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BEIRUT, Lebanon — TheTrump administration pushedback on Tuesday against risingcondemnation of Saudi Arabiaand showed support for its crownprince, who has been linked to thedisappearance and possiblekilling of a leading dissident jour-nalist inside a Saudi consulate inTurkey.

In his strongest language todate over the missing journalist,President Trump said in an inter-view with The Associated Press:“Here we go again with you’reguilty until proven innocent.”

Hours earlier, Mr. Trump’s topdiplomat, Secretary of State MikePompeo, arrived in Riyadh, theSaudi capital, smiling and shakinghands with the crown prince, Mo-hammed bin Salman.

Mr. Pompeo issued a statementsaying Saudi leaders had prom-ised a “thorough, transparent, andtimely investigation” into whathad befallen the journalist, JamalKhashoggi, after he entered theconsulate on Oct. 2. Mr. Trumpand Mr. Pompeo also said theSaudi leaders had repeated theiremphatic denials of any involve-ment in Mr. Khashoggi’s disap-pearance.

After days of leaks by Turkishofficials that accused Saudi Ara-bia of sending a hit squad to killMr. Khashoggi and dismemberhim with a bone saw, this was thelatest indication that the Trumpadministration would help its topArab ally defuse an internationalcrisis.

The administration’s moveshave come as criticism of CrownPrince Mohammed has intensi-fied — including by Republicanmembers of Congress, businessleaders and human rights officials— over Mr. Khashoggi’s disap-pearance and apparent killing.

Saudi Arabia also took steps onTuesday to please the WhiteHouse. Just as Mr. Pompeo metwith Saudi leaders, a long-prom-

Trump Jumps to the Kingdom’s Defense

This article is by Ben Hubbard,Rick Gladstone and Mark Landler.

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ISTANBUL — One of the sus-pects identified by Turkey in thedisappearance of the Saudi dissi-dent Jamal Khashoggi was a fre-quent companion of Crown PrinceMohammed bin Salman — seendisembarking from airplanes withhim in Paris and Madrid and pho-tographed standing guard duringhis visits this year to Houston,Boston and the United Nations.

Three others are linked by wit-nesses and other records to theSaudi crown prince’s security de-tail.

A fifth is a forensic doctor whoholds senior positions in the SaudiInterior Ministry and medical es-tablishment, a figure of such stat-ure that he could be directed onlyby a high-ranking Saudi authority.

If, as the Turkish authoritiessay, these men were present at theSaudi Consulate in Istanbul whereMr. Khashoggi disappeared onOct. 2, they might provide a directlink between what happened andPrince Mohammed. That wouldundercut any suggestion that Mr.Khashoggi died in a rogue opera-tion unsanctioned by the crownprince. Their connection to himcould also make it more difficultfor the White House and Congressto accept such an explanation.

The New York Times has con-firmed independently that at leastnine of 15 suspects identified byTurkish authorities worked for theSaudi security services, militaryor other government ministries.One of them, Maher AbdulazizMutreb, was a diplomat assignedto the Saudi Embassy in Londonin 2007, according to a British dip-lomatic roster. He traveled exten-sively with the crown prince, per-haps as a bodyguard.

How much blame for Mr.Khashoggi’s disappearance ordeath settles on the 33-year-oldcrown prince has become a deci-sive factor in his standing in the

4 Suspects IdentifiedIn Khashoggi Mystery

Have Links to PrinceMembers of Official

Saudi Agencies

This article is by David D. Kirk-patrick, Malachy Browne, Ben Hub-bard and David Botti.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in Riyadh on Tuesday.POOL PHOTO BY LEAH MILLIS

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —Zyahna Bryant and TrinityHughes, high school seniors, havebeen friends since they were 6,raised by blue-collar families inthis affluent college town. Theyplayed on the same T-ball andsoftball teams, and were in thesame church group.

But like many African-Ameri-can children in Charlottesville,Trinity lived on the south side oftown and went to a predominantlyblack neighborhood elementaryschool. Zyahna lived across thetrain tracks, on the north side, andwas zoned to a mostly whiteschool, near the University of Vir-ginia campus, that boasts thecity’s highest reading scores.

