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Food giants are pushing deeper into theAmazon, raising the specter of a slide inefforts to fight climate change. PAGE 1

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Deforestation Roars Back

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DJIBOUTI — The two coun-tries keep dozens of interconti-nental nuclear missiles pointed ateach other’s cities. Their frigatesand fighter jets occasionally faceoff in the contested waters of theSouth China Sea.

With no shared border, Chinaand the United States mostly cir-cle each other from afar, relyingon satellites and cybersnooping topeek inside the workings of eachother’s war machines.

But the two strategic rivals areabout to become neighbors in thissun-scorched patch of EastAfrican desert. China is construct-ing its first overseas military basehere — just a few miles from CampLemonnier, one of the Pentagon’slargest and most important for-eign installations.

With increasing tensions overChina’s island-building efforts inthe South China Sea, Americanstrategists worry that a naval portso close to Camp Lemonnier couldprovide a front-row seat to thestaging ground for Americancounterterrorism operations inthe Arabian Peninsula and North

Africa.“It’s like having a rival football

team using an adjacent practicefield,” said Gabriel Collins, an ex-pert on the Chinese military and afounder of the analysis portalChina SignPost. “They can scopeout some of your plays. On theother hand, the scouting opportu-nity goes both ways.”

Established after the terroristattacks of Sept. 11, 2001, CampLemonnier is home to 4,000 per-sonnel. Some are involved inhighly secretive missions, includ-ing targeted drone killings in theMiddle East and the Horn of Af-rica, and the raid last month inYemen that left a member of theNavy SEALs dead. The base,which is run by the Navy andabuts Djibouti’s international air-port, is the only permanent Amer-ican military installation in Africa.

Beyond surveillance concerns,United States officials, citing thebillions of dollars in Chinese loansto Djibouti’s heavily indebted gov-ernment, wonder about the long-term durability of an alliance that

U.S. Wary of a Chinese BaseRising as Its Neighbor in Africa

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Grady O’Cummings III, in1963 in Harlem, before hispresidential run. His storydidn’t end when his obituarywas printed in 1969. Page 12.

About That 1969 Obit

While Ellen Milz and her familywere watching the Olympics lastsummer, their TV was watchingthem.

Ms. Milz, 48, who lives with herhusband and three children in Chi-cago, had agreed to be a panelistfor a company called TVision In-sights, which monitored her view-ing habits — and whether her eyesflicked down to her phone duringthe commercials, whether shewas smiling or frowning —through a device on top of her TV.

“The marketing company said,‘We’re going to ask you to put thisdevice in your home, connect it toyour TV and they’re going towatch you for the Olympics to seehow you like it, what sports, yourexpression, who’s around,’” shesaid. “And I said, ‘Whatever, Ihave nothing to hide.’”

Ms. Milz acknowledged thatshe had initially found the ideaodd, but that those qualms hadquickly faded.

“It’s out of sight, out of mind,”she said, comparing it to the Nestsecurity cameras in her home. Shesaid she had initially received $60for participating and an additional$230 after four to six months.

TVision — which has workedwith the Weather Channel, NBCand the Disney ABC TelevisionGroup — is one of several compa-nies that have entered livingrooms in recent years, emergingwith new, granular ways for

marketers to understand howpeople are watching televisionand, in particular, commercials.The appeal of this information hassoared as Americans rapidlychange their viewing habits,streaming an increasing numberof shows weeks or months afterthey first air, on devices as variedas smartphones, laptops andRoku boxes, not to mention TVs.

Through the installation of a

For Marketers, TVs Act as Priceless Sets of Eyes

Devices Monitor Facesto See When ViewersAre Paying Attention

By SAPNA MAHESHWARI

Dan Schiffman of TVision Insights demonstrating software thattracks a viewer’s habits through a monitor attached to the TV.

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Im Chaem leads a quiet life in Cambodia, despite charges — dropped Wednesday — that she oversaw thousands of killings. Page 6.The Khmer Rouge’s ‘Grandma Chaem’

They believe that extending Med-icaid to millions of low-incomeadults without disabilities underthe health law gave them an in-centive not to work.

