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Olympic officials have appointed adisciplinary commission in the wake ofa damning report detailing state-spon-sored doping at past Games. PAGE B8

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B8-12

Weighing Penalties for RussiansAfter the fatal police shooting of a blackman and the ambush killings of threeofficers, some residents fear that racialfissures that have defined the Louisianacity may widen. PAGE A14

NATIONAL A14-17

A More Divided Baton Rouge

Frank Bruni PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

CLEVELAND — It was the big-gest speech of Melania Trump’slife, and her husband, Donald,wanted it to be perfect.

The Trump campaign turned totwo high-powered speechwriters,who had helped write signaturepolitical oratory like George W.Bush’s speech to the nation onSept. 11, 2001, to introduce Ms.Trump, a Slovenian-born formermodel, to the nation on the open-ing night of the Republican Na-tional Convention.

It did not go as planned, and ithas eclipsed much of the action atthe party gathering in Cleveland,where delegates on Tuesday nightformally nominated Mr. Trump forpresident.

The speechwriters, MatthewScully and John McConnell, sentMs. Trump a draft last month, ea-ger for her approval.

Weeks went by. They heardnothing.

Inside Trump Tower, it turnedout, Ms. Trump had decided shewas uncomfortable with the text,and began tearing it apart, leavinga small fraction of the original.

Her quiet plan to wrest thespeech away and make it her ownset in motion the most embarrass-ing moment of the convention:word-for-word repetition ofphrases and borrowed themesfrom Michelle Obama’s speech at

the Democratic convention eightyears ago.

The ridicule from both Demo-crats and Republicans was instantand relentless, disrupting whatwas meant to be a high point of theconvention.

It was, by all accounts, an en-tirely preventable blunder, com-mitted in front of an audience of 23million television viewers, that ex-posed the weaknesses of an orga-nization that has long spurned thesafeguards of a modern presiden-tial campaign, such as the freesoftware that detects plagiarism.

“It just shouldn’t have hap-pened,” said Matt Latimer, aWhite House speechwriter forPresident George W. Bush. “Thiswas an easy home run speech: asuccessful, attractive immigranttalking about her husband.”

Nobody seemed more startledthan Mr. and Ms. Trump, who ar-rived in New York on Tuesdaymorning after a flight from Cleve-land to find themselves at the cen-ter of a bizarre uproar over au-thenticity, plagiarism and a knottyquestion: Why did the wife of theRepublican nominee borrow pas-sages from the wife of the currentDemocratic president?

Ms. Trump spent most of Tues-day out of sight, while her hus-band vented his frustration and

How Melania Trump Sent

Speech Veering Off Course

G.O.P. Nominates Businessman as Wife’s

Oration Overshadows Convention

By MAGGIE HABERMAN and MICHAEL BARBARO

CHEERS Ivanka, center, Eric and Tiffany Trump as their father was nominated Tuesday. Page A11.

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Roger Ailes’s tenure as the headof Fox News appears to be over.

Mr. Ailes and 21st Century Fox,Fox News’s parent company, arein the advanced stages of discus-sions that would lead to his depar-ture as chairman, Susan Estrich,one of Mr. Ailes’s lawyers, said inan interview on Tuesday.

The development follows a sex-ual harassment suit filed on July 6against Mr. Ailes by a former an-chor, Gretchen Carlson. The suitprompted 21st Century Fox to con-duct an internal review and it setoff an intense round of speculationin the news media and the televi-sion industry about Mr. Ailes’s fu-ture at Fox News.

On Tuesday, the sides were ne-gotiating terms that could includeMr. Ailes’s staying on in a consult-ing role for Fox News. Ms. Estrichsaid nothing had been finalizedabout what sort of continuing rolehe could have at the network.

“Roger is at work,” 21st CenturyFox said in a statement. “The re-view is ongoing. And the onlyagreement that is in place is hisexisting employment agreement.”

Mr. Ailes’s exit would be a hum-bling and startlingly sudden fallfrom power for a man who startedFox News from scratch 20 yearsago and built it into a top-rated ca-ble news network and a criticalprofit center for 21st Century Fox.Along the way, Mr. Ailes, a formerRepublican operative, establishedFox News as the leading mediaplatform for conservative politics.He also minted prime-time starslike Bill O’Reilly, Megyn Kelly andGreta Van Susteren.

Ailes in TalksTo Step Down

At Fox News

Downfall of Executive

Who Changed TV

By JOHN KOBLINand JIM RUTENBERG

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Several miles from Princeton,drivers are playing chicken asthey detour across a single-lanebridge. In Summit, the prolongedshutdown of a century-old cross-ing has forced nearby businessesto lay off workers. And in Hobo-ken, the delay of the long-awaitedrehabilitation of a critical connec-tion to the Lincoln Tunnelthreatens to disrupt back-to-school traffic.

Across New Jersey, residentsaccustomed to complaining aboutall of the road work undertakenduring the summer months nowhave something different to moanabout: Hundreds of those im-provement projects have groundto a halt, victims of a politicalstalemate among state lawmak-ers. In many places, the orangecones and mesh netting are still inplace, but the backhoes and roadgraders sit idle, as do more than1,000 construction workers acrossthe state.

