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LYON, France — The chant wasfaint at first, bubbling up from thenorthern stands inside the Stadede Lyon. Gradually it grew louder.Soon it was deafening.

“Equal pay!” it went, over andover, until thousands were joiningin, filling the stadium with noise.“Equal pay! Equal pay!”

Few sports teams are asked tocarry so much meaning on theirshoulders, to represent so manythings to so many people, as theUnited States women’s soccerteam. Few athletes are expectedto lead on so many fronts at once,to be leaders for equal pay and gayrights and social justice, to serveas the face of both corporationsand their customers. Fewer stillhave ever been so equipped tohandle such a burden, so aware ofthemselves, so comfortable intheir own skin, as those Americanwomen.

Yes, they had acknowledged asthe World Cup got underway lastmonth, anything less than a tro-phy would be a failure. Yes, theywere willing to be made symbolsof different fights for equalityaround the world. Yes, they wouldbe as spectacular on the field asthey unabashedly insisted theywere.

With the swagger of pop starsand the inevitability of a freighttrain, the American women com-pleted the sporting part of theirjourney on Sunday, clinching theirsecond consecutive World Cuptrophy by dispatching the Nether-

Burdens Borne By a U.S. TeamWith No Equal

By ANDREW KEH

The United States women’s soccer team won its second straight World Cup with a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands on Sunday. Afterward, fans chanted, “Equal pay!”FRANCISCO SECO/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Federal prosecutors appear tohave resurrected a federal sexcrimes case against the billionairefinancier Jeffrey E. Epstein by fo-cusing on accusations that he sex-ually assaulted girls at his man-sion in Manhattan — more than adecade after a widely criticizedplea deal shielded him from simi-lar charges in Florida.

Federal prosecutors are ex-

pected to unseal the new chargeson Monday accusing Mr. Epstein,66, of running a sex-trafficking op-eration that lured dozens of under-age girls, some as young as 14, tohis Upper East Side home, accord-ing to three law enforcement offi-cials.

He was arrested on Saturday atTeterboro Airport in New Jersey,after arriving on a private flightfrom France, two law enforcementofficials said. The sex traffickingcharges carry a combined maxi-mum sentence of up to 45 years inprison.

The new charges are a revivalof a yearslong case against Mr.Epstein, who faced similar accu-sations involving girls who toldthe police they were brought to hismansion in South Florida and as-

New Sex Charges for Epstein Focus on ManhattanBy ALI WATKINS

and VIVIAN WANGAccusations of Luring

Minors to a Mansion

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BERLIN — The death threatsstarted in 2015, when WalterLübcke defended the refugee pol-icy of Chancellor Angela Merkel.A regional politician for her con-servative party, he would go tosmall towns in his district and ex-plain that welcoming those inneed was a matter of German andChristian values.

Hateful emails started pouringin. His name appeared on an on-

line neo-Nazi hit list. His privateaddress was published on a far-right blog. A video of him wasshared hundreds of thousands oftimes, along with emojis of gunsand gallows and sometimes ex-plicit calls to murder him: “Shoothim now, this bastard.”

And then someone did.On June 2, Mr. Lübcke was fa-

tally shot in the head on his frontporch, in what appears to be Ger-many’s first far-right political as-sassination since the Nazi era.The suspect — who made a de-tailed confession last month, onlyto retract it this past week under anew legal team — has a violentneo-Nazi past and police record,renewing criticism that Ger-many’s security apparatus, withits long track record of neglecting

Political Murder and Far Right Shock GermanyBy KATRIN BENNHOLD A Hateful New Reality

Dredges Up the Past

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —So many Monroes in rural Albe-marle County remember the mo-ment they asked a parent orgrandparent if they were some-how connected to the nation’s fifthpresident, James Monroe.

The telltale entrance sign toMonroe’s plantation estate, now amuseum, had been a fixture oftheir childhoods, part of the land-scape on the route back and forthbetween Charlottesville and thesmall, predominantly African-American community they calledMonroetown.

Ada Monroe Saylor, 79, was rid-ing in her father’s green Chevroleton the way to the grocery store in

the early 1950s when he con-firmed her suspicions.

George Monroe Jr., a cousin ofMs. Saylor’s, spent much of hischildhood at the homestead builtby his great-great grandfather,Edward Monroe, known as Ned,whose parents were believed to beenslaved by the president andwere among the first known tocarry his name. For slaves whoseAfrican heritage had long beenstolen or lost, this was not uncom-mon.

Mr. Monroe, 45, was about 8years old when he posed the ques-tion to his father, after driving bythe plantation, known as High-land.

“I had been seeing that en-trance sign all my life,” Mr. Mon-

roe said. “We were riding, and Iasked my dad if we were the sameMonroes, and he said yes, but hewouldn’t say much more. We did-n’t talk about it.

“It was just understood that wewere connected to the president,not by blood but by slavery.”

For seven generations, mem-bers of the Monroetown descend-ant community have lived lessthan 10 miles away from High-land, yet until three years agothere had never been a conversa-tion between them and the mu-seum. Now, they are working to-gether to change the way slaveryis presented at the former presi-dential plantation.

George Monroe Jr.’s ancestors were enslaved by President James Monroe and were among the firstto carry his name. Right, a ledger identifying slaves Monroe sold to cover debts after his presidency.

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Connected to a President, by Slavery7 Generations Have Lived in the Shadow of Monroe’s Plantation

By AUDRA D. S. BURCH

Iran said on Sunday that withinhours it would breach the limits onuranium enrichment set fouryears ago in an accord with theUnited States and other interna-tional powers that was designedto keep Tehran from producing anuclear weapon.

