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VOL. CLXVII . . . No. 57,967 © 2018 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2018 U(D54G1D)y+$!z!.!=!: A prominent Democrat in the most Democratic state is struggling for trac- tion against Dianne Feinstein. PAGE A10 NATIONAL A10-15 An Uphill Race in California In Savannah, at the nation’s fourth- busiest gateway, local confidence over its potential outweighs any anxiety over the threat of tariffs. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-6 No Trade Tensions at This Port Justify bruised a heel on his way to winning 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’s Travel issue takes a journey to places that have become cultural touchstones. THIS WEEKEND Magic Carpet Rides WASHINGTON — The fac- tional rancor threatening Republi- cans heading into the midterm elections this fall erupted into the open on Friday when a slugfest among moderates, hard-line con- servatives and House leaders over immigration and welfare pol- icy sank the party’s multiyear farm bill. The twice-a-decade measure — which would have imposed strict new work requirements on food aid recipients while maintaining farm subsidies important to rural lawmakers — failed on a 213- to-198 vote. It was a rebuke of Speaker Paul D. Ryan by a key bloc of conservatives over his re- fusal to schedule an immediate vote on a restrictive immigration bill sponsored by the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Republican moderates, for their part, were moving in the opposite direction, shrugging off the pleas of their leaders as they worked to- ward forcing votes on legislation to protect from deportation young immigrants brought to the coun- try illegally as children. The fights were striking, not only because of their intensity but also because of the participants. Capitol Hill has grown used to al- tercations between Republican leaders and their adamant right flank — showdowns that have shut down the government and edged the government toward de- faulting on its debt. But in past fights, the party’s moderates have proved compliant. G.O.P. Faction Sinks Vast Bill On Farm Policy By GLENN THRUSH and THOMAS KAPLAN Continued on Page A15 WASHINGTON — President Trump accused the F.B.I. on Fri- day, without evidence, of sending a spy to secretly infiltrate his 2016 campaign “for political purposes” even before the bureau had any inkling of the “phony Russia hoax.” In fact, F.B.I. agents sent an in- formant to talk to two campaign advisers only after they received evidence that the pair had suspi- cious contacts linked to Russia during the campaign. The inform- ant, an American academic who teaches in Britain, made contact late that summer with one cam- paign adviser, George Pa- padopoulos, according to people familiar with the matter. He also met repeatedly in the ensuing months with the other aide, Carter Page, who was also under F.B.I. scrutiny for his ties to Russia. The role of the informant is at the 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 most politically charged investigations in decades. The lawmakers, who say they are concerned that fed- eral investigators are abusing their authority, have demanded documents from the Justice De- partment about the informant. Law enforcement officials have refused, saying that handing over the documents would imperil both the source’s anonymity and safety. The New York Times has learned the source’s identity but typically 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 Campaign This article is by Adam Goldman, Mark Mazzetti and Matthew Rosen- berg. Continued on Page A14 Advisers’ Ties to Russia Led the F.B.I. to Act KidGuard is a phone app that markets itself as a tool for keeping tabs on children. But it has also promoted its surveillance for other purposes and run blog posts with headlines like “How to Read Deleted Texts on Your Lover’s Phone.” 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 girlfriend iPhone.” As digital tools that gather cell- phone data for tracking children, friends or lost phones have multi- plied in recent years, so have the options for people who abuse the technology 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 texts and even secretly recording vid- eo, according to a new academic study. More than two dozen serv- ices were promoted as surveil- lance tools for spying on romantic partners, according to the re- searchers and reporting by The New York Times. Most of the spy- ing services required access to victims’ phones or knowledge of their passwords — both common in domestic relationships. Digital monitoring of a spouse or partner can constitute illegal stalking, wiretapping or hacking. But laws and law enforcement have struggled to keep up with How a Stalker Can Be Hiding In Your Pocket By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DeVRIES Continued on Page A11 SANTA FE, Tex. — A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town Fri- day morning, as a young man armed with a shotgun and a .38 re- volver smuggled under his coat opened fire on his high school campus, killing 10 people, many of them his fellow students, and wounding 10 more, the authorities said. By the end of the day, a 17-year- old suspect, Dimitrios Pagourtzis — an introvert who had given off few warning signs — had surren- dered and been taken into cus- tody. Law enforcement officials said they found two homemade explosive devices left at the school during the rampage. It was the worst school shooting since the February assault on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a young man with an AR-15 rifle left 17 people dead and prompted a wave of nationwide, student-led protests calling on lawmakers to tighten gun laws. It was barely after 7:30 a.m. at Santa Fe High School, about 35 miles southeast of Houston, when gunfire first resounded through the halls, the opening volley of an- other massacre that would leave students, teachers and staff mem- bers shocked, and in some cases bloodied. But they were not neces- sarily surprised. A video interview with one stu- dent, Paige Curry, spread across social media, an artifact of a mo- ment when children have come to expect violence in their schools. “Was there a part of you that was like, ‘This isn’t real, this is — this would not happen in my school?’” 