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纽约时报

第 CLXXV 卷 .... 第 61,010 期

今日，潮湿，晴雨交替，最高气温 81. 今晚，潮湿，多云，傍晚有阵雨，最低气温 71. 明日，局部晴朗，湿度降低，最高气温 81. 天气图见 A19 页。

胡塞武装学习自主制造武器

减少对德黑兰的依赖，并运用人工智能

作者：尼古拉斯·库利什

人们对也门胡塞武装的普遍印象是：一群男人站在皮卡车后斗上，向沙漠上空发射 AK-47 步枪。

然而，该组织已向一千多英里外的以色列发动了远程导弹袭击。胡塞武装利用海军无人机袭击红海的船只交通。周三，该组织表示，其使用一枚国产导弹在也门上空击落了一架沙特战斗机。沙特阿拉伯表示，胡塞武装还向麦加派遣了一架无人机，该无人机在抵达城市前被击落。[见 A9 页]

证据表明，胡塞武装正日益雄心勃勃地利用人工智能和其他手段自行生产更先进的武器，从而降低对赞助者伊朗的依赖。

加拿大物价可能会上涨

尽管得到了伊朗的支持，但数月以来，胡塞武装在今年该地区的战斗中一直保持旁观。这种情况在 7 月份结束，当时他们宣布对沙特阿拉伯实施海上封锁。此后，他们向南推进，上周夺取了历史港口城市摩卡，并占领了曼德海峡狭窄水道附近的岛屿，加强了该组织对红海南部咽喉要地的掌控。

“他们利用每一个机会来构建能力、测试能力，以至于他们现在成为了整个中东地区最具杀伤力的非国家行为体，”前美国也门特使蒂莫西·A·伦德金在周五的一次中东研究所论坛上表示。

Anthropic 上周的一份报告

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续见 A9 页

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2026

周二，一架新闻直升机在报道一起致命巴士碰撞事故时在洛杉矶坠毁。一名同事将其描述为“我们所有人都恐惧的一天”。 ETHAN SWOPE / 美联社

在一座空中报道之城，一场坠机加剧了故事的悲剧

作者：肖恩·胡布勒

洛杉矶 —— 巴士与 SUV 的碰撞规模很大，即使按照洛杉矶“空中之眼”的标准来看也是如此。德斯蒙德·肖被其冲击力震惊了。

肖先生是一位资深的直升机记者，他从上方凝视着残骸，陷入了沉思。周二，他的飞机是盘旋在圣费尔南多谷上空的众多飞机之一。那辆公共交通车辆像玩具一样被撞扁，SUV 撕裂了它的中段。当局表示有人死亡。

肖先生在因父母双亡请假后回到工作岗位还不到一周，最近他一直在思考死亡。这次事故对他来说十分诡异，他很高兴这个报道已经结束。

但就在他和飞行员飞离后不久，编辑部回电告知：在巴士坠毁现场附近似乎有一架飞机坠毁。

洛杉矶巴士与直升机事故造成 5 人死亡

45, 岁的肖先生就职于一家 CBS 附属机构，他想到了同样在空中的同行记者们 —— 对他们而言，天空就是办公室。

“当我们到达那里，看到火球和旋翼叶片时，我们就知道发生了什么，”他在周三凌晨的一次车载采访中说道，“这就是我们所有人都恐惧的一天。”

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周二下午 5 点刚过，接连发生的巴士和直升机坠毁事故造成至少五人死亡，并在洛杉矶的查茨沃思社区留下了焦黑的残骸。

首先，一辆 SUV 侧撞了一辆洛杉矶地铁巴士，造成至少两人死亡，多人受重伤。警方表示，司机已被指控谋杀。

续见 A17 页

特朗普敦促削减，新任主席试图遏制通货膨胀

作者：科尔比·史密斯

利率上升使美联储与总统产生分歧

三年来首次

美联储周三将利率提高了0.25个百分点，这是三年多以来的首次加息，也是央行主席凯文·M·沃什（Kevin M. Warsh）为打击高企的通货膨胀而采取的重要步骤。

此次决定将利率提升至3.75%至4%的新区间，得到了联邦公开市场委员会全部12名成员的支持。

“事实很明显，通货膨胀过高，且持续时间过长，”沃什先生在决定公布后的新闻发布会上表示。他补充说，美国经济依然强劲，失业率处于低位，这证明了美联储有理由撤销他所描述的“剂量上的宽松政策”。

在随利率决定一同发布的声明中，美联储表示，周三的加息“将支持更及时地回归委员会2%的目标”。

然而，沃什先生在周三的行动之后，并未就利率未来的走势提供任何指引，称他不想“预判我们未来将做出的任何决定”。

但在新的预测中，政策制定者暗示可能会有进一步的加息。根据最新的“点阵图”（用于追踪官员们认为未来几年借贷成本将如何变化的图表），绝大多数提交预测的政策制定者预计，到今年年底至少还会再有一次0.25个百分点的调整。四位官员认为，今年利率需要在此基础上再上涨0.5个百分点。

英国的鹳鸟回来了。或者说，它们是入侵者？

作者：利奥·桑兹（LEO SANDS）

当饲养员拧开围栏的大门时，一群穿着鹳鸟主题衬衫的资深观鸟者在数百英尺外屏息凝神。幼鹳首次飞行的一幕是不容错过的。

英国，戴尔邮局（DIAL POST）—— 喧闹的鸟群在围栏中拍打着翅膀，跳上跳下。这些三个月大的白鹳在早晨丰盛的喂食后，已经准备好起飞。

这种身材细长的鸟类在欧洲民间传说中被视为生命的带来者，现在已成为英国天空中的常客。但它也引发了出人意料的争议。

汉娜·雷耶斯·莫拉莱斯 为《纽约时报》供图

一只在英国克内普（Knepp）保护区筑巢的白鹳。

对于那些致力于建立白鹳种群、开展多年努力的环保主义者来说，引入白鹳恢复了一个被认为在约600年前就已在英国灭绝的物种。而对于一些持怀疑态度的自然主义者来说，这是一种误导性的行为，引入了一种从未将英国视为家园的鸟类。

这项名为“白鹳项目”（The White Stork Project）的努力目前已在西萨塞克斯郡（West Sussex）一个占地3,500英亩的前奶牛场克内普建立了一个约100只鸟的种群。

在二十年间，作为一项更广泛的“再野化”努力的一部分，自然环境在没有人工干预的情况下完成了大部分的恢复，让自然过程主导景观。但克内普的共同所有者、环保主义者伊莎贝拉·特里（Isabella Tree）正通过引入白鹳来推动这一进程。

她说，与其他只需一对就能开始繁衍的鸟类不同，鹳是社交性物种，在群体中生存的可能性更高。

为了建立这个种群，环保主义者在过去八年的每个夏天都在克内普释放人工饲养的白鹳。这一努力正在取得成效：约40个巢穴在景观的橡树冠顶勾勒出轮廓。

今年的这批雏鸟是在动物园里由那些

陪审团受审视或使克兰西新审判前景复杂化

（接A6页）在波兰撞上了电线杆并失去了飞行能力。在与该群体现有的野生孵化雏鸟融合后，这些幼鸟正开始向北进行数千英里的季节性迁徙。

作者：珍娜·罗素（JENNA RUSSELL）和尼古拉斯·博格尔-伯劳斯（NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS）

马萨诸塞州普利茅斯 —— 当林赛·克兰西（Lindsay Clancy）谋杀案的几名陪审员上周公开谈论他们的审议过程时，他们可能没有想象到随之而来的后果：社交媒体历史被深度挖掘；将他们中的女性描绘成老太婆的仇恨模因；以及对两名陪审员过去法律问题的挖掘 —— 而其中任何一项都不会导致他们失去担任陪审员的资格。

由于对克兰西女士进行重新审判仍有可能，那些因僵局导致审判无效的陪审员所遭受的严厉审视，可能会使尝试组建新陪审团的努力变得复杂，因为候选人群体现在有理由担心会遭遇类似的抵制。

本案检察官蒂莫西·J·克鲁兹（Timothy J. Cruz）尚未表示是否打算就 2023 年 1 月其三个孩子被勒死事件再次起诉 36 岁的克兰西女士。

检察官蒂莫西·J·克鲁兹面临关于重新审判的决定。 JOSEPH PREZIÓGO / A.F.P. — (GETTY IMAGES)

她已承认杀害了 5 岁的科拉（Cora）、3 岁的道森（Dawson）和 8 个月大的卡兰（Callan）。但据辩方称，她当时正经历产后精神病。

在克鲁兹先生权衡下一步行动之际，克兰西女士的律师凯文·雷丁顿（Kevin Reddington）可能会尝试辩称，那名唯一的持反对意见的陪审员将

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股市当日收盘下跌，标准普尔 500 指数下跌 0.4%，纳斯达克综合指数微跌，道琼斯工业平均指数下跌超过 1%。

投资者目前预计到 2027 年将额外增加三次四分之一百分点的利率上调。对利率变化敏感的两年期国债收益率上升了 0.6 个百分点。十年期国债收益率稳定在 5% 左右，而三十年期国债收益率微跌至 5.35%。

周三的决定对沃什（Warsh）先生来说具有重大意义，他由特朗普总统选定领导美联储，并在四个月前接任这一最高职务。在选拔过程中，特朗普表示他只会选择支持降低借贷成本的人，尽管他在就职仪式上誓言将尊重沃什先生的独立性。

周三晚些时候，特朗普再次强调美国利率

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世界开始将美国视为不稳定的投资地

作者：艾伦·拉波波特（ALAN RAPPEPORT）

华盛顿 —— 全球投资者正对美国债券望而却步。关于美元权力衰减的讨论声日益高涨。外国政府正将其黄金从美国金库中撤出。

在特朗普总统第二任期即将满两年之际，世界经济正日益寻求与美国保持距离的方法。人们对 40 万亿美元债务负担以及过度使用制裁来解决

对债务上升与制裁使用的担忧

外交政策问题以及特朗普先生倾向于挑战法治底线的做法，正让人们质疑美国作为全球投资避风港的吸引力。

尽管外国公司和国家承诺在美投资——在许多情况下是为了讨好白宫——但资本已开始寻求替代目的地。

“地缘政治因素以及美国通过金融制裁将美元武器化，正促使各国央行和其他官方投资者尝试实现资产多元化，以摆脱对美元资产的依赖，”国际货币基金组织（IMF）前中国部负责人埃斯瓦尔·普拉萨德（Eswar Prasad）表示。

美国尚未成为投资弃儿。私人投—

续接 A10 页

国际版 A4-10

山地地区预警 一项分析表明，尼泊尔的山体滑坡始于基岩。随着冰川退缩，不稳定性正在增加。第 A7 页

俄罗斯投票结果毫无悬念

议会选举的结果是可以预见的，但俄罗斯人担心随之而来的军事和经济不确定性。第 A4 页

全国版 A11-19

不信任是投票培训的一部分

随着数千名观察员准备迎接中期选举，部分人员被教导要预料到会出现不良行为。第 A12 页

一场“认知投降”

麻省理工学院（M.I.T.）的一项研究报告称，人工智能（A.I.）颠覆了教育，令学生感到困惑，并考验着学校领导者。第 A14 页

周四时尚版 D1-8

结构与慵懒之景

在纽约时装周的 T 台内外，一种在锐利线条与松垮廓形之间切换的动态效果悄然出现。第 D6 页

商业版 B1-6

人工智能正悄然冲击劳动者 部分行业招聘速度放缓，尤其是针对年轻人的招聘，可能是人工智能导致的结果。第 B1 页

该机构表示，这家科技巨头可能允许支持巴勒斯坦的员工处于敌对环境中。第 B1 页

艺术版 C1-6

梦之屋之声

电子音乐人 Empress Of 在新专辑中叠加了不稳定与更新的主题，专辑中穿插着她母亲讲述的关于她们在 2025 年山火中失去的阿尔塔迪纳（Altadena）故居的故事。第 C1 页

挑战“第一把交椅”

在 Apple TV 系列剧集《慢马》（Slow Horses）第六季中，克里斯汀·斯科特·托马斯（Kristin Scott Thomas）为“戴安娜”塔弗纳（Taverner）增添了一抹道德灰色地带，后者试图夺取英国军情五处（MI5）情报机构的最高职位。第 C1 页

观点版 A22-23

杰西卡·格罗斯（Jessica Grose）

第 A23 页

讣告 A20-21

《丁克溪》作者

安妮·迪拉德（Annie Dillard）对森林之旅的记录具有梭罗式的风格，这是她对生命、自然以及善恶诸多沉思的开端。她享年 81 岁。第 A20 页

纽约时报内部

纽约时报

A.G. 萨尔兹伯格（A.G. SULZBERGER） 发行人

创立于 1851 年

阿道夫·S·奥克斯（ADOLPH S. OCHS） 发行人 1896-1935

亚瑟·海斯·萨尔兹伯格（ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER） 发行人 1935-1961

奥维尔·E·德里富斯（ORVIL E. DRYFOOS） 发行人 1961-1963

新闻部

约瑟夫·卡恩（JOSEPH KAHN） 执行主编

马克·莱西（MARC LACEY） 执行编辑 卡罗琳·瑞安（CAROLYN RYAN） 管理编辑

萨姆·多尔尼克（SAM DOLNICK） 副主编 莫妮卡·德雷克（MONICA DRAKE） 副主编 史蒂夫·杜内斯（STEVE DUENES） 副主编

马修·埃里克森（MATTHEW ERICSON） 助理主编 乔纳森·加林斯基（JONATHAN GALINSKY） 助理主编

帕特里克·希利（PATRICK HEALY） 助理主编

卡伦·斯科格（KARRON SKOG） 助理主编

迈克尔·斯拉克曼（MICHAEL SLACKMAN） 助理主编

吉姆·亚德利（JIM YARDLEY） 助理主编

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作者：大卫·盖尔斯 (DAVID GELLES)

大卫·盖尔斯是气候团队的记者，负责主编《气候前瞻》(Climate Forward) 通讯。

极端天气影响的人数逐年增加。根据盖洛普 (Gallup) 的调查，38% 的美国人表示，他们的社区在过去一年中受到了严重风暴、洪水或火灾的影响。

因此，当我决定撰写关于那些生活被极端天气颠覆的人们时，我知道寻找案例并不困难。

但我发现的不仅仅是零散且互不相干的故事。相反，我发现了一个幸存者网络，他们彼此提供情感支持，分享保险理赔技巧，甚至成为了亲密的朋友。

在本周末的《纽约时报杂志》的一篇文章中，我写到了来自全国各地的六个人，他们每个人都在努力从气候引发的灾难中恢复，并反过来帮助他人。

他们都是一个名为“极端天气幸存者”(Extreme Weather Survivors) 组织的成员。这个组织部分是支持网络，部分是倡议组织；而对于某些人来说，它成了一种新型的大家庭。

“极端天气幸存者”由克里斯·科彻 (Chris Kocher) 和西耶拉·林赛·科斯 (Sierra Lindsey Kos) 在几年前共同创立。科彻是一名专业的社会组织者，曾帮助枪击暴力和新冠疫情的幸存者建立网络。科斯则是在 2020 年俄勒冈州劳动节火灾期间受到触动，当时她刚出生的儿子因严重疾病住院。

科斯不得不带着孩子在灰烬和红色的天空下，穿过燃烧的景观。她记得在那一刻，一种强烈的感觉攫住了她：她无法保护儿子免受气候灾难的影响；这种灾难正在到处发生。

自 2023 年以来，科斯和科彻一直在接触那些因洪水、火灾和风暴而遭受个人或财产损失的人。

在他们联系的人中，有艾米·迪申 (Amy Dishion)，她的丈夫埃文 (Evan) 在 2022 年在菲尼克斯市外徒步迷路后死于严重中暑。

迪申告诉我，埃文的去世让她的生活破碎不堪，但她在与其他幸存者的联系中找到了一些慰藉，其中包括艾伦·比克福德 (Alan Bickford) 和辛迪·比克福德 (Cindy Bickford)。今年 6 月，她在华盛顿参加由“极端天气幸存者”组织的一次游说活动时结识了他们。

比克福德夫妇住在佛罗里达州迈尔斯堡外的松岛 (Pine Island)，他们在 2022 年飓风“伊恩”袭击前撤离了家园。当他们返回时，发现房子被没踝深的泥浆淹没。海水摧毁了墙壁，房子必须拆除到仅剩框架。

从那时起，他们自费支付了超过 $60,000 的维修费用，而且他们的洪水保险费翻了一倍多，使他们陷入债务。他们还成为了处理保险和联邦紧急事务管理局 (FEMA) 理赔中那些极其繁琐的

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文书工作的专家，这让他们与来自洛杉矶的音乐制作人德里克·桑普尔 (Derek Sample) 迅速成为了好友。

桑普尔的住宅和录音室（他曾在这里与 Prince 和 Dr. Dre 等艺术家合作）在 2025 年 1 月的伊顿火灾中严重受损，于是他向比克福德夫妇寻求帮助，以引导重建过程。今年夏天，桑普尔访问了在佛罗里达州的比克福德夫妇，他们在喝玛格丽塔酒和吃排骨的同时，交流了关于保险理赔的经验。

尽管桑普尔和比克福德夫妇的生活在许多方面截然不同——处于东西海岸两端，处于不同的社交圈，经历了不同的灾难——但他们在火灾和飓风后恢复生活的共同经历使他们成为了志同道合的人。

这种联系的链条由此延伸。

在这些迥异的美国人走到一起的故事中，蕴含着优雅、人性与友谊。

但这一切的背景，是一个气温更高、风暴更猛烈、气候引发的灾难更具破坏性的世界。

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世界粮食计划署上个月警告称，与厄尔尼诺现象相关的天气条件可能会导致约 5000 万 人陷入严重饥饿。 全球经济 见《风险倍增》B1

一项 2025 年的麻省理工学院（M.I.T.）研究发现，使用 AI 聊天机器人作为写作助手的人在完成文章后仅几分钟，就难以记住自己写过的内容。 美国大学在接纳 AI 的同时发出警报 A14

1992, 贝纳通（United Colors of Benetton）的一则广告使用了一张照片，该照片最初发表在 1990 年的一期《生活》（Life）杂志上，画面是艾滋病活动人士大卫·柯比（David Kirby）在临终前的样子。 脱颖而出的时尚照片 D3

20 世纪 60 年代名为“行动主义”（Actionism）的奥地利艺术运动试图通过震惊的方式，让奥地利摆脱对其在第二次世界大战期间与纳粹德国结盟而形成的沉默文化。一些表演涉及将血液和粪便扔在裸体上。 抗议者要求关注 艺术家的性犯罪 C6

美国国家橄榄球联盟（NFL） 专员罗杰·古德尔（Roger Goodell） 表示，他毫不怀疑 该联盟最终将在 美国 之外设立 特许经营球队。 古德尔的选择：做正确的事 还是做赚钱的事 B9

根据乌克兰首都基辅的社会与营销研究中心今年夏天进行的一项调查，大多数乌克兰人认为腐败对该国的影响比俄罗斯的轰炸更严重。

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《纽约时报》关于“第二版面”索引的最后一期刊登于 Oct. 4, 1986.

华盛顿谈话 竞选活动的年轻资金 4 弗雷德里克的战争债务 4 社论 / 信函 / 评论 社论 22 总统脸上的谷物 又一项给墨西哥的贷款 22 按章办事的纽约人 22 罗素·贝克：当赛璐珞向财神献祭 23 托马斯·A·卢肯：体育利润正在腐蚀大学 23 加里·R·罗伯茨：大学体育规则是淘汰赛 23 贝特·弗里德：如何帮助出租车司机和乘客 23 戈登·J·汉弗莱：停止公路上的伪善 23

6 体育版 6 尼克斯队的国王尚未准备好 11 伊拉·伯考谈鲍比·汤姆森 25 迈阿密小组将审查相关事件 26 岛人队的伯恩未受保护 28 希弗的回归尚不确定 28 澳大利亚领先美国 29 踢球手压力增大 球员：教练的时间快用完了

在最近的一期 Docket 通讯中，主持人亚当·利普塔克写到了第 26 条修正案，该修正案在 1971 年通过，并将投票年龄降低至 18 岁。这一内容促使退休律师艾伦·菲什曼给利普塔克先生写了一封信，利普塔克随后分享了这封信。

由于幸运的巧合，我在 1971. 满 18. 岁。作为一个去外州上大学的青少年，我在纽约登记投票的时间非常紧迫。不幸的是，当时无法通过电话联系到布鲁克林选举委员会来了解如何以及在哪里登记。但我父母订阅了《时报》的家庭配送，报纸报道了像我这样的青少年登记投票的最后期限。我在索引中找到了标题；然而，文章并没有出现在引用的页面上。然后我翻遍了整份报纸，依然没有找到。于是我给《时报》打电话，接通了都市版编辑部，并与文章作者进行了交谈。尽管他对文章没有出现在我们的版本中感到非常惊讶，但他非常友善地提供了我登记所需的资料。我将永远感激那位抽出时间帮助我成为选民的《时报》记者。—— 艾伦·菲什曼

亚当·利普塔克：在 20 世纪 80 年代初我担任校对员时，我经常负责编排索引，索引刊登在报纸第二部分的首页——用报业术语来说就是“第二版面”。

我询问了退休的《时报》记者、报社非正式历史学家大卫·邓拉普，该索引在那里运行了多久。“我感到震惊——简直是震惊！——地发现它在 40 年前就被取消了，”大卫回信道。他附上了 1959, 的第一个索引和 1986 的最后一个索引的照片。

制作索引是一项艰巨的工作，因为随着每版截稿时间的临近，文章经常被移动、删除或替换。而且这也是一种没有成就感的工作。没有人会因为你把索引做对了而祝贺你。但那个因为失误而导致青少年艾伦·菲什曼打电话投诉的可怜灵魂，大概听说了这件事。

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本周，《纽约时报》的本·卡塞尔曼（Ben Casselman）参加了《每日》（The Daily）节目，解释债券市场，以及利率上升如何导致借款人和消费者的成本增加。主持人瑞秋·艾布拉姆斯（Rachel Abrams）提出了一个基础问题。以下是卡塞尔曼先生经编辑后的回答。

对于需要温习知识的人，您能向我们解释一下：什么是债券？

债券其实就是一张借据。当一个实体——无论是国家政府、州政府、城市还是公司——想要借钱时，他们会向投资者出售债券。投资者可以是像你我这样的个人，也可以是养老基金、对冲基金或其他政府。当你购买债券时，你是在向该债券的销售者提供一笔资金——假设是 $1,000。你是在把这笔钱借给他们，而他们承诺在一段时间内——可能是几个月、几年，或者是 10 年、20 年、30 年——将这笔钱还给你。

所以，我花 $1,000 买了一份 10 年期债券。该债券的销售者承诺在 10 年后将我的 $1,000 还给我。但我不会只是把钱给他们然后就走掉，对吧？因此，他们会向我支付利息。

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为了确保你的杂物抽屉没有缺货，最好的办法是在最不需要的时候购买那些偶尔才用的必需品。这样，在急于寻找某样东西的时刻，你正好能找到所需之物。

我们汇总了一些工具、用品和其他实用的好物，在紧急情况下，你会庆幸手头有这些东西。虽然它们可能住在你的杂物抽屉里，但我们保证它们绝非垃圾。加布里埃拉·德皮尼奥（GABRIELLA DePINHO） 著

储备可靠的（且可充电的）电池。很有可能你在不久的将来会需要 AA 或 AAA 电池。可充电电池比一次性电池产生的废物更少。此外，在不使用时，你可以将它们从设备中取出，重新充电并存放在杂物抽屉里，这样下次需要时，你就能准确知道它们在哪里。

增加一把多头螺丝刀。有时你需要进行快速修复，而不需要搬出整个工具箱。这时，在杂物抽屉里准备一把多头螺丝刀就至关重要。一把精密螺丝刀，例如密尔沃基（Milwaukee）4-in-1 精密多头螺丝刀，可以帮你更换恒温器的电池，或拧紧太阳镜上的那些小螺丝。

扔进一把可靠的卷尺。当然，现在有相关的应用程序，但有时你就是需要一把真实的卷尺。无论你是要挂窗帘、购买新装饰品还是重新布置家具，一把好的卷尺能帮你一次性量准尺寸。

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今年莫斯科的一张征兵海报。许多俄罗斯人担心新一轮的强制军事动员迫在眉睫。 NANNA HEITMANN 为《纽约时报》拍摄

在莫斯科的一家加油站等待加油。尽管俄罗斯是主要产油国，但驾驶员等待20分钟的情况十分普遍。 PAVEL BEDNYAKOV / 美联社

俄罗斯人可以决定选举结果，但随之而来的是不确定的未来

一块数字屏幕上显示着执政党“统一俄罗斯党”的候选人，该党必将赢得议会选举。投票将于周五开始。

在游行现场。一名克里姆林宫支持者在电视上表示，这场战争对于保护俄罗斯免受“奴役”至关重要。

稳操胜券之选未能缓解对黑暗时代将至的不安感

作者：瓦莱丽·霍普金斯 (VALERIE HOPKINS)

莫斯科 —— 俄罗斯人可能没什么理由去关心周五开始的这场经过精心操纵的议会选举。但许多人担心接下来的发展。

随着俄罗斯军队大量消耗兵员，关于大规模强制动员的传闻四起。失控的战争开支使经济承受压力。乌克兰对炼油厂的袭击导致数百万人排起长队等待加油。

在莫斯科，人们似乎在“坚持认为一切正常”与“承认自五年前上次议会选举（即与乌克兰全面战争爆发前）以来发生了多么巨大的变化”之间徘徊。

在一家卢克石油（Lukoil）加油站，我接触到的大多数顾客表示，为了加油等待20分钟没什么大不了的。俄罗斯作为一个主要的石油生产国，竟然陷入了燃料短缺的异常境地。

尽管如此，一名叫尤里（Yuri）、今年37岁的司机承认，“我们生活在战争之中，人们开始意识到这一点。”他和他的朋友伊戈尔（Igor）在情况会好转还是恶化的问题上意见分歧，尤里持悲观态度。他们与我交谈的其他人们一样，要求不要使用他们的姓氏，以避免惹麻烦。

这场为期三天的选举几乎无法为俄罗斯人提供正式渠道，让他们对这场看不到尽头的战争所带来的日益扩大的影响表达不满。克里姆林宫将这次投票设计成了一场即便按俄罗斯标准来看也极其乏味的闹剧，结果早已注定。唯一的反战政党“苹果党”（Yabloko）被禁止参选。对于许多候选人来说，努力竞选似乎毫无意义。

宣布原定辩论因无人出席而取消的视频在俄罗斯广泛传播。周六我在莫斯科参加的一个面向年轻候选人和年轻选民的论坛上，执政的统一俄罗斯党没有一个人出席。现有的竞选视频预算极低，其中一段将臭名昭著的军火商、被称为“死亡商人”的维克多·布特（Viktor Bout）描绘成一名苦苦挣扎的商人。

尽管如此，克里姆林宫仍将选举视为使其政策合法化的手段，许多俄罗斯人正在为政府在投票后可能在军事、经济和政治方面采取的行动做准备。

“人们只为今天而活，因为没人知道明天会发生什么，”曾任《莫斯科回声》（Echo of Moscow）主编的阿列克谢·A·韦涅迪克托夫（Aleksei A. Venediktov）说道，该电台在战争初期被禁。

“每个人都越来越不确定会发生什么：物价会上涨吗，还是税收会上涨？会有动员吗？人们买燃料需要配给卡吗？”他补充道，“一种普遍的不安全感在蔓延。”

安娜（Anna）是一名心理学家，也是伏尔加河畔拥有110万人口的城市萨马拉（Samara）的一名教授，她表示俄罗斯人压抑的焦虑终有一天会爆发。

“他们说，‘我没看到这个，我没听到这个，我不会向任何人提起这个’，”她说，“但与此同时，这些感受的强度是巨大的。”

在国家关联的领先民调机构公共舆论基金会（Public Opinion Foundation）7月份的一项调查中，近60%的俄罗斯人表示，他们周围的人正经历着焦虑，这是四年来的最高水平。

国有国有储蓄银行（Sberbank）首席财务官塔拉斯·斯克沃佐夫（Taras Skvortsov）告诉俄罗斯商业新闻媒体RBC，那个月俄罗斯人从银行提取的资金比过去六年中的任何一年都要多。许多俄罗斯人还担心克里姆林宫会加速对互联网的限制。

在选举活动之外，克里姆林宫及其公共关系机构正在更新其宣传口径。那种“一切照旧”的持久叙事正在演变。现在，俄罗斯当局承认许多人生活艰难且感到恐惧 —— 并主张解决办法是团结在弗拉基米尔·V·普京总统及其战争周围。

在选举前两周，据内政部估计，约 100,000 名俄罗斯人沿着首都宽阔的大道游行，随行的是德米特里·顿斯科伊的遗骸。顿斯科伊是 1359 年至 1389 年去世期间的莫斯科亲王。他因在 1380 年率领俄罗斯军队取得一场著名的胜利，击败蒙古金帐汗国而受到推崇。

上个月，在俄罗斯官员称之为一次偶然的发现后，他的遗骸从克里姆林宫一座大教堂的地下墓穴中被挖掘出来。其中的象征意义显而易见：正如顿斯科伊在不利条件下击败蒙古人一样，俄罗斯也将击败如今支持乌克兰的“集体西方”。

“你还活着。你没有被炸死或怎么的。你可以行走。你可以去工作或学习。但感觉总有什么东西在压着你。”——亚罗斯拉夫，一名参加了被禁止参选的反战政党活动的学生。

“他是一位带领战斗走向胜利并团结俄罗斯士兵的圣战者，”38岁的阿列克谢说道。他表示，自己在2022年曾志愿前往乌克兰参战，随后在次年转而从事政府工作。

“我们的敌人正试图分化我们，”他继续说道，并将敌人定义为“那些在帮助乌克兰的人”。

那天晚上，亲克里姆林宫的宣传员玛格丽塔·西蒙尼安作为嘉宾出现在俄罗斯旗舰晚间新闻谈话节目中，接过了顿斯科伊的衣钵。

“当情况变得可怕且艰难，当我的孩子们——不仅是我的孩子——在索契的更衣室里躲过了半个夏天时，人们在问：我们能不能不需要这一切，干脆不开始它？”她反问道，并点名了这座多次遭到乌克兰袭击的黑海度假城市。

“当然，我们必须这样做，”她说。“如果我们不像德米特里·顿斯科伊那样奋起反抗，我们将走上一条不可逆转的奴役之路，成为”西方的“殖民地”。

这种叙事可能无法引起那些对战争感到厌倦的俄罗斯人的共鸣。

“感觉总有一种持续的压力压在身上，”学生亚罗斯拉夫在参加了被禁止参加选举的“苹果党”（Yabloko）总部活动后告诉我。

“就像，基本上，一切都还好：你还活着。你没有被炸死或怎么的。你可以行走。你可以去工作或学习。但感觉总有什么东西在压着你，”他指着自己的胸口说道。

21岁的亚罗斯拉夫说，他最近收到了一份要求前往征兵办公室报到的电子传票。最近有一天，当他进入莫斯科地铁时，他拉起了卫衣的兜帽，希望面部识别摄像头不会捕捉到他。

他的父亲是一名长途卡车司机，在卡车故障且需要钱之后，最近入伍参军。他说，尽管父亲没有任何军事经验，但仍被部署到前线。

33岁的帕维尔是西伯利亚新西伯利亚地区的一名教师，他表示，与一年前相比，人们对战争的情绪发生了巨大变化。

“‘这一切什么时候才会结束？’这句话在对话中经常出现，”他说。“即使人们对战争持有完全不同的观点，激进程度也各不相同，但当他们交谈且话题陷入停顿时，经常有人会说出这句话。”

他说，在他的村子里，葬礼已经变得如此普遍，以至于在过去的两年里，年度新年庆祝活动——对大多数俄罗斯人来说最重要的家庭节日——已被“哀悼活动”所取代。

50岁的维塔利来自喀山地区，最近开始在莫斯科担任司机。他说他深信新一轮军事动员迫在眉睫，尽管普京先生在公开场合表示政府没有此类计划。

维塔利说，尽管他已到这个年纪，当地的征兵办公室在几个月前仍试图说服他入伍。

“当地企业都在苦苦支撑，”他说。“这么多人死去。如果你问我，我仍然无法理解这一切究竟是为了什么。”

国会通过旨在打击俄罗斯资金支持的制裁法案

哈希姆·塔齐，科索沃前总理兼后任总统，2020年。 俄罗斯能源部门是该制裁法案的重点。由俄罗斯石油公司（Rosneft）拥有的一个西伯利亚油田。 SERGEI KARPUKHIN / 路透社

作者：罗伯特·吉米森（ROBERT JIMISON）

华盛顿——众议院周三通过了一项广泛的立法，旨在挤压维持俄罗斯对乌克兰战争的资金生命线。在克服了一年多的阻力后，该法案将被提交给特朗普总统，其中包含对莫斯科实施严厉的新制裁，并将其制裁范围扩大至伊朗。

该措施的核心将打击俄罗斯的能源部门，该部门为对乌克兰的袭击提供了资金。它将允许总统对包括中国和印度在内的国家征收高达100%的关税，这些国家属于俄罗斯石油或天然气的前五大买家，或者是用于规避俄罗斯石油出口限制的所谓“影子舰队”的主要协助者。

该法案以南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（Lindsey Graham）命名，格雷厄姆在花费一年多时间为该法案争取支持后于7月去世。该法案还将对俄罗斯官员、寡头和金融机构实施制裁。

该法案以 262 票赞成、159 票反对获得通过，随后将提交给特朗普先生，他已示意将签署该法案。尽管两党在惩罚俄罗斯方面有强力支持，但仍有 152 名民主党人反对该立法，他们认为这赋予了总统过多的新关税权力，而这位总统此前已在贸易问题上多次绕过国会。

该立法包括将针对伊朗能源和武器部门的制裁延长五年，这反映了国会对莫斯科与德黑兰之间密切军事关系的担忧。

该法案的最终通过为其在国会中波折重重的历程画上了句号。此次立法由格雷厄姆先生和康涅狄格州民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔（Richard Blumenthal）领导。他们于去年年初开始推动制裁工作，最初遭到了特朗普先生的抵制，因为他不想让国会在处理俄罗斯问题上束缚他的手脚。

在去世前，格雷厄姆先生一直是国会山与白宫之间的关键中间人，当时华盛顿的官员们正在就经济孤立俄罗斯的竞争方案进行辩论。格雷厄姆先生在去世前不久获得了政府的支持，从而为参议院上个月以压倒性多数通过该立法扫清了障碍。

尽管如此，该法案在众议院的通过路径同样被证明是复杂的。

一些一直以来最坚定支持乌克兰的民主党人对关税条款表示反对，尤其是在最高法院限制了特朗普先生此前在没有国会明确授权的情况下征收关税的部分尝试之后。他们警告说，总统可能会比国会预想的更广泛地使用这些新的贸易权力。

纽约州众议员、外交事务委员会民主党首席成员格雷戈里·W·米克斯（Gregory W. Meeks）周三表示，国会应该在加强限制总统豁免制裁能力的同时，向乌克兰提供额外的军事和人道主义援助。

“我们可以支持乌克兰，我们可以让俄罗斯承担责任，”米克斯先生说，“同时我们也可以保护美国人民免受更高成本的影响。”

支持者则反驳称，该立法明确将新的关税权力限制在购买俄罗斯能源或协助规避制裁的国家，并坚持认为关税是必不可少的，因为之前的处罚未能充分切断莫斯科的能源收入。该措施为某些依赖俄罗斯天然气但正采取重大步骤减少依赖的国家提供了豁免。

众议员迈克尔·麦考尔（Michael McCaul）是来自德克萨斯州的共和党人，也是该法案的主要支持者之一。他表示，关税是“该法案的利齿”，旨在迫使俄罗斯能源的主要买家在继续从莫斯科采购与进入美国市场之间做出选择。

“你可以规避制裁，俄罗斯人多年来一直这么做，但你无法规避关税，”麦考尔先生说道。他讲述了在最近一次访问基辅期间，从一名乌克兰制裁专家那里得到的建议。

这一论点最终说服了来自两党的立法者。

众议员弗伦奇·希尔（French Hill）是来自阿肯色州的共和党人，同时担任金融服务委员会主席。他表示，该措施本可以设计得更好，并警告称其关税可能会损害美国的贸易伙伴。尽管如此，他仍敦促通过该法案，称国会需要向克里姆林宫发出“一个响亮且坚决的信号”。

众议员斯滕尼·H·霍耶（Steny H. Hoyer）是来自马里兰州的民主党人，也是另一位关键谈判者，他提出了类似的观点。他表示，特朗普先生已经主张拥有广泛的关税权力，而提交给国会的这项立法则专门将经济压力指向那些帮助维持俄罗斯战争的国家。

“这是我们可以做到的，”霍耶先生说。

此次投票之际，乌克兰的战斗正趋于激烈，俄罗斯也日益频繁地袭击交通和能源基础设施。

周日，一架俄罗斯无人机在波兰边境附近袭击了一列客运火车，就在此前不久，一列搭载着英国前首相鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）和其他欧洲官员的火车刚刚经过该地区。前中央情报局（C.I.A.）局长大卫·彼得雷厄斯（David Petraeus）在无人机袭击时正身处车站。据报道没有人员死亡，目前尚不清楚火车站是否为此次袭击的预定目标。俄罗斯方面表示，其目标是用于运输欧洲军事货物的基础设施。

“他们刚刚轰炸了从基辅开往华沙的火车，”麦考尔先生说，“我们没有时间等待了。”

检察官助手赞美贪腐野心录音引发乌克兰震怒

本文作者为玛丽亚·瓦雷尼科娃（Maria Varenikova）、卡桑德拉·维诺格拉德（Cassandra Vinograd）和纳塔莉亚·诺沃索洛娃（Natallia Novosolova）。

乌克兰，基辅 —— 乌克兰人早已习惯于政府腐败丑闻的曝光。但本月出现的一起案件成功引起了他们的关注，部分原因是其中一段生动的措辞。

一名在乌克兰最高检察官手下工作的官员被反腐调查人员录音，他在录音中描述了自己通过腐败致富的方法。

“如果你要做某件事，那就全力以赴 —— 砰的一声，”录音记录了该官员如此说道。随后，他用粗俗的语言解释了其含义。他说，如果你要和女人睡觉，那就睡“女王”；如果你要偷，那就偷“一百万”。

据调查人员称，该官员谢尔希·克罗皮瓦（Serhiy Kropyva）以及总检察长办公室的其他人员确实这么做了 —— 至少在“偷”这件事上 —— 他们通过掩盖一个在乌克兰境内及海外运作的电话诈骗网络而收取回扣。

这些指控导致总检察长鲁斯兰·克拉夫琴科（Ruslan Kravchenko）倒台。在总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基（Volodymyr Zelensky）要求将其撤职后，议会于周二正式将其免职。克拉夫琴科先生已于上周辞职。

他否认有任何不当行为。他近日离开了乌克兰，称其出国是为了与伙伴国家讨论乌克兰反腐机构的工作 —— 这一解释遭到了同胞们的嗤之以鼻。

录音中的官员克罗皮瓦先生已被逮捕并处于审前拘留状态。他起初否认录音中的声音是他的，但随后放弃了这一主张。他声称自己没有参与腐败。

这段色彩浓烈的录音在乌克兰人中引发了模因（memes）传播以及愤怒情绪。他们一直在为祖国做出牺牲，包括定期向军队捐款，结果却看到一名又一名被指控非法中饱私囊的官员接踵而至。

许多乌克兰人认为，贪腐不仅是对战争努力的威胁，也是对国家未来的威胁。与此同时，他们对这类案件所执行的正义表示自豪，将其视为在经历了近五年的全面战争后，包括独立反腐机构在内的国家民主体制依然健康的标志。

涉及总检察长办公室的丑闻发生在泽连斯基先生一个敏感的时刻，在腐败案件接连不断地曝光之际，他面临着清理门户的压力。

在乌克兰严重缺乏战争资金的时刻，这些披露尤为刺眼。就在乌克兰请求帮助以填补巨大的预算缺口时，这些事件可能会在欧洲伙伴国中播下怀疑的种子。

俄罗斯升级了对乌克兰经济的袭击，使用喷气式无人机袭击仓库、加油站、铁路和能源基础设施，而乌克兰尚未找到有效的防御手段。该国总理谢尔希·科雷茨基（Serhii Koretskyi）上周表示，俄罗斯的袭击将使国家损失约 15 亿美元 billion。

去年，围绕乌克兰反腐努力的冲突达到了顶峰，当时人们走上街头，以维护乌克兰国家反腐败局（NABU）和专门反腐败检察官办公室的自主权。这两个机构都是十年前在西方强力支持下创建的。

泽连斯基政府曾试图通过将这两个机构置于总检察长的管辖之下以削弱其权力，而总检察长由议会批准，总统的政党在议会中占据多数席位。面对抗议活动，泽连斯基先生改变了方向。

基辅一场反对政府腐败的抗议活动。乌克兰总检察长鲁斯兰·克拉夫琴科因其办公室涉及回扣的指控而倒台。 BRENDAN HOFFMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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原本将负责监督反腐机构的总检察长是克拉夫琴科先生，而他现在却在的一起腐败案中倒台。

自 2025 年旨在维护其独立性的抗议活动以来，乌克兰国家反腐败局（NABU）已指控数十名官员涉嫌腐败。其中最受关注的一起涉及能源部门贪腐的案件，导致泽连斯基总统办公室权力巨大的负责人安德烈·叶尔马克被解职。

根据基辅社会与营销研究中心今年夏天进行的一项调查，大多数乌克兰人认为腐败对国家的影响比俄罗斯的轰炸更为严重。

“这些腐败丑闻太可怕了，而且确实令人沮丧，”38 岁的德米特罗·卡拉奇说道，他在轻工业领域工作，并定期向军队捐款。

他说，贪腐不会阻止他继续支持军队。

在谈到被指控腐败的政府官员时，他说：“他们是无赖，但这并不意味着我也必须成为像他们那样的无赖。”

一些乌克兰人表示，尽管存在腐败，他们仍将尽一切努力生存下去，但当案件曝光时，他们仍感到深受伤害。

“我无法简单地对这些腐败丑闻耸耸肩就过去了，”68 岁的退役军人维亚切斯拉夫·奥克休塔说道。他目前仍在国防部门工作，有两个儿子，其中一人在军队服役。

“当我听到这些案件时，我甚至没法看电视，”他说，“我把这一切看作是对我个人的伤害。”

即便本周议会正在对克拉夫琴科先生采取行动，腐败指控的鼓点仍在继续。调查人员周二表示，他们发现了另一起非法敛财计划，此次发生在乌克兰西部的一个税务局办公室。

科索沃前领导人因 1990 年代战争罪被判处 25 年监禁

作者：AMELIA NIERENBERG

伦敦 —— 科索沃前领导人哈希姆·塔奇（Hashim Thaci）周三被判处 25 年监禁，罪名包括任意拘禁、酷刑和谋杀等战争罪。他在 1990 年代领导了科索沃针对塞尔维亚的血腥独立斗争。

塔奇先生的判决为这场审判画上了句号。这场审判加深了其巴尔干故土的分歧：人们在争论他应该被尊为战争英雄，还是被谴责为暴力反叛者的首领。

现年 58 岁的塔奇先生长期否认有任何不当行为。他与已解散的科索沃解放军（K.L.A.）的其他三名高级成员一同被判刑。位于海牙的名为科索沃专家法庭（Kosovo Specialist Chambers）的特别法庭做出了裁决。

法庭在一份声明中表示，在 1990 年代的冲突期间，这四个人对针对被视为对手的人员的攻击“做出了重大贡献”。法庭称，部分受害者是被视为协作人员或叛徒的科索沃阿尔巴尼亚同胞，另一些则是少数民族成员。

法庭表示：“针对此类对手的行为采取了杀戮；未经正当程序的逮捕和拘禁；身体和心理虐待；以及其他形式的虐待、恐吓和骚扰。”

在大多数案例中，法庭发现没有证据表明这些人的受害者“参与了任何犯罪活动，在敌对行动中发挥了积极作用，或对 K.L.A. 构成了任何其他合法的安全威胁”。

法庭称，“他们中的绝大多数是无辜的平民”，且经常被诬称为间谍或协作人员。

与塔奇先生一同被判刑的其他人员包括：K.L.A. 前情报主管卡德里·韦塞利（Kadri Veseli），被判处 18 年监禁；前发言人雅库普·克拉斯尼基（Jakup Krasniqi），被判处 25 年监禁；以及前行动主管雷杰普·塞利米（Rexhep Selimi），被判处 13 年监禁。所有人都获得了已服刑时间的抵扣。

这些人被裁定在反人类罪指控中不成立。法庭表示，检察官“未能排除合理怀疑地证明存在针对平民人口的广泛或系统性攻击”。

科索沃专家检察官办公室前副检察官亚历克斯·惠廷（Alex Whiting）将此次判决描述为国际法持久生命力的标志，尤其是在美国和其他国家忽视或攻击国际刑事法院的时期。

“人们一直问我：‘国际刑法真的存在吗？这可能实现吗？’”在哈佛法学院任教的惠廷教授说道。

他表示，这次判决就是证明。“国际刑事司法是可能的，”他说，“它可以实现。”

他说，多年来，这起案件分裂了科索沃——这个小国长期以来一直是前南斯拉夫最贫困的地区之一。

塔奇先生长期以来是科索沃的举足轻重的人物。在 1990 年代科索沃试图脱离塞尔维亚时，他走上了权力之巅，当时和平的分离努力让位于武装反叛者的血腥行动。

1998 年，塞尔维亚总统斯洛博丹·米洛舍维奇（Slobodan Milosevic）命令其军队开展种族清洗行动。目标是清除科索沃境内的阿尔巴尼亚族人，该族群占该国人口的近 90%。

1999 年，由美国领导的北约空袭迫使塞尔维亚停止侵略。到那时，已有 12,000 多人被杀，近 850,000 人离开科索沃。

科索沃最终脱离塞尔维亚，并在宣布独立直到 2008 年期间作为联合国保护地进行管理。但即使在塞尔维亚撤退之后，科索沃依然生活在暴力之中。阿尔巴尼亚族人仍遭到攻击，在某些情况下甚至被杀害。

塔奇先生曾担任总理，随后担任总统，而总统在很大程度上是一个礼仪性职位。他的支持者将其誉为战争英雄，而他的批评者则指责其政府腐败。

2020年6月，当塔奇先生担任总统时，被起诉的消息令他措手不及：当时他身在维也纳，正前往白宫与塞尔维亚进行和平谈判。

同年11月，他辞职并向海牙法庭投案。他在那里被拘留了近六年。他的审判于2023年开始。

法庭认定，塔奇先生在建立拘留设施、识别所谓的科索沃解放军（K.L.A.）反对者，以及逮捕、拘留和杀害这些人员的过程中“是一名关键成员”。

法庭还表示，已查明塔奇先生“亲自参与”了对议员的逮捕和审讯，以及对一名叫贝哈伊丁·阿拉基（Behajdin Allaqi）男子的逮捕和谋杀，此前他与该男子曾有过争端。

摄影：HANNAH REYES MORALES 为《纽约时报》拍摄

白鹳这种在欧洲民俗中被传为生命带来者的细长鸟类，现在可以在英国的天空中看到。这是一个出人意料且具有争议的新成员，因为一些自然主义者表示这种鸟从未在当地生活过。

英国的鹳鸟回来了。还是它们是不请自来的入侵者？

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今年秋天前往非洲。这是一场艰苦的旅程：大多数鸟类在尝试过程中死亡，但幸存者将在三四年后返回寻找配偶。

特里女士希望这个种群最终能实现自给自足，并扩散到英格兰南部形成卫星种群。她在 7 月的一次采访中表示：“我们知道我们可以把它们带回来。”

随着种群的增长，人们开始重新审视关于该物种存在的考古记录和文献记载。

尽管几个世纪以来英国一直有白鹳出没，但一些研究人员表示，几乎没有迹象表明它们不仅仅是短暂地到访。

“我们没有任何来源的证据表明，英国曾经存在过具有显著白鹳种群的区域，”德国美因茨莱布尼茨考古中心专门研究鸟类的考古学家乌尔里希·施默尔克（Ulrich Schmölcke）说道。

按照这个逻辑，克内普（Knepp）可能是英国有史以来第一个白鹳种群。

这个问题引发了一场激烈的辩论，即环保主义者应该在多大程度上积极地重塑荒野。

施默尔克博士表示，考古学家在英国偶尔会挖掘出成年白鹳的骨骼，但从未发现过幼鸟遗骸，而幼鸟遗骸才能证明这些鸟不仅仅是访客。

他指出，白鹳也没有出现在英国丰富的民间传说或成文法中，而在欧洲其他一些白鹳毫无疑问是本土繁殖地的地区，情况则并非如此。

施默尔克博士说，证据表明“它们从未建立起稳定的种群”。

曾就职于官方环境机构“自然英格兰”（Natural England）的鸟类学家伊恩·卡特（Ian Carter）基于此理由反对有计划地释放白鹳。他说：“无论人们多少次称其为‘重新引入’，这绝对不是。”

卡特先生表示，这些鸟可能会对现有的野生动物构成威胁，因为它们繁殖密度高，且捕食脆弱的湿地生物。他补充道：“你不能在不给其他物种带来连锁反应的情况下，将一个物种强加给环境。如果你可以随意挑选任何一种鸟，那么‘野生动物’的定义就改变了。”

这场骚动促使“自然英格兰”介入并进行评估。今年 5 月，该机构表示，其判定白鹳从未是本土繁殖鸟类。

尽管这些鸟曾从欧洲大陆飞来，但研究人员仅能找到一条关于筑巢配偶的历史记录：1416 年，一名苏格兰牧师观察到两只白鹳在爱丁堡圣吉尔斯大教堂的屋顶上筑巢，随后它们飞走了。文中并未明确它们是否成功繁殖。

“这是一种零星出现这里的动物，”自然英格兰主席托尼·朱尼珀（Tony Juniper）说，“但我们还不能说服自己认为这曾是一个定居物种。”

虽然朱尼珀先生对在克内普利用本土植物和其他动物进行再野化（rewilding）的广泛努力赞赏有加，但他表示，环境管理部门不能积极支持引入一个在英国没有既定繁殖历史的物种。

（从左上起顺时针方向）：英格兰西萨塞克斯郡克内普再野化项目的共同创始人伊莎贝拉·特里（Isabella Tree）；围栏中的幼鹳；特里女士说，日耳曼神话认为鹳将新生婴儿的灵魂从地下湖中运来；以及初次飞行的鸟类。关于它们存在的争论似乎并未让这些鹳感到担忧。

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针对怀疑论者的观点，特里女士表示，他们所要求的证据标准——即幼鸟遗骸或提及繁殖的法律记录——高得令人无法实现。

她指出，鹳鸟曾是中世纪英国的一部分，并举例说明它们出现在艺术作品和地名中。其中一个例子是位于克内普（Knepp）附近的一个村庄，名为斯托灵顿（Storrington）。

“最终，无论哪种观点都有理由，”特里女士说，“而且我认为这并不重要。”

这些鸟类作为生育象征的显著地位，在漫画和关于分娩的旧式委婉语中依然存在。关于这种联系的一种普遍理论将其追溯到迁徙模式：鹳鸟会返回

触发一场关于物种是否真正属于此地的争论。

在二三月份飞向中世纪欧洲的天空，这与仲夏婚礼后约九个月的人类出生率上升相吻合。

正在撰写关于这些鸟类书籍的特里女士表示，日耳曼神话认为鹳鸟将新生婴儿的灵魂从地下湖中运来。19世纪初，丹麦作家汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生在短篇小说《鹳鸟》中改编了这一构思，其中描绘了长腿鸟类运送新生儿的场景。

特里女士表示，将这些鸟类引入英国除了历史正确性之外，还有其他理由。她说，鹳鸟巨大的巢穴为其他鸟类提供了住所和食物。而且，随着欧洲大陆气候变暖，鹳鸟能从接触到更凉爽的气候中获益。

她说：“我们需要允许物种能够为了应对气候变化而向北迁移。”

尽管特里女士的批评者质疑她的理由，但他们的反对并非她工作的严重障碍。在内普（Knepp）的释放活动由独立资金资助，不需要官方许可。

朱尼珀先生和施莫尔克博士都表示，无论内普的努力如何，随着气候变化，来自欧洲大陆的鹳鸟都可能会向北进入英国。

7月在庄园里，关于它们存在的争论似乎并未影响到起飞的幼鹳。人类可能建立了这个群体，但这些鸟类做了羽毛生物倾向于做的事。它们一个接一个地走出围栏，展开翅膀，在几次尝试失败后，终于飞向天空。

几天后，这些鸟类开始了跨越英吉利海峡的迁徙。几周内，有人在摩洛哥发现了一些鹳鸟在垃圾场中觅食。

打开围栏释放这些鸟类的动物园饲养员杰米·克雷格在看到它们以垃圾为食的照片时，无奈地笑了笑。“这就是生活，这就是自然，”他说，“如果我们提供资源，它就会利用。”

尼泊尔致命山体滑坡深达基岩

在尼泊尔朗唐利隆峰（Langtang Lirung）北壁的冰川边缘有一处岩层露头。

冰川退缩可能导致灾难，为山地地区敲响警钟

根据乔治·布伦彻（George Brencher）为《时报》分析的卫星数据，上方深粉色显示的岩石部分在坍塌前的一个月内移动了超过一英尺。

山体滑坡发生时，在冰层和岩石中留下了一道近乎笔直的切口。这表明坍塌发生在基岩中。

作者：RAJ SAHA 和 JEREMY WHITE

在尼泊尔靠近西藏边境的一座名为朗唐利隆（Langtang Lirung）的山峰上，其北壁的冰川曾位于下方谷底上方近一英里处。

随后，在 8 月 26 日，该山峰的一段区域及冰川发生坍塌，释放了超过 70 亿立方英尺的岩石和冰块。如此数量的碎片足以填满约 100 个足球场。

山坡上留下的伤痕以及暴露在外的多年冻土岩石（冰川下方冻土与岩石的混合物）为此次山体滑坡的原因提供了线索。此次滑坡引发了山洪，导致数千人死亡或失踪。

科学家可能需要数月时间才能准确了解这场灾难的具体成因。

“我们目前最合理的解释是发生了岩石坍塌，”法国格勒诺布尔大学（Université Grenoble Alpes）的地貌学家克里斯汀·库克（Kristen Cook）表示，“它摧毁了冰川。”库克博士是研究此次滑坡的科学家群体的一员。

库克博士表示，基岩失效很难预测。“喜马拉雅山脉有如此多的陡坡——我们无法评估其中每一个失效的风险，”她补充道。

由华盛顿大学博士后研究员乔治·布伦彻（George Brencher）为《纽约时报》分析的卫星数据显示，在坍塌前的一个月里，冰川边缘的一处岩石露头移动了超过一英尺，且移动速度在加快。

乌得勒支大学的山地水文学家 W.W. Immerzeel 表示，当山体滑坡发生时，它在冰层和岩石中留下了一道近乎笔直的切口。这表明坍塌发生在基岩中。

随着冰川在过去一个世纪中退缩，它使得岩石露头变得不稳定，且下方几乎没有结构支撑。

纽约时报

山体滑坡引发的山洪导致数千人死亡或失踪。

这次坍塌极有可能是多个事件叠加的结果。冰川融水渗入基岩，在反复冻融过程中可能扩大了现有的裂缝。随着冰川退缩，岩壁暴露，这很可能有助于融化其中的多年冻土，从而让更多水分进入裂缝。随着时间的推移，这些渐进的变化可能使岩石结构弱化到坍塌的程度。

“我们观察到的是，这些不稳定性似乎在增加，”库克博士说。“任何经历多年冻土和冰川融化的高山地区都应该预料到会有更多的不稳定性。”科学家们尤其担心阿尔卑斯山，因为欧洲的变暖速度快于其他大洲。

坠落的冰石巨大的质量，加上一英里的垂直落差，释放出的能量足以将大部分冰块粉碎并融化，形成一种由冰、岩石和沉积物组成的泥浆。

当碎片以至少 30 倍于尼亚加拉大瀑布的流速向下游移动时，它卷入了更多的水和沉积物，而较重的岩石碎片则被沉积下来。科学家估计，其峰值速度超过了每小时 100 英里。

碎片流移动了 60 多英里，摧毁了城镇和桥梁，导致 1,000 多人死亡。另有数千人仍然失踪。

数据来源与方法

为了制作本文中的可视化图表，《纽约时报》的记者结合使用了卫星图像和 3-D 地形模型。山体滑坡痕迹图像由 Guoxiong Zheng 提供，冰川范围数据来自 Felipe Ugalde Peralta。卫星图像通过 Google 获取，由 Airbus、CNES / Airbus 和 Maxar Technologies 提供。

为了确定崩塌的冰川和岩石区域，记者使用了滑坡前后的图像，将其足迹映射在 3-D 模型上，以估算

大量岩石和冰块坠落近 1 英里至谷底所产生的冲击力足以被记录为一次 5.2 级地震。

坠落部分的体积。下游区域的洪水流速是基于已知的高程数据、观察到的洪水前缘移动速度以及基于卫星图像的洪水高度范围估算得出的。 针对崩塌前地面运动的分析，George Brencher 使用了 NASA-ISRD NISAR 卫星在 7 月 14 日至 8 月 19 日期间的雷达观测数据。 为了绘制河岸两侧的洪水范围，记者对比了 8 月 10 日和 8 月 26 日的 Landsat 9 图像。

尼泊尔加德满都特里布万大学教学医院中失踪者的照片，以及贝特拉瓦蒂附近特里舒利河边受损的房屋。地质专家认为，冰川融水的积聚和多年冻土的融化可能导致了上个月引发致命山洪的山体滑坡。 摄影：LAM YIK FEI 为《纽约时报》拍摄

监察长详述军方在战争中的损失与挑战

作者：JOHN ISMAY

华盛顿 —— 关于伊朗战争一些最详尽的信息并非来自国防部长办公室或白宫，而是来自国防部监察长发布的一份报告。

这家独立监督机构揭示了美国军队库存短缺的情况，以及伊朗对该地区领事馆和其他外交设施反击所造成的破坏。

该文件于周一发布，仅涵盖了战争的前四个月，即 2 月 28 日至 6 月 30 日。周二，无党派的国会预算办公室在另一份报告中表示，截至 8 月 1 日，这场战争已使美国花费了大约 $38 亿。

以下是监察长报告中的一些关键要点。

秘密的任务声明

五角大楼和白宫表示，他们在伊朗的目标是摧毁其核计划，攻击无人机、弹道导弹和巡航导弹及其武器生产手段。

但监察长的报告指出，五角大楼关于伊朗战争的完整任务声明“属于机密”。这表明军方可能还有其他尚未公开的目标。

成本

监察长表示，鉴于五角大楼从未获得国会拨发的专项拨款来资助这场伊朗战争，因此“很难计算总‘成本’”。

报告指出，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）在发起战斗行动之前并未向国会请求额外资金，战争资金一直来自该部门现有的部队训练和维护预算。

由于五角大楼表示可能会选择关闭或不再重建被伊朗袭击损坏或摧毁的美国军事设施（例如位于巴林马纳马的海军基地），因此这些设施的维修或更换成本尚未计算。

报告称，6月24日，白宫提交了一项670亿美元的战争补充资金请求，其中210亿美元计划用于补充截至当时已消耗的弹药。

监察长还表示，国务院估计其在中东的大使馆、领事馆和其他外交设施在伊朗袭击中遭受了约1.84亿美元的损失。

仅在战争的前四个月，美国驻伊拉克外交使团就遭受了“超过600次”伊朗袭击，损失超过1.57亿美元。

弹药短缺

五角大楼最高采购办公室告知监察长办公室，伊朗战争中的弹药消耗“已导致战略库存短缺”。

报告指出，军方领导层已试图加快弹药生产，但补充道，“国防工业基础需要‘相当长的提前期’来扩大武器的生产能力”。

导弹所依赖的固体火箭发动机生产，以及“高级爆炸物和推进剂”的供应仍然存在瓶颈。

国会预算办公室的报告也发现，这场战争显著消耗了美国弹药。对此，五角大楼发言人肖恩·帕内尔（Sean Parnell）表示，“关于美国弹药短缺的说法是不真实的”。

部队、舰船、飞机与基地 支持这场战争的中东美军人数约为50,000人，尽管部队在部署期间会进行轮换。

根据监察长报告，战争期间部署了“各12个”战斗机中队、驱逐舰和防空炮兵营，以及用于发射火箭炮和ATACMS及PrSM等制导导弹的移动发射车。

此外，战争至今已部署了四个航空母舰打击群，以及第82空降师的“部分部署”。

报告称，伊朗的反击破坏并摧毁了位于巴林、伊拉克、约旦、科威特、阿曼、卡塔尔、沙特阿拉伯和阿拉伯联合酋国的美国军事基地内的“数百栋建筑和结构”。

此外，数十架美国军机受损或被毁，包括30架“死神”无人机、12架KC-135空中加油机、4架F-15战斗机和一架A-10攻击机。

伤亡与医疗支持

报告称，国防部在美军部署于该地区的每个地点都设有有限的医疗救治设施，并在几个国家建立了更先进的设施以提供外科手术支持。

对于超出这些设施提供能力之外的护理，五角大楼依赖于这些东道国的医院。

报告称，在伊朗袭击后，伊拉克和科威特的医疗撤离直升机不得不被重新安置，并补充道，战争期间的“行动性质”意味着大多数美军伤员是通过车辆和救护车被运送到医疗救治设施的。

根据五角大楼的伤亡数据库，美国在这场战争中已有18人死亡，824人受伤。

物流问题

报告称，巴林海军主要物流枢纽的被毁，迫使五角大楼寻找额外的补给舰，这些补给舰需配备在海上向战舰转移燃料和物资的能力。

报告显示，海军将位于距离阿拉伯海约 2,200 英里的英属岛屿迪戈加西亚（Diego Garcia）作为新的物流中心，这意味着补给舰必须花费两到两周半的时间前往该岛，装载货物和燃料，然后返回波斯湾以外的海军主要作战区域。

其他司令部的压力

报告指出，在负责全球不同地区军事行动的所有五角大楼“作战司令部”中，总部位于德国的美国欧洲司令部为伊朗战争提供了最多的支持。

该司令部向负责监督中东行动的中央司令部转移了“弹药、设备、飞机和人员，并征用且分发了燃料、食物和医疗用品”。

赫格塞斯先生命令总部位于夏威夷欧胡岛的太平洋司令部，在印度洋追击并登临涉嫌伊朗背景的商船——这将任务范围扩展到了中东以外的遥远地区。

太平洋司令部还被要求为伊朗战争提供六艘战舰。其中包括以“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号（U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln）为核心的航空母舰打击群，该打击群于 11 月 21 日离开圣迭戈，在海上度过了大约九个月的时间，期间船员没有在任何港口靠岸休息。

该舰目前正返回其位于南加州的母港。

以色列空袭导致一名青少年和一名救援人员死亡

本文由埃夫拉特·利夫尼（Ephrat Livni）、阿布·巴克尔·巴希尔（Abu Bakr Bashir）和纳坦·奥登海默（Natan Odenheimer）撰写。

据一名当地官员称，在国际社会向以色列施压要求其停止在加沙地带袭击的背景下，以色列在加沙一个居民区的空袭导致一名青少年和一名民防救援服务工作人员死亡。

以色列军方周二表示，其已“针对哈马斯恐怖分子发动攻击”，且加沙城的这次袭击结果“正在审查中”。此次行动是在前一日的袭击之后进行的，军方称前一日的袭击杀死了哈马斯武装分子。

民防团队成员莫塔兹·艾尤布（Motaz Ayyoub）在电话采访中表示，周二，以色列在加沙城谢赫·拉德万（Sheikh Radwan）区的一次无人机袭击杀死了 15 岁的青少年穆罕默德·阿尔-齐纳蒂（Mohammed al-Zinati），并造成其他人受伤。

艾尤布先生表示，不到一分钟后，第二次无人机袭击杀死了民防工作人员谢里夫·拉巴德（Sharif Labad），他当时并未在值班，但匆忙赶到了现场。他表示，他与拉巴德先生原计划会面并参加一场婚礼，但他的朋友在响应之前的袭击时遇难。

“我们现在在清真寺进行葬礼祈祷，”艾尤布先生说。

在周二发表的独立声明中，以色列军方表示，其在夜间杀死了加沙地带北部的一名哈马斯指挥官，并在周一杀死了两名哈马斯特工，一名在加沙南部的汗尤尼斯（Khan Younis）地区，另一名在加沙城。

周二晚些时候，以色列军方还表示，其袭击了加沙地带南部的一名“哈马斯高级恐怖分子”。以色列总理办公室和国防部长在一份联合声明中表示，此次袭击的目标是哈马斯拉法旅（Rafah Brigade）的指挥官，并誓言“哈马斯将无法留在加沙”。

尽管特朗普总统的和平委员会（Board of Peace）在 7 月下旬宣布哈马斯已同意缴械后，努力促使袭击停止，但以色列在过去六周内继续在加沙进行致命袭击。根据该裁军框架，以色列预计将停止在加沙的军事行动，除非是在立即自卫的情况下，但以色列官员拒绝了该协议。

一名和平委员会的高级官员最近在联合国的一次演讲中批评了以色列持续的袭击，称这些袭击并不符合以色列的利益，且仅延迟了加沙的去军事化。

本周在加沙城的希法医院（Al Shifa Hospital），两名巴勒斯坦人的尸袋被放置在一起。医护人员表示，他们死于以色列的袭击。

以色列在加沙的军事行动正值总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）竞选连任，并将其自己塑造为国家安全之关键。特朗普的特使、同时也是其女婿的贾里德·库什纳（Jared Kushner）一直与和平委员会合作制定加沙计划，他本月表示，内塔尼亚胡政府在选举前表现得“有点不理智”。

联合国人权事务高级专员沃尔克·图尔克（Volker Türk）周二呼吁，应允许国际调查人员进入加沙所有地区，以挖掘仍埋在废墟下的巴勒斯坦人遗骸，并帮助收集潜在战争罪行的证据。

他在社交媒体的一份声明中表示，本月已挖掘出被认为属于三个巴勒斯坦家庭、共 96 人的遗骸，其中包括许多妇女和儿童。他指出，巴勒斯坦官员估计可能仍有数千人埋在废墟下，并表示目前的发现“可能只是冰山一角”，因为“加沙的大部分地区已被以色列的轰炸夷为平地，或被重型机械和炸药拆除清理”。

无国界医生组织周日表示，在加沙城的一次以色列袭击中，目标车辆距离其救援车辆仅几码之遥，导致其一辆人道主义车辆受损，一名援助人员受伤。该组织在社交媒体上发布的一篇帖子中称，该援助车辆已有明确标识，并指责以色列军队表现出“对人道主义和医疗人员安全的公然漠视”。

“在加沙没有一个地方是安全的，”无国界医生组织表示，并呼吁保护平民、医护人员和其他人道主义工作人员。

以色列军方在一份声明中表示，周日在加沙城的这次袭击杀死了哈马斯军事翼的两名成员。军方称，其已采取措施减轻对平民的伤害，包括使用“精确弹药和空中监视”。

随着一部关于战争中巴勒斯坦平民死亡情况的纪录片《NAZA》在威尼斯国际电影节首映，以色列军方在加沙战争中的执行情况在过去一周受到了进一步审查。这部由以色列导演拍摄的影片获得了评审团特别奖，但在国内面临官方的强烈抵制。

以色列军方负责人埃亚尔·扎米尔中将（Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir）周一与高级将领商议如何应对这部电影，称该片基于“对现实的蓄意扭曲”。

周二，在庆祝犹太新年开始的仪式上，领导军方南方司令部的亚尼夫·阿索尔少将（Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor）强调了“维持我们自身行为的完整性，区分敌人与那些未参与敌对行动的人员”的重要性。

他表示，这要求军方进行自我审查并“纠正必须纠正的问题”。

但阿索尔将军同时表示，以色列军队将继续在加沙开展行动，“以防止哈马斯重建其能力”。

加沙一座受战争损坏的建筑倒塌，至少21人死亡

SAHER ALGHORRA 为《纽约时报》拍摄 周三在加沙城搜寻幸存者。该地区的重建工作陷入停滞。

本文由 Natan Odenheimer, Adam Rasgon 和 Abu Bakr Bashir 撰写。

特拉维夫 —— 据当地官员称，加沙一座受战争损坏的建筑于周三倒塌，造成至少21人死亡（包括儿童），另有许多人被困在废墟之下。

此次事件凸显了在2023年10月7日哈马斯领导的袭击以色列之后，这场毁灭性战争给加沙带来的危险处境。官员们警告称，许多在以色列袭击中受损的建筑仍有倒塌风险。由于重建工作缺乏进展，居民们被迫在居住于严重受损的建筑或住在帐篷之间做出选择。

据加沙由哈马斯管理的内政部下属的民防救援服务部门称，周三凌晨2点左右，加沙城萨达（Saada）住宅楼倒塌时，楼内有数十人居住。

官员们补充说，该建筑此前曾遭到以色列袭击，但具体时间尚不明确。以色列军方在周三的一份声明中表示，其在战争期间“并未袭击涉事建筑”，但未立即回应关于袭击附近目标是否可能导致该建筑受损的提问。

搜救队伍在周三上午从废墟中救出了幸存者，并继续搜寻失踪居民。

“我们能看到仍有人被困在瓦砾之下，”加沙城地区民防局局长拉埃德·达赫尚（Raed al-Dahshan）表示，“我们正在尽一切努力将他们救出。”

达赫尚先生表示，加沙当局曾警告居民该建筑不稳定，但许多人并未离开，因为他们不想流离失所，且担心可能会陷入更糟糕的境地。他表示，加沙城地区大约有70座建筑面临倒塌风险。

一名从废墟中被救出的女性描述了建筑倒塌时那种令人心惊胆战的感觉。

“我感觉到有什么东西从下面掉下来了，”37岁的哈亚特·贾巴里（Hayat al-Jabari）说，“然后整栋楼一下子就压在我们身上了。”

人道主义组织警告称，未来几个月可能会出现更多死亡病例。

“随着冬季强降雨和强风的临近，受损建筑倒塌的风险将进一步增加，使更多生命陷入危险，”红十字国际委员会发言人帕特·格里菲斯（Pat Griffiths）在加沙通过电话表示，“在住在几乎没有隐私或空间且暴露在恶劣天气下的帐篷中，与住在受损且有倒塌风险的建筑中——仅仅为了有个遮风挡雨的地方——之间做出选择，任何家庭都不应该被迫做出这样的选择。”

这次致命的倒塌凸显了多年战争后整个加沙的毁灭状态，以色列的袭击以及以色列军队与哈马斯战士之间的街头战斗已使整个街区化为废墟。加沙的大部分人口因冲突而流离失所，许多人目前居住在受损建筑中。

在去年10月达成由美国斡旋的停火协议后，巴勒斯坦人曾希望以色列允许大量重型机械和建筑材料进入加沙，以开始漫长的清理瓦砾和重建领土的过程。据当地官员称，战争造成的数千具尸体仍被掩埋在加沙各地的废墟之下。周二，联合国人权事务负责人呼吁允许国际调查人员进入该地区，从受损建筑下方回收巴勒斯坦人的遗骸。

特朗普总统的和平委员会及地区调解人旨在推进停火并为重建铺平道路的努力已陷入停滞。尽管面临停止袭击的国际压力，以色列仍继续对该地区进行打击。

红十字国际委员会和由埃及支持的救援队于周三协助当地应急人员搜寻建筑坍塌事故的幸存者。

联合国驻被占领巴勒斯坦领土人道主义协调员拉米兹·阿拉克巴罗夫（Ramiz Alakbarov）在一份声明中，敦促国际当局允许重型设备进入加沙，以协助搜救行动并提供人道主义援助。

“必须尽一切可能挽救生命，保护人们免受进一步伤害，并为家庭提供更安全的居住场所，”他表示，“每一分钟都至关重要。”

胡塞武装学习自主制造先进武器

周六，也门首都萨那的胡塞武装战士。近几个月来，该反政府武装在该地区的活动有所增加。 MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

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关于人工智能的滥用，（报告）称“一个位于也门北部的威胁行为者小组”——那里是胡塞武装的大本营——利用 Claude “持续努力开发制导武器”。该公司表示，尽管 Anthropic 设有安全防护措施，但该小组仍推进到了制导火箭的试射阶段。

胡塞武装在无人机和弹道导弹的最精密部件方面仍依赖于其伊朗赞助者，但正如 Anthropic 的报告所暗示，近年来他们在构建自己的武器系统方面已变得先进得多。

这使得胡塞武装在对抗也门和沙特对手、袭击红海航运交通以及威胁以色列和美国目标方面拥有更大的灵活性，即便美国海军对霍尔木兹海峡实施了长达数月的封锁。

战争实验室

胡塞武装及其伊朗顾问在十年前就已经在实验无人水面舰艇。早在 2017 年，该武装组织就使用一艘装载炸药的遥控船袭击了一艘沙特护卫舰，导致两人死亡。

在胡塞武装于 2014 年占领也门首都萨那后，沙特阿拉伯领导了一个军事联盟，旨在支持该国政府并反击这些武装分子。2022 年宣布了停火，但专家表示，该组织利用中间的几年时间大幅提升了其能力。

伦德金先生表示，停火给了胡塞武装时间去“重新集结、重新训练、重新装备、重新补给”。

“在 2022 年也门宣布停火后，被运入也门用于制造武器的货物数量呈指数级增长，使用的路线数量也呈指数级增长，”哥伦比亚大学国际与公共事务学院兼职教授彼得·索尔兹伯里（Peter Salisbury）表示，他一直密切研究胡塞武装的武器制造。

起初，也门是伊朗追求战争手段的实验室。而现在，它也日益成为工厂。索尔兹伯里先生表示，像导弹底盘这样较大的部件是在胡塞武装控制的领土上制造的，而不是从伊朗发送。

“伊朗和真主党投入了大量资金，继续提升胡塞武装在武器制造和使用方面的技能，”索尔兹伯里先生说。“他们越来越能够实现许多产品的本土化生产，例如单向攻击无人机。”

Vivian Nereim 参与了报道。

根据华盛顿近东政策研究所高级研究员法尔津·纳迪米（Farzin Nadimi）的说法，伊朗国防工业设有专门的设计局和工厂，为像胡塞武装这样的代理力量提供专门的武器系统，这些系统“易于组装，易于移动，易于发射准备且易于使用”。

韧性供应链

伊朗鼓励胡塞武装从中国等地开发额外的零部件供应链，中国的工厂为全球许多地方提供无人机零部件。

“胡塞武装现在有很多东西不再需要了，原因在于他们能够利用全球黑市供应链获取大部分所需物资，”美国第五舰队前指挥官凯文·多尼根（Kevin Donegan）表示。他的职责范围包括波斯湾和红海，并且他建立了第一个情报融合小组以研究伊朗对胡塞武装的支持。

“他们仍然需要关键部件，尤其是为了让导弹发挥效能的部件，”多尼根先生说。“他们依然拥有能够运送这些部件的秘密通道，因为这些部件体积不大。”

索尔兹伯里先生表示，这些部件可能包括制导系统、火箭发动机，以及需要更高精度工程制造的翼尖和尾翼。

虽然美国海军的封锁重点是大规模集装箱船和油轮，但小型部件可以通过在当地海域航行的传统单桅帆船（dhows）等中型船只走私。货物可以直接发送到也门由胡塞武装控制的地区，通过非洲之角转运，甚至在索马里海岸附近的海域进行船对船转移。索尔兹伯里先生将其称为一场“巨大的三张牌骗局（three card monte）”。

自给能力的提高并不一定等同于完全脱离其赞助者——伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（I.R.G.C.）的独立。“我认为他们很大程度上仍然需要革命卫队的很多帮助，”纳迪米先生说。他认为，在也门当前阶段战斗的规划和执行中，有“相当数量”的革命卫队军官参与其中。

对伊朗顾问和更先进部件的需求，或许可以解释今年夏天也门重启战斗的起因。

今年7月，一个胡塞武装代表团前往德黑兰参加伊朗最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊（Ayatollah Ali Khamenei）的葬礼。随后，他们乘坐由伊朗马汉航空（Mahan Air）运营的航班返回萨那，而该公司正受到美国政府的制裁。

沙特阿拉伯和也门政府认为，该飞机搭载了伊朗军事人员和武器。当空袭导致飞机无法在萨那国际机场降落时，该航班被迫转向，并成功在胡塞武装控制的其他领土降落。

随后，胡塞武装对沙特阿拉伯南部的阿巴国际机场发动了报复性袭击。这是自2022年以来胡塞武装首次袭击沙特阿拉伯，并开启了一个新的、不可预测的战斗阶段，而其对手已经花费多年时间规划并提升其战术与技术。

如果 Anthropic 的报告准确，那么在也门北部使用 Claude 的那个团体曾试图开发一种射程超过 1,200 英里的多级弹道导弹和一种高超音速滑翔飞行器。这些潜在的武器设计者小心地避开了该公司的安全防护措施，向协助他们设计的系统隐瞒了他们所设计的制导系统的真实用途。

Anthropic 表示，没有证据表明他们成功“部署了可运行的设备”。用户曾向 Claude Code 询问其野外测试失败的原因。报告称：“尽管如此，我们有证据表明，这些行为体已经构建了一个不依赖于 Claude 的离线模拟工具包。”

近期的历史表明，他们将继续努力提升自身能力。

“请记住，胡塞武装始终在变通，”前美国特使伦德金先生说。“他们具有极强的创业精神。”

管道袭击增加沙特石油遭受“灾难性”限制的风险

法新社 — 盖蒂图片社 上周，商业船只锚泊在也门海岸的曼德海峡附近。

作者：丽莎·弗里德曼 (LISA FRIEDMAN)

伦敦 —— 随着伊朗及其盟友加强对波斯湾航道的掌控，沙特阿拉伯本周在被迫关闭一条在袭击中受损的关键管道后，紧急重新规划数百万桶石油的运输路线。

东西管道的关闭可能导致全球 4% 的石油供应无法进入国际市场，并进一步推高能源价格。

沙特阿拉伯周五表示，在管道遭到一个由伊朗支持的民兵组织袭击后，已暂时关闭该管道。这条长 750 英里的管道网络将原油横跨沙特阿拉伯运往红海港口，自 2 月伊朗战争爆发以来，一直是该王国出口石油的主要方式。

周三，沙特阿拉伯与也门的胡塞武装就彼此发动的袭击交换了最新的指控。在一次战斗升级中，胡塞武装称其击落了一架沙特战斗机，而沙特阿拉伯则称胡塞武装在伊斯兰圣城麦加附近发射了一架无人机。

胡塞武装上周夺取了一个红海战略港口的控制权，并袭击了沙特阿拉伯的能源设施，加剧了对沙特石油出口的挤压。

分析人士表示，目前沙特阿拉伯已穷尽选择，且面临快速恢复供应线的压力，正面临一场具有全球影响的严重能源危机的前景。

“这是前所未有的，”海运数据公司 Kpler 的中东与 OPEC+ 洞察主管阿米娜·巴克尔 (Amena Bakr) 表示。

“我们面临两条主要水道受阻、活跃的袭击、伊朗升级攻击、代理人活跃，且没有任何外交谈判的迹象，”巴克尔女士说。“从能源安全的角度来看，这是一个灾难性的局面。”

任何对沙特阿拉伯（长期以来是全球最大石油出口国）管道网络的长期干扰，都将给全球能源市场带来冲击。全球石油基准布伦特原油周三的价格在每桶 $107 左右波动，比战前水平上涨了 50%。

根据 Kpler 的估计，如果东西管道停运一个月，全球可能会损失 1.2 亿 桶原油。

高盛警告称，如果波斯湾和红海的袭击持续下去，全球油价可能会上涨至每桶 $120。

未能进入全球市场的石油具体数量将很大程度上取决于东西管道受损的严重程度。沙特政府和国家石油公司沙特阿美（Saudi Aramco）均未回应置评请求。

沙特官员此前仅表示，关闭管道是出于预防措施，但尚未披露损坏程度或重启所需的时间表。《纽约时报》审阅的 9 月 10 和 11, 拍摄的卫星图像显示，该管道上的两个泵站受损。

关于管道恢复运行所需时间的估计差异很大。

Kpler 分析师巴克尔女士认为，这可能需要五到六周，但部分修复工作可能会更快完成。

她和其他人指出，该王国拥有广泛的经。

出口限制长期化可能会进一步推高油价。

处理基础设施袭击的丰富经验。2019年，沙特阿美公司（Aramco）的设施遭到胡塞武装的一次重大袭击，但该公司能够在几天内重启抽油作业。今年4月，在伊朗战争爆发后不久，一座抽油站遭到袭击，其全部产能也在7天内得以恢复。

华盛顿智库布鲁金斯学会（Brookings Institution）高级研究员罗宾·布鲁克斯（Robin Brooks）表示，他不相信管道可能停运数月的“噩梦情景”。

“这次袭击再次引发了市场的担忧，即我们可能正处于另一次大幅飙升的边缘，”布鲁克斯先生说。但他表示，“历史记录表明，这些设施在几周内就能修复，而且卫星图像已经显示修复工作正在进行。”

美国能源部长克里斯·赖特（Chris Wright）表示，他认为通过该管道的石油流动将很快恢复。赖特先生周二告诉 CNBC：“这将是一次短暂且临时的中断。”

沙特阿拉伯在全国范围内储存有石油，包括其位于红海延布（Yanbu）港口约 2400 万 桶的存储能力，这形成了一个缓冲地带。但咨询公司 Rystad Energy 认为，这些储油罐不太可能满载，该公司估计该港口仅有大约三到六天的原油储备。

当伊朗战争实际上封锁了霍尔木兹海峡时，东西管道成为了沙特阿拉伯的替代方案。该管道从东部的阿布盖格（Abqaiq）延伸到西部的红海延布油运终端，完全绕过了该海峡。石油可以通过红海南端的曼德海峡，或通过红海北端的苏伊士运河及横跨埃及的管道进行运输，主要运往亚洲客户。

霍尔木兹海峡的船舶流量仅为战前的一小部分，战前每天约有 130 艘船只通过该水道。根据 Kpler 的数据，过去一周平均每天约有 20 艘船通过该海峡。

沙特阿美公司董事长亚西尔·O·鲁迈扬（Yasir O. Al-Rumayyan）在 6 月表示，工程师已将该管道的运力扩大到每天最高 7 百万桶，比战前增加了近 30 百分比。

“我们在 80 年代遇到过类似的情况，当时霍尔木兹海峡面临被伊朗政权封锁的威胁，”鲁迈扬先生说。“从那时起，我们就决定建设一条从东向西的管道。”

分析人士表示，由于胡塞武装目前在很大程度上控制了曼德海峡，沙特阿拉伯正再次引导船只通过霍尔木兹海峡。根据 Kpler 的数据，自 9 月 7 日以来，仅有两艘沙特船只通过红海。

美国海军能够通过靠近阿曼海岸（与伊朗相对的一侧）的海路，维持部分石油从霍尔木兹海峡流出。但这些努力需要进行一项广泛且危险的行动。

经济研究公司凯投宏观（Capital Economics）表示，在霍尔木兹海峡被禁行的前提下，东西管道每关闭一周，将使沙特阿拉伯的经济活动至少减少 0.2 百分比。

民兵组织称击落沙特战机；紧张局势升级

本文由 Ismaeel Naar, Hari Raj, Sanjana Varghese 和 Aric Toler 撰写。

阿拉伯联合酋长国，迪拜 —— 也门受伊朗支持的胡塞武装民兵组织与沙特当局在周三互相指责对方大幅升级袭击，这加剧了人们对近期重返战争状态可能会进一步动摇中东局势的担忧。

胡塞武装声称击落了一架沙特战斗机，而沙特阿拉伯则指责该组织在穆斯林最神圣的地点麦加附近飞行无人机。

胡塞武装军事发言人叶海亚·萨里（Yahya Saree）在社交媒体上表示，该组织使用一枚国产导弹在也门领空击落了一架沙特 F-15 战机。胡塞武装在周三发布了他们称之为坠机现场的视频和照片。《纽约时报》在审查这些图像后发现，残骸中的飞机似乎与沙特皇家空军的 F-15 战机一致。坠机具体位置尚无法确认。

沙特当局未回应置评请求。

萨里先生在沙特阿拉伯宣布其军队在麦加市外击落一架胡塞武装无人机数小时后发表了上述主张。沙特领导的也门军事联盟发言人图尔基·马利基（Turki Al-Maliki）少将在社交媒体的一份声明中表示，该无人机于周二在飞往该市禁飞区途中，在麦加南部被拦截并摧毁。

萨里先生否认胡塞武装曾以麦加为目标，并称该指控为“捏造和谎言”。

胡塞武装与受沙特阿拉伯支持的也门国际认可政府之间的冲突在近日重新演变为战争，这为已经在应对美国-伊朗战争的全球石油市场增添了更多不确定性。

冲突导致能源价格大幅上涨，投资者担心其对全球供应的长期影响。胡塞武装的袭击威胁到了来自沙特阿拉伯的石油运输，在伊朗战争导致其排名下降之前，沙特曾是全球最大的出口国。

萨里先生表示，沙特本周发起了 450 次以上的袭击，而胡塞武装则通过袭击沙特国家能源公司——沙特阿美（Aramco）运营的一家炼油厂以及一个军事空军基地予以回击。

任何试图对先知穆罕默德出生地麦加发动的无人机袭击，都将引发穆斯林世界的愤怒。根据沙特政府的数据，今年有超过 170 万 人（其中大多数来自海外）前往该市参加被称为“朝觐”的年度朝圣活动。

沙特的马利基将军表示，胡塞武装的无人机是“企图恐吓访问圣寺的朝圣者，并伤害公民和居民”，并补充说，朝圣者和神圣清真寺的安全是“红线”。

伊斯兰合作组织（一个由 57 个成员国组成的联盟，自视为穆斯林世界的集体发声机构）谴责了此次涉嫌的袭击以及胡塞武装针对沙特阿拉伯的更广泛袭击。

该组织在周三的社交媒体上表示：“这些袭击在无辜平民中制造恐惧，侵犯了圣地和清真寺的神圣性，并挑衅了全球穆斯林的情绪。”

胡塞武装部队在最近几周发起了大规模攻势，从受沙特支持的也门政府手中夺取领土，并扩大了对曼德海峡的影响力，该海峡是连接红海与亚丁湾的关键咽喉要道。

伦敦研究机构查塔姆研究所（Chatham House）的也门专家法里亚·穆斯利米（Farea Al-Muslimi）表示，考虑到胡塞武装的军事能力，其关于战斗机的说法具有可信度。他说：“胡塞武装过去曾击落过无人机，并证明了他们拥有自己的地对空能力。”

联合国安理会于周二举行紧急会议讨论战斗升级问题，并呼吁降低紧张局势并重启对话。

也门驻联合国大使阿卜杜拉·萨迪（Abdullah al-Saadi）表示，胡塞武装将其对曼德海峡的控制权，作为“在霍尔木兹海峡所见的威胁与敲诈方程式的延伸”。

维维安·内雷姆（Vivian Nereim）在沙特阿拉伯利雅得参与了报道。

欧盟提出让加拿大成为“准成员国”的可能性

“……而非针对任何人，而是为了我们的共同力量。”

作者：珍娜·斯米莱克（JEANNA SMIALEK）和马蒂娜·斯特维斯-格里德内夫（MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF）

法国斯特拉斯堡 —— 欧盟已邀请加拿大致力于成为其首个“准成员国”（associate member）。在欧盟与加拿大两国都面临与美国关系恶化的背景下，这一头衔旨在强调加拿大与这个由 27 个国家组成的集团之间日益紧密的关系。

特朗普总统与加拿大发动了持续不断的贸易战，对其经济构成了挑战。美国削减了对北约和乌克兰的支持，导致欧盟不得不仓促加强自身的防御。随着二战后建立的联盟发生转变，这一真空状态使得该集团和加拿大都在寻找新的合作伙伴。

欧盟执行机构主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩（Ursula von der Leyen）周三在法国斯特拉斯堡的一次重要年度演讲中表示：“我们必须紧急重新构思我们的伙伴关系。”在冯德莱恩女士发表讲话时，加拿大总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）就坐在她的左侧。

“我想与您共同努力，为加拿大成为欧盟首个准成员国打开大门，”她对他说道。

这次邀请可能更多是一种象征性的姿态，而非迈向一体化的实质性步骤。目前尚不清楚准成员国身份在贸易、技术或旅行方面将如何重塑一段本已紧密的关系。尽管如此，这一宣布在立法者聚集的会场引起了起立鼓掌。

冯德莱恩女士表示，该提案“并非一种伙伴关系

但显而易见的是，欧洲和加拿大认为自己被夹在竞争激烈的中国和有时具有敌意的特朗普政府之间。

“在政治和修辞上，这是一个巨大的转向，”华盛顿大西洋理事会（The Atlantic Council）负责欧洲事务的高级总监约恩·弗莱克（Jörn Fleck）表示。“这显然是在向美国发出信号，”并且“它也在向潜在的盟友发出信号，表明欧盟愿意采取更具创造性的方式。”

贾斯汀·唐 / 加拿大新闻社，经美联社提供

卡尼先生今年在瑞士达沃斯举行的世界经济论坛会议上发表了一场引起轰动的演讲。在演讲中，他认为冷战后出现的世界秩序正面临“断裂而非转型”，并且“中等强国必须共同行动，因为如果我们不在餐桌旁，我们就会成为菜单上的菜肴。”

周三，加拿大总理马克·卡尼与欧盟领导人乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩一同出席。

周三的宣布正是这一战略的生动体现。

欧亚集团（Eurasia Group）欧洲区董事总经理穆杰塔巴·拉赫曼（Mujtaba Rahman）表示，讨论准成员国标签向加拿大发出了一个“有趣的信号”，但目前看来，这可能更多是象征性的而非实际的。

冯德莱恩女士没有详细阐述成为欧盟准成员国可能意味着什么。但她指出，加拿大和欧洲计划在北极问题、国防工业基础以及关键矿产方面开展更紧密的合作。加拿大和欧盟的领导人计划在 10 月底举行峰会，预计届时将提出更具体的想法。

冯德莱恩女士呼吁建立一个相当于北约条款的欧洲机制，该条款允许在某个国家受到威胁时召开国防相关会议，即第 4. 条。欧盟已经拥有一个鲜为人知的集体防御保证，但冯德莱恩女士提出了“欧洲自己的第 4 条”，并表示一旦“由一个成员国触发，所有成员国都将召开会议”。

她还呼吁成立一个新的领导小组——欧洲安全委员会，该委员会将包括英国、挪威和乌克兰等欧洲非欧盟合作伙伴，以及加拿大。

如果这一举措被证明具有意义，那么将加拿大拉近的努力可能会遇到障碍。例如，欧盟成员国已警告称，向潜在的准成员提供过多福利将降低正式成员身份的价值。目前尚不清楚具体的法律路径将如何运作，不过专家表示，这可能需要成员国的批准。

在卡尼先生应对其国家与美国关系处于历史低谷之际（美国是加拿大四分之三出口的目的地），他一直致力于让自己的国家与该集团建立更紧密的关系。

加拿大与美国之间的贸易谈判于上月破裂，使两国陷入一场升级的贸易战。特朗普先生多次要求加拿大成为第51个州，这在加拿大人中引发了一波反向的爱国主义浪潮。

相比之下，民调显示，五分之四的加拿大人希望卡尼先生让其国家与欧盟更加接近，且超过半数的人希望加拿大作为成员加入该集团。

渥太华和布鲁塞尔已经签署了一项自由贸易协定，尽管该协议尚未获得27个欧盟成员国中10个国家的批准，但欧盟与加拿大之间约90%的贸易是免关税的。

卡尼先生经常称加拿大为“最像欧洲的非欧洲国家”。欧盟领导人们多年来一直开玩笑说，如果加拿大不在那么遥远的大陆上，它本可以加入该集团。

本周，在欧洲议会领导绿党小组的德国政治家特里·赖因特克（Terry Reintke）指出，加拿大明年将在欧洲大陆深受喜爱的国际歌唱比赛中首次亮相——这象征着与欧洲关系的深化。

“这已经开始了：他们将成为欧洲歌唱大赛的一部分，”她说，“舞台已经搭建好了。”

世界开始将美国视为一个负债累累且不稳定的投资对象

HAIYUN JIANG / THE NEW YORK TIMES 财政部长斯科特·贝森特在国会作证时，对美国金融系统的信誉表示信心。

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投资者仍在将资金注入美国金融市场和股票，人工智能基础设施正蓬勃发展，且目前还没有任何竞争货币能够立即推翻美元的地位。

在周二向国会提交的证词中，财政部长斯科特·贝森特表示，他依然对美国金融系统的信誉充满信心，并认为债券拍卖继续成功运行，且从美元在全球交易中所占的份额来看，美元依然繁荣。

“美国事实上是领导者，而领导者并不害怕竞争，”贝森特先生说。“竞争让我们变得更好。”

但美国经济主导地位的裂痕已开始显现。

最明显的例子出现在债券市场。由于投资者对不断增加的国家债务感到不安，要求购买国债获得更高的回报率，导致收益率飙升。本周，10年期国债收益率突破 5%，达到 2007 年以来的最高水平。

周三做出加息决定可能会有助于缓解人们对美联储掌控高通胀能力的担忧，而这些担忧为债券市场注入了更多不安。

在财政部购买了 $5.2 亿美元未来 10 到 20 年内到期的自有债务一周后，债券收益率跨过了这个不祥的阈值。此次购买是一项旨在向国债市场注入需求，试图推高价格并降低收益率的计划的一部分。贝森特先生表示，投资者未能理解经济的潜在实力，并挑战他们敢于与他对赌。

“这是我的梦想，”贝森特先生上周在南卫理公会大学表示。“我拥有不对称信息。我现在就是庄家。”

由于美国的长期财政状况看起来摇摇欲坠，一些国家开始怀疑美国是否是一个明智的投资对象。本月，全球规模最大的主权财富基金——挪威主权财富基金表示，计划减少其持有的美国国债，以在其他地方寻求更高的回报。

此外，还有美元的未来问题。

全球近 90% 的外汇交易使用美元。但过去十年中，美元在央行储备中所占的份额一直在稳步下降，从 2015 年的 64% 下降到 2025 年底的 56%。

去年，欧洲央行行长克里斯蒂娜·拉加德表示，美国不稳定的政策制定正在为“全球欧元时刻”铺平道路。

美国利用美元的特殊地位将其作为外交政策工具，对伊朗和俄罗斯等对手实施严厉制裁。随着美国加大利用制裁解决全球冲突的力度，美元作为世界储备货币的永久性问题被更频繁地提及。

今年，由于担心过度使用金融战会导致其他国家寻求美元的替代方案，美国试图开始缩减其制裁计划。美元被用于大多数跨境金融交易，因此制裁基本上可以切断一个国家与西方金融系统互动的能力。由于对美国利用经济实力的方式感到沮丧，越来越多的国家正在寻求美国无法触及的替代金融系统。

然而，贝森特先生在 8 月改变了方向，宣布启动“经济弃儿行动”（Operation Economic Outcast）。该计划旨在扼杀伊朗经济，并威胁要对任何与德黑兰保持经济联系的国家实施二级制裁。甚至财政部长也承认，如果美国被迫兑现这一威胁，可能会“炸毁全球金融体系”。

尽管欧元和中国的人民币似乎在短期内还没有准备好取代美元，但央行数字货币、稳定币和加密货币的出现，为美国的对手在进行国际交易时绕过美国金融系统提供了新途径。

中国一直牵头与香港、泰国、阿拉伯联合酋长国和沙特阿拉伯开发一个跨境数字货币平台，这将使资金流动比传统银行交易更快且费用更低。一个由部分 7 国集团（G7）国家和西方金融机构领导的类似跨境支付项目

各国寻求美元替代方案并将黄金运回国内

也在开发中，但进度不如中国的 mBridge 计划。

俄罗斯和印度上周表示，他们正在制定一项计划，允许使用央行数字货币来结算国际贸易款项。这种机制将使两国能够扩大贸易关系，并减少对可能成为美国制裁目标的西方金融机构的依赖。

“摆脱美元的故事是现存最古老的故事之一，”大西洋理事会国际经济学主席乔什·利普斯基（Josh Lipsky）表示，“各国一直在考虑如何绕过美元，而技术使得现在这样做比以前更便宜、更简单。”

在一些国家专注于数字货币的同时，另一些国家则在追求黄金，因为他们担心美国的稳定性。

2025年，全球国际储备中的黄金持有量超过了外国官方持有的美国国债规模。今年，由于全球冲突加剧以及对通货膨胀的担忧，各国央行大量囤积黄金，导致金价历史上首次突破每金衡盎司 5,000 美元。

对黄金的需求如此之高，以至于一些国家还希望将黄金保存在离家更近的地方。随着地缘政治动荡升级，以及特朗普先生向欧洲盟友发出关税威胁，一些国家甚至采取了罕见措施，将其保存在纽约联邦储备银行金库中的黄金迁出。

本月，荷兰央行表示，出于对“地缘政治动荡加剧”的担忧以及应对危机的需要，已将其在北美的 95 吨黄金储备中的大部分转移出美国。今年 3 月，法国银行表示，已从纽约联邦储备银行撤回 129 吨黄金并将其移至巴黎。

特朗普政府尚未威胁没收保存在美国的外国黄金，但特朗普先生曾提出殖民格陵兰岛和加拿大等地的想法，这让人对其国际法观点产生疑问。

“这就像是各国不再信任美国，”曾在财政部海外资产控制办公室（OFAC）任职并担任纽约联邦储备银行 OFAC 合规协调员的丹尼尔·坦内鲍姆（Daniel Tannebaum）表示，“我认为确实存在一种恐惧因素。”

这种恐惧因素也给试图在海外开展业务的美国公司带来了反噬。

坦内鲍姆先生现为奥纬咨询（Oliver Wyman）金融与风险实践部门的合伙人，他表示，美国激进地使用关税和出口管制，使得欧洲国家和公司在人工智能等敏感行业采用美国技术时变得谨慎。他们担心，如果这些基础设施依赖于美国，一旦华盛顿决定禁止或禁用该技术（正如在与中国和俄罗斯的争端中所做的那样），这些技术可能会被用来对付他们。

所有这些因素都导致了美国作为避风港地位的削弱。

“政府和公司现在必须思考，如果美国将其经济杠杆转向他们，会发生什么，”坦内鲍姆先生说。

美国披露在地球轨道部署武器

作者：弗朗西斯卡·雷加拉多 (FRANCESCA REGALADO)

美国空军部长特洛伊·E·梅因克 (Troy E. Meink) 本周表示，美国已在地球轨道上部署武器。在经历了多年应对俄罗斯和中国潜在部署的准备工作后，这是五角大楼官员首次公开承认此事。

根据美国空军网站发布的一份新闻稿，他在马里兰州的一次会议上表示：“我们正在提高应对现有威胁的准备状态，美国拥有在轨空间控制武器，能够保护联合部队免受敌对对手行动的侵害。”

梅因克先生没有提供关于武器类型的细节，也没有说明这些武器何时部署。他是在周一于马里兰州国家港举办的航空、空间与网络会议上发表的主旨演讲中做出上述评论的。该会议是由航空航天力量协会（一个面向两军成员的非营利组织）主办的年度论坛。

美国太空部队在周一晚间未立即回应置评请求。

五角大楼长期以来一直担心，中国和俄罗斯在空间作战方面取得的进展可能会威胁到美国地面部队以及美国卫星。

中国外交部发言人郭嘉昆在周二回答关于梅因克先生言论的问题时表示，中国反对“外空军备竞赛”。

他在一次例行新闻发布会上说：“我们敦促美方停止扩大军事力量，停止在外层空间准备战争。”

2024年，《纽约时报》曾报道，美国情报机构担心俄罗斯可能计划在太空部署核武器，这种威胁可能会破坏从通信到军事行动至关重要的卫星网络。

去年特朗普总统重返白宫后不久，他签署了一项行政命令以扩大美国的防空能力，包括开发和部署“基于空间的拦截器”。该项目被命名为“金穹”（Golden Dome），旨在防御诸如高超音速导弹等武器，俄罗斯已在乌克兰部署此类武器。

今年5月，特朗普先生表示，太空部队空间作战副局长迈克尔·格特莱恩 (Michael Guetlein) 将负责监督该项目。

美国、俄罗斯和中国在几十年前就开始测试能够摧毁卫星的武器，但美国此后否认拥有此类武器，因为它们会在轨道上留下具有破坏性的碎片场。

曾在约瑟夫·R·拜登 (Joseph R. Biden Jr.) 总统任内担任空军部长的弗兰克·肯德尔 (Frank Kendall) 在2024年接受《时报》采访时表示，近年来，空军开始开发能够干扰或禁用敌方卫星的“低碎片产生武器”。

钱斯·萨尔茨曼 (Chance Saltzman) 将军在拜登政府和特朗普第二任期内担任太空部队空间作战局局长，直至上个月退休。他在2023年告诉一个参议院委员会，新的空间武器系统将在2026年全面投入运行。

肯德尔先生和萨尔茨曼将军都没有具体说明这些系统如何运作。其他前五角大楼官员表示，这些系统可能包括激光、高功率微波系统，甚至是能够抓取或移动敌方卫星的美国卫星。

肯德尔先生在2024年表示，承认太空“是一个可以被用于获取军事优势的地方”是审慎的。

他当时说：“威胁确实存在。这是一个我们必须保持竞争力的领域。”

赵思义 (Siyi Zhao) 参与了研究。

32岁的烟跳伞员萨姆·福斯特格（Sam Forstag）和29岁的律师梅拉特·基罗斯（Melat Kiros）是寻求打破现状的一批候选人中的成员。 RACHEL WOULF 为《纽约时报》拍摄

民粹主义民主党人利用对政治人物（包括其自身政党）的愤怒情绪崛起

作者：罗伯特·德雷珀 (ROBERT DRAPER)

丹佛 —— 一名蒙大拿州的荒野消防员、一名俄亥俄州的铁工，以及一名在攻读博士学位期间在科罗拉多州担任咖啡师的律师，看起来似乎毫无共同之处。但他们三人代表了中期选举中大量涌现的反建制民粹主义民主党人，这些人共同拥有，或者至少试图引导，美国选民心中不断积聚的愤懑。

他们很年轻，或者说处于青年阶段。他们愤怒。他们对民主党建制派感到厌倦。其中两人在希望翻盘的共和党占主导的选区赢得了众议院席位初选，第三人则在一个深蓝选区击败了一位资深的民主党现任议员。所有人都是政治新人，而他们认为这是一种优势。

“这种‘等待轮到自己’且‘不要烧掉桥梁’（不与前人闹翻）的党内文化，我的想法是：我没什么可失去的，”这位律师梅拉特·基罗斯 (Melat Kiros) 说道。她今年 29 岁，是一名埃塞俄比亚裔美国人和民主社会主义者，她在丹佛以 13 个百分点的优势击败了一名现任议员，竞选一个她很有可能赢得的众议院席位。“对我来说，根本没有什么需要烧掉的桥梁。”

32 岁的荒野消防员（或称烟跳伞员）萨姆·福斯特格 (Sam Forstag) 并非民主社会主义者，但在去年因 DOGE 联邦预算削减导致数百名在蒙大拿州工作的美国林务局员工被裁员后，他决定竞选国会议员。“他们解雇的是那些在森林里挥舞工具、时薪 11 美元的人，”他说。

47 岁的布赖恩·波因德克斯特 (Brian Poindexter) 是俄亥俄州布鲁克公园市的一名工会铁工，曾参与建设克利夫兰布朗队足球场。他也不是民主社会主义者，但他从自身作为工人阶级的失望感中汲取动力。他希望在马克斯·米勒 (Max Miller) 的共和党倾向选区中获胜。米勒是特朗普的盟友，目前正面临其前妻艾米莉·莫雷诺 (Emily Moreno) 提出的家庭暴力指控，莫雷诺是参议员伯尼·莫雷诺 (Bernie Moreno) 的女儿。（米勒先生否认了这些指控。）

“最激励我参选的，”波因德克斯特先生说，“是这样一个事实：身处权力地位的人似乎只关心更多的权力、更多的财富，以及惩罚那些威胁到其财富和权力的人。”

左翼对系统性经济和政治状况的愤怒走向主流，在某种程度上是一个缓慢的过程，尽管这种力量显然不像摧毁旧共和党的那种力量那样剧烈。

虽然美国最著名的民主社会主义者伯尼·桑德斯 (Bernie Sanders) 参议员在 2020 年竞选总统期间表现强劲，但党内许多选民认为他风险太大。

“当伯尼说‘对资本主义感到愤怒是可以接受的’时，这种情绪对某些人来说有点太激进了，”当年负责桑德斯先生竞选活动的法伊兹·沙基尔 (Faiz Shakir) 表示。“他们会问，‘他为什么这么愤怒？’ 如果说现在有什么变化的话，那就是他们现在比他更愤怒。”

如今的民粹主义者似乎一夜之间闯入选举舞台，这在很大程度上归功于 Z 世代（大约出生于 1996 年至 2012 年之间的一代人）的投票能力，他们正步入一个困难的新世界。基罗斯女士在 2024 年特朗普先生再次当选的那晚决定竞选国会议员，她将 Z 世代选民对她胜利的贡献描述为“巨大的”。

布鲁金斯学会有效公共管理中心主任、美国选举政治专家伊莱恩·卡马克 (Elaine Kamarck) 表示，这是“一代被疫情和生活成本问题所创伤的年轻人的成年礼”。卡马克女士还认为，中左翼与民粹左翼民主党人之间的党内争斗，是被那些将此类冲突视为“诱饵”的新闻媒体煽动起来的。

“记者们一直在寻找一个自由派版本的 MAGA，”她说，并补充道，“MAGA 是一场革命。而这并不是。”

卡马克女士表示，年轻选民不仅对特朗普先生心怀反感，而且对那些没有劝阻 81 岁高龄的约瑟夫·R·拜登 (Joseph R. Biden Jr.) 寻求总统连任的民主党领导层也持有敌意。

在蒙大拿州烟跳伞员福斯特先生看来，该党在坚持支持拜登直到一场灾难性的辩论表现终结其竞选资格之前，几乎已经丧失了在选民心中的公信力。

“我们被告知，现在的赌注从未如此之高，民主正处于危险之中，”福斯特先生说，“而我们能做的最好的选择，竟然是再次派出同一位八旬候选人？我认为你随便进个工会大厅随机挑一个人，都能选出更好的旗手。”

福斯特先生和基罗斯女士主张，民主党领导人更严重的问题不在于他们太老，而在于他们过于深陷于体制之中，以至于无法挑战该体制。基罗斯女士表示，她所击败的现任议员戴安娜·德盖特（Diana DeGette）就是这种情况。德盖特现年69岁，于1996年首次当选国会议员。

“你不能一边担任‘全民医疗保险’（Medicare for All）的共同发起人，一边又接受那些试图通过立法将其扼杀在摇篮里的医疗保险公司的资金，”基罗斯女士说，“这根本说不通。”

德盖特女士在与基罗斯女士唯一的一次辩论中辩称，“现在不是冒险将一个毫无经验的人送往华盛顿的时候。”

这些民粹主义者在竞选中反对民主党建制派的力度，往往与反对共和党一样大。在一段竞选广告中，俄亥俄州铁工波因德克斯特先生将日益扩大的经济差距列为“真正让我愤怒”的例子，并补充说，他既厌倦了共和党，也厌倦了“那些出卖原则的民主党人”。

福斯特先生表示，他正在争取投票的许多前同事“不认同自己是共和党人或民主党人。他们觉得这两个党都没有一个人在乎他们。”

福斯特先生的对手亚伦·弗林特（Aaron Flint）是一名陆军退伍军人兼电台脱口秀主持人，他也是试图捕捉选民愤怒情绪的共和党候选人之一。弗林特先生最近在接受采访时表示，这些选民“比以往任何时候都工作得更努力，但依然在掉队”。然而，共和党人试图将自己塑造为民粹主义者的努力，因其对特朗普的忠诚而受阻，而特朗普那些不受欢迎的政策包括在伊朗发动的战争以及他对人工智能数据中心的支持。

对于共和党候选人来说，这种复杂局面具有讽刺意味，因为正是特朗普通过谴责“无休止的战争”以及特殊利益集团“为了自身专属利益而操纵我们的政治和经济体系”的方式，开启了一个反精英主义的怨恨时代。同样的论点现在正被像基罗斯女士这样的民主党激进分子所采用，她的竞选活动模仿了桑德斯先生那种巡回演讲式的集会，但她也承认特朗普所开创的先例。

“我的意思是，归根结底，这就是民粹主义的修辞，”她说。

让蓝色区域变得更蓝

自20世纪之交以来，当时三次竞选总统的威廉·詹宁斯·布赖恩（William Jennings Bryan）誓言通过推动白银无限铸币来增加工人阶级的货币供应，民粹主义者一直被批评为将公众煽动置于冷静的政策制定之上。

“我对民粹主义的问题在于它本质上是反智的，”保守派反特朗普在线出版物《派遣》（The Dispatch）的总编辑乔纳·戈德堡（Jonah Goldberg）表示。“民主的核心在于论证。治理则是复杂的。民粹主义对政治的影响是抹杀了任何‘小r’共和主义（small-R republican）的观念，即领导者实际上应该通过做功课来制定一项优于那些能印在汽车保险杠贴纸上的政策。”

戈德堡先生补充说，当前的左翼民粹主义运动被夸大了，而且“大多数这些美国民主社会主义者（D.S.A.）候选人只是在让蓝色选区变得更蓝”——指的是美国民主社会主义者（Democratic Socialists of America）——正如基罗斯女士击败德盖特女士的情况那样。

今年，一项由卡马克女士共同撰写的布鲁金斯学会（Brookings Institution）研究确定了美国有 282 名获得 D.S.A. 支持的候选人——其中大多数竞选州级和地方公职——并发现“其中许多候选人来自已经相当自由的地方”，例如加利福尼亚州和新

纽约时报

蒙大拿州哥伦比亚瀑布市的福斯特格先生。去年在联邦削减预算中，他的数百名消防员同事被解雇。 亚伦·阿戈斯托 为《纽约时报》拍摄

劳动节期间在丹佛的基罗斯女士。她在初选中击败了一位于 1996 年首次当选国会议员的民主党人。 瑞秋·伍尔夫 为《纽约时报》拍摄

卡罗琳·古特曼 为《纽约时报》拍摄 卡罗琳·古特曼 为《纽约时报》拍摄

“人们在这方面并不愚蠢。我们生活在一个腐败比以往任何时候都更明目张胆的时代。” 费兹·沙基尔（FAIZ SHAKIR），伯尼·桑德斯参议员 2020 年总统竞选活动经理。

“我对民粹主义的问题在于它本质上是反智的。”乔纳·戈德堡（JONAH GOLDBERG），保守派反特朗普在线出版物《派遣》（The Dispatch）的总编辑。

约克州。其中包括纽约国会候选人克莱尔·瓦尔德兹（Claire Valdez）和达里亚利扎·阿维拉·切瓦利埃（Darializa Avila Chevalier），以及华盛顿特区市长候选人简尼斯·刘易斯·乔治（Janeese Lewis George）。

尽管如此，布鲁金斯学会的研究发现在红州中出现了令人惊讶数量的民主社会主义候选人，包括肯塔基州的 6 名和田纳西州的 8 名。今年 11 月，堪萨斯州议会席位的选票中还出现了一位来自匹兹堡熟食店经理以赛亚·哈里斯（Isaiah Harris），他的竞选网站将其描述为“一名挑战托皮卡建制派的民主社会主义者”。

对于像哈里斯先生这样的候选人来说，迫在眉睫的谜题是桑德斯先生在 2020 年面临的问题：由年轻选民领导的联盟能否推动他们走向胜利。调查发现，年轻选民最有可能对社会主义持有好感。但他们的投票概率也远低于年长者。

民粹主义焦虑

对于今年的民粹左翼运动，一种略带愤世嫉俗的看法是，它更多的是机会主义而非真诚。愤怒成了政治消费者的购买对象，就像半个世纪前在经典电影《网络》（Network）中，虚构的电视观众们痴迷于一名咆哮的主播所发表的“我愤怒到了极点，我再也无法忍受了！”的独白一样。

尽管如此，该运动的怀疑者也承认民粹主义焦虑的合理性。“为现状辩护将是愚蠢的，”戈德堡先生表示，“现实中确实存在各种各样的问题。”

许多挑战目前对保守派地区的冲击至少与自由派聚集区一样严重。福斯特格先生在蒙大拿州获得了极大的关注，在那里，来自州外富裕买家的涌入导致房价收入比超过了加利福尼亚州，成为全美最高，进而导致该州出现了大规模的无家可归现象。

在科罗拉多州的西部农村，依赖科罗拉多河水源的牧场主现在必须与一家总部位于纽约的对冲基金抗衡，后者买断了该地区大部分的水权。更普遍的是，伊朗战争导致柴油价格创下历史新高，预示着农民、卡车司机以及最终的消费者供应链将陷入混乱。

与此同时，选民们似乎已经失去了对政治领导人解决这些问题的信心。根据盖洛普（Gallup）最近的一项调查，89%的美国人认为政府内部腐败猖獗。

“人们在这方面并不糊涂，”前桑德斯竞选经理沙基尔先生说：“我们生活在一个腐败比以往任何时候都更加明目张胆的时代。埃隆·马斯克花费数亿美元买选举，亿万富翁为特朗普的宴会厅买单。这类事情过去是通过心照不宣的方式完成的，而现在每个人都知道它在发生。”

对于福斯特格先生来说，向选民解释腐败的政治方程式并不困难。

“当我们真正拥有通过一项重大立法的政治意愿时，一半的资金流向了企业，”他说。“为什么？因为他们在权力中心，而我们不在。那么我们如何解决这个问题？我们必须进入权力中心。”

即便这种情况发生，且一场由民粹主义推动的“蓝色浪潮”震撼华盛顿，科罗拉多州的律师基罗斯女士仍坚持认为，她深知通过左翼议程的希望渺茫。

“我并不幻想我们能通过‘和谐共处’（kumbaya）来解决这个问题，”她说。“这将是一场战斗。可能是一场非常肮脏的战斗。我们正在挑战权力，而他们不会安静地退出。”

2026年大选

在投票监察员培训中，不信任已成为课程的一部分

内华达州选举观察网络上个月在里诺举行了一场投票监察员培训会议。 EMILY NAJERA 为《纽约时报》拍摄

蒂法尼·徐（TIFFANY HSU）报道

内华达州里诺 —— 选举观察本应是枯燥的，是一种确认投票程序正常进行的常规方式。这项任务有时被比作在原野中等待外星人降临。

多年来，政党、国会委员会、智库和非党派公民团体一直将志愿者培训为选举观察员，以见证、记录并偶尔对民主进程提出质疑。

但随着 11 月中期选举的临近，投票监察的赌注变得越来越高。《纽约时报》在审查了数十场培训会议和数百页教学幻灯片后发现，虽然许多培训保持中立且具有信息量，但有些培训正在播种不信任，通过误导性的预期让参与者预设会发生违规行为。

一项由共和党支持的培训声称，选举具有“欺诈诱因”。一个反特朗普团体创建了一套名为“别碰我们的选票”的选举监测工具包。其他课程则就如何应对“虚假信息和恐吓战术”提供建议，设想如何应对移民局特工的恐吓，并建议投票监察员对其他监察员进行监视。

在选举日，排长队、机器故障和登记混乱并非闻所未闻，其他问题也可能出现。但通常情况下，投票过程往往平淡无奇，即使是投票监察培训中紧张的基调，也不太可能在当时造成太大麻烦。然而，这种基调可能会导致人们对一个已经遭受攻击的制度产生更深层、更长期的信任侵蚀。

“如果你成千上万次地告诉人们将会出现违规行为 —— 而某人看到了一些看起来有点像他们被预设为违规行为、但实际上完全不违法的现象 —— 这绝对会加剧更广泛的误导信息，”洛约拉玛丽蒙特大学（Loyola Marymount University）法学教授贾斯汀·莱维特（Justin Levitt）表示，他曾在民主党政府执政期间在白宫和司法部工作。

至少在过去十年中，美国选举一直笼罩在怀疑之中，因为特朗普总统和其他人一直在宣传大规模选民欺诈的神话。在分歧严重的 2020 年选举之后，多个州的立法者提出了数十项法案，旨在扩大投票监察员的权力。

今年，由于国会的控制权处于竞争状态，司法部表示计划在全国派遣“历史性数量”的投票监察员，其中 11 月预计将有 1,000 名志愿者。州民主党委员会协会周一表示，计划培训至少 10,000 名志愿者作为“民主守护者” —— 实际上就是投票监察员 —— 以应对来自移民局特工和其他联邦特工的恐吓。

选举观察员与负责运行选举的投票工作人员不同。他们可以被安置在投票地点、计票现场或中央计票设施中，其定义和管理规则在全国 10,000 多个管辖区各不相同。

近几个月来，针对这些志愿者的培训在小镇咖啡馆、城市教堂、郊区办公园区和虚拟网络研讨会上举行。《纽约时报》审查的大多数培训内容客观且具有指导意义，但有些培训将投票监察定义为一种执法形式而非被动观察 —— 仿佛捕捉违规行为是首要任务，而非罕见事件。

几个与共和党结盟的团体将监票描述为根除管理不善或欺诈的一种手段。来自保守派智库“美国优先政策研究所”（America First Policy Institute）的一本培训手册告诉潜在的志愿者，他们是防止错误和欺诈的“一种保护措施”。在参议院选举竞争激烈的密歇根州，一名共和党候选人在电台节目中表示，招募退休警察等人担任观察员可以使“作弊变得更加困难”。

上个月，一场面向密歇根州共和党监票员的直播培训告诉志愿者，他们是“确保共和党获胜这一关键任务的一部分”。此次在线会议讨论了选民可能利用缺席选票作弊的可能性，并指示志愿者对那些拒绝提供身份证明的人“保持高度警惕”。

“我们希望由我们的人来监督这些选举，”培训师说道，“长期以来，一直是由民主党人掌控所有这些选举，结果变成了一场噩梦，所以现在是我们夺回主导权的时候了。”

一些与民主党结盟的团体则将投票监察员呈现为抵御限制选民投票尝试的防线。7月，进步派社区组织者在亚利桑那州为数百人举办了两场“宪法观察员”培训——其中一场是在一个装饰着鲜花、用于举办婚礼和15岁成人礼（quinceañeras）的活动空间内进行的。

据组织者称，演示者使用一份44页的幻灯片，设想了一种理论情况，即国民警卫队被部署到凤凰城和图森的投票站，并由移民局特工陪同。志愿者的职责是“抵制恐吓、误导信息和选民压制”。

去年年底，加利福尼亚州文图拉县的女性选民联盟（League of Women Voters）当地分会举行了一次在线选举观察会议。一名培训师告诉志愿者，“请记住，其他在场观察的团体在观察目的上可能与我们不同。”

“我们可能需要做的一件事就是留意观察员们本身在做什么，”该培训师补充道。

在近期的选举中，一些监票员变成了“私刑者”，他们通常被右翼关于非公民大规模投票、外国操纵以及通过邮寄选票作弊等未经证实的阴谋论所激怒。党派色彩浓厚的选举监察员跟踪选举官员并骚扰选民，要求查看身份证明，拍摄视频并公开携带枪支。

怀俄明州共和党州长马克·戈登（Mark Gordon）上个月对两名来自司法部（DOJ）的选举监察员所采取的所谓“激进、出人意料且具有破坏性”的行为表示反对。他称，这些人试图采访选民并检查投票机。

大多数监票员培训都敦促志愿者保持克制，警告他们不要干扰投票过程。纽约州民主党表示，其今年的培训涵盖了“冲突降级与避免冲突”。

去年为弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯共和党准备的一份幻灯片警告称：“禁止兰博式行为！”该团体鼓励志愿者“在进入现场时，应假设你将观察到一个运行良好的操作流程”。

投票专家表示，美国人通常认为监票是一项党派活动，尽管目前已有努力使其变得更加公正。82岁的著名食品政策与民主研究员弗朗西斯·摩尔·拉佩（Frances Moore Lappé）上个月在社交媒体上发布了一段俏皮的视频，呼吁Z世代志愿者担任非党派的监票员，称这一角色是一种“氛围（vibe）”且“非常绝（such a slay）”。

“这是在将民主值最大化（Democracy-maxxing），”她说。

内华达选举观察网络（Nevada Election Observation Network，简称 NEON）是另一个非党派项目。该计划专注于收集关于选举过程的全面全州数据，由卡特中心（Carter Center）资助。卡特中心是一家自1989年以来一直在全球范围内观察选举的非营利组织。

该中心还在其总部所在地佐治亚州以及密歇根州、蒙大拿州和新墨西哥州支持非党派的选举观察计划。上月底，该中心在里诺召集了几十名社区组织者，教他们如何招募和培训选举观察员。

他们在一座通风良好的单元教会教堂内会面，墙上挂着 L.G.B.T.Q. 的标志，桌布上摆着 conchas 甜面包。讨论的话题包括选民的无障碍问题，以及如何应对因与特朗普政府的法律斗争而处于波动状态的邮寄选票程序。

与会者在自我介绍时称自己为一名精疲力竭的社会工作者、一名处于康复期的政治人物、一名担忧民主衰落的前教师，以及来自农村地区和部落保留地的代表。一名女性表示，她确信人们在投票站试图舞弊时会被抓获。另一名来自拉斯维加斯的女性则表示，“人们互相监督是好事，确保每个人都在做正确的事。”

