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NEWS ANALYSIS

WASHINGTON — First therewas the middle-class tax cut thateven his allies and many of hisaides had not heard about. Thentroops were dispatched to theborder to counter an “invasion ofour country” by impoverishedmigrants about 900 miles away.

And then, on Tuesday, Presi-dent Trump declared that hewould sign an executive orderessentially rewriting the Consti-tution as it has been traditionallyinterpreted to stop children ofundocumented immigrants fromautomatically becoming citizensjust because they are born in theUnited States, claiming power noother president has asserted.

In the last days before amidterm congressional electionthat will determine the future ofhis presidency, Mr. Trump seemsto be throwing almost anythinghe can think of against the wallto see what might stick, no mat-ter how untethered from politicalor legal reality. Frustrated thatother topics — like last week’sspate of mail bombs — came todominate the news, the presidenthas sought to seize back thenational stage in the last stretchof the campaign.

Ad hoc though they may be,Mr. Trump’s red-meat ideas havecome to shape the conversationand, he hopes, may galvanizeotherwise complacent conserva-tive voters to turn out on Tues-day. But he risks motivatingopponents, as well, and he hasput even some of his fellow Re-publicans on the spot as they areforced to take a position on is-sues they were not expecting tohave to address.

Seizing StageWith One IdeaAfter Another

Trump Proposes Haltto Citizenship by Birth

By PETER BAKER

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At modern American universi-ties, it is not unusual that the headfootball coach is the most power-ful, and the highest-paid, individ-ual.

That has rarely been more clearthan it was on Tuesday, when thegoverning board at the Universityof Maryland looking into the deathof a football player allowed thehead coach and athletic director tokeep their jobs, while acceptingthe unexpected retirement of theschool’s president, Wallace D.Loh.

The decision was an attempt toput an end to a controversy thatbegan on May 29 when the player,Jordan McNair, a 19-year-old of-fensive lineman, suffered heat-stroke in a hard-charging prac-tice. He died two weeks later.

Mr. McNair’s death spurred twoinvestigations, an ESPN reportthat revealed a “toxic culture” ofbullying and humiliating players,and a decision to put the footballcoach and members of his staff onadministrative leave.

The announcement that thehead football coach, D. J. Durkin,and the athletic director, DamonEvans, would keep their jobs im-mediately raised the question ofwhether the university wasputting its quest to succeed in big-time football ahead of accountabil-ity for its players’ well-being.

Football Death:Coach to Stay;President Goes

By MARC TRACY

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Rashida Tlaib, running in atough six-way Democratic prima-ry for a House seat in Michiganand positioning herself to be thefirst Muslim woman in Congress,was thrilled when a man whochampions Muslim candidatesacross the country donated justunder $1,000 to her campaign.

Then she found out he had giv-en nearly three times as much —$2,700, the maximum allowed un-der federal law — to Representa-tive Keith Ellison, the first Muslimman in Congress.

“It’s not like you can call andask why,” Ms. Tlaib said in an in-terview. So she did what she al-ways does and wrote the donor ahandwritten thank you note.When she won the primary andwas all but assured of winning theseat — she has no Republican op-ponent in November — he maxedout to her, too.

Women have broken many bar-riers in this midterm election cy-cle: Record numbers have run forCongress and record numbershave won primaries, including arecord number of women of colorlike Ms. Tlaib.

Women are newly assertingthemselves as donors, too, oftenhelping female candidates; whiledonations from women to Repub-lican men have dropped off a cliffsince the election of President

Trump, donations from women toDemocratic women have shot up,reflecting a trend the Women’sPhilanthropy Institute calls “ragegiving.”

But women who run for officeare still struggling to raise asmuch as men, particularly if theyare Republican, or challenging in-cumbents, or running in placeswhere the opposing party has abig advantage — as is the case

with many Democratic womenthis year. Men are still making thelarge majority of political contri-butions, and male candidates arestill raising more money.

