was aware of “an enormous and ex- panding lake of blood.”
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see a man “standing still like a statue” with something sticking out his body. Michael Jacobs and Morris Da- han, who are members of Manhat- tan Shomrim, a voluntary neigh- borhood patrol group, said they were called to the neighborhood by a bystander and arrived to find Mr. Grunhaus lying wounded on the ground. “He was on the floor with a screwdriver in his chest,” said Mr. Dahan. He and Mr. Jacobs called 911 immediately.
canceled a concert scheduled to take place that night near the Cap- itol. In the same neighborhood in 2015, a white police officer shot and killed Anthony Robinson, a 19- year-old Black man, and protests followed. The district attorney did not file charges, deeming that the officer had been justified. Ms. Rhodes-Conway, a Demo- crat, said she was “angered and saddened” by the Wednesday shooting. Gov. Tony Evers of Wis- consin, a Democrat, said of the man killed that “his life mattered,” and urged protesters to demon- strate peacefully.
brief exchange, Mr. Boelter shot Mr. Hortman, and ran upstairs, where he shot Ms. Hortman. Mr. Boelter, a Minnesota preacher who had a peripatetic career, has made implausible claims about the attack. In a letter to the F.B.I. director before turn- ing himself in, he claimed that the attack had been instigated by Minnesota Democratic leaders. Later, he told journalists that the shootings were related to an in- vestigation he claimed he had car- ried out related to vaccines. In a court filing this week, Mr. Boelter’s lawyers said that he wished to serve his prison term at a federal facility in Florida. “Mr. Boelter knows expressing his remorse does not take away the pain he has caused,” they wrote. “But pleading guilty and agreeing to maximum penalties does show Mr. Boelter’s sincere remorse.” In another filing, prosecutors said that the gunman was moti- vated by politics, suggesting that he intended to empower conser- vatives in the state’s narrowly split Legislature. “He knew that the Minnesota Legislature was so closely divided that by killing four state legisla- tors, the inevitable result would be a shift in the balance of power in both legislative houses,” prosecu- tors wrote.
2022 stabbing was on behalf of Hezbollah.
He was put on a gurney and flown by helicopter to a hospital in Erie, Pa., where he spent 17 days, before being transferred to NYU Langone’s Rusk Rehabilitation center in New York City, where he spent about a month. It took seven months of physi- cal therapy before he could use his damaged hand normally again. He can no longer drive, and the in- juries have also made it difficult to write, he said. He now lives in New York City, where he is a visiting professor at N.Y.U. In 2024, he published a memoir about the attack and its aftermath, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.” In it, he imagines a conversation with Mr. Matar, whom he wanted to meet. At one point, Mr. Barone grilled Mr. Rushdie about the subject matter of “The Satanic Verses” and whether he should have antic- ipated the reaction the book re- ceived from Islamic extremists. “I don’t believe the book is on trial,” Mr. Rushdie responded. “Somebody else is on trial.”
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RESIDENT TRUMP’S most conse- quential construction project may not be a ballroom or an arch, but his tariff wall. His latest threat to raise tariffs to 50 per- cent on some Canadian goods, as drastic as it is, is not nearly as significant as what’s coming next. By the end of this month, the administration is expected to introduce ma- jor tariffs on dozens of countries intended to ensure that what once was a temporary re- gime lasts well beyond this presidency. Un- like most previous rounds of tariffs, includ- ing the ones just threatened on Canada, the new ones are backed by monthslong investi- gations into alleged unfair trade practices by other countries. No court has ever over- turned this kind of tariff. But the biggest obstacle to undoing Mr. Trump’s tariffs after 2028 won’t be legal. It will be financial. With the national debt clocking in at a staggering $39.6 trillion, the market responsible for selling this debt has quickly grown addicted to the money com- ing into the government every day thanks to tariffs. Few politicians are willing to upset the bond market given that it dictates the cost of borrowing money for some of the most important purchases Americans make, including their cars and their homes. Rather than be constrained by these forces, the next president can find a way to use them to the country’s advantage. It’s a situation almost no one saw coming. It was the bond market that originally thwarted Mr. Trump’s tariffs only 15 months ago. In April 2025, on the so-called Liberation Day, the president threatened to raise tariffs on nearly everything America imports to the highest level in nearly a century. Bond markets panicked, fearing that a global trade war could bring higher prices and slow growth, and they went into a nosedive, leading Mr. Trump to pause his plans a week later. “I was watching the bond market. The bond market is very tricky,” he admitted at the time. But Mr. Trump, still convinced that tariffs are the best economic weapon he has avail- able to fix what he believes is an unfair trad- ing system, never abandoned the strategy. In the months after, he relentlessly added tariffs on countries including America’s ma- jor trading partners. This time, the bond market shrugged. It certainly helped that the risk of a global trade war faded as Eu- rope, India and Japan all declined to retali- ate. At the same time, the United States was adding an estimated $40 billion a week to the national debt. Wall Street found that number much easier to swallow thanks to the new tariff money flowing into the Treas- ury. Three months after Liberation Day, the Trump administration used the funds it had
Jessica Grose An Opinion writer.
FULLY fell in love with “The Five-Star Weekend,” a show on Peacock about fe- male friendship at midlife and gorgeous Nantucket vistas, in the middle of the fi- nal episode. (Fair warning: Spoilers abound from this point on.) That’s when Hollis — the perfectionistic, repressed heroine who over the course of the series discovers her dead husband was a cheater — and her three close friends dump tubs full of his leftover protein powder in the Atlantic Ocean, backed by the dulcet tones of Natalie Mer- chant. This satisfying scene befits the somewhat on-the-nose show, but also displays Hollis’s delayed grief and even rage. Played with sensitive grace by Jennifer Garner, Hollis is a food influencer, who has built her “Hungry With Hollis” brand into a successful and lu- crative business. Her late husband, Matthew (Josh Hamilton, shown in flash- backs throughout the series), was a surgeon who never took her work seriously and clearly resented that he was no longer the center of her world. On the last day of his life, Matthew was making a protein smoothie while subtly putting down Hollis’s profession. Hollis does confront him about his belittling tone, say- ing, “I have something I’m proud of, I’m building, and you’re making me feel guilty. Admit it, it bothers you.” But ultimately she backs off and apologizes before handing him a homemade sandwich to take on his trip, which she later finds out is to meet his mis- tress in Paris. When the show returns to the present, Hollis spies the giant barrel of protein pow- der hogging valuable shelf space, and she and the three other middle-aged women take that potent symbol of gym-bro, selfish masculinity and fling it out to sea. But the final episode also made me realize what “The Five-Star Weekend” doesn’t do: humiliate its stars. The friends — Tatum (Chloë Sevigny), Dru-Ann (Regina Hall) and Brooke (D’Arcy Carden) — are given dignity and agency in a way that 40- and 50- something women in other television shows and films are not. Even Matthew’s mistress is treated sympathetically; the show could have chosen to trash her, but it does not. One of the reasons I did not love the “Sex and the City” reboot, “And Just Like That,”
raised from tariffs to convince Congress that it had a way to pay for the sweeping tax cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill. “The Con- gressional Budget Office put out a 10-year estimate that says that the tariff revenue that’s already in place right now is going to raise $2.8 trillion over the next 10 years,” noted Kevin Hassett, director of the Na- tional Economic Council. That, he said, was
was that it seemed to relish making its her- oines look foolish and made the vagaries of aging seem depressing and disgusting. The best example was in the first season, when Carrie Bradshaw is grieving her dead hus- band and recovering from hip surgery. Her best friend Miranda is supposed to be help- ing her, but gets distracted by getting drunk and cheating on her husband in Carrie’s kitchen. Carrie, who cannot get to the bath- room by herself, ends up trying to pee into an empty diet Snapple bottle and winds up wetting the bed. There were a million other ways the show could have illustrated Carrie’s predicament — she’s depressed and feeling abandoned — but it chose a maximally embarrassing one that was not even very funny. Another dramatic portrayal that seems to delight in making a woman look horrible is
market is hooked on trade taxes.
the revenge fantasy “Send Help,” which somehow manages, at least in the first third of the movie, to make the gorgeous 47-year- old Rachel McAdams really gnarly. Her character, Linda Liddle, is a frumpy and overlooked but highly competent employee at a consulting firm, and her lack of social and physical grace disgusts her co-workers. There’s one moment in particular, in which Linda is eating a tuna sandwich and it ends up on her face and hand just as her new boss walks by her desk. The caption on an Insta- gram post about this scene: “Bro was abso- lutely repulsed.” I get that this was intentional — the movie is on her side the whole time, the director Sam Raimi loves to gross people out, and Linda does destroy her haters in the end — but I was still put off by just how much de- light there was in making a middle-aged
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“deficit reduction right there.” By the end of 2025, the government had taken in a record $264 billion in net tariff revenue — more than triple the receipts from the previous year. In less than a year, America’s financial markets went from hating tariffs to being able to live with them to needing them to help cope with the country’s deficit.
about women in their 40s and 50s that makes midlife seem magical.
The latest evidence came this winter. In February, the Supreme Court struck down the president’s authority to use the Interna- tional Emergency Economic Powers Act to levy tariffs. Investors rapidly sold off bonds over worries about the cost of refunds and the end of a revenue stream. Instead of pan- icking about the introduction of tariffs, the bond market was fretting over the possibil- ity of losing them. Mr. Trump had a plan ready. Within hours, the administration introduced backup tar- iffs, and by the end of the day, the market had settled down. When those backup tariffs expire this week, the administration will step in again with new tariffs, ones the courts have consistently said that presi- dents have the authority to impose. Those could generate nearly $1 trillion over the next 10 years. Over that period, our increasingly unten- able national debt is likely to put even more fiscal pressure on future presidents. Re- gardless of who wins in 2028, the desire to avoid the wrath of the bond market may be at a high. Mr. Trump’s successor will have options. The next president could keep some tariffs while rebalancing where the revenue comes from — and they should. Mr. Trump’s recent trade strategy has been to put tariffs on everyone, whether friend or foe. What about a more targeted approach? The logical place to focus is China. Considering that it is now running the largest trade surplus in history, the case against China is stronger than at any point in the past decade. The smart move would be to cut our allies a deal. The United States could partly lower tariffs on its partners in return for their help raising tariffs on key sectors in China. Euro- pean leaders, feeling pressure from a crush- ing wave of Chinese exports on everything from cars to chemicals to steel to solar pan- els, are likely to be much more receptive to this arrangement than in years past. A coordinated approach on tariffs and trade restrictions that makes clear where a product originally came from would make a real difference in protecting jobs at home in the United States and help mitigate Presi- dent Xi Jinping’s all-but-certain retaliation. That’s how we keep substantial tariff reve- nue while creating a stable policy directed at our biggest trading rival. Of course, many companies will still choose to pay a tariff rather than uproot their entire manufacturing footprint. That’s understandable. But the tariffs those busi- nesses pay should then be used to help en- sure the next generation of advanced tech- nology is made at home. The shock waves from Mr. Trump’s deci- sions on trade will last well beyond his presi- dency. The world’s largest economy is set to be more protectionist for the foreseeable fu- ture. Financial markets have found their sil- ver lining in this new reality. If the rest of us are going to be paying the costs, we should all get something lasting in return.
woman look so completely pathetic. (And to be crystal clear, “And Just Like That” was not a good show, while “Send Help” was a great movie.) All of this brings me back to “The Five- Star Weekend.” Part of the show’s magic is the different life paths that it reveals. Tatum, Hollis’s best friend from their childhood growing up on Nantucket, is spicy and snarky but incredibly loyal. Tatum runs a dry-cleaning business on the island — a middle-class local in a sea of rich swells — and is enamored with her first grandchild. She’s dealing with a potential cancer diag- nosis, and sparring with Hollis over class is- sues. But she never lets Hollis go — she’s completely devoted to her friend and her high-school-sweetheart husband, who loves her for her sharp edges. Dru-Ann is a sports agent who has pri- oritized her career, a choice that comes un- der some scrutiny after she is soft-canceled for riding one of her clients too hard. Dru- Ann’s choices are treated as no less admira- ble than Hollis’s or Tatum’s. She does not seem particularly sad about not being mar- ried or having kids, and has a very close re- lationship with Hollis’s college-age daugh- ter, who is Dru-Ann’s goddaughter. Brooke, a stay-at-home mom with a jerk of a hus- band, realizes over the weekend depicted in the show that she is attracted to women. The show ends with her exploring a budding re- lationship with a tour guide she met on the island, and vowing to figure out a new life for herself. Of course, “The Five-Star Weekend” is still somewhat of a glossy utopia, fairly re- moved from most people’s real lives. The in- teriors of Hollis’s expensive home look plucked from a shelter magazine, and ev- erybody is dressed to the nines. Even Ta- tum, who is supposed to be the poor relation, lives in a cozy-chic wood-paneled house with ocean views. Even so, the stellar per- formances of Ms. Garner, Ms. Sevigny, Ms. Hall and Ms. Carden make the show feel re- latable even when the details aren’t always. As a woman in her 40s, I found it a relief to be pulled into this beautiful world, where middle age is treated as a positive develop- ment — even a potential turning point to- ward something more authentic. Oh, and also Timothy Olyphant plays the boyfriend who always held a candle for Hollis, and she never stopped thinking about him, either. I watched Mr. Olyphant in “Justified,” so I can definitely relate to that.
THE CONVERSATION | FRANK BRUNI AND BRET STEPHENS
Frank Bruni: Bret, our unctuous and unctu- ously coiffed defense secretary just strut- ted over to Congress and requested some- thing like five gazillion dollars so that we can win a war that President Trump re- peatedly assured us we’d already won. Please tell me that even a hawk like you doesn’t want to give Pete Hegseth that kind of blank check.
Bret Stephens: First of all, I love the word unctuous; it reminds me of Mr. Collins in “Pride and Prejudice.” When it comes to Hegseth, other words that come to mind are oleaginous, turgescent, bombastic and insufferable. Second, in terms of funding, I’d give him even more than he asked for.
Frank: You must be kidding. You’re setting up a punchline, right? Hit me with it.
Bret: Totally serious. The Iran war has exposed serious shortages in our weapon stockpiles, especially the kinds of precision munitions like Tomahawk cruise missiles and Patriot interceptor missiles that we will need in large quantities in the event of a war over Taiwan or some other emer- gency. This should actually be a bipartisan issue: Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, has also warned about these kinds of critical shortages. And we also need to invest in critical infra- structure that can protect our troops in the age of cheap drones. The Times published an alarming and highly detailed editorial series in December making these very points.
Frank: One big problem with your position is that it doesn’t take into account which government officials are getting this ti- tanic pile of money and whether they can be trusted with it. Members of the Trump administration can’t. We’ve seen that, on the military front, in ways both specific and general. Specific: Many experts be- lieve that those “Trump class” warships that he demanded are as much about his ego as about the nature of future warfare. General: We’re locked in this Iran debacle not because of our arsenal but because of our asinine leaders, whose planning was so amateurish — so frat-house — that it didn’t even take into account the possible closing of the Strait of Hormuz. Yeah, let’s shower these incompetents with tens of billions more.
Bret: The problem you’re putting your finger on is real: How can anyone trust this crew with anything? Except that in- vestments in military spending are long- term and future presidents will have to rely on some of the decisions of this one to defend us and our allies at some later date. For instance, I don’t think it should be controversial, in the era of Russian or Iranian ballistic missile salvos, for the United States to invest heavily in ballistic missile defense, or in fielding unmanned weapons at scale, or in replacing our aging fleet of B-52 and B-1 bombers with the stealthy B-21 that is already in test flights. Leaving the Trump battleships aside, which will almost certainly never be built, the public needs to understand that mili- tary affairs are undergoing a revolution and we need to master it. As for Iran, I’m hoping Trump destroys Iran’s one remaining undamaged nuclear site and, in defense of international law, forces Iran to open the strait. I’m less worried about his hawkishness than I am about his TACO tendency.
Frank: Your hope, when it comes to Trump and Iran, is impressively and poignantly durable.
Bret: You’re being very polite in not calling me certifiably deluded.
while before we have full clarity on whether and how this cyclospora outbreak could have been prevented, but there’s no doubt that Trump’s cuts — and such mad- ness as putting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of Americans’ physical well-being — are already seriously hurting Ameri- cans while leaving us vulnerable to more and worse. This administration doesn’t care much for inspections and medical expertise. Mustn’t coddle the elites and mustn’t get in the way of corporate profit. Is an America made great again one in which we interrupt our watching bombs fall with trips back and forth to the toilet? More munitions, more adult diapers: the Trump legacy, at least metaphorically.
Bret: I think that what you are saying is a bit of a myth. We were spending close to 5 percent of our gross domestic product on defense in 2010, when Barack Obama was president. Last year we spent just over 3 percent. That’s historically low. Most of the federal budget goes to programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans benefits and debt service, not defense. And in terms of cyclospora, aside from giving me a new word for everything that comes out of JD Vance’s mouth, I think it’s sorta unfair to blame any official, even Bobby Kennedy Jr., for the kind of outbreak that could happen in virtually any administration, Republican or Democratic.
Frank: I’m so glad you brought up Vance. It gives us a point of agreement, which I shall turn into a point of tension in just a bit. But first: Thank you for your recent column
the president’s sycophants with anything?
about him, in which you wrote: “The prospect of this callow and sinister oppor- tunist taking the place of the erratic buffoon now governing us may be the single scariest thought in world politics today.” I could hug you. I could kiss you. I’ll chastely stop there.
Bret: Let me go on the record right here: Even as I would gladly vote for Marco Ru- bio over nearly any Democrat, I will vote for any Democrat in 2028 over Vance.
Frank: Uh-oh. There goes the promised point of tension. I was planning — given all the chatter about her lately — to ask you if you’d vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over Vance?
Bret: Yes. At least she’s evolving in a mildly saner direction. And she’s probably now found Taiwan on the map.
Frank: Gavin Newsom? You’ve lavished many withering paragraphs on him.
Bret: Gulping hard, but yes. Newsom is bottomlessly vain, frequently wrong and slicker than an oil spill: in other words, a typical politician who, to his credit, some- times learns from his mistakes. Vance is purely opportunistic and infinitely malle- able, a Looney Tunes conspiracy theorist who gives me the creeps.
Frank: Bernie Sanders, running on a ticket with Abdul El-Sayed?
Bret: Can you suggest another veep? But as far as Bernie is concerned, a spell of social- ism, straight up no chaser, would have the silver lining of giving future generations permanent intellectual immunity against that temptation.
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Bret: Years ago, a friend of mine from high school began taking his Catholicism seri- ously; it made him a kinder, humbler, more self-aware and consistently decent person. Vance’s conversion seems to have accom- plished the exact opposite. His model for a pope isn’t Leo XIV but Pius XII. He’s all Borgia, zero Wojtyla. He is using his conver- sion as a springboard to power, not as a shield against power’s temptations.
Frank: It offends me deeply when Vance or anyone else does that — and many, many people do that. It’s such an injustice to those among us, like your high school friend, who are genuinely faithful and well intentioned. I don’t want to feel cynical about religion. The Christopher Hitchens camp never appealed to me. It doesn’t adequately take into ac- count how much good happens because of the do-gooders’ spiritual prompts.
Bret: Agree. Isaiah Berlin was right when he said that “dry atheists seem to me blind and deaf to some forms of profound human experience.”
Frank: But there’s a big chunk of the MAGA- verse for whom the pantomime of religion permits as many of the seven deadly sins as they wish to rack up. (And they’re racking like crazy these days, with greed and glut- tony getting especially vigorous workouts.) Mouth enough dogma, sprinkle your con- versation with enough references to Christ, maybe drape a cross around your neck, and all manner of cruelty and corruption is forgiven. Seems to be Hegseth’s calculation.
Bret: That’s been an issue with Republicans for a long time, and with any political move- ment that sets itself up as the camp of virtue: They oppose all vices except the ones to which they happen to be drawn. In fact, if there’s one saving grace to Trump, it’s that he never really presented himself as anyone’s idea of a saint. And he tore the mask off some of the hypocritical primness that used to define the party. Notice that I’m saying something modestly nice about Trump, who, as you rightly noted, has an ineradicable authenticity that Vance can never have.
Frank: Even Trump and Vance can’t ruin many of this country’s greatest sources of pleasure and pride. Like . . . ranch dressing! There was much written during the World Cup about foreign visitors’ infatuation with various quirks of American cuisine and culture, and in The Wall Street Journal, Ben Cohen noted their affinity for ranch dress- ing, which coincided with the Hidden Valley Ranch brand’s efforts to expand ranch’s reach. Here’s a paragraph on that, referring to Nick Higgins, the brand’s general man- ager:
Inside the Hidden Valley headquarters in Oakland, Calif., Higgins and his colleagues study all kinds of food and ask themselves a simple question: Will it ranch? The answer is yes. Of course it will ranch. Veggies, salads, pizza, wings, fries, caviar, pickles, cottage cheese, ice cream — they’re all emi- nently ranchable. And now that any- thing can be ranched, everything is getting ranched.
That’s American ingenuity, Bret!
Bret: And one more Journal story of note: As the tournament drew to a close, the paper’s Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg reported on another way visitors fell for the States, no matter their feelings about our politics:
They fell in love with the hash browns at Waffle House. They discovered the brisket sandwich of Buc-ee’s. They lamented the lack of public transporta- tion options, then marveled at Waymo. All of it was eye-opening. The scale of our shopping malls, the size of our highways and the cornucopia that is the Costco frozen-food aisle.
TO THE EDITOR: Re “Stymied on Netanyahu, Mamdani Takes to Video” (front page, July 23): New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, acknowledged in the video he released on Tues- day that he lacked the power to arrest Prime Minister Ben- jamin Netanyahu of Israel if he comes to New York. Certainly one can make strong arguments for arresting Mr. Netanyahu for war crimes. But given the mayor’s power- lessness in this regard, why should he spend his political capital polarizing his elector- ate and the national popula- tion? After all, he may be reaching out to both of them if he has ambitions for higher political office. As a Jew who is sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinian people caught in the middle of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and as a person very disappointed in the worst of what the Israeli government and its supporters do, my wish is that those in positions of national and local influence set good examples for compassion rather than create gratuitous polarizations that only exacer- bate tensions. Please, Mr. Mamdani, think
TO THE EDITOR: Re “Hire Deep Thinkers for A.I. Research? It’s a No- Brainer” (Sunday Business, July 5): We do not share the giddi- ness this article conveyed about the trend of A.I. compa- nies and related nonprofits hiring philosophers to advise on ethical issues. Certainly, philosophy can help illuminate the many ethical and political issues raised by the A.I. indus- try. But we find it extremely implausible that the deep and critical inquiry these issues demand will come from philos- ophers who are on the compa- nies’ payrolls. The most pressing ethical issues raised by the A.I. indus- try include the training of A.I. using stolen human creative and intellectual labor; the outsourcing of grave choices to unaccountable, privately owned machines; and the environmental effects of data centers that use as much energy as cities. This article mentions none of them. Ad- dressing such issues would require far-reaching democrat- ic control of the A.I. industry — something A.I. companies have furiously resisted. Instead, the philosophers profiled fixate on issues such as “A.I. welfare”: that is, ques- tions about whether humans owe moral regard to language models or similar products. One of the profiled philoso- phers sometimes closes his interactions with Claude, a language model, by typing “ilu,” short for “I love you.” It seems that the A.I. indus- try now has the philosophers it wants. It may end up being left to others to ask the truly hard questions. Either way, the world will have to live with the consequences.
