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☆ Herbert Hoelter, Prison Consultant to the Rich and Infamous, Dies at 73
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Michael S. Rosenwald | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In the summer of 2003, as Martha Stewart’s trial on charges connected to securities fraud was nearing its conclusion, the CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper aired a segment speculating about how severe her punishment would be if she were convicted. “Sometimes,” Mr. Cooper said, “it seems as though rich criminals seldom end up swapping smokes on Cell Block H. So if it’s not hard time in the joint, what kind of sentence could she get?”His guest was Herbert Hoelter, a sentencing reform advocate who, to fund his nonprofit work at the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, had become a concierge to the federal prison system for white-collar criminals, helping them to secure alternative or shorter sentences and to navigate life as an inmate. “Our philosophy isn’t that punishment should not occur,” Mr. Hoelter said, “it’s that it should occur in different ways.”

Persons: Martha Stewart’s, Anderson Cooper, “, Mr, Cooper, Herbert Hoelter, Hoelter, ” Organizations: CNN, National Center

☆ Live Election Updates: R.N.C. to Spotlight Trump’s Hard-Line Vision on Immigration
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

A majority of its members have deep ties to Mr. Biden and were vetted for their loyalty to him, making it unlikely that his nomination will face significant dissent. Mr. Biden, during an interview with NBC News that aired on Monday, reiterated that he was not leaving the race. “Look, 14 million people voted for me to be the nominee in the Democratic Party, OK?” he said. changed its process to nominate Mr. Biden to accommodate an Aug. 7 deadline to place him on the ballot in Ohio. In recent days, Mr. Biden has held several meetings with Democrats in the House that have ended with mixed reviews.

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☆ From Skeptic to Superfan: J.D. Vance’s Turnabout on Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Senator J.D. Mr. Vance was frequently interviewed for his views on the white working-class communities described in his book, full of the types of voters drawn to Mr. Trump’s “Make America Great Again” pitch, and to his insistence that he alone could save a nation in decline. In a 2016 article in The Atlantic, “Opioid of the Masses,” Mr. Vance wrote: “During this election season, it appears that many Americans have reached for a new pain reliever.” He went on: “It enters minds, not through lungs or veins, but through eyes and ears, and its name is Donald Trump.” But, he argued, Mr. Trump was not the solution. By 2018, Mr. Vance’s stance had softened, as he viewed Mr. Trump as speaking, if coarsely, to the frustrations of the people he had written about. By 2022, when Mr. Vance was running for Senate in Ohio, the self-described “Never Trump guy” from six years earlier received a race-changing Trump endorsement.

Persons: J.D, Vance, Donald J, —, Hitler, ”, Trump’s, ” Mr, Donald Trump, Trump Organizations: Mr, Trump Locations: Kentucky, Ohio

☆ Biden Says It Was a Mistake to Say He Wanted to Put Trump in a ‘Bull’s-eye’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Michael D. Shear | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden said on Monday it was “a mistake” to say that he wanted to put former President Donald J. Trump back in “a bull’s-eye” but defended his descriptions of his rival in the 2024 election as a threat to the foundations of the nation’s democracy. “Do you just not say anything because it may incite somebody?” he asked. The president’s comments come just two days after a would-be assassin shot at Mr. Trump at a rally in western Pennsylvania, grazing the former president’s ear and killing one of his supporters. Republicans have accused Mr. Biden of stoking violence against Mr. Trump, pointing to a comment that the president made last week to donors. He told them that “we’re done talking about the debate; it’s time to put Trump in a bull’s-eye.”

Persons: Biden, Donald J, Trump, Mr, NBC’s Lester Holt, ” Organizations: Mr, Trump Locations: “, Pennsylvania

☆ Terrell Davis, N.F.L. Hall of Famer, Says He Was Unjustly Detained on Flight
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | More About Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Terrell Davis, a Pro Football Hall of Fame member, said he was detained by the authorities on Saturday in California after he “lightly” tapped a United Airlines flight attendant’s arm to ask for a cup of ice — an episode that he said left him feeling “humiliated, embarrassed, powerless and angry.”Mr. Davis, 51, was traveling from Denver to Orange County, Calif., on a United Airlines flight with his family, he wrote in a statement released by his lawyers. During the flight, Mr. Davis said, his son asked for a cup of ice, and that the flight attendant “either didn’t hear or ignored” his son. Mr. Davis said he then “lightly tapped” the attendant on the arm to get his attention, and that the attendant shouted, “Don’t hit me,” and rushed to the front of the plane. “I was confused, as were the passengers in front of me who witnessed the exchange,” Mr. Davis wrote. “I thought nothing of it other than this particular employee was incredibly rude and blatantly wrong in his accusations of me hitting him.”

