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ON BIRTH CONTROL EMPLOYERS ROLE
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allow people of faith to be tar-geted, bullied or silenced any-more.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessionsquoted those words in issuingguidance to federal agencies andprosecutors, instructing them totake the position in court thatworkers, employers and organiza-tions may claim broad exemp-tions from nondiscriminationlaws on the basis of religious ob-jections.
At the same time, the Depart-ment of Health and Human Serv-ices issued two rules rolling back afederal requirement that employ-ers must include birth control cov-erage in their health insuranceplans. The rules offer an exemp-tion to any employer that objectsto covering contraception serv-ices on the basis of sincerely heldreligious beliefs or moral convic-tions.
More than 55 million womenhave access to birth control with-out co-payments because of thecontraceptive coverage mandate,according to a study commis-sioned by the Obama administra-tion. Under the new regulations,
TRUMP RELAXESEMPLOYERS’ ROLEON BIRTH CONTROL
WEAKENING A MANDATE
Bid to Uphold ReligiousObjections — Critics
Fear New Bias
This article is by Robert Pear, Re-becca R. Ruiz and Laurie Good-stein.
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Apple will release hundreds of newemojis, featuring expressive faces and acontinued push for diversity. PAGE B2
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This May Blow Your Mind
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The International Campaign to AbolishNuclear Weapons won for the first treatyto prohibit nuclear arms. PAGE A10
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Peace Prize for Weapons Foes
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WASHINGTON — The rapid-fire push by the Trump adminis-tration to wipe out significantchunks of the Obama envi-ronmental legacy is running into anot-so-minor complication:Judges keep ruling that theTrump team is violating federallaw.
The latest such ruling came lateWednesday, when a federal mag-istrate judge in Northern Califor-nia vacated a move by the Depart-ment of Interior to delay compli-ance with rules curbing so-calledflaring, a technique oil and gascompanies use to burn off leakingmethane. Flaring is blamed forcontributing to climate change aswell as lost tax revenues becausethe drilling is being done on fed-eral land.
It was the third time since Julythat the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency or the Interior De-partment has been found to haveacted illegally in their rush to rollback environmental rules. And inthree other environmental cases,the Trump administration re-versed course on its own afterlawsuits accusing it of illegal ac-tions were filed by environmentalgroups and Democratic state at-torneys general.
The legal reversals reflect howaggressively Mr. Trump’s criticsare challenging the administra-tion’s efforts to rescind regula-tions enacted during the Obamaadministration, not only related tothe environment, but to immigra-tion, to consumer protection andto other areas.
Yet even as the list of failed or atleast stalled rollbacks continuesto grow, the Trump administra-
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President’s Rush to DeregulateMeets an Obstacle: The Courts
By ERIC LIPTON
The Weinstein Company strug-gled to perform damage controlon Friday amid allegations oframpant sexual harassment by itsco-chairman Harvey Weinsteinand turmoil among its ranks. One-third of the company’s all-maleboard resigned, while board mem-bers who remained hired an out-side law firm to investigate the al-legations and announced that Mr.Weinstein would take an indefi-nite leave of absence immediately.
Mr. Weinstein had said onThursday that he would take aleave of absence, but it was un-clear when he would leave, howlong he would be gone, or what itmeant for his relationship with thecompany he co-founded.
“As Harvey has said, it is impor-tant for him to get professionalhelp for the problems he has ac-knowledged,” said a statementsigned by four board members,Bob Weinstein, Tarak Ben Am-mar, Lance Maerov and RichardKoenigsberg. “Next steps will de-pend on Harvey’s therapeuticprogress, the outcome of theBoard’s independent investiga-tion, and Harvey’s own personaldecisions.”
The moves came as employeesand business partners of the com-pany voiced concern about the al-legations, revealed in a New YorkTimes investigation on Thursday,and board members and execu-tives jostled for control.
Harvey Weinstein did not signthe statement put out by the fourboard members, and did not re-spond to requests for comment.With him gone, the statementsaid, his brother, Bob Weinstein,the company’s co-chairman, andDavid Glasser, the president andchief operating officer, are incharge of the company.
Meanwhile, three members ofthe board — Dirk Ziff, a billionaireinvestor; Marc Lasry, owner ofthe Milwaukee Bucks and chiefexecutive of Avenue CapitalGroup, an investment firm; andTim Sarnoff, president of produc-tion services and deputy chief ex-ecutive of Technicolor — have re-signed, according to a board mem-ber and a company executive. Thestatus of the ninth board member,Paul Tudor Jones, is unclear. Hedid not sign the statement or re-spond to a request for comment.
The Times investigation foundcomplaints of sexual harassmentby Mr. Weinstein stretching backdecades and at least eight settle-ments paid to women. Angered by
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Studio RockedAs Weinstein
Faces Inquiry
Three Quit Board AfterHarassment Claims
By MEGAN TWOHEY and NIRAJ CHOKSHI
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS— The number of murders theHonduran drug lord admitted toorchestrating over 10 years wasstunning.
The dead included people he de-scribed as killers, rapists andgang members. Then there werethe innocents: a lawyer, two jour-nalists, a Honduran refugee inCanada, an official who was serv-ing as Honduras’s antidrug czarand a politician who became hisadviser; there were even two chil-dren caught in a shootout.
In all, the drug lord, Devis Le-onel Rivera Maradiaga, said that,working in concert with drug traf-fickers and others, he had
“caused” the deaths of 78 people— a number that posed a dilemmafor United States officials whenMr. Rivera came to them offeringto expose high-level corruption inthis Central American nation ofsome nine million people.
Knowing that he was already inthe sights of United States investi-gators, Mr. Rivera sought to helpthe Drug Enforcement Adminis-tration root out corrupt Honduranpoliticians and other elites whohad made Honduras a gateway for
massive amounts of cocaineheaded for the United Statesthrough Mexico.