Since its creation as part ofPresident Lyndon Johnson’sGreat Society agenda in the 1960s,Medicaid has grown to become arobust safety net program forpoor Americans, providing healthcare for 74 million people. The newRepublican ideas for the program,including work requirements andchanges in how it is paid for, couldmake Medicaid much morelimited, with a smaller impact onthe federal budget but more obsta-cles to becoming and staying en-rolled.

The outline of a new replace-ment plan, presented to Housemembers last week, shows just

JACKSONVILLE, Ark. — On afrigid morning here, NancyGodinez was piling bread andother staples into her car outside afood pantry. She had lost her job asa custodian, her unemploymentchecks had run out, and her jobsearch had proved fruitless.

One thing she still had washealth insurance, acquired threeyears ago after Arkansas’ Repub-lican-controlled Legislatureagreed to expand Medicaid underthe Affordable Care Act. The cov-erage, she said, has allowed her toget regular checkups and treat-ment for tendinitis in her foot.

But unless she finds a new job,Ms. Godinez, 55, could be at risk oflosing her insurance, too.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson is among anumber of Republican governorshoping to impose a work require-ment on Medicaid recipients. Continued on Page 14

On Medicaid and Up for Work,But Threatened by a Mandate

By ABBY GOODNOUGH

MEXICO CITY — With a panelof senators questioning him, thebillionaire investor Wilbur L. Rossstayed on message: If confirmedas President Trump’s commercesecretary, he would protect Amer-ican workers and tear up badtrade deals that harmed Ameri-can industry.

And yet, for more than a decade,those same trade deals helped Mr.Ross amass a fortune across theglobe — in countries like Mexicoand China, among others. In fact,Mr. Ross has sometimes investedoverseas in ways that Mr. Trumpcondemns.

As the headof an autoparts com-pany, Mr. Rossshipped jobs toMexico, takingadvantage ofthe NorthAmericanFree TradeAgreement,which he nowsays is unfair and must berenegotiated. That company,along with a textile firm hefounded, publicly stated that Mex-ico was central to their growth.

To some of his formerassociates, that history clangsagainst the persistent message ofMr. Trump, who has called Nafta“the single worst trade deal everapproved in this country” and hasexcoriated American businessesfor sending jobs overseas.

But a spokesman for Mr. Rossdescribed his experience as an as-set, not a contradiction.

“As a private businessman, Mr.Ross made pragmatic decisionsbased on law available at the time,and it is precisely his knowledgeof how trade deals work that willallow him to be successful in rene-gotiating bad deals like Nafta,”said the spokesman, JamesRockas.

The Senate is scheduled to voteon Mr. Ross’s confirmation onMonday.

Mr. Ross’s flexible approach totrade is characteristic of manyprivate equity barons focused onthe bottom line, his formerassociates say. After taking overtwo bankrupt American textile

Nominee BuiltTrade in Ways

Now Scorned

Commerce Pick MadeFortune Under Nafta

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Wilbur L. Ross

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The Grab Your Wallet boycott of compa-nies selling Trump products has trans-formed Shannon Coulter’s life. PAGE 1

Leader of a Retail Revolt

More Tunisians have gone abroad tojoin ISIS than people of any other coun-try, a deep concern for the fragile stateas the fighters return home. PAGE 11

INTERNATIONAL 4-11

Tunisian Terrorists Head Home

Recent front-office moves in Los Ange-les are a captivating family saga, thelatest drama for a team long the N.B.A.standard-bearer for spectacle. PAGE 1

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Shaking Up the Lakers

With each hit by D. J. LeMahieu of theRockies, the Cubs are seeing what theygave up on, Tyler Kepner writes. PAGE 3

The Cub Who Got Away

Known for his fusing of Mexican andFrench cuisine, Eduardo García is alsobarred from the United States. PAGE 1

SUNDAY STYLES

A Star Chef, Once Deported

Isabelle Huppert’s subversiveness andunderplayed chic have made the Oscarcontender fashion’s new muse. PAGE 1

An Unlikely Red Carpet Muse

The jobs are different; so are the peopledoing them. But how we think about theAmerican working class still hasn’tcaught up. Nine people in various jobstell a more accurate story of what thework force does today — and will dotomorrow. The Work Issue.