Female candidates have reliedon different or new ways to raisemoney, getting more in small do-nations, from individual donorsand from women. Still, even in ayear when fervor for a “bluewave” has allowed many competi-tive female candidates to raisestaggering amounts of money, ithas taken them longer to raise it.

“Women work it,” said Ms.

Women Break Barriers, but Feel ShortchangedBy KATE ZERNIKE

A record number of women have run for Congress, including Ra-shida Tlaib of Michigan, right, but many struggle to raise funds.

RACHEL WOOLF FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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CAMPAIGNING WHILE FEMALE

Filling the Coffers

James (Whitey) Bulger, theSouth Boston mobster and F.B.I.informer who was captured after16 years on the run and finallybrought to justice in 2013 for amurderous reign of terror that in-spired books, films and a saga ofIrish-American brotherhood andbrutality, was found beaten todeath on Tuesday in a West Vir-ginia prison. He was 89.

Two Federal Bureau of Prisonsemployees, who spoke on the con-dition of anonymity because theinformation was not yet public,said Mr. Bulger was beaten unrec-ognizable by inmates shortly afterhe had arrived at the prison, theHazelton federal penitentiary inBruceton Mills, W.Va. He hadbeen moved from prison to prisonin recent years and was incarcer-ated in Florida before being trans-ferred to Hazelton, which hasbeen rife with violence.

One of the workers said that theinmates were thought to be “affili-ated with the mob.” A law enforce-ment official who oversees orga-nized crime cases said he was toldby a federal law enforcement offi-cial that a mob figure was believedto be responsible for the killing.

Mr. Bulger, who was servingtwo life sentences for 11 murders,was found unresponsive at 8:20Tuesday morning and pro-nounced dead by the Preston

County Medical Examiner, theFederal Bureau of Prisons said ina statement. It did not indicate acause of death.

To the families of those he exe-cuted gangland-style and to aneighborhood held in thrall longafter he vanished in 1994, Mr. Bul-ger’s arrest in Santa Monica,Calif., in 2011 and his conviction ofgruesome crimes brought a finalreckoning of sorts, and an end tothe career of one of America’smost notorious underworld fig-ures, the heir to a nation’s fascina-tions with Dillinger, Capone andGotti.

A Murderous Boston Mob Boss,As Elusive as He Was Mythical

By ROBERT D. McFADDEN

WHITEY BULGER, 1929-2018

Whitey Bulger in 1953. He wasbeaten to death in prison at 89.

BOSTON POLICE, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

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PITTSBURGH — One of Pitts-burgh’s most solemn days beganwith hundreds coming together inanguish and grief in synagoguesand at gravesides, to start theservices for those killed as theyprayed on the Sabbath. In the af-ternoon, they came togetheragain, in shivas to honor the deadand comfort the living, and, laterby the thousands, in solemnmarches of protest around theSquirrel Hill neighborhood wherethe attack took place on Saturday.

This is the Pittsburgh that metPresident Trump, who arrivedwith members of his family onTuesday.

The presidential visit, wel-comed by some in Pittsburgh, un-wanted or vigorously opposed bymany others, began with a motor-cade into the city and a visit to theTree of Life synagogue. Mr. Trumplit memorial candles in a vestibulenear where the shooting unfolded,and placed stones and white rosesfrom the White House outside, incommemoration of those killed inan attack by a gunman full of anti-Semitic rage shouting that Jewsmust die.

But if Mr. Trump’s visit was in-tended to bring healing, it insteadlaid bare the nation’s deep divi-sions. Many protesters in Pitts-burgh had no doubt of what onecalled “the dotted line” betweenpresidential rhetoric and vio-lence, though some people in thecity have pushed back on the ideathat Mr. Trump had fomented theatmosphere of anger. As the presi-dent moved around Pittsburgh, alargely Democratic city, the signsof discord were apparent.

