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    "parsed_content": "Aug. 8, 2025, 2:58 p.m. ET28 minutes agoLuke BroadwaterReporting from the White HouseNikol Pashinyan, the prime minister of Armenia, has arrived at the White House for talks with the leader of Azerbaijan. Part of a proposed agreement the countries are expected to sign on Friday is the opening of a commercial transit corridor named after President Trump \u2014 the \u201cTrump Route for International Peace and Prosperity,\u201d or TRIPP. Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, is expected to arrive shortly. Aug. 8, 2025, 2:55 p.m. ET31 minutes agoAndrew DuehrenAlan Rappeport and Maggie HabermanImageBilly Long during his nomination hearing in May.Credit...Kenny Holston\/The New York TimesPresident Trump is removing Billy Long from his job leading the Internal Revenue Service just two months after he was confirmed as commissioner, according to four people familiar with the matter.Mr. Long, a former Republican congressman and staunch ally of Mr. Trump, is expected to be nominated to an ambassadorship, the people said. It is unclear who will next lead the I.R.S., which has had six different people in charge this year. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will serve as acting commissioner until a permanent replacement is in place, a senior administration official said.Mr. Long had been an unusual choice to lead the I.R.S. He did not have much background in tax policy beyond promoting a tax credit that the I.R.S. has warned was riddled with fraud, and while he was in Congress he supported legislation calling for the abolition of the agency entirely.Over his short tenure at the tax agency, Mr. Long, a former auctioneer, traveled to meet with I.R.S. staff across the country and appeared at a National Auction Association conference. He placed two top I.R.S. officials on administrative leave, amplifying a post on social media about the need to \u201cpurge\u201d the agency\u2019s work force.At the same time, he has also repeatedly sent emails to all I.R.S. employees allowing them to leave work early on Friday afternoon.\u201cPlease enjoy a 70-minute early exit tomorrow. That way you\u2019ll be rested for my 70th birthday on Monday!\u201d Mr. Long wrote to staff on Thursday.The Trump administration has pushed to dramatically reduce the number of staff who work at the I.R.S., while at the same time seeking to use it to help deport migrants and scrutinize the tax-exempt status of universities.Mr. Long did not respond to a request for comment. The I.R.S. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.This is a breaking story. Check back for updates.Show moreAug. 8, 2025, 2:46 p.m. ET40 minutes agoKaroun DemirjianReporting from WashingtonImagePrime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia, left, and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan at a meeting in Moscow last October. The two leaders\u2019 expected declaration comes after months of shuttle diplomacy between the countries.Credit...Pool photo by Sergei IlnitskyThe leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan are expected to make a joint declaration at the White House on Friday that would edge their long and frequently bloody conflict closer to resolution \u2014 and give President Trump an unusual form of recognition in the process.Mr. Trump is scheduled to host trilateral meetings with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan on Friday afternoon, where they are expected to sign the first such commitment between the two countries in years of conflict, according to a U.S. administration official cited in a pool report shared with other journalists.A key part of the breakthrough, the official said, was an anticipated announcement from Armenia giving the United States exclusive development rights to a transit corridor through its territory that connects Azerbaijan, to the east, to Nakhichevan, a noncontiguous enclave to Armenia\u2019s west that borders Turkey and Iran.The 27-mile corridor will be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, according to the official in the pool report, and run along Armenia\u2019s southern border with Iran.\u201cThese two Nations have been at War for many years, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. Many Leaders have tried to end the War, with no success, until now, thanks to \u2018TRUMP,\u2019\u201d the president wrote on social media on Thursday, adding that he looked forward to hosting the leaders.The agreement would allow the signatories \u201cto pursue Economic opportunities together, so we can fully unlock the potential of the South Caucasus Region,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote.The push for a deal comes after months of shuttle diplomacy between Armenia and Azerbaijan, with a series of recent in-person meetings between Mr. Pashinyan and Mr. Aliyev, including gatherings at the Kremlin and in Abu Dhabi.While the joint declaration is not a peace deal, it would be the first formal, signed commitment aimed at permanently ending fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The region has been embroiled in conflict since the 1980s, just before the two countries gained independence from the Soviet Union.Show moreAug. 