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allow people of faith to be tar- geted, bullied or silenced any- more.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions quoted those words in issuing guidance to federal agencies and prosecutors, instructing them to take the position in court that workers, employers and organiza- tions may claim broad exemp- tions from nondiscrimination laws 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 a federal requirement that employ- ers must include birth control cov- erage in their health insurance plans. The rules offer an exemp- tion to any employer that objects to covering contraception serv- ices on the basis of sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convic- tions. More than 55 million women have access to birth control with- out co-payments because of the contraceptive coverage mandate, according to a study commis- sioned by the Obama administra- tion. Under the new regulations, TRUMP RELAXES EMPLOYERS’ ROLE ON BIRTH CONTROL WEAKENING A MANDATE Bid to Uphold Religious Objections — Critics Fear New Bias This article is by Robert Pear, Re- becca R. Ruiz and Laurie Good- stein. Continued on Page A14 Apple will release hundreds of new emojis, featuring expressive faces and a continued push for diversity. PAGE B2 BUSINESS DAY B1-6 This May Blow Your Mind U(D54G1D)y+&!#!]!#!_ The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won for the first treaty to prohibit nuclear arms. PAGE A10 INTERNATIONAL A4-12 Peace Prize for Weapons Foes Bret Stephens PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 WASHINGTON — The rapid- fire push by the Trump adminis- tration to wipe out significant chunks of the Obama envi- ronmental legacy is running into a not-so-minor complication: Judges keep ruling that the Trump team is violating federal law. The latest such ruling came late Wednesday, 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-called flaring, a technique oil and gas companies use to burn off leaking methane. Flaring is blamed for contributing to climate change as well as lost tax revenues because the drilling is being done on fed- eral land. It was the third time since July that the Environmental Protec- tion Agency or the Interior De- partment has been found to have acted illegally in their rush to roll back environmental rules. And in three other environmental cases, the Trump administration re- versed course on its own after lawsuits accusing it of illegal ac- tions were filed by environmental groups and Democratic state at- torneys general. The legal reversals reflect how aggressively Mr. Trump’s critics are challenging the administra- tion’s efforts to rescind regula- tions enacted during the Obama administration, not only related to the environment, but to immigra- tion, to consumer protection and to other areas. Yet even as the list of failed or at least stalled rollbacks continues to grow, the Trump administra- Continued on Page A15 President’s Rush to Deregulate Meets an Obstacle: The Courts By ERIC LIPTON The Weinstein Company strug- gled to perform damage control on Friday amid allegations of rampant sexual harassment by its co-chairman Harvey Weinstein and turmoil among its ranks. One- third of the company’s all-male board 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 on Thursday that he would take a leave of absence, but it was un- clear when he would leave, how long he would be gone, or what it meant for his relationship with the company he co-founded. “As Harvey has said, it is impor- tant for him to get professional help for the problems he has ac- knowledged,” said a statement signed by four board members, Bob Weinstein, Tarak Ben Am- mar, Lance Maerov and Richard Koenigsberg. “Next steps will de- pend on Harvey’s therapeutic progress, the outcome of the Board’s independent investiga- tion, and Harvey’s own personal decisions.” The moves came as employees and business partners of the com- pany voiced concern about the al- legations, revealed in a New York Times investigation on Thursday, and board members and execu- tives jostled for control. Harvey Weinstein did not sign the statement put out by the four board members, and did not re- spond to requests for comment. With him gone, the statement said, his brother, Bob Weinstein, the company’s co-chairman, and David Glasser, the president and chief operating officer, are in charge of the company. Meanwhile, three members of the board — Dirk Ziff, a billionaire investor; Marc Lasry, owner of the Milwaukee Bucks and chief executive of Avenue Capital Group, an investment firm; and Tim 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. The status of the ninth board member, Paul Tudor Jones, is unclear. He did not sign the statement or re- spond to a request for comment. The Times investigation found complaints of sexual harassment by Mr. Weinstein stretching back decades and at least eight settle- ments paid to women. Angered by Continued on Page A16 Studio Rocked As Weinstein Faces Inquiry Three Quit Board After Harassment Claims By MEGAN TWOHEY and NIRAJ CHOKSHI TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — The number of murders the Honduran drug lord admitted to orchestrating over 10 years was stunning. The dead included people he de- scribed as killers, rapists and gang members. Then there were the innocents: a lawyer, two jour- nalists, a Honduran refugee in Canada, an official who was serv- ing as Honduras’s antidrug czar and a politician who became his adviser; 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 dilemma for United States officials when Mr. Rivera came to them offering to expose high-level corruption in this Central American nation of some nine million people. Knowing that he was already in the sights of United States