The long days and abundantsunshine of the season make itprime time for fixing the roadsand bridges that keep things mov-ing in New Jersey, which, likemany states, is saddled with aging

Anger as Work

Stops on Roads

In New Jersey

By PATRICK McGEEHANand EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

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Bangladeshi officers on guard after an attack this month in Dhaka. The country is tracking recruiters for the Islamic State. Page A7.

Bangladesh Roots Out Terror Suspects

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s presi-dent, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saysthat a mild-mannered Muslimcleric living in self-imposed exilein rural Pennsylvania was pullingthe strings of a coup attempt lastweek that almost succeeded in

taking over the state, and killingMr. Erdogan himself.

Now, Mr. Erdogan says thatmany thousands of Turkish citi-zens — soldiers, policemen, bu-reaucrats, teachers, judges,lawyers and many more profes-sions — are all part of the cleric’smovement and must be punished.Tens of thousands of people havealready been arrested or sus-

pended from their jobs in the fourdays since the coup failed, after anight of violence that plunged thecountry into chaos.

Mr. Erdogan and the cleric,Fethullah Gulen, have been ad-versaries in recent years, and Tur-key has said before that Mr. Gulenmust be extradited by the UnitedStates. Now, though, Mr. Erdoganappears determined to get him

back, a matter that threatens toaggravate relations between thetwo NATO allies.

But who is Mr. Gulen? And is itpossible he is behind such a vastconspiracy?

James F. Jeffrey, a formerAmerican ambassador to Turkeynow at the Washington Institutefor Near East Policy, called the or-

With Coup Crushed, Turkish Leaders Pursue a Rival in the U.S.

By TIM ARANGOand BEN HUBBARD

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CLEVELAND — Mike Hill, ablack Republican state represent-ative in Florida, grew steadilymore disheartened as he watchedtelevision clips of his party’s over-whelmingly white national con-vention lecturing African-Ameri-cans about the police and race re-

lations.There was Rudolph W. Giuliani,

the former mayor of New York,nearly shouting Monday nightthat the police only wanted to helppeople, regardless of race. A sea ofwhite convention delegates,cheering wildly as two blackspeakers ridiculed the BlackLives Matter movement and un-conditionally praised law enforce-ment officers. And a series of

speakers pushing Donald J.Trump’s law-and-order messageand arguing, as he has, that theUnited States had lost its way.

“When a lot of white Republi-cans get together and bring uprace, even telling black peoplehow they should see police and theworld, it evokes the worst kind ofemotion,” said Mr. Hill, who sup-ports Mr. Trump but decided to

Convention Speeches Unsettle Blacks in G.O.P.

This article is by Patrick Healy,Yamiche Alcindor and Jeremy W.Peters.

Continued on Page A10VETTING Hillary Clinton has told several potential running mates thatshe needs a No. 2 with national security experience. PAGE A13

VERBAL FIREWORKS The wide-ranging national conversation is beingconducted this week in Cleveland’s Public Square. This Land. PAGE A9

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The world is on pace to set anotherhigh-temperature benchmark, with 2016becoming the third year in a row ofrecord heat, NASA said. Warming wasespecially strong in the Arctic. PAGE A14

Another Year of Record Heat

In “War Paint,” Patti LuPone, below,and Christine Ebersole portray thebeauty market rivals Helena Rubinsteinand Elizabeth Arden. A review. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Lipstick Shades of RivalryCommunity-supported agriculture wasmeant to directly connect consumersand farmers. But the term is often usedbroadly and imprecisely now. PAGE D1

FOOD D1-8

Local Farm Support, Sort Of

CLEVELAND — Donald J.Trump’s coronation as the Re-publican nominee for presidentTuesday night was a signal ac-complishment not only for the

candidate, but alsofor the man whocommands themost importantcontrol room inAmerican politics:

the Fox News chairman RogerAiles.

Mr. Trump’s convention hasbeen a triumph for Mr. Ailes’sbrand of smash-mouth and “poli-tically incorrect” politics — withspeakers, themes, rhetoric and,ultimately, a nominee who is farmore at home on the set of FoxNews than in the establishmenthalls of Congress, the RepublicanNational Committee or TheWeekly Standard. It is, in a way,the most Fox News-y conventionin the network’s history.

But just as party delegateswere nominating Mr. Trump attheir convention here, Mr. Ailes’scareer at the network was un-raveling, with news that he wasnegotiating the details of hisdeparture with his bosses at 21stCentury Fox. A copy of what waspurported to be a proposed set of

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A TV Power

Hits the End

Of His Path

JIMRUTENBERG

MEDIATOR

New accusations from the attorneysgeneral in three states make up a newthreat to the embattled carmaker’sfinances, reputation and management,after its emissions scandal. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

Lawsuits Implicate VW Chief

An Afghan teenager who attacked trainpassengers in Germany was radicalizedquickly, officials said, and seemed agi-tated by a friend’s death. PAGE A6

INTERNATIONAL A3-8

An Attacker’s Transformation

Garry Marshall created generationalTV shows like “Happy Days” andmovies like “Pretty Woman.” He was 81.

OBITUARIES A21

A Wellspring of Comedy