8, 2025, 2:36 p.m. ET50 minutes agoAlan Blinder and Michael C. BenderImageThe University of California, Los Angeles. campus.Credit...Alisha Jucevic for The New York TimesThe Trump administration is seeking more than $1 billion from the University of California, Los Angeles, to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding that the government halted, according to a draft of a settlement agreement reviewed by The New York Times.The proposal calls for the university to make a $1 billion payment to the U.S. government and to contribute $172 million to a claims fund that would compensate victims of civil rights violations.If U.C.L.A. accedes to the demand, it would be the largest payout \u2014 by far \u2014 of any university that has so far reached a deal with the White House. Columbia University agreed to pay $221 million in connection with its settlement with the government, and Brown University pledged to spend $50 million with state work force programs.The University of California\u2019s president, James B. Milliken, said in a statement on Friday that the university had \u201cjust received a document from the Department of Justice and is reviewing it.\u201dHe added, \u201cAs a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country\u2019s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.\u201dAdministrators at the campus in Los Angeles did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Julio Frenk, U.C.L.A.\u2019s chancellor, said this week that about $584 million in research funding was already \u201csuspended and at risk.\u201d The university, like many other top schools, is deeply dependent on federal research money; about 11 percent of its revenues come from federal grants and contracts.The Trump administration has largely targeted elite private universities in recent months as a part of what it has depicted as a campaign to fight antisemitism and reshape institutions that it views as cathedrals of liberalism.But its turn toward U.C.L.A. has been sharp. On July 29, the day the University of California settled a lawsuit that accused U.C.L.A. of allowing pro-Palestinian protesters to block Jewish students on campus, the Justice Department said it believed U.C.L.A. had committed civil rights violations.Dr. Frenk announced later that week the federal government had started freezing research money.The White House\u2019s demands of U.C.L.A. fit into a broad pattern of how the Trump administration has targeted California. The state\u2019s governor, Gavin Newsom, is one of President Trump\u2019s top political foes and a potential candidate for the White House.On Thursday, the day before the terms of the White House\u2019s proposed settlement emerged, Mr. Newsom suggested the University of California would not bow to the federal government.\u201cI will fight like hell to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen,\u201d said Mr. Newsom, an ex officio member of the university\u2019s board of regents. \u201cThere\u2019s principles. There\u2019s right and wrong, and we\u2019ll do the right thing, and what President Trump is doing is wrong, and everybody knows it.\u201dHe added that he would \u201cdo everything in my power to encourage them to do the right thing and not to become another law firm that bends on their knees, another company that sells their soul, or another institution that takes a short cut and takes the easy wrong versus the hard right.\u201dBut the University of California has shown a willingness to talk to the federal government. Mr. Milliken, the system\u2019s newly installed president, said on Wednesday that the university had agreed \u201cto engage in dialogue with the federal administration.\u201d Mr. Milliken, though, sharply criticized the administration\u2019s moves against funding.\u201cThese cuts do nothing to address antisemitism,\u201d said Mr. Milliken, who started his job on Aug. 1. \u201cMoreover, the extensive work that U.C.L.A. and the entire University of California have taken to combat antisemitism has apparently been ignored.The White House\u2019s proposed terms, some of which were first reported by CNN, were not exclusively financial. Among other conditions, the government is seeking the appointment of a monitor to enforce the settlement\u2019s terms, the abolition of scholarships connected to race or ethnicity and the cessation of diversity statements in hiring.But the government included a provision, as it did with Brown and Columbia, that would seem to keep U.S. officials from using the settlement to interfere directly with academic freedom, admissions and hiring.The administration is negotiating with a handful of universities, including Cornell and Harvard. And although Brown and Columbia each agreed to payments, the government\u2019s settlement with the University of Pennsylvania included no financial penalties.Among the universities that have been targeted by the Trump administration, Harvard is the only one that has sued, arguing the government\u2019s moves are illegal. It was unclear whether U.C.L.A. would take that step.Even as Harvard\u2019s case moves through the court system, the school has been in talks with the Trump administration in an effort to end the conflict.Show moreAug. 8, 2025, 2:34 p.m. ET52 minutes agoJohn IsmayReporting from WashingtonImageThe move was part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s assault on transgender rights.Credit...Kenny Holston\/The New York TimesAt least a dozen transgender men and women serving in the U.S. Air Force who had applied for early retirement to avoid being kicked out of the service for their gender identity have had their retirement approval rescinded by the service.The airmen, all of whom have served 15 to 18 years, must now choose between a voluntary separation agreement or involuntary removal with few, if any, benefits. Either course of action will result in a substantial loss of financial, medical and other benefits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to each of them.The Air Force\u2019s decision on Wednesday to rescind its approval of early retirements for transgender men and woman, which was reported earlier by Reuters, is the latest battle in President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s assault on transgender rights.One of the affected airmen is Master Sgt. Logan Ireland, who is stationed in Oahu, Hawaii, and is represented by Shannon Minter, a lawyer and the legal director of the National Center for L.G.B.T.Q. Rights.