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KHAZER CAMP, Iraq — By thetime the jihadists had finished, noteven a woman’s eyes were legal.Showing them was a punishableoffense.

The dress code imposed on thewomen of Mosul started soon af-ter the Islamic State overran thecity more than two years ago. Itwas carried out gradually, untilevery part of the female body waserased, starting with the face,then the rest of the body — includ-ing the hands, which had to becovered with gloves, as well as thefeet, which had to be hidden bysocks. It ended with an announce-ment blared over loudspeakers,telling women to wear a film ofblack cloth over their eyes.

Halima Ali Beder, 39, said shehad resentfully made each newaddition to her wardrobe, startingwith the niqab to cover her face,and the abaya, also known as a jil-bab, a loosefitting gown. Yet shestill ran afoul of the Islamic State’sincreasingly harsh enforcementof its codes when she stepped intothe lane outside her home, plan-ning to pop over to her neighbor’shouse.

“I put on everything — theniqab, the abaya, the gloves, thesocks. All I forgot to do is cover myeyes,” said Ms. Beder, one of a doz-en women from recently liberatedneighborhoods of the city who re-counted their experiences in in-terviews at the Khazer refugeecamp, about 45 miles from Mosul

Under ISIS Dress Code, Even Women’s Eyes Were Soon ErasedBy RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

Islamic State militants blotted out the faces in a kindergartenmural in Mosul, Iraq, where a strict dress code was imposed.

GORAN TOMASEVIC/REUTERS

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — ChristinaHagan, the youngest woman inthe Ohio Legislature, received asurprise last week. The toughestpiece of abortion legislation in thecountry — a bill she had champi-oned for years — suddenlypassed.

The measure, which would banabortions after a heartbeat is de-tected, as early as six weeks, waslong presumed dead. But now thatDonald J. Trump is headed to theWhite House, the political windshave changed, and it passed withoverwhelming majorities.

So did a bill banning abortions

after 20 weeks. Neither containsexceptions for rape and incest.Now Gov. John Kasich — a Repub-lican who is an ardent abortion op-ponent and onetime challenger toMr. Trump — is weighing whetherto sign one or both.

“President-elect Trump hasdrastically shifted the dynamics,”said Ms. Hagan, 28, a Republicanwho has served in the State Housesince 2011. “I honestly could nothave foreseen this victory a weekor a month ago.”

The effects of Mr. Trump’s vic-tory are only beginning to be felt.

Emboldened by Trump’s Victory, Abortion Foes Vow ‘Onslaught’

By SABRINA TAVERNISE and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Continued on Page A12

During the tough financial times of 2011,Marcy Willis, a single mother who raisedfive children in Atlanta, used her creditcard to rent a car for an acquaintance inexchange for cash. But the man — and the

car — disappeared, she said. Four monthslater, when Ms. Willis finally recoveredthe car and returned it, she was chargedwith felony theft.

As a first-time offender, Ms. Willis, 52,qualified for a big break: a program calledpretrial intervention, also known as diver-sion. If she took 12 weeks of classes, per-formed 24 hours of community serviceand stayed out of trouble, her case wouldbe dismissed and her arrest could be ex-punged, leaving her record clean.

Diversion is not uncommon. Last year,Rebecca Horting, a 36-year-old nurse inTopeka, Kan., was offered a similar dealfor an offense that caused far greaterharm. She was charged with reckless bat-tery and texting while driving after she hita girl on a bicycle, causing brain damageand the loss of a leg.

Both women did what was required ofthem, yet their cases took different paths.The reason: money.

Ms. Horting was able to pay $1,138 infees and is on track to have her case dis-missed.

Ms. Willis, who owed $690, had a hardertime. When she paid all but $240, her casewas sent back to court for prosecution.

By that time, the arrest had already ledto her losing her job, and then her apart-ment. At a homeless shelter, she wasrobbed. Accustomed to earning a living,she began to despair.

“I felt like I was in a grave or a hole andinstead of digging the dirt out, it was pilingup,” Ms. Willis said. “I lost the respect of

my kids, my family, and I was too embar-rassed to reach out to friends — so what doyou do?”

Though few people have heard of diver-sion, the practice is increasingly beingembraced as a way for the criminal justicesystem to save people from itself.

Diversion is intended to relieve over-burdened courts and crowded jails, and tospare low-risk offenders from the devas-tating consequences of a criminal record.It mostly applies to nonviolent cases thatmake up the vast majority of crimes — of-fenses like shoplifting, drug possessionand theft. There are now diversion pro-grams in almost every state.

But an examination by The New YorkTimes found that in many places, onlypeople with money could afford a secondchance. Though diversion was introducedas a money-saving reform, some jurisdic-tions quickly turned it into a source of rev-enue.

Prosecutors exert almost total control

Marcy Willis, right, qualified for pretrial diversion, an alternative to prosecution. But she struggled with the costs.KEVIN D. LILES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Spared From a Criminal Record,As Long as You Can Pay

Programs That Promise a Second Chance Still Elude Many Defendants

By SHAILA DEWANand ANDREW W. LEHREN

Continued on Page A14

NO MONEY, NO MERCY

When the Fix Breaks

WASHINGTON — Americanspy and law enforcement agen-cies were united in the belief, inthe weeks before the presidentialelection, that the Russian govern-ment had deployed computerhackers to sow chaos during thecampaign. But they had conflict-ing views about the specific goalsof the subterfuge.