The latest move inches Irancloser to where it was before theaccord: on the path to being ableto produce an atomic bomb.

President Trump withdrew theUnited States from the accord lastyear and in May dealt a cripplingblow to Iran’s economy by imple-menting sanctions intended to cutoff its oil sales any where in theworld.

In recent weeks, Tehran has re-taliated by making deliberate butprovocative violations of the ac-cord as part of a carefully calibrat-ed campaign to pressure the Westinto eliminating sanctions thathave slashed the country’s oil ex-ports and crippled its economy.

Last week, Iranian officialsbroke through similar limits onhow much nuclear fuel the coun-try could stockpile.

The steps Iran has taken are alleasily reversible. Yet the newmove Iran said it was taking onSunday — to increase enrichmentlevels beyond the 3.67 percent pu-rity that is the ceiling under thedeal — is the most threatening.

Speaking at a news conferenceon Sunday in Tehran, the deputyforeign minister, Abbas Araghchi,said Iran would take additionalsteps over the limits of the accordin 60-day intervals unless interna-tional powers provide sanctionsrelief as detailed in the deal.

In violating the limits on ura-nium enrichment, Tehran still re-mains far from producing a nucle-ar weapon. It would take a majorproduction surge, and enrichmentto far higher levels, for Iran to de-velop a bomb’s worth of highly en-riched uranium, experts say. Itwould take even longer to manu-facture that material into a nucle-ar weapon.

But for Iran’s president, HassanRouhani, who signaled in Maythat he would order the country’sengineers to cross both thresholdsif Europe did not compensate Iranfor American sanctions, thebreach of the enrichment limitwould be a watershed. He is bet-ting that the United States willback away from crushing sanc-tions or that he can split Europeannations from the Trump adminis-tration, which the Europeansblame for setting off the crisis.

If he is wrong, the prospect ofmilitary confrontation lurks overeach escalation.

“It is a back-to-the-future mo-ment,” said Sanam Vakil, whostudies Iran at Chatham House, aresearch institute in London. It

IRAN ANNOUNCESPLANS TO BREACH

ENRICHMENT CAP

VIOLATION OF 2015 DEAL

Pressuring the U.S. andEurope Into Offering

Sanctions Relief

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICKand DAVID E. SANGER

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The drop in prices is leading poppyfarmers to seek work in the UnitedStates and other places. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-11

Mexican Opium Prices SinkHurricane Maria doomed some of theisland’s safe spaces for gay groups. Nowthey’re opening new ones. PAGE A12

NATIONAL A12-18

L.G.B.T. Struggle in Puerto RicoIn Florida, the political clout and incen-tives of the big utilities have discour-aged homeowners from installing solarpanels. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-5

Sunshine State Is Slow on Solar

Prosecutors filed a forfeiture requestasking that El Chapo pay back the vastprofits from his career. PAGE A21

NEW YORK A20-21

Paying for a Lifetime of Crime?The character Octavia Spencer plays inher new film, “Ma,” joins the long his-tory of figures in popular culture whounravel with gusto, says our criticJenna Wortham. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Delightfully Unhinged

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, son of a formerGreek leader, surprised many by win-ning the prime minister’s seat. PAGE A6

A Different Kind of Politician

Ivo van Hove’s staging of “Rise and Fallof the City of Mahagonny” at the AixFestival in France may look avant-garde, but is really quite tame anddirect, Joshua Barone says. PAGE C1

An Opera to SavorQuiet and savvy, the Clippers outfoxedrivals to land Kawhi Leonard and PaulGeorge, Scott Cacciola writes. PAGE D2

SPORTSMONDAY D1-8

How Clippers Won Superstars

João Gilberto, 88, won a Grammy foralbum of the year that included the hit“The Girl From Ipanema.” PAGE D11

OBITUARIES D9-11

Architect of Bossa NovaLeaders of Alaska’s university systemare pleading with lawmakers to over-ride a move to cut funding. PAGE A13

Governor Slashes $135 Million

LAS VEGAS — When BethKrerowicz began reviewing theplatoon of Democratic presiden-tial candidates, her first instinctwas to back Joseph R. Biden Jr.,whom she saw as the strongestopponent to President Trump.

But recently, Ms. Krerowicz, 58,began to have second thoughts. Sothis week she trekked to a commu-nity center not far from the LasVegas Strip to watch Senator Eliz-abeth Warren of Massachusettsdetail her plans for reshaping theeconomy. Ms. Krerowicz, an exec-utive assistant who is betweenjobs, said that she was now lean-ing heavily toward Ms. Warren,and that Senator Kamala Harris ofCalifornia was her second choice.

“I want someone who I knowwill stand up, that has a back-bone,” Ms. Krerowicz said, sug-gesting that Ms. Warren and Ms.Harris could perhaps form aticket. “They’re both very, verystrong women. I would love to seethem together, but I think Eliza-beth has the experience.”

In the span of just a few weeks,voters like Ms. Krerowicz havepushed the race into a new, highlyuncertain phase, propelling a pairof women toward the top of theDemocratic pack at the expense ofthe onetime front-runners, Mr. Bi-den and Senator Bernie Sandersof Vermont.

Neither woman is yet in a posi-tion to take control of the race. Mr.

Women MakePrimary FoesStart to Sweat

By ALEXANDER BURNSand JONATHAN MARTIN

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