In elementary school, Zyahnawas chosen for the district’s pro-gram for gifted students. Sincethen, she has completed morethan a dozen advanced-placementand college-level courses, main-tained a nearly 4.0 grade-point av-erage, and has been a studentleader and a community activist.She has her eyes set on a presti-gious university like Virginia.

“I want to go somewhere where

it shows how much hard work I’veput in,” Zyahna said.

Trinity was not selected for thegifted program. She tried to enrollin higher-level courses and wasdenied. She expects to graduatethis school year, but with a tran-

script that she says will not makeher competitive for selective four-year colleges.

“I know what I’m capable of,and what I can do,” Trinity said,“but the counselors and teachers,they don’t really care about that.”

For every student like Zyahnain Charlottesville’s schools, thereare scores like Trinity, caught inone of the widest educational dis-parities in the United States.Charlottesville’s racial inequities

Separated, and Far From Equal, in Charlottesville’s Racial DivideBy ERICA L. GREEN

and ANNIE WALDMAN

Trinity Hughes, left, and Zyahna Bryant at Charlottesville High School, where they are seniors.MATT EICH

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LIMITED LEVERAGE Saudi Arabia can raise oil prices in the face ofthreatened punishment, but doing so could backfire. PAGE A5

ST. LOUIS — Joan Barry hasbeen a member of the MissouriDemocratic Party for 53 years. Asa state legislator, she voted regu-larly for workers’ rights, healthcare and programs for the poor.

So when the party began writ-ing a new platform after its crush-ing losses in 2016, Ms. Barry, amember of its state committee,did not think it was too much toask for a plank that welcomedpeople like her — Democrats whooppose abortion.

At first the party agreed andadded it. Missouri’s Democraticsenator, Claire McCaskill, evencalled Ms. Barry to praise her.

But within days, Ms. Barry be-gan receiving angry emails andFacebook messages. Peoplecalled her a dinosaur, a has-beenand worse. Her children started toworry.

“My daughter called me andsaid, ‘Mom, your life is in danger,’”Ms. Barry, 77, said in her home insuburban St. Louis. “ ‘You’d betterget some mace.’”

For most of its history, Missouriwas a barometer of the Americanmiddle. For a century, it voted forthe eventual winner of every pres-idential election except one.

But in 2008, Missouri brokewith its past, voting against thewinning candidate, BarackObama. By the end of his presi-dency, Democratic fortunes haddeclined precipitously, draggeddown by raw culture war battlesthat plagued the state. In 2016, the

Anti-Abortion Push in Missouri(And Not Only Within G.O.P.)

By SABRINA TAVERNISE

Joan Barry, who opposes abor-tion, roiled fellow Democrats.

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump referred to the porno-graphic film actress StephanieClifford as “Horseface” in a tweeton Tuesday, adding her to a longlist of women he has attacked bydemeaning their looks, mockingtheir bodily functions or compar-ing them to animals.

Mr. Trump’s verbal assaultcame as he gloated about a federaljudge’s decision to dismiss a defa-mation suit filed by Ms. Clifford,who is known professionally asStormy Daniels. Ms. Clifford’slawyer responded by calling thepresident “a disgusting misogy-nist.” Ms. Clifford — who was paid$130,000 through Mr. Trump’s for-mer lawyer to buy her silenceabout sex she said she had withMr. Trump — replied on Twitter byusing the nickname “Tiny” for thepresident.

Mr. Trump’s tweet landed in thefinal days of a congressional elec-tion cycle in which Republicancandidates are already strugglingto woo female voters. The presi-dent’s language is unlikely to be

helpful to them.Although the president’s com-

ment was striking about Ms. Clif-ford, who has graphically de-scribed Mr. Trump’s genitals in arecent memoir, it was hardlyunique.

Mr. Trump has accused womenof having “fat, ugly” faces and ofrepelling voters because of theirlooks. He called one woman a“crazed, crying lowlife” and saidanother was a “dog” who had the“face of a pig.” He said HillaryClinton’s bathroom break during a2015 presidential debate was “toodisgusting” to talk about. He hasrepeatedly mocked women for be-ing overweight.