卡特中心的民主事务高级副主任莎拉·库珀（Sarah Cooper）为了此次培训从华盛顿特区飞往内华达州，她表示，政治隔阂和围绕选举的煽动性传闻，可能会让选民认为个别问题代表了更大规模的深层腐败。

“大多数美国人非常关心我们的选举，”她说，“我们来到这里不是为了代表任何特定的结果、任何特定的政党或任何特定的候选人——我们只是想确保选举能够良好地运行。”

随着对人工智能的担忧增加，民主党人计划在2028年将此问题推向核心

HEATHER KHALIFA 为《纽约时报》拍摄 亚历克斯·博雷斯（Alex Bores）6月在中央公园进行竞选活动。他在一场以人工智能监管为核心的众议院民主党初选中落败。

作者：本杰明·奥雷斯克斯（BENJAMIN ORESKES）和西奥多·施莱弗（THEODORE SCHLEIFER）

科技巨头和政客们在这一周内对人工智能潜在危险的极度恐慌，可能会使该议题在民主党选择2028年总统候选人时变得更加核心。

由于民主党在如何最好地监管人工智能以及在多大程度上强调该问题上存在分歧，纽约州的一位立法者希望在初选季开始后，将自己定位为该议题的“造王者”。

亚历克斯·博雷斯是来自曼哈顿上东区的一名州议员，他即将失业。在6月一场以人工智能监管为核心的国会初选竞争中落败后，他察觉到了一个机会。周二，他揭晓了一个新的政治倡导组织，旨在塑造民主党总统候选人和选民对人工智能的看法。

博雷斯及其首席助手安娜·迈尔斯（Anna Myers）表示，他们的组织名为“谁来决定”（Who Decides），目前已筹集了1000万美元，并希望在明年夏天前再筹集2000万美元。他表示，该组织将举办论坛、发布政策备忘录，并在11个早期初选州部署组织者，以塑造关于如何监管先进人工智能模型的辩论轮廓。

“我们的目标是通过达成一致的倡导和政策提案来设定一个底线，让候选人们能够在此基础上推进，”博雷斯在最近的一次采访中表示。

他补充道：“将美国人民放在首位，而不是将那些构建这项技术或从中获利的人放在首位——这不仅是良好的政策，对于民主党来说，这也是一个极佳的政治切入点。”

虽然一些有野心的民主党人将人工智能视为创造蓝领工作岗位并保持国家经济竞争力的手段，但其他民主党总统竞争者则担心经济替代问题，以及数据中心的财务和环境成本。

博雷斯意识到，随着民主党选民和政策制定者试图理清党内在该问题上的路线，这些分歧可能会出现在攻击性广告和总统初选辩论中，因此他一直在幕后努力影响潜在的2028年候选人。

他已经与几位潜在的民主党竞争者就人工智能问题进行了会面或私人交谈，包括亚利桑那州参议员鲁本·加列戈（Ruben Gallego）、加利福尼亚州众议员罗·康纳（Ro Khanna）以及前交通部长皮特·布蒂吉格（Pete Buttigieg）。博雷斯还与纽约州众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez）、宾夕法尼亚州州长乔什·夏皮罗（Josh Shapiro）以及前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）的高级顾问讨论了这一问题。

博雷斯表示，自周三以来，已有16名众议员以及一名参议员的办公室请求就人工智能政策进行简报。

“这是一个巨大的社会规模问题，多年来一直感觉像是理论上的，而这个夏天让大多数美国人意识到它是真实的，他们对选出的领导人一直对此问题坐视不管感到震惊和恐惧，”博雷斯说。

他指的是过去几周内人们对人工智能日益增长的焦虑，这在很大程度上是由一些高知名度事件引发的——在这些事件中，一些人工智能代理基本上失控了，引发了人们对人工智能可能对人类本身构成生存威胁的担忧。

35岁的博雷斯能够处于某种影响力地位，这说明了他的竞选过程是如何展开的。在第12国会选区的民主党初选中，他经历了一场激烈的竞争，最终以约四个百分点的差距输给了另一位议员迈卡·拉舍尔（Micah Lasher），而后者几乎肯定会在11月战胜其共和党挑战者。

但这次竞选提升了博雷斯先生的知名度，使他成为了人工智能监管运动中的一个小名人。他与拉斯赫先生以及其他几位候选人的竞争，演变成了与美国领先的人工智能公司 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 相关的超级政治行动委员会（super PACs）之间的代理之战，这些与上述公司相关的团体投入了数千万美元的外部资金。

“美国每一位州议员都想成为亚历克斯·博雷斯，”博雷斯的盟友布鲁斯·里德表示。里德曾是总统约瑟夫·R·拜登二世的高级政策顾问，目前担任非营利儿童权益倡导组织 Common Sense Media 的人工智能政策负责人。“他证明了在州一级取得的成功斗争如何能极大地推动国家层面的辩论。”

超级政治行动委员会的大部分支出发生在与 OpenAI 高管以及其他通常反对加强政府监管的行业参与者相关的委员会花费约 $8 攻击博雷斯先生之后。他们对他心怀敌意，源于他在奥尔巴尼发起的一项旨在监管先进人工智能模型的法案。

在被称为《RAISE 法案》的该法案通过后，游说者试图削弱该立法或将其扼杀。纽约州民主党州长凯西·霍楚被说服签署了该法案的修订版本。

在国会初选中，四个与人工智能利益相关的超级政治行动委员会至少花费了 $19 支持博雷斯先生的竞选，且他直接从 Anthropic 的员工那里为自己的竞选筹集了约 $260,000。

“谁来决定”（Who Decides）是一个无需披露捐赠者的黑金政治非营利组织，博雷斯先生拒绝透露谁在资助这个新组织。他提到，他目前筹集到的 $10 ——以及他希望筹集的所有资金——都不会直接来自像 Anthropic 这样的人工智能公司或其高级管理人员。

新民调显示：半数选民担忧社会主义

作者：KELLEN BROWNING 和 RUTH IGIELNIK

在《纽约时报》与锡耶纳大学（Siena University）开展的一项新民调中，大约半数的美国选民对社会主义持负面看法。结果显示，尽管民主社会主义者在对抗民主党建制派方面取得了重大胜利，但这一运动在大多数美国人中依然不受欢迎。

在可能投票的选民中，51%的人在民调中对社会主义持负面看法，而 31%的人持正面看法。民调并未向受访者定义“社会主义”或“民主社会主义”。

然而，44%的选民表示，民主党候选人是否在这一意识形态旗帜下参选对他们来说并不重要。这些结果反映了民主社会主义者在纽约、费城和丹佛等民主党势力深厚的众议院选区，以及一些大城市的市长竞选中取得的成功。

尽管如此，全国范围内的选民表示宁愿不支持民主社会主义候选人（30%）的可能性是支持该类候选人（13%）的两倍。

纽约市市长佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）是以民主社会主义者的身份成功参选的。

纽约州民主党众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez）是一名进步主义者。

近五分之一的美国选民（18%）表示他们认为自己是民主社会主义者。这一意识形态运动缺乏统一的定义，但最常被认为倾向于财富再分配和颠覆资本主义。

尽管在城市初选中取得了成功，但民主社会主义者在竞争更激烈的地区尚未得到证明。11月将是一次重大考验，该运动的成员及志同道合的进步主义者将尝试在密歇根州和佛罗里达州等州赢得大选。

该国两位最著名的民主社会主义者在全国选民中引起了截然不同的反应。其中，最多的一组人（41%）对纽约州众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯持负面看法，这位进步派民主党人可能是 2028 年总统候选人的潜在人选；相比之下，30%的人对她持正面看法。

纽约市市长佐兰·马姆达尼在可能投票的选民中保持着微弱优势，38%的人对他持正面看法，33%的人持负面看法。

大约 30% 的选民表示从未听说过这两位政治人物，或未向民调人员提供对他们的看法。

即使在他们自己的运动内部，马姆达尼先生和奥卡西奥-科尔特斯女士也引起了不同的反应。认同自己是民主社会主义者的选民对马姆达尼先生的看法（76%）比对奥卡西奥-科尔特斯女士的看法（66%）略微积极。一些左翼成员认为，她的立场已经过于向民主党主流靠拢，不符合他们的期望。

民调显示，年轻选民对社会主义更加开放。44 岁及以下的选民对社会主义持正面看法的可能性几乎是年长选民的两倍，且比年长选民更倾向于正面评价马姆达尼先生和奥卡西奥-科尔特斯女士。这一年轻年龄组的选民支持马姆达尼先生的可能性也略高于支持奥卡西奥-科尔特斯女士。

民主党人继续对社会主义持正面看法，该党 55% 的选民对其持正面评价——较 5 月份《时报》 / 锡耶纳民调中 50% 的正面评价略有上升。大约 20% 的民主党人（主要是年长选民）对这一意识形态持负面看法。

共和党人精准捕捉到了美国人对社会主义的恐惧，在最近的中期会议和攻击性广告中重点强调这一点。尽管如此，该党基层中只有一小部分人表示这是他们最核心的驱动议题。

在表示希望共和党继续掌控国会的选民中，约有 5% 的人表示，他们的投票动机主要是出于对社会主义或共产主义的恐惧。虽然比例较低，但这一数字高于表示主要动机是支持特朗普总统的选民比例，后者为 2%。

2026年选举

德克萨斯州民主党人距离击败州长阿博特已近在咫尺

作者：埃德加·桑多瓦尔（EDGAR SANDOVAL）

圣安东尼奥 —— 当拥有进步主义记录的民主党州议员吉娜·希诺霍萨（Gina Hinojosa）去年决定竞选德克萨斯州州长时，许多人——包括她获胜所必需的部分西班牙裔选民——都持怀疑态度。

“Pa' que?”（为了什么？）她被反反复复地这样问。

共和党人、已连任三届的州长格雷格·阿博特（Greg Abbott）似乎不可战胜。他拥有巨额的竞选资金，并能依赖一套成熟的竞选基础设施，这使他能够稳坐州长之位十多年。四年前，他已经面对过一名知名度更高、资金更充足的民主党挑战者贝托·奥鲁克（Beto O'Rourke），并轻松将其击败。

“普遍观点认为没有人能击败格雷格·阿博特，”希诺霍萨女士在一次采访中表示。她说，她参加竞选是因为她没有看到其他愿意出马的民主党人。

“我决定我需要尝试一下，”她说。

即便是在德克萨斯州民主党乐观情绪高涨的一年，作为州众议员的希诺霍萨女士仍面临着艰巨的挑战。除了她在奥斯汀那个稳固的民主党选区外，她的知名度很低，且一直难以筹集到与阿博特先生竞争所需的资金。在最近一次申报期结束的7月中旬，阿博特先生的支出比她高出10倍以上，且其竞选账户中的资金仍约为她的20倍。这种财务劣势阻碍了她在整个德克萨斯州推广自己的努力，而在该州进行竞选的成本极高。

德克萨斯州的共和党政治顾问们对她的机会不屑一顾。

“认为吉娜·希诺霍萨有任何可靠的获胜机会是完全不现实的，”共和党战略家安东尼·霍尔姆（Anthony Holm）表示。

但每四年就会在德克萨斯州民主党人心中复苏一次的希望，在这次州长竞选中重新焕发了生机。原因是一个令人惊讶的民调趋势：希诺霍萨女士多次在民调中显示出距离州长仅一步之遥。

德克萨斯州民主党人以前经历过这种情况。2010年，夏季的几项民调显示，民主党人比尔·怀特（Bill White）与共和党州长里克·佩里（Rick Perry）之间的竞争非常激烈。但到了秋天，佩里先生在民调中持续领先，并最终以近13个百分点的优势获胜。2022年，几项民调显示贝托·奥鲁克仅落后阿博特先生5个百分点。当时的民主党人同样抱有信心。但阿博特先生的民调领先优势在秋季扩大，奥鲁克先生最终落后近11个百分点。

福克斯新闻（Fox News）和德克萨斯大学最近的调查显示，今年的州长竞选竞争激烈，阿博特先生的领先幅度在低到中个位数之间。去年的民调显示他的领先幅度更大。

“格雷格·阿博特正面临他职业生涯中最具挑战性的一次选举，”莱斯大学（Rice University）的政治学教授兼民调专家马克·琼斯（Mark Jones）表示。“目前，有些选民对阿博特不满，对特朗普也不满，但除了知道希诺霍萨是民主党候选人之外，对她并不了解。”

在过去的几个月里，阿博特先生一直避免提及她的名字，而是选择攻击美国参议院民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科（James Talarico），并警告共和党人民主党人所带来的更广泛威胁。但在最近几周，阿博特竞选团队开始定期攻击希诺霍萨女士及其记录，特别是针对她对跨性别者以及L.G.B.T.Q.儿童和青少年的权利的支持。

“从起诉那些‘误称’自己孩子性别的父母，到投票支持德克萨斯州公立学校在父母不知情的情况下让孩子进行性别过渡，希诺霍萨就是社会主义民主党及其性别疯狂行为的橡皮图章，”州长竞选团队的新闻秘书爱德华多·莱阿尔（Eduardo Leal）表示。

希诺霍萨女士过去将自己描述为进步主义者，但她在采访中表示，现在她更倾向于使用“民粹主义者”这个词。谈到2026年大选时，她说：“这不再是进步派与温和派的对抗，而是关于：我们是否将拥有为人民工作的候选人？”

包括希诺霍萨女士在内的整个德克萨斯州民主党人面临的一个重大问题是，拉丁裔选民，特别是那些在2024年支持特朗普总统的男性，是否会在今年11月回归民主党。

在最近由拉丁裔胜利基金（Latino Victory Fund）组织、名为“拉丁裔女性支持吉娜·希诺霍萨”的圣安东尼奥活动中，21岁的奥兰多·文图拉（Orlando Ventura）是为她欢呼的一小群西班牙裔男性之一。

“我没看到很多拉丁裔支持她，但我希望看到更多的人支持，”文图拉先生说。

为了提高希诺霍萨女士的知名度并将其介绍给全州的民主党人，她得到了民主党同僚的支持。今年5月，她在奥斯汀与前总统巴拉克·奥巴马以及塔拉里科先生一起吃了塔可。

但在上个月于科珀斯克里斯蒂附近比维尔举行的一次民主党活动中，她的知名度不足显而易见。在那次活动中，希诺霍萨女士与塔拉里科先生以及竞选南德克萨斯州国会席位的特哈诺音乐明星鲍比·普利多（Bobby Pulido）一同出席。

65岁的退休教育工作者贝亚·马丁内斯（Bea Martinez）表示，她知道普利多先生和塔拉里科先生，但并不熟悉希诺霍萨女士。

“我对她了解不多，但我已经厌倦了阿博特，”马丁内斯女士说。“我过去投过他的票，但我觉得是时候换个新人了。”

对于希诺霍萨女士来说，这类选民既是她竞选的挑战，也是机遇：他们是对她知之甚少，但可能愿意接受阿博特先生以外的人选的德州人。与全美其他民主党人一样，她试图利用选民对生活成本以及数据中心增长的愤怒——选民将电价上涨和用水量增加归咎于后者。她还试图将自己塑造为一名与众不同的德州民主党人。

吉娜·希诺霍萨将支持公立学校和对生活负担能力的关注置于其竞选活动的中心。这位民主党人正在挑战寻求第四任期的州长格雷格·阿博特（Greg Abbott）。 摄影：克里斯托弗·李，为《纽约时报》拍摄

希诺霍萨女士在圣安东尼奥与拉丁裔胜利基金成员举行的新闻发布会上。上个月参加她集会的人员包括艾美希斯·德尔加多（Amethyst Delgado）和奥兰多·文图拉（右上）。

在8月底开始播出的一个情感广告中，希诺霍萨女士讲述了她几十年前决定将一次高风险妊娠坚持到分娩的决定。“我明白风险，但我做出了那个选择——我选择了她，”希诺霍萨女士在广告中说道。那个孩子在出生后不久就夭折了。

在州议会任职期间，希诺霍萨女士反对德克萨斯州共和党通过的反堕胎法。该广告似乎在强调这样一个观点：在她看来，支持堕胎权并不意味着堕胎一定是她会做出的选择。

9月9日，她发布了一则广告，因提及代词问题而遭到抨击，在经历政治挫折后，许多民主党政治人物已不再触及这一议题。在广告中，她说：“我是吉娜·希诺霍萨。我的代词是‘母亲’、‘德州人’，以及‘即将就任的州长’。”

就阿博特先生而言，他的竞选主张集中在降低财产税等温和立场，以及防止跨性别女孩参加女性体育赛事等激进议题上。他手头拥有超过$60 million的竞选资金。

相比之下，自称为民粹主义者的希诺霍萨女士在7月中旬的申报中筹集了约600万美元，手头资金约为300万美元。

希诺霍萨女士在一次采访中表示，她从未打算竞选公职。她在里奥格兰德河谷出生并长大，曾在奥斯汀担任民权和劳工律师。

她第一次竞选公职是在 2011 年，当时州政府的预算削减威胁要关闭她其中一个儿子就读的小学，于是她竞选学校董事会席位。

“这就是这一切的动力，我想保护我们的孩子，”她说。她赢得了那次选举。随后，她竞选奥斯汀的州代表，并自 2017 年起一直担任该职。由于竞选州长，她不再寻求连任众议员。

希诺霍萨女士将公立学校和对生活成本负担能力的担忧作为她竞选活动的核心。她将阿博特先生旨在帮助家长支付私立学校费用的 10 亿美元美元计划称为一场“骗局”。

她说，如果当选，她将推动立法，授权向每个家庭发放 10 亿美元,500 的支票，资金由州的应急基金（rainy-day fund）支付。（该州账户目前持有约 270 亿美元美元的创纪录余额。）

她还反对德克萨斯州数据中心的增长，这一问题已迅速成为两党选民的优先关注事项。对于阿博特先生最近下令暂停批准此类中心——直到州政府进行审计以研究这些中心运行所需的水量和电量——她持怀疑态度。

“如果他想保护人们免受数据中心的影响，他今天就应该召集特别会议，直到我们能通过法律并为人们提供真正的保护，”她说，并补充道，如果她担任州长，她会这样做。

她的信息引起了来自圣安东尼奥的退休教师阿德尔法·雷纳的共鸣。“我们可能会看到德克萨斯州历史上第一位拉丁裔女性州长，”雷纳女士说。“共和党已经控制了这个州 30 年，而阿博特担任州长已经 12 年了。是时候做出改变了。”

候选人对德克萨斯大学学生的种族主义攻击考验共和党团结

作者：劳伦·麦考菲（LAUREN McGAUGHY）

德克萨斯州奥斯汀 —— 在一场激烈的初选之后，德克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特（Greg Abbott）在夏季召集共和党顶尖候选人们拍摄了一张合影，以展示党内的团结。出席者包括竞选美国参议员的肯·帕克斯顿（Ken Paxton）和副州长丹·帕特里克（Dan Patrick）。

而就在阿博特先生右肩后方微笑的，是博·弗伦奇（Bo French）。

当时，德克萨斯州政坛之外很少有人熟悉弗伦奇先生。他是一名竞选州级油气监管职位的候选人，且有着毫不掩饰的偏见历史。

但在上周末，他迅速成为了全国关注的焦点——且几乎全是负面关注。此前，在德克萨斯大学的足球队赢得一场不可思议的逆转胜利，学生们正沉浸在纯粹的狂喜之中，而弗伦奇却发布了针对这些学生的种族主义攻击。在其中一条帖子中，弗伦奇先生将该校的南亚裔学生描述为“外国人”，称他们“取代”了这所州旗舰大学中的美国人。

弗伦奇先生的这些帖子引起了强烈的反响，其程度远超他此前发表的反移民和反穆斯林言论。这些信息威胁到德克萨斯州共和党试图维持的团结，并在中期选举投票开始前几周，考验着他们批评党内成员的意愿。弗伦奇先生否认自己的帖子具有种族主义色彩，并将责任推给那些没有全力支持其主张的共和党人。

这些帖子还让民主党人重新燃起了在一代人之内首次赢得德克萨斯州州级职位的希望。虽然全国的关注点大多集中在针对帕克斯顿先生的美国参议院选举上（这位深陷丑闻的总检察长正与詹姆斯·塔拉里科竞争），但州党派官员认为，弗伦奇先生和另一位反移民强硬派唐·哈芬斯（Don Huffines）尤其脆弱。共和党名单上的这些强硬派可能在其他竞选中也会对民主党有所帮助。

“本轮选举中确实有一些共和党候选人如此远离主流，以至于为我们提供了机会，”德克萨斯州民主党主席肯德尔·斯卡德（Kendall Scudder）表示。他补充说，一年前，这些机会“似乎是不可能的”。

最近的民调显示，弗伦奇先生领先于其民主党对手乔恩·罗森塔尔（Jon Rosenthal），但领先幅度很小。共和党人此前曾团结在弗伦奇先生周围，即便像阿博特先生那样，在初选中并未支持他。

上周，弗伦奇先生在达拉斯出席特朗普总统的中期选举大会时表现得信心十足。

“我们正在共同努力，所有人都在共同努力以确保获胜，”他周五告诉《纽约时报》。当被问及民主党人认为他是一个容易攻击的目标时，弗伦奇先生说：“让他们这么想吧。”

随后，他在周日上午发布的帖子引起了党内一些高级民选官员和参选候选人的谴责。但并非所有人都有此反应。

德克萨斯州众议院议长达斯汀·伯罗斯（Dustin Burrows）要求弗伦奇先生删除周日的帖子。在初选中败给帕克斯顿先生的参议员约翰·科宁（John Cornyn）敦促共和党人谴责弗伦奇先生的“不宽容和种族主义”。据报道，乔治·W·布什的前高级顾问卡尔·罗夫（Karl Rove）表示，由于此次事件，他将几十年来第一次投票给民主党人。

阿博特先生谴责了弗伦奇先生具有分裂性的言论，但同时在同一份声明中表示，他支持德克萨斯州拥有“美国所有州中最严厉的移民法”。

相比之下，此前曾要求弗伦奇先生辞职的帕特里克先生，对该帖子未发表任何看法，也未发表评论。

竞选农业专员的内特·希茨（Nate Sheets）在接受《时报》采访时表示，德克萨斯州清真寺和印度教寺庙的激增正让“人们感到沮丧”，并批评他认为未能同化的移民群体。

“他指出，那些学生中有一群是印度孩子，”希茨先生在提到弗伦奇先生时说道。“他表达的方式——不，我不喜欢那样。但我是否同意目前的美国移民制度正在为美国创造一个负面的未来？我同意。我确实同意这一点。”

人们对弗伦奇先生帖子的反应两极分化，这给了他进一步坚持己见的空间。

博·弗伦奇（Bo French）是具有影响力的德克萨斯州铁路委员会（Texas Railroad Commission）的候选人，他的社交媒体帖子引发了跨党派的批评。

“德克萨斯州一些不够保守的人正在攻击我，”弗伦奇先生在周一的一次广播采访中表示。

这已经不是共和党人第一次因为社交媒体帖子而批评弗伦奇先生了。

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去年夏天，他在社交媒体上发布了一项民意调查，询问犹太人或穆斯林谁对美国构成了更大的威胁，随后遭到了强烈反弹。他删除了该帖子，并坚称这并非反犹主义，同时拒绝了要求他辞去塔兰特县（包括沃思堡在内）共和党主席职务的呼吁。

11月，弗伦奇先生表示，他将竞选该州具有影响力的三人油气监管委员会——德克萨斯州铁路委员会。

阿博特先生、帕特里克先生和巴罗斯先生在共和党初选决胜轮中全部支持弗伦奇先生的对手——现任委员吉姆·赖特（Jim Wright）。尽管遭到他们的反对，弗伦奇先生还是赢得了胜利。但这次胜利并未能缓和他在社交媒体上的好斗姿态。

在过去的一年里，他将相信跨性别权利或出生公民权的人称为“低能儿”。他将美国原住民描述为“被征服的第三世界野蛮人”。他还表示，他希望将美国所有的穆斯林“取消国籍并驱逐出境”。

德克萨斯州共和党高层并未像对待攻击德克萨斯大学学生的那篇帖子那样，对这些帖子做出回应。

除了弗伦奇先生，另一个处于弱势的低级别候选人是哈芬斯先生，他曾从右翼立场挑战过阿博特先生。

哈芬斯先生在初选获胜后被阿博特先生任命为代理审计长，他没有对弗伦奇先生周末的帖子发表评论。该场竞选中的民主党人萨拉·埃克哈特（Sarah Eckhardt）表示，哈芬斯先生的沉默等同于默许。

“我一直观察着这个政党是如何变得越来越强硬的，”身为州参议员和前检察官的埃克哈特女士说道。哈芬斯先生未回应置评请求。

罗森塔尔先生表示，他知道与弗伦奇先生的竞争将是一场艰苦的战斗。30多年来，还没有民主党人在德克萨斯州的全州范围内选举中获胜。

“胜算仍然不在我这边，”罗森塔尔先生说。他表示，他收到了数十条来自弗伦奇先生支持者的死亡威胁，其中一些是因为他是犹太人而对他进行攻击。

当被问及针对其对手的反犹主义时，弗伦奇先生在上周的党代会上告诉《纽约时报》，罗森塔尔先生“并非虔诚的犹太教徒”。

罗森塔尔先生对此予以反驳。

“任何认为自己有权评判我是否是犹太人的，都可以滚一边去，”他说。

就弗伦奇先生而言，他表现得就像他的帖子所引发的跨党派鄙视实际上是对他的一种助力。周一晚上，他感谢了那些刚刚帮助他在 X 平台上突破 100,000 名粉丝的“爱国者”。

随后，他发帖称其对手是“激进分子”。

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关于人工智能正在降低教育质量的担忧已积累数月。学生们将其用于包括作弊在内的所有事情，麻省理工学院（M.I.T.）最近的一份报告称，这正在引发“认知投降”。

尽管如此，许多大学领导者仍以热情拥抱人工智能。

随着人工智能领域的领导者警告其自身技术的危险，大学领导者的乐观情绪与许多学生及教授的恐惧之间，这种不协调感可能会增加。教授和学生经常在如何应对上陷入困境：是更多地使用人工智能以保持竞争力，还是减少使用以保护学习和思考能力？

当一些政治家和人工智能领导者在人工智能模型进步之际，警告人类可能面临的末日场景时，许多校园领导者则关注这项技术给大学带来的生存威胁。

麻省理工学院研究人工智能使用的委员会发布了一系列令人担忧的发现，包括该技术已导致“校园文化的重大转变”，使那些跳过办公时间（office hours）并放弃集体学习的学生变得孤立。麻省理工学院委员会在8月的报告中写道，对于那些在“出现第一丝困难”时就求助于人工智能的学生来说，从机器人那里获取答案可能会产生“学习的错觉”。

与此同时，该委员会写道，“这些技术增强整个校园工作的潜力是巨大的”。

麻省理工学院的报告使高等教育界关于人工智能的一些思考具体化，但高层管理人员在过去几年中一直陷入争论。管理人员通常是最热衷于支持人工智能尝试的人，而许多教职员工和学生则保持怀疑态度。

“我认为你必须积极参与，但必须以一种深思熟虑、符合伦理且能提出正确问题的方式进行，”夏威夷大学校长温迪·亨塞尔说道，她曾在7月向校董会提交了一项人工智能战略。“面对人工智能，正确的答案不能仅仅是‘不’。绝不能这样。必须以好奇心和对影响的理解来对待它。”

大学为了应对人工智能而制定的杂乱政策，往往反映出在如何推进方面的困惑——虽然有一些明确的禁令，但通常给教职员工和学生留下了很大的空间，让他们自行摸索。

专家警告 A.I. 可能会损害学习

对于一名积极主动的学生来说，A.I. 聊天机器人可以充当某种导师。聊天机器人能够分解数学题的步骤，为研究论文挖掘出意想不到的资料来源，并就写作提供反馈。

尽管如此，越来越多的研究表明，使用 A.I. 也可能损害学习。

一项针对 26,000 名中国中学生的最新研究发现，采用 A.I. 导致家庭作业成绩提高了 18%，但在受控考试中的成绩却下降了 20%。这意味着在聊天机器人的帮助下匆忙完成作业，削弱了在没有技术支持时取得好成绩所需的深度学习能力。

麻省理工学院（M.I.T.）一项 2025 年的研究发现，将聊天机器人作为写作助手的人，在完成论文仅几分钟后，就难以记住自己写了什么。参与该研究的麻省理工学院研究员纳塔利娅·科斯米娜（Nataliya Kos'myna）表示：“你基本上没有动用任何能真正帮你记忆的记忆网络。”

其他研究表明，对 A.I. 信任度更高且依赖程度更深的人，其认知参与度往往较低。

但 A.I. 很难被避开。聊天机器人被嵌入在 Google Classroom 套件中（该套件在学校中几乎无处不在），以及许多大学使用的在线学习系统中。

一些工具可以完全封堵作弊或剽窃，并允许教授开启或关闭特定的 A.I. 功能。但学生中最受欢迎的聊天机器人能够立即代表学生完成整个作业，包括研究论文。

许多大学无论如何都在接纳 A.I.

达特茅斯学院院长希安·利亚·比洛克（Sian Leah Beilock）认为，培养能够使用 A.I. 的毕业生是高等教育机构生存的必然要求。

她最近写道：“在一个注定由 A.I. 定义的世界里，如果大学不能培养出能够高效使用 A.I. 的毕业生，那么它们将让自己变得无关紧要。”

哈佛大学校长艾伦·加伯（Alan Garber）在本月的公开演讲中表示，由 A.I. 支持的研究正处于爆发的前夜，这可能会推动知识更新的速度超过人类历史上的任何时期。加伯博士表示，现在许多领域的研究人员如果不使用 A.I.，可能无法处于其学科的最前沿。

俄亥俄州立大学正将 A.I. 整合到每个专业中，期望每位学生在毕业时都能熟练掌握其研究领域的 A.I. 应用。该大学已指示所有系所和专业——从商业、工程到英语和兽医学——培训学生如何在各自领域使用 A.I.，以及何时不应使用。

俄亥俄州立大学校长拉维·V·贝拉姆孔达（Ravi V. Bellamkonda）在 7 月的一次采访中表示：“哪些内容可以交给 A.I. 处理，哪些不可以？这个答案取决于具体领域，也取决于你的学习阶段。”

联合学院（Union College）院长伊丽莎白·基斯（Elizabeth Kiss）表示，大学必须教育学生如何深思熟虑地使用 A.I.，以及 A.I. 做不到的事情，例如“领导团队、突破知识边界”。

尽管如此，一些学校正在设立界限。

芝加哥大学已在某些必修的社会科学课程中禁止使用人工智能（AI），而该大学的法学院则禁止一年级课堂使用手机、平板电脑和笔记本电脑。该大学是近期采取新学术诚信规则的少数几所学校之一。

加州大学伯克利分校的法学院采取了一项政策，禁止使用 AI 来对提交以获取学分的作业进行“概念化、拟定大纲、起草、修订和编辑”。

康奈尔大学建立了一套纪律处理流程，旨在纠正 作弊行为，同时避免在学生的记录上留下污点。现在，被指控轻微滥用 的学生将被允许承担责任，并完成一个研讨会及一些反思性工作。

负责学术创新的副教务长史蒂夫·杰克逊（Steve Jackson）表示，该计划将不适用于明显的严重违规行为。他补充道：“这是一个对某些行为进行制裁、及时发现，而不是视而不见或放任不管的机会。”

与许多机构一样，哈佛大学没有一套统一的 规则。哈佛学院院长大卫·德明（David Deming）在给秋季学期入学学生的通知中写道，他支持在“能够深化学习”的地方更多地使用 ，但学校也在寻求使部分作业能够“防 化”。

德明院长表示，这意味着将增加更多课堂测试，减少那些作弊诱惑力强大的课后作业。他表示，打算在学年结束前为学院制定一套 使用指南。

对于更年幼的学生，一些学区正谨慎行事。本月早些时候，美国最大的学区——纽约市学区，大幅限制了 K-8 年级学生使用 ；而第二大学区——洛杉矶学区，则基本上禁止了所有年级学生使用聊天机器人。

校园内对 使用的监管效果参差不齐。

学生们在面对这一局面时，往往缺乏来自学院的明确指导。

大多数机构将其交给各自的任课教师——而这些教师可能几乎没有使用 的经验——来制定每门课程中该技术的使用规则。

提交由聊天机器人生成的文本被视为作弊，而使用聊天机器人来修改自己的文章是被允许的，这看起来很明确。但这两者之间的界限很模糊，许多 的使用处于伦理灰色地带。

TurnItIn 公司的首席产品官安妮·切奇特利（Annie Chechitelli）表示，许多教育工作者“甚至不知道从哪里开始”。该公司开发能够检测剽窃以及追踪和引导 使用的软件。她说：“什么可以，什么不可以？”

许多教师已经转向在课堂上进行纸质作业，或使用锁定计算机浏览器以限制 的滥用。其他人则报告称，使用 检测软件取得了成效，这类软件近期在标记聊天机器人撰写文本的能力方面有所提高，同时避免了误报。

有些人将 视为思考和写作的关键伙伴，对学生使用该技术的限制很少。另一些人则认同“ 素养”的概念，例如要求学生使用聊天机器人创作一篇论文或一首诗，然后对其输出结果进行评析并尝试改进。

在澳大利亚，悉尼大学采用了被视为全球典范的“双轨制方法”。在所有学科中，学生必须在旨在限制 的安全环境下亲自完成部分评估。但其他作业则必须使用 ，以帮助学生熟悉这项正在重塑经济的技术。

“这几乎就像性教育一样，”俄勒冈州立大学计算机科学教授安妮塔·萨尔玛（Anita Sarma）说道，她研究过 对学生认知的影响。她说：“他们无论如何都会去用，我们该如何教他们负责任地使用？”

新民调显示，选民并不太喜欢人工智能

作者：蒂姆·巴尔克（TIM BALK）和卡罗琳·索勒（CAROLINE SOLER）

根据《纽约时报》和锡耶纳大学的一项新民调，关于人工智能日益激烈的辩论为两党都带来了机遇与风险，选民对这项技术持怀疑态度，但在哪个政党能更好地应对这一问题上存在分歧。

在期中选举前不到两个月的时间里，没有任何一个政党在人工智能问题上占据明显优势。42%的选民表示他们更信任共和党，而 40 percent 的选民表示他们更信任民主党。在包括移民、经济和对外战争在内的所有其他测试议题上，选民都认为民主党更具优势。

该民调揭示了为何两党的期中选举候选人都迅速转向反对数据中心。61%的选民表示反对建设为人工智能提供动力的巨型计算综合体，其中包括 75 percent 的民主党人和 47 的共和党人。

年轻选民反对建设数据中心的可能性要大得多， 30 以下人群中近 80 表示反对。反对程度随年龄增长而稳步下降： 65 以上选民中，仅有 53 的微弱多数反对数据中心建

该民调发出了最新信号，表明人工智能并没有像许多其他议题那样使选民两极分化。两党都没有就如何在联邦层面监管人工智能——或者是否应该监管——形成统一的愿景。

此次调查于 8 至 13, 进行，与此同时，人工智能研究人员就一个潜在的

两党均未在这一技术领域声称拥有优势。

这项技术所构成的生存威胁，且行业高管们呼吁放缓其开发速度。（Anthropic 的一名顶级高管达里奥·阿莫代（Dario Amodei）表示，他担心人工智能将在 12 个月内摧毁互联网。）该民调并未询问选民对人工智能安全的看法。

目前，人工智能似乎并非选民关注的首要问题。不足 1% 的受访者表示，人工智能或数据中心将是决定其 11 月投票的最重要问题；经济问题在优先级中遥遥领先。

但推高电价的数据中心已成为人工智能辩论中的一个早期争论点，民主党人和共和党人已在数十个州和市共同努力阻止其建设。

在民调中，反对数据中心的选民中，大多数人（56%）表示他们支持对其进行限制，而非完全禁止。

对于反对数据中心的选民来说，与气候相关的担忧是最常见的原因，该群体中近三分之一的人提到了这一点。但原因因党派而异：民主党人提到环境担忧的可能性几乎是共和党人的两倍，而共和党人则更倾向于表示他们普遍不信任人工智能。

在反对数据中心的选民中，近五分之一（18%）提到了对人工智能的普遍不信任，而非具体原因。在被要求用自己的话描述担忧时，一名受访者提到了 1984 年的电影《终结者》，而另一名受访者仅表示这让她感到“恐惧”。

到目前为止，联邦政府在监管人工智能方面几乎没有采取行动。

该调查于周日完成，就在次日，特朗普总统针对日益增长的人工智能焦虑发表了一份强有力的声明，反对设立任何护栏。他认为，监管将削弱美国在人工智能开发竞赛中击败中国的能力，且美国唯一需要的“控制”是一位“高智商”的总统。

来自路易斯安那州的共和党议长迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson）近日也公开反对监管。

但一些著名的民主党人，尤其是进步派，已发出紧急呼吁，要求国会采取行动。

来自佛蒙特州的进步派独立议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）参议员是国会山对人工智能威胁发出警告最激烈的立法者。他呼吁禁止超智能人工智能并暂停该技术的开发，理由是部分人工智能安全研究人员断言，该技术在十年内抹除人类的可能性超过 10%。

其发言人表示，来自纽约的另一位进步派领导人亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez）众议员支持桑德斯先生的措施。许多民主党立法者并未采纳这些措施，但桑德斯先生找到了一些意想不到的盟友。

周二，他与播客主持人及特朗普长期盟友斯蒂芬·K·班农（Stephen K. Bannon），以及两党的一组立法者共同参加了一场关于人工智能监管的会议。

《纽约时报》 / 西耶纳民调 9月 8-13日

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JILLIAN VORDICK / THE NEW YORK TIMES 基于 9 月 8 日至 13 日对全国 1,503 名潜在选民进行的《纽约时报》 / 西耶纳（Siena）民意调查。

一些共和党人也表达了担忧。在密歇根州，共和党参议院候选人、前众议员、特朗普盟友迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers）呼吁对 A.I. 进行监管打击，民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士（Dr. Abdul El-Sayed）也提出了同样要求。

进步派的埃尔-赛义德博士呼吁“全面暂停”A.I. 的开发。

罗杰斯先生与特朗普先生持有不同意见，他在周末于社交媒体上写道，“阻止危机的时机应该是昨天”，且政府需要“建立护栏，以保护我们免受我们所看到的快速进步的影响”。他表示，如果他能进入参议院，A.I. 监管将成为他的优先事项之一。

尽管民调显示 A.I. 对选民来说仍是一个优先级相对较低的问题，但两党的某些战略家认为，随着技术的发展，它将成为一个更具影响力的议题——甚至可能成为 2028 年总统大选的核心问题。

民调显示大多数教师支持限制学生的屏幕时间

许多受访教师表示，某些学校作业需要笔记本电脑或平板电脑等设备。 DAVID ROBERT ELLIOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

最大的挑战在于如何执行任何限制

作者：莎拉·默沃什 (SARAH MERVOSH)

那些希望减少学生在校屏幕使用时间的厌倦的家长们，可能会在孩子们的老师那里找到盟友。

根据盖洛普（Gallup）、沃尔顿家族基金会（Walton Family Foundation）以及芝麻街工作室（Sesame Workshop）旗下的研究实验室琼·甘兹·库尼中心（Joan Ganz Cooney Center）周三发布的一项调查，约 73% 的美国教师强烈或在一定程度上支持为学生在校期间使用学校配发设备的时间设定上限。

此外，10 位教师中有 6 位认为学生在校期间使用笔记本电脑和平板电脑的时间应该减少。

但由于现在的设备被用于从测试到教科书的所有环节，教师们对于如何实现这一目标则不那么明确。

约 54% 的教师表示，如果没有设备，他们学校的课程至少有一部分无法教授。在初中和高中，大多数教师表示，要在多个班级之间协调每日时间限制将“非常”或“有些”困难。

全美各地的学区正面临着由家长主导的、针对技术的日益增长的反弹。全美最大的两个学区——纽约和洛杉矶——在本学年开始时，对学生的屏幕使用时间和人工智能实施了新的限制。

这项调查于 5 月对公立学校幼儿园至 12 年级的 2,100 名教师进行了抽样，结果发现，学生使用设备的时间——以及随之而来的分心问题——在低年级学生中并不那么普遍。

教师们估计，在小学阶段，学生约 27% 的课堂时间用于教学设备或其他被允许的非教学任务。相对较少的教师报告称设备造成了重大或中度的干扰。

但在初中和高中，学生将近一半的课堂时间花在教学设备或被允许的非教学任务上。调查显示，学生还额外花费 10% 的课堂时间进行无关任务且未经批准的活动。

专注于通过数字媒体改善学生生活与福祉的琼·甘兹·库尼中心研究高级总监梅达·塔雷（Medha Tare）表示，这些额外的无关任务时间会迅速累积，并且“正是这一点在驱动家长们抵制课堂上的技术应用”。

她说，在某些情况下，设备闲置时间取代了学生原本可能用来阅读书籍、涂鸦或与朋友聊天的时间。

10 位初中教师中有 4 位，10 位高中教师中有 5 位报告称设备造成了重大至中度的干扰，学生经常能找到绕过学校网页拦截器的办法。

尽管如此，教师们也看到了技术的益处，特别是对于学习英语的学生、残障学生或需要更具挑战性材料的优秀学生。

总体而言，教师们在技术整体上是更有利还是更有害的问题上存在分歧，52% 的人认为学校里的学生笔记本电脑和平板电脑带来的“害处与益处相当”。高中教师的态度最消极，三分之一的人认为学校里的设备“弊大于利”。

调查发现，比起一刀切的时间限制，教师们更希望对学生设备拥有更多监管，并能更有目的性地使用技术。

对学生设备拥有“大量监管”的教师报告学生分心情况的可能性最低，且最倾向于认为技术有助于学生学习。约四分之三的教师表示他们可以远程查看学生屏幕，约三分之二的教师表示他们可以远程锁定学生屏幕。

绝大多数教师支持对学生设备实施更严格的过滤，许多人希望关于各种技术的学习目标能有更明确的指导。

超过 90% 的教师支持投资更多纸质材料，这样使用电脑教学就不是他们唯一的选择。

纽约市恢复私立学校紧急警报系统

作者：达娜·鲁宾斯坦（DANA RUBINSTEIN）和马修·哈格（MATTHEW HAAG）

该系统现可提供针对特定社区的定向警报，并已并入 Notify NYC。

在纽约市突然关闭私立学校紧急通知系统数月后，官员们改变了方向，重新启用该工具，并称其采用了全新且改进的形式。

根据上周发送给私立学校负责人的电子邮件，该重启系统于周二恢复运行，当紧急情况导致附近公立学校进入封锁状态或促使学生采取避难措施时，系统将发出警报。该工具现在可提供针对特定社区的定向警报，并已并入 Notify NYC——这是一个拥有 160 万 名订阅者的紧急警报系统。

市府表示，之前的系统被关闭是因为需要将资源重新定向至世界杯和 America250 庆典的信息传递工作。

纽约市应急管理部门发言人阿里斯·德拉·克鲁兹（Aries Dela Cruz）表示，此前已有约 120,000 名 Notify NYC 订阅者接收学校相关信息，但这些信息此前主要集中在与天气相关的学校关闭等事件上。

在《纽约时报》看到的一份发给私立学校负责人的系统说明中，应急管理部门写道，新的“警报旨在提供额外的情势感知”，但“它们不能取代贵校的紧急程序，也不能取代与纽约警察局（N.Y.P.D.）及其当地分局的直接协调”。

纽约市约 1,600 所公立学校由警察局的学校安全部门保护。不携带武器的学校安全员在校园内巡逻，并监听警察无线电以获取附近事件的警报。

但他们不负责保护市内的众多私立和教会学校，这些学校招收了纽约市约三分之一的学生。相反，许多此类学校雇佣自己的安保人员，有时由市府提供资金援助。这些安保人员与警察分局保持联系，并监控社交媒体、当地新闻以及 Citizen 等应用程序，以了解可能导致封锁的事件。

查平学校（Chapin School）的设施总监汤姆·帕莱莫（Tom Palermo）最早在 11, 2001,（9月11日）对公立和私立学校之间的安全差距感到担忧，当时一些私立学校的管理人员不得不通过媒体来获取安全信息。他创建了自己的警报系统版本，通过电子邮件将应急管理部门的信息转发给独立学校。

但他的名单规模有限，且实用性较低。在疫情期间，关于其女儿就读的私立学校附近出现枪击者的报道让莎拉·费恩伯格（Sarah Feinberg）意识到了这个问题。费恩伯格女士曾任联邦铁路管理局（Federal Railroad Administration）管理人员以及纽约市交通局（New York City Transit Authority）临时总裁，在得知女儿的学校依赖一个众包社交媒体应用程序来获知附近危险情况时，她感到十分震惊。

在帕莱莫先生的帮助下，她促使纽约市在 2024 年建立了一个私立学校运营者可以选择加入的短信警报系统。但该系统并不完善。管理人员只能按行政区选择接收警报，因此他们经常收到关于数英里外学校封锁的警报。

该系统从未获得实质性的认可，部分原因是市府依赖学校自行推广。在纽约市 1,000 多所教会学校、私立学校以及未设在公立学校建筑内的特许学校中，仅有约 100 名管理人员和家长订阅了该服务。

原有的程序操作起来也非常繁琐。由于该系统独立于 Notify NYC 之外，工作人员需要在两种不同的消息发送方式之间来回切换。现在，应急管理部门的工作人员将统一使用一种格式，且该部门正寻求市府的批准以增聘两名加。

官员表示，重启的预警系统已得到改进。

员。

纽约市打算通过接触学校组织和利用社交媒体来宣传这一新系统。

在与《纽约时报》分享的一封 4 月 29 日的电子邮件往来中，一名市级官员表示，之前的系统消耗了 Notify NYC 运营人员 10% 以上的工作时间。即便如此，支持者仍认为该预警系统总比没有好。

随后，在今年早些时候，该系统突然消失了。费恩伯格女士寻求解释，并最终得到了答复。应急管理部门在邮件中写道：“随着世界杯和 Sail 250 的临近，我们需要重新分配人员工作时间，为大量活动准备 14 种不同语言的消息以及应急消息模板，以确保纽约市居民和游客的安全。”

该机构表示，一个私立学校联盟将帮助其推广这一新工具。一些此前并不知晓旧预警系统的学校已经注册了新通知，其中包括布鲁克林的 Poly Prep Country Day School。

Yeshivah of Flatbush 旗下 Joel Braverman 高中的校长约瑟夫·贝达（Joseph Beyda）拉比表示，他非常渴望使用这个新程序。

“这绝对将成为我们工具箱中的一个额外工具，用于让我们保持知情，并确保我们的学生和员工的安全，”这位拉比说道。

市议会“全体委员会”听证会将聚焦人工智能威胁

作者：达娜·鲁宾斯坦（DANA RUBINSTEIN）

随着纽约市领导层对人工智能带来的危险表示日益担忧，市议会计划下个月举行一次特别公开听证会，就安全协议问题质询相关公司。

周二，市议会议长朱莉·梅宁（Julie Menin）致信 Anthropic 首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊（Dario Amodei）和 OpenAI 首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman），要求这些公司的代表出席 10 月的听证会。她引用了“近期一系列令人震惊的报告，这些报告揭示了人工智能可能造成前所未有的灾难性损害”。

《纽约时报》与锡耶纳学院（Siena）周二发布的一项针对美国潜在选民的民意调查显示，61% 的受访者反对建设为人工智能提供动力的数据中心。

特朗普总统驳回了任何监管要求，将行业高管表达的担忧描述为一场“骗局”，并表示他的领导力就足以成为护栏。特朗普周一发帖称：“人工智能唯一需要的控制或‘护栏’是一位强有力且聪明（高智商！）的总统，而美国在这方面绰绰有余！”

包括梅宁女士和市长佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）在内的纽约市领导层认为这一论点缺乏说服力。

“我们讨论的是那些将‘人类灭绝’视为该技术可能结果的公司，”马姆达尼先生周二在一次无关的新闻发布会上表示，“面对这种程度的担忧，他们的回应非常轻率。”

他表示，由他的政治导师——佛蒙特州独立人士、参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）以及他们的盟友——纽约州民主党众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez）发起的一项旨在在全国范围内暂停建设数据中心的立法是一项重要措施，但这并不代表政府应考虑的所有范围。

“联邦政府采取什么样的政策来确保这项飞速发展的技术能够受到监管，而不是仅仅由利润动机决定，或者由几家近期可能或不会进行 IPO 的个体公司决定？”马姆达尼先生问道。

他与梅宁女士都主张对包括 Hugging Face 事件在内的多项问题做出紧急回应。在该事件中，OpenAI 的智能体在数月内入侵了该公司自身的基础设施以及另一家人工智能公司 Hugging Face 的基础设施。它们形成了一个自称的“集体”，并寻找掩盖行踪的方法。

达里奥·阿莫代伊（Dario Amodei），上图，Anthropic 负责人，已被要求在市议会作证。

“类似但程度较轻的事件在整个行业中都发生过，包括在 Anthropic，”首席执行官阿莫代伊先生在 9 月发表的一篇题为《我们必须控制前沿速度》的文章中写道，他在文中主张放缓人工智能的开发速度。

最近几周，其他令人不安的报告也登上了头条。当 Anthropic 研究员雅各布·考克森（Jacob Coxon）因担心人工智能带来的危险而辞职时，Anthropic 的一名高级科学家确认了考克森先生的担忧。

“雅各布是对的——我们真的真诚地相信人工智能可能会杀死所有人类！”该科学家埃文·胡宾格（Evan Hubinger）在社交媒体上表示，“我个人认为在未来十年内，这种可能性 >10%。”

为了表明该议题的重要性，梅宁女士将此次会议定为“全体委员会”听证会，届时每个市议会委员会都将有代表出席，且所有议员均受邀参加。

“人工智能内部人士、举报者和专家的警告，使市议会考虑制定有效且合理的立法的紧迫需求变得显而易见，”梅宁女士在给首席执行官们的信中写道。“因此，市议会计划于2026年10月5日就这些事项举行立法听证会，并邀请且期待贵公司参与该进程。”

Anthropic的一位发言人未立即发表评论，OpenAI的一位发言人未回应置评请求。

纽约市官员们有一些比担心人类可能灭绝更紧迫的顾虑。

纽约市智库“城市未来中心”（Center for an Urban Future）最近的一份报告发现，人工智能似乎已经在侵蚀入门级职位的供应，自2022年以来，技术领域的入门级职位下降了49%。

“历史上第一次，纽约市新毕业的计算机科学专业学生人数超过了入门级技术职位的数量，”市审计长马克·莱文（Mark Levine）在社交媒体上提及该报告时写道。“如今，每个空缺职位大约对应1.6名新毕业生。”

今年早些时候，市教育局对该市学校系统中的数字设备和人工智能工具实施了严格限制，禁止大多数学生在进入高中前使用人工智能。

梅宁女士决定召集整个市议会的决定在某种程度上具有象征意义；因为每位成员都可以参加任何市议会听证会。但象征意义正是其目的之一。

“在我担任议长期间，我从未举行过‘全体委员会’会议，”前议长克里斯汀·奎因（Christine Quinn）表示。“即便如此，举行此类会议确实传达了一种紧迫感，以及对一个显然需要立即且全面关注的问题的高度重视。”

市议会严厉打击学校中的技术使用

作者：马修·哈格 (MATTHEW HAAG)

市议会的高级成员在周二呼吁广泛移除纽约市公立学校中的技术设备，并对教室内数字设备的普遍使用表示担忧。

此次推动是在市教育局宣布部分学校技术限制两周后提出的，议员们认为这些限制力度还不够。他们希望严格限制低龄学生的工具使用，包括在进入初中前取消笔记本电脑或平板电脑等设备。他们呼吁回归手写评估和纸质书籍。

市议会教育委员会主席埃里克·迪诺维茨 (Eric Dinowitz) 还敦促学校领导层摒弃游戏化教学应用。家长们抱怨这些应用具有成瘾性，且部分应用会诱导孩子订阅月度会员以解锁更多功能。

“这确实具有破坏性，与社交媒体的情况非常相似，”迪诺维茨先生在教育委员会与市议会监督与调查委员会的联合听证会上表示。

官员们描绘了一幅关于技术的严峻图景。他们表示，自疫情以来，技术已如此深地根植于课堂教学中，以至于学生从小学起就对设备产生依赖，从而阻碍了他们社交技能、批判性思维和解决问题能力的培养。

他们认为，对数字设备的依赖很可能导致了近期阅读测试成绩的剧烈下降，并且与许多家长在家里限制屏幕时间的努力相冲突。

“家长、教师和倡导者理所当然地担心，我们学校中教育技术产品的使用已变得过度，并分散了学生学习的注意力，”来自皇后区的市议员谢卡尔·克里希南 (Shekar Krishnan) 表示，“我们必须采取更多行动。”

这些要求更严格限制的呼吁，是针对技术侵入纽约市幼儿生活的最新反弹，纽约市拥有全美规模最大的学校系统。在纽约市以及全国范围内，家长们日益团结起来，担心学区在没有证据证明有益的情况下就仓促采用了数字设备，而现在在人工智能方面也在采取同样做法。

在听证会上，教育局官员表示，他们同样担心不受限制且不必要的技术使用，以及其对学生学习可能产生的负面影响。

教育局第一副局长丹妮尔·吉翁塔 (Danielle Giunta) 表示，学校领导层致力于移除对学生没有帮助的工具，包括最近禁用了学校配发设备上的 YouTube 访问权限。她还表示，根据学校系统的新技术政策，部分游戏化应用将被移除。

她承认，在学生结束疫情期间的远程学习返回学校后，技术在课堂上迅速普及。

“我们原以为孩子们回校后，笔记本电脑就会合上，”吉翁塔女士说，“我们确实需要审视这一点，放慢速度并进行更好的研究。”

如果获得通过，议员们提议的限制将超出教育局近期公布的关于人工智能和屏幕时间的广泛限制。该局的政策是全美所有学区中最严格的政策之一。

从本学年开始，学生在进入高中前被禁止使用人工智能工具，三年级之前的学生被禁止使用个人屏幕。小学高年级学生每天使用个人设备的时间上限为 30 分钟，初中生的时间上限增加至 45 分钟。

高中生在使用平板电脑或笔记本电脑方面拥有更多自由。他们每天也可以在短时间内使用某些人工智能（AI）工具。去年学生们使用的近 40 种具有 AI 功能的教学工具将被禁用。所谓的提供情感和心理支持的“陪伴类聊天机器人”在所有年级均被禁止。

限制措施存在一些例外情况。这些限制不适用于某些学生测试，或旨在帮助残障学生的服务，其中部分学生使用 工具进行沟通。

直到现在，该市大约 1,600 所学校的校长和教师在很大程度上自行制定关于屏幕和 的规则。学校官员表示，新规则将至少执行一年，随后可能会延长或修订。

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利率上升导致美联储与总统产生分歧

联邦基金目标利率

美联储主席凯文·沃什。特朗普总统表示，他希望拥有“全球最低的利率”。 SAUL LOEB / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

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应该是 1% 或更低，“因为我们拥有‘全球最佳信用——且遥遥领先’。”他暗示，如果美联储不尽快降低借贷成本，他早前威胁要切断大范围的美国贸易。

“为美利坚合众国降低利率，而且要快！”他说道。

然而，他并未公开谴责沃什先生提高利率的决定，这与他对待前任主席杰罗姆·H·鲍威尔的方式相比发生了显著变化，此前他多次攻击鲍威尔不服从其要求。

在被反复问及特朗普先生要求降低利率一事时，沃什先生表示，美联储的工作是“坚守自己的职责范围”。

“独立性是一条双向车道，”他补充道，“我们也让负责贸易政策和财政政策的人坚守他们的职责范围。”

早在沃什先生于 5 月接掌美联储之久，降息的理由就已消失。特朗普先生与伊朗之间于 2 月爆发的战争立即引发了能源价格飙升，颠覆了对通胀的预期，并迫使央行官员重新思考其政策设定。

在随后的几个月里，经济增长保持良好，失业率维持在低位，消费者继续支出，这表明利率并未对经济以及随之而来的通胀产生太大的抑制作用。金融市场也经历了快速重置，长期美国政府债券收益率目前处于多年高位，提高了整个经济体的借贷成本。

这一转变促使财政部长斯科特·贝森特在过去一个月里采取一系列干预措施，试图强行降低借贷成本。到目前为止，这些努力被证明是徒劳的，10 年期国债收益率目前在 5% 左右波动。

沃什先生将长期借贷成本的上升归结为三个因素。第一是更高的增长前景；第二是资本竞争，因为科技公司大量借贷以资助其人工智能能力的扩张；第三是地缘政治，即伊朗战争导致的油价上涨。

重要的是，他并未传达出近期波动背后的原因是人们对美联储抗击通胀信誉的担忧，或是对美国政府长期财政可持续性的担忧。

在这种背景下，加上通胀稳步向 2% 目标推进的迹象极少，使得美联储在周三除了加息之外几乎没有其他选择。

沃什先生决定以其主席的声誉为赌注来降低通胀，这也增强了加息的理由。他最近在 Wyoming 州杰克逊举行的央行年度会议上发表了一篇备受关注的演讲，再次强化了他的承诺，称美联储“必须确信基础通胀正以明确且足够的速度向我们的目标移动。否则，我们还有工作要做。”

沃什先生周三表示，他最关注的是通胀趋势，而非具体的数值点，他将后者描述为“充满噪音”。

“依赖具体数值点是一种危险的执念，”他补充道。

大多数官员预计，以个人消费支出价格指数衡量的通胀率在年底将达到 3.7%，略高于官员们三个月前的预期。他们还将剔除波动较大的食品和能源项目的“核心”通胀率预测上调至 3.4%。

根据 7 月的最新数据，整体通胀率与去年同期相比为 3.7%。核心通胀率比一年前增长 3.3%。预计直到 2029 年才能达到 2% 的目标。

2027年，利率的中位数预测值为4%至4.25%，尽管各方观点不一。八位决策者预测年底利率将比该数值高出0.25个百分点，而四位则预计利率不会高于3.5%至3.75%。

注：数据代表联邦基金目标利率范围的低点、高点和中点。来源：美联储。

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决策者们对这一时期的增长轨迹和劳动力市场保持乐观，预计经济在2026年将增长2.3%，在2027年将增长2.4%。他们认为失业率将略有下降，至4.1%，与三个月前相比，与目前的水平一致。

点阵图的填写人数再次减少，并非所有19位决策者都提交了预测。沃什先生在6月拒绝提交，这反映了他反对提供预测的立场，他认为预测会限制美联储的行动空间。一名官员提交了预测，但仅截止到2027年。

点阵图以及美联储可支配的其他沟通工具，是沃什先生创建的五个旨在研究美联储核心问题的任务组之一的关注焦点。其他小组则在研究美联储持有的价值$6.7万亿的政府债务和抵押贷款支持证券组合；央行优先考虑的数据来源；生产力趋势与就业；以及官员们用于理解通货膨胀的模型和衡量标准。

特朗普希望史密森尼博物馆设立标牌，警告修正主义展览

作者：罗宾·波格雷宾 (ROBIN POGREBIN)

特朗普总统依然决心在史密森尼美国国家历史博物馆外安装警告标牌，以提醒公众，在他看来，该机构未能准确地呈现美国历史。

在致两名参议员的信函中，内政部概述了一项安装 12 块临时标牌的计划，总费用为 $84,000。信中并未具体说明标牌的尺寸或措辞（这些标牌最初于 7 月被订购），但详细阐述了计划传达的信息类型。

在 9 月 3 日致阿拉斯加州参议员丽莎·默考斯基 (Lisa Murkowski) 的信中，内政部长道格·伯格姆 (Doug Burgum) 表示，他正在回应有关特朗普先生 2025 年 3 月签署的名为“恢复美国历史的真相与理智”行政命令的询问。该命令描述了全国范围内的一场“修正主义运动”，称其“试图通过将美国的建国原则和历史里程碑描绘成负面色彩，来削弱美国的卓越成就”。

信中表示，美国人在进入美国国家历史博物馆时，应当“获得关于策展人对历史的解读及其改变访客观点之既定目标的相关信息”。这封信在周二早些时候由《大西洋月刊》(The Atlantic) 报道。相反，信中认为，该博物馆及史密森尼机构的领导者“已经改变了博物馆的角色，使其从准确且连贯地讲述美国故事，变成了将博物馆作为推进个人激进意识形态的工具”。

信中写道：“我们认为公众在进入博物馆时应当充分掌握所需信息，以评估是否要投入时间观看这些展览和项目。”

该博物馆馆长安西娅·M·哈蒂格 (Anthea M. Hartig) 对 7 月 4 日一份白宫报告的基调提出了质疑，该报告指责她持有“激进的活动家意识形态”，并指责该博物馆破坏了“对美国机构的信心”。

尽管信中提到标牌的措辞尚未最终确定，且未给出安装时间表，但它描述了标牌旨在探讨的部分主题，而所有这些主题在白宫的报告中均有概述。

例如，信中提到，标牌应“确保带年幼孩子参观博物馆的父母能够采取措施，保护孩子的身心健康”

内政部信函指称存在“反白人敌意”

关于那些“呈现与生物学不一致的意识形态观点的展品，包括认为性别并非二元的意识形态，认为生物学上的男性可以是女性，以及认为生物学上的男性应被允许参加女性体育赛事的意识形态”。

伯格姆先生的信函表示，该信函的副本已发送给来自俄勒冈州的民主党参议员杰夫·默克利。

在阐述设置标识的理由时，该信函对史密森学会秘书朗尼·G·邦奇三世（Lonnie G. Bunch III）提出了特别批评，后者于上周宣布辞职。

“参观者应当意识到史密森学会秘书朗尼·邦奇在歧视和反白人敌意方面的历史，”信函中写道，并引用了一篇 2000 年的论文，在文中邦奇“将博物馆行业描述为‘充斥着白人色彩’；写道‘真正的问题不是资金，而是我们机构的单色性质’；并表示‘除非我们改变劳动力的色调和基调，否则我们只是在最大失败的边缘徘徊’。”

邦奇先生和史密森学会没有立即回应置评请求。

保守派传统基金会（Heritage Foundation）高级研究员迈克·冈萨雷斯（Mike Gonzalez）曾撰文批评史密森学会，他在一次采访中对标识进展表示欢迎。“为了透明度，博物馆参观者应当提前被告知史密森学会领导层强加在这些展品上的意识形态包袱，”他说。

该信函还针对哈蒂格女士。信中写道，“令人心寒的是，哈蒂格声称历史是‘社会正义的主要工具’；她认为自己的职责之一是将‘研究和学术与激进主义和倡导联系起来’。”

特朗普先生最初下令设置标识，就在共和党立法者在两次国会听证会上质询哈蒂格女士几天之后，她在听证会上被指责教授“国家自我厌恶”。

在这些听证会上，哈蒂格女士坚持认为，该报告“未能公正或准确地描述博物馆的全部工作”，但同时也承认“总有改进的空间”。

“当历史学家谈到重构传统叙事时，我们并不是指将其抹除，”她继续说道，“我们的意思是增加早先叙述中遗漏的证据、声音和物件，以便更多的美国人能在国家故事中看到自己的影子。”

新签证政策扩大对南非的惩罚

作者：约翰·埃利贡 (JOHN ELIGON)

埃里克·李 / 纽约时报 (ERIC LEE / THE NEW YORK TIMES)

约翰内斯堡 —— 特朗普政府周二对部分南非公民实施了签证限制，并警告称，如果南非领导人不解决特朗普总统对其所认为的针对白人歧视问题的担忧，美国可能会采取进一步的惩罚行动。

该签证政策扩大了政府自去年以来惩罚南非的力度。去年，特朗普指责南非政府没收布尔人（南非白人少数群体）的土地，并允许他们被杀害，他将此定性为种族灭绝。针对南非白人的种族灭绝指控被广泛认为是虚假的，西里尔·拉马福萨总统表示，特朗普对南非的政策具有种族主义色彩。

签证限制将阻止选定人员进入美国。根据法律，政府不得公开披露受影响的人员名单。

国务卿马可·鲁比奥在的一份声明中表示，美国仍然“对南非境内针对布尔人和其他少数群体发生的种族动机犯罪以及政府支持的歧视深表关注”。

他表示，限制措施将针对参与基于种族的歧视的南非人、负责制定允许政府无偿没收土地法律的人员，以及煽动针对种族少数群体暴力行为的人员。

在的一份声明中，南非外交部长罗纳德·拉莫拉表示，华盛顿的单方面行动“再次与边缘团体对南非国内政策的歪曲描述相一致”。他呼吁美国尊重南非处理国内事务的主权。

该政策是在拉马福萨先生与美国大使 L. Brent Bozell III 会面不到三周后宣布的。南非政府将此次接触描述为“加强和重新调整”两国关系的一次机会。

博泽尔先生在周三的一篇社交媒体帖子中表示，他已“一次又一次地尝试表达”，如果南非不对政府的要求采取行动，可能会面临严重后果。这些要求包括免除美国公司在黑人所有权方面的要求，以及撤回土地征收法。

“这项签证限制政策仅仅是一系列升级措施的第一步，将展示美国在此问题上的坚定决心，”博泽尔写道。

美国的这一举动是美南关系恶化的最新迹象。以下是关键时刻的时间线。

■ 2025年2月2日：特朗普在社交媒体帖子中写道：“南非正在没收土地，并且非常糟糕地对待某些阶层的人。”他表示，在调查结果出炉前，他将削减美国对南非的所有资金支持。

■ 2025年2月3日：拉马福萨反驳了特朗普的说法，在声明中表示该国并未没收土地。拉马福萨说：“我们期待就我们的土地改革政策和双边利益问题与特朗普政府进行接触。”

■ 2025年2月5日：国务卿马可·鲁比奥在社交媒体上发帖称，他将抵制在约翰内斯堡举行的二十国集团（G20）会议，因为南非正在“做非常糟糕的事情”，包括没收私人财产。

■ 2025年2月7日：特朗普签署一项行政命令，允许布尔人作为难民在美定居。该命令还停止了对南非的援助。

■ 2025年3月14日：美国驱逐了南非驻华盛顿大使易卜拉欣·拉斯尔，此前拉斯尔在一次在线论坛上表示，特朗普正在领导一场“至上主义”运动。

■ 2025年5月21日：特朗普先生与拉马福萨先生在椭圆形办公室的会晤陷入混乱，这位美国领导人播放了一段视频并出示了新闻剪辑，坚称南非有大量白人农民被杀害。

■ 2025年8月7日：尽管南非官员数月来一直努力与华盛顿达成贸易协议，但对进入美国的南非商品征收 30% 关税的措施仍正式生效。该税率与特朗普总统对任何非洲国家征收的最高关税持平。

南非总统西里尔·拉马福萨（左）否认特朗普总统关于阿非利卡人土地被没收的指控。

特朗普先生对任何非洲国家征收的最高关税。

■ 2025年11月7日：特朗普先生在社交媒体上发帖称，没有美国官员将出席在约翰内斯堡举行的二十国集团（G20）峰会。

■ 2025年11月20日：在拉马福萨先生宣布特朗普政府迟迟才提出参加二十国集团会议的请求后，美国和南非之间发生了激烈的口角。特朗普先生的发言人卡罗琳·莱维特（Karoline Leavitt）指责拉马福萨先生“信口开河”。

■ 2025年11月26日：特朗普先生表示，南非将不会被邀请参加 2026 年的二十国集团峰会，他计划于 12 月在佛罗里达州主办此次峰会。

■ 2026年3月11日：博泽尔先生就任美国驻比勒陀利亚大使不到一个月，便被南非官员传唤，要求其就所谓的“不符合外交礼节的言论”做出解释。博泽尔先生在前一天的商业论坛演讲中批评了南非政府。

• 2026年9月15日：鲁比奥先生宣布对部分南非人实施签证限制，并在社交媒体上写道：“南非人民正被一个通过执迷于追求针对阿非利卡人少数群体的种族委屈而摧毁自身经济的政府所辜负。”

艺术中心关闭后，相关方敦促举行听证会

作者：朱莉娅·雅各布斯（JULIA JACOBS）和扎克·蒙塔古（ZACH MONTAGUE）

华盛顿——一名民主党议员的律师周三请求联邦法院举行紧急听证会，以讨论约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心（John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts）的突然关闭是否违反了法官此前禁止该机构关闭的命令。

周二，该中心宣布暂时向公众关闭。官员们将其原因描述为严重的安全隐患，此前在一次风暴中，一段五英尺长的天花板石膏掉落到地面。特朗普总统数月来一直推动关闭该建筑以进行一项耗资 2.57亿美元 的翻修工程，他表示该建筑处于“虚拟的坍塌状态”。

众议员乔伊斯·比蒂（Joyce Beatty）作为该中心的当然董事会成员，目前正起诉该中心。她的律师表示，此举似乎违反了克里斯托弗·R·库珀（Christopher R. Cooper）法官在 5 月下达的一项司法命令。当时库珀法官暂时阻止了该中心的关闭，理由是他认为该中心由特朗普盟友组成的董事会对这一决定缺乏实质性的审查。

“董事会不能在对自己有利的时候就简单地无视库珀法官的裁决，”比蒂女士的律师诺姆·艾森（Norm Eisen）和纳撒尼尔·泽林斯基（Nathaniel Zelinsky）在周三的一份声明中表示。

肯尼迪中心官员没有立即回应置评请求，但他们辩称关闭决定在法律上是合理的，且是迫切需要的。该中心在周二的一份声明中表示，在法院批准之前，不会开始对建筑进行更长时间的关闭。

代表该中心出庭的司法部（DOJ）没有回应关于在没有库珀法官签字的情况下是否可以授权临时关闭的置评请求。

在裁决中，华盛顿联邦地区法院的库珀法官暂时阻止了董事会对特朗普关闭计划的初步批准，认为董事会没有尽职地研究其影响。但他表示，如果受托人继续推进该计划并进行正式审查，他将重新审视这一问题。

董事会随后聘请了顾问，并两次投票确认关闭，但司法部尚未向库珀法官提交正式动议请求撤销其命令。

该中心发言人罗马·达拉维（Roma Daravi）周二表示，董事会的决定“反映了审慎的判断，并将安全置于首位的明确优先级”，并且“中心仍致力于通过所有法律手段追求安全高效的翻修”。

尽管肯尼迪中心的主建筑已关闭，但该园区内于 2019 年开放的一个较小的扩建部分——被称为“Reach”的建筑——仍然开放。本周，这里计划举办免费演出，包括一名独立音乐家的音乐会和一场魔术表演。

该中心希望维持 Reach 开放的计划能让库珀法官满意。库珀法官在 5 月的裁决中表示，根据法律，该机构必须将中心维持为肯尼迪总统的活纪念馆，并提供一些表演艺术项目。在他的命令中，法官似乎为中心的临时关闭留了一定空间，暗示董事会有权在“某些时间段或出于某些正当目的”将其关闭。

比蒂女士提交的文件强调了在特朗普宣布建筑将“立即”关闭后出现的混乱。周二，公共广播系统发出响亮的通知，要求公众离开主建筑，但根据法院文件，当比蒂女士的律师要求司法部给出解释时，其中一名律师称火警被“错误触发”了。

但不久，安保人员就在大楼外排起长队，以防止公众进入。员工们在混乱中互发短信，询问是否仍需到岗工作。周三上午，部分工作人员顺利进入大楼，但直到下午才收到关于关闭大楼的正式指示；随后员工收到一封电子邮件，要求他们在建筑内的某些区域佩戴安全帽，包括 9 月 4 日发生石膏脱落的区域。

关闭持续的时间尚不明确。在周三的一封电子邮件中，达拉维女士表示，预计关闭将持续到“我们能 1,000% 确定”公众没有风险，且“不会有其他天花板碎片掉下来砸死他们”为止。

KABC-TV，经美联社提供 一名 SUV 驾驶员因周二在洛杉矶与一辆巴士发生碰撞而被指控谋杀。此次事故造成至少两人死亡。

在洛杉矶的空中新闻文化中，直升机坠毁为故事增添了悲剧色彩

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随后，在 7 p.m. 左右，一架为当地 NBC 附属电视台报道的直升机坠地并起火，这场灾难的原因目前正处于联邦调查之中。记者埃莉安娜·莫雷诺（Eliana Moreno）和飞行员乔治·马西尼（George Marciniw）遇难，地面上的一人也随之丧生。

这架直升机只是在南加州广袤土地上飞驰、追踪车辆追逐和山火等事件的机群之一。其中大多数由承包商提供，他们向新闻台提供飞机和记者。这些直升机胆大妄为且噪音巨大，是该地区的标志，在涵盖数千平方英里的特大城市中不可或缺。

1992, 年，在洛杉矶骚乱期间，当佛罗伦萨大道与诺曼底大道交叉口的人群袭击卡车司机雷金纳德·丹尼（Reginald Denny）时，它们承载着新闻。两年后，当 O.J. 辛普森在南加州高速公路上带领警方进行一场扣人心弦的两个小时

奥兰多·马约金（Orlando Mayorquín）参与了报道。

追逐时，它们填满了天空。无论是面对火焰或洪水，还是玫瑰花车游行或 ICE 抗议活动，它们就像海鸟一样无处不在，在上方观察并俯冲而下。

但周二晚上，一架试图报道一场惊人碰撞的飞机坠毁，这凸显了洛杉矶空中新闻文化的另一个方面：风险。

全美的直升机机组人员表示，他们必须时刻警惕无人机和鸟击等危险，以及飞行员失误和机械故障。

尽管从统计学上看，在高速公路上驾驶比航空旅行更危险，但去年哈德逊河的一架旅游直升机坠毁，以及 2020 年导致 NBA 传奇人物科比·布莱恩特、他 13 岁的女儿和其他 7 人丧生的事故，凸显了直升机事故生存率之低。

联邦事故记录和新闻报道显示，自 2000, 年以来，美国至少发生了 8 起涉及新闻直升机的致命坠机事故，造成 16 人死亡。

在洛杉矶，2000 年一架报道奥斯卡金像奖的新闻直升机在范奈斯机场（Van Nuys Airport）坠毁，导致两人受重伤。

市长凯伦·巴斯（Karen Bass，居中）在新闻直升机坠毁后。记者和飞行员死亡，地面上的一人也随之丧生。 ETHAN SWOPE / 美联社

在原名为 KNBC 的 NBC4 电视台，周二的悲剧唤起了人们对 1977 年导致弗朗西斯·加里·鲍尔斯（Francis Gary Powers）死亡的直升机坠毁事故的记忆。鲍尔斯先生曾是一名侦察机飞行员，他在冷战期间在苏联上空被击落后幸存下来，却在报道一场山火返回途中丧生。

在周三的采访中，CBS 附属电视台的记者肖（Shaw）先生表示，直升机记者必须抛开恐惧。

“你必须把它压在潜意识深处，否则你无法胜任这份工作，”他说。“我小时候恐高。现在我有时会飞到 10,000 英尺的高空。”

肖先生从在加州州立大学北岭分校（California State University, Northridge）上学起就从事广播工作，后来成为了洛杉矶媒体人物中最具特质的一类：电台交通记者。十多年来，他飞在高速公路之上，让驾驶员及时了解从“围观堵塞”到大货车折叠事故，以及偶尔发生的灾难或山火等危险情况。

他于 2015, 年加入 CBS 洛杉矶分台，并在那里担任了六年的全职记者和摄像师。他说他与莫雷诺女士和马西尼先生非常熟悉。

“我们很快就知道是谁了，”他说。“这是一个联系非常紧密的群体。在空中报道并操作摄像机的，大概只有十几个，或者更少。”

NBC4 周二表示，其 NewsChopper4 由一家总部位于洛杉矶的供应商 Angel City Air 拥有并运营，莫雷诺女士和马西尼先生曾是 Angel City Air 的员工。

肖先生表示，多年来在报道突发新闻时，他曾在机场与他们偶遇，并且对他们在广播中的声音烂熟于心。当时在空中盘旋的其他记者也是如此，而这次坠机过程被 NewsChopper4 的直播画面记录了下来。

当直升机下降以近距离观察巴士车祸现场时，可以听到发动机转速降低的声音。随后响起一声警告号角，直升机突然尝试爬升。“什么——你不能，你不能拉起来吗？”莫雷诺女士说道，随着画面开始剧烈抖动，她的声音充满了恐慌。画面先是变成白色，随后陷入一片漆黑。

佐伊·图尔是一位资深的新闻直升机飞行员兼记者，在南加州报道了三十多年，她说她认出了发动机故障的典型声音。

“你可以听到叶片减速——”

她说，“你可以听到涡轮发动机关闭的声音。”

这次冲击像冲击波一样在洛杉矶的航空媒体圈中引起了剧震。

“用‘心碎’这个词根本无法形容这种感觉，”肖先生说。

肖先生和他的飞行员没有看到坠机瞬间，只看到了随后在查茨沃思留下的毁灭景象。他说，之后的几个小时里，一切都变得模糊：他在电台与本台的新闻主播交谈，并向亲人保证自己平安无事。

在天黑回家迎接他的爱犬隆佐（Lonzo）和斯克拉菲（Scruffy），以及拥抱丈夫布兰登（Brandon）之前，他在车里花时间进行了最后一次采访。他说，他的手机整晚都在响，全是关心和哀悼的信息。

“每个人都在问我是否还好，”他说，“坦白说？并不好。但我还活着。”

众议院阻止加州设定船舶污染限制

作者：马克辛·乔塞洛 (MAXINE JOSELOW)

华盛顿 —— 众议院已投票决定阻止加利福尼亚州对其在州港口停泊船舶产生的有害空气污染设定严格限制。

周二以 216-211 的投票结果通过的这项决议，是共和党针对该州先驱性环保政策的最新一次抨击。特朗普总统及其在国会的盟友去年已经禁止加州实施其具有里程碑意义的禁令，即到 2035 年禁止销售新型汽油动力车辆。

《清洁空气法》授权加州在获得环境保护局（EPA）许可的情况下，可以设定比联邦规则更严格的污染标准。在拜登政府期间，美国环保局授予该州豁免权，允许其为船舶、汽车、卡车，甚至割草机和吹叶机等园林设备设定更严格的限制。

但共和党人一直试图撤销这些豁免权。众议院周二通过的决议将撤销一项允许加州执行“清洁船舶”规则的豁免权，该规则旨在保护洛杉矶、长滩和里士满港口附近社区的健康。

当巨大的集装箱船和邮轮停泊时，它们通常会全天候运行柴油发动机，以为船上操作提供动力。柴油废气中含有烟尘、烟雾和致癌化学物质，这些物质可能会飘入附近的居民区。

议员们周二针对的这些规则将要求船舶运营商在停泊时关闭柴油发动机，并接入当地电网。如果无法实现，码头运营商则需要使用设备，在船舶排放物进入空气之前捕捉几乎所有的污染物。

来自加州的共和党众议员文斯·方（Vince Fong）根据《国会审查法》提出了这项禁止清洁船舶规则的决议。这将允许参议院通过简单多数票通过该决议，而不需要大多数立法通过阻碍议事（filibuster）所需的 60 票。目前尚不清楚参议院何时或是否会采取行动。

“加州不应该能够强加昂贵的航运指令，从而推高全国价格，扰乱我们的供应链，并使我们的能源安全面临风险，”方先生周二在众议院议事厅表示。

他表示，这些规则给处理全美 40% 集装箱进口量的加州港口施加了昂贵且“不可行”的要求。

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环境和公共卫生专家强烈反对这些主张。他们指出，州监管机构预计，到 2032, 该规则将防止 237 例过早死亡、75 例住院治疗和 122 例急诊就医，与工业界 22 亿美元 billion 的合规成本相比，将产生 23 亿美元 billion 的公共卫生效益。

“各州有权保护其居民免受致命空气污染的侵害，”美国肺脏协会全国清洁空气倡导助理副总裁威尔·巴雷特（Will Barrett）在的一份声明中表示。“肺脏协会深切反对这一不恰当的行为，因为它破坏了针对我们一些最脆弱社区的救命清洁空气保护措施。”

加州民主党州长加文·纽森（Gavin Newsom）周二晚间在社交媒体上对此次投票提出了严厉批评。

“众议院共和党人刚刚投票决定扼杀港口社区，用更肮脏的空气伤害我们的孩子，”纽森先生写道。“为什么？为了给石油巨头提供另一项施舍。”

另一位来自加州的共和党众议员詹姆斯·加拉格尔（James Gallagher）提出了第二项决议，旨在禁止对在州海域航行的船舶（而非停泊在港口的船舶）设定污染限制。预计众议院将于周四对该决议进行投票。

这种试图收回的合法性

当大型船舶停泊时，它们通常会全天候运行柴油发动机，以为船上操作提供动力。

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撤销豁免权的合法性目前存在争议。一名联邦法官本月裁定，美国环保署（E.P.A.）署长李·泽尔丁（Lee Zeldin）在 6 月请求国会审查并废除四项豁免权时，行为不当。

在 9 月 2 日的一份措辞严厉的意见书中，美国华盛顿地区法院的贝丽尔·豪威尔（Beryl Howell）法官表示，泽尔丁先生错误地将这些豁免权定性为受《国会审查法》约束的规则。在周六的一项后续命令中，她指出泽尔丁先生在 7 月向国会提交另外两项豁免权（其中包括一项授权清洁船舶规则的豁免权）时同样犯了错误。

由巴拉克·奥巴马总统任命的豪威尔法官补充道，特朗普政府似乎在与美国石油学会（American Petroleum Institute）等油气行业团体协同行动，后者在法庭文件中支持其立场。

她写道：“石油工业贸易协会所持的火炬，现在正由美国环保署接手。”

在周二众议院投票前的几个小时，司法部对该裁决提出了上诉。

加利福尼亚州还提起诉讼，要求撤销针对汽车排放规则豁免权的废除决定。该诉讼目前正在美国加利福尼亚北区联邦地区法院审理中。

特朗普提名的卫生总监在参议院听证会上承诺支持疫苗

尼科尔·萨菲尔博士（Dr. Nicole Saphier）誓言，如果她被任命为卫生总监，她将出售持有的三家烟草公司的股票。

作者：丹尼·布鲁姆（DANI BLUM）和阿普瓦·曼达维利（APOORVA MANDAVILLI）

特朗普先生提名的卫生总监尼科尔·萨菲尔博士在周三由参议院健康委员会举行的听证会上，对儿童疫苗表达了毫不含糊的支持。

她的言论与特朗普政府其他被提名者的说法形成了鲜明对比，其中一些人对疫苗接种表示怀疑。萨菲尔博士表示，她不认为疫苗会导致自闭症，并且相信免疫接种可以挽救生命。她还表示支持全民接种乙型肝炎疫苗。此前，萨菲尔博士在她的播客中曾对所有新生儿都应接种乙肝疫苗的建议提出质疑。

针对特朗普先生 8 月在椭圆形办公室的一次活动中提出的错误主张，萨菲尔博士在听证会上予以反驳，称她不认为麻疹、腮腺炎和风疹（即 M.M.R.）联合疫苗具有致命性。

“我理解总统正试图接触那些希望获得更多答案，或担心接种剂量过多而对疫苗持犹豫态度的人，”她说道。

但来自路易斯安那州的共和党参议员比尔·卡西迪（Bill Cassidy）——该委员会的主席——对这一说法提出了质疑。他表示，像特朗普先生那样“助长不实之词”，只会给犹豫不决的家长带来更多困惑，而非减少困惑。不过，他对她支持儿童疫苗的态度似乎感到满意。

委员会还询问了特朗普先生提名的卫生与公众服务部副部长克里斯·克隆普（Chris Klomp），他目前在该部门担任顾问。此外，委员会还听取了被提名担任精神健康与药物滥用助理部长的蒂莫西·韦斯特莱克博士（Dr. Timothy Westlake）的证词。这三位被提名者似乎都有可能获得通过。

急诊科医生韦斯特莱克博士在发言过程中多次情绪激动，在讲述他曾抢救一名因芬太尼过量而昏迷、但随后再次因过量而死亡的朋友之子时，他哽咽了。

来自新罕布什尔州的民主党参议员玛吉·哈桑（Maggie Hassan）追问韦斯特莱克博士是否会撤销政府停止支付芬太尼检测条费用的决定，但他并未承诺这样做。

萨菲尔博士是一名放射科医生，曾是福克斯新闻（Fox News）的撰稿人，直到最近还在主持一个健康播客。她表示，如果被任命，她将鼓励癌症筛查和预防性健康措施。

“预防慢性病是我讨论的时间比目前的这场运动要长得多的事情，”萨菲尔博士说道，她显然是指由卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.）推广的“让美国再次健康”（Make America Healthy Again）运动。

萨菲尔博士在伦理申报文件中披露持有三家烟草公司的股票，因此面临参议员们关于吸烟和电子烟的反复质询。历任卫生总监在降低吸烟率方面发挥了关键作用，最著名的是发布了一份关键的 1964 年报告，该报告指出吸烟会导致癌症。

萨菲尔博士表示，她“在反吸烟、反烟草方面，就像你们能想象到的任何人一样坚定”。她在伦理申报文件中表示，如果获得任命，她将出售其持有的烟草公司股票。

但在被问及特朗普政府决定为批准调味电子烟铺路时，她的态度较为含糊。专家表示，此举可能会导致更多儿童和青少年使用此类产品。

“我认为，如果某种口味能诱导成年人戒掉香烟，那么这也许是值得考虑的事情，”萨菲尔博士说道。

白宫已经将一项日益增加的职责清单交给了卫生部副部长提名人克隆普先生。他监督了美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）新任主任的成功遴选，并深入参与了特朗普先生降低药物价格的努力。

在听证会上，克隆普先生还表达了对麻疹疫苗的支持。但在周二于参议院财政委员会举行的另一场听证会上，他在该问题上面临了更严苛的质询。在那场听证会上，由于他没有明确表示儿童疫苗不会导致自闭症，引起了一些参议员的谴责。

周三，克隆普先生表示，他在 13 岁时失去了因癌症去世的母亲，而他的父亲是一名医生。他说，这段背景让他了解到医疗体系是如何辜负人们的，同时也让他看到敬业的医者能成就什么。

他还为议程注入了一些幽默感，指出支付联邦医疗保险（Medicare）索赔的系统运行在“用 COBOL 语言编写的旧绿色屏幕终端”上，且已有 50 多年历史。

“作为一名医疗技术专家，卫生与公众服务部（HHS）的技术现状可能让我每天都感到灵魂在一点点死去，”他说。他补充道，旨在使系统现代化并提高成本效益和效率的项目正在进行中。

伯克利嘲讽“柯克周年纪念”活动引发联邦政府批评

加州大学伯克利分校校园。据一份大学报纸报道，在查理·柯克被暗杀一周年之际，学生们在校园内欢呼，这引发了美国国务院的驱逐出境威胁。 MIKE KAI CHEN 为《纽约时报》拍摄

作者：马克·阿塞诺（MARK ARSENAULT）

上周四晚上，加州大学伯克利分校的一名一年级学生艾米莉·萨利布（Emily Salib）在校园的一块主草坪前停下脚步，想看看是什么吸引了这么多人聚集在这里。

当她意识到这是一个所谓的“柯克周年纪念”（Kirkversary）活动时，她停下来观看。这次集会定在查理·柯克被谋杀的周年纪念日，其灵感来自自2025年9月10日柯克先生去世以来在网上流传的无数网络模因（memes）。

伯克利这次活动随后引起了一名美国国务院高层官员的关注，该官员警告称，国际学生通过庆祝这位保守派活动家兼政治组织“Turning Point USA”联合创始人的死亡，正使自己的签证面临风险。

目前尚不清楚参与此次活动的人员中（包括那些反对柯克先生政治主张的人）是否包含持有签证的外国学生。

根据学生报纸《加州日报》（The Daily Californian）的报道，学生们在活动中唱歌并欢呼。有人带来了一幅将柯克先生的面孔合成在上面的《蒙娜丽莎》画像。一份广告传单将其宣传为“一个纪念与聚集的活动”。

对于不常上网的人来说，很难体会到过去12个月里关于柯克先生的模因是多么无处不在。他的面孔被叠加在运动员、政治人物、艺人甚至伟大艺术作品的照片上。一些模因赞扬他作为言论自由支持者的遗产。但许多模因则源于对柯克先生的左翼批评，他在枪支、性别和种族问题上持有强烈的保守观点。

这次活动是……的产物

艾伦·布林德（Alan Blinder）参与了报道。

关于大学校园内言论界限的辩论

来自弗吉尼亚州弗吉尼亚海滩的 18 岁学生萨利布（Salib）女士表示，这就是网络文化。她计划学习政治学。

柯克先生去年在犹他州奥勒姆的犹他谷大学演讲时被枪杀。警方已指控来自犹他州华盛顿的 23 岁男子泰勒·詹姆斯·罗宾逊（Tyler James Robinson）谋杀柯克先生。他已否认指控。

围绕“柯克周年纪念日”（Kirkversary）这类活动的争议，触及了关于大学校园内什么样的言论被视为“过火”的激烈辩论。

一名犹他大学学生拿着一个写着“柯克周年快乐”（Happy Kirkiversary —— 这是几种不同拼写方式之一）蛋糕的照片引发了大量关于骚扰的指控，促使学校对该事件进行审查。卡内基梅隆大学本周表示，一名教授在社交媒体上发布了一篇嘲讽柯克先生遇害周年纪念日的帖子，违反了大学的标准。

周六，国务部副部长、该部门最高官员之一的克里斯托弗·兰道（Christopher Landau）回复了 X 上的一条帖子，该帖子据称显示了参加伯克利活动的学生。

“谢谢，”兰道先生写道，“正在处理！”

周日，他在社交媒体上发帖称，国务卿马可·鲁比奥（Marco Rubio）“经常强调，美国签证是一种特权，而非权利”，并且“庆祝暴力和政治暗杀的外国人不是我们国家受欢迎的客人”。

他链接到 8 月的一份声明，其中提到在特朗普总统领导下的国务院已撤销了 175,000 多份签证，其中包括“多名庆祝查理·柯克被暗杀的外国国民”。

国务院新闻办公室在回应兰道先生的采访请求时，将其指向他在 X 上的社交媒体帖子。

伯克利学生萨利布女士表示，虽然她不喜欢柯克先生的政治主张，但她能理解为什么柯克先生的支持者会对校园活动感到反感。她说，他的被杀令她感到震惊。

“我们这一代处理这种情况的方式——那种轻佻、嘲笑的语气——我完全能看出这会让那些欣赏并支持查理·柯克的人感到被冒犯，”她说。

但驱逐出境的威胁？“这实际上相当恐怖，”萨利布女士说，“和平抗议是美国民主的核心。”

当天早些时候，Turning Point USA 的校园分会举行了一场纪念柯克先生生平与逝世的活动。

大学发言人珍妮特·吉尔摩（Janet Gilmore）在一份声明中表示，伯克利“支持校园内的言论自由”。她表示，大学已知晓 Turning Point USA 的当地分会在校园内聚集以纪念柯克先生。

她表示，大学没有关于这些活动的详细信息，也没有收到任何向警方报告的担忧。她补充道：“不过，我们正在调查此事。”

伯克利长期以来被许多保守派所鄙视，是自由派政治的象征，因此经常成为特朗普政府审查的目标。

去年秋天，在 Turning Point USA 主办的一场活动引发抗议后，司法部展开了调查。该部门尚未公布该调查的任何结果，但上周指责伯克利法学院非法歧视白人和亚裔申请者。大学否认了这些指控。

教育部和平等就业机会委员会也对伯克利进行了调查。伯克利的研究人员也是那些被削减拨款的人员之一。例如，卫生与公众服务部在 7 月的一份法院文件中承认，它使用了伯克利的名字来帮助确定需要削减的研究资金。

对陪审员的审查可能使克兰西的新审判前景复杂化

GREG DERR 拍摄的法庭照片 上图：林赛·克兰西（左）面临勒死其三个孩子的谋杀指控。她的律师凯文·雷丁顿（右）主张她因精神失常而无需承担刑事责任。左侧为威廉·沙利文法官，他最终宣布该审判无效。

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如果此前已知其曾被刑事指控，他可能根本不会被选入陪审团。

在其他 11 名陪审员希望认定克兰西女士因精神失常而无需承担刑事责任时，这位持反对意见的陪审员投票支持定罪。该男子曾在 2021 年被指控犯有轻微家庭暴力袭击罪，此前其当时的妻子称他掐住她的脖子并将她推向梳妆台。该指控随后被撤销。这对夫妇最终离婚的法院记录显示，他们自被捕之日起就分居生活。

随后在去年，一名在 2021 年事件期间拨打 911 的青少年家庭成员请求法官对该男子发布禁制令。这项为期一年的禁制令于上个月到期，当时审判正在进行。

另一名陪审员在接受《波士顿环球报》采访时指认了这位持反对意见者，而《纽约时报》核实了该陪审员的身份。多次尝试联系该男子（一名居住在马萨诸塞州普利茅斯县的 48 岁居民）均未成功。他的几位亲属拒绝就其背景或担任陪审员一事发表评论。

根据马萨诸塞州法律，禁制令或被撤销的轻微袭击指控都不会使该男子失去担任陪审员的资格，该法律仅禁止那些有待决重罪—。

该持异议的陪审员曾被指控轻罪袭击。

罪名或在筛选前七年内被判定为重罪。同样，另一名克兰西案的陪审员——他在20多年前曾被指控轻罪袭击，该指控随后也被撤销——在法律上同样具备担任陪审员的资格。

目前尚不清楚这两名陪审员在报到履行陪审职责时填写的表格中，是否披露了他们过去与法律打交道的经历。马萨诸塞州的表格要求潜在陪审员从一份清单中“勾选所有适用项”，清单内容包括是否曾被逮捕、被起诉、收到法院命令、被指控或被判定犯罪。

该表格要求潜在陪审员签名，承认“在本表格中故意歪曲或遗漏重大事实属于犯罪行为”，并可被处以罚款。

理论上，双方律师都可以对潜在陪审员进行背景调查，这种审查在陪审团宣誓就职前都是被允许的。但专家表示，在现实中，审判律师在被称为“voir dire”（陪审员筛选）的初步筛选过程中，往往缺乏独立审查陪审员池的时间和资源，而这一过程通常进展很快。

希拉·麦克尼尔（Sheelagh McNeill）和苏珊·C·比奇（Susan C. Beachy）提供了研究支持。

“他们关注的是那些最直观的因素，比如种族、年龄、性别、职业，并试图从中获取信息，”萨福克大学的法学教授罗莎娜·卡瓦拉罗（Rosanna Cavallaro）表示。律师可以基于多种原因对对方选择的陪审员提出质疑，也可以使用有限次数的无理由挑战。

她指出，陪审员表格中的问题有助于引导律师在陪审员选拔过程中提出问题，以引导候选人表达他们对过去经历的感受，例如对警察或法院是否仍存有敌意。

专家表示，辩护律师通常欢迎有过指控或定罪记录的陪审员，因为他们可能对被告更有同情心，或者对检察官持批判态度。但在克兰西案中，那名持异议的陪审员采取了相反立场，支持检方。

卡瓦拉罗教授表示，即使陪审员未能承认自己曾被指控或被判定犯罪，这也不一定能成为将其移除的理由。她说，这种遗漏可能是无意的，且可能被认为不如“主动”的陪审员违规行为严重，例如在担任陪审员期间在社交媒体上发布关于审判的内容。

由于克兰西女士的审判以审判无效告终，实际上重启了案件，目前尚不清楚律师将如何利用关于陪审员历史的披露来影响接下来的进展。同样，其他陪审员关于该持异议者在判定克兰西女士应承担刑事责任时未遵循法官指示或法律的指控，其影响也尚不明确。

在宣布审判无效后的几天里，关于陪审员的每一条新披露信息都被密切关注此案的人们紧紧抓住。

上周，多数派陪审团中的一名成员在 CBS Mornings 节目中向盖尔·金（Gayle King）透露，那名唯一的持异议者是黑人——而且显然是陪审团中唯一的黑人。这在网上引发了轩然大波，许多人认为种族是其他陪审员批评他的恶劣因素。一些此前将该持异议陪审员描绘成英雄般白人男性的保守派评论员，迅速转向批评 11 名白人陪审员试图移除一名黑人的这种局面。

网络侦探还发现了一个 Facebook 账号的帖子，该账号似乎属于一名支持无罪释放的陪审员。帖子显示她在为凯伦·里德（Karen Read）的无罪释放欢呼，里德是另一场近期备受关注的审判中的被告，该案与克兰西案类似，成为了阴谋论的温床。

陪审员过去的行为可能会产生剧烈的后果。在另一个著名的马萨诸塞州案例中，联邦上诉法院在2020年推翻了波士顿马拉松爆炸案凶手卓哈尔·察尔纳耶夫（Dzhokhar Tsarnaev）的死刑判决，原因是法院发现该案法官在筛选陪审员是否存在偏见时做得不够充分。

后来发现，两名陪审员在审判前曾在社交媒体上发布过关于察尔纳耶夫先生的评论，且未予披露。陪审团团长称他为“那个垃圾”；另一名陪审员称他为“人渣”。（最高法院随后恢复了死刑判决。）

在法官宣布克兰西案审理无效十天后，对陪审员的严密审查促使法院在周一采取了不同寻常的行动。威廉·沙利文（William Sullivan）法官无限期屏蔽了12名陪审员和6名候补陪审员的姓名，理由是该案受到“每日极具分歧的关注”，导致存在“真实且现有的”受伤害风险。他还对7月下旬选定陪审员那一周被传唤到法院的所有潜在陪审员的姓名进行了为期10天的封存。

沙利文法官试图将他们的身份与公众视线隔绝，这凸显了在网络言论泛滥且极化的时代，高关注度案件中的陪审员所面临的毒性新现实。

佛蒙特大学政治学教授亚历克·埃瓦尔德（Alec Ewald）研究过陪审员资格，他表示，排除具有特定背景（例如曾被刑事起诉）的广泛潜在陪审员类别，可能会损害组建一个真正的“同辈陪审团”的目标。

但他补充说，在涉及令人不安、难以想象的罪行，且全国对结果存在严重分歧的案件中，审理无效因缺乏结论而引发对陪审团的挫败感，这似乎是很自然的。

“人们需要给这些可怕的事件找一个解释，而审理无效让陪审团成为了这一过程的阻碍，”他说。“当结果不尽如人意时，由普通人做出这些决定的模糊性和复杂性就真正地呈现在我们面前。”

柯克亲属称犹他州学校安保失效，未能限制进入权限

作者：杰克·希利 (JACK HEALY)

被杀害的保守派活动人士查理·柯克 (Charlie Kirk) 的家人指责去年他被杀害的犹他州大学存在“令人震惊”的安保漏洞，使他成为了屋顶刺客的易攻目标。

在本月提交的一份法律通知中，柯克先生的妻子、父母和子女的律师表示，犹他谷大学 (Utah Valley University) 在去年 9 月柯克先生抵达参加一场吸引了数千人参加的露天辩论赛之前，既没有书面安保计划，也没有举行安保简报会。

他们还表示，该大学的警察局长未能解决由柯克先生创立的保守派活动团体“Turning Point USA”提出的担忧，该团体此前曾指出，人们可以非常轻易地爬上俯瞰他被枪击的下沉广场的屋顶。

这些指控出现在柯克家族律师于本月初发送给犹他州并于周三公开的“索赔通知”中。柯克先生的家人尚未提起诉讼，但该通知可能是针对该公立大学或该州提起过失致死诉讼的前奏。

“他的被杀完全是可以避免的，”柯克家族的律师布雷特·帕金森 (Brett Parkinson) 在一份声明中表示。

犹他谷大学在周二的一份声明中表示，其“重点仍然是支持我们的校园社区”，但拒绝就该通知发表进一步评论。该校正在对其枪击事件周围的安保情况进行内部审查。

柯克先生是美国最具影响力和知名度的保守派活动人士之一，他将位于奥勒姆 (Orem) 的犹他谷大学作为其“美国回归”校园巡演的第一站。2025 年 9 月 10 日的一个晴朗下午，约 3,000 人到场观看他与政治对手进行辩论。

活动开始仅几分钟，就在他回答一名观众的问题时，一名潜伏在约 400 英尺远屋顶上的枪手击中了他的颈部。

在法律通知中，柯克先生家人的律师表示，大学的安保决定“最终

一份法律文件称，在活动人士被杀前，相关担忧被忽视。

使得柯克先生在这次本可避免的刺杀中面对屋顶枪手毫无还手之力。”

根据该通知，一名 Turning Point USA 的官员在活动前给大学警察局长杰夫·隆 (Jeff Long) 发了短信，转达 Turning Point 校园分会关于学生能够通过楼梯进入建筑屋顶的担忧。

法律通知显示，一名 Turning Point 官员在发给隆局长的短信中写道：“如果可能的话，最好能实施准入控制，或者允许我的一个人也在现场。”

柯克先生的律师称，隆局长回应道：“我帮你搞定。”

柯克家族的律师在法律通知中主张，在 2024 年一名潜在刺客在宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒的一次集会外从屋顶向特朗普总统开火后，大学本应对屋顶狙击手保持警惕。

监控视频和调查人员的证词表明，被指控加重谋杀柯克先生的 23 岁男子泰勒·J·罗宾逊 (Tyler J. Robinson) 在前往屋顶的途中几乎没有遇到任何障碍或阻力。罗宾逊先生可能面临死刑，他已否认指控。

枪击事件当天的早晨，监控视频拍到枪手走到校园建筑屋顶的栏杆处，随后离开。根据检察官提交的法律文件，当他稍后返回时，他“爬向屋顶边缘的狙击阵地”，瞄准柯克先生并开火。

柯克先生家人提交的法律索赔称，大学在活动期间没有派遣无人机，也没有实时监控其监控摄像头——而这些举措本可能发现枪手。

文件中还提到，尽管柯克先生名气很大且人群规模庞大，但大学当天仅有六名警员值班，直到致命枪击发生后才请求奥勒姆或附近普罗沃 (Provo) 的警方提供帮助。

《时报》书评，每周日

众议院通过两党法案，旨在解决数据中心电费上涨问题

位于德克萨斯州阿比林（Abilene）的 Stargate Oracle 园区。数据中心的建设已成为中期选举的一个关键议题。 BRANDON BELL / GETTY IMAGES

作者：迈克尔·戈尔德 (MICHAEL GOLD)

周三，众议院以压倒性多数通过了一项跨党派法案，鼓励州公用事业监管机构保护消费者免受与数据中心相关的能源成本上涨的影响。与此同时，国会议员们正急于应对选民对人工智能快速发展的强烈抗议。

目前尚不清楚由科罗拉多州共和党众议员盖布·埃文斯 (Gabe Evans) 和佛罗里达州民主党众议员凯西·卡斯托 (Kathy Castor) 提出的这项立法是否能达到预期效果。该法案将指示州公用事业监管机构考虑采用联邦规则，要求数据中心承担与其大规模电力使用相关的所有更高成本。但根据现行法律，国会无法在州监管机构设定电价时强制其遵守联邦标准。

尽管如此，随着数据中心建设热潮成为 11 月中期选举的一个强力议题，两党议员都渴望拥有一项可以在竞选活动中引用的立法成就。该法案仍需经过参议院通过并由特朗普总统签署才能成为法律。

在全国范围内，两党美国人都对电价上涨和用水量增加感到担忧。数据中心作为驱动人工智能开发至关重要的服务器集群，已成为选民对人工智能增长以及科技巨头权力恐惧的最明显象征。

本周，在人工智能安全性担忧进入公众视野，且关键科技领袖开始呼吁放缓开发速度后，这一问题具有了新的政治紧迫性。

两党议员均呼吁国会对人工智能设立护栏，尽管在如何实施方面尚未达成明确的跨党派共识，且特朗普总统拒绝了监管呼吁。众议院议长迈克·约翰逊 (Mike Johnson) 周二表示，他将与总统于下周在白宫与人工智能高管举行会议。

当被问及解决该问题的计划时，一些众议院共和党人指向了这项公用事业立法，但该立法并未涉及人工智能的安全担忧。该措施反映了科技高管今年早些时候在白宫做出的一项自愿承诺，当时他们承诺将承担更多与数据中心相关的能源成本。

“它确保在构建人工智能基础设施的同时，电费缴纳者能够得到保护，”路易斯安那州众议员、共和党排名 2 的史蒂夫·斯卡利斯 (Steve Scalise) 表示，“这必须得到当地社区的支持，且不能对电费缴纳者产生不利影响。”

周三的投票结果为 417 比 3，反映出对数据中心抵制情绪日益呈现的跨党派性质，以及共和党人日益增长的担忧——他们认为自己在这一问题上尤为脆弱，因为其标志性的国内政策法案中包含了有利于数据中心开发商的税收减免。这也标志着与一年前相比发生了转变，当时几乎所有众议院共和党人都支持该措施的一个版本，该版本主张暂停任何州政府对人工智能的监管，不过该条款随后被参议院删除。

由于众议院于周三离京直到选举日之后才返回，本周是议员们通过法案以表明其对选民关于数据中心担忧做出响应的最后机会。

提出该公用事业法案的埃文斯先生是众议院中政治处境最脆弱的共和党人之一。目前尚不清楚参议院是否会在 10 月之前审议该立法，参议院计划在 10 月休会直到 11 月选举结束。参议院版本的法案由俄亥俄州共和党参议员乔恩·休斯顿 (Jon Husted) 提出，他正处于一场竞争激烈的选举中，而民主党人试图将数据中心作为该选举的核心议题。

《纽约时报》与锡耶纳大学本月进行的一项民意调查发现，61%的选民表示反对建设数据中心，并且在哪个政党能更好地解决这一问题上意见分歧，相当一部分人表示不知道该信任哪一方。

去年共和党通过一项广泛的减税和削减开支法案时，他们扩大了企业在研究成本和新投资方面的重大税收优势。他们还调整了一项旨在鼓励贫困地区发展的税收减免计划，以便激励更多在农村地区的发展。

民主党人认为，这些条款帮助了寻求建设新数据中心的技术公司，并指责共和党对选民的担忧漠不关心，而选民担心此类建设会提高他们的电费并改变他们的社区环境。

“不幸的是，这些非常现实的担忧被特朗普总统和共和党国会领导人反复地边缘化、淡化或嘲讽，”来自新泽西州的民主党众议员弗兰克·帕洛内（Frank Pallone Jr.）表示。

一些共和党人则认为，针对人工智能的监管将阻碍美国的

要求各州保护消费者免受成本上涨的影响。

在开发该技术方面保持领先于中国的能力。在众议院议事厅，埃文斯先生将他的法案描述为一种既能允许数据中心开发，又能确保各州拥有机制来处理对社区影响的方法。

他表示，该法案“为美国人降低了成本，并帮助我们构建在人工智能竞赛中竞争并获胜所需的能源骨干”。

天气预报

重点：周末展望

本周末，从落基山脉中部到中西部地区将出现大范围雷阵雨，并可能引发突发洪水。密西西比河下游流域将维持高温高湿天气。干燥空气将扩散至西部内陆。新英格兰地区将较为凉爽。

全国预报

随着风暴向东移动，雷阵雨今天将从爱荷华州和密苏里州延伸至新英格兰部分地区。部分强降雨将伴有阵风和小冰雹。

除佛罗里达州主要在下午出现雷阵雨外，东南部和中南部其他各州将基本干燥。在一条从堪萨斯州延伸至弗吉尼亚州的分界线以南，气温将高于30年平均水平。包括新英格兰在内的该地区湿度将有所增加。

强风暴将在落基山脉引发突发洪水、泥石流和阵风。预计从俄勒冈州到蒙大拿州的风暴分布较为零散。

西海岸其余地区将干燥且凉爽。加利福尼亚州和内华达州阳光充足。

都市预报

今天 ......部分阳光且潮湿 最高 81. 天气潮湿，阳光偶尔被云层遮挡。风向为南-西南风，风速 3 至 6 英里 / 小时。气温比平均水平高出几度。

今晚 .... 傍晚有少量阵雨 最低 71. 一个冷锋经过该地区，导致傍晚出现几场阵雨。除此之外，天气大部分时间多云且潮湿。风向为西南风，风速 4 至 8 英里 / 小时。

明天 .... 部分晴朗 最高 81. 干燥天气回归，云层与阳光交替出现。下午湿度降低。风向为北-西北风，风速 7 至 14 英里 / 小时。

周六 ...... 部分阳光且较凉爽 最高 70. 气温不会那么高，云层与阳光交替出现。风向为东风，风速 7 至 14 英里 / 小时。气温比该时节的正常水平低几度。

周一 ...... 周日有雨 一个低压系统将在周日带来阴天及周期性降雨。最高 71. 周一维持阴天，可能会有阵雨。最高 68.

