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A Senate panel approved the confirma-tion of Mike Pompeo as secretary ofstate after Rand Paul, a Kentucky Re-publican, ended his opposition. PAGE A14

NATIONAL A14-17

Pompeo Nomination Advances

Gianni Infantino sought an emergencymeeting to address a $25 billion offerfrom investors that could radically altermajor soccer competitions. PAGE B11

Urgent Move by FIFA’s Chief

Thomas H. Kean, John Danforthand Carter Phillips PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge,gave birth to a boy, the third child forher and Prince William. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-12

Third’s a Charming Prince

WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump will come under increasingpressure from visiting French andGerman leaders this week not toscrap the three-year-old nuclearagreement with Iran next monthas American and European nego-tiators make tentative progresstoward a new deal to toughen thelimits on Tehran.

President Emmanuel Macronof France arrived Monday at theWhite House for the first state vis-it of Mr. Trump’s presidency, in-tent on using his unusual bondwith the American president totry to persuade him to preservethe Iran deal, at least for now.While not as close personally toMr. Trump, Chancellor AngelaMerkel of Germany will follow onFriday to reinforce the mes-sag e.

The back-to-back visits comeweeks before a May 12 deadlineset by Mr. Trump to “fix” the Iranagreement or walk away from it.Under the agreement, sealed in2015 by President Barack Obama,Iran has curbed its nuclear pro-gram in exchange for relief fromcrippling international sanctions.But Mr. Trump and other criticshave assailed it because it beginsto expire after a decade and doesnot block Iran’s missile develop-ment or try to stop it from de-stabilizing the region.

In recent weeks, American andEuropean negotiators have madeprogress toward side agreementsthat would lay out new standardsfor Iran to meet or risk the reimpo-sition of sanctions by the West.Negotiators have generallyreached a consensus on measuresto constrain Iran’s ballistic missileprogram, according to peoplebriefed on the talks, but remain di-vided over how to extend the re-strictions of the original agree-ment due to lapse starting in 2025.

Most importantly, the Euro-peans want assurances that if sideagreements are reached, theUnited States will stay in the deal,a hard commitment for Americanofficials to make given Mr.Trump’s mercurial nature. ButEuropean leaders hope they canpersuade him to hold off by show-ing enough progress in negotia-tions that he can claim he is ma-

EUROPE’S LEADERSWILL URGE TRUMPTO SAVE IRAN DEAL

MACRON, THEN MERKEL

President Has AssailedAgreement to Curb

Nuclear Program

By PETER BAKERand JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

The Trumps and Macrons onMonday at the White House.

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TORONTO — The killing beganon a busy lunchtime thoroughfarein Toronto on Monday when awhite rental Ryder van ran over apedestrian crossing the street —then mounted a sidewalk and be-gan plowing into people indis-criminately.

“One by one, one by one,” said awitness who identified himself asAli. “Holy God, I’ve never seensuch a sight before. I feel sick.”

By the end, at least 10 peoplewere dead and 15 were injured,said the authorities.

The driver’s actions, they said,appeared intentional, but did notseem to have been an act of terror-ism. “The city is safe,” said the To-ronto police chief, Mark Saunders.

The driver, who was identifiedas Alek Minassian, 25, was in cus-tody after initially refusing to sur-render.

“Get down or you’ll be shot,” theofficers warned him after he ex-ited the van in a scene captured onvideo.

“Shoot me in the head,” Mr. Mi-nassian said.

He was subdued without anyshots being fired.

Nearby, the bodies of the deadand injured, some covered by or-ange tarps, lay on a broad side-walk that was scattered with de-bris, including a child’s stroller.

The carnage was reminiscent ofdeadly attacks by Islamic Statesupporters using vehicles thathave shaken up Nice, France,Berlin, Barcelona, London andNew York. But late Monday, Cana-da’s public safety minister, RalphGoodale, said this time appearedto be different.