The offer came at a time whenUnited States officials weredeeply concerned by Honduras’sslide into anarchy. A stalwart allyand home to a United States mili-tary base, Honduras was plaguedby drug traffickers and gangs andhad one of the world’s highesthomicide rates. It is the first land-ing point for about 80 percent ofsuspected drug flights departingfrom South America, the State De-partment has said.
But to sign Mr. Rivera to a for-mal cooperation agreementmeant the government wouldmost likely have to do somethingfor him: seek leniency on his be-
Murderous Drug Lord Helps U.S. in Secret DealBy JOSEPH GOLDSTEINand BENJAMIN WEISER
Hilda Caldera at the grave of her husband, Alfredo Landaverde, an official whose death was ordered by a Honduran drug lord.DANIELE VOLPE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Partnership Struck toFight Corruption
in Honduras
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OTTAWA — For decades, Cana-dian social workers forcibly sepa-rated indigenous children fromtheir families, putting them up foradoption by nonnative families inCanada and around the world.
On Friday, the Canadian gov-ernment took a step to make
amends for that adoption pro-gram, which began in the 1960sand lasted till the 1980s, by agree-ing to pay 750 million Canadiandollars in legal settlements.
The settlement — affecting asmany as 30,000 people — is part ofa broader push across Canada inthe last few years to grapple withits legacy of injustices against thecountry’s indigenous populations.
It includes a similar settlementfor indigenous children who wereseparated from their families andsent to residential schools farfrom their homes as well as meas-ures like a promise by Prime Min-ister Justin Trudeau to address along list of native concerns.
Most recently, Mr. Trudeau toldthe United Nations General As-sembly that Canada had a respon-
sibility to improve its relationshipwith its indigenous populations.
“I don’t know what people werethinking,” said Carolyn Bennett,the minister of crown-indigenousrelations, who announced the set-tlement in Ottawa on Fridaymorning.
“I don’t know why anybody,”she continued, “why settlers or
Canada Agrees to Pay Millions in Lawsuit Over Forced Adoptions
By IAN AUSTEN
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KENTARO TAKAHASHI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Visitors to an underground tank north of Tokyo that is part of a $2 billion anti-flood system. Somefear the Japanese capital is vulnerable as global warming brings more extreme weather. Page A5.
Will the Billions Pay Off?
LAS VEGAS — It was the firstovertime shift Detective CaseyClarkson had worked in fouryears. But he wanted the moneyand he figured a country musicfestival would be fun.
Just before 10 p.m. Sunday, heand his partner helped a drunkwoman stumbling along the LasVegas Strip get a cab, the kind oftask he expected for the night.
Then he heard the shots.Sgt. Branden Clarkson was just
going to bed at his home a fewmiles away when he got a callfrom a friend about an activeshooter. Sergeant Clarkson, whohelps run the Las Vegas Police De-partment’s training program todeal with such incidents, startedthrowing on his clothes and,knowing his twin brother was onduty, texted him: “Hey bro, youok?”
“And I don’t hear from him,”Branden Clarkson would later re-call, “so I’m just assuming he’shandling business.”
He was. Over the next half-hour,Casey Clarkson ushered people tosafety, directed them out of theline of fire, and then, moving pastthe unsaveable, brought woundedpeople to vehicles that would rushthem to hospitals.
Branden Clarkson, meanwhile,was at the police department’scommand post, helping direct offi-cers and keeping track of who waswhere on a whiteboard.
Finally, a lieutenant came up tohim and said, “Hey, your brotheris O.K.”
“And I’m like, O.K., cool,” hesaid.
But his brother was not exactlyO.K. “Then she said: ‘He’s at Val-ley Hospital, you know, he got shot
Twin Brothers,Linked by Duty
In Line of Fire
By JENNIFER MEDINA
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Works by China’s artists from the rap-idly changing 1990s fill the Guggenheimin a powerful show. PAGE C1
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Provocation and Protest
Theresa May, the British prime min-ister, faced down a coup attempt fromwithin her Conservative Party. PAGE A7
Another Snag for May
With a powerful storm heading to theGulf Coast, the city frets over its anti-quated drainage system. PAGE A13
NATIONAL A13-18
Fear of Floods in New Orleans
The C.I.A. and President Eisenhowerknew that the Soviet Union was close tothe feat, documents show. PAGE A18
Sputnik Launch Was Expected
After a long stretch in the defendant’schair in a Newark courtroom, SenatorRobert Menendez had a hectic day backin Washington. PAGE A20
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At Work, Under a Cloud
Payrolls fell by 33,000 — the firstmonthly decline in seven years — buteconomists expect a rebound. PAGE B1
Storm-Battered U.S. Loses Jobs
The Yankees led 8-3 after five innings,but a grand slam by Francisco Lindorgot the Indians back into the game andCleveland took a 2-0 series lead with its9-8 victory in 13 innings. PAGE D1
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Yankees Lose in Extra Innings
A college program with a proud footballhistory struggles with a nagging senseof what it lost when Coach Nick Saban,the author of a Tigers national champi-onship, left for the N.F.L. PAGE D1
Hard Act to Follow at L.S.U.
WASHINGTON — The Trumpadministration on Friday movedto expand the rights of employersto deny women insurance cover-age for contraception and issuedsweeping guidance on religiousfreedom that critics said couldalso erode civil rights protectionsfor lesbian, gay, bisexual andtransgender people.
The twin actions, by the Depart-ment of Health and Human Serv-ices and the Justice Department,were meant to carry out a promiseissued by President Trump fivemonths ago, when he declared inthe Rose Garden that “we will not
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