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MARMET, W.Va. — There werethe beauty queens, ages 6 to 60,riding in style in the Labor DayParade, including Teen Miss WestVirginia Coal. There was the mandriving a pickup truck memorialto 29 workers killed in a 2010 minedisaster, each victim’s portrait air-brushed on metal.

And there was Senator JoeManchin, in a sky-blue shirt withthe state’s craggy outline on itscrest, walking the route and greet-ing voters who brought up his fa-vorite issue themselves.

“Save our health care!” Bar-bara Miller shouted.

Mr. Manchin stopped to giveher a hug. After he passed, shesaid she feared that Republicansin Washington will continue to tryto repeal President Barack Oba-ma’s health care law. “If they can’toverturn that, then they hope theycan at least favor their big-insur-ance buddies by allowing them toblock pre-existing conditions,”said Ms. Miller, a nurse educator.“I have a pre-existing condition.”

“We all do,” chimed in four otherwomen seated with her on aporch.

In a state where approval ofPresident Trump is near the coun-try’s highest, Mr. Manchin, a Dem-

Manchin GainsIn West VirginiaOn Health Care

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The Trump administration heldsecret meetings with rebelliousmilitary officers from Venezuelaover the last year to discuss theirplans to overthrow PresidentNicolás Maduro, according toAmerican officials and a formerVenezuelan military commanderwho participated in the talks.

Establishing a clandestinechannel with coup plotters in Ven-ezuela was a big gamble for Wash-ington, given its long history ofcovert intervention across LatinAmerica. Many in the region stilldeeply resent the United Statesfor backing previous rebellions,coups and plots in countries likeCuba, Nicaragua, Brazil and Chile,and for turning a blind eye to theabuses military regimes commit-ted during the Cold War.

The White House, which de-clined to answer detailed ques-tions about the talks, said in astatement that it was important toengage in “dialogue with all Vene-zuelans who demonstrate a desirefor democracy” in order to “bringpositive change to a country thathas suffered so much under Ma-duro.”

But one of the Venezuelan mili-tary commanders involved in thesecret talks was hardly an idealfigure to help restore democracy:He is on the American govern-ment’s own sanctions list of cor-rupt officials in Venezuela.

He and other members of theVenezuelan security apparatus

U.S. MET REBELSFROM VENEZUELA ABOUT COUP PLOT

A RISK FOR WASHINGTON

Dissidents’ Secret Plansto Overthrow Maduro

Eventually Stalled

By ERNESTO LONDOÑOand NICHOLAS CASEY

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One of the world’s top breastcancer doctors failed to disclosemillions of dollars in paymentsfrom drug and health care compa-nies in recent years, omitting hisfinancial ties from dozens of re-search articles in prestigious pub-lications like The New EnglandJournal of Medicine and TheLancet.

The researcher, Dr. José Ba-selga, a towering figure in the can-cer world, is the chief medical offi-cer at Memorial Sloan KetteringCancer Center in New York. Hehas held board memberships oradvisory roles with Roche andBristol-Myers Squibb, amongother corporations, has had astake in start-ups testing cancertherapies, and played a key role inthe development of breakthroughdrugs that have revolutionizedtreatments for breast cancer.

According to an analysis by TheNew York Times and ProPublica,Dr. Baselga did not follow finan-cial disclosure rules set by theAmerican Association for CancerResearch when he was presidentof the group. He also left out pay-ments he received from compa-nies connected to cancer researchin his articles published in thegroup’s journal, Cancer Discov-ery. At the same time, he has beenone of the journal’s two editors inchief.

At a conference this year andbefore analysts in 2017, he put apositive spin on the results of twoRoche-sponsored clinical trialsthat many others considered dis-appointments, without disclosinghis relationship to the company.Since 2014, he has received morethan $3 million from Roche in con-sulting fees and for his stake in a

A Top DoctorDidn’t DiscloseCorporate Ties

Sloan Kettering ChiefWas Paid Millions

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HOTAN, China — On the edge of adesert in far western China, an imposingbuilding sits behind a fence topped withbarbed wire. Large red characters on thefacade urge people to learn Chinese,study law and acquire job skills. Guardsmake clear that visitors are not welcome.

Inside, hundreds of ethnic Uighur Mus-lims spend their days in a high-pressureindoctrination program, where they areforced to listen to lectures, sing hymnspraising the Chinese Communist Partyand write “self-criticism” essays, accord-ing to detainees who have been released.

The goal is to rid them of devotion to Is-lam.

