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Mohamed Salah, left, the Egyptian starof Liverpool’s soccer team, is breakingdown cultural barriers with deeplypersonal displays of his Muslim faithevery time he scores a goal. PAGE A4

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Sport as a Unifier in Britain

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Mike Pompeo was sworn in on Wednesday in Washington, with his wife, Susan, President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.70th Secretary of State

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Buddhists in Colombo, Sri Lanka, burning incense for the Vesak holiday this week. Page A6.Celebration and Reflection

When the Washington Redskinstook their cheerleading squad toCosta Rica in 2013 for a calendarphoto shoot, the first cause forconcern among the cheerleaderscame when Redskins officials col-lected their passports upon arriv-al at the resort, depriving them oftheir official identification.

For the photo shoot, at theadults-only Occidental Grand Pa-pagayo resort on Culebra Bay,some of the cheerleaders saidthey were required to be topless,

though the photographs used forthe calendar would not show nudi-ty. Others wore nothing but bodypaint. Given the resort’s secludedsetting, such revealing poseswould not have been a concern forthe women — except that the Red-skins had invited spectators.

A contingent of sponsors and

FedExField suite holders — allmen — were granted up-close ac-cess to the photo shoots.

One evening, at the end of a 14-hour day that included posing anddance practices, the squad’s direc-tor told nine of the 36 cheerleadersthat their work was not done.They had a special assignment forthe night. Some of the male spon-sors had picked them to be per-sonal escorts at a nightclub.

“So get back to your room andget ready,” the director told them.Several of them began to cry.

“They weren’t putting a gun to

For Cheerleaders, a Trip Had Unwelcome Guests

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Women Say They WereAsked to Be Escortsand to Pose Topless

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The latestwave of foreign workers sweepinginto American jobs brought Do-nato Soberano from the Phil-ippines to Arizona two years ago.He had to pay thousands of dollarsto a job broker and lived for a timein an apartment with five otherFilipino workers. The lure is thepay — 10 times more than what hemade doing the same work backhome.

But Mr. Soberano is not a hospi-tality worker or a home healthaide. He is in another line of workthat increasingly pays too little toattract enough Americans: Mr.Soberano is a public schoolteacher.

As walkouts by teachers pro-testing low pay and educationfunding shortfalls spread acrossthe country, the small but growingmovement to recruit teachersfrom overseas is another sign ofthe difficulty some districts arehaving providing the basics topublic school students.

Among the latest states hit bythe protests is Arizona, whereteacher pay is more than $10,000below the national average of$59,000 per year. The PendergastElementary School District,where Mr. Soberano works, hasrecruited more than 50 teachersfrom the Philippines since 2015.

Schools FillLow-Pay Jobs

From AbroadBy DANA GOLDSTEIN

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump plunged into an angry dis-pute on Wednesday between con-servative House Republicans andthe deputy attorney general, sid-ing with hard-line lawmakers overhis own Justice Department asthey pressed for access to sensi-tive documents related to the spe-cial counsel’s investigation andother politically charged cases.

In a Twitter post, Mr. Trumpcalled the legal system “rigged”and amplified the lawmakers’complaints that the deputy attor-ney general, Rod J. Rosenstein,was not moving fast enough toturn over the documents theywant. The president stepped injust as Mr. Rosenstein appeared tomollify three key committeechairmen who were also demand-ing internal documents.

“They don’t want to turn overDocuments to Congress. What arethey afraid of? Why so much re-dacting? Why such unequal ‘jus-tice?’” Mr. Trump wrote. “At somepoint I will have no choice but touse the powers granted to thePresidency and get involved!”Which presidential powers Mr.Trump was referring to was notimmediately clear.

Distrust between Mr. Rosen-stein and Congress has beenbuilding over months. In recentweeks, he has made significantgestures to release documents de-manded by prominent congress-men, only to be threatened withimpeachment by lawmakers fromthe far-right.

Mr. Rosenstein responded onTuesday to that threat by declar-ing that the Justice Departmentwould not be “extorted.”

Officials at the department be-lieve that the conservatives havenow gone too far with documentrequests related to open investi-gations that the lawmakers

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President JoinsHouse AttacksOver Inquiries

Battling Over Access toKey Documents

By NICHOLAS FANDOSand ADAM GOLDMAN

WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump on Wednesday hired aWashington lawyer who repre-sented Bill Clinton during his im-peachment, a sign that the WhiteHouse sees no immediate end toits legal problems and is girdingfor a combative relationship witha new Congress after the midtermelections.

The new lawyer, Emmet T.Flood, will replace Ty Cobb, theWhite House lawyer who per-suaded Mr. Trump to cooperatewith the special counsel for thefirst year of its investigation. Mr.Cobb assured the president thatdoing so would bring the investi-gation to a swift end.

