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LONDON — Declaring“enough is enough,” Prime Min-ister Theresa May vowed on Sun-day to conduct a sweeping reviewof Britain’s counterterrorism stra-tegy after three knife-wieldingassailants unleashed an assaultlate Saturday night, the third ma-jor terrorist attack in the countryin three months.
At least seven people werekilled and dozens more wounded,including 21 who remained in criti-cal condition, as the men spedacross London Bridge in a whitevan, ramming numerous pedes-trians before emerging with largehunting knives for a rampage inthe capital’s Borough Market, acrowded nightspot.
In a matter of minutes, the threeassailants were chased down byeight armed officers who firedabout 50 rounds, killing the men,who wore what appeared to besuicide vests but subsequentlyproved to be fake. One member ofthe public also sustained nonfatalgunshot wounds, the police said.
The assault came days beforenational elections this week andafter the British government haddowngraded the country’s threatlevel to “severe” from “critical,”meaning that an attack was highlylikely, but not imminent.
The Islamic State claimed re-sponsibility for the attack, sayingit had been carried out by “a de-tachment of Islamic State fight-ers.”
Analysts said the Islamic Stateconsiders anyone whose actionswere inspired by the group to es-sentially be a member.
“This is how ISIS decentralizesits terrorism,” said Laith Alkhouri,a director at Flashpoint, a busi-ness risk intelligence company inNew York that tracks militantthreats and cyberthreats. “As ofnow, there’s no indication thatISIS orchestrated or directedthese attacks.”
On Sunday morning, Mrs.May’s Conservative Party and theopposition Labour Party an-nounced that they were suspend-ing campaigning for the parlia-mentary elections — for less thana full day, in the case of Labour —out of respect for the victims.However, the right-wing, populistU.K. Independence Party said itwould continue with its scheduledcampaign events.
Mrs. May said the electionwould go ahead on Thursday asplanned.
The prime minister led an
‘Enough Is Enough’: Britain Vows Terror CrackdownPremier Says Elections
Will Go On DespiteAttack That Killed 7
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Forensic police officers on London Bridge on Sunday, a day after three assailants killed at leastseven people with a van and knives. The police chased down and fatally shot all three attackers.
DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Security checks at Ariana Grande’s “One Love Manchester” charity concert on Sunday. Page A8.NIGEL RODDIS/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
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IVOR PRICKETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A woman hurt in an airstrike in May in Iraq. The Islamic State’sstronghold is shrinking, but the civilian toll is rising. Page A11.
A Block-by-Block Battle for Mosul
MEDIA JABS The attack reneweda cycle of partisan broadsides andideological combat. PAGE A6
UNDER ATTACK It was a warm,drizzly night. Then came screams,sirens and chaos. PAGE A7
DETROIT — The chief execu-tive of General Motors, an au-tomaker synonymous with De-troit, saw the future of driving notin the Motor City but on thestreets of San Francisco.
Mary T. Barra, a G.M. lifer whohad worked her way from engi-neer to the top, was in the backseat of a prototype self-drivingelectric car as it wound its waythrough the city’s downtown ayear ago.
She wanted to see for herselfwhether automation was ready totake over from a driver — safely,and on a mass scale. How would itreact, for example, when itreached an intersection as a light
turned yellow?Driving in a situation like that,
“you have to make a decision,” sherecalled in a recent interview.“Generally if you decide to go, youdecide to speed up. Or you stop.” Ifthe technology works, she said, itwill make the right decision: “Thecar knows.”
After that drive, Ms. Barramade her own decision to speedup, convinced that such cars wereworth betting the company on.Within six months after what shecalled her “aha! moment” in SanFrancisco, a fleet of self-drivingChevrolet Bolts, the company’snew electric car, was being built at
G.M. Seeks the Driver’s SeatFor a Future Without Drivers
By BILL VLASIC
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WASHINGTON — On one lev-el, President Trump reacted toSaturday night’s terrorist attackin London much as hispredecessors might have. He ex-pressed solidarity and telephonedBritain’s prime minister to offercondolences. “WE ARE WITHYOU,” he wrote to Britons.
But even as the investigationinto the attack was getting under-way, Mr. Trump wasted little timein using the episode to defend hishotly disputed travel ban on vis-
itors from certain predominantlyMuslim countries and to criticizethe judges who have blocked it.And by Sunday morning, he de-cided to go after the mayor of Lon-don as not being tough enough onterrorism.
Along the way, he mis-characterized the mayor’s posi-tion, renewed a trans-Atlanticfeud stretching back a year andwidened his rift with the UnitedStates’ traditional European alliesa bit further. And he set off a chainreaction in the news media world,triggering partisan reactions that
illustrated just how polarized boththe United States and the worldhave become about the uninhibit-ed, Twitter-obsessed president.
Mr. Trump’s penchant for pick-ing fights is well established bynow, but it continues to confoundand exasperate foreign leaderswho are not accustomed to suchrough-and-tumble interactionswith American presidents. Theniceties of international di-plomacy have never had such areality-show flavor to them in themodern era, but Mr. Trump has
Trump Aims at a Mayor, and Foreign Ties StrainBy PETER BAKER
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WELLSTON, Ohio — To GwenBeatty, a junior at the high schoolin this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new scienceteacher’s lessons on climatechange seemed explicitly de-signed to provoke her.
So she provoked him back.When the teacher, James Sutter,
ascribed the recent warming ofthe Earth to heat-trapping gasesreleased by burning fossil fuelslike the coal her father had oncemined, she asserted that it couldbe a result of other, natural causes.
When he described the flood-ing, droughts and fierce stormsthat scientists predict within the
century if such carbon emissionsare not sharply reduced, she chal-lenged him to prove it. “Scientistsare wrong all the time,” she saidwith a shrug, echoing those cele-brating President Trump’s an-nouncement last week that theUnited States would withdrawfrom the Paris climate accord.
