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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump continued his outreach torogue leaders on Monday, declar-ing he would meet North Korea’sdictator, Kim Jong-un, providedthe circumstances were right,even as the Philippine president,Rodrigo Duterte, brushed asidethe president’s invitation to visitthe White House, saying he mightbe “too busy.”

Mr. Trump’s unorthodox over-tures — to a nuclear-armeddespot who brutally purged his ri-vals, and an insurgent politicianaccused of extrajudicial killings ofdrug suspects — illustrated thepresident’s confidence in his abil-ity to make deals and his willing-ness to talk tovirtually any-one.

Above all,they high-lighted his pen-chant for flout-ing the normsof diplomacy,no matter hislarger aim.

No sittingAmerican pres-ident has met with a North Koreanleader since Mr. Kim’s grandfa-ther Kim Il-sung established aStalinist state there after the Ko-rean War. However vague and im-promptu, Mr. Trump’s offer shookup an unsettled situation on theKorean Peninsula, which has beenalarmed by the prospect of a mili-tary clash between the UnitedStates and the North.

“Kim Jong-un would be de-lighted to meet with PresidentTrump on the basis of one nuclearleader to another,” said Christo-pher R. Hill, a career diplomatwho was special envoy on NorthKorea under President George W.Bush. “If I were Trump I wouldpass on that.”

Mr. Duterte’s backhanded re-sponse to Mr. Trump, however,also showed the pitfalls of his per-sonal brand of diplomacy. Thepresident had already gottenfierce criticism from human rightsgroups for embracing a manviewed by many as being respon-sible for the deaths of thousandsof people involved in the drugtrade. Now he faces beingsnubbed by Mr. Duterte as well.

And he is working to keep openlines of communication with Pres-ident Vladimir V. Putin, despitepartially blaming the Russianleader last month for the continu-ing civil war in Syria. Mr. Trump

TRUMP OVERTURETO NORTH KOREA

IS FULL OF RISKS

IMPROMPTU DIPLOMACY

Offering to Meet WithKim While DuterteGives a Brush-Off

By MARK LANDLER

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JERUSALEM — Hamas, themilitant group built around vio-lent resistance to Israel, sought onMonday to present a more moder-ate public face, taking its next shotin an intensifying struggle forleadership of the Palestiniancause and international recogni-tion.

Released by Hamas just daysbefore its chief rival, the Palestin-ian Authority leader MahmoudAbbas, was to meet PresidentTrump, a new document of princi-ples for the group calls for closerties to Egypt, waters down theanti-Semitic language from itscharter, and accepts at least a pro-visional Palestinian state —though it still does not formallyrecognize Israel.

With its statement, Hamas istrying to offer a more main-stream-friendly version of its vi-sion for the Palestinian cause, andto gain ground against Mr. Abbas,whose influence is growing moretenuous.

Mr. Abbas is 82 years old, andhis rivals withinhis own Fatahmovement areincreasinglyopen about thestruggle to suc-ceed him. Seek-ing to regainthe initiative,he has recentlywaged a crack-down on Ha-mas, cutting sa-

laries due to them from the Pales-tinian Authority and refusing topay for electricity in the militantgroup’s power base in Gaza.

The split between the twogroups — Fatah in the West Bank,Hamas in Gaza — has stood as oneof the major obstacles in the peaceprocess with Israel: Who, the Is-raelis ask, is their partner if thePalestinians are so deeply divid-ed? That division has also beenconvenient for, and encouragedby, those on the Israeli right whodo not want a peace deal.

But the Hamas document,which has been leaking for weeks,is less a change in Hamas’s funda-mental beliefs than a challenge forthe credibility of Palestinians inboth Gaza and the West Bank, aswell as internationally.

HAMAS TEMPERSEXTREME STANCESIN BID FOR POWER

BATTLE FOR CREDIBILITY

Presenting a ModerateFace to Gain Ground

Against Fatah

By IAN FISHER

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Abbas

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Police officers in Paris at a May Day rally, one of several in France, where unions are divided over the presidential election. Page A6.A Clash of Protesters and Politics

WASHINGTON — Just days af-ter the November election, topaides to Donald J. Trump huddledwith congressional staff membersin Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s suite ofoffices at the Capitol. The objec-tive: not to get things done, but toundo them — quickly.

For about three months afterInauguration Day, Mr. Trumpwould have the power to wipeaway some of his predecessor’smost significant regulations withsimple-majority votes from his al-lies in Congress.

But the clock was ticking.An obscure law known as the

Congressional Review Act giveslawmakers 60 legislative days to

overturn major new regulationsissued by federal agencies. Afterthat window closes, sometime inearly May, the process gets muchmore difficult: Executive ordersby the president can take years tounwind regulations — well be-yond the important 100-day yard-stick for new administrations.

So in weekly meetings leadingup to Jan. 20, the Trump aides and

lawmakers worked from a sharedExcel spreadsheet to develop alist of possible targets: rules en-acted late in Barack Obama’spresidency that they viewed as avast regulatory overreach thatwas stifling economic growth.

The result was a historic rever-sal of government rules in record

An Obscure Law Unravels Obama’s Legacy, One Rule at a TimeBy MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Continued on Page A20

Fox News forced out one of itsmost senior executives on Mon-day, the latest aftershock of a sex-ual harassment scandal that hasengulfed the television networkand pressured its owners, theMurdoch family, into a painful andprotracted public housecleaning.

The exit of Bill Shine — a co-president at the network and aclose ally of Roger E. Ailes, its for-mer chairman — came nearly 10months after Mr. Ailes was re-moved in the wake of numerousharassment allegations. Mr.Shine’s departure could portend

big changes as the Murdochsmove to retool a lucrative channelthat has threatened to become anobstacle to their global businessambitions.