That has not happened, andlawyers say the special counsel,

Robert S. Mueller III, is unlikely toconclude his work soon. Mr.Trump’s advisers see a new perilon the horizon: If Democrats wincontrol of the House, they wouldhave the authority to issue sub-poenas or even convene impeach-ment hearings.

Mr. Flood’s résumé is wellsuited for such fights. He joustedwith Congress and an independ-ent counsel during the Clinton ad-ministration. As a White Houselawyer during George W. Bush’ssecond term, he helped fend offcongressional investigations intothe firing of federal prosecutors.And in private practice, he repre-sented former Vice PresidentDick Cheney.

Trump Digs In, Adding LawyerWith Impeachment Experience

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Gamers are the new stars, and not justin their own rooms. Above, watchingSuper Smash Bros. at the EsportsArena in Oakland, Calif. PAGE D1

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Esports, With Real Crowds

The Iowa Legislature has sent a bill tothe governor that would ban abortionsif a fetal heartbeat is detected, aroundsix weeks of pregnancy. PAGE A11

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Major Curb on AbortionMatt Harvey, the Mets’ onetime powerstarter, is in the bullpen. The best-casescenario is that the move is only tempo-rary, Tyler Kepner writes. PAGE B11

SPORTSTHURSDAY B8-12

Looking for Lost Lightning

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Despite a history of mistrust, Beijing isharnessing tech firms in China to aidPresident Xi Jinping in achieving thecountry’s broader goals. PAGE B1

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China’s Digital Squeeze

While the artist trumpets startlingmessages on Twitter and in interviews,a rescue effort for his mind and soul iswaged, Jon Caramanica writes. PAGE C1

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Kanye, the InterventionWith warplanes, a PowerPoint presen-tation and a new law, Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu of Israel strength-ened his hand in foiling Tehran’s stra-tegic ambitions. PAGE A10

Netanyahu Builds Case on Iran

A new study shows that it’s not onlyhousing patterns that influence segre-gation in New York City schools, butalso school selection. PAGE A18

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The Cost of School Choice

The embattled political consult-ing firm Cambridge Analytica an-nounced on Wednesday that itwould cease most operations andfile for bankruptcy amid growinglegal and political scrutiny of itsbusiness practices and work for

Donald J. Trump’s presidentialcampaign.

The decision was made lessthan two months after CambridgeAnalytica and Facebook becameembroiled in a data-harvestingscandal that compromised thepersonal information of up to 87million people. Revelations aboutthe misuse of data, published inMarch by The New York Times

and The Observer of London,plunged Facebook into crisis andprompted regulators and lawmak-ers to open investigations intoCambridge Analytica.

In a statement posted to itswebsite, Cambridge Analyticasaid the controversy had drivenaway virtually all of the compa-ny’s customers, forcing it to file forbankruptcy in both the United

States and Britain. The electionsdivision of Cambridge’s British af-filiate, SCL Group, will also shutdown, the company said.

But the company’s announce-ment left several questions unan-swered, including who would re-tain the company’s intellectualproperty — the so-called psycho-

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Scandal Sinks Firm That Mined Facebook to Target U.S. Voters

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump reimbursed Michael D. Co-hen, his longtime personal lawyer,for a $130,000 payment that Mr.Cohen has said he made to keep apornographic film actress fromgoing public before the 2016 elec-tion with her story about an affairwith Mr. Trump, according to Ru-dolph W. Giuliani, one of the presi-dent’s lawyers.

That statement, which Mr. Giu-liani made Wednesday night onFox News, contradicted the presi-dent, who has said he had noknowledge about any payment tothe actress, Stephanie Clifford, tokeep quiet before the election.

Asked specifically last monthby reporters aboard Air ForceOne whether he knew about thepayment, Mr. Trump said, “No,”and referred questions to Mr. Co-hen. He was then asked, “Do youknow where he got the money tomake that payment?”

“No,” Mr. Trump responded. “Idon’t know.”

In an interview with The NewYork Times shortly after his FoxNews appearance, Mr. Giulianisaid that he had documentationshowing that Mr. Trump had per-sonally made the payments, andhe indicated that the goal was toconclusively demonstrate thatthere was no campaign finance vi-olation involved.

“That removes the campaign fi-nance violation, and we have allthe documentary proof for it,” Mr.Giuliani said. He added that whenthe initial payment was made, Mr.Cohen did it “on his own author-ity.”

“Some time after the campaign

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Cohen Over Time

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TRAVEL TROUBLES A business adviser played down his role in helpingplan a trip for the E.P.A.’s Scott Pruitt, documents show. PAGE A15

VOTE AS WEAPON Democratic candidates for the House say voters willpunish Republicans for voting last year to repeal Obamacare. PAGE A12

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