investi- gators, Mr. Rivera sought to help the Drug Enforcement Adminis- tration root out corrupt Honduran politicians and other elites who had made Honduras a gateway for massive amounts of cocaine headed for the United States through Mexico. The offer came at a time when United States officials were deeply concerned by Honduras’s slide into anarchy. A stalwart ally and home to a United States mili- tary base, Honduras was plagued by drug traffickers and gangs and had one of the world’s highest homicide rates. It is the first land- ing point for about 80 percent of suspected drug flights departing from South America, the State De- partment has said. But to sign Mr. Rivera to a for- mal cooperation agreement meant the government would most likely have to do something for him: seek leniency on his be- Murderous Drug Lord Helps U.S. in Secret Deal By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and 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 to Fight Corruption in Honduras Continued on Page A6 OTTAWA — For decades, Cana- dian social workers forcibly sepa- rated indigenous children from their families, putting them up for adoption by nonnative families in Canada 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 1960s and lasted till the 1980s, by agree- ing to pay 750 million Canadian dollars in legal settlements. The settlement — affecting as many as 30,000 people — is part of a broader push across Canada in the last few years to grapple with its legacy of injustices against the country’s indigenous populations. It includes a similar settlement for indigenous children who were separated from their families and sent to residential schools far from their homes as well as meas- ures like a promise by Prime Min- ister Justin Trudeau to address a long list of native concerns. Most recently, Mr. Trudeau told the United Nations General As- sembly that Canada had a respon- sibility to improve its relationship with its indigenous populations. “I don’t know what people were thinking,” said Carolyn Bennett, the minister of crown-indigenous relations, who announced the set- tlement in Ottawa on Friday morning. “I don’t know why anybody,” she continued, “why settlers or Canada Agrees to Pay Millions in Lawsuit Over Forced Adoptions By IAN AUSTEN Continued on Page A10 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. Some fear the Japanese capital is vulnerable as global warming brings more extreme weather. Page A5. Will the Billions Pay Off? LAS VEGAS — It was the first overtime shift Detective Casey Clarkson had worked in four years. But he wanted the money and he figured a country music festival would be fun. Just before 10 p.m. Sunday, he and his partner helped a drunk woman stumbling along the Las Vegas Strip get a cab, the kind of task he expected for the night. Then he heard the shots. Sgt. Branden Clarkson was just going to bed at his home a few miles away when he got a call from a friend about an active shooter. Sergeant Clarkson, who helps run the Las Vegas Police De- partment’s training program to deal with such incidents, started throwing on his clothes and, knowing his twin brother was on duty, texted him: “Hey bro, you ok?” “And I don’t hear from him,” Branden Clarkson would later re- call, “so I’m just assuming he’s handling business.” He was. Over the next half-hour, Casey Clarkson ushered people to safety, directed them out of the line of fire, and then, moving past the unsaveable, brought wounded people to vehicles that would rush them to hospitals. Branden Clarkson, meanwhile, was at the police department’s command post, helping direct offi- cers and keeping track of who was where on a whiteboard. Finally, a lieutenant came up to him and said, “Hey, your brother is O.K.” “And I’m like, O.K., cool,” he said. But his brother was not exactly O.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 Continued on Page A17 Works by China’s artists from the rap- idly changing 1990s fill the Guggenheim in a powerful show. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-7 Provocation and Protest Theresa May, the British prime min- ister, faced down a coup attempt from within her Conservative Party. PAGE A7 Another Snag for May With a powerful storm heading to the Gulf 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 Eisenhower knew that the Soviet Union was close to the feat, documents show. PAGE A18 Sputnik Launch Was Expected After a long stretch in the defendant’s chair in a Newark courtroom, Senator Robert Menendez had a hectic day back in Washington. PAGE A20 NEW YORK A20-21 At Work, Under a Cloud Payrolls fell by 33,000 — the first monthly decline in seven years — but economists 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 Lindor got the Indians back into the game and Cleveland took a 2-0 series lead with its 9-8 victory in 13 innings. PAGE D1 SPORTSSATURDAY D1-5 Yankees Lose in Extra Innings A college program with a proud football history struggles with a nagging sense of 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 Trump administration on Friday moved to expand the rights of employers to deny women insurance cover- age for contraception and issued sweeping guidance on religious freedom that critics said could also erode civil rights protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The twin actions, by the Depart- ment of Health and Human Serv- ices and the Justice Department, were meant to carry out a promise issued by President Trump five months ago, when he declared in the Rose Garden that “we will not Late Edition VOL. CLXVII . . . No. 57,743 © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2017 Today, partly sunny, warm, high 80. Tonight, increasing clouds, showers late, warm, low 69. Tomorrow, mostly cloudy, showers, high 80. Weather map appears on Page C8. $2.50