JONATHAN GINGERICH GRACE HELTON
The writers are, respectively, a law professor and a philosophy professor.
TO THE EDITOR: I am surprised that “When Runners Have to Step Away” (Science Times, July 7) did not mention the most straightfor- ward alternative: fast walking. I am an 81-year-old physi- cian who in 1968 began run- ning at least two miles abso- lutely every morning (except when I had pneumonia in 1976). I was a slow runner; I never ran a marathon and had no interest in running as a group activity. For me, it was a beneficial addiction. It bene- fited both heart and brain. It also served as a mechanism for sightseeing when traveling. Five years ago and after two back surgeries, I switched from running to fast walking. I found that the walking was as fast as the running had be- come! It provides an aerobic workout, with far less muscu- loskeletal trauma. I hope to be doing it (though inevitably at a steadily decreasing speed) for some years to come.
long and hard about how you use your bully pulpit and spend your political capital.
STEVEN SEECHE CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
TO THE EDITOR: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent video discussing whether he could arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has received tens of millions of views across social media. The video is significant not only because it appears to so many to be an expression of antisemitism and anti-Zionism but also because it makes the city Mr. Mamdani now leads — the home of nearly one million Jews — less safe for Jewish people. Antisemitic incidents in the city have risen sharply since Mr. Mamdani came to power. He claimed his comments were in keeping with his re- sponsibility to the Palestinian community, but what of the Jewish community? His com- ments in this video will only fan antisemitic hatred.
SHELDON LANDESMAN, QUEENS
TO THE EDITOR: Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent the better part of a week mus- ing publicly about arresting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York if he comes here during the U.N. General Assembly session in September, then announced he lacked any basis for the action. This stunt did nothing to make the city more affordable, safer, cleaner or healthier for any New Yorker. The mayor knew when he proposed the action that he couldn’t carry it out. And it was completely at odds with his campaign prom- ise to focus on meeting the needs of those who live and work in New York City. Indeed, the strategy is al- most Trumpian in its timing — a headline-grabbing statement that diverted attention from his administration’s tepid response to the Legionnaires’ disease public health threat.
RICHARD W. MARK, NEW YORK
TO THE EDITOR: Re “Health Insurance in the Hot Seat” (Business, July 14): Health plans operate in highly competitive markets and are strictly regulated at the federal and state levels, with transparency and ac- countability requirements that are distinctive within health care. Health plans negotiate substantial savings for con- sumers and provide compre- hensive benefits, services and prescription drug coverage to improve patient outcomes. In contrast, hospital systems and provider groups have consolidated steadily over the past two decades to gain mar- ket power, thwart competition and raise prices. At the same time, brand drugmakers have exploited what are supposed to be defined periods of mar- ket exclusivity to delay compe- tition and systematically over- charge American patients. There is no evidence that arbitrarily disrupting efforts to better integrate coverage and care would make health care more affordable. Common- sense bipartisan reforms are needed to promote competi- tion in care delivery and pre- scription drugs, protect con- sumers from providers’ and drugmakers’ anticompetitive practices and transition away from the perverse incentives of fee-for-service medicine.
MIKE TUFFIN, WASHINGTON
The writer is the president and chief executive of AHIP, the na- tional trade association for the health insurance industry.
TO THE EDITOR: Re “The Exultant Revelation of Baby Bumps” (Thursday Styles, July 16): During a 10-year stretch of my 94 years, I was pregnant for 45 months. I never felt more beautiful than when I was wearing my maternity clothing. Nobody had any doubt as to what lurked be- neath. Just because a pregnant belly is undergoing a creation in progress, it doesn’t mean that everyone gets to have a front-row seat.
Molecular Biologist Won Nobel
By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN
Susumu Tonegawa, a Japanese molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1987 for figuring out how the body can produce suf- ficient antibodies to combat a mul- titude of infections, and who later advanced the understanding of how the brain works by discover- ing how memories are stored, died on July 11 at his home in San Ma- teo, Calif. He was 86. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Dr. Tonegawa was a professor, announced his death. “Few scientists have reshaped our understanding of biology as profoundly,” Myriam Heiman, the director of M.I.T.’s Picower Insti- tute for Learning and Memory, which Dr. Tonegawa founded in 1994, said in a statement. “His in- tellectual fearlessness, extraordi- nary creativity and relentless pur- suit of fundamental questions opened entirely new frontiers in both immunology and neurosci- ence.” For decades, scientists were confounded by the antibodies cre- ated in the white blood cells known as B lymphocytes. Those antibodies, which fight disease, are shaped like Y’s, with two long and two short symmetri- cal chains of proteins built from amino acids, all bound together by bridges of sulfur atoms. Most of the long proteins and some of the short ones are considered con- stants because they are the same in all antibodies. At the end of each strand are variable amino acids that allow the antibodies to bind to antigens on an array of infections, disabling them. A common analogy is that the constant amino acids are like the shaft of a key, and the variable ones are the notches that turn the lock. As with a key, each combina- tion of notches is unique. Even so, scientists were puz- zled by how the antibodies could create enough combinations to fight millions of infections. One suggestion was that it was an evolutionary adaptation, passed down from generation to generation in the genes, or what is known as the germ line. But the human body has only about 20,000 genes, so it seemed un- likely that there would be enough
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CIPOREN—William “Bill”. 1938-2026 died on July 20, 2026, beloved son of Irving and Esther Ciporen and brother of Marvin, Ellen and Fred. Devoted and adoring uncle of Erica, Kevin, Jeremy, Aman- da, Rachel, and Laura, and great-uncle of Jackson, Sofie, Theodore, Jake and Leo. He served his country in the army and aided vulnerable NY families and children while working for the HRA. He loved his family and friends, the Mirage Diner and The New Glory House. Funer- al at Plaza Jewish Communi- ty Chapel - 630 Amsterdam Ave , at 11:30am on July 26. Shiva at Marvin and Ellen's - July 26, 3:00 - 6:00pm. Donate to your favorite charity in his name.
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to create all the permutations re- quired to fight so many diseases. Another theory was that the body developed its defenses in so- matic cells — in other words, that there were a limited number of antibody genes at birth, but the body was capable of diversifying and building up its defenses over time by modifying those genes. For a long time, scientists lacked the technology to do the
body uses antibodies to fight infections.
kind of experiments that might have helped them solve the puz- zle. In 1974, while Dr. Tonegawa was working at the Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland, he decided to tackle the problem In a labor-intensive process that took months, he and an assist- ant made hybrid probes of mes- senger RNA — the single- stranded molecule that conveys the genetic information of DNA to other genes — to examine both the DNA of the cancer known as myeloma and that of the embryo tissue of mice. The probes bonded
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lyn, NY, he was the son of the late John and Mary Esposito. John was the distinguished Professor Emeritus of Reli- gion and International Affair and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. Dr. Esposito was the Founding Director of the Center for Muslim - Christian Under - standing in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at George- town, mentoring thousands of students on campus and serving on dozens of MA and Ph D. Committees. Dr. Espo- sito was a frequent guest on mainstream media, writing for and giving interviews to newspapers and magazines in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His writings have been published by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times of Lon- don and he has been inter- viewed by CNN, ABC Night- line, CBS, NBC, Al Jazeera and the BBC. He has, over his career, written over 50 books, as well as served as Editor- in-Chief of several Oxford University Press encyclope- dia projects. He was the Founding Editor of Oxford Is- lamic Studies online, which earned a perfect 10 on a scale of 1-10 from a review by Har- vard's Middle East Librarian. In recognition of his outstand- ing contributions to scholar- ship and to intellectual and public life, John was also awarded seven honorary doctorates. John's life reflect- ed the best traditions of the United States and the Ameri- can people, rooted in religi- ous freedom, freedom of speech and intellectual inqui-
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ry. Up until his untimely death, John had continued to direct a project that has never been more critical than at the present moment: The Bridge Initiative: Promoting Pluralism and Ending Isla- mophobia, which focuses on monitoring, documenting and combating Islamophobia. John Esposito is survived by his wife of 61 years, Jean Esposito, his partner and pri- mary supporter in all his en- deavors, and the enduring love of John's life. He is the caring father of his adopted son, Emilio Gonzalez; and the adored grandfather of Jenni- fer, Emily, Nathalie, and Amy; devoted brother of Richard Esposito (Lida Syrko Esposito) and the late Louis Esposito (Frances Ferguson Esposito); and beloved uncle of Donna Esposito Kimble, John, Michael, Ricky and Pe- ter Esposito. Family and friends are invited to John's Celebration of Life on Friday, July 24, from 6pm-9pm and to his Viewing on Saturday, July 25, from 9am-10am at The Donohue Funeral Home, 3300 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073, followed by his Funeral Mass at 10:30am at St. Anastasia Church, 3301 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA 19073. Interment Private. In lieu of flowers, friends and family can very significantly help to extend John's work through a contri- bution of any kind to support his lifelong efforts. Please use one of these links: Digital Donation: https://giving.georgetown. edu/cmcubridge Physical Checks (should be made to Georgetown Univer- sity's Bridge Initiative on Isla- mophobia at ACMCU): https:// acmcu georgetown. edu/uncategorized/
with complementary pieces of DNA, allowing the scientists to identify specific DNA sequences in the tissues they were analyzing With that information, they were able to graph and compare the patterns in the myeloma and em- bryo tissues. The results, which were en- tirely different, allowed them to see that antibodies were made by combining some of the variable amino acids, often in conjunction with constant amino acids, to cre ate new amino acid chains. In cre- ating some of the new chains, parts of the coding in the DNA strands had been altered; in some cases, the coding had been re- moved altogether. Antibodies, they finally under stood, could be created in a varie- ty of ways, which is vital given the number of foreign antigens the body must confront. The debate was over: The so- maticeans, as Dr Tonegawa called them, had won. In 1976, he published the first in a series of influential papers on his findings. He continued to advance his research, working with others at the Basel lab, and in 1987 be- came the first Japanese scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Physiolo- gy or Medicine, “for his discovery of the genetic principle for genera- tion of antibody diversity.” The applications of Dr. Tone- gawa’s discovery, the Nobel com- mittee noted, could include mak- ing vaccines more effective, de veloping immunological therapies and figuring out how to combat autoimmune diseases that occur when antibodies begin attacking healthy cells In 1994, as a professor at M.I.T, Dr. Tonegawa turned his attention to a new subject: neuroscience. After founding the M.I T Center for Learning and Memory (now the Picower Institute), he focused on understanding how memories are stored in the brain. Using state-of-the-art technol- ogy, he looked at a group of cells known as engrams, in the hip- pocampus — the part of the brain responsible for integrating new information into memory — and elsewhere. Dr. Tonegawa discov- ered that memories are created in the engram cells from a variety of elements, including experiences
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accepting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1987 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
and perceptions of space, time and the physical characteristics of objects. In an interview, Li-Huei Tsai, a neuroscientist who succeeded Dr Tonegawa as the director of the Center for Learning and Memory, equated the process to the way an orchestra combines multiple in struments to produce a piece of music. In testing on mice, Dr. Tone- gawa supplied engram cells with novel information, creating create new and distinct memories. Those experiments with alter- ing memory, Dr. Heiman said, may eventually be useful in treat-
ty, becoming a partner in 1984 until he retired more than 30 years later. Eric was a core member and leader of our li- tigation department. A bril- liant and truly tireless lawyer, he played a crucial role in some of our landmark cases, including IBP v. Tyson, the first case to result in specific performance of a merger, and the 9/11 insurance cases on behalf of Silverstein Properties that helped fund the rebuilding of Lower Man- hattan. Most importantly, Eric was a trusted mentor and teacher to many genera- tions of young lawyers at our firm. Eric was also commit- ted to giving back, funding the Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professorship of Law at the NYU School of Law and for decades serving on the board of Mobilization for Jus- tice, which provides legal ser- vices to disadvantaged New Yorkers. Eric was a devoted husband, father and grand- father and our hearts go out to his wife of 50 years, Laurie, his children, Ariel and Jason, and his beloved grandchild- ren to whom we extend our deepest condolences. We will miss him terribly. The funeral service will be held on Friday, July 24, 2026 at 9:45am at Beth El Synagogue Center, 1324
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ing PTSD and degenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer’s by mod- ifying or even suppressing nega- tive memories. Susumu Tonegawa was born on Sept. 5, 1939, in Nagoya, Japan, the second son of Tsutomu and Miyoko Tonegawa. His father was an engineer for a textiles com pany, and the family moved fre- quently for his job. At Kyoto University, Susumu became fascinated with molecular biology. After graduating in 1963, he spent a couple of months work- ing in the laboratory of Itaru Wa- tanabe, at the university’s Insti tute for Virus Research
North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10804. The livestream link for the funeral service is avai- lable: www.bethelnr.org/ pray/beth-el-livestream/.
ROTH—Eric. UJA-Federation of New York mourns the passing of our friend Eric Roth, beloved husband of Laurie, whose family s ongoing commit- ment to UJA and the Jewish community uplifts our critical work. We extend our heart- felt condolences to Laurie; their children Jason (Rachel) and Ariel Nelson (Brad); their grandchildren; and the entire family. Suzanne F. Peck, President; David H. Wasserman, Chair of the Board; Eric S. Goldstein, CEO
UNTERMAN—Caitlin. Caitlin, 35, of Greta, VA, passed away suddenly on June 27, 2026. She was born on August 8, 1990, in New York, NY, to Lee Unterman and Gail Trimmer Unterman. After graduating from Wil- liam Monroe High School in Stanardsville, VA, and Ran- dolph College in Lynchburg, VA, she pursued a career as a science teacher. She was also an avid horse rider and trai- ner, even owning her own business in the field. Caitlin will be remembered for her smile and laughter, her goofy and sometimes sassy perso- nality, her love and care of animals, her generosity to- wards friends, family, and students, her strong work ethic both at the school she taught and at her barn, and her desire and ability to live life to the fullest. Caitlin is sur- vived by her mother, Gail Trimmer Unterman; her brother and his partner, Mat- thew Unterman and Eli- zabeth Concra; her stepmoth- er, Julie Brown; and her uncles and aunts, William and Glenda Trimmer and Sidney and Karen Trimmer. She was
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preceded in death by her father, Lee Unterman, and her grandparents, William and Irene Trimmer and Israel and Ruth Unterman. A me- morial service and last ride will be held on Saturday, July 25, 2026 at 1:00pm at Grace Episcopal Church in Stanard- sville, VA. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Caitlin's GoFundMe account, Lynchburg Humane Society, Pittsylvania Pet Center, or Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue. Preddy Funeral Home in Madison is in charge of arrangements.
July 24, 1946 - July 16, 2026. Rima Vargas-Vetter, a mod- el, dancer, choreographer, ar- tist, and devoted arts advo- cate, died on July 16, 2026, in Paris, France, a city that had shaped so much of her life. She was 79 years old, born on July 24, 1946, in Indiana. Ri- ma's career began on the runway and the stage. In 1973, she walked for Pierre Cardin in the legendary “Battle of Versailles” fashion show, the landmark event that pitted top French couturiers against a group of young American designers and helped launch a new era for American fash- ion on the world stage. That
At Dr. Watanabe’s suggestion, he left to study at the University of California San Diego, which had a new doctoral program in molecu- lar biology. He earned his Ph.D. in 1968 and then did postdoctoral work at the nearby Salk Institute for Biological Studies, in the lab- oratory of Renato Dulbecco, a fu- ture Nobel laureate in medicine. In 1971, Dr. Tonegawa went to work at the Basel Institute for Im- munology. He was recruited to M.I.T. in 1981 by Salvador E. Luria, who had shared the Nobel in 1969 for his work on viruses. Dr. Tonegawa’s first marriage, to Kyoko Sakita, ended in divorce. He married Mayumi Yoshinari in 1985. She survives him, along with two children, Hidde and Hanna. A third child, Satto, died in 2011. At a conference of Nobel win- ners in Tokyo in 2017, Dr. Tone- gawa was asked to define creativ- ity. “I don’t feel I am a very cre- ative scientist. I wish I could be more creative,” he replied, to laughter. “But if you force me to think about it,” he added, “I can come up with three simple concepts. One is you have to be very curious about something. No 2, you have to have an unfailing urge to address the question you have. No. 3, I think it helps to try to combine knowledge in at least two different fields where people don’t neces- sarily interact.
same decade, her work took her to Paris, where she danced for choreographer Peter Goss, danced with the legendary Josephine Baker in Monaco, and collaborated with the Carpentiers on pro- gramming for the fledgling French television network Channel 2, helping bring dance to a new medium and a new audience during its earliest years. She went on to dance in the first national tour of Dancin', Bob Fosse's landmark Broadway musical, and appeared as “Rima” in Fosse's 1979 film All That Jazz. She was also seen on screen in Francis Ford Cop- pola's 1984 film The Cotton Club. Rima later returned to the classroom, earning a bachelor's degree with ho- nors from the New School in 1992, with a double major in Art History and Sculpture - a testament to her enduring curiosity and drive to keep growing. After graduating, she turned her attention to painting, creating many watercolor canvases over the years that followed. She went on to serve for many years as a trustee of the New York Youth Symphony and as board chair of Elisa Monte Dance, guiding the company through its transformation into Emerge125, the Harlem- based dance company it is known as today, channeling her lifelong devotion to the arts into mentorship and sup- port for others. Above all, Rima was known for her ge- nerosity of spirit to those who loved her. She will be remem- bered for her creativity, her elegance, and the full, vibrant life she built across stages, screens, and continents. She is survived by her husband and partner of 46 years, Paul Ukena, and by numerous lov- ing cousins, nephews, and nieces.
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Oil Prices Will Fall, Despite War
By JOE RENNISON
The immediate outlook for oil prices is increasingly bleak. President Trump pledged to at- tack bridges and power plants in response to Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian- backed Houthi militia in Yemen has declared a blockade of the Red Sea to prevent Saudi Arabian oil exports. Domestic oil reserves have fallen to their lowest levels since the early 1980s. In response, international oil prices touched $100 per barrel early Thursday. Yet investors appear sanguine about the path ahead. They have continued to bet that, in the end, the current escalation in the war with Iran will be short-lived and that oil prices, which have jumped in recent weeks, will fall in the coming months. Oil trading largely takes place in the futures market, where prices to buy or sell the commod- ity at a future date are fixed. The most often cited oil prices are those that are closest to the present day, reflecting traders’ immediate concerns for the mar- ket.
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By ANA SWANSON
WASHINGTON — The Trump ad- ministration will impose tariffs of around 10 percent on goods from more than 80 countries on Friday, its latest effort to put in place an expansive protectionist policy that has been repeatedly chal- lenged in court. The tariffs will range from 10 percent to 12.5 percent and take effect at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, re- placing a global 10 percent duty set to lapse at the same time. Mr. Trump issued that earlier tariff in February, after the Supreme Court struck down duties he im- posed last year. The move provides fresh evi- dence of Mr. Trump’s intention to transform global trade, despite numerous court challenges and the protests of U.S. consumers and businesses that have been stuck with higher tax bills. Over the past 17 months, the Trump administration has cycled through trade law after trade law as it tries to build a system to shield the U.S. economy from for-
Apple Maps To Its E.V.s
By JACK EWING
Ford Motor said Thursday that driver-assistance systems in its new electric vehicles would use Apple Maps software, giving the technology company a much more central place in vehicle oper- ations than it has ever had. Apple CarPlay, available in many cars, allows drivers to con- nect their vehicle screens to their iPhones, letting them use apps like Apple Maps or Siri. But the agreement with Ford goes further by allowing Apple software to play a role in how cars and trucks navigate when they are operating autonomously. In another first, Apple and Ford engineers are working together to improve self-driving abilities of cars that will arrive in dealer showrooms next year. Previously, Apple and carmakers tended to work separately. The Apple soft- ware will reside in the vehicle, meaning that owners will not need an iPhone to use it. The autonomous driving sys-
ECONOMY Jobless Claims Fall Back To Lowest Level Since ’69
The number of Americans seek- ing unemployment benefits for the first time unexpectedly fell last week to the lowest level since September 1969, indicating the U.S. job market continues on an even keel and leaving Federal Re- serve officials to keep their focus on containing inflation. Initial claims for state jobless benefits dropped by 22,000 — the largest decline in three months —
AVIATION American Cuts Forecast, Faulting Jet Fuel Costs
American Airlines lowered its 2026 earnings forecast on Thurs- day, warning that a renewed surge in jet fuel costs could leave it around break-even this year de- spite record revenue, higher fares and resilient travel demand. The combined fuel expenses at Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, American, Southwest Airlines and Alaska Air were nearly $8 billion higher than the year-earlier peri- od, compared with an increase of about $1.2 billion from this year’s first quarter from the same time frame a year earlier, according to a Reuters calculation. American now expects full-year adjusted results to range from a
RETAIL Facing Strapped Shoppers, Albertsons Trims Outlook
Albertsons shares slumped as much as 24.5 percent on Thurs- day, on pace for their worst day, af- ter the grocer cut its annual core sales and profit forecasts while ac- celerating investments in prices to better compete for strapped shoppers. Higher gas and food prices have forced U.S. households to become more selective in their spending and shop more at mass retailers
to a seasonally adjusted 187,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The unemployment rate dipped unexpectedly in June to a one- year low of 4.2 percent, although that was more the result of a de- cline in the work force than a boom in hiring. Economists noted the drop was partly due to seasonal quirks as- sociated with the annual summer- time temporary shutdowns of auto plants to retool for produc- tion of next year’s models, and new claims could well snap back next week. REUTERS
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loss of 65 cents per share to a prof- it of 65 cents, with break-even at the midpoint. Its previous forecast ranged from a loss of 40 cents to a profit of $1.10. Analysts on average ex- pected a profit of 65 cents per share, according to LSEG data. REUTERS
such as Walmart and private-label and discount grocers, including Aldi, hurting sales at Albertsons and peers. “Core grocery faced increasing pressure from softer industry unit trends and a more cautious con- sumer,” Albertsons’ chief execu- tive, Susan Morris, said in a state- ment. The “biggest leakage” of lower- income customers was to big pure-price players such as Wal- mart and Amazon, Ms. Morris said in a post-earnings call, point- ing to rivals also investing more to keep prices low. REUTERS
Tesla, Alphabet and Rising Oil Prices Weigh on Wall Street
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Brent oil shot to its highest price since May after increased fighting in the Middle East on Thursday threatened to slow the global flow of crude. At the same time, sharp drops for two of Wall Street’s most influential companies, Alphabet and Tesla, yanked the U.S. stock market to its worst loss in a month. The S&P 500 fell 1.2 percent and is on track for its first back-to- back weekly loss since March. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 506 points, or 1 percent, and the Nasdaq composite sank 2.2 percent. Stocks fell under the pressure of rising oil prices, which raise costs for businesses and erode their customers’ ability to spend. The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil, the international standard, jumped 7 percent to settle at $100.69. It touched $102 during the day, the highest price since May for the most actively traded Brent con- tract in the market. The cause: at- tacks on two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea. That threatens an- other avenue that oil companies use to move their crude from the Middle East to customers world- wide, along with the Strait of Hor- muz. Underscoring the importance of the sea route for the economy, President Trump threatened “ma- jor military punishment” against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are backed by Iran, if they keep at- tacking ships. It was just a few weeks ago that Brent had dropped below $72 per barrel, roughly back to where it was before the United States and Israel attacked Iran to begin their war, on hopes that a wind-down in the war would fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The jumps in oil prices will worsen inflation, just when it had begun to decelerate by more than economists expected. That in turn could push the Federal Reserve and other central banks to raise interest rates, which would slow economies and undercut prices
for stocks and other investments. The European Central Bank held its main interest rates steady at its meeting Thursday. But traders are betting on a 36 percent chance the Fed will raise the fed- eral funds rate at its meeting next week. That’s up from the nearly 12 percent probability seen a week ago, according to data from CME Group. An increase by the Fed would be the first since 2023. Higher oil prices pushed the yield of the 10-year Treasury up to 4.70 percent from 4.67 percent late Wednesday and from just 3.97 percent before the war with Iran began. That’s a significant in- crease, and it’s already brought long-term U.S. mortgage rates to their highest levels in nearly a year. Gasoline prices tend to follow oil prices higher, and a gallon of regular costs an average of $4.09 across the United States, accord- ing to AAA. That’s still below highs of roughly $4.56 in May, but it was at just $3.93 a month ago. On Wall Street, stocks of compa- nies with big fuel bills fell to sharp losses on worries about higher ex- penses. American Airlines fell 8.4 per- cent even though it reported a much bigger profit for the spring
than analysts expected. Southwest Airlines lost 6.2 per- cent, even though it also reported better profit and revenue than an- alysts expected. One of the heaviest weights on the U.S. stock market was Tesla, which tumbled 14.5 percent after the company reported a weaker profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Because it’s one of the largest stocks in the S&P 500 by market value, its stock has more influence on the index than nearly every other. One of the few that’s larger is Al- phabet, and its stock fell 7.1 per- cent even though the parent com- pany of Google delivered stronger profit and revenue than analysts expected. Investors focused instead on how much Alphabet is planning to spend on artificial-intelligence in- vestments. Alphabet raised its forecast for capital spending over the full year after its investments last quarter doubled to nearly $45 billion from a year earlier. Sundar Pichai, the chief execu- tive, said A.I. helped its cloud rev- enue growth accelerate to 82 per- cent last quarter, but unease nev- ertheless remains about whether all the money going into A.I. will pay off in terms of productivity and profits.
