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TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2017
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Trump’s Son Heard of Link
To Moscow Before Meeting
Russian Government Sought to Help Father
and Hurt Clinton, Email Suggested
This article is by Matt Apuzzo, Jo
Becker, Adam Goldman and Maggie Haberman.
SHAWN THEW/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
Donald Trump Jr. in April. An email he received in 2016, according to three people, said that Russia wanted to affect the election.
Iraq Celebrates Businessmen Get a Say on Afghan War Strategy
ed Kushner, his senior adviser and
A Win in Mosul
son-in-law, according to people
briefed on the conversations.
As Rifts Widen
On Saturday morning, Mr. BanThis article is by Mark Landler,
Eric Schmitt and Michael R. Gordon.
By TIM ARANGO
MOSUL, Iraq — The fighting is
all but over in Mosul, and the billboards are already up: hastily
raised signs in which the government urged the city’s Sunni
residents to “turn the page” from
the terrorists of the Islamic State.
As Prime Minister Haider alAbadi visited Mosul to declare victory and call for unity, civilians on
the longer-secured east side of the
city danced and waved Iraqi flags.
Some called for brotherhood between Sunnis and Shiites, or
chanted, “By our souls and blood,
we sacrifice for you, Iraq!”
It is a moment for Iraqis to celebrate after nearly nine months of
bloody warfare against the Sunni
extremists of the Islamic State.
But despite the flaring of hope for
a new national unity, the government’s costly victory in Mosul and
the questions hanging over its aftermath feel more like the next
chapter in the long story of Iraq’s
unraveling.
Most pressing is the need to
bring back hundreds of thousands
of displaced Sunni civilians. But
Iraq has failed to rebuild and resettle some other communities
freed from the Islamic State as
tensions between the Sunni minority and the majority Shiites
still undermine efforts to reunite
the country.
Reports of past abuses by the
Shiite-controlled government and
its security forces and militia allies against Sunni families have
kept sectarian divisions fresh.
And with no sectarian reconciliation process to speak of, any setback in the resettling of Mosul
could dangerously add to the list
of grievances.
For the mostly Sunni residents
of Mosul, there are the devastating aftereffects of living under the
Islamic State, also known as ISIS,
ISIL or Daesh. And there is deep
doubt and fear over what will happen to them next.
“The people of Mosul need to be
psychologically
treated
and
rehabilitated through long-term
programs,” said Intisar al-Jibouri,
a member of Parliament from Mosul. “They have lost family members, been tortured, beaten for
silly reasons by ISIS.”
Continued on Page A6
Cease-Fire Holds in Syria
A truce that arose from a meeting of President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin last week
survived its first day. Page A6.
WASHINGTON — President
Trump’s advisers recruited two
businessmen who profited from
military contracting to devise alternatives to the Pentagon’s plan
to send thousands of additional
troops to Afghanistan, reflecting
the Trump administration’s struggle to define its strategy for dealing with a war now 16 years old.
Erik D. Prince, a founder of the
private security firm Blackwater
Worldwide, and Stephen A. Feinberg, a billionaire financier who
owns the giant military contractor
Erik D. Prince, left, and
Stephen A. Feinberg.
DynCorp International, have developed proposals to rely on contractors instead of American
troops in Afghanistan at the behest of Stephen K. Bannon, Mr.
Trump’s chief strategist, and Jar-
non sought out Defense Secretary
Jim Mattis at the Pentagon to try
to get a hearing for their ideas, an
American official said. Mr. Mattis
listened politely but declined to include the outside strategies in a
review of Afghanistan policy that
he is leading along with the national security adviser, Lt. Gen.
H. R. McMaster.
The highly unusual meeting
dramatizes the divide between
Mr. Trump’s generals and his political staff over Afghanistan, the
Continued on Page A13
year’s election. American intelligence agencies have determined
that the Russian government
tried to sway the election in favor
of Mr. Trump.
The Times first reported on the
existence of the meeting on Saturday, and a fuller picture has
emerged in subsequent days.
