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A Federal Reserve official said the central bank should be prepared to continue lifting interest rates because inflation remains too high and the labor market is too tight, hinting at disagreements within the central bank’s rate-setting committee.

Back then, a range of institutions were floundering, not just commercial banks.

The number of migrants entering the U.S. illegally began to fall on Friday after thousands made it in this past week ahead of Title 42’s expiration, while cities and officials prepared shelter and services for migrants fanning out across the country. A1, A6  An unexpected burst of diplomacy between the U.S. and China points to a growing desire in both Washington and Beijing to begin stabilizing relations after months of free fall. A1  Ukraine’s government said its troops had advanced on Russian forces on the Bakhmut front as Kyiv seeks to turn the tide around the embattled city after months on the defensive. A7  Congressional and White House staff plan to continue talks over the weekend to avert a U.S. default as lawmakers expressed increasing urgency about reaching a deal. A4  Militants in Gaza fired rockets toward the Jerusalem area and Israel killed another senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander in the blockaded enclave. A8 The Marine Corps veteran who placed Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York subway was charged with manslaughter and released after posting bail. A3

 JPMorgan has become the target of a campaign by Republican state officials seeking to expose what they see as religious discrimination in the bank’s business practices. A1  Biden said he would nominate Fed governor Philip Jefferson to become the central bank’s secondin-command and World Bank official Adriana Kugler to join the Fed’s board. A2  Netflix plans to reduce its spending by $300 million this year as the company continues its push to improve profitability. B3  The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended Friday’s session down 0.2% and 0.4%, respectively, while the Dow was roughly flat. B11  A group led by privateequity titan Josh Harris has entered into an agreement to buy the NFL’s Washington Commanders from Dan Snyder for about $6 billion. B3  NHTSA is demanding that a supplier recall 67 million air-bag inflaters that can potentially explode, in what could be one of the largest safety actions on record. B3  U.K. tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch was extradited to the U.S., where he faces criminal charges related to the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard. B10

بوئینگ قراردادی را برای فروش 40 میلیارد دلار جت 737 MAX به رایان ایر منعقد کرد که این یک پیروزی برای این سازنده هواپیما بود زیرا تلاش می کند تا تجارت خود را دوباره تقویت کند و روابط خود را با شرکت هواپیمایی تخفیف اروپایی بهبود بخشد.

Boeing Gets Lift From Big Jet Deal
 relations with the European discount airline. Ryanair said it agreed to purchase 150 of Boeing’s 737 MAX 10 jets, the longest version of the narrow-body aircraft, with options to buy up to 150 more. The Irish airline, Europe’s biggest by passenge numbers, will use the new planes to significantly grow its market share on the continent over the next decade, executives said. For Boeing, the deal marks a turnaround in the relationship between Boeing and one of its biggest customers. A year ago, Ryanair Group Chief Executive Michael O’Leary publicly criticized the manufacturer’s commercial-jet arm over delays in delivering aircraft Ryanair had ordered and for failing to close this follow-up order. 

روابط با شرکت هواپیمایی تخفیف اروپایی رایان ایر گفت که با خرید 150 جت از 737 MAX 10 بوئینگ، طولانی ترین نسخه هواپیمای باریک بدن، با گزینه هایی برای خرید تا 150 جت دیگر موافقت کرده است. به گفته مدیران این شرکت هواپیمایی ایرلندی که بزرگترین شرکت اروپایی از نظر تعداد مسافر است، از هواپیماهای جدید برای رشد چشمگیر سهم بازار خود در این قاره در دهه آینده استفاده خواهد کرد. برای بوئینگ، این معامله نشان دهنده تحولی در روابط بین بوئینگ و یکی از بزرگترین مشتریانش است. یک سال پیش، مدیر اجرایی گروه رایان ایر، مایکل اولری، علناً از بازوی جت تجاری سازنده به دلیل تاخیر در تحویل هواپیماهایی که رایان ایر سفارش داده بود و به دلیل شکست در بستن این دستور بعدی انتقاد کرد.

هیئت منصفه فدرال به رئیس جمهور سابق دستور می دهد تا 5 میلیون دلار به ستون نویس پرونده مدنی بپردازد

Trump Liable For Sex Abuse, Defamation

Federal jury orders the former president to pay $5 million to columnist in civil case

