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South Sudan is one of the toughestplaces in the world for newborns withhealth problems, and it has only onepublic neonatal clinic. PAGE A7

INTERNATIONAL A4-8

A Place for Help and Hope

Kim Jong-un seems to be quieter abouthis arsenal since meeting PresidentTrump. News Analysis. PAGE A5

Nuclear Shift by North Korea

For years, the giant retailer faced poli-tical resistance in New York City, butnow it has a foothold through its e-commerce site, Jet.com. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-5

Walmart’s Way Into the CityThe expanded protective netting atbaseball games has made it harder forplayers to choose souvenir recipients,but some enjoy the challenge. PAGE D1

SPORTSMONDAY D1-8

Catch It if You Can

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision not torun again has added to doubts aboutdeveloping a 12-minute connection toO’Hare International Airport. PAGE A9

NATIONAL A9-16

Chicago Tunnel’s Prospects DimAfter writing a shelf of books thatmined forgotten events and obscurelives, Jill Lepore, a Harvard scholar andNew Yorker writer, examines Americanhistory on a grander scale. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

50 States in 932 Pages

WILMINGTON, N.C. — NorthCarolina confronted a spiralingstatewide crisis on Sunday asTropical Depression Florenceslowly ravaged the region, flood-ing cities, endangering communi-ties from the coastline to the rug-ged mountains, and requiring wellover 1,000 rescues.

Sunday, it seemed, was whenthe storm system that had stalkedthe South for days — first as a hur-ricane, then as a tropical stormand eventually as a tropical de-pression — showed its full powerwith staggering scope. The deathtoll rose to at least 16 in North andSouth Carolina, where roads weretreacherous and even the moststately trees were falling.

“It’s horrible,” said MitchColvin, the mayor of Fayetteville,N.C., in the eastern part of thestate, where the rising Cape FearRiver was expected to swampbridges and cut his city in two.“Things are deteriorating,” hesaid.

The perils stretched acrossNorth Carolina’s more than 500-mile width. Weary, drenchedcoastal cities were scenes of dar-ing rescues. Waterways swelledthroughout the eastern and cen-tral parts of the state, testingdams and menacing towns withfloodwaters that had no place togo but up. Inch after inch of rainfell on Charlotte and its suburbs,and communities in North Car-olina’s western mountains fearedlandslides.

The storm has “never beenmore dangerous than it is rightnow,” Gov. Roy Cooper said at anews conference. “Wherever youlive in North Carolina, be alert forsudden flooding.”

All 100 counties in North Car-olina had at least one type of Na-tional Weather Service alert, froma flash-flood warning to a hazard-ous weather outlook, in effect forSunday or the days ahead. Rainwas expected to continue in partsof the state until Tuesday, but

CRISIS ESCALATESAS STORM SHOWSITS FIERCEST FACE

MENACING FLOODWATERS

At Least 16 Killed in Slow Battering of North and

South Carolina

This article is by David Zucchino,Alan Blinder and Jack Healy.

Cynthia Warren, left, with her brother Anthony Wheeler at their home in Latta, S.C.; they said they had refused to evacuate because their mother is bedridden.JOHNNY MILANO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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MONROE, Mich. — It’s not thesmokestacks that mark this partof southeast Michigan as a laborstronghold, or even the boxy un-ion halls.

To Michelle LaVoy, a city treas-urer running for the State Legisla-ture, it’s the way people say “un-ion” as shorthand for “decent job.”

“My husband works at Yan-feng,” Carolina Ricci, perched out-side her front door, told Ms. LaVoy,

referring to a nearby auto partsplant. “He’s got the union, he’s asteward. But we still struggle.”

Ms. LaVoy, strait-laced in affectand business casual in dress,doesn’t present as a working-classhero. But she is trying, hard, andher pitch has a distinctly NormaRae vibe.

“We should be getting our fairshare,” Ms. LaVoy told Ms. Ricci,

echoing a refrain that manyAmericans are using this electionyear. She wants more money forroads. More money for unions.More money in paychecks.

Monroe, about 45 minutessouth of Detroit, was ground zerofor the political meteorite thatstruck Michigan in 2016: Aftertwice backing Barack Obama, thecounty went for President Trumpby more than 20 points — nettinghim a lead of 16,000 votes that wasequivalent to one and a half timeshis margin of victory statewide.

Democrats’ Playbook in Rust Belt: Reclaim LaborBy NOAM SCHEIBER

and ASTEAD W. HERNDON

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REBOUND

A Drive to Flip Trump States

LAS VEGAS — The young engi-neer arrived in America when hewas 23 with a good education andlittle else. He landed a job at a nu-clear test site, and built a home inNevada. Between the 1970s andthe mid-1980s, he brought his wife,mother, five sisters and a brotherover from India, his native land.

In later years, his siblings spon-sored family members of theirown, and their clan now stretches

from Nevada to Florida, New Jer-sey to Texas — more than 90Americans nurtured on thestrength of one ambitious engi-neer, Jagdish Patel, 72.

In late June, four generations ofPatels assembled for a reunion inLas Vegas, a gathering that in-cluded a venture capitalist, a net-work engineer, physicians, den-tists and students.

“I am so glad that I came toAmerica,” Mr. Patel said recently,sitting in the custom-designedhouse he built in Las Vegas, com-plete with a home theater where

he hosts Super Bowl parties and amarble-lined Hindu temple room.“I brought everyone here,” hesaid, “and we have provided valu-able service to this country.”

