WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump abruptly blew up a meet-ing with Democratic congres-sional leaders on Wednesday, de-claring that he could not workwith them until they stopped in-vestigating him and lashing out atSpeaker Nancy Pelosi for accus-ing him of a cover-up.

He then marched out into theRose Garden, where reportershad been gathered, and delivereda statement bristling with angeras he demanded that Democrats“get these phony investigationsover with.” He said they could notlegislate and investigate simulta-neously. “We’re going to go downone track at a time,” he said.

The tempestuous clash be-tween Mr. Trump and Ms. Pelosisuggested that efforts to forge bi-partisan legislation on issues —already a long shot — may effec-tively be frozen for the foresee-able future while the presidentand his opponents wage war overthe various investigations nowunderway.

The confrontation came on aday when talk of a possible im-peachment drive raised tempera-tures on both sides of the aisle.Restive House Democrats

pressed Ms. Pelosi to open a for-mal inquiry aimed at removingthe president from office for highcrimes and misdemeanors whileboth sides sought to gain the up-per hand in the escalating con-flicts over testimony and docu-ments.

The Justice Department strucka deal with the House IntelligenceCommittee to provide some secretmaterial related to the specialcounsel investigation of Mr.

President Trump cut short a meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, above, and Senator Chuck Schu-mer after three minutes Wednesday. In the Rose Garden, he demanded they stop investigating him.

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For three years, Donald J.Trump has treated the details ofhis personal and business fi-nances as a closely guarded se-cret.

On Wednesday, those secretsmoved two steps closer to becom-ing public.

A federal judge in Manhattanruled against a request from Pres-ident Trump to block his longtimelender, Deutsche Bank, from com-plying with congressional subpoe-nas seeking his detailed financialrecords. In Albany, New York law-makers approved a bill that wouldallow Congress to obtain Mr.Trump’s state tax returns.

Those actions came two daysafter a federal judge in Washing-ton ruled against Mr. Trump’s bidto quash another congressionalsubpoena to get his accountingfirm to hand over his tax returnsand other financial documents.

The court rulings and the NewYork legislation represent themost serious attempts to piercethe veil that surrounds Mr.Trump’s finances. They increasethe odds that congressional Dem-ocrats, who have become more vo-cal in their calls to undertake im-peachment proceedings againstthe president, could enter such afray with ample ammunitionabout Mr. Trump’s business deal-ings.

“Very excited,” House SpeakerNancy Pelosi said after learning ofthe Manhattan judge’s ruling.“Two in one week!”

Mr. Trump has already ap-pealed the ruling over the sub-poena to his accounting firm,Mazars USA, and will almost cer-tainly appeal the ruling handeddown on Wednesday. The commit-tees have already agreed to giveany appeals a chance to play outbefore enforcing the subpoenas,but House Democrats are nowcloser than ever to securing a vastcache of long-sought documents.

Mr. Trump’s finances have beenlargely a mystery from the mo-ment he declared his candidacyfor president. He broke with dec-ades of precedent by refusing torelease his federal tax returns. Hiscompany, the Trump Organiza-tion, is private, and he has dis-closed minimal information abouthow the company makes moneyand the sources of that income.

Mr. Trump has faced persistentcriticism over the interplay be-tween his private business and hispublic office. The president fre-quently visits his golf resorts andhis private club, Mar-a-Lago inPalm Beach, Fla., and owns a hoteljust blocks from the White Housethat is frequented by foreign dig-nitaries.

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Children playing soccer in Palermo, Sicily, where issues over migration are playing out. Page A14.Migrants’ Complicated Identity in Sicily

Days after a billionaire pledgedto pay the collective student debtof the entire 2019 Morehouse Col-lege graduating class, euphoriawas not the only emotion in the air.

On Morehouse’s Atlanta cam-pus and beyond, administrators,students and parents — and noshortage of philanthropy experts— have spent the last few dayswondering how, exactly, Robert F.Smith, a titan tech investor, wouldfulfill his promise to 396 gradu-ates. The surprise announcementwas both an extraordinary gift —and a complicated one.

At the end of a graduation cele-bration on Sunday night,Shaquille Lampley returned to hisdorm room on campus, openedthe computer and stared at hisstudent loan estimates. They to-taled more than $200,000 in loanstaken out by his mother, coveringsix years in school. “I just keptlooking at the number and think-ing to myself, this would crippleme for life,” said Mr. Lampley, 24,who earned a degree in sociology.“I am so grateful and still in shock

about this gift, and now I have somany questions about how thiswill be processed.”

Among the questions: Are allstudent loans included? Does thepledge include loans taken out bythe graduates’ parents? Whatabout gifts from home equityloans?

Expected to run well into themillions of dollars, the pledge willnot benefit those who never madeit to graduation because theircrushing debts forced them towithdraw before they earned a de-gree.

“I felt a level of survivor’s guilt,”said Myles Washington, 21, one ofthe graduates expecting to re-ceive tens of thousands of debt re-

‘Survivor’s Guilt’ After Billionaire’s Stunning GiftThis article is by Audra D. S.

Burch, Alan Blinder and RonLieber.

Graduates’ Debt ReliefComes With Burdens

Continued on Page A22The new laws that prohibitabortion as early as the sixthweek of pregnancy have beencalled “heartbeat” legislation bysupporters, a reference to theflickering pulse that can be seenon ultrasound images of a devel-oping embryo.