Highest Level In 2 Months: $100 a Barrel
The recent rebound reflects traders’ growing concern about the war.
By REBECCA F. ELLIOTT
Global oil prices hit $100 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since May as the widening war be- tween the United States and Iran stifled the flow of energy in the Middle East. The price rebound in Brent crude oil over the past few weeks reflects the market’s growing con- cern about the expanding conflict, which now extends from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea. Both arteries are vital to the global en- ergy trade. The Houthi threat to prevent ships from traveling to and from Saudi Arabian ports on the Red Sea has complicated travel in an area that was serving as an alter- native to the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran and the United States are jousting for control. The Houthis, an Iran-backed group in Yemen, claimed on Wednesday that they had tar- geted two Saudi oil tankers with missiles and drones. If the Houthis manage to block Saudi Arabia from using the Red Sea, they would be cutting off about 4 percent of the world’s oil supply and leaving Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s biggest producers, with very little access to global markets. “The conflict has entered a de- cidedly more dangerous phase,” analysts from RBC Capital Mar- kets wrote on Wednesday. Even though oil prices have risen a lot in recent weeks, “we still see them as a lagging indicator of the ex- treme pressure building in the re-
The increase in Brent oil prices since the war started. U.S. oil prices are on a similar trajectory.
The U.S. national average cost of a gallon of regular gas as of Thursday, according to AAA.
gion,” they added, forecasting that a “full regional war” could send prices toward $150 a barrel. Brent oil prices are now nearly 40 percent higher than on the eve of the war. (U.S. oil prices, at around $91 a barrel, are on a simi- lar trajectory.) More expensive oil will push prices at the pump around the world even higher, un- welcome news for drivers already faced with stubbornly high gaso- line and diesel prices. The cost of those transportation fuels remained elevated even as oil prices eased in June, briefly falling below prewar levels. More oil was flowing through the Strait of Hormuz at that time, but fewer refineries were available to turn that crude into the fuels that power cars and airplanes. That is partly because of the war with Iran, but also because Ukraine has inflicted significant damage on Russian refineries — so much so that Russia banned diesel exports in early July to pre- serve domestic supplies. A gallon of regular gasoline in the United States cost 37 percent more on Thursday than it did pre- war, at a national average of $4.09 per gallon, according to the AAA motor club. Diesel prices were 39 percent higher than they were when U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran started in February. The refineries that remain open are reaping huge rewards. In the United States, profit margins on turning oil into gasoline and diesel are near multiyear highs, accord- ing to data from commodities re- search firm Argus Media. The threats to shipping in the Red Sea, paired with continued fighting between the United States and Iran around the Persian Gulf, are stoking concern about the outlook for oil supply, Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, said this week. “A resolution to the ongoing conflict that includes a full and un- conditional reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will be essential to avoid a further deterioration in global energy security,” Mr. Birol said.
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The current futures contract for Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, has risen almost 40 percent this month, hitting $100 per barrel. That is a huge move that has reversed much of the de- cline in prices that followed the initial war-induced spike in March. But peering further out at the expected price of Brent for the rest of the year reveals a more muted reaction to the current hos- tilities. The expected price in De- cember has less than 20 percent over the same period, to around $86 per barrel. That is including a sharp rise on Thursday when the current fu- tures contract rose over 6 percent in response to further escalation between the United States and Iran. The price for December moved just 2.4 percent higher. Investors and analysts said the difference between current mar- ket prices and those later in the year reflected an expectation that the current bout of fighting — and therefore the blockade of oil leav- ing the region — would not last. “I think there is an assumption that one if not both sides really
eign competition. The duties will be issued under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows the president to impose tariffs on countries that engage in unreasonable or dis- criminatory trade practices. The administration has cited the fail- ure of foreign countries to pass or enforce laws banning the importa- tion of goods made by forced labor into their own countries, saying that disadvantages U.S. busi- nesses that do follow such laws. Canada, which will be subject to a 10 percent tariff under the ar- rangement, already prohibits im- porting forced labor goods. The European Union, also at 10 per- cent, has a ban that is scheduled to take effect in December 2027. But Trump officials say that the gov- ernments have not effectively en- forced those laws. The United States has arguably the strongest restrictions on forced labor imports of any coun- try. It has prohibited the importa- tion of goods made with slave la- bor for nearly a century, though it still allows prison labor under con- ditions that labor organizations consider coercive. In 2021, the United States passed a law ban- ning imports from a region of China where it had found forced labor to be rampant. The Trump administration also pushed Canada and Mexico to adopt a prohibition on imports made by forced labor as part of prior trade negotiations, and 10 other countries have committed to bans as part of trade deals ne- gotiated over the past year, a sen- ior administration official said. But critics say the United States, too, has shortfalls on its la- bor protections. And some say that the administration has seized on forced labor as merely the most convenient way to reimpose tar- iffs struck down by the Supreme Court. Peter Harrell, a visiting scholar at Georgetown Law School and a former Biden administration offi- cial, said that the small differen- tial in tariffs between Canada and the European Union on one hand and China on the other “just brings home that USTR is using this forced labor investigation as a pretext to impose tariffs that Trump wants to impose for his own economic theories and pref- erences.” “It’s not really about forced la- bor,” he added. While Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, and other U.S. officials have publicly said they cannot prejudge the outcome of the trade investigations, admin- istration officials have privately reassured multiple foreign gov- ernments that their tariff rates will end up being the same as in deals negotiated last year, people familiar with the discussions said. “Trump’s next trade scheme is ordering USTR to reconstruct his illegal global tariffs under the guise of addressing forced labor,” Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, said in a Congressional hearing Wednesday. “If the ad- ministration wants to get serious about forced labor, the first step is to look at its own enforcement record.” The new tariffs will exempt oil and gas and certain national re- sources, as well as goods already covered under the United States- Mexico-Canada Agreement, or national security-related tariffs Mr. Trump has imposed on cars, steel and other goods. More duties are likely to be on the way in the coming weeks. The
don’t want this to go hyperbolic if they can avoid it,” said Stuart Kai- ser, head of equity trading strat- egy at Citi. Even current oil prices have ris- en this month by a little over half of what they did when the war
elections may lead to easing tensions.
started at the end of February. At that time, they jumped over 60 percent, peaking at the end of March. Analysts and investors be- lieve that low oil inventories and the midterm elections are likely to push the Trump administration to try to ease tensions, as it did in April. If investors start to perceive that the war has spiraled and can- not be de-escalated, however, oil futures contracts are likely to in- crease sharply again. For now, the fact that longer- dated oil prices remain more muted has helped stock investors
Trucks waiting to enter the United States via Port Huron, Mich., from Ontario on Monday. President Trump imposed new tariffs on Canadian imports this week.
administration has proposed an- other batch of tariffs, also using Section 301, on 15 countries and the European Union to offset what the White House calls unfair prac- tices in their manufacturing sec- tors. An administration official said Thursday that an investiga- tion was continuing. Mr. Trump has long maintained that U.S. tariffs on imports were unfairly low, and he came into of- fice wanting to transform that sys- tem. But his efforts have been met with plenty of stops, starts and setbacks, reflecting the fact that a president’s legal authority over tariff policy is in some ways lim- ited. The Constitution gives Con- gress the power to regulate trade, but legislators have written nu- merous laws that allow the presi- dent to issue tariffs in certain cir- cumstances. But typically, those laws are designed to help the pres- ident address unfair trade prac- tices in certain countries or indus- tries, not to replace the U.S. tariff system wholesale. Mr. Harrell said that Mr. Trump’s use of Section 301 was much broader than the statute in- tended, and that it likely would be challenged in court. While Section 301 was supposed to be used to create leverage to push a country to address an unfair trade prac- tice, he said, “Trump is rein- terpreting the statute to try to im- pose perpetual tariffs on almost all imports.” “They are showing that on tar- iffs, they can kind of run faster than the courts will, and they’re going to force the courts to keep playing catch up,” he added. The Supreme Court invalidated Mr. Trump’s preferred legal tool in February, when it said his use of an international emergency law to impose tariffs was unlawful and ordered roughly $160 billion in tar- iff revenue to be refunded. Mr. Trump had used the emergency law to announce his “Liberation Day” tariffs on foreign countries last year, and to penalize Canada, Mexico and China for their real or alleged role in channeling fen- tanyl to the United States. After the Supreme Court deci- sion, Mr. Trump turned to Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 as a
An oil pump jack and drilling rig in Texas. More muted longer-dated oil prices have helped investors stay optimistic.
remain sanguine, too. They have continued to focus attention on the more positive trends in the mar- ket, such as a fresh round of quar- terly financial results showing continued strong growth from publicly listed companies, partic- ularly those related to the build- out of artificial intelligence. “At the end of the day, the only
stopgap, a law which had never been used to impose tariffs before. Section 122 allows a president to impose a tariff to address balance of payments issues, but it has a 150-day time limit that is set to ex- pire early Friday. Mr. Trump’s use of Section 122 has also faced legal challenges. A group of small businesses and a coalition of states each sued the administration, claiming that the government did not satisfy the law’s strict criteria. In May, a ma- jority of judges on a federal trade court agreed, handing down the second major tariff defeat against Mr. Trump. The administration appealed the decision, and the courts have allowed the government to contin- ue collecting the 10 percent tax on
thing that will truly matter to in- vestors is how earnings results unfold,” said JJ Kinahan, head of retail expansion and alternative investment products at Cboe Global Markets. The S&P 500 has risen roughly 8 percent since the war started, recouping its initial losses in March and rising to a record high.
imports as the appeal progresses. The provision that the adminis- tration is turning to next, Section 301, is more battle tested. Mr. Trump used it to impose tariffs on China in his first term, and his use of it has survived multiple chal- lenges in court. But it has never before been used in such a sweep- ing way, to issue tariffs on dozens of countries simultaneously. The administration also turned to another obscure trade law earli- er this week, when Mr. Trump signed orders to impose a 50 per- cent tariff on billions of dollars of Canadian exports. The law, the Tariff Act of 1930, also known as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, was written by Congress to shield American businesses during the onset of the Great Depression,
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Even as worries around the war with Iran re-intensified in recent weeks, some investors said they noticed that many were averse to selling their stocks for fear of missing out on potential gains. “Greed is a powerful force in the stock market,” said Michael Purves, the founder of Tallbacken Capital.
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though many historians believe it actually deepened the crisis. The Section 338 provision of the act that the administration used had never been used to impose tariffs. Testifying in Congress on Wednesday, Mr. Greer said that the administration remained in- tent on imposing tariffs, regard- less of the legal approach. “The specific authorities this administration is using have changed, but the trade strategy has not,” Mr. Greer said. “We are committed to continuing to use tariffs and to negotiate deals to support the re-industrialization of our economy, protect American workers and increase their wages and shrink our trade deficit.”
Tony Romm contributed reporting.
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A.I. It introduced AI Mode, which replaces search results of hyper- links with conversational re- sponses written by Gemini, its A.I. chatbot. Most recently, Google changed its iconic search box for the first time in 25 years so that people could add photos and vid- eos to their queries and assign A.I. “agents” to run searches for them. The effect of these moves is be- coming clear: People are spend- ing more time with Google than ever. Users are writing queries three times as long as the keyword- heavy questions they asked of tra- ditional searches, Google said at its developer conference in May. People are spending one to nine more minutes in AI Mode than on traditional Google searches, ac- cording to three studies from re- searchers tallied by The New York Times. One October study from Growth Memo, a newsletter fo- cused on search and marketing, found that in about 75 percent of sessions, users never left AI Mode for the web. For publishers, businesses, banks and others that relied on Google to funnel its billions of us- ers to their websites, the impact has been unmistakable as the company has increasingly incor-
of sessions, users never left AI Mode.
porated A.I. into search. Google’s users are no longer leaving Google after a search and are just reading its A.I.-generated an- swers, they said, which means fewer people are coming to their websites and search traffic has dropped. Nilay Patel, the editor in chief of the technology website The Verge, has warned publishers for years that they would face “Google Zero,” a moment when traffic from Google would plum- met to nothing. “For publishers, Google Zero is already here,” he said. “It wasn’t until AI Mode arrived that people could see that the slow creep was about to hit a tipping point.” The changes threaten the open web and show how rapidly A.I. has upended the technology land- scape. Tim Berners-Lee, the com- puter scientist credited with in- venting the World Wide Web in 1989, had envisioned the web as a tool for global collaboration with- out borders, where people could launch their own websites and flit freely among sites created by oth- ers. Much of that vision has been chipped away over the years, as tech behemoths like Apple and Meta created “walled gardens,” or tech ecosystems where users could get almost everything they needed under one roof. Now A.I. has indisputably accelerated that trajectory, Mr. Berners-Lee said in
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a 2024 essay. Tech companies have built em- pires that locked users in and were focused on maximizing prof- it instead of enhancing public util- ity, Mr. Berners-Lee wrote. “The rapid advancement of A.I. has ex- acerbated these concerns,” he added, “proving that issues on the web are not isolated but rather deeply intertwined with emerging technologies.” Google has denied that it is en- dangering the open web. In a blog post last August, Liz Reid, a vice president of search, said that the company’s ethos had not changed and that it was sending out a “rela- tively stable” number of clicks numbering in the billions. Reports of a decline in search traffic were “inaccurate” and relied on “flawed methodologies,” she said. “We care passionately — per- haps more than any other com- pany — about the health of the web ecosystem,” Ms. Reid said. Since publishing that blog post, Google has added more A.I. to search. It also created some fea- tures intended to push users out of AI Mode and into the broader web, including previews of web- sites to some responses and a tool that lets people set “preferred sources” so that A.I. refers to their favorite news outlets more fre- quently. The company also creat- ed a profile that helps publishers and creators promote their work in search. “Google’s AI Search features send billions of clicks to the web every week, meeting people’s evolving preferences for how they want to find information while driving significant traffic to web- sites,” a Google spokesman said in a statement, adding that the com- pany’s A.I. features highlight links to the web. He said the study that found that users stayed in AI Mode 75 percent of the time was flawed be- cause it relied on a small sample size and gave users specific tasks that did not reflect normal user behavior. Even so, searches are increas- ingly being performed by A.I. chatbots while the number of peo- ple visiting websites is falling, ac- cording to Cloudflare, a content delivery network company. While someone might once have Googled a soccer player’s World Cup performance and clicked to a sports site or a social media thread for commentary, a bot now crawls the web for that informa- tion and returns the player’s sta- tistics to the user, who stays on Google. In total, more than 50 percent of web traffic is now nonhuman, Cloudflare said. Between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to websites of businesses in indus- tries like finance, publishing and retail dropped nearly 40 percent, it added. The web’s fundamental eco- nomic model has changed, Cloud- flare said, and chatbot-style search tools like Google’s could put the open web in peril if left un- checked. Google’s A.I., along with other popular chatbots, have hit Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foun- dation said it had experienced an 8 percent decline in human vis- itors to its site over the past year. At the same time, it has seen an in- crease in bots scraping its site for data to train A.I. models. “My work is to ensure that peo- ple don’t forget about us because Google’s user interface changed,” said Selena Deckelmann, the Wikimedia Foundation’s chief product and technology officer. Wikipedia has started promot- ing its own app and social media channels to establish connections with readers outside Google’s ecosystem, she said. It also began charging Google and other A.I. firms for access to its data for training. Last month, Britain’s Competi- tion and Markets Authority man- dated that Google change its A.I. search tools in the United King- dom to address publishers’ con- cerns. The regulator said Google must include clear links to at- tribute content in chatbot re- sponses, a move intended to help send traffic to websites. The com- pany is also required to allow web- site operators to opt out of having their content appear in A.I. sum- maries, and is making the changes across search globally. For some open web proponents, the fact that people can leave Google’s ecosystem remains enough. That’s little comfort to some website operators. In May, Vox Media, which owns The Verge, began selling some of its sites. Jim Bankoff, Vox Media’s chief executive, said the “decima- tion of search traffic” had influ- enced his decision. Google has often said it was “sending out more traffic and the web is bigger than ever,” Mr. Patel said. “And then right next to that is a bunch of publishers whose busi- nesses are getting destroyed.”
A Times Square ad for Google, which reported its financial results Wednesday. Its parent company, Alphabet, said investments in A.I. were paying off.
By KATE CONGER
SAN FRANCISCO — Alphabet, Google’s parent company, said on Wednesday that its investments in artificial intelligence were pay- ing off and driving growth across its businesses, amid broader questions about whether tech companies’ enormous spending on the powerful technology can be justified. The Silicon Valley giant, which has shelled out billions to develop cutting-edge A.I. models and to build data centers that provide the computing power for the technol- ogy, said revenue for the three months that ended in June totaled $119.8 billion, up 24 percent from a year earlier. In particular, Google’s cloud business, which lets companies rent computing power and A.I. tools, surged 82 percent to $24.8 billion. Profit rose to $112.1 billion, quadrupling from $28.2 billion a year earlier, boosted by major in- vestments that Google has made in recent years in other A.I.-relat- ed companies like SpaceX and An- thropic. Gains tied to those invest- ments were valued at about $99 billion, Google said, and contribut- ed $77 billion to overall profit, es- pecially with SpaceX going public in June. Google also said it would spend more than it previously predicted to build data centers and other technologies for A.I. develop- ment. It estimated that spending would hit $195 billion to $205 bil-
For Search Engine Practices
By ADAM SATARIANO and JEANNA SMIALEK
LONDON — In a decision likely to intensify trans-Atlantic trade ten- sions, European Union regulators on Thursday hit Google with a $1 billion fine for illegally undercut- ting competition through its domi- nance as a search engine. President Trump has threat- ened to retaliate against the Euro- pean Union for what he views as the unfair targeting of American technology companies. The Google decision comes when he is weighing a new batch of tariffs on the European Union and other major trading partners. In explaining Thursday’s fine of 890 million euros, regulators in Brussels said Google had used its position as the world’s largest search engine to unfairly boost its services in areas like shopping, travel, games and language trans- lation. Google displayed its own services more prominently at the top of search results, while rele- gating competing services lower, according to regulators. The European Commission, which conducted the investiga- tion, also concluded that the tech giant used unfair restrictions on its Google Play app store that pre- vent app developers from commu- nicating with users, or conducting transactions that could reduce the fees Google can collect. The commission, the executive arm of the European Union, said Google violated the Digital Mar- kets Act, known as the D.M.A., a law passed in 2022 to stop the larg- est tech platforms from using their interlocking services to box in users and squeeze out rivals. Authorities have argued the big- gest tech companies have become so dominant in areas like internet search, smartphones, e-com- merce and social media that they serve as gatekeepers and deter-
lion this year, more than double the $85 billion last year and up from an earlier projection of $190 billion. “Our A.I. investments are rede- fining what’s possible across ev- ery part of our business,” Sundar Pichai, Alphabet’s chief executive, said in a statement. The results exceeded Wall Street’s projections of $116.5 bil- lion in revenue and profit of $35 billion. Google has been racing to lead in A.I. as the technology trans- forms jobs, workplaces and the company’s own internet search business. To compete with rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic, Google said in June that it was raising $80 billion to fund its data center projects by selling its stock, before raising its overall spending forecast on Wednesday. Some have questioned whether such spending is excessive. Last week, stock markets fell because of concerns about increasing A.I. competition from China after a Chinese start-up, Moonshot AI, released an A.I. technology that was nearly as powerful as the leading American model, Claude Fable 5 from Anthropic. So far, A.I. has been a boon to Google’s business. The company has melded A.I. into search, with its Gemini chatbot generating an- swers and users assigning A.I. “agents,” or bots, to run contin- uous searches on their behalf. Ad- vertisers on YouTube have new A.I. tools, and viewers have A.I.-
mine the fate of other businesses and can harm competition. “The best products should suc- ceed because they’re better, not because they’re owned by the company running the search en- gine,” Teresa Ribera, the execu- tive vice president of the Euro- pean Commission overseeing competition policy, said in a state- ment on Thursday. “This is the promise of the D.M.A., protecting fairness, choice and innovation in digital markets for the benefit of all European citizens.” Google has 60 days to comply with the decision, including in- creasing the prominence of rival online services, or risks further penalties of up to 5 percent of its worldwide revenue. The company has been a fre- quent target of European Union regulators over the past decade, having been fined more than €10 billion since 2017. Kent Walker, Google’s general counsel, said Thursday’s decision would re- quire product design changes that will harm services for European users. “This isn’t fair competition; it’s product degradation,” he said. “Regulation should improve prod- ucts, not make them worse.” The fine is small in comparison with Google’s overall business. On Wednesday, Google’s parent com- pany, Alphabet, reported a quar- terly profit of $112.1 billion, boosted by investments made in SpaceX and Anthropic. Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, criticized the E.U. decision, calling it “the latest in an increasingly aggressive approach targeting U.S. technology firms.” The actions, he said, risk the “con- tinuation of trans-Atlantic stabil- ity with respect to trade.” On Friday, the White House is expected to announce new tariffs on trade with the European Union
curated video recommendations. And companies are clamoring to use Google’s cloud computing services to run their A.I. projects. Google is “one of the best posi- tioned A.I. companies around,” said Brian Nowak, an analyst at Morgan Stanley. Demand for Google’s A.I. serv- ices has become so intense that the company cannot keep up. Google said its cloud business had a backlog of potential contracts to- taling $514 billion, up from $106
Gains Google said are tied to A.I.-related investments.
billion a year ago. Over half of that backlog will be worked through over the next two years, said Anat Ashkenazi, Google’s chief finan- cial officer. Revenue for Google’s advertis- ing business rose 14.4 percent to $81.6 billion in the quarter as us- ers flocked to YouTube and search. In May, the company expanded its A.I. offerings in search, over- hauling its iconic search bar for the first time in 25 years with new A.I. tools and adding the ability for people to assign continuous searches to A.I. agents that can act autonomously to function like digital personal assistants. The in- fusion of A.I. has attracted users, the company said, with its AI
Regulators said Google unfairly boosted its services with display tactics.
and other countries. A European Union official said that the fine was announced on Thursday because it was ready — without an eye on American trade developments — and that it would not come as a surprise to the Trump administration. Since the earliest days return- ing to the White House, Mr. Trump has warned it would take “respon- sive actions” against regulation of American tech firms. Last month, Mr. Trump threat- ened tariffs against countries for digital services taxes against American firms. In December, the Office of the U.S. Trade Represent- ative said European companies including the Swedish music serv- ice Spotify, the German industrial giant Siemens and the French ar- tificial intelligence developer Mis- tral could be targeted with fees or new restrictions. American regulators have also targeted Google. Last year, the company was ordered to share search results and some data with rival companies as part of a land- mark monopoly case that has some similarities to Thursday’s ruling in Brussels. The European Union has long been the world’s most aggressive regulator of the tech industry in
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Mode chatbot-style search fea- ture reaching one billion monthly active users. Google’s subscription business, which includes users who pay for YouTube services and those who pay to use Google’s A.I., rose 15 percent to $12.9 billion. Gemini, the company’s flagship A.I. app, hit 950 million monthly active us- ers, and daily users tripled over the last year, Google said. The World Cup soccer tourna- ment also aided search and YouTube, the company said, with search getting its highest-ever use during the event and 1.7 billion people watching World Cup-relat- ed clips on YouTube. “This really highlights how much people turn to Google in moments that mat- ter,” Mr. Pichai said. On Tuesday, Google unveiled three A.I. models, which are in- tended to work more effectively and at a lower cost than previous versions. The company’s flagship model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, was set to be released in June but has not been made available. Mr. Pichai said that the Pro model remained in testing and that the company was also testing an additional model, Gemini 4. He acknowledged that Google’s models had lagged those of rivals, particularly on coding tasks, but said he expected Gemini 4 would help the company compete. “There are many attributes at which we are still at the frontier,” Mr. Pichai said.