Persons: Terrell Davis, “, ” Mr, Davis, Mr, “ Don’t, ” Organizations: Pro Football Hall of Fame, United Airlines Locations: California, Denver, Orange County, Calif

☆ Inside the Money Race for the 2025 New York City Mayoral Primary
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Emma G. Fitzsimmons | Nicholas Fandos | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In a luxury apartment in Trump World Tower in Manhattan near the United Nations, a group of two dozen or so lawyers and civic leaders gathered this spring at the home of Mitchell Draizin, a financier and prominent Democratic donor. The group, he said, was searching for a candidate to defeat Mayor Eric Adams, “somebody to manage and have the city progress.” And for that evening, Scott Stringer, the city’s former comptroller, had their ear. “He’s obviously not the most charismatic person. Perhaps Adams is charismatic, but look where it got us,” Mr. Draizin said in an interview. “Look at the M.T.A., look at the garbage, look at the shoplifting and the migrant crisis.”Similar scenes are playing out across the city, with Democratic supporters being courted by Mr. Adams, Mr. Stringer and others interested in running in next June’s mayoral primary.

Persons: Mitchell Draizin, Eric Adams, “, Scott Stringer, “ He’s, Adams, ” Mr, Draizin, Stringer Organizations: United Nations, Democratic Locations: Trump, Manhattan

☆ Homeland Security Chief Calls Trump Shooting a Security ‘Failure’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Zolan Kanno-Youngs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said on Monday that the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump was a “failure” of security, as the Secret Service confronts scrutiny over its efforts to protect government officials. “An incident like this cannot happen,” Mr. Mayorkas told CNN, adding: “When I say something like this cannot happen, we are speaking of a failure.”The comments, from the head of the department that oversees the Secret Service, came after President Biden called for an “independent review” of the security planning for the Trump rally in Butler, Pa., where the shooting occurred on Saturday. The Secret Service is facing intense questions over the security perimeter at the rally, which did not include a warehouse roof where the would-be assassin fired shots at Mr. Trump. The gunman, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pa., was killed.

Persons: Alejandro N, Mayorkas, Donald J, Trump, Mr, Biden Organizations: CNN, Trump Locations: Butler, Pa, Bethel Park

☆ Live Election Updates: G.O.P. Convention to Open as F.B.I. Hunts for Would-Be Assassin’s Motive
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

There is no place in America for this kind of violence — for any violence ever, period. “I’m sincerely grateful that he’s doing well and recovering,” Mr. Biden said. And the White House said that Mr. Biden would keep his campaign events in Las Vegas. Mr. Biden will speak at an NAACP conference on Tuesday and a UnidosUS conference on Wednesday, even as Mr. Trump and his party hold the Republican convention in Milwaukee. In both sets of remarks on Sunday, Mr. Biden made a plea that — if recent history is any guide — seemed unlikely to be heeded by activists on either side of the nation’s increasingly bitter divide.

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☆ Democrats Are Trapped in ‘The West Wing’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Elizabeth Spiers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

A whole generation of political professionals are so enamored of “The West Wing,” Mr. Sorkin’s show about the travails of White House occupants, that they now suffer from what I think of as Terminal West Wing Brain. It depicts America as a place that is divided but that yearns for consensus, for the good of the country. Jed Bartlet, the fictional Democratic president, is often reaching across the aisle to a wrongheaded but often well-meaning Republican. Voters say they want Americans to be unified, but Republicans mean they want everyone to be a Republican, and Democrats want everyone to be a Democrat. Bipartisan cooperation requires a shared idea of reality that exists in “The West Wing” but not in the real world.