\u201cIt\u2019s just mind-boggling,\u201d Mr. Minter said in an interview. \u201cMaster Sergeant Ireland deployed to combat multiple times and is a superstar who re-enlisted earlier this year.\u201dDuring the Biden administration, Mr. Minter said, active duty service members were allowed to transition. \u201cThey followed policy. They never did anything wrong,\u201d Mr. Minter said.The Pentagon issued a memo in February that declared medical diagnoses of gender dysphoria to be incompatible with military service. Yet, Mr. Minter said, the decision to separate these men and women is not being handled the way any other disqualifying medical condition diagnosed during active service would be \u2014 with a medical retirement.Typically, a member of the military is eligible for retirement benefits after accruing 20 or more years of active service. Those benefits include one half to three-quarters of their base pay as well as access to military bases, commissary rights and free medical care at military clinics and hospitals for life.A medical retirement would offer those same kinds of benefits.There are also so-called early retirements that are usually offered to service members who have 15 to 18 years of service. The early retirements are used to reduce the number of people in overstaffed job fields, and they offer the same kind of retirement benefits available to those who stay in uniform for 20 or more years.According to an Air Force spokeswoman who was not authorized to speak publicly about policy decisions, approximately a dozen transgender men and women who have 15 to 18 years of service had their applications for early retirement approved, only to have that approval rescinded Wednesday after legal review.Under the Air Force\u2019s policy, transgender men and women must now choose between a voluntary separation package or an involuntary separation that is typically reserved for cases of misconduct.\u201cCalling this a voluntary separation is such an Orwellian misnomer,\u201d Mr. Minter said.The number of transgender men and women in uniform is believed to be 4,000 to 5,000, or less than 2 percent of the total force. Pentagon policy now requires them to revert to the grooming standards and uniforms of their birth sex before being kicked out, but Mr. Minter said he didn\u2019t think any were doing so.\u201cThis whole process has been designed to inflict maximum humiliation on them,\u201d he said. \u201cThis whole thing is based on a fiction that being transgender isn\u2019t a real identity and that people could just toss it aside.\u201dMr. Minter added: \u201cIt\u2019s just who they are.\u201dShow moreAug. 8, 2025, 12:19 p.m. ET3 hours agoMattathias SchwartzMattathias Schwartz reports on the federal judiciary.ImageJudge James E. Boasberg had ruled in April that there was probable cause to believe the Trump administration had committed criminal contempt by ignoring his order. But the administration appealed.Credit...Erin Schaff\/The New York TimesA federal appeals panel on Friday terminated a district-court judge\u2019s plan to assess whether Trump administration officials were guilty of criminal contempt for sending flights of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, despite the judge\u2019s verbal order that they turn around and return to the United States.The ruling by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will make it far more difficult for Judge James E. Boasberg to determine the details of who was made aware of his order in March, and why the planes continued on to El Salvador.Judge Boasberg had ruled in April that there was probable cause to believe the administration had committed criminal contempt by ignoring his order. But the administration appealed.The brief order was accompanied by 57 pages of concurrences by Judges Gregory G. Katsas and Neomi Rao. It represents a victory for Mr. Trump and a brushback of a judge who had sought to curb Mr. Trump\u2019s second-term agenda, earning his ire.Judge Katsas wrote that any order to turn planes around midair would be \u201cindefensible,\u201d comparing it to a district-court judge who had ordered President Richard M. Nixon\u2019s administration to stop bombing Cambodia during the Vietnam War, which was quickly stayed.In a 49-page dissent, Judge Cornelia Pillard wrote that government officials \u201cappear to have disobeyed\u201d Judge Boasberg\u2019s order and that she would have let Judge Boasberg move forward with criminal contempt proceedings. \u201cThe rule of law depends on obedience to judicial orders,\u201d she wrote.Judge Katsas and Judge Rao were nominated by Mr. Trump. Judge Pillard was nominated by President Barack Obama. Judge Boasberg was nominated first by President George W. Bush to the D.C. Superior Court and then to the Federal District Court bench by President Barack Obama.Judge Boasberg\u2019s initial order was issued on March 15, shortly after he received an urgent request from lawyers representing five Venezuelan migrants to block Mr. Trump if he invoked a wartime authority, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport them and others without notice or a hearing. When Judge Boasberg convened a hearing at 5 p.m., the government was in the process of loading more than 200 other Venezuelans onto planes. At 6:48 p.m., the judge verbally ordered the government not to deport anyone under the Alien Enemies Act and to bring back any planes that had taken off. Shortly after, he ordered the government not to remove the Venezuelan detainees but left out the explicit requirement for airborne planes to turn around.Despite Judge Boasberg\u2019s order, the planes flew to El Salvador, where the Venezuelans were taken to a maximum-security prison. When the judge asked why on March 17, the government argued it had complied with his written order, which they claimed superseded the verbal one.Show moreAug. 