Alan Futerfas, the lawyer for
the younger Mr. Trump, said his
client had done nothing wrong but
pledged to work with investigators if contacted.
“In my view, this is much ado
about nothing. During this busy
period, Robert Goldstone contacted Don Jr. in an email and suggested that people had information concerning alleged wrongdoing by Democratic Party frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, in her
dealings with Russia,” he told The
Times in an email on Monday.
“Don Jr.’s takeaway from this
communication was that someone
had information potentially helpful to the campaign and it was
coming from someone he knew.
Don Jr. had no knowledge as to
what specific information, if any,
would be discussed.”
It is unclear whether Mr. Goldstone had direct knowledge of the
origin of the damaging material.
One person who was briefed on
the emails said it appeared that he
was passing along information
that had been passed through several others.
Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s
Continued on Page A15
WASHINGTON — Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlinconnected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary
Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the material was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father’s
candidacy, according to three people with knowledge of the email.
The email to the younger Mr.
Trump was sent by Rob Goldstone, a publicist and former
British tabloid reporter who
helped broker the June 2016 meeting. In a statement on Sunday, Mr.
Trump acknowledged that he was
interested in receiving damaging
information about Mrs. Clinton,
but gave no indication that he
thought the lawyer might have
been a Kremlin proxy.
Mr. Goldstone’s message, as described to The New York Times by
the three people, indicates that
the Russian government was the
source of the potentially damaging information. It does not elaborate on the wider effort by Moscow to help the Trump campaign.
There is no evidence to suggest
that the promised damaging information was related to Russian
government computer hacking
that led to the release of thousands of Democratic National
Committee emails. The meeting
took place less than a week before
it was widely reported that Russian hackers had infiltrated the
committee’s servers.
But the email is likely to be of
keen interest to the Justice Department and congressional investigators, who are examining
whether any of President Trump’s
associates colluded with the Russian government to disrupt last
RUSSIAN ORPHANS What adop-
tion policy and lifting sanctions
have in common. PAGE A15
PAGEANT CONNECTION A beauty
contest linked Donald Trump Jr.
and a Russian lawyer. PAGE A16
Longtime Foes Rule Could Let
Of Birth Control Consumers Sue
Unravel Policy Financial Firms
By ROBERT PEAR
WILL GLASER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Officer Irma Lozada’s grave in Queens. She was the first female officer killed in New York City.
A Grim Measure of Equality for Women in Blue
By BENJAMIN MUELLER
and AL BAKER
In the early 1980s, the New York
City subways were forbidding,
with robbers lurking in graffiticovered cars. Very few women
were on patrol, but Officer Irma
Lozada took one of the most dangerous jobs: She hid her badge
and draped fake gold chains
around her neck, courting robbers
to come after her in some of the
most desperate parts of Brooklyn.
It was on one of these plainclothes assignments in 1984 when
something went terribly wrong:
Officer Lozada chased a suspect,
got separated from her partner
and was killed after the suspect
wrested her service revolver from
her and shot her twice.
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Officer Lozada, shot in 1984.
She became the first female officer killed in New York City history.
So jolted was the police force by
her death that, in the aftermath,
some officers spoke of women being better off reassigned to office
jobs, several people recalled.
It is a measure of how different
things are that when another female officer, Miosotis Familia,
was shot and killed last week, her
gender was far less a focus than
were the nondiscriminatory perils
of her profession. There are now
6,394 female officers on a force of
just over 36,000 in New York City.
And across the nation, women
have pushed their way into
policing’s most demanding jobs.
To them, Officer Familia’s death
was seen as a grim signifier of
their growing front-line roles.
“All of us suffer that same risk,
man and woman,” said Sheree
Briscoe, a district commander for
the Baltimore Police Department.
“That’s what’s happening in the
culture of policing.”
Continued on Page A21
WASHINGTON — From the
obscure perch of a backbench senator’s office, Katy Talento used to
warn against what she saw as the
health hazards of birth control
pills — cancer, infertility and miscarriage. From his post at a Christian legal advocacy group,
Matthew Bowman spent years attacking the requirement that most
health insurance plans cover contraception under the Affordable
Care Act.
