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WASHINGTON — The Repub-lican tax bill hurtling through Con-gress is increasingly tilting theUnited States tax code to benefitwealthy Americans, as party lead-ers race to shore up wavering law-makers who are requesting morehelp for high-earning businessowners.

On Monday, as Republican law-makers returned to Washingtondetermined to quickly pass theirtax overhaul, senators were in fe-verish talks to resolve concernsthat could bedevil the bill’s pas-sage. With pressure increasing onRepublicans to produce a legisla-tive victory, lawmakers are con-templating changes that wouldexacerbate the tax bill’s divide be-tween the rich and the middleclass.

Those include efforts to furtherreward certain high-income busi-ness owners who are already re-ceiving a tax break in the Senatebill but who are at the center of aconcerted push by conservativelawmakers and trade groups tosweeten those benefits.

As Republican leaders pressedfor a Senate floor vote this week,there appeared to be little momen-tum for amendments that wouldhelp low-income Americans,which some Republican and manyDemocratic senators had sought.

The Congressional Budget Of-fice said this week that the Senatebill, as written, would hurt work-ers earning less than $30,000 ayear in short order, while deliver-ing benefits to the highest earnersthroughout the next decade.Those estimates echo other analy-

TAX WRANGLINGAIMS TO SWEETENGAINS OF WEALTHY

PRESSURE TO PASS BILL

In Bid to Sway Senators,Talks on More Breaks

for High Earners

This article is by Jim Tankersley,Alan Rappeport and Thomas Kap-lan.

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It is almost as familiar a part ofNew York lore as a taxi or KingKong or the building that heclimbed — a can of Chock fullo’Nuts coffee.

But then it became a New Yorkexport. And as the quintessen-tially recognizable can crossedthe Mississippi River in a push togo national, concerns arose aboutone word on the label that mightnot play well in Omaha or Okla-homa City — nuts.

So Chock full o’Nuts has putwhat amounts to a giant dis-claimer on the can: “No nuts.”

To those whose day cannot startwithout a cup, saying that “Chockfull o’Nuts” has no nuts sounds ascontradictory as movie titles like“Eyes Wide Shut” and “TrueLies.” Do people really think thatChock full o’Nuts cans are chock-full of nuts?

Apparently so. Convincing con-sumers that there are no nuts inChock full o’Nuts is, well, a toughmarketing nut to crack.

“Every time we’ve done con-sumer research on why some peo-ple do not purchase the product,the No. 1 thing that comes back tous is there’s something in the cof-

fee,” said Dennis Crawford, thesenior marketing manager forChock full o’Nuts. “Most of thepeople in New York — we’ve beenthere forever and they get it, but ifyou’re in Omaha and suddenlywe’re on the shelf and you see thebrand for the first time, there’sconfusion.”

“No nuts” and “100 percent pre-mium coffee” appeared on Chockfull o’Nuts cans several monthsago as part of a subtle redesign ofthe label. The basic color schemeremained the same — taxicab yel-low and basic black — but the New

Coffee Buyers Full o’ ConfusionReceive Brand’s Vow: ‘No Nuts’

By JAMES BARRON

A Chock full o’Nuts disclaimer.

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Once upon a time, in 1936, aBritish monarch named EdwardVIII was forbidden to marry hisdivorced American girlfriend andalso be king, so he renounced thethrone, moved with her to Franceand lived not-so-happily everafter.

Nearly 20 years later, forced tomake a similarly unpleasant

choice, Edward’sniece Margaretopted to keep hertitle but jettison her(also divorced)

boyfriend. She ended up herselfdivorced from the man she mar-ried in the boyfriend’s place.

But that was another century,another world and many di-vorces ago.

As we ponder the news thatPrince Harry, the raffish youngerson of the future king of England,has become engaged to MeghanMarkle — an American actresswho, like nearly everyone in thisstory so far (except Harry) isdivorced — it is worth notinghow dramatically Britain and theroyal family have changed in theintervening years.

It is also worth noting that theengagement, announced in frontof Kensington Palace with tradi-tional fanfare, the unveiling of amassive diamond engagement

ring and a burst of details aboutwho-said-what-to-whom-whenand how they knew that this wasit, is at once a huge deal, and notmuch of one at all.

It is not a big deal becausePrince Harry, 33, a former armyofficer with an earthy sense ofhumor who brings an element of

edgy sex appeal to a family thatcould use a bit more of it, is onlyfifth in line to the throne. Theonly way he could plausiblybecome king is under some sortof “And Then There Were None”or “Kind Hearts and Coronets”scenario involving his grand-mother, Queen Elizabeth; his

father, Prince Charles; hisbrother, Prince William; andWilliam’s young children, Georgeand Charlotte.

