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Three American presidents have strug-gled with conflicting priorities in Islam-abad, but suspending security aid couldtilt the Afghan conflict. PAGE A9

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

Trump’s Gamble on PakistanN.Y.U. surgeons hope the offer of a life-like replica mask will persuade people todonate the faces of dying family mem-bers for transplants. PAGE A16

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To Get a Loved One’s FaceComputer chips inserted into N.F.L.players’ shoulder pads helped measurethe speed of the game, and track itsfastest players. PAGE D1

SPORTSSATURDAY D1-5

From Zero to UnstoppableDespite a glut of glitches and questionsbordering on the ridiculous, HQ, a livetrivia game, taps into our universalfeeling of being aggrieved. PAGE C1

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The Best Worst Thing Online Bret Stephens PAGE A19

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A18-19

JERUSALEM — The Israeliright, emboldened by PresidentTrump’s recognition of Jerusalemas Israel’s capital, is not the onlyfaction arguing for a single statebetween the Jordan River and theMediterranean Sea.

The Palestine Liberation Orga-

nization has also begun to askwhether that might not be such abad idea, though it has a radicallydifferent view of what that statewould look like.

As momentum ebbs for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Pales-tinian conflict, both sides are ta-king another look at the one-stateidea. But that solution has longbeen problematic for both sides.

For the Israelis, absorbingthree million West Bank Palestin-ians means either giving up on de-mocracy or accepting the end ofthe Jewish state. The Palestin-ians, unwilling to live under apart-heid-like conditions or military oc-cupation, have also seen twostates as their best hope.

Now, for the first time since itdeclared its support for a Palestin-

ian state side-by-side with Israelin 1988, the P.L.O. is seriously de-bating whether to embrace fall-back options, including the pur-suit of a single state.

“It’s dominating the discus-sion,” said Mustafa Barghouti, aphysician who sits on the P.L.O.’scentral council, which is to take up

As a 2-State Solution Loses Steam, a 1-State Plan Gains TractionBy DAVID M. HALBFINGER

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GORHAM, N.H. — The mo-ment you step out into the frozenair on the way up Mount Washing-ton — one of the most frigid spotsin the lower 48 — the icy windsteals your breath and freezesyour eyelashes. You can’t blink.The cold stabs your face andnumbs your earlobes to rubber.

“It’s an icy hell,” said AmyLoughlin, 50, who was visitingfrom Austin, Tex., and scaling themountain, the highest in theNortheast, in the back of a Snow-Coach — a van retrofitted withtanklike treads to handle the blow-ing snow and treacherous roads.

With much of the Northeast andMidwest feeling like a block of ice,the temperature here in the highpeaks of New Hampshire’s WhiteMountains was forecast to drop to40 degrees below zero overnightFriday. The wind chill could makethe air feel as cold as 100 belowzero. That is not a typo. Negative.100.

“We should end up being thecoldest location tonight in thelower 48,” said Mike Carmon, sen-ior meteorologist at the MountWashington Observatory, whowas one of a handful of scientistsand others huddled at the top ofone of the most dangerous andforbidding places in the country.“We basically just start saying it’sstupid cold outside.”

The temperature on MountWashington had plunged to 26 be-low on Friday afternoon — 70 de-

The Big PayoffAt the Summit:

Frozen Misery

This article is by Jess Bidgood,Katharine Q. Seelye and Jack Healy.

No shirt, no problem for Gary Atlas, who went for a run Friday on the Coney Island boardwalk. The high in New York was 16.

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WASHINGTON — In Presi-dent George W. Bush’s last yearin office, his former press secre-tary, Scott McClellan, wrote atell-all book concluding that the

Iraq war was a “seri-ous strategic blunder”based on the “ambi-tion, certitude andself-deceit” of a White

House that was not fully honestwith the American people.

The president’s remainingadvisers were livid at what theyconsidered the betrayal of anaide who had been with Mr. Bushsince his Texas days. But whenDana Perino, who then held thesame spokesman’s job, ex-pressed her indignation, Mr.Bush sighed and told her to find

a way to forgive Mr. McClellan orrisk being consumed by anger.

Forgiveness is not exactlyPresident Trump’s first instinct,as he made clear this week whena new book quoted his formerchief strategist, Stephen K. Ban-non, offering his own harsh judg-ments about the White Housewhere he once worked. Everypresident, it seems, goes throughthe spin cycle of former aidesand revelatory books — somethey write themselves, others

they are quoted in — and everypresident has to find a way tograpple with the questions ofloyalty and candor that invari-ably arise. Mr. Trump choseblunt force.

What is different about Mr.Bannon’s stark assessments inMichael Wolff’s new book, “Fireand Fury: Inside the TrumpWhite House,” is not that a for-mer aide would speak out, butthat it would happen so early in apresidency. Most books of thissort appear later in a president’stenure, or even after its end, notbefore the one-year anniversary.But then again, Mr. Trump’sWhite House has burned throughstaff members so quickly that theusual patterns have accelerateddramatically.

