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which use technology to make products that hew closely to the taste and texture of meat, and now “first-generation” veggie burgers and similar products are caught in the crossfire. In 2019, officials in nearly 30 states have proposed bills to pro- hibit companies from using words such as “meat,” “burger,” “sausage,” “jerky” or “hot dog” unless the product came from an animal that was born, raised and slaughtered in a traditional way. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Wyoming have al- ready enacted such laws. In Mis- SEE MEAT ON A

BY LAURA REILEY

Tofurky wasn’t keeping cattle
ranchers awake at night.
For decades, veggie burgers
were the token offering to vegans
at the backyard barbecue, and
Tofurky was the Thanksgiving
benediction to the meat-free
loved ones in our lives.
But as plant-based meat goes
from an afterthought to a finan-
cial juggernaut that aims to
change how most people eat, the
opposition has suddenly awak-
ened: Many of the country’s
800,000 cattle ranchers have de-
clared war on newcomers Impos-
sible Foods and Beyond Meat,

As she turned, the man lunged at her, she recalled. The girl fell on her back in a stranger’s front yard, screaming as the man pinned her down. “Shut the f--- up, n-----,” he said, according to a police report. The girl said she was able to hit him in the face and kick him in the groin. As he rolled off her, she sprinted home, sobbing. “I thought I wasn’t going to see my mom ever again,” said the girl, whom The Washington Post agreed not to name because she is a child and a crime victim. SEE HATRED ON A

In 2018, they all became the victims

of a record year of hatred in D.C.

A 12-year-old black girl walking home from school. Gay pals leaving a bar. A Trump family friend watching TV. A Muslim veteran driving to work.

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Among the victims of suspected hate crimes last year were a 12-year-old girl; Sarah Amer, a Muslim woman; Kristen Laird, a transgender woman; and Rudolph Williams, who is openly gay.

BY MICHAEL E. MILLER

The girl had tutoring after class that day, so she was alone as she left Alice Deal Middle School and began walking the mile to her apartment. “Mommy,” the 12-year-old said on her cellphone. “I’m on my way home.” But as the black seventh-grader turned down a quiet street in Northwest Washington, she said, she noticed a white man watching her. When he began walking her way, the girl crossed to the other side of the road. She had just ducked under the bough of a magnolia tree when she heard something behind her.

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Sudden retirement As emotional as Andrew

Luck’s departure was, the Colts quarterback

made a rational move, Jerry Brewer writes. D

Military escalation Israeli warplanes struck

targets in Syria to avert a planned drone

attack by Iranian operatives. A

STYLE

A race to self care Weightlifting, vegetable- munching presidential hopefuls as a healthy alternative to Trump. C

Drive, he said The ugly underside of Brad Pitt’s cool car in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” C

In the News

THE NATION

Former congressman Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) said he will challenge Presi- dent Trump in the 2020 primaries. A As the Trump adminis- tration seeks to end time limits on holding mi- grant children, ICE opened a detention fa- cility to cameras. A Democrats see arrest- ing the slide in black turnout and cutting into GOP advantages among rural voters as key to flipping Pennsylvania in their electoral favor. A

THE WORLD Hong Kong police

turned water cannons against demonstrators, as a protest descended into a street battle. A

THE REGION A natural-gas leak is the suspected cause of an explosion and fire that destroyed a com- mercial building in Columbia, Md. B The newly formed D.C. Tenants Union seeks to organize renters on issues like renters’ rights, gentrification and rent control. B Efforts to repair the system that feeds cool air into the Farragut North and Dupont Circle Met-

ro stations have been plagued by delays. B

THE WEEK AHEAD

MONDAY World leaders hold news conferences mark- ing the end of the Group of Seven industrial na- tions’ summit in France. Vice President Pence promotes the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement in a South Carolina speech. Durable-goods orders for July are seen rising 0.9 percent.

TUESDAY Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the American Legion’s national convention in Indianapolis.

WEDNESDAY

Democratic presidential candidates speak at the Nevada State AFL- CIO’s convention.

THURSDAY Second-quarter GDP is expected to increase by 1.8 percent. Jobless claims for the week ended Aug. 24 are projected at 213,000.

FRIDAY Personal income for July is expected to rise by 0.3 percent.

SATURDAY President Trump and first lady Melania Trump travel to Poland. The 19th annual Na- tional Book Festival is held in Washington.