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areas like data privacy, competi- tion and harmful online content. Even as leaders in the region have taken steps to ease rules for artifi- cial intelligence and other tech- nology to boost economic growth, the bloc has pushed forward with investigations and penalties of some of the industry’s biggest companies. Google was ordered this month by European Union regulators to lift restrictions that limit how rival A.I. companies can reach users of Android smartphones. Meta was told this month to make major de- sign changes to Instagram and Facebook to make the services less addictive. European regulators have also targeted Chinese companies. Ali- baba’s AliExpress was fined the equivalent of $629 million last week for the sale of illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products on its platform. In February, TikTok, owned by ByteDance, was told to make changes to make its service less addictive. The European Union is also considering a law to bar young people from social media.
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tem that controls how a car steers, brakes and responds to traffic conditions is being designed by Ford. But the system will use Ap- ple software to understand the lo- cation of interchanges, on- and of- framps and other highway fea- tures, and to navigate from one place to another. Current Ford ve- hicles have their own navigation system. “Apple Maps will be embedded in the vehicle, so you don’t have to pay anything extra,” Jim Farley, Ford’s chief executive, said in an interview. “This is one of the most important announcements for Ford,” he added. Many carmakers have been re- luctant to work too closely with technology companies like Apple and Google, fearful of giving up revenue and relationships with customers to companies with far greater financial resources. Ap- ple’s $4.8 trillion stock market val- uation dwarfs Ford’s valuation of $58 billion. Many newer car companies like Tesla and Rivian never allowed their customers to use CarPlay or Android Auto, the Google equiva- lent, in their cars. Tesla and Rivian developed their own software sys- tems, which allow users to down- load certain apps made by other companies. Some executives at established automakers plan to emulate that model. General Motors has said it in- tends to replace CarPlay in all new cars with G.M. software. The cars will still have access to cer- tain apps from Apple, Google and other companies, but the au- tomaker will control the operating system. But traditional automakers have struggled to devise their own software, which has become an increasingly critical compo- nent of automotive design. Chi- nese carmakers have been grow-
Even as Car Sales Pick Up
By JACK EWING
Tesla reported a decline in quar- terly profit Wednesday as the company sold more electric cars but made less money on each sale. Net profit in the second quarter was $1.1 billion, Tesla said, com- pared with $1.2 billion a year earli- er. Sales rose sharply to $28.2 bil- lion, compared with $22.5 billion. Analysts had expected sales of $27.6 billion and profit of $1.3 bil- lion, according to estimates com- piled by the company. Tesla also reported big jumps in operating expenses and capital expenditures as it poured money into new technologies, like self- driving taxis, that do not yet gen- erate significant revenue. Tesla is also investing in factories to make batteries, semi trucks and other products. Very few automakers have re- ported large increases in profit re- cently. Overall sales are growing slowly, partly because of tariffs and the war in Iran, and estab- lished manufacturers are strug- gling to compete with fast-grow- ing Chinese companies like BYD and Geely Auto that are pushing into Europe, Latin America and many Asian countries. General Motors said Tuesday that its second-quarter profit fell 30 percent from a year earlier to
Tesla’s stock market value, the highest of any carmaker.
$1.3 billion, though the company said it had earned more per vehi- cle. Tesla reported this month that car sales were stronger than ana- lysts had expected, largely be- cause increases in Europe more than made up for declines in the United States. That should have been a good omen for profits. But the impact was muted because Tesla cut prices, offering cheaper versions of its Model Y and Model 3 vehi- cles as well as car loans at dis- counted rates. Car sales account for more than 70 percent of Tesla’s revenue, but investors are more focused on the company’s efforts to develop self- driving taxis and robots with hu- manlike form. Tesla’s $1.2 trillion stock market value, many times the value of any other carmaker, is predicated on the success of those products. There are signs that investors are getting impatient after Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, failed to deliver on promises that its Robotaxi service would be widely deployed by now. The com- pany has a relatively small num- ber of taxis operating in Texas, California and Florida, and some
Apple and Ford engineers are working together to improve autonomous driving abilities of cars that are expected to arrive in dealer showrooms next year.
ing quickly in Europe and Asia partly because the software in their vehicles is easier to use and more capable, analysts say. One of the most successful Chinese car- makers is Xiaomi, which made its name in smartphones. Ford is increasingly turning to partnerships to cut costs and speed up development of new ve- hicles. The company said on Thursday that it would form a
of them still have Tesla employees or contractors at the wheel. In California, Tesla does not have a permit to offer fully autono- mous, paid rides, according to the state’s Public Utilities Commis- sion, which regulates ride-hailing services. In Texas, Tesla is autho- rized to operate 69 self-driving taxis, according to the Depart- ment of Motor Vehicles. Waymo, a division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, offers driverless taxi service in 11 U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Houston and Los Angeles. Waymo has per- mits for 628 autonomous vehicles in Texas. “The rhetoric makes it sounds like they are pioneering this busi- ness,” Michael Lenox, interim dean of the Darden School of Busi- ness at the University of Virginia, said of Tesla. “But they are way behind Waymo.” Tesla shares have fallen 14 per- cent this year even as the Nasdaq Composite index has risen 11 per- cent. “People are definitely both- ered” by the slowness of the Robo- taxi rollout, said Tom Narayan, lead autos analyst at RBC Capital Markets. But he added that many invest- ors wanted Tesla to proceed cau- tiously. If the company perfects the technology without needing major hardware upgrades, mil- lions of Teslas already on the roads will be able to function as autonomous taxis, allowing the company to quickly overtake competitors. “Maybe it’s a slow initial roll- out,” Mr. Narayan said. “But if it’s successful, any Tesla could theo- retically be a Robotaxi.” During a conference call on Wednesday to discuss the compa- ny’s financial results, Mr. Musk acknowledged that an accident would be a serious setback to his Robotaxi ambitions. “If we injure even one person it will be world- wide headline news,” he said. Despite questions about the safety of Tesla’s self-driving tech- nology, the number of Tesla own- ers paying for its driver-assist- ance system increased more than 50 percent, to 1.5 million. A sub- scription to the software costs $99 a month in the United States. Tesla’s financial performance has also been overshadowed by expectations that Mr. Musk will try to merge the automaker with SpaceX, the rocket company he controls, which recently com- pleted an initial public offering. Mr. Musk deflected a question on that topic. “We can’t talk about combining companies on an earn- ings call,” he said, while also men- tioning that Tesla and SpaceX al- ready collaborate in areas like ar- tificial intelligence and satellite in- ternet.
joint venture with the Chinese car- maker Geely Auto to produce sev- eral new vehicles at a Ford plant in Valencia, Spain. The two companies will jointly develop a Ford hybrid vehicle to be produced at the factory start- ing in 2028. Ford will also produce a new version of the Bronco sport utility vehicle there, while Geely will manufacture two new electric vehicles.
By BENJAMIN MULLIN
WNET Group, the parent com- pany of New York’s popular PBS station Thirteen, said on Thurs- day that its next chief executive would be Edward O’Keefe, a vet- eran of CNN and ABC News. Mr. O’Keefe, 48, will start in September. In an interview, he said WNET, which is behind shows like “Nature,” “Amanpour and Company” and “Great Per- formances,” would experiment in emerging storytelling formats and popular subject areas such as arts, culture and children’s pro- gramming. As a public media organization, “WNET is neither beholden to a challenged broadcast model nor driven by Wall Street’s desire for endless growth,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “WNET is free to focus on what matters: stories and the audi- ences who want those stories wherever they are.” Public broadcasting has been upended by Congress’s decision last year to eliminate $500 million in annual federal funding, sending station managers and executives
By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY
A sweeping cryptocurrency bill is approaching a final vote in the Senate this summer, with support from Republicans and some Dem- ocrats — and backed by an indus- try that has spent tens of millions of dollars to shape it. But lately a major sticking point has emerged: the $1.4 billion in crypto revenue that President Trump disclosed in June, after a year of astonishing moneymaking by his family’s network of crypto businesses. Now as the landmark legisla- tion, known as the Clarity Act, inches toward passage, Senate Democrats are pushing for strict language in the bill that would bar public officials from selling digital currencies. On Wednesday, Re- publican senators released a new draft of the bill that contained a version of those restrictions, in- cluding language making it illegal for the president and other U.S. of- ficials to issue or sponsor a cryp- tocurrency. Democrats and progressive ad- vocacy groups immediately fired back, arguing that the draft did not go far enough to stop Mr. Trump from using crypto to en- rich himself. With the midterm elections approaching, the debate is threatening to engulf the Clarity Act, showing how Mr. Trump’s crypto dealings have rippled through Washington. The ethics issue has “become the linchpin of whether this gets bipartisan support,” said Cody Carbone, the chief executive of the Digital Chamber, a trade group. “Democrats have made this the most important issue for them.”
Ford has suffered from declin- ing sales in Europe, partly be- cause it does not have vehicles that appeal to Europeans. The company’s market share in the European Union in June was 2.5 percent, down from 3.1 percent a year earlier, according to the Eu- ropean Automobile Manufactur- ers’ Association. Ford is the first major au- tomaker to agree to use Apple’s
Edward O’Keefe has led the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.
scrambling to drum up revenue. WNET Group avoided the worst and has maintained its $270 mil- lion endowment. But it laid off some staff last fall to make up for a $12 million budget shortfall. One of Mr. O’Keefe’s biggest pri- orities will be figuring out how to
Passage of the Clarity Act is a top priority for the crypto indus- try. Under the Biden administra- tion, the Securities and Exchange Commission pursued an ag- gressive enforcement campaign against crypto firms, filing law- suits that argued that digital coins should be regulated like stocks and bonds. The Trump adminis- tration reversed course and dropped almost all of those suits. The act, which passed the House of Representatives last year, would effectively lock that policy position into law so that crypto companies can operate freely in the United States without fear of a regulatory crackdown from a future administration. Democrats have voiced con- cerns about the bill for months, pointing out that it would give au- thority over the industry to a short-staffed federal agency that has limited enforcement capacity. But no issue has attracted more scrutiny than Mr. Trump’s crypto ventures. Last month, the presi- dent issued his mandatory finan- cial disclosure report, which showed that he had made more than $2 billion during the first year of his second term, most of it from crypto. Those gains came at the ex- pense of ordinary investors, who lost a total of $3.8 billion after buy- ing Mr. Trump’s so-called meme- coin, a novelty cryptocurrency known for its volatility. Nothing in the latest draft of the Clarity Act would prevent Mr. Trump from continuing to profit from his memecoin or other crypto ventures, according to Democratic staff and industry ex-
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new automotive software, said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services and health. But Apple plans to offer it to other carmakers, he said in an inter- view. Collaborating with Apple allows Ford to cut development costs and still offer advanced driving fea- tures in a new, electric pickup that the company plans to begin sell- ing next year, Mr. Farley said.
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retool WNET and Thirteen for an era of fewer traditional TV view- ers. Though WNET was created to serve the New York area, digital channels have given the organiza- tion “limitless opportunities” to reach viewers around the world and maximize its impact, he said.
perts who reviewed the language. “The Senate majority released a bill that would do effectively nothing to stop the main ways he made that money — or could keep making it,” Scott Greytak, deputy executive director of the advocacy group Transparency Interna- tional U.S., said. “It would leave the underlying businesses, reve- nue streams and family arrange- ments largely untouched.” The Clarity Act is the result of years of lobbying by the crypto in- dustry. During the 2024 election, a
inches closer to a vote, debate persists.
network of pro-crypto super PACs spent more than $130 million to elect industry-friendly legislators. That spending has paid off. Last July, Mr. Trump signed a pro- crypto bill known as the GENIUS Act, which governs a type of dig- ital currency called a stablecoin. The same month, the House voted to pass a version of the Clarity Act. The bill soon ran into obstacles in the Senate, including pushback from the banking industry. But in May, a bipartisan group of sena- tors voted to advance it from the Senate Banking Committee. Now the legislation awaits a vote in the full Senate, with only weeks to go until the August re- cess, which is widely seen as the deadline for Congress to act on the bill before the midterm elections. The politics are complicated. Republicans hold a thin majority
The pickup will be the first of several electric vehicles devel- oped by a Ford team led by Alan Clarke, a former Tesla executive. Ford plans to sell the pickup for around $30,000, significantly less than most electric vehicles avail- able today. Ford engineers are taking the lead in developing a more capable version of Blue Cruise, self-driv- ing software that allows Ford owners to take their hands off the steering wheel on certain high- ways. But they are also collaborat- ing with Apple engineers, Mr. Far- ley said. The technology will allow cars to drive themselves from highway on-ramps to exits, which would not be possible without Apple technology, he said. “We really want to have an automated hands- free driving experience at this price point,” Mr. Farley said. Apple and Ford plan to continue to add features to vehicles, he said. Recently Ford updated soft- ware in some of its Mustang Mach-E vehicles to adjust the temperature of batteries when us- ing Apple Maps to navigate to a charging station. Doing so allows cars to charge more quickly. Pre- viously, battery preconditioning was possible only when drivers used the Ford navigation system. “This is the beginning,” Mr. Cue said. “We have a lot of plans for our Maps over the coming years. And so we’re excited to be work- ing with Ford engineers on how we can continue to make this even better and better.” A secretive team at Apple worked for years on prototypes of a self-driving car, but never pub- licly unveiled a product before shelving the project. Mr. Cue said the technology be- ing used by Ford came from the Apple Maps team. “It’s leveraging everything that we have done over the past decade,” he said.
“The entire media ecosystem is going through a chaotic upheav- al,” Mr. O’Keefe said. “And in that chaos, there’s opportunity.” Mr. O’Keefe has decades of ex- perience in television, serving as executive producer at the digital arm of ABC News before joining CNN as a vice president in 2014. After leaving that network in 2019, he was an entrepreneurship fel- low at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He joined the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library that year and led fund- raising for a $450 million center in the North Dakota Badlands. James Attwood, the chairman of the WNET board of trustees, said the organization’s current fi- nancial stability did not make it immune from broader challenges facing the media industry. That is one of the reasons the board hired Mr. O’Keefe, who has experience creating digital businesses. “That doesn’t mean our busi- ness model doesn’t have to evolve,” Mr. Attwood said. “Our distribution model is somewhat archaic.”
in the Senate, meaning the Clarity Act will require at least some Democratic votes to pass. And Mr. Trump’s crypto dealmaking has prompted even industry-friendly Democrats to dig in. The ethics language unveiled on Wednesday emerged from dis- cussions between Senate Republi- cans and the White House, which has supported the bill. In a state- ment, a White House official called it “the most comprehensive and wide-ranging ethics provision in history” and said the adminis- tration had “bent over backward” to find a solution. But critics soon pointed out ap- parent loopholes, which one for- mer regulator called “laughable.” The bill would bar public officials from issuing or sponsoring digital currencies while they were in gov- ernment. The rule also applies to spouses — but not to children. The proposed restrictions ap- pear unlikely to curb Mr. Trump’s moneymaking. His two largest crypto ventures were started shortly before he became presi- dent — in one case, a mere 72 hours before his inauguration. The rule would stay in effect un- til January 2029, meaning that a future Justice Department would be unable to prosecute Mr. Trump for violations, experts said. Still, Senate Republicans praised the language as a historic compromise that addressed con- cerns from Democrats. “History will remember this as the moment a president chose a higher standard of ethics than the law required of him,” Senator Cyn- thia Lummis, Republican of Wyo- ming, said on Wednesday.
After the Aug 3 trade deadline, Tarik Skubal will either be a massive asset for a new team or he will remain Detroit’s No. 1 starter, tasked with leading the team’s against-the-odds playoff charge.
Rathe than shy away from the attention, Skubal is welcoming the costs that come with success.
By CODY STAVENHAGEN The Athletic
DETROIT — In January, Tigers p tcher Tarik Skubal realized something in his elbow did not feel right. He was a back-to back Cy Young Award winner entering a contract year, with a chance to win a record salary in arbitration. The Tigers were projected to be among the best teams in the Ameri- can League. A long as he m de it through the 2026 season healthy, he would p obably sign the most lucrative contract ever given to a pitcher. Given all that, he did his best to ignore the symptoms. “If I could go back, I probably shou d have got an M.R.I. in January and ham- mered it out to where I was done with it in the off-season,” Skubal said. “But there
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were also other factors in play. I was go- ing through arbitration The decision by the organization to take me to court, I think that probably had some impact subconsciously.” That is the sort of admission Skubal’s harshest critics and biggest fans will scrutinize. His words matter because he is one of the most fearsome left-handed pitchers in baseball He is not blind to the potential for headlines every time a mi- crophone is in his vicinity. “I understand how public everything that’s happened in my career has been” Skubal said. Sometimes, though, the attention can weigh on him. In the Tigers’ clubhouse in June, Skubal spoke about this new reality, the sort that has led many athletes to recoil at the sight of reporters, to seek privacy when the spotlight turns bright. He has handled it differently. Reserved as a young player, he opened up as his profile grew. But when you are Tarik Skubal, even explaining the human side of a challeng- ing year means sharing things that can take on a life of their own.
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Jonas Vingegaard of Visma-Lease a Bike on his way to winning the Giro d’Italia in May. He also won last year’s Vuelta a España.
Yet Still a Top Rider, Will Vingegaard Return?
By JACOB WHITEHEAD The Athletic
“We truly believe we can do something special at this race,” a member of Visma-Lease a Bike’s staff said on the morning of the Tour de France’s opening team time trial in Barcelona, Spain. “Honestly, there is something spectacular planned for Jonas in the third week.” Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark, a two-time Tour winner, never got that chance. His race ended in the final 13 miles of Stage 15 on Sun- day when he broke his collarbone. The final images of his participa- tion in the race were of him cradling his arm before being led off the course. By that point, Vingegaard was nearly five minutes behind the overall leader, Tadej Pogacar, who might be impossible to catch. But the Tour is certainly a poorer race without Vingegaard’s having the opportunity to try. His rivalry with Pogacar will define this era of cy- cling. “I just talked to my family a lit- tle bit,” Vingegaard told the Dan- ish broadcaster TV2 after the crash. “That was the most impor- tant thing for me. We’ve come up with a plan for what’s going to happen now, and I’ve talked to some of the team. It’s no use hang-
retirement, and now a broken collarbone.
ing your head. It just makes it worse.” His body language was that of an exhausted man. It is fair to ask when he might return to the Tour de France. Vingegaard, 29, is still the sec- ond-best climber in the world. He is the reigning champion of the Vuelta a España and Giro d’Italia. But he has been open about the ef- fect of cycling, an all-consuming sport, on his wider life. Speaking to TV2 last week on the race’s first rest day, he re- vealed that he considered retire- ment last year — mentioning his weight, the time spent training, the toll on his body. Visma has one of the more rigid training struc- tures among cycling teams. “I said last year that if this was how it was going to be, I couldn’t be in it anymore,” Vingegaard told his team. “I also think the team re- alized that this was how it was, and they could also tell from me that I wasn’t happy last year. They accepted that we had to change something, and we did.” During the 2025 Tour de France, Vingegaard’s wife, Trine, made a similar point: that his work was “squeezing the lemon too much” and that “he needs to recharge to perform at his best.” For all the riches Vingegaard has earned, this perspective is un- derstandable, especially in the context of his crash at the 2024 Tour of the Basque Country, in which he broke several ribs and punctured both lungs. After tak- ing yellow on this Tour’s opening day on July 4, he said it would “al- ways be part of my book, me lying there on the ground, believing that I’m going to die.”
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A broken collarbone is a less se- rious injury, but every rider has a limit. This is the third successive Tour that Pogacar has dominated, with Vingegaard further away than ever over the past two weeks. In Stage 14, his final full day of rac- ing, Isaac del Toro and Paul Seixas outsprinted him for second and third. If it is not a sign that the fu- ture has arrived, it is a sign that it is coming fast. Vingegaard has little unfinished business. He has won every major stage-racing prize in the sport, and appears to hold scant interest in one-day races. It is difficult, right now, to see him winning an- other Tour de France while Pogacar, the younger man at 27, remains in such imperious form. A window appears to be closing. At Visma, meanwhile, there is internal turmoil for the first time. Several key figures have left — such as the head of racing, Grischa Niermann; the sporting director, Merijn Zeeman; and Vingegaard’s longtime coach, Tim Heemskerk, who said he was “struggling to continue applying creativity and passion.” It would not be a total surprise if Vingegaard walked away, but the sport would be far sadder for it. It is not that he should; it is fearing that he will. Vingegaard is un- likely to bow out the way Chris Froome did. Froome confirmed his retirement two days before the start of this Tour, at age 41, after struggling with Israel-Premier Tech for the past five years. Instead, it is far easier to see Vingegaard through the lens of riders such as Tom Dumoulin and Simon Yates, retired at 31 and 33, who had Visma-Lease a Bike as their final team. But another possibility is mak- ing a change. There has been chat- ter in the Tour paddock about a big offer from the Scandinavian team Uno-X Mobility, which has en- joyed an excellent Tour, having claimed a stage win with Soren Waerenskjold and held yellow with Torstein Traeen. Uno-X may want to make the Dane the face of its project — potentially providing more time in Denmark. Vinge- gaard is the rare pro cyclist who still trains and resides where he grew up, rather than the enclaves of Girona, Monaco and Andorra. Vingegaard is not known to rush into decisions. A broken col- larbone, in modern cycling, is an injury that can be returned from in six weeks, especially when oper- ated on, as his has been. His program for the rest of the season will be revealing, whether he targets the autumn’s one-day races or whether his season is over. The latter would only raise speculation. The hope, as a rider under con- tract and still of supreme ability, is that he continues. After all, Vinge- gaard is more invested in results than he often lets on. “From afar, you wouldn’t say that he cares about all the vic- tories he’s won,” his friend Nathan Van Hooydonck, a former Visma rider who works for the team’s commercial department, said a few days before the crash. “But he can name all 50 of them.” His team, and others, should pray this setback is little more than a footnote, rather than a new chapter of Vingegaard’s book. For the first time since achieving his five successive Tour podiums, Vingegaard stands at a cross- roads. How much does he want to continue chasing?