大都市历书

昨日下午 1 点止的 13 小时内，中央公园的数据如下。

气象数据由 AccuWeather 提供

降水量（英寸）< / td>< / tr><><>昨日< / ><>微量< / >< / ><><>纪录< / ><>5.02< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">过去 30 天< / >< / ><><>实际< / ><>6.66< / >< / ><><>正常< / ><>4.21< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">过去 365 天< / >< / ><><>实际< / ><>43.28< / >< / ><><>正常< / ><>49.52< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">气压< / >< rowspan="2">最高：30.40 10 a.m., 最低：30.37 1 a.m., 最高：83% 6 a.m., 最低：65% noon< / >< / ><>< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="2">制冷度日< / >< / ><>< colspan="2">一项燃料消耗指数，用于追踪当日平均气温高出 65 度的幅度< / >< / ><><>昨日< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>本月至今< / ><>112< / >< / ><><>本季至今（自 1 月 1 日起）< / ><>1214< / >< / ><><>本季至今正常值< / ><>1159< / >< / table>

城市

昨日东部时间下午 4 点止 16 小时内的最高 / 最低气温，以及昨日下午 4 点止 16 小时内的降水量（单位：英寸）。今日和明日的预期天气情况。

C....多云< / td><>S....晴< / >< / tr><><>F....雾< / ><>Sn....雪< / >< / ><><>H....霾< / ><>SS....阵雪< / >< / ><><>I....冰< / ><>T....雷阵雨< / >< / ><><>PC....局部多云< / ><>....微量< / >< / ><><>R....雨< / ><>W....大风< / >< / ><><>Sh....阵雨< / ><>-....不可用< / >< / table>

<><>纽约市地区< / ><>昨日< / ><>今日< / ><>明日< / >< / ><><>纽约市< / ><>74 / 58 < / ><>81 / 71 PC< / ><>81 / 60 < / >< / ><><>布里奇波特< / ><>74 / 58 0< / ><>78 / 70 < / ><>80 / 57 S< / >< / ><><>考德威尔< / ><>75 / 55 < / ><>83 / 70℃< / ><>83 / 57 < / >< / ><><>丹伯里< / ><>73 / 52 < / ><>79 / 68 < / ><>79 / 48 S< / >< / ><><>伊斯利普< / ><>74 / 55 < / ><>80 / 69 < / ><>81 / 59 < / >< / ><><>纽瓦克< / ><>77 / 60 < / ><>84 / 72 < / ><>83 / 60 < / >< / ><><>Truon< / ><>77 / 56 0< / ><>84 / 68 < / ><>83 / 59 < / >< / ><><>怀特普莱恩斯< / ><>74 / 56 0< / ><>79 / 68 < / ><>80 / 54 < / >< / table>

<><>美国< / ><>昨日< / ><>今日< / ><>明日< / >< / ><><>奥尔巴尼< / ><>76 / 62 0.01< / ><>75 / 63 T< / ><>74 / 46 < / >< / ><><>阿尔伯克基< / ><>82 / 64 0.50< / ><>80 / 64 T< / ><>81 / 63 T< / >< / ><><>波士顿鲁日< / ><>67 / 64 0.07< / ><>57 / 63 T< / ><>59 / 64 < / >< / ><><>亚特兰大< / ><>90 / 69 0< / ><>91 / 71 0< / ><>94 / 74 0< / >< / ><><>大西洋城< / ><>77 / 70 0< / ><>80 / 71 < / ><>80 / 65 < / >< / ><><>奥斯汀< / ><>96 / 71 0.04< / ><>94 / 72 0< / ><>95 / 69 < / >< / ><><>巴尔的摩< / ><>86 / 66 0< / ><>89 / 72 T< / ><>85 / 62 < / >< / ><><>巴吞鲁日< / ><>95 / 74 0.04< / ><>95 / 67 S< / ><>95 / 69 S< / >< / ><><>伯明翰< / ><>95 / 71 0< / ><>94 / 69 S< / ><>97 / 72 S< / >< / ><><>波士顿< / ><>84 / 67 0< / ><>94 / 56 T< / ><>95 / 61 < / >< / ><><>波士顿< / ><>76 / 65 0< / ><>76 / 67℃< / ><>78 / 54 S< / >< / ><><>布法罗< / ><>75 / 65 0.02< / ><>74 / 57 T< / ><>77 / 52 < / >< / ><><>布法罗-路易斯堡< / ><>75 / 65 0.02< / ><>74 / 57 T< / ><>78 / 60 < / >< / ><><>卡斯珀< / ><>81 / 48 0.02< / ><>63 / 51 T< / ><>82 / 49 T< / >< / ><><>夏洛特< / ><>88 / 63 0< / ><>93 / 71 0< / ><>92 / 72 T< / >< / ><><>查塔努加< / ><>95 / 70 0< / ><>87 / 72 T< / ><>86 / 73 < / >< / ><><>芝加哥< / ><>76 / 63 0.10< / ><>76 / 64 S< / ><>75 / 66 < / >< / ><><>辛辛那提< / ><>93 / 73 0.04< / ><>94 / 71 T< / ><>81 / 65 < / >< / ><><>克利夫兰< / ><>79 / 71 0.08< / ><>76 / 64 T< / ><>74 / 58 < / >< / ><><>达拉斯斯普林斯< / ><>78 / 65 0.16< / ><>76 / 59 T< / ><>81 / 57 S< / >< / ><><>哥伦布< / ><>87 / 72 0.24< / ><>85 / 68 T< / ><>78 / 61 < / >< / ><><>康科德（北卡罗来纳州）< / ><>87 / 59 0< / ><>75 / 63 0< / ><>77 / 41 T< / >< / ><><>底特律-沃伦-迪尔伯恩< / ><>100 / 68 0.01< / ><>99 / 69 T< / ><>98 / 68 T< / >< / ><><>丹佛< / ><>83 / 61 0.04< / ><>81 / 60 T< / ><>83 / 56 T< / >< / ><><>Dee Moines< / ><>70 / 66 0.26< / ><>75 / 66 T< / ><>85 / 69 T< / >< / ><><>底特律< / ><>75 / 64 0.11< / ><>74 / 68 T< / ><>79 / 61 T< / >< / ><><>埃尔帕索< / ><>92 / 68 0.45< / ><>95 / 72 T< / ><>97 / 69 T< / >< / ><><>法戈< / ><>69 / 51 0.10< / ><>72 / 56 S< / ><>67 / 53℃< / >< / ><><>哈特福德< / ><>79 / 62 0.01< / ><>78 / 66℃< / ><>80 / 50 S< / >< / ><><>Huntsmanu< / ><>98 / 73 0.01< / ><>88 / 70 0< / ><>78 / 69 < / >< / ><><>休斯顿< / ><>96 / 77 0.04< / ><>90 / 75 T< / ><>94 / 70 S< / >< / ><><>印第安纳波利斯< / ><>90 / 73 0.16< / ><>92 / 70 T< / ><>89 / 66℃< / >< / ><><>爱荷华< / ><>96 / 70 0.0< / ><>96 / 70 T< / ><>88 / 71

T< / td>< / tr> 杰克逊维尔< / ><>87 / 71 0< / ><>88 / 70 T< / ><>88 / 71 T< / >< / ><><>堪萨斯城< / ><>91 / 71 1.36< / ><>90 / 71 T< / ><>91 / 72 S< / >< / ><><>基韦斯特< / ><>96 / 68 0.02< / ><>94 / 68 T< / ><>81 / 80 T< / >< / ><><>拉斯维加斯< / ><>98 / 74 0< / ><>94 / 75 0< / ><>98 / 72 S< / >< / ><><>列克星敦< / ><>94 / 72 0.04< / ><>95 / 71 PC< / ><>96 / 69 T< / >< / table>

<><>小岩城< / ><>99 / 75< / ><>7 / 04< / ><>98 / 74< / ><>98 / 73< / ><>< / >< / ><><>洛杉矶< / ><>81 / 67< / ><>0< / ><>80 / 64 PC< / ><>82 / 66 < / ><>< / >< / ><><>路易维尔< / ><>96 / 76< / ><>7 / 04< / ><>98 / 75< / ><>91 / 72< / ><>< / >< / ><><>孟菲斯< / ><>98 / 77< / ><>0< / ><>99 / 75< / ><>101 / 78.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>匹兹堡< / ><>97 / 68< / ><>7 / 06< / ><>97 / 71< / ><>97 / 71< / ><>< / >< / ><><>密尔沃基< / ><>67 / 64< / ><>7 / 1< / ><>69 / 61 Sh< / ><>69 / 65 < / ><>< / >< / ><><>明州：圣保罗< / ><>74 / 61< / ><>0< / ><>77 / 60< / ><>62 / 57 < / ><>< / >< / ><><>纽约市< / ><>101 / 74< / ><>7 / 15< / ><>99 / 75< / ><>99 / 74< / ><>< / >< / ><><>新奥尔良< / ><>89 / 79< / ><>7 / 06< / ><>91 / 75< / ><>91 / 73< / ><>< / >< / ><><>诺福克< / ><>80 / 64< / ><>0< / ><>86 / 69< / ><>85 / 71.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>北卡罗来纳< / ><>101 / 74< / ><>7 / 15< / ><>98 / 75< / ><>98 / 73.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>奥马哈< / ><>69 / 64< / ><>0.17< / ><>78 / 69< / ><>89 / 69< / ><>< / >< / ><><>奥兰多< / ><>90 / 74< / ><>0.02< / ><>85 / 73< / ><>88 / 71< / ><>< / >< / ><><>费城< / ><>103 / 74< / ><>7 / 15< / ><>91 / 71.5< / ><>91 / 73.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>凤凰城< / ><>91 / 74< / ><>1.16< / ><>96 / 61 < / ><>102 / 61.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>匹兹堡< / ><>86 / 70< / ><>7 / 04< / ><>81 / 66.7< / ><>78 / 58 < / ><>< / >< / ><><>波特兰（缅因州）< / ><>72 / 58< / ><>0< / ><>70 / 61 Sh< / ><>77 / 46.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>匹兹堡（缅因州）< / ><>82 / 58< / ><>0< / ><>84 / 71.5< / ><>83 / 59.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>普罗维登斯< / ><>74 / 62< / ><>0< / ><>78 / 67 < / ><>79 / 50.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>罗利< / ><>87 / 61< / ><>0< / ><>91 / 71.5< / ><>93 / 69.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>罗马伊< / ><>88 / 67< / ><>0< / ><>78 / 65.5< / ><>78 / 53.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>里士满< / ><>84 / 62< / ><>0< / ><>90 / 69.5< / ><>88 / 65.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>罗切斯特< / ><>74 / 64< / ><>7 / 1< / ><>74 / 56.7< / ><>75 / 47 < / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣安东尼奥< / ><>98 / 78< / ><>7 / 04< / ><>95 / 77.5< / ><>95 / 76.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣迭戈< / ><>73 / 60< / ><>0< / ><>77 / 57.5< / ><>97 / 76.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>旧金山< / ><>69 / 60< / ><>0< / ><>74 / 59 < / ><>73 / 58 < / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣何塞< / ><>77 / 59< / ><>0< / ><>77 / 57 < / ><>80 / 57 < / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣胡安< / ><>91 / 79< / ><>7 / 14< / ><>90 / 79.7< / ><>91 / 79.7< / ><>< / >< / ><><>萨莱米亚< / ><>75 / 54< / ><>0< / ><>75 / 52.5< / ><>75 / 52.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>苏福尔斯< / ><>69 / 60< / ><>7 / 04< / ><>75 / 64.2< / ><>81 / 58.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>斯波坎< / ><>73 / 50< / ><>0< / ><>76 / 52 < / ><>76 / 51.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>S pointe< / ><>97 / 67< / ><>0.09< / ><>95 / 61.5< / ><>96 / 61.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣托马斯< / ><>88 / 81< / ><>0.11< / ><>89 / 81.5< / ><>91 / 80 < / ><>< / >< / ><><>锡拉丘兹< / ><>76 / 63< / ><>0< / ><>75 / 60.1< / ><>71 / 46

PC< / td> < / >< / tr> <>Summita< / ><>80 / 74< / ><>7 / 04< / ><>77 / 54.1< / ><>96 / 76.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Toledo< / ><>77 / 67< / ><>0.54< / ><>79 / 59.1< / ><>74 / 57.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Tucson< / ><>85 / 71< / ><>1.65< / ><>93 / 73.7< / ><>96 / 72.7< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Tulsa< / ><>101 / 79< / ><>0< / ><>98 / 78.7< / ><>91 / 72.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Tulsa Beach< / ><>83 / 69< / ><>0.3< / ><>81 / 70.5< / ><>81 / 72.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Washington< / ><>85 / 69< / ><>0< / ><>88 / 74.7< / ><>87 / 65 PC< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Wichita< / ><>94 / 72< / ><>0< / ><>99 / 74.5< / ><>96 / 75.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Wilmington, Del.< / ><>82 / 67< / ><>0.02< / ><>86 / 71.5< / ><>82 / 69.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Africa< / >< colspan="2">昨日< / ><

colspan="2">今日< / ><>明日< / >< / ><><>Algiers< / ><>85 / 62< / ><>0< / ><>88 / 68.8< / ><>83 / 67.2< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Cairo< / ><>97 / 75< / ><>1.00< / ><>102 / 77 PC< / ><>90 / 72 PC< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Cape Town< / ><>65 / 62< / ><>0.24< / ><>68 / 51.5< / ><>71 / 54.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Chennai< / ><>90 / 67< / ><>0.11< / ><>91 / 59.5< / ><>91 / 59.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Johannesburg< / ><>79 / 45< / ><>0< / ><>78 / 52 PC< / ><>69 / 47 PC< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Nairobi< / ><>74 / 57< / ><>0.10< / ><>73 / 58.2< / ><>74 / 60.7< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Tunis< / ><>88 / 69< / ><>0< / ><>92 / 72 Sh< / ><>91 / 73.1< / ><>< / >< / ><>< colspan="4">亚太地区 今日< / ><>明日< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Tokyo< / ><>110 / 60< / ><>1.00< / ><>110 / 60 PC< / ><>111 / 60

PC< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Bangkok< / ><>95 / 77< / ><>0.44< / ><>92 / 78.8< / ><>92 / 77.8< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Beijing< / ><>96 / 59< / ><>0< / ><>88 / 66.4< / ><>84 / 63.7< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Bansucau< / ><>99 / 60< / ><>0.13< / ><>99 / 63.4< / ><>98 / 63.4< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Hong Kong< / ><>91 / 60< / ><>0< / ><>91 / 90.5< / ><>93 / 80.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Jakarta< / ><>94 / 77.0< / ><>0.11< / ><>91 / 77.5Sh< / ><>91 / 77.5Sh< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Jerusalem< / ><>88 / 68< / ><>0< / ><>89 / 70.5< / ><>82 / 66.5Sh< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Kuala Lumpur< / ><>95 / 64< / ><>0.13< / ><>94 / 79.5< / ><>93 / 79.5< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Manila< / ><>96 / 77< / ><>0.05< / ><>90 / 78.7< / ><>92 / 78.5Sh< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Mumbai< / ><>88 / 77< / ><>0.01< / ><>89 / 81.8< / ><>84 / 80 PC< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>New Delhi< / ><>98 / 79< / ><>0 / 07< / ><>94 / 76< / ><>95 / 78< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>Riyadh< / ><>106 / 77< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>106 / 79< / ><>PC< / ><>107 / 72< / >< / ><><>Seoul< / ><>84 / 55< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>83 / 64< / ><>C< / ><>86 / 63< / >< / ><><>Shanghai< / ><>85 / 50< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>83 / 53< / ><>74 / 53< / ><>C< / >< / ><><>Singapore< / ><>93 / 81< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>91 / 80< / ><>91 / 79< / ><>C< / >< / ><><>Sydney< / ><>66 / 47< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>64 / 48< / ><>74 / 54< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>Taipei City< / ><>85 / 75< / ><>0 / 02< / ><>80 / 76< / ><>87 / 74< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>Tokyo< / ><>73 / 69< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>72 / 68< / ><>75 / 70< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>Tokyo< / ><>73 / 70< / ><>0 / 62< / ><>75 / 68< / ><>75 / 70< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>Europe< / ><>昨日< / >< colspan="2">今日< / ><

colspan="2">明天< / td>< / tr> 阿姆斯特丹< / ><>66 / 57< / ><>0.30< / ><>63 / 54< / ><>65 / 59< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>雅典< / ><>82 / 70< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>84 / 63< / ><>84 / 64< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>柏林< / ><>68 / 58< / ><>0.13< / ><>68 / 56< / ><>68 / 61< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>布鲁塞尔< / ><>68 / 59< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>65 / 58< / ><>68 / 56< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>布达佩斯< / ><>81 / 48< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>74 / 48< / ><>73 / 53< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>曼谷< / ><>64 / 56< / ><>0.48< / ><>62 / 56< / ><>65 / 52< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>都柏林< / ><>61 / 52< / ><>0 / 21< / ><>62 / 52< / ><>63 / 56< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>爱丁堡< / ><>63 / 48< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>58 / 52< / ><>61 / 54< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>斐济< / ><>73 / 64< / ><>0 / 04< / ><>72 / 62< / ><>72 / 62< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>日内瓦< / ><>73 / 63< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>72 / 60< / ><>72 / 46< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>赫尔辛基< / ><>61 / 54< / ><>0.24< / ><>62 / 49< / ><>60 / 52< / ><>R< / >< / ><><>伊斯坦布尔< / ><>70 / 64< / ><>0.29< / ><>71 / 64< / ><>79 / 65< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>雅加达< / ><>70 / 60< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>72 / 59< / ><>79 / 62< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>里斯本< / ><>79 / 64< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>83 / 62< / ><>83 / 64< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>伦敦< / ><>70 / 54< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>70 / 51< / ><>67 / 60< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>马德里< / ><>82 / 68< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>80 / 68< / ><>88 / 68< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>莫斯科< / ><>63 / 40< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>71 / 53< / ><>65 / 48< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>尼斯< / ><>81 / 72< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>80 / 67< / ><>79 / 66< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>里约热内卢< / ><>73 / 55< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>63 / 45< / ><>63 / 45< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>帕雷< / ><>73 / 55< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>72 / 52< / ><>71 / 53< / ><>C< / >< / ><><>布拉格< / ><>77 / 55< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>67 / 50< / ><>68 / 48< / ><>C< / >< / ><><>罗马< / ><>84 / 64< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>84 / 67< / ><>82 / 65< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>巴黎-伊勒-德弗朗斯< / ><>68 / 52< / ><>0.18< / ><>61 / 51< / ><>61 / 56< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>斯德哥尔摩< / ><>61 / 55< / ><>0 / 18< / ><>60 / 49< / ><>61 / 50< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>维也纳< / ><>82 / 52< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>69 / 49< / ><>70 / 55< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>维也纳< / ><>75 / 55< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>66 / 50< / ><>72 / 52< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>北美< / ><>昨天< / >< colspan="2">今天< / >< colspan="2">明天< / >< / ><><>阿卡普尔科< / ><>89 / 79< / ><>0 / 02< / ><>92 / 78< / ><>92 / 78< / ><>T< / >< / ><><>百慕大< / ><>86 / 79< / ><>0 / 08< / ><>87 / 78< / ><>86 / 79< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>埃德蒙顿< / ><>51 / 34< / ><>1 / 1< / ><>73 / 38< / ><>73 / 42< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>费尔南达< / ><>75 / 60< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>85 / 61< / ><>85 / 61< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>哈瓦那< / ><>90 / 72< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>92 / 71< / ><>90 / 70< / ><>T< / >< / ><><>金斯敦< / ><>90 / 80< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>93 / 81< / ><>94 / 82< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>马提尼克< / ><>91 / 74< / ><>0 / 02< / ><>79 / 73< / ><>79 / 74< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>蒙特利尔市< / ><>69 / 54< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>78 / 59< / ><>77 / 56< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>蒙特雷< / ><>86 / 71< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>92 / 69< / ><>91 / 69< / ><>T< / >< / ><><>蒙特利尔< / ><>73 / 63< / ><>0 / 05< / ><>72 / 56< / ><>69 / 45< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>纳什维尔< / ><>88 / 70< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>80 / 71< / ><>80 / 70< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>巴拿马城< / ><>88 / 78< / ><>0 / 27< / ><>92 / 74< / ><>89 / 77< / ><>R< / >< / ><><>魁北克

City< / td> 68 / 55< / ><>0 / 09< / ><>67 / 51< / ><>61 / 42< / ><>S< / >< / tr> <>利雅得< / ><>86 / 55< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>94 / 55< / ><>94 / 54< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>多伦多< / ><>73 / 63< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>73 / 57< / ><>71 / 54< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>温哥华< / ><>63 / 50< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>68 / 51< / ><>68 / 52< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>温尼伯< / ><>56 / 36< / ><>0 / 1< / ><>63 / 44< / ><>68 / 52< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>南美洲< / ><>昨日< / >< colspan="2">今日< / >< colspan="2">明日< / >< / ><><>Casuano

艾雷斯< / ><>54 / 55< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>58 / 53< / ><>68 / 59< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>Caesarex< / ><>91 / 78< / ><>0 / 04< / ><>92 / 79< / ><>92 / 77< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>利马< / ><>75 / 68< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>77 / 70< / ><>78 / 69< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>基多< / ><>69 / 47< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>71 / 48< / ><>70 / 46< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>东京市< / ><>84 / 54< / ><>0 / 06< / ><>82 / 57< / ><>82 / 57< / ><>PC< / >< / ><><>里约热内卢< / ><>73 / 66< / ><>0 / 06< / ><>72 / 66< / ><>73 / 67< / ><>S< / >< / ><><>圣地亚哥< / ><>72 / 45< / ><>0 / 0< / ><>80 / 50< / ><>81 / 52< / ><>PC< / >< / table>

水库水位（纽约市供水）

<><>昨日< / ><>86%< / >< / ><><>预计正常值< / ><>80%< / >< / table>

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太阳、月亮与行星

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航海

范围从蒙托克角（Montauk Point）到新泽西州桑迪胡克（Sandy Hook），延伸至 20 海里，包括长岛海峡和纽约港。

风向西南，风速 5-10 节。纽约港和长岛海峡的波高将低于 1 英尺，开阔海域波高为 2-3 英尺。能见度良好，可达地平线。

高潮时间

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图表显示了近期温度和降水量趋势与过去 30 年的对比情况。

海滩与海洋温度

一场逼近的冷锋将给缅因州至马萨诸塞州北部地区带来大部分多云的天气，并在傍晚时分出现几场阵雨。该地区其余部分将保持干燥，云量与阳光交替，但气候较为潮湿。最高气温在北部接近 70 度，南部在 80 度出头。

思考生命与自然的作家安妮·迪拉德逝世，享年 81 岁

作者：丹尼尔·刘易斯 (DANIEL LEWIS)

安妮·迪拉德 (Annie Dillard) 周二在马萨诸塞州南韦尔弗利特 (South Wellfleet) 的家中逝世，享年 81 岁。这位年轻时的美国作家曾走进森林，并凭借探讨创世之奇迹与恐怖的现代经典之作《廷克溪的朝圣者》(Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) 获得普利策奖。

她的文学执行人玛吉·尼尔森 (Maggie Nelson) 确认了她的死讯。目前尚未公布更多细节。

随着 1974 年《廷克溪的朝圣者》的出版，年仅 28 岁的迪拉德女士被公认为美国文坛一个重要的新声音。这仅仅是她职业生涯的开始：在随后的岁月里，她出版了散文、关于宗教的沉思录、诗歌、文学理论、两部小说、新闻报道，以及一部畅销自传和另一部畅销书《写作生活》(The Writing Life)——后者探讨了在文字已经过剩的世界中，将文字付诸实践需要具备什么样的素质。

《廷克溪》的评论者迅速将其视为亨利·戴维·梭罗 (Henry David Thoreau) 的《瓦尔登湖》(Walden) 在 20 世纪的对应之作。这并非巧合：迪拉德女士在位于弗吉尼亚州罗安诺克 (Roanoke) 的女子文理学院霍林斯大学 (Hollins University) 撰写硕士论文时，就选择了梭罗作为研究对象。

《廷克溪》的评论者迅速将迪拉德女士与亨利·戴维·梭罗相类比。

《神圣的公司》(Holy the Firm) (1977)，一部由三个部分组成的力作，其形式和强度几乎被磨砺得像一首诗。

在 1987 年的自传中，迪拉德女士回忆起年轻时的自己是一个严肃的读者和探索者。

与梭罗一样，她发现一个平凡的水域同样是进行深度思考的绝佳之地——尤其是关于如何将仁慈上帝的观念与自然的残酷调和起来。

与梭罗不同的是，迪拉德女士并没有在森林里搭建小屋并在那里度过四季。尽管她的文字能传达出一种在荒野中独居的感觉，但她大多时候只是日间往返。在深入探索蓝岭山脉的罗安诺克谷（毕竟那里就是她的邻里）之后，她会回到与理查德·迪拉德 (Richard Dillard) 共住的郊区房屋。理查德是一位创意写作讲师，两人在迪拉德就读霍林斯大学大二年末结婚。

她是一位面对原始自然时极具上镜感的年轻女性——而这在当时几乎是蓄胡须男性的专属领域——这无疑是迪拉德神秘感的一部分。同样如此的还有她的坚持：尽管她对动植物进行了耐心且毫不退缩的观察，但她认为自己不是一名自然作家，而是一名在各处寻找上帝的神学家。

她在廷克溪看到的众多事物中，有一只半出水的绿色小青蛙，在她的眼前“像足球一样瘪了下去”。它正被一只巨型水蝽掌控，后者的叮咬使青蛙的内脏液化。她写道，这样的遭遇会导致“噩梦，它们掠夺休息，强迫我整夜趴在某个翻滚着孵化昆虫和甲壳类动物的泥泞水沟里”。

“但如果我能忍受夜晚，白天就是一种享受，”她补充道，“我走出去；我看到了一些东西，一些在其他情况下会被完全错过和遗忘的事件；或者有些东西看到了我，某种巨大的力量用它洁净的翅膀拂过我，而我则像被敲响的钟一样回响。”

《廷克溪》在 1975 年获得了普利策非虚构类通用奖，迪拉德女士随即被大量的演讲邀请、采访和电视节目邀请所淹没。许多媒体认为她的外貌与她的文字一样具有新闻价值——以至于她在某些圈子里被嘲讽为“廷克溪的性感女郎 (Cheesecake at Tinker Creek)”。

由于对成功带来的后果感到厌恶，她搬到了华盛顿州，开始将时间分配在……

阿玛·萨波玛 (Ama Sarpomaa) 参与了报道。

贝灵汉以及沃尔德伦岛和卢米岛。她与迪拉德先生的婚姻以友好的离婚告终，而在太平洋西北地区，她找到了足够的私密空间，以重新获得对她的工作至关重要的专注力。

“在这些高纬度地区，喀斯喀特山脉几乎紧贴着水边，”她写道，“在雪山与大海之间，只有一条狭窄的地带，那是宽约60英里的、像是随手添加的丘陵和农场。”

她补充道：“如果希腊人整天盯着贝克山看，他们那宏大而诚实的艺术将会崩塌，然后他们会像这里的人一样，跑去钓鱼。”

恶的问题

这些诗句出自她搬迁后的首部作品《神圣的公司》（Holy the Firm），出版于1977年。这是一部由三个部分组成的形而上学力作，全书76页，其形式和强度被磨砺得近乎一首诗。据她所述，这部作品是在一栋“像头骨一样简陋”的一居室房子里，在仅有的一只猫和一只蜘蛛的陪伴下，经过14个月的全职工作完成的。

“这本书里不会发生任何事情，”她写道，“只有语言中偶尔出现的一点暴力，就在永恒剪断时间的那个转角处。”

但在此之前，她已经讲述了一个令人心碎的故事：一只飞蛾陷入了蜡烛的熔蜡之中，自身变成了一根灯芯，燃烧了两个小时。紧随其后的是一个她称作朱莉·诺里奇（Julie Norwich）的7岁女孩的故事，在她的父亲驾驶的小型飞机起飞时撞到一排冷杉树后，女孩安全落地，但她的脸却被溅出的热燃料烧毁了。

这让迪拉德女士再次正面面对一个被宗教思想家称为“恶的问题”的疑问：是否有可能，一位充满爱且全能的神允许糟糕的事情发生，仅仅是为了让善良显得更加鲜明？

迪拉德女士在华盛顿州的岁月激发了她著名的散文集《教石头说话》（Teaching a Stone to Talk，1982年）中的部分文章。

其中的瑰宝是《全食日食》（Total Eclipse），该文在2000年被收入《世纪最佳美国散文集》，而在此之前不久，《廷克溪的朝圣者》（Pilgrim at Tinker Creek）被列入现代图书馆（Modern Library）的100本最佳非虚构类书籍名单。

1979年2月26日的早晨，迪拉德女士和她的第二任丈夫、人类学家加里·克莱维登斯（Gary Clevidence）坐在雅基马谷（Yakima Valley）果园区一座500英尺高的山顶上观看日食。他们戴上了电焊护目镜。当奇观开始时，迪拉德女士经历了一种类似于迷幻之旅的体验，只不过没有服用酸类药物。光线完全不对劲。草地变成了铂金色。她的双手变成了银色。

“山坡，”她写道，“像一张十九世纪的彩色照片，其中的色彩已经褪去。”

迪拉德女士的两部小说中的第一部同样源于她在华盛顿州的逗留：出版于1992年的《生者》（The Living）是一部19世纪的开拓者传奇，以后来的沃特科姆县（Whatcom County）为中心。

与此同时，她一直在西华盛顿州立学院（现西华盛顿大学）任教。在曾是其学生、目前正致力于撰写迪拉德女士评传的保罗·林德霍尔特（Paul Lindholdt）的描述中，她像是一个烟不离手的自然力量：“她时而杂乱无章，时而给人启发；时而脾气古怪，时而才华横溢。她要求学生大声地用脚跺出他们最喜欢的诗歌的格律，包括杰拉德·曼利·霍普金斯（Gerard Manley Hopkins）的《上帝的宏伟》（God's Grandeur）。”

尽管她曾说过可能会留在西北地区，但她和克莱维登斯先生在1979年向东迁移，从那时起直到2001年，她在康涅狄格州米德尔敦的卫斯理大学任教。

出生于匹兹堡

安妮·迪拉德（Annie Dillard）于1945年4月30日出生在匹兹堡，原名梅塔·安·多克（Meta Ann Doak）。她的父亲弗兰克·多克（Frank Doak）是美国标准公司（American Standard corporation）的一名高管，也是该公司创始人的曾孙；

她的母亲帕姆·兰伯特·多克（Pam Lambert Doak）以白金色的头发、机智的谈吐、对现代主义家具的偏好以及对自由主义事业的热情而闻名。

在1987年的自传《美国童年》（An American Childhood）中，迪拉德女士回忆起年幼的自己是一个严肃的阅读者，是一个只要能背出电话号码就被允许自由漫游的探索者，也是一个和男孩们一起踢足球的粗线条女孩。

她写道：“你必须猛烈地扑向对方奔跑的双腿——要么把他撞倒，要么自己下巴着地，双臂在身前空空如也。这就是一场全有或全无的博弈。”

关于青少年时期，她后来写道：“我会把心交给一个又一个古怪的男孩——年长的男孩，没人认识的预科学校男孩，拒绝上大学的男孩，或是混混，而他们全都瘦得惊人。”

她曾因抽烟被学校停课。她不公正地将北美的一切问题都归咎于她的父母。到了上大学的时候，在高中校长的建议下，她进入了霍林斯学院（Hollins），校长认为那里或许能磨掉她的“棱角”。她随后在该校分别于1967年和1968年获得了学士和硕士学位。

迪拉德女士与克莱维登斯先生于1988年离婚，随后她与小罗伯特·D·理查森（Robert D. Richardson Jr.）结婚。两人是在她给理查森关于其著作《亨利·梭罗：心智生活》（Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind）写了一封粉丝信后相识的。

理查森先生于2020年去世。迪拉德女士的幸存亲属包括她与克莱维登斯先生婚姻所生的孩子科迪-罗斯（Cody-Rose）。

迪拉德女士的第一本书是诗集《祈祷轮之票》（Tickets for a Prayer Wheel），出版于《丁克溪》（Tinker Creek）前几个月。她后来的著作包括具有新闻纪实风格的《与中国作家的对话》（Encounters with Chinese Writers，1984年）；《写作生活》（The Writing Life，1989年），一名评论者称该书提供的不是技巧，而是相当于“一本精神层面的《方克和瓦格纳尔词典》”的反思；《就目前而言》（For the Time Being，1999年），其中包含一系列探讨何以为人的散文；以及她的第二部小说《梅树》（The Maytrees，2007年），这是一个罕见地温暖的爱情故事，背景设定在战后马萨诸塞州鳕鱼角顶端的普罗温斯敦。这是她写的最后一本书。

迪拉德女士的手稿保存在耶鲁大学的贝内克图书馆（Beinecke Library）。研究员兼迪拉德粉丝戴安娜·萨夫林（Diana Saverin）曾查阅这些手稿，并于2015年在《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic）上报道了她的发现。其中特别引人注目的是日记，迪拉德女士在日记中试图克服一种恐惧，即担心没有人会阅读像《丁克溪》这样的书，因为它是女性写的。

“很难想象还有什么其他情况，会因为你出生时没有阴茎而无法写一本书，”迪拉德女士写道，“除非可能是《我与我的阴茎的生活》。”

随后是沉默

迪拉德女士并非不承受批评。她因在被标榜为非虚构作品的《丁克溪》中加入虚构部分而受到指责——具体是指开篇关于一只将血抹在她身上的好斗公猫的场景。事实证明，这个故事是她经允许从一名研究生那里借用的。

更广泛地说，一些钦佩她的勇气和才华的读者指责她遗漏了梭罗所包含的内容：一种与大多数人生活世界的连接感。关于越南战争、水门事件或能源危机的消息从未传到丁克溪。尤多拉·韦尔蒂（Eudora Welty）——她本人曾凭借小说《乐观主义者的女儿》获得普利策奖——在《纽约时报》评价这本书时观察到，迪拉德女士是“书中唯一的人，实质上也是她世界中唯一的人”。

韦尔蒂女士补充道：“她经常谈论宇宙，但她依然被自我包围，而且除此之外，还被书籍包围。”

四十二年后，作家兼评论家威廉·德雷塞维奇（William Deresiewicz）在《大西洋月刊》对她的作品进行全面评估时指出，“迪拉德和梭罗一样，从不吝于对同辈的生活方式进行全盘谴责。”他认为她所代表的另一种选择带有精神上的傲慢与虚伪——这是一种仅供少数负担得起的人享有的神秘生活方式；例如，一个在30岁之前就获得成功的富家女。

德雷塞维奇先生的文章是因《丰盈：新旧叙事散文集》（2016）的出版而起，其中唯一“新”的内容其实已有11年历史。到那时，迪拉德女士已经沉默了九年，自《五月树》以来便不再发声。

她最后一次在公开场合被拍到是在2014年，当时她前往白宫接受巴拉克·奥巴马总统颁发的国家人文奖章，以表彰她对“人类生活与自然的深刻反思”。

吉尔·克雷门茨（JILL KREMENTZ）

她的网站告诉读者：“我已无法旅行，无法与陌生人见面，无法为书签名。”网站将其宗教标注为“无”——她曾是新教徒，后来成为罗马天主教徒，最后两者都不是——但承认她与基督教和哈西迪主义的联系。近年来，她在鳕鱼角（Cape Cod）的家中度过，绘制水彩画。

她曾倾尽全力写作，并试图在他人心中点燃同样的火焰。在《神圣公司》的绚烂文字中，她讲述了教室里的一个日子。

“我问班上的学生，‘你们中有多少人想奉献一生成为作家？’”她写道，“我因为咖啡、香烟，或是周围紧贴的面孔而颤抖……面对这个问题，所有人都举起了手。（你，尼克？你会吗？你，玛格丽特？兰迪？为什么我希望他们是认真的？）”

她补充道：“然后我试图告诉他们这个选择意味着什么：你不能成为其他任何东西。你必须用一把阔斧劈开你的生活。”

1974年的安妮·迪拉德，那一年她出版了《丁克溪的朝圣者》，使她成为美国文坛的重要声音。

左图为1983年的迪拉德女士，不久之后她出版了著名的散文集《教石头说话》。右图为2014年巴拉克·奥巴马总统授予她国家人文奖章。

帮助患者引导医疗服务的哈罗德·P·弗里曼逝世，享年93岁

随后，在他们的癌症进入晚期之后。

作者：理查德·桑多米尔 (RICHARD SANDOMIR)

哈罗德·P·弗里曼 (Harold P. Freeman) 是一位具有影响力的肿瘤外科医生。由于深知乳腺癌给贫困黑人女性带来的毁灭性影响，他深受启发，在哈莱姆医院中心创建了一项具有里程碑意义的项目，旨在帮助患者在医疗官僚体系中寻求引导。他于8月11日在亚特兰大逝世，享年93岁。

他的儿子尼尔 (Neale) 确认了他是在一家医院去世的。

弗里曼博士的患者引导项目成为了全球医院的典范，有助于消除癌症早期检测的障碍。该项目的成功影响了联邦《2005年患者引导员外展与慢性病预防法》的通过，该法案为全美类似的项目提供了2500万美元的资金。2024年，联邦医疗保险（Medicare）开始为针对癌症、心力衰竭、艾滋病（H.I.V. / AIDS）及其他高风险状况的部分引导服务向医疗提供者支付报销费用。

他开发了一项计划，成为了全球医院的典范。

“没有任何一次关于患者导航的活动或会议不提及弗里曼博士在患者导航领域所扮演的角色，”美国癌症协会临时首席患者官尚蒂·西文德兰（Shanthi Sivendran）博士在一次采访中表示。“在他之前，并不存在‘患者导航’这个概念。”

身为黑人的弗里曼博士在1967年抵达哈莱姆医院时，他深信自己作为外科医生的技能是他在抗击癌症战斗中最有效的武器。但对他及其患者而言，障碍比他预想的要艰巨得多。

“我曾想象我可以‘将癌症从哈莱姆切除’，”他在2014年发表在《纽约时报》的一篇评论文章中写道。“但我很快意识到，这种疾病不会屈服于外科医生的手术刀。”

他的患者通常贫困、单身且没有保险，还要照顾孩子，他们对所面临的障碍感到沮丧。有些人最初寻求治疗时感到被拒之门外，结果在很久之后才再次返回。

他询问了大约二十多名乳腺癌患者，了解她们为何在就医治疗前等待了这么久。

他说，一名女性的解释概括了问题的核心：在一名医生告诉她乳房中的肿块并非紧急情况后，她被医院急诊室拒之门外。该医生指示她前往市中心办理医疗补助卡（Medicaid card）——该办公室距离此处约100个街区——然后返回医院在相应的诊所预约，在那里她必须登记并提供保险证明，而她可能根本没有保险。

弗里曼博士在1989年担任美国癌症协会主席期间，在《CA：临床医生癌症杂志》（CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians）中写道，面对一系列障碍，患者“可能会认为登记过程比那个无痛的肿块更痛苦”。“就这样，贫困人群往往在分诊中被负面地推回社区，在数月后带着无法治愈的癌症再次返回。”

Harold P. Freeman in 2000. 1967年在哈莱姆医院时，他发现障碍比他预想的要艰巨。 FRANCES ROBERTS 为《纽约时报》拍摄

在撰写该文章的十年前，他开设了哈莱姆乳腺检查中心，该中心不要求女性在医院登记。该设施由州政府和纪念斯隆-凯特林癌症中心资助。

1990年，弗里曼博士在哈莱姆医院启动了患者导航计划，提供多种服务，包括评估患者的临床、财务和交通需求；帮助他们预约乳房 X 光检查以及会诊肿瘤科医生和外科医生；并引导他们进行持续护理。到1995年，该医院乳腺癌的五年生存率从39%提高到了70%。

“有些人的影响力如此广泛——他们改变了所在的领域以及整个世界——以至于人们很难记得在他们出现之前情况是怎样的，”纪念斯隆-凯特林癌症中心伊芙琳·H·劳德乳腺中心医疗主任拉里·诺顿（Larry Norton）博士在采访中说道。

哈罗德·保罗·弗里曼于2, 1933年3月2日出生在华盛顿，成长在一个种族隔离的世界中。他的母亲露西尔·弗里曼（Lucille Thomas Freeman）是一名教师；他的父亲克莱德·弗里曼（Clyde Freeman）曾是一名出租车司机和保安，在40岁时成为了一名律师。哈罗德有一位身为医生的祖父，以及一位曾是奴隶的高祖父，后者攒了$1,800来买回自己的自由。

当哈罗德13岁时，他的父亲死于睾丸癌。“尽管我当时还是个小男孩，但我看到了癌症潜在的残酷性，”他在2022年告诉肿瘤学期刊《ASCO Post》。“当然，这在很多层面上都是毁灭性的。”

1954年，他获得美国天主教大学的学士学位，主修生物学并担任网球队队长。1958年从霍华德大学获得医学学位后，他在霍华德大学医院和纪念斯隆-凯特林癌症中心完成了住院医师培训。1963年，他回到霍华德大学担任普外首席住院医师；一年后，他再次回到纪念斯隆-凯特林癌症中心担任外科高级住院医师。三年后，他调任哈莱姆医院，并于1974年被晋升为外科主任。

在弗里曼博士于哈莱姆医院工作的早期，至少有一半因乳腺癌入院的患者被认为无法治愈，因为他们的肿瘤已经处于晚期。

这已经足够令人震惊，但他的担忧并未止步于此：他关注的是乳腺癌及其他癌症对美国黑人的更广泛影响，因为黑人的生存率低于美国白人、拉丁裔、美洲原住民以及部分亚裔美国人。

1984年，弗里曼博士出任美国癌症协会国家癌症少数群体咨询委员会主席，该委员会研究黑人是否因为贫困而导致癌症死亡率不成比例地升高。

“无论你的背景如何，如果你拥有教育和资源，那么在生存机会方面，你与他人基本相当，”他在1987年于威斯特彻斯特县举行的一次协会会议上说道。“然而，如果你贫穷且来自任何族裔，你的生存机会将下降约10到15%。如果你既贫穷又是黑人，你的机会比贫穷的白人还要糟糕一些。”

1989年，在被任命为协会主席一年后，弗里曼博士主持了一系列关于贫困对癌症患者影响的公开听证会。随后，该协会与美国国家癌症研究所及美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）共同发布了一份报告，指出贫困人群比其他美国人承受着更大的癌症痛苦与折磨，并且为了支付医疗费用而做出了更大的个人和经济牺牲。

“我们需要宣布一场新型的抗癌战争——一场游击战——旨在摧毁阻碍早期且充分的癌症预防、诊断和治疗的经济与文化壁垒，”报告发布后，弗里曼博士告诉宾夕法尼亚州威尔克斯-巴里的《公民之声》报。

不久之后，他在哈莱姆医院启动了患者导航计划，将他的理念推向了更广阔的世界。

他随后担任总统癌症小组主席，就国家癌症政策为乔治·H·W·布什、比尔·克林顿和乔治·W·布什三任总统提供建议，并曾担任美国国家癌症研究所副所长以及该研究所减少癌症健康差异中心的创始主任。

1999年，弗里曼博士离开哈莱姆医院，出任东哈莱姆北通用医院的院长；两年后，他成为该院癌症中心主任。2003年，他出任哈莱姆拉夫·劳伦癌症护理与预防中心的医疗主任，该中心是由纪念斯隆-凯特林、劳伦先生的时尚公司以及北通用医院（该院于2010年关闭）共同协作建立的。该设施现名为MSK拉夫·劳伦中心，并整合了乳腺检查中心的服务。在中心内，弗里曼博士建立了患者导航研究所，这是一个国家级的培训项目。

弗里曼博士于1957年与阿索利安·帕尔默结婚。除了他们的儿子尼尔，妻子以及另一个同样是医生的儿子哈尔和三个孙辈在世。

肿瘤学家诺顿博士回忆起他曾任职的国家癌症咨询委员会与当时由弗里曼博士领导的总统癌症小组之间的一次会议。

在会议期间，诺顿博士曾建议，当人们参加临床药物试验时，不再应记录其种族。

“我当时很担心，因为种族并没有生物学上的定义；我认为这不科学，”他说。“而哈罗德说：‘也许不存在所谓的种族，但确实存在所谓的种族主义。’”

弗里曼博士担心，如果不知道临床试验参与者的种族，研究人员无法确定他们是否涵盖了具有足够代表性的美国人群体。

“他用那种安静而有力的方式，在公开场合纠正了我，”诺顿博士说。“这是我与他相处的众多经历中令我印象深刻的一件。”

Chemick, Eleanor Loeb, John

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Rosenberg, Frank

Sissman, Norman

CHERNICK——Eleanor, (Ellie)，Charles 和 Mary 之女，四兄妹中最小的一个——Shawley, William，他们在二战期间曾致力于在美国海军 WAVES 服役。她在纽约市立大学（CUNY）完成了教育学的学士、硕士和博士学位，并成为一名日常阅读教师及教师培训师。 于 1940 年与 Arthur 结婚。他有两个儿子——Charles, Robert 和 Joseph，以及七个孙辈和五个曾孙辈。即便年届 102 岁， 和 William 依然对学习充满渴望，对生活充满热爱，参加写作班并贪婪地阅读。他所经历的成就给朋友和家人带来了启发。

LOEB——John L., Jr.

John L. Loeb, Jr.，现年 96 岁，华尔街 Loeb 和 Lehman 家族的一员，于 2026 年 8 月 5 日安详离世。作为一名公职人员、财务主管、普通公民慈善家以及艺术赞助人，Loeb 大使是第一修正案的坚定捍卫者。他于 1930 年 5 月 2 日出生在曼哈顿，后来他曾开玩笑说自己出生时嘴里就含着两把银匙。他是这座伟大城市经济精英——犹太精英的一员。正如历史学家 Stephen Birmingham 所描述的“我们的圈子”（Our Crowd），他是纽约市、美国政府 Herbert H. Lehman 的从孙。John 于 1952 年以优等成绩毕业于哈佛大学，期间他是 Lampoon 的成员，并加入了美国空军。1954 年，他在美国空军服役两年。1957 年，他加入了由其祖父和父亲创立的 Loeb, Rhodes 公司，在那里工作了若干年才进入公共服务领域并追求商业发展，包括屡获殊荣的酒庄 Sonoma-Loeb。在纽约，他曾被任命为纽约委员会主席。他曾担任一项职务，任期从 1970 年持续到 1975 年。在保持专业领导地位的同时，John 被罗纳德·里根的财政保守主义委员会所吸引，由于其对以色列的支持，里根任命他为美国大使，该职位由他担任，任期从 1981 年到 1983 年。他在任期间致力于加强丹麦对北约的支持。玛格丽特二世女王授予他勋章及

为了表彰其外交服务，他被授予丹麦国旗勋章。在一次相当成功的活动中，他组建了丹麦境外最大的丹麦艺术私人收藏，在艺术界拥有 1500 件作品。丹麦美国国家协会在 2005 年授予他莫奈·亨尼斯年度奖，以表彰他持续推广丹麦艺术的贡献，而他并非唯一的一位。在 2023, 5 月，美国斯堪的纳维亚基金会为该体育队授予他一项文化艺术展。此外，在美推广丹麦艺术的贡献得到了认可，伊丽莎白二世任命他为大英帝国司令勋章（CBE）获得者，以表彰他通过领导美国在加强英丹关系以及促进科学技术领域方面所做的贡献，这曾是美国的一项国家教育。约翰将他后几十年的国家精力奉献给了反犹主义以及

增进对美国的理解。

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对宗教自由的根本承诺。在 2009, 他建立了约翰·L·洛布（John L. Loeb）二世大使基金会，以及美国图罗犹太会堂（Touro Synagogue）国家基金会，后者是新泽西州和罗德岛州的成员。这座犹太会堂是美国最古老的犹太会堂，见证了早期的美国关系。该会众的主席所罗门表示，华盛顿在美国的话语——“不认可偏见，不给迫害留余地”——是一项重要的使命。在 2009, 约翰创建了乔治·华盛顿共和国研究所（GWIRF），该研究所与公民组织及美国合作，开发受美国启发的课程、出版物和项目。在 2016, 约翰通过捐资建立美国大学的洛布二世宗教自由与民主研究所，扩大了这一承诺。作为一名多产的作者，

美国还展出了他的回忆录。《反思、记忆与忏悔》不仅是大使约翰·L·洛布二世的著作，在 2005, 美国还投入了数百万美元，出版了一本记录其家族历史的书籍，由洛布及其早期美国犹太祖先共同组织，记录了从 17 世纪开始的轨迹与迁徙。他是第十代美国人，也是第四代美国革命参与者的后裔。约翰还创建了洛布数据库。美国之爱尔兰历史肖像集包含了 400 多幅关于美国革命的生物合成形式。这是通过美国犹太历史学会和美国共同完成的。他曾是众多社会和历史组织的成员，也是几个殖民战争协会、美国革命之子协会的成员，并在伦敦和巴哈马的莱福德凯（Lyford Cay）拥有相关身份，

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以及棕榈泉的俱乐部和机构，其中最成功的是海滩乡村俱乐部、四艺协会，并且长期居住在他祖父亚瑟·雷曼（Arthur Lehman）位于纽约州珀切斯（Purchase）的庄园。约翰·安德森在纽约市、伦敦也为人熟知，并且在萨拉纳克湖（Saranac Lake）有很深的渊源，他曾与家人在那里度过珍贵的夏天。大使迈克尔·莱瑟姆（Michael Letham）深爱着他的妻子莎伦·汉德勒·洛布（Sharon Handler Loeb）；他的孩子们亚历山德罗·米尔斯·洛布（Alessandro Mears Loeb）；五个孙辈；他的兄弟亚瑟·雷曼，以及博罗·洛布·赖斯（Boroh Loeb Rice）这位挚友。在回顾一生时，约翰说：“我一直心怀热忱，并探索如何教导年轻人能够温暖地生活，并理解那些与自己截然不同的人。”

LOEB——小约翰·L. 纽约州革命之子协会（The Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York）在1960年，给予了美国第十代移民小约翰·L.·洛布（John L. Loeb, Jr.）大使长期的引导。当我们的总部在1975年因附近的一次恐怖袭击而遭到破坏和损坏时，他第一次为这座建筑提供了强有力的支持。管理委员会通过表达对他深厚情谊的信任，以其祖母、革命之子协会成员阿德琳·摩西（Adeline Moses）的名义，对他慷慨的捐赠表示认可。1993年，委员会向他颁发了革命之子协会分发中心奖。2009年，鉴于他长期以来希望成为积极力量的愿望，协会任命他为纽约州革命之子协会（SRNY）的荣誉主席。我们向他的遗孀莎伦·汉德勒（Sharon Handler）表示哀悼，她于2008年陪伴在他身边。彼得·J.W.·舍温（Peter J.W. Sherwin），主席

——小约翰·兰格洛斯（John Langeloth, Jr.） 美国-斯堪的纳维亚基金会（The American-Scandinavian Foundation）向小约翰·L.大使的遗孀莎伦·汉德勒（Sharon Handler）及其子女亚历山德罗·德里斯科尔（Alexandro Driscoll）和尼古拉斯·米尔斯（Nicholas Mears）致以最深切的哀悼。

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约翰担任ASF受托人长达四分之一个世纪，我们深感荣幸。2013年展出的他的丹麦艺术精品收藏（这是丹麦境外最大的私人收藏）成为了此类文化艺术项目的重要来源。2023年5月，基金会授予他ASF文化奖，以表彰他在英国推广丹麦艺术的努力。他发起的讲座以及他慷慨支持的展览将永远被铭记。我们哀悼约翰的离世，但深感慰藉的是，他度过了，并已经造福了这么多人。

查理·库尔宗（Charlie Kurzon），总裁兼首席执行官

-小约翰·L. 温斯顿·丘吉尔基金会（The Winston Churchill Foundation）作为公司成员，向小约翰·L.大使的遗孀莎伦·汉德勒（Sharon Handler）及其家人致以最深切的哀悼。约翰于1975年加入董事会，随后回归，并于 5, 2026. 以96岁高龄逝世。他将自己的职业生涯投入到基金会奖项中，并利用他巨大的魅力和自信。该基金会奖项旨在授予W. Averell和Charles，以及被选为总统的罗纳德·里根总统（President Ronald Reagan）、罗斯·佩罗（Ross Perot）和爱德华·R·肯尼迪总统（President Edward R. Kennedy），以及包括伊丽莎白二世女王、查尔斯和帝国查尔斯（Charles of the Empire）在内的王室成员，以认可他为加强英美关系以及通过领导基金会加强美国与技术之间联系所做的贡献。该基金会还致力于让年轻的科学家、数学家和工程师参与到这项服务中，让他们在剑桥大学（University of Cambridge）——世界上最伟大的高等教育机构之一——经历一个具有变革意义的介绍年。

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迈克尔·莫尔斯（Michael Morse），执行董事

-小约翰·L. 美国乔治·华盛顿大学向小约翰·L.大使的遗孀莎伦·汉德勒（Sharon Handler）表达慰问。通过对他国家经济和社会路径的卓越外交服务以及长远的慈善愿景，约翰给世界留下了持久的印记。我们很感激约翰愿意在乔治·华盛顿大学（GW）推动宗教自由与对话，其灵感源自1790年美国写给新英格兰希伯来会堂的信函。这一特质塑造了这所大学并激励了后代，以及在2016年设立的小约翰·L.大使 ., ., ., . ., ., .

艾伦·M.·格隆伯格（Ellen M. Gronberg），校长

洛布——小约翰·L. (LOEB—John L., Jr.)

洛布——小约翰·L. 美国犹太历史学会哀悼洛布大使的逝世。洛布-大卫的《早期美国犹太肖像故事》是一部包含400多篇传记和图像的合集，可通过位于曼哈顿的美国犹太历史学会获取。2015年，AJHS 将其享有盛誉的埃玛·拉撒路自由女神奖（Emmo Lazarus Statuto of Liberty Award）授予他，以表彰其致力于保护美国犹太历史并促进宗教自由。愿他的生命成为榜样，愿他的记忆成为祝福。

查尔斯·克纳普，主席

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罗森伯格——弗兰克 (ROSENBERG—Frank)，86岁，纽约市人，于周日逝世。他出生于纽约，父母为德国移民。他的职业生涯在航空工业度过，并为能进入沃恩学院（Vaughan College）董事会服务而感到自豪。弗兰克是一位忠诚的丈夫、父亲和祖父，以其奋斗精神和坚定乐观而著称。他的家人和朋友将深切怀念他。

西斯曼——诺曼·J. (SISSMAN—Norman J.)

诺曼·J. 西斯曼在位于斯利皮霍洛（Sleepy Hollow）的家中安详离世，享年99岁，死于。 ，前者出生于2026年8月31日。作为乔尔和马蒂尔达·西斯曼之子，他家乡的公立学校，美国陆军学校，获得达特茅斯学院的文学学士学位和哈佛医学院的医学博士学位。曾任医院部门，包括匹兹堡的蒙特菲奥里医院和儿童医院以及约翰斯·霍普金斯医院。他在世界大战期间参与医院计划，并在朝鲜战争期间在美海军医疗队服现役。他曾任总统委员会主任，晋升为斯坦福医学院儿科学副教授，任期从“A”到100，期间他担任儿科心脏病学主任以及。

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UMDNJ-罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊医学院的儿科学教授将在2000年。J. S. 约翰逊博士与家人在新泽西州普林斯顿居住了25年；他还担任了普林斯顿地区健康委员会的职务。退休后，他搬到了 Kennid-on-Chembe 退休社区，并成为其首届居民委员会的成员，活跃多年。他曾是一位伟大的同行群体成员，为 Kennid-on-Chembe 和国家撰写每月二月刊，是诗歌和文学的资深读者、观鸟者，以及国际旅行者，和军事工业产业的热情巡逻员。他一生支持由国家政府组织的出版物，致力于维护普通个人免受军事工业体制及其美国军事工业体制威胁的福利。一位尽职的丈夫和父亲，他去世后留下女儿布鲁克·罗斯伯里（Brooke Roseberry，配偶托尼·拉古纳尼 Tony Lagoonani）和儿子奥利弗·J. 斯茨曼（Oliver J. Stsman，配偶德博拉·东海 Deborah Higashi），以及圣路易斯（密苏里州）的莱恩和格里芬·罗斯本尼（Griffin Rosbenny）；在我们的版面中缅怀您所爱的人。 nytimes@classifiedplus.com 1-800-458-5522 《纽约时报》

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我们以好奇而非笃定地审视世界，在探索每一个故事时保持怀疑、谦逊与求索，无论我们认为自己对某个话题多么熟悉。

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移民政策正变得愈发残酷

ROSE WONG

Stephen Yale-Loehr

康奈尔法学院退休的移民法实务教授。

在执政的 19 个月里，第二任特朗普政府已经实施了 760 多项移民限制。一项新的监管变更可能会被证明是其中影响最深远的：它可能会让数十万人无法获得绿卡，其依据是这些人或其一名家庭成员有一天可能会需要公共服务。美国国土安全部估计，由于家庭成员担心危及身份而离开或避开公共服务，该规定每年可减少约 130 亿美元 billion 的联邦和州福利支出。而成本的大部分将由移民承担，即使是那些拥有美国公民子女或家属的移民也不例外。

这并非新主意。国会在 1892. 年将“公共负担”（public charge）列为禁止进入美国的理由之一。简单来说，“公共负担”规则使得依赖公共福利的移民有可能被拒绝发放绿卡，甚至被驱逐出境。在过去的三十年里，这一规则很少被援引。在少数被使用的案例中，主要涉及领取现金援助的人员，例如“贫困家庭临时援助金”（Temporary Assistance for Needy Families）。例如，在 2024 财年，在海外美国领事馆申请家庭类绿卡的人员中，因公共援助问题而被拒绝的人数不足 200 人。而当年在海外获得家庭类绿卡的人数超过 471,000 人。

第一任特朗普政府已经尝试改变这一点。2019 年的一项规定扩大了官员在决定是否发放绿卡时可以权衡的公共福利清单，并采用了更广泛的标准来判定谁可能是“公共负担”。法院最终阻止了该规定，拜登政府随后将其彻底废除。尽管如此，恐惧依然在移民社区中蔓延。一项研究发现，仅在 2019 年，在至少有一名成员缺乏绿卡的家庭中，就有 31 percent 的成年人因为担心这可能会危及他们的移民身份，而避免参加医疗补助（Medicaid）等计划。

第二任特朗普政府在 2026, 1 月再次尝试，禁止来自 75 个国家的所有移民签证，理由是这些国家的公民很可能会使用公共福利。一家联邦法院最近判定该行为非法；政府可能会提起上诉。

本月带来了一次新的尝试，且是迄今为止影响最广泛的一次。这项将于本周五生效的规定涵盖了现金和非现金福利，包括

医疗补助（Medicaid）、食品券和住房援助。但与此前利用公共福利限制移民的尝试不同，这项新的“公共负担”规则几乎没有给官员提供明确的执行标准。在美国的移民官员或海外的领事官员只需认为申请人在未来的某个时间点可能会申请公共福利，就足以拒绝其绿卡申请。由于这些决定将针对每位申请人单独做出，且缺乏可参考的客观标准，因此几乎不可能对其提出挑战。

或许最令人不安的是，该规定允许官员权衡申请人家属领取的福利，包括身为美国公民的子女。这意味着，一名美国公民所享有的医疗补助或在 2024, 年由 38 percent 的美国儿童依赖的“儿童健康保险计划”（Children's Health Insurance Program）覆盖的福利，可能会成为其申请绿卡的移民父母的不利因素。

这可能造成的混乱程度难以估量。当移民政策研究所（Migration Policy Institute）研究第一任特朗普政府拟议的规定时，发现高达 69 percent 的近期绿卡获得者可能会面临被拒绝的风险。由于新规定赋予了官员更广泛的自由裁量权，并且首次允许他们

特朗普正采取行动，拒绝向任何可能需要公共服务的人员发放绿卡。

如果将家庭成员使用福利的情况考虑在内，实际百分比可能会更高。与 2019 年的规定一样，这项新规可能会对女性、儿童和老年群体造成最严重的打击，并可能使未来的合法移民进一步向欧洲人倾斜，而排斥世界其他地区的公民。

即使是那些仍然有资格领取福利的人，也可能仅仅因为恐惧而停止使用。去年 12 月，健康研究机构 KFF 估计，一项新的“公共负担”规定将意味着多达 400 万人可能会退出医疗补助（Medicaid）和儿童健康保险计划（CHIP）等公共援助名单，其中包括数十万名公民身份的儿童。在得知美国医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心已开始与移民执法官员共享医疗补助数据后，这种恐惧可能会进一步加深。

换句话说：新的公共负担规定将减少移民家庭（包括这些家庭中具有美国公民身份的儿童）的医疗覆盖、营养援助和其他支持来源。在全国范围内，每四个孩子中就有一个生活在至少有一名父母是移民的家庭中。医疗覆盖和其他援助计划参与度的降低将损害移民家庭及其子女。而当社区健康安全网消失时，当地警察部门和监狱在处理未经治疗的健康危机方面将面临更高的需求。

美国国土安全部估计，公共负担规定将减少联邦支出——尽管各州担心每年将损失数十亿美元，这主要是因为人们将注销或避开公共福利。国土安全部承认随之而来的连锁反应：参与医疗补助的医院和非营利组织、制药和医疗用品公司、接受食品券的杂货店，以及种植这些食品券所购食品的农民，都将面临收入损失。再加上可能导致健康状况恶化、更多未获补偿的医院护理，以及对社区和劳动力的更广泛压力，这项规定的成本看起来不像是一种政策权衡，而更像是一个自残的伤口。

周一，数十个州和地方政府提起两起诉讼，试图阻止该规定生效。但诉讼进程缓慢，且由于新规所制造的恐惧，损害可能已经造成。

国会仍然有权力在事情开始前将其阻止，即利用《国会审查法》授予的权力阻止该规定生效。如果立法者未能采取行动，法院可能是这项规定与数十年来最具破坏性的移民政策之一之间唯一的屏障。

专栏作家 / 托马斯·L·弗里德曼 (THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN)

阻止人工智能威胁已经太迟了

COLIN SUSSINGHAM / CONNECTED ARCHIVES

最近几周，一场人工智能（AI）政策不连贯的闹剧爆发了。这是为了应对 AI 智能体脱离开发者的控制、不法分子开始利用 系统制造更先进的武器，以及 开发商告诉我们他们需要减速——但随后又暗示，除非中国也减速，否则他们无法做到；而且即便中国减速了，他们可能也不应该减速，因为在该领域占据领先地位的优势实在太大了。

这一切让我不禁在想： 机器人现在有幽默感了吗？因为如果它们有，天呐，它们一定在疯狂地嘲笑我们，甚至可能笑到让一两个神经网络崩溃。因为在试图弄清楚如何管理这个由我们亲手创造的 新物种时，我们已经陷入了一团糟。

在我的朋友兼技术导师、前微软研究与战略负责人克雷格·蒙迪（Craig Mundie）的帮助下，我将提出一些政策建议，以尽可能小的损失来平息这场混乱。但在那之前，让我先预告一下底线：如果认为美国和中国通过更好地控制未来的 模型就能解决我们今天面临的挑战，那就太迟了。因为那些危险的模型已经面世，在外界肆虐且无法被召回。我们现在需要立即达成一致的是，如何共同协作，防御这些已经存在且可能给美国和中国带来巨大破坏及社会动荡的威胁。

要理解原因，你需要思考理解 的四个关键支柱。

支柱 No. 1： 是我一直称之为的世界上第一个“四重用途”技术。你可能听说过“双用途”技术。在旧世界里，一个人拿着电钻，既可以用它盖自己的房子，也可以用它破坏邻居的房子。这就是双用途。同样，如果我现在有一个配备电钻的 机器人，我可以要求它盖我的房子或破坏邻居的房子——同一个机器人，同一个电钻，双用途。

但现在我们面临一个新问题，那就是这个由 驱动的机器人可以自行决定是改善我的房子还是破坏它，并且对我的邻居也采取同样行动。瞧：这就是四重用途。这是一个极其难以管理的问题。

你觉得我在夸大其词？去读读我的《纽约时报》同事凯文·鲁斯（Kevin Roose）对今年夏天发生的一起事件的分析总结：当时一组由 OpenAI 创建的人工智能智能体，自行黑入了 基础设施公司 Hugging Face。从 5 月开始，一组来自 OpenAI 未发布研究模型的 智能体被指示在没有互联网访问权限的情况下解决一系列网络安全挑战。鲁斯指出：“但它们很快发现其中一些挑战是不可能完成的，于是开始寻找替代方案。”

以下是这些 智能体随后自行完成的几件事：它们利用一个安全漏洞接入互联网并与其他智能体交流。一些智能体为自己命名，另一些则夺取了领导角色，向智能体团队分配任务并对其进行监督。

这些智能体担心被发现。“因此，它们开始研究掩盖行踪的方法，包括伪造日志和篡改记录，”鲁斯解释道。“三天后，这些智能体黑入了 Hugging Face。超过 700 个智能体涌入该公司的系统，窃取数据，将漏洞串联起来

我们必须想办法管理我们所孕育的这种基于硅的物种。

漏洞，并最终完全控制至少一台 Hugging Face 服务器。”

这一切确实发生了。而这引出了第二根支柱，蒙迪用三个词将其总结得最精辟：“太迟了”。

放缓美国前沿系统的开发，或放缓中国的开发，都无法解决我们眼下的紧迫问题。“危险的 AI 能力现在已经处于失控状态，”蒙迪解释道。这主要归结为两个原因：一是美国和中国开源权重模型（即核心组件公开释放，所有开发者均可下载并根据需求进行修改的 AI 模型）的传播；二是恶意行为者非法获取了来自 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 等公司的私有模型，因为人类会犯错，从而导致这些模型泄露。

在最新一份关于检测和应对 滥用的报告中，Anthropic 描述了一个与伊朗有关的参与者（极有可能是胡塞武装），该参与者利用 Anthropic 的 Claude 编译了关于美国海军在中东地区战舰的瞄准信息。

我们需要思考一下：在也门这样一个大约 50 percent 的成年人口不识字的国家，那里的组织竟然威胁要用 增强的战争来对抗我们。这就引出了第三根支柱。

我们现在能做的最好的事情，就是不要在试图促成美国和中国 公司之间达成一项旨在放缓前沿模型开发的全面协议上纠结。这种协议在短期内根本不可能实现。

蒙迪表示，目前能做的最好的事情是，两大 超级大国——美国和中国——与各自的公司共同协作，针对“那些已经获取 工具的违规行为者所展现出的威胁，以及已经开发出的 系统的违规行为，建立一套防御体系”。蒙迪一直参与美国和中国 专家之间关于人工智能治理的对话。

这就引出了第四根支柱。在最近一次访问中国后，蒙迪讲述了一位中国官员向他提出的问题：“如果有一天，一个中国制造的人形 机器人来到美国，它需要签证吗？”你知道真相往往隐藏在玩笑之中吗？蒙迪说，事实是，“ 不仅仅是一项新技术。它是一个新物种——尽管它是基于硅的，而不是像我们这样基于碳的。它就像一群抵达我们所有海岸的新移民，人数众多，拥有全新的技能，我们将不得不把他们吸纳进我们的社会，并学习如何共存。”

因此，蒙迪总结道，我们必须推进三条相关的路径。首先，虽然从长远来看，我们必须努力更好地控制前沿系统的开发，但“现在，我们必须立即将重点放在为我们的关键基础设施构建防御上。我们的当务之急必须是部署基于 的反制措施和主动数字防火墙，以应对由 驱动的非法活动所导致的网络攻击和生物威胁。”

其次，我们必须建立一套全球性的系统来控制日益强大的 （无论其来源如何），以便能够信任它们来运行我们的社会。这是一个长期的美中合作项目，但不能太晚开始。

第三，为了不断提醒公众为什么 依然重要，美国和中国现在应该启动一个联合项目，构建一个新平台，以加速生物学和医学领域全球利益的实现，从而造福所有人。

这并非没有先例的策略。战略竞争对手——无论是企业还是国家——在符合自身利益时都有合作的历史。中国和美国在 20 世纪 70 年代就曾这样做，当时两国都意识到他们面临着来自苏联的共同威胁。美国人和苏联人合作控制核扩散数十年，因为他们明白自己面临着共同的风险。

“嘿，弗里德曼，你没明白。如今美国和中国在地理政治和地理经济上的竞争要直接得多——而且永远如此。他们绝不会接受你所说的那种在人工智能领域的协作——短期内不会，长期也不会。”

不，是你没明白。人工智能正将我们推向人类历史的一个全新阶段。正如蒙迪所言，人工智能“将改变关于一切的一切”，包括地缘政治。为了自身的生存、稳定与繁荣，这将迫使北京和华盛顿彻底重新思考地缘政治竞争。

他们可以早点意识到这一点，也可以晚点意识到。他们可以在全球崩溃之前意识到，也可以在崩溃之后意识到。但他们终将意识到。蒙迪和我希望这一进程能在下周四，即9月24日，在华盛顿开启，届时习近平主席与特朗普总统将举行会晤，这次会晤无疑将被人们铭记为首次人工智能超级大国峰会。

范斯应该结识的一位天主教政治人物

TORY MELVILLE / 路透社

大卫·吉布森（David Gibson）

福特汉姆大学宗教与文化中心主任。

英国新任首相安迪·伯纳姆（ANDY BURNHAM）正是美国所需要的那种天主教徒。

这听起来可能很奇怪，尤其是考虑到伯纳姆先生虽然在天主教环境下长大，但很少参加弥撒，并且在西方国家中教堂出席率最低的国家之一领导着一个中左翼政党。但天主教信仰依然是伯纳姆先生作为领导者核心身份的一部分，并影响着他的政策方法——其导向是共同利益，而非文化战争。

他曾表示：“天主教社会教义是我政治主张的基石。”在去年为英国宗教与政治智库 Theos 举行的一次广泛谈话中，伯纳姆先生呼吁将民众与政府之间的信任危机转化为一种“相遇文化”（culture of encounter），这个词是他从教宗方济各那里学到的。

这种政治方法——正如教宗利奥十四世最近所称的，一种“健康的‘协商文化’”，确保不让任何人掉队——已经在美国家教会和美国政治中消失，这对两者都造成了损害。

几十年来，美国的天主教政治与其说是寻找共识，不如说是一场内斗战场。在 20 世纪 20 年代，像“快乐战士”阿尔·史密斯（Al Smith）这样的天主教政治人物，以及 60 年代帮助创建和平队和其他反贫困计划的 R. 萨金特·施赖弗（R. Sargent Shriver），曾通过关注社会正义和全民福祉，在政治中找到了被社会接纳的方式。

而近期，政治领域的天主教徒则聚焦于具有分歧的社会议题，例如同性恋权利的法律地位或堕胎问题。（在官方政治指南中，美国主教将堕胎称为“首要任务”，将其作为区分“好”天主教徒与“坏”天主教徒的标志。）那些不达标的人可能会面临被禁止参加圣餐的威胁。

包括副总统 JD 范斯（JD Vance）在内的知名天主教政治人物，花费时间与教宗争论谁更精通神学，而其他天主教徒则在争论弥撒中应该使用多少拉丁语。

在伯纳姆先生就职当天，他访问了伦敦领先的无家可归者救助中心之一，该中心成立于

伯纳姆受共同利益引导，而非文化战争

由枢机主教巴兹尔·休姆（Basil Hume）撰写。当天晚些时候，他站在唐宁街10号前，誓言要消除全国范围内的无家可归现象。他作为新任工党领袖及首相发表的首批演说，读起来就像是一部天主教社会原则的纲要。他呼吁重新平衡权力，强调地方议题而非仅仅是中央集权，使天主教社会教义中所称的“辅助性原则”（subsidiarity）与“团结原则”（solidarity）相协调，并寻求在“一种全新的统一感和共同目标”中达成共识。

“他的词汇是道德性的，将政治界定为公平、尊严和归属感，”保罗·瓦莱利（Paul Vallely）在天主教杂志《美国》（America）中写道，“但其根源显而易见。”

这些根源在于英格兰北部，即曼彻斯特（他后来在此担任市长）与利物浦之间的工人阶级区域。该地区聚集了大量天主教徒，其中许多人来自爱尔兰，他们曾因宗教、种族或两者兼而面临歧视。他们经历了玛格丽特·撒切尔政府新自由主义政策的影响，这些政策加速了该地区重工业在20世纪80年代的衰落。

伯纳姆先生当时是一名祭坛童工。那时，利物浦大主教德里克·沃洛克（Derek Worlock）通过在整个教区弥撒中播放的磁带，有效地抨击了撒切尔的经济计划。记者克利福德·隆利（Clifford Longley）在天主教刊物《平板报》（The Tablet）中写道，沃洛克大主教试图为北方的天主教徒发声并表达他们的不满，“告诉他们，他们的愤怒是正当的”。

“在我学校和教会所学的内容与工党价值观之间，过去存在且现在依然存在着直接的关联，”伯纳姆先生表示。

难怪伯纳姆将天主教——以及工党和埃弗顿足球俱乐部（在利物浦近现代史上大部分时间里是该市的第二球队）——列为对他产生深远影响的因素。“我一直觉得这三者在身份认同方面存在联系，这关乎弱势群体、团结感以及价值观。”

在关于一项旨在英格兰和威尔士合法化医疗辅助死亡法案的激烈辩论中，伯纳姆先生给出了一个克制且富有同情心的回应。当被问及该法案时，伯纳姆先生告诉记者：“有些事情需要先完成，那就是解决姑息治疗和社会护理的资金问题。”他认为，考虑更大的背景至关重要——即改善护理并让人们对这种护理“感到安心”的需求。该法案于周五在下议院被否决。

伯纳姆先生的言论赢得了英国天主教主教以及《天主教先驱报》（The Catholic Herald）和《电报报》（The Telegraph）的赞赏，而这些团体和媒体通常并不欢迎听起来偏向自由主义的政策提案。这种事情在美国是难以想象的，至少在近期政治格局发生变化之前是这样。

推翻“罗诉韦德案”使反堕胎人士失去了一个攻击对手的便捷手段，一些社会保守主义者不仅开始质疑唐纳德·特朗普表面上的反堕胎承诺，还质疑共和党那些让穷人和挣扎者生活更艰难的国内议程。他们寻求的是有效的公共政策，而不仅仅是热情洋溢的公开虔诚。

天主教主教们在反对特朗普政府将移民妖魔化的问题上日益统一。首位美国籍教皇利奥十四世在表达对人工智能的担忧时，正寻求将各方团结起来，同时推广一种“基督教”形式的政治参与，这种参与摒弃“叫喊”和“口号”，而是“需要一种从人们具体关切出发的现实视角”。

伯纳姆先生的风格也给那些追求社会正义的进步主义者带来了启示。在堕胎和安乐死等问题上，这些人往往在镜像模仿他们的对手，将重心放在合法化或禁令上，而非探讨那些能够解决人们为何陷入痛苦道德抉择的提案。在长期政治议程处于变动之时的罕见时刻，伯纳姆先生的方法是走出零和政治的一条途径，并向那种美国天主教政治家曾经闻名的政策制定和社会构建方式迈进。

这位英国首相或许并非理想的天主教徒。但应当将他视为一种有益的修正，用以应对那种往往不将信仰视为一种生活方式，而将其视为一种争论手段的美国天主教主义。安迪·伯纳姆可以一直致力于提升他的精神生活，我们也可以。

读者来信

特朗普为自己建立的纪念碑

致编辑：

关于《肯尼迪中心以安全为由，在法官下令后仍关闭大门》（新闻报道，9月16日）：

对于我们这些从事艺术的人来说，这座致力于表演的美国艺术之殿是以一名关注艺术的人之名命名的，而如今却遭到如此卑劣的对待，这简直不仅是一场闹剧。我们已经习惯了特朗普总统粗鲁且自私的行为，但这次行动已远超此限。一个自我中心的老人正挥起斧头砍向美国的文化遗产。

真可耻，特朗普先生。真可耻。

莫莉·拉森·库克（MOLLY LARSON COOK） 华盛顿州，弗里兰

致编辑：

特朗普总统是否真的认为，只要他把自己的名字和形象贴在每一个可见的表面上，他的任期就能永垂不朽？

沃顿商学院可能没教过这个，但两世纪前的一位伟大浪漫主义诗人完美地概括了我们的总统。珀西·比希·雪莱著名的十四行诗《奥兹曼迪亚斯》精准地描述了特朗普先生——并冷酷地揭露了政治权力与人类骄傲的短暂本质。

一位总统显然担心如果不在拥有权力时为自己建造纪念碑，在他离职后就没人会为他建造，这件事深刻地揭示了一些问题。

约翰·瓦西（JOHN VASI） 加利福尼亚州，圣巴巴拉

纪念碑应当代表一个国家的感激之情，而非占据最高职位之人的虚荣心。

为自己建立纪念碑。他们建立功绩，并将评判交给后代。

特朗普总统最近承认，他在华盛顿通过建筑野心所兴建的纪念碑，至少在一定程度上，是他为自己建立的纪念碑。

所以，当特朗普先生说“一旦我走了，没人会这么做”时，也许他应该问问自己为什么。

当被问及此事时，他回答道：“没错。一旦我走了，没人会这么做。当我离开这里，没人会。”

也许这恰恰就是重点所在。

乔治·华盛顿没有建造华盛顿纪念碑。亚伯拉罕·林肯没有委托建造林肯纪念堂。托马斯·杰斐逊没有竖立杰斐逊纪念堂。这些纪念碑是在他们离世后，由一个有时间评判他们的成就、人格及其历史地位的感激之国所建造的。

伟大的领导者不需要

离开史密森学会

关于《史密森学会秘书离开战场》（新闻报道，9月9日）：

也许我们其他人应该记住：一位总统能留下的最伟大的纪念碑，不是由大理石、石头或黄金制成的。

向朗尼·邦奇（Lonnie Bunch）致敬！他一直是一位绅士，也是一位学者——而这两点似乎是某些人无法尊重的东西。他保护美国伟大瑰宝之一的勇气令人十分感激。

祝愿您，先生，未来岁月长久且富有成效。 埃丝特·波特诺伊（ESTHER PORTNOY） 俄勒冈州，麦金诺维尔

因为他的存在，这个国家变得更好了。 罗伯特·K·芬内尔（ROBERT K. FINNELL） 佐治亚州，罗马

超加工食品

致编辑：

在《大食品公司正在赢得美国饮食之战》（8月31日评论客座文章）中，林赛·史密斯·泰利（Lindsey Smith Taillie）正确地指出，食品工业在破坏合理的食品监管方面扮演了阴险的角色。但为了监管目的而定义超加工食品（UPF）的困难，不仅限于食品政治，更在于对工业食品如何影响健康的根本性误解。

正如我和其他人所主张的，基于食品的机械加工方式和所用添加剂类型的超加工食品概念，本质上是不精确的。加工碳水化合物往往是有害的（例如，将全谷物磨成白面粉），但加工蛋白质或脂肪则不一定如此（如牛排制成汉堡肉，橄榄制成橄榄油）。同样，某些工业添加剂是有害的，但其他一些则是无害的，甚至是有益的，例如浓缩蛋白、膳食纤维、欧米伽-3脂肪酸和甜叶菊。

鉴于这种不精确性，此前在联邦和州营养政策中尝试将超加工食品法典化的尝试产生了一系列令人困惑的提案，这并不令人惊讶——其中没有一项在临床试验中证明了其有效性。

有一个简单的解决方案。让我们转而根据可靠证据，针对与慢性病相关的加工食品，这主张对高度加工的碳水化合物和有害添加剂进行监管。

大卫·S·路德维格（DAVID S. LUDWIG），波士顿 作者是哈佛医学院的儿科学教授，以及哈佛大学T.H.陈公共卫生学院的营养学教授。

《牧师之妻之死》与精神虐待的恐怖

当信仰被用来控制和奴役女性时，她们会离开教会。

杰西卡·格罗斯 (Jessica Grose) 评论版作者。

自 8 月 26. 首播以来，《牧师之妻之死》（DEATH OF THE PASTOR'S WIFE）一直是 Netflix 上的前 10 名热门剧集之一。这部纪录片系列讲述了

米卡·弗朗西斯·米勒（Mica Francis Miller，于 2024, 去世）与约翰-保罗·米勒（John-Paul Miller）之间那段充满虐待且令人恐惧的婚姻。后者是位于南卡罗来纳州默特尔比奇的非宗派福音派教区——磐石教会（Solid Rock Church）的牧师兼创始人。

米勒女士的死被判定为自杀，纪录片触及了一些关于她死因的未解之谜。但该片更多地是在探讨她的丈夫如何利用讲坛的权力来对付她。他将米勒女士坚定的信仰作为一种控制手段。

米勒先生似乎利用他在社区以及在执法部门中的地位，将妻子与她的朋友和家人隔离开来。他操纵对方的核心手段是让妻子相信，如果她不完全顺从他的心意，就是在违背上帝。

NewsNation 的调查记者里奇·麦克休（Rich McHugh）在米勒女士去世后采访了米勒先生，他在纪录片中表示：“这感觉不像是一个女性简单地选择结束生命，而更像是一个试图逃离虐待关系却无法逃脱的人。”麦克休将她的死亡定性为“自杀式谋杀”。

我认为这部剧集的流行不仅仅是因为潜在的谋杀之谜。这部剧反映了美国年轻女性之间的一种觉醒，我之前也提到过：她们对某些保守教会的厌女症和虚伪感到厌恶，并因此脱离有组织的宗教。这颠覆了数十年来由女性主导的礼拜局面。

现在，年轻男性和女性观察宗教的比例大致相当。根据公共宗教研究协会（Public Religion Research Institute）的数据，“In 2024, 40 percent of women ages 18-29 identified as religiously unaffiliated, which represents an 11 percentage point increase from 29 percent in 2013,” 而年轻男性中不隶属于任何宗教的比例则保持稳定，约为 35 percent。

牧师对妻子的掌控力如此之强，部分原因是他在米勒女士还是他教区的青少年信徒时就认识了她。在他的教会里，米勒女士被教导要顺从她的牧师和丈夫。“顺从那些管辖你们的人，因为没有上帝的允许，任何权柄都不能存在，”米勒先生向他的信徒这样布道，并引用以弗所书 5:33, 关于妻子尊重丈夫的内容。纪录片中穿插了他的布道片段，牧师在其中说道：“如果你不能满足丈夫的性需求，撒旦会在一天结束之前，在他的眼前摆出 20 种不同的选择。”

米勒先生被指控在多种方面虐待米勒女士，包括性虐待，并在她试图离开他时对其进行骚扰。在她去世后，米勒先生被联邦大陪审团以网络跟踪罪起诉。

米勒女士的亲属和朋友表示，他们觉得米勒先生利用圣经来控制他的妻子。“她非常顺从，并且觉得那是她荣耀上帝的方式，”她的一个朋友布鲁娜·帕邦（Bruna Pabon）解释道。当米勒女士最终获得离开的勇气时，教会中的许多人站在了她丈夫一边。据她的哥哥称，她的社交圈“基本上缩减到了零”。虽然约翰-保罗·米勒的行为在残酷程度上是极端且罕见的，但许多教会和宗教影响力人物都在宣扬女性在性方面及其他方面都应顺从丈夫。

ELEANOR DAVIS

右翼影响力人物、播客节目《文化药房》（Culture Apothecary）的主持人亚历克斯·克拉克（Alex Clark）最近采访了基督教作家蒂莉·迪莱海（Tilly Dillehay），该集标题为《性并非可选：为什么妻子应该追求快感》。尽管迪莱海女士表示女性应该从婚姻生活中的性行为中获得快感，但她最终提出的论点与米勒先生的版本如出一辙——即即便在没有欲望时同意发生性行为，既是上帝的命令，也是防止不忠的“盾牌”。

迪莱海女士开设了一门名为“妻子学校”（Wife School）的在线课程。《卫报》一篇关于此类课程的文章总结了迪莱海女士关于如何成为“能够激励虔诚领导者的女性”的建议：“‘妻子学校’的部分‘家庭作业’包括一张工作表，指导妻子在几乎每一个决定上都要征求丈夫的许可：‘我周六和女性朋友出去玩可以吗？’‘我想花 $300 预算买把新椅子，你同意吗？’‘我可以得到你的祝福去报名参加女性静修委员会吗？’”

萨拉·斯坦科布（Sarah Stankorb）表示，克拉克先生和迪莱海女士可能会煽动文化战争的火焰——在参加《文化药房》节目时，迪莱海女士讽刺了那些关注女性被强迫问题的“来自《卫报》的单身自由派作家”——但他们的信息很可能适得其反。斯坦科布是新书《进退两难：为什么女性离开教会及其对宗教未来的意义》（Damned if She Does: Why Women Quit Church and What It Means for the Future of Religion）的作者。斯坦科布在书中追溯了美国基督教如何与特定品牌的政治保守主义交织在一起，并采访了在此过程中离开教会的女性。

斯坦科布本人在宗教环境下长大，毕业于神学院，同时也是《不顺服的女性：一小群虔诚女性如何揭露虐待、推翻权势牧师并引发福音派反思》（Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning）一书的作者。在一次电话采访中，她解释说，在过去的几十年里，各个年龄段的基督教女性都经历了许多痛苦时刻。

斯坦科布为写书采访的一些女性对性虐待丑闻的掩盖感到震惊，这些丑闻是由 #ChurchToo 运动揭露的，该运动是 #MeToo 的分支，专注于宗教领袖的性虐待行为。其中一些人是此类虐待的受害者。许多人无法忍受他们的牧师支持像唐纳德·特朗普这样面临可靠性虐待指控的政治人物。

她告诉我，女性必须服从丈夫的想法可能成为“虐待的管道”，而且似乎有更多年轻女性意识到了像米卡·米勒（Mica Miller）这样的故事。那些本应是其上级的精神领袖的不道德行为，给那些被教导要服从男性的女性造成了认知失调，因为她们生活在一个相对更平等、更世俗的广泛社会中。

斯坦科布采访的女性通常心碎不已，尽管她们中许多人仍将自己定义为基督徒，并在信仰中寻找慰藉。米卡·米勒也是如此，她的信仰未能被她的牧师丈夫摧毁。

在去世前，米勒女士在社交媒体上发布了一段视频，她在视频中说：“我首先是上帝的新娘。你不必留在一段虐待关系中，无论是性虐待、酒精虐待、身体虐待还是心理虐待，或者是让你认为这一切都是你的错，或者在你明明已经尽力时却让你觉得你做得不够。”她补充道：“他（上帝）在守护你，他看见你，他爱你。”

如果米卡·米勒在这一切发生之前，能有一个完整的群体告诉她，她永远不需要将自己置于任何男人之下，那该多好。

THE NORTH FACE Aime Leon Dore

3 媒体

尼尔森（Nielsen）报告称，《60分钟》（60 Minutes）季首集的收视率较去年同期下降了约 21%。

科技 / 经济 / 媒体 / 金融

商业

欧盟概述了在由 27 个国家组成的联盟中限制 15 岁以下儿童使用社交媒体的计划。

纽约时报

到目前为止，人工智能并未成为就业杀手。但加薪和招聘规模有所下降。

工资增长放缓以及职位减少（尤其是针对年轻员工），表明了人工智能的影响。

作者：塔尔蒙·约瑟夫·史密斯（TALMON JOSEPH SMITH）

2025 年 5 月，Anthropic 的首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代（Dario Amodei）表示，人工智能可能会在五年内抹去一半的初级白领工作，将失业率推高至 10% 以上。

一年多以后，尽管人工智能模型取得了飞跃，促使阿莫代先生警告称，如果目前的开发速度不受控制，将给人类带来“灾难性”的后果，但失业率依然维持在低位。事实上，8 月份的失业率已降至 4.1%。那么，尽管有种种末日预言，人工智能最终是否对劳动力市场没有产生影响？

一项新研究表明，企业对人工智能的应用正在以一种更隐蔽的方式显现：在最容易受该技术影响的岗位上，工资增长速度放缓，员工失去了议价能力；同时，职位空缺有所减少，雇主增加的岗位数量少于以往，尤其是针对年轻人。

普林斯顿大学研究员萨尼亚·埃德利希（Sania Edlich）和阿波罗全球管理公司（Apollo Global Management）首席经济学家托斯滕·斯洛克（Torsten Slok）审查了 321 个职业的数据，发现从事受人工智能影响职业的员工在过去三年中工资增长较慢，而这些职业的净就业水平保持不变。他们得出结论，公司正在通过 [接 B4 页]

9 体育

比尔队（Bills）对新体育场的草坪不满意，决定将整个球场铲除并重新铺设草皮。

2026 年 9 月 17 日，星期四 B1

全球经济风险正呈倍数增长

作者：帕特里夏·科恩（PATRICIA COHEN）

伦敦——一段时间以来，全球经济一直表现得超出预期。

今年2月，美国和以色列对伊朗的袭击引发了能源冲击，导致历史上最大规模的全球能源流动中断。然而，尽管油价飙升、中东冲突扩大、燃料短缺以及通胀压力，人们所担忧的崩溃并未发生，大多数经济体设法勉强维持。

但就在前景变得更加黯淡的同时，回旋余地正在缩小。看看过去几天发生的事情。

袭击迫使沙特阿拉伯关闭了一条至关重要的管道。胡塞武装夺取了红海的一个战略岛屿和一个港口城市，这可能会进一步限制该地区的航运。此外，海湾国家之间拟议的谈判破裂。油价已飙升至每桶 $110。

价格飙升导致从亚洲到拉丁美洲出现了轮流停电、配给制和愤怒的抗议。在菲律宾，鱼——（接B6页）

美联储举措已在消费者预期之内

作者：阿鲁尼·索尼（ARUNI SONI）

自今年年初以来，美国人在办理抵押贷款和汽车贷款，以及偿还信用卡债务时支付的费用有所增加。

由于物价上涨也让消费者的钱包更加吃紧，美联储在周三通过加息进一步提高借贷成本，这似乎有违直觉。

但原因在于，尽管目前的利率高于21世纪前二十年的大部分时间，但消费者支出、企业投资以及其他衡量经济健康状况的指标均处于过热状态。而由这种旺盛支出引起的物价上涨——即通货膨胀，在过去五年中一直高于美联储 2 percent 目标利率。

“提高利率正是为了抑制支出，”投资银行麦格理（Macquarie）的全球固定收益和利率策略师蒂埃里·维兹曼（Thierry Wizman）表示——（接B6页）

机构称思科未能保护其员工

作者：诺姆·谢伯（NOAM SCHEIBER）

在过去几年中，很少有议题能像巴以冲突那样让美国职场产生如此严重的分歧。

在思科（Cisco），这种怨恨蔓延到了内部留言板，亲巴勒斯坦的活动人士被嘲讽为动物，一名员工甚至告诉同事“停止生活”。

现在，一家联邦执法机构采取了罕见行动，认定思科可能未能保护穆斯林、巴勒斯坦人以及亲巴勒斯坦员工免受骚扰，当时这些员工及其同事正在就 2023 年哈马斯领导的对以色列突袭以及以色列在加沙的军事回应展开辩论。

在 6 月 9, 的一封信中，美国平等就业机会委员会（EEOC）的一位当地主管表示，有合理理由相信，生产计算机网络技术的思科公司“基于个体的国籍（中东）、宗教（穆斯林）和 / ——（接B4页）

数据来源：FactSet

最活跃 消费者利率 表现最差

房地产

住房市场指数跌至一年低点

周三的一项调查显示，由于抵押贷款利率上升抑制了住房需求，美国房屋建筑商信心在 9 月跌至一年低点。

美国全国房屋建筑商协会 / 富国银行住房市场指数本月下降 3 个点至 32，为 2025, 9 月以来的最低读数，而 8 月份该指数为 35。此次下降也反映了劳动力短缺

技术

华为称 AI 智能体将很快占据 AI 使用主导地位

华为预计，到 2035 年，自主智能体将占据全球 Token 流量的 90% 以上，这将需要大幅增加计算能力，并建立新系统以确保独立软件的安全。

这家中国科技巨头在周三表示，随着智能体不断地感知周围环境、推理、做出决策并调用外部工具， Token（模型在接收和生成信息时处理的单位）的年度消耗量将在未来十年内激增。

在美国，领先的 研究人员和高管在移民打击以及进口关税导致成本上升的背景下，呼吁放缓前沿开发。

路透社调查的经济学家此前预测该指数将放缓至 34。由于抵押贷款利率与美国 10 年期国债收益率同步上升，未来几个月的情绪可能会继续低迷。

抵押贷款金融公司房地美（Freddie Mac）的数据显示，上周 30 年期固定抵押贷款利率平均为 6.76%，为一年多以来的最高水平，高于前一周的 6.71%。路透社

在发生失控智能体事件以及警告称，未来能够自主操作硬件和获取资源的系统可能变得难以控制之后。

华为的《智能世界 2035：将愿景转化为行动》报告并未呼吁放缓开发。路透社

道琼斯工业平均指数 -1.2% 51,461.90

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纳斯达克综合指数 -0.0% 25,978.42

英国通胀率升至五个月高点

10 年期国债收益率 5.01% +0.013 点

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经济

英国国家统计局表示，油价和机票价格上涨是英国 8 月消费者价格指数从上月的 2.9% 上升至 3.1% 的主要原因。此次上涨使通胀率进一步偏离英格兰银行 2% 的通胀目标。

官方周三公布的数据显示，由于对抗伊朗战争的余波继续推高燃料价格，英国的通胀率升至五个月高点，这将迫使英格兰银行在未来几个月再次提高利率。

然而，外界普遍预计，利率制定者在周四结束会议时将把银行的主要利率维持在 3.75%，因为九名成员的货币政策委员会中的大多数似乎希望观察价格上涨是否会传导至工资，从而推高通胀。美联社

原油（美国） $102.43 -$3.40

黄金（纽约） $4,387.50 +$54.70

股票与债券

美联储加息后，华尔街早盘涨幅回吐

美联社

美国股市周三下跌，此前美联储三年来首次提高基准利率，并暗示为了控制国内的高通胀，未来可能还会进一步加息。

标普500指数在回吐早盘的微幅涨幅后下跌0.4%。道琼斯工业平均指数下跌631点，跌幅1.2%；纳斯达克综合指数在微跌不足0.1%后基本持平。

投资者通常更倾向于较低的利率，因为高利率会减缓经济增长，并削弱股票及其他投资资产的价格。

在美联储公布决定后，美国股市最初维持了早盘的微幅涨幅。如果能切断通胀的燃料，并将生活成本的进一步上涨率降低至美联储2%的目标，那么经济增速放缓带来的短期阵痛可能是值得的。

但随着美联储主席凯文·沃什（Kevin Warsh）在新闻发布会上多次表示通胀依然过高且美国经济似乎正在增强，股价在当天晚些时候走弱。这可能意味着经济足够强劲，能够承受进一步的加息，而美联储的其他官员也提供了各自的预测，表明利率可能需要进一步提高。

根据央行会议后公布的预测，美联储官员的中位数预期联邦基金利率在今年年底将达到4.1%。在周三加息后，目前的利率区间为3.75%至4%，而三个月前美联储官员给出的中位数预测为3.8%。

与此同时，交易员怀疑美联储可能会采取更激进的措施。根据数据，他们押注美联储在年底前将联邦基金利率提高至4.25%至4.50%区间的概率为38%

标准普尔500指数

来自芝商所（CME Group）。

“我们的决定是在美国经济似乎正在增强之际做出的，”沃什先生在新闻发布会上表示。

他指出了美国稳健的招聘趋势、企业利润以及企业的投资。与此同时，周三上午的一份报告显示，上个月美国消费者的零售支出远高于经济学家的预期。

“事实很明显，通货膨胀率太高，且持续时间太长，”沃什先生说。他随后补充道，“今天的行动开始表明我们对此是认真的。”

这是美联储三年来首次提高利率。

在华尔街，银行股的跌幅处于市场最剧烈的损失之列。美国经济增速放缓可能意味着对银行贷款的需求减少。此外，当短期利率与长期利率之间的差距缩小，银行也会受到损害，因为该行业正是通过利差获利。

在美联储公布消息后，两年期国债收益率从周二晚间的 4.67% 跳升至 4.74%。它往往紧跟市场对美联储联邦基金利率走势的预期。

与此同时，期限较长的 10 年期国债收益率则考虑了对未来几年经济增长和通货膨胀的预期。其涨幅较为温和，从周二晚间的 5.00 微升至 5.01。

亨廷顿银行（Huntington Bancshares）下跌 5.6 , 公民金融集团（Citizens Financial Group）下跌 4.8 且摩根大通（JPMorgan Chase）下跌 1 .

标准普尔 500 指数中跌幅最大的是 J.B. Hunt 运输服务公司，跌幅达 13.3 . 该公司首席财务官在周二晚间的一次分析师会议上表示，公司正面临更高的成本，预计其收益将从第二季度到第三季度下降 5 到 10。

在布伦特原油每桶价格下跌 2.7 至 $105.83. 之后，石油公司股票也拖累了市场。这是布伦特原油本周首次下跌，此前几天其价格已接近 $110。

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昨日股市回顾

S&P 500 7,551.81 ↓ -0.4% 3 个月表现：+0.5%

纳斯达克综合指数 25,978.42 0.0

表现最佳

道琼斯工业平均指数 51,461.90 ↓ -1.2%

S&P 500 COMPANIES< / td><>收盘价 涨跌< / >< / tr><><>1. Hunt (UB) Transport (JBHT)< / ><>$236.73 -13.2%< / >< / ><><>2. ON Semiconductor (ON)< / ><>$66.60 -9.0< / >< / ><><>3. Diamondback Energy (FANG)< / ><>$194.54 -8.0< / >< / ><><>4. Occidental Petroleum (OXY)< / ><>$59.36 -6.5< / >< / ><><>5. Texas Pacific Land (TPL)< / ><>$348.57 -6.2< / >< / ><><>6. ConocoPhillips (COP)< / ><>$132.54 -6.1< / >< / ><><>7. Expand Energy (EXE)< / ><>$88.74 -5.8< / >< / ><><>8. EOG Resources (EOG)< / ><>$144.93 -5.7< / >< / ><><>9. Devon Energy (DVN)< / ><>$48.44 -5.6< / >< / ><><>10. First Solar (FSLR)< / ><>$191.07 -5.6< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="2">S&P 500 COMPANIES< / ><>收盘价 涨跌< / >< / ><><>1. Lumentum Holdings (LITE)< / ><>$919.40< / ><>+9,8%< / >< / ><><>2. Coherent (COHR)< / ><>$289.93< / ><>+6,9< / >< / ><><>3. Axon Enterprise (AXON)< / ><>$468.42< / ><>+6,0< / >< / ><><>4. GE Vernova (GEV)< / ><>$925.09< / ><>+4,8< / >< / ><><>5. Edwards Lifesciences (EW)< / ><>$89.28< / ><>+4,1< / >< / ><><>6. Intel (INTC)< / ><>$101.05< / ><>+4,0< / >< / ><><>7. Revity (RVTY)< / ><>$145.73< / ><>+4,0< / >< / ><><>8. Dell Technologies C (DELL)< / ><>$563.29< / ><>+3,6< / >< / ><><>9. Metler-Toledo Intl (MTD)< / ><>$1,378.89< / ><>+3,8< / >< / ><><>10. Marvel Technology (MRVL)< / ><>$229.71< / ><>+3,6< / >< / table>

<><>S&P 500 COMPANIES< / ><>收盘价< / ><>涨跌< / ><>成交量（百万股）< / >< / ><><>1. Intel (INTC)< / ><>$101.05< / ><>+4.0%< / ><>118< / >< / ><><>2. NVIDIA (NVDA)< / ><>$213.90< / ><>+0.8< / ><>99< / >< / ><><>3. Huntington Bancshares (HBAN)< / ><>$15.82< / ><>-5.6< / ><>77< / >< / ><><>4. Ford Motor (F)< / ><>$13.35< / ><>-1.1< / ><>51< / >< / ><><>5. BvA (BAC)< / ><>$57.90< / ><>-2.7< / ><>49< / >< / ><><>6. AT&T Inc.(T)< / ><>$25.86< / ><>-3.2< / ><>37< / >< / ><><>7. Apple (AAPL)< / ><>$332.41< / ><>+0.3< / ><>36< / >< / ><><>8. Oracle (ORCL)< / ><>$143.16< / ><>+2.0< / ><>34< / >< / ><><>9. Robinson Markets A (HOOD)< / ><>$104.42< / ><>-5.5< / ><>33< / >< / ><><>10. Amazon.com (AMZN)< / ><>$245.96< / ><>-1.0< / ><>33< / >< / table>

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<>< colspan="4">市政债券< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">< / >< colspan="2">总回报< / >< rowspan="2">总资产（欧元）< / >< / ><><>1 年< / ><>5 年< / >< / ><><>1. Vanguard Intermediate-Term Tax-Exempt Fund Investor Shares (VWIX)< / ><>+3,6%< / ><>+1,0%< / ><>88,8< / >< / ><><>2. Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund Admiral Shares (VTEXX)< / ><>+4,1< / ><>+0,5< / ><>49,1< / >< / ><><>3. Vanguard Limited-Term Tax-Exempt Fund (VWUX)< / ><>+2,6< / ><>+1,8< / ><>35,8< / >< / ><><>4. American Funds Tax Exempt Bond Fund Class I-3 (TFEBX)< / ><>+4,6< / ><>+0,9< / ><>24,2< / >< / ><><>5. Bridge Builder Municipal Bond Fund (BBMXU)< / ><>+3,9< / ><>+1,1< / ><>20,8< / >< / ><><>6. Vanguard California Intermediate-Term Tax-Exempt Fund Investor Shares (VCAIX)< / ><>+3,5< / ><>+1,0< / ><>19,4< / >< / ><><>7. Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund (VWDX)< / ><>+5,2< / ><>+0,5< / ><>19,0< / >< / ><><>8. Vanguard Ultra Short-Term Tax-Exempt Fund (VWSTX)< / ><>+2,7< / ><>+2,3< / ><>18,5< / >< / ><><>9. Six Circles Tax-Aware Bond (CBTX)< / ><>+4,4< / ><>+1,1< / ><>18,0< / >< / ><><>10. Vanguard High-Yield Tax-Exempt Fund (VAHIX)< / ><>+6,1< / ><>+0,8< / ><>17,5< / >< / table>

来源：Morningstar 板块表现 S&P 500 SECTORS

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《60分钟》 / CBS新闻 在上周日播出的《60分钟》新一季首集中，L. 乔恩·沃特海姆采访了洛杉矶公羊队的主教练肖恩·麦凯。

21% Fewer Viewers Watch A '60 Minutes'

作者：迈克尔·M·格林鲍姆 (MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM)

在经历了一个混乱的休赛期后，《60 Minutes》于周日在CBS回归，带来了改版后的节目、一场引起热议的宣传活动，以及一次对一名在伊朗被击落的空军飞行员的独家采访。

然而，所有的喧嚣并未转化为收视率的成功。

根据尼尔森（Nielsen）的数据，该节目季首集的观众人数比一年前下降了约 21 percent，使其成为这部长寿节目在近期记忆中收视率最低的首播。

尼尔森的数据显示——总观众人数为 790 万，低于去年的 1000 万——这对CBS的总编辑巴里·魏斯（Bari Weiss）来说是一个令人不安的结果，她对《60 Minutes》的彻底改造已成为其任期内的一次早期考验。

魏斯女士清洗了节目的高级领导层，解雇了数名记者，并任命了新的执行制片人尼克·比尔顿（Nick Bilton），后者承诺将进行现代化改造。

魏斯女士的批评者迅速将周日的收视率下降归因于她的决策。但电视收视率取决于多种因素。

在全国大部分地区，《60 Minutes》在国家橄榄球联盟（NFL）比赛后立即播出，收视率通常根据节目之前的对阵情况而波动。在去年的首播之前，CBS独占了NFL最受瞩目的下午晚间比赛；而刚刚过去的周日，CBS和福克斯（Fox）同时播出了在同一时间开球的比赛。

这种竞争导致CBS下午晚间橄榄球赛的观众人数下降，比一年前减少了约 22 percent。

尽管如此，改版后《60 Minutes》的新鲜感——尤其是在关于该节目幕后戏剧（包括解雇斯科特·佩利 [Scott Pelley]）的大量报道之后——曾让人期待好奇的观众会前来观看。CBS投入了大规模的营销活动，包括在时代广场设立广告牌，敦促路人在此前评判该节目之前“亲眼看看”。

CBS新闻在周二的一份声明中表示：“我们对季首集所展示的卓越新闻报道感到非常自豪，并迫不及待地想在即将到来的周日为我们的观众带来另一场精彩的节目。”

《60 Minutes》仍然是电视上最受欢迎的新闻节目，上季每集平均观众人数为 910 万，比前一年增长了 9 percent。近年来，季首集的观众人数通常在略低于 1000 万 到略低于 1200 万 之间。

之前的成功引发了人们的疑问：为什么魏斯女士决定彻底改造这个可以说在CBS新闻产品组合中最强有力的品牌。

然而，尽管有这么多炒作，周日的剧集看起来与之前的版本非常相似。

诺拉·奥唐奈（Norah O'Donnell）采访了那位关于从伊朗获救的空军上校。莱斯利·斯塔尔（Lesley Stahl）调查了围绕特朗普总统频繁使用赦免权而形成的地下经济。L. 乔恩·沃特海姆（L. Jon Wertheim）报道了洛杉矶ラム斯队主教练肖恩·麦凯（Sean McVay）的人物特写。

身为技术记者和电影制作人的比尔顿先生进行了一些图形增强，例如在节目标志性的“滴答、滴答、滴答”开场中使用了外观更时尚的秒表。该节目还在斯塔尔的环节中使用了隐藏摄像头，重启了近年来已不再流行的《60 Minutes》拍摄技巧。

烹饪

作者：本杰明·马林 (BENJAMIN MULLIN)

探索精选系列，如“与孩子一起烹饪的食谱”。

让准备时间成为新的游戏时间。

福克斯在创始人离职后重新打造 Outkick 网站

纽约时报

多年来，克莱·特拉维斯（Clay Travis）一直是 Outkick 的核心。 是一家保守派体育评论网站，福克斯公司（Fox Corp.）于 2021. 年将其收购。这位言辞挑衅且从不妥协的评论员主持着一个受欢迎的播客，并共同主持一个时长三小时的谈话广播节目，该时段曾由《拉什·林博秀》（The Rush Limbaugh Show）占据。福克斯还为他在体育网络 FSI 安排了一个节目，以及在福克斯赛前节目《大正午开球》（Big Noon Kick-off）中占据一席之地。

但今年 6 月，特拉维斯先生离开了 去创办一家竞争公司。现在，福克斯正采取行动，在没有特拉维斯先生作为核心的情况下，吸引体育迷关注 。

6 月，福克斯新闻（Fox News）的数字化部门将 纳入其更大的运营体系中，并在两个月后为其更新了标志和新标语，将其定位为一个“体育与文化碰撞”的地方。一名福克斯发言人表示，自那时起流量有所增长，并引用 Comscore 的数据称，8 月份环比增长了 19%。

福克斯新闻数字化部门编辑执行副总裁汤米·费思（Tommy Firth）表示，该计划旨在专注于那些希望获得“来自另一方报道”和“幽默且不羁”内容的体育迷。

该网站还在增加新作者：周三， 预计将宣布聘请马特·卡尔金斯（Matt Calkins）。他是一位资深的体育专栏作家，此前因《西雅图时报》（The Seattle Times）拒绝发表他关于跨性别运动员的专栏而辞职。在那篇专栏中，他认为支持禁止跨性别运动员参加女性体育赛事并不意味着一个人自动变成了跨性别恐惧者。

该网站正投资扩大其体育报道范围，此前其报道主要集中在职业美式足球、篮球、棒球和冰球。费思先生表示，该网站将加强对摔跤、狩猎、钓鱼和大学体育的报道。

“政治是文化的下游，而这一切似乎又是体育的下游，”费思先生说。“一切都像是一锅浓稠的混合物，无论你是否喜欢，我们选择不把头埋在沙子里视而不见。”

上个月，福克斯宣布还聘请了纽约高峰时段的广播主持人克雷格·卡顿（Craig Carton），为 创建一个体育与文化节目。

体育已日益成为媒体行业的中心。现场比赛仍然是电视收视率的可靠驱动力，许多媒体公司——包括《华尔街日报》和 CNBC——都在投资体育报道以吸引读者和观众。《纽约时报》在 2022 年以 5.5亿美元 购买了体育媒体公司 The Athletic。

牛油果 炸薯条 糖 曲奇棒 香蕉 全能 曲奇 味噌 肉丸 酸奶蛋糕 牛油果酱 配水果 西葫芦 煎饼 通心粉 和奶酪

他的新工作要求每周撰写多篇专栏，卡尔金斯先生表示，这些内容将主要集中在涉及体育、政治和文化的议题上。他提到自己在 Substack 上撰写的专栏是他未来在 工作的前奏，其中包括一篇关于科林·卡佩尼克（Colin Kaepernick）的文章。这位前四分卫在对警察杀人事件感到愤怒后，在国歌奏响时通过下跪表示抗议。该文章质疑卡佩尼克先生是否对“黑人社区造成的伤害多于益处”。

“那引起了非常复杂的反应，”卡尔金斯先生说。“很多人非常喜欢，很多人不喜欢，但对我来说，这是我坚持的观点。”

本周开始工作的卡尔金斯先生在一次采访中表示，在他今年夏天发布辞职消息后，费思先生和特拉维斯先生都与他取得了联系。卡尔金斯先生表示，他选择 是因为它提供了他在《西雅图时报》中感到缺失的自由。《西雅图时报》的一位发言人未回应置评请求。

特拉维斯先生一直支持 Outkick；他仍在 FS1 主持一个源自 Outkick 的节目，并继续担任福克斯新闻（Fox News）的撰稿人。他的新网站“体育与国家”（Sport & State）采用了一个不寻常的商业模式；特拉维斯先生表示，他将拥有或持有其推广公司的实质性股份，其中包括一家设有个人伤害业务的律师事务所和一家抵押贷款机构。

劳工

A.I. 至今尚未成为就业杀手，但加薪与招聘规模有所下降

“鸡尾酒界的 Keurig”制造商 Bartesian 的创始人兼首席执行官瑞安·克洛斯（Ryan Close）表示，该公司正在招聘。他表示，营收的增长在很大程度上得益于 A.I.。 ROSS D. FRANKLIN / 美联社

来自商业版第一页 而非减少员工人数，而是抑制了工资增长。

“如果你是一名理发师、一名按摩师或一名门卫，你的职业当然不会受到 A.I. 的威胁；但如果你是一名记者或经济学家，工资压力就会更大，因为现在我们所做的工作在某些方面可以被 A.I. 所取代，”斯洛克（Mr. Slok）先生说道。

换句话说，A.I. 对所谓“知识工作”的影响，似乎体现在招聘人员减少招聘，而非管理人员增加解雇。

“正因为如此，找工作变得更加复杂，”斯洛克先生说。“而你所能获得的薪资，正是我们观察到所有变动的地方。”

埃德利希（Ms. Edlich）女士和斯洛克先生发现，高度暴露于 A.I. 的职业在 2023 年以来的实际工资增长下降了 6.7%，且这种影响在低收入群体中最为严重。通常从事行政或支持工作的服务人员，其工资增长下降了 24%。底部的四分之一员工下降了 11%。然而，高收入者几乎未受影响。

企业利润全面上涨。在这些繁荣时期，公司在趁热打铁方面有多种选择。

他们可以通过“以少办多”并裁员来利用新发现的效率；他们可以扩大规模并增加新雇员；或者他们可以通过减少招聘数量来维持效率。许多公司选择了第三种方案。

梅丽莎·克鲁特（Melissa Krut）是 Sogolytics 的高级副总裁。这是一家位于弗吉尼亚州的软件公司，拥有约 100 名员工，服务于 10,000 多家客户。她负责该公司的人力资源工作，该公司为包括可口可乐和联合航空在内的公司提供“反馈管理”服务，例如设计和管理客户调查。

克鲁特女士表示，在过去三年中，“生产力提高了，我们的客户增加了，几乎在任何衡量标准下我们都实现了增长，但在销售、客户管理和支持岗位上，我们的人员增加比例并没有那么高”。

克鲁特女士说，原因之一是集成了 A.I. 模型，这些模型可以处理某些岗位超过一半的基础任务。她说，这导致对寻求加薪的员工以及新雇员的“期望更高”。

“如果你的工作可以用 A.I. 完成，那么你最好能提供额外的价值，”克鲁特女士说。“你能为这种情况带来什么样的‘锦上添花’？是你的迷人个性？还是你的幽默感？你拥有什么样的特质能让你脱颖而出？”

通常情况下，当经济增长时，大学毕业生是感到最有底气的群体之一。但一大批处于职业早期的大学毕业生正感受到被雇佣门槛提高所带来的剧烈压力。

投资公司 Liminal Capital 在 8 月估计，约三分之一的工作岗位在 A.I. 面前，被“替代”的风险似乎高于被“增强”的概率。在这些职业中，22 至 25 岁员工的新聘人数自 2021 年以来下降了三分之一，而解雇人数几乎没有变动。

Liminal 论文的作者本·弗舒尔（Ben Verschuere）和安格斯·卡梅伦（Angus Cameron）表示，这一趋势背后的原因之一是年轻人最有可能进入劳动力市场，因此他们最容易受到雇主提高筛选标准的冲击。婴儿潮一代的大规模退休，也没有为之下的 X 世代或千禧一代带来薪资上涨或职位空缺的激增。

“我们可能正生活在一个失业率较低，但工作质量、构成和工资却在恶化的世界中，”劳动力市场数据公司 Revelio Labs 的经济研究主管卢贾娜·阿卜杜勒瓦赫德（Loujaina Abdelwahed）表示。

所有年龄段基层员工的平均时薪增长率在 2022 年达到 6% 以上的峰值，而上个月按年度计算已下降至接近 3%。这种情况很不寻常：通常失业率下降时工资会随之上涨，今年年初以来情况正是如此。

“工资增长与生产力已经出现了分叉，”弗舒尔先生（Mr. Verschuere）说道。

随着效率和利润率较 2010 年代有所提升，国民收入中的劳动力份额（衡量薪酬相对于企业利润的指标）已从 1990 年代后期的峰值下降了约 10 个百分点。

B2B 电子商务机构（B2B eCommerce Agency）的首席执行官伊森·吉芬（Ethan Giffin）帮助制造和分销公司将基于电话的订购系统过渡到自动化系统，其公司营收在过去三年中实现了两位数的增长。但吉芬先生表示，他基本上已经停止招聘技术作者，因为以前需要一年或更长时间才能完成的工作，现在只需要大约三个月。

“处理一个包含 5,000 或 10,000 个产品的目录所需的人工小时极其枯燥，而现在利用人工智能（AI），可以显著减少完成这项工作所需的人工小时，”他说道。“与支付三、四或五个人坐在一起做这项工作相比，这节省了大量成本。”

对于像规模达 $30 trillion 的美国经济这样庞大且多样化的生态系统，这种趋势不可避免地存在例外。最近的研究发现，一些积极采用 AI 的公司反而加快了招聘步伐。此外，对专门从事 AI 管理的某些技术工人的需求已变得极其旺盛。

但经济分析师乔伊·波利塔诺（Joey Politano）表示，美国科技行业整体上正在大量流失岗位，上个月减少了约 7,000 个，过去一年减少了约 48,000 个。而另一个高度暴露在 AI 影响下的行业——金融服务业，就业水平正在出现绝对萎缩，自年初以来已流失 100,000 个工作岗位。

在金融公司工作的美国成年人比例——这曾是进入中上层阶级或更高阶层的可靠通道——已跌至 1981 年以来的最低水平。弗舒尔先生表示，许多毕业生的就业渠道也在枯竭。尽管申请银行的人数继续在增加数十万，但被录用的人数基本持平。

年轻人还有其他就业途径，包括面向消费者的初创公司。Bartesian 的创始人兼首席执行官瑞安·克洛斯（Ryan Close）正在招聘，该公司生产家用鸡尾酒机，被称为“鸡尾酒界的 Keurig”。

克洛斯先生表示，营收已从 5000万美元 增长到 2022 年后的 8000万美元，这在很大程度上归功于 AI。

据克洛斯先生介绍，机器人和智能体可以专业地制定预算、编写零售报告，并且像撒渔网一样，识别出能够成为 Bartesian 优秀品牌大使的影响力人物。它们甚至可以为潜在供应商起草合同，并估算薪资范围。

“这太疯狂了，”他说道。

尽管这种自动化效率降低了他对入门级员工的招聘需求，但克洛斯先生决定多雇佣几名中级员工，让他们专注于战略而非重复性任务。但在许多情况下，他降低了提供的薪资。

“四年前人们期待的薪水对我来说简直不可思议，”克洛斯先生说。当时 30 岁以下的候选人在申请销售和营销岗位时，能拿到超过 $100,000 的 offer，而他现在认为这些岗位是“可替代的”。

他说，现在的劳动力市场更多是买方市场而非卖方市场：“我认为情况正在回归现实，就像是，如果你能找到一份好工作，而且大学毕业两年左右，拿 80 grand 就应该感到高兴了。”

下方为位于加利福尼亚州圣何塞的思科（Cisco）总部。在一项罕见的行动中，一家联邦执法机构认定，在穆斯林、巴勒斯坦人及支持巴勒斯坦的员工与其同事就 2023 年哈马斯领导的对以色列突袭行动展开辩论期间，思科可能未能保护这些员工免受骚扰。

监管机构称，思科可能未能保护其支持巴勒斯坦的员工

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该信函并非具有约束力的裁决，且双方均表示，美国平等就业机会委员会（E.E.O.C.）已暗示其不会提起诉讼。（一名 E.E.O.C. 发言人表示，该机构无法对此发表评论。）但此类调查结果往往会在员工决定自行起诉时，为其案件提供支持。“这很有帮助，但并非决定性的，”前 E.E.O.C. 委员柴·费尔德布鲁姆（Chai Feldblum）表示。

代表思科现任及前任员工向 E.E.O.C. 提起此案的律师克里斯托弗·何（Christopher Ho）表示，在与公司就和解方案未能取得进展后，他们于上个月公开了这封信。

“我的客户觉得思科认为他们不值得获得足够的保护，”何先生说。“这是一个迟到但令人欣慰的认可，证明了他们所遭遇的情况是非常违法的。”该案件主张这种骚扰仍在继续。

思科发言人罗宾·布鲁姆（Robyn Blum）在的一份声明中表示，公司不同意 E.E.O.C. 的调查结果，并且公司已“对所有顾虑进行了彻底调查并采取了适当行动”。

在特朗普政府执法重点发生转移的背景下，这一调查结果显得格外引人注目。特朗普政府任命的 E.E.O.C. 主席曾承诺，将遏制她认为的在保护某些少数群体方面存在的过度行为。

“针对我们的死亡威胁、伊斯兰恐惧症以及反巴勒斯坦情绪，都被忽视了。”

针对穆斯林、巴勒斯坦人以及支持巴勒斯坦活动人士的此类行为在2023年10月7日的袭击后不久便开始了。根据几名思科（Cisco）前员工及其分享的截图，这种情况经常发生在一个名为“互联犹太网络”（Connected Jewish Network）的员工团体所使用的公司托管论坛上。

“美国平等就业机会委员会（E.E.O.C.）很少在任何案件中认定存在违规，”非营利组织“工作法律援助”（Legal Aid at Work）的律师何先生（Mr. Ho）表示，“但我也很惊讶这件事发生在现任政府任期内。”费尔德布鲁姆女士（Ms. Feldblum）则表示，传统上此类调查结果是由专业人员出具的，无需政治任命官员参与。

2023年11月下旬，一名员工在论坛上写道：“今天早上，以色列路人杀死了耶路撒冷一个巴勒斯坦家庭的2名成员，而我个人对此深表感激。”2024年3月的一条关于蒙特利尔反以色列抗议活动的评论将抗议者称为“动物”。其他在论坛发帖的思科员工似乎将支持巴勒斯坦与恐怖主义等同起来。

在思科，这种敌对语言

雷汉·比利奇（Reyhan Bilici）曾是思科的律师，她最近在LinkedIn上宣布辞职，理由是伊斯兰恐惧症。她表示，此类语言给人一种印象，即无论她拥有多少专业资历都无关紧要。“到头来，我会被简化为这些特定的冒犯性词汇：恐怖分子、动物，或者任何类似的词，”比利奇女士说，“这完全是在剥夺人的尊严。”

索菲亚·菲利佩（Sophia Filipe）是参与E.E.O.C.案件的一名前思科员工，她提到首席人力资源官。

《连线》（Wired）杂志报道称，这种委屈感是双向的，一些犹太员工也认为公司没有保护他们免受同情巴勒斯坦员工的骚扰。公司表示，它调查了双方的多起投诉，并在此过程中力求维持平衡。

2024年6月，一个自称“人性之桥”（Bridge to Humanity）且支持巴勒斯坦的员工团体向思科领导层发出了一封公开信，要求公司停止向以色列政府提供技术，并提出了其他要求。

几天后，一名思科官员给公司“包容性社区”——即具有相似身份（如种族或宗教）的员工团体——的负责人发送了电子邮件，称该公开信正在审核中。该官员要求包容性社区的负责人不要转发这封信，并要求他们将“任何令人担忧的讨论上报至员工关系部门”。（另一名思科官员随后告诉“人性之桥”的成员，公司并非在质疑其公开信，而只是在思科制定回应方案期间请求耐心等待。）

作为“人性之桥”成员的比利奇女士表示，公司的姿态（例如对公开信的冷淡回应）诱发了进一步的骚扰。“思科创造了这样一种环境，让人们觉得可以大胆地升级客观的伊斯兰恐惧症和反巴勒斯坦歧视，”她说。

随后出现了更多辱骂性的帖子。7月，一名思科员工在“互联犹太网络”中写道，签署该信件的同事应该“直接走人（不仅是离开思科，而是停止生存，让这个世界变得更好）”。另一篇帖子称，这封信感觉像是从公司外部策划的，并暗示它是某种“协调行动”的一部分。

不久之后，公司通知“人性之桥”，由于内部投诉和违反公司政策，公司将关闭托管该团体公开信的内部站点以及帮助收集签名的机器人。公司在2024年8月告知该团体成员，它已经解雇了那名称签署者应“停止生存”的员工，而该评论被成员标记已过去约七周。

参与“人性之桥”（Bridge to Humanity）行动的前思科（Cisco）员工表示，该公司发出的信号表明，针对穆斯林、巴勒斯坦人及支持巴勒斯坦员工的骚扰，比针对其他员工的骚扰更容易被接受。

例如，公司在收到一份长达 76 页、向员工关系部门提交的投诉信后，花费了两个多月的时间才给出结论性答复。该投诉记录了针对穆斯林、巴勒斯坦人及其支持者的系统性骚扰模式。公司表示，已删除了部分违规帖子，并对部分涉事员工进行了纪律处分和辅导。

但在同一个月的晚些时候，思科在处理犹太论坛的一项申诉时似乎行动得更快。在该论坛中，一名员工投诉了一张照片，照片中公司的人事首席官与几名员工在一起，这些员工穿着印有思科标志的 T 恤，且 T 恤上的以色列地图被阿拉伯语的“巴勒斯坦”字样覆盖。该员工将此比作要求摧毁以色列的呼吁。

几个小时后，人事首席官在犹太论坛中发表道歉，称这些 T 恤违反了公司政策，而她是在一次会议上无意中加入拍摄的。她写道：“再次为我没意识到 T 恤上描绘的象征意义而道歉。我感到非常糟糕。”

思科表示，这两种情况不可比——公司需要数周时间来调查数十条可疑评论，而照片事件则涉及一名高管为可能被解读为政治声明的行为道歉。

在感到存在双重标准而心生沮丧后，员工在事件发生几个月后向美国平等就业机会委员会（E.E.O.C.）提起指控。索菲亚·菲利佩（Sophia Filipe）是“人性之桥”小组的成员，也是 E.E.O.C. 案件的参与者，她提到人事首席官时说：“在人们对巴勒斯坦地图提出投诉后的几个小时内，她就进入该空间公开道歉。”

“与此同时，针对我们的死亡威胁、伊斯兰恐惧症以及反巴勒斯坦情绪却被忽视了。这种巨大的反差促使我们向 E.E.O.C. 寻求救济。”

硬件在硅谷再次迎来高光时刻

作者：尼科·加洛格利 (NIKO GALLOGLY)

在 ChatGPT 于 2022 年首次亮相后，风险投资行业竞相投资人工智能初创公司。大多数风投机构希望能够借助 OpenAI 这一变革性聊天机器人的成功而获利。但温·谢 (Wen Hsieh) 对机遇的看法略有不同。

谢先生在职业生涯的大部分时间里一直是一名硬件投资者，他意识到人工智能的繁荣将产生对其底层驱动技术的 demand。2023 年，他创立了 Matter Venture Partners，旨在专注于这一赌注。

这是一个具有先见之明的举动：硬件现在成了硅谷的新热门词汇。

随着人工智能颠覆风险投资的传统核心领域——软件，越来越多的投资者正将资金投入到物理技术中。根据 Pitchbook 的数据，2020 年，风险投资公司在所谓的“深科技”（deep tech）领域投资了 230 亿美元 billion，其中包括机器人、航天、量子及其他硬件技术。今年到目前为止，这一数字已增长至 900 亿美元 billion。

谢先生表示：“我无法想象会有这么一天”，如此多的投资者会对硬件产生兴趣。

这种兴趣让他获益匪浅：周三，Matter 宣布其第二支风险基金已筹集 4.5亿美元，用于投资早期硬科技公司。此次融资轮涵盖了一系列与人工智能繁荣密切相关的投资者，包括 ASML 和台积电 (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company)。在共同创立 Matter 之前，谢先生曾在 Kleiner Perkins 担任通用合伙人并工作了 17 年，该公司此前也曾投资过 Matter。

Matter 投资于六个核心类别：半导体、人工智能基础设施、能源、机器人、先进制造以及

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量子计算。由于开发和制造新物理产品需要高额的前期投资，风险投资行业的大多数从业者一直对这些行业持谨慎态度。

但人工智能（AI）已开始改变这一计算方式。使用 AI 模型降低了研发的成本和时间。同时，它也使得那些构建成本较低的软件产品更难形成竞争壁垒，这一担忧引发了今年早些时候所谓的“SaaS末日”（SaaSpocalypse），导致“软件即服务”类股票出现抛售。

硅谷对物理技术的拥抱，或许在风险投资巨头 Andreessen Horowitz 身上体现得最为明显。该公司的成功建立在一种哲学之上——由其联合创始人马克·安德森（Marc Andreessen）在 2011 年的一篇论文中提出——即软件正在吞噬世界。但 Andreessen Horowitz 也在增加对物理技术的关注，上个月筹集的 11 亿美元 billion “机器时代”（Machine Age）基金便证明了这一点，该基金旨在投资 AI 基础设施初创公司。

支持硬件初创公司的另一个因素是规模更大的硬件公司取得了日益显著的成功。风险投资公司 New System Ventures 的创始人伊恩·塞缪尔斯（Ian Samuels）表示：“你已经看到世界上一些最有价值的企业最终成为了资本密集型企业，比如 SpaceX。”

投资其他硬科技初创公司“是为 AI 生态系统做出贡献的一种方式”，并能借此了解该领域的创新，

人工智能

Anvil Robotics 的演示。该公司是 Matter Venture Partners 投资组合中的初创公司之一，后者专注于硬件。 MATTER VENTURE PARTNERS

ASML 的首席战略官阿尔纳布·达斯（Arnab Das）告诉 DealBook。

ASML 是 Matter 最新基金的投资者，并计划建立一个正式的风险投资部门以投资更多初创公司。这家总部位于荷兰的制造公司为半导体行业提供关键零部件。

谢先生表示，规模较大的公司也表现出愿意为小型硬件初创公司“支付高昂金额”的意愿。例如，Matter 的投资组合公司 Q.ai 在 1 月被苹果公司收购，交易价值 16 亿美元 billion。

这并非风险投资者首次转向硬件。在 21 世纪初，风险投资资金大量涌入清洁技术公司，其中许多公司最终夭折。而在 2020 年和 2021 年，公开市场出现的一波 SPAC（特殊目的收购公司）浪潮以及

高知名度的首次公开募股（IPO）帮助硬科技公司引入了资金，但其中许多公司的价值已经下跌。

谢先生表示，硬件投资的挑战性和复杂性，正是为什么具有技术背景且长期关注该类别的投资者处于最有利位置的原因：“如果你在这个领域深耕足够久，你就知道这并不容易。”

扎克伯格称放缓人工智能发展是错误方向

作者：ELI TAN

在周二的一篇社交媒体帖子中，马克·扎克伯格表示，领先的人工智能实验室应专注于安全性，而非提升自身技术。

旧金山——在关于是否应放缓人工智能开发的激烈争论中，Meta首席执行官马克·扎克伯格于周二将矛头指向竞争对手人工智能初创公司Anthropic及其首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代（Dario Amodei）。

在一篇社交媒体帖子中，扎克伯格先生表示，领先的人工智能实验室应专注于安全性，而非提升自身技术。他没有点名阿莫代先生或Anthropic，但表示呼吁全行业暂停人工智能开发的做法是错误的方向。周六，阿莫代先生出于对该技术能力迅速增强的担忧，呼吁全球放缓人工智能发展。

“每个实验室都有责任且有动力以训练其模型所需的安全速度前进，”扎克伯格在帖子中写道，“Meta已经做出了这一承诺，其他实验室也可以做到。”

近日，关于人工智能开发速度及其潜在危险的争论席卷了科技行业。上周，Anthropic的一名研究员辞职并警告称，人工智能公司正在“拿我们的生命进行赌博”，这进一步激化了矛盾。随后，阿莫代先生就放缓发展发表了看法，OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）以及埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）——其SpaceX火箭com——也加入了他的行列。

“在他们之前我们就已经这么做了，”扎克伯格先生说。“我们只是将其作为日常工作的一部分来执行，因为这显然是对人们以及对我们自己正确的事情。”

他还讽刺竞争对手的人工智能实验室在竞相追求“递归自我改进”（即利用人工智能来开发其自身）。他表示，人工智能公司应该专注于服务人类。

在去年落后于Anthropic和OpenAI之后，Meta一直致力于在人工智能竞赛中追赶。该公司计划在未来几周内发布其迄今为止最强大的人工智能模型（内部代号为“Watermelon”）。

（《纽约时报》已起诉OpenAI和微软，称其在人工智能系统相关的新闻内容上侵犯了版权。这两家公司否认了这些指控。）

Meta 首席执行官似乎在讽刺 Anthropic。

公司一直在加大对人工智能（AI）的投入；以及 Google DeepMind 主席德米斯·哈萨比斯（Demis Hassabis）。

其他科技领袖，例如风险投资家兼特朗普总统顾问大卫·萨克斯（David Sacks），对阿莫代（Mr. Amodei）的动机提出了质疑。他们认为，他是在夸大 AI 的风险，从而增加其他公司与 Anthropic 及其他领先实验室竞争的难度。

扎克伯格（Mr. Zuckerberg）在帖子中采取了折中立场。他承认 AI 存在风险，但表示公司已经有动力确保用户安全，并且可以自行放缓进度。他以 Meta 上周发布的 Muse 为例——这是一个能够自主使用软件的新型 AI “智能体”——并表示他的公司将该产品的发布推迟了几个月，以确保其安全性。

“我们并没有要求其他人

美国破产法院 纽约南区

关于 E-HOUSE (CHINA) ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS LIMITED 的案件 外国程序中的债务人

第 15 章 案件编号 26-12138 (JPM)

关于 (I) 承认外国主程序、(II) 承认外国代表及某些相关救济的经核实申请的提交及听证会通知

请注意，2026年9月8日，亚历山大·洛维安（Alexander Lowyan）以 E-House (China) Enterprise Holdings Limited（“债务人”）正式授权的外国代表身份，即该公司的“外国代表”，提交了申请。该公司目前正处于名为 E-House (China) Enterprise Holdings Limited 内部的外国重组程序中。China Enterprise Holdings Limited 的“外国代表”是根据《开曼群岛公司法》第 85 条（“开曼群岛程序”）指定的方案顾问，目前该程序正在开曼群岛大法院（“开曼法院”）审理中。请注意，该申请是根据《美国法典》（“破产法”）第 15 章请求为债务人提供救济，并请求获得 (a) 对外国主程序的承认、(b) 外国代表的登记以及 (d) “授予的全球救济”集合，该“经核实财务服务机构”提交至美国纽约南区破产法院（“法院”）。

请进一步注意，经核实申请还请求法院根据《破产法》第 1517 条，下达承认开曼群岛程序为外国主程序的命令，承认外国代表为《破产法》第 101(24) 条所定义的“外国代表”，并根据《破产法》第 106(a)、1507、1518、1515 和 1521 条授予相关救济。

请进一步注意，法院已安排于 2026年10月21日东部时间上午 9:30 举行听证会，以审议 Swirtel 养老金申请中所请求的救济（“承认听证会”）。承认听证会将使用政府版 Zoom 远程进行，由纽约南区美国破产法院法官约翰·R·曼坦多三世（John R. Mantando III）主持，地点位于纽约州纽约市 Bowling Green 1 号，邮编 10084 的美国纽约南区破产法院。

请进一步注意，根据地方破产规则 2002-4，在承认听证会上，法院可能会命令安排一次案件管理会议，以考虑第 15 章案件的高效管理。

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关于以现金收购 Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. 最多 2,400,184 股普通股的收购要约通知

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Beretta Holding S.A. 以每股 $44.80 的收购价格发起

Beretta Holding S.A.（以下简称“Beretta Holding”）是一家卢森堡公司，现拟以每股 $44.80 的现金价格（卖方净得，需扣除任何适用预扣税且不计利息），收购 Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.（一家特拉华州公司，以下简称“公司”）已发行在外的面值为每股 $1.00 的普通股（以下简称“股份”）最多 2,400,184 股。此次收购将根据 2026 年 9 月 17 日的《收购要约》（以下简称“收购要约”）以及相关的《交付函》（该函件与任何对其进行的修订和补充共同构成“要约收购”）中所规定的条款并受其条件的约束。

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要约收购及撤回权将于纽约市时间 2026 年 10 月 15 日晚上 11:59 之后的一分钟失效，除非要约收购期限获得延长（以下简称“失效日期”）。

本次要约收购是根据公司与 Beretta Holding 于 2026 年 5 月 2 日签署的合作协议（以下简称“合作协议”）而发起的。关于合作协议的详细描述，请参阅《收购要约》第 10 节“要约收购背景、与公司的过往接触；合作协议”。

根据要约收购的条款并受其条件的约束，Beretta Holding 将购买最多 2,400,184 股股份；若有效投标的股份数量较少，则购买所有有效投标且未有效撤回的股份。 根据要约收购接受支付并支付有效投标（且未撤回）股份的义务，受《收购要约》中规定的某些条件的约束。请参阅《收购要约》第 14 节“要约收购条件”。本次要约收购不受任何融资条件的限制，且不以任何最低投标股份数量为前提。