Abdusalam Muhemet, 41, said the po-lice detained him for reciting a verse ofthe Quran at a funeral. After two monthsin a nearby camp, he and more than 30others were ordered to renounce theirpast lives. Mr. Muhemet said he wentalong but quietly seethed.

“That was not a place for getting rid ofextremism,” he recalled. “That was aplace that will breed vengeful feelings anderase Uighur identity.”

This camp outside Hotan, an ancientoasis town in the Taklamakan Desert, isone of hundreds that China has built in thepast few years. It is part of a campaign ofbreathtaking scale and ferocity that hasswept up hundreds of thousands of Chi-nese Muslims for weeks or months ofwhat critics describe as brainwashing,usually without criminal charges.

Though limited to China’s western re-gion of Xinjiang, it is the country’s most

sweeping internment program since theMao era — and the focus of a growingchorus of international criticism.

China has sought for decades to restrictthe practice of Islam and maintain an irongrip in Xinjiang, a region almost as big asAlaska where more than half the popula-tion of 24 million belongs to Muslim ethnicminority groups. Most are Uighurs,whose religion, language and culture,along with a history of independencemovements and resistance to Chineserule, have long unnerved Beijing.

After a succession of violent antigov-ernment attacks reached a peak in 2014,the Communist Party chief, Xi Jinping,sharply escalated the crackdown, orches-trating an unforgiving drive to turn ethnicUighurs and other Muslim minorities intoloyal citizens and supporters of the party.

“Xinjiang is in an active period of ter-rorist activities, intense struggle againstseparatism and painful intervention totreat this,” Mr. Xi told officials, accordingto reports in the state news media lastyear.

In addition to the mass detentions, theauthorities have intensified the use of in-

An indoctrination camp in Hotan, China. Below, Abdusalam Muhemet, 41, was detained for two months in one such camp.

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A pair of top Republicans ac-knowledged in a private meetingon Saturday that the party wasbattling serious vulnerabilities inthe midterm elections, includingwhat one described as wide-spread “hate” for PresidentTrump, and raised the prospectthat Senator Ted Cruz of Texascould lose his bid for re-electionbecause he is not seen as “likable”enough.

The two Republican leaders,Mick Mulvaney, the federal budg-et director, and Ronna McDaniel,the Republican National Commit-tee chairwoman, assured party of-ficials and donors at a closed-doorevent in New York City that theright would ultimately turn back apurported “blue wave” in Novem-ber. Mr. Mulvaney also questionedwhether Democrats could mar-shal support from outside the left,criticizing them as a party definedsolely by opposition to Mr. Trump.

But Mr. Mulvaney and Ms. Mc-Daniel also offered an unusuallyraw assessment of their own par-ty’s strengths and weaknesses inthe midterm elections. Theypointed to the burning energyamong Democratic voters and thedozens of open House seats,where Republican incumbents de-

Trump OfficialsSee WeaknessesIn the Midterms

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In the middle of her UnitedStates Open final against NaomiOsaka at Arthur Ashe Stadium onSaturday, with a record-tying 24thGrand Slam singles title on theline, Serena Williams was stand-ing on the court calling the chairumpire a thief.

This is not the way it was sup-posed to go for Williams, 36, per-haps the greatest player her sporthas seen, on a night that was sup-posed to be a celebration of her ca-reer and her comeback to the topof tennis a year after giving birth.

After Osaka dominated the firstset, another sign that this wouldnot be a coronation for Williamscame early in the second, whenshe received a warning for receiv-ing help from her coach in thestands.

A few games later, Williamsslammed her racket and broke it.

That garnered a penalty point inOsaka’s favor. Still steaming fromthe previous warning, Williamsfumed at the chair umpire and, astensions rose on the court and inthe crowd, she received a gamepenalty that gave Osaka a 5-3lead, one game from the title.

Within minutes, instead of trad-ing blazing ground strokes withOsaka, a 20-year-old born in Ja-pan who grew up idolizing her,Williams was having a heated con-versation with the tournamentreferee. “There are men out herethat do a lot worse,” she said, “butbecause I’m a woman, becauseI’m a woman, you’re going to takethis away from me? That is notright.”

For Williams, this was all too fa-miliar. She has had a series of run-

Williams, Seeking 24th Major, Is Undone in a Swirl of Emotion

By BEN ROTHENBERG

TITLE NO. 1 Naomi Osaka beat Serena Williams, becoming thefirst Japanese player to win a Grand Slam. SportsSunday.

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