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Gunmen took hostages at a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh. After a 10-hour standoff, soldiers stormed the building. Page A6.
A Deadly Standoff, Claimed by ISIS
WASHINGTON — AttorneyGeneral Loretta E. Lynch, conced-ing that her airport meeting withformer President Bill Clinton thisweek had cast a shadow over thefederal investigation of HillaryClinton’s personal email account,said Friday that she would acceptwhatever recommendations ca-reer prosecutors and the F.B.I. di-rector made about whether tobring charges in the case.
Ms. Lynch said she had decidedthis spring to defer to the recom-mendations of her staff and theF.B.I. because her status as a po-litical appointee sitting in judg-ment on a politically charged casewould raise questions of a conflictof interest. But the meeting withMr. Clinton, she acknowledged,had deepened those questions,and she said she now felt com-pelled to explain publicly her rea-soning to try to put the concerns torest.
“People have a whole host ofreasons to have questions abouthow we in government do ourbusiness,” Ms. Lynch said at anAspen Institute conference in Col-orado. “My meeting on the planewith former President Clintoncould give them another reason tohave questions and concerns.”
Though she insisted the 30-minute conversation was a purelysocial encounter, Ms. Lynch said,“I certainly wouldn’t do it again.”
The attorney general’s re-sponse did little to quell a politicaltempest in Washington, withsome Republicans calling for herto recuse herself from the case — astep she said she was not going totake. Donald J. Trump, the pre-sumptive Republican nominee,said the meeting had “opened up aPandora’s box.” He cast doubt onwhether it was entirely social, cit-ing it as an example of how “thespecial interests are controllingyour government.”
For Democrats, already anx-ious about the political impact ofthe email investigation, the inci-dent revived fears that Mr. Clintoncould become a rogue actor in acampaign that has so far operatedmore smoothly than Mrs. Clin-ton’s presidential bid in 2008.
Mr. Clinton, who was on a sev-en-state fund-raising swing for hiswife, strode across the tarmac atthe airport in Phoenix to greet Ms.Lynch after her plane landedthere on Monday night. The attor-
LYNCH WILL DEFERON BRINGING CASE
AGAINST CLINTON
EMAIL INQUIRY CLOUDED
Move to Quell Tempest
Over an Airport Visit
With Bill Clinton
This article is by Mark Landler,Matt Apuzzo and Amy Chozick.
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It is known as the flight tosafety, yet it may be leading theglobal economy toward fresh dan-ger.
In the week since Britainstunned the world with its vote toquit the European Union, coloringmarkets in uncertainty, investorshave dumped much that seemsrisky — the pound, the euro andshares on stock exchangesaround the world. They have en-trusted the proceeds to that raresure thing, bills and bonds issuedby the United States government.
Too much money may now besloshing toward the dollar.
For the United States, a strong-er currency makes exports moreexpensive on world markets, com-plicating an already halting eco-nomic expansion. For emergingmarkets, the move into the dollarcould presage a tide of investmentflowing out, imperiling economiesfrom Brazil to Indonesia. For Eu-rope, a weaker euro underscoresfundamental doubts aboutwhether leaders can finallymuster a formula for economic vi-brancy after years of disappoint-ment and recrimination.
Rush to DollarSpreads a RiskBeyond ‘Brexit’
By PETER S. GOODMAN
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WASHINGTON — Partly lift-ing the secrecy that has cloakedone of the United States’ most con-tentious tactics for fighting terror-ists, the Obama administrationsaid Friday that it believed thatairstrikes it had conducted out-side conventional war zones likeAfghanistan had killed 64 to 116 ci-vilian bystanders and about 2,500members of terrorist groups.
The official civilian death countis far lower than estimates com-piled by independent organiza-tions that try to track what thegovernment calls targetedkillings, and human rights groupsexpressed doubts about the reli-ability of the government’s num-bers. Most of the strikes havebeen carried out by drones in cha-otic places like Libya, tribal Paki-stan, Somalia and Yemen, thougha small number have involved tra-ditional aircraft or cruise missiles.
At the same time, PresidentObama issued an executive ordermaking civilian protection a pri-ority and requiring the govern-ment in the future to disclose thenumber of civilian deaths eachyear. The order, which could becanceled or altered by a futurepresident, tries to commit his suc-cessors to greater openness thanhe has achieved in his first sevenyears in office.