Now on the inside — one at the
White House, the other at the Department of Health and Human
Services — Ms. Talento and Mr.
Bowman have a clear path to prosecute their strong belief that birth
control coverage should not be a
mandate from Washington. Both
are using arguments they honed
over years of battle to ensure that
a new rule, expected to be issued
this month, to roll back the requirement can withstand legal
challenge.
For some of the Trump administration officials tasked with reversing President Barack Obama’s legacy, the path forward has
been somewhat rocky. Turning an
ideological viewpoint into legislative or administrative policy able
to pass legal muster can be difficult for Washington newcomers.
But the architects of the Trump
contraceptive reversal, Ms. Talento, a White House domestic policy aide, and Mr. Bowman, a top
lawyer at the Department of
Health and Human Services, have
the experience and know-how
that others in the administration
Continued on Page A14
INTERNATIONAL A4-8
SCIENCE TIMES, D1-6
Fire’s Toll Remains Contested
Repository of the Off Limits
State Trooper Is Fatally Shot
The London police say that around 80
people died last month in the Grenfell
Tower blaze, but volunteer researchers
believe the toll could be higher. PAGE A4
A government
warehouse in
Colorado offers
evidence of the
immense demand
for goods made
from threatened
and endangered
animals. PAGE D1
A New York State Police trooper was
killed in Theresa, N.Y., as he approached
the home of an Army sergeant whose
wife was later found shot to death in the
driveway.
PAGE A18
NATIONAL A9-16
BUSINESS DAY B1-7
The West Is Ablaze
Claim of Sanctions Violation
Wildfires raged across the Western
United States and Canada, fueled by
wind and high temperatures.
PAGE A9
A German company says a Russian
customer illegally shipped two power
plant turbines to Crimea.
PAGE B1
Multiple Deaths in Plane Crash
Wall Street Watchdog Named
Bolshoi Denies Censorship
At least 16 people were believed dead
after a military plane crashed in the
Mississippi Delta.
PAGE A17
The president has nominated Randal K.
Quarles, an advocate of limited regulation, to the Federal Reserve.
PAGE B5
The Bolshoi Theater said the Kremlin
had nothing to do with its cancellation
of the new ballet “Nureyev.”
PAGE C1
ARTS C1-6
By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG
and MICHAEL CORKERY
The nation’s consumer watchdog adopted a rule on Monday
that would pry open the courtroom doors for millions of Americans, by prohibiting financial
firms from forcing them into arbitration in disputes over their bank
and credit card accounts.
The action, by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, would
deal a serious blow to banks and
other financial firms, freeing consumers to band together in classaction lawsuits that could cost the
institutions billions of dollars.
“A cherished tenet of our justice
system is that no one, no matter
how big or how powerful, should
escape accountability if they
break the law,” Richard Cordray,
the director of the consumer
agency, said in a statement.
The new rule, which could take
effect next year, is almost certain
to set off a political firestorm in
Washington. Both the Trump administration and House Republicans have pushed to rein in the
consumer finance agency as part
of a broader effort to lighten regulation on the financial industry.
The rule “should be thoroughly
rejected by Congress under the
Congressional Review Act,” said
Representative Jeb Hensarling,
the Texas Republican who has
been leading the charge to weaken the agency. “In the last election, the American people voted to
drain the D.C. swamp of capricious, unaccountable bureaucrats
who wish to control their lives.”
Under the Congressional ReContinued on Page A11
NEW YORK A18-21
SPORTSTUESDAY B8-13
‘This Is Only Day 1’
The commute was relatively calm on
the first day of what is scheduled to be
eight weeks of repairs at Pennsylvania
Station, but commuters said they were
withholding judgment.
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EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
David Leonhardt
PAGE A23
Nadal Ousted in 5-Set Thriller
Rafael Nadal, the No. 4 seed at Wimbledon, rallied from a two-set deficit before
falling to Gilles Müller in a nearly fivehour fourth-round battle.
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