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A prominent Democrat in the mostDemocratic state is struggling for trac-tion against Dianne Feinstein. PAGE A10

NATIONAL A10-15

An Uphill Race in CaliforniaIn Savannah, at the nation’s fourth-busiest gateway, local confidence overits potential outweighs any anxiety overthe threat of tariffs. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-6

No Trade Tensions at This Port

Justify bruised a heel on his way towinning the Kentucky Derby but ap-pears to have recovered. PAGE D1

SPORTSSATURDAY D1-6

Preakness Favorite’s Sore Spot

Inspired by cinema and literature, T’sTravel issue takes a journey to placesthat have become cultural touchstones.

THIS WEEKEND

Magic Carpet Rides

WASHINGTON — The fac-tional rancor threatening Republi-cans heading into the midtermelections this fall erupted into theopen on Friday when a slugfestamong moderates, hard-line con-servatives and House leadersover immigration and welfare pol-icy sank the party’s multiyearfarm bill.

The twice-a-decade measure —which would have imposed strictnew work requirements on foodaid recipients while maintainingfarm subsidies important to rurallawmakers — failed on a 213-to-198 vote. It was a rebuke ofSpeaker Paul D. Ryan by a keybloc of conservatives over his re-fusal to schedule an immediatevote on a restrictive immigrationbill sponsored by the chairman ofthe House Judiciary Committee.

Republican moderates, for theirpart, were moving in the oppositedirection, shrugging off the pleasof their leaders as they worked to-ward forcing votes on legislationto protect from deportation youngimmigrants brought to the coun-try illegally as children.

The fights were striking, notonly because of their intensity butalso because of the participants.Capitol Hill has grown used to al-tercations between Republicanleaders and their adamant rightflank — showdowns that haveshut down the government andedged the government toward de-faulting on its debt. But in pastfights, the party’s moderates haveproved compliant.

G.O.P. FactionSinks Vast BillOn Farm Policy

By GLENN THRUSHand THOMAS KAPLAN

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump accused the F.B.I. on Fri-day, without evidence, of sendinga spy to secretly infiltrate his 2016campaign “for political purposes”even before the bureau had anyinkling of the “phony Russiahoax.”

In fact, F.B.I. agents sent an in-formant to talk to two campaignadvisers only after they receivedevidence that the pair had suspi-cious contacts linked to Russiaduring the campaign. The inform-ant, an American academic who

teaches in Britain, made contactlate that summer with one cam-paign adviser, George Pa-padopoulos, according to peoplefamiliar with the matter. He alsomet repeatedly in the ensuingmonths with the other aide, CarterPage, who was also under F.B.I.scrutiny for his ties to Russia.

The role of the informant is atthe heart of the newest battle be-tween top law enforcement offi-cials and Mr. Trump’s congres-

sional allies over the F.B.I.’s mostpolitically charged investigationsin decades. The lawmakers, whosay they are concerned that fed-eral investigators are abusingtheir authority, have demandeddocuments from the Justice De-partment about the informant.

Law enforcement officials haverefused, saying that handing overthe documents would imperil boththe source’s anonymity andsafety. The New York Times haslearned the source’s identity buttypically does not name inform-ants to preserve their safety.

Democrats say the Republi-cans’ real aim is to undermine the

Trump Distorts Role of Informant in CampaignThis article is by Adam Goldman,

Mark Mazzetti and Matthew Rosen-berg.

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Advisers’ Ties to RussiaLed the F.B.I. to Act

KidGuard is a phone app thatmarkets itself as a tool for keepingtabs on children. But it has alsopromoted its surveillance forother purposes and run blog postswith headlines like “How to ReadDeleted Texts on Your Lover’sPhone.”

A similar app, mSpy, offered ad-vice to a woman on secretly moni-toring her husband. Still another,Spyzie, ran ads on Google along-side results for search terms like“catch cheating girlfriendiPhone.”

As digital tools that gather cell-phone data for tracking children,friends or lost phones have multi-plied in recent years, so have theoptions for people who abuse thetechnology to track others with-out consent.

More than 200 apps and serv-ices offer would-be stalkers a vari-ety of capabilities, from basic loca-tion tracking to harvesting textsand even secretly recording vid-eo, according to a new academicstudy. More than two dozen serv-ices were promoted as surveil-lance tools for spying on romanticpartners, according to the re-searchers and reporting by TheNew York Times. Most of the spy-ing services required access tovictims’ phones or knowledge oftheir passwords — both commonin domestic relationships.

Digital monitoring of a spouseor partner can constitute illegalstalking, wiretapping or hacking.But laws and law enforcementhave struggled to keep up with

How a StalkerCan Be HidingIn Your Pocket

By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DeVRIES

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SANTA FE, Tex. — A nationplagued by a wrenching loop ofmass school shootings watchedthe latest horror play out in thissmall Southeast Texas town Fri-day morning, as a young manarmed with a shotgun and a .38 re-volver smuggled under his coatopened fire on his high schoolcampus, killing 10 people, many ofthem his fellow students, andwounding 10 more, the authoritiessaid.

By the end of the day, a 17-year-old suspect, Dimitrios Pagourtzis— an introvert who had given offfew warning signs — had surren-dered and been taken into cus-tody. Law enforcement officialssaid they found two homemadeexplosive devices left at the schoolduring the rampage.

It was the worst school shootingsince the February assault onMarjory Stoneman Douglas HighSchool in Parkland, Fla., where ayoung man with an AR-15 rifle left17 people dead and prompted awave of nationwide, student-ledprotests calling on lawmakers totighten gun laws.

It was barely after 7:30 a.m. atSanta Fe High School, about 35miles southeast of Houston, whengunfire first resounded throughthe halls, the opening volley of an-other massacre that would leavestudents, teachers and staff mem-bers shocked, and in some casesbloodied. But they were not neces-sarily surprised.