8, 2025, 11:31 a.m. ET4 hours agoMaria Abi-HabibReporting from Mexico CityImagePresident Trump directed the Pentagon to target drug cartels on Friday. If the Pentagon plans to deploy troops to Mexico, it could strain ties to their worst point in decades.Credit...Haiyun Jiang\/The New York TimesPresident Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico rejected the use of U.S. military forces in her country on Friday, responding to news that President Trump had directed the Pentagon to target drug cartels that the United States considers terrorist organizations.\u201cThe United States is not going to come to Mexico with the military. We cooperate, we collaborate, but there is not going to be an invasion. That is ruled out, absolutely ruled out,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is not part of any agreement, far from it. When it has been brought up, we have always said no.\u201dIt remains unclear what plans the Pentagon is drawing up for possible action, and the order raises legal questions about several issues. It is also unclear what notice the Mexican government had of the directive: Although Ms. Sheinbaum said U.S. officials had told her and her team that the directive \u201cwas coming,\" three people familiar with the matter said Mexican officials had been blindsided.Depending on what the United States does, Mexico could pull back its cooperation on issues like security and migration if the White House acts unilaterally, those people said. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations.For months, Mexican officials have in public and in private flatly rejected suggestions of U.S. military action against drug cartels on Mexican territory.Speaking in her morning news conference, Ms. Sheinbaum said she would read President Trump\u2019s order. She said she had been assured that it did not involve the presence of U.S. military in Mexican territory.The issue of U.S. military action has long raised hackles in Latin America, where the United States has a long history of interventions.If the Pentagon plans to use forces in Mexico or elsewhere in the region, it could strain ties to their worst point in decades, at a time when the countries around the region are trying to work closely with the United States on major issues like migration and combating the drug trade.\u201cThey need Mexico\u2019s cooperation and they need Mexico\u2019s state and society to be functioning. This isn\u2019t Afghanistan, where the state is broken, and you can do whatever you want as there\u2019s a void,\u201d said Arturo Rocha, who resigned late last year from the Mexican foreign ministry, where he helped handle relations with the United States.\u201cThis has always been Mexico\u2019s deepest fear, this constant sense that we could be invaded by the U.S. again,\u201d he added. \u201cIt would have major implications in terms of cooperation with the U.S. going forward. The president has been clear that our sovereignty is a redline.\u201dMexican officials thought they had turned a corner with the Trump administration in fighting the drug trade, having launched an aggressive crackdown on the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world\u2019s largest producers of fentanyl. The cartel, one of Mexico\u2019s oldest and most powerful, has suffered serious losses as President Claudia Sheinbaum has deployed hundreds of troops to fight it.ImageMembers of the Mexican Navy guarding a crime scene earlier this summer. Mexican officials have flatly rejected suggestions of U.S. military action against drug cartels on Mexican territory.Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York TimesAmerican officials seemed pleased with the progress, and had touted a 50 percent drop in fentanyl seizures in recent months compared to the same months last year. It is unclear if the decrease is because the cartels are feeling pressure and curbing production or finding new, innovative ways to evade detection.The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson, boasted late last month that the drop in fentanyl seizures was \u201cdue to a secure border\u201d and \u201cincreased collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico.\u201dUnder Mr. Trump and Ms. Sheinbaum\u2019s \u201cleadership, cartels are going bankrupt and our countries are safer because of it,\u201d Mr. Johnson said on the social media platform X.Washington has also cooperated with Mexico on migration, which hit record lows earlier this year and was a central issue of Mr. Trump\u2019s presidential campaigns.The U.S.-Mexican border has been quiet over the last year in large part because Mexico stepped up its efforts to stop migrants from crossing its territory. June saw the lowest border crossings on record, according to Customs and Border Protection data, with 6,072 migrants intercepted at the southwest border with Mexico compared with 83,532 for the same month in 2024.If Mr. Trump pursues a more aggressive U.S. military posture in Mexico, such as deploying American troops or using attack drones, it could be politically disastrous for Ms. Sheinbaum. Mexicans are extremely sensitive to the U.S. military because of the history of American intervention, war and taking territory.Ms. Sheinbaum has enjoyed high approval ratings, hovering around 75 percent, but there are deep divides and competition for power inside her governing party. While Mexicans have supported her efforts to negotiate with the Trump administration on a range of issues from migration to tariffs, U.S. military action inside Mexico would probably hit her hard, analysts said.It could also undermine her ability to negotiate with Mr. Trump on future bilateral issues, they added.ImageThe Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico\u2019s oldest and most powerful, has suffered serious losses as President Claudia Sheinbaum has deployed hundreds of troops to fight it.Credit...Raquel Cunha\/ReutersThe drug war in Mexico has historically been spearheaded by the Department of Justice and its counternarcotics agency, the Drug Enforcement Administration. But that effort has been in close collaboration with the Mexican authorities.And the secrecy around the Pentagon directive has raised questions over whether the United States may use unilateral military force, without Mexico\u2019s prior knowledge \u2014 a possibility that could hurt the painstakingly built trust between the authorities in the two countries.