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The roster of retired military of- ficers endorsing Hillary Clinton in September glittered with decora- tion and rank. One former general led the American surge in Anbar, one of the most violent provinces in Iraq. Another commanded American-led allied forces bat- tling the Taliban in Afghanistan. Yet another trained the first Iraqis to combat Islamic insurgents in their own country. But as Election Day ap- proaches, many veterans are in- stead turning to Donald J. Trump, a businessman who avoided the Vietnam draft and has boasted of gathering foreign policy wisdom by watching television shows. Even as other voters abandon Mr. Trump, veterans remain among his most loyal supporters, an unlikely connection forged by the widening gulf they feel from other Americans. After 15 years at war, many who served in Iraq or Afghanistan are proud of their service but ex- hausted by its burdens. They dis- trust the political class that re- shaped their lives and are frus- trated by how little their fellow cit- izens seem to understand about their experience. Perhaps most strikingly, they welcome Mr. Trump’s blunt at- tacks on America’s entangle- ments overseas. “When we jump into wars with- out having a real plan, things like Vietnam and things like Iraq and Afghanistan happen,” said William Hansen, a former Marine who served two National Guard tours in Iraq. “This is 16 years. This is longer than Vietnam.” In small military towns in Cali- fornia and North Carolina, veter- ans of all eras cheer Mr. Trump’s promises to fire officials at the De- partment of Veterans Affairs. His attacks on political correctness evoke their frustrations with tor- tured rules of engagement crafted to serve political, not military, ends. In Mr. Trump’s forceful as- sertion of strength, they find a balm for wounds that left them broken and torn. “He calls it out,” said Joshua Macias, a former Navy petty offi- cer and fifth-generation veteran Trump Holds Strong Appeal With Veterans Praised for His Blunt Talk on War’s Costs By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Continued on Page A18 U(D54G1D)y+&!,!&!=!] The internet was supposed to be a boon to democracy, but when confronted with information choices, people often re- treat to the echo chamber of their own beliefs, Farhad Manjoo writes. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-9 Digital’s Loose Grip on Truth A new exhibition counters the no- tion that the painter’s late, dark-hued works reflect an inner angst, and his brighter ones optimism. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Rothko’s Palette, Illuminated CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — Since moving to Arizona 15 years ago, Nieves Lorenzo watched as His- panics grew in numbers but only haltingly asserted themselves as a political force. Then came Don- ald J. Trump’s presidential candi- dacy. “He has woken up the sleeping giant,” Ms. Lorenzo, a native of Venezuela, said as she stood in a local Democratic campaign head- quarters here in the desert be- tween Phoenix and Tucson. By driving women, educated white voters and, most signifi- cantly, growing blocs of minorities away from the Republican Party, Mr. Trump has hastened social and political changes already well underway in two key regions, the interior West and the upper South, that not long ago tilted to the right. Now, even as Hillary Clinton contends with inflamed Demo- cratic anxiety over renewed scru- tiny of her private email server, these once-red areas are provid- ing an unexpected firewall for her campaign. Democrats are already strongly confident of victory in three of them — Colorado, Nevada and Virginia — and believe that a fourth, North Carolina, is likely to break their way as well. Added to the party’s daunting advantage in the Electoral College, these states have impeded Mr. Trump’s path to amassing the 270 electoral votes needed to win, limiting his ability to exploit Mrs. Clinton’s late vul- nerabilities and forcing him to scrounge for unlikely support in solidly Democratic places like Michigan and New Mexico. The shift is stark enough that In Changing Regions, Trump Makes Inroads for Democrats By JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS Continued on Page A17 Tim Arango entered the city of Mosul, Iraq, on Wednesday with Iraqi special forces soldiers. For the first time in more than two years, residents of eastern Mosul enjoyed a day without the Islamic State. As Iraqi security forces drove the muddy streets of the neighborhood, families stepped from the gates of their