BY JAMES FANELLI AND CORINNE RAMEY

A federal jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll and ordered him to pay $5 million in damages, after a civil trial in which the advice columnist alleged the former president raped her in a Manhattan department store nearly 30 years ago. The jury, following a twoweek civil trial, didn’t find that Mr. Trump committed rape but found it more likely than not that he sexually abused Ms. Carroll in a dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman, sometime around 1996. Jurors also found that Mr. Trump defamed Ms. Carroll in comments he made denying her allegations, which she first made publicly in 2019. Ms. Carroll, 79 years old who said she was inspired to come forward by the #MeToo movement, clasped her lawyers’ hands as the verdict was announced. “This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed,” she said in a statement. Joe Tacopina, the lead lawyer for Mr. Trump, shook hands with her after the judge dismissed the jury, which consisted of six men and three women. Ms. Carroll smiled as she left the courthouse and was escorted quickly into an SUV. In a social-media post, Mr. Trump, 76, called the verdict a disgrace. “I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS,” he said. Mr. Tacopina said he would appeal. The verdict, delivered Tuesday after three hours of deliberations, is a rebuke to Mr. Trump as he seeks the 2024 Republican presidential nomination while being dogged by legal troubles. He is facing New York criminal charges connected to his payment of hush money to a porn star before the 2016 election, as well as other criminal investigations, related to the pressuring of Georgia officials after the 2020 election, his actions on the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack and his handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence. He is facing civil-fraud allegations from the New York attorney general and another civil lawsuit from Ms. Carroll, who was a longtime Elle magazine columnist and at one time a writer for “Saturday Night Live.” Mr. Trump has denied wrongdoing in all of these matters. He chose not to testify in the Carroll trial—or attend any of the proceedings in person— but in a videotaped deposition under oath he accused Ms. Carroll of making up her allegations for publicity and political reasons, calling it “the most ridiculous, disgusting story.” His lawyers argued Ms. Carroll’s allegations contained inconsistencies, and that she had not behaved like a rape victim at the time of the alleged incident or in the years since. Ms. Carroll’s allegations first became public in a 2019 New York magazine article that was an excerpt of a book she published the same year, “What Do We Need Men For?” The writer, who continues to self-publish a column on Substack, testified over three days, telling jurors that she and Mr. Trump, then a prominent New York City figure and real-estate mogul, struck up a rapport after bumping into one another at Bergdorf Goodman around 1996. The playful banter continued in the lingerie section, she said, but ended once the two entered a dressing room for what she thought was so Mr. Trump could try on a seethrough bodysuit as a gag. “He immediately shut the door and shoved me up against the wall and shoved me so hard my head banged,” she recalled. Ms. Carroll testified in graphic detail about the alleged rape. The attack lasted a few minutes before she broke free from him, but “it left me unable to ever have a romantic life again,” she said. Ms. Carroll sparred with Mr. Tacopina on the witness stand as he tried to raise doubts about her account, asking her why she didn’t scream or go to the police. “Women like me were taught and trained to keep our chins up and to not complain,” she said. Mr. Tacopina called Ms. Carroll’s account inconceivable, saying it shared striking similarities to a 2012 “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” episode in which a character describes a rape fantasy in the lingerie section of Bergdorf Goodman. Ms. Carroll testified she was aware of the episode but never saw it. Mr. Trump’s lawyer noted Ms. Carroll had joked on Facebook about having sex with Mr. Trump for money and said she was a fan of “The Apprentice,” the reality television show in which Mr. Trump served as the host. “It was a very good television show,” she told jurors. To find Mr. Trump liable for sexual abuse, the jury was required to find by a preponderance of the evidence that he engaged in sexual contact with Ms. Carroll by force. For a rape finding, the jury would have needed to conclude that Mr. Trump physically forced sexual intercourse with her. Ms. Carroll’s defamation claim stemmed from an October 2022 social-media post in which Mr. Trump called her account a “Hoax and a lie.” He wrote, “E. Jean Carroll is not telling the truth, is a woman who I had nothing to do with, didn’t know, and would have no interest in knowing her if I ever had the chance.” While jurors were deciding only on Ms. Carroll’s allegations, the trial became a broader examination of Mr. Trump’s treatment of women, resurfacing derogatory comments he made in the past. Two women testified at the trial in support of Ms. Carroll, saying they were sexually assaulted by him in a similar manner years ago. Mr. Trump has denied their allegations. Jurors saw a video that became public in 2016 in which Mr. Trump told an “Access Hollywood” host how women let stars “grab them by the pussy.” “That’s what you said, correct?” Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Ms. Carroll, asked Mr. Trump during the deposition. “Well, historically, that’s true with stars,” he said, later adding he considered himself one. Jurors were dismissed after a court clerk read the verdict. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who presided over the trial, told them they were allowed to discuss the case but warned them about going public for safety reasons. “My advice to you is not to identify yourselves—not now, not for a long time,” he said, ordering them not to identify other members of the jury. Ms. Carroll’s 2022 complaint was one of the most prominent lawsuits filed under a New York law called the Adult Survivors Act, which opened a yearlong window in which people who say they were sexually assaulted as adults could file lawsuits, no matter when the alleged incidents occurred. Two of Ms. Carroll’s friends testified at trial that she told them each separately about what happened soon after the alleged attack. Ms. Carroll said she chose to remain silent for decades but came forward after the New York Times ran a series of stories of women accusing former movie-studio head Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct. He was later convicted of sex crimes. Ms. Carroll said she decided to sue Mr. Trump in part because he repeatedly called her a liar in public and on social media, making her a target of vitriol from some of his supporters. “He lied and shattered my reputation, and I am here to try to get my life back,” she said. —Alex Leary contributed to this article.