Hot Weather Elevated World Cup Matches
By MICHAEL COX The Athletic
The problem with holding a World Cup across North America in the summer, we were told for several years, was the climate. The heat, the humidity and the mile-high altitude of Mexico City would combine to create a tour- nament of bad soccer. But by the end of the six weeks, it was difficult to find anyone complaining about the general quality of matches, even after a disappointing final. The World Cup was widely regarded as an enjoyable edition in which the good soccer sides succeeded. Established stars produced their best form in ways we have rarely seen before. And this was, in part, because of the climatic conditions. The scourge of modern club soccer is the obsession with pressing. Pushing up, squeezing play and trying to regain the ball in advanced positions is a per- fectly viable and often successful strategy, particularly when treated as a useful add-on to quality in possession. In contests between two technically skilled sides, it can create high-tempo, thrilling soccer. The problem is that, over the past decade, pressing has stopped being considered an add-on and become the primary objective for many teams. Pressing is considered the best way to defend. Pressing is con- sidered the best way to attack. Pressing is the fundamental quality for every player, even those in creative, attacking posi- tions. Pressing is tactical and requires intelligence and cohe- sion, but it is also about energy, tenacity and winning duels. The consequences of this were obvious in the Premier League last season. The English top flight is the strongest domestic league in the world. Its clubs now routinely ease to victory in the Europa League and Confer- ence League, and only a penalty shootout denied the 2025-26 Premier League champions, Arsenal, from triumphing in the Champions League, too, to com- plete a treble of continental cup wins. But English teams are primari- ly overpowering rather than outplaying their foreign opposi- tion, and in domestic competi- tion, they now battle to over- power each other. There was barely a single player in the Premier League on the usual level you would expect of a player of the season; nobody had any time on the ball to play a positive forward pass, and no- body had space to produce some- thing unexpected. Everyone was exhausted. Many games last season became about territory, and waiting until you got a set piece to actually create a clear chance. It was, in terms of aes- thetic quality, as bad as the Pre- mier League has been for two decades. There was little of that at the World Cup. Tournament soccer is not generally conducive to pressing, with so many matches squeezed into such a short window, and without the cohesion that comes from club teams training togeth- er for months. With the heat, it was simply impossible to press intensely for 90 (or 120) minutes, even in the era of five (or six) substitutes. Few teams pressed high up the field, and even fewer were pri-
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Norway’s Erling Haaland, top right, hydrating to deal with the humidity in Miami. Above center, Spain’s Pedri. In Spain, it is said that teams from the warmer areas play possession soccer.
marily defined by pressing. I cannot remember a single game, of the 104, in which the pundits were asked what im- pressed them about a team’s performance, and they spoke about its pressing. The eventual champion Spain pressed well, certainly, and its aggressive positioning without the ball was summarized by the
helped curtail relentless sprinting.
fact that goalkeeper Unai Si- mon’s primary responsibility in the semifinals and final was sweeping outside his box, behind a high defensive line, rather than actually saving shots. But Spain is, first and fore- most, clearly a possession-based team. The pressing is a second- ary factor, and it can press well in bursts because it spends so much time in possession, in control of its matches. Probably the only team fo- cused primarily on pressing was Austria, which was given an enjoyable 3-0 thrashing by Spain in the round of 32. Spain pressed because it wanted the ball back. Austria seemed happy not to
have the ball, because then it could press, but then it had little idea what to do with the ball. Spain’s performance that day was its most thrilling of the tour- nament. Some matches, of course, were not played in intense heat, and some were in air-conditioned domed stadiums. But even then, it is difficult to completely ignore the climatic conditions experi- enced over the rest of the past month or so, and there was al- ways a need to conserve energy for the next match. Equally, sometimes the climate was genuinely problematic. A quarterfinal between Eng- land and Norway in — even by Florida standards — horrendous Miami humidity, kicking off at 5 p.m. Eastern, was probably bad scheduling. You don’t want Er- ling Haaland barely able to move after an hour’s play, especially not at a key stage of the competi- tion. But still, it was interesting to listen to Norway Coach Stale Solbakken speak about how the climate would affect play in his pre-England press conference. “Intensity is a big part of foot- ball,” he said. “Where we are going, players are quicker and quicker, they can sprint more and more. But here we have to take into consideration the weather.” Solbakken said the weather influences the pressing of every team.”
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“To chase the ball is very tiring for when you finally get it,” he said. “I think both teams need to be able to keep the ball.” Less chasing around? More focus on what you do when in possession? Sounds good. The single most underappreci- ated factor in the history of the World Cup is that the really hot tournaments have been the really good ones: in 1970, 1974, 1982 and 1986. Many of the for- gettable editions have been held during the winter, like 1962 in Chile and 2010 in South Africa. It is no coincidence that in Spain, the old stereotype was that teams from the warmer parts of the country played pos- session soccer while the teams from the cold, windy north served up physical and direct soccer. Good soccer is played in hot weather. And this World Cup was about Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé and all of Spain’s won- derful passers. There are, of course, serious problems in relation to all this: Excessive temperatures can be a genuine health risk for players and supporters alike, and climate change may have serious conse- quences for all of us over the coming decades. But at a time when the physical element of soccer is at risk of overpowering the technical side, a decent fix is playing matches in conditions where relentless sprinting sim- ply is not possible.
This Rockies Slugger Is Now a Trade Target
By SAM BLUM The Athletic
The Colorado Rockies’ history books are littered with elite hitters and gaudy statistics. Players like Todd Helton, Larry Walker, Matt Holliday and Nolan Arenado, putting up .379 batting averages, driving in 150 runs, hitting 59 dou- bles — the numbers are, at times, cartoonish. Yet none of the greats had bet- ter offensive statistics on the road than in the hitter-friendly confines of Coors Field in Denver. Those outsize averages and sta- tistical totals were built on a Mile High foundation. Coors Field, the ballpark at the highest altitude in M.L.B., delivers one undeniably consistent truth: You will hit bet- ter there than anywhere else. That’s what makes catcher Hunter Goodman’s 2026 season so
is one of the game’s most anonymous standouts.
mysterious. Of his 31 home runs, 18 have come away from Denver. Goodman, 26, has a .233 aver- age and .815 on-base plus slugging percentage at home, compared with a .282 average and .964 O.P.S. on the road. This cannot be chalked up to a small sample or a rounding error. Even after Good- man’s three-homer performance at home on Sunday and game- winning homer on Tuesday, the numbers tell a story that makes little sense. “I’m not even going to try to ex- plain that because it would be a word salad,” Warren Schaeffer, the Rockies’ manager, said. “In any game, he can do anything.” Goodman’s anomalous season
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He did not talk about the M.R.I. and arbitration hearing with any malicious tone. “It happened,” he said. “It is what it is. I feel good. I feel healthy now.” In January, the Tigers filed to pay Skubal $19 million for the 2026 season. The agent Scott Boras, who first courted Skubal at Seattle University, sought $32 million. There was little negotiation be- tween the sides. A three-person arbitration panel ultimately awarded Skubal the $32 million, a record salary in the system base- ball uses for players with fewer than six years of service time. It was a victory for Skubal and other young aces in the future. The arbitration process kicked off six months of Skubal as M.L.B.’s central character — arbi- tration trendsetter, U.S. team lightning rod, injured ace turned medical marvel. Now, as the Aug. 3 trade deadline approaches, he is
Tigers only 38 days after elbow surgery.
the most important player on the market. He will either be a massive as- set traded to a contender or a No. 1 starter tasked with leading his team’s against-the-odds playoff charge. “When you’re put on a pedes- tal,” Tigers catcher Jake Rogers said, “there’s good and bad that comes with it.” It is easy to forget that Skubal, 29, did not always seem destined for this. He was once an Arizona teenager whose only Division I of- fer was from Seattle University, a school that at the time did not even have its own baseball field. He had Tommy John surgery in 2017. He was a ninth-round pick in 2018, hampered by command is- sues. He came out of the bullpen for eight of his first nine pro out- ings. He had to prove to his own organization he could be a starter. He was a grinder and an under- dog, the son of a hard-nosed bas- ketball coach. He grew up in a rowdy household, his competitive drive fueled by an older brother blocking his shots. Now he is here, in the eye of
raises a fascinating question for the Rockies and their star catcher, who is making the league-min- imum salary: Do they trade him? He is one of the game’s most anonymous standouts, but his val- ue would most likely be astronom- ical, in part, because he is not con- sidered a Rocky Mountain mer- chant. And while he is set to earn a raise in arbitration next season, he will remain very affordable un- til hitting free agency after the 2029 season. In a mid-July interview, the Rockies’ president of baseball op- erations, Paul DePodesta, stopped short of speaking in abso- lutes, but made clear what he was thinking. “When you have good players that you think can be a part of a championship team,” DePodesta said, “I think you’re loath to part with them.” The Rockies are currently in the process, he said, of identifying which players are foundational for them moving forward, and whether those players could make up genuine building blocks of a championship roster. DePodesta, in his first year with the club, has overseen a stark turnaround. The Rockies finished 43-119 last season. And while a 41- 63 record this season has put them at the bottom of the National League, it does offer hope that this young core can grow into some- thing more, if the right pieces are kept in place. The Rockies have yet to broach extension talks with Goodman, according to a source with knowl- edge of the matter, who requested anonymity to speak candidly. He would be open to that conversa- tion, the source said. “It’s out of my control, there’s nothing that I can really do or say about it that will change any- thing,” Goodman said when asked if he had any preference about whether he was traded. Later, he added that he has really enjoyed his time with the Rockies. And, this year, he has done his damage away from a home ball- park that has been a statistical as-
baseball’s business storm. He is also a member of the executive subcommittee of the players’ un- ion. “There’s been a lot of stuff that’s been put on his plate lately,” Rogers said. “In all truthfulness, he’s remained the same guy, which is pretty impressive.” Intense as he can be, Skubal has handled the transition from no- body to elite pitcher with a grin and an accessibility uncommon for a player of his prestige. “He’s been able to separate a lot of different things throughout the year,” Tigers Manager A.J. Hinch said, “whether it’s the injuries, the personal contractual situation or being the ace of a team that has been all over the map in the first half. I applaud his work ethic. I ap- plaud everything he does to get himself prepared to be Tarik Skubal.” For all the speculation about Skubal’s future, things became blurry last winter, when a loose body the size of a lima bean broke off his elbow and started causing him to feel a stubborn, sticky feel- ing in his arm. He tried to rationalize away the symptoms. “Maybe it’s just growing pains because I’m building back up to pitch another season,” Skubal said. “Every off-season has some sort of unique thing that pops up that you kind of manage and treat in terms of workload. I thought once I get in shape, get to that 95-, 100-pitch threshold, my symp- toms would subside. It just never did.” By February, only days after his arbitration hearing was resolved peacefully, the storm was build- ing. Trade rumors died down. The Tigers signed another prominent starter, Framber Valdez. The team carried a franchise-record $204 million payroll into a season that began with World Series aspi- rations. Soon, Skubal reported to spring training. But he was also prepar- ing to leave for a stint with the U.S. team at the World Baseball Clas- sic. Pitchers are creatures of habit, and disruptions to their routines can be dangerous to arm health. An off-season conversation with Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes helped Skubal solidify his decision to play in the Classic. M.L.B. touted the participation of the two pitchers as a boon for the United States’ chances of captur- ing a second Classic crown. What the league did not adver-
Hunter Goodman after a recent home run in Minnesota. He has had better offensive statistics away from Denver’s hitter-friendly park.
terisk throughout its 32-season existence. It will certainly make him even more attractive to other teams — perhaps the New York Yankees, the club most closely as- sociated with him in trade rumors — because acquiring him will be viewed as less risky. DePodesta hypothesized that playing catcher at altitude can po- tentially influence a hitter on of- fense, which could lend credence to the idea that his game might be more complete elsewhere. The best hitters in Rockies his- tory have not been catchers. Though, notably, Colorado’s catcher of eight years, Chris Ian- netta, had two seasons in which he was better away. Other sluggers? Not so much. Helton was a .345 hitter at Coors while hitting .316 for his career. In 1995, Dante Bichette hit 31 homers in Denver, and nine on the road, finishing second in the most valu- able player voting. Fifteen years later, Troy Tulowitzki had an O.P.S.
In his lone World Baseball Classic appearance, Tarik Skubal pitched three innings against Britain.
tise: Skubal had agreed to make only one appearance. He said he never planned to stick around for the duration of the tournament. That was decided well before there was any trouble brewing in- side Skubal’s arm. In February, when his limited participation became public, the online reaction was immediate and harsh. Fans called him a cow- ard. They called him selfish. Skubal, perhaps, did himself no favors as the decision turned into a soap opera. By the middle in- nings of his outing against Britain in the Classic, he was talking on live television, clearly affected by the emotion and adrenaline of the tournament. After the game, he was even more candid. “I was pretty com- mitted to making a start and get- ting back to camp,” he said. “Things have changed, obvi- ously.” Skubal was torn between his al- legiance to his country and his commitment to his Tigers team. His long-term future was surely another complicating factor. Caught in an impossible situation, he decided not to throw for the U.S. team again. He drove through a rainstorm from spring training to Miami to see the conclusion of the tourna- ment. As the United States lost to Venezuela, Skubal watched from the dugout. The criticism that en-
nearly .200 points higher at home. In his lone All-Star season, Eric Young Sr. hit .412 at home and .219 elsewhere. Household names, and some that aren’t, have made their ca- reers on the backs of this ballpark. “I think guys, over time, have been bothered by it,” said Schaef- fer, the second-year manager who has spent 20 years in the Rockies organization. “We’ve had some re- ally good, top-level, Hall of Fame- caliber players here. And maybe some stuff has been said about them that’s not fair because they play at Coors Field. It’s still a base- ball game.” That is what makes Goodman’s season so mysterious, and poten- tially so significant, as the dead- line approaches. He seemed almost perturbed by his inexplicable reverse splits, and said he tried not to think about them. Goodman even noted that Coors Field was not in the top five home run hitter parks, according
sued felt more pointed than nor- mal, more personal. “Those people that write or said what they said about me in the W.B.C., I don’t need to beg for for- giveness,” Skubal said. “I don’t care what they say. It doesn’t mat- ter to me.” In a year in which everything Skubal does has been fair game for discussion and discord, the barbs involving the World Base- ball Classic still have not faded. “There’s fans that come to games that still say things to me,” Skubal said. “I go: ‘You would not say that if you were on the other side of this fence. You would not look me in the face and say that.’ “If that’s how they want to live their life, let them go live their lives like that. I don’t think it’s go- ing to be a very happy life.” On April 29, the loose body be- came lodged in Skubal’s elbow joint in front of the world. It hap- pened during a start at Atlanta. An awkward pitch or two, then a shaking of the arm. Privately, Skubal had dealt with variations of this feeling for months, while playing with his young son or cutting into a break- fast sausage. Skubal stayed in that game in Atlanta, but the concerns lin- gered. “It was three days later,” Skubal said. “The day after my bullpen. That loose body got lodged in my
to Baseball Savant’s park factor metric. He is right; it ranks eighth. Still, it is rated as the best hit- ter’s park overall by a significant margin, even if he cannot crack that code. “I’m hoping it will start to even out,” Goodman said. “I’m hoping that the performance on the road stays the same.” Goodman was vocal in the weeks leading up to the All-Star Game about wanting to be in the Home Run Derby, to showcase himself on a stage that his small- market team does not really offer. He made his second consecu- tive All-Star appearance, but the league did not call about the derby. He said he was not both- ered by it. “If we were in first place, I have no doubt he would be in the derby,” DePodesta said. The question now, however, be- comes whether DePodesta will put Goodman on a first-place
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elbow. I lost a ton of range of mo- tion. I knew something was wrong.” He had torn his ulnar collateral ligament in college. He had a flexor tendon repaired in 2022. Whatever this was, it felt differ- ent. “You start to freak out, right?” Skubal said. “I was like, ‘I’ll wake up and see how I feel tomorrow.’ Woke up really sore. Played catch, and it was not good. I probably could have pitched. But it wouldn’t have done me any good. It would- n’t have done anyone on this team any good. Then you go get an M.R.I. and see what’s going on, and all the puzzle pieces started to connect.” Skubal was scratched from his next start and scheduled for surgery. Conventional wisdom in- dicated he was likely to miss two to three months — perhaps enough to tank a Tigers season that was already on shaky ground. “I think the surgery and miss- ing time when our team needed him the most will always eat at him,” Hinch said. Boras arranged a meeting with Neal ElAttrache, the surgeon who performed Skubal’s flexor tendon surgery in 2022. Quietly, ElAttra- che had been testing a less inva- sive arthroscope only 1.9 millime- ters in diameter, waiting for the perfect case to use it. It was called the NanoNeedle, and it would
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team, or at least a club still in the mix. On the whole, he is one of the game’s best power hitters. Yes, he is one of the game’s most strike- out-prone hitters, but so are most good sluggers in 2026. Goodman’s max exit velocities rank in the top 2 percent of all players’. His hard- hit percentage is 46.5, way above the league average of about 37 percent. Those numbers are on the back of hitting in every ballpark except his own. But the Rockies, at least as of now, do not want him playing anywhere else. “Enormously important,” Scha- effer said, when asked how signifi- cant Goodman’s presence is to this team’s future. “He’s a danger- ous hitter in the middle of the line- up. Plays with energy. Plays with fire. Believes in what we’re doing. A leader day in and day out. “Just the way he goes about his business is what we’re trying to do. He embodies that.”
cause less inflammation and less bleeding during the procedure. Although it had never been used on a major league pitcher, the less invasive option meant Skubal would be able to return to throwing quickly. And thus he could return to the field in no time. When ElAttrache told Skubal of the NanoNeedle, the pitcher’s re- action was immediate: “All right,” he said. “I’m good with it if you’re good with it.” When teammates learned he could be back in roughly a month, the response in the Tigers’ club- house was visceral. The team had slipped to a 6-22 record in May. “It was a shock for everybody,” Rogers said. “Holy cow. You’re go- ing to do what?” Now the noise is nearing its peak. There were more than 50 games before the trade deadline when pundits began calling the Ti- gers surefire sellers. Now, after mounting the American League’s second-best record since June 1, the picture is less certain. Every day, there is some new report or rumor that incites the social me- dia machine. “Generally when my name is put in something, fans want to read about it,” Skubal said. “It doesn’t bother me. It really does- n’t.” Skubal has talked about win- ning the World Series in Detroit even as the outside speculation grows louder, even as the possibil- ity of a contract extension seems nonexistent. Skubal pitched in a major league game 38 days after his op- eration, a feat that feels forgotten given all that has happened around him. Since his return from the so-called Skubal Scope surgery, his stuff has sizzled like usual. He has a 2.97 earned run av- erage in his past seven starts. Back-to-back five-inning outings added to old complaints that may- be he is not built to last beyond 95 pitches. Then, in his most recent outing, against the Los Angeles Angels, he dominated for seven shutout innings, a forceful reminder of the ability that led him to this uncom- fortable precipice. “You want to be one of the best in the game,” Skubal said. “All the guys that are the best in the game probably have the most criticism on them at all times. I’m not say- ing I’m not going to fail. I’m going to fail plenty more in my career. But I promise I’ll never stop work- ing to be the best version of my- self.”
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MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES Cameron Boozer
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So much for shutting down players in summer league. Boozer, the third pick in the draft, played the most minutes (177) of anyone in Vegas, and that was after he had played two games in Salt Lake City. Mem- phis had four of the top seven players in minutes in Vegas, helped by playing a sixth game in the championship. In total, Boozer played eight games and 229 minutes this July. Boozer, who was the top play- er on my draft board, did not shoot particularly well, but the rest of his play got my attention. He looked natural playing power forward at both ends. He was able to move his feet on the perimeter on defense and had enough comfort on the pe- rimeter to create shots. In total, Boozer put up 32 3-pointers and plucked 12 steals in his eight games, both great signs that he has enough pe- rimeter game to hold up as a full-time four next to the enor- mous Zach Edey.
DALLAS MAVERICKS Sergio de Larrea
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Don’t worry about the 27.3 per- cent shooting. De Larrea took most of his shots from 3 and mostly missed them, shooting 4 of 20 from distance. But that’s a small sample size, as he shot 38.8 percent from 3 and 81.1 percent from the line in Spain last year. More notably, de Larrea was the best passer in summer league, particularly when Dallas put the rock in his hands more in the final two games. He racked up 26 dimes in the final two contests and finished his sum- mer with 35 assists against just 12 turnovers in four games. A late first-rounder by the Mavs (25th) who was one of my top sleepers, de Larrea looked the part and could give a big boost to a paper-thin backcourt in Dallas.
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WASHINGTON WIZARDS AJ Dybantsa
I think this guy might be good. Dybantsa played only two games but scored 50 points in 51 minutes and did enough other things that it wasn’t just empty calories. Notably, he had eight “stocks” (steals plus blocks) in his limited burn, comforting for those who were concerned about his defensive tape from Brigham Young. He also showed up on the defensive glass and committed only one foul. Of course, the main story is his scoring ability, and that translated to this environment. In this case, I would say it’s a better omen for the regular season than for most players. Dybantsa looked physically huge on the court relative to most forwards, and his ability to get downhill and change direc- tion at 6-foot-9 makes him an impossible cover once he gets a head of steam. I had Dybantsa second on my board entering the draft, and the only question after Vegas was whether I placed him one spot too low.
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS Meleek Thomas
I know enough to take crazy summer-league scoring from an undersized guard with an entire pillar of salt. But 109 points in 115 minutes is breathtaking stuff, especially for a second-round pick. Thomas’s statistical profile from summer league rounds out better than you might think. He committed only six turnovers in four games while he was drop- ping in all these buckets. He also plucked eight steals. He also showed potency as a spot-up shooter by launching 32 3s and converting 14 of them. (He shot 41.6 percent from 3 in his lone season at Arkansas.) With Thomas on a four-year minimum deal, the apron- constrained Cavs have to feel awfully lucky if they found a rotation piece with the 34th pick.
