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Scientists called a study unethical andChile began an inquiry over a mummyonce rumored to be an alien. PAGE A8

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

Research on Mummy ProtestedThe men’s clothing store battles e-com-merce with extra-personal service andnew designer labels. (And it doesn’t hurtthat Dr. J still loves the place.) PAGE D1

THURSDAY STYLES D1-8

Boyds, a Philadelphia Survivor

Baseball opens its new season in anall-or-nothing era that features homeruns and strikeouts. PAGE B10

Go Deep or Go Home

Gail Collins PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

WASHINGTON — A lawyer forPresident Trump broached theidea of Mr. Trump’s pardoning twoof his former top advisers, Mi-chael T. Flynn and Paul Manafort,with their lawyers last year, ac-cording to three people withknowledge of the discussions.

The discussions came as thespecial counsel was buildingcases against both men, and theyraise questions about whether thelawyer, John Dowd, who resignedlast week, was offering pardons toinfluence their decisions aboutwhether to plead guilty and co-operate in the investigation.

The talks suggest that Mr.Trump’s lawyers were concernedabout what Mr. Flynn and Mr.

Manafort might reveal were theyto make a deal with the specialcounsel, Robert S. Mueller III, inexchange for leniency. Mr. Muel-ler’s team could investigate theprospect that Mr. Dowd made par-don offers to thwart the inquiry, al-though legal experts are dividedabout whether such offers mightconstitute obstruction of justice.

Mr. Dowd’s conversation withMr. Flynn’s lawyer, Robert K. Kel-ner, occurred sometime after Mr.Dowd took over last summer asthe president’s personal lawyer, ata time when a grand jury washearing evidence against Mr.Flynn on a range of potentialcrimes. Mr. Flynn, who served asMr. Trump’s first national securityadviser, agreed in late November

TRUMP’S LAWYERSAID TO MENTIONIDEA OF PARDONS

QUESTION OF INFLUENCE

Subject Was Raised asFlynn and Manafort

Faced Inquiry

This article is by Michael S.Schmidt, Jo Becker, Mark Mazzetti,Maggie Haberman and Adam Gold-man.

Michael T. Flynn, left, andPaul Manafort were top aides.

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BEIJING — With a dose of mys-tery and the flair of a showman,North Korea’s young leader, KimJong-un, used his debut as an in-ternational statesman onWednesday to present himself asconfident, reasonable — and will-ing to bargain.

Mr. Kim’s surprise two-day visitto Beijing, his first known tripabroad since taking power, was ef-fectively a reminder of how muchhe has set the agenda in the crisisover his nation’s nuclear arsenal— and of what a strong hand hehas going into talks, first withPresident Moon Jae-in of SouthKorea next month and later withPresident Trump.

Mr. Kim has yet to say what con-cessions he is willing to make, orwhat he may demand from theUnited States in return. But hecontinued to dominate the diplo-matic process, reaffirming hiswillingness to meet with Mr.Trump and repeating his vaguecommitment to the denucleariza-tion of the Korean Peninsula intalks with President Xi Jinping ofChina, according to Xinhua, theChinese state news agency.

During Mr. Trump’s first year inoffice, Mr. Kim raced ahead withbreakthrough tests of missiles ca-pable of hitting the United Statesmainland and what he claimedwas a missile-ready hydrogenbomb. Then he abruptly changedcourse and used the WinterOlympics to seize the initiative,surprising the world with a rap-prochement with the South andthen an offer to meet with Mr.Trump.

Through it all, the Trump ad-ministration has been largely rele-gated to reacting and catching upto Mr. Kim. And so it was againthis week, when Mr. Kim suddenlyshowed up in China on an armoredtrain and was shown beamingnext to Mr. Xi, whose cooperationhas been critical to Mr. Trump’sstrategy of “maximum pressure”on the North. The state media inChina and North Korea an-nounced the meeting on Wednes-day, after two days of secrecy.