When Mr. Sutter lamented thatinformation about climate changehad been removed from the WhiteHouse website after Mr. Trump’sinauguration, she rolled her eyes.
“It’s his website,” she said.For his part, Mr. Sutter occa-
sionally fell short of his goal of pro-viding Gwen — the most vocal of araft of student climate skeptics —with calm, evidence-based re-sponses. “Why would I lie toyou?” he demanded one morning.“It’s not like I’m making a lot ofmoney here.”
She was, he knew, a straight-Astudent. She would have had notrouble comprehending the evi-dence, embedded in ancient treerings, ice, leaves and shells, aswell as sophisticated computermodels, that atmospheric carbondioxide is the chief culprit when itcomes to warming the world. Orthe graph he showed of howsharply it has spiked since the In-dustrial Revolution, when hu-mans began pumping vast quanti-ties of it into the air.
Thinking it a useful soothing de-vice, Mr. Sutter assented toGwen’s request that she be al-
Obstacle for Climate Science:Skeptical, Stubborn Students
By AMY HARMON
James Sutter teaches envi-ronmental science to highschool students in Ohio.
MADDIE McGARVEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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It has offices in a sleek Manhat-tan skyscraper. Its bonds are ac-cessible to millions of Americaninvestors. And it holds ties tosome of New York’s biggestbanks.
Despite this presence on WallStreet, detailed in previously un-reported financial records,Vnesheconombank, or VEB, is nonormal bank. It is wholly ownedby the Russian state. It is inter-twined with Russian intelligence.And the Russian prime ministeris, by law, the chairman of its su-pervisory board.
Now VEB is at the center of aninternational firestorm thatthreatens the Trump presidencybecause the bank’s chief — aprominent graduate of Russia’sspy school — met with JaredKushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, during the presidentialtransition. That meeting is a focus
of a federal counterintelligence in-vestigation about possible collu-sion between the Trump cam-paign and the Russian govern-ment.
Three years ago, in response toMoscow’s military intervention inUkraine, the Obama administra-tion imposed sanctions on VEBthat have effectively kept it fromtaking on most new business inthe United States. Since then,however, VEB has quietly kept upappearances on Wall Street in theevent that sanctions would belifted, according to interviewswith American bankers and for-mer government officials.
That moment appeared to benearing with Mr. Trump’s victory.And so the bank’s chief, Sergey N.Gorkov, traveled to New York inDecember for what he describedas a “roadshow” promoting thebank that was largely hinged onthe prospect of improved di-plomatic and business relation-ships between the United Statesand Russia.
During that trip, The New YorkTimes has found, Mr. Gorkov metwith bankers at JPMorgan Chase,Citigroup and another, unidenti-fied American financial institu-tion. Goldman Sachs bankers alsotried to arrange a meeting but ulti-mately had a scheduling conflict.The meetings, which are not pro-hibited by sanctions, were con-firmed by three people briefed onthe discussions but unauthorizedto speak publicly about them.
None of the American bankswere new to VEB. Citi and JPMor-gan had long, established relation-ships clearing financial transac-tions for VEB in the United States,activities not affected by the sanc-tions. And before the sanctions,securities filings show, Goldmanand others had helped the Russianbank issue bonds, activity thatwas blocked by the sanctions andthat VEB was eager to resume.
After a few painful years, con-tinuing Western borrowing had
Bank in Kushner MeetingWields Power for Kremlin
U.S. Investigators Seek Specifics of a 2016Encounter With a Top Trump Aide
This article is by Ben Protess, An-drew E. Kramer and Mike McIntire.
Jared Kushner, above, Presi-dent Trump’s son-in-law, metwith Sergey Gorkov, below,chief of VEB, in December.
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Racist and xenophobic laws enacted inthe state’s early days haunt the volatilepolitical debates of the present. PAGE A12
NATIONAL A12-16
Oregon’s Legacy of Racism
With 1,400 men killed in three wars withIsrael since 2008, many widows havebeen left seeking husbands. PAGE A9
A Novel Dating Site in Gaza
Nearly a year into the president’s vio-lent antidrug campaign, Philippinesresidents are cobbling together strat-egies to hide and survive. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-11
Fleeing a Drug CrackdownPalmer Luckey, the founder of the virtu-al reality company Oculus, is workingon a defense-related start-up. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-5
Next Up: Virtual Border Wall
Mexico and the U.S. each have leveragein talks over sugar exports, which mayhint at Nafta discussions. PAGE B1
Forecasting Trade’s Winds
As candidates for governor racedaround New Jersey ahead of Tuesday’sprimary election, polls showed thatmost voters had little interest. PAGE A17
NEW YORK A17-19, 22
Primary Blitz Seen as Blah
He was in critical condition after beinginjured when a driver he was question-ing in Brooklyn sped off. PAGE A17
Officer Dragged by Stolen Car
Jimmy Piersall, a colorful outfielderwhose mental disorder was portrayedin “Fear Strikes Out,” was 87. PAGE D7
OBITUARIES D7-8
Player Who Detailed His Illness
“Wonder Woman,” directed by PattyJenkins and starring Gal Gadot, below,took in about $100.5 million in NorthAmerica over the weekend. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-8
A Glass Ceiling Shatters
Charles M. Blow PAGE A21
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21
India and Pakistan are fierce on-fieldopponents, but political tension hasoften kept them apart. PAGE D4
Rare Meeting of Cricket Rivals
Golden State defeated Cleveland, 132-113,in Game 2 of the N.B.A. finals to remainunbeaten in the postseason. PAGE D1
SPORTSMONDAY D1-6
Warriors Take 2-0 Series Lead
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