Persons: Biden’s, Aaron Sorkin, Mr, powermongering, nihilists, Jed Bartlet, It’s Organizations: Democratic, Republican Locations: America

☆ Fed’s Powell Welcomes Cooler Inflation but Steers Clear of Rate Cut Timing
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Jeanna Smialek | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, avoided sending a clear signal about when the central bank would begin to cut interest rates even as he welcomed a recent cool-down in inflation. “Today I’m not going to be sending any signals one way or the other on any particular meeting,” Mr. Powell said while speaking at the Economic Club of Washington on Monday. “Just to ruin the fun right at the beginning.”The Fed’s chair was speaking after several inflation reports in a row suggested that price increases were moderating in earnest, a development that had spurred some economists to think that it could make sense for officials to cut interest rates sooner rather than later. The Fed meets at the end of July and then again in September, and investors have been largely expecting that officials will begin to lower borrowing costs at the September meeting. Economists at Goldman Sachs wrote in a research note on Monday that cutting rates this month could be appropriate, given how much inflation had come down.

Persons: Jerome H, Powell, I’m, ” Mr, “, Goldman Sachs Organizations: Federal Reserve, Economic, of Washington, Fed, Goldman

☆ Israel-Gaza News: Live Updates
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But it remained unclear on Sunday if the primary target, Muhammad Deif, the leader of the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, was among the dead. A Hamas official, Khalil al-Hayya, who lives in exile, said in an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic television that Mr. Deif had not been killed and was listening to Mr. Netanyahu’s words and “mocking” them. Hamas has not offered evidence that Mr. Deif survived. Mr. Deif is the second most senior Hamas figure in Gaza, after its leader in the territory, Yahya Sinwar. But it made no mention of the fate of Mr. Deif and Mr. Salameh.

Persons: Israel, Muhammad Deif, Benjamin Netanyahu, Rafa Salameh, Khan Younis, Khalil al, Deif, Yahya Sinwar, Izzat Al, Salameh, Scott Anderson, ” “, Mr, Anderson, “, Netanyahu, ”, Tamir Hayman Organizations: Gaza Health Ministry, Qassam, Hamas, Al Jazeera, United Nations, Nasser, Institute for National Security, Tel Aviv University Locations: Gaza, Israel, Khan

☆ Live Updates: Trump Safe After Failed Assassination Attempt
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Mike Ives | Simon J. Levien | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Mr. Trump was rushed off the stage, blood visible around his right ear. The Secret Service said its personnel had killed the shooter. Secret Service agents then rushed Mr. Trump off the stage. Mr. Trump had been showing supporters a chart about the number of border crossings just minutes into his speech when the shots rang out. President Biden, in a nationally televised statement, expressed gratitude that Mr. Trump had been swiftly evacuated and said “There’s no place in America for this kind of violence.” He later spoke to Mr. Trump, according to the White House.

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☆ What We Know About the Assassination Attempt Against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Michael Levenson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A man fired “multiple shots” toward the stage during former President Donald J. Trump’s rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday at around 6:15 p.m., killing one spectator and critically injuring two others, according to the Secret Service. Mr. Trump was rushed off the stage, blood visible around his right ear. An analysis by The New York Times suggested that the gunman had fired eight shots. The Secret Service said its personnel had killed the shooter. identified the man as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Mr, Donald Trump, ” Kevin Rojek, Thomas Matthew Crooks Organizations: Secret, Service, Federal Bureau of, Police Department, The New York Times Locations: Butler, Pa, Bethel Park

☆ Photo Appears to Capture Path of Bullet Used in Assassination Attempt
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( John Ismay | More About John Ismay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In documenting the Pennsylvania campaign rally on Saturday afternoon that turned into an attempt on a former president’s life, Doug Mills, a veteran New York Times photographer, appeared to capture the image of a bullet streaking past former President Donald J. Trump’s head. That is the assessment of Michael Harrigan, a retired F.B.I. special agent who spent 22 years in the bureau. “It absolutely could be showing the displacement of air due to a projectile,” Mr. Harrigan said in an interview on Saturday night after reviewing the high-resolution images that Mr. Mills filed from the rally. “The angle seems a bit low to have passed through his ear, but not impossible if the gunman fired multiple rounds.”Simple ballistic math showed that capturing a bullet as Mr. Mills likely did in a photo was possible, Mr. Harrigan said.