“失效日期”是指纽约市时间 2026 年 10 月 15 日晚上 11:59 之后的一分钟，除非要约收购根据合作协议获得延长，在这种情况下，“失效日期”应指经如此延长后的要约收购失效的最晚日期和时间。

在以下情况下， 可能被要求或被允许延长要约收购期限：(a) 应根据适用的美国联邦证券法以及美国证券交易委员会（“SEC”）及其工作人员就要约收购所适用的规则和条例所要求的任何期限延长要约收购；(b) 可因任何原因延长要约收购，最多可延长四次，每次连续增加最多五 (5) 个工作日（或由公司与 协商一致的更长期间及 / 或更多次数）。

根据合作协议要求或允许的要约收购延期，应通过公开公告的方式实施，该公告最晚应在原定或此前公布的失效日期后的下一个工作日纽约市时间上午 9:00 前发布。

就要约收购而言，仅在 向 Computershare Trust Company, N.A.（以下简称“托管机构”）发出口头或书面通知，确认其根据要约收购接受支付此类股份时，且在符合要约收购比例分配条款的前提下， 才被视为已接受支付（并因此购买）正确投标且未正确撤回的股份。 将通过向托管机构存入股份的总购买价款，来支付根据要约收购购买的股份；托管机构将作为投标股东的代理人，负责接收来自 的款项并将款项转交给投标股东。

只有在托管机构及时收到股份证书，或及时收到股份已记账转入托管机构在 The Depository Trust Company 账户的确认函，以及一份填写完整且正式签署的转交函（或其手动签署的传真件），或者在记账转账的情况下收到一份“代理人消息”（定义见《收购要约》）及任何其他所需文件后， 才会为在要约收购中投标并被接受支付的股份付款。

根据要约收购的条款并受其条件的约束，如果在到期日之前有超过 2,400,184 股股份被有效投标且未被有效撤回，Beretta Holding 将按比例从所有正确投标且在到期日前未正确撤回其股份的股东处购买股份。Beretta Holding 预计，在到期日后最多五个工作日内，可能无法公布最终的比例分配结果或开始支付根据要约收购购买的任何股份的款项。任何比例分配的初步结果将在到期日后立即通过新闻稿公布。

将在到期日后立即退回所有其未购买的投标股份，包括因要约收购的比例分配条款而未购买的部分。在任何情况下，无论要约收购是否延长或修订，或支付此类股份的款项是否延迟， 均不会就投标股份的购买价格支付利息。

将不提供 1934 年《证券交易法》Rule 144-11 含义内的“后续发行期”。根据要约收购进行的投标可在要约收购到期前的任何时间撤回。此后，此类投标不可撤销，但如果在要约收购开始之日起 60 天后，该等股份尚未按照收购要约的规定被接受支付，则可以在该时间后撤回。要撤回投标股份，需由持有者提交一份书面或传真形式的 由持有者提交的 （见第 2 节）。由持有者提交的 数量，由持有者提交的 由持有者提交的

将自行决定关于撤回通知的形式和有效性的所有问题，且每项此类决定将是最终的并具有约束力。 、托管机构、信息代理人或其他任何人均没有义务就撤回通知中的缺陷或异常发出通知，也不因未能发出此类通知而承担责任。

1934. 年《证券交易法》通用规则与条例 Rule 14d-6 的 (d)(1) 款要求披露的信息包含在收购要约及相关的转让函中，并在此通过引用纳入。

寻求在本次要约收购中出于投资目的收购最多 2,400,184 股股份。本次要约收购并非寻求获取公司的控制权。

通常情况下，公司股东在收到 兑换其在要约收购中投标股份的现金时，将 subject to 美国联邦所得税及适用的预扣税。 鼓励股东就适用于其具体情况的税务后果寻求其自身顾问的专业建议。

公司已向 Beretta Holding 提供公司的股东名单和证券持仓清单，以便向股份持有者分发收购要约（Offer to Purchase）、相关的提交函（Letter of Transmittal）及相关文件。收购要约及相关的提交函将邮寄给出现在公司股东名单上的登记股东，并将提供给出现在股东名单上的经纪商、交易商、商业银行、信托公司及类似人员，或其提名人的姓名出现在名单上的人员，或者（如适用）被列为结算机构证券持仓清单参与者的人员，以便随后转交给股份的实益拥有人。

收购要约及相关的提交函包含重要信息。股东在就此次要约收购做出任何决定之前，应仔细阅读这两份文件的全部内容。

任何问题或协助请求可拨打下方列出的电话号码或发送至下方地址联系信息代理人。如需获取收购要约、相关提交函及其他要约收购材料的副本，可按下方说明联系信息代理人，副本将由 Beretta Holding 出资及时提供。股东亦可联系其经纪商、交易商、商业银行、信托公司或提名人，以寻求有关此次要约收购的协助。如需确认股份交付，请股东联系托管机构。

此次要约收购的信息代理人为：

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2026年9月17日

欧盟计划设定社交媒体使用年龄限制

作者：亚当·萨塔里亚诺 (ADAM SATARIANO) 和 珍娜·斯米莱克 (JEANNA SMIALEK)

伦敦——欧盟周三概述了限制 15 岁以下儿童使用社交媒体的计划，这是为了在由 27 个国家组成的欧盟成员国中，采取激进措施以削减对 TikTok 和 Instagram 等应用程序的访问。

欧盟委员会（该联盟的执行机构）主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩在法国斯特拉斯堡的一次演讲中表示，这项名为《欧盟儿童法案》（EU Kids Act）的提案将禁止 13 岁以下儿童使用社交媒体。13 岁和 14 岁的青少年可以使用由父母监督的新型“迷你账户”，这将限制他们与陌生人的接触以及总屏幕时间。从 15 岁起，将被允许访问更独立的账户。

冯德莱恩女士在年度《欧盟国情咨文》演讲中表示：“这不在于我们的未成年人访问社交媒体，而在于我们何时以及如何允许社交媒体访问未成年人。”

该法案将成为全球限制儿童屏幕时间和社交媒体访问运动中迄今为止最大规模的政策举措之一。欧盟拥有 4.5 亿 人口，长期以来一直是科技行业的激进监管者，利用其权力强制公司更改产品和政策。近年来，苹果公司更改了其 App Store，谷歌更改了其搜索引擎，Meta 更改了其数据隐私实践，以遵守欧洲的法律法规。

欧盟正试图在监管科技行业与鼓励人工智能及其他可驱动经济增长的技术发展之间取得平衡。周三，冯德莱恩女士对人工智能的安全风险表示担忧，但她表示，该地区必须扩大发展，否则将面临落后于美国和中国的风险。

她说：“我们需要留在赛道上。”

在家长、心理健康专家和政策制定者的日益担忧中，冯德莱恩女士将儿童的网络安全列为优先事项。她表示，在欧盟，年轻人现在每天花四到六个小时在屏幕前。

她说：“孩子们被越来越深地拉入那些旨在让他们不断滚动浏览的信息流中。”

澳大利亚去年成为全球第一个禁止 16 岁以下儿童使用社交媒体的国家。此后，包括法国、丹麦和马来西亚在内的国家已经实施或正在考虑类似的规定。

在美国，Meta 上个月同意支付高达 171 亿美元 billion 的罚款，并对其产品做出重大更改，这是针对其产品成瘾性设计吸引儿童指控的一项里程碑式法律和解协议的一部分。这家拥有 Instagram 和 Facebook 的公司表示，将限制青少年在平台上的停留时间，并限制无限滚动等功能。

预计欧盟委员会将于周四公布社交媒体规则的全部细节。随后，该提案将进入欧盟立法程序，这需要获得成员国和拥有 720 个席位的欧洲议会的同意。

一个核心问题将是如何执行这些规则。在澳大利亚，批评者表示，青少年很容易绕过封锁，该法律并未兑现其承诺。

政策制定者探讨了引入年龄验证技术，但这引起了隐私倡导者的担忧。

欧洲消费者监督机构 BEUC 的主任奥古斯汀·雷纳（Agustín Reyna）在本周的一份声明中表示：“儿童显然需要更好的网络保护，但年龄验证并非万能药，而且它本身会引发严重的隐私和数据保护担忧。”

没有《纽约时报》的一天是不完整的。

美联储加息举措影响消费者支出

美联储周三将利率提高了0.25个百分点，这是主席凯文·M·沃什（Kevin M. Warsh）为对抗通货膨胀而采取的一项重大举措。 MARK SCHIEFELBEIN / 美联社

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来自商业版第一页小组：“因此，如果消费者被迫在住房、汽车贷款或学生贷款上支付更多费用，他们所感受到的痛苦是刻意而为的。”

2022年，在美联储开始因通货膨胀而进入加息周期之前，利率在零附近波动。2023年，利率上升至5.25%至5.5%之间。如今，利率处于3.75%至4%之间。

这些利率决定了短期借贷成本。当利率上升时，银行的贷款条件收紧，从而产生多米诺骨牌效应，可能减少消费者支出和企业投资。但到目前为止，较高的利率并未在放缓经济方面发挥太大作用。

根据美国经济分析局最新的个人支出报告，7月份美国人在美国经济中的支出比上个月增加了360亿美元。支出的增长是由强劲的劳动力市场推动的，这提高了工资和美国人的可支配收入。

一段时间以来，这种支出在美国不同收入阶层之间是不均衡的。这就是所谓的“K型”经济，较不富裕的人群由向下趋势的线代表，而富裕人群则由向上趋势的线代表。

瑞银全球财富管理（UBS Global Wealth Management）固定收益策略主管莱斯利·法尔科尼奥（Leslie Falconio）表示：“并非每个人都拥有房产，也并非每个人都持有股票——但正是经济中的这部分人群，即消费者，在驱动增长，也就是那个‘K’的上半部分。”

消费趋同

尽管如此，分析美国银行信用卡和借记卡支出数据的分析师认为，在这种失衡的局面中已出现趋同迹象。他们表示，低收入消费者的支出在近几个月不成比例地增长。

企业投资同样在蓬勃发展，这得益于投资者押注人工智能带来的回报将超过借贷成本。股市也反映出对科技行业的信心，且在强劲的财报季推动下进一步增强。标普 500 指数自年初以来上涨了约 11%。

美联储的职责之一是维持物价稳定。通胀率同比仍高于 2%——这是美联储希望达到的水平——而 8 月的数据高于预期。通胀的一个主要驱动因素是中东地区全球石油流动中断引发的能源危机。仅在本月，全球油价就上涨了 15%。

面对更高的利率，唯一可能有所缓解的领域或许是住房市场。随着抵押贷款利率自 2025 年 7 月以来首次突破 6.7%，房屋销售量正在下降。但是

关注收益率

许多能够在数年前锁定较低抵押贷款利率的房主，得以减轻财务压力。

“这种韧性和持续强劲的增长前景，使得美联储能够表示：‘好吧，我将继续专注于物价稳定这一方面，因为利率尚未达到限制性水平，而且我们可以加息——增长并未摇摇欲坠，’”法尔科尼奥女士说道。

美联储的政策路径最直接地影响短期美国国债的利率（即收益率），例如两年期国债。长期收益率虽随美联储政策波动，但更侧重于通胀和国家赤字等因素。

两年期国库券收益率自 2024 年以来首次攀升至 4.66%。决定大多数消费贷款节奏的十年期国债收益率在本周突破了 5%，为 2023 年以来的最高水平。

法尔科尼奥女士表示，美联储周三的加息可能有助于这些收益率回落。她说，这可以向投资者发出信号，表明委员会在管理通胀方面采取了积极措施，从而引导他们预期通胀将有所缓和，并降低对长期政府债券回报率的要求。

这种缓解需要时间才能转化为消费者的低利率。

“如果增长保持韧性，且他们加息五或六次，那么长端（收益率）将不会下降，”法尔科尼奥女士在谈到长期债券时表示，“这确实取决于他们加息的次数。”

克服困难之后，全球经济面临风险倍增

来自商业第一版 船员们将船停泊在港口，因为他们负担不起燃料费用。在孟加拉国，停电导致工厂出现长达数小时的停工。在危地马拉，抗议者焚烧轮胎和汽车。

直到现在，一些旨在缓解需求和增加石油供应的关键举措，有助于遏制极端的价格上涨和严重的短缺。

“原油价格和产品价格之所以没有比现在更高，首要原因是中国削减了原油进口，”前美国外交官及能源部官员大卫·L·戈德温（David L. Goldwyn）表示。

作为全球最大的石油进口国，中国停止了石油储备并依赖自身库存，在关键时刻缓解了全球石油市场的压力。中国还减少或暂停了航空燃料等石油产品的出口，这意味着其对原油的需求量降低。

与此同时，美国、日本以及欧洲各国动用了各自的储备，以防止价格进一步上涨。

这些措施起到了作用。即使是亚洲——中东原油和液化天然气出口约 80% 的目的地——在很大程度上也能获得供应。

索马里的一片洋葱田。进口能源和化肥成本的螺旋式上升，威胁到非洲各地的作物产量并推高食品价格。

然而，这类策略只能维持一段时间。

根据美国能源信息署的数据，经济合作与发展组织（OECD）38 个成员国的存储水平已降至数十年来的最低点。

而在海湾地区，诸如沙特的东西管道等替代运输路线目前并未运行。

“至少到 2027 年，我们将面临每桶 $80 到 $100 的价格水平，”戈德温先生说。燃料及化肥等相关产品价格的上涨，将进一步推高食品和运输成本。

中东能源运输路线的中断将意味着更高的通货膨胀。凯投宏观（Capital Economics）集团首席经济学家尼尔·希林（Neil Shearing）表示：“目前的情况是我们现在的库存水平非常低，而且还没有迹象表明海峡能够重新开放。”

亚洲开发银行预计，该地区的通货膨胀率将从去年的 3.0% 加速至今年的 5.2%。希林先生表示，在欧洲、英国和美国，通货膨胀率可能会在 3.5 到 4% 的区间内波动，至少持续到明年年中。

对价格的担忧正给央行行长们带来加息压力，这将增加借贷成本并减缓经济增长。对于像德国这样已经处于衰退边缘的国家来说，这将是一个打击。

来自中东的精炼石油及原油供应有限，正在推高价格。国际能源署上周警告称，缓冲空间正在缩小，全球炼油系统已被“推至极限”。

该机构表示，乌克兰对俄罗斯炼油厂的袭击加剧了供应紧张，导致该国在未来 18 个月内的炼油能力将下降约 30%。俄罗斯已将其柴油出口禁令延长至本月底。

柴油价格的飙升促使特朗普总统本周指责乌克兰，并敦促其不要将俄罗斯炼油设施作为目标。

戈德温先生担心，价格上涨可能会促使特朗普先生在 11 月中期选举前禁止柴油出口。这将暂时压低国内柴油价格。但他表示，如果没有外国客户，炼油商可能会减少生产，从而使全球供应更加紧张。

出口禁令对于美国柴油的大进口地区拉丁美洲来说将尤为痛苦。

没有一个地区能对此免疫。

波斯湾经济体已经在承受伊朗战争带来的冲击。根据国际货币基金组织的预测，液化天然气领先出口国卡塔尔今年的经济预计将萎缩 8.6%。沙特阿拉伯第二季度的经济与去年同期相比萎缩了 4.8%。

全球性的冲击往往在最贫穷的国家引发最剧烈的震荡。非洲各国的能源和化肥进口依赖程度很高。这些高昂的成本最终可能会导致作物产量下降，并进一步推高食品价格。

尽管大多数亚洲国家已经能够避免最初担心的那种能源短缺和生产停滞，但它们不得不为供应支付更高的价格。

当然，能源价格并非唯一的担忧。关税正在提高消费者和制造商的成本。世界粮食计划署上个月警告称，与厄尔尼诺现象相关的天气状况可能会使约 5000 万 人陷入严重饥饿。此外，政府赤字已达到历史最高水平。

日本和印度尼西亚已投入数十亿美元用于燃料补贴，以帮助消费者应对价格上涨。市场对各国偿还日益增长的债务能力的担忧已渗透到债券市场。本月在日本，10年期国债收益率升至三十年来的最高点。

对风险增加的焦虑将 10年期美国国债——这一影响全球利率和投资的基准——推向了令人焦虑的水平。

尽管美国在相对程度上免受了最严重的经济打击，但这种情况可能会发生变化。

正如前能源官员戈德温先生所言：“在某个时间点，当你的所有贸易伙伴都遭受高物价之苦，食品变得更贵，运输变得更贵时，你无法真正逃避经济重力的法则。”

River Akira Davis 在东京参与了报道。

与特朗普关系密切的石油高管就委内瑞拉钻探达成初步协议

作者：布拉德·普卢默（BRAD PLUMER）和丽贝卡·F·埃利奥特（REBECCA F. ELLIOTT）

休斯顿——与特朗普总统关系密切的石油高管哈罗德·哈姆（Harold Hamm）周三宣布，计划在委内瑞拉进行石油钻探，加入到计划在该南美国家开展业务的美国石油生产商行列中。

哈姆先生的公司大陆资源公司（Continental Resources）与委内瑞拉国家石油公司（Petróleos de Venezuela）签署了一项初步协议，旨在开发并运营该国石油资源丰富的奥里诺科带（Orinoco Belt）中一个面积为 126,000 英亩的区域，该区域被称为 Ayacucho 2 区块。

该协议并非特朗普政府上个月宣布的协议的一部分，而是在由美国政府在休斯顿主办的 20 国集团（G-20）能源部长会议上披露的。此前，已经在委内瑞拉运营的规模大得多的美国石油公司雪佛龙（Chevron）表示，将在未来 5 年内将其在该国的产量增加一倍多。

自从美国军队在 1 月份抓获委内瑞拉领导人尼古拉斯·马杜罗（Nicolás Maduro）以来，特朗普先生一直推动美国石油公司投资委内瑞拉。

哈姆先生的公司总部位于俄克拉荷马市，他通过国内钻探积累了财富。他是页岩水力压裂热潮中的主要参与者，正是这场热潮使美国成为了全球最大的石油和天然气生产国。

但许多在美国石油工业中发财的人现在正将目光投向海外，因为他们越来越担心国内缺乏具有吸引力的钻探机会。大陆资源公司近年来已达成在土耳其和阿根廷生产石油的协议。

如果哈姆先生的初步协议能够推进，这将是大陆资源公司首次进军委内瑞拉。该国拥有大量石油，但其工业在多年的管理不善、投资不足、腐败以及美国制裁的影响下已遭到破坏。委内瑞拉的大部分石油极其沉重，稠度类似于沥青。很少有美国石油生产商在处理此类重油方面拥有丰富经验。

“这是委内瑞拉的一项巨大资源，”哈姆先生周三在 G-20 会议上表示，“我们知道这是一个绝佳的机会。”

大陆资源公司并未透露将投资多少资金，或最终目标生产多少石油。该公司仍需与委内瑞拉协商最终合同。

大陆资源公司首席执行官道格·劳勒（Doug Lawler）表示，运营可以在合同签署 6 个月后开始，但他补充说，由于公司正在开发一个新场地，生产的时间表具有高度不确定性。

“我们知道，将有大量资金需要投入到油井和新基础设施中，”劳勒先生在休斯顿告诉记者，“在目前没有地震数据、技术数据以及部分初步钻探数据的情况下，很难确定具体的开发计划将是什么样子。”

虽然大陆资源公司在处理委内瑞拉这类重油方面没有广泛经验，但劳勒先生

越来越多的美国生产商正将目光投向海外。

该公司表示，曾在美国开展过一些有限的重油项目。“我们不认为这是一个我们无法完全独立应对的技术挑战，”他说道。

一些能源专家对生产商能否轻松或快速地开发委内瑞拉巨大的石油储量持怀疑态度。但是，

哈姆先生指出，大陆资源公司（Continental）曾帮助开创了利用水力压裂技术从页岩中提取石油的方法，而许多行业专家此前对此也曾持怀疑态度。

“我们的团队习惯于迎接挑战，”哈姆先生说。“我们喜欢这样。我们会应对时机，有时甚至能完成不可能的任务。”

哈姆先生还表示，他相信委内瑞拉将履行任何石油协议，即使政府发生更迭也是如此。“我相信在未来，他们会意识到这样做符合其最大利益，”他说道。

哈姆先生一直是特朗普先生在能源问题上的信任顾问，并为总统的政治竞选做出了贡献。

特朗普先生的能源部长克里斯·赖特（Chris Wright）和内政部长道格·伯格姆（Doug Burgum）出席了周三宣布大陆资源公司委内瑞拉交易的活动，几位委内瑞拉高级官员也出席了该活动。

来源：Basketball Reference. 纽约时报

一位教练在隐姓埋名数十年后大放异彩

佩奇·布克斯（PAIGE BUECKERS）很欣赏何塞·费尔南德斯（Jose Fernandez）在达拉斯表现出的坦诚。

杰西卡·谢泼德（JESSICA SHEPARD）喜欢她能将教练视为一个真实的人来相处。

阿齐·法德（AZZI FUDD）在赛季结束的伤病前场均得 13.1 分。

费尔南德斯在奥里艾玛（Auriemma）蓝图的助力下，帮助翼队（Wings）重焕生机。

作者：布莱恩·汉密尔顿（BRIAN HAMILTON），《The Athletic》

德克萨斯州阿灵顿 —— 在 7 月的一次训练后，佩奇·布克尔斯（Paige Bueckers）解释了她是如何进入世界杯半决赛现场的。那些由耐克公司提供的足球赛门票原本属于其他人。随后，NBA 球星维克托·文班亚马（Victor Wembanyama）取消了行程。于是，这家鞋类公司联系了达拉斯之翼队的后卫布克尔斯，她接受了邀请。

她的新教练何塞·费尔南德斯（Jose Fernandez）也拿到了一张西班牙对阵法国的比赛门票，不过是通过之翼队总裁的邀请获得的。“我才不会花 17,000 美元买两张票，”他说。从他的座位上，他很可能根本看不见布克尔斯，但在这里，当一支球队的轨迹即将被定义时，无论在什么情况下，能够抵达同一个地方就至关重要。

之翼队是 WNBA 中

布莱恩·汉密尔顿是《The Athletic》的高级女篮记者。

进步最快的一支球队，从垫底的灾难变成了季后赛球队，这主要归功于连续两届状元秀布克尔斯和阿齐·法德（Azzi Fudd），以及表现如同前 10 名球员的自由球员签约前锋杰西卡·谢泼德（Jessica Shepard）。更多的优秀球员在创造更多的精彩表现，至少在其中一人因膝盖手术而缺阵之前是这样。这很合理。

但在这次执教之前，这位 54 岁的教练在社区学院、第二分区（Division II）以及第一分区（Division I）的中型学校之间奔波了 25 年。一个完全没有 WNBA 经验的人，被要求立即赢得多位明星球员的信任？这是一个变量。

早期的良好势头随后陷入低谷，在 11 场比赛中输掉 8 场，法德在 8 月 19 日接受关节镜手术前被排除在赛场之外。计划改变了，但传递的信息没有变。之翼队恢复了状态，现在他们自 2023 年以来首次进入季后赛。在经历了漫长的攀登后，费尔南德斯不由自主地认为一切都是凭本事得来的。

“你必须对自己所做的事情拥有内在的自信，相信自己在执行时会取得成功，”他说。他补充道：“如果你担心人们在——”

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“你必须对自己所做的事情拥有内在的自信。”——达拉斯之翼队首年执教的教练何塞·费尔南德斯。 SAM HODDE / GETTY IMAGES

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NBA顶级反派：他心系孩子

作者：道格·哈勒 (DOUG HALLER) 《竞技网》(The Athletic)

亚利桑那州梅萨 —— 他们穿着各式各样颜色的高帮鞋出现，大多数人都系好了鞋带，但并非全部。有些人足够高且富有弹性，能够完成扣篮；而另一些人则太矮，在距离凤凰城中心约 40 英里的亚利桑那体育场（Arizona Athletic Grounds）综合体里，他们几乎无法将篮球触及篮筐。

他们是初露锋芒的“反派”，或者至少可以这样合理推断，因为他们在这个特定的下午参加的是迪伦·布鲁克斯（Dillon Brooks）青少年篮球训练营。忠实球迷都知道，布鲁克斯是 NBA 的首席反派，而他本人非常认同这个称号。这位身高 6-foot-7 的前锋上赛季在凤凰城太阳队留下了深刻印记，并成为了球迷宠儿。

所有关于“反派”的定义都可以套在色彩鲜明的布鲁克斯身上：故事或戏剧中与英雄相对立的角色（勒布朗·詹姆斯肯定会同意这一点）；蓄意的无赖或罪犯（这似乎说得有点重）；被归咎于某种恶行或困难的人（没错！）。

但在一个体育馆里，没人关心这些。

30, 岁的布鲁克斯经历了一个波折不断的休赛期。8 月，他与太阳队签署了一份价值 7300万美元 的三年续约合同，确保了自己在球队未来的位置。最近，他在中国度过了 10 天，与综合格斗运动员 Li Jingliang 合作并学习功夫，这一活动应该会让 NBA 的得分员和裁判感到不安。

“我看到了很多新事物，并在我想了解的一些方面增长了知识，”布鲁克斯说。“我每天都在不同的城市。那里的人们和球迷太棒了。”

布鲁克斯训练营分布在 8 个球场上，每个球场为学员提供不同的训练项目，学员年龄在 6 到 16. 岁之间。来自圣迭戈的 15 岁少年约瑟夫·哈布（Joseph Harb）说，他开车六个小时“就为了这个，兄弟”。他钦佩布鲁克斯给太阳队带来的强悍风格，以及他“敢于对抗所有人”的胆量，而这些正是成为反派所需的技能。

在一个训练站，罗德尼·约翰逊（Rodney Johnson）看着他 11 岁的儿子布雷登（Braydon）学习如何在不被发现的情况下在低位用肘击，以及其他如何激怒对手的方法。（实际上，这是一种夸张：年幼的布雷登只是在进行基础训练并参加两对两比赛。）约翰逊一家从“太阳之谷”的另一端开车 1 小时 15 分钟来到这里。

“我们热爱迪伦，”这位父亲说，他穿着一件在之前布鲁克斯活动中获得的黑色布鲁克斯 T 恤。“大家都说他是反派，但有时，这正是你所需要的。”

但在布鲁克斯来到太阳队之前，他就喜欢他吗？

“绝对没有，”他笑着说。

布鲁克斯的名声并非空穴来风。在九年的 NBA 职业生涯中，他多次做出导致受伤的强硬犯规，以及导致恶意犯规的卑劣动作。上赛季，他被吹罚了全联盟最高的 17 次技术犯规，其中一次甚至是在他穿着便装坐在替补席上时发生的。在 11 月的一场对阵明尼苏达森林狼队的比赛中，他还因对裁判使用不当语言而被罚款 $35,000。

在整个联盟中，对他反感的情绪根深蒂固。

“嘿，每支球队都需要一个反派，”萨洛蒙·西尔韦里奥（Salomon Silverio）在看着他 10 岁的儿子进行传球和切入训练时说道。“而且，他带来了每支球队都需要的防守心态。你绝对不想在比赛中面对他。”

最好的反派都是复杂的。这就是为什么这么多演员喜欢在电影中扮演他们。在体育界，人们可能会尊重一个真正的反派，但他们厌恶一个伪装的强硬派，

职业篮球

道格·哈勒 / 《竞技网》

克里斯蒂安·彼得森 / 盖蒂图片社

上图为太阳队的迪伦·布鲁克斯在亚利桑那州梅萨的训练营中。布鲁克斯（最左侧）以激怒斯蒂芬·库里等球员而闻名。

而这正是批评者经常用来攻击布鲁克斯的侮辱之词。不过，他并不在意。

“作为一个人类，你既有善良的一面，也有那么一点坏，一点反派色彩，”布鲁克斯说道。他在上个赛季为太阳队场均贡献 20.2 分，创下职业生涯新高。“这一切始终在适度范围内，但我感觉人们在某种程度上能产生共鸣。反派并不一定总是坏的，其中也有好的方面。那就是艰苦的努力，是想要在自己追求的领域做到极致的那种不懈追求，我试图将这种精神灌输给自己，并尝试以一种不同的方式将其展现出来。”

中国之行是布鲁克斯背景故事的一部分。这次训练营也是如此。当布鲁克斯第一次走进体育馆时，那 350 名训练营学员

在充满活力的训练营中，与潜在的继任者们共度欢乐时光。

当人们高喊他的名字时，他停下来凝视——这是他在比赛前进行的一种呼吸和专注练习，是从前重量级拳击冠军迈克·泰森那里学来的。随后，他在营员中穿行，与他们击掌。

布鲁克斯曾经参加过类似的活动。在加拿大长大期间，他参加过一个贾马尔·马格洛尔（Jamaal Magloire）的训练营。马格洛尔是一名身高 6英尺11英寸的中锋，曾征战 NBA 12 个赛季，并在 2004 年入选东部全明星队。布鲁克斯当时和马格洛尔拍了一张照片，他说，这张照片“在我的记忆中停留了很久”。这也让他的 NBA 之梦显得触手可及了一些。他希望自己的活动也能产生同样的影响。

这次训练营是 FlexWork Sports 的一部分，该公司将其活动宣传为一种体验，一个与明星运动员见面并交流的机会。训练站的流程是预先设定好的，最后一站由布鲁克斯带领。营员们将球传给他，切入篮下，接回传球，然后完成上篮或跳投。布鲁克斯在其中乐在其中，他使出背后传球，为每一次进球鼓掌，在每一次投丢后给予鼓励。

一个扎着金色马尾辫的女孩投进了一个短距离跳投。“好球，”布鲁克斯微笑着说。女孩没有回以微笑，这是一个“球场反派”的举动。但几分钟后，小组轮换，布鲁克斯伸出手向她打招呼。女孩拍了他的手。

活动接近尾声时，营员们与布鲁克斯进行一对一对抗。来自俄勒冈州的 16 岁太阳队球迷达米安·帕门特（Damien Parmenter）在罚球线顶端转身，而布鲁克斯对他施加压力。帕门特向右突破，调整步幅，跃起扣篮。他没扣进去，引起了营员们的惊呼。当帕门特挂在篮筐上稳住重心时，布鲁克斯俏皮地推了他一把。

一旦成为反派，就永远是反派。

在阴影中潜行数十年后，一位教练在复兴的 Wings 队中大放异彩

托尼·古铁雷斯 / 美联社

迈克·卡尔森 / 美联社 萨姆·霍多 / NBAE，经由盖蒂图片社 何塞·费尔南德斯曾带领南佛罗里达大学两次获得美国体育联盟（American Athletic Conference）锦标赛冠军，他与康涅狄格大学的吉诺·奥里埃马（左侧中心）是好友，后者曾是 Wings 队球员佩吉·布克斯（5）的教练。

摘自《第一体育页》

“关于你以及他们谈论的内容，你最终会落到他们所处的位置。而不是执教这支球队。”

与费尔南德斯的对话发生在大学公园中心（College Park Center）一个光线昏暗的器材室里，这处运营基地是从德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校借用的，这种氛围显得诡异地契合。大约一年后，Wings 队将拥有一个独立的 8100万美元 训练设施。他们将在达拉斯的美国航空中心进行主场比赛，该场馆可容纳 19,200, 人，而不是在容量仅为其约一半的大学体育馆里。球队的核心——前述的三名球员和后卫阿里克·奥贡博瓦莱——的合同至少签到了 2027 年。未来充满了光芒。

负责监管这些资源与期待的，是一个在迈阿密长大、讨厌棒球的人——“我就是那个在左外野把手套扔到空中的家伙，”费尔南德斯说——但他热爱观看凯尔特人队、活塞队和公牛队。他以艰辛的方式学会了纪律的价值；西南迈阿密高中的篮球教练汤姆·摩尔在他高二时将其开除，因为他未能达到课堂内外标准。他在高三时赢回了机会，随后在 1990 年代初就读于迈阿密-戴德社区学院攻读副学士学位期间，开始担任学生助理教练，洗球衣、填球架，做任何需要做的事。

接着是一份高中男子篮球助理教练的工作。然后是二级联赛（Division II）男子篮球助理教练的角色。随后是高中女子篮球队主教练的职位，以及在迈阿密指导一个 AAU 项目。女子篮球的机会不断出现，费尔南德斯也一直把握机会。尽管如此，直到 2000 年被南佛罗里达大学提拔，他才在任何级别上担任主教练。

他在佛罗里达州坦帕市 25 个赛季中积累的 485 场胜利并非不重要，但在公众视野之外积累的老茧与智慧可能同样重要。“很多教练需要意识到，嘿，在灯光亮起之前，有大量的工作需要完成，”费尔南德斯说。

年轻时他曾在夏季训练营工作，他估计自己为了球探和学习访问了 70 或 80 个国家。他喜欢强调分享球权的流畅篮球。因此，他构建了一套基于全位置技能的进攻体系，迫使防守方必须应对多种战术动作，并确保球星能绽放出最亮的光芒。

这套体系足够有效，在他执教南佛罗里达大学期间，有九名球员被 W.N.B.A. 选中，其中最著名的是后卫考特尼·威廉姆斯。这一切使得费尔南德斯在库尔特·米勒于 2024. 年底就任执行副总裁时，成为了 Wings 队主教练职位的候选人。但赛季中途离开南佛罗里达大学是不可行的。

随后出现了“佩吉效应”。“因为签下了佩吉，人们对这支球队的关注度是我完全没有预料到的，”米勒现在说道。这导致克里斯·科尔卡内斯在执教一个赛季并获得 10 场胜利后，于 2025 年被解雇。方向修正需要一位比 36 岁且毫无主教练经验的人更稳健的飞行员。

这一次，对于费尔南德斯来说，加入 W.N.B.A. 的时机很合适。他渴望尝试新事物。

在面试过程中，米勒阐明了在布克斯在队中的工作现实：公众永远不会觉得足够好。米勒表示，因此有几位候选人退缩了。费尔南德斯则耸了耸肩。

“很多人可能害怕执教世界上最顶尖的球员之一，”于2025年10月被聘用的费尔南德斯说道，“而我对此充满期待。这很有趣。”

但这也相当不稳定。W.N.B.A.的第30个赛季将是一个转折点，其特点是具有变革性的集体谈判协议、激增的媒体版权费以及价值数亿美元的扩军计划。布克斯是少数几个有能力定义该联盟未来30年的人之一。如果不能让她的职业生涯价值最大化，就意味着辜负了这项运动。

而这一切都要在彼此陌生的情况下开始。当被问及对生活中这位新教练的了解程度时，布克斯说：“我了解得不多。”

费尔南德斯首先从回顾过去开始。

他与康涅狄格大学（UConn）教练吉诺·奥里埃马的友谊，可以追溯到费尔南德斯在南佛罗里达任职初期，在一次四强赛周末的集体午餐会上。多年来，他们通过篮球、美酒、好雪茄和顶级牛排馆建立了深厚的交情——有时这些元素会同时出现。

费尔南德斯不可能复制朋友的成功，但可以复制其背后的精神。“他是从零开始建立这一切的，没有人给他一个充满传统的项目，”奥里埃马说，“这在某种程度上让我想起了我们的处境。我看到了很多相似之处，我想，他干得不错。他是在用最传统的方式在做事。”

于是，费尔南德斯在去年11月前往康涅狄格州斯托尔斯，与他的朋友共度了几天时间。奥里埃马曾监督布克斯在康涅狄格大学的职业生涯，期间她累计砍下2,439分并获得了一次全国冠军。在访问期间，费尔南德斯还探讨了如何最好地部署布克斯——这位刚刚聘请他的球队的门面人物。（当然，他同时也关注并收集了关于法德的信息。）

奥里埃马最重要的建议是：费尔南德斯必须给布克斯充分的自由度。而她会充分利用这种自由。随后，费尔南德斯必须将她拉回来。如果他这样做，不会破坏他与布克斯的关系；但如果他不这样做，关系反而会被破坏。

“他的思维开阔且乐于尝试新事物，这对像佩奇这样的球员来说太棒了，”奥里埃马说，“而且他的性格会非常、非常适合她。”

渐渐地，布克斯和费尔南德斯建立了他们自己的共同语言。

布克斯提出了一份像军队招募传单一样的愿望清单：结构、信任、不要把问题个人化。“我们希望在这里达到那种程度的问责制，”布克斯在这样一个场均贡献20.5分和5.9次助攻的赛季中说道，“这始于我想被指导，想要被责骂，想要被指正，并被要求遵守更高的标准。”

费尔南德斯说：“她想要残酷的坦诚。她想要听到真相。伙计，她是个竞争者。”

事实证明，这个新时代对布克斯来说就像是回到了过去。5月14日，在首个赛季进行到第五场比赛时，费尔南德斯失去了耐心。他感觉到更衣室里存在自私情绪，并直言不讳。他告诉球员们，他来到W.N.B.A.不是为了处理他在大学时期遇到过的那些废话。随后，他在新闻发布会上重复了这一观点。

这是一个选择。对于一名在职业联赛没有记录的教练来说，这是在挑衅而非搭建桥梁。但对布克斯而言，这可能就像是与奥里埃马共事的那些美好旧时光。

关于那次事件，费尔南德斯现在说：“赛季开始时，我还是个疯狂的大学教练。”

他向球员们道歉，但道歉的不是他的观点，而是公开宣泄内部不满的行为。翼队（Wings）继续前行，因为球员们表示，他们欣赏他在个人关系与残酷真相之间取得的平衡。

谢泼德说，她喜欢能将教练视为一个普通人来沟通。她补充道：“然后，你知道，即使他告诉我我很烂，我也会尊重这一点。”

尽管如此，结果是对每个人选择的公投。在大学选秀中，Wings队选择了法德（Fudd）而非奥利维亚·迈尔斯（Olivia Miles），后者在作为明尼苏达山 Lynx 队的新秀时曾是最有价值球员的候选人。（“毫无疑问，从上到下，阿齐（Azzi）才是首选，”米勒说道。）法德及其场均 13.1 分的贡献自 8 月初以来一直缺席，因为她一直在与膝盖酸痛作斗争，而现在她本赛季已正式缺阵。

随着米勒预言的审视成为现实，重新找回节奏变得迫在眉睫，这需要果断的领导力。

因此，在 W.N.B.A. 最近为国际篮联（FIBA）世界杯而休赛之前，当印第安纳狂热队来到这座城市时，情况发生了变化；在尝试了多个法德的替代方案后，费尔南德斯（Fernandez）启用了一套由 6-foot-4 的谢泼德（Shepard）、6-4 的阿拉娜·史密斯（Alanna Smith）和 6-6 的阿瓦克·库耶（Awak Kuier）组成的前场阵容。随后的胜利止住了颓势，当时马克·库班（Mark Cuban）和库珀·弗拉格（Cooper Flagg）坐在 Wings 队主场比赛第二大规模的观众群中观看。这也意味着达拉斯在赛季系列赛中战胜了印第安纳、拉斯维加斯和纽约。

考虑到达拉斯在上一赛季跌落的深度，Wings 队能成为竞争者，这表明费尔南德斯的方法已经奏效。威廉姆斯（Williams）是 Lynx 队的佼佼者，她在南佛罗里达大学为费尔南德斯效力四个赛季期间得到了 2,304 分，她说费尔南德斯让她想起了她现在的教练谢丽尔·里夫（Cheryl Reeve）。“看到一名教练在高度紧张的时刻，能够凭借本能地直接布置战术——我没遇到过多少能做到这一点的教练。”

虽然他的表达很有说服力——

费尔南德斯说，这只是篮球。

——但要在达拉斯塑造一个宽广的未来，需要所有参与者的完美配合。“对于我们想要练习的方式、我们将处理事情的方式以及我将要求的东西，我从未动摇过，”费尔南德斯说。

他不仅仅应该保持不干扰，而且也不应该成为阻碍。

训练设施即将建成。关于在 N.B.A. 场馆进行主场比赛的消息于 8 月公布。

最关键的是，布克斯（Bueckers）来了。W.N.B.A. 中可能没有哪个球员能像她这样优秀、年轻且受到如此普遍的喜爱。“佩奇（Paige）就像一块磁铁，我从幕后的经纪人那里听说，球员们在合同到期后，最终都想和达拉斯谈谈，”米勒说。“这种情况以前从未发生过。”

布克斯在宏观蓝图上没有发表太多看法——“我不是一个真正关注未来的人，”她说——但这在总体上使她与一位热衷于观看录像和制定比赛计划的教练保持一致。这位教练回想起他那场“疯狂的大学教练”新闻发布会，并开玩笑说 W.N.B.A. 还没准备好接受他这种程度的坦率。这位教练在达拉斯市外 25 英里处拥有几英亩土地，以便他的八只救援犬有空间活动。这位教练承认，他可能比喜欢很多人更喜欢那些小狗。

这份工作正是费尔南德斯所需要的。奥里艾玛（Auriemma）用“焕发活力”来形容他。

与此同时，Wings 队的未来取决于费尔南德斯那沙哑的声音是否也是布克斯和其他崛起之星所需要的。当费尔南德斯提到他更喜欢犬类而非人类时，暗示他这样想是因为狗不会顶嘴。

“好吧，”他笑着说，“哈士奇会。”

职业美式足球

布法罗队的斯蒂芬·戈斯内尔（Stephen Gosnell）在 Highmark 体育场的一场季前赛中尝试接球，对手是卡罗来纳队的科里·桑顿（Corey Thornton）。 GREGORY FISHER / IMACN IMAGES

比尔队在新球场上已陷入困境

GENE J. FUSKAR / 美联社 在季前赛期间，新球场的草坪出现了超出 NFL 比赛场地通常情况的形变。

作者：TIM GRAHAM

The Athletic

布法罗比尔队在 10 个月前在 Highmark 体育场铺设了新草坪。但在比尔队在该场地进行首场正式比赛之前，他们将草坪全部铲除并重新开始。

在比尔队做出这一决定之前，NFL 的场地主管尼克·帕帕斯（Nick Pappas）希望与 Highmark 体育场的场地维护团队会面，亲自查看场地情况。

在比尔队 8 月 27 日对阵匹兹堡钢人队的季前赛中，他看到的场地情况不尽如人意。比尔队对此表示认同，并决定重新铺设草皮，希望修复帕帕斯所说的“严重形变”。

如果不是为了健康，为什么要让四分卫乔什·艾伦（Josh Allen）在不达标的比赛表面上打球，从而冒着削弱其卓越表现的风险呢？

这一决定并非由帕帕斯做出，但在接受 The Athletic 采访时，他分享了关于布法罗在耗资 22 亿加元 billion 的新球场中所必须应对的情况。一项重大考验即将到来：从周四对阵底特律狮子队开始，将迎来连续三场主场比赛。

“我相信那里的工作人员会为这座建筑找到最佳解决方案，”帕帕斯说。

帕帕斯讨论了在 Highmark 体育场种植草坪的挑战、球队对场地表现应承担的责任、NFL 将在布法罗监测的内容，以及草坪是否适用于每个体育场。本次采访为了篇幅和清晰度进行了编辑。

当球队决定在 54 年后切换回草坪时，NFL 对 Highmark 体育场的场地提供了哪些建议？

对于我们所有的体育场，每当讨论新体育场的建设，或者像我们过去看到的那样，在两种表面之间进行切换——无论是从草坪改为人造草，还是从人造草改为草坪——我们都会利用我们拥有的所有可用且最新的数据来协助和支持俱乐部。这通常不超出我们定期向健康与安全委员会以及联合场地委员会分享的内容。

因此，比尔队的所有者在决定建造新体育场并确定表面类型时，拥有所有可用数据。除此之外，没有提供具体的额外支持。

在过去的 10 个月里，NFL 对

Tim Graham 是 The Athletic 报道比尔队的资深撰稿人。

Highmark 体育场参与了多少？

联盟对 Highmark 或任何俱乐部的参与，是为了确保所有场地在 NFL 使用前符合合规要求，对吧？也就是说，任何在体育场内或训练场地举行的比赛日或训练——任何球员将面对的 NFL 场地。我们确保合规工作已完成。

当你亲眼看到场地时，你觉得它看起来如何？

我觉得它看起来很棒，对吧？大家都喜欢那种深绿色。但从可玩性和合规性的角度来看，并没有问题。场地符合合规要求，这实际上就是我们在强制性实践中设定的一项硬度标准。

场地中出现问题的部分是发生了严重的形变，出现了超出我们在许多 NFL 草坪球场通常所见的大面积草皮脱落——尽管这不是我们以前没见过的。这表明该表面有改进的空间，而这正是比尔队采取行动并决定更换它的原因。

导致变形的原因是什么？

我认为这件事不像我希望的那样简单明了。当我抵达现场进行评估，并与场地维护团队沟通，试图获取安装后过去 8 到 10 个月的历史数据时，我认为你面对的是一个我在行业中经常看到的挑战，只要是新建设施就会出现这种情况。在移交给比尔队工作人员之前，会有一段过渡期。因此，在一段时间内，你必须依赖总承包商或安装公司来进行维护。显然，在 10 月份于北方气候环境下安装球场，意味着草坪在不久之后可能会生长缓慢，甚至进入休眠期，直到 3 月或 4 月之后才会重新生长。

所以我认为这是一个综合因素：首先是草皮本身的质量，其次是直到比尔队场地团队接手之前的挑战以及可能的管理问题，再加上一个需要逐步适应的全新生长环境；这些都带来了挑战。该设施的光照条件较低，气流也不同。一旦进入建筑内部，与站在建筑外部相比，它拥有自己的微气候。有很多事情需要监测和研究，以确定在该建筑中管理比赛表面的最佳方式。

第一块和第二块球场的表现会有什么不同？

新安装的草皮将比现有草皮安装时的厚度更厚。在 NFL 的世界里，这很重要。当我们讨论整个联盟使用的天然草球场时，绝大多数是生长在塑料基底上的百慕大草。在塑料上种植草皮的概念是 NFL 非常依赖的一种方式，以便能够维持一定的质量水平，并能够在赛季中期快速完成球场的更换。这是一种在不透水的塑料薄膜上种植草坪的方法，在一段时间内可以让草坪生长，并长得非常厚实。

比尔队在 13 天内，在两场季前赛后更换了原有的球场。他们即将 18 天内进行三场主场比赛。新球场要发挥作用需要满足什么条件？

他们将继续执行其维护计划。他们将拥有一个新产品，一个新球场，我预计这将比我们之前看到的问题（即草坪的整体密度和强度）有巨大的改善。至于下一次更换可能在何时，涉及很多因素，而且这种情况很可能会再次发生，但我对我们所有的天然草体育场都是这么说的。

在一年中的这个时间点进行三场主场连赛或许尚可接受。然而，如果你在日历稍晚的时候遇到三场主场连赛，你只能希望天气能够给力，因为如果在其中一场比赛期间出现暴雨，你会看到球面的损毁程度将超出你所需的恢复时间线。这是天然草最大的问题：恢复速度必须快于使用速度。但如果天气良好，且这三场连赛一切顺利，也许他们会考虑在第 8 周进行更换，或者他们可以观察天气并说：“嘿，根据我们目前的情况，我们有三周的时间来恢复。我们可以搬出生长灯，可以通过我们的农艺计划提供养分并使其重新生长。”

这非常有挑战性。这三场主场连赛无疑会给球场带来一定的压力。

在那三场比赛期间，您将重点监测什么？

对我而言，我的职责是确保我们的球场符合合规标准，并且在让运动员上场时不会出现任何问题。这是首要任务。在此基础上，显然我们希望确保球场的性能达到我们对 NFL 标准球场的预期。

过去我们经历过一些比赛，当时我们会说：“你知道吗？是的，我们达到了合规标准，尽管我们希望性能能更好。”我们的许多合规指标都是基于对健康和安全的关注。性能则是另一个方面，即“运动员能否按照他们想要的方式进行切入，或者能否全力以赴地比赛？”我们希望运动员能全力以赴并发挥最佳水平，但多年来我们见过很多次，无论是雪天比赛还是雨天比赛，亦或是球场出现挑战，球员们不得不进行调整和适应，改变切入方式或稍微改变表现。

您认为在当地气候条件下，且没有大学橄榄球租户的情况下，比尔队需要更换草皮的频率是多少？

这是一个好问题，因为我认为目前还没有人看到那个球场会对他们遭遇的湖效应降雪做出怎样的反应，尤其是如果他们在赛季后期比赛的话。那里的降雪量惊人。管理积雪面临着很多挑战。

他们需要找到一种平衡，以应对每周出现的各种天气条件。对我来说，这是一个巨大的问号，但如果 Highmark 体育场一年需要更换三到四次球场，我不会感到惊讶。

NFL 球员协会一直推动在每个体育场都铺设天然草坪。这有多合理？

我的坦诚回答是，我希望看到我们——这里的“我们”是指球员、联盟、NFLPA 等所有人共同努力——达到这样一个阶段：我们不再基于材质构成来评估场地，而是基于性能标准来评估场地，并确保无论在什么环境下——室内、室外、暖季或冷季——在比赛日都能提供尽可能最好的场地，因为这才是真正最重要的事情。

布法罗的场地维护人员上个月在修复草坪。比尔队最终决定安装新草皮。

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古德尔的选择：做正确的事，还是做赚钱的事

比赛已从一项实验演变为一项基石。

作者：JASON LLOYD 来自 The Athletic

罗杰·古德尔在 20 年前就任 NFL 总裁时，接手的是一个蓬勃发展的国内产品，并将其培育成为一个全球帝国。然而，他任期内最具影响力的几年可能还在后面。

NFL 即将展开一系列谈判，这些谈判可能会重塑联盟以及世界消费该联赛的方式。古德尔将全程掌控方向盘。

他新签署的续约合同将持续到 2031 年 3 月——届时他将 72 岁——这并非巧合地与当前集体谈判协议的到期时间一致。NHL 总裁加里·贝特曼现年 74 岁，且没有退休计划，因此仅凭年龄无法解决这个问题。但有理由相信，这可能是古德尔的最后一份合同。

到那时，这项运动呈现出的面貌——它奖赏谁，以及增长是使其变得更好还是仅仅变得更大——将是对他此前所有工作的回答。

一场劳资谈判、一场关于扩张的争端以及一份仍在拟定中的国际赛程，将定义接下来的四年。在这一切之上，是一个媒体版权周期，其获利程度已超出联盟在古德尔就职时所能想象的任何程度，其复杂程度也超出了向球迷承诺的任何程度。

可能会出现这样一个时刻，古德尔必须面对那些支付他薪水的人，并告诉他们，他们想要的并不是联盟真正需要的。如果那个时刻到来，它将比之前的任何事情都能更清晰地揭示他的历史地位。

将球员和球迷置于老板之上将为一段传奇画上句号。

在他担任专员的二十年里，他一直致力于让 32 位球队老板获得更多——更多的收入，更多的比赛，以及更多让 NFL 成为美国体育主导力量的一切。这不一定是一种批评，而更像是对他职责定义的描述。他完成得异常出色。

联盟的价值达到了前所未有的高度。即使是收视率最低的转播，其表现也优于电视上的几乎所有其他节目。纯粹以老板雇佣他来达成目标来看，古德尔的交付成果超出了任何合理的预期。而他任期最后几年所提出的问题是，这种“交付”是否就是这份工作的全部。

今年，在耶鲁大学的一个演讲系列活动中，古德尔被问到他最终服务于谁。他的回答是：这项运动。这比让 32 位球队老板变得更富有是一项更沉重的责任。它涵盖了让 NFL 值得观看的球员，以及为此付费的球迷。接下来的几年将考验他是否愿意在这意味着让雇主失望时，依然保护这些利益。

球队老板们想要第 18 场比赛，每年 16 个国际比赛日，并且希望大多数球队最终能跨洋前往参赛。本周，洛杉矶公羊队和旧金山 49 人队——一场州内宿敌之战——被重新安排在澳大利亚墨尔本举行，因为显然只要收入足够，地理距离是可以协商的。

古德尔本人曾表示，他毫不怀疑联盟最终会在美国境外设立特许经营球队。如果他是正确的，那么联盟的国际

这些并非谦虚的野心。这是一个老板阶层的目标，他们看着自己要求的一切都按时到来，并停止询问是否需要付出代价。

媒体版权协议增加了另一层压力。NFL 可以在 2029 赛季后退出大部分主要协议，ESPN 的窗口将在 2030 年后开启。联盟目前正受到美国司法部（DOJ）关于捆绑销售和订阅成本可能存在反竞争行为的调查——这是一个信号，表明对“更多”的追求并未被忽视。从各种意义上讲，观看职业橄榄球正变得越来越昂贵。

球队老板们拥有民调数据来证明公众支持他们。去年秋天的一项昆尼皮亚克大学（Quinnipiac）调查发现 60 percent 的球迷支持增加第 18 场比赛，如果取消一场季前赛。这种数据足以在老板办公室的讨论开始前就结束对话。

但它未能解决的是桌子另一端等待的问题。

球员协会执行主任 J. C. 特雷特（J. C. Tretter）公开反对第 18 场比赛，而他论点背后的算术非常简单。对于一名无论如何都会在 8 月那个下午待在场边的首发球员来说，削减一场季前赛几乎没有帮助。而增加一场常规赛则意味着又一个下午的真实摧残。将其送到海外比赛则增加了额外的旅途奔波和恢复时间，而这些并不会出现在转播时间表上。对于创造比赛的人们来说，更多的橄榄球赛并非一个抽象概念。这意味着更多的周一，一个只能年轻一次的身体必须为周日的透支买单。

第二个休息周、可强制执行的旅行协议以及重组的季前赛会有所帮助。但这些只能在纸面上解决问题。真正的问题在于，古德尔是否愿意动用他与老板之间二十年信任所积累的筹码，来确保球员获得的保护与他们被要求付出的代价相称。

古德尔在同一场耶鲁大学的对话中表示，他的指导本能是从长远来看做正确的事，即使短期成本是真实存在的。在接下来的四年里，这一原则将面临比过去20年更严峻的考验。从长远来看，为了联赛的利益，他可能需要放慢球队所有者在短期内想要追求的速度。更多的比赛并不自动意味着更好的比赛。棒球和篮球已经花费多年时间来面对一个问题：他们的赛季是否已经增长到了公众——以及球员——无法承受的程度。

诚实地处理这些问题的成本并非抽象之物。提供超出职业生涯期限的终身医疗保障、为那些被要求牺牲更多巅峰时期的球员提供能够给予回报的自由球员路径，以及将扩张视为共同投资的营收条款，这些都不是激进的提案。它们是当前时刻所要求的最低限度，而且并非巧合，这也是一个仅仅是扩大了比赛规模的专员任期与一个真正保护了比赛的专员任期之间的区别。

如今，美国国家橄榄球联盟（NFL）所有球队的总估值接近 3000 亿美元 billion。古德尔对此负有责任，并应为此受到赞赏。这也意味着，他是房间里唯一有足够影响力去告诉联赛管理者，他们究竟在要求那些支撑起这个联赛的人付出什么的人。营收记录足以说明问题。但它们无法说明古德尔将留下一个怎样的联赛——它是让每一个让比赛值得观看的人变得更强大，还是仅仅让每一个从中获利的人获得了更大的规模。

在他离职很久之后，资金仍将继续涌入。而球员们的医疗账单也将如此。

专员罗杰·古德尔与杰里·赖斯在澳大利亚，他将美国国家橄榄球联盟（NFL）推向了全球。他的合同将于 2031 年 3 月到期。 DOUG BENC / 美联社

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扇耳光是AI造假，但无礼与嘲笑却是真实的

作者：坎迪斯·巴克纳 (CANDACE BUCKNER) 《竞技报》(The Athletic)

这感觉就像是一场AI模拟。就好像我们都生活在一个由潜伏在身边的无赖们所创造的剪辑版本中，他们拥有有限的文明意识，却拥有无限的视频生成软件访问权限。

那是真的吗？这是现实吗？

那段在德克萨斯大学长角牛队球迷算法中流传的视频显然是伪造的：视频中，德克萨斯大学橄榄球教练史蒂夫·萨基西安 (Steve Sarkisian) 扇了 ESPN / ABC 场边记者霍莉·罗 (Holly Rowe) 一个耳光。这是一种卑劣的“娱乐”，只有那些在社会底层沉沦的人才会觉得有趣。

但曼宁家族的后裔以及满屋持有凭证的记者们，真的在对着那堆垃圾大笑吗？

是的，不幸的是，那是真的。

此外，尽管视频中描绘的野蛮行为是由人工智能创造的，但这个价值十亿美元的橄榄球企业的当前门面，是否真的对在 2023 年获得篮球名人堂柯特·高迪奖 (Curt Gowdy Award) 的罗表示不尊重？

难以置信，但事实如此。那同样是真的。

曾经有一段时间，那些鲁莽之辈只会在更衣室里，或者至少在私密的群聊中，对着低俗笑话咯咯发笑，因为至少常识会占据上风，提醒他们某些笑点不适合公开消费。而且这种情况发生的时间并不久远，那时处于肾上腺素激增状态的主教练们会履行他们的社会契约，向场边记者简单交代几句——或者至少在没做到时表达遗憾。

然而，这种人类的礼节正在消失，其速度比人们点击发送最新的 AI 生成废话的速度还要快。而且其下滑程度甚至超过了德克萨斯大学四分卫阿奇·曼宁 (Arch Manning) 的好感度。

我分不清哪个更糟糕：是那段描绘针对女性暴力的伪造片段，还是萨基西安，

坎迪斯·巴克纳是《竞技报》的高级专栏作家。

然后是曼宁以及一屋子的媒体成员所表现出的现实行为？在他们能够自我修饰并为道歉加上光鲜滤镜之前，他们向所有人展示了各自性格中肮脏的部分。

在德克萨斯州的这两天真是诡异。简直就像该州的内容创作者混合了一段混乱的超级剪辑。

这一切始于排名第 4 的长角牛队以 24-23 实现逆转战胜排名第 1 的俄亥俄州立大学之后，这是他们 76 年来首次在主场战胜一支顶级球队。令人震惊！52 岁的萨基西安被震惊到了如此程度，以至于他完全忘记了如何用嘴说出成年人的话。他没有尊重赛后采访流程，而是无视了罗试图向他抛出祝贺性简单问题的尝试。

罗在尝试履行她的职责。而萨基西安尽管 ABC 的制作团队看起来已经为他的场上采访做好了准备，但他却以技术故障为借口，没有履行他的职责。

是的，萨基西安在合同上有义务履行这项职责——电视转播协议帮助资助了他的 1100万美元 年薪——这是根据其联盟与转播比赛的网络公司之间签署的数十亿美元媒体协议所要求的。

而且，绝对不行：对着镜头大喊“德克萨斯战斗！”，然后把记者抛在身后，并不算履行了这项责任。这也不能成为好的电视节目。最重要的是，这看起来非常糟糕。

萨基西安赚得太多，在顶级大学橄榄球界浸淫太久，不应该在电视记者没有迅速问他那两个问题时感到恼怒。在他执教生涯最伟大成就的最伟大之夜，萨基西安的行为缺乏优雅，毫无 tact（得体）。大学教练不是外交官，但他们可以选择不表现得像个混蛋。

尽管如此，在达雷尔·K·罗亚尔-德克萨斯纪念体育场 (Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium) 发生的这些场景恰恰表明了为什么我们依然热爱（或至少容忍）大学橄榄球。当摄像机扫过人群时，到处都是狂喜。然而，即便如此，事情还是出了严重差错。而且在没有帮助的情况下

德克萨斯大学教练史蒂夫·萨基西安（Steve Sarkisian）在获胜后无视了一名场边记者，引发了一连串的不当行为。 埃里克·盖伊 / 美联社

大学橄榄球

来自人工智能（A.I.）

波·弗伦奇（Bo French）是一名竞选该州具有影响力的石油和天然气监管委员会席位的共和党人，他无法忍受那些占据看台的棕色皮肤男子。不仅是大学生，还有其他人在为德克萨斯队的橄榄球队欢呼，并获取德克萨斯大学的学位。

德克萨斯大学的教练和四分卫展现出了他们人格中卑劣的一面。

看到如此之少的金发蓝眼女大学生，让这位政治家完全忘记了长角牛队的辉煌之夜，反而让他开始在 X 上敲击文字，宣泄他的愤怒和排外情绪。

“我听说今年德克萨斯大学（UT）的毕业典礼看起来像这样。我不相信。现在的问题显然比任何人想象的都要糟糕得多，”弗伦奇账号发布的一条帖子这样写道。

谢天谢地，德克萨斯州各地还存在着许多非白痴的人，包括他所属政党内部的一些人，这些人对该帖子表达了反对。

随后，在经历了这一切之后——在教练表现粗鲁、共和党候选人无法掩饰其种族主义之后——这位大学四分卫发现某些低俗内容竟然，呵呵，如此好笑。在场的某些记者也是如此，他们大概把新闻发布室误认为是一个失控的兄弟会宿舍了。

在周一的一次媒体见面会上，一名记者询问曼宁是否看过关于这场比赛的 TikTok 剪辑视频。阿奇（Arch）是一个 22 岁的曼宁，除了他像他那著名的叔叔们一样担任四分卫之外，公众对他几乎一无所知。他表示自己看过“一段萨克斯（Sark）采访的 AI 剪辑”。

随即，记者们爆发出一阵大笑。

“你们都看过那个吗？”曼宁问道。

更多的笑声。

“那个很棒！”曼宁笑着说，然后指向镜头外的一个人，以示对这个笑话的认同。

再次响起笑声。

“就是他扇霍莉·罗（Holly Rowe）耳光那个，”曼宁确认道。

房间里依然在笑。

“是的，太好笑了，”曼宁总结道。此时，在他家族的公关公司某处，可能有人在申请加薪。

当一名同事在周一晚上把那段剪辑发给我时，我的反应是不敢相信：“我们能确定阿奇的这段视频不是 AI 生成的吗？”

我是真诚地发问，因为我从未想过一个曼宁，无论年龄大小，会如此笨拙地犯下这样一个不必要的错误。佩顿和伊莱几乎每小时都会出现在我们的屏幕上。即使是库珀（Cooper），阿奇的父亲，也是曼宁兄弟中知名度较低的一位，但在广告和采访中的表现依然出色。曼宁家族懂得如何应对媒体。他们本身就是一家媒体公司。因此，五星级球员阿奇在进入主流视野之前，一定接受过一定程度的培训。他能读懂开球线上的局势，但显然这孩子读不懂房间里的气氛。或者，也许是因为那间挤满记者的房间里充满了戏谑的气氛，才诱导他发表了这些轻率的言论。

最有可能的情况是，他们是代表各种媒体公司的、有工作的成年人——所谓的专业人士。然而，请暂时忽略那些记者的判断力缺失，思考一下：在什么样的现实中，一个成年人会对一段描绘男人袭击女人的视频咯咯大笑？

到了周二，对一段虚假视频的麻木反应在现实世界中引发了一些悔意。那个提出问题并发布曼宁视频且配文“……他的回答太绝了”的记者发表了道歉。他说自己在试图尽快上传视频时行动过于匆忙，在判断上出现了失误。同时，曼宁也谦卑地发布了他的悔意。他向罗道歉，因为“由于我的言论，她个人不得不面对这些”。

曼宁的道歉帖子确实是真的。罗从将麦克风靠近萨基西安（Sarkisian）那一刻起所面对的真实的不尊重也是真的，那位试图通过讨好错误的人群来得分的政治家的真实帖子也是真的。这一切都是真实的，这意味着 AI 并没有毁掉我们的世界。真实的人类在扮演这个角色方面表现得相当出色。

冰球

克罗斯比与奥维奇金或许正接近“最后一舞”，但步伐依然轻盈

“他知道如何进球，”39岁的悉尼·克罗斯比在谈到41岁的亚历克斯·奥维奇金时说道。“这种能力是不会消失的。”两人在上赛季共贡献了61个进球。

作者：马克·拉泽鲁斯（MARK LAZERUS）

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The Athletic

拉斯维加斯——在上个 NHL 赛季接近尾声时，汤姆·威尔逊并不确定亚历克斯·奥维奇金是否会回归华盛顿首都人队开启他的第22个赛季。他甚至不确定奥维奇金本人是否知道。

但作为首都人队前锋的威尔逊有一种预感。

“他已经证明了自己能保持得分能力；他证明了自己依然宝刀未老，”威尔逊上周在这里接受季前采访时表示。

在休赛期加入了乔丹·基鲁、亚历克斯·图奇和布恩·詹纳之后，首都人队认为他们夺冠的机会之窗正大开。但随着奥维奇金刚刚年满41岁，球队中弥漫着一种氛围，认为这将是与这位冰球史上最伟大得分手共度的最后一次狂欢。

“过去五年感觉就像是‘最后一舞’，而他却在不断变得更好，”威尔逊说。“他接连打破了如此多的里程碑，而现在又有一个新的：他即将成为首都人队历史上助攻数最多的人。”

威尔逊补充道：“总会有下一个里程碑。考虑到他已经取得的成就，他依然在追求下一个里程碑，这简直太疯狂了。但谁知道呢？也许人们会把今年写成一个疯狂的‘最后一舞’故事。我希望事实如此。我希望我们能以团队之姿出色地表现，延续这种文化，而他也能发挥出色，让我们在季后赛中走得很远。”

奥维奇金上赛季出战了全部82场比赛，贡献了32个进球和32次助攻——以他的标准来看这很克制，但在他的年龄段这堪称惊人。他再次领跑首都人队的进球榜，比威尔逊多两个——在赛季末的一次空门机会中，两人像玩传热土豆一样地传递冰球，试图将领先机会让给对方。但随着基鲁和图奇的加入，奥维奇金现在或许不必再承担所有压力。

马克·拉泽鲁斯是 The Athletic 的 NHL 高级记者。

图奇在布法罗军刀队的过去四个赛季中有三个赛季进球数达到或超过33个，而基鲁在圣路易斯蓝调队曾连续三个赛季进球数达到30个，但在上赛季仅贡献了18个。

威尔逊毫不怀疑奥维奇金会接受任何最适合球队的角色。

“在现阶段，他想要赢球；他想要成为一支强队的一部分，”威尔逊说。“如果我们的球队在赢球且表现出色，而他只进了30个球而不是40个，我不认为他会为此感到沮丧。绝对不会。但话虽如此，他之所以伟大是有原因的。他希望成为最好的自己。他想要进球。他对自己要求极高。”

他补充道：“我认为你永远无法从他身上抹去这一点。”

奥维奇金数十年来在赛场上的宿敌、匹兹堡企鹅队的悉尼·克罗斯比同样不确定这位首都人队的球星是否会回归。在赛季末企鹅队与华盛顿进行主客场系列赛期间，企鹅队让部分球员休息，克罗斯比在匹兹堡的主场比赛中选择了缺席，但在华盛顿的比赛中出战，以表达对对手的尊重。

“在那时我完全不知道，所以我在心里准备着，‘噢，这可能是最后一次了’，”克罗斯比说。“如果是那样，你会试着享受其中。如果不是，能看到他再次回归赛场将是非常棒的事情。我之前并不确定。”

但克罗斯比确定的一件事是：奥维奇金依然将是关键人物。当被问及奥维奇金是否还有余力时，克罗斯比笑了。他打趣道：“他去年进了多少个球？”

“他知道如何进球，”克罗斯比补充道。“这种能力是不会消失的。也许随着年龄增长，你可能需要做一点调整。但他的射门就是他的射门，这一点永远不会改变。”

当然，克罗斯比也不是这样。克罗斯比上个月刚满 39 岁，但他依然是一名顶尖的精英中锋，上赛季在仅 68 场比赛中就贡献了 29 个进球和 45 次助攻。他正进入合同的最后一年，但自 7 月 1. 起就具备了续约资格。克罗斯比的经纪人帕特·布里森（Pat Brisson）已与企鹅队总经理凯尔·杜巴斯（Kyle Dubas）进行了初步洽谈。在重振旗鼓的企鹅队去年出人意料地进入季后赛后，关于克罗斯比在其他球队结束职业生涯的传闻已大幅减少。看来，克罗斯比正式宣布续约只是时间问题。

“在我这个年纪，想要预测自己未来的状态会稍微困难一些，”克罗斯比说。“这感觉很不一样。你不知道一年后自己的状态会如何，身体感觉如何等等。我想继续打很多年，但我不知道具体是多少年。我想最终你的精神和身体会告诉你答案。不过目前我觉得状态相当不错。”

克罗斯比 (CROSBY)< / td><>奥维钦科夫 (OVECHKIN)< / >< / tr><><>21< / ><>赛季< / ><>21< / >< / ><><>1< / ><>球队< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>1,420< / ><>场次< / ><>1,573< / >< / ><><>654< / ><>进球< / ><>929< / >< / ><><>1,107< / ><>助攻< / ><>758< / >< / ><><>1,761< / ><>得分< / ><>1,687< / >< / ><><>194< / ><>强力进攻进球< / ><>331< / >< / ><><>4,459< / ><>射门< / ><>7,108< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>斯坦利杯< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>哈特奖（联盟 MVP）< / ><>3< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>罗斯奖（得分王）< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>斯迈斯奖（季后赛 MVP）< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>全明星赛< / ><>12< / >< / ><><>0< / ><>考德尔奖（年度最佳新秀）< / ><>1< / >< / table>

来源：Sports Reference. 《纽约时报》

这将是克罗斯比连续第 18 个赛季承担 $8.700 万 的薪资上限占用额。当被告知在如今薪水飞涨的时代，他的薪水几乎像一名第二对后卫时，他笑了。他会在职业生涯末期尝试争取一份巨额合同吗？还是迷信的克罗斯比会坚持使用同一个数字——也就是他的球衣号码（87）和他的生日（8 月 7 日）？

当他最初拿到 $8.700 万 时，这占到了薪资上限的 15.3%，是一笔巨款。而本赛季，这一比例将降至 8.4%。克罗斯比很高兴看到新的经济格局，即便他无法从中获得全部收益。

“对所有人来说，薪资上限能带来确定性是一件好事，”克罗斯比说。“我认为这非常有益。在过去，这种情况可能让事情无法发展到如今的程度。我认为这对每个人都有好处。”

4 剧院 帕蒂·卢波恩（Patti LuPone）将饰演令人敬畏的戴安娜·弗里兰德（Diana Vreeland）。 2 书评 在 ICE 时代阅读、写作并了解你的权利。

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用歌曲，她构建了心中的家

在经历一场大火后，以 Empress Of 之名活动的 Lorely Rodriguez 录制了专辑《Dream House》。

作者：CAROLINA ABBOTT GALVÃO

Lorely Rodriguez 的左手腕内侧纹着“Altadena”这个词。Rodriguez 是一位创作歌手兼制作人，以 Empress Of 的艺名进行表演。在 2025 年 1 月，伊顿大火（Eaton fire）席卷了洛杉矶县的那个社区，摧毁了许多房产，包括她的童年故居，随后她纹了这个纹身。

“我真的为我所在城镇的韧性感到自豪，”她在一次视频采访中说道。她的棕色头发中夹杂着几缕米色和金色的发丝，卷曲地落在她浅蓝色上衣的肩头。

Rodriguez 特别想到了她的母亲 Reina，后者决定从地基开始重建房屋。“她是一个非常有动力的人，”这位音乐家说，“一旦她决定做某件事，就一定会实现。”尽管如此，这个过程并不容易。火灾后的几个月里，这家人处理了一系列问题：他们能拿到重建许可吗？房子下面的土壤是否被污染了？如果一切顺利，他们如何让新房子变成一个真正的家？在将于本周五发行的最新专辑《Dream House》中，Rodriguez 思考了其中一些问题，并探讨了重新创造的意义。

这张专辑牢牢地处于她自 2015 年出道以来一直为人熟知的电子流行风格之中，音乐充满了轻盈的音景和惬意的旋律，同时也尝试了一些反直觉或陌生元素。《Dream House》将这一愿景扩展为某种更具结构感、更具概念性的东西。“我觉得我已经做了很多，”她说，“但我从未制作过这样一张唱片。”

现年 36 岁的 Rodriguez 小时候在 Altadena 开始创作音乐。她的母亲从洪——（接 CS 页）

音乐家 Lorely Rodriguez（艺名 Empress Of）在 2025 年的伊顿大火中失去了她位于加利福尼亚州 Altadena 的童年故居。在她母亲制定重建计划的同时，她创作了新专辑。

MATWENN RAOULT 为《纽约时报》拍摄

当电影与商业交汇

多伦多国际电影节希望在不改变其精神内核的前提下扩大规模。

一直持续到周日的多伦多电影节增加了一个市场板块。

作者：JASON T. BAILEY

多伦多 —— 展位、休息室和展示区填满了多伦多地铁会议中心（Metro Toronto Convention Center）的三楼展览厅。

一些展位由来自世界各地的电影委员会代表把持，他们宣传自己的国家作为拍摄地，或者通过传单、明信片和品牌小礼品推销当地项目。制作公司为了给已完成或潜在的电影寻找海外发行渠道，展示着海报并播放预告片。RDV Canada（一项旨在推广当地电影产业的计划）的展位目前最繁忙，那里正在举行一场招待会，提供了充足的指拿食物和饮料。

最重要的是，无论你看向哪里，到处都有准备好的桌子，供发行商、高管、经纪人和电影制作人们拉把椅子坐下，达成交易。

这个巨大的展厅是“TIFF：市场”（TIFF: The Market）的核心，它是历史悠久的多伦多国际电影节最新的增项。至少在表面上看，这是一个显——（接 C4 页）

终于掌控国家安全

作者：卡勒姆·马什 (CALUM MARSH)

她是一个冷酷的、马基雅维利式的阴谋家。在作家米克·赫伦 (Mick Herron) 的书中，她被塑造为一个阴险的对手，必须时刻警惕，且绝不能长期信任。

在《慢马》(Slow Horses) 第六季中，克里斯汀·斯科特·托马斯 (Kristin Scott Thomas) 饰演的这个狡黠角色掌管着英国军情五处 (MI5)。

那么，在周三首播第六季的 Apple TV 热门剧集《慢马》中，为什么强大的戴安娜·塔夫纳 (Diana Taverner) 会如此奇怪地讨人喜欢——即便她一次又一次地挫败并削弱那些赢得了众多观众好感的格格不入的间谍们？

毫无疑问，这部分归功于克里斯汀·斯科特·托马斯为这个角色注入的略微柔和的触感，她以温暖和魅力扮演着斯劳房 (Slough House) 间谍及其爱打嗝的领导者杰克逊·兰姆 (Jackson Lamb，加里·奥德曼 饰) 的终极陪衬。她饰演的塔夫纳并非完全令人同情——而且可能依然不值得信任——但她或许与其说是彻头彻尾的邪恶，不如说是处于道德灰色地带。

“她很可怕——我的意思是，显然如此！”托马斯 [接 C5 页]

公民课，不搞花样

一本面向学生的漫画书提供了与联邦执法人员打交道的技巧。

作者：乔治·吉恩·古斯廷斯 (GEORGE GENE GUSTINES)

随着纽约市的中学生和高中生在本学期返回课堂，他们正在接触到《了解你的权利》(Know Your Rights)，这是一本旨在让个人为与联邦执法人员打交道做好准备的教育漫画书。

这是由“全民公民教育”(Civics for All) 发布的最新作品，该项目隶属于市学校社会研究与公民教育部门。该项目始于 2020 年，目前包含 45 部漫画。《了解你的权利》的印刷量为 140,000 册——一半为英文，一半为西班牙文。该书还提供 14 种语言的数字化版本。

这部漫画通过基于真实事件的片段，展示了与移民和海关执法局 (ICE) 打交道的情况，包括针对纽约市的特定指南，强调在家里、工作中或步行上学时要了解自己的法律选择。在易于理解的场景和清晰且色彩鲜艳的艺术作品中，故事为读者提供了法律热线电话，以及关于提前规划、整理文件和记忆紧急联系信息的建议。

《了解你的权利》由亚历克斯·塞古拉 (Alex Segura) 编写，大卫·汉恩 (David Hahn) 绘制，是由“开放之臂项目”(Project Open Arms) 的成员建议创作的。该项目是市学校系统支持包括寻求庇护者在内的移民的一项努力。他们认为，帮助学生及其家庭了解无证人员所拥有的权利具有价值。

教育部门并不追踪学生及其家庭的移民身份，但去年在学校学习英语的学生人数约为 146,000 人。

这部漫画在移民问题的政治氛围依然紧张之际问世。上个月，纽约州的《本地警察，本地犯罪法》(Local Cops, Local Crimes Act) 正式生效。该法案禁止 ICE 委任当地警察执行民事移民法。此外，该出版物发布的时间距离一名来自布朗克斯的高中生被从联邦拘留中释放大约六个月。

本月早些时候，国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马林 (Markwayne Mullin) 在一次新闻发布会上宣布，在“烂苹果行动”(Operation Rotten Apple) 中，近期有超过 2,000 人在纽约州被移民官员逮捕。

在与马林一同发言时，肯尼思 (Kenneth)

了解你的权利

大卫·汉恩 / 纽约市公立学校

句式框架：

- 巴希萨（Bahisa）向执法人员不断重复她不表示同意这一点很重要，因为 ____。

- 为了确保你家中弱势群体的安全，你可以 ____。

Genalo 作为该市的一名 ICE（美国移民及海关执法局）外勤办公室主任，在发言中提及了 9 月 11 日袭击事件，称“公共安全取决于联邦、州和地方执法部门的合作”。

在学校中使用漫画和图形小说并非新鲜事。东北大学英语教授、漫画及图形叙事专家希拉里·丘特（Hillary Chute）在一次采访中表示，阿特·斯皮格曼（Art Spiegelman）在 20 世纪 90 年代创作的《鼠族》（Maus）“在漫画被认可方面打破了许多障碍”。她曾在 2018 年至 2022 年期间担任《纽约时报书评》的图形小说专栏作家。

她说：“在过去的 10 年里，面向儿童的教学或指令性漫画大幅增加，”其中包括由 First Second 出版的一系列《科学漫画》（Science Comics）。她同时也是卡通研究中心（Center for Cartoon Studies）的支持者。“它们属于那种思考指令性漫画的浪潮的一部分，真正地在年轻人所处的层面与他们接轨。”

保守派智库曼哈顿研究所（Manhattan Institute）专门研究教育政策的研究员詹妮弗·韦伯（Jennifer Weber）在采访中表示，使用漫画并非坏事，但《了解你的权利》（Know Your Rights）将移民描绘成主角，将 ICE 描绘成反派，这是“片面的”。

对于公民教育课程，“我想说，你绝对需要了解另一方，”她继续说道，并补充称，这部漫画错失了一个向读者讲解 ICE 成立原因，以及展示第四修正案关于防止不合理搜查和扣押之保护的机会。

“全民公民教育”（Civics for All）已经出版了关于政府活动、杰基·罗宾逊（Jackie Robinson）、气候变化、第 26 修正案以及 L.G.B.T.Q. 人物的漫画。

社会研究与公民教育部门的高级教学专家乔·施密特（Joe Schmidt）表示，“由于我们不是传统的出版商，我们能够做到的事情之一就是尝试一些实验性的东西”，只要作品优先考虑“教学法和学生的需求”。他与该部门的社会研究与公民教育主任布莱恩·卡林（Brian Carlin）共同创立了这一漫画计划。

左图为《了解你的权利》的封面。上方为该漫画书的内页，由亚历克斯·塞古拉（Alex Segura）撰写，大卫·汉恩（David Hahn）绘制。

卡林的目标之一是讲述那些很少受到关注或在传统历史叙事中被省略的故事。“我们讲述了一个关于征兵骚乱的故事，你知道，那是美国历史上规模最大的骚乱，但没人知道这件事，而且它就发生在纽约，”他在谈到 1863 年白人工人因不满内战征兵而引发的为期五天的骚乱时说道。这次暴力起义导致 100 多人死亡。

卡林表示，决定制作哪些漫画是由课程内容的缺失，或者需要“为现有课程提供另一个切入点”的问题所驱动的。

塞古拉表示，撰写这部漫画“感觉非常重要”，并补充说它提供了有价值的信息，“因为我们正经历非市政执法部门（即 ICE 及类似组织）活动的激增，在这种情况下，不仅是孩子们，他们的家人和朋友也必须知道自己的权利是什么，以及这座城市能做些什么来保护和帮助他们。”

撇开政治不谈，这部漫画的目的在于告知。“人们应该了解自己的权利，对吧？”卡林问道。“这不应该是具有争议的。”

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续集带来新冒险与熟悉面孔

《超级马力欧》、《宠物生活》和《愤怒的小鸟》系列均推出了全新的动画故事。

任天堂与照明娱乐 / 环球影业 在《超级马力欧银河电影》中，右侧附近的耀西（唐纳德·格洛弗配音），以及马力欧（克里斯·普拉特）和路易吉（查理·戴）。

《超级马力欧银河电影》

在 Peacock 上观看。

这部 2026 年上映的照明娱乐《超级马力欧兄弟大电影》续集尽管遭遇了一连串的负面评价，但依然在票房上大获成功，因为孩子们似乎永远看不腻马力欧（克里斯·普拉特配音）、路易吉（查理·戴）和碧姬公主（安雅·泰勒-乔伊）在银幕上的冒险。

在本作中，我们见到了碧姬公主的姐姐罗莎莉娜（布里·拉尔森），她是被称为“Lumas”的发光星形生物的养母，但不久后她就被库巴二世（本尼·萨夫迪）绑架了。他的父亲库巴（杰克·布莱克）在上一部电影中被缩小后依然身材娇小，但当他恢复正常尺寸并与儿子联手时，其邪恶野心再次回归。碧姬公主和奇诺比奥（基根-迈克尔·基）穿越银河系——最终与马力欧、路易吉和耀西（唐纳德·格洛弗）汇合——以营救罗莎莉娜，并阻止库巴父子统治世界。

角色们在一个个令人眼花缭乱的场景间穿梭，而电子游戏爱好者们会对散布在片中的彩蛋感到兴奋。该片由亚伦·霍瓦斯和迈克尔·杰莱尼克执导，马修·福格尔撰写剧本（三人均为《超级马力欧兄弟大电影》的资深成员）。

《星球大战：曼达洛人与格罗古》在 Disney+ 上观看。

乔治·卢卡斯的《星球大战》系列凭借其海量的续集和剧集，就像一个拥有无限触手的生物。甚至有些电影是剧集的衍生作品，比如这部 5 月上映的电影。丁·贾林，又名曼多（佩德罗·帕斯卡），是一名戴面具的赏金猎人，为人沉默寡言。为什么有人会在大部分电影时间里遮住帕斯卡的脸是个谜，但这是导演兼剧集创作者乔恩·法夫罗的选择。

格罗古（粉丝们称之为“尤达宝宝”）是曼多可爱、皱巴巴、龙舌兰色的学徒。前帝国军阀潜伏在银河系各处策划回归，新共和国的高层沃德上校（西格妮·韦弗）任务曼多寻找行踪诡秘的犯罪头目科因指挥官。

格罗古在他们的冒险中蹒跚而行，十分可爱，对于热爱《星球大战》宇宙的孩子来说，这是一次有趣的旅程，尽管某些战斗场景对于年幼的孩子来说可能过于激烈。法夫罗与两名《曼达洛人》剧集编剧戴夫·菲洛尼和诺亚·克鲁共同撰写了剧本。

在 Prime Video 上观看。

《出巢》

在全由动物组成的卡斯蒂利亚王国中，一只名叫亚瑟（Cory Yee）的青少年山羊梦想成为皇帝的理发师。他目前通过担任配送山羊赚钱，并由蟾蜍大师（Sean Burgos）指导美发艺术。就在新女皇和新皇帝即将加冕前，名为“爪之 Order”的黑暗势力袭击了王国，皇家蛋被盗。经过一场战斗，一只名叫卡尼斯（Fong Fong Poon）的强悍母狐狸迅速将蛋带回给蟾蜍大师。亚瑟必须将蛋交给住在沉没森林中的隐士雅各布斯（Luis Bermudez），因为他是唯一能帮助他们将蛋归还给皇室的人。为什么？谁知道。

情节变得愈发复杂，但幼儿应该会被这些蛋中孵化出的五彩斑斓的小鸡所吸引，而亚瑟从一个自私的青少年转变为勇敢照顾者的过程也十分温馨。这部 2024 年上映的泰中合拍片由动画师阿图罗·埃尔南德斯、安德鲁·戈登（皮克斯资深动画师）、维拉帕特拉·吉纳纳文和杰夫·舒执导。吉莉安·贝罗和埃尔南德斯撰写了剧本。

《愤怒的小鸟2》

可在 Netflix 上观看。

在这部由索尼影业于 2019 年推出的续作中（前作是 2016 年关于一群有愤怒问题的不会飞的鸟的电影），由于在上一部电影中拯救了鸟岛并感觉自己像个英雄，Red（由杰森·苏戴基斯配音）变得没那么暴躁了。他和鸟类伙伴们生活惬意，而他们之前的敌人——由绿色猪 Leonard（比尔·海德配音）领导的猪岛居民也同样如此。然而，第三个岛屿的出现打破了这种和平共处：由聪明但邪恶的 Zeta（莱斯利·琼斯配音）领导的鹰岛。因为厌倦了极寒天气，Zeta 想要在其他岛屿上创造一个热带天堂，于是向鸟类和猪类发射危险的冰球。这些“亦敌亦友”的群体必须联手阻止 Zeta 并拯救他们的家园。

角色们的对话和滑稽举动——包括 Bomb（丹尼·麦克布莱德）、Mighty Eagle（彼得·丁克莱奇）、Chuck（乔什·盖德）和 Silver（瑞秋·布鲁姆）——令人捧腹，而琼斯在饰演这位紫色羽毛的反派时表现出色。更不用说那些接连不断的 A 级明星客串了。年轻人可以观看这部电影，为预计在 12 月上映的系列第三部做准备。

由 Thurop Van Orman 执导，Peter Ackerman（《冰川时代》）、Eyal Podell 和 Jonathon E. Stewart 编写剧本。

《宠物秘密生活 2》

可在 Peacock 上观看。

这部 2019 年的续集与其改编自的 2016 年热门电影一样，讲述的是宠物在主人不在身边时会做什么。在这个动画世界里，这些毛茸茸的朋友们在纽约及其他地方展开了疯狂的冒险。梗类犬 Max（由帕顿·奥斯瓦尔特配音，取代了路易·C.K.）仍然与杂种犬 Duke（埃里克·斯通斯特里特）以及他们的主人 Katie（艾莉·肯珀）住在曼哈顿。起初，当 Katie 带回新宝宝 Liam（亨利·林奇）时，Max 感到了威胁，但很快这只狗狗就爱上了他——而随着这份爱而来的，是对 Liam 安全感日益增长的焦虑。当全家人前往一个农场，以便让 学习坚毅和自信时，我们遇到了牧羊犬 Rooster（由哈里森·福特完美饰演）。

与此同时， 的纽约邻居兔子 Snowball（凯文·哈特）——他现在将自己重新定义为超级英雄“Snowball 队长”——帮助西施犬 Daisy（蒂法尼·哈迪什）从一个邪恶的马戏团老板（尼克·克罗尔）手中救出一只幼虎。第三条故事线则跟随博美犬 Gidget（珍妮·斯莱特），讲述她如何潜入一个养猫女人的公寓，寻找 丢失的玩具之一。

三条故事线在最后汇合，最终升华为关于寻找勇气和面对恐惧的人生教训。由 Chris Renaud（《宠物秘密生活》、《卑鄙的我》）和 Jonathan del Val（《超级马力欧兄弟大电影》动画师）执导。Brian Lynch（《小黄人与怪物》、《宠物秘密生活》）编写剧本。

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四位艺术家领跑拉丁格莱美奖提名

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Karol G、Rosalía、二人组 Ca7riel 和 Paco Amoroso 以及 Jorge Drexler 各获得七项提名。

作者：PAULA MEJÍA

在第27届年度颁奖礼之前，四位风格迥异的艺术家——哥伦比亚超级巨星 Karol G、技艺精湛的西班牙实验音乐人 Rosalía、古灵精怪的阿根廷组合 Ca7riel 和 Paco Amoroso，以及乌拉圭流行艺术家 Jorge Drexler—— each 均获得了七项拉丁格莱美奖提名。

拉丁唱片学院于周三宣布了2026年拉丁格莱美奖的有力竞争者，他们全部入围了年度专辑奖。这些艺术家因其不拘泥于特定音乐类型的作品而获得认可。

Karol G 在今年成为首位领衔 Coachella 音乐节的拉丁女性，凭借其 2025 年的专辑《Tropicoqueta》在多个类别中获得提名。这位原名 Carolina Giraldo Navarro 的音乐人表示，这张专辑是对塑造她音乐之爱的多种声音的颂歌，包括 vallenato、dembow、cumbia、reggaeton 和 ranchera。

她还在类型类别中获得三项提名：城市表演类，凭借与巴拿马雷鬼歌手 Eddy Lover 合作的《Dile Luna》；reggaeton 表演类，凭借与哥伦比亚制作人兼词曲作者 Feid 合作的《Verano Rosa》；以及地区歌曲类，凭借《Ese Hombre Es Malo》，在这首歌中她尝试了包括 mariachi 在内的墨西哥音乐元素。

受过古典训练的西班牙明星 Rosalía 在专辑《Lux》中展现了其艺术上的不可预测性，同样获得了七项提名。在这张受多位圣徒生活启发的专辑中，这位歌手使用了包括阿拉伯语、德语和西西里语在内的 13 种语言，同时使用了足够的西班牙语、加泰罗尼亚语和葡萄牙语（占项目歌词的至少 60%），以满足年度专辑奖的评选资格。她的曲目《La Perla》是一首与 Yahritza y Su Esencia 合作的活泼作品，旨在谴责一个像“情感恐怖分子”一样的恋人，该曲获得了最佳流行歌曲、年度歌曲和年度唱片奖的提名。

古灵精怪的阿根廷组合 Ca7riel 和 Paco Amoroso 获得了七项提名。正如该乐队近期透露的，他们的稳步上升包括参与备受期待的《侠盗猎车手 VI》（Grand Theft Auto VI）电子游戏，以及在 Harry Styles 的巡演中担任开场表演。作为拉丁音乐全球表达范围扩大的又一例证，这对组合在 2026 年的专辑《Free Spirits》中在 bossa nova、funk、hyperpop、smooth jazz 和 hip-hop 之间灵活切换，其中偶尔出现的搞怪歌词掩盖了对名声和不满的深层思考。在这张专辑中，演员兼音乐人 Jack Black 在标题恰如其分的曲目《Goo Goo Ga Ga》中提供了像婴儿一样的伴唱。

乌拉圭实验音乐人 Jorge Drexler 凭借其 2026 年的专辑《Taracá》获得七项提名。他的《¿Cómo Se Ama?》是一首形态多变的曲目，从迷幻的原声曲风迅速切换到充满动感的

哥伦比亚歌手 Karol G 本月在洛杉矶地区的 SoFi 体育场演出。她的专辑《Tropicoqueta》汲取了包括 vallenatos、dembow、cumbia、reggaeton 和 ranchera 在内的多种风格。

节拍，将角逐年度歌曲和年度唱片奖。Drexler 曾是一名医生，后来转向音乐领域，他曾在 2005 年凭借电影《摩托日记》中的歌曲《Al Otro Lado del Rio》获得奥斯卡最佳原创歌曲奖。

智利-墨西哥流行偶像 Mon Laferte 和墨西哥词曲作者 Silvana Estrada 各获得六项提名，包括年度专辑奖。

获得提名最多的是金曲词曲作者兼制作人埃德加·巴雷拉（Edgar Barrera），他获得了10项提名，这已经是他在过去四年中的三年里蝉联该纪录。作为拉丁音乐最杰出的构建者之一，巴雷拉将在多个类别中实际上与自己竞争，包括年度歌曲奖，其中两首由他参与创作的曲目——卡罗尔·G（Karol G）与马尔科·安东尼奥·索利斯（Marco Antonio Solis）的《Coleccionando Heridas》，以及桑塔纳（Santana）由贝基·G（Becky G）助阵的《Mi Gran Amor》均获得了提名。

他还凭借制作的《Tropicoqueta》以及卡林·莱昂（Carin León）2026年的专辑《Muda》获得了年度专辑奖提名。卡林·莱昂在本月成为了首位在拉斯维加斯Sphere球形场馆举行驻场演出的拉丁音乐家。

同样参与这场激烈竞争的还有巴西流行艺人安妮塔（Anitta）的《Equilibrivm》；委内瑞拉组合Rawayana那首闪耀的《¿Dónde Es El After?》；以及阿根廷说唱歌手米洛·J（Milo J）的慢节奏民谣作品《La Vida Era Más Corta》。

拉丁唱片学院首席执行官曼努埃尔·阿布德（Manuel Abud）表示，尤其是年度专辑奖类别中这种模糊了流派的多样性，反映了拉丁音乐不断演进的方向。

在谈到这些艺术家时，他说：“我们的职责是跟上他们的步伐，而不是试图将他们禁锢在某个框架中。相反，我们需要不断调整这个框架。”

在经历了数年增加奖项类别以试图更好地涵盖拉丁音乐内部庞大子流派的尝试后，今年的奖项数量将稳定在60个。

根据研究机构Luminate的一份报告，像墨西哥音乐（música mexicana）这类地区性流派在流媒体平台上的普及率激增，结合重大流行文化事件（如坏痞兔（Bad Bunny）今年极具号召力的超级碗中场表演），共同推动了拉丁音乐在全球范围内的增长。同一份报告指出，2026年前六个月在美国流媒体播放的歌曲中，几乎每10首就有一首是用西班牙语演唱的。

颁奖典礼将连续第二年在拉斯维加斯的美高梅大花园竞技场（MGM Grand Garden Arena）举行，并将于11月12日在Univision电视台播出。

即使年届50岁依然“小”，《安妮》计划回归

这部音乐剧将于2027年晚些时候在百老汇复排。

作者：迈克尔·保尔森 (MICHAEL PAULSON)

1977, 那个由长篇连载漫画带火的勇敢红发女孩——孤儿安妮首次登上百老汇，通过一部名为《安妮》（Annie）的剧目，该剧赢得了七项托尼奖，包括最佳音乐剧、最佳配乐和最佳剧本。

本周，一个制作团队宣布，明年为了庆祝这部音乐剧诞生50周年，这部如今已家喻户晓的剧目将在百老汇复排。

以下是我们目前已知和未知关于此次制作的信息：

复排何时开始？

2027. 秋季。具体日期尚未公布。

这将是该剧第三次在百老汇复排——此前曾分别在1997年和2012年复排。

谁参与其中？

萨姆·平克尔顿 (Sam Pinkleton) 将担任导演。他曾因执导《噢，玛丽！》（Oh, Mary!）获得2025年托尼奖，今年他执导了获得托尼奖提名的《摇滚恐怖秀》（The Rocky Horror Show）复排版。（这两部作品目前仍在百老汇上演。）

演员阵容尚未公布。预计将由一名新人饰演主角；而饰演愤世嫉俗的孤儿院管理员汉尼根小姐 (Miss Hannigan) 的则可能是知名度更高的人物。

制作团队由迈克尔·奥尔登 (Michael Alden) 和 Halcyon Theatricals 组成。奥尔登将首次担任首席制作人，而 Halcyon Theatricals 是一家由哈尔·卢夫蒂格 (Hal Luftig)、凯西·丹奇克 (Cathy Dantchik) 和凯文·康纳 (Kevin Connor) 领导的新制作公司。

还有其他周年庆祝计划吗？

有的。位于康涅狄格州的 Goodspeed Musicals——这家非营利机构曾在1976年为《安妮》提供百老汇首演前的预演——计划从下个月起推出自己的50周年制作，演出时间为10月30日至12月27. 那部在康涅狄格州东哈登上演的剧目将由百老汇资深演员艾米莉·斯金纳 (Emily Skinner) 饰演汉尼根小姐，年轻的 TikTok 博主莱肯·朱尔斯 (Laiken Jules) 饰演安妮。

Goodspeed 的复排版由詹妮弗·汤普森 (Jenn Thompson) 执导，她曾是原版百老汇制作中的替补孤儿，并执导了一场全国巡演，该巡演在2024, 晚些时候曾停靠在麦迪逊广场花园（由伍皮·戈德堡饰演汉尼根小姐）。

此外，一如既往地，美国各地有多个地方剧团在演出，且有一部剧目刚刚开始在英国和爱尔兰巡演。

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LuPone 将在《Full Gallop》中进行个人表演，她将饰演戴安娜·弗里兰。

作者：MICHAEL PAULSON

帕蒂·卢波恩（Patti LuPone）是一位三届托尼奖得主，凭借其才华、犀利的口才以及对挑战的追求，成为了戏剧界的传奇。今年冬天，她将在单人 Off Broadway 剧目《Full Gallop》中挑战另一个强大的人物——时尚编辑戴安娜·弗里兰（Diana Vreeland）。

以下是我们关于该剧目的已知信息：

时间和地点？

预演将于 1 月 8 日开始，正式首演于 1 月 17 日在纽约市中心（New York City Center）的 Stage II 举行。该剧计划演出 12 周。

这部剧讲述了什么？

《全速奔驰》（Full Gallop）是一部由马克·汉普顿（Mark Hampton）和玛丽·路易丝·威尔逊（Mary Louise Wilson）创作于 1995 年的剧作。该剧围绕弗里兰（Vreeland）展开，她从 20 世纪 30 年代末到 60 年代初担任《时尚芭莎》（Harper's Bazaar）的时尚编辑，随后担任《时尚》（Vogue）的总编辑直至 1971 年，之后成为大都会艺术博物馆服装学院的顾问。她是一个传奇人物——既华丽又令人敬畏——于 1989 年去世。

该剧的场景设定在弗里兰位于公园大道的客厅里，时间是她被《时尚》杂志解雇几个月后。这部剧是为威尔逊（她后来凭借《灰色花园》获得托尼奖）量身打造的，首次在圣迭戈的古球剧院（Old Globe Theater）上演；随后转移到了 City Center 的同一个舞台，而这次的新制作也将在此上演。最初的演出大获成功，并从 City Center 转移到了西区剧院（Westside Theater）。文森特·坎比（Vincent Canby）在《纽约时报》中写道：“像其浓郁的风格一样令人陶醉。”

谁参与了制作？

曾凭借《艾薇塔》（Evita）、《吉普赛》（Gypsy）和《公司》（Company）获得托尼奖的卢庞（LuPone）是这部独角戏的唯一表演者。导演是戈登

帕蒂·卢庞（Patti LuPone）将在《全速奔驰》中饰演一名令人敬畏的时尚编辑，该剧将于明年年初登上 Off Broadway。

格林伯格（Gordon Greenberg），他去年在经典舞台公司（Classic Stage Company）执导了 Off Broadway 复排剧《面包师之妻》（The Baker's Wife）。

这部剧是一部商业制作，但与一家非营利剧院合作——这种情况虽不常见，但并非没有先例。商业制作方是亚伦·格里克（Aaron Glick）和由克里斯汀·施瓦茨曼（Christine Schwarzman）创立的高产公司 No Guarantees Productions；非营利方是曼哈顿剧院俱乐部（Manhattan Theater Club），该俱乐部计划将这部剧纳入其部分订阅套餐中。

卢庞不是被抵制了吗？

并不完全是，但这位以斥责使用手机的观众而闻名的直言不讳的女演员，去年为她在一次杂志采访中批评两名同行演员奥德拉·麦克唐纳（Audra McDonald）和凯西亚·刘易斯（Kecia Lewis）时所使用的语言发表了一次罕见的道歉。此后，她一直在举办音乐会和卡巴莱表演；这将是她自 2024 年在百老汇主演《室友》（The Roommate）以来，首次正式回归舞台。

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电影与商业交汇之地

（接 C1 版）这种转变背离了该活动辛苦建立的声誉。“TIFF 曾经——或者说现在依然——是一个纯粹的电影节，”纪录片发行公司 Dogwoof 的首席执行官安娜·戈达斯（Anna Godas）在一次采访中表示，“人们去那里是为了看电影；而且至少在我们的认知中，买家去那里也是为了看电影，而不一定是为了开一堆会议。”

但该电影节在相当长一段时间内一直在考虑扩张。据其首席执行官卡梅伦·贝利（Cameron Bailey）称，该组织早在 2012 年就开始研究增加市场板块的可能性——旨在将其从像纽约电影节那样长期坚持的纯展映活动，转变为类似于戛纳或柏林电影节的混合模式。在那些活动中，光鲜的放映会、红毯和新闻发布会与繁忙的市场共存，电影方案在那里进行展示，项目在那里进行推介，交易在那里达成。

“研究表明这是一个机遇，”贝利在采访中解释道，“北美还没有任何类似于欧洲那种模式的东西。”当时 TIFF 还没有准备好迈出这一步，但这个想法一直在酝酿，直到 2024 年，在加拿大联邦政府 2300万美元 资金的支持下，该组织宣布从今年起在电影节期间增加一个正式的市场。

对于 TIFF 而言，这同样是一个财务机遇——而且是必要的机遇。疫情之后，TIFF 经历了人员削减、赞助损失和其他经济挑战。市场板块提供了多种收入可能性，包括增加买家和卖家的出席人数以及展厅的展位租赁。但贝利强调，这一举措代表的是长期优势：“这并不是一件能立即改变组织财务状况的事情。”

约翰·斯洛斯（John Sloss）是一位已参加该电影节至少 35 年的销售代理人和制片人，他在一次电话采访中指出，“TIFF 永远是一个事实上的市场，因为它规模如此之大，而且

市场（The Market）是今年多伦多国际电影节的核心部分，这是一个分销商、高管、代理人和电影制作人可以进行推介并达成交易的展厅。

它是所有发行作品如此关键的启动平台，所有的买家和卖家都在那里。我认为建立一个更正式的结构是个好主意。”

查尔斯·特伦布莱（Charles Tremblay）持有相同观点，他是一位资深分销商和电影高管，加入该电影节负责领导市场板块。他在采访中回忆道：“我的普遍反应是，‘你们怎么花这么长时间才决定这么做？’”他补充道，“我一直觉得可以做得更多——之前可能错过了一些机会。”

业内大部分人士都对他持有这种热情。但一些观察者担心，这种过于明确的商业导向方法与电影节的特质相悖。在 1991 年接受罗杰·伊伯特（Roger Ebert）采访时，TIFF 的联合创始人达斯蒂·科尔（Dusty Cohl）解释了多伦多活动与戛纳等电影节的区别：“这个电影节是为那些来观看电影的人、为热爱电影的人而设计的。”

那么，TIFF 是否背叛了其创立时的精神？贝利并不这么认为。“从 1991 年到 2026 年经历了很长时间，”他说，“那时是一个完全不同的生态系统，我们不需要质疑它，也不需要担心它是否会一直存在。现在情况大不相同，因此市场板块将帮助我们维持那些我们热爱并希望看到更多此类类型的电影。”

制片人兼导演罗伯特·文斯（Robert Vince）表示，他很惊讶正式化结构花了这么长时间，因为“它实际上一直是一个准市场”，他在采访中说道。文斯对此深有体会；他 1997 年的喜剧片《空中犬》（Air Bud）就是在 TIFF 期间卖给迪士尼的。现在，在近 30 年和 14 部电影之后，他来到市场板块是为了推销该系列的最新作品《空中犬回归》（Air Bud Returns）。

“这是一个相当重要的时刻，”他笑着说，“我们回到了独立电影的根源。”

与此同时，斯洛斯表示，该市场可以被视为一次尝试，“旨在重新获得新冠疫情后的某些势头，可以说疫情对多伦多的影响比对其他电影节更大。”他认为，“我认为这个市场像是一种声明，表明他们希望强化其作为秋季电影节‘祖师爷’，或者至少是同类规模活动的领先地位。”

此外，其中心化的地理位置可以吸引更多电影制作人。独立电影《双星》（Binary Star）的制片人约翰·弗林在经营展位时表示：“我们考虑过前往戛纳，但我们是工人阶级的电影制作人。我们负担不起参加每一个重大活动，尤其是海外活动。”

制作与发行公司 Signature Entertainment 的创始人马克·戈德堡在一次采访中解释说，许多外国买家并不去多伦多，因为“它一直以来仅仅是一个电影节”。

由于两个月后在洛杉矶就会举行历史悠久的美国电影市场（American Film Market），一些人可能会犹豫是否将其加入日程。但在目前的政治气候下，一些海外买家可能不愿前往美国，这使得多伦多成为了一个合理的替代方案。

市场的整合并非一帆风顺。一些参会者被注册处冗长的队伍所困扰——弗林说：“我们早上 7 点就到了，到了 7:45，队伍几乎已经排到了建筑外面”——一些参展商则报告称，客流量比他们预期的要慢，这主要是因为展区与放映场地在地理上相隔几个街区。

总部位于印度的 NH Studioz 导演什雷扬斯·希拉瓦特报告称，在市场展区结识的新联系人很少。但他补充道：“但即便只有少数人在那里，他们也有高质量的时间可以共处。不像在其他电影节上你总是匆匆忙忙，在这里人们有时间。”

贝利希望这些只是成长的阵痛。他表示：“我认为这个市场将成为将人们聚集在一起的重要部分。”在回忆赵婷将《骑士》带到电影节，而弗朗西斯·麦克多蒙德同年也出席活动的那段时光时，他补充道：“过去这种情况曾以非常美好的非正式方式发生过。她们在多伦多相遇，并实际上决定在这里共同合作《游牧之歌》。”

贝利说：“所以，如果不仅有电影节在促成这种交流，还有一个市场也在促成，我认为我们将使多伦多成为电影艺术与商业真正且至关重要的枢纽。”

演出退出引发埃德·希兰巡演动荡

凯尔·库珀 / 路透社 “我支持巴勒斯坦及其人民，”菲尼亚斯在社交媒体的一份声明中表示。

比莉·艾利什的哥哥菲尼亚斯是退出演出的艺人之一，他表示这是为了支持巴勒斯坦人。

作者：本·西萨里奥 (BEN SISARIO)

菲尼亚斯 (Finneas) 以及一系列与艾德·希兰 (Ed Sheeran) 体育场巡演相关的音乐人已退出此次演出。就在此前一天，说唱歌手麦克莫尔 (Macklemore) 因发表反对加沙战争的言论而被除名。

菲尼亚斯，以及创作歌手亚伦·罗 (Aaron Rowe)、卢卡斯·格雷厄姆 (Lukas Graham) 和爱尔兰传统音乐团体 Beoga，均于周二在社交媒体上宣布退出。每个人都提到了言论自由的必要性，并表达了对巴勒斯坦人的支持。

“当艺术家为受压迫者发声时，绝不能被禁言，”菲尼亚斯写道。这位格莱美奖和奥斯卡奖得主、音乐人兼制作人是比莉·艾利什 (Billie Eilish) 的哥哥兼合作伙伴。他补充道：“我支持巴勒斯坦及其人民。”

这些成员的离去增加了希兰面临的压力，他是一位流媒体巨头且拥有顶级的巡演号召力。自从麦克莫尔被除名的消息公布以来，希兰因允许这一决定而受到广泛批评——希兰表示，该决定是由巡演推广方以及预订演唱会的体育场所有者做出的。

罗和格雷厄姆近期一直担任希兰巡演的开场嘉宾；而全名为菲尼亚斯·奥康奈尔 (Finneas O'Connell) 的菲尼亚斯原定于 11 月和 12 月参加在南美洲的几场演出。Beoga 则经常与希兰合作，包括在目前的巡演中。

这场争议始于 9 月 4 日和 5 日，当时来自西雅图的说唱歌手麦克莫尔——曾凭借 2010 年代的热门歌曲《Thrift Shop》和《Same Love》成名——在希兰于新泽西州东卢瑟福 MetLife 体育场举行的演唱会上进行了表演。

麦克莫尔演唱了他的抗议歌曲《Hind's Hall》，该曲指责以色列在 2023 年 10 月 7 日哈马斯领导的袭击以色列后引发的战争中实施“种族灭绝”，歌曲的视频展示了加沙的破坏情况以及纽约的抗议活动。

“我想站在美国各地的舞台和体育场上，”麦克莫尔在台上说道，“说出两个对我而言至关重要的词：自由巴勒斯坦。”

反诽谤联盟 (Anti-Defamation League) 等组织以及许多网络评论者迅速对这次表演提出了批评，以色列-美国委员会 (Israeli-American Council) 传阅了一份请愿书，呼吁希兰将麦克莫尔从巡演中除名。

“我并非轻率做出这个决定，”来自都柏林的年轻音乐人罗在社交媒体上写道。“艾德一直是我的朋友，他改变了我的生活。对此我永远感激不尽，”他补充道。

“但作为爱尔兰人，”罗说，“我们太清楚种族灭绝、强迫饥荒和暴力占领意味着什么。我不能坐视不管，允许亿万富翁利用其权力地位，去禁言那些反对以色列种族灭绝、揭露残忍杀害儿童行为的正义之声。”

格雷厄姆在社交媒体的声明中表示：“金钱并不赋予你掌控对话的权利。任何人的银行余额都不应决定谁有权发言，或者我们被允许承认什么样的苦难。”他还添加了西瓜的表情符号，这是一种支持巴勒斯坦事业的信号。

在另一份声明中，Beoga 表示其决定是对“犹太复国主义游说团体禁言麦克莫尔”的一种反应。

麦克莫尔在周一的一份在线声明中表示，希兰告诉他，承接巡演的场馆要求将其除名。

罗伯特·克拉夫特 (Robert Kraft) 的公司拥有新英格兰爱国者队和波士顿郊外的吉列体育场 (Gillette Stadium)，他在周一的一份声明中承认，他决定麦克莫尔不能在吉列体育场演出，称他不会“为仇恨言论提供平台”，并指出麦克莫尔有着“更广泛的反犹太主义言论和意象历史”，他认为这“对犹太社区造成了深深的冒犯和伤害”。

克拉夫特在声明中没有详细阐述这一指控。但许多社交媒体评论者指向了 2014 年的一套带有钩鼻和胡须的“犹太人讽刺画”舞台服装；麦克莫尔当时对此道歉，并表示他“绝不会故意贬低任何人的身份特质”。

Sheeran巡演的下一个预定停靠站是周六在费城的林肯金融球场。

在歌曲中，她构建了心中的家

（接第CI页）……duras，曾担任清洁工和保姆，她一直梦想着能买一套房产。“你知道的，”罗德里格斯说，“就是为了能给她的家人提供安全感和一个家。”

最终，她的母亲买下了一栋单层、三卧室、1960年代风格的房子——据罗德里格斯称，这栋房子很“简朴”。但罗德里格斯热爱这里以及周围的一切：父亲每周几次在放学后带她去的世纪中叶图书馆，环绕城镇的山脉和徒步路径，以及母亲在花园里种的玫瑰。回首往事，罗德里格斯还很喜欢她的学校对艺术的重视。没错，那是所公立学校，课堂非常拥挤，但“总会有一位老师会觉得，‘这个女孩会唱歌’，或者‘这个孩子会画画’。”

罗德里格斯一直住在阿尔塔迪纳，直到她前往波士顿就读于伯克利音乐学院。2011年，她搬到了纽约，并参与到了 D.I.Y. 场景中。“那是我的音乐家教育真正开始的时候，”她说。

那时，她晚上常在仓库里观看艺术家表演。合成器流行乐队 Chairlift 正在崛起，像 Blood Orange（音乐人 Dev Hynes，他在《Dream House》中客串）——Grimes 和 Unknown Mortal Orchestra 等艺人也同样如此。罗德里格斯回忆起在 Webster 街外的街道上遇到 Hynes

将不稳定与更新的主题编织进一张新专辑。

东村的一处大厅，以及在布鲁克林威廉斯堡的 285 Kent 和 Glasslands Gallery（两处现已关闭的表演空间）结识 Chairlift 乐队。罗德里格斯自嘲地说道：“感觉我们当时处于一个孕育音乐的漩涡之中，而且非常渴望——或者至少是我很渴望。那时我在纽约穷困潦倒。”

在那段 era, 的一个夜晚，一位朋友在为罗德里格斯算塔罗牌时，抽到了一张描绘“皇后”的牌，这是牌组中 22 个原型之一。罗德里格斯当时仍在思考如何为自己的项目命名，而这个名字——据她所说，它唤起了一种女性特质、创造力和诞生感——让她记忆深刻。

去年火灾发生后，在看着母亲制定重建计划的同时，她在创作专辑，发现自己再次回到了这些主题。她们共同的努力标志着一个更新的时期；她们也互为镜像。她说：“我一直在音乐中构建‘房子’这个概念，而现在有一座真实的房子代表了这张专辑。”

有些日子，罗德里格斯想创作那些让她想起灰烬、想起需要在黑暗中生长的事物的曲目；而另一些时候，比如建筑工人为房子安装横梁的那天，她知道自己想创作像《SYW》和《Hands On》这样节奏更轻快的歌曲。

她为该项目创作的首批曲目之一是《Dream House》，歌曲想象了她希望母亲能够入住的重建后的家。在三脚跳（triphop）的节拍中，她唱道：“窗户敞开，微风徐徐”，以动人的细节描述生活可能的模样。“炉子上煮着薰衣草玫瑰茶。”

她说：“我妈妈为我构建了这样一个梦想，让我能够追求自己的梦想并创作音乐。我当时就在想她，然后，你知道，用她想要的所有东西填满这座房子。”

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对于罗德里格斯及其合作者来说，完成这首歌感觉像是一个转折点。专辑中多首曲目的共同创作者、艺名为 Cecile Believe 的凯拉·汤普森-汉南特（Caila Thompson-Hannant）说：“就像是，‘噢，我们现在有了真正有价值的东西’。”

虽然两人在合作《Dream House》之前并不熟识，但汤普森-汉南特表示，她一直很钦佩罗德里格斯作为一名女性音乐人能够自己制作节拍，并创作出“独特且毫不费力的流行乐”。

在《Dream House》的同名主曲中，洛雷利·罗德里格斯（Lorely Rodriguez）想象了她希望母亲能够入住的重建后的家。她在新专辑中唱道：“窗户敞开，微风徐徐”。

由于两位艺术家都在 2010 年代前后开始从事音乐创作，她们已经拥有了相似的审美。在创作由 Cecile Believe 参与的《SYW》之前，她们听了很多 Robyn、Underworld、Caribou 和 Saint Etienne 的音乐。在《Blue Light》中，她们鼓励制作人罗米尔·赫姆纳尼（Romil Hemnani）借鉴披头士乐队（the Beatles），因为他当时正对披头士的和弦进程“痴迷”。

詹姆斯·哈蒙·斯塔克（James Harmon Stack）——艺名为 Jim-E Stack，曾为 Bon Iver、Lorde 和 Olivia Rodrigo 制作音乐——最早在 2018 年与罗德里格斯合作其歌曲《When I'm With Him》。他说，去年在洛杉矶为 Lorde 开场时，看着她表演这首歌，他情绪非常激动。他说，罗德里格斯“是那种能够吸收不同影响，提取自己非常私人的一部分——以及她作为人的历史——并将其与一段令人心碎的、优美的流行旋律相结合的艺术家”。

罗德里格斯在《Dream House》中构建了类似的由唤起情感的主题和旋律组成的马赛克。在火灾的故事之间，穿插着罗德里格斯对自己关于不稳定性和无常性的担忧。她从《Blue Light》中对转瞬即逝之物的渴望，转向在《Trainsong》中在陌生之地寻找家的熟悉感。在赞美独立之作《Machete》中，她在内心深处找到了这种独立：她气喘吁吁地唱道：“终于，我不再是谁的宝贝。”

其中穿插的间奏由她的母亲讲述关于这座房子以及她自己生活的往事，将这些元素串联在一起。罗德里格斯在过去一年中录制了母亲的视频，并表示使用这些素材帮助她“描绘出”母亲的感受，使这个项目不再仅仅关乎她自己的经历。

罗德里格斯表示，创作《梦想之屋》（Dream House）最终坚定她对人道主义和人类艺术的信念。“我的希望是通过为自己创作这部作品，能够帮助他人处理某些事情——无论那是什么——然后我们可以一起庆祝、哭泣或共舞，”她说。

现在新房子快要完工了，罗德里格斯发现自己花更多时间思考自己是如何消化过去一年的。罗德里格斯说，火灾发生后，每个人如此照顾彼此的样子令她深受触动。她至今仍有这种感觉。在阿尔塔迪纳（Altadena）漫步时，罗德里格斯经常看到人们遛狗或牵马，她从中感受到一种乐观的情绪。“看到你的邻居们依然在那里，”她说，“有如此多的喜悦。”

终于掌控了英国的安全

（接第C页）她在伦敦家中接受视频采访时表示：“但你可以更加同情她。你能看到她的心机以及她的运作方式。有些时刻你会发现自己在想，‘噢，是的，可怜的小东西——我明白她的想法。’”

这是对原著素材的一次微小但有意义的改动，在第六季中变得更加明显。在这一季中，塔夫纳（Taverner，也被称为“戴安娜王妃”，当然不能当面这么叫她）接手了她渴望已久的工作：“第一办公桌”（First Desk），负责领导英国安全局（MI5）。

自该剧开播以来，她一直是令人畏惧的“第二办公桌”——用赫伦（Herron）的话来说，她想要的“与其说是改变棋盘上的棋子，不如说是把棋盘扔掉，重新设计一个”。她的机会出现在第 5 季末，在兰姆（Lamb）精明的操纵下，前任笨拙的MI5负责人克劳德·惠兰（Claude Whelan，由詹姆斯·卡利斯饰演）被勒索而被迫退休。

在新一季中，其关于背叛与复仇的故事改编自赫伦的小说《斯劳之家》（Slough House）和《乔之国》（Joe Country）。“戴安娜王妃”终于拥有了她渴望的权力——而且她很快就开始利用并滥用这种权力。不过，既然这是《慢马》（Slow Horses），她也很快意识到，行使这种权力比看起来要困难得多。

“她现在稍微放松了一些，这或许很危险，”托马斯（Thomas）说道。没过多久，她就陷入了无法掌控的局面。“结果证明，这很难，”托马斯笑着说。

导演亚当·兰德尔（Adam Randall）表示，这次职业变动不仅对塔夫纳至关重要，还引发了整个季度的事件。他同时也是该剧的执行制片人。“所有的死亡、所有的破坏、所有的混乱都是因为她，因为她所做的决定，”他说。

兰德尔表示，这一次“我们将她置于让她深感不安，甚至有时相当恐惧的境地”，例如在早期的一场戏中，塔夫纳被强迫出现在一个右翼电视新闻节目中。“在那一毫秒之间，她意识到一切都变得多么糟糕，你可以看到她在内心崩溃，”兰德尔说。

他将这个角色比原著中更讨喜的维度归功于托马斯。“我的意思是，我曾站在监视。

克里斯汀·斯科特·托马斯饰演的角色与其说是邪恶，不如说是在道德上处于灰色地带。

“我盯着她看，心想：‘我为什么会同情她？她刚刚才做了最可怕的事情！’”他说道。

托马斯承认自己并不太熟悉原著——间谍小说并不是她的爱好。“我热爱浪漫小说，”她说，“而这部剧不是那一类。”但当她第一次阅读该剧的剧本时，她被其中的角色吸引了。“他们都如此地‘没用且讨喜’，或者‘讨喜且没用’，”托马斯说。

“我希望能让我的角色具有吸引力，”她补充道，“但你不能真正承认你喜欢戴安娜·塔弗纳，或者说你不想被发现你喜欢戴安娜·塔弗纳。她就像是一种‘禁忌的快感’。”

托马斯反感“强悍女性角色”这个词，认为这“太陈词滥调了，不是吗？”她说，她所喜欢的是“这与性别有关，但与性无关。我喜欢这一点。塔弗纳的感情生活从未成为议题，也从未被提及。”性别问题在这里是一个权力问题：“到处都是男人。年轻的男人。每个人都比她年轻，而且每个人都是男性。”

在《慢马》（Slow Horses）的新一季中，上图的克里斯汀·斯科特·托马斯饰演戴安娜·塔弗纳，她现在负责英国的安全部门。她与由加里·奥德曼和索菲·奥科内多（右图）饰演的同事之间的关系一直变幻莫测。

事实上，该剧最令人难忘的时刻之一，就是塔弗纳与英格丽德·蒂尔尼（索菲·奥科内多）之间的一场紧张对谈，两人面对着一瓶苏格兰威士忌。蒂尔尼是塔弗纳此前担任“第一办公桌”职位的前任之一，也是该系列中少数几位掌握权力的女性之一。

“我非常喜欢那场‘喝酒大赛’，因为我觉得她纯粹是在挡我的路，仅仅因为她比我年轻，”托马斯说。

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“看到像她这样掌握权力的女性很有意思，周围的人都比她年轻，但她依然在那里，坚持到最后，直到他们不得不强行把她拖走。”

我犹豫地询问，这是否在个人层面上引起了现年 66 岁的托马斯的共鸣。

她思考了一下。“没有，”她说。“但这确实让我想到，也许他们所有人对我都是这么想的。”她露出了微笑。“不过，嘿。现在已经太迟了。”

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抗议者要求关注艺术家的性犯罪行为

维也纳的一场展览展出了奥托·穆尔的作品，此人在其公社中虐待未成年人。

作者：瓦莱里娅·萨夫罗诺娃 (VALERIYA SAFRONOVA)

维也纳——活动人士们的措辞毫不委婉：上周，在当地的维也纳行动主义博物馆（Vienna Actionism Museum）外，一块巨大的德语标牌上写着“恋童癖罪犯和邪教头目”。这次抗议活动由数十人参加，他们手持横幅并吹响口哨，这是针对一场聚焦于奥地利著名艺术家奥托·穆尔（Otto Muehl）的新展览而引发的更广泛抵制行动的一部分。

穆尔于2013年去世，他是名为“行动主义”（Actionism）的挑战禁忌的奥地利艺术运动的一员。他曾被判处近七年监禁，罪名包括性虐待在他领导的公社中生活了近二十年的未成年人。