In images and in words, Mr. Kimand Mr. Xi signaled that they hadrepaired the relationship betweentheir countries, which had souredas Mr. Kim had accelerated his nu-clear program and Mr. Xi had re-sponded by endorsing — and en-

Visit to ChinaBolsters HandOf North Korea

Working to Set AgendaBefore Nuclear Talks

By JANE PERLEZ

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, left, with President Xi Jinping of China in Beijing this week.KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY

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SACRAMENTO — Two policeofficers, 10 minutes, 20 bullets.Another young black man dead,this time in his grandmother’sbackyard in California’s capital.

In the 10 days since StephonClark, 22, was fatally shot by offi-cers investigating a vandalismcomplaint in his south Sacra-mento neighborhood, protestershave stormed City Hall and takento the streets in anger. In a citythat is mostly white and Latino,the killing, they say, is a sign of apolice force that treats black resi-dents with disdain and unfairlytargets their neighborhoods.

Questions about excessiveforce hover over the case. A policehelicopter was sent to a routinecall. Officers fired 20 times at Mr.Clark. The police have also beenaccused of not giving Mr. Clark,who was unarmed, enough time toput his hands up and of waiting toolong to call for medical help.

Adding to the scrutiny is thefact that the police muted theirbody cameras in the minutes afterthe shooting and can be seen oncamera talking animatedly whileMr. Clark lay dead on the ground.

The shooting has reignited thekind of protests against policekillings that spread over the pastseveral years in cities like Fergu-son, Mo.; Baton Rouge, La.; andMilwaukee. Last week, protestershere shut down traffic on Inter-

state 5 and blocked the doors to aSacramento Kings basketballgame.

“Everybody knows that we’regetting killed regularly out here;that’s the buildup to this,” saidTanya Faison, who founded the lo-

cal chapter of Black Lives Matter.The mood was decidedly hope-

ful when Daniel Hahn took overthe Police Department as the firstblack police chief in August. Mr.Hahn defended his department in

Police Kill Another Unarmed Black Man, and Another City SeethesBy JOSE A. DEL REAL

A video still of Stephon Clark, right, after being shot by two Sacramento police officers, left.SACRAMENTO POLICE DEPARTMENT

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Over 15 years, four women inLake Oswego, Ore., a wealthyPortland suburb, sought policeprotection against the same man,court filings show.

“He threatened to burn downmy house with me in it,” one wom-an wrote in her application for arestraining order. “I don’t knowwhat he’s going to do next,” a sec-ond wrote. “He choked me so hardit left a mark on my throat,” wroteanother. “He is scaring my chil-dren and me,” a fourth womansaid.

Yet the man, Douglas E. Green-

berg, remains one of MorganStanley’s top financial advisers —and a celebrated member of thewealth management industry.

For years, Morgan Stanley ex-ecutives knew about his allegedconduct, according to seven for-mer Morgan Stanley employees.

Morgan Stanley received a fed-eral subpoena related to oneabuse allegation, according to alawyer for one of the women. In

another instance, a Morgan Stan-ley manager alerted his superiorwhen Mr. Greenberg was chargedwith violating a restraining order,according to three former employ-ees. Another manager at the firmliked and replied to a Facebookpost by one of Mr. Greenberg’s ex-wives in which she described hisabuse. On yet another occasion,an official from the bank’s NewYork headquarters flew to Port-land to investigate, two formeremployees said.

Despite this information, Mor-gan Stanley apparently took noaction against Mr. Greenberg. He

A Rainmaker in Hot Water: ‘Everybody Knew’By EMILY FLITTER Broker Faced Claims of

Abuse, but Kept Job

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Mickey Callaway, the Mets’ newmanager, is steeped in analytics butknown for soothing egos. PAGE B12

SPORTSTHURSDAY B10-17

Hard Data and a Soft Touch“Yerma” at the Park Avenue Armory,with Billie Piper, above, is one of themost compelling plays you’ll ever see,Ben Brantley writes. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Unraveling, Brilliantly

They exploit our data and make usunhappy. They spread misinformationand undermine democracy. Kevin Rooseasks, is salvation possible? PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-9

Can Social Media Be Saved?