“The events that happened onthe street behind us are horren-dous,” he said, “but they do not ap-pear to be connected in any way to

A van rampage down a busy sidewalk on Yonge Street, Toronto’s main thoroughfare, left “pure carnage,” a hospital supervisor said.AARON VINCENT ELKAIM/THE CANADIAN PRESS, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Van RampageIn Toronto Kills10 Along Street

By IAN AUSTEN and LIAM STACK

GRIMSBY, England — Therearen’t a lot of fishermen left in thistown in North East England, oncehome to one of the largest fleet oftrawlers in Britain. But nostalgiafor the fishing industry permeatesthe place. So the result seemed in-evitable when 70 percent of resi-

dents voted to leave the EuropeanUnion. Britain’s fishermen havecomplained for years about regu-lations imposed on all members.

The surprise came later when alocal business group began lobby-ing to avoid tariffs, customs andthe other burdens of departing theEuropean Union. Social mediascorn ensued. In thousands oftweets across the country, the peo-

ple of Grimsby were derided asdummies and hypocrites. Eitherthey wanted the upsides of Brexitwith none of its costs, or they did-n’t grasp the harm that leavingwould cause until it was too late.

“Grimsby residents branded‘idiots’ for Brexit vote as seafoodindustry seeks free trade deal,”read a headline in a local newspa-per.

Actually, what happened here ismore about hearts than minds.The vote to leave was a vivid dem-onstration of the way emotionscan transform politics and affectthe economy. It’s a phenomenonfound around the world, includingin the United States, where thelegacy and the romance of a de-clining industrial past ofteneclipse the interests of new and

expanding businesses. Time andagain, economic facts are no com-petition for sentiment and history.

“Some industries that are eco-nomically insignificant have enor-mous public resonance,” saidBronwen Maddox, director of theInstitute for Government, an inde-pendent think tank in London.

Choosing Brexit, a Town Yearned for Its Seafaring Past, and Muddied Its FutureBy DAVID SEGAL

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The scientist Soo-Kyung Lee found that her child’s illness stems from a gene she studies. Page D1.Yuna’s Mom, and Investigator

NASHVILLE — He was oncereported to the police in Illinois forstashing an AR-15 in the trunk ofhis car and then diving into a pub-lic pool wearing a women’s pinkhousecoat. There was the time hecomplained to an officer that thesinger Taylor Swift had demandeda rendezvous. And then last Julyhe was grabbed by the SecretService when he tried to force hisway on to the White Housegrounds.

Travis Reinking, 29, was on theradar of law enforcement well be-fore he was taken into custody onMonday and accused of barginginto a Nashville Waffle Houseover the weekend and openingfire, killing four and injuring fourmore.

Yet even after the Illinois police

revoked his firearms license andordered that his guns be trans-ferred to his father, Mr. Reinkinggot them back, including theAR-15 used in the Tennesseeshooting, the police said. His case

raises questions over how such atroubled individual could have le-gally carried weapons for so longand could have continued to carrythem even after he was ordered togive them up.

“We have a man who has exhib-ited significant instability,” ac-knowledged Don Aaron, a spokes-man for the Metropolitan Nash-ville Police Department.

The police say that Mr. Rein-king’s father, Jeffrey, the owner ofa crane business near the town ofMorton, Ill., returned the guns tohis son, enabling Travis Reinkingto carry out the killings over theweekend.

Jeffrey Reinking’s act of return-ing the guns to his son is “poten-tially a violation of federal law,”Marcus Watson, a special agentwith the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobac-co, Firearms and Explosives, said

Years of Bizarre Behavior, but He Got Guns BackThis article is by Alan Blinder, Si-

mon Romero and Julie Bosman.

Travis Reinking on Monday af-ter his capture in Nashville.

AFP, VIA GETTY IMAGES

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PORTAGE, Wis. — The attackads began in early 2017, plantingdoubts well ahead of the 2018midterm elections. Against omi-nous background music andstorm clouds, the Republican-fi-nanced spots hit Tammy Baldwin,Wisconsin’s Democratic senator,over the Affordable Care Act, Iranand veterans’ health care.

By July, a Milwaukee radio sta-tion was carrying audacious adsabout Ms. Baldwin’s support forabortion rights.