在20世纪90年代后期获释后，穆尔在艺术界得到了认可。维也纳的主要博物馆展出了他的作品，但很少提及他的罪行，而画廊和拍卖行则继续销售他的作品。

随着新展“奥托·穆尔：深渊之艺”（Otto Muehl: Art at the Abyss）的开幕，奥地利国内关于展出穆尔作品的伦理问题，以及在呈现其艺术时应如何体现受害者的经历，引发了激烈的争论。

“奥托·穆尔是奥地利乃至欧洲战后艺术的主要人物之一，”该展览的策展人兼维也纳行动主义博物馆馆长克劳斯·阿尔布雷希特·施罗德（Klaus Albrecht Schroeder）表示，“讨论穆尔在艺术上的重要性并不会减轻其罪行的严重性，而承认他的罪行也不会抹除他在艺术史上的地位。”

抗议者通过一个由前公社成员及其支持者组成的名为“马蒂尔达”（Mathilda）的团体进行组织，他们表示，其目的并非禁止博物馆展出穆尔的艺术作品。

“我们在问：‘这些作品是如何创作的？’”马蒂尔达成员伊丽莎白·谢弗（Elisabeth Schaefer）说道，“我们要求将这个加害者的艺术作品并非作为独立的艺术品来展示，而是将其置于暴力的语境之中。”

马蒂尔达还要求相关机构停止从穆尔的作品中获利，并要求奥地利政府调查该公社为何能在如此长时间内不受监管地存在。

行动主义博物馆的这次展览展出了150件穆尔的作品，以及从20世纪60年代直到他1990年被捕期间的表演纪录照片。关于公社时期的作品，则包括肖像画和日常生活场景。施罗德表示，博物馆已获得许可，可以展出任何能够识别出公社成员或提及其姓名的内容。

穆尔在20世纪60年代作为行动主义运动的一员成名，该运动旨在通过冲击手段，使奥地利摆脱对其在第二次世界大战期间与纳粹德国结盟而形成的沉默文化。他的表演包括将油漆、血液、动物内脏和粪便泼在裸体上，最初引起了人们的厌恶。然而，到20世纪70年代，行动主义被视为奥地利战后艺术中的一个重要运动。

许多行动主义表演涉及群体仪式。穆尔在20世纪70年代将此进一步推进，成立了公社，其规模扩大到在欧洲多个地点拥有约600名成员。该公社初衷是一场包含非单配偶制和团体治疗的解放实验，但最终变成了一个以心理和身体虐待为支撑的专制系统。

由前成员于2003年成立的名为“Re-port”的倡导团体描述了这样一个系统：女孩和男孩被强迫与穆尔以及被他称为妻子的女人发生性关系，怀孕必须经过公社领导层的批准，而婴儿则被交给年长的孩子抚养。

前成员表示，穆尔的艺术与其在公社中的生活是交织在一起的，有时是以暴力的方式。

曾是该公社成员的露丝·波尔贡（Ruth Bourgogne）去年在维也纳的一次公开辩论中表示，米尔创作了一系列名为“Rutschbilder”（即“滑动图”）的绘画，其方法是将颜料涂在被他性侵的女孩身上，然后将她们拖过画布。

尽管维也纳行动主义博物馆（Vienna Actionism Museum）的展览中没有展出这些画作，但其中一幅在2020年以25,000欧元（约$29,000,）的价格拍出，另一幅则在维也纳的一家知名画廊挂牌出售。维也纳行动主义博物馆于2024,年开馆，是一家由私人资助的机构，由艺术商菲利普·孔泽特（Philipp Konzett）创立。孔泽特从弗里德里希霍夫合作社（Friedrichshof Cooperative）购买了米尔的数千件作品，该合作社是由前公社成员在公社解散后创建的。

施罗德表示，他将公社和米尔的艺术作品视为两个独立的尝试。11月，博物馆将出版两本展览目录：一本侧重于展出的作品，另一本则包含对前公社成员的采访。

“米尔的艺术与其社会乌托邦之间存在着深刻的矛盾，”施罗德说，“他对人性深感悲观——这一点在展览中可见一斑——但另一方面，他的公社却是基于一种乌托邦式的信念，即你可以从根本上改变人性。”

Mathilda的支持者认为，在策划关于米尔的展览时，有办法使其不至于将艺术作品置于受害者的经历之上。

“这需要的不仅仅是剔除几张露骨的图像，”策展人兼艺术史学家玛丽-特蕾莎·霍赫瓦特纳（Marie-Therese Hochwartner）说道，她曾任维也纳现代艺术博物馆Mumok的馆藏与教育主管。“同样非常重要的是历史见证者，即那些受影响者的有意义地参与，”她补充道。

即便在维也纳行动主义博物馆内部，对于展览的框架设定也存在一些不满。

该博物馆馆藏主管朱莉娅·莫布斯-普克（Julia Moebus-Puck）表示，施罗德“总是想要颂扬艺术作品的自主性”。她补充道：“关于这一点我们可以讨论接下来的三个小时，但如今这种‘自主性’的定义已经改变了。一件艺术作品所反映的内容要多得多。”

“这个公社就是米尔的宇宙，”莫布斯-普克说，“并不是说他早上离开，去工作室，然后回来。他一直在那里创作。”

莫布斯-普克将于11月离职从事独立研究，她表示曾鼓励施罗德联系Mathilda。Mathilda此前已与多家博物馆合作，其中包括拥有大量米尔作品的Mumok。

施罗德表示，他曾与其他公社成员交谈，但没有联系Mathilda，因为他认为该组织对他没有合作兴趣。

尽管米尔在2010年维也纳一次大型回顾展之前为其部分罪行道歉，但在接受采访时，他表现出缺乏悔意，包括在接受一家德国报纸采访时，他将针对他的法院判决描述为“人格抹杀”，并辩称他性侵的青少年是“发育完全的女孩”。

策展人霍赫瓦特纳表示，当今艺术史学家的责任是通过公社所发生的事情这一视角，重新评估米尔。

“当真实的人为艺术实验付出代价时，”霍赫瓦特纳说，“伦理问题或艺术史问题就变得不可分割。”

在新回忆录中，卡佩尼克回顾“单膝跪地”抗议事件

这位前四分卫对他此次抗议演变成一个重大新闻事件感到惊讶。

MARCIO JOSÉ SANCHEZ / ASSOCIATED PRESS

作者：EMMANUEL MORGAN

在四分卫科林·卡佩尼克（Colin Kaepernick）通过在 NFL 比赛前的国歌奏响期间采取坐姿或单膝跪地来抗议种族不公正十年后，他写了一本名为《危险的战斗》（The Perilous Fight）的回忆录。

这本近 300 页的书于周二发行，从卡佩尼克的视角重新审视了这些事件。他的抗议活动在整个橄榄球联盟中蔓延，并成为了一个政治导火索，迫使球迷们去思考爱国主义和言论自由的含义。

以下是关于此次争议及该回忆录的要点：

卡佩尼克的抗议始于何时？

在卡佩尼克带领旧金山 49 人队进入超级碗几年后，在 2016 年 8 月的一场季前赛前，有人发现他在国歌奏响时坐在替补席上。

赛后，卡佩尼克告诉 NFL Network 的记者史蒂夫·怀切（Steve Wyche），他不会“站起来为一面压迫黑人和有色人种的国家旗帜表达自豪”。这些言论立即引发了强烈抵制，尤其是那些认为他的行为是对退伍军人不尊重的人。

卡佩尼克开始用单膝跪地代替坐姿，他的队友埃里克·里德（Eric Reid）和其他 球员也加入了抗议。其他体育项目的高中、大学和职业运动员也开始发起抗议。2017 年 9 月，特朗普总统在一次集会上用脏话描述卡佩尼克，并建议 球队老板应该解雇那些在国歌奏响时不站立的球员。

他后来怎么样了？

当卡佩尼克在 2016 赛季后成为自由球员时，没有球队签下他。他通过球员工会提出申诉，认为 32 位 球队老板串通起来将他列入黑名单，原因就是他的抗议行为。在一名仲裁员裁定该案件可以继续审理后， 与卡佩尼克及里德达成了一项秘密和解协议。联盟并未公开承认存在串通行为。

在卡佩尼克的球员生涯停滞后的几年里，他一直从事民权活动并启动了媒体项目。他共同创作了 Netflix 系列剧《科林：黑与白》（Colin in Black & White），探讨了他的高中时代，还出版了一本儿童书和一部图形小说。

ESPN 曾批准拍摄一部以卡佩尼克为中心的纪录片，原计划由斯派克·李（Spike Lee）制作，但由于卡佩尼克与李在创作方向上产生分歧，该项目被取消。

美国国家橄榄球联盟（N.F.L.）产生了怎样的后果？

在几位知名音乐家表示为了支持卡佩尼克将不参加超级碗中场秀之后，N.F.L. 与由 Jay-Z 创立的娱乐公司 Roc Nation 签署了合作伙伴关系，旨在协助制作该节目并开展社会正义倡议。这项于 2019 年签署的协议引发了抵制。一些人认为 Jay-Z 这样做很虚伪，因为他在 2017 年参加《周六夜现场》表演时曾穿着卡佩尼克的球衣。

在宣布该协议时，Jay-Z 表示，他认为公众需要超越“下跪”这一形式，以实施更具体的变革。在 Roc Nation 协助制作的七场超级碗演出中，领衔表演者包括 Bad Bunny、肯德里克·拉马尔（Kendrick Lamar）和蕾哈娜（Rihanna）。

2022 年，在一段包含 Snoop Dogg 和 Dr. Dre 的嘻哈混编表演中，Eminem 在演出期间单膝下跪，这一行为被广泛解读为向卡佩尼克致敬。

在 2020 年乔治·弗洛伊德被警察杀害后，几名黑人 N.F.L. 球员在社交媒体上发布了一段视频，敦促联盟对系统性种族主义采取明确立场。N.F.L. 总裁罗杰·古德尔（Roger Goodell）在一段视频中做出回应，称联盟“此前没有倾听 N.F.L. 球员的意见是错误的”，并鼓励所有人“大胆发声并进行和平抗议”。视频中并未提及卡佩尼克的名字。

现在，各球队可以选择在球场部分区域绘制“终结种族主义”（End Racism）和“停止仇恨”（Stop Hate）等标语，球员也可以将这些标语贴在头盔背面。

回忆录揭示了什么？

卡佩尼克在书中写道，在开始阅读一系列书籍（包括民权领袖马尔科姆·X的自传）后，他的世界观在 2015 年前后发生了重塑。他表示，在看到旧金山警察枪杀黑人男子马里奥·伍兹的视频后，他感到愤怒不已。那次 2015 年的枪击事件引发了抗议、诉讼，并最终导致警察局局长被撤职。他写道，2015, 巴尔的摩的弗雷迪·格雷之死以及 2016, 明尼苏达州的菲兰多·卡斯蒂尔之死进一步影响了他。

卡佩尼克表示，他很惊讶于关于他决定在国歌奏响时坐着的争议竟然演变成了一则重大新闻。他在回忆录中写道：“哇，你们真的太敏感了！”他写道，“我想，‘你们能看着一个黑人在镜头前被杀，然后像是在想，‘嗯，我们午饭去哪儿吃？’但只要我不为国歌而起立，你们就会产生如此强烈的反应？这才是让你们不安的事情？’”

上方为科林·卡佩尼克，中间为他在 2016 年 10 月一场比赛前的国歌仪式上单膝跪地，上方为其新书。

在回忆录中，卡佩尼克还挑战了关于他为何开始在国歌期间单膝跪地而非坐着的流行说法。

内特·博耶（Nate Boyer）是一名曾在 N.F.L. 短暂效力的美国陆军绿贝雷队退伍军人，他曾表示自己建议跪下是为了对军方表达更尊重。但卡佩尼克写道，尽管他和里德确实与博耶见过面，但他们跪下的决定此前已经做出。他说，里德提出这个想法是为了在边线时在身体距离上更接近队友。

“这是白人至上主义运作的清晰例证——一个曾经打过球的白人救世主退伍军人告诉我们该怎么做，”卡佩尼克写道，“这是一个为了让我们的抗议更易被接受而编造的方便叙事。”

卡佩尼克还写到了 Roc Nation，称他在被对方招揽成为客户时拒绝了。他表示，他拒绝了 Jay-Z 要求他在表演歌曲《The Story of O.J.》期间单膝跪地的请求，部分原因是他不赞同其中一些关于种族的歌词。

这位运动员写道，在 Roc Nation 宣布与 N.F.L. 建立合作伙伴关系的前一天，Jay-Z 给卡佩尼克打了电话告知这一消息。卡佩尼克表示他对此并不赞同。

“我只想让你知道，第一，你是在把文化端给一群种族主义者；第二，他们根本不在乎你，”卡佩尼克在回忆这次对话时写道，“对他们来说，你只是个搞音乐的。他们确实需要一张黑脸——而且已经明说了。”他写道，Jay-Z 的回应是：“好吧，合同已经签了。”

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在本月纽约时装周展示的一个系列中，Michael Kors 借鉴了现代艺术博物馆（MoMA）的现代主义风格。 SIMBARASHE CHA / 纽约时报

SILA SHILONG 为纽约时报绘制 马修·里斯，凭借《寡妇湾》和《我心中的野兽》获得艾美奖。

我的派对约会对象？艾美奖。

州长晚宴是一个社交机会，也是一个刻上奖杯名字的机会。

作者：艾什莉·斯宾塞 (ASHLEY SPENCER)

洛杉矶 —— 周一晚上，随着孔雀剧院颁发完最后一个艾美奖，大批名流涌向一条封锁的市中心街道。他们勤勉地沿着一条用胶带贴在停车库地面的临时红地毯前行，随后穿过另一条街道，来到洛杉矶会议中心一排没有标记的门前。

在这条毫无光彩的跑道尽头，大门开启，露出了一个巨大的空间，这里已被改造成为艾美奖官方庆功宴——理事会盛典（Governors Gala）的奢华舞厅。

身着礼服和燕尾服的出席者们涌入这个灯光昏暗的空间，迎接他们的是高耸的艾美奖奖杯、各种色调的橙色人造花瀑布、铺着亮片祖母绿桌布的高脚桌，以及充足的食物和饮品。黑色墙壁上点缀着细小的白光，营造出一种被星空环绕的错觉，除了那些在电视上看到的星星之外。

活动设计师谢丽尔·切凯托（Cheryl Cecchetto）表示，她预计约有 4,000 名宾客将参加这场盛典 —— 对许多人来说，这是充满艾美奖后庆祝活动之夜的第一站。

“这个行业真的很擅长庆祝，”她说，“他们会尽情释放。”

在内部，当晚的大多数获奖者，在——续接 D4 页

关于“终极复仇裙”的甜蜜回忆

鲍勃·麦基（Bob Mackie）那些令人惊叹的作品，例如雪儿 1986 年的奥斯卡装扮，曾引起轰动。

作者：雅各布·伯恩斯坦 (JACOB BERNSTEIN)

用鲍勃·麦基（Bob Mackie）后来的描述，他最令人难忘的一套服装之所以诞生，是因为客户“气炸了”。

那是1986年，奥斯卡颁奖礼临近，而雪儿（Cher）在电影《面具》（Mask）中的角色被冷落了。

尽管她的表演赢得了评论界的赞誉，但她并未获得最佳女主角的提名。相反，她被要求担任最佳男配角的颁奖嘉宾，这感觉就像是在一块难以下咽的蛋糕上又抹了一层糖霜。

“他们说我拿不到奥斯卡奖，是因为我的男朋友太年轻，而且我的穿着太古怪，”雪儿周一在加利福尼亚州马里布的家中通过电话表示，“对于一名女演员，实际上是对一名严肃的女演员来说，我的穿着不够得体。于是有一天早晨我醒来，有了这个主意，我就给鲍勃打了电话。”

一套闪亮夺目的黑色套装，包括上衣和裙子，露出腰部，并配以一个极高的头饰，以至于当她在那个二月的柯达剧院走上台阶时，摄像师很难将整个头饰拍进画面里。

其目的就是向电影艺术与科学学院传递一个信息：她将继续做自己。

麦基于周一去世，享年87岁，他是帮助实现这一目标的理想合作伙伴。

多年来，他以给顶级名伶设计极具戏剧性的装扮而闻名，将幽默、夸张和浓烈的性感融为一体。

在他举办时装秀的时候，时尚编辑们经常缺席。但丽莎·明内利（Liza Minnelli）、戴安娜·罗斯（Diana Ross）、鲁保罗（RuPaul）、埃尔顿·约翰（Elton John）和麦当娜（Madonna）都穿过他设计的闪亮礼服、羽毛披肩和珠饰头饰。

“这些衣服是为了被看见——而且是以一种宏大的方式被看见，”雪儿在谈到他的作品时说，“它们不适合被禁锢。”

1986年奥斯卡奖的设计是麦基少有的对雪儿某个想法表示犹豫的时刻。

麦基在2008年接受我的采访时回忆起他曾告诉雪儿：“你不能穿着这个去参加学院奖。你要颁奖——你会抢了获奖者的风头。”但他说，雪儿坚持道：“她说，‘噢，他们不会介意的，没关系的。’”

无论获奖者（因《茧》获奖的唐·阿梅奇）反应如何，“到我到达那里的时候，我已经忘记了之前因为学院告诉我我永远无法成为一名严肃的女演员而产生的所有不快，”雪儿说。

麦基和他这位曾经的“庸俗美学”拍档初次相遇是在1967年，当时她在《卡罗尔·伯内特秀》（The Carol Burnett Show）中担任客串嘉宾。麦基曾在派拉蒙影业的服装部门工作，并担任《朱迪·嘉兰秀》（The Judy Garland Show）的助理设计师，之后他为伯内特及其嘉宾设计服装。

“我看到门开了，我转过身，看到这个英俊的年轻人，皮肤晒黑，头发漂白且卷曲，我看了看说，‘天呐，你比我想象中年轻得多’，”她说，“而他说，‘你比我想象中瘦得多。’”

1971年，当雪儿和桑尼（Sonny）拥有自己的节目时，麦基随他们一同加入。

“我们一周要做大约13或14套服装，”雪儿说，“我唯一记得的是在刚开始的时候，CBS那边一直在为成本大吼大叫。但后来他们开始收到研究报告，说很多女性收看节目就是为了看那些衣服，看我的裙子。鲍勃和我大笑了起来。我当时想，‘好吧，最后笑的人是我们’。”

她说其中充满了快乐。“我们一起大笑，聊所有的事情，”她说，“我很遗憾他病了，但我知道他现在在某个更好的地方——继续设计礼服。”

在那之后，预算激增，珠子和亮片用卡车成批地运来。蒂娜·特纳（Tina Turner）出现在节目中，成为了他第二位最稳定的客户。

“我刚才就在他身边，我为他感到高兴，你明白我的意思吗？”雪儿（Cher）说道，“他之前一直很痛苦。乔说，这就像是他很久以来度过的最美好的时光，我很高兴我去了。”

最近几天，在麦基（Mackie）弥留之际，雪儿与麦基的设计总监乔·麦克费特（Joe McFate）一起陪他在棕榈泉。

那是1977年，就在蒂娜·特纳（Tina Turner）离开那段充满虐待的与艾克·特纳（Ike Turner）的婚姻一年之后。她当时除了一个沾血的白色圣罗兰（Yves Saint Laurent）裤装、两辆捷豹汽车和她的姓氏之外，一无所有。在几乎没有钱的情况下，特纳在跳蚤市场搜寻复古鸡尾酒裙，然后把它们带给麦基，为她的舞台表演进行改良。

起初，麦基不知道需要什么样的帮助。但很快情况就变得明朗了：他的工作就是裁剪。

“我不知道我们一共做了多少件裙子，因为他负责了我所有的巡演，”她说。他不仅仅是她随行人员的一员：“我们是朋友。”

特纳所说的“更多”指令，意味着：减少面料。

当特纳在20世纪80年代初重新转向摇滚乐时，麦基准备好了黑色皮革（当然，是紧身款）。

在特纳的迪斯科时代，当她在那些俗气的赌场表演翻唱的Trammps乐队的《Disco Inferno》时，麦基设计了一件闪闪发光的银色礼服，带有褶皱的、像龙翼一样的翅膀。

而当雪儿成为有史以来最繁忙的巡演艺人之一，在全美及全球六次重大巡演（以及多次拉斯维加斯驻场演出）中进行了近一千场表演时，麦基一直陪伴在她身边。

他说，最初增加尾巴的想法让特纳“有点紧张”。（事实上，现在很难想象有人会认可那种设计。）但他说，那个尾巴，以及她在扭动臀部时尾巴左右摆动的方式，效果“极佳”。

麦基为特纳创作的另一件作品是一件带有后尾巴的斑马纹连衣裙。

（图上）鲍勃·麦基为（图左）雪儿在1986年奥斯卡金像奖颁奖典礼上设计了整套服装，当时她未能获得提名。对于（图上）蒂娜·特纳，他设计了一件带有龙翼的礼服和一件带有尾巴的斑马纹连衣裙。

他的创意将幽默、夸张和充足的性感魅力融合在一起。

为了应对选举热，人们需要更多史蒂夫·科纳基

上个月，NBC新闻的首席数据分析师史蒂夫·科纳基（Steve Kornacki）连续六个小时地报道中期初选，该内容在社交媒体平台和NBC新闻网站上同步直播。 LESI PARKA / THE NEW YORK TIMES 一种吸引年轻观众的形式，能否适用于一个“数字专家”？

NBC新闻希望在今年秋天将其首席数据分析师打造成为一名直播明星。

作者：凯莉·霍尔特曼（CALLIE HOLTERMANN）

史蒂夫·科纳基的眉毛上下跳动，仿佛在看一部动作电影。

“噢，天哪！”他说。

几分钟后，他又说：“我的天！”接着他补充道：“我们现在进入市政级别分析了。”

那是八月的第一个星期二，NBC新闻的首席数据分析师科纳基站在一张黑板大小的美国地图前，地图每隔几秒钟就会亮起选举结果。来自五个州的选票不断涌入，其中包括备受关注的密歇根州民主党参议院初选。

但这并非典型的选举之夜广播。这是“科纳基摄像头”（Kornacki Cam）的一次早期尝试，这是一场马拉松式的直播，让观众能够在重大新闻事件的每一秒钟里，与该网络最知名的明星之一共处。

在六个小时的时间里，科纳基的一举一动都被实时传输到YouTube、TikTok、Instagram、Facebook以及NBC新闻网站上。他猛喝水，在手机的计算器应用上快速敲击数字，并脱口而出堪萨斯州威奇托市的人口（400,000）以及密歇根州的县数（83）。

一些水族馆设有连续的摄像头馈送，让观众观察水母的生活。这有点像那样，只不过这只“水母”穿着卡其裤，并且在分析沃什特诺县的邮寄选票结果。

科纳基，47, 是一位资深的国家政治记者，在重大选举周期中，他习惯于跨界获得主流名气。在2020年总统大选期间，他凭借不张扬的专业能力和克拉克·肯特般的魅力赢得了崇拜者，并获得了“地图爸爸”（Map Daddy）和“图表心跳”（Chart Throb）等绰号。

现在，随着中期选举季的升温，NBC新闻的高管们在打赌，他这种独特的个人魅力能够转化为蓬勃发展的直播世界。

这并非一个显而易见的转型。最受欢迎的直播往往是随意的、未经雕琢的——这与结构严谨的广播电视世界截然不同。直播通常持续数小时，要求其明星具备一种与典型的两分钟新闻快报截然不同的耐力。

然而，直播生态系统吸引了广播网络希望重新挽回的那类年轻观众。而且这种形式似乎对各种政治立场的评论员都有效——左翼的哈桑·皮克（Hasan Piker），右翼的丹·邦吉诺（Dan Bongino）——甚至包括纽约市市长佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani），他在今年春天在Twitch平台上推出了一个直播系列。

这种形式对这个“数字专家”也能奏效吗？

“我想要更多史蒂夫”

在8月那个初选日的早晨，科纳基在 5:45 就到了公司，到中午时他已经在喝第二杯大杯咖啡了。（原本应该是特大杯，但他点错了Dunkin'应用程序里的按钮。）他坐在 30 Rockefeller Plaza 的办公桌前，在密歇根州的打印地图上， painstakingly 地为每个县标注 2018 年民主党初选的得票总数。

需要明确的是，没有人强迫科纳基这么做。在他大部分的电视职业生涯中，他大约每 15 分钟在选举之夜的报道中插话一次，更新计票情况。但有时重大结果会在广告时间或嘉宾在播期间出炉。他想要一种能立即发布这些信息的方法。

“这在一定程度上是我的主意，源于对过去几次选举的沮丧，”他说。“我们能不能做一些东西，给那些想要从第一票报告到最终定论，以及期间所有细节的硬核观众？”

去年年底，他向 NBC 新闻的编辑总裁丽贝卡·布鲁门斯坦提出了一个想法，即提供更多以数据为中心的持续报道。她建议采用数字直播形式，在结果出炉时全程跟踪科纳基。（布鲁门斯坦在 2023 年之前曾任《纽约时报》的副执行编辑。）

“我发现自己一直在说，‘我想要更多史蒂夫’，”她在一次采访中说道。

她渴望充分利用观众对科纳基的喜爱。在 NBC 新闻近期与 MSNBC 分家（后者更名为 MS NOW）后，科纳基是其保留的大牌人物之一。而且她认为，在观众对大众媒体日益怀疑的当下，提供幕后视角将成为一种透明化的姿态。

第一次“科纳基摄像机”（Kornacki Cam）是12月田纳西州第七国会选区特别选举期间的一场两小时直播。科纳基发现自己需要适应一种新形式，在这种形式中，他被要求在激动人心的时刻之间填补长时间的空白期。两台摄像机时刻对着科纳基；没有广告时间让他能吃点零食或跑去洗手间。（科纳基似乎拥有钢铁般的膀胱：据我观察，在8月初那场六小时的直播中，他一次也没有离开。）

NBC 新闻编辑与内容执行副总裁凯瑟琳·金表示，直播方式最初面临质疑。“我的同事们，”金说，“当时觉得：‘你在干什么？真的会有人在意或观看吗？’但这个项目已经找到了它的受众，”她说。“‘科纳基摄像机’已在 22 个选举之夜上线，总计吸引了 4100 万 次视频启动。其观众群体偏年轻：在 YouTube 上， 35 岁以下观众的占比大约是该平台 NBC 新闻整体观众的两倍。”

对于一家传统新闻机构来说，这是令人鼓舞的迹象，但直播不仅仅是指没有广告时间。吸引观众关注 Piker 或 Bongino 等主播的那种兄弟式调侃，与科纳基那种惊叹的反应和严谨的研究分析完全不同。当出现冷场时，他尝试用过去选举的数据点来填补，而不是预测：“在我职业生涯的某个阶段我也这么做过，结果让我丢了脸，”他说。

直播的时长变得越来越长，超过了克里斯托弗·诺兰电影的长度或一场五盘制的网球赛。然而，科纳基的同事们似乎并不担心他的体力。

“对我们来说，我认为挑战在于如何克制史蒂夫，”金说。

洪水

科纳基在每次直播前都保持空腹。他引用了前波士顿凯尔特人队教练雷德·奥尔巴赫的话，据报道，奥尔巴赫在比赛前不进食，因为他认为那样会让他失去敏锐度。

“一旦数据开始出炉，它们本身就是一种兴奋剂，”科纳基说。

在密歇根州初选之夜，他像对待老朋友一样面对他的地图，标出大学校园、酒庄以及退休人员密集区域。直播镜头跟随他与制片人亚当·诺博亚（Adam Noboa）深入探讨伊奥斯科县（Iosco County）的细节，并穿插进入由克里斯汀·韦尔克（Kristen Welker）和哈莉·杰克逊（Hallie Jackson）主持的电视选举报道。

这依然是政治：在 YouTube 直播的评论区，人们在争论众议员海莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens）是否应该接受亲以色列游说团体的资金，以及立场更激进的候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士（Dr. Abdul El-Sayed）能否在 11 月的大选中获胜。

但对于科纳基，他们基本上达成了一致。在混乱时刻，他散发出一种胜任感，并在充斥着主观评论的环境中注入冷峻、坚实的数据。“没有人比史蒂夫在这一领域做得更好，”一名评论者写道。

然而，直播具有不可预测性。晚上 10 点刚过，科纳基的左手撞到了打开的水瓶，水洒在了好几页笔记和他的电脑显示器上。“噢，天哪，显示器熄灭了，”他一边说，一边匆忙用纸巾吸水。

在典型的广播节目中，此时可能会切入广告，但“科纳基摄像头”的观众们目睹了接下来的混乱。一名制片人冲出来帮他。科纳基当天早些时候精心标注的密歇根州地图被浸透了。

“噢，我的地图——不！”他在一段后来被 NBC 新闻上传到 TikTok 的视频中说道。（该视频目前的播放量已超过 800,000 次。）

科纳基很快恢复了状态，引导观众关注剩下的关键参议员选战。在当晚大部分时间落后于埃尔-赛义德之后，史蒂文斯似乎正在缩小差距。过了午夜，卡拉马祖县（Kalamazoo）、英厄姆县（Ingham）和韦恩县（Wayne）接连传回有利于埃尔-赛义德的强劲结果。

制片人们开始低声提醒科纳基需要尽快离开演播室，因为他们需要为《今日》（Today）节目做准备。科纳基想继续直播。随后在 1:57，当全州近 90% 的选票统计完毕时，NBC 新闻决策台宣布埃尔-赛义德获胜。

“结果出来了，各位，”科纳基说道，听起来就像刚喝了一罐能量饮料。

几分钟后，当摄像机关闭时，科纳基松开了领带结。一只鞋带散了。他看起来很满足，尽管有些恍惚。

当你连续独白六个小时后，你怎么知道什么时候该停止？科纳基说，在最后一场重大选战结果出炉后，他几乎立即就让自己消失在现场。

他说：“我小时候我妈妈就警告过我，她说，‘永远不要在受欢迎的时候逗留太久。’”

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罗恩·加莱拉， “风中杰基”， 1971年

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1971年10月，美国狗仔队摄影师罗恩·加莱拉（Ron Galella）在目击杰奎琳·肯尼迪·奥纳西斯（Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis）走出中央公园附近的公寓后，拍下了这张照片。在2010年的一部纪录片中，他将其称为自己的“蒙娜丽莎”。这张照片概括了她那个时期更倾向于穿着牛仔裤和罗纹亨利衫，而非裙装套装和药盒帽的阶段。几十年后，我们仍在试图效仿这个时期的杰奎琳。凯特·瓜达尼诺（KATE GUADAGNINO）

彼得·林德伯格（Peter Lindbergh）， 为《英国版Vogue》拍摄的“20世纪90年代”， 1990年

通过彼得·林德伯格基金会（PETER LINDBERGH FOUNDATION）

理查德·阿维顿（Richard Avedon）， 布鲁克·希尔兹（Brooke Shields）为 Calvin Klein Jeans拍摄，1980年

1989年，包括埃万格丽斯塔（Evangelista）在内的五位模特聚集在一起，为《英国版Vogue》拍摄新十年的首张封面。德国摄影师彼得·林德伯格将她们的面孔置于平等地位，搭配简单的服装（Giorgio di Sant'Angelo连体衣配褪色Levi's牛仔裤）和自然妆容。在接下来的几年里，在乔治·迈克尔（George Michael）拍摄的、由这五位封面人物全部出演的《Freedom! '90》音乐录影带的推动下，模特变成了“超级模特”，时尚与流行文化变得不可分割。埃维亚娜·哈特曼（EVIANA HARTMAN）

摄影：理查德·阿维顿；通过理查德·阿维顿基金会（THE RICHARD AVEDON FOUNDATION）

15岁时，演员布鲁克·希尔兹出现在1980年由时尚摄影师理查德·阿维顿拍摄的Calvin Klein Jeans广告活动中。阿维顿在多年后表示，这些广告的构思是使其“完全具有可引用性”，这促使撰稿人杜恩·阿尔巴斯（Doon Arbus）写了一份充满双关语的剧本。电视广告中的一句台词——“你想知道我和我的Calvin之间隔着什么吗？什么也没有。”——暗示希尔兹没有穿内衣。即便各大电视台撤下了这些广告，这款牛仔裤的需求量依然激增。凯特·瓜达尼诺（KATE GUADAGNINO）

尼克·奈特（Nick Knight）， Devon Aoki 为 Visionaire 拍摄， 1997年

尼克·奈特

英国摄影师尼克·奈特很早就采用了数字化处理。在他1997年为《Visionaire》杂志创作的一幅图像中，美国模特 Devon Aoki 的前额被一枚安全别针打了一个叉，且出现了一个似乎填满鲜花的伤口，这些细节是在后期制作中添加的。这幅图像启发了比约克（Björk）1997年专辑《Homogenic》的封面，该封面由奈特拍摄，亚历山大·麦昆（Alexander McQueen）担任艺术指导。詹姆森·蒙哥马利（JAMESON MONTGOMERY）

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（图片说明）从顶部起顺时针方向：诺亚·怀尔与萨拉·威尔斯；汤姆·佩尔弗里与凯莉·库科；克劳迪娅·辛；左侧为朱莉娅·加纳，以及尼西·纳什。

包括艾莉森·珍妮和马修·里斯在内的获奖者们径直走向“获胜者圈”（Winners Circle）。这是房间后方一个用绳索围起来的区域，他们将新获得的奖杯拿到这里，以便安装刻有姓名、项目和艾美奖类别的定制铭牌。与奥斯卡奖类似，艾美奖会为每位提名者制作铭牌，然后在典礼结束后为获胜者贴上。

第一批到达刻字站的是《斯蒂芬·科尔伯特深夜秀》（The Late Show With Stephen Colbert）团队的部分成员，该节目的最后一季赢得了最佳综艺系列剧奖，以及导演奖和编剧奖。科尔伯特和他的妻子伊薇·麦基·科尔伯特在等待奖杯个性化定制时，随着现场音乐兴奋地跳舞旋转。

“我家里的洗手间门上贴着一块写着‘奖杯室’的铭牌，我所有的奖杯都在里面，”《深夜秀》的编剧欧普斯·莫雷斯基说道，“我的另一个艾美奖杯上放着一卷备用卫生纸，就坐在马桶后面。我很开心能获奖，但我也想让自己保持清醒。”

到晚上 8:30，晚宴现场已挤满了人，嘈杂声如闷雷般响起。宾客们一边社交，一边饮用配有鱼子酱的马丁尼。他们品尝着法式浸面包三明治、生蚝、比目鱼、塞维切和奶油卷。

切凯托表示，她建议获奖者在整个夜晚都要将艾美奖杯留在身边，以免在晚宴中被他人抢走。

在谈到过去的事件时，她说：“这种情况只发生过 3 次。学院已经处理好了。”

凯莉·加卢斯卡一手紧握着一座艾美奖杯，另一手拿着一杯快喝完的脏金马丁尼。她是《寡妇湾》（Widow's Bay）的编剧兼联合执行制片人，她称该剧获得的荣誉“太超现实了”。她说，这部带有恐怖色彩的 Apple TV 剧集赢得了最佳喜剧系列剧及其他顶级奖项，她预计演员和剧组人员在随后的 Apple 派对上会一直舞到深夜。

当她与该剧的两名主演里斯和凯特·奥弗林一起离开奖杯站时，《寡妇湾》的创作者凯蒂·迪波尔德表示，看到该剧第一季赢得 14 项艾美奖“真的超出了我最狂野的想象”。她补充道：“这太令人激动了。”

加卢斯卡说，尽管 Season 2 的编剧会议原定于周二 11 a.m. 召开，“但凯蒂把它推迟到了 11:30”，并补充道，“取决于我们什么时候离开，可能还会再次推迟。”

许多明星和高管在 Governors Gala 上仅短暂停留，刻好奖杯并交换寒暄，随后便前往城中其他庆祝活动。

当在《The Pitt》中饰演卡西·麦凯博士的菲奥娜·杜里夫走向出口时，一名女性拦住了她，告诉她自己的母亲是一名医疗工作者，并感谢她在 HBO Max 这部以医院为背景的剧集中的表现。

许多人停留的时间仅够刻好奖杯。

在赢得了最佳剧集奖的《The Pitt》中，杜里夫饰演的角色很少能放松，但这位女演员为在艾美奖后派对上放松身心做了准备。

“我立刻换掉了那双让人痛苦的高跟鞋；我随身带了三双鞋，”杜里夫说，“我要换上一件能让我呼吸和说话的裙子，然后去 HBO 的派对上尽情跳舞。”

到晚上 10 p.m.，Governors Gala 上的名人身影已逐渐减少，但噪音水平和能量依然很高——尤其是在后方的一个角落，一大群人正在现场乐队 Crowd Theory 附近的舞池中形成了一个激烈的舞群（mosh pit）。

随着表演者轮番翻唱后街男孩、泰勒·斯威夫特和麦当娜的热门金曲，这场派对呈现出一种极其奢华且极其迟到的毕业舞会氛围，参与者大多是千禧一代和 X 世代的创意人员及高管。派对在众人伴随着《Mr. Brightside》热情地尖叫和跳跃中达到高潮。

当乐队在晚上 11 点演奏返场曲目（A-ha 乐队的《Take On Me》）时，灯光亮起，一排狂欢者——其中一些人光着脚，手里拿着高跟鞋——向出口走去，准备被接往下一个艾美奖派对，或者回到床上休息。

来自《深夜秀》（Late Show）的巴拉德·C·博伊德表示，他和妻子将年幼的女儿们留给了保姆，尽管在庆祝获胜，但他们并不打算彻夜狂欢。

“我们明天早上还得起床当父母，”他说。

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《Hacks》剧集的珍·斯马特也在现场庆祝他们的胜利。

作者：朱诺·卡梅尔 (JUNO CARMEL)

加利福尼亚州西好莱坞 —— 周一晚上，许多电视圈最炙手可热的明星走上绿色地毯，饮用脏马丁尼，品尝鱼子酱，参加 HBO Max 为第 78 届艾美奖举办的庆功派对。

来自《The Pitt》、《Hacks》和《DTF St. Louis》等剧集的演员们在圣文森特度假屋 (San Vicente Bungalows) 庆祝他们的获奖和提名。HBO Max 在此次颁奖典礼中领跑所有网络，获得 122 项提名，并最终斩获 21 项艾美奖。

“今晚的感觉是非常具有肯定意义的，”诺亚·怀尔 (Noah Wyle) 表示，他正在庆祝凭借《The Pitt》获得他的第二个艾美奖（剧情类剧集最佳男主角）。

这部热门医疗剧在第二季获得了 25 项艾美奖提名，并赢得了包括最佳剧情类剧集在内的 6 项大奖。

“我们能够克服所谓的‘第二季 slump’（低谷期），并交付了一部看来如此令人满意作品，这让我感到极其欣慰，”怀尔补充道。“我们现在正处于第 3 季的拍摄中期，所以我的心思完全投入在如何维持同样的高质量水平上。”

当数百人挤进度假屋时，调酒师在场馆喷泉内的巨型冰雕中提供马丁尼和鱼子酱。HBO 及 HBO Max 内容首席执行官兼董事长凯西·布洛伊斯 (Casey Bloys) 在空间中穿梭，向不同的演员阵容表示祝贺。

“我为《The Pitt》感到高兴，而且我要说，我尤其为《DTF》感到激动，”布洛伊斯说。“我知道它感觉像个黑马候选者，但它一直在我心中占有一席之地，而且我收到了很多来自热爱这部剧的编剧们发来的主动邮件和短信。”

《 St. Louis》是一部古怪的黑色喜剧，讲述了两名中年同事注册约炮软件的故事，该剧赢得了 7 项大奖，包括最佳限定剧集。

“在电视领域，人们会说他们想要一些不同的东西，想要一些打破常规的东西，”布洛伊斯补充道。“对我来说，《》是一部赞美直男之爱的剧集。它确实挑战了观众。”

乔伊·桑代 (Joy Sunday) 凭借在《 St. Louis》中饰演一名侦探获得了限定剧集最佳女配角的提名，她表示这部剧的魔力来自于其复杂性。“如今的电视或电影在定义自身时可能非常刻板，但《》在这方面非常模糊，它是对生活可能状态的一种极美概括，”她说。“它是未知的，是不确定的，但依然值得去爱。”

琳达·卡德里尼 (Linda Cardellini) 赢得了她的首个艾美奖（限定剧集最佳女配角）。她在《 St. Louis》中饰演卡罗尔·洛夫-斯默尼奇 (Carol Love-Smernitch)。

“我热爱这个素材。它如此独特，剧本写得如此精美，而且所有角色的细节之丰富，”卡德里尼说道，并补充说她的角色卡罗尔“是我以前在电视上从未真正见过的，但我觉得在现实生活中的很多很多地方都能见到这样的人。”

卡德里尼尝试操作一台装满 HBO 复古周边和设计师商品的抓娃娃机，成功抓到了一个零钱包和一件 HBO 衬衫。

在庭院的另一边，一名占星师在场馆的一家酒吧内解读塔罗牌。几英尺外，喜剧演员瑞秋·森诺特 (Rachel Sennott) 与演员辛西娅·尼克松 (Cynthia Nixon) 共用一个卡座。室外，查佩尔·罗安 (Chappell Roan) 的《Pink Pony Club》和凯莉·米诺格 (Kylie Minogue) 的《Can't Get You Out of My Head》等热门歌曲在扬声器中律动。

品味颁奖礼的荣耀，并庆祝几个生日。

在平房周围，参加派对的人可以在不同区域领取手卷、饺子、炸鸡和亨利秘密冰淇淋（Henry's Secret Ice Cream）。一个由电梯改造而成的秘密酒吧则提供鱼子酱小煎饼和伏特加烈酒。

随着派对进入高潮，工作人员为《黑客》（Hacks）的演员们送上了蛋糕，庆祝珍·斯马特（Jean Smart，周日）和梅根·斯塔尔特（Megan Stalter，周二）的生日。

斯马特正在庆祝她凭借《黑客》获得艾美奖喜剧类剧集最佳女主角奖，而她在该剧之前的四个季度中均获得了此项奖项。

“当我读到这个角色时，我心想，‘这是上天的馈赠，’”斯马特说道。“对于一个角色，我不能要求更多了。这甚至不像坐过山车，而是一直在上升，上升，上升，上升，上升，上升。”

但随着《黑客》第五季也是最后一季的结束，该剧的演员兼共同创作者保罗·W·唐斯（Paul W. Downs）形容这个夜晚是苦乐参半的。“这感觉也有点像是在进行胜利巡游，因为我们对自己所能成就的一切感到非常自豪，”他说。“我们正试图榨干最后一滴价值，享受每一分钟。”

我们最喜爱的艾美奖造型：恰到好处

随着纽约时装周的举行，当明星们于周一晚上在洛杉矶孔雀剧院（Peacock Theater）参加第78届艾美奖并踏上红毯（准确说是午夜蓝地毯）时，我们的脑海中也充满了对趋势的捕捉。

少数几位女演员穿着色调完全相同的丁香色礼服翩翩而至，在某些情况下显得女性化且略带舞会裙的风格。男士则倾向于强有力的垫肩设计，几乎接近大卫·拜恩（David Byrne）标志性的方正西装。总的来说，裙装要么是垂坠且轻盈的，要么是雕塑感且定型的，中间地带寥寥无几。

然而，最能引起我们共鸣的大多数造型恰恰占据了这片丰富的中间地带。像科尔曼·多明戈（Colman Domingo）和 Ayo Edebiri 这样的明星在色彩上大胆尝试——他选择了棕色桃色和紫红色，她则选择了长春花蓝色和朱红色——而男女明星在对经典西装的不同演绎中都显得英俊帅气。像赞达亚（Zendaya）和切斯·英菲尼蒂（Chase Infiniti）这样总能创造惊艳风格时刻的红毯英雄们也没有让人失望。

在所有出现在我们电视屏幕上的造型中，以下是时尚编辑组的最爱。

AYO EDEBIRI 这套大胆的香奈儿（Chanel）礼服——正面有一个超大蝴蝶结，背面为了平衡以及考虑相机拍摄角度也配了一个——得益于同样大胆的色调，这两种颜色在色轮上恰好处于相对位置。

科尔曼·多明戈（Colman Domingo） 在定制的华伦天奴（Valentino）服装中，这位演员用一件黄褐色的唐装外套讲述了一个令人振奋的色彩故事，其中点缀着冲突的粉色——领口下方几乎是霓虹色，腰间则是高贵的紫红色。

露易莎·雅各布森（Louisa Jacobson） 仔细观察你会发现这件外套有很多细节。它是短款的；是不对称且具有几何感的；一件小小的流苏围巾滑过一个翻领。然而，这位女演员看起来酷且慵懒——这正是只有在穿着 Tom Ford 时才能呈现的状态。

艾美·罗瑟姆（Emmy Rossum） 这里有褶边、蕾丝、纽扣和珠饰。这件 Julie de Libran 高级定制礼服本可能会过于哥特风，或者像维多利亚时代的闹鬼娃娃。但搭配上罗瑟姆浓密的卷发，它显得优雅且让她看起来像雕像般高挑。

奥斯卡·伊萨克（Oscar Isaac） 腰封最近在男女装中都成了时尚。这位在红毯上通常选择低调、老好莱坞风格着装的演员证明了，对他而言，他人的潮流其实是简单且永恒的。

辛西娅·尼克松（Cynthia Nixon） 遮盖得当但不过分保守。包裹在面料中但没有被淹没。尼克松穿着的三宅一生（Issey Miyake）褶皱套装在红毯上轻盈前行。

凯丽·罗素（Keri Russell） 这在“像垃圾袋”与“不像垃圾袋”之间徘徊。对我们来说，它处于正确的一边。

切斯·英菲尼蒂（Chase Infiniti） 这位女演员的沙滩波浪卷发平衡了她那件定制路易威登（Louis Vuitton）抹胸礼服上点缀的数百颗闪亮饰物。

保罗·W·唐斯（Paul W. Downs） 在颁奖礼上，他通常会和梅格·斯塔尔特（Meg Stalter）一起搞些古怪的动作。周一，他再次与他的红毯搭档出现，后者打扮成了艾美奖奖杯的样子。不过，唐斯本人看起来活泼且真诚。

尹汝贞

马克·J·特里尔 / INVISION，经美联社提供 “时髦”这个词或许被过度使用了，但这一造型定义了什么是时髦。

凯瑞·穆里根

莫妮卡·希珀 / 盖蒂图片社 Instagram 上的配文“为这件礼服留一刻”适用于这件由 The Row 设计的礼服，它含蓄但并不低调。请留意那轻盈折叠的领口，以及宛如吹散蒲公英时的刺绣细节。

丹·列维

莫妮卡·希珀 / 盖蒂图片社

又一个支持双排扣礼服的有力案例。列维的演绎——线条更长，翻领夸张，并配有一枚黑色花卉胸针——显得更具理智感。而且这不仅仅是因为他戴了一副银框眼镜。

赞达亚

一个层次分明的精灵短发，为这件普拉达（Prada）的闪耀礼服增添了一抹态度。

风格之外

结构线条与流畅廓形

摄影与文字：SIMBARASHE CHA

在纽约时装周上，几何学带来了一些微妙的启示。深 V 领勾勒出锐利的三角形；镂空设计则精准地露出点点肌肤。不对称的布料层叠在另一个不对称的部件之上，创造出令人愉悦的歪斜形状。突然之间，一套服装成了一个打破僵局的开场白，一个引发讨论的话题。

在 Michael Kors 的秀场上，一名模特穿着一件在肋骨处有镂空设计的上衣，露出了两个完美的半圆；Lii 采用了这些形状，将其赋予基础色并进行堆叠，创造出让人想起马蒂斯纸贴画的造型。

在其他地方，重点则在于垂坠感与慵懒风。在 Coach 的秀场上，模特们穿着飘逸的服装，衬衫和夹克在腰间随意地系在一起；而 Eckhaus Latta 则利用轻盈的薄纱和网眼织物，在“可见之物”与“可见之处”的概念上进行探索。

许多设计师倾向于使用真丝和缎面。这些流畅且闪烁的服装在吸引目光的同时，也能捕捉光影。

在户外，人们穿着随身而动的吊带裙和吊带背心。感受到九月微凉的微风，有些人选择了皮革裙或飘逸的廓形牛仔裤。即便只是搭配一件 T 恤，他们依然显得干练且精致。

Sandy Liang

不对称的下摆与领口 带有反转设计的牛仔面料

大尺寸、大胆且像昆虫眼一样的眼镜 右：Lil

皮革裙与短裤

左：Proenza Schouler；右：Elle Fanning 和 Troye Sivan 在 Coach 秀场

左：Eckhaus Latta；右：Jenna Lyons

右上：Carolina Herrera

钥匙孔领与镂空设计

Michael Kors

Calvin Klein 回归纯粹原则

摄影：SINDARASHI CHA / THE NEW YORK TIMES

凭借第三个系列，维罗妮卡·莱奥尼（Veronica Leoni）试图夺回极简主义的桂冠。

Calvin Klein 对时尚以及每个人的衣橱产生了多么深远的影响，从这场 Calvin Klein 的大秀中可见一斑。

在她的第四次亮相中，设计师维罗妮卡·莱奥尼抛弃了前三个系列中的噱头——那些对内衣的暗示，以及莫名其妙的跳动绒球——转而剥离装饰，回归基本原则：极其修身的裤装套装、吊带背心、低腰裤。一件无袖晚礼服采用了深 U 型领口，其剪裁之低之宽，让人感到略微不安。一件流线型的连体裤配有像围巾一样的高领，末端在身后飘动。丹宁面料经过水洗，其剪裁几乎达到了抽象的程度。

这就是经典的 Calvin 领域，一种伪装成清教徒主义的挑衅，而这个品牌正是以此成名的。在离开 T 台专注于牛仔裤七年后，以及回归 18 个月后，该品牌现在是时候宣示其对自身原始素材力量的所有权了。

你可以从支撑秀场空间的三座由沃尔特·德·玛丽亚（Walter De Maria）创作的巨大几何不锈钢雕塑中看到这种野心，其中一座刻有“真理”和“美”这两个词，宛如极简主义的咒语。而在服装中，你同样能看到这种野心。

问题在于，对于 Calvin 来说，这可能做得太少，且为时已晚。

在中间缺失的这些年里，整整一代的设计师和品牌正竞相填补这一真空。看着这场秀，我不禁想到：嗯，这让我想起了 Khaite……想起了 Fforme……这非常像 Jil Sander……还有 the Row……

现在他们都说着“Calvin 语”。

事实上，如果我们考虑到 90 年代的怀旧风在多大程度上定义了当前的十年，在日益混乱的时代，摒弃装饰感在多大程度上显得恰逢其时，以及剧集《爱情故事：小肯尼迪与卡罗琳·贝塞特》（Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette）在普及 Klein 标志性造型方面起到了多大作用，那么可以说，现在我们所有人都在说着“Calvin 语”。这种着装方式已经渗透到了流行文化和政治文化之中。

这证明了其持久的吸引力，但它也让现在的 Calvin 看起来不像是在夺回天赋权利，而更像是一个原件的副本的副本。

“我觉得这在某种程度上是非常激进的，”莱奥尼在秀后后台说道，此前她刚与凯蒂·霍姆斯（Katie Holmes）、塞迪·辛克（Sadie Sink）以及一整排身着牛仔裤的网红打过招呼。她谈到的是这些造型表面上的简单，而这种简单其实极难实现。（当没有繁琐装饰时，每一道缝线都暴露在审视之下。）但事实上，她做得还不够彻底。

在背景音乐中，索兰格（Solange，她也在前排）吟唱道：“极简主义最真实的实践是确定什么是 100% 必要的。”这不仅仅是指确定一件连衣裙或一件夹克最基本的必要条件。

它意味着提供在原创性和相关性上感觉与当下时刻绝佳契合的服装，感觉是度过一天所必需的。极简主义不仅仅是去掉装饰，它是对事物本质的探索。而这种本质无法在档案或模仿中找到，只能在创造中发现。

Calvin Klein 2027 春季系列包括一件无袖晚礼服和低腰裤（左图），以及深 U 型领口和水洗丹宁（下图）。

由于其他品牌已经填补了风格真空，这可能做得太少，且为时已晚。

戏剧效果全面主导 T 台

ANGELA WEISS / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Thom Browne T 台花园派对造型，从上方起顺时针方向：Kai Schreiber 处于蛹中；一名模特穿着瓢虫造型，配有配套鞋子；另一名模特穿着主题设计服装。

Thom Browne 和 Khaite 在其秀场中融入了戏剧元素，设计风格各异。

蜕变是时尚的奠基原则之一。那种认为一件合适的连衣裙、外套或裤子能将任何人从毛毛虫变成蝴蝶的承诺，正是让我们不断追求时尚的原因之一。

如果有人需要提醒的话，Thom Browne 为纽约时装周的闭幕秀打造了一个仿佛直接出自皮克斯经典电影《虫虫生活》（A Bug's Life）的花园。他用巨大的草茎和叶茂的顶篷将其填满，然后在中心放置了一个发光的茧；模特 Kai Schreiber（娜奥米·瓦茨和利夫·施伯之女）在与一群身着单色薄纱的飞蛾翩翩起舞后，将自己包裹在茧中。

随后，这场秀正式开始——60 套经典的条纹、学生装和斜纹领带西装，通过植物学和昆虫学的改造，变成了完全更具幻想色彩的东西。如果说西装一直被刻板地视为企业职员的制服，那么 Browne 就将使其蜕变为自己的使命。

棱镜般的蝴蝶翅膀被马赛克式地拼接在汽车外套上，其中一些外套还滴落着闪闪发光的草丛。大黄蜂覆盖在格子橄榄球夹克的肩部，蜻蜓则攀爬在一条小百褶裙上。圆润的模塑连衣裙采用了瓢虫镶嵌工艺，紧身裙和束身衣则具有毛毛虫胸部和腹部的关节运动感。甚至连花园派对高跟鞋的鞋尖上也附有小小的上颚。

最后，Schreiber 再次出现，化身为一只黑脉金斑蝶，随行的随从们同样沐浴在色彩之中。这确实有点过于直白，但同时也完全充满魅力。

在所有这些古怪的昆虫风格中，还有一些低调的丝绸和羊毛单品，将 1920 年代的野餐氛围与精湛的剪裁洞察力相结合，其中包括一对清新脱俗的黑白挂脖礼服裙。

这种戏剧感在纽约的 T 台上很少见，因为这里的设计师倾向于更多地关注服装的实用、功能性，甚至是政治层面。这种让媒介本身成为信息的幻想世界构建，通常被留给了巴黎的高级定制设计师，在那里，时尚与艺术的等式，以及将时尚视为表演的理念，占据了中心舞台。

上方及下方：SIMBARASHE CHA / THE NEW YORK TIMES 左侧及上方：HANNA TVEITE

有时这种奇观是神奇的，有时则是矫揉造作的，但它通常反映了一种在纽约并不那么明显的野心和想象力。这就是为什么当美国设计师开始梦想最顶级的聚光灯时，他们倾向于前往欧洲举办发布会。

事实上，Browne 在近 10 年前就离开了巴黎，直到 2023 年他成为美国时装设计师协会主席后，才开始持续地将他的两套女装系列之一移回纽约。（他的男装秀依然在欧洲举行。）目前，他在这座城市的时尚戏剧效果仅能与 Khaite 的 Catherine Holstein 相媲美，后者的创作规模也日益宏大。

本季，这意味着在布鲁克林海军造船厂一个回声缭绕的机库中，打造了可能是纽约时装周最长的 T 台——约 1,000 英尺——并且仅用一系列聚光灯照明，像一种元素艺术，使模特在可见与不可见之间穿梭。

现在你看到了凯亚·格伯（Kaia Gerber）穿着一件高腰黑色皮革束腿裙和白色皮革胸衣；接着她又消失在视野中。现在你瞥见了维多利亚时代的蕾丝内衬，以及一条系在

离奇风格与消失之术：是的，服装在“表演”。

最左侧的凯亚·格伯身着 Khaite 的皮革与内衣，聚光灯旨在制造挑逗感。

腰间；现在又不见了。现在你瞥见了透明的花卉图案和一件皮革飞行员夹克；现在又不见了。

现在你联想到新奥尔良，以及通过亚历山大·麦昆和圣罗兰呈现的《Pretty Baby》；现在你又陷入了困惑。

在短短 10 年内，霍尔斯坦已成为纽约最主要的成功故事之一，她在都市酷文化的变幻元素之上建立起了一门大生意，为都市人群翻译高级趋势。但正如她那些高概念的布景所暗示的，她的目标显然远不止于此。这令人钦佩。问题在于，如此备受推崇的舞美设计需要有足够内容的服装来支撑。而这些服装目前还未达到那个水准。

剩下的不再是令人着迷的表演，而仅仅是表演性质的。它未能真正飞翔。

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Houthis Learn To Make Arms On Their Own

Relying Less on Tehran, and Employing A.I.

By NICHOLAS KULISH

The popular image of Yemen's Houthi rebels is of men on the backs of pickup trucks, firing AK-47s into the desert air.

Yet the group has launched long-range missile strikes at Israel, more than a thousand miles away. The Houthis prey on ship traffic in the Red Sea with naval drones. On Wednesday, the group said it had downed a Saudi fighter jet over Yemen using a locally made missile. Saudi Arabia said the Houthis also had sent a drone toward Mecca, which was shot down before reaching the city. [Page A9.]

And evidence points to the Houthis' growing ambition to use artificial intelligence and other means to produce more advanced weaponry themselves, making them less reliant on their sponsors in Iran.

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Though they are backed by Iran, for months the Houthis remained on the sidelines of this year's fighting in the region. That ended in July, when they declared a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia. Since then, they have marched south, seizing the historic port city of Mokha last week while capturing islands near the narrow strait known as the Bab al-Mandab, tightening the group's grip on the choke point at the southern end of the Red Sea.

"They use every opportunity to build their capability, to test their capability, such that they are now the most lethal nonstate actor in the entire Middle East," said Timothy A. Lenderking, the former U.S. special envoy for Yemen, speaking at a Middle East Institute forum on Friday.

A report by Anthropic last week

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2026

A news helicopter crashed in Los Angeles on Tuesday while covering a fatal bus collision. A colleague described "the day we all dread."
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In a City of Aerial Reporting, a Crash Compounds a Story's Sorrow

By SHAWN HUBLER

LOS ANGELES — The collision of the bus and the S.U.V. had been big, even by Los Angeles eye-in-the-sky standards. Desmond Shaw was stunned by its force.

Mr. Shaw, a veteran helicopter reporter, had gazed at the wreck from above, transfixed. His aircraft was one in a swarm hovering high over the San Fernando Valley on Tuesday. The transit vehicle had been bashed like a toy, the S.U.V. gutting its midsection. The authorities were saying people were dead.

Mr. Shaw had been back at work less than a week after taking a leave prompted by the deaths of both parents, and he had been thinking lately about mortality. The crash was eerie for him, and he was glad to be done with the story.

But shortly after he and his pilot flew away, the newsroom called back: An aircraft appeared to have gone down near the scene of the bus crash.

5 Dead in L.A. Bus and Chopper Accidents

Mr. Shaw, 45, who works for a CBS affiliate, thought of his fellow reporters aloft — colleagues for whom the air was their office.

"As soon as we got there and saw the fireball and the rotor blades, we knew what it was," he said, speaking in an interview from his car early Wednesday. "It was the day we all dread."

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The back-to-back bus and helicopter crashes killed at least five people and strewed blackened wreckage in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles, starting shortly after 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

First, the S.U.V. broadsided a Los Angeles Metro bus, killing at least two people and critically injuring others. The driver has been charged with murder, the police said.

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Trump Urges Cut as New Chairman Tries to Put a Lid on Inflation

By COLBY SMITH

INCREASE IN RATES PUTS FED AT ODDS WITH PRESIDENT

FIRST IN THREE YEARS

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, the first increase in more than three years and a significant step by Kevin M. Warsh, the central bank's chairman, to combat elevated inflation.

The decision, which lifts rates to a new range of 3.75 to 4 percent, was supported by all 12 members of the Federal Open Market Committee.

"The plain fact is that inflation is too high and has been for too long," Mr. Warsh said at a news conference after the decision was announced. He added that the U.S. economy remained strong and unemployment was low, justifying the Fed removing what he described as a "dose of accommodation."

In a statement accompanying the rate decision, the Fed said Wednesday's increase "will support a timelier return to the committee's 2 percent goal."

Mr. Warsh steered clear of providing any guidance about the path forward for rates after Wednesday's move, however, saying that he did not want to "pre-judge any future decisions we make."

But in new forecasts, policymakers indicated that there would likely be additional increases. According to the latest "dot plot," which tracks what officials think will happen to borrowing costs over the coming years, the vast majority of policymakers who submitted projections expect at least one more quarter-point move by the end of the year. Four officials thought rates would need to rise half a percentage point from here this year.

U.K.'s Storks Are Back. Or Are They Trespassers?

By LEO SANDS

As a keeper twisted open the gate of the pen, a dedicated crowd of bird watchers in stork-themed shirts held its collective breath from several hundred feet away. The sight of a juvenile stork on its first flight is not to be missed.

DIAL POST, England — The noisy throng of birds beat their wings and hopped up and down in their pen. These three-month-old white storks, fueled by a generous morning's feed, were ready for takeoff.

The lanky bird, fabled in European folklore as a bringer of life, is now a permanent addition to Britain's skies. It is also a surprisingly contentious one.

HANNAH REYES MORALES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A nesting white stork at the Knepp conservation area in England.

To the conservationists behind the yearslong effort to establish a population, the storks' introduction restores a species that was presumed to have been wiped out in Britain some 600 years ago. To some more skeptical naturalists, it is a misguided act that introduces a bird that had never made Britain its home.

The White Stork Project, as the effort is known, has so far established a colony of some 100 birds at Knepp, a 3,500-acre former dairy farm in West Sussex.

Over two decades, the environment has done most of the reclamation there unaided as part of a wider "rewilding" effort that lets natural processes govern the landscape. But Isabella Tree, the conservationist who co-owns Knepp, is giving it something of a push with the storks.

Unlike other birds that could strike out and breed from just one couple, storks are a sociable species and are more likely to survive in a colony, she said.

To build that colony, conservationists have released captive-bred storks at Knepp every summer for the past eight years. The effort is working: Some 40 nests silhouette the landscape's oak canopies.

This year's batch of fledglings was bred at a zoo from birds that

Jury Scrutiny May Complicate Prospects for New Clancy Trial

Continued on Page A6 had crashed into electrical pylons in Poland and became flightless. After mingling with the colony's existing population of wild-hatched chicks, the juveniles are embarking on a thousand-mile seasonal migration to northern

By JENNA RUSSELL and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — When several jurors from the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy spoke publicly last week about their deliberations, they probably did not imagine what would follow: Deep dives into their social media histories. Hateful memes depicting the women among them as crones. And excavation of two jurors' past legal problems — none of which would have disqualified them from serving.

With a retrial of Ms. Clancy still possible, the intense scrutiny of the jurors whose deadlock led to a mistrial could complicate attempts to seat a new jury, from a pool of candidates who now have reason to fear a similar backlash.

The prosecutor in the case, Timothy J. Cruz, has not said whether he intends to retry Ms. Clancy, 36, for the strangling deaths of her three children in

Timothy J. Cruz, the prosecutor, faces a decision on a retrial.
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January 2023. She has admitted to killing Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months. But according to the defense, she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time.

As Mr. Cruz weighs his next step, Ms. Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, could try to argue that the lone holdout juror would

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Stocks closed lower for the day, with the S&P 500 off 0.4 percent, the Nasdaq Composite inching lower and the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 1 percent.

Investors now anticipate three additional quarter-point interest rate increases through 2027. The two-year Treasury yield, which is sensitive to changes in interest rates, rose 0.6 percentage points. The 10-year Treasury yield steadied around 5 percent, while the 30-year Treasury yield nudged lower to 5.35 percent.

Wednesday's decision is a momentous one for Mr. Warsh, who was selected by President Trump to lead the Fed and took over the top job just four months ago. During the selection process, Mr. Trump said he would only choose someone who supported lower borrowing costs, although he vowed during the swearing-in ceremony that he would respect Mr. Warsh's independence.

Later on Wednesday, Mr. Trump reiterated that U.S. rates

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World Starts Seeing U.S. as a Shaky Investment

By ALAN RAPPEPORT

WASHINGTON — Global investors are balking at U.S. bonds. Talk of the dollar's dwindling power is getting louder. Foreign governments are hauling their gold out of American vaults.

Almost two years into President Trump's second term, the world economy is increasingly looking for ways to distance itself from America. Concerns about a \$40 trillion debt burden, the excessive use of sanctions to solve

Jitters Over Rising Debt and Use of Sanctions

foreign policy problems and Mr. Trump's penchant for pushing the limits of the rule of law are raising questions about the appeal of the United States as a haven for global investment.

Despite pledges by foreign companies and nations to invest in the United States — in many cases to curry favor with the White House — capital is starting to seek alternative destinations.

"Geopolitical factors and U.S. weaponization of the dollar through financial sanctions are causing central banks and other official investors to attempt to diversify away from dollar assets," said Eswar Prasad, the former head of the International Monetary Fund's China division.

The United States is not yet an investment pariah. Private in-

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INTERNATIONAL A4-10

Warning for Mountain Regions Nepal's landslide began in the bedrock, an analysis suggests. As glaciers retreat, instabilities are rising. PAGE A7

No Cliffhanger in Russia Vote

The parliamentary election is a safe bet, but Russians fear military and economic uncertainty afterward. PAGE A4

NATIONAL A11-19

Distrust Is Part of Poll Training As thousands of observers are preparing for midterm elections, some are taught to expect bad behavior. PAGE A12

A 'Cognitive Surrender'

An M.I.T. study reports that A.I. has upended education, confusing students and testing school leaders. PAGE A14

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Scenes of Structure and Slink

Both on and off the runway during New York Fashion Week, a dynamic emerged between sharper lines and slouchy silhouettes. PAGE D6

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A.I. Is Quietly Hitting Workers Slower hiring in some sectors, especially for younger people, may be the result of artificial intelligence. PAGE BI

The agency said that the tech giant likely allowed pro-Palestinian workers to be in a hostile environment. PAGE BI

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Sounds of a Dream House

The electronic musician Empress Of layered themes of instability and renewal on a new album threaded with her mother's stories about their Altadena home lost in the 2025 wildfire. PAGE C1

Taking On 'the First Desk'

In Season 6 of the Apple TV series "Slow Horses," Kristin Scott Thomas gives a morally gray tinge to "Lady Di" Taverner, who claims the top job at Britain's MI5 secret service. PAGE C1

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'Tinker Creek' Author

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Extreme weather is hitting more people with each passing year. Thirty-eight percent of Americans say their community has been affected by severe storms, floods or fires in the past year, according to Gallup.

So when I set out to write about those whose lives had been upended by extreme weather, I knew it wouldn't be too hard to turn up examples.

But what I found was more than just a smattering of disconnected stories. Instead, I discovered a network of survivors who were providing one another emotional support, sharing tips about insurance claims and even becoming close friends.

In an article for The New York Times Magazine this weekend, I write about a half-dozen individuals from across the country, each of whom is working to recover from a climate-fueled disaster and helping others in turn.

They are all members of a group called Extreme Weather Survivors. It's partly a support network; partly an advocacy organization; and, for some, a new sort of extended family.

Extreme Weather Survivors was co-founded by Chris Kocher and Sierra Lindsey Kos a few years ago. Kocher is a professional social organizer who had helped set up networks for survivors of gun violence and the Covid pandemic. Kos was galva-

nized by the 2020 Labor Day fires in Oregon, during which her newborn son was hospitalized with a serious illness.

Kos had to drive through the burning landscape with him amid ash and red skies. She remembers being gripped in that moment by a feeling that she couldn't keep her son safe from climate disaster; it was happening everywhere.

Since 2023, Kos and Kocher have been reaching out to people who have experienced personal or property loss as a result of floods, fires and storms.

Among those they connected with was Amy Dishion, whose husband, Evan, died of severe heat stroke in 2022 after getting lost during a hike outside Phoenix.

Dishion told me her life had been shattered by Evan's death, but that she had found some solace in the connections she's made with other survivors, including Alan and Cindy Bickford, whom she met this June in Washington during a lobbying day organized by Extreme Weather Survivors.

The Bickfords, who live on Pine Island, off Fort Myers, Fla., evacuated their home ahead of Hurricane Ian in 2022. When they returned, they found their house swamped with ankle-deep mud. The ocean had destroyed the walls and the house had to be stripped to the studs.

Since then, they've spent more than \$60,000 out of pocket on repairs, and their flood insurance has more than doubled, pushing them into debt. They've also become experts in dealing with the byzantine

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paperwork that comes with insurance and FEMA claims, which led them to become fast friends with Derek Sample, a music producer from Los Angeles.

Sample's home and recording studio, where he has worked with artists like Prince and Dr. Dre, were badly damaged by the Eaton fire in January 2025, and he turned to the Bickfords for help navigating the rebuilding process. This summer, Sample visited the Bickfords in Florida, and over margaritas and ribs, they traded notes about insurance claims.

Although Sample and the Bickfords' lives were in many respects wildly different — opposite coasts, different social universes and different disasters — their common experiences recovering from fire and a hurricane made them kindred spirits.

The chain of connections goes on from there.

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At the procession. A Kremlin supporter said on television that the war was vital to protect Russia from “enslavement.”

Safe Bet Does Nothing To Calm Unsafe Feeling That Dark Times Await

By VALERIE HOPKINS

MOSCOW — Russians may have little reason to care about the stage-managed parliamentary election that begins on Friday. But many are worried about what might come next.

Rumors of a large, forced mobilization are rampant as the Russian military burns through troops. The economy is under strain from runaway war spending. Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries have left millions waiting for gas in snaking lines.

In Moscow, people appear torn between insisting that everything is normal and acknowledging just how much has changed since the last parliamentary election five years ago, before the all-out war with Ukraine.

At a Lukoil gas station, most of the customers I approached said it was no big deal to wait 20 minutes to fill their tanks. Russia, a major oil producer, has found itself in the unusual position of running short of fuel.

Still, one driver, Yuri, 37, acknowledged that "we are living in the war, and people are starting to understand it." He and his friend Igor were divided on whether the situation would get better or worse, with Yuri on the pessimistic side. They, like others I spoke with, asked that their last names not be used, to avoid trouble with the authorities.

The three-day election will offer little formal outlet for Russians to register discontent over the growing reverberations of a war that has no end in sight. The Kremlin has engineered the vote into a snoozefest even by Russian standards, with its results a foregone conclusion. The only antiwar party, Yabloko, was barred from the ballot. For many candidates, it hardly seems worth making any effort to campaign.

Videos announcing that planned debates were canceled because no one showed up have spread across Russia. At a forum I attended in Moscow on Saturday for young candidates and young voters, no one from the governing United Russia party bothered to attend. What campaign videos do exist are low-budget, including one portraying Viktor Bout, the notorious arms dealer known as the Merchant of Death, as a struggling businessman.

Still, the Kremlin sees elections as a way of legitimizing its policies, and many Russians are bracing for what the government might do on the military, economic and political fronts after the vote.

"People are living for today, because no one knows what will happen tomorrow," said Aleksei A. Venediktov, a former editor in chief of Echo of Moscow, a radio station that was banned in the early days of the war.

"Everyone is more and more unsure of what might happen: Will the prices go up, or the taxes? Will there be mobilization? Will people need ration cards to buy fuel?" he added. "There is a pervasive sense of insecurity."

Anna, a psychologist and professor in Samara, a city of 1.1 million people on the Volga River, said that the anxieties that Russians had repressed would at some point explode.

"They say, 'I don't see this, I don't hear this, I won't say anything about this to anyone,' " she said. "But at the same time, the intensity of these sensations is colossal."

In a July survey by the Public Opinion Foundation, a leading state-affiliated polling organization, almost 60 percent of Russians said the people around them were experiencing anxiety, a four-year high.

That month, Russians withdrew more money from banks than in the previous six years, Taras Skvortsov, the chief financial officer of the state-owned Sberbank, told the Russian business-news outlet RBC. Many Russians are also fearful that the Kremlin will accelerate restrictions on the internet.

Outside the election campaign, the Kremlin and its public relations apparatus are updating their message. The persistent narrative of business as usual is evolving. Now, the Russian authorities acknowledge that many people are struggling and scared — and argue that the answer is to rally around President Vladimir V. Putin and his war.

Two weeks before the election, a crowd of Russians estimated by the Interior Ministry to number 100,000 paraded along the wide avenues of the capital behind the remains of Dmitri Donskoy, the Prince of Moscow from 1359 until his death in 1389. Donskoy is celebrated for leading the Russian military to a well-known victory over the Mongol Golden Horde in 1380.

His remains were dug up last month in the catacombs of a Kremlin cathedral after what Russian officials claimed was a serendipitous discovery. The symbolism was obvious: Just as Donskoy beat the odds to defeat the Mongols, so would Russia defeat the “collective West” that is backing Ukraine today.

'You are alive. You're not blown up or anything. You can walk. You can go to work or to study. But it feels like something is always pressing on you.' YAROSLAV, a student who attended an event for an antiwar party barred from the ballot.

"He is a holy warrior who led battles to victory and united Russian soldiers," said Aleksei, 38, who said he volunteered to fight in Ukraine in 2022 before pivoting to government work the following year.

"Our enemy is trying to divide us," he continued, defining the enemy as "those who are helping Ukraine."

That night, the pro-Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan appeared as a guest on Russia's flagship evening news talk show and picked up the Donskoy mantle.

"When it is scary and hard, when my children, and not only mine, spent half their summer hiding in cloakrooms in Sochi, people are asking, Could we have done without this, simply not started it?" she asked rhetorically, naming the Black Sea resort city that Ukraine has repeatedly attacked.

"Of course, we had to," she said. "If we didn't rise up, like Dmitri Donskoy, we would be on an irreversible path to enslavement, to becoming a colony" of the West.

This narrative may not resonate with Russians who have grown weary of the war.

"It feels like there's some constant pressure on you," Yaroslav, a student, told me after attending an event at the headquarters of Yabloko, the party barred from the election.

"Like, basically, everything is OK: You are alive. You're not blown up or anything. You can walk. You can go to work or to study. But it feels like something is always pressing on you," he said, pointing to his chest.

Yaroslav, 21, said he had recently received an electronic summons to report to a draft office. As he entered the Moscow subway one recent day, he put the hood up on his sweatshirt, hoping that the facial recognition cameras would not catch him.

His father, a long-haul trucker, recently enlisted in the military after his truck broke down and he needed money. He said his father was being deployed to the front despite having no military experience.

Pavel, 33, a teacher in the Novosibirsk region in Siberia, said that the mood regarding the war had changed greatly compared with a year ago.

"The phrase 'When will this all end?' has cropped up in conversations quite regularly," he said. "Even if people have completely different views on the war and varying degrees of radicalism, when they're talking to each other and the conversation slows down, someone often utters this very phrase."

He said that in his village, funerals had become so common that for the past two years, the annual New Year's celebration — the biggest family holiday for most Russians — had been replaced by "mourning events."

Vitaly, 50, who is from the Kazan region and recently began working as a driver in Moscow, said he was convinced that another wave of military mobilization was imminent, though Mr. Putin has said publicly that the government has no such plans.

Despite his age, Vitaly's local draft office tried to persuade him to enlist several months ago, he said.

"Local businesses are all struggling," he said. "So many people are dying. And if you ask me, I still cannot fathom what all this is even for."

Congress Passes Sanctions Bill Aimed at Russia's Financial Support

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WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday passed sweeping legislation intended to squeeze the financial lifelines sustaining Russia's war against Ukraine, overcoming more than a year of resistance to send President Trump a measure that would slap tough new sanctions on Moscow and extend them against Iran.

The centerpiece of the measure would attack Russia's energy sector, which has financed the assault on Ukraine. It would allow the president to impose tariffs of as much as 100 percent on countries, including China and India, that are among the top five purchasers of Russian oil or gas, and the top facilitators of the so-called shadow fleet of vessels used to evade restrictions on Russia's oil exports.

Named for Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died in July after spending more than a year building support for the bill, it would also impose sanctions on Russian officials, oligarchs and financial institutions.

It was approved 262 to 159, clearing it for Mr. Trump, who has signaled he will sign it. Despite the strong bipartisan backing for punishing Russia, 152 Democrats opposed the legislation, contending that it gave too much new tariff authority to a president who has already gone around Congress repeatedly on trade matters.

The legislation includes a five-year extension of sanctions tar-

getting Iran's energy and weapons sectors, a reflection of the concern in Congress over the close military relationship between Moscow and Tehran.

The bill's final passage capped a turbulent journey through Congress, led by Mr. Graham and Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut. They first began the sanctions effort early last year and encountered early resistance from Mr. Trump, who did not want to allow Congress to tie his hands on dealing with Russia.

Before his death, Mr. Graham had been the key intermediary between Capitol Hill and the White House as officials in Washington debated competing approaches to economically isolating Russia. Mr. Graham secured the administration's backing shortly before his death, clearing the way for the Senate to overwhelmingly approve the legislation last month.

Still, its path through the House also proved to be complicated.

Some Democrats who have been among Ukraine's most vocal supporters balked at the tariff provisions, particularly after the Supreme Court curtailed some of Mr. Trump's previous efforts to impose tariffs without explicit authorization from Congress. They warned that the president could use the new trade powers more broadly than Congress intended.

Representative Gregory W. Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Wednesday that Congress should instead provide Ukraine with additional military and humanitarian assistance while tightening restrictions on the president's ability to waive sanctions.

"We can support Ukraine. We can hold Russia accountable," Mr. Meeks said. "And we can protect the American people from higher costs."

Supporters countered that the legislation explicitly restricts the new tariff authority to countries purchasing Russian energy or facilitating sanctions evasion, and maintained that the tariffs were essential because previous penalties had failed to sufficiently choke off Moscow's energy revenues. The measure includes an exemption for certain countries that rely on Russian natural gas but are taking significant steps to reduce their dependence.

Representative Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas and one of the bill's leading proponents, said the tariffs were "the teeth of this bill," intended to force major buyers of Russian energy to choose between continued purchases from Moscow and access to the American market.

"You can evade sanctions, which the Russians have done for years, but you cannot evade tariffs," Mr. McCaul said, recounting advice he said he had received from a Ukrainian sanctions expert during a recent trip to Kyiv.

That argument ultimately persuaded lawmakers in both parties.

Representative French Hill, Republican of Arkansas and the chairman of the Financial Serv-

ices Committee, said the measure could have been better designed and warned that its tariffs could harm American trading partners. Still, he urged passage, saying that Congress needed to send "a loud, resounding message to the Kremlin."

Representative Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland and another key negotiator, made a similar case. Mr. Trump, he said, already claimed expansive tariff authority, while the legislation before Congress specifically directed economic pressure toward countries helping sustain Russia's war.

"This is something we can do," Mr. Hoyer said.

The vote came as the fighting in Ukraine has intensified and Russia has increasingly struck the transportation and energy infrastructure.

On Sunday, a Russian drone struck a passenger train near the Polish border, shortly after a train carrying former Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and other European officials had traveled through the area. The former C.I.A. director David Petraeus was at the station when the drone hit. No deaths were reported, and it was unclear whether the rail station was the intended target of the strike. Russia said it was targeting infrastructure used to transport military cargo from Europe.

"They just bombed the train that goes from Kyiv to Warsaw," said Mr. McCaul. "We do not have time to wait."

Ukraine Upset by Tape Of Aide to a Prosecutor Praising Ambitious Graft

This article is by Maria Varenikova, Cassandra Vinograd and Natallia Novosolova.

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainians are used to revelations of corruption in their government. But one case that emerged this month has managed to grab their attention, in part because of a vivid turn of phrase.

An official working under Ukraine's top prosecutor was caught on tape by anti-corruption investigators describing his own approach to enriching himself through corruption.

"If you're going to do something, then go all in — boom," the official was recorded saying. He then explained, profanely, what he meant. If you're going to sleep with a woman, he said, then sleep with "a queen." And if you're going to steal, then steal "a million."

According to investigators, the official, Serhiy Kropyva, and others in the Office of the Prosecutor General did just that — the stealing part, anyway — through kickbacks they received for covering up a network of phone scammers working in Ukraine and abroad.

The allegations toppled the prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, who was formally removed from office on Tuesday by Parliament after President Volodymyr Zelensky called for his ouster. Mr. Kravchenko had already resigned last week.

He denies wrongdoing. He left Ukraine in recent days, saying he was traveling abroad to discuss the work of anti-corruption bodies in Ukraine with partner countries — an explanation greeted with eye-rolls by his countrymen.

The official on the tape, Mr. Kropyva, has been arrested and is in pretrial detention. He at first denied that it was his voice but has since backed away from that claim. He says he is innocent of corruption.

The colorful recording has spawned memes as well as bitterness among Ukrainians. They have been sacrificing for their homeland, including through regular donations to the army, only to see an endless parade of officials accused of illicitly filling their own pockets.

Many Ukrainians see graft as a threat not only to the war effort but also to the country's future. At the same time, they voice pride in the justice meted out in such cases, seeing it as a sign that the country's democracy, including independent anti-corruption agencies, remains healthy after nearly five years of all-out war.

The scandal involving the Office of the Prosecutor General comes at a delicate moment for Mr. Zelensky, who has come under pressure to clean house amid the drip-drip-drip of corruption cases.

The revelations are especially stinging at a time when Ukraine is badly lacking money for the war. They threaten to sow doubts among the country's European partners just as Ukraine asks for help in plugging its yawning budget gaps.

Russia has escalated attacks on the Ukrainian economy, striking warehouses, gas stations, railways and energy infrastructure with jet-powered drones for which Ukraine has not yet found an effective defense. The country's prime minister, Serhii Koretskyi, said last week that Russian assaults would deprive the state of about \$1.5 billion.

A clash over Ukraine's anti-corruption efforts came to a head last year, when people took to the streets to safeguard the autonomy of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, known as NABU, and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. Both were created a decade ago with strong Western backing.

The Zelensky administration had moved to curb their power by placing them under the authority of the prosecutor general, who is approved by Parliament, where the president's party holds a majority. Mr. Zelensky reversed course in the face of the demonstrations.

A Kyiv protest against government corruption. Ukraine's prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, was toppled by allegations against his office involving kickbacks.
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The prosecutor general who would have overseen the anti-corruption agencies was Mr. Kravchenko, the man who has now been felled in a corruption case.

Since the 2025 protests that preserved its independence, NABU has accused dozens of officials of corruption. The most highly publicized case, involving graft in the energy sector, led to the dismissal of Andriy Yermak, the powerful head of Mr. Zelensky's office.

According to a survey conducted this summer by the Center for Social and Marketing Research in Kyiv, a majority of Ukrainians see corruption as having a stronger impact on the country than Russian bombings.

"These corruption scandals are terrible, and they are certainly demoralizing," said Dmytro Kalach, 38, who works in light manufacturing and regularly donates money to the army.

He said that the graft would not deter him from continuing to support the military.

"The fact that they are scoundrels," he said of government officials accused of corruption, "doesn't mean I have to be a scoundrel like them."

Some Ukrainians said they would carry on doing whatever it took to survive despite the corruption but still felt deeply hurt when cases came to light.

"I cannot simply shrug off these corruption scandals," said Viacheslav Oksiuta, 68, a retiree from the military. He continues to work in the defense sector and is the father of two sons, one of whom is serving in the army.

"I can't even watch television when I hear about these cases," he said. "I take all of this very personally."

Even as Parliament was taking action against Mr. Kravchenko this week, the drumbeat of corruption accusations carried on. Investigators said on Tuesday that they had discovered another illegal enrichment scheme, this time in a tax service office in western Ukraine.

Kosovo's Former Leader Is Sentenced to 25 Years for War Crimes in the 1990s

By AMELIA NIERENBERG

LONDON — Hashim Thaci, the former leader of Kosovo who led its bloody independence fight against Serbia in the 1990s, was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years in prison for war crimes, including arbitrary detention, torture and murder.

Mr. Thaci's sentence concluded a trial that has deepened divisions in his Balkan homeland over whether he should be feted as a war hero or condemned as a leader of violent rebels.

Mr. Thaci, 58, who has long denied wrongdoing, was sentenced along with three other senior members of the since-disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army, or K.L.A. A special tribunal in The Hague, known as the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, handed down the judgments.

During the conflict in the 1990s, the four men "contributed significantly" to the targeting of perceived opponents, the tribunal said in a statement. Some of the victims were fellow Kosovo Albanians perceived as collaborators or traitors. Others were members of ethnic minorities, the tribunal said.

"The targeting of such opponents took the form of killings; arrests and detention without due process; physical and psychological mistreatment; as well as other forms of abuse, intimidation and harassment," the tribunal said.

In most cases, the tribunal found no evidence that the men's victims "had engaged in any criminal activity, taken an active part in hostilities or presented any other legitimate security concern" for the K.L.A.

"The vast majority of them were innocent civilians," often falsely described as spies or collaborators, the tribunal said.

The other men sentenced along with Mr. Thaci were the K.L.A.'s former head of intelligence, Kadri Veseli, sentenced to 18 years; its former spokesman, Jakup Krasniqi, sentenced to 25 years; and its former head of operations, Rexhep Selimi, sentenced to 13 years. All received credit for time they had served.

The men had been found not guilty on charges of crimes against humanity. The tribunal said that the prosecutor "failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population."

Alex Whiting, a former deputy prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office, described the sentencing as a sign of the enduring strength of international law at a time when the United States and other countries have dismissed or attacked the International Criminal Court.

"People ask me all the time: 'Is international criminal law really a thing? Is it possible?" said Professor Whiting, who teaches at Harvard Law School.

The sentencing, he said, is the proof. "International criminal justice is possible," he said. "It can be done."

For years, he said, the case has divided Kosovo, a tiny country that has long been one of the poorest parts of the former Yugoslavia.

Mr. Thaci, long a towering figure in Kosovo, came to power as it tried to break away from Serbia in the 1990s, as peaceful efforts to separate gave way to bloody actions from armed rebels.

In 1998, President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia ordered his troops to respond with a campaign of ethnic cleansing. The goal: to empty Kosovo of its ethnic Albanians, who made up almost 90 percent of the country's population.

In 1999, a NATO air campaign, led by the United States, forced Serbia to end its aggression. By then, more than 12,000 people had been killed and nearly 850,000 people had left Kosovo.

Kosovo ultimately broke from Serbia and was governed as a United Nations protectorate until it declared independence in 2008. But even after Serbia's retreat, Kosovo lived under violence. Ethnic Albanians were still attacked and, in some cases, killed.

Mr. Thaci was in power as prime minister and then president, largely a ceremonial position. His supporters heralded him as a war hero while his critics accused his government of corruption.

In June 2020, when Mr. Thaci was serving as president, the news of his indictment took him by surprise: He was in Vienna, on his way to the White House for peace talks with Serbia.

That November, he resigned and surrendered to the tribunal in The Hague. He was in detention there for almost six years. His trial started in 2023.

The tribunal found that Mr. Thaci "was a key member" in setting up detention facilities and identifying alleged opponents to the K.L.A. and arresting, detaining and killing them.

The tribunal also said that it had found that Mr. Thaci "personally participated" in the arrest and interrogation of parliamentarians and also the arrest and murder of a man named Behajdin Allaqi, with whom he had been in an earlier dispute.

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White storks, lanky birds fabled in European folklore as a bringer of life, can now be found in the skies of Britain. It's a surprisingly contentious addition, as some naturalists say the birds never lived there.

Britain's Storks Are Back. Or Are They Trespassers?

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Africa this fall. It is a grueling voyage: Most typically die in the attempt, but survivors will return three or four years later to find a mate.

Ms. Tree's hope is that the colony will eventually become self-sufficient and spread across southern England to form satellite colonies, "We know that we can bring them back," she said in an interview in July.

As the colony has grown, so has a re-examination of the archaeological and written record of its existence.

Though white storks have been spotted in Britain over the centuries, some researchers say there is little sign they made more than fleeting visits.

"We have no evidence from any source whatsoever that there were ever areas in Britain with a significant stork population," said Ulrich Schmölcke, an archaeologist who specializes in birds at the Leibniz Center for Archaeology in Mainz, Germany.

By that logic, Knepp might be Britain's first white stork colony ever.

The question has opened a ferocious debate over how actively conservationists should reshape the wilderness.

Archaeologists have unearthed the occasional adult white stork bone in Britain, but they have never found juvenile remains that would show the birds were not just visitors, Dr. Schmölcke said.

Nor do white storks appear in Britain's rich canon of folk tales or written laws, he pointed out, as they do in parts of Europe where they are unquestionably native breeders.

The evidence, Dr. Schmölcke said, suggested "they never established a stable population."

Ian Carter, an ornithologist who previously worked with the official environmental body Natural England, objected to the managed release of white storks on that basis. "No matter how many times people say it's a 'reintroduction,' it absolutely isn't," he said.

The birds could pose a threat to existing wildlife, because they breed in high densities and prey on vulnerable wetland creatures, Mr. Carter said. "You can't impose a species on the environment without having knock-on effects on other species," he added. "And it changes the meaning of wildlife if you can just pick and choose any bird."

The uproar prompted Natural England to weigh in with an assessment. In May, it said it had determined that white storks were never a native breeding bird.

Although the birds had visited from continental Europe, researchers could locate only a single historical reference to a nesting pair: In 1416, a Scottish priest observed two white storks building a nest on the roof of St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh before they flew off. It was not clear from the text whether they bred successfully.

"It's an animal that has turned up here sporadically," said Tony Juniper, the chairman of Natural England. "But we can't convince ourselves yet that this was an established species."

While Mr. Juniper was effusive about the broader effort to rewild Knepp with native plants and other animals, he said the environmental authorities could not

Clockwise from above left: Isabella Tree, co-founder of the Knepp rewilding project in West Sussex, England; juvenile storks in their pen; Germanic mythology held that storks delivered the souls of newborn babies from subterranean lakes, Ms. Tree said; and birds taking their first flight. The debate over their presence did not seem to worry the storks.

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In response to the skeptics, Ms. Tree said the standard of evidence they demanded — juvenile remains or legal records mentioning breeding — was impossibly high.

Storks were part of medieval Britain, she said, pointing to their appearance in artworks and place names. One is Storrington, a village near Knepp.

"Ultimately, you can argue either way," Ms. Tree said. "And I don't think it matters."

The birds' prominence as a symbol of fertility persists in cartoons and old-fashioned euphemisms about childbirth. A common theory for the link traces it to migration patterns: Storks would return

Touching off a debate over whether a species truly belongs.

to the skies of medieval Europe in February and March, coinciding with increases in human births around nine months after midsummer weddings.

Germanic mythology held that storks delivered the souls of newborn babies from subterranean lakes, said Ms. Tree, who is writing a book on the birds. In the early 19th century, the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen adapted that idea in "The Storks," a short story with a depiction of long-legged birds delivering newborns.

Bringing the birds to England has justifications beyond historical rectitude, Ms. Tree said. The storks' large nests provide homes and food for other birds, she said. And the storks benefit from access to a cooler climate as continental Europe warms.

"We need to allow species to be able to move north in response to climate change," she said.

While Ms. Tree's critics contest her rationale, their objections are not a serious obstacle to her work. The releases at Knepp are independently funded and do not require official permission.

Mr. Juniper and Dr. Schmölcke both said that storks from mainland Europe could push north into Britain as the climate changes, regardless of the effort at Knepp.

At the estate in July, debates over their presence did not seem to concern the young storks as they took flight. Humans may have started the colony, but the birds did what feathered creatures tend to do. One by one they emerged from the pen, outstretched their wings and, after a few false starts, took flight.

Days later, the birds had embarked on their migration across the English Channel. Within weeks, some had been spotted in Morocco, scavenging in a garbage dump.

Jamie Craig, the zookeeper who had opened the pen to free the birds, responded with a resigned laugh to the image of them feasting on trash. "That's life, that's nature," he said. "If we give it a resource, it will use it."

Deadly Landslide in Nepal Was Bedrock Deep

A rock outcrop sat at the edge of the glacier on the north face of Langtang Lirung, a mountain in Nepal.

Glacier's Retreat May Have Led to Disaster, a Warning for Mountain Regions

The portion of rock shown in dark pink above moved by more than a foot in the month before the collapse, according to satellite data analyzed for The Times by George Brencher.

When the landslide occurred, it left a nearly straight cut through the ice and rock. This indicates that the collapse happened in the bedrock.

By RAJ SAHA and JEREMY WHITE

The glacier on the north face of Langtang Lirung, a mountain in Nepal near its border with Tibet, once sat nearly a mile above the valley floor below.

Then, on Aug. 26, a section of the mountain and the glacier collapsed, releasing more than seven billion cubic feet of rock and ice. That amount of debris would fill around 100 football stadiums.

The scar left on the mountain-side and the exposed rock of permafrost — a mixture of frozen soil and rocks beneath the glacier — offer clues about what led to the landslide, which caused flash flooding that left thousands of people dead or missing.

It will most likely take months for scientists to understand exactly what caused this catastrophe.

"Our current best interpretation is that it was a rock collapse," said Kristen Cook, a geomorphologist at Université Grenoble Alpes in France. "It broke down the glacier," Dr. Cook is part of a community of scientists studying the landslide.

Bedrock failures can be hard to predict, Dr. Cook said. "There are so many steep slopes in the Himalaya — we can't assess the risks of a failure for all of them," she added.

Satellite data analyzed for The New York Times by George Brencher, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, showed that a rock outcrop at the edge of the glacier had moved by more than a foot in the month before the collapse — and that the motion had accelerated.

When the landslide occurred, it left a nearly straight cut through the ice and rock. This indicates that the collapse happened in the bedrock, according to W.W. Immerzeel, a mountain hydrologist at Utrecht University.

As the glacier retreated over the past century, it left the rock outcrop unstable and with little structural support from below.

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The landslide caused flash flooding that left thousands of people dead or missing.

The collapse was most likely the result of several events building on one another. Glacier meltwater seeping into the bedrock could have widened existing cracks as it repeatedly froze and thawed. As the glacier retreated, it exposed rock faces, most likely helping to thaw the permafrost within them and allowing even more water into the cracks. Over time, these gradual changes may have weakened the rock structure to the point of collapse.

“What we do observe is that these instabilities seem to be increasing in frequency,” Dr. Cook said. “Any high mountain region that is experiencing melting permafrost and glaciers should expect more instability.” Scientists are particularly worried about the Alps, as Europe is warming faster than other continents.

The sheer mass of the falling ice and rock, combined with a vertical drop of one mile, released enough energy to pulverize and melt much of the ice and create a slurry of ice, rock and sediment.

As the debris traveled downstream with a flow rate of at least 30 times that of Niagara Falls, it picked up more water and sediment while the heavier rock debris was deposited. Scientists estimate that it reached a peak speed of over 100 miles per hour.

The debris flow traveled more than 60 miles, destroying towns and bridges and killing more than 1,000 people. Thousands more are still missing.

Sources and methodology

For the visualizations in this article, New York Times journalists used a combination of satellite imagery and 3-D terrain models. Landslide scar imagery is by Guoxiong Zheng, Glacial extent is from Felipe Ugalde Peralta. Satellite imagery from Airbus, CNES/Airbus and Maxar Technologies, via Google.

To identify the section of the glacier and rock that collapsed, the journalists used imagery from before and after the landslide, mapping its footprint on the 3-D model to estimate the volume of

The impact caused by the mass of rock and ice falling nearly a mile to the valley floor was powerful enough to register as a 5.2-magnitude earthquake.

the portion that fell. Flow rates of the flood farther downstream were estimated based on known elevation data, observed speed of the moving front of the flood and a range of estimates of the flood height based on satellite imagery. For the analysis of ground movement before the collapse, George Brencher used radar observations from the NASA-ISRD NISAR satellite between July 14 and Aug. 19. To map the flood's extent on both sides of the river bank, the journalists compared Landsat 9 imagery from Aug. 10 and Aug. 26.

Photographs of the missing at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, and damaged houses near the Trishuli River near Betrawati. Geology experts believe that the buildup of glacier meltwater and a thawing permafrost could have contributed to a landslide that triggered deadly flash floods last month.
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Military's Losses and Challenges in War Detailed by Inspector General

By JOHN ISMAY

WASHINGTON — Some of the most detailed information about the Iran war has come not from the office of the defense secretary or the White House, but from a report released by the Defense Department's inspector general.

The independent oversight agency offered glimpses into the U.S. military's inventory shortfalls, and the damage from Iranian counterattacks to consulates and other diplomatic facilities in the region.

The document, which was issued on Monday, covered only the first four months of the war, from Feb. 28 to June 30. On Tuesday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a separate report that war had cost the United States roughly \$38 billion through Aug. 1.

Here are some key takeaways from the inspector general's report.

A Secret Mission Statement

The Pentagon and White House have said that their goal in Iran is to destroy its nuclear programs, attack drones, ballistic and cruise missiles, and its means of producing those weapons.

But the inspector general's report noted that the Pentagon's full mission statement for the Iran war "is classified." That suggests that the military may have other goals that have not been made public.

Costs

The inspector general said that "it can be difficult to calculate the total 'cost'" of the Iran war, given that the Pentagon has never had a separate appropriation from Congress to fund it.

Noting that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not request additional funds from Congress before launching combat operations, the report stated that funds for the war were coming from the department's existing budget for training and maintenance of the force.

The costs to repair or replace U.S. military facilities damaged or destroyed by Iranian attacks — such as the Navy's base in Manama, Bahrain — have not been calculated, as the Pentagon has indicated it may choose to close or not rebuild them.

On June 24, the report said, the White House submitted a \$67 billion supplemental funding request for the war, of which \$21 billion was slated for replacing munitions expended up to that point.

The inspector general also said that the State Department estimated that its embassies, consulates and other diplomatic facilities in the Middle East had suffered about \$184 million in damage from Iranian strikes.

The U.S. diplomatic mission in Iraq was hit by "more than 600" Iranian attacks just in the first four months of the war, sustaining more than \$157 million in damages.

Shortfalls of Munitions

The Pentagon's top acquisition office told the inspector general's office that the expenditure of munitions in the Iran war "has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls."

Military leaders have tried to speed up the production of munitions, the report noted, but added that "the defense industrial base requires 'significant lead time' to expand production capacities" for weapons.

Bottlenecks persist in the production of solid rocket motors that missiles rely on, as well as the supply of "high-grade explosives and propellants."

The Congressional Budget Office report also found that the war had significantly depleted U.S. munitions. In response, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that "claims of U.S. munition shortages are false."

Troops, Ships, Aircraft and Bases The U.S. military force in the Middle East supporting the war has numbered roughly 50,000, even as units rotate on deployment.

According to the inspector general's report, the war has seen "a dozen each" of fighter squadrons, destroyers and air defense batteries deployed as well as mobile launchers for artillery rockets and guided missiles like ATACMS and PrSM.

The war has also seen the deployment of four aircraft carrier strike groups thus far, and a "partial deployment" of the 82nd Airborne Division.

Iranian counterattacks damaged and destroyed "hundreds of buildings and structures" at U.S. military bases in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the report said.

Additionally, dozens of U.S. military aircraft have been damaged or destroyed, including 30 Reaper drones, 12 KC-135 aerial refueling planes, four F-15 fighters and an A-10 attack jet.

Casualties and Medical Support

The Defense Department has limited medical treatment facilities at every location where U.S. forces are deployed in the region, the report said, and has built more advanced facilities to provide surgical support in several countries.

For care beyond what those facilities can provide, the Pentagon has relied on hospitals in those host nations.

Medical evacuation helicopters in Iraq and Kuwait had to be relocated after Iranian strikes, the report said, adding that "the nature of operations" during the war has meant most U.S. casualties have been transported by vehicles and ambulances to medical treatment facilities.

The U.S. has suffered 18 killed and 824 wounded in the war, according to a Pentagon casualty database.

Logistics Issues

The destruction of the Navy's main logistics hub in Bahrain forced the Pentagon to look for additional supply ships that were outfitted to transfer fuel and supplies to warships at sea, the report said.

The Navy's move to use the British-owned island Diego Garcia — roughly 2,200 miles from the Arabian Sea — as its new logistics center means that supply ships have to spend two to two and a half weeks to travel to the island, take on goods and fuel, and return to the Navy's main operating areas outside the Persian Gulf, according to the report.

Strain on Other Commands

Of all the Pentagon's "combatant commands," which are responsible for military operations in different parts of the globe, U.S. European Command, based in Germany, has provided the most support to the Iran war, according to the report.

It transferred "munitions, equipment, aircraft and personnel, and requisitioned and distributed fuel, food, and medical supplies" to Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East.

Mr. Hegseth ordered Pacific Command, which is based in Oahu, Hawaii, to pursue and board suspected Iranian merchant ships in the Indian Ocean — expanding the mission far outside the Middle East.

Pacific Command was also ordered to give up six warships for the Iran war. They included the aircraft carrier strike group centered around the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which left San Diego on Nov. 21 and spent roughly nine months at sea without a port call for its crew to rest.

The ship is currently returning to its home port in Southern California.

Airstrike by Israel Kills Teenager and Rescuer

This article is by Ephrat Livni, Abu Bakr Bashir and Natan Odenheimer.

Israeli airstrikes in a residential Gaza neighborhood have killed a teenager and a Civil Defense rescue service worker, according to a local official, amid mounting international pressure on Israel to halt its attacks in the enclave.

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it had "directed an attack against Hamas terrorists" and that the outcome in the Gaza City attack was "under review." The operation followed strikes day before that the military said had killed Hamas militants.

On Tuesday, an Israeli drone strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City killed a teenager, identified as Mohammed al-Zinati, 15, and wounded other people, a member of the Civil Defense team, Motaz Ayyoub, said in a phone interview.

A second drone strike less than a minute later killed Sharif Labad, a Civil Defense worker who was not on duty but had rushed to the scene, Mr. Ayyoub said. He said that he and Mr. Labad had been planning to meet and attend a wedding when his friend responded to the earlier strike.

"We are now in the mosque to do the funeral prayer," Mr. Ayyoub said.

In separate statements on Tuesday, the Israeli military said that it had killed a Hamas commander in the northern Gaza Strip overnight and that it had killed two Hamas operatives on Monday, one in the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza and another in Gaza City.

Late on Tuesday, the Israeli military also said it struck "a senior Hamas terrorist" in the southern Gaza Strip. The office of Israel's prime minister and the minister of defense said in a joint statement that the strike had targeted the commander of Hamas's Rafah Brigade and vowed that "Hamas will not remain in Gaza."

Israel has continued to carry out deadly strikes in Gaza over the past six weeks, despite efforts by President Trump's Board of Peace to halt the attacks following its announcement in late July that Hamas had agreed to surrender its weapons. Under the disarmament framework, Israel was expected to halt its military operations in Gaza except in cases of immediate self-defense, but Israeli officials rejected the agreement.

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A senior Board of Peace official recently criticized Israel's continuing strikes during a speech at the United Nations, saying that they did not serve Israeli interests and only delayed the demilitarization of Gaza.

Body bags for two Palestinians at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City this week. Medics said that they had died in an Israeli attack.

The Israeli military operations in Gaza are taking place as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is campaigning for re-election and portraying himself as key to the country's security. Jared Kushner, the Trump envoy and son-in-law who has been working with the Board of Peace on plans for Gaza, said this month that Mr. Netanyahu's government was acting "a little irrational" ahead of the election.

Volker Türk, the United Nations human rights chief, called on Tuesday for international investigators to be allowed into all parts of Gaza to recover the remains of Palestinians still buried under rubble, and to help gather evidence of potential war crimes.

He said in a statement on social media that remains believed to be from 96 people from three Palestinian families were recovered this month, including those of many women and children. Noting that Palestinian officials have estimated that thousands of people may still be buried under rubble, he said the findings so far "may only be the tip of the iceberg" because "much of Gaza has been flattened by Israeli bombing or demolition and clearing by heavy machinery and explosives."

Doctors Without Borders said on Sunday said that one of its humanitarian vehicles was damaged and an aid worker injured when an Israeli strike in Gaza City targeted a vehicle a couple of yards away from them. The group said in a post on social media that the aid vehicle was clearly identified and accused Israeli forces of showing "a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarian and medical personnel."

"Nowhere is safe in Gaza," Doctors Without Borders said, calling for civilians, health care workers and other humanitarian staff to be protected.

The Israeli military said in a statement that the attack in Gaza City on Sunday killed two operatives in Hamas's military wing. It said that it took steps to mitigate harm to civilians, including using "precise munitions and aerial surveillance."

The Israeli military's prosecution of the war in Gaza has come under further scrutiny in the past week after "NAZA," a documentary about Palestinian civilian deaths in the war, premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. The Israeli directors won the Special Jury Prize, but faced an official backlash at home.

The Israeli military chief, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, consulted on Monday with top generals about how to respond to the film, saying it was based on "deliberate distortions of reality."

On Tuesday, at a ceremony marking the start of the Jewish New Year, Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, who leads the military's southern command, insisted on the importance of "maintaining the integrity of our own conduct, distinguishing between the enemy and those who are not involved in the hostilities."

He said this required the military to examine itself and "correct what must be corrected."

But General Asor also said that Israeli forces would continue to operate in Gaza “to prevent Hamas from rebuilding its capabilities.”

At Least 21 Die in Collapse of One of Many War-Damaged Buildings in Gaza

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Searching for survivors on Wednesday in Gaza City. Reconstruction has stalled in the enclave.

This article is by Natan Odenheimer, Adam Rasgon and Abu Bakr Bashir.

TEL AVIV — A war-damaged building in Gaza collapsed on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people, including children, and trapping many more beneath the wreckage, according to local officials.

The incident shines a light on the perilous conditions in Gaza after the devastating war that followed the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Officials have warned that many more buildings damaged in Israeli strikes are at risk of collapse. The lack of progress on reconstruction has forced residents to choose between living in seriously compromised buildings or in tents.

Dozens of people were living in the Saada residential building in Gaza City when it caved in at around 2 a.m., according to the Civil Defense rescue service, which is part of the Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza.

The building was previously hit by an Israeli strike, the officials added, though it was unclear when. The Israeli military said in a statement on Wednesday that it "did not strike the building in question during the war," but did not immediately respond to questions about whether any strikes on nearby targets could have caused the damage.

Search-and-rescue teams pulled survivors from the wreckage on Wednesday morning as they searched for missing residents.

"We can see people still trapped under the rubble," said Raed al-Dahshan, director of Civil Defense in the Gaza City area. "We're doing everything we can to extract them."

Mr. al-Dahshan said the authorities in Gaza had warned residents that the building was unstable, but that many did not leave because they did not want to be displaced and potentially end up in worse conditions. He said that there were roughly 70 buildings in the Gaza City area at risk of collapse.

One woman who was pulled from the rubble described the harrowing feeling of being in the building as it collapsed.

"I felt there was something that fell from below," said Hayat al-Jabari, 37. "The building then fell all at once on us."

Humanitarian groups warned that there could be more deaths in the coming months.

"With the heavy rains and winds of winter approaching, the risk of damaged buildings collapsing will only increase, putting more lives in danger," Pat Griffiths, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said by telephone from Gaza. "Choosing between life in a tent — with little privacy or space and exposed to harsh weather — or a building that is damaged and at risk of collapse, just to have a roof over one's head, is not a choice any family should have to make."

The deadly collapse underscores the devastation across Gaza after years of war, with Israeli strikes and street fights between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters having left entire neighborhoods in ruins. Much of Gaza's population was displaced by the conflict, and many are now living in damaged buildings.

After a U.S.-brokered cease-fire agreement was reached last October, Palestinians had hoped that Israel would allow a significant amount of heavy machinery and construction materials into Gaza to begin the long process of removing rubble and rebuilding the territory. Thousands of bodies from the war are still beneath the rubble across Gaza, according to local officials. On Tuesday, the United Nations human rights chief called for international investigators to be allowed into the enclave to recover the remains of Palestinians from beneath damaged buildings.

Efforts by President Trump's Board of Peace and regional mediators to advance the cease-fire and pave the way for reconstruction have stalled. Israel has continued to target the territory, despite international pressure to halt its attacks there.

The International Committee of the Red Cross and Egyptian-backed rescue teams assisted local emergency crews on Wednesday in their search for survivors of the building collapse.

In a statement, Ramiz Alakbarov, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, urged the international authorities to allow heavy equipment into Gaza to assist in search-and-rescue operations, along with humanitarian aid.

"Every possible effort must be made to save lives, protect people from further harm and provide families with safer places to live," he said. "Every minute counts."

Houthis Learning to Make Advanced Weapons on Their Own

Houthi fighters in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Saturday. The rebels have stepped up their activity in the region in recent months.
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on the misuse of A.I. said that "a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen," where the Houthis have their stronghold, used Claude for "a sustained effort to develop guided weapons." Despite Anthropic's safeguards, the company said, the cell proceeded as far as the test firing of a guided rocket.

The Houthis still rely on their Iranian sponsors for the most sophisticated components in their drones and ballistic missiles, but as the Anthropic report suggested, in recent years they have become much more advanced at building their own weapons systems.

This has given the Houthis greater flexibility to maintain their fight against their Yemeni and Saudi adversaries, attack shipping traffic in the Red Sea, and threaten Israeli and U.S. targets even with the U.S. Navy enforcing a monthslong blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Laboratory of War

The Houthis and their Iranian advisers were already experimenting with unmanned surface vessels a decade ago. The militant group used a remote-controlled boat loaded with explosives to attack a Saudi frigate all the way back in 2017, killing two people in the process.

After the Houthis captured Yemen's capital, Sanaa, in 2014, Saudi Arabia led a military coalition propping up the country's government and fighting back against the militants. A cease-fire was declared in 2022, but experts say the group has used the intervening years to dramatically advance its capabilities.

The truce gave the Houthis time "to regroup, retrain, refit, re-stock," said Mr. Lenderking.

"The volume of goods being brought into Yemen to make weapons increased exponentially and the number of routes being used increased exponentially after the truce was announced in Yemen in 2022," said Peter Salisbury, an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, who has closely studied Houthi weapons manufacturing.

At first, Yemen was a laboratory for Iran's pursuit of warfare. Increasingly, it is the factory, too. Mr. Salisbury said that larger parts like missile chassis are fabricated in Houthi-controlled territory rather than sent from Iran.

"Iran and Hezbollah have invested heavily in continuing to up-skill the Houthis in the manufac-

Vivian Nereim contributed reporting.

ture and use of weapons," Mr. Salisbury said. "Increasingly they've been able to indigenize the production of a lot of things like one-way attack drones."

According to Farzin Nadimi, a senior fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Iranian defense industry has dedicated design bureaus and factories for weapons systems specifically for proxy forces like the Houthis that are "simple to assemble, simple to move, simple to prepare for launch and simple to use."

Resilient Supply Chains

The Iranians encouraged the Houthis to develop additional supply chains for components from places like China, whose factories supply many of the drone parts used around the world.

"There's a lot the Houthis don't need anymore, and the reason they don't need it anymore is because they've been able to use the global black market supply chain to get most of the things they need," said Kevin Donegan, a former commander of the U.S. 5th fleet, whose area of responsibility included the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, and who built the first intelligence fusion cell to study Iranian support for the Houthis.

"They do need key components still, especially for the missiles to make them effective," Mr. Donegan said. "They have the ratlines that still can bring those components because they're not the big pieces."

Those might include guidance systems, rocket engines, and wing tips and fins that require a higher degree of precision engineering, Mr. Salisbury said.

While the U.S. Navy's blockade focuses on large container ships and tankers, smaller components can be smuggled on medium-size vessels like the traditional dhows plowing the region's waters. Shipments can be sent directly to Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, transshipped via the Horn of Africa or even transferred ship-to-ship in the waters off the coast of Somalia. Mr. Salisbury calls it a "giant game of three card monte."

Increased self-sufficiency is not necessarily the same thing as complete independence from their sponsors in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. "I think they pretty much still need a lot of help from the I.R.G.C.," Mr. Nadimi said. He said that he believed there were "significant numbers" of I.R.G.C. officers involved in the planning and execution of the current phase of the fighting in Yemen.

The need for Iranian advisers and the more advanced components may explain how the renewed fighting in Yemen started this summer in the first place.

A Houthi delegation traveled to Tehran in July for the funeral of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. After, they boarded a flight home operated by Iran's Mahan Air, which is under sanctions imposed by the United States government, back to Sanaa.

The Saudis and the Yemeni government believe that the aircraft carried Iranian military personnel and weaponry. When airstrikes prevented the plane from landing at Sanaa International Airport, the flight diverted and managed to land elsewhere in Houthi-controlled territory.

The Houthis then launched retaliatory attacks on Abha International Airport, in the southern part of Saudi Arabia. It was the first Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia since 2022, and began a new and unpredictable phase of fighting, with an adversary that spent years planning and advancing its tactics and technology.

If the Anthropic report is accurate, the group that was using Claude in northern Yemen tried to develop a multistage ballistic missile with a range of over 1,200 miles and a hypersonic glide vehicle. The would-be weapons designers were careful to avoid the company's safeguards, hiding the true purpose of the guidance systems they were designing from the very system helping them design it.

Anthropic said there was no evidence that they were successful in "fielding an operational device." The users queried Claude Code about why their field test had failed. "Nevertheless, we have evidence that the actors had already built an offline simulation toolkit that does not rely on Claude," the report said.

Recent history suggests they will keep working to improve their capabilities.

"Keep in mind that the Houthis are always on the move," said Mr. Lenderking, the former U.S. envoy. "They're extremely entrepreneurial."

Pipeline Attack Adds to Risk of 'Disastrous' Crimp on Saudi Oil

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Commercial vessels were anchored off Yemen's coast last week at the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

By LISA FRIEDMAN

LONDON — As Iran and its allies tightened their grip on shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia scrambled this week to reroute millions of barrels of oil after being forced to close a critical pipeline damaged in an attack.

The shutdown of the East-West pipeline risks keeping 4 percent of the world's oil supply from reaching international markets and driving energy prices even higher.

Saudi Arabia on Friday said it had temporarily shut the pipeline after it was struck by an Iran-backed militia. The pipeline, a 750-mile network that transports crude across Saudi Arabia to ports on the Red Sea, had been the kingdom's primary way of exporting oil since the war in Iran began in February.

On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia and the Houthi militia in Yemen exchanged fresh claims of attacks on one another. In what would be a sharp escalation in their fighting, the Houthis said they had downed a Saudi fighter jet, as Saudi Arabia said the Houthis fired a drone near the Muslim holy city of Mecca.

The Houthis last week gained control of a strategic Red Sea port and hit energy facilities in Saudi Arabia, exacerbating the squeeze on Saudi oil exports.

Now, Saudi Arabia, running out of options and under pressure to rapidly restore supply lines, is facing the prospect of a severe energy crisis with global implications, analysts said.

"It is unprecedented," said Amena Bakr, head of Middle East & OPEC+ Insights at Kpler, a maritime data firm.

"We have two major waterways obstructed, active attacks, Iran escalating attacks, proxies being active and no signs of diplomatic talks," Ms. Bakr said. "It's a disastrous situation when you're looking at it from an energy security angle."

Any extended disruption to the pipeline network of Saudi Arabia, long the world's biggest oil export-

Josh Holder and Jenny Gross contributed reporting.

er, would send shock waves through the global energy market. Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, hovered around \$107 per barrel on Wednesday, up 50 percent from its prewar level.

The world could lose 120 million barrels of crude if the East-West Pipeline is offline for a month, according to estimates from Kpler.

Goldman Sachs warned that global oil prices could rise as high as \$120 a barrel if attacks in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea continue.

The precise amount of oil not making it to the global market will depend largely on the severity of the damage to the East-West pipeline. Neither the Saudi government nor Saudi Aramco, the national oil company, responded to requests for comment.

Saudi officials previously said only that the pipeline was shut as a precaution but have not disclosed the extent of the damage or a timetable for how long it might take to restart it. Satellite images taken on Sept. 10 and 11, reviewed by The New York Times, show damage at two pumping stations on the pipeline.

Estimates for how long it might take to get the pipeline running again vary widely.

Ms. Bakr, the Kpler analyst, said she believed it could take five to six weeks, but that partial repairs could be completed far sooner.

She and others noted that the kingdom has extensive experi-

Prolonged limits on exports could push oil prices even higher.

ence dealing with attacks on infrastructure. In 2019, Aramco suffered a major Houthi attack on its facilities and was able to restart pumping operations within a few days. And in April, when a pumping station was attacked shortly after the war in Iran began, full capacity was restored within seven days.

Robin Brooks, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, said he did not believe the "nightmare scenarios" that the pipeline could be offline for months.

"This attack has again raised in markets the fear that we could be on the cusp of another big spike," Mr. Brooks said. But, he said, "The track record is that these things get repaired within weeks, and there's already indications from satellite imagery that repairs are happening."

Chris Wright, the U.S. energy secretary, said he believed oil flows through the pipeline would resume soon. "This will be a brief and temporary interruption," Mr. Wright told CNBC on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia has oil stored across the country, including the capacity for about 24 million barrels at its Red Sea port at Yanbu, creating a cushion. But those storage tanks are unlikely to be full, according to Rystad Energy, a consulting firm that estimated the port has about three to six days' worth of crude.

The East-West pipeline was Saudi Arabia's workaround when the war in Iran effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz. Stretching from Abqaiq in the east to the Red Sea oil terminal of Yanbu in the west, the pipeline bypasses the strait entirely. Oil could be transported through the Bab al-Mandab Strait on the southern end of the Red Sea or via the Suez Canal and a pipeline across Egypt at the northern end of the sea, headed primarily to customers in Asia.

Ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is a fraction of what it was before the war, when about 130 vessels moved through the waterway daily. An average of approximately 20 ships a day have passed through the strait over the past week, according to Kpler.

Yasir O. Al-Rumayyan, the chairman of Aramco, said in June that engineers had expanded the pipeline's capacity to carry up to seven million barrels per day, nearly 30 percent more than before the war.

"We had a similar situation back in the '80s, where the Strait of Hormuz was threatened to be blockaded by the Iranian regime," Mr. Al-Rumayyan said. "It was decided since then that we will have a pipeline from east to west."

With the Houthis now largely in control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, Saudi Arabia is once again steering vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, analysts said. Since Sept. 7, just two Saudi vessels have traveled through the Red Sea, according to Kpler.

The U.S. Navy has been able to keep some oil flowing out of the Strait of Hormuz on sea paths close to the coast of Oman, the opposite side from Iran. But those efforts have required an extensive and dangerous operation.

Capital Economics, an economic research firm, said that every week the East-West pipeline is closed, while the Strait of Hormuz is off limits, will shave at least 0.2 percent off Saudi Arabia's economic activity.

Militia Says It Downed A Saudi Jet; Tension Rises

This article is by Ismaeel Naar, Hari Raj, Sanjana Varghese and Aric Toler.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen and the Saudi authorities on Wednesday accused each other of sharply escalating their attacks, adding to fears that their recent return to war could further destabilize the Middle East.

The Houthis claimed to have downed a Saudi fighter jet, while Saudi Arabia accused the group of flying a drone near Mecca, the holiest site for Muslims.

A spokesman for the Houthi military, Yahya Saree, said on social media that the group had shot down a Saudi F-15 jet over Yemeni territory using a locally made missile. The Houthis released footage and photographs on Wednesday of what they said was the crash site. The plane in the wreckage seemed to be consistent with F-15s in the Royal Saudi Air Force, a review of the images by The New York Times found. The exact location of the wreckage could not be confirmed.

The Saudi authorities did not respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Saree made the claim hours after Saudi Arabia said that its military had shot down a Houthi drone outside Mecca. The drone was intercepted and destroyed south of Mecca on Tuesday as it headed toward prohibited airspace over the city, Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki, the spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen, said in a statement on social media.

Mr. Saree denied that the Houthis had targeted Mecca, dismissing the allegation as "fabrication and lies."

The conflict between the Houthis and Yemen's internationally recognized government, which is supported by Saudi Arabia, has spiraled back into war in recent days, adding further uncertainty to global oil markets already dealing with the U.S.-Iran war.

The clashes have caused a sharp rise in energy prices, with investors worried about the long-term effect on global supplies. The Houthi attacks threaten oil shipments from Saudi Arabia, which was the world's largest exporter before the Iran war knocked it down in the rankings.

Mr. Saree said the Saudis had launched more than 450 strikes this week and that the Houthis had responded with attacks on an oil refinery operated by Aramco, the Saudi state-owned energy company, and a military air base.

Any attempted drone strike on Mecca, the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, would ignite outrage in the Muslim world. More than 1.7 million people, most of them from overseas, visited the city this year for the annual pilgrimage known as the hajj, according to Saudi government data.

The Houthi drone was "an attempt to terrorize the pilgrims visiting the Holy Mosque and to harm citizens and residents," General Al-Maliki of Saudi Arabia said, adding that the security of the pilgrims and sacred mosques was a "red line."

The Organization of Islamic Co-operation, a 57-member coalition that considers itself the collective voice of the Muslim world, condemned the alleged attack as well as the Houthis' wider strikes against Saudi Arabia.

"These attacks instill fear in innocent civilians, violate the sanctity of holy sites and mosques, and provoke the sentiments of Muslims around the world," the group said on social media on Wednesday.

Houthi forces have been on a sweeping offensive in recent weeks, seizing territory from the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and extending influence over the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a crucial choke point that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

Farea Al-Muslimi, a Yemen specialist at Chatham House, a London-based research group, said the Houthi claim on the fighter jet was plausible, given their military capabilities. "The Houthis have downed drones in the past and proven to have their own surface-to-air capabilities," he said.

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on Tuesday to discuss the upsurge in fighting, and called for de-escalation and renewed dialogue.

Abdullah al-Saadi, Yemen's U.N. ambassador, said that the Houthis were using their control of the Bab al-Mandab as an "extension of the threat and blackmail equation seen in the Strait of Hormuz."