\u201cThe short-term benefits will be far outweighed by the long-term costs,\u201d said Craig Deare, a former military attach\u00e9 to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico in the 1990s.\u201cMexico has mistrusted us for decades, and there was this thawing in the relationship that began in the 1990s,\u201d he said. \u201cThat mistrust could snap back now.\u201dMr. Deare cautioned that there was little indication of what type of action the military could take, whether using lethal drones or deploying forces.The United States has long operated drones to hunt for drug production and smuggling networks inside Mexico, but those covert programs were not authorized to take lethal action.Mexican officials have warned the Trump administration that the lethal drone programs the United States runs in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan, where terrorist groups are often targeted in rural areas, would face far different circumstances and risks.In Mexico, drug cartels are often embedded in dense urban centers, raising the chances of civilian casualties, and there are many more dual U.S.-Mexican citizens and their relatives living in places that could be targeted.\u201cIf the U.S. does this without Mexico\u2019s consent, it will set the relationship back a hundred years,\u201d said Todd Robinson, who served as the assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs at the State Department.He said the U.S. military does not have the relationships that other parts of the U.S. government had developed with the Mexican authorities over many years. (The F.B.I. and D.E.A. have offices in embassies across the world, and have set up vetted teams in countries like Mexico, Colombia and Vietnam that work closely with American forces.)\u201cWe worked together to build cases, by sharing intelligence, that is what builds a long-term relationship,\u201d he said, adding \u201cthere is no way you get a good relationship if you shove the U.S. military down their throat.\u201dShow moreAug. 8, 2025, 11:03 a.m. ET4 hours agoTony RommAs federal courts continue to consider the legality of President Trump\u2019s tariffs, he took to social media on Friday to claim that a loss for the White House would amount to an event on the magnitude of the \u201cGREAT DEPRESSION,\u201d suggesting the government might be forced to pay back potentially billions of dollars.\u201cIf a Radical Left Court ruled against us at this late date, in an attempt to bring down or disturb the largest amount of money, wealth creation and influence the U.S.A. has ever seen, it would be impossible to ever recover, or pay back, these massive sums of money and honor,\u201d he wrote.Mr. Trump said the courts, if they did indeed rule against him, \u201cshould have done so LONG AGO, at the beginning of the case.\u201d In fact, the Court of International Trade invalidated his tariffs earlier this year, prompting the administration to appeal the ruling.Aug. 8, 2025, 10:40 a.m. ET5 hours agoJonah E. BromwichDevlin BarrettGlenn Thrush and Santul NerkarImageLetitia James, the New York attorney general, won her lawsuit accusing President Trump of fraudulently overvaluing his assets. He was penalized more than half a billion dollars.Credit...Gregg Vigliotti for The New York TimesThe Justice Department this week abruptly escalated its pressure campaign on Letitia James, New York\u2019s attorney general and one of President Trump\u2019s longtime adversaries, opening a civil rights investigation into her office and appointing a special prosecutor to scrutinize her real estate dealings.Taken together, the developments concerning Ms. James mark a stark escalation of Mr. Trump\u2019s retribution campaign against one of his foremost nemeses and a remarkable use of Justice Department power to pursue a foe.The civil rights investigation, which had not previously been reported, is examining whether Ms. James\u2019s office violated Mr. Trump\u2019s civil rights in its successful fraud suit against him, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.The acting U.S. attorney in Albany sent Ms. James\u2019s office two subpoenas, one of which was related to the civil fraud case, which led to Mr. Trump being penalized more than half a billion dollars, including interest.The second subpoena is related to the office\u2019s long-running case against the National Rifle Association, the people said. Ms. James sued the organization in 2020, winning the ouster of its longtime leader, Wayne LaPierre, and sharply diminishing its power, which it had used on the president\u2019s behalf.Two of the people familiar with the matter said that the new subpoenas were part of a broader investigation to determine whether the office had violated the rights of Mr. Trump or others. It is a highly unusual use of a civil rights law more typically used to investigate potential racial, religious or sex discrimination, among other categories.On Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi also appointed Ed Martin \u2014 the far-right former interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. \u2014 as a special prosecutor to supervise an ongoing investigation into Ms. James\u2019s real estate dealings, according to two people briefed on the move.Ms. James\u2019s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, on Friday called the investigation related to the fraud case against Mr. Trump \u201cthe most blatant and desperate example of this administration carrying out the president\u2019s political retribution campaign.