A video interview with one stu-dent, Paige Curry, spread acrosssocial media, an artifact of a mo-ment when children have come toexpect violence in their schools.

“Was there a part of you thatwas like, ‘This isn’t real, this is —this would not happen in myschool?’” the reporter asked.

The young girl shook her head:“No, there wasn’t.”

“Why so?” the reporter asked.“It’s been happening every-

where,” she said. “I felt — I’ve al-ways kind of felt like eventually itwas going to happen here, too.”

President Trump, in the EastRoom of the White House, ex-pressed his solidarity with thepeople of Santa Fe, and said hisadministration would do “every-thing in our power” to protectschools and keep guns away fromthose who should not have them.

Mr. Trump had also vowed totake action after the Parklandshooting. At the time, the presi-dent, a member of the National Ri-fle Association who has strong po-litical support from gun owners,said he would look at stricterbackground checks and raisingthe minimum age for buying anassault weapon, proposals thatthe group opposes.

He also pressed for an N.R.A.-backed proposal to arm teachers,and said he would favor takingguns away from potentially dan-

10 DEAD IN SHOOTING AT TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL17-Year-Old Student Used Father’s

Guns in the Attack, Officials Say

SUSPECT The authorities saidDimitrios Pagourtzis made thehonor roll and played football,but had ominous posts onFacebook. Page A12.

GALVESTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Dakota Shrader and her mother, Susan Davidson, were reunited Friday after the deadly attack on a high school in Santa Fe, Tex.STUART VILLANUEVA/THE GALVESTON COUNTY DAILY NEWS, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

This article is by Manny Fernan-dez, Richard Fausset and Jess Bid-good.

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With scores dead and the border stillintact, many Gazans criticized Hamas,the militant group in control. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-9

Toll of Protests in Gaza

With big decisions on the way for FIFA,Saudi Arabia has come off the sidelinesand formed a regional bloc. PAGE D2

Saudis Exert Clout on Soccer

President Trump said that he intendedto nominate Robert Wilkie, the actingsecretary, to lead the Department ofVeterans Affairs. PAGE A14

New Pick for Veterans Chief

Holywell, a town in Wales with dozensof local retailers, is applying technologyto try to keep its shops open. PAGE B1

Hurt by Tech, Town Turns to It

The comic has a new Netflix special andis relieved to be free of “such a negativeperson,” a.k.a. Louis C.K. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-7

Tig Notaro’s in a Happy Place

Arts alfresco: Shakespeare and othertheater, classical music, dance and pop.A special section inside Arts & Leisure.

A Guide to Summer Stages

Roger Cohen PAGE A21

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21

They are praying today in SantaFe, Tex. They often are, but afterFriday, the need feels bottomless.Even before the gunman stoppedshooting, even before the head-lines reported tragedy, even be-fore they knew it was 10 dead atthe high school in the middle oftown, a plea hurried out from per-son to person, screen to screen.

“Please pray,” began one textmessage sent to a mothers’ prayer

list. “My niece is not accounted for.Was in art when shooting tookplace.”

“URGENT PRAYER RE-QUEST!!” read another. “I don’thave details but was just informedthat there is an active shooting go-ing on at Santa Fe high school.”

Their requests were heeded.“Prayers lifted for the Santa Feschools right now,” someonewrote.

There have been prayers sentfrom Nigeria and from Grapevine,Tex., from Virginia and São Paulo.

Vice President Mike Pence of-fered prayers from the WhiteHouse. They are words that, how-ever sincere, have come to seemroutine — even cynically so, tosome Americans who see in theman evasion of the gun-control de-bate — when American communi-

ties find themselves plunged intogrief.

But in Santa Fe, where footballplayers appeal to the Lord beforeFriday night games, wherechurch on Sunday is all but a giv-en, where the school district oncewent all the way to the SupremeCourt to preserve the right tosponsor prayer, these expressionsof faith are not mere words, butsalves.

On Friday, inside the highschool, the students turned to

Prayers Flood Shaken Town That Has Long Found Solace in FaithBy VIVIAN YEE

and AMY HARMONSchool Took Fight Over

Religion to Justices

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The parties said they had a platform forgoverning and to advance a potentiallyanti-immigration agenda. PAGE A9

Populists in Italy Agree on Plan

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A 39-year-old Boeing 737 with over 100 people aboard crashed after leaving Havana. Page A7.Scores Die in Cuban Crash

After a deadly crash in New Jersey,officials turned to how to make childrensafer aboard school buses. PAGE A17

NEW YORK A16-18

Focus on School Bus Safety

LONDON — As a harbinger ofthings to come for MeghanMarkle, consider a scene from herearly encounter with royal proto-col: After her first few visits to seeher boyfriend in Kensington Pal-ace, she began greeting the palaceguards with hugs.

After this happened severaltimes, someone informed her that,according to the social codes of theworld she was entering, huggingpalace guards is Not Done. Ms.Markle, 36 — born and raised inLos Angeles, the daughter of ayoga teacher — listened politely tothat advice.

And ignored it.“Someone said to her, ‘People

don’t do that,’” her friend BonnieHammer recalled in an interviewto NBC. “She literally said, ‘I’mAmerican. I hug.’”

In the last-minute focus onthings that could go spectacularlywrong between now and Ms.Markle’s wedding to Prince Harryon Saturday, it has been easy to

A Royal PullTo Modernity

By ELLEN BARRY

Meghan Markle with hermother, Doria Ragland.

POOL PHOTO BY STEVE PARSONS

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Late EditionToday, rain and drizzle, high 63. To-night, plenty of clouds, low 62. To-morrow, clouds and sunshine, ashower or thunderstorm, warmer,high 80. Weather map, Page C8.

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