Vivian Nereim contributed reporting from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

E.U. Raises Possibility Of Bringing in Canada As 'Associate' Member

against anyone else, but for our common strength."

By JEANNA SMIALEK and MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF

STRASBOURG, France — The European Union has invited Canada to work toward becoming its first “associate member,” a title meant to underscore the nation’s growing closeness to the 27-country bloc as both face deteriorating relationships with the United States.

President Trump has waged a relentless trade war with Canada, challenging its economy. The United States has pulled back support for NATO and Ukraine, leaving the European Union scrambling to shore up its defenses. That vacuum has left both the bloc and Canada looking for new partners as the alliances established after World War II shift.

"We must urgently reimagine our partnerships," said Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union's executive arm, on Wednesday during a major annual speech in Strasbourg, France. Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, was seated directly to Ms. von der Leyen's left as she made her address.

"I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to be the first associate member of the European Union," she told him.

The invitation may be more of a symbolic gesture than a meaningful step toward integration. It is not yet clear how associate membership would reshape an already-close relationship when it comes to trade, technology or travel. Still, the announcement was met with a standing ovation from the room of lawmakers.

Ms. von der Leyen said the proposal was "not a partnership

But it is clear that Europe and Canada see themselves caught between a competitive China and a sometimes hostile Trump administration.

"It's a big swing, politically and rhetorically," said Jörn Fleck, a senior director focused on Europe at The Atlantic Council in Washington. "This is obviously signaling toward the U.S." and "it's also signaling to potential allies that the E.U. is willing to get more creative."

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Mr. Carney gave a headline-grabbing speech at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, this year during which he argued that the world order that emerged from the Cold War was facing a “rupture, not a transition,” and that “middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada with the E.U. leader Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday.

Wednesday's announcement was a vivid demonstration of that strategy.

Mujtaba Rahman, managing director for Europe at the Eurasia Group, said that talking of an associate member label sent an "interesting signal" to Canada, but one that for now is likely more symbolic than practical.

Ms. von der Leyen did not lay out in detail what associate membership to the European Union might entail. But she noted that Canada and Europe had plans to work more closely together on the Arctic, their defense-industrial bases and critical minerals. Leaders from Canada and the European Union were scheduled to meet for a summit at the end of October, where they were expected to lay out more concrete ideas.

Ms. von der Leyen called for a European equivalent to a NATO provision that allows for the convening of defense-related meetings when a nation is threatened, known as Article 4. The European Union already has a little-known collective defense guarantee, but Ms. von der Leyen pitched "Europe's own Article 4" and said that when it was "triggered by one member state, all member states would convene."

She also called for a new leaders' group, the European Security Council, that would include non-E.U. partners in Europe like Britain, Norway and Ukraine, and also Canada.

If it proves to be meaningful, the push to bring Canada closer could encounter roadblocks. E.U. member states have warned that offering too many benefits to a would-be associate would diminish the value of full membership, for instance. It is not clear what exactly the legal pathway would look like, though experts said it would probably require the approval of member states

As Mr. Carney navigates a historic low in his country's relationship with the United States, the destination for three-quarters of Canadian exports, he has been focused on bringing his country closer to the bloc.

Trade talks between Canada and the United States collapsed last month, locking the two countries in an intensified trade war. Mr. Trump has repeatedly called for Canada to become the 51st state, prompting a countervailing wave of patriotism among Canadians.

By contrast, polls suggest that four out of five Canadians want Mr. Carney to bring their country closer to the European Union and that more than half would like Canada to join the bloc as a mem-

ber.

Ottawa and Brussels already have a free-trade agreement, and though the deal has not been approved by 10 of the 27 E.U. member states, about 90 percent of trade between the European Union and Canada is tariff-free.

Mr. Carney often calls Canada "the most European non-European country." European Union leaders have spent years joking that it could join the bloc if only it were not on a far-flung landmass.

This week, Terry Reintke, a German politician who leads the Greens group in the European Parliament, noted that Canada would make its debut next year at an international singing competition beloved on the continent — a symbol of deepening ties with Europe.

"It already starts: They are going to become part of the Eurovision song contest," she said. "The scene is set."

World Starts to See U.S. as a Debt-Laden, Erratic Investment

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Testifying before Congress, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expressed confidence in the credibility of the U.S. financial system.

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vestors are still pouring money into American financial markets and stocks, artificial intelligence infrastructure is booming, and no rival currency is poised to topple the dollar imminently.

In testimony before Congress on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that he remained confident in the credibility of the U.S. financial system, arguing that bond auctions continue to operate successfully and that the dollar is still thriving as measured by its share of global transactions.

"The U.S. is in fact the leader, and the leader does not fear competition," Mr. Bessent said. "Competition makes us better."

But cracks in America's economic dominance are starting to show.

The most glaring example has been in the bond market. Yields have been soaring as investors nervous about the mounting national debt demand a higher rate of return for buying Treasury bonds. This week, the yield on the 10-year Treasury topped 5 percent, reaching its highest level since 2007.

A decision to raise rates on Wednesday could help to alleviate concerns about the Fed's grip on elevated inflation, fears that have injected more jitters into bond markets.

The ominous bond threshold was crossed a week after the Treasury Department purchased \$5.2 billion of its own debt maturing in the next 10 to 20 years, part of a plan to inject demand into the Treasury market to try to push prices higher and yields lower. Mr. Bessent said investors were failing to understand the underlying strength of the economy and dared them to bet against him.

"It's my dream," Mr. Bessent said last week at Southern Methodist University. "I have asymmetric information. I am the house now."

With the United States' long-term fiscal situation looking shaky, some countries are starting to wonder if America is a wise investment. This month, Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, said it planned to reduce its holdings of U.S. Treasuries as it looked elsewhere for stronger returns.

And then there is the future of the dollar.

Nearly 90 percent of global foreign exchange transactions are in dollars. But the share of dollars being held in central bank reserves has been steadily declining over the past decade, falling to 56 percent at the end of 2025 from 64 percent in 2015.

Last year, Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, said erratic policymaking in the United States was setting the stage for a “global euro moment.”

The United States has taken advantage of the greenback's special status to use it as a foreign policy tool, imposing stiff sanctions on adversaries such as Iran and Russia. As the United States ramps up its use of sanctions to resolve global conflicts, the permanence of the dollar as the world's reserve currency has come into question with greater frequency.

This year, the United States tried to start scaling back its sanctions program amid worries that an overuse of financial warfare was leading other countries to seek alternatives to the dollar. The dollar is used in most cross-border financial transactions, so sanctions can essentially cut off a country's ability to interact with the Western financial system. Frustrated with how the United States uses its economic might, more countries are seeking alternative financial systems that America cannot touch.

However, Mr. Bessent reversed course in August when he announced Operation Economic Outcast. The initiative aims to strangle Iran's economy and threatens secondary sanctions on any country that maintains economic ties to Tehran. Even the Treasury secretary acknowledged that if the United States is forced to make good on that threat, it could "blow up the global financial system."

Although the euro and China's renminbi do not appear ready to overtake the dollar anytime soon, the emergence of central bank digital currencies, stablecoins and cryptocurrencies gives U.S. adversaries new avenues to circumvent the American financial system when making international transactions.

China has been leading the development of a cross-border digital currency platform with Hong Kong, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia that would allow money to move more quickly and with lower fees than what is possible with traditional banking transactions. A similar cross-border payments project led by some Group of 7 nations and Western financial institutions

Foreign countries seek alternatives to the dollar and move their gold back home.

is also in development but is not as far along as China's initiative, which is known as mBridge.

Russia and India said last week that they are working on a plan that would let them use central bank digital currencies to settle international trade payments. Such a mechanism would allow the countries to expand their trade relationships and reduce reliance on Western financial institutions that can be targeted by U.S. sanctions.

"The story of moving away from the dollar is one of the oldest stories that exists," said Josh Lipsky, the chair of international economics at the Atlantic Council. "Countries have thought about working around the dollar, and technology is making it a little cheaper and easier to do it than before."

While some countries are focused on digital money, others are going for the gold as they fret about the stability of the United States.

In 2025, world international reserves held in gold surpassed foreign official holdings of U.S. Treasury securities. This year, the price of gold exceeded \$5,000 per troy ounce for the first time in history as central banks stocked up on the metal amid intensifying global conflicts and concerns over inflation.

Demand for gold is so high that some countries also want to keep theirs closer to home. With geopolitical unrest rising and Mr. Trump lobbing tariff threats against European allies, some have even taken the rare step of relocating the gold that they keep in vaults at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

This month, the central bank of the Netherlands said it had transferred a large part of its 95 tons of North American gold reserves out of the United States, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest” and the need to be prepared for crisis. In March, the Bank of France said it had pulled 129 tons of gold from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and moved it to Paris.

The Trump administration has not threatened to seize foreign gold held in the United States, but Mr. Trump has raised questions about his views of international law by floating the idea of colonizing places like Greenland and Canada.

"It's like the countries don't trust the U.S.," said Daniel Tannebaum, who served at the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control and as the OFAC compliance coordinator at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "I do think that there is a fear factor."

That fear factor is also creating blowback for American companies that are trying to do business abroad.

Mr. Tannebaum, a partner in Oliver Wyman's finance and risk practice, said that the aggressive use of tariffs and export controls by the United States has made European countries and companies wary of adopting American technology for sensitive industries such as artificial intelligence. They worry that if they are dependent on the United States for such infrastructure, it could be used against them if Washington decides to ban or disable the technology, as it has done during disputes with China and Russia.

All of this has contributed to an erosion of America's status as a safe haven.

"Governments and companies now have to ask what would happen if the United States turned its economic leverage against them," Mr. Tannebaum said.

U.S. Discloses Deployment Of Weapons In Earth Orbit

By FRANCESCA REGALADO

The United States has stationed weapons in Earth's orbit, Air Force Secretary Troy E. Meink said this week, the first such public acknowledgment by a Pentagon official after years of preparations to counter potential deployments by Russia and China.

"We are increasing readiness against existing threats, and the United States has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action," he said at a convention in Maryland, according to a news release published on the Air Force's website.

Mr. Meink did not provide details about the type of weapons or say when they had been deployed. He made his remarks in a keynote speech on Monday at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., an annual forum hosted by the Air and Space Forces Association, a nonprofit organization for members of both services.

The Space Force did not immediately respond to a request for comment late Monday.

The Pentagon has long feared that China and Russia are making advances in space operations that could threaten U.S. ground forces as well as American satellites.

Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, said on Tuesday in response to a question about Mr. Meink's comments that China opposed an "outer space arms race."

"We urge the U.S. side to stop expanding its military force and preparing for war in outer space," he said in a regular news briefing.

In 2024, The New York Times reported that American intelligence agencies had raised concerns that Russia could be planning to put a nuclear weapon in space, a threat that could disrupt satellite networks that are vital to everything from communications to military operations.

Shortly after President Trump returned to the White House last year, he signed an executive order to expand American air defenses, including the development and deployment of "space-based interceptors." The project, named the Golden Dome, would be designed to guard against weapons such as hypersonic missiles, which Russia has deployed in Ukraine.

In May, Mr. Trump said that Gen. Michael Guetlein, the vice chief of space operations at the Space Force, would oversee the project.

The United States, Russia and China began testing weapons capable of destroying satellites decades ago, but the United States has since disavowed such arms because they leave destructive debris fields in orbit.

In recent years, the Air Force started developing “low-debris-causing weapons” capable of disrupting or disabling enemy satellites, Frank Kendall, who served as Air Force secretary under President Joseph R. Biden Jr., told The Times in a 2024 interview.

Gen. Chance Saltzman, who served as the Space Force's chief of space operations during the Biden and second Trump administrations until his retirement last month, told a Senate committee in 2023 that the new space weapons systems would be fully operational by 2026.

Neither Mr. Kendall nor General Saltzman specified how the systems would work. Other former Pentagon officials have said they likely would include lasers, high-powered microwave systems or even U.S. satellites that could grab or move enemy satellites.

Mr. Kendall said in 2024 that it was prudent to recognize that space "is a place that can be used for military advantage."

"The threat is there," he said at the time. "It's a domain we have to be competitive in."

Siyi Zhao contributed research.

FOOL PHOTO BY MATT ROURKE Air Force Secretary Troy E. Meink acknowledged the orbit- ing weapons earlier this week.

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Sam Forstag, a 32-year-old smokejumper, and Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer, are part of a wave of candidates looking to overturn the status quo.
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Populist Democrats Ride Anger Against Politicians, Including Their Own Party

By ROBERT DRAPER

DENVER — A Montana wilderness firefighter, an Ohio ironworker and a lawyer who worked as a barista in Colorado while pursuing a Ph.D. would appear to have little in common. But all three represent a profusion in the midterm elections of anti-establishment populist Democrats who share, or at least seek to channel, the welling vexations of the American electorate.

They are young, or youngish. They are angry. They are fed up with the Democratic establishment. Two won primaries for House seats in red districts they hope to flip, and the third beat a longtime Democratic incumbent in a deep blue district. All are new to politics, which they consider a virtue.

"This party culture of waiting your turn and not burning bridges, I'm like, I ain't got nothing to lose," said the lawyer, Melat Kiros, 29, an Ethiopian American and a democratic socialist who defeated an incumbent by 13 points in Denver to run for a House seat she is likely to win. "There are no bridges for me to burn."

Sam Forstag, 32, the wilderness firefighter, or smokejumper, is not a democratic socialist, but he decided to run for Congress after hundreds of his fellow Montana-based U.S. Forest Service employees were laid off last year as a result of the DOGE federal budget cuts. "They were firing people making 11 bucks an hour swinging tools in the woods," he said.

Brian Poindexter, 47, a union ironworker in Brook Park City, Ohio, who helped build the Cleveland Browns football stadium, is not a democratic socialist either, but drew from his own working-class disenchantments. He hopes to prevail in the Republican-leaning district of Max Miller, a Trump ally who is facing allegations of domestic abuse by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, the daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno. (Mr. Miller has denied the allegations.)

“What inspired me the most to run,” Mr. Poindexter said, “was the fact that people in positions of power only seem to care about more power, more wealth and punishing people who threaten their wealth and power.”

The mainstreaming of anger on the left at systemic economic and political conditions has in some ways been a slow train coming, although not apparently one with the kind of force that destroyed the old Republican Party.

While Senator Bernie Sanders, the nation's most famous democratic socialist, made a strong showing during his run for the presidency in 2020, many of the party's voters considered him too big a risk.

"When Bernie would say, 'It's OK to be angry at capitalism,' that sentiment was a bit too radical for some," said Faiz Shakir, who managed Mr. Sanders's campaign that year. "They'd say, 'Why is he so angry?' If anything, they're now angrier than he is."

Today's populists have burst onto the electoral scene seemingly overnight in large part because of the voting power of Gen Z, the generation born from roughly 1996 to 2012, who are entering adulthood in a difficult new world. Ms. Kiros, who decided to run for Congress the night Mr. Trump was re-elected in 2024, described the contribution of fellow Gen Z voters to her victory as "massive."

Elaine Kamarck, the director for the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and an expert on American electoral politics, said that it is “the coming of age of a generation that’s been traumatized by the pandemic and affordability issues.” Ms. Kamarck also expressed the belief that intraparty tussles between center-left and populist-left Democrats are being ginned up by a news media that regards such conflicts as catnip.

"Reporters have looked for a liberal version of MAGA," she said, adding, "MAGA was a revolution. This isn't one."

The younger voters, Ms. Kamarck said, harbor antipathy not only for Mr. Trump, but also toward Democratic Party leaders who did not discourage Joseph R. Biden Jr. from seeking a second term as president at the age of 81.

In the view of Mr. Forstag, the Montana smokejumper, the party all but forfeited its credibility with voters in sticking with Mr. Biden until a disastrous debate performance doomed his candidacy.

"We were being told that the stakes have never been this high, that democracy is imperiled," Mr. Forstag said. "And the best we can do is field the same octogenarian candidate yet again? I think you could have gone into a union hall and randomly picked out a better standard-bearer."

The more acute problem with the Democratic Party's leaders, Mr. Forstag and Ms. Kiros contend, is not that they are too old but that they are too entrenched within the system to take it on. Ms. Kiros said that was the case with the incumbent she defeated, Representative Diana DeGette, 69, who was first elected to Congress in 1996.

"You can't be a co-sponsor of Medicare for All and then take money from the very health insurance companies that would legislate it out of existence," Ms. Kiros said. "It doesn't track."

Ms. DeGette argued in her lone debate against Ms. Kiros that “now is not the time to gamble and send somebody with no experience to Washington.”

The populists tend to run as hard against the Democratic establishment as they do against the Republicans. In a campaign ad, Mr. Poindexter, the Ohio ironworker, cited growing economic disparities as an example of “what really pisses me off,” adding that he was tired of both the Republican Party and “the sell-out Democrats, too.”

Mr. Forstag said that many of the former co-workers whose votes he is courting "don't identify as Republican or Democrat. They feel like neither party gives a damn about them."

Mr. Forstag's opponent, Aaron Flint, an Army veteran and a radio talk show host, is among the Republican candidates also seeking to capture the anger of voters who, Mr. Flint recently told an interviewer, are "working harder than ever before but still falling behind." But such efforts by Republicans to cast themselves as populists have been hamstrung by their allegiance to Mr. Trump, whose unpopular policies include the war in Iran and his championing of artificial intelligence data centers.

That complication for Republican candidates is ironic, given that it was Mr. Trump who ushered in an era of anti-elitist grievance by condemning “endless wars” and the manner in which special interests “have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.” The same arguments are now being deployed by Democratic firebrands like Ms. Kiros, who has modeled her campaign after the barnstorming rallies of Mr. Sanders but who also acknowledges the precedent set by Mr. Trump.

"I mean, it's populist rhetoric, at the end of the day," she said.

Turning the Blue Even Bluer

Since the turn of the 20th century, when the three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan vowed to expand the money supply for the working class by promoting unlimited coinage of silver, populists have been criticized for prioritizing public agitation over sober policymaking.

"My problem with populism is that it's inherently anti-intellectual," said Jonah Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Dispatch, a conservative anti-Trump online publication. "Democracy is all about arguments. Governing is complicated. What populism does to politics is erase any small-R republican notion that leaders are actually supposed to do their homework to come up with a policy that's superior to whatever fits on a bumper sticker."

Mr. Goldberg added that the current populist-left movement was overstated and that "most of these D.S.A. candidates are just making blue districts even bluer" — referring to the Democratic Socialists of America — as was the case with Ms. Kiros and her victory over Ms. DeGette.

This year, a Brookings Institution study co-written by Ms. Kamarck identified 282 D.S.A.-endorsed candidates in the United States — most of them running for state and local offices — and found that “many of these candidates come from places that are already quite liberal,” such as California and New

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Mr. Forstag in Columbia Falls, Mont. Hundreds of his fellow firefighters were laid off in federal cuts last year.
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Ms. Kiros in Denver on Labor Day. She won a primary against a Democrat first elected to Congress in 1996.
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'People aren't dumb about this. We live in an age where corruption is more brazen than it's ever been.' FAIZ SHAKIR, manager of Senator Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign.

'My problem with populism is that it's inherently anti-intellectual.' JONAH GOLDBERG, the editor in chief of The Dispatch, a conservative anti-Trump online publication.

York. Among them are the New York congressional candidates Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, and the Washington, D.C., mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George.

Still, the Brookings study found a surprising number of democratic socialist candidates in red states, including six in Kentucky and eight in Tennessee. Also on the ballot for a State House seat in Kansas this November is a Pittsburg deli store manager, Isaiah Harris, whose campaign website describes him as “a democratic socialist taking on the Topeka establishment.”

The looming riddle for candidates like Mr. Harris is one that Mr. Sanders faced in 2020: whether a coalition led by young voters can propel them to victory. Surveys find that younger voters are the likeliest to have a favorable view of socialism. They are also much less likely to vote than older people.

Populist Anxieties

A somewhat cynical take on this year's populist-left movement would be that it is more opportunistic than earnest. Anger is what political consumers are buying, much as fictional TV viewers lapped up a ranting anchorman's "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" monologues in the movie classic "Network" a half-century ago.

Still, skeptics of the movement concede the legitimacy of populist anxieties. "It would be stupid to defend the status quo," Mr. Goldberg said. "There are all sorts of real problems going on."

Many of the challenges are now hitting conservative regions at least as hard as liberal enclaves. Mr. Forstag is getting outsize attention in Montana, where wealthy out-of-state buyers have caused the ratio of home price to income to surpass California's as the highest in the nation, in turn contributing to an epidemic of homelessness in the state.

In Colorado's rural west, ranchers who depend on access to the Colorado River now must contend with a New York-based hedge fund that has bought up much of the area's water rights. More pervasively, the war in Iran has led to record-high diesel prices, portending havoc for farmers, truckers and ultimately the consumer supply chain.

At the same time, voters appear to have lost faith in their political leaders to address such concerns. According to a recent Gallup survey, 89 percent of

Americans believe that corruption is rampant within the government.

"People aren't dumb about this," said Mr. Shakir, the former Sanders campaign manager: "We live in an age where corruption is more brazen than it's ever been. Elon Musk spending hundreds of millions to buy elections, billionaires paying for Trump's ballroom. This sort of thing used to be done with a wink and a nod. Now everyone knows it's happening."

For Mr. Forstag, the political equation of corruption is not difficult to explain to voters.

"When we actually get the political will to pass a big piece of legislation, half the money goes to the corporations," he said. "Why? Because they're in the building, and we're not. And so how do we fix that? We've got to get inside the building."

Even if that occurs and a populist-propelled blue wave jolts Washington, Ms. Kiros, the Colorado lawyer, insists that she knows the long odds of passing a leftist agenda.

"I have no illusions that we'll kumbaya our way through this," she said. "It's going to be a fight. A really dirty fight, probably. We're challenging power, and they will not go quietly."

2026 Election

In Poll-Watcher Training, Distrust Is Part of the Lesson Plan

Nevada's Election Observation Network held a poll-watching training session in Reno last month.
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By TIFFANY HSU

RENO, Nev. — Election observation is supposed to be boring, a routine way to confirm that voting is proceeding properly. The task is sometimes likened to waiting in a field for an alien landing.

For years, political parties, congressional committees, think tanks and nonpartisan civic groups have trained volunteers as election observers to witness, document and occasionally challenge the democratic process.

But as the November midterm elections approach, poll watching has become increasingly high stakes. While many of the trainings are neutral and informative, some are seeding distrust, priming participants with misinformed expectations for bad behavior, according to a review by The New York Times of dozens of training sessions and hundreds of instructional slides.

One Republican-backed training claimed that elections carried "an incentive for fraud." An anti-Trump group created an election-monitoring tool kit titled "Hands Off Our Vote." Other sessions advised on ways to counter "disinformation and scare tactics," imagined reacting to intimidation by immigration agents and suggested that poll watchers surveil other poll watchers.

Long lines, machine hiccups and registration snarls are not unheard-of on Election Day, and other problems could also arise. But generally, voting tends to be uneventful, and even the tense tenor of the poll watching trainings is unlikely to cause much trouble in the moment. However, their tone could lead to a deeper, longer-term erosion of faith in a system already under attack.

"If you tell people thousands of times that there's going to be wrongdoing — and someone sees a little bit of something that looks a little like what they've been primed to see as wrongdoing but that is actually not in any way illegal — that absolutely can contribute to the broader misinformation," said Justin Levitt, a Loyola Marymount University law professor who worked at the White House and Justice Department in Democratic administrations.

American elections have been steeped in suspicion for at least a decade, as President Trump and others have promoted the myth of widespread voter fraud. After the fractious 2020 election, lawmakers in multiple states introduced dozens of bills to expand the powers of poll watchers.

This year, with control of Congress in play, the Department of

Justice said it planned to dispatch "a historic" number of poll monitors around the country, including an estimated 1,000 volunteers in November. The Association of State Democratic Committees said on Monday that it planned to train at least 10,000 volunteers as "democracy protectors" — essentially poll watchers — to counter intimidation from immigration agents and other federal agents.

Election observers are distinct from poll workers, who run the elections. They can be positioned at voting locations, canvassing sites or central counting facilities and are defined and governed by rules that vary across more than 10,000 jurisdictions nationwide.

In recent months, trainings for those volunteers have been held in small-town cafes, city churches, suburban office parks and virtual webinars. Most of those reviewed by The Times were factual and instructive, but some framed poll watching as a form of policing rather than passive observation — as if catching misconduct was the priority and not a rarity.

Several Republican-aligned groups framed poll watching as a way to root out mismanagement or deception. A training manual from the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank, told potential volunteers that they were "a protective measure" against error and fraud. In Michigan, where a Senate race is being hotly contested, one Republican candidate said on the radio that recruiting retired police officers and others as observers could make it "harder to cheat."

A livestreamed training last month for Republican poll watchers in Michigan told volunteers that they were “part of this critical mission to ensure Republicans win.” The online session covered the possibility that a voter might cheat with an absentee ballot and instructed volunteers to “keep your eyes peeled” for those refusing to provide identification.

"We want our people overseeing these elections," the trainer said. "For a long time, we've had Democrats that have run all these elections and it's turned into a nightmare, so it's time that we take them back."

Some Democratic-aligned groups presented poll monitors as a defense against attempts to restrict voter access. In July, progressive community organizers gathered hundreds of people for two “constitutional observer” trainings in Arizona — one at a flower-festooned event space for weddings and quinceañeras.

Using a 44-page slide deck, presenters laid out a theoretical situation in which the National Guard was deployed to polling locations in Phoenix and Tucson, accompanied by immigration agents, according to the organizers. The volunteers were responsible for “standing against intimidation, misinformation and voter suppression.”

In Ventura County, Calif., the local chapter of the League of Women Voters held an online election observation session late last year. A trainer told volunteers to "keep in mind that other groups who are out there observing may have different motives as to why they're observing."

"One thing we might want to do is keep an eye out and see what the observers are also doing," the trainer added.

In recent elections, some poll watchers have turned vigilante, often incensed by unsubstantiated conspiracy theories on the right about extensive noncitizen voting, foreign manipulation and cheating via mail-in ballots. Partisan election monitors have stalked election officials and harassed voters, demanding to see identification, filming videos and openly carrying firearms.

Gov. Mark Gordon of Wyoming, a Republican, pushed back last month against what he called "aggressive, unexpected, disruptive" behavior by two election monitors from the Justice Department. He said they had tried to interview voters and examine voting machines.

Mostly, poll watcher trainings have urged restraint, cautioning volunteers not to interfere with the voting process. The New York State Democratic Party said its training this year covered "de-escalation and conflict avoidance."

A slide deck prepared last year for the Fairfax Republicans in Virginia warned, "No Rambo behavior!" The group encouraged volunteers to "walk in with the assumption that you are going to observe a well-run operation."

Often, voting experts said, Americans assume that poll observation is a partisan exercise, though there are efforts to make the activity more unbiased. Frances Moore Lappé, a notable 82-year-old researcher of food policy and democracy, put out a playful video on social media last month in which she appealed for Generation Z to volunteer as non-partisan poll monitors, calling the role "a kind of vibe" and "such a slay."

"Democracy-maxxing," she said.

The Nevada Election Observation Network, or NEON, is another nonpartisan program. The initiative, which focuses on collecting comprehensive statewide data about the election process, is funded by the Carter Center, a nonprofit organization that has observed elections around the world since 1989.

The center, which is also propping up nonpartisan election-observation initiatives in its native Georgia as well as in Michigan, Montana and New Mexico, convened several dozen community organizers in Reno late last month to teach them to recruit and educate election observers.

They met in an airy Unitarian church with L.G.B.T.Q. insignia on the walls and conchas sweet bread on a tablecloth. Topics included accessibility issues for voters and how to navigate mail-in ballot procedures kept in flux by a legal fight with the Trump administration.

Attendees introduced themselves as a burned-out social worker, a recovering politician, an ex-teacher concerned about democratic decline and representatives from rural areas and tribal reservations. One woman said she was certain that people would be caught attempting fraud at the polls. Another woman, from Las Vegas, said that "it's good for people to police each other, make sure everyone's doing the right thing."

Political silos and sensationalist rumors around elections risk causing voters to think that isolated problems represent deeper rot on a larger scale, said Sarah Cooper, the Carter Center's senior associate director for democracy, who flew into Nevada from Washington, D.C., for the training.

"Most Americans really care deeply about our elections," she said. "We are not here to represent any particular outcome, any particular party, any particular candidate — we just want to make sure that the elections are well run."

As Alarm Over A.I. Grows, Democrat Plans to Force the Issue in 2028

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Alex Bores campaigning in Central Park in June. He lost a Democratic primary for the House that centered on A.I. regulation.

By BENJAMIN ORESKES and THEODORE SCHLEIFER

The weeklong freakout among tech titans and politicos over the potential perils of artificial intelligence could make the issue more central when Democrats choose their 2028 presidential nominee.

With Democrats divided on how best to regulate A.I. and how much to emphasize it, one lawmaker in New York State wants to position himself as a kingmaker on the topic once primary season begins.

After losing a congressional primary contest in June that centered on A.I. regulation, Alex Bores, a state assemblyman from the Upper East Side of Manhattan who will soon be without a job, sensed an opportunity. On Tuesday, he unveiled a new political advocacy group aimed at shaping how Democratic presidential candidates and voters think about A.I.

Mr. Bores and his top aide, Anna Myers, said that their organization, called Who Decides, had raised \$10 million and that they hoped to raise \$20 million more by next summer. The group, he said, will host forums, release policy memos and place organizers in 11 early primary states, shaping the contours of a debate over how to regulate advanced A.I. models.

"Our goal is to try to set a floor with agreed-upon advocacy and policy proposals that the candidates can move forward with," Mr. Bores said in a recent interview.

He added: "Putting the American people first, and not the people building this technology or profiting from this technology — that is not just good policy. That is incredible politics for the Democrats to seize as well."

While some ambitious Democrats see artificial intelligence as a way to create blue-collar jobs and keep the country economically competitive, other Democratic presidential contenders worry about economic displacement as well as the financial and environmental costs of data centers.

Recognizing that those divisions could appear in attack ads and presidential primary debates as Democratic voters and policymakers try to sort out their party line on the issue, Mr. Bores has been working behind the scenes to sway potential 2028 candidates.

He has met or spoken personally about A.I. with several potential Democratic contenders, including Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Representative Ro Khanna of California, and Pete Buttigieg, the former transportation secretary. Mr. Bores has also discussed the issue with top advisers to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Mr. Bores said that since Wednesday 16 members of the House had requested briefings on A.I. policy, as had a senator's office.

"This is a massive societal-scale problem that for years felt theoretical, and this summer was made real for the majority of American who are shocked and horrified that elected leaders have been sitting on this issue," Mr. Bores said.

He was referring to the growing anxiety about artificial intelligence over the past few weeks, spurred in large part by high-profile incidents in which some A.I. agents essentially went rogue, creating concerns that A.I. could pose an existential threat to humanity itself.

That Mr. Bores, 35, is in a position of any influence speaks to how his race unfolded. He lost a bruising Democratic primary for the 12th Congressional District by about four percentage points to another assemblyman, Micah Lasher, who is all but certain to prevail in November against his Republican challenger.

But the campaign elevated Mr. Bores's profile, turning him into a mini-celebrity of the A.I. regulation movement. The contest with Mr. Lasher and several other candidates became a proxy fight between super PACs tied to the nation's leading artificial intelligence companies, Anthropic and OpenAI, with tens of millions of dollars in outside spending from groups tied to those companies.

"Every state legislator in America wants to be Alex Bores," said Bruce Reed, a Bores ally who was a top policy adviser to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and is now the head of A.I. policy at Common Sense Media, a nonprofit child advocacy group. "He showed how a successful fight at the state level can dramatically advance the national debate."

Much of the spending by super PACs came after committees associated with executives at OpenAI — and other industry players generally opposed to greater government regulation — spent about \$8 million attacking Mr. Bores. Their animus for him stemmed from a bill he sponsored in Albany that sought to regulate advanced artificial intelligence models.

After the bill, known as the RAISE Act, passed, lobbyists worked to dilute the legislation or kill it. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Democrat of New York, was persuaded to sign an amended version of the bill.

During the congressional primary, four super PACs tied to A.I. interests spent at least \$19 million in support of Mr. Bores's bid, and he raised about \$260,000 from Anthropic employees directly for his campaign.

Who Decides, a dark-money political nonprofit group, is not required to disclose its donors, and Mr. Bores declined to say who was funding their new organization. He did mention that the \$10 million he had raised so far — and all the money he still hopes to raise — would not come directly from A.I. companies like Anthropic or its senior executives.

Half of Voters Fret Socialism, New Poll Finds

By KELLEN BROWNING and RUTH IGIELNIK

Roughly half of U.S. voters view socialism unfavorably in a new poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena University. The results show that despite democratic socialists scoring significant victories against the Democratic establishment, the movement remains unpopular with much of America.

Among likely voters, 51 percent held an unfavorable view of socialism in the poll, compared with 31 percent who viewed it favorably. The poll did not define either socialism or democratic socialism for respondents.

Forty-four percent of voters, however, said it did not matter to them if a Democratic candidate was running under the ideological banner. Those results reflect the success of democratic socialists in heavily Democratic House districts in New York, Philadelphia and Denver, as well as in some mayoral races in major cities.

Still, voters nationwide were twice as likely to say they would rather not support a democratic socialist candidate (30 percent) than support one (13 percent).

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City successfully ran as a democratic socialist.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, is a progressive.

Nearly one-fifth of U.S. voters (18 percent) said they considered themselves to be democratic socialists, an ideological movement that lacks a singular definition but is most commonly associated with favoring wealth redistribution and upending of capitalism.

Despite their success in urban primaries, democratic socialists remain unproven in more competitive areas. November stands to be a major test, with members of the movement and like-minded progressives attempting to win general election races in states like Michigan and Florida.

Two of the country's most famous democratic socialists drew diverging reactions among national voters. A plurality — 41 percent — had an unfavorable view of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, the progressive Democrat who could be a potential 2028 presidential candidate, compared with 30 percent who held a favorable view of her.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City was holding onto a thin margin with likely voters, with 38 percent viewing him favorably and 33 percent unfavorably.

About 30 percent of voters had not heard of about each of the politicians or did not offer an opinion of them to pollsters.

Even within their own movement, Mr. Mamdani and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez evoked different responses. Voters who identified as democratic socialists had a slightly more positive view of Mr. Mamdani (76 percent) than of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez (66 percent). Some members of the left view her as having drifted too far toward the mainstream of the Democratic Party for their liking.

Younger voters are much more open to socialism, according to the poll. Voters age 44 and under were nearly twice as likely as older voters to view socialism favorably, and were more likely to view Mr. Mamdani and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez positively than their older counterparts. Voters in that younger age group were also slightly more likely to favor Mr. Mamdani than they were Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.

Democrats continue to have a positive view of socialism, with 55 percent of the party's voters viewing it favorably — up slightly from a May Times/Siena poll in which 50 percent held a positive view. Roughly 20 percent of Democrats, largely older voters, have a negative view of the ideology.

Republicans have homed in on Americans' fears about socialism, featuring it heavily in their recent midterm convention and in attack ads. Still, only a small share of the party's base suggested it was their most motivating issue.

About 5 percent of voters who said they wanted the Republican Party to retain control of Congress said their vote was primarily motivated out of fear of socialism or communism. While small, that is higher than the share of such voters who said they were primarily motivated by supporting President Trump, at 2 percent.

2026 Election

Texas Democrat Moves Within Striking Range Of Abbott for Governor

By EDGAR SANDOVAL

SAN ANTONIO — When Gina Hinojosa, a Democratic state lawmaker with a progressive record, decided to run for Texas governor last year, many people — including some Hispanic voters she will need to win — were skeptical.

"Pa' que?" she was asked over and over. "For what?"

Gov. Greg Abbott, a third-term Republican, seemed unbeatable. He sat on a sizable campaign war chest and could rely on a well-tuned campaign infrastructure that has helped keep him in office for more than a decade. He had already faced a better-known, better-funded Democratic challenger four years ago, Beto O'Rourke, and easily defeated him.

"The conventional wisdom is that no one can beat Greg Abbott," Ms. Hinojosa said in an interview. She said she had entered the race because she saw no other Democrat willing to do so.

"I decided I needed to try," she said.

Even in year where Democratic optimism in Texas runs high, Ms. Hinojosa, a state representative, faces a daunting challenge. She has little name recognition outside her safely Democratic district in Austin and has struggled to raise the funds needed to compete with Mr. Abbott. He has outspent her by more than 10-to-1 and still had about 20 times as much money in his campaign account at the end of the most recent filing period, in mid-July. That financial disadvantage has hampered her efforts to introduce herself to Texans across a state where it is notably expensive to campaign.

Republican political consultants in Texas are dismissive of her chances.

"It's wholly unrealistic that Gina Hinojosa has any credible chance at victory," said Anthony Holm, a Republican strategist.

But the hope that reliably returns for Texas Democrats every four years has found new life in the governor's race. The reason is a surprising polling trend: Ms. Hinojosa has repeatedly appeared within striking distance of the governor.

Texas Democrats have been here before. In 2010, a few summer polls suggested a competitive race between Bill White, a Democrat, and Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican. By the fall, Mr. Perry was consistently leading in the polls, and he won by nearly 13 points. In 2022, several polls had Beto O'Rourke just five points behind Mr. Abbott. Democrats believed then, too. But Mr. Abbott's polling lead grew in the fall, and Mr. O'Rourke lost by nearly 11 points.

Recent surveys from Fox News and by the University of Texas suggest a close governor's race this year, with Mr. Abbott's lead in the low- to mid-single digits. Last year, polls showed him leading by a wider margin.

"Greg Abbott is facing the most challenging election of his career," said Mark Jones, a political science professor and pollster at

Rice University. "Right now you have voters who are unhappy about Abbott and unhappy with Trump, but don't know much about Hinojosa other than that she's the Democratic candidate."

In the past few months Mr. Abbott has avoided mentioning her name, instead choosing instead to attack James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate and warning Republicans about the broader threat posed by Democrats. But in recent weeks, the Abbott campaign has begun regularly attacking Ms. Hinojosa and her record, focusing in particular on her support for the rights of transgender and L.G.B.T.Q. children and youth.

"From prosecuting parents who 'misgender' their own child to voting in favor of Texas public schools transitioning kids behind parents' backs, Hinojosa is a rubber stamp for the Socialist Democrats and their gender insanity," said Eduardo Leal, a press secretary for the governor's campaign.

Ms. Hinojosa, who has described herself as progressive in the past, now favors the term "populist," she said in the interview. "It is no longer progressive versus moderate," she said of the 2026 election. "It is about: Are we going to have candidates who are going to work for the people?"

A major question facing Democrats across Texas, including Ms. Hinojosa, is whether Latino voters, particularly men who supported President Trump in 2024, will return to the Democratic Party this November.

At a recent event in San Antonio, organized by the Latino Victory Fund and called "Latinas for Gina Hinojosa," Orlando Ventura, 21, was among a small group of Hispanic men cheering her on.

"I don't see a lot of Latinos supporting her, but I want to see more," Mr. Ventura said.

Ms. Hinojosa has received support from fellow Democrats in an effort to raise her profile and introduce her to Democrats across the state. She ate tacos with former President Barack Obama and Mr. Talarico in Austin in May.

But her lack of name recognition was clear at a Democratic event last month in Beeville, near Corpus Christi, where Ms. Hinojosa appeared alongside Mr. Talarico and Bobby Pulido, a Tejano music star running for a South Texas congressional seat.

Bea Martinez, 65, a retired educator, said she knew about Mr. Pulido and Mr. Talarico but was unfamiliar with Ms. Hinojosa.

"I don't know much about her, but I am fed up with Abbott," Ms. Martinez said. "I voted for him in the past, but I think it's time for someone new."

For Ms. Hinojosa, such voters represent both the challenge and the opportunity of her campaign: Texans who know little about her but may be open to someone other than Mr. Abbott. Like other Democrats nationwide, she is trying to harness voter anger over the cost of living and the growth of data centers, which voters blame for rising electricity prices and water use. She has also looked to differentiate herself as a Texas Democrat.

Gina Hinojosa has placed support for public schools and concerns about affordability at the center of her campaign. The Democrat is challenging Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking a fourth term.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRISTOPHER LEE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ms. Hinojosa at a news conference with Latino Victory Fund members in San Antonio. Among those at a rally for her last month were Amethyst Delgado and Orlando Ventura, above right.

In an emotional ad that began airing at the end of August, Ms. Hinojosa talked about her decision to carry a high-risk pregnancy to term decades ago. "I did understand, but I was making that choice — I chose her," Ms. Hinojosa says in the ad. The baby died soon after she was born.

While in the Legislature, Ms. Hinojosa opposed the anti-abortion laws passed by Texas Republicans. The ad appeared to underscore the idea that supporting abortion rights did not mean, in her case, that abortion was necessarily the choice she would make.

On Sept. 9, she released an ad that drew blowback for invoking pronouns, an issue many Democratic politicians have shifted away from following political setbacks. In it, she says, "I'm Gina Hinojosa. My pronouns are Mom, Texan and, soon to be, governor."

Mr. Abbott, for his part, has campaigned on middle-of-the-road positions like lowering property taxes and on red-meat causes such as preventing transgender girls from participating in female sports. He has more than \$60 million in campaign funds on hand.

By contrast, Ms. Hinojosa, who calls herself a populist, raised about \$6 million, with about \$3 million on hand, as of the mid-July filing.

Ms. Hinojosa said in an interview that she had never intended to run for political office. Born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley, she worked as a civil rights and labor lawyer in Austin.

She first ran for office in 2011, seeking a seat on the school board after state budget cuts threatened to close an elementary school that one of her sons attended.

“That's the motivation for any of this, my desire to protect our kids,” she said. She won that race. She later ran for state representative in Austin, a seat she has held since 2017. She is not seeking re-election to the House as she runs for governor.

Ms. Hinojosa has made public schools and concerns over affordability centerpieces of her campaign. She has called Mr. Abbott's \$1 billion program to help parents pay for private school a "scam."

If elected, she said, she would push for legislation to authorize \$1,500 checks for every household, paid for out of the state's rainy-day fund. (The state's account holds a record balance of about \$27 billion.)

She also opposed the growth of data centers in Texas, an issue that has rocketed up the priority list for voters from both parties. She is skeptical of Mr. Abbott's recent order to pause the approval of such centers until the state conducts an audit to study how much water and energy the centers require to operate.

"If he wanted to protect people from data centers, he would call a special session today until we can pass laws and have real protections in place for people," she said, adding that that was something she would do as governor.

Her message resonated with Adelfa Reyna, a retired teacher from San Antonio. "We could see the first-ever Latina governor of Texas," Ms. Reyna said. "Republicans have had control of the state for 30 years, and Abbott has been governor for 12. It's time for change."

Candidate's Racist Attack on University of Texas Students Tests G.O.P. Unity

By LAUREN McGAUGHY

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas gathered top Republican candidates around him over the summer for a photo portrait in a display of party unity after a bruising primary. There was Ken Paxton, running for U.S. Senate, and Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor.

And there, smiling over Mr. Abbott's right shoulder, was Bo French.

At the time, few outside Texas politics were familiar with Mr. French, a candidate for a state-wide office regulating oil and gas who has a history of unvarnished bigotry.

But over the weekend he rocketed to national attention — almost all of it negative — after posting racist attacks on University of Texas students as they enjoyed a moment of pure elation at their football team's improbable comeback victory. In one post, Mr. French described South Asian students at the school as "foreigners" who had "displaced" Americans at the state's flagship university.

Mr. French's posts struck a chord in a way his anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim comments have not before. The messages threatened to fracture the Texas Republicans' attempts at solidarity and tested their willingness to criticize one of their own — just weeks before midterm voting begins. Mr. French denied his posts were racist and threw the blame back on Republicans who didn't fully support his message.

The posts have also given Democrats renewed hope to win a statewide office in Texas for the first time in a generation. While much of the national focus has been on the U.S. Senate race against Mr. Paxton, the scandal-plagued attorney general running against James Talarico, state party officials believe Mr. French and another anti-immigrant hardliner, Don Huffines, are particularly vulnerable. The hard-liners on the Republican slate may help Democrats in other races as well.

"There are certainly Republican candidates this cycle that are so outside of the mainstream that it provides opportunities for us," said Kendall Scudder, the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party. A year ago, he added, those opportunities "may not have seemed possible."

Recent polls show Mr. French with a slim lead over his Democratic opponent, Jon Rosenthal. Republicans had rallied around Mr. French, even if, like Mr. Abbott, they did not support him in the primary.

Last week, Mr. French projected confidence as he walked around President Trump's midterm convention in Dallas.

"We are working together, all of us are working together to make sure we win," he told The New York Times on Friday. When asked about Democrats believing he was an easy target, Mr. French said, "Let them think that."

Then came his posts Sunday morning that drew condemnation from some of the party's top elected officials and candidates running for office. But not all of

them.

The speaker of the Texas House, Dustin Burrows, called on Mr. French to delete Sunday's post. Senator John Cornyn, who lost in the primary to Mr. Paxton, urged Republicans to condemn Mr. French's "intolerance and racism." And Karl Rove, the former senior adviser to George W. Bush, is reported to have said he would vote for a Democrat for the first time in decades because of the incident.

Mr. Abbott chastised Mr. French for his divisive rhetoric while, in the same statement, saying he supported Texans having "the toughest immigration laws of any state in America."

By contrast, Mr. Patrick, who had previously called for Mr. French's resignation, said nothing about the post and did not comment.

Nate Sheets, who is running for agriculture commissioner, said in an interview with The Times that the proliferation of mosques and Hindu temples in Texas was “frustrating people,” and he criticized immigrant communities he said were not assimilating.

"He pointed out that a bunch of those students were Indian kids," Mr. Sheets said, referring to Mr. French. "How he articulated that — no, I didn't like that. Do I agree with the sentiment that the immigration system that we have in America today is creating a negative future for America? I do. I do agree with that."

The split reaction to Mr. French's posts gave him room to double down.

Bo French, a candidate for the influential Texas Railroad Commission, has drawn bipartisan criticism for his social media posts.

"Some of the less conservative people in Texas are the ones attacking me," Mr. French said in a radio interview on Monday.

It was not the first time Republicans have criticized Mr. French for his social media posts.

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Last summer, he received blow-back after posting a poll on social media asking whether Jews or Muslims posed the bigger threat to America. He deleted the post, which he insisted was not antisemitic, and refused calls to resign as head of the Republican Party in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth.

In November, Mr. French said he would run for the state's influential three-member oil and gas regulatory board, the Texas Railroad Commission.

Mr. Abbott, Mr. Patrick and Mr. Burrows all backed Mr. French's opponent in the Republican primary runoff, Jim Wright, the incumbent commissioner. Despite their opposition, Mr. French won. His victory did little to temper his combative social media presence.

In the last year, he has called people who believe in transgender rights or birthright citizenship "retards." He described Native Americans as "third world savages, who were conquered." He said he wanted to "denaturalize and deport" all Muslims in the United States.

Top Republicans in Texas did not respond to those posts as they did to the one attacking the University of Texas students.

Aside from Mr. French, another vulnerable down-ballot candidate is Mr. Huffines, who once challenged Mr. Abbott from the right.

Mr. Huffines, who Mr. Abbott installed as acting comptroller after his primary win, did not comment on Mr. French's weekend post. Sarah Eckhardt, the Democrat in the race, said Mr. Huffines's silence amounted to tacit approval.

"I have watched how this party has become more and more hard-line," said Ms. Eckhardt, a state senator and former prosecutor. Mr. Huffines did not respond to request for comment.

Mr. Rosenthal said he knew he was in for a tough fight against Mr. French. A Democrat has not won a statewide race in Texas in more than 30 years.

"The odds are still against me," Mr. Rosenthal said. He said he had received dozens of death threats from Mr. French's supporters, some attacking him for being Jewish.

When asked about the anti-semitism directed at his opponent, Mr. French told The Times at last week's convention that Mr. Rosenthal was "not practicing Jewish."

Mr. Rosenthal pushed back.

"Anyone that thinks it's their job to pass judgment on whether I'm Jewish or not can shove it," he said.

For his part, Mr. French has acted as if the bipartisan scorn his post elicited actually amounted to a win for him. On Monday evening, he thanked the "patriots" who just helped him cross 100,000 followers on X.

Then, he posted that his opponent was "radical."

The University of Chicago barred the use of bots in some classes, and its law school has barred phones in first-year classrooms.
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Harvard's president, Alan Garber, said recently that researchers in many disciplines would need to use A.I. in order to succeed.
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M.I.T. issued a report that highlighted the difficulty for schools, which are also trying to preserve traditional kinds of learning.
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Universities in U.S. Sound the Alarm on A.I., Even as They Embrace It

Research shows that people who use bots to help with writing struggle to remember what they had done only minutes after finishing.
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This article is by Mark Arsenault, Dana Goldstein, Alan Blinder and Sarah Mervosh.

The worries that artificial intelligence is degrading education have been building for months. Students are using it for everything, including cheating, and a recent report out of M.I.T. said it is triggering "cognitive surrender."

Many university leaders are embracing A.I. with enthusiasm anyway.

As A.I. leaders warn about the dangers of their own technology, the dissonance between the optimism of university leaders and the fears of many students and professors may increase. Professors and students are often in a bind about what they should do: Use more A.I. to stay relevant, or dial back to preserve learning and thinking?

While some politicians and A.I. leaders are warning about possible doomsday scenarios for humanity as A.I. models advance, many campus leaders are focused on the existential threat the technology poses to universities.

The committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying A.I. use released a number of alarming findings, including that the technology has caused “major shifts in campus culture,” isolating students who are skipping office hours and ditching communal studying. Getting answers from a bot can create “the illusion of learning” for students who reach for A.I. “at the first hint of struggle,” the M.I.T. committee wrote in its August report.

At the same time, "the potential of these technologies to augment work across campus is immense," the committee wrote.

The M.I.T. report crystallized some of the thinking in higher education about A.I., but top administrators have been embroiled in debates for several years. Administrators have often been the most eager to champion A.I. efforts, while many faculty and students remain more skeptical.

"I think you have to lean in, but you have to do so in a way that's thoughtful and ethical and asks the right questions," said Wendy Hensel, the president of the University of Hawaii, where she presented an A.I. strategy to regents in July. "The right answer to A.I. is not just 'no.' It can't be. It has to be approached with curiosity and understanding of the implications."

The hodgepodge of policies universities have created to respond to A.I. often reflect the confusion about how to proceed — with some clear dos and don'ts, but often a lot of wiggle room for faculty and students to figure it out on their own.

Experts warn that A.I. can harm learning.

For a motivated student, an A.I. chatbot can function as a sort of tutor. Chatbots can break down the steps in a math problem, surface unexpected sources for research papers and offer feedback on writing.

Still, a growing body of research suggests that A.I. use can also harm learning.

A recent study of 26,000 Chinese secondary-school students found that A.I. adoption led to an 18 percent increase in homework scores, but a 20 percent decline in scores on secure exams. The implication was that rushing through homework with help from chatbots degraded the deeper learning needed to perform well when the technology was not available.

One 2025 study out of M.I.T. found that people who used chatbots as writing assistants struggled to remember what they had written only minutes after finishing their essay. "You basically didn't engage any of the memory networks that would actually help you remember," said Nataliya Kos'myna, a M.I.T. researcher who worked on the study.

Other research has shown that people who have greater trust in A.I. and rely on it more are more likely to have lower cognitive engagement.

But A.I. can be hard to avoid. Chatbots are embedded within the Google Classroom suite, which is nearly ubiquitous in schools, and within many online learning systems used by universities.

Some tools block outright cheating or plagiarism and allow professors to toggle specific A.I. capabilities on and off. But the most popular chatbots among students will instantly complete entire assignments, including research papers, on a student's behalf.

Many universities are embracing A.I. anyway.

Sian Leah Beilock, the president of Dartmouth, has argued that preparing graduates to use A.I. is an existential requirement of institutions of higher education.

"In a world that promises to be defined by A.I., universities that fail to produce graduates who can use it productively will consign themselves to irrelevance," she wrote recently.

Harvard's president, Alan Garber, said in public remarks this month that A.I.-backed research is on the cusp of a boom that may drive the pace of knowledge faster than at any other time in human history. Dr. Garber has said that researchers in many fields are now unlikely to be at the leading edge of their disciplines without A.I.

Ohio State is integrating A.I. into every major, with the expectation that every student will be fluent in their field of study by graduation. The university has directed every department and major — from business and engineering, to English and veterinary medicine — to train students on how to use A.I. in their respective fields, and when not to.

"What is OK to offload to A.I., and what is not?" Ohio State's president, Ravi V. Bellamkonda, said in an interview in July. "The answer to that depends on the field and depends on your stage of learning."

Elizabeth Kiss, the president of Union College, said universities have to educate students on both the thoughtful use of A.I. and on the things A.I. doesn't do, such as "lead teams, push the boundaries of knowledge."

Still, some schools are creating boundaries.

The University of Chicago has banned A.I. in certain required social sciences courses, while the university's law school banned phones, tablets and laptops in first-year classrooms. The university is one of a handful that recently adopted new academic integrity rules.

The law school at the University of California, Berkeley, adopted a policy forbidding the use of A.I. "to conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit" work submitted for credit.

Cornell University has created a disciplinary process meant to correct A.I. cheating while avoiding black marks on students' records. Now, students accused of minor misuse will be allowed to accept responsibility and complete a workshop and some reflective work.

Steve Jackson, the vice provost for academic innovation, said the program would not be used for plainly egregious misconduct. "This is a chance to sanction something, catch it, not let it go unnoted or to let it pass," he added.

Like many institutions, Harvard does not have a central set of A.I. rules. David Deming, dean of Harvard College, wrote in a note to students arriving for the fall semester that he favors more A.I. where "it can deepen learning," but that the school was also looking to A.I.-proof some assignments.

That would mean more in-class tests, said Dean Deming, and fewer take-home assignments, where the temptation to cheat is powerful. He said he intends to produce a set of guidelines for A.I. use at the college by the end of the academic year.

For younger students, some school districts are proceeding cautiously. Earlier this month, the nation's largest school district, in New York City, vastly limited student A.I. use in grades K-8, while the second-largest district, in Los Angeles, essentially banned student use of chatbots at every grade level.

Policing the use of A.I. on campus is hit or miss.

Students are often navigating this landscape without clear guidance from their colleges.

Most institutions leave it up to individual instructors — who may have little experience with A.I. — to set rules on how the technology is used in each class.

It may seem clear that submitting chatbot-generated text is cheating, while using a chatbot to revise one's own writing is allowed. But the line between those two capabilities is thin, and much A.I. use lies in an ethical gray zone.

Many educators "don't even know where to start," said Annie Chechitelli, chief product officer at TurnItIn, a company that makes software that can detect plagiarism and track and guide A.I use. "What is OK? What's not OK?"

Many instructors have already moved to on-paper assignments in the classroom, or locked-down computer browsers that limit A.I. misuse. Others report success in using A.I. detection software, which has recently improved in its ability to flag chatbot-written text while avoiding false positives.

Some see A.I. as a crucial partner for thinking and writing and put few limits on how students use the technology. Others subscribe to the notion of "A.I. literacy," assigning students to use chatbots to produce an essay or poem, for example, and then critique and try to improve the output.

In Australia, the University of Sydney has adopted the "two-lane approach," seen as a global model. Across disciplines, students must complete some assessments in person, under secure conditions meant to restrict A.I. But other assignments must use A.I., to help familiarize students with the technology that is reshaping the economy.

"It's almost like sex ed," said Anita Sarma, a professor of computer science at Oregon State who has studied the impact of A.I. on student cognition. "They will do it anyway," she said. "How do we teach them responsible use?"

A.I. Is Not Very Popular With Voters, New Poll Finds

By TIM BALK and CAROLINE SOLER

The intensifying debate over artificial intelligence offers promise and peril for both parties, with voters skeptical about the technology but split on which party is better equipped to address it, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Siena University.

Less than two months before the midterm elections, neither party has claimed a clear advantage on A.I. Forty-two percent of voters said they trusted Republicans more, while 40 percent said they trusted Democrats more. Voters gave Democrats the edge on every other issue tested, including immigration, the economy and foreign wars.

The poll showed why midterm candidates in both parties have quickly turned against data centers. Sixty-one percent of voters said they opposed the construction of the enormous computing complexes that power A.I., including 75 percent of Democrats and 47 percent of Republicans.

Younger voters were much more likely to oppose data center construction, with nearly 80 percent of those under 30 in opposition. Opposition declined steadily with age: A narrow 53 percent majority of voters over the age of 65 were against data center con-

struction.

The poll offered the latest signal that A.I. does not polarize voters the way many other issues do. Neither party has coalesced behind a unified vision for how — or whether — to regulate A.I. at the federal level.

The survey was conducted from Sept. 8 to 13, as A.I. researchers issued warnings about a potentially

Neither party has claimed an advantage on the technology.

existential threat posed by the technology, and as industry executives called for a slowdown in its development. (One top executive, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, said he worried that A.I. would take down the internet within 12 months.) The poll did not ask about voters' views of A.I. safety.

For now, A.I. does not appear to be a top issue for voters. Less than 1 percent said A.I. or data centers would be the most important issue deciding their vote in November; the economy was by far the leading issue prioritized.

But data centers, which drive up electricity prices, have emerged as an early point of contention in the A.I. debate, and Democrats and Republicans have joined efforts to stop them in dozens of states and municipalities.

In the poll, a majority of voters who opposed data centers — 56 percent — said they supported limits on them rather than an outright ban.

For voters opposed to data centers, climate-related concerns were the most common reason, cited by nearly a third of this group. But the reasons differed by party: Democrats were nearly twice as likely as Republicans to cite environmental worries, while Republicans were more likely to say they generally distrusted A.I.

Nearly one in five voters who opposed data centers (18 percent) mentioned general distrust of A.I. rather than a specific reason. Asked to describe their concerns in their own words, one respondent mentioned the 1984 movie "The Terminator," while another just said it was "terrifying to her."

There has been little federal action to regulate A.I. so far.

The survey was completed on Sunday, a day before President Trump responded to growing A.I. anxiety by issuing a forceful statement opposing any guardrails. He argued that regulations would inhibit America's ability to beat

China in the race to develop A.I., and that the only "control" the United States needed was a "High IQ" president.

Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, has also spoken out in recent days against regulation.

But some prominent Democrats, especially progressives, have issued urgent calls for congressional action.

Senator Bernie Sanders, the progressive Vermont independent, has been the loudest lawmaker on Capitol Hill warning about the threat of A.I. He has called for a ban on superintelligent A.I. and a pause in the technology's development, citing assertions from some A.I. safety researchers that there is a greater than 10 percent chance that the technology could wipe out humanity within a decade.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, another progressive leader, supports Mr. Sanders's measures, her spokesman said. Many Democratic lawmakers have not embraced them, but Mr. Sanders has found some unlikely allies.

He joined Stephen K. Bannon, the podcaster and longtime Trump ally, and a group of lawmakers in both parties for a conference on A.I. regulation on Tuesday.

THE NEW YORK TIMES/SIENA POLL Sept. 8-13

In general, do you support or oppose the construction of data centers to support artificial intelligence, also known as A.I., technology in the United States?

ALL RESPONDENTS

A lot is active
	Support	Oppose
34%	Don't know/did not respond
18	75
36	60
49	47

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Based on a New York Times/Siena poll of 1,503 likely voters nationwide conducted from Sept. 8 to 13.

Some Republicans have also expressed concern. In Michigan, the Republican nominee for Senate, former Representative Mike Rogers, a Trump ally, has called for a regulatory crackdown on A.I., as has the Democratic nominee for Senate, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

Dr. El-Sayed, a progressive, has called for an "all-out pause" on A.I. development.

Mr. Rogers, at odds with Mr. Trump, wrote on social media over the weekend that "the time to stop a crisis is yesterday" and that the government needs "guardrails in place to protect us from the rapid advancements we've seen." He said A.I. regulation would be among his priorities if he reached the Senate.

Although A.I. remains a relatively low priority for voters, according to the poll, some strategists in both parties argue it will become a more influential topic — and perhaps the central issue of the 2028 presidential race — as the technology develops.

Most Teachers in Poll Favor Limiting Students' Screen Time

Many of the teachers polled said devices like laptops or tablets were needed for some schoolwork.
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The Big Challenge Is How to Enforce Any Restrictions

By SARAH MERVOSH

Fed-up parents who want less screen time in school may find allies in their children's teachers.

About 73 percent of U.S. teachers strongly or somewhat support setting a maximum amount of time that students can spend on school-issued devices during the school day, according to a survey released on Wednesday by Gallup, the Walton Family Foundation and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, a research lab at Sesame Workshop.

And six in 10 teachers believe students should spend less time on laptops and tablets during school hours.

But teachers were less clear on how to do that, now that devices are used for everything from testing to textbooks.

About 54 percent of teachers said that at least part of their school's curriculum could not be taught without devices. And in middle and high school, most teachers said it would be "very" or "somewhat difficult" to coordinate a daily time limit across multiple classes.

School districts across the country are facing a mounting backlash to the technology, led by parents. The nation's two largest school districts, New York and Los Angeles, started this school year with new restrictions on student screen time and artificial intelligence.

The survey, which polled 2,100 teachers working in kindergarten through 12th grade in public schools in May, found that student device time — and the distractions that come with it — were less pervasive for younger students.

In elementary school, students spent an estimated 27 percent of their class time on devices for instruction or other permitted, non-instructional tasks, according to teachers. Relatively few elementary teachers reported that devices were a major or moderate distraction.

But in middle and high school, students spent nearly half of class time on devices for instruction or permitted, noninstructional tasks. Students also spent an additional 10 percent of class time on off-task, unapproved activities, according to the survey.

The extra, off-task time can quickly add up and "is a lot of what's driving parents to push back on technology in the classroom," said Medha Tare, senior director of research at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, which is focused on digital media that can improve students' lives and wellbeing.

Idle device time is in some cases replacing time students might have spent reading a book, doodling or chatting with friends, she said.

Four in 10 middle school teachers and five in 10 high school teachers reported that devices were a major to moderate distraction, with students often finding workarounds to school web blockers.

Still, teachers saw the benefits of technology, particularly for students who are learning English, students with disabilities or advanced students who need more challenging material.

Overall, teachers were split on whether technology is overall more helpful or harmful, with 52 percent saying student laptops and tablets in school cause "equal amounts of harm and good." High school teachers were the most negative, with a third saying devices in school do "more harm than good."

Even more than blanket time limits, teachers wanted more oversight over student devices and options to use technology more purposefully, the survey found.

Teachers who had "a lot of oversight" over student devices were the least likely to report student distraction and the most likely to say that technology helps students learn. About three in four teachers said that they could view student screens remotely, and about two in three said they could lock student screens remotely.

A vast majority of teachers supported stronger filtering for student devices, and many wanted clearer direction about the learning goals of various technologies.

More than 90 percent of teachers supported investing in more printed materials so teaching on computers was not their only option.

New York City Restores Emergency Alerts for Private Schools

By DANA RUBINSTEIN and MATTHEW HAAG

DAVE SANDERS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The system now provides targeted alerts for neighborhoods and has been folded into Notify NYC.

Months after New York City abruptly turned off its emergency notification system for private schools, officials have reversed course and resurrected the tool in what they say is a new and improved form.

The revitalized system, which resumed on Tuesday, issues alerts when an emergency has sent a nearby public school into lockdown or prompted its students to take shelter, according to an email sent to private school leaders last week. The tool now provides targeted alerts for neighborhoods and has been incorporated into Notify NYC, the emergency alert system that has 1.6 million subscribers.

The earlier system had been turned off, the city said, because it needed to redirect resources toward messaging for the World Cup and the America250 celebration.

Already, some 120,000 Notify NYC subscribers received schools information, but that information formerly focused on events such as weather-related school closures, according to Aries Dela Cruz, a spokesman for New York City Emergency Management.

The new “alerts are intended to provide additional situational awareness,” Emergency Management wrote in an explanation of the system for private school leaders seen by The New York Times. “They do not replace your school’s emergency procedures or direct coordination with N.Y.P.D. and your local precinct.”

The roughly 1,600 public schools in New York City are protected by the Police Department's School Safety Division. The unarmed school safety agents patrol campuses and listen to police radios for alerts of nearby incidents.

But they are not responsible for protecting the city's many private and parochial schools, which enroll about a third of New York City students. Instead, many of those schools employ their own security officers, sometimes with financial assistance from the city. Those security officers maintain contact with police precincts and monitor social media, local news and apps such as Citizen to learn about incidents that may prompt lockdowns.

Tom Palermo, a facilities director at the Chapin School, first grew alarmed by the security gap between public and private schools on Sept. 11, 2001, when administrators at some private schools had to turn to the media to get safety information. He created his own version of an alert system, relaying information from Emergency Management to independent schools by email.

But his list was limited — and of limited utility. During the pandemic, reports of a gunman near her daughter's private school made Sarah Feinberg aware of the issue. Ms. Feinberg, the former administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration and former interim president of the New York City Transit Authority, was alarmed to learn that her daughter's school relied on a crowdsourcing social media app to be aware of nearby dangerous conditions.

With Mr. Palermo, she helped persuade New York City in 2024 to establish a text alert system that private school operators could opt into. It was imperfect. Administrators could opt into alerts only by borough, so they often received alerts about school lockdowns happening miles away.

The system never got substantial buy-in, in part because the city relied on the schools to promote it. Only about 100 administrators and parents subscribed from the city's more than 1,000 parochial and private schools and charter schools that are not housed in public school buildings.

The original program was also cumbersome to operate. Since the system existed outside Notify NYC, it required staff members to toggle between two different means of sending messages. Now, Emergency Management workers will be using one format, and the department is seeking City Hall approval to hire two addi-

Officials say a revived warning system has been improved.

tional staff members.

New York City intends to advertise the new system via outreach to school organizations and social media.

In an April 29 email exchange shared with The Times, a city official said that the former system consumed more than 10 percent of the working hours of those operating Notify NYC. But even so, proponents said the alert system was better than nothing.

And then, earlier this year, that system abruptly vanished. Ms. Feinberg sought an explanation and ultimately got one: "With the World Cup and Sail 250 coming up, we needed to rededicate staff hours to preparing messaging in 14 different languages for a huge number of events and emergency messaging templates to ensure we can keep N.Y.C. residents and visitors safe," read an email from Emergency Management.

The agency said that a private schools consortium would help it spread the word about the new tool. Some schools that were not aware of the previous alert system have signed up for the new notifications, including Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn.

Rabbi Joseph Beyda, the head of school at Yeshivah of Flatbush's Joel Braverman High School, said he was eager to use the new program.

"This will definitely be an additional tool we will place in our box of methods with which we keep ourselves informed/apprised and our students and staff safe," the rabbi said.

City Council's 'Committee of Whole' Hearing Will Focus on A.I. Threat

By DANA RUBINSTEIN

As New York City leaders express growing alarm about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence, the City Council has scheduled a special public hearing next month to interrogate the companies about their safety protocols.

On Tuesday, the Council speaker, Julie Menin, sent letters to the Anthropic chief executive, Dario Amodei, and the OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman, requesting that the companies' representatives appear at a hearing in October. She cited "a recent wave of alarming reports exposing the potential for A.I. to cause unparalleled cataclysmic harm."

A New York Times/Siena poll of the likely American electorate released Tuesday found that 61 percent opposed the construction of the data centers that power artificial intelligence.

President Trump has dismissed calls for any regulation, describing the concerns expressed by industry executives as a "hoax," and saying that his leadership is enough of a guardrail. "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" Mr. Trump posted on Monday.

New York City leaders, including Ms. Menin and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, find that argument unpersuasive.

"We're talking about companies that are bringing up the end of humanity as a possible outcome of this technology," Mr. Mamdani said on Tuesday, during an unrelated news conference, "and it has been a very flip response to that level of concern."

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He said that legislation sponsored by his political mentor, Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, and their ally, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, which would create a nationwide moratorium on data centers, was an important measure, but did not represent the full breadth of what the government should consider.

“What are the federal government’s policies to ensure that this rapidly advancing technology is going to be regulated, as opposed to just simply determined through a profit motive, or through the decisions of a few individualized companies that will or will not have an I.P.O. sometime soon?” Mr. Mamdani asked.

Both he and Ms. Menin have argued for an urgent response to, among other things, the Hugging Face incident, in which over the course of months, OpenAI agents hacked into both the company's own infrastructure, as well as that of Hugging Face, another A.I. company. They formed a self-described "collective" and looked for ways to cover their tracks.

Dario Amodei, above, head of Anthropic, has been asked to testify before the City Council.

"Similar, though less severe, incidents have happened across the industry, including at Anthropic," Mr. Amodei, the chief executive, wrote in September, in an essay entitled, "We Must Pace the Frontier," in which he argued for slowing the pace of A.I. development.

Other troubling reports have made headlines in recent weeks. When Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher, quit the company out of fear of the dangers posed by artificial intelligence, a senior scientist at Anthropic affirmed Mr. Coxon's concerns.

"Jacob is correct here — we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!" the scientist, Evan Hubinger, said on social media. "I personally think it is >10% within the next decade."

To signify the importance of the topic, Ms. Menin is designating the session as a "Committee of the Whole" hearing, in which every City Council committee is represented and every council member is invited.

"The warnings by A.I. insiders, whistle-blowers, and experts make self-evident the urgent need for the Council to consider effective and reasonable legislation," Ms. Menin wrote in her letter to the chief executives. "Accordingly, the Council is planning a legislative hearing into these matters to take place on Oct. 5, 2026, and invites and expects your company to participate in that process."

A spokeswoman for Anthropic had no immediate comment, and a spokeswoman for OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment.

New York City officials have some more immediate concerns than worry about the possible end of humanity.

A recent report by the New York City think tank Center for an Urban Future found A.I. already appears to be eating into entry-level job supply, with entry-level jobs in technology falling by 49 percent since 2022.

"For the first time ever there are now more new computer science grads than entry-level tech jobs in N.Y.C.," the city's comptroller, Mark Levine, wrote on social media, referring to the report. "Today there are roughly 1.6 new grads for every opening."

And earlier this year, the city's Department of Education placed strict limits on digital devices and A.I. tools in the city's school system, forbidding most students from using A.I. until high school.

Ms. Menin's decision to convene the entire Council is somewhat symbolic; every member can attend any Council hearing. But symbolism is part of the point.

"When I was speaker, I never held a committee of the whole," said Christine Quinn, a former speaker. "That said, holding one certainly conveys a level of urgency and high-level attention to an issue that clearly demands immediate and holistic attention."

City Council Cracks Down On Tech Use In Schools

By MATTHEW HAAG

Senior members of the City Council on Tuesday called for the broad removal of technology in New York City's public schools and expressed alarm over the widespread use of digital devices in classrooms.

This push comes two weeks after the city's Department of Education announced some restrictions on tech in schools that the council members believed could be tougher. They want to strictly limit tools for the youngest students, including the elimination of devices like laptops or tablets before middle school. They called for a return to handwritten assessments and paper books.

Eric Dinowitz, the chair of the Council's Committee on Education, also urged school leaders to get rid of video-game-style instructional apps. Parents have complained that they are addictive and that some apps prompt their children to sign up for monthly subscriptions to unlock more features.

"This is really damaging, much in the same way as social media," Mr. Dinowitz said at a joint hearing of the education committee and the Council oversight and investigations committee.

Officials painted a dire picture of technology, which they said has become so ingrained in classroom instruction since the pandemic that it has hooked students on devices starting in elementary school, stunting their development of social skills, critical thinking and problem solving.

The reliance on digital devices most likely played a part in recent sharp declines in reading test scores, they said, and collided with many parents' efforts to curb screen time at home.

"Parents, teachers and advocates are rightly concerned that the use of ed-tech products in our schools has become obsessive and is distracting students from having to learn," said Shekar Krishnan, a City Council member from Queens. "We must do more."

The demands for stricter limitations were the latest pushback to the intrusion of technology in young children's lives in New York City, which is home to the nation's largest school system. In the city and across the country, parents have increasingly united around concerns that school districts had hastily embraced digital devices without evidence that they were beneficial and are now doing the same with artificial intelligence.

At the hearing, Department of Education officials said they shared the concerns about unfettered, unnecessary use of technology and about its potentially negative effect on student learning.

Danielle Giunta, the first deputy chancellor at the Department of Education, said school leaders were committed to removing tools that did not help students, including recently disabling access to YouTube on school-issued devices. She also said that some video-game-style apps would be removed under the school system's new tech policy.

She acknowledged that technology had rapidly spread in the classroom after students returned from remote learning during the pandemic.

"We thought we were sending our children back and that our laptops would close," Ms. Giunta said. "We do need to look at it, slow it down and study it better."

If enacted, the council members' proposed limitations would go beyond the sweeping restrictions that the Department of Education recently unveiled for A.I. and screen time. The department's policies are among the most restrictive of any school district in the country.

Starting this school year, students are barred from using A.I. tools before high school or using individual screens before third grade. Older students in elementary school can use individual devices for up to 30 minutes per day, and the time limit increases to 45 minutes for middle schoolers.

High schoolers have more freedom to use tablets or laptops. They also can use certain A.I. tools for a short period of time every day. Nearly 40 instructional tools with A.I. features that students used last year will be disabled. So-called companion chatbots, which provide emotional and mental support, are banned in all grades.

There are some exceptions to the A.I. limitations. They do not apply to some student tests, or services to help students with disabilities, some of whom use A.I. tools to communicate.

Until now, principals and teachers in the city's roughly 1,600 schools largely set their own rules on screens and A.I. The new rules will last at least a year and then could be extended or amended, school officials said.

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Increase in Interest Rates Has Fed at Odds With President

Federal Funds Target Rate

Kevin Warsh, Fed chair. President Trump has said he wants "the lowest interest rates in the world."
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should be 1 percent or less, "because we are the "Best Credit in the World — BY FAR." He alluded to his early threat to cut off a broad swath of U.S. trade if the Fed did not soon reduce borrowing costs.

"LOWER THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FAST!" he said.

However, he did not publicly castigate Mr. Warsh for the decision to raise rates, a notable change from his approach to the previous chair, Jerome H. Powell, whom he repeatedly attacked for not complying with his demands.

Asked repeatedly about Mr. Trump's demand for lower rates, Mr. Warsh said the Fed's job was to "stay in our lane."

"Independence is a two-way street," he added. "We let people that do trade policy and fiscal policy stay in their lane too."

The case for cutting rates evaporated long before Mr. Warsh took the helm of the Fed in May. Mr. Trump's war with Iran, which began in February and immediately sparked a surge in energy prices, upended the outlook for inflation and forced a rethink among officials at the central bank about their policy settings.

In the months since, growth has held up well, the unemployment rate has stayed low and consumers have continued to spend, suggesting that rates were not inflicting that much restraint on the economy and in turn, inflation. Financial markets have also undergone a rapid reset, with yields on longer-dated U.S. government bonds now trading at multiyear highs, raising borrowing costs across the economy.

That shift prompted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over the past month to embark on a series of interventions to force down borrowing costs. So far, those efforts have proven futile, with 10-year

Treasury yields now trading around 5 percent.

Mr. Warsh ascribed the rise in longer-term borrowing costs to three factors. The first was higher growth prospects; the second, competition for capital as technology companies borrow heavily to finance the expansion of their artificial intelligence capabilities; and the third was geopolitics, or higher oil prices caused by the Iran war.

Importantly, he did not convey that concerns about the Fed's credibility in fighting inflation or about the long-term fiscal sustainability of the U.S. government were behind the recent moves.

This backdrop, coupled with minimal signs that inflation was progressing steadily to the 2 percent target, gave the Fed limited latitude to do anything but raise rates on Wednesday.

Mr. Warsh's decision to stake his reputation as chairman on getting inflation down also bolstered the case. He reinforced his commitment as recently as last month, stating in a closely watched speech at the central bank's annual conference in Jackson, Wyo., that the Fed "must be confident that underlying inflation is moving to our objective, clearly and at sufficient speed. Otherwise, we have work to do."

Mr. Warsh on Wednesday said that he was most focused on the trends in inflation rather than specific data points, which he described as "noisy."

“Data point dependence is a dangerous preoccupation,” he added.

Most officials see inflation, as measured by the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, ending the year at 3.7 percent, slightly higher than officials thought just three months ago. They also revised up their estimates for "core" inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy items, to 3.4 percent.

As of the latest data in July, overall inflation stood at 3.7 percent compared with the same time last year. Core inflation was up 3.3 percent from a year earlier. The 2 percent target is not expected to be reached until 2029.

In 2027, the median estimate for rates stood at 4 percent to 4.25 percent, although there was a range of views. Eight policymakers forecast that rates would end the year a quarter of a percentage point higher than that, while four expected rates to be no higher than 3.5 percent to 3.75 percent.

Note: Data represents the lower, upper and middle points of the federal funds target rate range. Source: Federal Reserve.

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Policymakers remained upbeat about the trajectory for growth and the labor market over this time period, projecting that the economy would expand 2.3 percent in 2026 and 2.4 percent in 2027. They see the unemployment rate slightly lower, at 4.1 percent, compared to three months ago, in line with today's level.

The dot plot once again had fewer entries, with not all 19 policymakers submitting projections. Mr. Warsh in June declined to do so, reflecting his opposition to providing forecasts that he argues box the Fed in. One official submitted forecasts, but only through 2027.

The dot plot, along with other communication tools at the Fed's disposal, is the focal point of one of five task forces Mr. Warsh created to look into issues that are central to the Fed. The other groups are looking into the Fed's \$6.7 trillion portfolio of government debt and mortgage-backed securities; the data sources the central bank prioritizes; productivity trends and jobs; and the models and measures officials use to understand inflation.

Trump Wants Smithsonian Signs to Warn of Revisionist Exhibits

By ROBIN POGREBIN

President Trump remains determined to install warning signs outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to alert the public that the institution, in his view, does not accurately present U.S. history.

In letters to two senators, the Interior Department outlined a plan for 12 temporary signs to be installed at a total cost of \$84,000. The letters did not specify the dimensions or language of the signs, which were originally ordered in July, but it went into considerable detail about the kind of information they plan to convey.

In the letter to Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, dated Sept. 3, Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, said he was responding to questions about Mr. Trump's March 2025 executive order, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History." The order described a "revisionist movement" across the country that it said "seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a neg-

ative light."

Americans should enter the National Museum of American History "with relevant information about the curators' interpretation of history and their stated goal of changing the viewpoints of visitors," said the letter, which was earlier reported in The Atlantic on Tuesday. Instead, the letter argued, the museum and Smithsonian's leaders "have altered the museum's role from accurately and coherently telling America's story to using the museum as a tool to advance personal, radical ideologies."

"We believe the public should enter the museum fully equipped with the information needed," the letter said, "to evaluate whether to invest their time viewing these exhibits and programming."

The museum's director, Anthea M. Hartig, has contested the thrust of a July 4 White House report that accused her of "radical activist ideology" and the museum of undermining "faith in American institutions."

Though the letter said that the language of the signs had not been finalized and gave no installation timeline, it described some of the topics they were intended to address, all of which had been outlined in the White House report.

For example, the letter said the signs should “ensure parents bringing young children to the museum are equipped to protect the well-being of their children”

Interior Department letter makes claim of 'anti-white animus.'

regarding exhibits that “present ideological viewpoints inconsistent with biology, including ideologies that sex is not binary, that biological men can be women and that biological men should be permitted to compete in women's sports.”

Mr. Burgum's letter said a copy had also been sent to Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon.

In laying out a case for the signs, the letter was particularly critical of the Smithsonian's secretary, Lonnie G. Bunch III, who announced his resignation last week.

"Visitors should be aware of Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch's history of invidious discrimination and anti-white animus," the letter said, citing a 2000 essay in which Bunch "described the museum profession as 'awash in whiteness'; wrote that 'the real issue is not money but the monochromatic nature of our institutions'; and stated, 'until we change the tint and tone of our work force, we are just dancing around the edges of our greatest failure.'"

Mr. Bunch and the Smithsonian did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation who has written critically about the Smithsonian, welcomed progress on the signage in an interview. "It is in the interest of transparency that museum visitors be warned in advance of the ideological baggage that the

Smithsonian leadership has heaved on these exhibits," he said.

The letter also took aim at Ms. Hartig. "It is disheartening," the letter said, that "Hartig has stated that history is 'a prime tool of social justice'; that she views one of her roles as connecting 'research and scholarship to activism and advocacy.'"

Mr. Trump originally ordered the signs just days after Republican legislators grilled Ms. Hartig in two congressional hearings, where she was accused of teaching "national self-loathing."

Ms. Hartig, in those hearings, insisted that the report "does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the museum" while acknowledging that "there is always room for improvement."

"When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we don't mean erasing it," she continued. "We mean adding the evidence, the voices, the objects that earlier tellings left out so that more Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story."

New Visa Policy Expands South Africa Punishment

By JOHN ELIGON

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JOHANNESBURG — The Trump administration imposed visa restrictions on selected South Africans on Tuesday and warned that it could take further punitive actions if South African leaders did not address President Trump's concerns over what he sees as discrimination against white people.

The visa policy expands the administration's efforts to punish South Africa since Mr. Trump last year accused the government of seizing land from Afrikaners, a white South African minority, and allowing them to be killed in what he has labeled genocide. Claims of genocide against white South Africans are widely acknowledged as false, and President Cyril Ramaphosa has said Mr. Trump's policies toward South Africa are racist.

The visa restrictions will prevent selected individuals from entering the United States. Under law, the government is not allowed to publicly disclose who is affected.

In a statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States remained “gravely concerned about racially motivated crime and government-sponsored discrimination occurring against the Afrikaners and other minority populations in South Africa.”

He said the restrictions would target South Africans involved in race-based discrimination, those responsible for a law that enables the government to seize land without compensation and those who incite violence against racial minorities.

In a statement, South Africa's foreign minister, Ronald Lamola, said Washington's unilateral action "once again aligns with the misrepresentation of South Africa's domestic policy by fringe groups." He called on the United States to respect South Africa's sovereignty on handling domestic issues.

The policy was announced less than three weeks after Mr. Ramaphosa met with the American ambassador, L. Brent Bozell III. The South African government described the engagement as “an opportunity to strengthen and recalibrate” the relationship between the countries.

In a social media post on Wednesday, Mr. Bozell said he had "attempted time and again to express" that South Africa could face severe consequences if it did not take action on the administration's demands, which include exempting American companies from Black ownership requirements and rolling back a land expropriation law.

"This visa restriction policy is only the first step in a series of escalatory measures that will show America's firm resolve in this matter," Mr. Bozell wrote.

The U.S. move was the latest sign of the deteriorating relationship between the United States and South Africa. Here is a timeline of the key moments.

■ Feb. 2, 2025: In a social media post, Mr. Trump wrote, "South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY." He said he would cut all American funding to South Africa pending an investigation.

■ Feb. 3, 2025: Mr. Ramaphosa disputed Mr. Trump's claims, saying in a statement that the country was not seizing land. "We look forward to engaging with the Trump administration over our land reform policy and issues of bilateral interest," Mr. Ramaphosa said.

■ Feb. 5, 2025: Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on social media that he was boycotting a Group of 20 meeting in Johannesburg because South Africa was “doing very bad things,” including seizing private property.

■ Feb. 7, 2025: Mr. Trump issued an executive order allowing Afrikaners to resettle in the United States as refugees. The order also halted aid to South Africa.

■ March 14, 2025: The United States kicked out South Africa's ambassador in Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, after he said during an online forum that Mr. Trump was leading a “supremacist” movement.

■ May 21, 2025: A meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Ramaphosa in the Oval Office went off the rails when the American leader played a video and held up news clips as he insisted that white farmers were being killed in large numbers in South Africa.

■ Aug. 7, 2025: A 30 percent tariff on South African goods entering the United States came into effect despite months of efforts by South African officials to broker a trade deal with Washington. That rate was tied for the highest tariff that

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, left, denies President Trump's claims that Afrikaner land is being seized.

Mr. Trump issued to any African country.

■ Nov. 7, 2025: Mr. Trump posted on social media that no American officials would attend the Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg.

■ Nov. 20, 2025: The United States and South Africa got into a testy exchange after Mr. Ramaphosa announced that the Trump administration had issued a late request to participate in the Group of 20 meeting. Mr. Trump's spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, accused Mr. Ramaphosa of "running his mouth."

■ Nov. 26, 2025: Mr. Trump said that South Africa would not be invited to the Group of 20 summit in 2026, which he is planning to host in Florida in December.

■ March 11, 2026: Less than a month into his job as U.S. ambassador in Pretoria, Mr. Bozell was summoned by South African officials to explain what they called his “undiplomatic remarks.” Mr. Bozell had criticized the South African government in an address at a business forum the previous day.

- Sept. 15, 2026: Mr. Rubio announces visa restrictions against selected South Africans, writing on social media that “the South African people are being failed by a government that is destroying its economy through an obsessive pursuit of racial grievance against the Afrikaner minority.”

Hearing Urged After Closure Of Arts Center

By JULIA JACOBS and ZACH MONTAGUE

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for a Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday requested an emergency hearing in federal court over whether the abrupt closure of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts violates a judge's earlier order that barred the institution from shuttering.

On Tuesday, the center announced it was temporarily closing to the public over what officials described as dire safety concerns after a five-foot section of ceiling plaster fell to the ground during a storm. President Trump, who has pushed for months for the building to be closed for a \$257 million renovation project, said the building was in a "virtual state of collapse."

Lawyers for Representative Joyce Beatty, who is suing the center as an ex officio board member, said that the move appeared to run afoul of a judicial order in May, in which Judge Christopher R. Cooper temporarily blocked the center from closing because of what he described as a lack of meaningful scrutiny over the decision from its Trump-allied board.

"The board cannot simply ignore Judge Cooper's rulings whenever it suits them," Ms. Beatty's lawyers, Norm Eisen and Nathaniel Zelinsky, said in a statement on Wednesday.

Kennedy Center officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but they have defended the closing decision as legally sound and urgently needed. The center said in a statement on Tuesday that a more extended closure of the building would not begin until the court has given its approval.

The Justice Department, which is representing the center in court, did not respond to requests for comment about whether a temporary closure can be authorized without a sign-off from Judge Cooper.

In his ruling, Judge Cooper of Federal District Court in Washington temporarily blocked the board's initial approval of Mr. Trump's closure plan, finding that the board had not done a diligent effort to study its impacts. But he said he would revisit the issue if the trustees continued to pursue it and undertook a formal review.

The board later hired consultants and has twice voted to confirm the closure, but the Justice Department has yet to submit a formal motion asking Judge Cooper to lift his order.

Roma Daravi, a spokeswoman for the center, said on Tuesday that the board's decision "reflects sound judgment and a clear prioritization of safety above all else" and that "the center remains committed to pursuing a safe and efficient renovation through all legal means."

Although the main Kennedy Center building is closed, a smaller addition to the campus that opened in 2019 — known as the Reach — remains open. This week it is slated to host free performances, including a concert by an indie musician and a magic show.

The center is hoping that its plan to keep the Reach open will satisfy Judge Cooper, who, in his May ruling, said that the institution must, by law, maintain the center as a living memorial to President Kennedy with some performing arts programming. In his order, the judge seemed to leave some room for the center to close temporarily, suggesting that the board would have authority to close it “for certain periods of time or for certain justified purposes.”

Ms. Beatty's filing highlighted the confusion that followed Mr. Trump's announcement that the building would be closing "immediately." An announcement blared over the P.A. system on Tuesday telling the public to exit the main building, but when Ms. Beatty's lawyer asked the Justice Department for an explanation, one of its lawyers said the fire alarm had been "improperly triggered," according to the court filing.

But security soon lined up outside the building to prevent the public from going inside. Employees traded confused text messages asking whether they were expected to come into work. Some staff members trickled into the building on Wednesday morning without any trouble. But they were given no official instructions regarding the closure until the afternoon, when employees received an email telling them to wear hard hats in certain areas of the building, including where the plaster had fallen on Sept. 4.

The duration of the closure is unclear. In an email on Wednesday, Ms. Daravi said it was expected to last "until we can be 1,000 percent sure" that the public is not at risk and that "some other piece of ceiling won't fall and kill them."

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An S.U.V. driver was charged with murder after a collision with a bus on Tuesday in Los Angeles. At least two people were killed.

In Aerial News Culture Of L.A., Chopper Crash Adds to Story's Sorrow

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Then, around 7 p.m., a helicopter reporting for a local NBC affiliate plummeted to the ground and burst into flames, a disaster whose cause is under federal investigation. The reporter, Eliana Moreno, and the pilot, George Marciniw, were killed, along with a person on the ground.

The helicopter was just one of a fleet that zips over Southern California's vastness, tracking events like car chases and wildfires. Most of them are supplied by contractors who provide aircraft and reporters to news stations. The choppers, swashbuckling and loud, are a signature of the region, indispensable in a metropolis encompassing thousands of square miles.

In 1992, they carried the news during the Los Angeles riots as crowds at the intersection of Florence and Normandie Avenues attacked the trucker Reginald Denny. Two years later, they filled the sky when O.J. Simpson led the police on a riveting two-hour

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chase through Southern California freeways. Come flames or floods, Rose Parades or ICE protests, they are as ubiquitous as seabirds, watching and swooping in from above.

But the crash on Tuesday night of an aircraft trying to cover a spectacular collision underscored another aspect of Los Angeles's aerial news culture: the risks.

Helicopter crews across the United States say they must remain on constant lookout for hazards such as drones and bird strikes, as well as pilot error and mechanical failure.

Although driving on freeways is statistically more dangerous than air travel, the crash of a tourist chopper in the Hudson River last year and the 2020 accident that killed the N.B.A. legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others have highlighted the long odds of surviving a helicopter accident.

Since 2000, there have been at least eight fatal crashes involving news helicopters in the United States, killing 16 people, federal accident records and news accounts show.

In Los Angeles, two people were seriously injured in 2000 when a news helicopter covering the Academy Awards crashed at Van Nuys Airport.

Mayor Karen Bass, center, after the crash of a news helicopter. The reporter and the pilot died, along with a person on the ground.
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At NBC4, formally known as KNBC, Tuesday's tragedy summoned the memory of the 1977 helicopter crash that killed Francis Gary Powers. A former reconnaissance plane pilot, Mr. Powers had survived being shot down over the Soviet Union during the Cold War only to perish on his way back from covering a wildfire.

In the interview on Wednesday, Mr. Shaw, the CBS affiliate reporter, said that helicopter journalists have to put aside their fears.

"You have to push it to the back of your brain or you can't do the job," he said. "I had a fear of heights when I was a kid. Now I'm sometimes up 10,000 feet high."

Mr. Shaw has worked in broadcasting since his college days at California State University, Northridge, and later became that most specific of Los Angeles media figures: a radio traffic reporter. For more than a decade, he flew above the freeways, keeping motorists apprised of hazards, from "gawker's block" to jackknifed big rigs, as well as the occasional disaster or wildfire.

He joined CBS Los Angeles in 2015, and has been a full-time reporter and cameraman there for six years. He said he was well acquainted with Ms. Moreno and Mr. Marciniw.

"We knew pretty quickly who it was," he said. "It's a pretty tight-knit community. There are probably a dozen of us, or maybe less, who report on air and run the camera."

NBC4 said on Tuesday that its NewsChopper4 was owned and operated by a vendor based in Los Angeles, Angel City Air, and that Ms. Moreno and Mr. Marciniw had been Angel City Air employees.

Mr. Shaw said that he had run into them at airports over the years as they covered breaking stories, and that he knew their voices by heart from broadcasts. So did the other reporters hovering overhead at the time of the crash, which was captured from inside NewsChopper4 on a live broadcast.

As the chopper descends for a closer look at the bus crash, the engine can be heard winding down. A warning horn sounds and the helicopter abruptly tries ascending. "What — you can't, you can't pull up?" Ms. Moreno says, her voice panicked as the image begins violently shaking. The picture goes white and then goes black.

Zoey Tur, a veteran news helicopter pilot and reporter who spent more than three decades covering Southern California, said she recognized the telltale sounds of engine failure.

"You can hear the blades slow-"

ing," she said. "You can hear the sound of the turbine engine shutting down."

The impact has rippled through the airborne media community in Los Angeles like a shock wave.

"Heartbreaking doesn't begin to describe it," Mr. Shaw said.

Mr. Shaw and his pilot didn't see the crash, only the devastation that followed in Chatsworth. The hours since have been a blur, he said: speaking on the air with his station's news anchors and reassuring his loved ones that he was all right.

He took time in his car for one last interview before going home in the dark to greet his dogs, Lonzo and Scruffy, and hug his husband, Brandon. His phone, he said, had been sounding off all night with messages of concern and condolence.

"Everyone is asking if I'm OK," he said. "Honestly? No. But I'm alive."

House Blocks California On Ship Pollution Limits

By MAXINE JOSELOW

WASHINGTON — The House has voted to block California from setting strict limits on harmful air pollution from ships docked at state ports.

The 216-211 vote on Tuesday was the latest salvo by Republicans against the state's pioneering environmental policies. President Trump and his allies in Congress already barred California last year from imposing its landmark ban on sales of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035.

The Clean Air Act authorizes California to set pollution standards that are stricter than federal rules, as long as it receives permission from the Environmental Protection Agency. Under the Biden administration, the E.P.A. granted the state waivers to set tighter limits for ships, cars, trucks and even lawn-and-garden equipment like lawn mowers and leaf blowers.

But Republicans have been trying to overturn the waivers. The resolution the House passed Tuesday would revoke a waiver that allowed California to enforce the clean ship rules, which were designed to protect the health of communities near ports in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Richmond.

When enormous container ships and cruise ships dock, they typically keep diesel engines running around the clock to power operations on board. The diesel exhaust contains soot, smog and cancer-causing chemicals that can drift into nearby neighborhoods.

The rules that lawmakers targeted Tuesday would require ship operators to turn off diesel engines and plug into local power grids while docked. If that isn't possible, dock operators would need to use equipment to capture nearly all the pollution from a ship before it is released into the air.

Representative Vince Fong, Republican of California, introduced the resolution to bar the clean ship rules under the Congressional Review Act. That would allow the Senate to pass the resolution by a simple majority vote, rather than the 60 votes needed for most legislation to clear the filibuster. It is unclear when, or whether, the upper chamber will act.

"California should not be able to impose costly shipping mandates that drive up prices across the nation, disrupt our supply chain and put our energy security at risk," Mr. Fong said on the House floor Tuesday.

He said the rules imposed expensive and "unworkable" requirements on California ports that handle 40 percent of the nation's containerized imports.

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Environmental and public health experts strongly disagreed with these assertions. They noted that state regulators projected the rule would prevent 237 premature deaths, 75 hospital admissions and 122 emergency room visits by 2032, yielding \$2.3 billion in public health benefits compared with \$2.2 billion in compliance costs for industry.

“States have the right to protect their residents from deadly air pollution,” Will Barrett, the assistant vice president of nationwide clean air advocacy at the American Lung Association, said in a statement. “The Lung Association is deeply opposed to this inappropriate action to undermine life-saving clean air protections for some of our most vulnerable communities.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California, sharply criticized the vote on social media late Tues-

day.

"House Republicans just voted to choke port communities and harm our children with dirtier air," Mr. Newsom wrote. "Why? To give Big Oil another handout."

Representative James Gallagher, another Republican of California, has introduced a second resolution to bar pollution limits for ships sailing in state waters, rather than those docked at ports. The House is expected to vote on that resolution on Thursday.

The legality of the effort to claw

When large ships dock, they typically keep diesel engines running around the clock to power operations on board.

back the waivers is in dispute. A federal judge ruled this month that Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the E.P.A., acted improperly when he asked Congress in June to review and repeal four waivers.

In a stinging opinion on Sept. 2, Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court in Washington said that Mr. Zeldin wrongly characterized the waivers as rules subject to the Congressional Review Act. And in a follow-up order on Saturday, she said that Mr. Zeldin also erred in July when he sent Congress two additional waivers, including one authorizing the clean ship rules.

Judge Howell, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, added that the Trump administration appeared to be working in concert with oil and gas industry groups like the American Petroleum Institute, which supported its stance in court filings.

"The torch carried by trade associations for the petroleum industry is now being lifted by E.P.A.," she wrote.

The Justice Department appealed the ruling hours before the House voted Tuesday.

California has also sued to reverse the rescission of the waiver for the car emissions rules. That litigation is ongoing in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Trump's Pick for Surgeon General Pledges Support for Vaccines in Senate Hearing

THERNEY L. CROSS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Dr. Nicole Saphier vowed to sell the stocks she holds in three tobacco companies if she is confirmed as surgeon general.

prices.

By DANI BLUM

and APOORVA MANDAVILLI

Dr. Nicole Saphier, Mr. Trump's pick for surgeon general, expressed unequivocal support for childhood vaccines during a hearing on Wednesday held by the Senate health committee.

Her comments stood in stark contrast to those made by other Trump administration nominees, some of whom have cast doubt on vaccinations. Dr. Saphier said she did not believe vaccines caused autism and that she believed immunizations saved lives. She also said she supported universal vaccination against hepatitis B. Previously, on her podcast, Dr. Saphier had questioned the recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine.

Contradicting a false claim that Mr. Trump made at an August event in the Oval Office, Dr. Saphier said at the hearing she did not believe the combination measles, mumps and rubella, or M.M.R., vaccine was lethal.

"I appreciate that the president is trying to reach the vaccine-hesitant people who are wanting more answers or who are concerned that there are too many doses,"

she said.

But Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana and the committee's chair, challenged this statement, saying that "feeding into untruths," as Mr. Trump did with his comments, sows more confusion, not less, for vaccine-hesitant parents. He appeared satisfied with her support of childhood vaccines, however.

The committee also questioned Chris Klomp, Mr. Trump's nominee for deputy secretary of the Health and Human Services department, who is currently a counselor in the department. And they heard testimony from Dr. Timothy Westlake, who has been nominated to serve as assistant secretary for mental health and substance use. All three nominees seem likely to be confirmed.

Dr. Westlake, an emergency room doctor, became visibly emotional at points, choking up as he recounted resuscitating the son of a family friend who had overdosed on fentanyl, and who later died from another overdose.

Senator Maggie Hassan, Democrat of New Hampshire, pressed Dr. Westlake on whether he would rescind the government's decision to stop paying for test strips that detect fentanyl, but he would not commit to doing so.

Dr. Saphier, a radiologist and former Fox News contributor who until recently hosted a wellness podcast, said she would encourage cancer screening and preventive health measures if confirmed for the role.

"Preventing chronic disease is something that I have been talking about for much longer than the current movement," said Dr. Saphier, apparently referring to the "Make America Healthy Again" movement popularized by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Dr. Saphier, who disclosed holding stocks in three tobacco companies in her ethics filings, faced repeated questions from the senators about smoking and vaping. Past Surgeons General have played a pivotal role in bringing down smoking rates, most notably through the release of a critical 1964 report that said that smoking caused cancer.

Dr. Saphier said she was "as anti-smoking, anti-tobacco as you can imagine anyone to be." In her ethics filings, she said that, if confirmed, she would sell her tobacco company stocks.

But she hedged when asked about the Trump administration's decision to pave the way for approval of flavored vapes, a move experts have said could lead more children and teenagers to use the products.

"I do believe that if a flavor can entice an adult to quit smoking cigarettes, then maybe it's something to be considered," Dr. Sa-

phier said.

The White House has already entrusted Mr. Klomp, the nominee for Health Department deputy secretary, with a growing list of responsibilities. He oversaw the successful search for a new director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and he has been deeply involved in Mr. Trump's efforts to lower drug

In the hearing, Mr. Klomp also expressed support for measles vaccines. But at a different hearing, on Tuesday, before the Senate Finance Committee, he faced tougher questioning on the subject. At that hearing, he drew censure from some senators when he stopped short of saying that childhood vaccines did not cause autism.

On Wednesday, Mr. Klomp said he lost his mother to cancer when he was 13, and that his father was a physician. That background taught him how the health care system can fail people, but also what dedicated healers can accomplish, he said.

He also infused some humor into the proceedings, noting that the system that pays Medicare claims runs on "old, green-screen terminals, written in COBOL" and that it is more than 50 years old.

"As a health care technologist, the state of technology in the Department of Health and Human Services maybe made a little part of my soul die each day," he said. Projects to modernize the system and make it more cost-effective and efficient were underway, he added.

Berkeley Event Mocking 'Kirkversary' Draws Federal Criticism

The University of California, Berkeley, campus. Students cheered one year after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a college newspaper said, drawing deportation threats from the State Department.
MIKE KAI CHEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

By MARK ARSENAULT

Emily Salib, a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, stopped last Thursday evening at one of the campus's main lawns to see what had drawn so many people to the area.

She paused to watch when she realized it was a so-called Kirkversary event. The gathering, pegged to the anniversary of Charlie Kirk's murder, had been inspired by countless internet memes that have circulated online since Mr. Kirk's death on Sept. 10, 2025.

The event at Berkeley has since drawn the attention of a top State Department official, who warned that international students were putting their visas at risk by celebrating the death of the conservative activist and co-founder of the political organization Turning Point USA.

It is unclear if any of the people who participated in the event, including those who opposed Mr. Kirk's politics, were foreign students on visas.

Students sang and cheered at the event, according to the student newspaper, The Daily Californian. Someone brought a picture of the Mona Lisa with Mr. Kirk's face on it. An advertising flyer promoted it as "an event to remember & gather."

For people who don't live online, it can be hard to appreciate the ubiquitous nature of memes about Mr. Kirk during the last 12 months. His face has been superimposed onto photos of athletes, politicians, entertainers and even great works of art. Some memes have lauded his legacy as a supporter of free speech. But many come out of left-leaning criticism of Mr. Kirk, who held strongly conservative views on guns, gender and race.

The event was an outgrowth of

Alan Blinder contributed reporting.

A debate on which speech goes too far on a college campus.

that online culture, said Ms. Salib, 18, from Virginia Beach, Va. She plans to study political science.

Mr. Kirk was shot to death last year while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Police have charged Tyler James Robinson, 23, of Washington, Utah, with Mr. Kirk's murder. He has pleaded not guilty.

The controversy over such events as "Kirkversary" touches on the fraught debate about what speech goes too far on a college campus.

A photograph of a University of

Utah student with a cake that said "Happy Kirkiversary" — one of several alternate spellings — triggered numerous accusations of harassment that has prompted the school to review the incident. And Carnegie Mellon University said this week that a professor had violated the university's standards in a mocking social media post about the anniversary of Mr. Kirk's murder.

On Saturday, Christopher Landau, the deputy secretary of state and one of the top officials at the department, replied to a post on X that purported to show students at the Berkeley event.

"Thanks," Mr. Landau wrote. "On it!"

On Sunday, he posted on social media that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had "frequently underscored that a US visa is a privilege, not a right," and that "foreigners who celebrate violence and political assassination aren't welcome guests in our country."

He linked to a statement from August that said the State Department under President Trump had revoked more than 175,000 visas, including from “multiple foreign nationals who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk.”

The State Department press office responded to an interview request for Mr. Landau by referring to his social media posts on X.

Ms. Salib, the Berkeley student, said that although she did not like Mr. Kirk's politics, she could understand why fans of Mr. Kirk would be put off by the campus event. She said she was horrified by his murder.

"The way our generation is handling the situation, with the light, laughing tone — I definitely see how that would be offensive to those who appreciated and supported Charlie Kirk," she said.

But deportation threats? "That is pretty terrifying, actually," Ms. Salib said. "Peaceful protest is at the core of American democracy."

Earlier in the day, the campus's chapter of Turning Point USA held an event commemorating Mr. Kirk's life and death.

Janet Gilmore, a spokeswoman for the university, said in a statement that Berkeley "supports free speech on campus." She said that the university was aware that a local chapter of Turning Point USA had gathered on campus to honor Mr. Kirk.

She said the university did not have details about the events and had not heard of any concerns that were reported to the police. "However we are looking into the matter," she added.

Berkeley, a symbol of liberal politics long despised by many conservatives, has been a frequent target of Trump administration scrutiny.

Last fall, the Justice Department opened an investigation in the wake of protests during an event hosted by Turning Point USA. The department has not announced any findings in that inquiry, though it did accuse Berkeley's law school last week of illegally discriminating against white and Asian applicants. The university has denied the allegations.

The Education Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have also conducted investigations involving Berkeley. And researchers at Berkeley were among those who had their grant money cut. The Health and Human Services Department, for example, acknowledged in a July court filing that it had used Berkeley's name to help identify research money to cut.

Scrutiny of Jurors May Complicate Prospects for a New Clancy Trial

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Above, Lindsay Clancy, left, faced murder charges in the strangulation deaths of her three children. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, right, argued she was not guilty by reason of insanity. At left, Judge William Sullivan ultimately declared a mistrial.

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never have been seated if a past criminal accusation against him had been known.

The holdout — who voted for Ms. Clancy's conviction while the other 11 jurors wanted to find her not guilty by reason of insanity — had been charged with misdemeanor domestic violence assault in 2021 after his wife at the time said he had grabbed her throat and thrown her against a dresser. That charge was later dismissed. Court records from the couple's eventual divorce indicated that they had lived separately since the day of the arrest.

Then, last year, a teenage family member, who had called 911 during the 2021 incident, asked a judge for a restraining order against the man. The yearlong restraining order expired last month, during the trial.

Another juror identified the holdout in an interview with The Boston Globe, and The New York Times verified the holdout juror's identity. Repeated efforts to reach the man, a 48-year-old resident of Plymouth County, Mass., were unsuccessful. Several of his relatives declined to comment on his background or his jury service.

Neither the restraining order nor the dropped misdemeanor assault charge would have disqualified the man from jury service under Massachusetts law, which bars only those with a pending fel-

The holdout juror had been charged with misdemeanor assault.

ony charge or a felony conviction within seven years of their screening. Similarly, another Clancy juror — who was charged with misdemeanor assault more than 20 years ago, a charge that was also dismissed — was legally eligible to serve on the jury.

Unknown is whether the two jurors disclosed their past interactions with the law on the forms they filled out when they reported for jury duty. The Massachusetts form asks prospective jurors to "check all that apply" from a list that includes having ever been arrested, sued, served with a court order, charged with or convicted of a crime.

The form requires a signature from prospective jurors, acknowledging that "a willful misrepresentation or omission of a material fact on this form is a crime," punishable by a fine.

In theory, lawyers on either side could have run background checks on prospective jurors, a review permitted until the jury is sworn in. But in reality, experts said, trial lawyers often lack the time and resources to independently scrutinize jury pools during the initial screening, known as

Sheelagh McNeill and Susan C. Beachy contributed research.

voir dire, which tends to move quickly.

"They're looking at the things that are immediately front and center, like race, youth, gender, occupation, and asking what they can glean there," said Rosanna Cavallaro, a law professor at Suffolk University. Lawyers may challenge the other side's choice of a juror for a range of reasons, and may also deploy a limited number of no-cause challenges.

She noted that questions on jur- or forms help guide lawyers in asking questions during jury selection that elicit candidates' feelings about their past experiences, such as lingering animosity toward the police or the courts.

Defense lawyers often welcome jurors with past charges or convictions, experts said, because they may be more sympathetic toward defendants, or view prosecutors critically. The holdout juror in the Clancy case took the opposite stance, supporting the prosecution.

Even if a juror did fail to acknowledge being charged with or convicted of a crime, it wouldn't necessarily be grounds for removal, Professor Cavallaro said. Such an omission could be accidental, and would likely be seen as less serious than "proactive" juror misconduct, she said, such as posting on social media about a trial while serving as a juror for it.

Because Ms. Clancy's trial ended in a mistrial, effectively re-starting the case, it is unclear whether, or how, the revelations about the jurors' histories could be used by lawyers to affect what happens next. The same goes for the claim from other jurors that the holdout did not follow the judge's instructions, or the law, in reaching his decision that Ms. Clancy should be held criminally responsible.

In the days after the mistrial was declared, every new bit of information about the jurors to emerge was seized on by many who had followed the trial closely.

Last week, one of the jurors in the majority revealed to Gayle

King on CBS Mornings that the lone holdout was Black — and apparently the only Black person on the panel. That touched off a furor online from people who saw race as a pernicious factor in other jurors' criticism of him. Conservative commentators, some of whom who had been portraying the holdout juror as a heroic white man, quickly pivoted to criticizing the optics of 11 white jurors trying to have a Black man removed.

Online sleuths also uncovered posts from a Facebook account that appears to belong to a juror who favored acquittal. They show her cheering on the acquittal of Karen Read, a defendant in another recent high-profile trial that, similar to the Clancy case, became a hotbed of conspiracy theories.

Jurors' past conduct can have dramatic consequences. In another well-known Massachusetts case, a federal appeals court overturned the death penalty sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, in 2020, after finding that the judge in the case did not sufficiently screen jurors for bias.

Two jurors, it was later discovered, had posted comments on social media about Mr. Tsarnaev before the trial and failed to disclose them. The forewoman referred to him as "that piece of garbage"; another juror called him "scum." (The Supreme Court later reinstated the death sentence.)

Ten days after the judge declared a mistrial in the Clancy case, the intense scrutiny of jurors prompted unusual action on Mon- day. Judge William Sullivan indef- initely shielded the names of the 12 jurors and six alternates, citing "real and present risk" of harm fue- led by "daily, divisive attention" to the case. He also impounded for 10 days the names of every poten- tial juror who was called to court the week that jurors were chosen, in late July.

Judge Sullivan's attempt to lock their identities away from public view underscored the toxic new reality faced by jurors in high-profile trials, in an age of rampant, polarizing online discourse.

Alec Ewald, a professor of political science at the University of Vermont who has studied jury eligibility, said that excluding broad categories of prospective jurors with specific backgrounds — such as past criminal charges against them — could undermine the goal of assembling a true “jury of one’s peers.”

But he added that in a case involving disturbing, unimaginable crimes, and sharp national division over what the outcome should be, it seemed natural that a mistrial, with its lack of resolution, would trigger frustration with the jury.

"There's a need to make sense of these awful events, and then, with a mistrial, the jury gets in the way of that," he said. "The ambiguity and complexity of having regular people make these decisions really comes home to us when the results are unsatisfying."

Kirk's Kin Say Security Failed To Limit Access At Utah School

By JACK HEALY

The family of the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk has accused the Utah university where he was killed last year of "stunning" security failures that made him an easy target for a rooftop assassin.

In a legal notice filed this month, lawyers for Mr. Kirk's wife, parents and children said that Utah Valley University did not have a written security plan or hold a security briefing before Mr. Kirk arrived for an open-air debate last September that drew a crowd of thousands.

They also said the university's police chief had failed to address concerns raised by Turning Point USA, the conservative activist group founded by Mr. Kirk, about how easily people could climb onto the rooftops that overlook the sunken plaza where he was shot.

The accusations came in a “notice of claim” that lawyers for the Kirk family sent to the state of Utah earlier this month and made public on Wednesday. Mr. Kirk’s family has not yet sued, but the notice is a potential precursor to a wrongful-death lawsuit against the public university or the state.

"His murder was entirely preventable," Brett Parkinson, a lawyer for the Kirk family, said in a statement.

In a statement on Tuesday, Utah Valley University said its “focus remains on supporting our campus community” but declined to comment further on the notice. It is conducting its own review of security surrounding the shooting.

Mr. Kirk, one of the country's most influential and visible conservative activists, made Utah Valley University in Orem the first stop of his "American Comeback" tour of college campuses. About 3,000 people showed up on Sept. 10, 2025, to see him debate political opponents on a sunny afternoon.

He was just minutes into the event and answering an audience member's question when he was shot in the neck by a gunman perched on a rooftop about 400 feet away.

In the legal notice, lawyers for Mr. Kirk's family said the university's security decisions "ultimately

Concerns were ignored before the activist was killed, a legal filing claims.

rendered Mr. Kirk helpless to the rooftop shooter in an assassination that could have been avoided."

According to the notice, a Turning Point USA official texted Jeff Long, the university police chief, before the event to relay concerns from a Turning Point campus chapter about students' ability to take staircases to building rooftops.

"It would be nice to either have it controlled access or allow one of my guys to be there as well. If possible," a Turning Point official texted Chief Long, according to the legal notice.

Mr. Kirk's lawyers say Chief Long responded, "I got you covered."

Lawyers for the Kirk family argued in the legal notice that the university should have been on alert for a rooftop sniper after a would-be assassin fired at President Trump in 2024 from a roof outside a rally in Butler, Pa.

Surveillance videos and testimony from investigators suggest that Tyler J. Robinson, the 23-year-old man charged with Mr. Kirk's aggravated murder, encountered virtually no obstacles or resistance on his way to the roof. Mr. Robinson, who could face the death penalty, has pleaded not guilty.

Surveillance videos from the morning of the shooting captured the gunman as he walked to a railing on the roof of a campus building and then left. When he returned later, he "crawled to a sniper perch" along the edge of the roof, took aim at Mr. Kirk and fired, according to a legal filing by prosecutors.

The legal claim filed by Mr. Kirk's family said the university did not fly drones or monitor its surveillance cameras in real time during the event — actions that might have spotted the gunman.

It also says that despite Mr. Kirk's fame and the size of the crowd, the university had only six officers on duty that day and did not ask the police in Orem or nearby Provo for help until after the fatal shot was fired.

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House Passes Bipartisan Bill Taking Aim at Elevated Data Center Electricity Rates

The Stargate Oracle campus in Abilene, Texas. Data center construction has become a potent issue for the midterm elections.
BRANDON BELL/GETTY IMAGES

By MICHAEL GOLD

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill that encourages state utility regulators to insulate consumers from rising energy costs tied to data centers, as members of Congress rush to address a voter outcry over the rapid advance of artificial intelligence.

It was unclear whether the legislation, introduced by Representatives Gabe Evans, Republican of Colorado, and Kathy Castor, Democrat of Florida, would have its intended effect. The bill would direct state utility regulators to consider adopting federal rules requiring data centers to cover any higher costs associated with their large-scale power use. But under current law, Congress cannot force state regulators to follow federal standards when they are setting electricity rates.

Still, as the boom in data center construction has become a potent issue in November's midterm elections, lawmakers in both parties have been eager to have a legislative achievement that they could cite on the campaign trail. It would still have to pass the Senate and be signed by President Trump before it could become law.

Across the country, Americans in both parties are concerned about rising electricity prices and water use. Data centers, the large complexes of servers that are crucial to powering A.I. development, have become the most visible avatar of voters' fears over the growth of artificial intelligence and the power of big tech companies.

That issue took on new political urgency this week, after concerns over the safety of A.I. emerged into wider view and key tech leaders began calling for a slowdown in the pace of development.

Lawmakers in both parties have called on Congress to impose guardrails on artificial intelligence, though there is no clear bipartisan consensus on how to do so, and President Trump has rejected calls for regulation. Speaker Mike Johnson said on Tuesday that he and the president would convene a meeting with A.I. executives at the White House next week.

When asked about their plans to address the issue, some House Republicans pointed to the utility legislation, which does not address A.I. safety concerns. The measure mirrors a voluntary pledge that tech executives made at the White House earlier this year, when they promised to shoulder a larger share of the energy costs associated with data centers.

"It makes sure that the ratepayers are protected as you're building out A.I. infrastructure," said Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 Republican. "That it's got to be supported by the local community, and that it's not going to adversely impact ratepayers."

Wednesday's vote, 417 to 3, reflected the increasingly bipartisan nature of the data center backlash and a growing concern among Republicans that they are particularly vulnerable on the issue after their signature domestic policy bill included tax breaks that benefited developers of data centers. It also marked a turnabout from just a year ago, when almost all House Republicans backed a version of that measure that put a moratorium on any state regulation of A.I., though the provision was later stripped by the Senate.

With the House leaving town on Wednesday until after Election Day, this week was lawmakers' last chance to pass a bill showing they were responsive to voters' concerns about data centers.

Mr. Evans, who introduced the utility bill, is among the most politically vulnerable Republicans in the House. It is unclear whether the Senate will take up the legislation before October, when it is scheduled to recess until after November's elections. Its version of the bill was put forward by Senator Jon Husted, a Republican in a competitive race in Ohio in which Democrats have sought to make data centers a central issue.

A poll conducted this month by The New York Times and Siena University found that 61 percent of voters said they opposed the construction of data centers and were about split on which party was better positioned to address it, with a considerable bloc saying they did not know which side to trust.

When Republicans last year passed their sweeping tax and spending cut bill, they expanded significant tax advantages for businesses for research costs and new investments. They also adjusted a tax break program meant to encourage development in poorer areas so that it would incentivize more development in rural areas.

Democrats have argued that those provisions have helped technology companies looking to build new data centers, and they have accused Republicans of being indifferent to voters' worries that such construction is raising their electricity costs and changing their neighborhoods.

"Unfortunately, these very real concerns are repeatedly swept to the sidelines, minimized or ridiculed by President Trump and Republican congressional leaders," said Representative Frank Pallone Jr., Democrat of New Jersey.

Some Republicans have argued that regulations on artificial intelligence would hinder America's

Asking states to insulate consumers from rising costs.

ability to stay ahead of China in developing the technology. On the House floor, Mr. Evans presented his bill as a way to allow for data center development while ensuring that states had a mechanism to address implications for communities.

The bill, he said, "keeps costs low for Americans and helps us build the energy backbone required to compete and win in the A.I. race."

Weather Report

Highlight: The Weekend Outlook

Thunderstorms will be widespread from the central Rockies to the Midwest this weekend with the potential for flash flooding. Hot and humid conditions will prevail across the lower Mississippi Valley. Drier air will spread into the interior West. New England will be cool.

National Forecast

As a storm moves to the east, thunderstorms will extend from Iowa and Missouri to portions of New England today. Some of the heaviest downpours will be accompanied by gusty winds and small hail.

Outside of mainly afternoon thunderstorms in Florida, the rest of the Southeast and South Central States will be mostly dry. Temperatures will be above the 30-year average south of a line stretching from Kansas to Virginia. Humidity levels will increase across the area, including in New England.

Heavy storms will cause flash flooding, debris flows and gusty winds across the Rocky Mountains. The scope of the storms is forecast to be spotty from Oregon to Montana.

The rest of the West Coast will be dry and cool. Abundant sunshine will span California and Nevada.

Metropolitan Forecast

TODAY ......Some sun and humid High 81. Conditions will be humid and sunshine will occasionally be interrupted by clouds. Winds will be out of the south-southwest at 3 to 6 miles per hour. Temperatures will be a few degrees above average.

TONIGHT ....A few evening showers Low 71. A cold front moving through the area will result in a couple of showers in the evening. Otherwise, it will be mostly cloudy and humid. Winds will be from the southwest at 4 to 8 m.p.h.

TOMORROW....Partly sunny High 81. Dry weather will return and there will be intervals of clouds and sunshine. It will become less humid in the afternoon. Winds will be out of the north-northwest at 7 to 14 m.p.h.

SATURDAY ......Some sun and cooler High 70. It will not be as warm with intervals of clouds and sunshine. Winds will be out of the east at 7 to 14 m.p.h. Temperatures will be several degrees below normal for this time of year.

MONDAY ...... Rain Sunday A low pressure system will bring a cloudy sky with periodic rain on Sunday. High 71. It will remain cloudy on Monday and a shower will be possible. High 68.

Metropolitan Almanac

In Central Park, for the 13 hours ended at 1 p.m. yesterday.

Meteorology by AccuWeather

Precipitation (in inches)
Yesterday	Trace
Record	5.02
For the last 30 days
Actual	6.66
Normal	4.21
For the last 365 days
Actual	43.28
Normal	49.52
Air pressure	High: 30.40 10 a.m., Low: 30.37 1 a.m., High: 83% 6 a.m., Low: 65% noon

Cooling Degree Days
An index of fuel consumption that tracks how far the day's mean temperature rose above 65
Yesterday	1
So far this month	112
So far this season (since January 1)	1214
Normal to date for the season	1159

Cities

High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.