Persons: Doug Mills, Donald J, Michael Harrigan, Mr, Harrigan, Mills Organizations: New York Times Locations: Pennsylvania

☆ Live Updates: Authorities Find Explosives in Car of Gunman Killed in Assassination Attempt on Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Michael D. Shear | Mike Ives | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

“I will Never Surrender!” Mr. Trump wrote in a text message to supporters. And Mr. Trump is preparing to name his running mate and formally claim his party’s nomination for the third consecutive election. Vance of Ohio, who is on the shortlist of candidates that Mr. Trump is considering as a running mate, wrote on X. “An assassination attempt is contrary to everything we stand for as a nation,” Mr. Biden said. Mr. Trump had assured Malphine Fogel, who lives in Butler County, that he would help get her son home.

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☆ Richard Simmons’s Radical Promise: Exercise Is for Everybody
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Danielle Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you lived in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, your choices for an aerobic workout class were truly slim. You could go to Jane Fonda’s studio in Beverly Hills, where everyone breaking a sweat was “feather-to-lightweight,” according to one observer. You could try a few dance studios where the professionally beautiful — actresses, models, media personalities — willed their bodies to become even more so. If building muscle was your goal, you could stop by Gold’s Gym or other palaces of pump, where an almost entirely male clientele strove for hard bodies in the image of Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was against this backdrop of fitness exclusivity that Richard Simmons kicked, shouted and shimmied to the forefront of the workout scene, inviting the people he encountered to move with him — first at his Los Angeles studio and then in their own living rooms, through his home workouts on TV and VHS.

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☆ National and World Leaders Condemn the Shooting at Trump’s Rally
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Leaders across the United States and the world condemned the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday at his rally in Butler, Pa. President Biden, a wide array of prominent Democratic figures and other political opponents of the former president were among those who quickly condemned the violence, called for national unity and prayed for Mr. Trump’s safety. Mr. Biden, who was being briefed by national security officials in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, issued a written statement later in the evening. “I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania,” Mr. Biden said in the statement. I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally.”He continued: “There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it.”

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Biden, “, Donald Trump’s, ” Mr, “ I’m, ” Organizations: Democratic Locations: United States, Butler, Pa, Pennsylvania, America

☆ Police Kill a Boy, and a Refugee Group’s Young Lead the Call for Answers
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Hurubie Meko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A 19-year-old man, Thuong Oo, stood in the middle of the group, shouting into a megaphone. The police had killed Mr. Oo’s 13-year-old brother, Nyah Mway, two days earlier and he was angry. Late on June 28, an officer shot Nyah after the boy had been seen with what turned out to be a pellet gun and was tackled to the ground. “I went to the hospital and they said they had a shootout with my brother,” Mr. Oo told the crowd. “But I watched the video and it said different things, so it doesn’t make any sense.”Many of those encircling Mr. Oo were members of the Karen, a refugee ethnic group from Myanmar, and almost all them were young.

Persons: Oo’s, Nyah Mway, Nyah, “, ” Mr, Oo, Karen, ” Locations: Hall, Utica, N.Y, Myanmar

The Israeli military said this week that it had concluded its operation there. Palestinians returning to Shajaiye, after heeding a call by Israel to evacuate, said the neighborhood was so devastated it was uninhabitable. “The current situation in Shajaiye today is tragic,” said Ahmed Sidu, a photographer, who went back to his home as soon as he heard that Israeli forces had pulled out. Palestinian Civil Defense said on Friday that their crews began recovering bodies from Tal Al-Hawa and the Al-Sinaa neighborhoods, as they said the Israeli forces appeared to be leaving those areas as well. The Israeli military did not confirm its forces were also pulling out of those areas.

