afraid there is no solution. When

I went out the day after the

flooding, I met a kind of funeral

in the city.”

Venice has thrived since the

5th century by taming the water

all around it. In recent decades,

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architecture, but, above all, in

the sense that life in one of the

world’s most improbable and

spellbinding cities is becoming

unviable.

“The reaction is to cry,” said

Flavia Feletti, 77, who has lived in

Venice for six decades. “I am

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honors for heroic beasts

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morales keeps door open

bolivia’s exiled leader said he may

return and try to finish out his term

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RACHEL WEINER

AND MATT ZAPOTOSKY

A federal jury on Friday con-
victed longtime Trump confidant
Roger stone of tampering with a
witness and lying to Congress
about his efforts to learn of
hacked Democratic emails dur-
ing the 2016 U.s. presidential
election.
The panel of nine women and
three men deliberated for less
than two days before finding
stone, 67, guilty on all seven
counts resulting from his sep-
tember 2017 testimony to the
House Intelligence Committee,
which was investigating Russian
interference in the 2016 election
and the Kremlin’s efforts to dam-
age Donald Trump’s Democratic
opponent, Hillary Clinton.
stone, in a gray-blue suit, stood
at the defense table with his left
hand in his pants pocket, watch-
ing impassively as the verdicts
were read. He sighed and
frowned as he left the courtroom,
offering a half-smile to reporters
who had covered the proceed-
ings, while his wife hugged crying
supporters.
Michael Caputo, a stone
friend, was kicked out of the
courtroom for refusing to stand
for the jury after the verdict and
— when ordered to do so —
turning his back to the panel.
stone and his attorneys depart-
ed the courthouse without com-
ment and went into a waiting
vehicle.
U.s. District Judge Amy Ber-
man Jackson set stone’s sentenc-
see stone on a

Trump

confidant

Stone is

convicted

Guilty on all 7 counts

of lying to Congress,

witness tampering

BY ADAM KILGORE

on every snap of every nFL

game, players risk their careers

and well-being. The game, by its

very nature, shreds ligaments

and snaps bones and damages

brains, sometimes strikingly and

sometimes imperceptibly. Lives

change every sunday because of

what the sport does to those who

play it. nFL football at its core is

human achievement a t the cost of

human suffering.

The inherent violence of foot-

ball is what made the calculated

violence of Cleveland Browns de-

fensive end Myles Garrett on

Thursday night an affront so

shocking that the league sus-

pended him indefinitely Friday.

The game is built on sanctioned

brutality, but within those pa-

rameters lies an agreement be-

tween players. They may destroy

see nfl on a

perspective

N FL is inherently

brutal, but Garrett

BY CHICO HARLAN (^) still violated a pact
AND STEFANO PITRELLI
VENICE — even by the standards
of a city b uilt i n a shallow lagoon,
the water was everywhere that it
wasn’t supposed to be this week.
nearly knee-high, the flood-
waters spread across the city’s
main piazza, turning it into a
vast lake for seagulls. At the
nearby millennium-old basilica,
the l ast inches of water remained
in the crypt even after a day of
pumping, collecting around the
tomb of a Roman Catholic cardi-
nal. All around the busiest parts
of the city, the water slicked the
floors of cafes and Murano glass
shops and seeped into hotel
lobbies, leaving a smell o f sewage
in its wake.
Venice, on the surface, can
rebound quickly from disastrous
flooding. The tourists this week
never left; one posed for pictures
with soot and mud on her wed-
ding dress. But the people who
live here say the toll of repeated
inundation is mounting — mea-
sured not only in the damage to
businesses and precious art or
In Venice, ‘a kind of funeral’
This week’s flooding has many residents seriously afraid their city is disappearing
filippo monteforte/agenCe franCe-presse/getty images
people walk across f looded st. mark’s square, near st. mark’s
Basilica, d ays after venice suffered its highest tide in 5 0 years.
some experts say venice could be underwater within a century.
BY KAROUN DEMIRJIAN,
RACHAEL BADE,
JOHN HUDSON
AND TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA
President Trump specifically
inquired about political investiga-
tions he wanted carried out by
Ukraine during a July phone call
with a top U.s. diplomat w ho then
told colleagues that the president
was most interested in a probe
into former vice president Joe
Biden and his son, a state Depart-
ment aide said Friday in closed-
door testimony that could signifi-
cantly advance House Democrats’
impeachment inquiry.
David Holmes, an embassy
staffer in Kyiv, testified that he
overheard a July 26 phone call in
which Trump pressed U.s. Ambas-
sador to the european Union Gor-
don sondland about whether
Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky would “do the investiga-
tion,” according to three people
who have read his opening state-
ment and spoke on the condition
of anonymity to describe its con-
tents.
“A mbassador sondland replied
that ‘he’s gonna do it,’ adding that
President Zelensky will do ‘any-
thing you ask him to,’ ” Holmes
said, according to these people.
Holmes’s testimony, first re-
ported by Cnn, directly impli-
cates Trump in an alleged scheme
at the heart of the impeachment
probe, which Democrats have
pursued in an attempt to prove
that the president leveraged mili-
tary assistance and an oval office
meeting in exchange for investi-
gations into Biden and a de-
bunked theory concerning Ukrai-
see impeachment on a