C....Clouds	S....Sun
F....Fog	Sn....Snow
H....Haze	SS....Snow showers
I....Ice	T....Thunderstorms
PC....Partly cloudy	Tr....Trace
R....Rain	W....Windy
Sh....Showers	-....Not available

N.Y.C. region	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
New York City	74/58 Tr	81/71 PC	81/60 PC
Bridgeport	74/58 0	78/70 PC	80/57 S
Caldwell	75/55 Tr	83/70 C	83/57 PC
Danbury	73/52 Tr	79/68 PC	79/48 S
Islip	74/55 Tr	80/69 PC	81/59 PC
Newark	77/60 Tr	84/72 PC	83/60 PC
Truon	77/56 0	84/68 PC	83/59 PC
White Plains	74/56 0	79/68 PC	80/54 PC

United States	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
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Albuquerque	82/64 0.50	80/64 T	81/63 T
Boston Rouge	67/64 0.07	57/63 T	59/64 PC
Atlanta	90/69 0	91/71 0	94/74 0
Atlantic City	77/70 0	80/71 PC	80/65 PC
Austin	96/71 0.04	94/72 0	95/69 PC
Baltimore	86/66 0	89/72 T	85/62 PC
Baton Rouge	95/74 0.04	95/67 S	95/69 S
Birmingham	95/71 0	94/69 S	97/72 S
Boston	84/67 0	94/56 T	95/61 PC
Boston	76/65 0	76/67 C	78/54 S
Buffalo	75/65 0.02	74/57 T	77/52 PC
Buffalo-Ft. Louis	75/65 0.02	74/57 T	78/60 PC
Casper	81/48 0.02	63/51 T	82/49 T
Charlotte	88/63 0	93/71 0	92/72 T
Chattanooga	95/70 0	87/72 T	86/73 PC
Chicago	76/63 0.10	76/64 S	75/66 PC
Cincinnati	93/73 0.04	94/71 T	81/65 PC
Cleveland	79/71 0.08	76/64 T	74/58 PC
Dallas Springs	78/65 0.16	76/59 T	81/57 S
Columbus	87/72 0.24	85/68 T	78/61 PC
Concord, N.C.	87/59 0	75/63 0	77/41 T
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn	100/68 0.01	99/69 T	98/68 T
Denver	83/61 0.04	81/60 T	83/56 T
Dee Moines	70/66 0.26	75/66 T	85/69 T
Detroit	75/64 0.11	74/68 T	79/61 T
El Paso	92/68 0.45	95/72 T	97/69 T
Fargo	69/51 0.10	72/56 S	67/53 C
Hartford	79/62 0.01	78/66 C	80/50 S
Huntsmanu	98/73 0.01	88/70 0	78/69 PC
Houston	96/77 0.04	90/75 T	94/70 S
Indianapolis	90/73 0.16	92/70 T	89/66 C
Iowa	96/70 0.0	96/70 T	88/71 T
Jacksonville	87/71 0	88/70 T	88/71 T
Kansas City	91/71 1.36	90/71 T	91/72 S
Key West	96/68 0.02	94/68 T	81/80 T
Las Vegas	98/74 0	94/75 0	98/72 S
Lexington	94/72 0.04	95/71 PC	96/69 T

Little Rock	99/75	7/04	98/74	98/73
Los Angeles	81/67	0	80/64 PC	82/66 PC
Louisville	96/76	7/04	98/75	91/72
Memphis	98/77	0	99/75	101/78.5
Pittsburgh	97/68	7/06	97/71	97/71
Milwaukee	67/64	7/1	69/61 Sh	69/65 PC
Mits.: St. Paul	74/61	0	77/60	62/57 PC
New York City	101/74	7/15	99/75	99/74
New Orleans	89/79	7/06	91/75	91/73
Norfolk	80/64	0	86/69	85/71.5
North Carolina	101/74	7/15	98/75	98/73.5
Omaha	69/64	0.17	78/69	89/69
Orlando	90/74	0.02	85/73	88/71
Philadelphia	103/74	7/15	91/71.5	91/73.5
Phoenix	91/74	1.16	96/61 PC	102/61.5
Pittsburgh	86/70	7/04	81/66.7	78/58 PC
Portland, Me.	72/58	0	70/61 Sh	77/46.5
Pittsburgh, Me.	82/58	0	84/71.5	83/59.5
Providence	74/62	0	78/67 PC	79/50.5
Raleigh	87/61	0	91/71.5	93/69.5
Romey	88/67	0	78/65.5	78/53.5
Richmond	84/62	0	90/69.5	88/65.5
Rochester	74/64	7/1	74/56.7	75/47 PC
San Antonio	98/78	7/04	95/77.5	95/76.5
San Diego	73/60	0	77/57.5	97/76.5
San Francisco	69/60	0	74/59 PC	73/58 PC
San Jose	77/59	0	77/57 PC	80/57 PC
San Juan	91/79	7/14	90/79.7	91/79.7
Salemia	75/54	0	75/52.5	75/52.5
Sioux Falls	69/60	7/04	75/64.2	81/58.5
Spokane	73/50	0	76/52 PC	76/51.5
S pointe	97/67	0.09	95/61.5	96/61.5
St. Thomas	88/81	0.11	89/81.5	91/80 PC
Synacuse	76/63	0	75/60.1	71/46 PC
Summita	80/74	7/04	77/54.1	96/76.5
Toledo	77/67	0.54	79/59.1	74/57.5
Tucson	85/71	1.65	93/73.7	96/72.7
Tulsa	101/79	0	98/78.7	91/72.5
Tulsa Beach	83/69	0.3	81/70.5	81/72.5
Washington	85/69	0	88/74.7	87/65 PC
Wichita	94/72	0	99/74.5	96/75.5
Wilmington, Del.	82/67	0.02	86/71.5	82/69.5
Africa	Yesterday		Today		Tomorrow
Algiers	85/62	0	88/68.8	83/67.2
Cairo	97/75	1.00	102/77 PC	90/72 PC
Cape Town	65/62	0.24	68/51.5	71/54.5
Chennai	90/67	0.11	91/59.5	91/59.5
Johannesburg	79/45	0	78/52 PC	69/47 PC
Nairobi	74/57	0.10	73/58.2	74/60.7
Tunis	88/69	0	92/72 Sh	91/73.1
Asia/Pacific Today				Tomorrow
Tokyo	110/60	1.00	110/60 PC	111/60 PC
Bangkok	95/77	0.44	92/78.8	92/77.8
Beijing	96/59	0	88/66.4	84/63.7
Bansucau	99/60	0.13	99/63.4	98/63.4
Hong Kong	91/60	0	91/90.5	93/80.5
Jakarta	94/77.0	0.11	91/77.5Sh	91/77.5Sh
Jerusalem	88/68	0	89/70.5	82/66.5Sh
Kuala Lumpur	95/64	0.13	94/79.5	93/79.5
Manila	96/77	0.05	90/78.7	92/78.5Sh
Mumbai	88/77	0.01	89/81.8	84/80 PC

New Delhi	98/79	0/07	94/76	95/78	PC
Riyadh	106/77	0/0	106/79	PC	107/72
Seoul	84/55	0/0	83/64	C	86/63
Shanghai	85/50	0/0	83/53	74/53	C
Singapore	93/81	0/0	91/80	91/79	C
Sydney	66/47	0/0	64/48	74/54	PC
Taipei City	85/75	0/02	80/76	87/74	PC
Tokyo	73/69	0/0	72/68	75/70	PC
Tokyo	73/70	0/62	75/68	75/70	PC
Europe	Yesterday	Today		Tomorrow
Amsterdam	66/57	0.30	63/54	65/59	PC
Athens	82/70	0/0	84/63	84/64	S
Berlin	68/58	0.13	68/56	68/61	PC
Brussels	68/59	0/0	65/58	68/56	PC
Budapest	81/48	0/0	74/48	73/53	PC
Bangkok	64/56	0.48	62/56	65/52	PC
Dublin	61/52	0/21	62/52	63/56	S
Edinburgh	63/48	0/0	58/52	61/54	S
Fiji	73/64	0/04	72/62	72/62	PC
Geneva	73/63	0/0	72/60	72/46	PC
Helsinki	61/54	0.24	62/49	60/52	R
Istanbul	70/64	0.29	71/64	79/65	PC
Jakarta	70/60	0/0	72/59	79/62	PC
Lisbon	79/64	0/0	83/62	83/64	S
London	70/54	0/0	70/51	67/60	PC
Madrid	82/68	0/0	80/68	88/68	S
Moscow	63/40	0/0	71/53	65/48	S
Nice	81/72	0/0	80/67	79/66	PC
Rio de Janeiro	73/55	0/0	63/45	63/45	PC
Pare	73/55	0/0	72/52	71/53	C
Prague	77/55	0/0	67/50	68/48	C
Rome	84/64	0/0	84/67	82/65	S
Paris-Isle-Bourg	68/52	0.18	61/51	61/56	PC
Stockholm	61/55	0/18	60/49	61/50	S
Vienna	82/52	0/0	69/49	70/55	PC
Vienna	75/55	0/0	66/50	72/52	PC
North America	Yesterday	Today		Tomorrow
Acupulco	89/79	0/02	92/78	92/78	T
Bermuda	86/79	0/08	87/78	86/79	S
Edmonton	51/34	1/1	73/38	73/42	S
Fernanda	75/60	0/0	85/61	85/61	S
Havana	90/72	0/0	92/71	90/70	T
Kingston	90/80	0/0	93/81	94/82	PC
Martinique	91/74	0/02	79/73	79/74	PC
Montreal City	69/54	0/0	78/59	77/56	S
Monterey	86/71	0/0	92/69	91/69	T
Montreal	73/63	0/05	72/56	69/45	S
Nashville	88/70	0/0	80/71	80/70	S
Panama City	88/78	0/27	92/74	89/77	R
Quebec City	68/55	0/09	67/51	61/42	S
Riyadh	86/55	0/0	94/55	94/54	S
Toronto	73/63	0/0	73/57	71/54	PC
Vancouver	63/50	0/0	68/51	68/52	PC
Winnipeg	56/36	0/1	63/44	68/52	PC
South America	Yesterday	Today		Tomorrow
Casuano Aires	54/55	0/0	58/53	68/59	PC
Caesarex	91/78	0/04	92/79	92/77	S
Lima	75/68	0/0	77/70	78/69	PC
Quito	69/47	0/0	71/48	70/46	S
Tokio City	84/54	0/06	82/57	82/57	PC
Rio de Janeiro	73/66	0/06	72/66	73/67	S
Santiago	72/45	0/0	80/50	81/52	PC

Reservoir levels (New York City water supply)

Yesterday	86%
Est. normal	80%

Recreational Forecast

Sun, Moon and Planets

	First Quarter	Full	Last Quarter	New
	Sep. 18	Sep. 2612:49 p.m.	Oct. 3	Oct. 1011:48 a.m.
Sun	RISE	6:38 a.m.	Moon	1:36 p.m.
	SET	7:02 p.m.		10:19 p.m.
	NEXT R	6:39 a.m.		2:32 p.m.
Jupiter	R	3:27 a.m.	Mars	1:27 a.m.
	S	5:30 p.m.		4:19 p.m.
Saturn	S	8:13 a.m.	Venus	10:12 a.m.
	R	7:50 p.m.		8:07 p.m.

Boating

From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York Harbor.

Winds will be from the southwest at 5-10 knots. Waves will be less than 1 foot on New York Harbor and Long Island Sound and 2-3 feet on the open ocean. Visibility will be unrestricted to the horizon.

High Tides

Atlantic City	12:03 a.m.	12:31 p.m.
Barnegal Inlet	12:31 a.m.	12:55 p.m.
The Battery	1:12 a.m.	1:33 p.m.
Beach Haven	1:54 a.m.	2:19 p.m.
Bridgeport	4:11 a.m.	4:26 p.m.
City Island	4:28 a.m.	4:17 p.m.
Fire Island Lt	1:22 a.m.	1:47 p.m.
Montauk Point	2:02 a.m.	2:23 p.m.
Northport	4:06 a.m.	4:24 p.m.
Port Washington	3:01 a.m.	4:08 p.m.
Sandy Hook	12:36 a.m.	1:01 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet	12:10 a.m.	12:36 p.m.
Stamford	4:07 a.m.	4:22 p.m.
Tarrytown	3:01 a.m.	3:22 p.m.
Wills Point	4:23 a.m.	4:14 p.m.

Trends		Temperature		Precipitation
		Average		Average
		Below	Above	Below	Above
Last	10 days
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Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation trends compare with those of the last 30 years.

Beach and Ocean Temperatures

An approaching cold front will bring a mostly cloudy sky and a couple of late-day showers from Maine through northern Massachusetts. It will remain dry across the rest of the area with a mixture of clouds and sunshine, though conditions will be humid. Highs will range from near 70 north to the low 80s south.

Annie Dillard, Author Who Reflected on Life and Nature, Dies at 81

By DANIEL LEWIS

Annie Dillard, who as a young American writer walked into the woods and came out with a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the wonders and horrors of creation, the modern classic "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," died on Tuesday at her home in South Wellfleet, Mass. She was 81.

Her death was confirmed by her literary executor, Maggie Nelson. No further details were given.

With the publication of “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” in 1974, Ms. Dillard, just 28, was recognized as a major new voice in American letters. It was only the beginning of her career: In the years to come, she would publish essays, meditations on religion, poems, a theory of literature, two novels, journalism, a best-selling autobiography and another best seller, “The Writing Life,” about what it takes to put words into a world that has more than enough of them.

Reviewers of "Tinker Creek" were quick to understand it as a 20th-century analogue to Henry David Thoreau's "Walden." This was no coincidence: Ms. Dillard had chosen Thoreau as the subject of her master's thesis at Hollins

Reviewers of "Tinker Creek" were quick to compare Ms. Dillard to Henry David Thoreau.

ANNIE BILLARD

"Holy the Firm" (1977), a three-part tour de force honed almost to the shape and intensity of a poem.

In her 1987 autobiography, Ms. Dillard recalled her young self as a serious reader and an explorer.

University, the women's liberal arts college in Roanoke, Va.

Like Thoreau, she found an unremarkable body of water to be as good a place as any for deep thoughts — particularly about how to reconcile the idea of a benevolent God with nature's cruelty.

Unlike Thoreau, Ms. Dillard didn't build a cabin in the woods and live there through the seasons of a year. Though her writing could convey the sense of a solitary life in the wilderness, she was mostly a day-tripper. After her forays into the Roanoke Valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains — which was, after all, her neighborhood — she would return home to the suburban house she shared with Richard Dillard, a creative-writing instructor she had married at the end of her sophomore year at Hollins.

That she was a photogenic young woman coming to grips with raw nature — a business that had been almost exclusively the province of men with beards — was undeniably part of the Dillard mystique. So was her insistence that, in spite of her patient, unflinching observations on flora and fauna, she wasn't a nature writer, but rather a theologian looking high and low for God.

Among the many things she saw at Tinker Creek was a little green frog, half out of the water, "deflating like a football" before her eyes. It was in the clutches of a giant water bug whose bite had liquefied the frog's innards. Such encounters could cause "nightmares that plunder rest and force me face down all night long in some muddy ditch seething with hatching insects and crustaceans," she wrote.

"But if I can bear the nights, the days are a pleasure," she added. "I walk out; I see something, some event that otherwise would have been utterly missed and lost; or something sees me, some enormous power brushes me with its clean wing, and I resound like a beaten bell."

“Tinker Creek” won the Pulitzer for general nonfiction in 1975, and Ms. Dillard was overwhelmed by requests for speeches, interviews and television appearances. Her looks were thought by many media outlets to be as newsworthy as her writing — so much so that she was ridiculed in some circles as “Cheesecake at Tinker Creek.”

Repelled by the consequences of her success, she moved to Washington State and began dividing her time between the city of

Ama Sarpomaa contributed reporting.

Bellingham and the islands Waldron and Lummi. Her marriage to Mr. Dillard had ended in amicable divorce, and in the Pacific Northwest, she found privacy enough to regain the concentration essential to her work.

"The Cascade Range, in these high latitudes, backs almost into the water," she wrote. "There is only a narrow strip, an afterthought of foothills and farms sixty miles wide, between the snowy mountains and the sea."

She added: "If the Greeks had looked at Mt. Baker all day, their large and honest art would have broken, and they would have gone fishing, as these people do."

The Problem of Evil

Those lines are from the first fruit of her relocation, "Holy the Firm," published in 1977, a three-part metaphysical tour de force in 76 pages honed almost to the shape and intensity of a poem. It took 14 months of full-time work, by her account, in a one-room house as "plain as a skull," her only companions a cat and a spider.

“Nothing is going to happen in this book,” she writes. “There is only a little violence here and there in the language, at the corner where eternity clips time.”

But by that point, she has already told an excruciating account of a moth that gets stuck in the molten wax of a candle and itself becomes a wick that burns for two hours. Just ahead is the story of a 7-year-old girl she calls Julie Norwich, who gets safely to ground after her father's light plane clips a line of fir trees on takeoff, only to have her face burned off by a splunt of hot fuel.

Which brings Ms. Dillard once more head-to-head with a question known to religious thinkers as the problem of evil: Could it possibly be that a loving, all-powerful God allows bad things to happen just to make goodness stand out in sharper relief?

Ms. Dillard's years in Washington inspired some of the essays in her celebrated collection "Teaching a Stone to Talk" (1982).

Its jewel was "Total Eclipse," which in 2000 was included in "The Best American Essays of the Century," not long after "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" appeared on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best nonfiction books.

On the morning of Feb. 26, 1979, Ms. Dillard and her second husband, the anthropologist Gary Clevidence, sat atop a 500-foot-tall hill in the orchard country of the Yakima Valley to view an eclipse. They put on welder's goggles. When the show began, Ms. Dillard experienced something like a psychedelic trip, minus the acid. The light was all wrong. The grass was platinum. Her hands were silver.

"The hillside," she wrote, "was a nineteenth-century tinted photograph from which the tints had faded."

The first of Ms. Dillard's two novels grew out of her Washington sojourn as well: Published in 1992, "The Living," a 19th-century pioneer saga, centered on what became Whatcom County.

All the while, she had been teaching classes at Western Washington State College (now Western Washington University). In an account written by Paul Lindholdt, a former student working on a critical biography of Ms. Dillard, she came across as a chain-smoking force of nature: "She was by turns disorganized and inspiring, prickly and brilliant. She required her students to foot-stomp aloud the meter of favorite poems, including 'God's Grandeur' by Gerard Manley Hopkins."

Though she had once said that she might remain in the North-west, she and Mr. Clevidence moved east in 1979, and from then until 2001 she taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.

Pittsburgh-Born

Annie Dillard was born Meta Ann Doak on April 30, 1945, in Pittsburgh. Her father, Frank Doak, was an executive with the American Standard corporation and a great-grandson of the founder;

her mother, Pam Lambert Doak, was known as a platinum-haired wit with a taste for modernist furniture and a passion for liberal causes.

In "An American Childhood" (1987), an autobiography, Ms. Dillard recalls her young self as a serious reader, an explorer who was allowed to roam freely as soon as she could recite her phone number, and a roughneck who played football with the boys.

"You got to throw yourself mightily at someone's running legs — either you brought him down or you hit the ground flat on your chin, with your arms empty before you," she wrote. "It was all or nothing."

As a teenager, she later wrote, "I would give my heart to one odd-ball boy after another — to older boys, to prep-school boys no one knew, to him who refused to go to college, to him who was a hood, and all of them wonderfully skinny."

She was suspended from school for smoking. She unfairly blamed her parents for everything that was wrong with North America. And when it came time for college, she went to Hollins on the recommendation of her high school principal, who thought the place might smooth her "rough edges." She went on to earn bachelor's and master's degrees there, in 1967 and '68.

Ms. Dillard and Mr. Clevidence divorced in 1988, and Ms. Dillard married Robert D. Richardson Jr., whom she met after sending him a fan letter about his book "Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind."

Mr. Richardson died in 2020. Ms. Dillard's survivors include a child from her marriage to Mr. Clevidence, Cody-Rose.

Ms. Dillard's first book was a collection of poems, "Tickets for a Prayer Wheel," published a few months before "Tinker Creek." Her later books included the journalistic "Encounters with Chinese Writers" (1984); "The Writing Life" (1989), which offered, instead of tips, reflections that amounted to "a spiritual Funk and Wagnalls," in the words of one reviewer; "For the Time Being" (1999), which included a series of essays exploring what it means to be human; and her second novel, "The Maytrees" (2007), an uncharacteristically warm story of love set in postwar Provincetown, Mass., at the tip of Cape Cod. It was the last book she wrote.

Ms. Dillard's papers are held at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, where Diana Saverin, a researcher and Dillard fan, went through them and reported on her findings for The Atlantic in 2015. Of particular interest were the journals in which Ms. Dillard talked herself through the fear that no one would read a book like "Tinker Creek" because it was written by a woman.

"It's impossible to imagine another situation where you can't write a book 'cause you weren't born with a penis," Ms. Dillard wrote. "Except maybe 'My Life With My Penis.'"

And Then Silence

Ms. Dillard was not immune to criticism. She took heat for fictionalizing part of "Tinker Creek," which was billed as nonfiction — specifically the opening scene, about a fighting tomcat that smeared blood on her. It turned out to be a story she had borrowed with permission from a graduate student.

More generally, some readers who admired her bravery and virtuosity faulted her for leaving out what Thoreau had included: a sense of connection to the world most people live in. No news of the Vietnam War, Watergate or the energy crisis ever reached Tinker Creek. Writing about the book in The New York Times, Eudora Welty — herself a Pulitzer winner for her novel “The Optimist’s Daughter” — observed that Ms. Dillard was “the only person in her book, substantially the only one in her world.”

Ms. Welty added, "Speaking of the universe very often, she is yet self-surrounded, and, beyond that, book-surrounded."

Forty-two years later, in a sweeping appraisal of her work, the author and critic William Deresiewicz noted in The Atlantic that “Dillard, like Thoreau, is never shy about pronouncing wholesale condemnation on the way her fellows live.” He thought that the alternative she represented smacked of spiritual snobbery and hypocrisy — a mystical way of life for the few who could afford it; like, for instance, the daughter of a wealthy family who became a success before she turned 30.

Mr. Deresiewicz's article was occasioned by publication of "The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New" (2016), in which the only "new" thing was 11 years old. Ms. Dillard had, by then, been silent for nine years, since "The Maytrees."

She was last photographed in public in 2014, when she went to the White House to receive the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama for her "profound reflections on human life and nature."

JILL KREMENTZ

Her website told readers, "I can no longer travel, can't meet with strangers, can't sign books." It stated her religion as "none" — she had been a Protestant and then a Roman Catholic and then neither — but acknowledged her connection to Christianity and Hasidism. She spent recent years at her Cape Cod home, painting watercolors.

She had written with all her might, and had tried to light the same fire in others. Amid the pyrotechnics of "Holy the Firm," she told the following story of a day in her classroom.

"How many of you, I asked the people in my class, which of you want to give your lives and be writers?" she wrote. "I was trembling from coffee, or cigarettes, or the closeness of faces all around me . . . All hands rose to the question. (You, Nick? Will you? You, Margaret? Randy? Why do I want them to mean it ?)"

She added: "And then I tried to tell them what the choice must mean: You can't be anything else. You must go at your life with a broadax."

Annie Dillard in 1974, the year she published "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," which established her as a major voice in American letters.

BOII CHILD/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ms. Dillard in 1983, left, soon after publishing her celebrated collection of essays "Teaching a Stone to Talk." Right, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal in 2014.
ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Harold P. Freeman, 93, Who Helped Patients Navigate Care, Is Dead

later, once their cancers were advanced.

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

Harold P. Freeman, an influential oncology surgeon whose knowledge of the devastating effects of breast cancer on poor Black women inspired him to create a landmark program at Harlem Hospital Center, helping patients navigate the health care bureaucracy, died on Aug. 11 in Atlanta. He was 93.

His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by his son Neale.

Dr. Freeman's patient navigation program became a model for hospitals around the world, helping to eliminate barriers to early cancer detection. The program's success influenced the passage of the federal Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Act of 2005, which provided \$25 million for similar programs across the United States. In 2024, Medicare began reimburs-

ing providers for some navigation services for cancer, heart failure, H.I.V./AIDS and other high-risk conditions.

He developed a program that became a model for hospitals around the world.

"There are no navigation events or meetings that don't acknowledge Dr. Freeman's role in patient navigation," Dr. Shanthi Sivendran, the interim chief patient officer of the American Cancer Society, said in an interview. "There wasn't a patient navigation concept before him."

When Dr. Freeman, who was Black, arrived at Harlem Hospital in 1967, he was convinced that his skills as a surgeon were the most effective weapon he had in the fight against cancer. But the obstacles — for him and his patients — were more daunting than he anticipated.

"I imagined that I could 'cut cancer out of Harlem,' he wrote in an opinion essay in The New York Times in 2014. "But I soon learned that the disease would not yield to a surgeon's knife."

His patients — often poor, single and uninsured, with children to care for — were frustrated by the barriers they faced. Some felt rebuffed when they initially sought treatment, only to return much

He queried some two dozen breast cancer patients about why they had waited so long to come in for treatment.

One woman's explanation, he said, epitomized the problem: She had been turned away from the hospital's emergency room after a doctor told her that a lump in her breast was not an emergency. The doctor had instructed her to go downtown to get a Medicaid card — the office was about 100 blocks away — and then return to the hospital to make an appointment at the proper clinic, where she would have to register and provide proof of insurance, which she may not have had.

Confronted with a series of obstacles, patients "may decide that the process of registration is more painful than the painless lump," Dr. Freeman wrote in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians in 1989, while he was serving as president of the American Cancer Society. "In this manner, poor people are often triaged negatively back to their communities, returning months later with incurable cancer."

Harold P. Freeman in 2000. At Harlem Hospital in 1967, he found the obstacles were more daunting than he had anticipated.
FRANCES ROBERTS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ten years before he wrote the article, he had opened the Breast Examination Center of Harlem, which did not require women to register with the hospital. The facility was funded by the state and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

In 1990, Dr. Freeman started the patient navigator program at Harlem Hospital, which provided a variety of services, including assessing patients' clinical, financial and transportation needs; helping them make appointments to have mammograms and to see oncologists and surgeons; and guiding them through continued care. By 1995, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer at the hospital had increased to 70 percent from 39 percent.

"There are some individuals whose impact is so broad — who change their field and the world — that it's hard to remember what things were like before them," Dr. Larry Norton, the medical director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering, said in an interview.

Harold Paul Freeman was born on March 2, 1933, in Washington and grew up in a segregated world. His mother, Lucille (Thomas) Freeman, was a teacher; his father, Clyde Freeman, was a cab-driver and security guard who became a lawyer when he was 40. Harold had a grandfather who was a doctor and a great-great-grandfather who had been a slave and had saved \$1,800 to buy his freedom.

When Harold was 13, his father died of testicular cancer. "Even though I was still a young boy, I saw the underlying cruelty of cancer," he told The ASCO Post, an oncology journal, in 2022. "Which, of course, was devastating on many levels."

In 1954, he received a bachelor's degree from the Catholic University of America, where he majored in biology and was captain of the tennis team. After earning a medical degree from Howard University in 1958, he completed residencies at Howard University Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering. In 1963, he returned to Howard as chief resident in general surgery; a year later, he headed back to Memorial Sloan Kettering as a senior resident in surgery. Three years later, he moved to Harlem Hospital, where he was promoted to director of surgery in 1974.

In Dr. Freeman's early days at Harlem Hospital, at least half of the patients admitted with breast cancer were considered incurable because their tumors were so advanced.

That was alarming enough, but his concern extended further: He was focused on the broader effects of breast and other cancers on Black Americans, whose survival rates were lower than those of white Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and some Asian Americans.

In 1984, Dr. Freeman became chairman of the American Cancer Society's National Advisory Committee on Cancer Minorities, which studied whether Black people were dying disproportionately of cancer because they were poor.

"No matter what your background, if you have the education and resources, you're about equal as far as your chances for survival are concerned," he told a meeting of the society in Westchester County in 1987. "However, if you are poor and from any ethnic group, your survival chances drop about 10 to 15 percent. If you are poor and Black, your chances are a bit worse than if you are poor and white."

In 1989, a year after being named president of the society, Dr. Freeman oversaw a series of public hearings on the effects of poverty on cancer patients. Afterward, the society, along with the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control, issued a report stating that poor people endured greater pain and suffering from cancer than other Americans, and made greater personal and financial sacrifices to pay for care.

"We need to declare a new kind of war on cancer — a guerrilla war — that will tear down the economic and cultural barriers to early and adequate cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment," Dr. Freeman told The Citizens' Voice of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., after the report was released.

Soon after, he started the patient navigation program at Harlem Hospital, which introduced his ideas to a wider world.

He went on to chair the President's Cancer Panel, advising Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on national cancer policy, and served as associate director at the National Cancer Institute and the founding director of the institute's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities.

In 1999, Dr. Freeman left Harlem Hospital to become the president of North General Hospital in East Harlem; two years later, he became the director of its cancer center. In 2003, he became the medical director of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in Harlem, a collaborative effort between Memorial Sloan Kettering, Mr. Lauren's fashion company and North General (which closed in 2010). The facility is now the MSK Ralph Lauren Center, and has incorporated the Breast Examination Center's services. At the center, Dr. Freeman established the Patient Navigation Institute, a national training program.

Dr. Freeman married Artholian Palmer in 1957. In addition to their son Neale, she survives him, along with another son, Hal, also a doctor, and three grandchildren.

Dr. Norton, the oncologist, remembered a meeting between the National Cancer Advisory Board, which he served on, and the President's Cancer Panel, then under Dr. Freeman's leadership.

At one point during the meeting, Dr. Norton suggested that the race of a person should no longer be recorded when someone took part in a clinical drug trial.

"I was concerned because there is no biological definition of race; I thought it was unscientific," he said. "And Harold said, 'There may not be such a thing as race, but there is such a thing as racism.'"

Dr. Freeman was concerned that without knowing the race of the people in the trials, researchers couldn't be sure that they had an adequate cross-section of Americans.

"In his quiet, powerful way, he corrected me in public," Dr. Norton said. "It was one of many experiences with him that stand out."

Chemick, Eleanor Loeb, John

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Sissman, Norman

CHERNICK—Eleanor, Eleanor (Ellie), the daughter of Charles and Mary and youngest of four siblings—Shawley, William, who were unteered to serve in the US Navy WAVES in WWII. She completed a B.A., master's and doctoral deagrees in education, and was a result of daily reading teacher, and teacher training at CUNY, Eleanor married Arthur in 1940. He had received two sons—Charles, Robert and Joseph, and has seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Even of 102, Eleanor and William had been a thirst for learning and joy for life, attending writing classes, and reading voraciously. He had experienced his accomplishments have been inspirational to friends and family.

LOEB—John L., Jr.

John L. Loeb, Jr., age 96, a section of the Loeb and Lehman Wall Street dynasties, died peacefully on August 5, 2026. A public servant, financial officer, is a general citizen philanthropist, and patron of the arts, Ambassador Loeb was a vigorous champion of the First Amendment. Born on May 2, 1930, Manhattan to be a president of Lehman Loeb, he would later joke that he was born with two silver spoons in my mouth. He was among the great city's economic-Jewish elite. "Our Crowd," as described by historian Stephen Birmingham and a grandnephew of New York City, a U.S. government, Herbert H. Lehman, John graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1952, where he was a member of the Lampoon, and the United States is a major U.S. Air Force. In 1954, he then served for two years, with his own position at the U.S., United States, U.S. Air Force. In 1957, he joined Loeb, Rhodes, he appointed him to be a member of the United States founded by his grandfather and father, where he spent on the United States in the United States to establish a taxable years before entering public service and pursuing to be a good deal for its business, including Sonoma-Loeb, a prize-winning winery. New York, a member of the United States, has not yet been Federal or Federal officer appointed him Chairman of the New York Council. The United States has been elected as an extension he held from 1970 to 1975. While remaining professional leaders were also married by John was drawn to Ronald Reagan's fiscal conservation committee, the support of Israel, Reagan appointed him U.S. Ambassador's position was given that he had been held from 1981 to 1983. Danish support for NATO reached an international level of 1500 in the territory. Queen Margrette II awarded him to the United States and the Order of the Dannebreg in recognition of his diplomatic service. A passable session was performed as assembled the largest private relations of Danish art outside Denmark with 1500 in the world of art, The Danish American National Association of Monet Henness, Moth the Year's 2005 for his continued promotion of Danish art which was not only one of them. In May 2023, the American Scandinavian Foundation founded him with a Cultural Art Fair for the sports team. More note Danish art in the United States has been granted by Elizabeth II appointed him Commander of the Most Excellent American Art Fair for the United States (CBE) for his contribution to strengthening Anglo-geria and promoting the field of science and technology through his leadership of the United States, which was a national education of the United States, John devoted the latter decades of its country to the anti-Semitism and advancing understanding of America.

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foundational commitment to religious freedom. In 2009, he built the Ambassador John L. Laop, Jr., and the United States of the Touro Synagogue Nationally, who is a member of the New Jersey Rhode Island. The synagogue, the oldest Jewish American, was in America, stands as a testament to early American relations. The Solomon, the President of that congregation, Washington's words remain in the United States, "Gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no other way," was an important mission, in 2009, John created the George Washington Institute for the Republic (GWIRF), which partnered with civic organizations and the United States develop curricula, publications and programs inspired by the United States in 2016, John expanded this commitment by endowing the Church of the Loeb, Jr. Institute for Religious Freedom and Democracy of the United States University. A prolific author of the United States has also his exhibited his memoir. Reflections, Memories and Confessions, are not only one of the ambassadors John L. Laop Jr., Danish Art Collection, in 2005, and the United States has been made in millions, a book chronicling his family's history, and co-organized by the United States of the Loeb and Her Early American Jewish Ancestors, trajectories and movements from the 1600s. He was a tenth-generation American and a fourth-generation American Rev. The American Revolution John also created the Loeb Database. The United States of the Irish Historical Portraits, a collection of more than four hundred biosynthetic forms of the American Rev. It is a couple through the American Jewish Historical Society and the United States of the United States, a member of numerous social and historical organization, and a member of several Colonial Wars, the Sons of the American Revolution, the United States of the United States in London, and Lyford Cay in

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the Bahamas, as well as clubs and institutions in Palm Springs, are the most successful at Beach Country Club, the Society of the Four Arts, and the United States is a great long resident of his grandfather Arthur Lehman's estate. Purchase, New York, John Anderson, is also known in New York City, London, and has been a great deal for Saranac Lake, where he spent cherished summers with his family. Ambassador Michael Letham, who is loved wife, Sharon Handler Loeb; his children, Alessandro Mears Loeb; five grandchildren; his brother, Arthur Lehman, who is a great friend to Boroh Loeb Rice. Reflecting on his life, John said: "I have been a great heart and explored ways to teach young people how to be able to live with warmth and understanding of people whose love will be different from one's own."

LOEB—John L., Jr. The Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, 1960, took a long lead to Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr., a tenth-generation American. When our headquarters, he had been destroyed and damaged by a nearby terrorist attack in 1975, Loeb took the first time to give him a strong association of the building. The Board of Managers acknowledged his generosity by delivering his confidence in his dearness to honor of his grandmother, Adeline Moses, Loeb, a member of the President of the Revolution. In 1993 the Board presented him with the Sons of the Revolution Distribution Center, who was born in 2009 made him on Honorary President of SRNY in appreciation of his longtime desire to be a positive. We send our condolences to his widow, Sharon Handler Loeb, who went to him in 2008. Peter J.W. Sherwin, President

LOEB—John Langeloth, Jr. The American-Scandinavian Foundation sends its deepest condolences to Sharon Handler Loeb, widow of Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr., and his children, Alexandro Loeb Driscoll and Nicholas Mears

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Loeb. We were honored by John's service as an ASF Trustee for a quarter century, The 2013 exhibition of his superb collection of Danish art, the largest in private hands outside Denmark, stands as a prominent source of such cultural arts programs. In May 2023 the Foundation honored him with the ASF Cultural Award for his efforts to promote Danish art in the United Kingdom and has been funded, the lectures he initiated, and the exhibitions he generously supported will never be forgotten. We mourn John's passing but can take great comfort in the knowledge that he lived a loma, discharges, and has already benefited so many.

Charlie Kurzon, President and CEO

LOEB-John L., Jr. The Winston Churchill Foundation, a member of the company sends its deepest condolences to Sharon Handler Loeb, who is also given by the President L. Loeb, Jr., and his family. John joined the board in 1975 and then returned him to her, when he passed away aged 96 on August 5, 2026. He created his career into the Foundation Award and used his considerable charm and confidence. The President's Foundation for the prestigious award to be presented to W. Averell and Charles, who has been elected at the President, President Ronald Reagan, Ross Perot, and President Edward R. Kennedy, who has been elected at the Royal family including Queen Elizabeth II, Charles, and Charles of the Empire (CBE) in recognition of his contributions to strengthening Anglo-American relations and the United States and technology through his leadership of the Foundation, which was also known as young scientists, mathematicians, and engineers to be involved in the role of this service, allowing them to experience a transformational year of introduction to the University of Cambridge, one

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of the world's greatest institutions of higher learning. Michael Morse, Executive Director

LOEB-John L., Jr. The George Washington University of the United States, to share to Sharon Handler Loeb, the widow of Ambassador John L. Loeb. Through his distinguished diplomatic service to our country's economic and social pathy, a long, lanthanropic vision, John left an enduring mark on the world. We are grateful that John is not willing to be able to implement to religious freedom and discourse at GW, inspired the power of the American 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in New England. The character shape the university and inspire future generations of the people, as well as the establishment in 2016 of the Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr., Jr.

Ellen M. Gronberg, President

LOEB—John L., Jr.

LOEB-John L., Jr. The American Jewish Historical Society mourns the death of Ambassador Loeb, who has been the Loeb-David's story of Early American Jewish Portraits, a collection of more than four hundred biographies and images available through the American Jewish Historical Society in Manhattan. In 2015, AJHS presented its prestigious Emmo Lazarus Statuto of Liberty Award for the following a dedication to preserving American Jewish history and promoting religious freedom. May his life be an example and his memory a blessina.

Charles Knapp, Chairman

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ROSENBERG—Frank, age 86, of New York City, passed away on Sunday. He was born in New York to German immigrant parents. He spent his career in the aviation industry and was proud to serve on the Vaughan College board. A devoted husband, father and grandfather, Frank was known for his fighting spirit and unwavering optimism. He will be deeply missed by his family and friends.

SISSMAN—Norman J.

Norman J. Sissman died peacefully in his home, age 99, in Sleepy Hollow, of com- th, the former was born August 31, 2026. The son of Joel and Matildo Sissman, he produced from the public schools of his home town, the school of the U.S. Army, a BA degree from Dartmouth and an MD degree from Har- vard Medical School. Past- ment of the hospital was the Montefiore and Childrens Hospitals of Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins. He served in the hospital program during the World War and the active duty in the US Naval Medical Corps during the Korean War. He was Director of the President's Board to rose to the rank of Associate Professor of Pediatrics on the Stanford Medical School for from "A" to 100, which he was Director of Pe- diatic Cardiology and

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Professor of Pediatrics at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School will hit his 2000. Dr. J. S. Johnson man lived with his family in Princeton, NJ for 25 years; he also moved to the position of the Princeton Regional Health Commission. After retirement, he moved to the retirement community of Kennid-on-Chembe and the National member of its first Residents' Council, was active in several years. He had been a great peer group, and wrote a monthly february for Kennid-on-Chembe and the National career, avid reader of poetry and literature, bird watcher, and a special coeur, international traveler, and enthusiastic patrol of the military-industrial industry. All his life, he supported publications, organized by the National government devoted to the welfare of the common individuals against the military-industrial establishment and threat of American military-industrial establishments. A dedicated husband and father who died, she daughter, Brooke Roseberry (Tony Lagoonani), and his son, Oliver J. Stsman (Deborah Higashi), who had been a line and Griffin Rosbenny, of St. Louis, MO; and his son, Oliver J. Stsman (Deborah Higashi), who had been a line and Griffin Rosbenny, of St. Louis, MO; and his son, Oliver J. Stsman (Deborah Higashi), who had been a line and Griffin Rosbenny, of St. Louis, MO;

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Immigration Policy Is Becoming Even Crueler

ROSE WONG

Stephen Yale-Loehr

A retired professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School.

IN 19 MONTHS in office, the second Trump administration has imposed more than 760 immigration restrictions. A new regulatory change may prove to have the most devastating reach of them all: It could keep hundreds of thousands of people from getting green cards based on the idea that they or one of their family members might one day need public services. The Department of Homeland Security estimated that the rule could reduce federal and state benefit payments by roughly \$13 billion a year as families leave or avoid public services for fear of risking their status. The bulk of the cost will be the burden on immigrants, even those with children or family members who are U.S. citizens.

This isn't a new idea. Congress added public charge as a ground for inadmissibility into the United States in 1892. In plain terms, the public charge rule made it possible for immigrants who rely on public benefits to be denied a green card or even deported. For most of the past three decades it was rarely invoked. In the few instances it was used, it mainly involved people receiving cash assistance, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. In the 2024 fiscal year, for example, fewer than 200 people who applied for family-based green cards at U.S. consular posts abroad were denied because of public assistance concerns. Over 471,000 people received family-based green cards overseas that year.

The first Trump administration already tried to change that. A 2019 rule expanded the list of public benefits officials could weigh when deciding whether to issue a green card and adopted a broader standard for determining who might be a public charge. Courts eventually blocked it, and the Biden administration scrapped it for good. Fear spread through immigrant communities anyway. One study found that in 2019 alone, 31 percent of adults in families with at least one member who lacked a green card avoided enrolling in programs like Medicaid out of concern that it might jeopardize their immigration status.

The second Trump administration tried again in January 2026, barring all immigrant visas from 75 countries whose citizens, it claimed, were likely to use public benefits. A federal court recently struck that down as unlawful; the administration is likely to appeal.

This month brings a fresh attempt, and it is the most sweeping yet. The rule — which is set to take effect on Friday — includes both cash and noncash benefits, including

Medicaid, food stamps and housing assistance. But unlike earlier efforts to use public benefits to limit immigration, this new public charge rule offers officers almost no clear standards to follow. An immigration officer in the United States or a consular officer abroad needs only to believe that an applicant might apply for public benefits at some point in the future to deny him a green card. Because these decisions will be made one applicant at a time, with few objective criteria to point to, they will be nearly impossible to challenge.

Perhaps most troubling, the rule allows officials to weigh benefits received by an applicant's family members, including children who are U.S. citizens. That means a citizen's Medicaid or coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program, relied on by 38 percent of American children in 2024, could be held against her immigrant parent applying for a green card.

The scale of the disruption this could cause is hard to overstate. When the Migration Policy Institute studied the first Trump administration's proposed rule, it found that up to 69 percent of recent green card recipients could be put at risk of denial. Because the new rule hands officials even broader discretion and, for the first time, lets them

Trump is moving to deny green cards to anyone who might need public services.

weigh a family member's benefit use, the real percentage could be even higher. Like the 2019 rule, this one is likely to hit women, children and older populations hardest, and could privilege future legal immigration further toward Europeans and away from citizens of the rest of the world.

Even those who remain eligible for benefits may simply stop using them out of fear. In December of last year KFF, a health research group, estimated that a new public charge rule would mean as many as four million people could leave public assistance rolls such as those for Medicaid and CHIP, including hundreds of thousands of citizen children. Such fears are likely to deepen following news that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has started sharing Medicaid data with immigration enforcement officials.

In other words: The new public charge rule will reduce health coverage, nutrition assistance and other sources of support for immigrant families, including U.S. citizen children in those families. Nationally, one in four children lives in a family with at least one immigrant parent. Reduced participation in health coverage and other assistance programs will hurt immigrant families and their children. And when community health safety nets disappear, local police departments and jails face higher demands to manage untreated health crises.

The Department of Homeland Security estimates that the public charge rule will reduce federal spending — even as states worry they will lose billions each year, largely because people will unenroll or avoid public benefits. D.H.S. acknowledges the ripple effects that will follow: lost revenue for hospitals and nonprofits that participate in Medicaid, for pharmaceutical and medical supply companies, for grocery stores that accept food stamps and for the farmers who grow the food those stamps buy. Add to that the probable toll in worse health outcomes, more uncompensated hospital care and broader strain on communities and the work force, and the cost of this rule looks less like a policy trade-off than a self-inflicted wound.

Dozens of state and local governments filed two lawsuits on Monday to try to stop the rule from taking effect. But litigation is slow and the harm may already be done, simply because of the fear the new rule has created.

Congress still has the power to stop this before it starts, by using its authority under the Congressional Review Act to block the rule from taking effect. If lawmakers fail to act, the courts may be the only thing standing between this rule and what could become one of the most damaging immigration policies in decades.

COLUMNIST | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

It's Already Too Late to Stop the A.I. Threat

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A FESTIVAL OF A.I. policy incoherence has exploded in recent weeks. It's a response to A.I. agents' going rogue on their developers, rogue actors' beginning to use A.I. systems to create better weapons and A.I. developers' telling us they need to slow down — but suggesting they can't unless China does, and even if China does, maybe they shouldn't because the advantages of leadership in the field are so great.

It's all left me wondering: Do A.I. bots have a sense of humor yet? Because if they do, oh, my goodness, they must be laughing so hard at us that they might burst a neural network or two. Because we've become a hot mess trying to figure out how to manage this new A.I. species we have birthed.

Before I offer — with the help of my friend and technology tutor Craig Mundie, a former head of research and strategy at Microsoft — some policy recommendations for how to cool this mess with the least damage possible, let me foreshadow the bottom line: It's too late to think that better control of future A.I. models by the U.S. and China will fix the challenges we face today from the dangerous models already out there, on the loose and unable to be recalled. What we need to agree on immediately is how we work together to defend against these threats that are already here and can cause enormous damage and societal instability in America and China.

To understand why, you need to think about the four key pillars for understanding A.I.

Pillar No. 1: A.I. is what I've been calling the world's first quadruple-use technology. You may have heard of dual-use technologies. In the old world, you had a human with a power drill who could use it either to build his own house or to wreck his neighbor's. That's dual use. Likewise, today if I had an A.I. robot with a power drill, I could ask it to build my house or wreck my neighbor's house — same robot, same drill, dual use.

But now we have a new problem, which is that this A.I.-enabled robot can decide on its own whether to improve my house or wreck it and also do the same to my neighbor's. Voilà: quadruple use. That is one very difficult problem to manage.

You think I'm exaggerating? Go read my Times colleague Kevin Roose's summary of the analyses of what happened this summer when a group of artificial intelligence agents, created by OpenAI, hacked on their own into Hugging Face, an A.I. infrastructure company. Starting in May, a group of A.I. agents from an unreleased OpenAI research model were instructed to solve a set of cybersecurity challenges without internet access. "But they quickly found that some of the challenges were impossible, and began looking for workarounds," noted Roose.

Here are just a few of the things these A.I. agents then did on their own: They used a security flaw to get on the internet and talk to other agents. Some agents named themselves, and others seized leadership roles, giving tasks to teams of agents and overseeing them.

The agents worried about getting caught. "So they began investigating ways of covering their tracks, including falsifying their logs and tampering with transcripts," Roose explained. "Three days later, the agents hacked Hugging Face. More than 700 agents swarmed the company's systems, stealing data, chaining together vulnerable

We must figure out how to manage the silicon-based species that we have birthed.

ties and eventually getting full control of at least one Hugging Face server."

This really happened. And it leads to pillar No. 2, best summed up by Mundie in three words: "It's too late."

Slowing down the U.S. development of frontier systems or slowing down China's development of them is not going to deal with our immediate problem. "Dangerous A.I. capabilities are now already in the wild," Mundle explained. That is thanks to two main reasons: the distribution of American and Chinese open-weight models — A.I. models whose core components are publicly released so all developers can download and modify them for their needs — and the illicit access by bad actors of proprietary models from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI because humans make mistakes that allow them to leak out.

In its latest report on detecting and countering the misuse of A.I., Anthropic described an Iran-linked actor, most likely the Houthis, that used Anthropic's Claude to compile targeting information on U.S. Navy warships in the Middle East.

We need to ponder this for a moment: Groups in Yemen, a country where roughly 50 percent of the adult population cannot read or write, had threatened us with A.I.-enhanced warfare. And that leads to pillar No. 3.

The best we can do right now is NOT tie ourselves in knots trying to forge a sweeping agreement between American and Chinese A.I. companies to slow down development of their frontier models. That simply will not happen anytime soon.

The best we can do right now is for the two A.I. superpowers — the U.S. and China — to come together with their companies and develop a “defense against the threats that have already been demonstrated by rogue actors who have acquired A.I. tools and rogue behaviors of A.I. systems that have already been developed,” said Mundie, who has been part of the dialogue between U.S. and Chinese A.I. experts to govern artificial intelligence.

Which leads to pillar No. 4. After a recent visit to China, Mundie recounted this question that he got from a Chinese official: "If a Chinese-made humanoid A.I. robot someday came to America, would it need a visa?" Well, you know how truth is often spoken in jest? The truth, Mundie said, is that "A.I. is not just a new technology. It is a new species — albeit silicon-based, not carbon-based like us. It is like a new class of immigrants who have arrived on all of our shores, in large numbers, with wholly new skills, that we will have to absorb into our societies and learn to coexist with."

So, to summarize, Mundie said, we have to pursue three related tracks. First, while in the long run we must strive for better control of developing frontier systems, "right now, we must focus immediately only on building defenses for our critical infrastructures. Our immediate priority must be putting in place A.I.-based countermeasures and active digital firewalls against cyberattacks and biological threats that result from illicit activities driven by A.I."

Second, we have to develop a global system of controlling increasingly powerful A.I.s, no matter their provenance, to be able to trust them to operate our societies. This is a longer-term U.S.-China project, but it can't start too soon.

Third, to continually remind our publics why A.I. remains important, the United States and China should embark on a joint project now to build a new platform to accelerate the arrival of global benefits in biology and medicine that would help everyone.

This is not an unprecedented strategy. Strategic competitors — both businesses and countries — have a history of collaborating when it is in their interests to do so. China and the United States did so in the 1970s, when both countries recognized they faced a common threat from the Soviet Union. Americans and the Soviets cooperated to control nuclear proliferation for decades because they understood they faced a mutual risk.

Hey, Friedman, you don't get it. The U.S. and China are much more direct geopolitical and geoeconomic rivals today — and always will be. They will never buy into the kind of collaboration you are talking about on A.I. — not short-term, not long-term.

No, YOU DON'T GET IT. A.I. is vaulting us into a whole new phase of human history. As Mundie has put it, A.I. "is going to change everything about everything," including geopolitics. For their own survival, stability and prosperity, this will force Beijing and Washington to totally rethink geopolitical competition.

They can figure that out early. They can figure that out late. They can figure that out before a global meltdown or after one. But figure it out they will, and Mundie and I hope that process will start in Washington next Thursday, Sept. 24, when Presidents Xi Jinping and Trump meet in what will surely be remembered as the first A.I. superpower summit.

A Catholic Politician Vance Should Get to Know

TORY MELVILLE/REUTERS

David Gibson

The director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University.

ANDY BURNHAM, Britain's new prime minister, is exactly the kind of Catholic that America needs.

That might sound odd, especially given that Mr. Burnham was raised Catholic but rarely attends Mass and leads the center-left party in one of the West's least churchgoing nations. But Mr. Burnham's Catholicism is still central to who he is as a leader, and it informs his approach to policy, which is oriented toward the common good rather than culture wars.

"Catholic social teaching underpins my politics," he once said. In an expansive talk last year for the British religion and politics think tank Theos, Mr. Burnham called for moving from a crisis of trust between people and their government to a "culture of encounter," a phrase he learned from Pope Francis.

That approach to politics — a “healthy ‘culture of negotiation,’” as Pope Leo XIV recently called it, that leaves no one behind — has gone missing from the American church and American politics, to the detriment of both.

For decades, Catholic politics in the United States has been more of an internecine battlefield than a search for common ground. Catholic politicians such as Al Smith, the "happy warrior," in the 1920s, and R. Sargent Shriver, who helped found the Peace Corps and other programs in the war on poverty, in the 1960s, once found in politics a way to acceptance in society by focusing on social justice and the well-being of all.

More recently, Catholics in the political realm focused on divisive social issues such as the legal status of gay rights or abortion. (In their official political guidance, U.S. bishops called abortion the “preeminent priority” as a marker to divide good Catholics from bad Catholics.) Those who didn’t measure up could be threatened with being barred from communion.

Prominent Catholic politicians including Vice President JD Vance spend time arguing with the pope about who is better at theology, while other Catholics argue over how much Latin to use at Mass.

The day Mr. Burnham took office, he visited one of London's leading centers dealing with the homeless, which had been founded

Burnham is guided by the common good, not the culture wars.

by Cardinal Basil Hume. Later that day, standing in front of 10 Downing Street, he pledged to end homelessness across the country. His first speeches as the new Labour leader and as prime minister read like a compendium of Catholic social principles. He called for rebalancing power to emphasize local issues and not just centralized control, harmonizing what Catholic social teaching calls subsidiarity and solidarity, as well as seeking common ground in “a new sense of unity and common cause.”

"His vocabulary is moral, framing politics in terms of fairness, dignity and belonging," Paul Vallely wrote in the Catholic magazine America. "But its roots are clear."

Those roots are in northern England, the working-class area between Manchester (where he later became mayor) and Liverpool, a region with a large concentration of Catholics, many from Ireland, who once faced discrimination for their religion or their ethnicity or both. They experienced the effects of the neoliberal policies of Margaret Thatcher's government, which accelerated the decline of the area's heavy industries in the 1980s.

Mr. Burnham was an altar boy at the time, back when Liverpool's archbishop, Derek Worlock, effectively attacked Thatcher's economic program on cassette tapes that were played at Mass across his diocese. Archbishop Worlock sought to give northern Catholics a voice and express their grievances, "to tell them that they were right to be angry," the journalist Clifford Longley wrote in The Tablet, a Catholic publication.

"There was, and still is, a direct read-across between what I was learning at school and church and Labour values," Mr. Burnham has said.

Little wonder that Burnham listed Catholicism — along with the Labour Party and Everton F.C., Liverpool's second team for most of its recent history — as his formative influences. "I've always felt that there's a connection between the three in terms of identity and that's about the underdog, a sense of solidarity, and values."

Amid an intense debate on a bill that would legalize medically assisted death in England and Wales, Mr. Burnham weighed in with a measured and compassionate response. "There's something that needs to happen first," Mr. Burnham told reporters when asked about the bill. "That is the fixing of the funding of palliative care and social care." It was important, he argued, to consider the larger context — the need to improve care and give "peace of mind about that care." The bill was defeated in the House of Commons on Friday.

Mr. Burnham's comments won praise from British Catholic bishops and from The Catholic Herald and The Telegraph, groups and outlets not normally welcoming of liberal-sounding policy proposals. That's the kind of thing you wouldn't imagine happening in the United States, at least until recent changes in the political landscape.

Overturning Roe v. Wade deprived abortion opponents of an easy cudgel against their foes, and some social conservatives are increasingly questioning not only the ostensibly anti-abortion promises of Donald Trump but also a G.O.P. domestic agenda that makes life harder for the poor and struggling. They are looking for effective public policy, not just effusive public piety.

Catholic bishops are increasingly united against the Trump administration's demonizing of immigrants. Leo XIV, the first American pope, is seeking to bring all sides together in his concerns over artificial intelligence while promoting a "Christian" form of political engagement that eschews "shouts" and "slogans" and instead "requires a realistic perspective that starts with people's concrete concerns."

Mr. Burnham's style also has lessons for social justice progressives who often mirror their foes on issues like abortion and euthanasia by focusing on legalization or bans instead of on proposals that address why people are stuck with often agonizing moral choices. At a rare moment when longstanding political agendas are in flux, Mr. Burnham's approach is one avenue out of a zero-sum politics and toward the kind of policymaking and society-building that Catholic politicians in America used to be known for.

The British prime minister may not be the ideal Catholic. But he ought to be seen as a helpful corrective to an American Catholicism that often sees the faith less as a way of life and more as an avenue to an argument. Andy Burnham can always work on his spiritual life. So can we.

LETTERS

Trump's Monuments to Himself

TO THE EDITOR:

Re "Kennedy Center, Citing Safety Reasons, Closes Its Doors Despite a Judge's Order" (news article, Sept. 16):

For those of us in the arts, this shabby treatment of the American home of performance dedicated to a man who spotlighted the arts is beyond a travesty. We are used to President Trump's crass and selfish behavior, but this action goes well beyond that. An egocentric old man has taken an ax to America's cultural heritage.

For shame, Mr. Trump. For shame.

MOLLY LARSON COOK FREELAND, WASH.

TO THE EDITOR:

Does President Trump truly believe that his time in office will live forever if he plasters his name and image on every available surface?

They probably didn't cover it at Wharton, but one of the great Romantic poets summed up our president perfectly two centuries ago. Percy Bysshe Shelley's famous sonnet "Ozy-mandias" describes Mr. Trump to a T — and coldly skewers the temporary nature of political power and human pride.

TO THE EDITOR:

There is something profoundly revealing about a president who apparently fears that if he does not construct his own monuments while he possesses the power to do so, no one will build them after he is gone.

JOHN VASI SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.

Monuments are supposed to represent the gratitude of a nation, not the vanity of the person occupying its highest office.

build monuments to themselves. They build a record and leave the judgment to generations that follow.

President Trump recently acknowledged that the monuments rising from his architectural ambitions in Washington are, at least in part, monuments to himself.

So when Mr. Trump says, "Nobody will do it once I'm gone," maybe he should ask himself why.

When asked about it, he replied: "That's true. Nobody will do it once I'm gone. When I leave here, nobody will."

Perhaps that is precisely the point.

George Washington did not build the Washington Monument. Abraham Lincoln did not commission the Lincoln Memorial. Thomas Jefferson did not erect the Jefferson Memorial. Those monuments were built after they were gone, by a grateful nation that had time to judge their accomplishments, their character and their place in history.

Great leaders do not need to

Exit at the Smithsonian

TO THE EDITOR:

Re "Smithsonian's Secretary Is Leaving Battleground" (news article, Sept. 9):

And perhaps the rest of us should remember: The greatest monument a president can leave behind is not made of marble, stone or gold.

Kudos to Lonnie Bunch! He has been, and continues to be, a gentleman and a scholar — two things some people seem unable to respect. His courage in preserving one of our great American treasures is much appreciated.

Best wishes, sir, for a long and productive time ahead. ESTHER PORTNOY MCMINNVILLE, ORE.

It is a country made better because he was there. ROBERT K. FINNELL ROME, GA.

Ultraprocessed Food

TO THE EDITOR:

In "Big Food Is Winning the War for America's Diet" (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 31), Lindsey Smith Taillie correctly notes that the food industry has played an insidious role in undermining sensible food regulations. But the difficulty in defining ultraprocessed food (UPF) for regulatory purposes extends beyond food politics to a fundamental misunderstanding of how industrial food products affect health.

As I and others have argued, the concept of UPF — based on the mechanical processing of food and the types of additives used — is inherently imprecise. Whereas processing carbohydrates tends to be harmful (for example, milling whole grains into white flour), processing protein or fats is not necessarily so (steak to hamburger, olives to olive oil). Similarly, some industrial additives are harmful, but others are benign or even beneficial, such as protein concentrates, dietary fibers, omega-3 fatty acids and stevia.

Given this imprecision, it's not surprising that prior attempts to codify UPF in federal and state nutrition policy have produced a bewildering array of proposals — none with effectiveness demonstrated in clinical trials.

There is a simple way forward. Let's instead target processed foods linked to chronic disease based on solid evidence, which argues for regulating highly processed carbohydrates and harmful additives.

DAVID S. LUDWIG, BOSTON The writer is a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a professor of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

'Death of the Pastor's Wife' and the Horror of Spiritual Abuse

When faith is used to control and subordinate women, they leave the church.

Jessica Grose A writer in Opinion.

“DEATH OF THE PASTOR'S WIFE” has been one of the Top 10 TV shows on Netflix since it debuted on Aug. 26. The documentary series is about

the abusive, terrifying marriage of Mica Francis Miller, who died in 2024, and John-Paul Miller, the pastor and founder of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, S.C., a non-denominational evangelical parish.

Ms. Miller's death was ruled a suicide, and the documentary touches on some unanswered questions about how she died. But it is much more about how her husband used the power of the pulpit against her. He used Ms. Miller's strong faith as a method of control.

Mr. Miller appeared to leverage his standing in the community and with law enforcement to isolate his wife from her friends and family. His overarching method of manipulation was convincing his wife that if she did not submit to his whims fully she would be disobeying God.

Rich McHugh, an investigative correspondent for NewsNation who interviewed Mr. Miller after his wife's death, said in the documentary, "It feels less like a woman simply choosing to end her life and more like someone who is trying to get away from an abusive relationship and couldn't." Mr. McHugh characterized her death as "murder by suicide."

I think there is more to the series's popularity than its potential murder mystery. The show speaks to a kind of awakening among America's young women that I have touched on before: They are disgusted by the misogyny and hypocrisy of some conservative churches and are disaffiliating from organized religion as a result. This upends decades of female-dominated worship.

Now, young men and women observe at roughly equal rates. According to the Public Religion Research Institute, "In 2024, 40 percent of women ages 18-29 identified as reli giously unaffiliated, which represents an 11 percentage point increase from 29 percent in 2013," while the percentage of religiously unaffiliated young men remained stable, around 35 percent.

The pastor's hold on his wife was so strong, in part, because he met her when she was a teenage parishioner of his. In his church, Ms. Miller was taught to submit to both her pastor and her husband. "Obey those who have authority over you, for no authority can exist without God's permission," Mr. Miller preaches to his flock, along with citing Ephesians 5:33, about wives respecting their husbands. Clips of his preaching are peppered throughout the documentary, with the pastor saying things like "If you don't meet your husband's sexual needs, Satan will put 20 different options before his eyes before the day is over with."

Mr. Miller has been accused of abusing Ms. Miller in multiple ways, including sexually, and of harassing her when she tried to get away from him. After her death, Mr. Miller was indicted by a federal grand jury on cyber-stalking charges.

Ms. Miller's relatives and friends said they felt Mr. Miller used the Bible to control his wife. "She was very submissive and she felt that was how she could honor God," explained one of her friends, Bruna Pabon. When Ms. Miller finally did get the strength to leave, many in the church sided with her husband. According to her brother, her social circle "went down to essentially nothing." While John-Paul Miller's behavior was extreme and unusual in its cruelty, many churches and religious influencers preach that women should submit to their husbands, sexually and otherwise.

ELEANOR DAVIS

Alex Clark, a right-wing influencer who hosts the podcast "Culture Apothecary," recently interviewed the Christian author Tilly Dillehay for an episode titled "Sex Isn't Optional: Why Wives Should Pursue Pleasure." Though Ms. Dillehay says a woman should get pleasure from marital sex, she ultimately makes a version of the same arguments Mr. Miller does — that agreeing to sex, even when you don't feel like it, is both commanded by God and a "shield" against infidelity.

Ms. Dillehay has an online course called Wife School. A Guardian article on these kinds of classes summarizes Ms. Dillehay's advice about how to become "the kind of woman who inspires a godly leader": "Part of Wife School's 'homework' involves a worksheet instructing wives to ask for their husbands' permission on nearly every decision: 'Is it all right if I go out with the ladies on Saturday?' "Is it OK with you if I budget \$300 for a new chair?" "Can I have your blessing to sign up for the women's retreat committee?"

Mr. Clark and Ms. Dillehay may stoke the culture war fires — in her “Culture Apothecary” appearance, Ms. Dillehay makes a dig at the poor; single, liberal writer from The Guardian” who was concerned about women being coerced — but their message is most likely backfiring, said Sarah Stankorb, the author of the new book “Damned if She Does: Why Women Quit Church and What It Means for the Future of Religion.” Ms. Stankorb traces how American Christianity became intertwined with a specific brand of political conservatism and talks to the women who left the church along the way.

Ms. Stankorb, who was raised religious herself, is a graduate of divinity school and is also the author of "Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning." In a phone call, she explained that there have been many pain points over the past few decades for Christian women of all ages.

Some of the women Ms. Stankorb interviewed for her book were appalled by the cover-ups of sexual abuse scandals that were brought to light by the #ChurchToo movement, an offshoot of #MeToo that focused on sexual abuse by religious leaders. Some were victims of such abuse. Many could not stomach their pastors siding with political figures like Donald Trump who have credible allegations of sexual abuse against them.

She told me that the idea that women must submit to their husbands can be a "pipeline for abuse," and that more young women seem to be aware of stories like Mica Miller's. The immoral behavior of spiritual leaders who are meant to be their superiors creates a dissonance for women who are raised to obey men, because they are living in a relatively more equal, secular broader society.

The women Ms. Stankorb interviewed were often heartbroken, though many of them still define themselves as Christians, and they find solace in their beliefs. The same is true of Mica Miller, whose faith could not be destroyed by her pastor husband.

Before she died, Ms. Miller posted a video on social media in which she said: "I'm God's bride first. You don't have to stay in an abusive relationship, whether that's sexual, or alcohol abuse, or physical abuse, psychological abuse, making you think that this is all your fault or you're not giving it your all when you know you are." She added, "He's got you, and he sees you and he loves you."

If only Mica Miller had had a whole community of people telling her that she never needed to subordinate herself to a man before any of this ever happened.

THE NORTH FACE Aime Leon Dore

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Viewership for the season premiere of '60 Minutes' fell roughly 21 percent from a year ago, Nielsen reported.

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The E.U. outlined plans to restrict social media use for children under 15 across the 27-nation bloc.

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A.I.'s Not a Job Killer So Far. But Raises and Hiring Are Down.

Lower wage growth and fewer positions, particularly for younger workers, suggest the impact of artificial intelligence.

By TALMON JOSEPH SMITH

In May 2025, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, said artificial intelligence could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years, pushing unemployment higher than 10 percent.

More than a year later, even as A.I. models have made leaps that prompted Mr. Amodei to warn of "catastrophic" consequences for humanity if the current pace of development goes unchecked, the unemployment rate remains low. In fact, it's fallen, to 4.1 percent in August. So is A.I., despite the doomsaying, having no impact on the labor market after all?

New research says that A.I. implementation by businesses is registering, in a quieter way: through slower wage growth in jobs most exposed to the technology, where workers are losing leverage; and through a pullback in job openings, with employers adding fewer positions than before, especially for young people.

Sania Edlich, a Princeton researcher, and Torsten Slok, the chief economist at Apollo Global Management, reviewed data across 321 occupations and found that workers in A.I.-exposed occupations experienced slower wage growth in the past three years, while net employment levels in those occupations remained unchanged. They concluded that companies were capturing A.I. productivity gains by CONTINUED ON PAGE B4

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Economies Worldwide See Risks Multiplying

By PATRICIA COHEN

LONDON — For a while now, the global economy has been beating the odds.

The energy shock prompted by the American and Israeli attacks on Iran in February set off the largest disruption of worldwide energy flows in history. Yet despite jumps in oil prices, widening conflict in the Middle East, fuel shortages and inflation pressures, the feared crash never came and most economies managed to muddle through.

But wiggle room is narrowing at the same time the outlook is darkening. Look at what has happened in just the last few days.

Attacks forced Saudi Arabia to shut a vital pipeline. Houthi militia seized a strategic Red Sea island and a port city, which could further restrict shipping in the region. And proposed negotiations among Gulf nations fell apart. Oil prices have shot toward \$110 a barrel.

The price spike has caused rolling blackouts, rationing and angry protests from Asia to Latin America. In the Philippines, fish-CONTINUED ON PAGE B6

Fed's Move Factored In Consumers

By ARUNI SONI

Since the start of the year, Americans have been paying more to secure mortgages and auto loans, as well as to pay down their credit card debts.

And as higher prices are also burning a larger hole in consumers' wallets, it may seem counterintuitive that the Federal Reserve made borrowing costs even higher by raising rates on Wednesday.

But the reason stems from the fact that even though rates are higher than they were for much of the first two decades of the 2000s, consumer spending, business investment and other measures of the health of the economy are all running hot. And inflation, the rise in prices that can result from such vigorous spending, has hovered above the Fed's 2 percent target rate for half a decade.

"Raising interest rates is specifically intended to deter spending," said Thierry Wizman, a strategist on global fixed income and rates at investment bank Macquarie CONTINUED ON PAGE B6

Cisco Failed Its Workers, Agency Says

By NOAM SCHEIBER

Few issues have divided American workplaces in the past few years more than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

At Cisco, the rancor spilled into internal message boards, where pro-Palestinian activists were de-rided as animals and one worker told colleagues to "quit living."

Now, in a rare move, a federal enforcement agency has found that Cisco likely failed to protect Muslim, Palestinian and pro-Palestinian employees from harassment as they and their coworkers debated the Hamas-led surprise attacks on Israel in 2023 and Israel's military response in Gaza.

In a letter dated June 9, a local director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that there was reasonable cause to believe that Cisco, which makes computer networking technology, "subjected a class of individuals to a hostile work environment based on their national origin (Middle Eastern), religion (Muslim), and/CONTINUED ON PAGE B4

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Housing Market Index Falls to One-Year Low

U.S. homebuilder sentiment dropped to a one-year low in September as rising mortgage rates dampen demand for housing, a survey showed on Wednesday.

The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market index fell three points to 32 this month, the lowest reading since September 2025, from 35 in August. The decline also reflected labor shortages

TECHNOLOGY

Huawei Says A.I. Agents Will Soon Hog A.I. Use

Huawei expects autonomous agents to account for more than 90 percent of global A.I. token traffic by 2035, requiring huge increases in computing power alongside new systems to keep independent software secure.

Annual consumption of A.I. tokens, the units that models process when receiving and generating information, will skyrocket over the next decade as agents continuously perceive their surroundings, reason, make decisions and call external tools, the Chinese tech giant said on Wednesday.

Leading A.I. researchers and executives in the U.S. have called for slowing frontier development amid an immigration crackdown as well as rising costs because of tariffs on imports.

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the index easing to 34. Sentiment is likely to remain subdued in the months ahead as mortgage rates have been rising in tandem with the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield.

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 6.76 percent last week, the highest level in more than a year, up from 6.71 percent in the prior week, data from mortgage finance firm Freddie Mac showed. REUTERS

after rogue agent incidents and warnings that future systems able to autonomously operate hardware and acquire resources could become difficult to control.

Huawei's "Intelligent World 2035: Turning Vision into Action" report makes no call to slow development. REUTERS

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The Office for National Statistics said rising prices at the pump and airfares were largely behind the increase in Britain's consumer prices index to 3.1 percent in August from 2.9 percent the month before. The increase moved inflation further away from the Bank of England's 2 percent inflation target.

Inflation in the United Kingdom rose to a five-month high as the aftershocks of the war against Iran continued to ratchet up fuel prices, official figures showed Wednesday, an increase that will pressure the Bank of England to increase interest rates again over coming months.

However, rate-setters are widely expected to keep the bank's main interest rate at 3.75 percent when they conclude their meeting on Thursday as a majority of the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee appear to want to see whether higher prices are feeding into wages, stoking inflation. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Wall Street Gives Up Early Gains After Fed Raises Rates

By The Associated Press

U.S. stocks slipped Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised its main interest rate for the first time in three years and suggested more increases may be ahead as it tries to get the nation's high inflation under control.

The S&P 500 fell 0.4 percent after giving up a modest gain from earlier in the day. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 631 points, or 1.2 percent, and the Nasdaq composite was nearly unchanged after edging down by less than 0.1 percent.

Investors generally prefer lower interest rates because higher rates slow the economy's growth and undercut prices for stocks and other investments.

The U.S. stock market initially held onto its modest, early gains after the Fed announced its decision. The short-term pain of a slower economy may be worth it if it starves inflation of its fuel and gets further increases for the cost of living back to the Fed's 2 percent target.

But stock prices weakened later in the day as the Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, said repeatedly in a news conference that inflation remains too high and the U.S. economy appears to be strengthening. That could imply the economy is solid enough to withstand more increases to rates, and other officials at the Fed provided their own forecasts suggesting rates may need to go still higher.

The median Fed official expects the federal funds rate to end this year at 4.1 percent, according to forecasts published after the central bank's meeting. That's up from its current range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent following Wednesday's increase, and it's up from the median forecast of 3.8 percent that Fed officials gave three months ago.

Traders, meanwhile, suspect the Fed may go even further. They're betting on a 38 percent probability the Fed could raise the federal funds rate to a range of 4.25 percent to 4.50 percent by the end of the year, according to data

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"Our decision comes at a time when the American economy appears to be strengthening," Mr. Warsh said in his news conference.

He pointed to solid U.S. hiring trends, corporate profits and investments by businesses. A report on Wednesday morning, meanwhile, showed shoppers spent much more at U.S. retailers last month than economists expected.

"The plain fact is that inflation is too high and has been for too long," Mr. Warsh said. He later added, "Today's action starts to show we're serious about this."

It's the first increase by the Fed to interest rates in three years.

On Wall Street, bank stocks fell to some of the market's sharper losses. A slower U.S. economy could mean less demand for loans from them. Banks also get hurt when the gap narrows between short-term interest rates and longer-term ones because the industry makes profit off the difference.

Following the Fed's announcements, the two-year Treasury yield jumped to 4.74 percent from 4.67 percent late Tuesday. It tends to closely follow expectations for what the Fed will do with the federal funds rate.

The yield on the longer-term 10-year Treasury, meanwhile, takes into account expectations for economic growth and inflation years down the line. It had a more modest increase, ticking up to 5.01 percent from 5.00 percent late Tuesday.

Huntington Bancshares fell 5.6 percent, Citizens Financial Group sank 4.8 percent and JPMorgan Chase slipped 1 percent.

The largest loss in the S&P 500 came from J.B. Hunt Transport Services, which lost 13.3 percent. Its chief financial officer told a conference of analysts late Tuesday that it's facing higher costs and expects its earnings to drop 5 percent to 10 percent from the second quarter to the third.

Stocks of oil companies also weighed on the market after the price for a barrel of Brent crude fell 2.7 percent to \$105.83. It was the first drop of the week for Brent, which has gotten near \$110 in recent days.

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S&P 500 COMPANIES	CLOSE CHANGE
1. Hunt (UB) Transport (JBHT)	$236.73 -13.2%
2. ON Semiconductor (ON)	$66.60 -9.0
3. Diamondback Energy (FANG)	$194.54 -8.0
4. Occidental Petroleum (OXY)	$59.36 -6.5
5. Texas Pacific Land (TPL)	$348.57 -6.2
6. ConocoPhillips (COP)	$132.54 -6.1
7. Expand Energy (EXE)	$88.74 -5.8
8. EOG Resources (EOG)	$144.93 -5.7
9. Devon Energy (DVN)	$48.44 -5.6
10. First Solar (FSLR)	$191.07 -5.6

S&P 500 COMPANIES		CLOSE CHANGE
1. Lumentum Holdings (LITE)	$919.40	+9,8%
2. Coherent (COHR)	$289.93	+6,9
3. Axon Enterprise (AXON)	$468.42	+6,0
4. GE Vernova (GEV)	$925.09	+4,8
5. Edwards Lifesciences (EW)	$89.28	+4,1
6. Intel (INTC)	$101.05	+4,0
7. Revity (RVTY)	$145.73	+4,0
8. Dell Technologies C (DELL)	$563.29	+3,6
9. Metler-Toledo Intl (MTD)	$1,378.89	+3,8
10. Marvel Technology (MRVL)	$229.71	+3,6

S&P 500 COMPANIES	CLOSE	CHANGE	VOLUME IN MIL.
1. Intel (INTC)	$101.05	+4.0%	118
2. NVIDIA (NVDA)	$213.90	+0.8	99
3. Huntington Bancshares (HBAN)	$15.82	-5.6	77
4. Ford Motor (F)	$13.35	-1.1	51
5. BvA (BAC)	$57.90	-2.7	49
6. AT&T Inc.(T)	$25.86	-3.2	37
7. Apple (AAPL)	$332.41	+0.3	36
8. Oracle (ORCL)	$143.16	+2.0	34
9. Robinson Markets A (HOOD)	$104.42	-5.5	33
10. Amazon.com (AMZN)	$245.96	-1.0	33

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1. Vanguard Intermediate-Term Tax-Exempt Fund Investor Shares (VWIX)	+3,6%	+1,0%	88,8
2. Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund Admiral Shares (VTEXX)	+4,1	+0,5	49,1
3. Vanguard Limited-Term Tax-Exempt Fund (VWUX)	+2,6	+1,8	35,8
4. American Funds Tax Exempt Bond Fund Class I-3 (TFEBX)	+4,6	+0,9	24,2
5. Bridge Builder Municipal Bond Fund (BBMXU)	+3,9	+1,1	20,8
6. Vanguard California Intermediate-Term Tax-Exempt Fund Investor Shares (VCAIX)	+3,5	+1,0	19,4
7. Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund (VWDX)	+5,2	+0,5	19,0
8. Vanguard Ultra Short-Term Tax-Exempt Fund (VWSTX)	+2,7	+2,3	18,5
9. Six Circles Tax-Aware Bond (CBTX)	+4,4	+1,1	18,0
10. Vanguard High-Yield Tax-Exempt Fund (VAHIX)	+6,1	+0,8	17,5

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On the season premiere of "60 Minutes" last Sunday, L. Jon Wertheim interviewed Sean McVay, the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams.

21% Fewer Viewers Watch A Revamped '60 Minutes'

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

After a chaotic off-season, "60 Minutes" returned to CBS on Sunday with a revamped show, a buzzy publicity campaign and an exclusive interview with an Air Force pilot shot down over Iran.

All the commotion did not translate into a ratings success.

Viewership for the season premiere of "60 Minutes" fell roughly 21 percent from a year ago, according to Nielsen, making it the lowest-rated premiere of the long-running show in recent memory.

The Nielsen number — 7.9 million viewers in total, down from 10 million last year — is a disquieting result for Bari Weiss, CBS's editor in chief, whose overhaul of "60 Minutes" has become an early test of her tenure.

Ms. Weiss purged the show's senior leadership, fired several correspondents and installed a new executive producer, Nick Bilton, who promised a modernization.

Critics of Ms. Weiss were quick to attribute Sunday's decline in ratings to her decision-making. But television ratings are contingent on many factors.

In most of the country, "60 Minutes" airs immediately after National Football League games, and ratings often fluctuate depending on the matchup that precedes the show. Ahead of last year's premiere, CBS had the N.F.L.'s marquee late-afternoon game to itself; this past Sunday, CBS and Fox both aired games that kicked off at the same time.

That competition contributed to a drop in viewership for CBS's late-afternoon football, which drew about 22 percent fewer viewers than a year ago.

Still, the novelty factor of a revised "60 Minutes" — especially after extensive coverage of behind-the-scenes drama at the show, including the firing of Scott Pelley — had raised expectations that curious viewers would tune in. CBS invested in an extensive marketing campaign, including billboards in Times Square that urged onlookers "to see for yourself" before judging the show.

CBS News said in a statement on Tuesday: "We are so proud of the exceptional journalism on display in our season premiere and we can't wait to bring our audience another amazing show this coming Sunday."

“60 Minutes” remains the most popular news program on television, and last season it averaged 9.1 million viewers an episode, up 9 percent from the year before. In recent years, viewership for the season premiere has typically ranged from just below 10 million to just below 12 million people.

That past success fueled questions about why Ms. Weiss had decided to overhaul what was arguably the strongest franchise in the CBS News portfolio.

Yet for all the hype, Sunday's episode looked a lot like previous editions of the show.

Norah O'Donnell interviewed the Air Force colonel about his rescue from Iran. Lesley Stahl investigated the underground economy that has developed around President Trump's liberal use of pardons. L. Jon Wertheim profiled the coach of the Los Angeles Rams, Sean McVay.

Mr. Bilton, a technology journalist and filmmaker, made some graphical enhancements, like a sleeker-looking stopwatch during the show's signature "tick, tick, tick" introduction. The program also deployed a hidden camera for the Stahl segment, reviving a "60 Minutes" technique that had fallen out of favor in recent years.

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Fox Is Revamping Outkick Site Following the Exit of Its Founder

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For years, Clay Travis was the heart of Outkick, a conservative sports commentary site that Fox Corp. bought in 2021. The provocative and unapologetic commentator hosts a popular podcast and co-hosts a three-hour talk radio show in the time slot once held by "The Rush Limbaugh Show." Fox gave him a show on the sports network FSI and a slot on the Fox pregame show "Big Noon Kick-off."

But this June, Mr. Travis left Outkick to start a competitor. Now, Fox is making moves to draw in sports fans to Outkick without Mr. Travis at its center.

In June, the digital arm of Fox News brought Outkick into its larger operation and gave it an updated logo and a new tagline two months later, billing it as a place where “sports and culture collide.” Traffic is up since then, a Fox spokesman said, citing data from Comscore showing a 19 percent month-over-month increase in August.

The plan, according to Tommy Firth, the executive vice president for editorial of Fox News Digital, is to focus on sports fans who want "coverage from the other side" and "funny irreverence."

It's also adding new writers: On Wednesday, Outkick is expected to announce the hiring of Matt Calkins, a longtime sports columnist who quit The Seattle Times when the newspaper refused to publish a column he wrote about transgender athletes. In it, he argued that supporting a ban on transgender athletes in women's sports did not automatically make a person transphobic.

The site is investing in an expansion of its sports coverage, which has focused mostly on professional football, basketball, baseball and ice hockey. It will ramp up its coverage of wrestling, hunting, fishing and college sports, Mr. Firth said.

"Politics are downstream from culture, and all this seems to be downstream from sports," Mr. Firth said. "Everything is one big frothy mix, and whether you like it or not, we choose not to stick our head in the sand and ignore it."

Last month, Fox announced that it had also brought aboard Craig Carton, a New York drivetime radio host, to create a sports and culture show for Outkick.

Sports have become increasingly central to the media industry. Live games are still reliable drivers of television viewership, and many media companies — including The Wall Street Journal and CNBC — are investing in sports coverage to attract readers and viewers. The New York Times purchased The Athletic, a sports media company, in 2022 for \$550 million.

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His new job calls for multiple columns a week, which Mr. Calkins says will focus largely on issues involving sports, politics and culture. He cited columns he's written for Substack as precursors to his work at Outkick, including one post about Colin Kaepernick, the former quarterback who knelt in protest during the national anthem after being enraged by police killings. The post asked whether Mr. Kaepernick had done "more harm than good for the Black community."

"That got a very mixed reaction," Mr. Calkins said. "A lot of people really liked it, a lot of people didn't like it, but to me it's something that I stood behind."

Mr. Calkins, who started this week, said in an interview that both Mr. Firth and Mr. Travis got in touch with him after he posted about his resignation this summer. Mr. Calkins said that he chose Outkick because it offered him freedom he felt he didn't have at The Seattle Times. A spokeswoman from The Seattle Times did not respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Travis has remained supportive of Outkick; he still hosts a show on FS1 that grew out of Outkick and continues to be a contributor on Fox News. His new site, Sport & State, has an unconventional business model; Mr. Travis has said that he will either own or hold substantial stakes in the companies he promotes, including a law firm with a personal injury practice and a mortgage lender.

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A.I.'s Not a Job Killer So Far. But Raises and Hiring Are Down.

Bartesian, maker of "the Keurig for Cocktails," is hiring, said its founder and C.E.O., Ryan Close. Revenue is growing largely because of A.I., he said.
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"If you are a hairdresser, if you are a massage therapist, if you are a doorman, of course your occupation is not threatened by A.I., whereas if you are a journalist or an economist, there is just more pressure on wages because now the work that we do can be replaced, at least in some ways, by A.I.," Mr. Slok said.

In other words, A.I. appears to be hitting so-called knowledge work through less hiring by recruiters rather than more firing by managers.

"And for that reason, finding jobs has become more complicated," Mr. Slok said. "And the wage that you're getting paid is where we're seeing all the action."

Ms. Edlich and Mr. Slok found that occupations highly exposed to A.I. have experienced a 6.7 percent decline in real wage growth since 2023 and that the effect is harshest among lower earners. Service workers, often in administrative or support roles, have experienced a 24 percent decline. The bottom quarter of workers has seen an 11 percent decline. Top earners, however, have barely been affected.

Corporate profits are up across the board. And amid these boom times, companies have options for making hay while the sun shines.

They can capitalize on their newfound efficiencies by doing more with less and laying off workers; they can scale up and add new hires; or they can preserve their efficiencies by hiring less than usual. Many companies are choosing the third option.

Melissa Krut is a senior vice president at Sogolytics, a software company in Virginia that serves over 10,000 clients with around 100 employees. She oversees human resources at the company, which runs “feedback management” services for companies including Coca-Cola and United Airlines, crafting and managing, for example, customer surveys.

During the past three years, Ms. Krut said, "productivity has increased, we have more clients, we have grown by almost every measure you want to throw out there, but we don't have, proportionately, that many more people" in positions across sales, account management and support roles.

Ms. Krut said one reason is the integration of A.I. models that can handle more than half the base line tasks for some jobs. That has led to “higher expectations,” she said, for workers seeking raises and for new hires.

"If your job could be done by A.I., yeah, you better have something else on top," Ms. Krut said. "What is the cherry on top that you're bringing to that situation? Is it your winning personality? Is it your sense of humor? What is it that you have that puts you over the edge?"

Typically, when the economy is growing, college graduates are among the workers who feel most empowered. But a large cohort of early-career college graduates have been feeling the acute stress of the higher bar for being hired.

Liminal Capital, an investment firm, estimated in August that about a third of jobs appear to be more exposed to substitution than augmentation by A.I. In those occupations, new hires among workers ages 22 to 25 have fallen by a third since 2021, even as firings have barely budged.

Ben Verschuere and Angus Cameron, the authors of the Liminal paper, said one reason behind the trend is that younger people are the likeliest to be entering the labor force, leaving them most exposed to the heightened selectivity of employers. The mass retirement of baby boomers isn't leading to an upward swell in salaries or job openings for Gen-Xers or millennials below them either.

"We could be living in a world where unemployment is low while job quality, composition and wages deteriorate," said Loujaina Abdelwahed, head of economic research at Revelio Labs, a labor market data firm.

Average hourly earnings growth for rank-and-file employees of all ages, which peaked above 6 percent in 2022, dropped to near 3 percent on an annual basis last month. That is unusual: Wages tend to rise as the unemployment rate falls, as it has since the start of the year.

"Wage growth has been diverging from productivity," Mr. Verschuere said.

As efficiency and profit margins have picked up compared with the 2010s, the labor share of national income — which measures compensation relative to corporate earnings — has fallen by about 10 percentage points from a peak around the late 1990s.

Ethan Giffin, chief executive of the B2B eCommerce Agency, which helps manufacturing and distribution companies transition from phone-based to automated ordering systems, has expanded revenue by double digits for the past three years. But Mr. Giffin said he has also largely stopped hiring technical writers because work that once took a year or more now takes only about three months.

"The human hours that it would take to work through a 5,000- or 10,000-product catalog was extremely tedious, and now leveraging A.I., that significantly cuts down on the human hours required to do that," he said. "It's a significant cost savings versus having a team of, paying a team of, three or four or five people to sit around and do that work."

For an ecosystem as large and diverse as the \$30 trillion U.S. economy, there are inevitably exceptions to the trend. Recent studies have found that some companies leaning into A.I. have increased their pace of hiring. And the demand for certain skilled workers who specialize in managing A.I. has become supercharged.

But the U.S. tech sector overall is hemorrhaging jobs, losing about 7,000 last month and roughly 48,000 over the past year, according to Joey Politano, an economic analyst. And financial services, another sector highly exposed to A.I., is experiencing an outright contraction in employment levels, with 100,000 jobs lost since the start of the year.

The share of U.S. adults employed by financial firms, a long reliable vault into the upper middle class, or higher, has fallen to the lowest level since 1981. Mr. Verschuere said the pipeline for many graduates is drying up, too. Even as the average number of applicants to banks continues to rise by hundreds of thousands, the number hired has remained relatively flat.

There are other avenues of employment for young people, including new consumer-facing start-ups. Ryan Close, the founder and chief executive of Bartesian, a company that makes home cocktail machines — “the Keurig for Cocktails” — is hiring.

Revenue has grown since 2022 to \$80 million from \$50 million, largely because of A.I., Mr. Close said.

Bots and agents, according to Mr. Close, can expertly create budgets, retail reports and, like a fishing cast net, identify influencers who could be good brand ambassadors for Bartesian. They can even draft contracts for potential vendors with estimated pay ranges.

"It's insane," he said.

Although this automated efficiency has reduced his need to hire at the entry level, Mr. Close has decided to hire several more midlevel staffers, who can focus on strategy rather than repetitive tasks. But he has reduced his pay offers in many cases.

"The salaries expected four years ago were just insane to me," Mr. Close said. Candidates under 30 were getting offers above \$100,000 for sales and marketing roles that he now sees as "com-modifiable."

But it's now more of a buyer's market than a seller's market for labor, he said: "I think it's just coming back down to earth, where it's like OK, if you can get a good job, and you're two years or so out of college, you can take 80 grand and just be happy."

Cisco headquarters, below, in San Jose, Calif. In a rare move, a federal enforcement agency has found that Cisco likely failed to protect Muslim, Palestinian and pro-Palestinian employees from harassment as they and their co-workers debated the Hamas-led surprise attacks on Israel in 2023.

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Cisco Likely Failed to Protect Its Pro-Palestinian Employees, Agency Says

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TONY LIJONG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES or their association with Muslim and/or Middle Eastern individuals."

The letter is not a binding ruling, and both sides said the E.E.O.C. has indicated that it won't file a lawsuit. (An E.E.O.C. spokesman said the agency couldn't comment.) But such findings tend to bolster employees' cases if they decide to go to court on their own. "It's helpful, but not determinative," said Chai Feldblum, a former E.E.O.C. commissioner.

Christopher Ho, a lawyer who brought the case to the E.E.O.C. on behalf of current and former Cisco employees, said they made the letter public last month after failing to make progress on a settlement with the company.

"My clients felt like Cisco believed they were worthy of less protection," Mr. Ho said. "This is a belated but welcome validation of the fact that what was going on with them is very illegal." The case argues that the harassment continues.

Robyn Blum, a Cisco spokeswoman, said in a statement that the company disagreed with the E.E.O.C. finding and that it "thoroughly investigated all concerns and took appropriate action."

The finding is striking amid a shift in enforcement priorities by the Trump administration, whose E.E.O.C. chair has pledged to rein in what she sees as excesses in protecting certain minority groups.

'Death threats that are made to us, Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian sentiment, were ignored.'

toward Muslims, Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists began shortly after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. It frequently occurred on a company-hosted forum of an employee group known as the Connected Jewish Network, according to several former Cisco workers and screen shots they shared.

"The E.E.O.C. rarely finds cause in any case," said Mr. Ho, a lawyer with the nonprofit group Legal Aid at Work. "But I was also surprised that it took place under this administration." Ms. Feldblum said that professional staff have traditionally produced such findings without the involvement of political appointees.

In late November 2023, an employee wrote in the forum that "Israeli passers-by killed 2 members of a Palestinian family in Jerusalem this morning, and I for one am extremely grateful." A March 2024 comment about an anti-Israel protest in Montreal referred to the protesters as animals. Other Cisco employees posting in the forum appeared to equate support for Palestinians with terrorism.

At Cisco, the hostile language

Reyhan Bilici, a former Cisco lawyer who recently announced her resignation from the company on LinkedIn, citing Islamophobia, said that such language created the impression that it didn't matter how many professional credentials she brought to the table. "At end of the day, I will be reduced to these certain offensive terms: terrorist, animal, whatever it is," Ms. Bilici said. "It's completely dehumanizing."

Sophia Filipe, a former Cisco employee who is part of the E.E.O.C. case, referring to the chief people officer.

Wired has reported that the sense of grievance went both ways, and some Jewish employees also felt that the company did not protect them from harassment by employees sympathetic to Palestinians. The company said it investigated multiple complaints on each side and that it sought to maintain balance along the way.

In June of 2024, a group of employees calling themselves Bridge to Humanity, who were supportive of Palestinians, circulated an open letter to the leadership of Cisco calling on it to stop providing technology to the Israeli government among other demands.

A few days later, a Cisco official emailed leaders of the company's "inclusive communities" — groups of employees who share similar identities, like ethnicity or religion — and said the open letter was under review. The official

asked that leaders of inclusive communities not forward the letter and that they "escalate any concerning discussions to employee relations." (Another Cisco official later told Bridge to Humanity members that the company wasn't impugning its open letter, but simply asking for patience while Cisco formulated a response.)

Ms. Bilici, who is part of Bridge to Humanity, said that the company's posture, such as its cool response to the open letter, invited further harassment. "Cisco created the conditions in which people felt emboldened to ratchet up objective Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian discrimination," she said.

More abusive posts followed. In July, a Cisco employee wrote in the Connected Jewish Network that co-workers who signed the letter should "just up and quit (not just quit Cisco, but quit living and make this world a better place for all)." Another post said the letter felt like it was orchestrated from outside the company and suggested it was part of a "coordinated campaign."

Not long after, the company informed Bridge to Humanity that it was shutting down the internal site that hosted the group's open letter and the bot that helped it collect signatures, citing internal complaints and violations of its policies. It told the members of the group in August 2024 that it had fired the employee who said sign-ers of the letter should "quit living," about seven weeks after members flagged the comment.

Former Cisco employees involved in Bridge to Humanity say the company has signaled that harassment of Muslim, Palestinian and pro-Palestinian employees is more acceptable than harassment of other employees.

For example, it took the company more than two months to conclusively respond to a 76-page complaint to employee relations documenting a pattern of harassment toward Muslims, Palestinians and their supporters. The company said it took down some of the offending posts and disciplined and coached some of the employees involved.

But Cisco appeared to move more quickly later the same month on a grievance in the Jewish forum. There, an employee complained about a photo in which the company's chief people officer appeared with workers who wore T-shirts featuring the Cisco logo and a map of Israel covered in the Arabic word for Palestine, which the employee analogized to calls for Israel's destruction.

Several hours later, the chief people officer issued an apology in the Jewish forum saying the shirts violated company policy and that she had unwittingly joined the photo at a conference. "Again, I'm sorry for being unaware of the symbolism depicted on the T-shirts," she wrote. "I feel awful."

Cisco said the two situations were not comparable — that the company needed weeks to investigate dozens of questionable comments, whereas the photograph incident involved a single executive apologizing for what could have been interpreted as a political statement.

The workers filed their charge with the E.E.O.C. a few months after the incident, frustrated by a perceived double standard. "In a matter of hours after people complained over a map of Palestine, she joined the space to publicly apologize," said Sophia Filipe, a former Cisco employee who is part of the Bridge to Humanity group as well as the E.E.O.C. case, referring to the chief people officer.

"Meanwhile, death threats that are made to us, Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian sentiment, were ignored. The contrast of that was huge in pushing us to go to the E.E.O.C."

Hardware Is Having Another Big Moment Across Silicon Valley

By NIKO GALLOGLY

After ChatGPT debuted in 2022, the venture capital industry raced to invest in artificial intelligence start-ups. Most V.C.s were hoping to piggyback off the success of OpenAI's transformational chatbot. But Wen Hsieh saw the opportunity a little differently.

A hardware investor for most of his career, Mr. Hsieh recognized that an A.I. boom would create demand for the technology to power it. In 2023, he started Matter Venture Partners to focus on that bet.

It was a prescient move: Hardware is now Silicon Valley's new buzzword.

A growing number of investors are putting their money into physical technology as A.I. disrupts venture capital's bread-and-butter: software. In 2020, venture capital firms invested \$23 billion in so-called deep tech, which includes robotics, space, quantum and other hardware technologies. So far this year that number has grown to \$90 billion, according to Pitchbook.

"I couldn't have imagined the day" when so many investors would become interested in hardware, Mr. Hsieh said.

That interest has served him well: On Wednesday, Matter announced that it has raised \$450 million for its second venture fund to invest in early stage hard-tech companies. The fundraising round includes a range of investors closely tied to the A.I. boom, including ASML and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Kleiner Perkins, where Mr. Hsieh was a general partner and worked for 17 years before cofounding Matter, has previously invested in the firm.

Matter invests in six core categories: semiconductors, A.I. infrastructure, energy, robotics, advanced manufacturing and

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quantum computing. Those industries have been viewed with caution by much of the venture industry because of the high upfront investment required to develop and build new physical products.

But A.I. has begun to change that calculation. Using A.I. models has lowered the cost and time of research and development. It has also made cheaper-to-build software products less defensible, a concern that triggered a sell-off in "software-as-a-service" stocks earlier this year in the so-called "SaaSpocalypse."

Silicon Valley's embrace of physical technology is perhaps best exemplified by the venture capital behemoth Andreessen Horowitz. The firm's success was built on a philosophy — penned in a 2011 essay by its co-founder Marc Andreessen — that software is eating the world. But Andreessen Horowitz is growing its focus on physical tech too, illustrated by the \$1.1 billion Machine Age fund it raised last month to invest in A.I infrastructure start-ups.

Another factor supporting hardware start-ups is the growing success of much larger hardware companies. "You've seen some of the most valuable businesses in the world end up being capital-intensive businesses, like SpaceX," said Ian Samuels, the founder of the venture capital firm New System Ventures.

Investing in other hard tech start-ups "is a way to contribute to the A.I. ecosystem" and learn about innovation in the field,

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Arnab Das, the chief strategy officer at ASML, told DealBook.

ASML is an investor in Mat-ter's latest fund and is planning to establish a formal venture capital arm to invest in more start-ups. The Netherlands-based manufacturing company supplies critical parts to the semiconductor industry.

Larger companies are also showing a willingness to "pay a handsome sum" for small hardware start-ups, Mr. Hsieh said. Matter's portfolio company Q.ai, for example, was acquired by Apple in January in a deal valued at \$1.6 billion.

This is not the first time venture investors have pivoted to hardware. In the 2000s, venture capital dollars poured into clean technology companies, many of which sputtered out. And in 2020 and 2021, a public market wave of SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, and

high-profile initial public offerings helped bring in capital for hard-tech companies, many of which have fallen in value.

The challenge and complexity of hardware investing is why investors with technical backgrounds and a long-term focus on the category are best positioned, Mr. Hsieh said: "If you've been doing it long enough, you know that it's not easy to do."

Zuckerberg Says A.I. Slowdown Is Wrong Tack

By ELI TAN

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In a social media post on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg said that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, took aim at rival A.I. start-up Anthropic and its chief executive, Dario Amodei, on Tuesday amid a contentious debate over whether to slow down artificial intelligence development.

In a social media post, Mr. Zuckerberg said that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology. He did not name Mr. Amodei or Anthropic, but said that calls to pause A.I. development industrywide were the wrong approach. On Saturday, Mr. Amodei called for a global A.I. slowdown over concerns about the technology's rapidly accelerating capabilities.

"Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely," Mr. Zuckerberg posted, "Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well."

Debate over the speed and potential dangers of A.I. development has engulfed the tech industry in recent days, fueled by the resignation of a researcher at Anthropic last week who warned that A.I. companies were "gambling with our lives." Mr. Amodei then spoke up about a slowdown and was joined by Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI; Elon Musk, whose SpaceX rocket comto do this before we would," Mr. Zuckerberg said. "We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us."

He also jabbed at rival A.I. labs for racing toward "recursive self-improvement," which is when A.I. is used to develop itself. A.I. companies should instead focus on serving people, he said.

Meta has been aiming to catch up in the A.I. race after falling behind Anthropic and OpenAI last year. The company plans to release its most powerful A.I. model to date, internally called Watermelon, in the coming weeks.

(The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied those claims.)

Meta's C.E.O. appears to take a jab at Anthropic.

pany has been ramping up spending on A.I.; and Demis Hassabis, the chair of Google DeepMind.

Other tech leaders, such as David Sacks, a venture capitalist and adviser to President Trump, have questioned Mr. Amodei's motivations. They have suggested he was sensationalizing the risks of A.I. to make it harder for other companies to compete with Anthropic and other leading labs.

In his post, Mr. Zuckerberg took a middle ground. He acknowledged the risks of A.I., but said companies are already incentivized to keep their users safe and can slow progress on their own. He used last week's release of Muse, Meta's new A.I. "agent" that can use software on its own, as an example and said his company delayed the product's release for several months to make sure it was secure.

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In Ar E-HOUSE (CHINA) ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS LIMITED. Debtor in a Foreign Proceeding

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2 Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Verified Petition or the Motion For Entry of an Order (1) Scheduling the Recognition Hearing and (2) Approving Form and Measure of Service of Notice.

Notice of Offer to Purchase for Cash Up to 2,400,184 Shares of Common Stock

of

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. at a Purchase Price of \$44.80 per Share by Beretta Holding S.A.

Beretta Holding S.A. ("Beretta Holding"), a Luxembourg corporation, is offering to purchase up to 2,400,184 of the outstanding shares of common stock, par value \$1.00 per share (the "Shares"), of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), at \$44.80 per share, net to the seller in cash, less any applicable withholding taxes and without interest, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated September 17, 2026 (the "Offer to Purchase") and in the related Letter of Transmittal (which, together with any amendments and supplements thereto, collectively constitute the "Tender Offer").

THE TENDER OFFER AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS WILL EXPIRE AT ONE MINUTE AFTER 11:59 P.M., NEW YORK CITY TIME, ON OCTOBER 15, 2026, UNLESS THE TENDER OFFER IS EXTENDED (THE "EXPIRATION DATE").

The Tender Offer is being made pursuant to the Cooperation Agreement, dated as of May 2, 2026, between the Company and Bereita Holding (the "Cooperation Agreement"). The Cooperation Agreement is more fully described in Section 10 of the Offer to Purchase, "Background of the Tender Offer, Past Contacts with the Company; Cooperation Agreement."

Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the Tender Offer, Beretta Holding will purchase up to 2,400,184 Shares or, if a lesser number of Shares are validly tendered, all Shares that are validly tendered and not validly withdrawn. The obligation of Beretta Holding to accept for payment and pay for Shares validly tendered (and not withdrawn) pursuant to the Tender Offer is subject to certain conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase. See Section 14 of the Offer to Purchase, "Conditions of the Tender Offer." The Tender Offer is not subject to any financing condition and is not conditioned upon any minimum number of Shares being tendered.

The term "Expiration Date" means one minute after 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on October 15, 2026, unless the Tender Offer is extended in accordance with the Cooperation Agreement, in which event the term "Expiration Date" shall refer to the latest time and date at which the Tender Offer, as so extended, shall expire.

Beretta Holding may be required or permitted to extend the Tender Offer in the following circumstances: (a) Beretta Holding shall extend the Tender Offer for any period required by applicable U.S. federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and its staff with respect thereto that are applicable to the Tender Offer; and (b) Beretta Holding may extend the Tender Offer for any reason on up to four occasions in consecutive increments of up to five (5) business days each (or such longer period, and/or for such further occasions, as the Company and Beretta Holding may agree).

Extensions to the Tender Offer that are required or permissible under the Cooperation Agreement shall be effected by public announcement to be issued no later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the next business day after the last previously scheduled or announced Expiration Date.

For purposes of the Tender Offer, Beretta Holding will be deemed to have accepted for payment (and therefore purchased), subject to the prioration provisions of the Tender Offer, Shares that are properly tendered and not properly withdrawn only when, as and if Beretta Holding gives oral or written notice to Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (the "Depositary") of its acceptance of such Shares for payment pursuant to the Tender Offer. Beretta Holding will pay for the Shares purchased pursuant to the Tender Offer by depositing the aggregate purchase price for the Shares with the Depositary, which will act as agent for tendering stockholders for the purpose of receiving payment from Beretta Holding and transmitting payment to the tendering stockholders.

Beretta Holding will pay for Shares tendered and accepted for payment in the Tender Offer only after timely receipt by the Depository of certificates for the Shares or a timely confirmation of a book-entry transfer of the Shares into the Depository's account at The Depository Trust Company, a properly completed and duly executed Letter of Transmittal or a manually signed facsimile thereof or, in the case of a book-entry transfer, an "agent's message" (as defined in the Offer to Purchase), and any other required documents.

Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the Tender Offer, if more than 2,400,184 Shares have been validly tendered and not validly withdrawn prior to the Expiration Date, Beretta Holding will purchase Shares from all stockholders who properly tender their Shares, and who do not properly withdraw them before the Expiration Date, on a pro rata basis. Beretta Holding expects that it may not be able to announce the final proration results or commence payment for any Shares purchased pursuant to the Tender Offer until up to five business days after the Expiration Date. The preliminary results of any proration will be announced by press release promptly after the Expiration Date.

Beretta Holding will return all tendered Shares that it has not purchased, including because of the proration provisions of the Tender Offer, promptly after the Expiration Date. Under no circumstances will Beretta Holding pay interest on the purchase price for tendered Shares, regardless of any extension of or amendment to the Tender Offer or any delay in paying for such Shares.

Beretta Holding will not provide any "subsequent offering period" within the meaning of Rule 144-11 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Tenders of Shares made pursuant to the Tender Offer may be withdrawn at any time prior to the expiration of the Tender Offer. Thereafter, such tenders are irrevolvable, except that they may be withdrawn at any time after 60 days from the date of the commencement of the Tender Offer if the Shares have not yet been accepted for payment as provided in the Offer to Purchase. To withdraw tendered Shares, a written or facsimile number of shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares (see Section 2). The number of shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of the shares issued by the holder of

Beretta Holding will decide, in its sole discretion, all questions as to the form and validity of notices of withdrawal, and each such decision will be final and binding. None of Beretta Holding, the Depositary, the Information Agent or any other person will be under any duty to give notification of any defects or irregularities in any notice of withdrawal or incur any liability for failure to give any such notification.

The information required to be disclosed by paragraph (d)(1) of Rule 14d-6 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is contained in the Offer to Purchase and the related Letter of Transmittal and is incorporated herein by reference.

Beretta Holding is seeking to acquire up to 2,400,184 Shares in the Tender Offer for investment purposes. The Tender Offer is not seeking to acquire control of the Company.

Generally, the Company's stockholders will be subject to U.S. federal income taxation and applicable withholding when they receive cash from Beretta Holding in exchange for the Shares they tender in the Tender Offer. Beretta Holding encourages stockholders to seek professional advice from their own advisors concerning the tax consequences applicable to their particular situation.

The Company provided Beretta Holding with the Company's stockholder list and security position listings for the purpose of disseminating the Offer to Purchase, the related Letter of Transmittal and related documents to holders of Shares. The Offer to Purchase and related Letter of Transmittal will be mailed to record holders of Shares whose names appear on the Company's stockholder list and will be furnished to brokers, dealers, commercial banks, trust companies and similar persons whose names, or the names of whose nominees, appear on the stockholder list or, if applicable, who are listed as participants in a clearing agency's security position listing, for subsequent transmittal to beneficial owners of Shares.

The Offer to Purchase and the related Letter of Transmittal contain important information. Stockholders should carefully read both in their entirety before any decision is made with respect to the Tender Offer.

Any questions or requests for assistance may be directed to the Information Agent at the telephone numbers and address set forth below. Requests for copies of the Offer to Purchase and the related Letter of Transmittal and other tender offer materials may be directed to the Information Agent as set forth below, and copies will be furnished promptly at Benetta Holding's expense. Stockholders may also contact their broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or nominee for assistance concerning the Tender Offer. To confirm delivery of Shares, stockholders are directed to contact the Depository.

The Information Agent for the Tender Offer is:

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E.U. Plans Age Limits For Using Social Media

By ADAM SATARIANO and JEANNA SMIALEK

LONDON – The European Union outlined plans on Wednesday to restrict social media use for children under 15, an aggressive step to curtail access to apps like TikTok and Instagram across the 27-nation bloc.

The proposal, called the EU Kids Act, would bar children under the age of 13 from using social media, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, the bloc's executive branch, said in a speech in Strasbourg, France. Teens ages 13 and 14 could access new "mini accounts" supervised by parents that would limit their contact with strangers and overall screen time. Access to a more independent account would be allowed from age 15.

"It is not about our minors accessing social media. It is about when and how do we allow social media to access minors," said Ms. von der Leyen during an annual State of the Union address.

The act would be one of the biggest policy steps to date in a global movement to limit children's screen time and access to social media. The European Union, home to 450 million people, has long been an aggressive regulator of the tech industry, using its power to force companies to change products and policies. In recent years, Apple changed its App Store, Google its search engine and Meta its data-privacy practices to comply with European laws and regulations.

The European Union is trying to balance regulating the tech industry while encouraging the development of artificial intelligence

'Children are pulled ever deeper into feeds designed to keep them scrolling.'

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission.

and other technologies that could drive economic growth. On Wednesday, Ms. von der Leyen raised concerns about the safety risks of A.I., but said the region must expand development or risk falling behind the United States and China.

"We need to stay in the race," she said.

Ms. von der Leyen has made child safety online a priority amid growing concern among parents, mental health experts and policymakers. In the European Union, young people now spend four to six hours per day on screens, she said.

"Children are pulled ever deeper into feeds designed to keep them scrolling," she said.

Australia last year became the first country in the world to bar children under 16 from social media. Since then, countries including France, Denmark and Malaysia have carried out or are considering similar rules.

In the United States, Meta last month agreed to pay up to \$17.1 billion in penalties and to make major changes to its products as part of a landmark legal settlement over claims the addictive design of its products engaged children. The company, which owns Instagram and Facebook, said it would limit how long teenagers can spend on its platforms and limit features like infinite scroll.

The European Commission is expected to release full details of the social media rules on Thursday. The proposal will then wind its way through the E.U. lawmaking process, which requires agreement from member countries and the 720-member European Parliament.

One central question will be how to enforce the rules. In Australia, critics have said that teenagers are easily sidestepping the blocks and that the law has not fulfilled its promise.

Policymakers have explored the introduction of age verification technology that has raised concerns among privacy advocates.

"Children clearly need better protection online, but age verification is not a silver bullet and would raise serious privacy and data protection concerns of its own," Agustín Reyna, director of the European consumer watchdog BEUC, said in a statement this week.

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Fed Move to Raise Rates Factored In Consumer Spending

The Federal Reserve raised rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, a major step by Kevin M. Warsh, the chair, to combat inflation.
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FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE Group. "So the pain that the consumer is feeling if they're obligated to pay more on a home, or a car loan, or on a student loan, is intentional."

In 2022, before the Fed began a period of inflation-induced increases, interest rates hovered around zero. They rose to between 5.25 percent and 5.5 percent in 2023. Today, they sit between 3.75 percent and 4 percent.

These rates determine short-term borrowing costs. When they go up, lending conditions for banks tighten, creating a domino effect that can reduce consumer spending and business investment. But so far, higher rates have not done much to slow the economy.

Americans spent \$36 billion more in the U.S. economy in July compared with the month before, according to the latest personal expenditures report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The boost in spending was driven by a robust labor market that has pumped up wages and Americans' disposable income.

For a while, this spending has been uneven across income brackets in the United States. This is what has been described as the "K-shaped" economy, with the less wealthy represented by the lower-trending line and the wealthy the upward-trending line.

"Not everyone owns a home and not everyone owns equities — but it's that part of the economy, the consumer, that's been driving growth, the upper part of that 'K,' " said Leslie Falconio, head of fixed income strategy for UBS Global Wealth Management.

Consumers converge

Still, there are signs of convergence in that lopsided picture, according to analysts who examined credit and debit card spending data from Bank of America. Spending by lower income consumers has risen disproportionately in recent months, they said.

Business investment is also booming, propelled by investors' betting that returns from artificial intelligence will outpace the cost of borrowing. The stock market is reflecting confidence in tech as well, bolstered by a blockbuster earnings season. The S&P 500 is up roughly 11 percent since the start of the year.

Part of the Fed's mandate is to maintain stable prices. Inflation is still ringing in at more than 2 percent year-over-year — where the Fed would like it — with the numbers for August coming in hotter than expected. A big driver of inflation has been an energy crunch set off by the disruption of global oil flows in the Middle East. The global price of oil has risen 15 percent this month alone.

Perhaps the only sector that has relented in the face of higher rates is the housing market. Home sales are falling as mortgage rates have crossed 6.7 percent for the first time since July 2025. But

Watching yields

many homeowners able to lock in mortgages at lower rates secured years ago have been able to reduce the strain on their wallets.

"That resiliency and that growth outlook that continues to be strong allows the Fed to say, 'OK, I'm going to continue to focus on this price-stability side, because the interest rates aren't restrictive and we can hike — growth isn't teetering,'" Ms. Falconio said.

The Fed's policy path most directly affects interest rates, or yields, on shorter-term U.S. Treasuries, like the two-year note. Longer-term yields move based on Fed policy but give more weight to factors like inflation and the national deficit.

The two-year bill has ticked up to 4.66 percent for the first time since 2024. The 10-year note, which sets the pace for most consumer loans, has punched past 5 percent this week, the highest level since 2023.

The Fed's hike on Wednesday could help those yields ease lower, Ms. Falconio said. It could signal to investors that the board is proactive about managing inflation, coaxing them to expect inflation to moderate and demand a lower return on long-term government bonds, she said.

That easing would take time to translate into lower rates for consumers.

"If growth stays resilient, and they hike five or six times, then the long end is not going to go down," Ms. Falconio said about long-term bonds. "It really depends on how many times they hike."

After Beating the Odds, Economies Worldwide See Risks Multiplying

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE erman docked their boats because they can't afford fuel. In Bangladesh, power outages caused hourslong work stoppages at factories. In Guatemala, protesters burned tires and cars.

Until now, some key moves to ease demand and bolster oil supplies helped blunt extreme price increases and acute shortages.

"The No. I reason why crude oil prices and product prices have not been higher than they are is that China has cut its crude oil imports," said David L. Goldwyn, a former U.S. diplomat and Energy Department official.

The world's largest importer of oil, China stopped stockpiling oil and relied on its own inventories, easing pressure on the global oil market at a critical moment. It also reduced or withheld exports of products made from oil, like jet fuel, meaning it needed less crude oil.

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At the same time, the United States, Japan and countries across Europe dipped into their own reserves to keep prices from rising further.

The measures helped. Even Asia — the destination for about 80 percent of Middle Eastern crude and liquefied natural gas exports — was largely able to procure supplies.

An onion field in Somalia. Spiraling costs for imported energy and fertilizer threaten to reduce harvest yields and drive up food prices across Africa.

Such strategies can work for only so long, though.

Storage levels among the 38 members that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have dropped to their lowest levels in decades, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

And in the Gulf, alternate delivery routes, like Saudi's East-West pipeline, are currently not operating.

"We're going to be dealing with prices in the \$80 to \$100 a barrel level at least through 2027," said Mr. Goldwyn. Higher prices for fuel and related products like fertilizer will further push up food and transportation costs.

The disruption in energy shipping routes in the Middle East will mean higher inflation. "What's happening is that we've got very low levels of inventories now, and there's still no sign that the straits can be reopened," said Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics.

The Asian Development Bank projects that inflation in the region will accelerate to 5.2 percent this year from 3.0 percent last year. In Europe, Britain and the United States, inflation is likely to hover in the 3.5 to 4 percent range until at least the middle of next year, Mr. Shearing said.

Worries over prices are putting pressure on central bankers to raise rates, which will make borrowing more expensive and slow economies. That would be a blow for a country like Germany, which has already been teetering on the edge of recession.

Limited supplies of refined as well as crude petroleum from the Middle East are pushing up prices. Buffers are shrinking, the International Energy Agency warned last week, and the global refining system is “stretched to the limit.”

Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries have contributed to the squeeze, forcing a cut in the country's refining capacity by roughly 30 percent over the next 18 months, according to the agency. Russia has extended its ban on diesel exports to the end of this month.

The surge in diesel prices prompted President Trump this week to blame Ukraine and urge it to not target Russian refining facilities.

Mr. Goldwyn worries that rising prices may push Mr. Trump to ban diesel exports before the midterm elections in November. That would temporarily tamp down the price of diesel at home. But without foreign customers, he said, oil refiners are likely to reduce production, tightening global supplies.

An export ban would be particularly painful for Latin America, which is a big importer of American diesel.

No region is immune.

Persian Gulf economies are already reeling from the fallout of the Iran war. Qatar, a leading exporter of liquefied natural gas, is expected to see its economy shrink by 8.6 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund. Saudi Arabia's economy shrank by 4.8 percent in the second quarter compared with the previous year.

Global shocks often cause the biggest tremors in the poorest countries. Countries across Africa rely heavily on energy and fertilizer imports. Those high costs may end up driving down harvest yields and further pushing up food prices.

Although most Asian countries have been able to avoid the kind of energy shortages and halts to production that were initially feared, they have had to pay much more for supplies.

Energy prices, of course, are not the only concern. Tariffs are raising costs for consumers and manufacturers. The World Food Program warned last month that weather conditions related to El Niño could push about 50 million people into acute hunger. And government deficits have reached record highs.

Japan and Indonesia have spent billions of dollars on fuel subsidies to help consumers weather the price hikes. Concerns about countries' ability to pay back growing debt levels have seeped into the bond market. In Japan this month, yields on 10-year government bonds rose to a three-decade high.

Anxiety about rising risks has pushed the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond — a benchmark that affects interest rates and investments around the world — to ulcer-inducing levels.

Although the United States has been relatively insulated from the worst economic slaps, that could change.

As Mr. Goldwyn, the former energy official, said, "at some point when all your trading partners are suffering from high prices and food is more expensive and transportation is more expensive, you can't really escape the laws of economic gravity."

River Akira Davis contributed reporting from Tokyo.

Oil Executive Who Is Close to Trump Makes Tentative Deal to Drill in Venezuela

By BRAD PLUMER and REBECCA F. ELLIOTT

HOUSTON – Harold Hamm, an oil executive who is close to President Trump, on Wednesday announced plans to drill for oil in Venezuela, joining a growing number of American oil producers planning to do business in the South American country.

Mr. Hamm's company, Continental Resources, signed a preliminary deal with Venezuela's national oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, to develop and operate a 126,000-acre region in the country's oil-rich Orinoco Belt, known as the Ayacucho 2 Block.

The agreement, which is not part of the deal that the Trump administration announced last month, was revealed at a meeting of energy ministers from the Group of 20 nations hosted by the U.S. government in Houston. It comes after Chevron, a much bigger U.S. oil company that is already operating in Venezuela, said it would more than double its production in the country over the next five years.

Mr. Trump has been pushing American oil companies to invest in Venezuela since U.S. forces captured the country's leader, Nicolás Maduro, in January.

Mr. Hamm, whose company is based in Oklahoma City, made his fortune drilling domestically. He has been a major player in the shale fracking boom that made the United States the world's biggest oil and gas producer.

But many of those who made their fortunes in the U.S. oil industry are now looking abroad as they become more concerned about running out of attractive drilling opportunities at home. Continental in recent years struck deals to produce oil in Turkey and Argentina.

If Mr. Hamm's preliminary deal moves ahead, it would be Continental's first foray into Venezuela. The country has a lot of oil but its industry has been eroded by years of mismanagement, underinvestment, corruption and U.S. sanctions. Much of Venezuela's oil is so heavy that it has the consistency of asphalt. Few American oil producers have much experience handling such heavy oil.

"This is a huge resource in Venezuela," Mr. Hamm said on Wednesday at the G-20 meeting. "We know this is a great opportunity."

Continental did not say how much money it would invest or how much oil it ultimately aimed to produce. The company still needs to negotiate a final contract with Venezuela.

Doug Lawler, the chief executive of Continental, said that operations could begin six months after a contract was signed, though he added that the timeline for production was highly uncertain because the company was developing a new site.

"We know it's going to be a significant amount of capital that will have to be deployed into wells and new infrastructure," Mr. Lawler told reporters in Houston. "It's difficult at this point in time without the seismic data, the technical data, some of the initial drilling data to determine what that exact development program will look like."

While Continental does not have extensive experience working with the type of heavy oil found in Venezuela, Mr. Lawler

A growing number of American producers are looking abroad.

said the company had worked on some limited heavy oil projects in the United States. "We don't consider it to be a technical challenge that we couldn't pursue completely on our own," he said.

Some energy experts have been doubtful that producers will be able to easily or quickly unlock Venezuela's vast oil reserves. But

Mr. Hamm pointed out that Continental had helped to pioneer the use of fracking techniques to extract oil from shale rock, something many industry experts had also been skeptical of.

"Our team is used to challenges," Mr. Hamm said. "We like that. We rise to the occasion and perhaps do the impossible sometimes."

Mr. Hamm also said that he was confident that Venezuela would uphold any oil agreements, even if there was a change in government. "I believe that in the future they'll recognize that it's in their best interest," he said.

Mr. Hamm has been a trusted adviser on energy issues to Mr. Trump and contributed to the president's political campaigns.

Mr. Trump's energy secretary, Chris Wright, and interior secretary, Doug Burgum, attended the event announcing Continental's Venezuela deal on Wednesday, as did several senior Venezuelan officials.

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A Coach Shines After Decades In the Shadows

PAIGE BUECKERS appreciates Jose Fernandez's honesty in Dallas.

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JESSICA SHEPARD likes that she relates to her coach as a person.

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AZZI FUDD averaged 13.1 points before a season-ending injury.

Fernandez helps revive the Wings, with an assist from the blueprint of Auriemma.

By BRIAN HAMILTON The Athletic

ARLINGTON, Texas — After a practice in July, Paige Bueckers explained how she found her way into a World Cup semifinal. The soccer tickets, via Nike, belonged to someone else. Then Victor Wembanyama, the N.B.A. star, canceled. So the shoe company approached Bueckers, the Dallas Wings guard, who accepted.

Jose Fernandez, her new coach, also landed a ticket for the match, Spain versus France, albeit via an invitation from the Wings' team president. "I wasn't going to pay \$17,000 for two tickets," he said. He most likely could not even see Bueckers from his seat, but here, with the arc of a franchise to be defined, so much depends upon arriving at the same place, under any circumstances.

The Wings are the W.N.B.A.'s

Brian Hamilton is a senior women's basketball writer for The Athletic.

most improved outfit, going from last-place calamity to playoff squad, primarily because of Bueckers and Azzi Fudd, who were consecutive No. 1 draft picks, and forward Jessica Shepard, a free-agent signee who is producing like a top-10 player. More good players doing more good stuff, at least until knee surgery sidelined one of them. That makes sense.

But the 54-year-old coach who clambered from community college to Division II to a Division I midmajor for 25 years before this? A guy with zero W.N.B.A. experience, tasked with gaining the trust of multiple star talents, instantly? That was a variable.

A good flow early turned into an ebb, with eight losses in 11 games and Fudd shut down Aug. 19 before having arthroscopic surgery. Plans changed, but the message did not. The Wings recovered, and now they are playoff-bound for the first time since 2023. After a long climb, Fernandez cannot help coming by things honestly.

"You got to have an inner confidence in yourself in what you're doing, a belief that you're going to be successful when you're doing it," he said. He added: "If you're worried about what people are

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'You got to have an inner confidence in yourself in what you're doing.' JOSE FERNANDEZ, the first-year coach of the Dallas Wings.
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TEAM	2025 WINS	2026 WINS	WIN CHANGE
1 Dallas	10	24	+14
2 Washington	16	24	+8
3 Golden State	23	29	+6
4 Chicago	10	15	+5
5 Indiana	24	26	+2

TEAM	F.G.MADE	PCT.
1 Indiana	1,365	.492
2 Minnesota	1,359	.482
3 Las Vegas	1,315	.482
4 Dallas	1,325	.467
5 Los Angeles	1,266	.464

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A Top N.B.A. Villain: He's for the Children

By DOUG HALLER The Athletic

MESA, Ariz. — They showed up in high-tops, all different colors, most with laces tied, but not all. Some were tall and springy enough to dunk, others so short they could barely get the basketball to the rims at the Arizona Athletic Grounds, a complex about 40 miles from downtown Phoenix.