Thousands marched in Paris to mourn aHolocaust survivor who was stabbedand burned in her home. PAGE A7

Honor for a Holocaust Survivor

Earl Simmons, known as DMX, got ayear in prison and a chance to play hisrap in court. PAGE A19

DMX and Judge Are Heard

WASHINGTON — The Trumpadministration is attempting toscale back federal efforts to en-force fair housing laws, freezingenforcement actions against localgovernments and businesses, in-cluding Facebook, while sidelin-ing officials who have ag-gressively pursued civil rightscases.

The policy shift, detailed in in-terviews with 20 current and for-mer Department of Housing andUrban Development officials andin internal agency emails, ismeant to roll back the Obama ad-ministration’s attempts to reversedecades of racial, ethnic and in-come segregation in federallysubsidized housing and develop-ment projects. The move co-incides with the decision thismonth by Ben Carson, the secre-tary of housing and urban devel-opment, to strike the words “inclu-sive” and “free from discrimina-tion” from HUD’s mission state-ment.

But Mr. Carson dismissed theidea he was abandoning the agen-cy’s fair housing mission as “non-sense” in a memo to the depart-ment’s staff earlier this year, andreiterated that point during recentcongressional hearings. A spokes-man for the agency, JereonBrown, said any programmaticchanges are part of the routine re-calibration undertaken from ad-ministration to administration,rather than a philosophical shift.

Advocates for the poor and ca-reer HUD officials say that Mr.Carson, a retired neurosurgeon,and his political appointees havebegun weakening the depart-ment’s fair housing division at acritical moment. The agency nowhas its greatest leverage to rightpast wrongs thanks to the $28 bil-lion in disaster recovery Commu-nity Development Block Grantsthat Congress has appropriated torebuild the Gulf Coast and PuertoRico after Hurricanes Harvey,Irma and Maria.

In an email in November, a topHUD official relayed the newsthat the head of the Fair Housingand Equal Opportunity division,Anna Maria Farías, had ordered ahold on about a half-dozen fairhousing investigations given thehighest priority under Mr. Car-son’s most recent predecessor,Julián Castro. The freeze would be

HUD RetreatsOn Enforcing

Housing Law

Bias Investigations AreFrozen Under Carson

By GLENN THRUSH

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WASHINGTON — After weeksof uncertainty atop the Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs, Presi-dent Trump dismissed its secre-tary, David J. Shulkin, on Wednes-day and announced he would re-place him with the White Housephysician, Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, arear admiral in the Navy.

If confirmed, Dr. Jackson, a ca-reer Naval officer who has no realexperience running a large bu-reaucracy, would inherit a set ofchallenges that have bedeviledDemocratic and Republican ad-ministrations alike. The depart-ment, the federal government’ssecond largest, has been bur-dened for years by aging infra-structure, an inefficient healthcare system and an unwieldy360,000-person work force.

He could also quickly face cru-cial, multibillion-dollar decisionsover the replacement of its out-dated computerized records sys-tem and legislation that wouldease the rules around veteransseeking private health care at

government expense.The announcement punctuated

what has been a rapid fall from fa-vor for Dr. Shulkin, a politicallymoderate former hospital execu-tive who delivered Mr. Trump astring of bipartisan legislative vic-tories at a time when he wasstruggling to find them. But in hisfinal weeks, he struggled to fightoff attempts by more conservativeadministration officials to havehim removed and was dogged byan unflattering inspector generalreport on his overseas travel thatundermined his relationship withthe president.

Dr. Shulkin’s departure was thelatest chapter in the remaking ofMr. Trump’s team of senior advis-ers, a shake-up that has led to thereplacement of the secretary ofstate, the director of the C.I.A. andthe national security adviser,along with White House aides.

In the midst of that turmoil, Dr.Jackson, 50, who was named to hiscurrent position by President

V.A. Chief Is Shown the Door,And In Comes Trump’s Doctor

By NICHOLAS FANDOS and MAGGIE HABERMAN

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Progressive activists are targeting eightbreakaway Democrats in the StateSenate who have helped Republicanscontrol the chamber. PAGE A20

NEW YORK A18-21

Albany Rebels Feel the Heat

Democrats need to hold what theyhave, and wrest 24 seats from the Re-publicans to gain a majority. PAGE A11

NATIONAL A11-17

Road to Control the House

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