Persons: ”, Ahmed Sidu, Hamas’s, Ayman Showadeh, Showadeh, Karam Hassan, ” Mr, Hassan, Mr, Sidu, Tal, Tal Al, “, Juliette Touma, Rawan Sheikh Ahmad Organizations: Hamas, Palestinian Civil Defense, Credit, Agence France, United Nations, UNRWA, Troops Locations: Shajaiye, Gaza City, Israel, Gaza, Al, Rimal

☆ Biden Condemns Shooting at Trump Rally, Calling it ‘Sick’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Peter Baker | More About Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden condemned the shooting incident at former President Donald J. Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday and expressed gratitude that Mr. Trump survived and was evacuated. “Look, there’s no place in America for this kind of violence,” Mr. Biden said in a nationally televised statement. “It’s sick. It’s one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. We cannot condone this.”Mr. Biden said he had tried to reach Mr. Trump but was not able to talk with him because the former president was with his doctors.

Persons: Biden, Donald J, Trump, Mr, “, he’s, ” Locations: Pennsylvania, America

☆ As Biden Points to His Past, Supporters Are More Worried About His Future
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Zolan Kanno-Youngs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As President Biden tries to save his candidacy, he is asking Americans to look to the past. “Look at what I’ve done in three and a half years,” Mr. Biden has declared over and over again since his disastrous debate performance in Atlanta two weeks ago. On Thursday night, as the president took questions from reporters in a nearly hourlong news conference, he pointed to his record. “Can you name me somebody,” he asked, “who’s gotten more major pieces of legislation passed in three and a half years?”But for many of Mr. Biden’s supporters, it’s not the last three years they’re worried about. Interviews with a range of Democratic voters, lawmakers, strategists and others — most of whom voted for Mr. Biden in 2020 — suggest that the president’s attempt to run on his record since the debate is falling flat.

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☆ ‘Touch Me, Poke Me, Ask Me Questions,’ Biden Says of Voters Who Doubt Him
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Michael D. Shear | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden on Friday told a Democratic lawmaker who called for him to step aside that voters should “touch me, poke me, ask me questions” if they have doubts about his ability to serve in the Oval Office or defeat former President Donald J. Trump in November. Mr. Biden made the remarks during a virtual meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, according to a partial transcript of the exchange obtained by The New York Times. He was responding to Representative Mike Levin of California, who told Mr. Biden during the meeting that he believed the president should not continue his bid for another term, according to two people familiar with the call. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it. “That’s why I’m going out and letting people touch me, poke me, ask me questions,” Mr. Biden told Mr. Levin.

Persons: Biden, Donald J, Trump, Mr, Mike Levin of, Levin, Biden’s, —, ” Mr, “, Franklin Roosevelt, ” Organizations: Democratic, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, The New York Times, Mike Levin of California

☆ Finding Happily Ever After in Their Happy Place
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Jenny Block | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Joseph Abraham Gorman and Matthew Joseph Capbarat’s first meeting wasn’t a blind date by design. “We were the only two who showed up,” Mr. Gorman said. Ms. Lafferty and Mr. Capbarat, who were roommates at the time, arrived together. Mr. Gorman was already there, waiting. “We were both trying to keep our cool,” Mr. Capbarat said.

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Mr. Biden stumbled early but remained defiant in the face of questions about his fitness to continue his campaign. Mr. Biden vowed to stay in the presidential race. “I just got to, just, pace myself a little more,” Mr. Biden said. While he vowed to stay in the race, Mr. Biden also on multiple occasions defended the credentials of his vice president. “Unless they came back and said there’s no way you can win,” Mr. Biden said.

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☆ U.S. Officials See Hopeful Signs in Gaza Cease-Fire Talks
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Julian E. Barnes | Adam Rasgon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Some American officials have grown more optimistic that a deal to release Israeli hostages held in Gaza in return for a cease-fire is at hand. But people briefed on the talks say it will be days until it is clear whether a breakthrough has been achieved because of difficulties in communication between Hamas officials in Qatar and the group’s leaders in Gaza. Other officials said that previous moments of hope about an agreement had been dashed by both the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Hamas. “There’s still miles to go before we close if we are able to close,” Mr. Sullivan told reporters on Thursday. I’m determined to get this deal done and bring an end to this war which should end now.”

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