By JOHN HOLLINGER The Athletic
LAS VEGAS — The first rule of N.B.A. Summer League is to ignore everything you saw at summer league. Three years ago, Victor Wem- banyama was terrible, and Houston’s Cam Whitmore was named the most valuable player of the summer. How did that translate to the real games? That said, there is considerable evi- dence that summer-league perform- ance does at least have some predictive value for the games that actually mat- ter, especially for rookies. The hardest part, however, is to ignore what is right in front of your face, begging you to pay
CHICAGO BULLS Caleb Wilson
The fact that Wilson made seven 3s his first summer game was almost certainly an outlier. How- ever, the fact that he attempted 31 triples in four games is much more notable. Three-point frequency is a key indicator stat from summer league. Wilson took only 27 3-point attempts in his 24 games at North Carolina in the 2025-26 season, but he let it fly more than that in just four games in Vegas. He matched his season total in makes (seven) in the first game. Wilson’s shooting that much from distance, and the results not being atrocious, is a much more positive indica- tor for the idea that he will be able to shoot well enough to open up the rest of his game. Wilson was a ghastly 6 of 21 from the free-throw line and led all summer leaguers in turn- overs despite playing only 110 minutes. Nonetheless, the 3s are reason alone to put him on my positives list.
BROOKLYN NETS Egor Demin
In what was otherwise a fairly depressing summer-league expe- rience for the Nets’ five-man 2025 draft class, Demin was the glaring exception, an outstand- ing bright spot who showed clear progress from his “nothing but 3s” summer of a year ago. He was able to dominate even while going relatively cold from 3 (he made only 13 of his 45 tries), shooting 75.9 percent on 2s, snagging a rebound every five minutes and finishing with 19 dimes against just 10 turnovers. Demin also snagged nine steals in his five games between Vegas and the California Classic. Between his play, the positives from the lottery pick Mikel Brown Jr. and the unexpected emergence of the two-way player Chaney Johnson (who was low- key fantastic), Brooklyn might have enough to offset mostly whiffing on its five 2025 first- round picks.
attention to it at the expense of every- thing else. If you’re going to evaluate summer league at all, let me start here: Buckets. Don’t. Matter. Watching shoot-first combo guards go off for 30 point in a summer-league game is great fun, but most of those players don’t get a green light in a game that matters. In fact, the summer stats that describe what type of player somebody is are of much more value than the ones that describe how good that player is. To wit, frequency of 3-point attempts, assists, rebounds and blocks are much, much stickier categories than a player’s scoring, and especially more predictive than a player’s shooting percentages.
MILWAUKEE BUCKS Brayden Burries
While most of the vaunted crop of rookie guards from the N.C.A.A. ranks struggled, Bur- ries was a glaring exception. The 10th pick out of Arizona was a revelation and may have been the best player in Vegas. He showed a particular knack for powering to the basket with Euro moves in transition to generate layups. He did this despite not being particularly hot from the 3-point line (9 of 26) or the foul line (68 percent), but we know from his college results that Burries can shoot. Instead, he stood out across the box score, most notably that he scored 106 points while com- mitting only three turnovers. Burries also did a solid job on the glass for a 6-4 guard and racked up 12 “stocks” in 125 minutes. On a rebuilding Bucks team, he looks like an opening- night starter.
PHOENIX SUNS Khaman Maluach
After a rocky rookie season, Maluach looked like one of the most improved players in Vegas. While questions about his hands and offensive feel persist, Malu- ach’s sheer size is such an advan- tage that he has a lot of margin for error. The 7-1 native of South Sudan also successfully caught the ball quite often in Vegas, leading summer league in re- bound rate with a monstrous 22.4 percent; that figure included a preposterous 35.0 percent on the defensive glass. Maluach was not as much of a factor on the offensive boards because he spends a lot of his time as a pick-and-pop threat, and on that note, he made 8 of 20 triples in four games. Throw in his obvious impact as a rim protector and dunk threat around the basket, and the Suns may have a rotation-caliber piece to pair with the oft-injured Mark Williams at center.
Nonetheless, some correlation remains between a player’s overall summer-league performance and his regular-season performance in the season to follow. It is even more useful now that the N.B.A. preseason — formerly a much more reliable arbiter of future success — has be- come a hollowed-out charade. With that caveat in mind, let’s get to the fun part: Which players stood out at summer league? And in par- ticular, which players stood out in a way that makes you think they might exceed expectations in the coming season? Here are 12 players worth talking about.
CHARLOTTE HORNETS Hannes Steinbach
Summer-league rebounding translates, and Steinbach was the best rookie rebounder in Vegas. He snagged 46 boards in five games, posting a 20.4 per- cent rebound rate. This was, perhaps, expected, as Steinbach got scouts’ atten- tion at Washington with his nose for the ball and great hands. But in this case, it was the Rainier cherry on top of his stronger- than-expected offensive per- formance. Steinbach was able to rumble to the rim and finish against summer-league competi- tion, raising hopes that he could do the same in the Hornets’ rotation. Also, in an environment where most rookie bigs foul like crazy, Steinbach was whistled for only 11 personal fouls in his 121 min- utes.
MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES Javon Small
If you want a deep cut, try this one. The 2025 second-rounder is on a two-way deal with the Griz- zlies and is going to stay on one for a while, as the Grizzlies need to sort out their 19 guaranteed contracts before the season starts. However, Small is my bet to be this year’s Scotty Pippen Jr.: a player who starts the year on a two-way but is in his team’s rotation the entire season. Small put up good stats in summer league, but on top of that, I cannot emphasize how much he looked the part with his defense, game management and downhill drives. Small had 50 assists against just 13 turnovers in his eight summer-league games, swiped a dozen steals and even blocked three shots. He also held up as a perimeter threat, getting up 43 3s and mak- ing 17 of them. He can play.
TORONTO RAPTORS Allen Graves
Graves was the biggest mystery in the 2026 draft. How would the off-the-charts advanced stats he compiled against the minnows of the West Coast Conference translate against pro talent, especially given his slow-paced, oft-kilter game? The answer: “Awesomely!” The Raptors’ first-rounder, chosen 19th out of Santa Clara, was one of the best players in Vegas. His stat-sheet-stuffing ways carried over, too: He had 13 “stocks” in 110 minutes and averaged seven rebounds and three assists per game. Addition- ally, he had no problem getting up 3s despite concerns about a slow release, averaging one launch every five minutes. He looks like an instant rotation player.
LOS ANGELES LAKERS Arthur Kaluma
Of all the unsigned veteran play- ers at summer league, Kaluma stood out the most. Scouts have been on the 24-year-old since his sophomore year at Creighton. He has the size and athleticism teams crave at the small forward spot and has a killer shot fake. Unfortunately, his feel for the game and shooting touch have never caught up to his physical tools. That may be changing: Kaluma was one of South Bay’s better players a year ago and had a dominant summer-league performance that earned him a two-way deal from the Lakers. His 76.0 true shooting percent- age across seven games (includ- ing two in the California Classic) is unsustainable, but it might not be that great an outlier: Kaluma had a 70.0 true shooting percent- age last season, including shoot- ing 67.3 percent on 2s. He shot well from the perimeter in Vegas and last season in the G League and generates enough layups with his size and athleticism to sustain himself even if he posts average figures in other catego- ries.
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masterpiece by Romare Bearden, ‘Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket.’ Here’s how the two works are intertwined. The Piece of Art That Inspired A Playwright
the unsung designers of the renowned Vienna Workshops.
ON APRIL 5, 1914, Frieda Lagus and Gabi Möschl, two women in their 20s from Vienna, caused a stir when they strode down a Manhattan gangplank “with the latest assured swagger of the female masculine type,” according to a report in The Buffalo Morning Courier. One of these Amazons descended in a man’s straw boater atop an outfit she called her “Futurist Vision,” featuring a skirt with side pockets — placed “where men’s trouser pockets would be,” according to a shocked report in The New York Tribune — with a “mannish” jacket and white shirt and tie to complete what The Courier called “the male effect.” The two women had learned that “effect,” and their swagger, as designers at the great Wiener Werkstätte — the Vienna Work- shops — a design studio and retailer founded in 1903 and known worldwide for its aggressively modern goods. And now the Jewish Museum in New York is giving us a window onto these
BLAKE GOPNIK ART REVIEW
By MAYA PHILLIPS
The artwork above is Romare Bearden’s “Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket.” It’s a 1978 pho- tomontage — a collage of paper and fabric with watercolor, graphic pencil, gouache and felt-tip pen — depicting the occupants of a boardinghouse by an artist who was, at the time of his death, the country’s foremost collagist. The collage also happens to be the com- positional key to one of the great works of American theater. The playwright August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize winner for “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson,” drew inspiration
Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte The Jewish Museum
radical women, and their tastes, in a thrilling show called “Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werk- stätte.” It pulls together more that 200 ob- jects designed at the Werkstätte over the company’s three-decade life. Although the museum has chosen to focus on Werkstätte women who were born Jewish (about 25 percent of the firm’s female artists), I don’t see that ethnic identity is truly at stake in this show; gender is its very vital subject. The exhibition doesn’t only do the now- common practice job of spotlighting the work of talented women overshadowed by their male contemporaries, the way the fe- male staff at Tiffany & Company have re- cently been given credit once reserved for their bosses. Going further, it presents a new fresh im- age of the Werkstätte, and of the women there who crafted a whole new idea of how a woman might be — no longer a modest and seemly helpmeet to men, but someone with the power and courage to make a mark.
from the piece for “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” a standout in his 10-play Century Cy- cle, focused on the residents of the predomi- nantly Black Hill District in Pittsburgh. You see a woman in yellow on the move, while a man in a dark coat and hat sits slumped at a table. Look closer and you’ll see their hands are weathered and large. A child at the table drinks a glass of milk, while, from a framed picture on the wall, a grandmother figure in white keeps watch. In the upper-right corner of the painting, the industrial Pittsburgh setting is clear, with smoke billowing from steel mills.
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ROMARE BEARDEN FOUNDATION/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY
CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES AND HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART; PHOTOGRAPH BY CARTER SEDDON
Of Wall Space
Sound,’ by Betty Parsons, is in a Bard College retrospective focusing on that gallerist’s own art. Review, Page 6.
including a dance festival at the edge of Manhattan and movie nights aplenty.
Members of Battery Dance at last year’s Battery Dance Festival. The event is at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park from Aug. 10 to 16.
SUMMER FOR THE CITY Through Aug. 8 at Lincoln Center, Manhattan; lincolncenter.org.
As this festival of free and pay-what-you- wish cultural events comes to a close, performances from the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center continue, while the BAAND Together Dance Festival begins on Tuesday. Chinese Arts Week ends on Sunday with the zither jazz of Qi Yu. Musi- cians from across Africa perform at the Lincoln Center Plaza dance floor on Aug. 1, and from Aug. 5 to 8, the Dance Encoun- ters series presents Vangeline, who has created a work for the Milstein Reflecting Pool.
BATTERY DANCE FESTIVAL Aug. 10-16 at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, Manhattan; batterydance.org.
For a week in August, starting at 7 p.m., New York’s longest-running free dance festival presents troupes on a stage at the edge of Manhattan, with the setting sun as a stunning backdrop. This year’s lineup includes groups such as Soles of Duende, Bodysonnet, Jon Lehrer Dance Company, Estúdio Movimento em Foco and, of course, Battery Dance.
BATTERY PARK CITY SUMMER Through Aug. 28 at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, Rockefeller Park and other locations in Lower Manhattan; bpca.ny.gov.
There’s about a month of summer pro- gramming left at these picturesque parks in Lower Manhattan. On Saturday, Battery Dance celebrates the U.S. Semiquincen- tennial with “America 250: Moving To- gether.” The River & Blues series ends with a concert by Amelia Day on Thurs- day. And Ailey II closes out the season with a performance and a workshop.
INTREPID SUMMER MOVIE SERIES Through Aug. 28 at the Intrepid Museum, West 46th Street and 12th Avenue, Manhattan; intrepidmuseum.org.
The museum’s free film series continues its celebration of the nation’s 250th birth- day with “National Treasure” and “An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.” Movies are shown on the flight deck beginning at sunset on the last Friday of the month through August. Admission is first come first served.
SUMMER HD FESTIVAL Sept. 2-8 at Lincoln Center Plaza, Manhattan; metopera.org.
What better way to get ready for the com- ing season at the Metropolitan Opera than to sit in the plaza outside its theater and take in some its best performances cap- tured on film? This year’s festival includes recordings of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isol- de,” Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” and Puccini’s “La Bohème.” Admission to these free screenings, which start around sunset, is first come first served.
SHAKESPEARE FOR THE CITY Through Sept. 8 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan; publictheater.org.
The second Shakespeare play at the Dela- corte this season, “The Winter’s Tale,” starts its monthlong run on Saturday. Then, from Sept. 4 to 8, Public Works’ “Public Record” tries to capture the city’s end-of-summer zeitgeist in live tapings featuring more than 100 performers.
The jazz musician Esperanza Spalding will perform on Governors Island on Aug. 8.
“La Bohème” will be among the Metropolitan Opera’s features at its Summer HD Festival.
BRYANT PARK PICNIC PERFORMANCES Through Sept. 11 at Bryant Park, Manhattan; bryantpark.org.
At this Midtown oasis, lineups for the New York Guitar Festival, the Choir Festival and the Emerging Music Festival, all of which are in August, were recently ex- panded. Meanwhile, Carnegie Hall City- wide presents the NYC Ska Orchestra on Friday and El Laberinto del Coco on July 31. The season ends with a concert for the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11.
PARAMOUNT+ MOVIE NIGHTS AT BRYANT PARK Through Sept. 14 at Bryant Park, Manhattan; bryantpark.org.
For more than 30 years, this summer treat has given us at least one reason to like Mondays. This year’s lineup includes “The Truman Show,” “No Country for Old Men” and “Galaxy Quest.” Arrive at 5 p.m. to grab a spot, sample the food selection curated by Hester Street Fair, and enjoy some beer, wine or cocktails from Stout NYC. Screenings start at 8 p.m.
MOVIES WITH A VIEW PRESENTED BY PERSOL Through Sept. 18 on Pier 1 Harbor View Lawn at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn; brooklynbridgepark.org.
On Thursdays nights, this Brooklyn Bridge Park series offers one of the best ways to enjoy a movie in summer — out- doors with the skyline of Lower Manhat- tan in view. This year’s roster features “Clueless,” “Do the Right Thing” and “Bridesmaids.” At the beginning of Au- gust, the public gets to vote online for which film is shown on Aug. 27. Screen- ings start at sundown.
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BRIC CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! Through Sept. 19 at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park, Brooklyn; bricartsmedia.org.
This weekend, BRIC presents Jazz at the Bandshell with the headliner Cindy Black- man Santana Group on Friday, and on Saturday, it returns to Brower Park in Crown Heights with a block party cele- brating dance music. In August, highlights include Lyricist Lounge’s 35th Anniversa- ry concert and Sasha Velour. Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney close out the season with a benefit concert on Sept. 19. Many perform- ances are free and first come first served, but some charge admission.
ROB LEWIS
RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL Through Sept. 27 on Governors Island and Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, Manhattan; lmcc.net/river-to-river-2026.
This celebration of the city’s resilience and creativity continues at Wagner Park with a concert from Esperanza Spalding on Aug. 8 and a commissioned work from the choreographer Bill T. Jones on Sept. 10, 12 and 13. At L.M.C.C.’s Arts Center at Gover- nors Island, Leslie Wayne’s landscape paintings of melting icebergs and multi- media pieces on climate science are on view through Sept. 27.
SUMMER ON THE HUDSON Through Sept. 30 at Riverside Park South and West Harlem Piers Park, Manhattan; nycgovparks.org.
Halfway through the season, this River- side Conservancy and NYC Parks series still has scores of activities to offer. Among the standouts is the Hudson Classical Theater Company, which wraps up its run of performances near the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument with “The Dancing Men” through Aug 16. Special events include the Fly NYC kite festival on Aug. 15, the West Side County Fair on Sept. 6, and Sketch Jam, a chance to channel your inner artist, on Aug. 30, Sept. 5 and Oct. 4.
SUMMERSTAGE Through Oct. 1 at various city parks; cityparksfoundation.org/summerstage.
This summertime staple continues its celebration of 40 years of bringing music to the city’s parks. On Sunday, the Festival Latinidades and the Afro-Latino Festival NYC present a showcase at Rumsey Play- field in Central Park featuring Luedji Luna and Susana Baca. Doug E. Fresh will be in Crotona Park in the Bronx on July 31. And the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival takes over Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem at the end of August with a lineup that in- cludes Ravi Coltrane. Many performances are free and first come first served, but some charge admission.
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK SUMMER PROGRAMMING Through Oct. 17 at Brooklyn Bridge Park; brooklynbridgepark.org.
This park’s calendar is still full of cultural experiences on par with its breathtaking views. Brooklyn Americana Music brings a night of country, folk and bluegrass to the Greenway Terrace on Friday. At Pier 6, Herbert Holler’s Freedom Party takes the disco outdoors on Aug. 29, and Papi Juice, a D.J. collective, hosts one last Saturday night dance party on Sept. 19. The Hindu lamp ceremony returns to Pebble Beach on Aug. 8, and the Harvest Festival caps off the season.
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Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog’s “Aguirre, the Wrath of God.”
‘AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD’ (1972) On Tubi
Like an impossible dream, a trail of men descends from the clouds on Christmas morning. This is how Werner Herzog’s epic begins before devolving into an enduringly fascinating plunge into madness. Tracking a group of explorers on their quest for the treasures of El Dorado and strung along by the Spanish conquistador Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), the film is a sweat-soaked medi- tation on the delusions of men, willfully drunk on power and fantasies of fortune. Off they stubbornly push into their own heart of darkness, even if it leaves them delirious and dead. Starting in the clouds, the movie ends with monkeys swarming cannons, bodies strewed everywhere, and a pacing Aguirre still muttering about worlds to conquer, treasures to discover. History, its violence and what we often call its progress, is shaped by these men. (So too are great films: You can sense the madness onscreen is also a document of the infamously difficult production.) But this story, an inspiration to other grim epics like “Apocalypse Now,” is both funny and uneventful. It’s a treatise on colonialism that is partly brilliant for showing the daily reality of conquest: hungry fools just sitting, waiting and wasting away.
‘THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE’ (1974) On YouTube
This might be the quintessential New York movie. Here is a vision of the city as it perhaps really exists: its motley arms — its cops and criminals, its politicians and people, its transit riders and operators — interacting and working together, all while being unendingly irked with one another. It’s a movie, in other words, about being stuck on the subway. But at its core this is an old-school thriller, and one that’s all the better for its age. Directed by Joseph Sargent and following a group of hijackers holding subway riders hostage, it’s the kind of tactile 1970s caper where the subway control room is as thrillingly atmospheric as the train car of hostages. Yet it’s as funny and charming as it is gritty because of all the men (including Walter Matthau) in those very spaces. They are the types of people who were everywhere, enlivening the screen, in the ’70s: profane, weathered beyond their years and first-rate performers who all looked like your gruff neighborhood plumber.
‘RAN’ (1985) On Tubi
There are fancy superlatives one can conjure to define the maj- esty and tragedy of this Akira Kurosawa masterpiece. They would all feel reductive. The better way to describe it is to flip the definition, to say that it is the film itself that appears to de- fine those elemental ideas: words like epic, or color, or cinema, or Shakespeare. A loose adaptation of “King Lear,” Kurosawa’s monumental saga chronicles the fallout of a king’s sudden decision to cede his authority and land to his sons. The swift chaos that ensues can feel paradoxical, flitting between the intimacy and self-contain- ment of a parable that feels like it’s playing out on a theater stage, intercut with blood-soaked set pieces of staggering sweep and grandeur. Saying more pales in comparison to experiencing this opus, of scale and motion, of sound and color, which speaks for itself.
‘MOON’ (2009) On PlutoTV
A two-hander made up of one star, this is a streamlined space movie buoyed by Sam Rockwell. He plays Sam Bell, a solitary man on the moon who is on a three-year contract to run a mining operation for an energy company. But in the final days of his stint, his mind begins to fray and an accident leads him to wake up to another identical Sam Bell aboard the station. Cue the existential crisis. You’ll see shades of other sci-fi films blended up in here, and the film, directed by Duncan Jones, has the self-contained qual- ity of a short story of sci-fi cinema rather than a sweeping space opera. But that can be its own reward on a low-budget work like this, which stretches its dollar to build a complete world and has the charisma of a performer like Rockwell to sell it.
Dev Patel plays Gawain in David Lowery’s “The Green Knight.”
‘THE GREEN KNIGHT’ (2021) On Tubi
Is this really all there is? When Gawain (Dev Patel), shuddering at death’s door, asks this, he has traveled far and wide: He has been robbed, aided a ghostly saint, walked among demigods, been seduced by a temptress — all of which leads to him will- ingly bending over a chopping block. Do we live out adventures simply because the stories tell us to? And do we then just offer our heads because some arbitrary ideal of honor says so? “What else ought there be?” So replies the Green Knight (Ralph Ineson) to Gawain. David Lowery’s entrancing tale about the adventures of young Gawain finding the stuff of knighthood seems at once ambivalent to and fascinated with this answer to the course of life and history. Lowery’s masterwork is among the most elegant and formally transportive works of fantasy in recent years, but it’s most ambi- tious and peculiar as a fable about the random, yet meaningful pull of fables. Men see and do great and grave things. They encounter magic in the woods, are prone to folly, find greatness and tell tales of it or are beheaded — all because that is what the stories dictate. What else ought there be?
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The London stage adaptation of a gritty, squalid 1996 film chooses a different track.
LONDON — It was always going to be a tall order. “Trainspotting,” Danny Boyle’s 1996 movie about the drug-fueled misadven- tures of five Edinburgh misfits, seems an odd fit for musical treatment. Yes, there’s drama aplenty as the junkie protagonist, Mark Renton, sees his friends’ lives de- stroyed by drug use before he eventually re- alizes that the banalities of a respectable ex- istence are preferable to the squalor of ad- diction, and resolves to “choose life.” But up until that epiphany, the tone of the movie, with its grim sardonicism, sleazy soundtrack — a mix of post-punk, indie and electronica — and ironized, profanity-laden aggression, is far from didactic. That was what made it brilliant, and it doesn’t trans- late easily to musical theater. Still, “Trainspotting: The Musical,” timed to coincide with the film’s 30th anniversary, tries to bridge this gap. Irvine Welsh, whose 1993 novel inspired the movie, has written the book for this adaptation — which is di- rected by Caroline Jay Ranger and runs at the Theater Royal Haymarket here through Sept. 5 — and has co-written its songs with Stephen McGuinness. The attempt fails dismally, despite the ad- mirable efforts of the leading man Lewis Kidd, who signed up at late notice to play Renton after the original actor was injured in rehearsals. Kidd leads an upbeat group rendition of Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” in the opening scene, but over the next two and a half hours we learn the human cost of he- donism. A baby dies from neglect. Tommy (Finlay Paul) is dumped by his long-suffering girl- friend, Lizzie (Sophie Hutchinson), gets ad- dicted to heroin and dies of AIDS. To avoid a similar fate, Renton goes cold turkey and spins into hallucinations with the rest of the cast hovering over him, gyrating to techno. The exasperation of concerned parents, girlfriends and exes forms the melodra- matic meat of the show. Musically, it’s a nonevent. Welsh and McGuinness’s songs are instantly forget- table. “Rolling With the Punches” is an in- sipid paean to resilience, and “One Skin Too Few” is a sentimental ballad about young men falling by the wayside. A spiky number
Apologizes For Old Sketch
By REGGIE UGWU
Jason Alexander, the former “Seinfeld” actor, shared an apology on Tuesday for his participation in a comedy sketch that sexualized the actress Courtney Stodden more than a decade ago, when she was 17. In the 2012 sketch, published by the defunct comedy website Funny or Die, Alexander played a quack life coach who rubs a phone against Stod- den’s breasts, purporting to measure the “quality of her heart.” Later in the sketch, Alexander’s character sits himself between Stodden and her hus- band at the time, the actor Doug Hutchison, and rests his hands on her knees. “Looking back at the comedy sketch in which Ms. Stodden and I participated in 2012, I completely agree that it was inappropriate and I truly regret it,” Alexander said in a statement, published earlier by TMZ. “But more importantly, I am deeply sorry for any harm or distress it has caused Ms. Stodden. I offer her my sincerest apologies.” Stodden initially gained media at- tention for her marriage in 2011, at 16, to Hutchison, who was then 51. The couple discussed their relationship and age gap in news interviews and on television shows, including “Couples Therapy” and “Celebrity Big Brother.” They divorced in 2020. A representative for Alexander did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Stodden said in a statement on Wednesday that she appreciated the public apology. But, she added: “People keep asking if he’s apologized privately, and he hasn’t. A private apology would be meaningful, but meaningful action would be even more powerful,” such as supporting a current California bill to end child marriage. On Monday, Stodden had shared a post on Instagram criticizing Alexan- der for his involvement in the sketch, noting that he was credited as one of its writers. “I don’t see comedy,” she wrote. “I see a 17-year-old girl whose body be- came part of an adult joke.” In recent years, Stodden has spo- ken out about her treatment by adults when she was a minor.