The share of the United Statespopulation that is foreign-bornhas reached its highest level since1910, according to governmentdata released last week. But in re-cent years, the numbers havebeen soaring not so much withLatin Americans sweeping acrossthe border, but with educated peo-ple from Asia obtaining visas —

In One Family Tree, a Reflection of ImmigrationBy MIRIAM JORDAN

and SABRINA TAVERNISE

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump’s bid to confirm JudgeBrett M. Kavanaugh to the Su-preme Court was thrown into un-certainty on Sunday as a womancame forward with explosive alle-gations that Mr. Kavanaugh sexu-ally assaulted her when they wereteenagers more than three dec-ades ago.

The woman, Christine BlaseyFord, 51, a research psychologistat Palo Alto University in North-ern California, said in an inter-view with The Washington Postthat during a high school party inthe early 1980s, a drunken Mr.Kavanaugh pinned her on a bed,groped her and covered hermouth to keep her from scream-ing.

“I thought he might inadver-tently kill me,” the newspaperquoted her as saying. “He was try-ing to attack me and remove myclothing.”

Judge Kavanaugh has deniedthe accusations, and in a tersestatement on Sunday, the WhiteHouse said it stood by those deni-als. It signaled that it had no inten-tion of pulling the nomination.

But Ms. Ford’s decision to puther name behind accusations thatbegan to circulate late last week —a choice made after weeks of re-luctance — appeared to open adoor to a delay in a Senate com-mittee vote on the nomination

Accuser GoesPublic, in RiskTo KavanaughBy SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

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HONG KONG — TyphoonMangkhut battered Hong Kongand Macau on Sunday with 100mile-per-hour wind gusts, drench-ing rains and 11-foot surges of sea-water that inundated the first ur-ban area of Asia to face the wrathof the year’s mightiest storm.

Mangkhut left a swath of dam-aged buildings and scores of inju-ries in Hong Kong and Macau be-fore churning across the southerncoast of China. Barely a day earli-er, it ravaged the northern Phil-ippines and left dozens buried in

landslides, including people shel-tering in a church and a dormitoryfor miners.

The unofficial count from thePhilippine police put the numberof dead as at least 59. The deathtoll was expected to rise as rescueworkers continued digging intoareas buried by mud, especially inmountainous parts of Benguet

Province in the northern island ofLuzon. The president’s office said43 bodies had been recoveredfrom the mine landslide and thesearch was continuing.

Francis Tolentino, a senior ad-viser to President RodrigoDuterte of the Philippines, esti-mated that 5.7 million people hadbeen affected by the storm andraised concerns about how aidcould be sent to the hardest-hit ar-eas.

While the other side of theworld was preoccupied with thedestructive power of HurricaneFlorence as it drenched the Car-olinas, Mangkhut hurtled into the

Typhoon’s Fury Staggers Region Inured to StormsThis article is by Gerry Mullany,

Tiffany May and Steven Lee Myers.

Removing a body after a mudslide near Manila. Typhoon Mangkhut hit Hong Kong on Sunday.JJ LANDINGIN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

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Hong Kong and MacauLashed as Toll Rises

in the Philippines

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Serv-ices at Manna Church, a big non-denominational congregation onthe west side of town, began at 9a.m. with announcements.

“We’ve got 10 port-a-potties.”“They’re setting up showers in

the back.”Pastor Michael Fletcher, stand-

ing at the entrance, welcomed thepilgrims arriving out of the pound-ing rain: A man with his belong-ings gathered in a soaked towel onhis back. A grandmother fleeingher probably flood-doomed house,along with her daughter and fiveyoung children.

The largest church in Fayette-ville had become the city’s eighthofficial storm shelter.

As Sunday dawned grimly inthe Carolinas, the heavens openedfor the fifth straight day, swellingrivers past record-breaking levelsand drenching already half-drowned towns. But, it being Sun-day, the congregations were stillat work in one of the most church-steeped parts of the country, evenif many religious services werecanceled because of flooded sanc-tuaries, dangerous roads andscattered parishioners.

From the first moments of therolling disaster of Florence, therehas been no sharp divide separat-ing the official responders, the vic-

A Dry Refuge,For the BodyAnd the Soul

This article is by Campbell Rob-ertson, Richard Fausset andAnemona Hartocollis.

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CAJUN NAVY Volunteers in boatsguided residents away from therising waters in dark and rainyWilmington, N.C. Page A14.

Healthy older people should not takeaspirin to prevent heart attacks, strokesand cancer, research shows. PAGE A14

Study Says Skip the Aspirin

Stewart International Airport in OrangeCounty, N.Y., started an air show inhopes of luring passengers. PAGE A17

NEW YORK A17-19, 22

Lifting an Airport’s Profile

Charles M. Blow PAGE A21

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21

Apparently it’s never too early. “BlackPanther” and “A Star Is Born” are likelyto make the cut for best picture, KyleBuchanan says, while the best-actressrace is extra-crowded. PAGE C1

Talking the Oscars, Already?

Marc Benioff, the billionaire co-founderof Salesforce, is buying the storied news-weekly for $190 million in cash. PAGE B1

New Owner for Time Magazine

Late EditionToday, mostly cloudy, showers in theafternoon, high 79. Tonight, a littlerain, low 73. Tomorrow, some morerain with possible flooding, high 78.Weather map appears on Page A18.

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