THE MAGAZINE

The New Working Class

Jerome Tuccille, who wrote a manifestoof the American libertarian movementand the first biography of Donald J.Trump, was looking for a new faithwhen he discovered the writings of AynRand. He was 79. PAGE 24

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WASHINGTON — The WhiteHouse press secretary, SeanSpicer, has taken to slapping jour-nalists who write unflatteringstories with an epithet he sees asthe epitome of low-road, NewYork Post-style gossip: “Page Sixreporter.”

Whether the New England-bred spokesman realizes it or not,the expression is perhaps less aninsult than a reminder of an erawhen Donald J. Trump masteredthe New York tabloid terrain —and his own narrative — shapinghis image with a combination ofon-the-record bluster and off-the-record gossip.

He’s not in Manhattan any-more. This New York-iest of poli-ticians, now an idiosyncratic,write-your-own-rules president,has stumbled into the most con-ventional of Washington traps:

believing he can master an en-trenched political press corpswith far deeper connections to thepermanent government of federallaw enforcement and executivedepartment officials than he has.

Instead, President Trump hasfound himself subsumed and in-creasingly infuriated by the leaksand criticisms he has long pridedhimself on vanquishing. Now,goaded by Stephen K. Bannon, hischief strategist, Mr. Trump hasturned on the news media with es-calating rhetoric, labeling majoroutlets as “the enemy of the Amer-ican people.”

His latest swipe — pulling out ofWashington’s so-called nerd prom— came via Twitter on Saturday.“I will not be attending the WhiteHouse Correspondents’ Associa-tion Dinner this year,” Mr. Trump

Trump Ruled the Tabloid Media.Washington Is a Different Story.

By GLENN THRUSH and MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

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Thomas E. Perez narrowly de-feated Representative Keith Elli-son to become chairman of the di-vided party. He is the first Latinoto be elected to the post. Page 23.

Perez to Lead Democrats

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In Virginia, Immigration andCustoms Enforcement agentswaited outside a church shelterwhere undocumented immigrantshad gone to stay warm. In Texasand in Colorado, agents went intocourthouses, looking for foreign-ers who had arrived for hearingson other matters.

At Kennedy International Air-port in New York, passengers ar-riving after a five-hour flight fromSan Francisco were asked to showtheir documents before they wereallowed to get off the plane.

The Trump administration’sfar-reaching plan to arrest and de-port vast numbers of undocu-mented immigrants has been in-troduced in dramatic fashion overthe past month. And much of thattask has fallen to thousands of ICEofficers who are newly em-boldened, newly empowered andalready getting to work.

Gone are the Obama-era rulesthat required them to focus onlyon serious criminals. In SouthernCalifornia, in one of the first majorroundups during the Trump ad-ministration, officers detained 161people with a wide range of felonyand misdemeanor convictions,and 10 who had no criminal historyat all.

“Before, we used to be told, ‘Youcan’t arrest those people,’ andwe’d be disciplined for being in-subordinate if we did,” said a 10-year veteran of the agency whotook part in the operation. “Nowthose people are priorities again.And there are a lot of them here.”

Interviews with 17 agents andofficials across the country, in-cluding in Florida, Alabama,Texas, Arizona, Washington andCalifornia, demonstrated howquickly a new atmosphere in theagency had taken hold. Since theyare forbidden to talk to the press,they requested anonymity out ofconcern for losing their jobs.

AGENTS DISCOVER A NEW FREEDOM ON DEPORTATIONS

EMBOLDENED BY TRUMP

Quick Shift as OfficersExpand Targets and

Start Roundups

This article is by Nicholas Kulish,Caitlin Dickerson and Ron Nixon.

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