From left, Lewis Kidd, Kieran Andrew and Sheridan Townsley in “Trainspotting: The Musical.”
Trainspotting: The Musical Through Sept. 5 at the Theater Royal Haymarket in London; trh.co.uk.
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From left: Cedric the Entertainer, Joshua Boone and Savannah Commodore in the August Wilson play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” at the Barrymore Theater.
Transmission towers and rail tracks evoke migration. Wilson, a son of Pittsburgh, was immediately drawn to Bearden’s work — and inspired. This is how “Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket” led Wilson to write what he once called his best play.
Collaging Black Identity When Wilson spoke about his influences, he would refer to the four “B’s”: Romare Bear- den, Amiri Baraka, Jorge Luis Borges and the blues. He discovered Bearden in 1977, when “The Prevalence of Ritual,” a 1964 series of Bearden’s collages collected in a volume, captured his attention. Bearden used his collages to piece together bustling portraits of Black life: Black people communing at home or in the streets, playing music or per- forming rites of passage. “What I saw was Black life presented on its own terms, on a grand and epic scale,” Wilson wrote. When he later saw “Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket,” he envisioned the beginnings of a new work that drew from Bearden’s depiction. “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” is what followed, a work that has been durable and relevant since its 1988 Broadway premiere, including the latest Tony-nominated Broadway revival. Bearden wasn’t just an inspiration to Wil- son in terms of the subjects in his work but also this style of composition. In The New York Times in 1991, in an article adapted from a talk given at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, Wilson wrote: “I admire Ro- mare Bearden a lot; he’s a collagist, he pieces things together — I discovered that that’s part of my process, what I do. I piece it all together, and, hopefully, have it make sense, the way a collage would.” In both Bearden and Wilson there’s a sense of collage being the most appropriate approach to depicting the complexity of the Black experience. The totality of Black American life includes slavery and emanci- pation, juba and jazz, root conjuring and church worship. And it includes the artists who use different means to express all of this, like Bearden and Wilson. “I called to my courage and entered the world of Romare Bearden and found a world made in my image,” Wilson wrote in “Bearden: Black Life on its Own Terms.” “A world of flesh and muscle and blood and bone and fire. A world made of scraps of pa- per, of line and mass and form and shape and color, and all the melding of grace and birds and trains and guitars and women bathing and men with huge hands and hearts, pressing on life until it gave back something in kinship.”
The Mysterious Herald Loomis In the latest revival of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” directed by Debbie Allen, Joshua Boone plays a sullen Herald Loomis. Wilson first saw Herald in “the haunting and brooding figure” at the center of “Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket.” Dressed in a long, black coat and looking from underneath a wide-brimmed hat, Her- ald resembles a shadow or devilish specter. He seems like something different from a flesh-and-blood man; a man “driven not by the hellhounds that seemingly bay at his heels, but by his search for a world that speaks to something about himself,” Wilson
about economic inequality, “Youth Opportu- nities,” is apparently inspired by a similarly titled song by the Scottish punk band the Exploited, but its power chords sound more heavy metal than punk. The song’s rage feels contrived, and inadvertently a little kitschy. The songs tend to interrupt the action rather than moving it along, even as the performers also belt out a couple of the best- known songs from the movie soundtrack, including Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day.” The
wrote in stage directions. Compared with the worker in the paint- ing making his way out the door and the woman dressed up to go out, this sad figure of a man in the play seems completely lost. Wilson was drawn to this character and started to imagine his story. At the time Wilson encountered Bear- den’s painting he was working on a series of poems called “Restoring the House,” about a freed slave searching for his wife, who had been sold to another plantation owner. Wil- son started to write a short story called “The Matter of Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket,” about the dejected-looking man in Bear- den’s painting, but after about a dozen pages he abandoned it and started writing a play instead. The man became Herald Loomis, the wandering soul in search of his wife in “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.”
The Working Hand Perhaps the most prominent feature of “Mill Hand’s Lunch Bucket” are the over- size hands in the painting. The man de- scending the stairs is dressed for work in his coat and hat, and an enormous hand reaches forward for his lunch bucket. He’s endowed with a purpose, that colossal hand a visual synecdoche meant to signify a working man. Hands represent how various Black char- acters in the play employ themselves, and build their identity around their means of employment. Bynum, a freed slave, says he can tell when a man has hands that have picked cotton; Seth, who was born a free man up North, vehemently denies that he’s ever picked cotton. Work then also becomes a signifier of how connected the characters are to the country’s history of enslavement. Who prof- its from these working hands? A white em- ployer, a white slaver or oneself? Work isn’t just a matter of finances or economics; it’s inextricably tied to race.
Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony,” which was not in the movie (the song was released in 1997), is thrown in as filler. The cast does what it can to bring the ma- terial to life. The elfin Sheridan Townsley doesn’t entirely convince as the philander- ing Sick Boy, whose defining trait is his in- terest in women “of every race, creed and color,” but at least he has a singing voice to make up for it. As the unhinged hard-man Francis Beg- bie, known as Franco, Frankie O’Connor
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stomps around the stage dropping F-bombs and C-bombs as if such talk is going out of fashion — which, in truth, it kind of has. The darkly comic menace with which Robert Carlyle imbued the role in the movie is not much in evidence here. The pick of the bunch is Kieran Andrew as the gangly, endearingly dimwitted petty thief Spud, who gets most of the laughs. He soils his bedsheets, chats voluble gibberish at a job interview after taking speed and at one point expresses bafflement as to why Renton has burst into song, before gamely joining in. This, sadly, is as good as it gets. The witti- er moments are drowned out by unearned emoting and soppy sociological platitudes about why people take drugs. “Heroin loves misery and misery loves company” is a line
A show seems devised to trigger memories of a cinematic experience.
Welsh evidently considered strong enough to have Renton utter it not once but twice. Yet to complain that “Trainspotting: The Musical” is limp and aesthetically incoher- ent is to miss the point. Because the true purpose of a show like this is not to create fresh sensations or tell a story from scratch, but simply to trigger memories of having watched the film the first time around and other memories associated with having been younger back then. Its pleasures are those of the cruise ship tribute band, and the generation that came of age in the 1990s — many members of which gladly paid hundreds of pounds for Oasis tickets last year — has entered its nostalgia era. (In the theater bar, I over- heard a group of people in their 40s dis- cussing their recently weakened bladders in tones of amused novelty.) One can’t help thinking that a straight-up jukebox musical would have worked better for these purposes. It would certainly have been fun to watch the company render Un- derworld’s mesmerically repetitious 11- and-a-half-minute electronic classic, “Born Slippy,” which accompanies the climactic scene in the movie. Instead, they reprise “Perfect Day,” which feels like a cop-out. But low creative risk is par for the course with lowest-common-denominator nostal- gia. So much for choosing life.
by David Gallo, also evokes this time of growth and movement in Pittsburgh: A gi- ant backdrop shows an iron bridge and the smoke stacks of steel mills. Wilson set the play in the early years of the Great Migration, when millions of Black Americans moved from the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West in search of jobs. Early in the play Seth scoffs at the idea that so many Black people have been trav- eling north for jobs not knowing that “the white fellows looking too” and in no time start earning more than the Black workers. So the steel mill may represent new jobs but it’s a false promise, another example of the American dream offering the very least to Black Americans.
FILM REVIEW Daughter In Danger, Audience In Shock
Nicolas Winding Refn’s first feature in 10 years is a lurid, gruesome fairy tale.
IN A 2013 INTERVIEW with The Irish Times, the Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn was asked if he viewed himself as a pornographer. “Yes,” he replied, “it’s all fetish for me. I make films about the things that arouse me at different times.” Some of those things have so far included coolly alluring women, predatory men, neon lighting and hacked-off body parts, all of which are resur- rected for “Her Private Hell,” his first theatrical feature since “The Neon Demon” in 2016. What they add up to here is a jamboree of genres — horror, murder mystery, psychodrama — in service to a plot (by Refn and Esti Giordani) so laughable and perform- ances so stylized that it’s impossible to appreciate the movie as anything other than an oversaturated, surreal spoof. Perhaps of Refn himself. Only he knows for sure, but while we ponder, we have Pino Donaggio’s lush, swooning score to hold our atten- tion. (We surely need something, as for all Refn’s pulpy past indulgences, he has never been this mannered or this phlegmatic.) That score, perva- sive and hypnotic, is the movie’s life- line and the anchor that prevents it from spinning completely off its axis. The music is also a signpost — via Donaggio’s memorable collabora- tions with Dario Argento and Brian De Palma — to Refn’s most obvious in- fluences. Psychosexual themes pro- pelled by lurid violence are a recur- ring turn-on, and “Her Private Hell” is no exception. Set in a foggy, futuristic city (accu- rately described in the press notes as a “pulsating dreamscape”), the film fixates on Elle (Sophie Thatcher), a young starlet shooting cheesy sci-fi in a luxurious hotel suite. Elle can scarcely engage with her prancing, tinfoil-bedecked co-stars, so dis-
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Her Private Hell Rated R for a monster in the mist, drugs in the nose and a dagger in the eye. Running time: 1 hour 49 minutes. In theaters.
tracted is she by family drama. Her onetime best friend, Dominique (Ha- vana Rose Liu), is now married to Elle’s father, the movie magnate Johnny Thunders (Dougray Scott). Considering the sexual tension rico- cheting among them, it’s hard to de- termine who is more jealous of whom. Before we can decide, we’re in post- World War II Tokyo, where an Ameri- can G.I. named Private Kay (Charles Melton) is frantically hunting for the daughter he believes has been spir- ited off to Hell. When not battling a plus-size assailant — in a children’s clothing store, of all places — Kay stares catatonically at the camera, a matinee idol in military drag. Else- where, a monster known as the Leatherman is also prowling for daughters, sneaking up behind them and ripping them in two with hands encased in diamond-encrusted gloves. Elle may be in danger, but she should be more concerned about a fa- ther who lights matches on his teeth and a stepmom who barks. Charac- ters here don’t converse so much as spout crackpot non sequiturs (“I am a victim of the mist”), and how any of them keeps a straight face is the mov- ie’s real mystery. The artificiality and affectation are off the charts. Baffling and at times perversely beautiful, “Her Private Hell” revisits some of the obsessions — murdered daughters, amputation, problematic parenting — of Refn’s wildly superior 2013 revenge tale, “Only God For- gives.” A dazzlingly gifted filmmaker, Refn will always have a place in my heart for his unwavering commitment to his scarlet-soaked visions, critics and audiences be damned. Now, though, he may simply be repeating himself. “Making a movie is like going to war,” Johnny informs Elle. Perhaps even with yourself.
Lush Romance in Uncertain Times
In Lebanon, past and present, a couple try to overcome fear with shared fantasy and love.
MANY OF THE GREAT cinematic love stories take place against the backdrop of war — “Casablanca,” “Doctor Zhivago,” “Cold War,” “Reds” — for reasons that emerge nat- urally. The conflict lends itself to tales of separation and reunion, for one. The stakes of the romance go up, too. In any kind of life you might lose your beloved; in a life lived during a time of destruction and death, sud- den and tragic loss seems more plausible. “A Sad and Beautiful World” fits some of the contours of the classic wartime ro- mance, with its multidecade love story hap- pening amid periods of havoc and instabil- ity in Beirut, Lebanon. But the story it tells is more intimate than epic, and somehow more contemporary as well, with a pressing question at its core: How do we retain our humanity when the world is full of atroci- ties? The writer and director Cyril Aris has ru- minated on this question for a while. His previous film, “Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano,” is a documentary shot during an- other film’s production, which was inter- rupted by the staggering 2020 port explo- sions in Beirut. The film shows a group of artists scrambling to decide whether, and how, they can go on with the shoot when forces far beyond their control intervene. The documentary builds toward a haunting question: Why — and how — can you make art in the midst of anxiety, fear and suffer- ing? The film being made during “Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano” is “Costa Brava, Leb- anon,” which Aris edited and which opened in theaters in the United States in 2022. That movie’s director, Mounia Akl, who also wrote the story with Clara Roquet, stars in “A Sad and Beautiful World” as Yasmina, a high-powered businesswoman whose life takes a turn, thanks to love or fate or both. After an easygoing restaurateur, Nino
FILM REVIEW There Must Be a Way To Fill a Family’s Void
A couple brings home an artificial replacement of their son.
FOR AN AUTEUR whose work has been rooted in human dramas — loss, unspoken love and familial disconnection among ordi- nary people — it might come as a surprise to see the Japanese master filmmaker Hi- rokazu Kore-eda explore android genre ter- ritory in “Sheep in the Box.” Yet, across an oeuvre haunted by the notion of absences, this story about a robot boy coming home to a couple grieving their late son appears as an inevitable progression. After all, most stories about artificial life are about interrogating humanity: what makes one truly human, what it means to have a soul, what connects us. Add the pain of missing a loved one and an ache to fill the void and you have a trademark Kore-eda work. Yet from that angle, “Sheep in the Box” is a halfhearted rehash of both the di- rector’s past ideas and the familiar ques- tions behind so many speculative science- fiction stories, all while abandoning that delicate emotional touch that makes the di- rector’s work so special. Most immediately, “Sheep” calls to mind Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelli- gence,” in its broad structure: After the loss of their young son, Kakeru (Rimu Kuwaki), a couple bring home a robot imitator to re-
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Top and above, Mounia Akl and Hasan Akil in “A Sad and Beautiful World,” a story told through the characters’ eyes as children and as adults.
Sheep in the Box Rated PG. In Japanese, with subtitles. Running time: 2 hours 6 minutes. In theaters.
place him, and eventually the clone finds himself in communion with other androids. Yet, Kore-eda’s film is a story of half-meas- ures, winding up but never achieving flight. It’s not fair to judge Kore-eda on how he riffs, or doesn’t, on Spielberg’s film, and yet “Sheep” nevertheless feels like it’s perpetu- ally mired in the rising action of a film like “A.I.,” circling in that space before real drama unfolds. There are multiple intriguing strands that it never manages to fully unfurl: the mystery of what exactly led to Kakeru’s death; the internal tear it created within his parents; the existential ambivalence that bonds the robot Kakeru with other bots. When the film reaches a drawn-out conclu- sion of swelling emotions, it’s as if we’re watching a transcendent culmination of segments that were mysteriously left on the cutting room floor. The ingredients here are all of the messy and painful interpersonal conflicts that we’ve seen before from Kore-eda. “Sheep” ultimately lives in the shadow of his other
(Hasan Akil), accidentally crashes his car into Yasmina’s mother’s business, the two meet, soon realizing that they already know each other. When they were 7, they were schoolmates and childhood sweethearts. But Yasmina’s family situation took her away from Nino, and he has spent decades hoping to meet her again. Aris weaves the present-tense timeline into the childhood one, showing us the rea- sons that Nino and Yasmina have grown into the adults they are. Both grew up with the sound of explosions as a constant com- panion, never quite sure if they were hear- ing missiles or fireworks. Both yearn for a safe place to rest and find that place in each other. But whereas Nino, raised by his grandfather, has turned into an optimist, with a lighthearted joke for every situation, Yasmina has gone in the other direction. Her parents’ breakup has left her skeptical about love, and her childhood makes her re- luctant to bring children into a world like this one. Aris manages to infuse both perspec- tives, Nino’s and Yasmina’s, into the film, which is funny, even joyous, without dis- counting the darkness that lives just out- side (and sometimes inside) the walls of its characters’ homes. They dance and laugh and eat well and celebrate. They also worry,
most moving films, while borrowing from them in piecemeal fashion: the hovering ghost of a lost son in “Still Walking”; the swapped sons of “Like Father, Like Son”; the chosen family of “Shoplifters” and “No- body Knows.” At its core, the film is burdened by an un- derdeveloped script, but there is also the subtle, richly poetic observations innate to those past films that is missing here. There are moments of exception, including a scene involving an altercation with police, as a train churns violently across the screen in the foreground. We’re reminded of that gut-punch of emotion that Kore-eda often induces. It’s a potent jolt, but a brief one — everything else feels artificial.
A Sad and Beautiful World Not rated. In Arabic, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes. In theaters.
as conflict reignites, about the cost of food, about the electricity that isn’t on at night, about whether this is any kind of a life at all, or if they’d be better off somewhere else. The two moods intertwine effectively, sometimes within the same scene, as Nino and Yasmina return to their shared child- hood fantasy: that they might travel togeth- er to “the Island,” a place where they’ll be secure and warm, where the power is al- ways on and the sun is bright and they never need to fear guns, war or missiles. Most romances pivot on the lovers’ yearning for each other as they overcome obstacles to be together. In “A Sad and Beautiful World,” the same feeling of long- ing suffuses the story, with the cinemato- grapher Joe Saade often cropping more than the suggestion of others out of the frame so that we can concentrate on Nino and Yasmina’s feelings and their electric connection. Sometimes they succeed in cre- ating their own two-person universe, where no world outside can intrude, the way peo- ple can in the presence of their beloved. But by the midpoint of the story, we real- ize that the ache they both carry is not only for each other. They wish for “the Island,” for the bright place they have imagined to- gether, and know that it is only their connec- tion to each other that can bring them peace. The love they share seems unbreak- able, but the conflict that has shadowed both their lives is trying to break it anyhow. Is it possible to live a real life when the world around you is crumbling? When forces beyond your control make the condi- tions of life dangerous, how and why should you keep on living? The answer the film has is not conclusive, because there’s no conclusive answer to give. The world is sad, and it is beautiful, and we are left to figure out what we do with it.
From left, Haruka Ayase, Rimu Kuwaki and Daigo Yamamoto in “Sheep in the Box,” a film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Playing Games With Oddballs
‘Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar’ now pits tennis against pickleball.
Eva Noblezada in “Hadestown: The Musical,” a performance filmed last year in London’s West End.
Hadestown: The Musical Not rated. Running time: 2 hours 12 minutes. In theaters.
Way down we go in Ha- destown’s capitalist hell, the camera giving viewers access through the turntable’s center at the stage. There are perks to watching this live cap- ture of “Hadestown,” which ar- rived on Broadway in 2019 with its New Orleans-style blues and jazz sound; even the best seat in the house can’t guarantee that view. Filmed in 2025 in London’s West End and featuring the origi- nal Broadway run’s principal cast, this production underscores why “Hadestown” won eight Tony Awards, including best musical. The result is its own kind of tri- umph. André De Shields, superb as Hermes, guides a story so familiar that its fans could almost narrate it themselves. It begins with the young lovers Orpheus (an excellent Reeve Carney) and Eurydice (Eva No- blezada, her vocal force magnified by the movie’s intimacy), whose romance is tested when, driven by desperation to escape poverty, Eurydice is lured by Hades (Pat- rick Page, mesmeric) into the underworld. There, Hades’s rela- tionship with Persephone (a riotously freewheeling Amber Gray) has been fractured. A tight shot reveals the weary hope on
THE IDEA of a golden age is almost always fiction. But I think it’s objectively true that the studio comedy fell on hard times when Hollywood went all-in on chasing I.P., and it hasn’t recovered. Most of the truly funny general-audience comedies — movies with jokes, basically — seem to have migrated toward television. Or else they’ve been rele- gated to streaming platforms, where even a good one will never have the cultural im- pact of a “Bridesmaids” or “The Hangover.” For a comedy to stick, you’ve got to share the laughs with other people. There are a few recent exceptions, like “Barbie,” “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” and “Naked Gun.” And one of my favorite studio comedies, the lightly absurdist “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” has managed to become something of a cult classic even though it was released during the pandemic. That movie’s director, Josh Greenbaum, has made a few other films since then — the middling talking-dog com- edy “Strays,” the excellent documentary “Will & Harper” — but his latest, “The Dink,” returns to the studio comedy for- mula: a few stars, a goofy premise and some pratfalls and gags. Unfortunately, this one seems bound to drift out of memory pretty quickly, and not just because it’s going straight to stream- ing. Written by Sean Clements, “The Dink”
Eurydice’s tearful face afforded to few in Rachel Chavkin’s stage production. Brett Sullivan directs this pro-shot like a concert film, occasionally panning to the ebul- lient audience. Even though the cutaways sacrifice onstage mo- ments, the risk pays off. His deli- cate camerawork, moving with the rhythms of Anaïs Mitchell’s soulful score, immerses viewers in the musical. Near the end, as suspense builds from an extreme close-up of Hermes’s shoes tapping their way into the scene, it’s clear that Sullivan isn’t just honoring the stage production. He is showing us what only cinema can.
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72 Hours Rated R for language, themes, you name it. Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes. Watch on Netflix.
Who among us has not at some point nodded sagely along when Stevie Nicks poignantly rasps “Now I’m getting older too” on the Fleetwood Mac song “Land- slide”? The condition is unavoid- able. Even Kevin Hart, the spark- plug comedic performer whose breakneck energy implies a kind of eternal youth, isn’t immune to the slings and arrows of middle- age aches and pains. In “72 Hours,” directed by Hart’s fre- quent collaborator Tim Story, the actor plays a younger man. While
Mary Steenburgen and Jake Johnson in “The Dink,” a comedy written by Sean Clements and directed by Josh Greenbaum. The movie is named for a shot in pickleball.