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 it was going to happen here, too.” President Trump, in the East Room of the White House, ex- pressed his solidarity with the people of Santa Fe, and said his administration would do “every- thing in our power” to protect schools and keep guns away from those who should not have them. Mr. Trump had also vowed to take action after the Parkland shooting. 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 stricter background checks and raising the minimum age for buying an assault weapon, proposals that the group opposes. He also pressed for an N.R.A.- backed proposal to arm teachers, and said he would favor taking guns away from potentially dan- 10 DEAD IN SHOOTING AT TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL 17-Year-Old Student Used Father’s Guns in the Attack, Officials Say SUSPECT The authorities said Dimitrios Pagourtzis made the honor roll and played football, but had ominous posts on Facebook. 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. Continued on Page A12 With scores dead and the border still intact, 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 sidelines and formed a regional bloc. PAGE D2 Saudis Exert Clout on Soccer President Trump said that he intended to nominate Robert Wilkie, the acting secretary, to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. PAGE A14 New Pick for Veterans Chief Holywell, a town in Wales with dozens of local retailers, is applying technology to try to keep its shops open. PAGE B1 Hurt by Tech, Town Turns to It The comic has a new Netflix special and is relieved to be free of “such a negative person,” a.k.a. Louis C.K. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-7 Tig Notaro’s in a Happy Place Arts alfresco: Shakespeare and other theater, 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 Santa Fe, Tex. They often are, but after Friday, the need feels bottomless. Even before the gunman stopped shooting, even before the head- lines reported tragedy, even be- fore they knew it was 10 dead at the high school in the middle of town, a plea hurried out from per- son to person, screen to screen. “Please pray,” began one text message sent to a mothers’ prayer list. “My niece is not accounted for. Was in art when shooting took place.” “URGENT PRAYER RE- QUEST!!” read another. “I don’t have details but was just informed that there is an active shooting go- ing on at Santa Fe high school.” Their requests were heeded. “Prayers lifted for the Santa Fe schools right now,” someone wrote. There have been prayers sent from Nigeria and from Grapevine, Tex., from Virginia and São Paulo. Vice President Mike Pence of- fered prayers from the White House. They are words that, how- ever sincere, have come to seem routine — even cynically so, to some Americans who see in them an evasion of the gun-control de- bate — when American communi- ties find themselves plunged into grief. But in Santa Fe, where football players appeal to the Lord before Friday night games, where church on Sunday is all but a giv- en, where the school district once went all the way to the Supreme Court to preserve the right to sponsor prayer, these expressions of faith are not mere words, but salves. On Friday, inside the high school, the students turned to Prayers Flood Shaken Town That Has Long Found Solace in Faith By VIVIAN YEE and AMY HARMON School Took Fight Over Religion to Justices Continued on Page A13 The parties said they had a platform for governing and to advance a potentially anti-immigration agenda. PAGE A9 Populists in Italy Agree on Plan RAMON ESPINOSA/ASSOCIATED PRESS 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 children safer aboard school buses. PAGE A17 NEW YORK A16-18 Focus on School Bus Safety LONDON — As a harbinger of things to come for Meghan Markle, consider a scene from her early encounter with royal proto- col: After her first few visits to see her boyfriend in Kensington Pal- ace, she began greeting the palace guards with hugs. After this happened several times, someone informed her that, according to the social codes of the world she was entering, hugging palace guards is Not Done. Ms. Markle, 36 — born and raised in Los Angeles, the daughter of a yoga teacher — listened politely to that advice. And ignored it. “Someone said to her, ‘People don’t do that,’” her friend Bonnie Hammer recalled in an interview to NBC. “She literally said, ‘I’m American. I hug.’” In the last-minute focus on things that could go spectacularly wrong between now and Ms. Markle’s wedding to Prince Harry on Saturday, it has been easy to A Royal Pull To Modernity By ELLEN BARRY Meghan Markle with her mother, Doria Ragland. POOL PHOTO BY STEVE PARSONS Continued on Page A9 Late Edition Today, rain and drizzle, high 63. To- night, plenty of clouds, low 62. To- morrow, clouds and sunshine, a shower or thunderstorm, warmer, high 80. Weather map, Page C8. $3.00
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VOL. CLXVII . . . No. 57,967 © 2018 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2018
C M Y K Nxxx,2018-05-19,A,001,Bs-4C,E2
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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
Continued on Page A15
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.
Continued on Page A14
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
Continued on Page A11
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.
Continued on Page A12
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
Continued on Page A13
The parties said they had a platform forgoverning and to advance a potentiallyanti-immigration agenda. PAGE A9
Populists in Italy Agree on Plan
RAMON ESPINOSA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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
Continued on Page A9
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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