Mr. Shine’s exit did little to quella newsroom in tumult, however.Even as Mr. Shine was removed,another veteran executive withdeep ties to Mr. Ailes, SuzanneScott, was promoted. Ms. Scott,who is now the president of pro-gramming, has been cited in law-suits against the network as a fig-ure who enabled and concealedMr. Ailes’s behavior.

Mr. Shine had been viewed bysome employees as a symbol ofMr. Ailes’s tainted tenure amid apublic pledge by the network’scorporate parent, 21st CenturyFox, to reform its office culture.He was accused in several law-

Fox News, Pledging New Culture,Ousts Another Symbol of Old One

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and EMILY STEEL

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Katy Perry at the Met Gala on Monday in Maison Martin Margiela by John Galliano. Page A24.The Lipstick Matched WALL STREET WORRY The presi-

dent suggested breaking up thebiggest banks. DealBook. PAGE B1

TRUMPS’ SECURITY Congresssets aside an extra $120 million toprotect the first family. PAGE A18

HEALTH BILL After two falsestarts, the administration is stillpushing for a vote. PAGE A17

DARWIN, Australia — SouthKorea, Japan and the UnitedStates have grown accustomed toNorth Korea’s diatribes, butPyongyang recently threatened anew target with a nuclear strike:Australia.

During a visit by Vice PresidentMike Pence to Sydney, the Northwarned Australia to think twiceabout “blindly and zealously toe-ing the U.S. line” and acting as “ashock brigade of the U.S. master.”

Australian and Americantroops have fought side by side inevery major conflict since WorldWar I, and there are few militariesin the world with closer relations:1,250 United States Marines re-cently arrived in Darwin for sixmonths of joint exercises; the twocountries share intelligence fromland, sea and even outer space;and Prime Minister MalcolmTurnbull is slated to meet Presi-dent Trump on Thursday on anaircraft carrier in New York.

But North Korea’s threatagainst the country, far-fetched asit might seem, is an example ofhow Australia’s most important

Australia FeelsIts Ties to U.S.Put It in a Bind

By DAMIEN CAVE

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WASHINGTON — If nothingelse, President Trump has al-ready secured a place in history.It is his grasp of history thatseems less secure.

In his latest foray into whatmight be called the alternativepast, Mr. Trump suggested thatAndrew Jackson had been “re-ally angry” about the Civil War,which did not break out until 16years after his death. And forgood measure, Mr. Trump ques-tioned “why was there the CivilWar” in the first place, suggest-ing that it should have simplybeen worked out.

The comments, made in aninterview broadcast on Monday,

may have been attributable toimprecision, but for historiansthey underscored what seems tobe a tenuous understanding byMr. Trump of the course ofevents that preceded his ascen-sion to power. At various points,he has seemed to suggest thatFrederick Douglass is still alive,appeared surprised that Abra-ham Lincoln was a Republican,and mounted a plaque at a golfcourse marking a Civil Warbattle that never happened.

“Presidents should have somebetter sense of the nation’s his-tory as they become part of it,”said Julian E. Zelizer, a presiden-tial historian at Princeton.

White House officials said thatMr. Trump was being misinter-preted and that a few randomcomments had been twisted intomeaning something they did not.The criticism of his remarks,they said, reflects a “gotcha”game by intellectual elitists whofail to understand him.

“There’s a certain amount ofhunting for ‘what is it that Trumphas done that’s dumb?’” saidNewt Gingrich, the formerspeaker of the House, whotaught history as a college pro-fessor in Georgia and has written

This President Doesn’t Go by the (History) BookBy PETER BAKER

and JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH

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Remarks on Civil WarUnderscore Tenuous

Grasp of the Past

Travelers complain of severe treatment.Fadwar Alaoui, a Canadian, was turnedaway when she came to shop. PAGE A11

NATIONAL A11-22

Rough Greeting at Borders

Health experts take issue with howsuicide is treated in Netflix’s popularshow “13 Reasons Why.” PAGE A12

Worries Over a TV Suicide

A chemical attack in Syria in April wasone in a series, witnesses and investiga-tors say, with at least 64 people dead intwo attacks in December. PAGE A9

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

Nerve Gas Attacks in Syria

The Russian police detained about 20gay rights protesters rallying againstabuses in Chechnya. PAGE A10

Arrests in Russia Protest

Mayor Bill de Blasio greeted some ofthe first commuters on a ferry fromQueens to Manhattan. PAGE A23

NEW YORK A23-25

Welcoming a Ferry ServiceConservative critics have celebrated thenetwork’s struggles, saying its coverageof social issues is slanted. PAGE B8

ESPN Accused of Liberal Bias

Noah Syndergaard, who has a torn torsomuscle, can do it all — except, perhaps,throw properly. On Baseball. PAGE B8

SPORTSTUESDAY B8-12

Bigger, Faster, Frailer

In cases of twins, the virus usuallyinfects both twins if they are identical,but only one if fraternal. The differencemay offer a telling clue. PAGE D1

SCIENCE TIMES D1-6

Clues to Zika’s Damage

A reshuffling at AllianceBernsteincomes as investors abandon activemoney managers in favor of less expen-sive exchange-traded funds. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

Fund Manager Ousts Chief

David Leonhardt PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

Tracey Wigfield is used to her motherinserting herself into her professionaland personal life. Now she has turnedthat into NBC’s “Great News.” PAGE C1

ARTS C1-7

A Mother-Daughter Sitcom

Media companies are looking toconsolidate after the F.C.C. re-laxed its rules on how many sta-tions they can own. Page B1.

Local TV Mergers in Works

Today, sunny to partly cloudy,windy, less humid, high 72. Tonight,clear, low 53. Tomorrow, sunny topartly cloudy, breezy, cooler, high 63.Weather map appears on Page C8.

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