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BY DAMIAN PALETTA,

JOSH DAWSEY,

TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA

AND MICHAEL BIRNBAUM

biarritz, france — A summit of world leaders devolved into a confusing spectacle on Sunday when President Trump signaled regret for his trade war with China only to have the White House reverse his position hours later. It was one of numerous sur- prises on a day when some officials had hoped for clarity or consensus. Leaders continued squabbling about whether Rus- sian President Vladimir Putin would attend a future meeting, and French officials surprised others by inviting Iran’s foreign minister to this seaside town, an unusual move of diplomatic jujit- su in the tightly scripted world of international summits. Leaders who were hoping that global tensions over trade, North Korea and China might be eased on the second day of the Group of Seven summit were disappoint- ed during a whiplash day of mixed signals. Some European officials said they were begin- ning to fear that nearly any substantive coordinated work with the United States might be impossible in the Trump era. Trump has so far done little to publicly inflame tensions with other leaders as he has during past summits, where he has lobbed insults or threatened to withdraw from international SEE SUMMIT ON A

BY ERIN CUNNINGHAM

AND BEN GUARINO

istanbul — The nine conserva-
tionists had embarked on one of
the most ambitious wildlife proj-
ects in Iran in recent years, setting
camera traps in seven provinces
to monitor the critically endan-
gered Asiatic cheetah, whose
dwindling population stalks
Iran’s central plateau.
They worked with the govern-
ment, secured the right permits
and received funding and equip-
ment from abroad. But the re-
searchers, all Iranian, soon drew
the suspicion of the Revolution-
ary Guard Corps, a powerful
branch of Iran’s armed forces, and
were arrested last year for alleged
espionage.
Now, four members of the team
charged with “spreading corrup-
tion on earth” could face the death
penalty, and four others could be
sentenced to up to 10 years in
prison. The researchers, from the
nonprofit Persian Wildlife Heri-
tage Foundation, are awaiting a
verdict in a trial that rights
groups say has been marred by
abuses and accusations of torture.
The ninth researcher who was
detained, the foundation’s chair-
man, Kavous Seyed-Emami, died
in custody shortly after his arrest
last year. Tehran’s prosecutor gen-
eral said Seyed-Emami, a profes-
sor who also held Canadian citi-
zenship, had died by suicide, but
family members and colleagues
have rejected that account.
“He was hopeful and optimistic
about the country’s future,”
Seyed-Emami’s son, Mehram,
said in an interview. “He was
never one to have hard-line or
polarized views.”
The plight of the conservation-
ists, described by friends and fam-
ily as passionate champions of the
environment, has highlighted
what analysts say is the growing
criminalization of scientific and
scholarly research in Iran,
spurred in part by the security
SEE IRAN ON A

BY NICK ANDERSON

blacksburg, va. — Swamped with a surge of incoming fresh- men it hadn’t foreseen, Virginia Tech this summer tried all kinds of dorm-maximizing tricks to squeeze in its largest class ever. Singles morphed into doubles, doubles into triples. Lounges became pop-up bedrooms for three or more. And it shunted more than 500 students into a pair of hotels, including a Holiday Inn Express, here in the hills of Southwest Virginia. Tishya Anand, 17, of Ashburn made the best of it as she un- packed gear in a makeshift triple at the Inn at Virginia Tech. It was move-in day, ahead of the start of

classes Monday. Dealing with tight quarters, she figured, “shows your unity as a school.” Her mother, Sridevi Anand, was less chipper. “Hotel? I was like, ‘I thought she would be in one of the dorms,’ ” she recalled. “This was a little scary, but it’s going to be okay.” Many colleges struggling to fill seats would love to have Virginia Tech’s problem. The preliminary head count for the Class of 2023 is about 7,700, exceeding projec- tions by more than 1,000. It’s also about 1,500 more than entered last year. At root, the enrollment boom reflects a major miscalculation in how many students would accept offers of admission made after SEE HOUSING ON A

At G-7,

a day of

mixed

signals

CONFUSION ABOUT TRUMP’S CHINA VIEW

Iranian diplomat attends; fight over Putin continues

In Iran,

researchers’

lives are

on the line

Veggie burgers caught

in crossfire of meat war

At Va. Tech, enrollment guess creates an inn crowd

Cheetah conservationists

arrested, on trial as spies;

some could be executed

A surprise appearance Iran’s Zarif briefly showed at G-7, and Trump was not pleased. A ‘Second thoughts’ scramble Aides aim to decipher a rare admission by the president. A

JAHI CHIKWENDIU/THE WASHINGTON POST Sunni Bartlett, 19, and her stepfather, David Rice, prepare her dorm room at a Holiday Inn Express in Blacksburg, Va. A miscalculation on enrollment has Virginia Tech scrambling to accommodate students.