The protesters, some praying inHebrew, others singing and chant-ing, moved around Squirrel Hill.Hoodie-wearing college studentsand Orthodox Jews with blackhats and long beards walkedalongside demonstrators carry-ing militant signs and middle-

aged parents pushing strollers.Signs read “Words matter” and“President Hate is not welcome inour state.” As if to hold up a be-loved local figure in contrast to thepresident, the largest march be-gan on Beechwood Boulevard,where Mr. Rogers, the children’stelevision figure, used to live, andit ended at the Presbyterianchurch where he used to pray.

The mayor of Pittsburgh, BillPeduto, who just a day before hadurged the president not to visit

while the mourners buried thedead, neither met with Mr. Trumpnor joined the protests. The topfour Republican and Democraticcongressional leaders who wereinvited to join him all declined.

At the synagogue, Mr. Trumpwas accompanied by the first lady,Melania Trump, his daughterIvanka Trump and son-in-law Jar-ed Kushner. They were greeted byRabbi Jeffrey Myers, the spiritualleader of the Tree of Life congre-gation, who spoke to the presidenton the history of the synagogueand the carnage there on Satur-day as they lit 11 candles to honorthe dead.

Later, Mr. Trump spent about 90minutes visiting the University ofPittsburgh Medical Center. Hemet privately with four officers

Trump’s Visit Divides CityMourning Victims of Hate

Protests and Gratitude Greet the Presidentas He Honors 11 Killed in Pittsburgh

This article is by Campbell Rob-ertson, Julie Hirschfeld Davis andTrip Gabriel.

Top, the first funeral, of the brothers David and Cecil Rosenthal, took place before the president’sarrival in Pittsburgh. Above, marchers denounced Mr. Trump’s visit as he moved around the city.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

President Trump laying stonesat the Tree of Life synagogue.

DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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SWING DISTRICTS Prosperity inbattlegrounds does not appear tobe helping the G.O.P. PAGE B1

THE LAW The president’s proposalto end birthright citizenship de-fies a judicial consensus. PAGE A19

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plans tostep down have created anxiety overwho can fill her role. PAGE A8

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

Fears in European UnionThe special counsel, Robert S. MuellerIII, asked the F.B.I. to investigate apotential effort to get women to fabricatesexual misconduct claims. PAGE A20

NATIONAL A11-22

Possible Plot to Smear MuellerFor months, the city said on its websitethat its tap water was “absolutely safeto drink,” despite parallels to the situa-tion in Flint, Mich. PAGE A25

NEW YORK A23-25

Lead Crisis in NewarkYou don’t need any special equipmentto get falling-off-the-bone meat. Thighsare ideal for quick braising. PAGE D2

FOOD D1-8

Great Chicken in 60 MinutesBarbra Streisand can’t get her worriesabout the president out of her head, soshe put him in her music. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Streisand’s Trumpian Refrain

Fruit bat soup, below, and maggot-infested cheese are part of the disgust-ing fare at a Swedish exhibit. PAGE A8

Care for Flies With That?We followed the California chef JeremyFox as he created, and recreated, anelaborate chicken dish. PAGE D7

The Origin of a Menu ItemThe release of “More Blood, MoreTracks” offers a close-up of a 1975album full of pain and longing. PAGE C1

Illuminating Bob Dylan

Frank Bruni PAGE A29

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A28-29

NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space-craft, which spent more than nine yearsin orbit, has run out of fuel. PAGE A14

Space Telescope Is RetiredMarcus J. Molinaro, the Republicancandidate for governor, presses on de-spite daunting poll numbers. PAGE A23

An Uphill Slog to Albany

Kentucky, Northwestern and Virginiacould be factors in college football thisseason. You read that right. PAGE B8

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B8-12

Unlikely Programs RiseA sharp market turn, a wayward acqui-sition and self-inflicted wounds dragdown a market-leading unit. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

Power Division Hobbles G.E.

Late EditionToday, sunshine then clouds, milderafternoon, high 64. Tonight, cloudy,mild, low 56. Tomorrow, times ofclouds and sunshine, warm, high 68.Weather map appears on Page A24.

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