“Did you know one out of threebabies aborted in America areblack? One out of three. AndTammy Baldwin is a big reasonwhy,” the ad said. “That could bethe next Frederick Douglass orRosa Parks or Martin Luther Kingthey’re aborting.”

Then came the positive ads de-scribing one of her opponents,Kevin Nicholson, as a former Ma-rine; an “outsider”; a business-man; and, like Ronald Reagan, aconvert to conservatism.

For many national Republicans,Ms. Baldwin has emerged as thetop target in the 2018 midterms:Donors from outside the state arespending twice as much money onthe race so far as on any other Sen-ate contest this year, according toan analysis by the Center for Re-sponsive Politics, a nonpartisangroup that tracks money in poli-tics. Much of the money has gonetoward television and radio ads.

The big spending doesn’t justsignal that each party sees theSenate seat as winnable. It’s also ameasure of intensity on both sidesto prevail in Wisconsin after Don-ald J. Trump shocked Democratsin 2016 by being the first Republi-can presidential nominee to carrythe state since 1984. NationalDemocrats are bent on winning itback in 2020 — and getting Ms.Baldwin re-elected is a crucialstep toward that goal.

The fight may become the mostexpensive Wisconsin Senate race

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Money PouringInto WisconsinFor a Key Race

Both Parties See SenateSeat as Winnable

By STEPHANIE SAUL

SAN FRANCISCO — In Europeand the United States, the conven-tional wisdom is that regulation isneeded to force Silicon Valley’sdigital giants to respect people’sonline privacy.

But new rules may insteadserve to strengthen Facebook’sand Google’s hegemony and ex-tend their lead on the internet.

That could begin playing outnext month, when Europe enactssweeping new regulations thatprioritize people’s data privacy.The new laws, which require techcompanies to ask for users’ con-sent for their data, are likely tohand Google and Facebook an ad-vantage. That’s because waryconsumers are more prone totrust recognized names with theirinformation than unfamiliar new-comers. And the laws may deterstart-ups that do not have the re-sources to comply with the rulesfrom competing with the big com-panies.

In recent years, other regula-tory attempts at strengtheningonline privacy rules have also hadlittle effect at chipping away at thepower of the largest tech compa-nies, ultimately aiding internet gi-ants rather than hurting them.

“Regulations help incumbents,”said Avi Goldfarb, a marketingprofessor at the University of To-

Big Tech’s HandGrows StrongerIn Privacy PushBy DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI

and ADAM SATARIANO

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Both sides of the U.S.-North Korea talksalready appear to misunderstand eachother. The Interpreter. PAGE A6

High Stakes and Mixed Signals

Wind turbines as wide as the world’sbiggest jumbo jets are helping takeclean power mainstream. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

Giants of Everyday Energy

Women earn far less than men over all,but for chief executives it’s different,Andrew Ross Sorkin writes. PAGE B1

Where the Pay Gap Narrows

A year after Gov. Andrew Cuomoblocked a 5-cent city surcharge on thebags, he has offered a new bill. PAGE A18

NEW YORK A18-21

Plastic Bag Ban Back Again

John Lewin, a dogged cold-case special-ist in California, is working the 17-year-old murder case. PAGE A21

Closing In on Robert Durst

Nearly three months after their SuperBowl victory, the Eagles have not visited.They say they’re invited, though, despitecriticism of the president by their ownerand many of their players. PAGE B9

SPORTSTUESDAY B9-13

Missing From the White HouseAmy Schumer’s new comedy suggeststhat looks don’t really matter, adding towhat Amanda Hess calls “beauty-stand-ard denialism.” PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

A Movie’s Pretty Little Lie

A soldier whose genitals were de-stroyed underwent a reconstructivesurgery that doctors hope to offer toothers wounded in war. PAGE D1

SCIENCE TIMES D1-6

Making a Veteran Feel Whole

Late EditionToday, increasing clouds, cooler,high 60. Tonight, cloudy, on-and-offrain and drizzle, low 52. Tomorrow,overcast, periodic rain and drizzle,high 58. Weather map, Page B12.

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