\u201d He added that the appointment of Mr. Martin \u201cmakes it crystal clear this is a manufactured investigation to pursue political retribution.\u201dThe White House declined to answer a question about whether it was directing the investigations into Ms. James.Mr. Martin is also investigating the real estate transactions of Senator Adam Schiff, Democrat of California, another high-profile enemy whom Mr. Trump has singled out, the two people said.A spokesman for Mr. Schiff did not immediately return a request for comment.Ms. James has been one of Mr. Trump\u2019s staunchest opponents since she first ran for attorney general in 2018, pledging to investigate him. Four years later, she sued him and his family business, accusing him of overvaluing his assets by billions of dollars. Mr. Trump lost the case and was penalized with the fine. The case is on appeal.Geoff Burgan, a spokesman for Ms. James, said Friday: \u201cWe stand strongly behind our successful litigation against the Trump Organization and the National Rifle Association, and we will continue to stand up for New Yorkers\u2019 rights.\u201dA Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on the developments. The acting U.S. attorney in Albany, John A. Sarcone III, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.In addition to Mr. Lowell, who is representing Ms. James as her personal lawyer, Ms. James\u2019s office has retained Steven Banks, formerly of the firm Paul Weiss, to defend its staff members.The civil rights inquiry into Ms. James\u2019s office reflects a strategy that has been championed by some of Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, who have argued that his Justice Department should pursue cases against those who investigated or prosecuted him.They have suggested that a specific civil rights statute, which makes using law-enforcement authority to deprive a person of rights a crime, provides the grounds to do so.Historically, the law has been used to prosecute police officers or prison guards who mistreat people based on their race, religion, sex, or national origin. The law, however, does not require that motive.That is not the only unusual aspect of the inquiries into Ms. James.This year, the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, confirmed that Ms. James\u2019s personal real estate transactions were the subject of an investigation, a rare televised acknowledgment of a current inquiry by a federal law enforcement official.That investigation has focused on whether Ms. James manipulated records related to homes in Brooklyn and Virginia to receive favorable loan terms. The allegations, which Mr. Lowell has called preposterous, resemble in miniature those that Ms. James pursued against Mr. Trump.Ms. James ultimately convinced a judge that Mr. Trump had inflated the value of his properties on annual statements submitted to lenders, garnering hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains. Ms. James\u2019s properties are valued at less than $2 million.It had been unclear how \u2014 or whether \u2014 that inquiry was progressing, and Mr. Martin\u2019s appointment adds an extra element of volatility.Mr. Martin, a Missouri-based lawyer who represented some of the pro-Trump rioters who ransacked the U.S. Capitol, has suggested it is legitimate to investigate Trump adversaries simply to shame them.In his brief stint as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, he thrust himself into national politics by leveling threats against Democrats and academic institutions. When Senate Republicans blocked his permanent nomination to the role, the White House found a job for him inside the Justice Department overseeing a \u201cweaponization working group.\u201dThat group was formed in February with the explicit mission of assessing Ms. James\u2019s investigation into the president, as well as other law enforcement inquiries into Mr. Trump while he was out of office.Mr. Sarcone, the U.S. attorney whose office sent the subpoenas to Ms. James, is also a Trump loyalist. He is one of several U.S. attorneys the Justice Department has installed using a circuitous legal procedure after judges and senators declined to appoint them permanently.He has taken a strong stance against immigration and has inserted himself into the national culture war over the issue, railing against former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s policies.Show moreAug. 8, 2025, 9:13 a.m. ETAug. 8, 2025Jenny GrossHours after President Trump ordered an unspecified number of agents to be deployed to crack down on crime in the capital, there were few signs of an immediate mass deployment.The Washington Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said on social media that its officials were out with other agencies overnight.A photo, posted early Friday, showed A.T.F. and Park Police agents. It wasn\u2019t clear if that was directly related to Mr. Trump\u2019s planned surge.Aug. 8, 2025, 7:13 a.m. ETAug. 