Last week, Central IntelligenceAgency officials presented law-makers with a stunning new judg-ment that upended the debate:Russia, they said, had intervenedwith the primary aim of helpingmake Donald J. Trump president.

The C.I.A.’s conclusion does notappear to be the product of spe-cific new intelligence obtainedsince the election, several Ameri-can officials, including some whohad read the agency’s briefing,said on Sunday. Rather, it was ananalysis of what many believe isoverwhelming circumstantial evi-dence — evidence that others feeldoes not support firm judgments— that the Russians put a thumbon the scale for Mr. Trump, and gottheir desired outcome.

It is unclear why the C.I.A. didnot produce this formal assess-ment before the election, although

several officials said that parts ofit had been made available toPresident Obama in the presiden-tial daily briefing in the weeks be-fore the vote. But the conclusionthat Moscow ran an operation tohelp install the next president isone of the most consequentialanalyses by American spy agen-cies in years.

Mr. Trump’s response has beento dismiss the reports by citing an-other famous intelligence assess-ment — the botched 2002 conclu-sion that the Iraqi leader, SaddamHussein, had weapons of mass de-struction — and portraying Amer-ican spies as bumbling and bi-ased.

“I think it’s ridiculous. I thinkit’s just another excuse. I don’t be-lieve it,” Mr. Trump said on Sun-day in an interview on Fox News.

C.I.A. Judgment on RussiaBuilt on Swell of Evidence

Trump Rejects the Spy Agency’s Analysis, Among the Most Significant in Years

By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC LICHTBLAU

Continued on Page A11

Boeing announced a $16.6 bil-lion deal on Sunday to sell planesto Iran, which for decades hadbeen economically blacklisted bythe United States. The companyinstead chose to emphasize howmany jobs the sale would support.

“Today’s agreement will sup-port tens of thousands of U.S.jobs” associated with the produc-tion and delivery of the planes,Boeing said in its news release.

The intended recipient of Boe-ing’s message clearly seemed tobe President-elect Donald J.Trump.

Its carefully worded statementis emblematic of the tightrope thatAmerica’s biggest exporters arewalking amid his threats to shakeup trade policy and undo theObama administration’s nuclear

accord with Iran. That agreementlifted the American sanctions onIran, making Boeing’s jet dealpossible.

Mr. Trump has talked about im-posing tariffs on imports fromChina and on American compa-nies that move jobs to Mexico andother countries. But he has notsaid much about how some ofAmerica’s major manufacturingcompanies, like Boeing and Gen-eral Electric, and their workerscould be hurt if other countries re-taliated for the tariffs or if existingtrade agreements were ripped up.

Boeing officials, already dis-mayed by Mr. Trump’s attack lastweek over the costs of a new AirForce One, acknowledged that theIran jet deal still faced contingen-

Boeing Seeks to Sell AirplanesTo Iran, and the Deal to Trump

By CHRISTOPHER DREW

Continued on Page B3

CHINA DIPLOMACY Mr. Trumpquestioned the approach to theOne China policy. PAGE A13

Middle-class Chinese are using newtechnology to move their money out ofthe country and into American invest-ments, like stocks and real estate, fromSan Francisco to New York. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-4

China’s Exodus of Wealth

Boko Haram’s campaign of killing andlooting is exacerbating a food shortagein eastern Niger as the violence drivestens of thousands of Nigerians over theborder seeking safety. PAGE A4

Terrorism-Fueled Food Crisis

An explosion during Sunday Masskilled at least 25, mostly women andchildren, in a chapel near Egypt’s mainCoptic cathedral, days after anotherattack killed six police officers. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-9

Deadly Blast at Cairo Church

An investigation into racial bias byprison guards in New York State aimsto cover 54 prisons, 50,000 inmates and20,000 corrections officers. PAGE A16

NEW YORK A16-19

Sprawling Inquiry Into Prisons

Charles M. Blow PAGE A21

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21

A $2.5 billion Google data center inPryor, Okla., is lifting the fortunes of thelocal school district, in a state wheremost schools are struggling. PAGE B1

When Google Comes to Town

We live in a TV show that Donald J.Trump is starring in and live-tweeting,James Poniewozik writes. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Trump’s TV Presidency

TAJAN

A work by Leonardo da Vinci is aheart-pounding find. Page C1.

A Long-Lost Leonardo

A New Hampshire farmhouse, financedin part by federal money, offers treat-ment for opioid users who are pregnantor newly postpartum. PAGE A10

NATIONAL A10-15

Helping Mothers Escape Drugs

BRIEFINGS Donald J. Trump willbe briefed on intelligence “when Ineed it,” not daily. PAGE A10

Eli Manning and the Giants came frombehind in the third quarter to top Dallasfor the second time this year. PAGE D1

SPORTSMONDAY D1-6

Giants Beat Cowboys, 10-7

Late Edition

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