But when the American CivilLiberties Union announced a legalchallenge last week to one suchlaw in Ohio, there was no mentionof the word “heartbeat” in thenews release, which referred tothe law instead as “a ban on al-most all abortions.” In Georgia,Stacey Abrams, a Democrat whonarrowly lost the governor’s racelast year, called the measure inher state a “forced pregnancybill.” A sign at a protest against thelaw in Atlanta this week turnedthe idea into a slogan: “NOFORCED BIRTHS.”

The battle over abortion haslong been shaped by language. Af-ter abortion opponents coined the“pro-life” phrase in the 1960s toemphasize what they saw as thehumanity of the fetus, supportersof abortion cast themselves as“pro-choice” to stress a woman’sright to make decisions about herbody. In the mid-1990s, the term

How PhrasingHas IntensifiedAbortion Battle

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KASHGAR, China — A God’s-eye view of Kashgar, an ancientcity in western China, flashed ontoa wall-size screen, with colorfulicons marking police stations,checkpoints and the locations ofrecent security incidents. At theclick of a mouse, a technician ex-plained, the police can pull up livevideo from any surveillance cam-era or take a closer look at anyonepassing through one of the thou-sands of checkpoints in the city.

To demonstrate, she showedhow the system could retrieve thephoto, home address and officialidentification number of a womanwho had been stopped at a check-point on a major highway. The sys-tem sifted through billions ofrecords, then displayed details ofher education, family ties, links toan earlier case and recent visits toa hotel and an internet cafe.

The simulation, presented at anindustry fair in China, offered arare look at a system that nowpeers into nearly every corner ofXinjiang, the troubled regionwhere Kashgar is located.

This is the vision of high-techsurveillance — precise, all-seeing,infallible — that China’s leadersare investing billions of dollars inevery year, making Xinjiang an in-cubator for increasingly intrusivepolicing systems that couldspread across the country and be-yond.

It is also a vision that some ofPresident Trump’s aides have be-gun citing in a push for tougher ac-tion against Chinese companies inthe intensifying trade war. Be-yond concerns about market bar-riers, theft and national security,they argue that China is usingtechnology to strengthen authori-tarianism at home and abroad —and that the United States muststop it.

Developed and sold by theChina Electronics TechnologyCorporation, a state-run defensemanufacturer, the system inKashgar is on the cutting edge of

China ImposesA Spying StateIn Its Far West

Monitoring of MuslimsWith a Virtual Cage

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The elections for the European Parlia-ment come in a nationalist, populisttime, when a battle is being fought overthe soul of the Continent. PAGE A4

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Europe’s Murky FutureA former New York City detective hasadmitted his role in a brothel and gam-bling ring and could get 12 years inprison. PAGE A24

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Brothel Ringleader in Plea DealA federal judge in California found thatthe chip-making giant charged cell-phone makers “onerous” fees for theuse of its patents. The company said itwould appeal the ruling. PAGE B1

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Andrew Yang has made his Taiwanese-American ethnicity a central part of hiscampaign for president. PAGE A16

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‘Opposite of Donald Trump’Quentin Tarantino’s Manson-themed“Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood”plays like a love letter to the film indus-try, Manohla Dargis writes. PAGE C1

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Keith Bush always insisted he did notkill a girl when he was 17. At age 62, hehas been exonerated. PAGE 29

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On Jan. 3, St. Louis had the worstrecord in the N.H.L. Now the Blues willplay for the Stanley Cup. PAGE B9

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Hockey’s Turnaround ArtistsInvestigators could not be sure if apicture from a 1984 yearbook reallyshowed Virginia’s governor. PAGE A23

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American officials backed off an earlierState Department announcement thatwarned of new chemical attacks by theSyrian government. PAGE A14

Looking for Evidence in Syria

Researchers pinpointed two industrialprovinces in the eastern part of thecountry as the primary source of emis-sions of a banned gas. PAGE A8

China Blamed for Ozone Harm

... You can’t investigate andlegislate simultaneously - itjust doesn’t work that way.You can’t go down twotracks at the same time. LetChuck, Nancy, Jerry, Adamand all of the rest finishplaying their games ...

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This article is by Emily Flitter,Jesse McKinley, David Enrich andNicholas Fandos.

WASHINGTON — Harriet Tub-man — former slave, abolitionist,“conductor” on the UndergroundRailroad — will not become theface of the $20 bill until after Presi-dent Trump leaves office, Treas-ury Secretary Steven Mnuchinsaid Wednesday.

Plans to unveil the Tubman billin 2020, an Obama administrationinitiative, would be postponed un-til at least 2026, Mr. Mnuchin said,and the bill itself would not likelybe in circulation until 2028.

Until then, bills with formerPresident Andrew Jackson’s facewill continue to pour out ofA.T.M.s and fill Americans’ wal-lets.

Mr. Mnuchin, concerned thatthe president might create an up-roar by canceling the new bill alto-gether, was eager to delay its re-design until Mr. Trump was out ofoffice, some senior Treasury De-partment officials have said. As apresidential candidate in 2016, Mr.Trump criticized the Obama ad-ministration’s plans for the bill.

That April, Mr. Trump called thechange “pure political correct-ness” and suggested that Tub-man, whom he praised, could beadded to a far less common de-nomination, like the $2 bill. “An-drew Jackson had a great history,and I think it’s very rough when

Tubman as New Face of $20 Bill?Not Before President Exits Office

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GO-SLOW STRATEGY The Housespeaker pushed back at the presi-dent. News Analysis. PAGE A21

Thomas Silverstein, a killer and whitesupremacist, was in solitary confine-ment for 36 years. He was 67. PAGE A30

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