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people run into a shopping mall after police fired tear gas in the central district of hong kong on monday. early in the day, a police
officer, claiming self-defense, shot a protester at point-blank range, setting off a chain of chaos in the city.

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Honorable service, at home and abroad Vietnam veteran Bob Reigel, 74, of Woodstock, Md., visits the Vietnam Veterans Memorial before a holiday ceremony at the Wall. Some veterans spent the day looking for D.C. homeless people who had served in the military and offering comfort kits to all in need. Story, B

BY KAREN DEYOUNG

AND ELLEN NAKASHIMA

If President Trump’s goal in withholding U.s. aid to Ukraine was to end the corruption that had plagued successive govern- ments there, last summer was a curious t ime to do it. In l ate May, w eeks before Trump ordered nearly $400 million in congressionally approved security assistance frozen, the Defense and state departments certified that the Ukrainian government had ta ken “substantial actions” toward “decreasing corruption and in- creasing accountability” and rec-

ommended the a id go f orward. new President Volodymyr Zel- ensky, whose landslide April vic- tory was followed by the election of an absolute parliamentary ma- jority for his servant of the People party, “had appointed reformist ministers and supported long- stalled anti-corruption legisla- tion,” William B. Ta ylor Jr., the Trump-appointed senior U.s. dip- lomat in Ukraine, testified before the House impeachment inquiry late last month. see ukraine on a

C laims about Ukraine aid

delay wilt under scrutiny

BY DOUGLAS MACMILLAN

AND NEENA SATIJA

California Gov. Gavin newsom has accused his state’s largest utility company of mismanaging funds he said it should have used to upgrade a n aging electrical grid prone to deadly w ildfires. But over the past two decades, newsom (D) and his wife have accepted more than $700, from Pacific Gas & electric Co., its foundation and its employees as the u tility h as s upported his politi- cal campaigns, his ballot initia- tives, his inauguration festivities and his wife’s foundation, includ- ing her film projects, according to records reviewed by The Washing- ton Post. The contributions illustrate newsom’s ties to the company re- see newsom on a

Governor

blasts ‘greed’

of utility that

aided his rise

BY ERICA WERNER,

JOSH DAWSEY,

CAROL D. LEONNIG

AND RACHAEL BADE

The White House’s bifurcated and disjointed response to Demo- crats’ impeachment inquiry has been fueled by a fierce West Wing battle between two of President Trump’s t op advisers, and the out- come of the messy skirmish could be on full display this week, according to White House and congressional officials. Acting chief of staff Mick Mul- vaney has urged aides not to com- ply with the inquiry and has blocked any cooperation with congressional Democrats. To p po- litical aides at the office of Man- agement and Budget, which Mul-

vaney once led, have fallen in line with his defiant stance, the officials said, speaking on the condi- tion of anonymity to talk freely about the behind-the-scenes de- velopments. Mulvaney’s office blames White House counsel Pat Cipol- lone for not doing more to stop other government officials from participating in the impeachment inquiry, as a number of state De- partment officials, diplomats and an aide to Vice President Pence have given sworn testimony to Congress. Cipollone, meanwhile, has fumed that Mulvaney only made see impeachment on a

At White House,

infighting clouds

response to probe

aides spar over blocking Hill testimony

Mulvaney-Cipollone skirmish worries Senate GOP

BY ANNA KAM,

CASEY QUACKENBUSH

AND RYAN HO KILPATRICK

HONG KONG — For months,
clashes between police and pro-
democracy protesters here pro-
ceeded in a worrisome but almost
predictable rhythm: Water can-
nons and tear gas dispersed
throngs of masked demonstrators
only to find them amassing again
the next weekend despite an in-
tensifying crackdown by the pro-
Beijing government.
That uneasy rhythm was jolted
violently Monday.
In t he morning, a police officer,
claiming self-defense, shot a

young, apparently unarmed protester in the abdomen at point- blank range, unleashing a chain of chaotic events as thousands of demonstrators clashed with riot police in the city’s financial district and violent confrontations erupted at university campuses. Hours later, a man who was casti- gating protesters purportedly in- volved in vandalizing a rail sta-