But the engagement is signifi-cant, in part as a frivolouslywelcome distraction at a time ofunrelenting bad news about the

A Royal Invitation Asking Britain to R.S.V.P. to a Modern FutureBy SARAH LYALL

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Monday in London. They represent stark change for Britain.FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

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NEWSANALYSIS

WASHINGTON — The casethat could transform privacy lawin the digital era began with thearmed robbery of a Radio Shackstore in Detroit, a couple of weeksbefore Christmas in 2010. In thenext three months, eight morestores in Michigan and Ohio wererobbed at gunpoint.

The robbers took bags filledwith smartphones. Their ownphones would help send them toprison.

On Wednesday, the SupremeCourt will consider whether pros-ecutors violated the FourthAmendment, which bars unrea-sonable searches, by collectingvast amounts of data from cell-phone companies showing themovements of the man they sayorganized most of the robberies.

Experts in privacy law said thecase, Carpenter v. United States,No. 16-402, was a potential block-buster.

“Carpenter could be the most

important electronic privacy caseof the 21st century,” said JeffreyRosen, the president of the Na-tional Constitution Center, a non-profit group devoted to educatingthe public about the Constitution.

In a pair of recent decisions, theSupreme Court expressed dis-comfort with allowing unlimitedgovernment access to digital data.It limited the ability of the police touse GPS devices to track sus-pects’ movements, and it requireda warrant to search cellphones.

Technology companies includ-ing Apple, Facebook and Googlehave filed a brief urging the Su-preme Court to continue to bringFourth Amendment law into themodern era. “No constitutionaldoctrine should presume,” thebrief said, “that consumers as-sume the risk of warrantless gov-ernment surveillance simply byusing technologies that are bene-ficial and increasingly integrated

Justices Take Up Digital PrivacyIn Case With Roots in a Robbery

By ADAM LIPTAK

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WASHINGTON — On Monday,Mick Mulvaney, the acting direc-tor of the Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau, brought indoughnuts for employees. Aroundthe same time, Leandra English,the agency’s other acting director,sent an all-staff email thankingthe work force for its service.

Awkward.And so unfolded another fre-

netic workday in this corner of acapital city defined by hyperparti-san dysfunction: Two public ser-vants — one a holdover from theObama administration, the othera rushed temporary appointee byPresident Trump — messily andpublicly vied to lead an agencythat has fought for consumerswhile under political assault byRepublicans. Its future as an inde-pendent agency rests on wholeads it next.

By the end of the day, a federaljudge was assigned to hear Ms.English’s request, filed late Sun-day, to provide an emergency re-straining order to block the presi-dent from appointing Mr. Mul-

vaney. Judge Timothy J. Kelly ofthe Federal District Court inWashington, who was nominatedby Mr. Trump and confirmed inSeptember, was perhaps the onlyperson in the capital who re-frained from rushing to issue anopinion.

At a hurriedly called andpacked-to-the-gills hearing,Judge Kelly voiced his concerns,noting that lawyers for the presi-dent could not definitively saywhether Ms. English was pro-tected from losing her job. Thejudge also said that neither set ofattorneys had addressed whetherMr. Mulvaney, who is also the di-rector of the White House Office ofManagement and Budget, “canwear two hats.”

Yet the judge remarked that hewas essentially being asked byDeepak Gupta, Ms. English’s law-

yer, to overrule the president’spower to appoint a new director.

“That’s an extraordinary reme-dy,” Judge Kelly said, before ask-ing Mr. Trump’s lawyers to re-spond to Ms. English’s complaintwith their own brief by the end ofthe evening.

Others, like Senator ElizabethWarren, Democrat of Massachu-setts, reiterated that the bureauwas meant to be independentfrom political influence. She de-fended Ms. English as the rightfuldirector of the bureau that hashelped nearly 30 million Ameri-can consumers collect almost $12billion in refunds and canceleddebts.

“The agency was built to be asfar away from partisan politics as

Two ‘Acting Directors,’ and One Skeptical JudgeBy KATIE ROGERS

Both Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s pick, and Leandra English, the previous director’s choice, arrived Monday to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.ZACH GIBSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Partisan Struggle OverConsumer Bureau

Gets a Hearing

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A Hybrid of Arts and ReligionTaylor Crosby, unlike her famous olderbrother, Sidney, keeps pucks out of thenet. She’s a St. Cloud State goaltender —and a leader in her own right. PAGE B9

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Hockey’s Other CrosbyThere may not be gold in them tharcraters, but commercial opportunitiesbeyond Earth beckon, and a 1967 treatyseems to be getting in the way. PAGE D1

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Space, the Business Frontier Michelle Goldberg PAGE A23

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EASIER STREET The federal gov-ernment is relaxing its policing ofthe banking industry. PAGE B1

SUCCESSION RULES The clash oflaws on the Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau. PAGE B3

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