8, 2025Isabella KwaiImageIn March, Lip-Bu Tan was appointed to revive the fortunes of Intel, the troubled American semiconductor manufacturer.Credit...Laure Andrillon\/ReutersThe chief executive of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan, defended his commitment to the U.S. chipmaker and its employees in a statement on Thursday, hours after President Trump made an extraordinary demand for his resignation.Mr. Trump called Mr. Tan \u201chighly CONFLICTED,\u201d in a post on Truth Social, an apparent reference to his reported investments in Chinese companies, which U.S. lawmakers have scrutinized since he was appointed to lead Intel in March. In the post, Mr. Trump called for Mr. Tan to resign immediately, saying there \u201cis no other solution to this problem.\u201d It was a noteworthy statement by Mr. Trump, who regularly lobs criticisms and threats at private companies but rarely attempts to interfere so directly and specifically in their inner workings.A day earlier, the president had threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on many foreign-made semiconductors, an effort to bring more manufacturing to the United States.Later on Thursday, Mr. Tan reiterated his commitment to leading Intel in a letter sent to company employees and published on the Intel website. \u201cThe United States has been my home for more than 40 years. I love this country and am profoundly grateful for the opportunities it has given me,\u201d he wrote.He also said he had the support of Intel\u2019s board.Mr. Tan, an American citizen who was born in Malaysia and grew up in Singapore, is a prominent tech leader in Silicon Valley who previously ran the venture capital firm Walden International and was the chief executive of Cadence Design Systems, a main maker of the software used in designing chips.In March, he was appointed chief executive of Intel and charged with reviving the fortunes of the troubled American semiconductor manufacturer.Mr. Tan has faced scrutiny in recent years for his investments in Chinese artificial intelligence and semiconductor companies, including some that U.S. officials say have ties to the Chinese military. It is not illegal for American citizens to invest in Chinese companies, but Mr. Trump has signaled interest in clamping down on such investments.In July, the U.S. Department of Justice said that Cadence Design Systems, the company Mr. Tan previously led, would plead guilty to illegally selling its technology to a Chinese university with ties to the Chinese military. Mr. Tan was not named in the indictment, but Senator Tom Cotton was among those who expressed concerns that the sales had taken place under his tenure.In 2023, a congressional committee requested information about Walden International\u2019s investments in companies that the U.S. government had blacklisted over national security concerns.In his statement on Thursday, Mr. Tan said \u201cmisinformation\u201d was circulating about his past roles at those two companies.\u201cI have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards,\u201d he said. He added that he was engaging with the administration \u201cto address the matters that have been raised and ensure they have the facts.\u201d\u201cI fully share the President\u2019s commitment to advancing U.S. national and economic security,\u201d Mr. Tan said.Show moreAug. 8, 2025, 6:40 a.m. ETAug. 8, 2025Ivan NechepurenkoReporting from MoscowImageA border crossing in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in 2023. It has been at the center of decades of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesLeaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, two former Soviet states, are set to meet with President Trump at the White House on Friday in what he portrayed as an attempt to end their decades-long conflict and to elevate America\u2019s role as a mediator.In a post on his Truth Social platform, President Trump called the meeting set for Friday afternoon \u201ca Historic Peace Summit.\u201dHe said there would be \u201can official Peace Signing Ceremony\u201d to be attended by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan. He also said that he would sign separate bilateral economic cooperation agreements between the United States and each country.\u201cMany Leaders have tried to end the War, with no success, until now, thanks to \u2018TRUMP,\u2019\u201d he said in his post on Friday.Mr. Trump\u2019s push for a settlement reflects his belief that he can bulldoze his way to diplomatic resolutions to some of the world\u2019s longest and bitterest conflicts. It remained unclear, however, what if any understandings the Friday meeting could produce between the two sworn enemies. Neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan commented publicly on their specific expectations for the meeting.But Mr. Trump\u2019s effort has highlighted Russia\u2019s diminished influence over both countries as it remains bogged down in its invasion of Ukraine.The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has shaped the politics of the South Caucasus for decades. Numerous mediators and diplomats have tried to settle it. Tens of thousands of people have died on both sides, and hundreds of thousands displaced.From 1988 to 1994, and again in 2020, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought wars over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh \u2014 Azerbaijan\u2019s sovereign territory where Christian ethnic Armenians and Muslim Azerbaijanis lived alongside each other before conflicts emerged from the decline and collapse of the Soviet Union.Russia long loomed as the ultimate mediator, and President Vladimir V. Putin regularly convened leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia at the Kremlin. In 2020, the Russian leader brokered a cease-fire that many saw as a diplomatic triumph. Russia deployed 1,960 peacekeepers in the area, giving Moscow a firmer foothold in a strategic region.But following Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Mr. Putin\u2019s attention shifted, and Russia\u2019s influence over the conflict