Insider Tell-Alls Are Common. This Timing Isn’t.By PETER BAKER Tales From Presidential

Aides Usually ComeOut Much Later

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Copies of the book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” at a Washington bookstore.

WASHINGTON — More than ayear after Republican leaderspromised to investigate Russianinterference in the 2016 election,two party leaders on Friday madethe first known congressionalcriminal referral in connectionwith the meddling — against oneof the people who sought to ex-pose it.

Senator Charles E. Grassley ofIowa, the chairman of the Judicia-ry Committee, and Senator Lind-sey Graham of South Carolina toldthe Justice Department that theyhad reason to believe that a for-mer British spy, ChristopherSteele, lied to federal authoritiesabout his contacts with reportersregarding information in a dossierhe helped compile and that pur-ported to detail Russia’s interfer-

ence. They urged the departmentto investigate.

The request infuriated Demo-crats and raised the stakes in thepartisan battle over the investiga-tions into Mr. Trump, his cam-paign team and Russia.

President Trump and his allieshave also demanded that the Jus-tice Department reopen its inves-tigation of Hillary Clinton’s emailserver and the Clinton Founda-tion. F.B.I. agents are focusing onwhether any foundation dona-tions were made in exchange forpolitical favors while Mrs. Clintonwas secretary of state.

Both efforts played into a farbroader campaign waged by con-

G.O.P. SENATORSPURSUING AUTHOROF FILE ON TRUMP

INQUIRY IN 2016 ELECTION

A Criminal Referral ThatIs Deepening a Bitter

Partisan Dispute

By NICHOLAS FANDOSand MATTHEW ROSENBERG

Christopher Steele, former spy.VICTORIA JONES/PRESS ASSOCIATION, VIA AP

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The bustling United Stateseconomy is beginning to benefitsome American workers whohave not gotten a taste of the re-covery and have been most inneed of relief.

That picture was reinforced bya report on Friday from the LaborDepartment, which showed an in-crease of 148,000 jobs last month.The figure fell short of econo-mists’ expectations, but some ofthe most impressive job gains inthe past year were in blue-collarand service industries that pay adecent salary.

Over all, average hourly earn-ings were 2.5 percent higher inDecember compared with theyear before, scarcely keeping upwith inflation. But other datashows that wages have increasedmost for the least-educated work-ers and for people in many indus-tries that are generally low-pay-ing.

“Growth is strong, and thebenefits of this growth have beenwidely shared,” Jed Kolko, thechief economist for Indeed.com, ajob-search site. “This has been ayear in which some of the gaps inthe economy that had been grow-ing narrowed a bit.”

Manual-labor positions are thekinds of jobs that PresidentTrump has promised to bring backin droves, so progress could be po-litically important. Hiring pickedup fastest in construction andmining. Manufacturing, whichlost jobs in 2016, expanded lastyear at a respectable clip, part of aglobal resurgence.

Reflecting the economy’s resil-ience, overall hiring in 2017 wasonly slightly lower than in 2016 —and it has risen for 87 consecutivemonths, a remarkable feat.

The unemployment rate wassteady at 4.1 percent, a 17-year low.The numbers point to an economythat still has some room to grow.

In a Twitter post on Wednesday,Mr. Trump cited the unemploy-ment rate as evidence that theeconomy is “only getting better!”When he took office last January,the rate was 4.8 percent.

Most economists say presi-dents do not generally determinethe economy’s course, and it is tooearly to measure the hiring effectsof the tax cut signed into law lastmonth. But Mr. Trump’s agendamay be having an impact on theeconomy in other ways. His pushto dismantle regulations on busi-nesses seems to have emboldened

More LaborersSee Pay Gains As Jobs Climb

A Lift for Blue-Collarand Service Workers

By NATALIE KITROEFF

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FAIR LAWN, N.J. — Faced witha new federal tax law that limitsstate and local tax deductions,three communities in New Jerseyhave come up with a novel solu-tion: They want people to donateto a town-run charity as a way ofmitigating their property taxes.

The three towns — Paramus,Park Ridge and Fair Lawn — an-nounced on Friday that theywould allow residents to donatethe same sum they would havebeen charged in property taxes topay for municipal services. Underthe tax bill signed by PresidentTrump last month, deductions forstate and local taxes, includingproperty taxes, are limited, but

charitable donations are not.“The tax hike bill Congress

passed last year is a ticking timebomb for New Jersey,” said Repre-sentative Josh Gottheimer, aDemocrat from northern New Jer-sey who helped hatch the plan andwhose district includes the threecommunities. “But today, we areproudly declaring that New Jer-sey won’t shy from a fight. Wewon’t be America’s piggy bank.”

The move is one example of howstates and towns across the coun-try with high tax rates are work-ing feverishly to come up with cre-ative ways to circumvent the fed-eral tax law. In New York, Gov. An-

Ploy in New Jersey on Tax Law:Charity Begins at Town Hall

By NICK CORASANITI and ALAN RAPPEPORT

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