Tesla Inc.’s recent string of price cuts represent a crucial chapter in the company’s near 20-year story. The moves could suggest the electric-vehicle pioneer has lost its edge and is picking up the bad habits of legacy auto makers. Or, they could be part of the next industry-changing innovation from Elon Musk. Price cuts this year sent conflicting signals about customer demand for the company’s cars, which have generated fat profits in recent years after more than a decade of heartache as Mr. Musk forged a new path for the auto business. Then last month, Mr. Musk articulated his strategy behind the moves. He declared Tesla would give priority to continued sales growth at the expense of near-term profitability. That stance unnerved some investors who expected the company to continue massively increasing deliveries while maintaining enviable profit margins. The combination helped justify its techlike market valuation that far exceeds its 100-year-old competitors’. Some fear Mr. Musk is picking a page from the industry’s dusty old playbooks by chasing a crown of global sales leadership, potentially at the expense of profit margins. Mr. Musk maintains he is making a 21st-century gamble that he can, over time, profit from future software subscription-style revenue from Tesla owners, including for autonomous-driving capabilities. “We do believe we’re…laying the groundwork here and that it’s better to ship a large number of cars at a lower margin and subsequently harvest that margin in the future as we per fect autonomy,” Mr. Musk said last month. His argument is akin to Apple Inc.’s with iPhones and App Store sales: The bigger the fleet of Tesla vehicles sold today, the more potential for future higher-margin software profits. The naked pursuit of scale— and bets that manufacturingcost savings would come through bigger buying power— has been at the root of some of the industry’s gravest stumbles in recent generations. Among them: the failed marriage of Chrysler Corp. and Daimler-Benz AG in 2007 and the awkward pairing of Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. in an alliance that has had its troubles. Volkswagen AG’s emissionscheating scandal, a controversy known as dieselgate, was born out of its efforts to become the world’s bestselling auto maker. Even current global sales leader Toyota Motor Corp. faced struggles with quality and safety recalls after setting a goal more than 15 years ago of being the first car maker to reach 10 million deliveries a year. In that pursuit, the Japanese auto maker eventually became No. 1 globally, overtaking General Motors Co. in an industry shake-up. GM’s collapse into a government-sponsored bankruptcy in 2009 had roots in the Motor City’s practice of overproducing cars and then using heavy discounts to stoke sales. At one point, 25 years ago, GM executives placed such a collective emphasis on market share that they took to wearing lapel pins that read “29.” The number symbolized their goal of holding U.S. market share to 29%, after watching it fall from a peak of more than 50%. Mr. Musk is betting that his race to develop driverless-car technology will allow him to upend the fundamentals of the car business, saying that losses in margin now will be made up by having more Tesla vehicles on the road in the future and therefore more built-in-customers for the software it sells as downloads. Some analysts are skeptical, especially given that Tesla hasn’t yet demonstrated a fully self-driving car. Many car companies have talked about the upside of software sales, which for the industry mostly remain elusive. And investors worry Tesla’s price cuts will trigger a broader price war that will hurt everyone. To accommodate hoped-for growth, Tesla is adding manufacturing output, including a newly announced factory in Mexico, to take it beyond the more than two million units the company said it can make annually now. Ultimately, Tesla has already suggested, it could cost nearly $150 billion to reach its goal of 20 million cars produced annually in 2030. Some investors are bullish. They are betting that, software sales aside, Tesla’s cost advantage in making electric cars will allow it to absorb price cuts and capture volume at the expense of rivals still trying to catch up. Still, the expansion comes as the new-car market grows increasingly uncertain. Interest rates are making vehicle purchases tougher, and competitors are flooding the market with their own EVs. Tesla’s sales growth has slowed below the 50% year-over-year target promised by Mr. Musk. With the price cuts, firstquarter deliveries rose 36% while profit fell almost 25%. Perhaps worse, in some investors’ eyes, Tesla’s operating margins, a measure of profitability, fell behind those of European auto makers such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW, when calculating the results without the money the EV maker received from selling regulatory credits to rivals. So far, rivals have resisted following Tesla into a price-cutting battle. GM Chief Executive Mary Barra has faced tough questions about how GM could catch up with Tesla’s higher operating margins on EVs and the cost advantage in making them. On GM’s conference call with analysts Tuesday, Ms. Barra was asked which she would rather achieve if forced to choose: her target for profitability or GM’s goal of reaching one million EV sales in North America in 2025. “We’re going to work toward profitable growth,” Ms. Barra replied.