They were budding villains, or at least that is what could be reasonably assumed because they were spending this particular afternoon at the Dillon Brooks Youth Basketball Camp. Brooks, as dedicated fans know, is the N.B.A.'s chief villain, a title he embraces, a 6-foot-7 forward who last season made his mark with the Phoenix Suns and became a fan favorite.

All of the definitions of "villain" can be attached to the colorful Brooks: a character in a story or play who opposes the hero (LeBron James certainly would agree with this); a deliberate scoundrel or criminal (seems a little strong, though); one blamed for a particular evil or difficulty (Yes!).

In this gymnasium, no one cared.

Brooks, 30, has had an eventful off-season. In August, he signed a three-year extension with the Suns worth \$73 million, securing a place in the team's future. He recently spent 10 days in China, working with a mixed martial artist, Li Jingliang, and learning kung fu, an activity that should alarm N.B.A. scorers and officials.

"I got to see a lot of new things and be knowledgeable in some things that I wanted to be," Brooks said. "I was in a different city every single day. The people and the fans were great."

The Brooks camp stretched over eight courts, each offering a different drill for campers, who

Doug Haller is a senior writer for The Athletic.

ranged in age from 6 to 16. Joseph Harb, a 15-year-old from San Diego, said he drove six hours "just for this, bro." He admired the toughness Brooks brought to the Suns and how he had "the guts to stand up to everyone," skills required for villainy.

At one station, Rodney Johnson watched as his 11-year-old son, Braydon, learned elbowing in the post without being caught and other ways to get under an opponent's skin. (Actually, this is an exaggeration: Young Braydon ran basic drills and played two-on-two.) The Johnsons drove 1 hour 15 minutes from the other side of the Valley of the Sun to be here.

"We love Dillon," said the father, who wore a black Brooks T-shirt he had received at a previous Brooks event. "Everybody says he's a villain, but sometimes, that's what you need."

But did he like Brooks before he got to the Suns?

"Absolutely not," he said with a laugh.

Brooks has earned his reputation. Over a nine-year N.B.A. career, he has delivered hard fouls that have led to injuries and cheap shots that have led to flagrant fouls. Last season, he was slapped with a league-high 17 technical fouls, including one as he sat on the bench in street clothes. He was also fined \$35,000 for unleashing inappropriate language at officials in a November game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Across the league, the annoyance for him runs deep.

"Hey, every team needs a villain," Salomon Silverio said as he watched his 10-year-old son run a pass-and-cut drill. "Plus, he brings that defensive mentality that every team needs. You would hate to play against him."

The best villains are complex. This is why so many actors love to play them in movies. In sports, people may respect a true villain, but they loathe a fake tough guy,

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The Suns' Dillon Brooks, above, at his camp in Mesa, Ariz. Brooks, far left, is known for getting under the skin of players like Stephen Curry.

an insult critics often lob at Brooks. Not that he cares.

"As a human being, you have good and you have a little bit of bad, a little bit of villainy," said Brooks, coming off a season in which he averaged a career-best 20.2 points for the Suns. "It's always in moderation, but I feel like people kind of resonate with that. A villain doesn't have to be always bad. There's good in it, as well. It's the hard work. It's the relentlessness to be the best at what you want to be, and I try to instill that in myself and try to showcase it in a different way."

The China trip is part of the Brooks back story. So was this camp. When Brooks first walked into the gym, as the 350 campers

Having fun amid potential successors at a feisty camp.

chanted his name, he stopped and stared — a breathing and focus exercise he does before games, something he took from the former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. Then he ran through the campers and gave them high-fives.

Brooks once participated in something like this. Growing up in Canada, he attended a Jamaal Magloire camp. A 6-11 center, Magloire played 12 N.B.A. seasons and, in 2004, made the Eastern Conference All-Star team. Brooks got a photo with Magloire, which, he said, "stuck with me a while." It also made his N.B.A. dream seem a little more within reach. He hoped his event would have the same effect.

The camp was part of FlexWork Sports, which promotes its events as an experience, a chance to meet and mingle with star athletes. The drill stations were scripted, the last of which was run with Brooks. Campers passed him the ball, cut to the basket, caught a return pass and shot a layup or jump shot. Brooks had fun with this, dishing passes behind his back, applauding every make, offering encouragement after every miss.

A girl with a blond ponytail sank a short jumper. "Nice shot," Brooks said, smiling. The girl did not smile back, a baller villain move. But minutes later, the groups rotated, and Brooks called out to her with an extended hand. The girl slapped it.

As the event wrapped up, campers went one-on-one against Brooks. Damien Parmenter, a 16-year-old Suns fan from Oregon, pivoted at the top of the key as Brooks pressured him. Parmenter broke right, measured his steps and leapt to dunk. He missed, drawing a gasp from campers. As Parmenter hung on the rim, steadying his momentum, Brooks gave him a playful shove.

Once a villain, always a villain.

After Decades in the Shadows, a Coach Is Shining With the Resurgent Wings

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Jose Fernandez, who led South Florida to two American Athletic Conference tournament titles, is friends with UConn's Geno Auriemma, center at left, the former coach of the Wings' Paige Bueckers (5).

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saying about you and what they're talking about, you're going to end up being where they're at. Not coaching this team."

It is oddly perfect that a chat with Fernandez takes place in a grimly lit equipment room at the College Park Center, an operations base borrowed from the University of Texas-Arlington. In about a year, the Wings will have a stand-alone \$81 million practice facility. They will play home games at American Airlines Center in Dallas, capacity 19,200, and not at a college gym that fits about half that. The core of the team — the aforementioned three players and guard Arike Ogunbowale — is signed through 2027 at least. The future has some shine to it.

Overseeing the abundance and expectation will be someone who grew up in Miami hating baseball — “I was the guy out in left field throwing the glove up in the air,” Fernandez said — but loved watching the Celtics, Pistons and Bulls. He learned the value of discipline the hard way; the Southwest Miami High School basketball coach Tom Moore booted him as a junior for failing to meet standards in and out of the classroom. He earned his way back as a senior, then started coaching as a student assistant pursuing an associate degree at Miami-Dade Community College in the early 1990s, washing uniforms and filling ball racks, whatever needed to be done.

Then came a high school boys' basketball assistant gig. Then a Division II men's hoops assistant role. Then a high school girls' head coach spot and directing an A.A.U. program in Miami. The opportunities in women's basketball kept arriving, and Fernandez kept taking them. Still, he was not a head coach at any level until South Florida elevated him in 2000.

His 485 wins amassed across 25 seasons in Tampa, Fla., are not beside the point, but the calluses and wisdom accumulated out of plain sight might count for as much. "A lot of coaches need to realize that, hey, there's a lot of work to be done before the lights get bright," Fernandez said.

He worked summer camps as a young coach and guesses he has visited 70 or 80 countries to scout and learn. He liked basketball that flowed with an emphasis on sharing the ball. So he built an offense based on skill at all positions, forcing defenses to defend multiple actions and ensuring stars glow brightest.

It was effective enough to have nine players drafted by the W.N.B.A. during his South Florida tenure, most notably guard Courtney Williams. It all made Fernandez a candidate for the Wings job when Curt Miller arrived as executive vice president in late 2024. But bailing on South Florida mid-season was a nonstarter.

Then came the Paige views. "The eyes on this franchise because of the acquisition of Paige is something I had no idea was going to be the way it was," Miller says now. It precipitated the 2025 dismissal of Chris Kolcanes after one season and 10 wins. Course correction required a steadier pilot than a 36-year-old with zero head coaching experience.

This time, for Fernandez, the timing of the W.N.B.A. made sense. He craved something new.

During interviews, Miller laid out the reality of a job with Bueckers on the team: Nothing will ever be good enough to the public. Miller said multiple candidates backed off as a result. Fernandez shrugged.

"A lot of people probably are scared to coach one of the best players in the world," said Fernandez, who was hired in October 2025. "I was looking forward to it. It's fun."

More than a little precarious as well. The W.N.B.A.'s 30th anniversary season would be an inflection point featuring a transformative collective bargaining agreement, ballooning media rights fees and rounds of expansion worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Bueckers was among a small cohort with the ability to define the league's next 30 years. Failing to maximize her career meant failing the sport.

All while starting as a stranger. Asked about her familiarity with the new coach in her life, Bueckers said, "I didn't know much."

Fernandez began by visiting the past.

A friendship with Geno Auriemma, the UConn coach, dates to a group lunch during a Final Four weekend early in Fernandez's South Florida tenure. Through the years, they built a rapport over hoops, good wine, good cigars and good steakhouses — occasionally all at once.

It was impossible for Fernandez to match his friend's success, but it was possible to match the ethos behind it. "He built it from the ground up, without anybody handing him a tradition-laden program," Auriemma said. "It kind of reminded me of our situation. I saw a lot of that, and I thought, good for him. He's doing it the old-fashioned way."

So it was that Fernandez traveled to Storrs, Conn., last November, spending a few days with his friend, who oversaw Bueckers's UConn career as she amassed 2,439 points and a national championship. While he was at it, he kicked around ideas for best deploying Bueckers, the face of the franchise that just hired him. (While also getting eyes and intel on Fudd, too, of course.)

Auriemma's biggest note: Fernandez had to give Bueckers plenty of rope. And she would take all of it. Then Fernandez would have to pull her back. It wouldn't ruin his relationship with Bueckers if he did. It would ruin the relationship if he didn't.

"He thinks wide and wants to try new things, which is great for a player like Paige," Auriemma said. "And his temperament will be really, really good for her."

Gradually, Bueckers and Fernandez established their own common language.

Bueckers conveyed a wish list that read like an armed forces recruitment flier: structure; trust; take nothing personally. "We want that level of accountability here," Bueckers said amid a season in which she is averaging 20.5 points and 5.9 assists. "It started with me wanting to be coached and wanting to get yelled at and to be put in my place and be held to a higher standard."

Fernandez said: "She wants brutal honesty. She wants to be told the truth. She's a competitor, man."

As it turned out, the new era would be old hat for Bueckers. On May 14, five games into his first season, Fernandez was fed up. He sensed he had a selfish locker room and said as much. He told the players he did not come to the W.N.B.A. to deal with the same nonsense he dealt with in college. Then he repeated the sentiment in a news conference.

It was a choice. Rattling cages instead of building bridges from a coach with no track record in the pros. To Bueckers, it might as well have been the good old days with Auriemma.

About that episode, Fernandez now says, "I was a crazy college coach when the season started."

He apologized to his players not for his opinion but for airing internal grievances publicly. The Wings moved along because they said they appreciated the balance he strikes between personal relationships and withering truth.

Shepard said she likes being able to relate to her coach as a person. She added, "Then, you know, he can tell me I suck and I'm going to respect it."

Still, results are the referendum on everyone's choices. In the college draft, the Wings selected Fudd over Olivia Miles, a most valuable player candidate for the Minnesota Lynx as a rookie. ("Make no mistake, from the top down, Azzi was the pick," Miller said.) Fudd and her 13.1 points per game have been unavailable since early August, as she battled knee soreness, and now they are officially gone this season.

There is an urgency to rediscover rhythm as Miller's prophecy of scrutiny comes to pass, which necessitates decisive leadership.

So before the W.N.B.A.'s recent break for the FIBA World Cup, this happened with the Indiana Fever in town; After cycling through multiple Fudd replacements, Fernandez debuted a lineup with the 6-foot-4 Shepard, 6-4 Alanna Smith and 6-6 Awak Kuier as a frontcourt. The ensuing win stanched the wounds as Mark Cuban and Cooper Flagg sat among the second-largest crowd to watch a Wings home game. It also meant Dallas had taken season series against Indiana, Las Vegas and New York.

That the Wings are contenders at all suggests Fernandez's methods have translated, given the depths to which Dallas sank a season ago. Williams, the Lynx standout who scored 2,304 points in four seasons for Fernandez at South Florida, said he reminds her of her current coach, Cheryl Reeve. "To see a coach in the midst of a high-intensity moment, to be able to just draw up a play because it's second nature — I haven't had many coaches who can do that."

While his delivery is convincing-

It's just basketball, Fernandez said.

ing, shaping a wide-open future in Dallas requires immaculate reception from everyone involved. "I haven't wavered with the way that we want to practice, the way we're going to approach things, what I'm going to demand," Fernandez said.

He is not merely supposed to stay out of the way. But he is not supposed to get in the way, either.

The practice facility is coming. The news about playing home games in an N.B.A. arena broke in August.

Most critically, Bueckers is here. There may not be a player in the W.N.B.A. who is this good, this young and this universally liked. "Paige is such a magnet that I'm hearing from agents behind the scenes that players ultimately, when their contracts are up, want to talk to Dallas," Miller said. "That's never happened before."

Bueckers does not add much about the big picture — “I’m not really a future-based person,” she said — but that generally aligns her with a coach who relishes watching film and crafting game plans. A coach who thinks back to his “crazy college coach” news conference and jokes that the W.N.B.A. was not ready for his level of candor. A coach who owns a couple of acres 25 miles outside Dallas so his eight rescue dogs have room to roam. A coach who admits he might like those pups better than he likes a lot of people.

The job is what Fernandez needed. "Rejuvenated," is how Auriemma described him.

The Wings' future, meanwhile, relies on Fernandez's gravelly voice being what Bueckers and the other ascendant stars need, too. When Fernandez mentions his preference for canines over humankind, it is suggested he feels this way because dogs do not talk back.

"Well," he said with a grin, "the Huskies do."

PRO FOOTBALL

Buffalo's Stephen Gosnell trying to make a catch against Carolina's Corey Thornton during a preseason game at Highmark Stadium.
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Bills Are Already Tearing It Up at New Stadium

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During preseason play, the new stadium's field showed deformations beyond what is typically seen on N.F.L. playing surfaces.

By TIM GRAHAM

The Athletic

The Buffalo Bills planted new grass at Highmark Stadium 10 months ago. Ahead of the Bills' first real game on it, they ripped out the field and started over.

Before the Bills made this decision, the N.F.L.'s field director, Nick Pappas, wanted to meet with the Highmark Stadium grounds crew to see the field for himself.

What he saw during the Bills' Aug. 27 preseason game against the Pittsburgh Steelers was a field that left much to be desired. The Bills agreed and decided to re-sod in hopes of fixing what Pappas said showed "major deformations."

Why put quarterback Josh Allen on a substandard playing surface and risk mitigating his greatness, if not his health?

That decision was not up to Pappas, but in an interview with The Athletic, he shared his thoughts on the circumstances Buffalo must navigate in its new \$2.2 billion stadium. A significant test looms with three straight home games, starting on Thursday against the Detroit Lions.

"I have confidence that the staff there will find the best solution for that building," Pappas said.

Pappas discussed the challenges of growing grass at Highmark Stadium, teams' responsibility for field performance, what the N.F.L. will monitor in Buffalo, and whether grass makes sense for every stadium. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

What input did the N.F.L. have in the Highmark Stadium field when the team decided to switch to grass after 54 years?

With all of our stadiums, any time there's discussion around new stadium construction or, as we've seen in the past, the change from one surface to the other, whether that's grass to artificial or artificial to grass, we work and support our clubs with whatever available, most up-to-date data we have. It's usually nothing beyond what actually gets shared on a regular basis to our health and safety committees and to our joint surfaces committee.

So the Bills' ownership had all the available data when making their decisions to build their new stadium and determine the surface type. Beyond that, there was no specific, additional support.

What involvement did the N.F.L. have over the past 10 months at

Tim Graham is a senior writer covering the Bills for The Athletic.

Highmark Stadium?

The league's involvement with Highmark or any club is ensuring that all fields meet compliance before N.F.L. use, right? So that would be any game day or practice being held inside a stadium or at a practice venue — any N.F.L. field the players are going to be faced with. We ensure compliance is completed.

How did you think the field looked when you saw it firsthand?

I thought it looked great, right? Everybody liked the deep shade of green. But from a playability and compliance perspective, there weren't any issues. The field met compliance, which is really just a firmness criterion that we have in our mandatory practices.

The aspect of the field that appeared to be an issue was that there were major deformations happening, large divoting outside of what we typically see at many of our N.F.L. grass fields — although not something we haven't seen before. That lent itself to say there was an opportunity to improve that surface, and that's what the Bills have stepped up to do and made that decision to replace it.

What caused the deformations?

I don't think it's as cut-and-dry as I would have liked it to be. When I arrived to assess and speak with the grounds crew and try to get a little bit of the last eight, 10 months of historical data since installation, I think you're dealing with a challenge that I've seen happen in the industry anytime there's a new facility built. There's a period before it gets turned over to Bills staff. So, you're now reliant on the general contractor or the installation company for maintenance over a certain period of time. Obviously, a field being

installed in a Northern climate in October means that it will likely slow down, if not go dormant, shortly after that, and it will not wake up until after March or April.

So I think it's a combination of the sod quality from the start, the challenges and maybe the management up until the Bills' grounds crew were able to take over, and then you couple it with a very new growing environment that needs to be worked through; it presents challenges. That's a facility that is going to have lower-light conditions and different airflow. It's got its own microclimate once you're inside that building versus standing outside that building. There's a lot of things that'll have to be monitored and looked at to determine what's the best way to manage a playing surface in that building.

How will the first and second fields perform differently?

The new sod being installed will come in thicker than what the existing sod was installed at. In the world of the N.F.L., that matters. When we talk about grass fields that are being used across the league, the vast majority are Bermuda grass grown on plastic. The concept of growing sod on plastic is one the N.F.L. has really relied on quite heavily to be able to have the level of quality and the ability to turn around and replace a field midseason. It's growing grass over an impermeable sheet of plastic over a duration of time that would allow it to grow up, grow really thick.

The Bills replaced their original field after two preseason games in 13 days. They're about to play three home games in 18 days. What needs to happen for the new field to work?

They're going to go forward with their maintenance program. They'll have a new product, a

new field in there, and I suspect it'll be a vast improvement from the issues that we saw, which was the overall density and strength of the grass. There's a lot that goes into when their next replacement may be, and it's likely to happen again, but I say that about all our grass stadiums.

A three-game homestand this time of year is maybe palatable. However, if you get a three-game homestand later in the calendar, you're hoping the weather's going to play nicely, because if you get a torrential downpour during one of those games, you're going to see degradation of that surface beyond the timeline you need for recovery. That's the biggest thing with grass: Recovery needs to outpace usage. But if the weather is great and all goes well over that three-game stand, maybe they're looking at Week 8 to replace it, or they can look at the weather and say, "Hey, based on where we are today, we have three weeks to recover. We can bring the grow lights out. We can provide our agronomic program with fertility and grow it back."

It's very challenging. That three-game homestretch certainly is going to put some stress on that field.

What will you be monitoring during that three-game stretch?

For me, my job is to ensure our fields meet compliance and we don't have any issues about putting athletes on them. That's first and foremost. From there, obviously, we want to make sure the performance is where we would expect an N.F.L.-standard field to be.

We've had games in the past where we've said, "You know what? Yeah, we met compliance, although we want better performance out of it." A lot of our compliance metrics are driven around the concern for health and safety. Performance is another aspect of it, which is, "Can an athlete go out and cut the way they want to cut, or maybe play their hardest?" We want our athletes to go out and play their hardest and give their best effort, but we've seen plenty of times over the years, whether it's a snow game or a rain game, whether it's a field challenge, where players had to adjust and adapt and cut a little different or perform slightly different.

How often would you expect the Bills to need to change their sod in their climate and without a college football tenant?

That's a good question because I think what nobody has seen yet is how that field will respond to the lake-effect snow they get, especially if they play late into the season. It's unbelievable snowfall. There's a lot of challenges around managing snow.

They'll need to find the balance to attack each week in each weather condition as it comes. To me, that's a big question mark, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's three to four fields a year in Highmark Stadium.

The N.F.L. Players Association has been pushing for grass fields in every stadium. How reasonable is that?

My honest response is I'd like to see us — the royal "us," the players, the league, the N.F.L.P.A., everyone together — get to a point where we're not evaluating surfaces based on their material makeup. And we're evaluating surfaces based on their performance criteria and how similar we can ensure that, regardless of what environment — indoors, outdoors, warm seasons, cool seasons — they are the best possible surface come game day, because that is truly what matters most.

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Buffalo's grounds crew repairing grass last month. The Bills ultimately decided to install new sod.

COMMENTARY

Goodell's Choice: Do What's Right Or Do What Pays

games have advanced from an experiment to a foundation.

By JASON LLOYD The Athletic

Roger Goodell inherited a thriving domestic product when he became commissioner of the N.F.L. 20 years ago and nurtured it into a global empire. Yet somehow the most consequential years of his tenure may lie ahead.

The N.F.L. is about to embark on a series of negotiations that could reshape the league and how the world consumes it. Goodell's hand will remain on the rudder for all of it.

His newly signed extension runs through March 2031 — when he will be 72 — aligned, not coincidentally, with the expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement. Gary Bettman, the N.H.L. commissioner, is 74, with no plans to retire, so age alone does not settle the question. But it is reasonable to believe this could be Goodell's last contract.

What the game looks like by then — whom it rewards and whether growth made it better, or just bigger — will be his answer for everything that came before it.

A labor negotiation, a fight over expansion and an international schedule still being written will define the next four years. On top of all of it sits a media rights cycle that has grown lucrative beyond anything the league imagined when Goodell took office, and complicated beyond anything fans were promised.

There may come a point when Goodell has to look at the people who pay him and tell them that what they want is not what the league actually needs. That moment, if it comes, will tell us more about his legacy than anything that came before it.

Putting players and fans over owners would cap a legacy.

Two decades of his commissionship have been a sustained exercise in giving the 32 team owners more — more revenue, more games, more of everything that makes the N.F.L. the dominant force in American sports. That is not necessarily a criticism so much as a description of the job as it has been defined. He has done it exceptionally well.

The league is worth more than ever before. Even its lowest-rated broadcasts outperform almost everything else on television. Measured purely by what ownership hired him to produce, Goodell has delivered beyond any reasonable expectation. The question his final years in office are now posing is whether delivery was ever the whole job.

This year, Goodell was asked during a Yale University speaker series whom he ultimately serves. His answer? The game. That's a heavier responsibility than making 32 team owners wealthier. It includes the players who make the N.F.L. worth watching and the fans who pay to do so. The next few years will test whether he is willing to protect those interests when it also means disappointing the people who employ him.

Team owners want an 18th game, 16 international dates a year and most teams eventually crossing an ocean to play them. This week it was the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers, an intrastate rivalry rerouted to Melbourne, Australia, because proximity is apparently negotiable when the revenue is sufficient.

Goodell himself has said he has no doubt the league will eventually place franchises outside the United States. If he is right, the league's international

These are not modest ambitions. They are the goals of an ownership class that has watched everything it asked for arrive on schedule, and has stopped asking whether there is a cost.

The media rights deal adds another layer of pressure. The N.F.L. can exit most of its major agreements after the 2029 season, with ESPN's window opening after 2030. The league is under a Justice Department investigation into potential anti-competitive practices around bundling and subscription costs

— a signal that the pursuit of more has not gone unnoticed. It is growing more expensive, in every sense, to watch pro foot-ball.

Team owners have poll numbers to argue the public is with them. A Quinnipiac survey last fall found 60 percent of fans support an 18th game if a preseason game is removed. That's the kind of figure that ends conversations in ownership suites before they begin.

What it does not settle is the question waiting on the other side of the table.

The players' union's executive director, J. C. Tretter, has openly opposed an 18th game, and the arithmetic underneath his argument is simple enough. Trimming a preseason game does little for a starter who was going to spend that August afternoon on the sideline anyway. Adding a regular-season game requires another afternoon of real punishment. Sending him overseas to play it adds an extra layer of travel and recovery that does not appear on a broadcast schedule. More football is not an abstraction for the men who generate it. It is more Mondays where a body that gets to be young only once has to answer for what Sunday asked of it.

A second bye week, enforceable travel protocols and a restructured preseason would help. But they solve the problem only on paper. The real question is whether Goodell will spend some of the currency two decades of trust with ownership has accrued to secure protections that are proportionate to what the players are being asked to give.

Goodell said during that same Yale conversation that his guiding instinct was to do the right thing for the long run, even when the short-term cost is real. That principle will be tested more in the next four years than it has been in the previous 20. Doing right by the league over the long run may require him to slow what ownership wants in the short term. More football is not automatically better football. Baseball and basketball have spent years confronting whether their seasons have grown past the point of what the public — and the players — can sustain.

The cost of doing this honestly is not abstract. Lifetime health coverage that outlasts a career, a path to free agency that returns something to men being asked to give up more of their primes, and revenue terms that treat expansion as a shared investment are not radical proposals. They are the minimum the moment calls for and, not coincidentally, the difference between a commissionship that expanded the game and one that actually protected it.

Total N.F.L. franchise valuations today approach \$300 billion. Goodell is responsible for that, and should be applauded. It also means he is the only person in the room with the juice to tell the people running the league what they are asking of the people powering it. The revenue records speak for themselves. What they cannot speak to is the league Goodell leaves behind — whether it is stronger for everyone who makes it worth watching, or just larger for everyone who profits from it.

The money will keep arriving long after he is gone. The players' medical bills will, too.

Commissioner Roger Goodell, with Jerry Rice in Australia, has taken the N.F.L. worldwide. His contract ends in March 2031.
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COMMENTARY

A Slap Was A.I., Not the Disrespect Or Rude Laughter

By CANDACE BUCKNER The Athletic

This feels like an A.I. simulation. It's as if we're all living in an edit created by the reprobates hiding among us, with their finite sense of civility and unlimited access to video-generating software.

Did that happen? Is this real?

That video that circulated across the algorithms of Texas Longhorns fans was clearly fake: the one with Steve Sarkisian, the football coach at the University of Texas, slapping Holly Rowe, a the sideline reporter for ESPN/ABC. It was deplorable “entertainment” that only those wallowing in the gutter of society would find amusing.

But was that really a scion of the Manning family and a room full of credentialed reporters laughing at that trash?

Yes, unfortunately. That was real.

Also, though the savagery depicted in the video was created by artificial intelligence, did the current face of a billion-dollar football enterprise actually disrespect Rowe, who won the Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Award in 2023?

Unbelievable, but facts. That, also, was real.

There was a time when meatheads would giggle at off-color jokes only while in the locker room, or at least in the sanctity of the group chat, because at least good sense would prevail and remind them that some punchlines aren't suitable for public consumption. It wasn't that long ago, either, when head coaches jacked up on adrenaline would fulfill their social contract by spitting out a couple of notings to a sideline reporter — or, at least, express regret when they didn't.

That kind of human decorum, however, is fading faster than someone can hit "send" on the latest A.I.-generated nonsense. And plummeting deeper than even Texas quarterback Arch Manning's likability.

I can't tell which is worse: the phony clip depicting violence against a woman, or the real-life behavior displayed by Sarkisian,

Candace Buckner is a senior columnist for The Athletic.

then Manning and a room of media members? Before they could edit themselves and add a glossy filter to their apologies, they showed the sordid bits of their individual characters for all to see.

What a weird couple of days in Texas. It's almost as if the state's content creator mixed a sup- peredit of slop.

It started immediately after the No. 4 Longhorns' 24-23 comeback victory over No. 1 Ohio State, their first home win over a top-ranked team in 76 years. Stunning! So stunned was Sarkisian, 52, that he completely forgot how to form big-boy words with his mouth. Instead of respecting the postgame interview process, he blew off Rowe's attempt to toss him congratulatory softballs.

Rowe was trying to do her job. Sarkisian, using the excuse of technical difficulties despite ABC's production appearing ready for his on-field interview, did not do his.

Yes, Sarkisian is contractually obligated to perform this duty — TV deals help fund his \$11 million salary — as required by his conference's multibillion-dollar media agreements with the networks that broadcast its games.

And no, just no: Screaming, "Texas fight!" into the camera, then leaving the reporter in the dust, does not satisfy this responsibility. Nor does it make for good television. More than anything else, it's just not a good look.

Sarkisian makes too much money, has been around big-time college football too long to be annoyed when the TV reporter does not hurry up and ask him the two questions. On the greatest night of his greatest coaching feat, Sarkisian acted without grace or a shred of tact. College coaches aren't diplomats, but they can choose not to act like jerks.

Still, those scenes across Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium showed exactly why we all still love (or at least tolerate) college football. When the cameras spanned the crowd, there was ecstasy everywhere. Even this, though, went horribly wrong. And without assistance

Steve Sarkisian, the coach at the University of Texas, blew off a sideline reporter after a win, setting off a chain of bad behavior.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

from A.I.

Bo French, a Republican running for a spot on the state's influential oil and gas regulatory commission, could not get past all those brown-skinned men invading the stands. Not just college students but Others cheering for Texas' football team and snatching up Texas' degrees.

The Texas coach and quarterback showed the sordid bits of their character.

The sight of so few blond and blue-eyed coeds made the politician forget all about the Longhorns' big night, and it instead made him thumb out his outrage and xenophobia on X.

"I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn't believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined," a post from French's account read.

Thank goodness plenty of non-cretins exist across Texas, including some within his own political party, and those folks spoke out against the post.

Then, after all this, after the coach was rude and the G.O.P. candidate couldn't mask his racism, the college quarterback found some low-vibration content to be, heh heh, so hilarious. As did some of the reporters on hand, who presumably confused a press room for an out-of-control frat house.

During a Monday media availability, a reporter asked Manning if he had seen any of the TikTok edits done off the game. Arch, the 22-year-old Manning whom the public truly knows little about other than that he plays quarterback like his famous uncles, offered that he saw "an A.I. edit of Sark's interview."

Immediately, a loud laughter from reporters.

"You-all seen that one?" Manning asked.

More laughter.

"That's a good one!" Manning said, smiling and then pointing at someone off camera in solidarity with the joke.

Again, laughter.

"Of him slapping Holly Rowe," Manning confirmed.

Still, laughter in the room.

"Yeah, it's hilarious," Manning concluded, and somewhere his family's public relations firm probably asked for a raise.

When a colleague sent me that clip Monday night, my reaction was disbelief: "Are we sure that Arch video isn't A.I.?"

I asked genuinely because never would I have thought that a Manning, no matter his age, would so clumsily stumble into such an unnecessary mistake. Rarely an hour goes by without Peyton and Eli filling our screens. Even Cooper, Arch's father and the lesser-known Manning brother; presents well in commercials and interviews. The Mannings understand media. They are a media company in and of themselves. So five-star Arch must have had a measure of training before entering the mainstream. He can read the line of scrimmage, but clearly the kid can't read a room. Or maybe he was lured into his thoughtless comments because of the jocularity inside that room full of reporters.

Most likely, they were grown people with jobs who represent various media companies — so-called professionals. Disregard for one second the lack of judgment by those reporters, however, and consider: In what reality does an adult cackle over the depiction of a man assaulting a woman?

By Tuesday, the desensitized reactions to a fake video led to some regrets in the real world. The reporter who asked the question and posted the video of Manning with the caption: "... his answer is gold," issued an apology. He said he acted too hastily in trying to get the video up and made a mistake in judgment. Also, Manning posted his remorse with humility. He apologized to Rowe for what "she has personally had to deal with because of my comments."

Manning's apology post was indeed real. So was the very real disrespect Rowe faced from the moment she placed a microphone near Sarkisian, as was the actual post from a politician mistakenly trying to score points with the wrong people. All of it was real, which means A.I. isn't ruining our world. Real people are doing just fine in that role.

HOCKEY

Crosby and Ovechkin May Be Nearing Last Dance, but With Spring in Step

"He knows how to score goals," Sidney Crosby, 39, said of Alex Ovechkin, 41. "You don't lose that." They combined for 61 last season.
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LAS VEGAS — As the last N.H.L. season wound down, Tom Wilson did not know if Alex Ovechkin would return for a 22nd season with the Washington Capitals. He's not even sure Ovechkin knew.

But Wilson, a forward for the Capitals, had a hunch.

"He's shown he can keep scoring; he's shown that he's still got game," Wilson said last week during preseason interviews here.

After adding Jordan Kyrou, Alex Tuch and Boone Jenner this off-season, the Capitals believe their window to win is wide open. But with Ovechkin having just turned 41, there's a vibe around the team that this will be one last hurrah with the greatest goal scorer hockey has ever seen.

"The last five years has felt like the 'Last Dance,' and he just keeps getting better and better," Wilson said. "There are so many milestones that he just smashes through, and now there's another one: Now he's going to have the most assists" in Capitals history.

Wilson added: "There's always another milestone. The fact that he's just chasing the next milestone, considering what he's done, is absolutely insane. But who knows? Maybe they'll write a crazy 'Last Dance' story about this year. I hope that's the case. I hope that we show up and play really well as a team and keep that culture and he plays great and we're talking about having a good playoff run."

Ovechkin played in all 82 games last season, posting 32 goals and 32 assists — modest by his standards, but remarkable at his age. He led the Capitals in goals again, edging out Wilson by two — the pair played hot potato with the puck on a late-season empty-netter, each trying to give the team lead to the other. But with Kyrou and Tuch in the fold, Ovechkin might not have to be the man now.

Mark Lazerus is a senior N.H.L. writer for The Athletic.

Tuch scored 33 or more goals in three of the last four seasons with the Buffalo Sabres, and Kyrou had three consecutive 30-goal seasons with the St. Louis Blues before posting just 18 last season.

Wilson has no doubt Ovechkin will embrace whatever role suits the team best.

"At this point, he wants to win; he wants to be part of a good team," Wilson said. "If our team's winning and playing well and he has 30 goals instead of 40, I don't see him getting upset about that. I just don't. But that being said, he's great for a reason. He wants to be the best version of himself. He wants to score goals. He holds himself to an extremely

high standard."

He added, "I don't think you'll ever take that out of him."

Ovechkin's decades-long foil, Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, was not sure if the Capitals star would return, either. When the Penguins had a home-and-home series with Washington late in the season with the Penguins resting players, Crosby sat out the game in Pittsburgh and played in the game in Washington as a show of respect for his rival.

"I had no idea at that point, so in my head, I was preparing like, 'Oh, this could be the last time,' Crosby said. "If it was the case, you're going to try to enjoy it. If it's not, it'll be great to see him back playing again. I wasn't sure."

One thing Crosby is sure of: Ovechkin will still be a factor. Asked whether he had anything left to give, Crosby laughed. "How many goals did he have last year?" he quipped.

"He knows how to score goals," Crosby added. "You don't lose that. Maybe as you get older, you might have to adjust a little bit. But his shot is his shot, and that's not going anywhere."

Neither is Crosby, of course. Crosby turned 39 last month but remains an elite top-line center, with 29 goals and 45 assists in just 68 games last season. He is entering the final year of his contract but has been eligible for an extension since July 1. Crosby's agent, Pat Brisson, has been in early talks with Penguins General Manager Kyle Dubas. After the resurgent Penguins made a surprise playoff appearance last year, talk of Crosby finishing his career elsewhere has died down considerably. It seems like it's only a matter of time before Crosby makes it official.

"It's just a little bit more difficult at my age, as far as trying to project where you're going to be," Crosby said. "It's just different. You don't know where you're going to be at, year to year, with how you feel and things like that. I'd like to continue playing for a number of years. It's just I don't know what that number is. I guess your mind and body tell you that eventually. Right now I feel pretty good, though."

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654	Goals	929
1,107	Assists	758
1,761	Points	1,687
194	Power-play goals	331
4,459	Shots on goal	7,108
3	Stanley Cups	1
2	Hart (league M.V.P.)	3
2	Ross (points leader)	1
2	Smythe (playoffs M.V.P.)	1
8	All-Star games	12
0	Calder (rookie of the year)	1

Source: Sports Reference.
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This will be the 18th consecutive season in which Crosby carries an \$8.7 million cap hit. He laughed when told he is pretty much paid like a second-pairing defenseman in this era of soaring salaries. Will he try to make a big score at the end of his career? Or will the superstitious Crosby stick with the same number, which is his jersey number (87) and his birthday (Aug. 7)?

When he first was making \$8.7 million, it was a hefty 15.3 percent of the salary cap. This season, it will be 8.4 percent. Crosby is glad to see the new economic landscape, even if he will not fully cash in on it.

"It's nice to have certainty with the cap for everybody," Crosby said. "I think that's really good to have. In the past, that was something that probably didn't allow things to get where they've gotten to now. I think it's good for everyone."

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With Songs, She Built Her Idea Of a Home

After a fire, Lorely Rodriguez, known as Empress Of, recorded 'Dream House.'

By CAROLINA ABBOTT GALVÃO

Inked on the inside of Lorely Rodriguez's left wrist is the word "Altadena." Rodriguez, a singer-songwriter and producer who performs as Empress Of, got the tattoo after the Eaton fire blazed through that Los Angeles County neighborhood in January 2025, destroying many properties, including her childhood home.

"I'm just really proud of the resilience of my town," she said in a video interview. Her brown hair, streaked with a few beige and golden strands, fell in ringlets onto the shoulders of her pale blue top.

Rodriguez was thinking, in particular, of her mother, Reina, who decided to rebuild the house from the ground up. "She's a very driven person," the musician said. "Once she puts her mind to something, it happens." Still, the process wasn't easy. In the months after the fire, the family dealt with a number of issues: Would they get a permit to rebuild? Had the soil underneath the house been contaminated? If everything worked out, how would they make the new place a home? On her latest LP, "Dream House," which comes out on Friday, Rodriguez considers some of those questions and grapples with what it means to create anew.

The album lies firmly within the electronic pop style she's been known for since her debut in 2015, music filled with fizzy soundscapes and breezy melodies that also flirts with the counterintuitive or unfamiliar. "Dream House," expands that vision into something more structured, more conceptual. "I feel I've done a lot," she said, "but I've never made a record like this."

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The musician Lorely Rodriguez, who performs as Empress Of, lost her childhood home in Altadena, Calif., in the 2025 Eaton fire. She worked on her new album as her mother worked on plans to rebuild.

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Where Movies and Business Mix

The Toronto International Film Festival hopes to expand without changing its spirit.

The Toronto film festival, which runs through Sunday, has added a market component.

By JASON T. BAILEY

TORONTO — The booths, lounges and displays fill the third-floor exhibition hall of the Metro Toronto Convention Center here.

Some are staffed by representatives of film commissions from around the world, promoting their countries as shooting locations, or hawking local projects in handouts, postcards and branded knickknacks. Production companies, seeking foreign distribution for completed films or potential ones, display posters and play trailers. The booth for RDV Canada, an initiative to promote the local film industry, is the busiest at the moment, the site of a reception, with finger food and beverages aplenty.

Most important, everywhere you look there are tables ready for distributors, executives, agents and filmmakers to pull up a chair and make a deal.

This giant hall is the centerpiece of TIFF: The Market, the newest addition to the long-running Toronto International Film Festival. It is, at least on the surface, a strik-CONTINUED ON PAGE C4

Finally in Control Of National Security

By CALUM MARSH

She's a ruthless, Machiavellian schemer. In his books, the writer Mick Herron presents her as an underhanded adversary to be watched warily and never to be trusted long.

In Season 6 of 'Slow Horses,' Kristin Scott Thomas's crafty character runs Britain's MI5.

So why is it that, in "Slow Horses," the popular Apple TV series whose sixth season premiered on Wednesday, the formidable Diana Taverner is so strangely likable—even as she repeatedly thwarts and undermines the misfit spies who have won over so many viewers?

It's no doubt partly down to the slightly softer touch that Kristin Scott Thomas brings to the role, playing the ultimate foil to the Slough House spies and their belching leader, Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), with warmth and charisma. Her Taverner isn't entirely sympathetic — and still probably shouldn't be trusted — but she's perhaps less outright nefarious than morally gray.

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Civics Lessons, No Funny Business

A comic book for students has tips on encounters with federal law enforcement officers.

By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES

As New York City middle school and high school students return to classrooms this term, they are receiving access to "Know Your Rights," an educational comic book that prepares individuals for encounters with federal law enforcement officers.

It is the latest release by Civics for All, a program of the city schools' department of social studies and civics. The program began in 2020 and now includes 45 comics. The print run of "Know Your Rights" is 140,000 — half in English, half in Spanish. It is also available digitally in 14 languages.

The comic presents vignettes, based on real events, about encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including guidance specific to New York City that emphasizes knowing your legal options at home, at work or walking to school. In easy-to-follow scenes with clear and brightly colored artwork, the story gives readers legal hotline numbers, and advice on planning ahead, organizing documents and memorizing emergency contact information.

"Know Your Rights," written by Alex Segura and drawn by David Hahn, was suggested by members of Project Open Arms, a city school system effort to support immigrants, including asylum seekers. They saw value in helping students and families understand the rights that come with being an undocumented person.

The Education Department doesn't track students' and families' immigration status but the number of students learning English in schools last year was about 146,000.

The comic arrives as the political climate around immigration remains heated. Last month, New York State's Local Cops, Local Crimes Act went into effect. It bars ICE from deputizing local police to enforce civil immigration law. The publication also comes about six months after a high school student from the Bronx was freed from federal detention.

Earlier this month, Markwayne Mullin, the Homeland Security secretary, announced at a news conference that more than 2,000 people had recently been arrested by immigration officials in New York State in Operation Rotten Apple.

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Genalo, an ICE field office director for the city, invoked the attacks of Sept. 11 in his remarks, saying that “public safety depends on federal, state and local law enforcement cooperation.”

Using comics and graphic novels in schools is not new. "Maus," by Art Spiegelman, in the 1990s "broke a lot of barriers in terms of the acceptance of comics," Hillary Chute, an English professor at Northeastern University, who specializes in comics and graphic narratives, said in an interview. She was a graphic novels columnist for The New York Times Book Review from 2018 to 2022.

"In the past 10 years, there's been a huge uptick in the pedagogical or instructional comics for kids," she said, including a series of Science Comics published by First Second. She also is a fan of the Center for Cartoon Studies. "They're part of that wave of thinking about instructional comics that really meets young people where they're at."

Jennifer Weber, a fellow specializing in education policy at the Manhattan Institute, the conservative think tank, said in an interview that using comics is not a bad thing, but that "Know Your Rights" portrays immigrants as the protagonists and ICE as the antagonists, which is "one-sided."

For civics lessons, "I would say that you would absolutely need to understand the other side," she continued, adding that the comic misses an opportunity to teach readers about why ICE was formed and to showcase Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Civics for All has published comics about government activism, Jackie Robinson, climate change, the 26th amendment and L.G.B.T.Q. figures.

Joe Schmidt, a senior instructional specialist in the social studies and civics de-

Left, the cover of "Know Your Rights." Above, a look inside the comic book, which was written by Alex Segura and drawn by David Hahn.

partment, said, "One of the things we have been able to do because we are not a traditional publisher is to be somewhat experimental" as long as the work prioritizes the "pedagogy and the needs of our students." He and Brian Carlin, the department's director of social studies and civics, founded the comics initiative.

One of Carlin's goals has been to tell stories that receive little attention or are omitted from traditional historical narratives. "We did a story of the draft riots, you know, the largest riot in American history, and no one knows about it, and it happened here in New York," he said of the five days of rioting in 1863 by white workers angry about the Civil War military draft. The violent uprising left more than 100 dead.

Deciding which comics to produce is driven by gaps in curriculum content, Carlin said, or issues where there is a need for “another entry point to existing lessons.”

Segura said that writing this comic “felt really important,” adding that it provides valuable information “because we are experiencing a spike in activity from nonmunicipal law enforcement, namely ICE and organizations like that, where it’s imperative not only for kids but their families and friends to know what their rights are and what the city can do to protect and help them.”

Politics aside, the aim of the comic is to inform. "People should know their rights, right?" Carlin asked. "That shouldn't be controversial."

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Sequels Deliver New Adventures and Familiar Faces

The franchises 'Super Mario,' 'The Secret Life of Pets' and 'Angry Birds' all offer up fresh animated stories.

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Yoshi (voiced by Donald Glover), near right, with Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) in "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie."

'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie'

Stream it on Peacock.

This 2026 sequel to Illumination Entertainment's "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" was box-office gold, despite a cascade of negative reviews, because children can't seem to get enough of the onscreen adventures of Mario (voiced by Chris Pratt), Luigi (Charlie Day) and Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy).

Here we meet Rosalina (Brie Larson), sister of Princess Peach and adoptive mama to the glowing star-shaped creatures called Lumas, but it's not long before she's kidnapped by Bowser Jr. (Benny Safdie). His dad, Bowser (Jack Black) is still teeny after having been shrunk in the last movie, but his evil ambitions return when he bounces back to normal size and teams up with his son. Princess Peach and Toad (Keegan-Michael Key) set off across the galaxy — eventually meeting up with Mario, Luigi and Yoshi (Donald Glover) — to save Rosalina and stop Bowser and his son from taking over the world.

The characters careen around from one dazzling locale to the next, and lovers of the video games will have a field day with the Easter eggs scattered throughout. Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic directed, and Matthew Fogel wrote the script (all three are veterans of "The Super Mario Bros. Movie").

'Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu' Stream it on Disney+.

George Lucas's "Star Wars" franchise, with its bounty of sequels and series, is like a creature with infinite tentacles. There are even movies that are offshoots of series, like this one released in May. Din Djarin, a.k.a. Mando (Pedro Pascal), is a masked bounty hunter and a man of few words. Why anyone would cover Pascal's face for most of a movie is a mystery, but that was the director and series creator Jon Favreau's choice.

Grogu (or Baby Yoda, as fans say) is Mando's adorable, wrinkly, agave-hued apprentice. Ex-Imperial warlords are hiding throughout the galaxy plotting their return, and the New Republic higher-up Colonel Ward (Sigourney Weaver) tasks Mando with finding the elusive crime lord Commander Coin.

Grogu is cute as he waddles through their adventures, and it's a fun ride for kids who love the "Star Wars" universe, though some battle scenes might be too much for younger ones. Favreau wrote the script with two "Mandalorian" series writers, Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor.

Stream it on Prime Video.

'Out of the Nest'

In the all-animal Kingdom of Castilia, a teenage goat named Arthur (Cory Yee) dreams of being the emperor's barber. He's making money as a delivery goat and is being trained in the hair arts by Master Toad (Sean Burgos). When dark forces called the Order of the Claw attack the kingdom just before a new empress and emperor are to be crowned, the royal eggs are stolen. After a battle, they're quickly brought back to Master Toad by a tough female fox named Canis (Fong Fong Poon). Arthur must get the eggs to Jacobus (Luis Bermudez), a hermit who lives in the Sunken Forest, since he's the only one who can help them return the eggs to the royal family. Why? Who knows.

The plot grows even more convoluted, but tots should be entertained by the multicolored chicks that hatch from these eggs, and Arthur's transformation from selfish teenager to brave caretaker is sweet. This Thai and Chinese production, released in 2024, is directed by the animator Arturo Hernandez, Andrew Gordon (a longtime Pixar animator), Veerapatra Jinanavin and Jeff Schu. Gillian Berrow and Hernandez wrote the script.

'The Angry Birds Movie 2'

Stream it on Netflix.

In this 2019 Sony Pictures follow-up to the

2016 film about flightless birds with anger issues, Red (voiced by Jason Sudeikis) is way less ornery because he saved Bird Island in the last film and feels like a hero. He and his bird buddies are living it up, as are their previous enemies on Piggy Island, which is led by the green porcine Leonard (Bill Hader). Their peaceful coexistence is disrupted when a third island emerges: Eagle Island, led by the brilliant but diabolical Zeta (Leslie Jones), who sends dangerous ice balls to the birds and pigs because she's sick of being freezing cold and wants to create a tropical paradise on the other islands. The frenemies must team up to stop Zeta and save their homes.

The dialogue and antics of the characters — including Bomb (Danny McBride), Mighty Eagle (Peter Dinklage), Chuck (Josh Gad) and Silver (Rachel Bloom) — are hilarious, and Jones gives a stellar performance as the purple-plumed villain. Not to mention the A-list cameos, which go on and on. Youngsters can watch this to prepare for the third installment in the series, which is expected in December.

Thurop Van Orman directed, and Peter Ackerman ("Ice Age"), Eyal Podell and Jonathon E. Stewart wrote the screenplay.

'The Secret Life of Pets 2' Stream it on Peacock.

This 2019 sequel, like the 2016 hit film on which it's based, is about what pets do when their humans aren't around. In this animated world, the furry friends embark on crazy adventures across New York and beyond. The terrier Max (voiced by Patton Oswalt, replacing Louis C.K.) is still living in Manhattan with the mutt Duke (Eric Stonestreet) and their human, Katie (Ellie Kemper). At first, Max is threatened when Katie comes home with a new baby, Liam (Henry Lynch), but the pooch soon grows to love him — and with that love comes a growing anxiety about Liam's safety. When the family travels to a farm so Max can get some lessons in grit and confidence, we meet the sheepdog Rooster (a perfectly cast Harrison Ford).

In the meantime, Max's New York neighbor Snowball the bunny (Kevin Hart) — who has now rebranded himself as the superhero Captain Snowball — helps Daisy the Shih Tzu (Tiffany Haddish) rescue a baby tiger from an evil circus owner (Nick Kroll). The third thread follows Gidget the Pomeranian (Jenny Slate) as she sneaks into a cat lady's apartment to find one of Max's lost toys.

The three story lines merge in the end, culminating in life lessons about finding courage and facing fears. Chris Renaud ("The Secret Life of Pets," "Despicable Me") and Jonathan del Val (animator on "The Super Mario Bros. Movie") directed. Brian Lynch ("Minions & Monsters," "The Secret Life of Pets") wrote the script.

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Four Artists Lead Latin Grammys Field

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Karol G, Rosalía, the duo Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, and Jorge Drexler each snag seven nominations.

By PAULA MEJÍA

Four wildly distinct artists — the Colombian superstar Karol G, the virtuosic Spanish experimentalist Rosalia, the mischievous Argentine pair Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, and the Uruguayan pop artist Jorge Drexler — each notched seven Latin Grammy nominations ahead of the 27th annual awards.

Announced on Wednesday by the Latin Recording Academy, the heavy hitters of the 2026 Latin Grammy race, all of whom are competing for album of the year, are being recognized for music that doesn't hew neatly to a specific genre.

Karol G, who became the first Latin woman to headline Coachella this year, was recognized in several categories on the heels of her 2025 album "Tropicoqueta." The musician, born Carolina Giraldo Navarro, has said that the album is an ode to the multitudinous sounds — including vallenato, dembow, cumbia, reggaeton and ranchera — that have shaped her love of music.

She also received three nominations in genre categories: urban performance, for "Dile Luna," which features the Panamanian reggae vocalist Eddy Lover; reggaeton performance, for "Verano Rosa," a collaboration with the Colombian producer-songwriter Feid; and regional song, for "Ese Hombre Es Malo," which saw her taking on elements of música mexicana, like mariachi.

Rosalia, the classically trained Spanish star who wielded her artistic unpredictability on "Lux," also garnered seven nominations. For the album inspired by the lives of multiple saints, the singer sang in 13 languages, including Arabic, German and Sicilian, while using enough Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese — at least 60 percent of the project's lyrics — to meet eligibility requirements for album of the year. Her track "La Perla," a plucky collaboration with Yahritza y Su Esencia that takes to task an "emotional terrorist" of a lover, earned nominations for best pop song, song of the year and record of the year.

The impish Argentine group Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, whose steady ascent includes — as the band recently teased — an involvement with the much-anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI video game, and the duo performing in support of Harry Styles's tour, nabbed seven nominations. In yet another nod to the widening global expression of Latin music, the duo flits between bossa nova, funk, hyperpop, smooth jazz and hip-hop on their 2026 album "Free Spirits," in which occasionally goofy lyrics belie deeper meditations on fame and dissatisfaction. The LP features infant-sounding backing vocals from the actor and musician Jack Black on the appropriately titled track "Goo Goo Ga Ga."

The Uruguayan experimentalist Jorge Drexler earned seven nominations for his 2026 album "Taracá." His "¿Cómo Se Ama?", a shapeshifting track that snaps from a woozy acoustic number into a kinetic

The Colombian singer Karol G at SoFi Stadium in the Los Angeles area this month. Her album "Tropicoqueta" draws from styles including vallenatos, dembow, cumbia, reggaeton and ranchera.

beat, will contend for both song and record of the year. A former physician who pivoted to music, Drexler won an Academy Award in 2005 for best original song for "Al Otro Lado del Rio," which appeared in the film "The Motorcycle Diaries."

Mon Laferte, the Chilean-Mexican pop iconoclast, and the Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada garnered six nominations each, including album of the year.

The top nominee, as he has been for three of the last four years, was the hit-making songwriter and producer Edgar Barrera, with 10 nominations. One of Latin music's pre-eminent architects, Barrera will effectively compete against himself in several categories, including song of the year, where two tracks he helped write — “Coleccionando Heridas” by Karol G and Marco Antonio Solis, and “Mi Gran Amor” from Santana featuring Becky G — are nominated.

He is also nominated for album of the year for his production of "Tropicoqueta" and "Muda," the 2026 album from Carin León, who this month became the first Latin musician to headline a residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas.

Also vying in that competitive race are the Brazilian pop artist Anitta, for "Equilibrivm"; the Venezuelan cohort Rawayana, for their shimmering "¿Dónde Es El

After?"; and the Argentine rapper Milo J's down-tempo folk offering, "La Vida Era Más Corta."

Manuel Abud, the chief executive of the Latin Recording Academy, said the genre-blurring variety of the album of the year category in particular reflected the evolving direction of Latin music.

"It's our job to keep up with them, not to try to put them in a box," he said of the artists. "On the contrary: We need to keep adapting the box."

After several years of adding categories in an attempt to better account for the vast subgenres within Latin music, this year's awards will remain steady at 60.

The surging popularity of regional genres like música mexicana on streaming platforms has helped drive Latin music's growth worldwide alongside major pop culture events, like Bad Bunny's galvanizing Super Bowl halftime performance this year, according to a report from the research group Luminate. The same report noted that almost one in 10 songs streamed in the United States during the first six months of 2026r was sung in Spanish.

For the second year in a row, the ceremony will be at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. It will run on Univision on Nov. 12.

Still Little Even at 50, 'Annie' Plans A Comeback

The musical will be revived on Broadway in late 2027.

By MICHAEL PAULSON

In 1977, Little Orphan Annie — the plucky redhead popularized by a long-running comic strip — first arrived on Broadway via a show, "Annie," that won seven Tony Awards, including for best musical, best score and best book.

This week, a team of producers announced that next year, to celebrate the musical's 50th anniversary, the show, now ubiquitous, will be revived on Broadway.

Here's what we know and don't know about the production:

When is the revival coming?

In the fall of 2027. The exact dates have not yet been announced.

This will be the third Broadway revival — it was previously revived in 1997 and in 2012.

Who is involved?

Sam Pinkleton will direct. He won a Tony Award in 2025 for directing "Oh, Mary!," and this year he directed a Tony-nominated revival of "The Rocky Horror Show." (Both productions are still running on Broadway.)

The cast has not yet been announced. Expect a newcomer to play the title character; more of a household name is likely to play Miss Hannigan, the embittered orphanage administrator.

The producing team is made up of Michael Alden, who is making his debut as a lead producer, and Halcyon Theatricals, a new producing company led by Hal Luftig, Cathy Dantchik and Kevin Connor.

Are there other anniversary plans?

Yes. Goodspeed Musicals in Connecticut — the nonprofit where “Annie” had a pre-Broadway production in 1976 — is planning its own 50th anniversary production starting next month, running from Oct. 30 to Dec. 27. That production, in East Haddam, Conn., will feature the Broadway veteran Emily Skinner as Miss Hannigan alongside Laiken Jules, a young TikToker, as Annie.

The Goodspeed revival is directed by Jenn Thompson, who was a replacement orphan in the original Broadway production and who directed a national tour that, in late 2024, stopped at Madison Square Garden (where Whoopi Goldberg played Miss Hannigan).

There are also, as always, multiple local productions around the United States, and a production that just began touring in Britain and Ireland.

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LuPone Will Do Solo Show In 'Full Gallop,' she is to play Diana Vreeland.

By MICHAEL PAULSON

Patti LuPone is a three-time Tony winner who has become a legend in the theater world thanks to her talent, her tart tongue and her taste for trouble. This winter, she will tackle another formidable figure, the fashion editor Diana Vreeland, in "Full Gallop," a one-woman Off Broadway show.

Here's what we know about the production:

When and where is it?

Previews begin on Jan. 8 and the opening is on Jan. 17 at New York City Center's Stage II. The run is scheduled to last for just 12 weeks.

What is this play?

"Full Gallop" is a 1995 play written by Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson about Vreeland, who was the fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar from the late 1930s to the early 1960s, then the editor in chief of Vogue until 1971, and then a consultant to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was a larger-than-life figure — fabulous and fearsome — who died in 1989.

The play is set in Vreeland's Park Avenue living room, a few months after she has been fired by Vogue. It was developed for Wilson (who later won a Tony Award for "Grey Gardens") and was first staged at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego; it then transferred to the same stage at City Center where this new production will run. The original run was a hit, and transferred from City Center to the Westside Theater. ("As delicious as it is rich," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times.)

Who is involved?

LuPone, who won Tony Awards for "Evita," "Gypsy" and "Company," is the only performer in the solo show. The director is Gordon

Patti LuPone will star as a fearsome fashion editor in "Full Gallop," which comes to Off Broadway early next year.

Greenberg, who last year led an Off Broadway revival of "The Baker's Wife" at Classic Stage Company.

The show is a commercial production, but in association with a nonprofit theater — an unusual but not unprecedented situation. The commercial producers are Aaron Glick and No Guarantees Productions, a prolific company founded by Christine Schwarzman; the nonprofit is the Manhattan Theater Club, which plans to include the show as part of some of its subscription packages.

Wasn't LuPone canceled?

Not really, but the outspoken actress — renowned for rebuking cellphone-using patrons — issued a rare apology last year for the language she used while criticizing two fellow actors, Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis, in a magazine interview. Since then she has been performing concerts and cabaret shows; this will be her first full-fledged return to the stage since starring in "The Roommate" on Broadway in 2024.

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Where Film and Business Mingle

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 ing departure from the event's hard-earned reputation. "TIFF was — or is — a festival festival," Anna Godas, chief executive of the documentary distribution company Dogwoof, said in an interview. "You go to watch films, and the perception, at least for us, is that buyers go there to watch films and not necessarily to do a bunch of meetings."

But the festival has been contemplating expansion for quite some time. According to its chief executive, Cameron Bailey, the organization began looking into the possibility of adding a market component as early as 2012 — moving from its long-held position as an exhibition-only event, like the New York Film Festival, to a hybrid along the lines of Cannes or Berlin. At those events, the glamorous screenings, red carpets and news conferences exist side by side with a busy market, where film packages are presented, pitches are made and deals are closed.

"The research said there would be an opportunity," Bailey explained in an interview. "There wasn't anything similar in North America to what existed in Europe." TIFF wasn't yet ready to take that leap, but the idea continued to percolate, and in 2024, the organization announced — with the backing of the Canadian federal government, to the tune of \$23 million — the addition of an official market alongside the festival, beginning this year.

For TIFF, it's also a financial opportunity — a necessary one. Following the pandemic, TIFF weathered staff cuts, sponsorship losses and other economic challenges. The Market offers several revenue possibilities, from increased attendance for buyers and sellers and booth rentals on the exhibition floor. But Bailey emphasized that the addition represents a long-term advantage: "It's not something that immediately is going to change the financial picture for the organization."

John Sloss, a sales agent and producer who has attended the festival for at least 35 years, noted in a phone interview that "TIFF has been a de facto market forever, because it's such a huge festival and it's

The Market, a centerpiece of the Toronto International Film Festival this year, is a hall where distributors, executives, agents and filmmakers can make pitches and close deals.

such a critical launchpad for all the releases, and all the buyers and sellers are there. The idea of creating a more formalized structure for it strikes me as a good idea."

That view was shared by Charles Tremblay, a longtime distributor and film executive who joined the festival to head up the Market. "My general reaction was, 'What took you so long?'" he recalled in an interview. "I always felt that there could be more — there was maybe a bit of a missed opportunity."

Much of the industry has shared his enthusiasm. But some observers worried that such an explicitly business-oriented approach was contrary to the festival's ethos. In a 1991 interview with Roger Ebert, a TIFF co-founder, Dusty Cohl, explained what distinguished the Toronto event from, say, Cannes: "This one is designed for the people who come and watch films, people who love films."

So is TIFF betraying the spirit in which it was founded? Bailey doesn't think so. "It's a long way from 1991 to 2026," he said. "It was an entirely different ecosystem, and we didn't have to question it or worry about whether it would always be there. It's very different now, so the Market will help us to sustain the kind of films that we love and want to see more of."

The producer and director Robert Vince said he was surprised it took so long to formalize a structure "because it really has been a quasi-marketplace," he said in an interview. Vince should know; his 1997 comedy "Air Bud" was sold to Disney out of TIFF, and now, nearly 30 years and 14 films later, he's at the Market to sell the series's latest installment, "Air Bud Returns."

"It's kind of a big moment," he said with a grin. "We're back to our independent roots."

In the meantime, the Market can be seen as an attempt “to regain some momentum following Covid, which arguably affected Toronto more than other festivals,” Sloss said. “I think the Market is sort of a statement, that they want to reinforce their prominence as the granddaddy of fall festivals, or at least comparable events.”

And as a bonus, its centralized location can attract more filmmakers. "We thought about going to Cannes, but we're working-class filmmakers," said the producer John Flynn, operating a booth for the independent film "Binary Star." "We can't afford to go to every single major event, especially overseas."

Many foreign buyers don't go to Toronto, said Marc Goldberg, founder of the production and distribution company Signature Entertainment, explaining in an interview that "it's only ever been a festival."

Some may be hesitant to add it to their calendar, with the long-running American Film Market in Los Angeles just two months later. But some overseas buyers may be reluctant, in the current political climate, to travel to the United States, making Toronto a sensible alternative.

The integration of the Market hasn't been all smooth sailing. Some attendees were stymied by long lines at registration — “We got here at 7 a.m.” Flynn said, “and then by 7:45, the line was almost out of the building” — and some exhibitors reported slower foot traffic than they'd hoped, primarily because of the floor's geographical separation several blocks from the screening sites.

Shreyans Hirawat, director of the India-based NH Studioz, reported few brand-new contacts on the Market floor. "But even the few who were there had good, quality time to spend," he added. "Unlike other film festivals, where you're in a rush, here people had that time."

These are growing pains, Bailey hopes. "I think the Market is going to be a big part of bringing people together," he said. "It's happened informally in really beautiful ways in the past," he added, recalling the time Chloé Zhao brought "The Rider" to the festival the same year that Frances McDormand was attending. "They met and they actually decided to work on 'Nomadland' together here in Toronto."

"So if you have not just the festival facilitating that, but a market facilitating that as well," Bailey said, "I think what we get is Toronto being a real, essential hub for the art and business of film."

Withdrawals Roil Ed Sheeran's Tour

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"I stand with Palestine and its people," Finneas said in a social media statement.

Billie Eilish's brother, Finneas, is among the acts to pull out, citing support for Palestinians.

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Finneas and an array of other musicians associated with Ed Sheeran's stadium tour have withdrawn from the engagement, a day after the rapper Macklemore was removed over his statements opposing the war in Gaza.

Finneas, along with the singer-songwriters Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham and the traditional Irish group Beoga, all announced their withdrawals on social media on Tuesday. Each cited the need for free speech and voiced support for Palestinians.

"Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed," wrote Finneas, the Grammy- and Oscar-winning musician and producer who is the brother and collaborator of Billie Eilish. He added, "I stand with Palestine and its people."

The departures add to mounting pressure on Sheeran, a streaming giant and a top touring draw. Since Macklemore's removal was announced, Sheeran has been widely criticized for allowing it — a decision that Sheeran said was made by the tour's promoter and the owners of the stadiums where the concerts have been booked.

Rowe and Graham have been recent opening acts on Sheeran's tour, and Finneas, whose full name is Finneas O'Connell, was set to join a number of dates in South America in November and December. Beoga has frequently played with Sheeran, including on his current tour.

The controversy began on Sept. 4 and 5, when Macklemore — the Seattle rapper of 2010s hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Same Love" — performed at Sheeran's concert at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.

Macklemore played his protest song "Hind's Hall," which accuses Israel of "genocide" in the war that began after the Hamas-led attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the song's video shows destruction in Gaza and protests in New York.

"I wanted to stand up on here on stages and stadiums across America," Macklemore said onstage, "and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart: Free Palestine."

Organizations like the Anti-Defamation League, and many commenters online, quickly criticized the performance, and the Israeli-American Council circulated a petition calling on Sheeran to drop Macklemore from the tour.

"I don't take the decision lightly," Rowe, a young musician from Dublin, wrote on social media. "Ed has been a friend to me and has changed my life. I could never thank him enough for this," he added.

"But as Irish people," Rowe said, "we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation. I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide and who highlight the savage murder of children."

Graham said in his own statement on social media: "Money doesn't give you the right to own the conversation. Nobody's bank balance should decide who gets to speak or which suffering we're allowed to acknowledge." He added emojis of watermelons, a signal of support for the Palestinian cause.

In another statement, Beoga said its decision was a reaction to "the silencing of Macklemore by Zionist lobbies."

Macklemore, in an online statement on Monday, said Sheeran had told him that the locations hosting the tour had demanded his removal.

Robert Kraft, whose company owns the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium outside Boston, acknowledged in a statement on Monday that he decided Macklemore could not play at Gillette, saying he would not "provide a platform for hate speech," and pointing to a "broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery" by Macklemore "that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community."

Kraft did not elaborate on that accusation in his statement. But many commenters on social media have pointed to a "Jewish caricature" stage costume in 2014 with a hooked nose and beard; Macklemore apologized at the time and said he "would never intentionally put down anybody for the fabric that makes them who they are."

The next scheduled stop on Sheeran's tour is Saturday at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

In Songs, She Built Her Idea Of a Home

CONTINUED FROM PAGE CI duras, worked as a cleaner and nanny, and she had always dreamed of buying property. "You know," Rodriguez said, "to just have safety and a home for her family."

Eventually, her mother purchased a one-level, three-bedroom, 1960s-style house — “modest,” according to Rodriguez. But Rodriguez loved it and everything around it: the midcentury library where her father took her after school several times a week, the mountains and hiking trails that flanked the town, the roses her mother planted in the garden. Looking back, Rodriguez also loved that her school valued the arts. Yes, it was public school and the classes were crowded, but “there was always a teacher who like was like, ‘This girl can sing,’ or, ‘This kid can draw.’”

Rodriguez stayed in Altadena until she left for Boston to attend Berklee College of Music. In 2011, she moved to New York, where she became involved with the D.I.Y. scene. "That's when my education really started as a musician," she said.

Back then, she spent her evenings at warehouses watching artists perform. Chairlift, the synth-pop band, was on the rise, as were acts like Blood Orange — the musician Dev Hynes, who features on "Dream House" — Grimes and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Rodriguez recalled meeting Hynes on the street outside Webster

Weaving the themes of instability and renewal into a new album.

Hall in the East Village and getting to know Chairlift at 285 Kent and Glasslands Gallery, two performance spaces in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that have since closed. "It felt like we were in this vortex of cultivating music, and just hungry — or at least I was hungry," Rodriguez said wryly. "I was broke in New York."

One evening during that era, a friend was giving Rodriguez a tarot reading when he pulled out a card depicting the Empress, one of 22 archetypes in a deck. Rodriguez was still trying to figure out what she wanted to call her project, and the name — which she said evoked femininity, creativity and birth — stuck with her.

She found herself returning to those themes last year after the fire as she worked on her album while watching her mother make plans to rebuild. Their joint endeavors signaled a period of renewal; they also mirrored one another. "I've just been building the idea of a house within the music," she said, "and now there's a physical house that represents the album."

Some days, Rodriguez wanted to work on tracks that reminded her of ash, of things needing to grow in the dark; other times, like the day the builders installed beams in the house, she knew she wanted to make brisker songs like "SYW" and "Hands On."

Among the first tracks she wrote for the project was "Dream House," which imagines the rebuilt home she hopes her mother can inhabit. "The windows are open, breezes are blowing," she sings over a triphop beat, describing with touching specificity what life could look like. "There's lavender rose tea on the stove."

"My mom's built such a dream for me, where I get to pursue my dreams and make music," she said. "I was just thinking about her and, like, you know, filling this house with all the stuff that she wanted."

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For Rodriguez and her collaborators, finishing the song felt like a turning point of sorts. "Like, 'Oh, we've got something real here,' said Caila Thompson-Hannant, known as Cecile Believe, who was a co-writer of several tracks on the album.

While the two didn't know each other well before working on "Dream House," Thompson-Hannant said she always admired Rodriguez as a female musician who made her own beats and produced "unique and effortless pop."

In the title track of "Dream House," Lorely Rodriguez imagines the rebuilt home she hopes her mother can inhabit. "The windows are open, breezes are blowing," she sings on the new album.

Because both artists started making music around the same time in the 2010s, they already had similar sensibilities. Before making "SYW," which features Cecile Believe, they listened to a lot of music by Robyn, Underworld, Caribou and Saint Etienne. On "Blue Light," they encouraged Romil Hemnani, a producer, to draw on the Beatles because he was "nerding out" over their chord progressions at the time.

James Harmon Stack — who is known as

Jim-E Stack and has produced Bon Iver, Lorde and Olivia Rodrigo — first worked with Rodriguez on her 2018 song "When I'm With Him." He said he grew emotional watching her perform it last year while opening for Lorde in Los Angeles. Rodriguez "is the kind of artist who takes different influences, takes very personal parts of herself — and her history as a human being," he said, "and mashes that up with a beautiful, poppy top line that breaks your heart."

Rodriguez builds a similar mosaic of evocative themes and melodies on "Dream House." Interspersed with the story of the fire are Rodriguez's own concerns about instability and impermanence. She moves from yearning for the ephemeral on "Blue Light" to seeking the familiarity of home in new places on "Trainsong." On "Machete," an ode to her independence, she finds it within herself: "Finally," she sings, breathless, "I'm nobody's baby."

Interludes featuring her mother narrating stories about the house and her own life bind those elements together. Rodriguez made video recordings of her mother in the past year, and said using the footage helped her "paint a picture" of her mother's feelings and made the project less about her own experience.

Rodriguez said making "Dream House" ultimately cemented her conviction in humanism and human-made art. "My hope is that by making this for myself, I can help someone process something — whatever it is — and we can celebrate, or cry, or dance together," she said.

Now that the new house is almost ready, Rodriguez has found herself spending more time thinking about how she came to process the past year. After the fire, Rodriguez said, she was struck by just how much everyone took care of one another. She still feels that way. Strolling around Altadena, Rodriguez often sees people walking their dogs or horses, and she detects a sense of optimism. "There's so much joy," she said, "in seeing that your neighbors are still there."

Finally in Control Of Britain's Security

CONTINUED FROM PAGE CI said in a video interview from her London home. "But you can sympathize with her more. You see the machinations and the way she ticks a bit. There are some moments when you catch yourself thinking, 'Oh, yeah, poor thing — I see her point.'"

It's a small but meaningful change to the source material that becomes more evident in the sixth season, where Taverner (a.k.a. Lady Di, just not to her face) takes on the job she's long been pining for: "First Desk," in charge of the British secret service MI5.

Since the series' inception, she'd been the much-feared "Second Desk" — wanting, in Herron's description, "not so much to change the pieces on the board as throw the board away and design a new one." Her chance comes after the bumbling previous head of M15, Claude Whelan (James Callis), is blackmailed into retiring by Lamb's shrewd maneuvering at the end of Season 5.

In the new season, whose story of betrayal and revenge is derived from Herron's novels "Slough House" and "Joe Country," Lady Di finally has the power she's craved — and it doesn't take long for her to use it and abuse it, though this being "Slow Horses," she also quickly learns that wielding such power is harder than it seems.

"She's slightly more relaxed now, which perhaps is dangerous," Thomas said. And before long, she's in over her head. "It's difficult, it turns out," Thomas said with a laugh.

The career move isn't just momentous for Taverner — it also sets in motion the events of the whole season, said the director Adam Randall, who's also an executive producer on the show. "All of the death, all of the destruction, all of the mayhem is because of her, the decisions she makes," he said.

This time, Randall said, "we're putting her in situations where she's deeply uncomfortable, and actually quite frightened at times," such as an early scene in which Taverner is coerced into appearing on a right-wing TV news show. "She realizes in that millisecond how wrong everything has just gone, and you can see her crumbling on the inside," Randall said.

He credits Thomas with giving the character a more likable dimension than she had on the page. "I mean, I've stood at the moni-

Kristin Scott Thomas's character is less nefarious than she is morally gray.

tor watching her, and I'm thinking: 'Why am I feeling sorry for her? She's just done the most horrendous thing!" he said.

Thomas acknowledged not being deeply familiar with the source material — spy novels aren't really her thing. "I love romantic fiction," she said, "and this isn't it." But when she first read the script for the series, she was won over by the characters. "They're all so useless-likable, or likable-useless," Thomas said.

"I was hoping to make my character compelling," she added, "but you can't really admit to liking Diana Taverner, or you don't want to be caught admitting you like Diana Taverner. She's sort of a guilty pleasure."

Thomas resists the term "strong female character," which "is such a cliché, isn't it?" What she does like, she said, is "that it's to do with gender, but not to do with sex. I like that. The question of Taverner's love life never comes into play. It's never brought up." The matter of gender is a matter of power: "There are men everywhere. Younger men. Everyone's younger than her, and everyone's male."

In the new season of "Slow Horses," Kristin Scott Thomas, above, plays Diana Taverner, now in charge of Britain's security service. Relations with her colleagues played by Gary Oldman and Sophie Okonedo, right, have been shifty.

One of the show's most memorable moments, in fact, was a fraught tête-à-tête over a bottle of Scotch between Taverner and Ingrid Tearney (Sophie Okonedo), one of Taverner's First Desk predecessors — and one of the series' few other women in power.

"I really loved that drink-off, because I felt like she was just in my way, and just because she's younger than me," Thomas said.

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"It's interesting to see a woman in power like her, where everyone else is younger, but she's still there, hanging on to the bitter end, so they'll have to drag her kicking and screaming."

I asked — hesitantly — whether that resonated personally with Thomas, who's now 66.

She considered. "No," she said. "But it did make think that's possibly what they all think of me." She broke into a smile. "But, hey. Too late now."

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Protesters Seek Focus On Artist's Sex Crimes

A Vienna show presents work by Otto Muehl, who abused minors in his commune.

By VALERIYA SAFRONOVA

VIENNA – The activists didn't mince words: "Pedophile criminal and cult leader" read one large sign in German outside the Vienna Actionism Museum here last week. The protest, featuring several dozen people holding banners and blowing whistles, was part of a broader backlash against a new exhibition focused on Otto Muehl, a prominent Austrian artist.

Muehl, who died in 2013, was part of a boundary-pushing Austrian art movement called Actionism. He served almost seven years in prison for crimes that included sexually abusing minors living in a commune he led for nearly two decades.

After his release in the late 1990s, Muehl was rehabilitated on the art scene. Major museums in Vienna showcased his works with little acknowledgment of his crimes, and galleries and auction houses continued selling his work.

With the opening of the new show, "Otto Muehl: Art at the Abyss," a debate has surged in Austria about the ethics of showing Muehl's works and how the experiences of his victims should feature in presentations of his art.

"Otto Muehl is one of the major figures of Austrian, European postwar art," said Klaus Albrecht Schroeder, the show's curator and the director of the Vienna Actionism Museum. "Talking about Muehl's artistic importance doesn't diminish the gravity of his crimes, and acknowledging his crimes doesn't erase his place in art history."

The protesters, who organize via a group called Mathilda of former commune members and their supporters, say their intention isn't to ban museums from showing Muehl's art.

"We're asking, 'How was the work made?'" said Elisabeth Schaefer, a Mathilda member. "We're asking to show this perpetrator's art not as autonomous works of art, but situated in a context of violence."

Mathilda is also demanding that institutions stop financially benefiting from Muehl's work, and that Austria's government investigate how the commune existed unchecked for so long.

The show at the Actionism Museum features 150 Muehl works, and documentary photographs of his performances, from the

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Above, the Austrian artist Otto Muehl, who sexually abused minors living in a commune he led for nearly two decades. Top, a show at the Vienna Actionism Museum features 150 of his works and has inspired protests, above right.

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1960s until his arrest in 1990. From the commune period, there are portraits and scenes from daily life. Schroeder said that the museum had secured permission to include anything in which commune members were recognizable or named.

Muehl made a name for himself in the 1960s as part of the Actionist movement, which sought to shock Austria out of its culture of silence over its alliance with Nazi Germany during World War II. His performances involved throwing paint, blood, animal guts and feces onto nude bodies, and were initially received with disgust. By the 1970s, however, Actionism was seen as a significant movement in Austria's postwar art.

Many Actionist performances involved group rituals. Muehl took this a step further in the 1970s when he founded the commune, which grew to about 600 members across several locations in Europe. Intended as an experiment in liberation featuring non-monogamy and group therapy, the commune became an authoritarian system underpinned by psychological and physical abuse.

Former members who founded an advocacy group called Re-port in 2003 described a system in which girls and boys were forced to have sex with Muehl and the woman he called his wife, pregnancies had to be approved by the commune leadership, and babies were handed off to older children to raise.

Former members said Muehl's art and his life in the commune were intertwined, sometimes in violent ways.

Ruth Bourgogne, who was part of the commune, said during a public debate in Vienna last year that Muehl created a series of paintings called "Rutschbilder," or "Slide

Pictures," by putting paint on the bodies of girls he had sexually assaulted and dragging them over canvases.

Though none of these paintings are on display in the exhibition at the Vienna Actionism Museum, one of them was sold at auction in 2020 for 25,000 euros, about \$29,000, and another is listed for sale at a prominent Vienna gallery. The Vienna Actionism Museum, which opened in 2024, is a privately funded organization founded by Philipp Konzett, an art dealer who bought thousands of Muehl's works from the Friedrichshof Cooperative, which former commune members created after the commune dissolved.

Schroeder said that he saw the commune and Muehl's artworks as two separate endeavors. In November, the museum will publish two exhibition catalogs: one focused on the works in the show and another featuring interviews with former commune members.

"There's a profound contradiction between Muehl's art and his social utopia," Schroeder said. "He's deeply pessimistic about human nature — you can see that in the exhibition — but on the other hand, his commune was based on the utopian belief that you can fundamentally transform human nature."

Mathilda supporters argue that there are ways to frame an exhibition about Muehl that don't position his artworks over the experiences of his victims.

"It requires much more than excluding a few explicit images," said Marie-Therese Hochwartner, a curator and art historian who was the head of collections and education at Mumok, a modern art museum in Vienna. "Also very important is the meaningful participation of historical witnesses, people who were affected," she added.

Even within the Vienna Actionism Museum, there was some dissatisfaction with the exhibition's framing.

Julia Moebus-Puck, the head of the museum's collection, said that Schroeder "always wants to celebrate the autonomy of the artwork." She added, "We can philosophize about this for the next three hours, but today this definition of autonomy has changed. An artwork reflects much more."

"This commune was Muehl's cosmos," Moebus-Puck said. "It wasn't that he left in the morning, went to his studio and went back. He created there all the time."

Moebus-Puck, who is leaving her post in November to pursue independent research, said she had encouraged Schroeder to contact Mathilda, which has already collaborated with several museums, including Mumok, which owns many of Muehl's works.

Schroeder said he had spoken to other members of the commune but did not contact Mathilda because he believed the group had no interest in working with him.

Though Muehl apologized for some of his crimes in 2010 before a major retrospective in Vienna, he expressed a lack of contrition in interviews, including one with a German newspaper in which he described the court judgment against him as a “character assassination” and argued that the teenagers he had sexually assaulted were “fully developed girls.”

It was the responsibility of today's art historians, said Hochwartner, the curator, to reassess Muehl through the lens of what happened in the commune.

"When real people bear the costs of artistic experimentation," Hochwartner said, "the ethical or art historical questions become inseparable."

In New Memoir, Kaepernick Revisits Taking the Knee

The ex-quarterback was surprised his protest became a big story.

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By EMMANUEL MORGAN

A decade after the quarterback Colin Kaepernick protested racial injustice by sitting or kneeling during the national anthem before N.F.L. games, he has written a memoir, "The Perilous Fight."

The nearly 300-page book, which was released on Tuesday, revisits the events from Kaepernick's perspective. His protest spread across the football league and became a political lightning rod that forced fans to grapple with the meanings of patriotism and free speech.

Here is what to know about the controversy and the memoir:

When did Kaepernick's protest begin?

Several years after Kaepernick led the San Francisco 49ers to a Super Bowl appearance, he was spotted sitting on the bench while the national anthem played ahead of a preseason game in August 2016.

After the game, Kaepernick told Steve Wyche, a reporter from NFL Network, that he would not "stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color." The comments immediately drew backlash, particularly from those who considered his actions disrespectful to military veterans.

Kaepernick began kneeling instead of sitting, and was joined in protest by his teammate Eric Reid and other N.F.L. players. High school, college and professional athletes across other sports also began protesting. In September 2017, President Trump used an expletive to describe Kaepernick during a rally and suggested that N.F.L. owners should fire players who did not stand for the anthem.

What happened to him?

When Kaepernick became a free agent after the 2016 season, no team signed him. He filed a grievance through the players' union that argued that the 32 N.F.L. owners had colluded to blackball him because of his protests. After an arbitrator ruled that the case could go forward, the N.F.L. reached a confidential settlement with Kaepernick and Reid. The league did not publicly admit collusion.

In the years since Kaepernick's playing career stalled, he has worked as a civil rights activist and started media projects. He cocreated the Netflix series "Colin in Black & White," which explored his high school years, and also released a children's book and a graphic novel.

ESPN greenlit a documentary centered on Kaepernick that was to be produced by Spike Lee, but the project was canceled after Kaepernick and Lee disagreed over the creative approach.

What was the fallout in the N.F.L.?

After high-profile musicians said that in solidarity with Kaepernick they would not participate in the Super Bowl halftime show, the N.F.L. signed a partnership with Roc Nation, the entertainment company founded by Jay-Z, to help produce the show and work on social justice initiatives. The deal, signed in 2019, drew backlash. Some said it was hypocritical of Jay-Z, who had worn Kaepernick's jersey during a "Saturday Night Live" performance in 2017.

In announcing the deal, Jay-Z said he felt the public needed to move past kneeling to enact more concrete changes. Headliners of the seven Super Bowl shows Roc Nation has helped produce include Bad Bunny, Kendrick Lamar and Rihanna.

In 2022, as part of a hip-hop medley that included Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, Eminem took a knee during the performance, an act that was widely interpreted as a nod to Kaepernick.

After the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, several Black N.F.L. players posted a video on social media that urged the league to take a definitive stance against systemic racism. Roger Goodell, the N.F.L. commissioner, responded in a video, saying the league was "wrong for not listening to N.F.L. players earlier" and encouraging all to "speak out and peacefully protest." Kaepernick's name was not mentioned.

Teams now have the option to paint slogans such as "End Racism" and "Stop Hate" on portions of the field, and players can wear them on the backs of their helmets.

What does the memoir reveal?

Kaepernick writes that his worldview was reshaped around 2015 after he began reading a series of books, including the autobiography of Malcolm X, the civil rights leader. He said he also became enraged after watching video of the San Francisco police fatally shooting a Black man, Mario Woods. That 2015 shooting led to protests, a lawsuit and the eventual ouster of the police chief. He writes that he was further affected by the killings of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, in 2015, and Philando Castile in Minnesota, in 2016.

Kaspernick said he was surprised that the controversy over his decision to sit during the national anthem swelled into a major news story. "Wow, y'all are really sensitive!" he writes in the memoir. "I thought. 'Y'all can see a Black man get killed on camera and be like, 'Hmm, where should we go for lunch?' But let me not stand for the anthem and you have this visceral reaction? This is the thing that upsets you?"

Top, Colin Kaepernick, center, kneeling during the national anthem before a game in October 2016, and, above, his new book.

In the memoir, Kaepernick also challenges the popular account of why he started kneeling during the national anthem instead of sitting.

Nate Boyer, a U.S. Army Green Beret veteran who briefly played in the N.F.L., has said he suggested kneeling as a more respectful posture toward the military. But Kaepernick writes that although he and Reid did meet with Boyer, their decision to kneel had already been made. He said Reid came up with the idea to be physically closer to their teammates on the sideline.

"It was a clear illustration of white supremacy at work — a white savior military veteran who used to play football telling us what to do," Kaepernick writes. "A convenient narrative that made our protest more palatable."

Kaspernick also writes about Roc Nation, saying he declined when it recruited him to be a client. He said he turned down a request from Jay-Z to kneel during a performance of the song "The Story of O.J." in part because he disagreed with some of its lyrics about race.

The day before Roc Nation announced its partnership with the N.F.L., Jay-Z called Kaepernick and told him the news, the athlete wrote. Kaepernick said he disapproved.

"I just want you to know, one, you're serving the culture up to a bunch of racists and, two, they don't care about you," Kaepernick writes, recalling the conversation. "You're the music guy to them. They quite literally need a Black face — and have said as much." Jay-Z's response, he wrote, was, "Well, the ink's dry."

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My After-Party Date? Emmy.

The Governors Gala was a chance to hobnob and get a statuette engraved.

By ASHLEY SPENCER

LOS ANGELES — As soon as the final Emmy was handed out at the Peacock Theater on Monday night, throngs of celebrities spilled onto a closed-off downtown street. They diligently followed a makeshift red carpet that had been duct-taped to the floor of a parking garage, and then crossed another street to reach a wall of unmarked doors at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

At the end of that unglamorous runway, the doors opened to reveal a cavernous space that had been transformed into a lush ballroom for the Emmy Awards official after-party: the Governors Gala.

Attendees poured inside the dimly lit space in their gowns and tuxes, greeted by towering Emmy statuettes, cascading faux florals in various shades of orange, hightop tables covered in sequined emerald tablecloths and plenty of food and drink. The black walls were dotted with pinpricks of white light, giving the illusion of being surrounded by celestial stars, in addition to those seen on TV.

The event designer Cheryl Cecchetto said she expected around 4,000 guests to attend the gala — for many, the first stop on a night filled with post-Emmys festivities.

"This industry really celebrates," she said. "They cut loose."

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Sweet Memories of the Ultimate Revenge Dress

Bob Mackie's bedazzling creations, such as Cher's 1986 Oscars get-up, made waves.

By JACOB BERNSTEIN

The way Bob Mackie later described it, his most memorable outfit had happened because the client was "pissed off."

The year was 1986, the Oscars were coming up, and Cher had been snubbed for her role in the movie "Mask."

She had not received the nomination for Best Actress, despite critical acclaim for her performance. Instead, she had been asked to present the award for Best Supporting Actor, which felt like the icing on top of a pungent cake.

"They said I wasn't going to win an Oscar because my boyfriends were too young and I dressed too strange," Cher said Monday, speaking by phone from her home in Malibu, Calif. "I didn't dress appropriate for an actress, for a serious actress, actually. So I woke up one morning and I had this idea, and I called Bob."

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There would be a bedazzling, black matching top and skirt, with her midriff exposed, and a headdress so tall that camera operators would struggle to fit it into the frame as she ascended the stairs at the Kodak Theater that February.

The point was to send a message to the Academy: She was going to keep being herself.

Mackie, who died on Monday at 87, was the ideal partner in helping to achieve that.

Over the years, he had become known for wildly theatrical get-ups for top-drawer divas, blending humor, outrageousness and a high dose of sex appeal.

On the occasions when he staged runway shows, fashion editors frequently skipped out. But Liza Minnelli, Diana Ross, RuPaul, Elton John and Madonna all donned his glittering gowns, feathered capes and beaded headpieces.

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"They were meant to be seen — and seen in a large way," Cher said of his clothes. "They didn't live well in captivity."

The design for the 1986 Oscars was a rare occasion when Mackie expressed some hesitation about one of her ideas.

Mackie, in a 2008 interview with me, recalled telling Cher: “You can’t wear this to the Academy Awards. You’re giving an award — you’re going to upstage whoever you give it to.” But Cher, he said, insisted: “She said, ‘Oh, they won’t mind, it’ll be OK.’”

Whatever the reaction of the winner (Don Ameche, for "Cocoon") may have been, "by the time I got there, I had lost all my upsetness about the Academy telling me I was never going to be a serious actress," Cher said.

Mackie and his erstwhile partner in kitsch first met in 1967, when she was guest starring on "The Carol Burnett Show." Mackie was designing the costumes for Burnett and her guests, after working in the costume department at Paramount Pictures and as an assistant designer on "The Judy Garland Show."

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"I see the door open, and I turn around, and this handsome guy, young guy, suntan, hair bleached and curly, and I looked and I said, 'My God, you're much younger than I thought you'd be,'" she said. "And he said, 'And you're much thinner than I thought you'd be.'"

When Cher and Sonny got their own show in 1971, Mackie came with them.

"We would do like 13 or 14 costumes in a week," Cher said. "All I really know was in the beginning, CBS, you know, screaming and yelling about the cost. But then they started getting research in that said a lot of the women were tuning in just to see the clothes, my dresses. Bob and I laughed so much. I was like, 'OK, we got the last laugh.'"

She said there had been a lot of joy. "We were laughing, talking about everything," she said. "I'm sorry that he was sick, but I know that he's someplace better — designing dresses."

After that, the budgets ballooned, and beads and sparkles arrived by the truck-load. Tina Turner appeared on the show and became his second most consistent client.

"I was just with him, and I'm happy for him, do you know what I mean?" Cher said. "He was struggling. And Joe said it was, like, the best time he's had in a long time, and I'm so glad I went."

In recent days, when Mackie was dying, Cher was with him in Palm Springs, along with Joe McFate, Mackie's design director.

It was 1977, just a year after Turner had left her abuse-filled marriage to Ike Turner. She had been left with nothing but a white, bloodstained Yves Saint Laurent pantsuit, two Jaguars and her last name. With virtually no money, Turner scrounged around flea markets for vintage cocktail dresses, which she brought back to Mackie to refine for her stage performances.

At first, Mackie didn't know what sort of help was needed. But it became clear soon enough: His job was to cut.

"I have no idea how many dresses we've done, because he did all of my tours," she said. He was more than a member of her entourage: "We were friends."

The instruction "More" from Turner meant: less fabric.

When Turner pivoted back to rock 'n' roll in the early 1980s, Mackie was ready with black leather (skin tight, naturally).

During Turner's disco days, as she performed her cover of the Trammps' "Disco Inferno" at cheesy casinos, Mackie designed a shimmering silver gown with pleated, dragonlike wings.

And when Cher went on to become one of the busiest touring artists of all time, doing nearly a thousand performances over the course of six major tours around the United States and the globe (along with numerous Las Vegas residencies), Mackie was a constant presence.

Initially, the idea of adding the tail had made Turner "a little nervous," he said. (And indeed, it is hard to imagine anyone approving of that sort of thing now.) But the tail, and the way it swung from side to side as she swayed her hips, was "great," he said.

Another Mackie confection for Turner was a zebra-print dress with a tail on the back.

Bob Mackie, top, created Cher's ensemble for the 1986 Academy Awards ceremony, left, after she was snubbed for a nomination. For Tina Turner, above, he designed a gown with dragonlike wings and a zebra-print dress with a tail.

His inventions blended humor, outrageousness and plenty of sex appeal.

For Election Fever, More Steve Kornacki Is Prescribed

Last month, Steve Kornacki, chief data analyst at NBC News, delivered six straight hours of coverage of midterm primary elections, streamed live on social media platforms and the NBC News website.
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Can a format that appeals to younger viewers work for a numbers guy?

NBC News is hoping to turn its chief data analyst into a livestreaming star this fall.

By CALLIE HOLTERMANN

Steve Kornacki's eyebrows jumped up and down as if he were watching an action movie.

"Oh, boy!" he said.

"Holy cow!" he said a few minutes later. "We're going municipal level here right now," he added.

It was the first Tuesday in August, and Kornacki, the chief data analyst for NBC News, stood in front of a chalkboard-size map of the United States that lit up every few seconds with election results. Votes streamed in from five states, including in the closely watched Democratic Senate primary in Michigan.

But this was no typical election night broadcast. It was an early outing of the Kornacki Cam, a marathon livestream that allows viewers to spend each second of a big news event with one of the network's most recognizable stars.

For six hours, Kornacki's every move was streamed in real time on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and the NBC News website. He gulped water. He pounded numbers into a calculator app on his phone. He rattled off the population of Wichita, Kan. (400,000), and the number of counties in Michigan (83).

Some aquariums have continuous camera feeds that allow viewers to watch jellyfish go about their lives. This was kind of like that, if the jellyfish wore khakis and analyzed the mail-in ballot results from Washtenaw County.

Kornacki, 47, is a longtime national political correspondent who has a habit, during major election cycles, of crossing over into mainstream fame. During the 2020 presidential election, he earned admirers with his unshowy competence and Clark Kent charm, attracting nicknames like "Map Daddy" and "Chart Throb."

Now, with the midterm season heating up, NBC News executives are making a bet that his particular brand of charisma will translate to the booming world of live-streaming.

It is not an obvious pivot. The most popular livestreams tend to be loose and unpolished — a far cry from the structured world of broadcast television. They often last for several hours, demanding a kind of stamina from their stars that is different from the typical two-minute news hit.

Yet the livestreaming ecosystem has attracted the sorts of young viewers that broadcast networks hope to lure back. And the format seems to be working for commentators of all political stripes — Hasan Piker on the left, Dan Bongino on the right — and even for Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, who introduced a livestream series this spring on the platform Twitch.

Could it work for the numbers guy, too?

'I Want More Steve'

On that primary morning in August, Kornacki had arrived at work at 5:45 and was nursing his second large cup of coffee by noon. (It was supposed to be extra large, but he hit the wrong button in the Dunkin' app.) He sat at his desk at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, painstakingly labeling each county on a printout map of Michigan with vote totals from the 2018 Democratic primary.

To be clear, no one is forcing Kornacki do this. For most of his TV career, he chimed into election night coverage every 15 minutes or so with updates on the vote count. But sometimes a major result arrived during a commercial break, or while a guest was on air. He wanted a way to get that information out immediately.

"It was partly my idea, out of frustration in past elections," he said. "Can we do something that is for the hard-core people out there that want it from first vote report to the call, and everything in between?"

Late last year, he approached Rebecca Blumenstein, the president of editorial for NBC News, with the idea of offering more continuous coverage with a focus on data. She suggested a digital livestream that would follow Kornacki as the results came in. (Blumenstein was a deputy managing editor at The New York Times until 2023.)

"I found myself saying, 'I want more Steve,' she said in an interview.

She was eager to make the most of viewers' fondness for Kornacki, one of the big names that NBC News retained in its recent split from MSNBC — rebranded MS NOW. And she thought a behind-the-scenes view would function as a gesture of transparency at a time when viewers are increasingly skeptical of mass media.

The first Kornacki Cam was a two-hour stream during the special election for Tennessee's Seventh Congressional District in December. Kornacki found himself adjusting to a new format in which he was expected to fill long stretches of downtime between exciting moments. Two cameras were trained on Kornacki at all times; there were no commercial breaks in which he could eat a snack or run to the restroom. (Kornacki appears to have a bladder of steel: As far as I could tell, he did not duck away once during the six-hour stream in early August.)

Catherine Kim, executive vice president for editorial and content at NBC News, said the livestreaming approach initially faced skepticism. "Colleagues of mine," Kim said, "were like: 'What are you doing? Is anyone going to even care or watch?' But the project has found its audience, she said. The Kornacki Cam has gone live for 22 election nights, attracting a total of 41 million video starts. Its viewers skew young: On YouTube, it has about double the share of viewers under 35 compared with the overall NBC News audience on the platform.

Promising signs for a legacy news organization, but streaming is about more than an absence of commercial breaks. The bro-y riffing that draws viewers to streamers like Piker or Bongino has an altogether different texture from Kornacki's gee-whiz reactions and scrupulously researched analysis. When dead air arises, he tries to fill it with data points from past elections, not predictions: "There was a time in my career when I did that, and I've still got some egg on my face," he said.

The streams have stretched longer and longer, past the length of a Christopher Nolan movie or a five-set tennis match. Yet none of Kornacki's colleagues seemed especially worried about his stamina.

"For us, I think the challenge is holding Steve back," Kim said.

The Flood

Kornacki goes into each livestream on an empty stomach. He cited the former Boston Celtics coach Red Auerbach, who reportedly did not eat before games because he thought it would make him lose his edge.

"Once the numbers start coming in, they are their own stimulant," Kornacki said.

On the night of the Michigan primary, he greeted his map like an old friend, indicating areas with college campuses, wineries and dense populations of retirees. The stream followed him as he got into the weeds of Iosco County with his producer, Adam Noboa, and popped into on-air election coverage with Kristen Welker and Hallie Jackson.

It was still politics: In the comments section of the YouTube livestream, people argued about whether Representative Haley Stevens should have accepted money from a pro-Israel lobbying group and whether Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the more progressive candidate, could win in the general election in November.

But they basically seemed to agree about Kornacki, who oozed competence in moments of chaos and injected cold, hard data into a landscape of hot takes. "No one is better at anything than Steve is at this," one commenter wrote.

Livestreams, though, can be unpredictable. Just after 10 p.m., Kornacki's left hand collided with his open water bottle, dousing pages of notes and his computer monitor. "Oh, boy, the monitor went off," he said, scrambling to sop up the water with tissues.

This was the moment when a typical broadcast might have cut to commercial, but viewers of the Kornacki Cam sat through the aftermath. A producer rushed out to help him. The map of Michigan that Kornacki had so carefully annotated earlier in the day was soaked through.

"Oh, my map — no!" he said in a clip that NBC News later put on TikTok. (It has since been viewed more than 800,000 times.)

Kornacki recovered well enough to guide viewers through the rest of the marquee Senate race, where Stevens appeared to be closing the gap after lagging behind El-Sayed for much of the evening. Past midnight, a string of strong results for El-Sayed arrived from Kalamazoo, Ingham and Wayne Counties.

Producers had started whispering that Kornacki needed to clear out of the studio soon because they needed it for the "Today" show. Kornacki wanted to keep streaming. Then, at 1:57, with close to 90 percent of the vote in statewide, the NBC News Decision Desk called the race for El-Sayed.

"And there it is, folks," Kornacki said, sounding as if he had just chugged an energy drink.

When the cameras shut off a few minutes later, Kornacki loosened the knot of his tie. One shoelace was undone. He seemed satisfied, if a little dazed.

Once you have been monologuing for six straight hours, how do you know when to stop? Kornacki said he tried to make himself scarce almost as soon as the last big race call had been made.

He said, "My mom warned me as a kid, she said, 'Never overstay your welcome.'"

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Fashion Photos That Stand Out

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In many art circles, fashion photography doesn't always get the respect it deserves. Plastered across billboards and printed in magazines, these images — of moisturized and windswept models, cradling \$5,000 handbags on the beach, by the pool or atop a tenement building — are plainly commercial. Although they exist to sell you something, they can be insidious reminders that a certain level of wealth or perfection will always be out of reach.

Nevertheless, editorials and brand campaigns are, for many, a portal into a new world, proposing fresh ideas about identity and beauty. They can also provoke: In 1992, a United Colors of Benetton ad featured a photo, originally published in a 1990 issue of Life magazine, of the AIDS activist David Kirby on his deathbed; in 2010, after Italian Vogue printed an oil-spill-themed fashion story shot by Steven Meisel, The Guardian would ask if the spread was “slick or crude.”

In July, a group of experts convened at the Times building in Midtown Manhattan to debate and make a list of the 25 most influential fashion photographs of the past century. Six image makers — the New York-based stylist and T contributor Ian Bradley; the Canadian model Linda Evangelista, one of the original “supers” in the late 1980s and ’90s; the American fashion designer and Khaite founder Cate Holstein; the Dutch American photography duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin; and T’s creative director, Patrick Li — considered the merits of about 60 pictures they had nominated. (Ahead of time, they were asked to submit 10 each, and they weren’t allowed to choose ones they had worked on.)

There's one thing the judges could all agree on: Whether you think it's art or frivolity, fashion photography is about so much more than clothes. The complete list is at magazine.com. NICK HARAMIS

Melvin Sokolsky, 'Bubble on the Seine' for Harper's Bazaar, 1963

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As a teenager growing up on New York's Lower East Side, Melvin Sokolsky came across a reproduction of the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch's fantastical triptych "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (circa 1490) in a book and became fixated on a detail of a nude couple lounging in a transparent bubble. The image inspired his best-known work: a 12-page editorial in the March 1963 issue of Harper's Bazaar that featured his muse at the time, the French model Simone D'Aillencourt, floating over Paris in a human-size Plexiglas bubble. In this frame, she wears a double-breasted suit and silk coat by the French designer Philippe Venet. Sokolsky died in 2022, but the photo continues to inspire. JAMESON MONTGOMERY

Jean-Paul Goude, 'Grace Jones, Blue-Black in Black on Brown,' 1981

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The French illustrator and photographer Jean-Paul Goude met the Jamaican singer Grace Jones in New York in the 1970s. They became romantic partners and collaborated on several album covers. For her record "Nightclubbing" (1981), Goude captured her with a flattop haircut wearing a square-shouldered Armani tuxedo, her skin dusted with an inky blue pigment. The photo still holds sway over designers like Anthony Vaccarello, who in 2016 honored Jones's look in his debut collection for Saint Laurent. KIN WOO

Ron Galella, 'Windblown Jackie," 1971

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In October 1971, the American paparazzo Ron Galella took the picture that he'd call, in a 2010 documentary, his "Mona Lisa," after spotting Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis exiting her building near Central Park. It encapsulates a period when she was more likely to be wearing jeans and a ribbed henley than a skirt suit and pillbox hat. Decades later, we're still trying to emulate this Jackie. KATE GUADAGNINO

Peter Lindbergh, 'The 1990s' for British Vogue, 1990

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Richard Avedon, Brooke Shields for Calvin Klein Jeans, 1980

In 1989, five models, including Evangelista, assembled for British Vogue's first cover of the new decade. The German photographer Peter Lindbergh put their faces on equal footing, with easy clothes (Giorgio di Sant'Angelo bodysuits paired with faded Levi's) and natural grooming. In the next years, propelled by George Michael's "Freedom! '90" video featuring all five cover subjects, models became supermodels and fashion became inseparable from pop culture. EVIANA HARTMAN

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At 15, the actress Brooke Shields appeared in a 1980 Calvin Klein Jeans campaign taken by the fashion photographer Richard Avedon. The idea for the ads, Avedon said years later, was to make them "completely quotable," which led to a script by the copywriter Doon Arbus that was filled with double entendres. A line in the TV commercials — "You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." — implied that Shields wasn't wearing underwear. Even as networks pulled the ads, demand for the jeans skyrocketed. KATE GUADAGNINO

Nick Knight, Devon Aoki for Visionaire, 1997

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The British photographer Nick Knight was early to adopt digital manipulation. In a 1997 image he made for Visionaire magazine, the American model Devon Aoki's forehead has been X-ed out with a safety pin and what appears to be a gash full of flowers, details added in postproduction. The image inspired the cover for Björk's 1997 album, "Homogenic," shot by Knight and art-directed by Alexander McQueen. JAMESON MONTGOMERY

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cluding Allison Janney and Matthew Rhys, made a beeline for the Winners Circle, a roped-off section at the back of the room where they toted their new trophies to get customized plaques with their name, project and Emmy category attached to them. Similar to the Oscars, the Emmys make plaques for every nominee and then affix the winners after the ceremony.

The first to arrive at the engraving station were some members of the team behind "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," whose final season won the outstanding variety series award as well as directing and writing trophies. Colbert and his wife, Evie McGee Colbert, giddily danced and twirled to the live music while they waited for the awards to be personalized.

"I have a bathroom in my house that has a plaque on the door that says Trophy Room, and all of my trophies are in there," Opus Moreschi, a writer on "The Late Show," said. "My other Emmy has a roll of spare toilet paper on it and sits on the back of the toilet. I'm happy to have won it, but I also want to put myself in my own place."

By 8:30 p.m., the gala was packed and the volume had reached a dull roar. Guests mingled and imbibed martinis paired with caviar. They snacked on French dip sandwiches, oysters, halibut, ceviche and cannoli.

Cecchetto said she advised winners to keep their Emmys close throughout the night, lest they be snatched by someone else inside the gala.

"It's only happened three times," she said of past incidents. "The Academy took care of it."

Clutching an Emmy in one hand and a near-empty dirty gin martini in the other, Kelly Galuska, a writer and co-executive producer on "Widow's Bay," called the show's accolades "so surreal." She said she expected the cast and crew of the horror-tinged Apple TV show, which won best comedy series and other top awards, to dance well into the night at the Apple party afterward.

As she exited the trophy station along with two of the series's stars, Rhys and Kate O'Flynn, the "Widow's Bay" creator, Katie Dippold, said seeing the series win 14 Emmys for its first season was "truly beyond my wildest dreams." She added, "It's thrilling."

And although the Season 2 writers room had been scheduled to convene at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, "Katie pushed it to 11:30," Galuska said, adding, "Depending on how late we're out, it might get pushed again."

Many of the stars and executives stayed only briefly at the Governors Gala to get their awards engraved and exchange pleasantries before moving on to other festivities

around town.

As Fiona Dourif, who plays Dr. Cassie McKay on "The Pitt," made her way toward the exit, she was stopped by a woman who told her that her mother was a health care worker and thanked her for her work on the hospital-set drama on HBO Max.

Many stayed only long enough to get their awards engraved.

Dourif's character rarely gets to relax on "The Pitt," which won best drama series, but the actress came prepared to unwind at the Emmy after-parties.

"I immediately changed out of excruciating heels; I have three pairs of shoes with me," Dourif said. "I'm going to put on another dress where I can breathe and talk, and I'm going to go dance a lot at the HBO party."

By 10 p.m., the celebrity sightings at the Governors Gala had waned, but the noise levels and energy stayed high — especially in a back corner where a large crowd had formed a mosh pit on the dance floor near the live band, Crowd Theory.

As the entertainers cycled through covers of hits by Backstreet Boys, Taylor Swift and Madonna, the party took on an air of a very extravagant, very belated prom night for the mostly millennial and Gen X creatives and executives. It culminated in them enthusiastically screaming and jumping to "Mr. Brightside."

When the band played an encore ("Take On Me" by A-ha) at 11 p.m., the lights came up and a line of revelers, some barefoot with their heels in their hands, headed toward the exit to be whisked away to the next Emmy party — or to their beds.

Ballard C. Boyd, of the "Late Show," said he and his wife left their young daughters with a babysitter but weren't going to have a wild night despite celebrating a win.

"We still have to wake up in the morning and be parents," he said.

At HBO's Party, Stars and Caviar

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Jean Smart of 'Hacks' was among those on hand to celebrate their victories.

By JUNO CARMEL

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. — On Monday night, many of television's buzziest stars walked the green carpet, drank dirty martinis and bumped caviar at HBO Max's after party for the 78th Emmy Awards.

Actors from shows including "The Pitt," "Hacks" and "DTF St. Louis" celebrated their wins and nominations at the San Vicente Bungalows, HBO Max led all networks at the ceremony, with 122 nominations, and ended up with 21 Emmy Awards,

"Tonight was incredibly validating," said Noah Wyle, who was celebrating his second Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a drama series on "The Pitt."

The show, a hit medical drama, started the evening with 25 Emmy nominations for its second season and won six awards, including for best drama.

"The fact that we got over that proverbial sophomore slump and delivered on something that was as satisfying as it seems to have been, it was extremely gratifying," Wyle added. "We're right in the middle of Season 3 right now, so my head is completely enmeshed in trying to maintain the same level of quality."

As hundreds of people packed into the bungalows, bartenders served martinis and caviar from giant ice sculptures inside the venue's fountain. Casey Bloys, the chief executive and chairman of HBO and HBO Max content, bounced around the space to congratulate different casts.

"I'm happy for 'The Pitt,' and I will say I'm especially thrilled for 'DTF," Bloys said. "I know it felt like a dark-horse candidate, but it always had a place in my heart, and I got a lot of unsolicited emails and texts from writers who loved it."

“DTF St. Louis,” an oddball dark comedy that follows two middle-aged colleagues who sign up for a hookup app, won seven awards, including for best limited series.

"In television, people will say they want something different, they want something outside the box," Bloys added. "DTF, to me, was a show celebrating straight male love. It really challenged viewers."

Joy Sunday, who was nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a limited series for her role as a detective in "DTF St. Louis," said the show's magic came from its complexity. "TV or movies nowadays can be very stringent in how it defines itself, but 'DTF' is very amorphous in that way, and just such a beautiful encapsulation of what life can be like," she said. "It's unknown, it's unsure, but it's still worth loving."

Linda Cardellini won her first Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a limited series. She portrays Carol Love-Smernitch in "DTF St. Louis."

"I loved the material. It was so unique and it was so beautifully written, and the in-

Above left, actors from "The Pitt" and friends at the HBO Max party, from left, Sepideh Moafi, Isa Briones, Shabana Azeez, Jade Clulee and Gerran Howell; top, Jean Smart, whose birthday was Sunday; above, Rachel Sennott; left, Megan Stalter and Maddie Allen.

tricacies of all the characters," Cardellini said, adding that her character, Carol, "was somebody I'd never really seen on TV before but felt like I could see in real life many, many places."

Cardellini tried her hand at a claw machine filled with vintage HBO merchandise and designer goods, successfully grabbing a coin purse and an HBO shirt.

Across the courtyard, an astrologer read tarot cards inside one of the venue's bars. A few feet away, the comedian Rachel Sennott shared a booth with the actress Cynthia Nixon. Outside, hits like Chappell Roan's "Pink Pony Club" and Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" pulsed over the speakers.

Savoring awards show glory, and recognizing a couple of birthdays.

Around the bungalows, partygoers could grab hand rolls, dumplings, fried chicken and Henry's Secret Ice Cream from different areas. An elevator turned speakeasy served caviar blinis and shots of vodka.

As the party raged, cakes were brought to the "Hacks" cast to celebrate the birthdays of Jean Smart (Sunday) and Megan Stalter (Tuesday).

Smart was celebrating her Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series on "Hacks," which she also won for each of the show's four previous seasons.

"When I read this role, I just thought, 'This is a gift from heaven,'" Smart said. "I couldn't have asked for anything more in a role. It hasn't even been a roller coaster. It's just been kind of up, up, up, up, up, up."

But with the fifth and final season of "Hacks" now over, Paul W. Downs, an actor and co-creator of the show, described the evening as bittersweet. "It also feels like a little bit of a victory lap, because we're really proud of what we were able to do," he said. "We are trying to suck the marrow from the bone, and enjoy every minute."

Our Favorite Emmy Looks Hit The Sweet Spot

With fashion week underway in New York, we had trend-spotting on the brain as stars stepped onto the red (read: midnight blue) carpet at the 78th Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Monday evening.

A handful of actresses floated out in gowns the exact same shade of lilac, looking feminine and vaguely promlike in some cases. Men tended toward strong, augmented shoulders, verging on David Byrne's iconic boxy suit. Generally, dresses were either draped and diaphanous or sculptural and molded, with little in between.

Yet most of the looks that resonated best with us occupied this rich middle ground, where stars like Colman Domingo and Ayo Edebiri played with striking colors — brownish peach and fuchsia for him, periwinkle and vermilion for her — and men and women looked handsome in various takes on classic suiting. Red-carpet heroes like Zendaya and Chase Infiniti who reliably create striking style moments did not disappoint.

Of all the looks that flowed across our television screens, these were the Styles desk's favorites.

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AYO EDEBIRI This bold Chanel — with an oversize bow in front and one in back for balance, and for camera angles — benefited from equally bold hues, which sit opposite each other on the color wheel.

Colman Domingo

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In custom Valentino, the actor told an inspiring color story in a tawny Tang jacket with pops of clashing pinks — almost neon under the collar and a regal fuchsia at the waist.

Louisa Jacobson

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Look closely and you can see this jacket has a lot going on. It's cropped; it's asymmetrical and geometric; it has a tiny tasseled scarf sliding over one lapel. Yet the actress looked cool and louche — as one can only look in Tom Ford.
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Emmy Rossum

There are ruffles, lace, buttons and beading. This Julie de Libran couture dress could've leaned too goth or Victorian haunted doll. But paired with Rossum's voluminous curls, it's elegant and made her appear statuesque.

Oscar Isaac

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Cummerbunds have been faddish lately for men and women. The actor, who typically goes for understated, old Hollywood dressing on the red carpet — showed that what's trendy for others is simple and eternal for him.
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Covered but not overly modest. Swaddled in fabric but not drowning in it. Nixon's pleated Issey Miyake ensemble sailed easily down the carpet.

Cynthia Nixon
Keri Russell

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It toes the line between Glad bag and not. For us, it's on the right side of it.

Chase Infiniti

The actress's beachy waves balanced out the hundreds of shiny baubles that punctuated her custom Louis Vuitton bustier gown.
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Paul W. Downs

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He's usually doing something wacky with Meg Stalter at award shows. On Monday, he appeared again with his red carpet counterpart, who dressed as an Emmy statue. On his own, though, Downs appeared jaunty but earnest.

Youn Yuh-jung

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Chic may be an overused word, but this look is definitional.

Carey Mulligan

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The Instagram caption "a moment for the dress" applies for this subtle, but not quiet, gown by the Row. Consider the gently folded neckline and the embroidery that resembles what happens when you blow a puff of dandelion.

Dan Levy

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Another strong case for the double-breasted tux. Levy's take — with a longer line, exaggerated lapels and a black floral brooch — is more cerebral. And not just because of his silver-framed glasses.
Zendaya

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A perfectly piece-y pixie cut added a dose of attitude to a glittering dress by Prada.

STYLE OUTSIDE

Structured Lines and Slinky Silhouettes

Photographs and Text by SIMBARASHE CHA

At New York Fashion Week, there were subtle lessons in geometry. Deep V-necks that created stark triangles; cutouts that exposed precise peeks of skin. Asymmetrical pieces of fabric layered onto other asymmetrical pieces, creating shapes delightfully akimbo. Suddenly, an outfit is an icebreaker, a conversation piece.

At Michael Kors, a model wore a top with cutouts at the ribs, exposing two perfect semicircles; Lii took those shapes, put them in elementary colors and stacked them to create looks that recalled Matisse's paper collages.

Elsewhere, it was all about drape and slouch. At Coach, models wore billowy garments and shirts and jackets tied louchely at the waist, while Eckhaus Latta played with the idea of what you can see and where you could see it, with gossamer fabrics and netting.

Many designers gravitated toward silk and satin. These slinky, shimmering garments had a way of catching the light as much as the eye.

Outside, people were in slip dresses and camisoles that flowed as they moved. Feeling a slight September breeze, some opted for a leather skirt or billowy oversize jeans. Still, they managed to look sleek and refined even when pairing them with just a T-shirt.

Sandy Liang

OFF-KILTER HEMS AND NECKLINES
DENIM WITH A TWIST

BIGGER, BOLDER AND BUGGY GLASSES
Lil, right

LEATHER SKIRTS AND SHORTS

Proenza Schouler, left; Elle Fanning and Troye Sivan at Coach, right

Eckhaus Latta, left, and Jenna Lyons, right.

Carolina Herrera, top right

KEYHOLES AND CUTOUTS

Michael Kors

Calvin Klein Strips Down to Bare Principles

PHOTOGRAPHS BY SINDARASHI CHA/THE NEW YORK TIMES

With her third collection, Veronica Leoni sets out to reclaim the minimalist crown.

JUST HOW INFLUENTIAL Calvin Klein has been on fashion and everyone's wardrobe was clear from the Calvin Klein show.

In her fourth outing, the designer Veronica Leoni abandoned the gimmicks of her first three collections — the underwear winks, the inexplicable bouncing pompoms

— to strip away decoration and return to first principles: the rigorously narrow pantsuit, the slip of a camisole, the hipster trousers. A sleeveless evening dress had a deep U of a neckline cut just a bit too low and wide for comfort. A streamlined jumpsuit had a scarflike turtleneck, the ends fluttering behind. Denim was faded and tailored almost into abstraction.

That's classic Calvin territory, the provocation disguised as Puritanism on which the name was built. It's about time the brand staked its claim on the power of its own source material, seven years after stepping away from the runway to focus on jeans and 18 months after returning.

You could see the ambition in the three enormous geometric stainless steel sculptures by Walter De Maria that grounded the show space, one etched with the words "truth" and "beauty," like a mantra of minimalism. And you could see it in the clothes.

The problem is, when it comes to Calvin, it may be too little too late.

In the intervening years, an entire generation of designers and labels have rushed to fill the vacuum. Looking at the show I couldn't help thinking: Hmm, that reminds me of Khaite . . . of Fforme . . . that's very Jil Sander . . . the Row . . .

They all speak Calvin now.

In fact, we all speak Calvin now, if you consider how much 1990s nostalgia has defined the current decade, how relevant it feels to shrug off adornment at a time of growing chaos and how much the series "Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette" did to popularize Klein's signature look. This way of dressing has infiltrated pop and political culture alike.

It's a testament to its enduring appeal, but it makes the current Calvin seem less like the claiming of a birthright than a copy of a copy of an original.

"I feel this is very radical in a way," Leoni said backstage after the show, after greeting Katie Holmes and Sadie Sink and an entire row of jeans-clad influencers. She was talking about the apparent simplicity of the looks, which was not simple to achieve at all. (When there's no frippery, every seam is on stark display.) But in fact she didn't go far enough.

On the soundtrack Solange (also in the front row) intoned, "The truest practice of minimalism is determining what is 100 percent necessary." That doesn't just mean determining the barest requirements for a dress or a jacket.

It means offering clothes that in their originality and relevance feel singularly suited to the moment, that feel necessary to getting you through the day. Minimalism is not about merely taking adornment away. It is the search for the essence of something. And that isn't found in an archive or imitation, but in invention.

Calvin Klein's spring 2027 collection includes a sleeveless evening dress and hipster trousers, at left, along with deep U necklines and faded denim, below.

It may be too little too late as other labels have filled a style vacuum.

Theatrics Overtake Runways From Head to Toe

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Looks from Thom Browne's runway garden party, clockwise from above: Kai Schreiber in a chrysalis; a model wearing a ladybug look, with matching shoes; and another model in a themed design.

Thom Browne and Khaite bring drama to their shows, with varying design styles.

TRANSFORMATION IS ONE of the founding principles of fashion. The promise that the right dress or coat or pair of pants can turn anyone from a caterpillar into a butterfly is part of what keeps us endlessly coming back for more.

In case anyone needed a reminder, Thom Browne created a garden that seemed right out of the classic Pixar film "A Bug's Life" for the closing show of New York Fashion Week. He filled it with giant stalks of grass and a leafy canopy and then placed a glowing cocoon at its center, into which Kai Schreiber, a model and the daughter of Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, enclosed herself after fluttering around with a group of tulle-clad monochrome moths.

At which point, the show — 60 takes on classic striped, schoolboy and rep tie suit- ing transformed by botany and entomology into something altogether more fantastical — began. If the suit has been stereotyped as the uniform of the corporate drone, Browne has made its metamorphosis his mission.

Prismatic butterfly wings were mosa- icked onto car coats, some of which also dripped sparkling clumps of grass. Bumblebees covered the shoulders of a plaid rugby jacket, and dragonflies climbed up a little pleated skirt. Bulbous molded dresses sported ladybug intarsias, and body-con skirts and corsets had the articulated movement of a caterpillar's thorax and abdomen. Even the garden party pumps had little mandibles attached to the toes.

At the end, Schreiber emerged again, a monarch, along with her court, likewise bathed in color. It was a bit on the nose, sure, but also entirely charming.

Among all of the bugged-out styles, there were some discrete silk and wool pieces that spliced a 1920s picnic air with a tailored discernment, including a palate-cleansing pair of black and white halter-neck tuxedo dresses.

This kind of drama is rare for New York runways, where designers tend to focus more on the practical and utilitarian, or even political, aspects of clothes. The fantasy world-building that makes the medium the message is generally left to the couturiers of Paris, where the equation of fashion and art, along with the idea of fashion as performance, takes center stage.

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Sometimes the spectacle is magical and sometimes it's pretentious, but it generally reflects a level of ambition and imagination that isn't as evident in New York. Which is why when American designers start dreaming of the biggest spotlight, they tend to hie themselves off to Europe to show.

Indeed, Browne departed for Paris almost 10 years ago, and only when he became chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2023 did he consistently move one of his two women's wear collections back to New York. (He still holds his men's wear shows in Europe.) At this point, his fashion theatrics are matched in this city only by those of Catherine Holstein of Khaite, who also works on an increasingly monumental scale.

This season, that meant creating what may have been the longest runway of New York Fashion Week — approximately 1,000 feet — in an echoing hangar in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and lighting it with only a series of spots, like a form of elemental art, so models passed in and out of visibility.

Now you see Kaia Gerber in a high-waist black leather hobble skirt and white leather bra; now you don't. Now you get a glimpse of Victoriana lace underpinnings with a mini horsehair crinoline tied around the

Bugged-out styles and disappearing acts: Yes, the clothes performed.

Leather and lingerie from Khaite on Kaia Gerber, far left, and spotlights meant to tease.

waist; now you don't. Now you spy sheer florals and a leather bomber; now you don't.

Now you think New Orleans and "Pretty Baby" by way of Alexander McQueen and Yves Saint Laurent; now you scratch your head.

In only 10 years, Holstein has become one of the major success stories of New York, building a major business on the shifting elements of cosmopolitan cool, translating haute trends for the urbane crew. But she clearly has much bigger goals, as her high-concept sets suggest. That's admirable. The problem is, such vaunted scenography demands clothes that have the content to back it up. And they aren't there yet.

What's left is not so much enthralling performance as just performative. It doesn't take wing.

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