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In the fabled English Lake District,divergent interests clashed when someramblers and climbers banded togetherto try to buy a mountain. ThrelkeldJournal. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-10
Land Battle Over a MountainPeople who knew the man held in thestabbing of 10 people at a mall in Minne-sota try to reconcile their memories of aquiet youth with the bloody accounts ofthe assault. PAGE A11
NATIONAL A11-16
‘Normal American Kid’
The Justice Department and the Tulsa,Okla., police were investigating a whiteofficer’s killing of an unarmed blackman, shown on video apparently raisinghis hands above his head. PAGE A13
Video Shows Killing by Police
The man who the police saidsowed terror across two states,setting off bombs in Manhattanand on the Jersey Shore andtouching off a furious manhunt,was tracked down on Mondaymorning sleeping in the dankdoorway of a neighborhood barand taken into custody after beingwounded in a gun battle with offi-cers.
The frenzied end came on arain-soaked street in Linden, N.J.,four hours after the police issuedan unprecedented cellphone alertto millions of people in the areatelling them to be on the lookoutfor Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, whowas described as “armed and dan-gerous.”
Even as the remarkably swiftarrest eased fears across the re-gion, investigators were still in theearliest stages of trying to deter-mine what provoked the attacks,why a street in Chelsea was one ofthe targets and whether thebomber was aided by others.While investigators have been fo-cused on Mr. Rahami’s actions im-
mediately before and after thebombings, they were also workingon Monday to trace his activitiesand travel in both recent monthsand years.
One law enforcement officialsaid that the bomb technicians in-volved in the investigation be-lieved that Mr. Rahami con-structed all the devices and thathis handiwork raised the possibil-ity that he had received trainingfrom someone with experiencebuilding improvised explosive de-vices.
“If you’re working off the prem-ise that the guy made all these de-vices,” the official said, “then theguy is a pretty good bombmaker.And you don’t get that good on theinternet.”
It could not be determined onMonday whether Mr. Rahami hada lawyer, and his father did not re-spond to questions from reporterswaiting outside the family’s apart-ment.
Mr. Rahami and his family hadtraveled periodically to Pakistan,and on one trip, he stayed fornearly a year. A senior law en-forcement official said that no evi-
BOMBING SUSPECTSHOT AND CAUGHTAFTER A MANHUNT
Authorities Scour Man’s Past for Clues inNew York and New Jersey Blasts
This article is by Marc Santora,William K. Rashbaum, Al Bakerand Adam Goldman.
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WASHINGTON — Federalauto safety regulators on Mondaymade it official: They are bettingthe nation’s highways will be saferwith more cars driven by ma-chines and not people.
In long-awaited guidelines forthe booming industry of auto-mated vehicles, the Obama ad-ministration promised strongsafety oversight, but sent a clearsignal to automakers that the doorwas wide open for driverless cars.
“We envision in the future, youcan take your hands off the wheel,and your commute becomes rest-ful or productive instead of frus-trating and exhausting,” said Jeff-rey Zients, director of the NationalEconomic Council, adding that
highly automated vehicles “willsave time, money and lives.”
The statements were the mostaggressive signal yet by federalregulators that they see auto-mated car technology as a win forauto safety. Yet having officiallyendorsed the fast-evolving tech-nology, regulators must now bal-ance the commercial interests ofcompanies including Tesla,Google and Uber with concernsover public safety, especially inlight of recent crashes involvingsemiautonomous cars.
The policies unveiled on Mon-day were designed to walk thatline. In a joint appearance, Mr.Zients and Anthony Foxx, secre-
U.S. Guidance on Driverless CarsBalances Safety and Innovation
By CECILIA KANG
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A suspect in a bombing was stillat large Monday morning, his mo-tives and intentions unknown —but Hillary Clinton and Donald J.Trump were already racing toseize the political upper hand.
With a manhunt still in progressbefore an arrest later in the day,Mrs. Clinton sought to shift theterms of the presidential contestback in her direction. She calledMr. Trump a “recruiting sergeantfor the terrorists” and, from arainy airport in White Plains, of-fered herself as a seasoned war-rior against terrorism.
Mr. Trump returned fire hourslater, blaming Mrs. Clinton andPresident Obama’s handling of
immigration and the Iraq war forbringing terrorism to Americanshores. He called for vigorous po-lice profiling of people from theMuslim world and drew a directequation between immigrationcontrols and national defense.
The attacks could reframe thepresidential race around starkquestions of national security af-ter weeks of often-bitter snipingbetween Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clin-ton over more personal matters ofcharacter, transparency and med-ical records. The violence of theweekend is all but certain to ripplein the first presidential debate, setfor next Monday at Hofstra Uni-
Candidates Clash on Terrorism
By ALEXANDER BURNS and NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
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Monday, 11:30 a.m., LINDEN, N.J. The police capture Ahmad Khan Rahami after a shootout. He is taken to a hospital in Newark.ED MURRAY/NJ ADVANCE MEDIA FOR NJ.COM
Saturday, 9:30 a.m.SEASIDE PARK, N.J.A pipe bomb explodes near theroute of a five-kilometer run.