For Mr. Obama, the drone pro-gram is personal, a defining fea-ture of his presidency. As he ex-panded the use of drones far be-yond what President George W.Bush had begun, he took a directrole in approving some strikes, in-cluding the deliberate killing of anAmerican, and in setting up rulesto govern them.
In a seeming acknowledgmentthat the long-anticipated disclo-sure would be greeted with skepti-cism by critics of the drone pro-gram, the administration issuedthe numbers on a Friday after-noon before a holiday weekend.The use of a range of estimated ci-vilian deaths underscored the factthat the government often doesnot know for sure the affiliationsof those killed.
“They’re guessing, too,” saidBill Roggio, editor of The LongWar Journal at the Foundation forthe Defense of Democracies, whohas tracked civilian deaths formore than a decade. “Theirs maybe a little more educated than myguesses. But they cannot be com-pletely accurate.”
The disclosure about civiliandeaths and the executive order,the subject of months of bureau-cratic deliberations, carriedbroader significance. Issuedabout seven months before Mr.
U.S. MAKES PUBLICTHE DEATH TOLLFROM AIRSTRIKES
VEIL OF SECRECY LIFTED
Rights Groups Express
Doubts on Numbers
for Civilians
By CHARLIE SAVAGEand SCOTT SHANE
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BERLIN — Austria’s highestcourt threw out the results of thenation’s presidential election onFriday, giving a far-right, euro-skeptic party a second chance towin. The ruling put the EuropeanUnion’s core issues back in thecross hairs of voters only a weekafter Britain’s decision to quit.
Citing irregularities in ballotcounting, the court ordered a do-over of the presidential runoff,which an anti-immigrant candi-date, Norbert Hofer, narrowly lostin May. It was the first time Aus-tria had ordered a rerun of a na-tional election since 1945, whenthe Nazis were defeated.
Now, Mr. Hofer has anotherchance to become the first far-right politician elected head ofstate in Europe since World War
II. Much like the British vote lastweek, the new election in Austriacould well serve as a referendumon the central tenets, roles and re-sponsibilities of the European Un-ion.
The aftershocks of the Britishreferendum on leaving the 28-na-
tion bloc did not stop there. Cen-tral and Eastern European na-tions are demanding that the Eu-ropean Union do a better job ofdealing with migration.
The prime minister of Slovakia,which assumed the six-month ro-tating presidency of the EuropeanUnion on Friday, warned that thebloc’s leaders needed to pay moreattention to national sovereignty.The prime minister, Robert Fico,urged “a balance, an equilibrium,between the member states andthe European institutions,” so that“neither should dominate.”
The leaders of the EuropeanUnion are trying to discourageother states from leaving bymaking Britain’s exit as painful aspossible. Still, the growing pres-sure from angry electoratesacross Europe may force them torapidly address the issues that
Anti-Immigrant Party Gets a Do-Over in Austria
By ALISON SMALEand JAMES KANTER
Norbert Hofer, a far-right can-didate, narrowly lost in May.
LISI NIESNER/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
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DETROIT — As the co-founderand chief executive of Tesla Mo-tors, the technology billionaireElon Musk has consistently por-trayed his company’s electric carsas cleaner, safer and more innova-tive than models made by otherautomakers.
His confidence in Tesla’s tech-nology has seemed boundless,particularly when the companyannounced last year that it wouldequip its flagship Model S sedanswith a self-driving feature calledAutopilot that was still in its test-ing phase. The technology was soout in front of federal highway reg-ulations that there were no rulesagainst it.
But with the revelation thisweek that a Model S driver inFlorida was killed in May whileoperating his car in self-drivingmode, Mr. Musk’s determinationto push limits has hit its most for-midable roadblock.
The question now is how muchlonger Mr. Musk and Tesla cancontinue to defy auto industryconvention in trying to stay so farahead of the competition. A majorpoint of contention is the Autopilotfeature and the decision to make itavailable to car owners while itwas in “beta test” mode — a termtypically applied to software thata company releases on an ex-perimental basis.
“I can’t think of another exam-ple of anything like this deliveredin a beta phase in the automotiveworld,” said Ron Montoya, an ana-lyst with the auto research firmEdmunds.com. “Everything istested up and down before itcomes out.”