driveways, waving, flashing two- fingered victory signs and yelling, “Heroes!” Others held white flags. Some men, in ankle-length Arab gowns in the jihadist-regulation style, were smoking cigarettes, while others had them tucked be- hind their ears. They were cele- brating the Iraqi forces’ victory over the Islamic State in their area by savoring some of the small pleasures banned under more than two years of militant rule. “We are very, very happy,” said one man, Qais Hassan, 46, sur- rounded by soldiers. “Now we have our freedom.” The Islamic State, he said, had “asked us to im- plement religion. But they had nothing to do with religion.” Iraqi soldiers were seeing first- hand what life in Mosul had been like under Islamic State rule im- posed in 2014. But they were also catching a glimpse of some of the challenges ahead, simultaneously pressing the fight toward the city center and going about the messy business of re-establishing gov- As Forces Start Clearing Mosul, Iraqis Cheer, Shave and Smoke By TIM ARANGO Continued on Page A12 MAULVIWALA, India — Des- perate to reduce the pollution that has made New Delhi’s air quality among the worst in the world, the city has banned private cars for two-week periods and cam- paigned to reduce its ubiquitous fireworks during holiday celebra- tions. But one thing India has not seri- ously tried could make the most difference: curtailing the fires set to rice fields by hundreds of thou- sands of farmers in the nearby states of Punjab and Haryana, where much of the nation’s wheat and rice is grown. Although India’s environmental court, the National Green Tri- bunal, told the government last year to stop farmers from burning the straw left over from their rice harvests, NASA satellite images in recent weeks have shown virtually no abatement. Farmers are continuing to burn most of the leftover straw — an estimated 32 million tons — to make room to plant their winter wheat crop. While fireworks associated with the Hindu holiday of Diwali were blamed for a particularly bad smog problem in recent days, smoke from the crop fires blowing across the northern plains into New Delhi accounts for about one- quarter of the most dangerous air pollution in the winter months. In the growing metropolis of nearly 20 million people, pollution soared well above hazardous levels in the past week. Farmers 100 miles north in Pun- jab were well aware that they were contaminating the capital’s air, they said in interviews, and were willing to consider other ways to dispose of the excess straw, but could not afford the op- tions offered by the government. “We are smart, and we have adopted new technology in the past,” said Jaswant Singh, 53, as he watched a fire sweep across a 20-acre field near his village, Maulviwala, about 140 miles northwest of New Delhi. He planned to set his own sev- en-and-a-half-acre rice paddy ablaze in a couple of days, he said, “because we can’t afford to pay for the new technology ourselves.” The air was thick with smoke that evening as I drove the two hours back to Punjab’s capital, Outlawed Crop Fires Fuel India’s Air Pollution By GEETA ANAND A farmer burned a harvested wheat field last month on the outskirts of Jalandhar, India. SHAMMI MEHRA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Known Cause, Known Cure but Continuing Health Hazard Continued on Page A6 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Presi- dent Obama threw the power of the White House behind Hillary Clinton on Wednesday. He faulted how the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, handled new emails relat- ed to the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s private server, and then shouted out to college students here in a pivotal battleground state that it was crucial that they vote because the “fate of the world is teetering.” Mr. Obama’s comments about Mr. Comey, broadcast early in the day as recent polls showed a tight- ening race, were striking for a president who has insisted he does not comment on F.B.I. inves- tigations. But Mr. Obama ap- peared to be doing exactly that in implicitly criticizing Mr. Comey’s decision to send a vague letter last week to Congress — and by exten- sion, the public — informing law- makers about a discovery of new emails related to Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private server as secre- tary of state. “We don’t operate on incom- plete information,” Mr. Obama said in an interview with NowThis News. “We don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete de- cisions that are made.” Without mentioning Mr. Comey by name — although it