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Saturday, 8:30 p.m.MANHATTANA bomb explodes near a Dumpsteron West 23rd Street.
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Saturday, 11:30 p.m.MANHATTANTwo State Police troopers find anunexploded bomb on 27th Street.
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Sunday, 8:45 p.m.ELIZABETH, N.J.Five bombs are found in a back-pack near a train station.
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Airstrikes on an aid convoy for Aleppo killed 12 people. One for Homs, above, was halted. Page A4.Syria Declares Cease-Fire Over
NEWARK — Gov. ChrisChristie of New Jersey knew thatthree of his top officials were in-volved in a plan to shut downlanes leading to the George Wash-ington Bridge as it was happeningand that the closings were in-tended to punish a local mayor fordeclining to support him, federalprosecutors said on Monday.
The assertion was an unexpect-ed and startling beginning to thetrial of two former Christie admin-istration officials charged withclosing the lanes in 2013 and thencovering it up. And it was a sur-prising claim because of the sideof the courtroom it came from, aslawyers made opening state-ments.
Defense lawyers have long ar-gued that Mr. Christie, a Republi-can, and his top advisers werewell aware of the lane closings andthat they directed the cover-up asthey tried to protect the gover-nor’s political aspirations — say-ing their clients were “thrown un-der the presidential bus,” as onelawyer argued on Monday.
But this was the first time aprosecutor had pointed a finger atMr. Christie. And it directly con-tradicts the governor’s state-ments in the three years since thelanes were mysteriously closed,paralyzing the borough of FortLee, N.J.
Mr. Christie, a former top fed-eral prosecutor in New Jersey, hasconsistently denied that he knewabout the lane closings as they un-folded, and argued that the UnitedStates attorney’s office had “exon-erated” him when it declined to in-
U.S. AssertsChristie Knew Of Bridge Plot
By KATE ZERNIKE
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He presided behind the counterof a storefront New Jersey friedchicken restaurant, making hishome with his family in an apart-ment above it. To some of hisfriends, Ahmad Khan Rahami wasknown as Mad, an abridgment ofhis name rather than a suggestionof his manner, and they liked thathe gave them free food when theywere short on money.
Beyond that, his other knownobsession was souped-up HondaCivics that he liked to race. In re-cent years, though, some friendsnoticed a marked change in hispersonality and religious devotionafter what they believed was a tripto Afghanistan, where he and his
relatives are from.In fact, a federal official, speak-
ing on the condition of anonymity,said Mr. Rahami had actuallytraveled to Pakistan, for threemonths in 2011 and, most recently,to Quetta, for nearly a year, wherehe stayed with family, returning tothe United States in March 2014.While there, he is believed to havemarried.
Back in New Jersey, he and hisrelatives had a fractious relation-
ship with neighbors and the policein Elizabeth, N.J., because of thealways-open hours of their restau-rant and the rackety customers itattracted. The longstanding fric-tion led to the Rahami family’s fil-ing a lawsuit in 2011 against thecity and its Police Department inwhich they alleged that they wereharassed and intimidated becauseof their religion. They accused alocal businessman of complainingto them, “Muslims make too muchtrouble in this country.”
Now, Mr. Rahami is suspectedof being responsible for the bomb-ings over the weekend in bothNew York and New Jersey. Hewas taken into custody on Mon-day after being discovered asleepin a bar doorway in New Jersey
Seeing a Transformation After a Trip OverseasBy N. R. KLEINFIELD
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Jamie Palmeroni-Lavis and Rob Lavis,like many couples who want to knowthey are Zika-free before conceiving,are not eligible for testing. PAGE D1
SCIENCE TIMES D1-7
Not Easy to Get a Zika Test
Beyond the Angkor Wat temple, a tech-nology known as lidar allows archaeolo-gists to find the ancient Khmer empire’sintricate urban landscape. PAGE D1
Hidden Cities of Cambodia
TEXT ALERTS An electronic most-wanted poster was sent to cell-phones. PAGE A18
A new poll shows white voters arekeeping Donald J. Trump’s hopes alivein Florida, a must-win state for hiscampaign. The Upshot. PAGE A16
A Boost From White Voters
As other business leaders cower in fearof Donald J. Trump and his Twitteraccount, Reid Hoffman, a co-founder ofLinkedIn, has created a card game thatdares to poke fun at him. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-8
Your Move, Mr. Trump Henry M. Paulson Jr. PAGE A25
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25
The prosecutor in the O.J. Simpsoncase, right, was honored in a speech bySarah Paulson, the actress who won anaward for portraying her. PAGE C1
Marcia Clark’s Emmy Victory
The NBC show pushes all your buttons,with birth, death, reunions, crises,heart-to-hearts and reconciliations. Areview by James Poniewozik. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-8
‘This Is Us,’ a Full Hour
JERSEY SHORE Residents of Sea-side, N.J., wonder why it allstarted in their town. PAGE A18