The Dink Rated PG-13 for some language and a doctor who wants to talk a little too much about certain bodily functions. Running time: 1 hour 42 minutes. On Apple TV.
has its moments, but they never completely cohere, and the movie struggles to maintain a consistent tone. “The Dink” stars Jake Johnson as Dusty Boyd, a child tennis prodigy whose career ended inauspiciously after an injury. Now he works as a tennis pro for his father, Chuck (Ed Harris), who owns Mountain Crest, a fancy tennis club. Dusty relives his glory days whenever possible, telling the
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Hart is 47, Joe Nixon, the ad executive he portrays, is only 40. But Joe is nevertheless approach- ing obsolescence at his place of employment, in part because his new campaign to sell vodka to the Gen-Z demographic has been deemed “cringe.” Finding himself accidentally included in a text chain with a group of 20-something bros who are planning a weekend (hence the title) bachelor party in Miami, he bankrolls a spectacularly vulgar crash pad for them, then crashes the mansion himself. The idea is to use the weekend as a cram session on how to talk to the kids. These kids include Ben Marshall, Marcello Hernández and Kam Patterson, all “Saturday Night Live” cast members. They’re the goofy, sensitive ones. The heartthrob of the group is played by Mason Gooding, who’s really the most sensitive of them all. The gang’s adventures put them afoul of drug smugglers and, after snorting cocaine and (unadvisedly) swallowing nico- tine pouches, Joe semiconsciously adopts the persona of the mega- dealer “Ricardo Montana.” The humor is broad and crude and often genuinely funny. The younger comedians are excellent foils for Hart, who himself re- mains an uncanny talent. Re- sponding to the impressive rheto- ric of an opponent, Joe says, “You say it, I’m like, ‘Oh!” That line doesn’t look like anything on the page, but when Hart delivered it in the movie, it shook the packed house at an early special screening.
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story to the bored children and tweens he’s supposed to be teaching while his friend PJ (Aaron Chen) hypes him up. Changes are afoot at the club, because of what Chuck has deemed “the novel corona- virus of sports” and “the decline of human- ity itself”: pickleball. Members want more pickleball courts; Chuck doesn’t want to add them. He has devised a plan: a duel, one pickleball player versus one tennis player. Whoever wins determines the future of Mountain Crest. Dusty is desperate to be chosen as the tennis player, but he is sidelined by another injury, and he reluctantly ends up playing pickleball to keep his form in order while he recovers. His pickleball partner is Candace
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couple of profanity-laced phrases unfit for these pages. Churls might complain that John Woo just used that conceit in “Silent Night” (2023). The more open- minded might recall that cinema had three spellbinding decades before talkies. It’s high time for a revival. The director is Potsy Ponciroli, working from a screenplay by Chad St. John; the bulked-up protagonist would be a man of few words in any script. No sooner has the ex-con John Miller (Alan Ritchson) proposed to his girlfriend, Sophia (Shailene Woodley), than the police toss smoke bombs into their home. Miller has been set up in a co- caine bust by a high-rolling crimi- nal, Reynolds (Ben Foster, in sleazy eyewear), and a corrupt cop, Savick (Pablo Schreiber). Miller gets 25 years in prison; Reynolds marries Sophia. Ponciroli has fun telling this story visually, as when he dis- solves from Sophia and Reynolds enjoying a post-wedding dance to Miller doing push-ups and plot- ting payback. The film shows a sense of humor about its gim- mick, which only sometimes feels forced. Savick cheekily makes a “shh” gesture to Miller; an inter- rogation room tape recorder obviously isn’t going to record anything. But the action and the gore (including an unexpected severed limb) seem almost gleefully cruel, and an unnecessary coda is failed by bad makeup. Also, if you’re going to use soundtrack selec-
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Shailene Woodley and Alan Ritchson in “Motor City,” a retro crime movie directed by Potsy Ponciroli.
tions (Donna Summer, Fleetwood Mac) to advance your narrative verbally, it is gauche to put a 1982 song, David Bowie’s “Cat People (Putting Out Fire),” over a title card that reads “1977 Detroit.” Like Ponciroli’s throwback west- ern, “Old Henry” (2021), “Motor City” is more a film to respect than to see (or hear).
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Rosebush Pruning Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes. In theaters.
“I don’t write, I don’t read, I don’t drive,” says the narrator of “Rose- bush Pruning.” We don’t care. That can be said for most of this movie, a petty provocation that, like a spent blossom in time-lapse,
(Mary Steenburgen), who is recently di- vorced and several decades Dusty’s senior. But they strike up an unlikely friendship, and Dusty soon discovers that he’s got a lot of lessons to learn before he can become his own man. The cast of “The Dink” — named for a particular shot in pickleball — is stacked. Ben Stiller, Chloe Fineman, Patton Oswalt and Chris Parnell have minor roles, while the tennis legends Andy Roddick and John McEnroe appear, perhaps improbably, as themselves. Both Johnson and Steenbur- gen are winningly charismatic, and for a long stretch the film hovers between a buddy comedy and a rom-com, supported by a crew of oddballs in bit parts. But even Johnson and Steenburgen’s per- formances can’t paper over the shaky char- acter development that establishes the sto- ry’s stakes. We’re told repeatedly that Dusty is unreliable and immature, but from scene to scene it’s hard to tell if that’s really true and he needs to grow up, or if that’s just something his pompous and dismissive fa- ther says. Is this a story of arrested devel- opment blooming into maturity, or of a man figuring out how to overcome a bad parent? Similarly, the film slips into a clichéd side plot for Candace — she wants to show her ex-husband what he’s missing — but it’s picked up and then suddenly dropped in a way that’s a little perplexing. “The Dink” is still watchable, mostly for its characters’ quirky silliness. (Pickleball players may also enjoy the internecine ten- nis rivalry, too.) But the best studio com- edies have always felt a little unhinged, like you had no idea what could happen next. Usually they’re a little transgressive and quotable, with a big heart and characters you want to root for. “The Dink” gets about 70 percent of the way there, but its missing pieces are what make it lackluster.
shrivels and disintegrates as soon as it’s over. The line comes from Ed (Cal- lum Turner), one of four adult brats living with their father (Tracy Letts), a blind lecher, in a Modernist villa in Spain. The elitist siblings, including the clothes horses Anna (Riley Keough) and Robert (Lukas Gage), mistrust everyone outside the ménage and revere their eldest brother, Jack (Jamie Bell). But Jack has recently started dating Martha (Elle Fanning), unsettling the fragile ecosystem of their familial walled garden. Incest is implied early on; it is later made explicit. Even with this taboo thrust upon a comely cast, the director Karim Aïnouz fails to stir any interest. The screenplay, by Efthimis Filippou, reaches toward the perverse intrigue of “Dogtooth,” a film he wrote with his frequent collaborator, Yorgos Lanthimos. But in the hands of Aïnouz, the material is at once grating and boring, not deadpan enough to arrive at absurdism nor subtle enough to become a curio. One lunch scene with the whole gang alleviates some of our apa- thy. In it, Letts’s character asks Anna to describe Martha’s bosom. If he could see, he argues, he would have already checked it out. For a brief moment, the actor’s trademark dry wit takes hold, achieving a satire of insular silver-spoon households to which the rest of the movie can only aspire.
NATALIA WINKELMAN
A champion of ‘big shots’ like Pollock and Rothko is the focus of a retrospective.
WHEN I RECENTLY READ about Jackson Pol- lock’s “Number 7A, 1948,” a long scroll of looping lines that brought $181 million at auction, I thought of Betty Parsons and the difficulty she had selling his work. She opened her gallery in 1946 in a single, win- dowless room on the fifth floor of 15 East 57th Street. From this humble perch, she provided the world with its first glimpse not only of “Number 7A, 1948,” but also of Mark Rothko’s fuzzy blurs of color, Barnett New- man’s room-size red canvases and various other hard-to-sell paintings later hailed as the canonical masterworks of postwar art. If Parsons helped introduce “the great big shots,” as she called them, she also en- dured the disappointment of seeing them leave her gallery for dealers who promised to capitalize on the brand-new market for American art. (Market? That is where Par- sons bought her tomatoes.) She continued to run her gallery and discover new artists until her death at 82, in 1982. One artist who failed to merit wall space at the gallery was Parsons, an accom- plished painter and sculptor. It would have been “too embarrassing” to give herself a show, she said. The good news is that Amy Sillman, the esteemed abstract painter, and Kelly Taxter, an independent curator, have staged an intervention, organizing “Betty Parsons: An Expanded World,” an enlight- ening and overdue retrospective at Bard College’s Hessel Museum of Art, in Annan- dale-on-Hudson, N.Y. The exhibition is impressively compre- hensive, presenting 81 paintings, watercol- ors, gouaches and sculptures that track her development over four decades. It also in- cludes 24 minutes of looping film footage that chronicles her career as a gallerist on two large screens. Parsons comes across as a forceful personality in a silk scarf and a string of pearls, speaking in a startlingly deep voice about the marvels of art. She was, in some ways, an unlikely nur- turer of the avant-garde. Born Elizabeth Bierne Pierson in 1900, the middle of three daughters, she grew up in New York in an old-money family that summered in New- port, R.I., wintered in Palm Beach, Fla., and expected her to glide through life as a debu- tante and then a wife. At 19, she married a socialite, Schuyler Livingston Parsons, and took his last name. They divorced three years later, prompting her family to disin- herit her. She did not regain their approval by com- ing out as a lesbian and, instead of remar- rying, palling around with her many female friends, including the actress Greta Garbo, her regular tennis partner. Parsons’s story, the Hessel show sug- gests, is about a curious and independent woman who took a long time to find her voice. Her early work consists of nice- enough views of mountains and tree trunks that she observed on her travels. After World War II, when she was in her 40s and running her gallery, she veered toward ab- straction. Some of her paintings from the ’50s, like the small, potent “Red Eminence” (1955) have a churning energy that is remi- niscent of Pollock. But Parsons had no use for the mural-size proportions of his work and its all-or-nothing emotional range. Instead, her abstract paintings often de- pict wide-open spaces and images of is- lands. They don’t evoke a specific place so much as an emptying out, a brightly lit ab- sence. Consider “Orange,” from 1962, a large- scale, squarish painting, in which 11 small shards of color float against an orange ground. What first appears to be an ele- gantly minimal abstraction changes while you’re looking into an aerial view of scat- tered islands. The orange pigment is so wa- tery it pools into a darkened tide line across the bottom edge of the painting. Alternately, “Orange” also suggests 11
Betty Parsons: An Expanded World Through Oct. 18 at the Hessel Museum of Art, at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.; 845-758-7598, bard.edu/ccs.
pieces of torn, ragged-edged paper scraps laid out on a flat surface, as if Parsons were using her canvas to assemble a collage. In her paintings, she often did this, isolating bits and bobs of color in a space evocative of a sky or sea, connoting a vision of voyaging that has no destination. The second half of the show is devoted to sculpture, Parsons’s most memorable work. While her paintings, with their pancake-flat stretches of color, can put you in mind of art- ists she exhibited — like Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Youngerman — her sculptures are optimistic American objects instantly rec- ognizable as her own. In the ’60s, after moving into a waterfront house in Southold on the North Fork of Long Island, Parsons started making painted wooden assemblages that convey the pleas- ure of crafting things by hand. She collected discarded lumber scraps on the beach, then cobbled them together into structures that evoke the breezy architecture of fisher- men’s shanties, sailboats and lighthouses.
She generally painted her sculptures in patterns of wobbly stripes that leave areas of wood exposed and turn the texture of the grain into a visual bonus. At first the pieces can resemble folk art, but their horizontal and vertical stripes imbue them with a for- mal rigor that harks back to the modernist grid. Their energy lies somewhere between a Mondrian painting and a seashell in the sand. At the Hessel, the sculptures, which con- sist of both wall reliefs and tabletop assem- blages, are presented in an oddly carniva- lesque setting that can feel overwhelming. They’re grouped together in front of wacky painted backdrops — wide stripes in clangorous hues. The décor, presumably, is intended to acknowledge Parsons’s love of stripes and sunny, headstrong colors. Yet the design doesn’t serve the sculp- tures, or encourage us to look at them as au- tonomous objects. It’s also at odds with Par- sons’s much-stated dislike of gallery orna- mentation. She is credited with inventing
CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES AND HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART; PHOTOGRAPHS BY CARTER SEDDON
the concept of the contemporary gallery as a chaste, white-painted rectangle purged of the froufrou of the past — like the burgundy wallpaper and velvet drapes that once gave galleries the look of Edwardian living rooms. I learned from Sillman that she person- ally painted the walls and pedestals, impro- vising as she went. Did she think of her cre- ation as exhibition design, or as a high-art extension of her own painting? “Neither,” she said. “I think of this work as a way for me to be a medium between Betty and her show.” Her comment captures the intense emo- tional bond that an artist can sometimes feel toward another artist born much earli- er. But there are many ways to demonstrate your appreciation. Parsons established a wise precedent when she decided that the highest compliment you can pay to a work of art is to set it against an expanse of white wall and let it take up space, like an island of its own.
Top: “Sailing Through the Sound” (1982), far left, is among the Betty Parsons works on a wall mural by Amy Sillman at the exhibition “Betty Parsons: An Expanded World.” Center: Parsons’s “Orange” (1962), left, and “Journey” (1975), right. Above, from left: “Pulling That Way” (1982), against a Sillman backdrop; “Sound Forms” (1978), far left, and “King and Queen” (1970), far right.
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At the Jewish Museum, we get the novel objects these female designers came up with, of course, but we also see how they counted themselves as their own fresh cre- ations. The two viragos who shocked New York were early avatars of their century’s New Woman, crafting goods that helped other women become equally New. You might say that all the many objects in this show count as brushstrokes in a brash, self- confident portrait its female creators were keen to construct, of themselves but for all their sisters to see. Traditionally, the Vienna Workshops have been known for the work of two of its founders, the architect Josef Hoffmann and the painter Koloman Moser. Their creations had a sleek modernism that foreshadowed the glass and chrome of the Bauhaus, and even the minimalism of the iPhone. But that’s almost never the look or spirit of the objects in this exhibition, assembled by the curator Kristina Parsons with the MAK design museum in Vienna, the show’s major lender. (A much larger show was at MAK in 2021; its catalog is fantastic.) Where those male founders were working out a new aesthetic for modern objects, the women of the Werkstätte, who dominated the firm’s production after Austria’s men went to serve in World War I, were crafting something much bolder: a new aesthetic of female power. Instead of seeking the restraint of indus- trial goods, they used the handcrafting of traditional “woman’s work.”
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS, VIENNA AND THE JEWISH MUSEUM, NEW YORK
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS, VIENNA AND THE JEWISH MUSEUM, NEW YORK
MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS, VIENNA AND THE JEWISH MUSEUM, NEW YORK
That reached an apogee, maybe, with the expressionist pottery of Vally Wieselthier, who was head of the Werkstätte’s ceramics department from 1927 to 1928, before begin- ning a fine career in the United States. At the Jewish Museum, three of Wieselthier’s female heads reject the sleekness of her bosses’ designs: They are boldly, almost crudely, hand-modeled in clay then glazed in colors that capture the gaudy flapper’s makeup Wieselthier seems eager to cele- brate. “Don’t try to rival the billboard or a color chart when you are making up to go out,” said a prim beauty book of that era. Wieselthier’s heads proudly do just that. They also wear the fearlessly wacky hats designed and sold by the women of the Werkstätte, sitting atop the boyish haircuts they dared to favor. One of Wieselthier’s gloriously wild heads has the initials “VW” carved big into its base, declaring it as a portrait of its maker. Surviving photos show how brazen the women of the Werkstätte could truly be, sometimes going so far as to smoke for the camera. In 1938, when Wieselthier was fired from an American university job for behavior seen as provocative, she telegraphed Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt himself: “Tell these people who I am,” she demanded, in- sisting that her talent as an artist ought to speak for her. The Werkstätte’s women “had the ideal of being unconventional, expressing them- selves through love affairs, having as many sexual experiences as possible,” one early witness recalled. Their goings-on, which in- cluded the same-sex love also captured in some of their works, was another marker of the limits they rejected. The clothing these New Women designed was nothing like the boned and corseted fashions of just a few years before. In 1912, Fritzi Berger, all of 18 at the time, drew and signed one of the fashion postcards that were a Werkstätte specialty: The woman pictured wears a black skirt that is nothing more than a slender, clinging tube, with no hint of constricting structure; her top is
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VIA THE JEWISH MUSEUM, NEW YORK
equally tubular, except white with bold biomorphs floating across it. Her hair is in a bob that was truly radical: European wom- en had been wearing their hair long for most of the past 3,000 years. Berger offers an image of a woman not afraid to be new, and free. Even Vienna’s modern underwear could aim to escape Victorian constraint. At the Jewish Museum, a painting by Wilhelm List from around 1911 shows a young model on a Werkstätte chair clad in nothing but bright rouge lipstick, a camisole and the era’s
Top, the Wiener Werkstätte’s Berlin branch in 1929, which drew talented female designers and staff. Above, an Alexander Binder photograph of a model in a Werkstätte dress in “Archibald” fabric by Felice Rix (1918). Above left, a Werkstätte dress designed by Heddi Hirsch (around 1919). Left, a 1912 postcard designed by Fritzi Berger for the firm. Far left, “Purpurnelke” (1924), top, a Rix textile sample; and Rix’s design for “Sheet Lightning” fabric (around 1923).
Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte Through Nov. 15 at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan; 212-423-3200, thejewishmuseum.org.
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roomy new “umbrella drawers”; they might make today’s women jealous, as they squeeze into their thongs. The Werkstätte’s textiles, which, like its fashions, were especially important to the firm’s income, have a modern energy. In 1923, a client wearing an outfit cut from Felice Rix’s “Sheet Lightning” pattern — brilliant slashes of color flashing across a field of black silk — would have felt almost compelled to dance the Charleston, landing on Victrolas that same year to an outcry from conservatives everywhere. The Werkstätte’s women faced the same kind of reaction in 1925, in Paris, when de- signers including Wieselthier and Rix domi- nated the firm’s presentation at the land- mark Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs (origin of the term Art Deco). One male critic described their display as “a scandalous bimbo business.” Two years lat- er, just when Wieselthier was making her female heads, the modernist architect Adolf Loos, famous for billing ornament as a crime, delivered a polemic against the Werkstätte and the decorative drive of its craftswomen, describing them as “dilet- tante daughters of senior civil servants,” just killing time before marriage. Some members of his audience threw punches in the women’s defense. This exhibition lets them speak, plenty loudly, for themselves.
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“R.I.P. He Deserves It,” a video projection by Shani Strand. The work, with strobe effects and a grinning Pierrot, displays a vengeful, playful energy.
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Through Aug. 15. Artists Space, 11 Cortlandt Alley, Manhattan; 212-226-3970, artistsspace.org.
A thick scent of citrus and clove incense is the first indicator that Shani Strand’s show seeks to overwhelm visitors with sensory stimuli. Her wall-size video pro- jection goes even further. It has strobe effects and a grinning Pierrot as a protagonist — clown- phobes may want to steer clear. Titled “R.I.P. He Deserves It,” Strand’s video, at one point, dis- plays the phrase “Colonization in Reverse,” which starts to explain the work’s vengeful, playful ener- gy. With a main character por- trayed by several Black actresses in Marcel Marceau white face paint — already a reversal of blackface — Strand’s video is less didactic than unsettlingly surreal. In one nighttime scene, the clown sashays through a desolate overpass, a shovel in hand. A long line of female characters channel- ing a thirst for retribution into a runway-ready walk comes to mind: Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill”; the artist Pipilotti Rist smashing car windows with a flower; Beyoncé and her baseball bat in the music video “Hold Up.” A separate wing full of Strand’s sculptures leaves the heightened theatricality behind in favor of strange poetry. Small clay balls, wrought-iron rods and spheres bedecked with cow horns appear strewed across the floor, sur- rounded by pools of resin and golden stains on walls. Strand’s materials reprise Afro-Caribbean histories: Cow horns, for instance,
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were used as wind instruments by Jamaican Maroons who had escaped slavery. But knowledge of those histo- ries isn’t required to appreciate Strand’s show. In its vengeful clowns, hazy incense and sculp- tures given floor space rather than the pageantry of pedestals, there is an unavoidable sense of an old world order being up- turned.
Through Aug. 16. SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, Queens; 718-361-1750, sculpture-center.org.
Strong smells are deployed by Ellen Pau, too, in her first U.S. survey show, the video-heavy undertaking “She Moves.” A pleasant fragrance that fills SculptureCenter traces its source to a single diffuser in the base- ment passages where Pau’s show unfolds. The components of the scent in the show are organic but can smell similar to tear gas, the substance Hong Kong pro-democ- racy protesters faced down with umbrellas and masks. Pau, 65, a prominent video artist and a driving force behind Hong Kong’s media-art scene, worked for nearly four decades in radiology. One of her videos ma- nipulates her hospital’s surveil- lance footage to create a ghostly scene of doctors and nurses pass- ing through a hallway, fading in and out of view. Hong Kong’s politics and co- lonial history haunt many works on display. In the video installa-
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An installation view of Pauline-Rose Dumas’s show at Hesse Flatow, which features textile works along with metal sculptures.
ELLEN PAU, VIA KIANG MALINGUE, HONG KONG/NEW YORK, AND SCULPTURECENTER, NEW YORK; PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES BENTON
“Pledge,” a video installation by Ellen Pau in which a woman repeatedly clangs her head against an enclosure, is a commentary on Hong Kong’s politics.
tion “Pledge,” a hunched, seated woman in a lacy black top repeat- edly clangs her head against an enclosure, a loud metallic thud accompanying each collision. Does her entrapment symbolize societal expectations that stifle women and queer Hong Kongers like Pau herself? Or astronomical
housing costs that lead to shoe- box-size apartments? Or the isolation of contemporary life? The video “52Hz” addresses that isolation and includes a narrative about a Hong Kong sex worker and A.S.M.R. video cre- ator whose body is found weeks after she dies, an odor from her
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might be mistaken for
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ingredients
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oil industry?
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a better future” website
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in the face
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considered divine messengers in Shinto culture
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black currant liqueur
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diverse U.S. state
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apartment finally alerting neigh- bors to her absence. Once again, a pungent smell equates with vio- lence and despair.
Through Aug. 14. Hesse Flatow, 77 Franklin Street, Manhattan; 646-892-3032, hesseflatow.com.
While working abroad in a studio in Berlin, Pauline-Rose Dumas, a young artist who lives in Mon- treuil, France, and received train- ing in printmaking and textile design, came to see her tools in a new light. “A tiny needle left on the floor becomes a kind of crazy architecture when you look at it nonstop for hours,” Dumas told one interviewer. Her current show seems to bear the fruits of the altered perspective — the “Alice in Won- derland” plunge down a rabbit hole — that may ensue when you spend enough time both isolated in a studio and disoriented by unfamiliar surroundings. Her show has textile works, along with metal sculptures fea-
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thesis statement
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small stuff!”
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diminutive suffix
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inflated
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rhymes
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a suspicious link, perhaps
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sometimes Mercury
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7 Silly sorts
8 Cry from a
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turing tendriled arcs that every now and then morph from ab- stract forms into recognizable sewing-kit accessories, made cartoonishly large: embroidery scissors, or an intertwining spi- raled pattern of two-ply thread. They evoke the spirit of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Brug- gen’s sculptures of quotidian objects blown up into absurdly monumental scale. Some of Du- mas’s sculptures, like the giant sewing needles, pierce her textile pieces as if pinning them to the wall. The fabric works could almost be called quilts, if they weren’t so chaotic and free-form. Perhaps they’re better described as the Frankensteined contents of a scrapbook kept by an inquiring mind. Floral patterns appear alongside an image printed on fabric of a transmission tower at sunset. Undulating seams merge into sine waves on graph paper. You get the sense that Dumas has dispensed with whatever bound- aries normally separate tools, materials and ideas. Her resulting explorations are gratifying to watch.
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deception
21 Cookware
sometimes used over campfires
24 “Drop it!”
25 Language of
Barbados: Abbr.
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27 Hons
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preparing to leave
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described as “the chief nurse of England’s statesmen”
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movement)
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name comes from the Greek for “inactive”
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album titles represent ages
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of Emmys in different categories for the same role
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