began to wane. Azerbaijan moved decisively in 2023 to take control over the entire Nagorno-Karabakh area, forcing around 100,000 Armenians to leave their homes. In April last year, the Russian peacekeeping contingent began to withdraw as Azerbaijan moved to rebuild in the area in an attempt to erase traces of its Armenian heritage.Moscow\u2019s relations with Azerbaijan also suffered after Russian air defenses struck an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that was flying to Grozny, Russia, last December, killing 38 people on board.Armenia, for its part, has bitter feelings toward Russia, which it felt failed to protect it against Azerbaijan. Armenian officials have threatened to leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the post-Soviet security alliance led by Moscow. In March, Armenia\u2019s Parliament passed a bill furthering the country\u2019s ambition to join the European Union.In recent months, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been trying to broker an agreement for a permanent peace, but the process has been bumpy. They have yet to agree where the border would run between them. Over the past years, Azerbaijan has occupied small areas of Armenia, citing security concerns.With a more powerful military, and emboldened by increased European demand for its oil and gas, Mr. Aliyev of Azerbaijan has felt he can dictate the terms. One of his demands has been to change the Armenian constitution to remove all references to Nagorno-Karabakh. Another is to establish a transportation link through Armenia to connect Azerbaijan\u2019s mainland to its landlocked exclave of Nakhichevan. Armenia has been reluctant to commit to the project because concerns over who would control it. A correction was made on\u00a0Aug. 8, 2025:\u00a0An earlier version of this article misstated the death toll in the Azerbaijan Airlines crash of December 2024. It was 38 people, not 67.When we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. If you spot an error, please let us know at nytnews@nytimes.com.Learn moreShow moreAug. 8, 2025, 2:29 a.m. ETAug. 8, 2025River Akira DavisReporting from TokyoImageNew vehicles at Daikoku Pier in Yokohama, Japan.Credit...Philip Fong\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has agreed to correct an \u201cextremely regrettable\u201d blunder in the execution of its trade agreement with Japan, the country\u2019s top trade negotiator said in Washington on Thursday.In negotiations last month, Japanese officials believed they had secured a deal that, in return for pledges to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the United States and open their market to more American goods, would set a standard tariff rate of 15 percent for all of Japan\u2019s products shipped to the United States.In a July 31 executive order, the Trump administration outlined a similar scheme for the European Union. But Japan, along with other trade partners, was issued a new tariff rate that would be \u201cstacked\u201d on top of existing ones. In Japan\u2019s case, that raised tariffs on items such as its beef exports to the United States to 41.4 percent from 26.4 percent.Now, after Japan\u2019s chief trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, went to Washington this week for his ninth round of trade talks, Mr. Akazawa said he had secured a promise from the Trump administration to fix the error. Local media had earlier reported that the United States was not planning to revise the presidential order, citing unidentified White House officials.This latest development is another example of how a deal with no publicly disclosed written joint agreement \u2014 assembled quickly just days before higher threatened tariffs were set to take effect \u2014 is causing confusion and growing tension between the United States and one of its top allies and trading partners.ImageJapan\u2019s chief trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, was in Washington this week for his ninth round of trade talks.Credit...Issei Kato\/ReutersIn the weeks since the U.S.-Japanese trade agreement was concluded last month, some Japanese officials have bristled at implications from the Trump administration that it would control Japan\u2019s $550 billion investment pledge and that 90 percent of the profit from it would go to the United States.Shigeru Ishiba, Japan\u2019s prime minister, has also been under fire for not securing a clear date for reduced auto tariffs, now set at 25 percent, to take effect. Those tariffs were one of the key concessions Tokyo gained in its talks with the Trump administration. They apply to Japan\u2019s biggest export to the North American market and have been pummeling the profits of its auto industry.\u201cWashington is just randomly shooting, and they are shooting some like-minded countries from behind,\u201d Taro Kono, a member of Japan\u2019s House of Representatives, said in a news briefing in Tokyo on Wednesday.Mr. Kono, a former minister for foreign affairs during the first Trump administration, suggested that Japan and other countries might have to consider forming an international convention to deal with U.S. tariffs. A spokesman for the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Mr. Akazawa said on Thursday that he had requested a reduction in automobile tariffs during his meetings in Washington with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. In response, he said, the U.S. side indicated that President Trump would sign an executive order directing automobile tariffs to be reduced and rectifying Japan\u2019s stacked-tariff situation.Mr. Akazawa said that nothing had been decided on when the corrections would be made but that the United States would act in a \u201ctimely\u201d manner.Show more",
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