Even some Tesla owners, manyof whom can be cultishly devotedto the brand, now questionwhether the self-driving technol-ogy is as safe as advertised.
“It gives you a false sense of se-curity,” said Pete Cordaro, a Model
S owner who used Autopilot in aloaner when his Tesla vehicle wasbeing repaired. “You get comfort-able and think you can take yourhands off the wheel, but you reallycan’t.”
The death in May of JoshuaBrown, 40, of Canton, Ohio, wasthe first known fatality in a vehiclebeing operated by computer sys-tems.
Auto industry executives andanalysts wondered aloud on Fri-day whether Tesla had miscalcu-lated by introducing a self-drivingfeature that was perhaps notready to live up to Mr. Musk’s pro-nouncements. In April, he told aconference in Norway, “The prob-ability of having an accident is 50percent lower if you have Auto-pilot on.”
Tesla declined to comment on
A Fatality Is Forcing Tesla to Confront Its Limits
By BILL VLASIC Regulations Have Not
Kept the Pace With
Self-Driving Cars
In a YouTube video, Joshua Brown let go of the steering wheelof a Tesla Model S sedan. He was killed in an accident in May.
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He was wearing flashy jewelry:No one took it. Same with the cashin his pockets: still there. Thenthere was the matter of the feudsome years ago: A rival pizzamaker had stolen the secret recipefor his sauce.
Whatever the reason, LouisBarbati was dead, shot five times,the authorities said, in the balmysummer twilight on Thursdaynight. The killer had been waitingfor Mr. Barbati, the owner of awell-known pizzeria, L&B
Spumoni Gardens, at his house inDyker Heights, in southernBrooklyn. The shooter wasdressed in a hoodie that hid his fa-cial features; it was unclearwhether he said anything beforehe pulled the trigger. While the po-lice believe it may have been arobbery gone wrong, why wereMr. Barbati’s valuables left be-hind?
“It’s very confusing about whathappened,” said a law enforce-ment official with knowledge ofthe case. And indeed, there was atwist. The official quickly added,“There’s been this ongoing dis-pute between him and some other
guy who owned this rival joint inStaten Island.”
Over the past decade, Brooklynhas become such a symbol of arti-sanal hipster culture that someoutside New York may not knowthat the borough is not exclusivelydefined by kale or Lena Dunham.Yes, there are bohemian neigh-borhoods like Williamsburg andBushwick. But there are also moretraditional sections like DykerHeights, where, to quote WilliamFaulkner, “The past is never dead.It’s not even past.”
The police are trying to figureout if Mr. Barbati’s past —
In Pizza Man’s Death, a Hint of Old Brooklyn
By ALAN FEUERand AL BAKER
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Does more security at airports make ussafer or just move the target? PAGE A4
Airports After Istanbul
Donald J. Trump met with Gov. MikePence of Indiana, fueling speculationthat he is among the finalists to be Mr.Trump’s running mate. PAGE A12
Conjecture on G.O.P. Ticket
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislationputting new restrictions on assaultweapons and regulating the sale ofammunition, acting on issues that havebeen deadlocked in Congress. PAGE A10
NATIONAL A10-13
California Stiffens Gun Laws
Yuliya Stepanova, who exposed Russiandoping, should run in the Rio Olympics,track and field officials said. PAGE D1
Support for a Whistle-Blower
Royal Troon Golf Club voted to open itsmembership to women, which will keepit in the British Open rotation. PAGE D4
SPORTSSATURDAY D1-7
Golf Bastion Opens Its DoorsAfter another deadly attack in the occu-pied West Bank against Israeli civilians,above, Israel announced harsh restric-tions on Palestinians. PAGE A7
INTERNATIONAL A4-9
Israel Tightens Security
Theodore Roosevelt IVand Walter F. Mondale PAGE A17
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A16-17
While BroadwayHD’s live stream of“She Loves Me” did everything right,theater broadcasts are filled with chal-lenges, Margaret Lyons writes. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-6
Broadway, a Click Away
Gov. Chris Christie, declaring a crisis inthe state’s transportation fund, orderedroad projects in New Jersey halted aftera gas-tax deal stalled. PAGE A14
NEW YORK A14-15, 18
Christie Declares Emergency
Thousands of criminal immigrants havebeen freed after their native countrieswouldn’t take them back. PAGE A11
U.S. Deportations Stymied
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