“This rhetoric is the kind ofthing that has turned off college-educated Republican women whovoted for Trump in 2016, but havefallen away,” said Debbie Walsh,the director of the Center forAmerican Women and Politics atRutgers University. Calling thepresident’s comment “adoles-cent,” Ms. Walsh said that “you

‘Horseface,’ ‘Lowlife,’ ‘Fat, Ugly’:How President Demeans Women

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and EILEEN SULLIVAN

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An army of Democrats givingmoney over the internet has liftedthe party’s House candidates to astrong financial advantage overRepublicans in the final weeks ofthe 2018 midterm election, withDemocrats in the most competi-tive House races outraising theirRepublican rivals by more than$78 million.

Democratic challengers haveoutpaced Republican incumbentsin large part by drawing in mil-lions of dollars from many thou-sands of supporters online — astrategy wielded by BarackObama and Bernie Sanders inpresidential elections but neverreplicated on a massive scale inHouse races, until now.

Across the 69 most competitiveHouse races, Democrats haveraised a total of $46 million fromsmall donors during the 2018 elec-tion, compared with just $15 mil-lion for their Republican oppo-nents, according to campaign fi-nance data released this week.

Democrats have taken in $252million altogether in those racesover the course of the campaign,versus $172 million for Republi-cans. The gap in small donors ac-counts for about 40 percent of theDemocrats’ overall financial ad-vantage.

Nicco Mele, director of Har-vard’s Shorenstein Center on Me-dia, Politics and Public Policy, saidthe breakout fund-raising byDemocratic congressional candi-dates reflected a confluence of two

Small Donors Equal Big Dollars,Lifting Democrats’ Fund-Raising

This article is by AlexanderBurns, Rachel Shorey and Jugal K.Patel.

Percentage of

money raised by

small-donor dollars

 

 

2010 2012 2014 2016 2018

Democrats

Republicans

15%

7%

Note: Numbers are through the third

quarter of the election year. Only candidates

who raised at least $50,000 are included.

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Canada’s decision to fully legalize mari-juana has created a new, multibillion-dollar industry. PAGE A8

INTERNATIONAL A4-11

Legalizing Pot and Profits

Some Britons are warning of shortagesof food and medicine if no deal is struckwith the European Union. PAGE A4

Stocking Up as Brexit Looms

As rescuers comb through wreckage,the death toll from Hurricane Michaelrose to 26, but many more have beenreported missing. PAGE A12

NATIONAL A12-20

Search for Storm’s Missing

April Bloomfield discusses the scandalthat enveloped her and her Spotted Pigpartner, Ken Friedman. PAGE D1

FOOD D1-8

Chef Addresses Abuse Claims

Bankers tell Uber that its public offer-ing could be worth $120 billion. Thatputs it in rare company, with the likes ofFacebook and Alibaba. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

Possible Uber and Lyft I.P.O.s

The influential “sick humor” comic, whodied of a drug overdose in 1966, is hav-ing a resurgence in pop culture. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Lenny Bruce, Still Talking DirtyHarvard’s dean of admissions discussedhow consideration of race affected the“personal rating” of recruits. PAGE A13

Testimony on Harvard Ratings

From Brooklyn hipster to far-rightfirebrand, the story of Gavin McInnes,founder of the Proud Boys. PAGE A21

NEW YORK A21-23

Path of a ProvocateurAtomix restaurant in Murray Hill startseach course with a vocabulary lesson.Pete Wells didn’t mind. PAGE D1

Korean Delights, Pass or Fail

Jackie Bradley Jr., a stalwart outfieldernot known for his offense, smashed agrand slam to give Boston a two-games-to-one lead in the A.L.C.S. PAGE B10

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B10-14

Unlikely Blast Buries Astros

Frank Bruni PAGE A25

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25

CONUNDRUM The White House plans to impose new sanctions againstIran, and Saudi Arabia is key to the pressure campaign. PAGE A5

Late EditionToday, partly sunny, high 60. To-night, clear, breezy, becoming cold-er, low 39. Tomorrow, sunshine andpatchy clouds, breezy, a chillier day,high 49. Weather map, Page A20.

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