tion was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire. Authorities later identified the victim as a 57-year-old construction worker and said they are investigating the incident as an “attempted murder.” He was in critical condi- tion. The immolation prompted Hong Kong Chief executive Car- rie Lam to tag the protesters as “the people’s enemy” — words heard often from Beijing for t hose targeted for incarceration or worse. Lam, who said about 60 people were injured in Monday’s clashes, said protesters were “de- stroying society.” The government, she vowed, would not bow

to s uch pressure. The unrest, which continued Tuesday morning at several Hong Kong universities, marks the worst violence in the city in decades, posing a quandary for Chi- na’s leader, Xi Jinping, who has sought to bring H ong Kong to heel without resorting to Tiananmen square-style bloodshed. That confrontation left hundreds dead when the Chinese army beat, shot and crushed people gathered to protest g overnment o ppression. Few fear a repeat of Tiananmen square in Hong Kong, in part because social media a nd the abil- ity to send images at lightning see hong kong on a

A day of rage, violence in Hong Kong

Demonstrator is shot by police; man criticizing protesters is set on fire

BY KEVIN SIEFF

MEXICO CITY — It was the third
hearing in one of Mexico’s big-
gest c orruption cases in years, but
the general accused of abetting
billions of dollars in oil theft was
nowhere to be seen.
Judge Angélica Lucio Rosales
looked out at the crowd of law-
yers and family members in the
federal courtroom, unimpressed.
“Where is General Trauwitz?”
she asked.
When eduardo León Trauwitz,
53, missed the previous hearing,
his lawyers said he was in the
hospital. This time, they said, he
was out of the country.
In a case that has come to be

seen as a test of Mexico’s a bility to crack down on corruption, it was a remarkable illustration of the challenges ahead: even getting the accused to appear in court is not easy. President Andrés Manuel Ló- pez obrador galvanized Mexico’s electorate last year in part by rail- ing against corruption. He ar- gued that Mexicans should be furious that their government — a “mafia of power,” he said — was stealing from them. López obrador, known here as AMLo, had no shortage of exam- ples. Mexico is the most corrupt country in the Group of 20, according to Transparency Interna- tional, and bribes, kickbacks and outright theft have pervaded the government for decades. In many cases, government officials and security personnel have been accused of accepting bribes from criminal organizations. That’s a growing concern in a see corruption on a

Missing from corruption

crackdown: A defendant

Case against ex-official for Mexican oil company symbolizes uphill battle

Justices to weigh daca The Supreme Court

will again consider Trump’s authority over

the policy, which affects 700,000 people. A

crackdown in iraq Crowds demonstrating

against the government are thinning out in

the face of violence, arrests and threats. A

health & science suicide prevention emergency room doctors should screen patients to see if they have thoughts of killing themselves, researchers say. e

style difficult talks famous parents offer a window into how they discuss topics such as racism and mental illness with their kids. c

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the world turkey said it deported an American accused of belonging to the Islamic State, as the country began repatriating foreign-born suspected extremists. A Bolivians confronted

continued violence and a gaping power vacuum a day after the resigna- tion of President Evo Morales. A Brexit party leader Ni- gel Farage offers Boris Johnson a truce, boost- ing prospects for Con- servatives in Britain’s December election. A

the economy self-driving cars must be programmed to un- derstand different be- haviors — with life-or- death consequences. A Delivery workers for Instacart, Postmates and other platforms say they’re being squeezed

in ways that result in lower pay and less transparency. A the chief executive of Uber called Jamal Khashoggi’s killing “a mistake” and com- pared it to crashing a self-driving car. A goldman sachs is under investigation after critics noticed gender differences in credit lines for the new Apple Card. A

the region radford university said an employee re- moved some of the 800 copies of the student news paper taken from newsstands in Septem- ber, but it wouldn’t give a name. B

a citywide initiative is helping D.C. students apply at no cost to his- torically black colleges and universities. B maya rockeymoore cummings, widow of U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), an- nounced that she would seek his House seat. B

obituaries maria perego, 95, an Italian puppeteer, created the mouse Topo Gigio. B

sports Breakout seasons from Pete Alonso of the Mets and Yordan Alvar- ez of the Astros culmi- nated with them being named baseball’s rook- ies of the year. D

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