U.S. aide implicates Trump in scheme

president heard

inquiring of probe

Earlier, ousted envoy

testified about threats

bonnie Jo mount/the washington post

marie Yovanovitch, the former U.s. ambassador to Ukraine, and state Department official David holmes, below, gave public and private

testimony, respectively, before lawmakers on friday, as the president called the professionalism of longtime diplomats into question.

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BY DAN BALZ

The principal f ocus of the

House impeachment inquiry is

President Trump and h is a t-

tempts t o pressure Ukraine to in-

vestigate a potential p olitical ri-

val. What has come i nto sharper

focus in the first days of p ublic

testimony is the professionalism

of the country’s diplomatic corps

and t he l engths t o which t he pres-

ident h as gone to attack the quali-

ty a nd v alue of that service.

With threats, i ntimidation and

indifference, the president has

sought to undermine career For-

eign service o fficers who have

served through R epublican a nd

Democratic administrations.

Through notable lack o f support

from secretary o f state Mike

Pompeo when his c areer officials

have come under fire, the a dmin-

istration h as contributed to a de-

cline i n morale and an e xodus

within the r anks that have longer-

term consequences.

As i f on c ue, on Friday morn-

ing, Trump offered a real-time ex-

ample of these efforts. It c ame as

Marie Yovanovitch, the f ormer

ambassador t o Ukraine, who h as

drawn Trump’s i re i n the past a nd

was a target of w ords t hat she r e-

garded as a threat, was testifying

before the House Intelligence

Committee a bout the circum-

stances of her abrupt d ismissal by

the p resident i n the spring.

In t he middle o f that hearing,

Trump tweeted a fresh attack

against h er. “everywhere Marie

Yovanovitch went turned bad,” h e

tweeted. He w ent on to name

places she h ad s erved difficult,

challenging and a t times d anger-

ous a ssignments.

Yovanovitch’s a ppearance on

Friday followed testimony on

see take on a

the take

Hearings spotlight pressure on career o∞cials under Trump

Jahi Chikwendiu/the washington post

BY DAN LAMOTHE

President Trump intervened in
three cases involving war crimes
accusations Friday, issuing full
pardons to two U.s. soldiers and
reversing disciplinary action
against a navy seAL d espite o ppo-
sition from military justice ex-
perts and some senior Pentagon
officials.
The White House s aid in a state-
ment Friday night that Trump, as
commander in chief, i s “ultimately
responsible for ensuring that the
law is enforced and when appro-
priate, t hat mercy i s granted.”
“For more than two hundred
years, presidents have used their
authority to offer second chances
to deserving individuals, includ-
ing those in uniform who have
served our country,” t he statement

said.

The service m embers were n oti-

fied by Trump by phone Friday,

according to lawyers for Maj.

Mathew L. Golsteyn and former

Chief Petty officer edward Gal-

lagher, the navy seAL. Golsteyn

faced a murder trial scheduled for

next year, and Gallagher recently

was acquitted of murder but con-

victed o f posing with the corpse of

an Islamic s tate fighter in Iraq.

The third service member, for-

mer 1 st L t. Clint Lorance, w as con-

victed o f second-degree murder in

2013 and sentenced to 19 years for

ordering his soldiers to open fire

on three men in Afghanistan. He

was e xpected to be r eleased Friday

night from prison at Fort Leaven-

worth, Kan.

Golsteyn and Lorance received

full pardons, while the president

will direct the navy to restore Gal-

lagher to his previous rank, the

White House said. His demotion

was t he o nly s ignificant penalty he

received following his acquittal on

the m urder charge.

some senior Pentagon officials

see intervention on a

President intervenes in

3 military justice cases

Pardons, rank restoration

come despite Pentagon

opposition to the moves

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