was clear whom he meant — Mr. Obama suggested that the F.B.I. had vio- lated investigative guidelines and trafficked in innuendo by alerting Congress last week. Mr. Obama’s remarks, which followed searing criticism of the F.B.I. director from PRESIDENT FAULTS F.B.I. AND FIRES UP CLINTON FAITHFUL CRITICIZES EMAIL ‘LEAKS’ Obama Tells Crowd in North Carolina Vote Hinges on Them This article is by Jonathan Mar- tin, Adam Goldman and Gardiner Harris. President Obama in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Wednesday. AL DRAGO/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A16 TUNED IN Jay Z and other musi- cians are going on the road to support Hillary Clinton. PAGE C1 SEXUAL HARASSMENT At its core, it is about power, and politics is a power profession. PAGE A14 An Iowa man described as a troubled loner was in custody in the deaths of two officers near Des Moines who were gunned down in the driver’s seats of their patrol cars. PAGE A15 Surrender in Officers’ Killings A warming planet is responsible for the bright colors of fall lasting so late in the year, scien- tists say. What will happen over the long term is less certain. PAGE A20 NATIONAL A14-20 Longer Lasting Color in Fall An Australian nurse offering free care for battered and overworked horses in the shadows of the Pyramids faces hostility from their owners. PAGE A4 Healing Cairo’s Horses The United States’ alliances are feeling strained over the South China Sea, after the Philippines agreed to a deal with China on fishing. PAGE A13 Churning Alliances in Asia Volkswagen, a pioneer in revealing its history of using forced labor in World War II, has set off anger by parting ways with a company historian. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-13 Volkswagen’s Nazi Past James Burke, head of the Suffolk County police, drew officials’ attention after his reaction to a theft. PAGE A22 NEW YORK A22-25 Sentence for Ex-Police Chief Microsoft has unveiled Microsoft Teams, a real-time communications service that resembles Slack but adds features like threaded conversations and videoconferencing. PAGE B3 Microsoft Challenges Slack Gail Collins PAGE A27 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27 From Vogue Arabia to New York Fashion Week, Muslim con- sumers and designers are demanding global recogni- tion and respect of their cul- tural and commercial clout. PAGE D1 THURSDAY STYLES D1-10 A Muslim Fashion Identity CLEVELAND — If you are go- ing to endure years — no, genera- tions — of futility and heartbreak, then when you do finally win a championship, you might as well make it a memorable one. The Chicago Cubs did just that, shattering their 108-year champi- onship drought in epic fashion: with an 8-7, 10-inning victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the World Series that began on Wednesday night, carried into Thursday morning and seemed to end all too soon. After the Indians rallied with three runs in the eighth inning, in- cluding a two-run thunderbolt of a home run by Rajai Davis off closer Aroldis Chapman, and then a brief rain delay, the Cubs pushed two runs across in the 10th on Ben Zo- brist’s double and Miguel Mon- tero’s single. The Indians got a run back in the bottom of the inning when Da- vis singled home Brandon Guyer, who had walked with two out against Carl Edwards Jr. But Mike Montgomery, the Cubs’ fifth pitcher of the night, got Michael Martinez to hit a slow roller to third base. Kris Bryant scooped it up and threw to first baseman An- thony Rizzo, and the Cubs poured out of the dugout and mobbed one another in the center of the dia- mond. The heart-stopping end to the series was the Cubs’ third straight victory over the Indians, allowing them to become the first team to rally from a three-games-to-one deficit in the Series since Kansas City in 1985, and the first to do it on the road since Pittsburgh in 1979. But they did not so much beat the Indians as survive them. In this matchup of long-suffer- ing franchises who shared the More Torment, Then Cubs End 108-Year Wait By BILLY WITZ Cubs players after scratching out a win in an epic game that ended early Thursday in Cleveland. Chicago last won a title in 1908. GREGORY SHAMUS/GETTY IMAGES Continued on Page B13 VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,405 + © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016 Late Edition $2.50 Today, becoming cloudy, afternoon and evening showers or heavy thun- derstorms, high 74. Tonight, cloudy, low 47. Tomorrow, sunny, high 56. Weather map appears on Page A24.
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