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Oracle Corp. Co-Chief Exec-

utive Mark Hurd’s realizable

pay for the three years ended

in 2018 was $267 million,

which was $77 million, or

40.6%, more than initially re-

ported. That amount included a

$17 million reduction from

stock-market activity and in-

creases from performance-eq-

uity factors. An Aug. 26 Page

One article about CEOs’ pay

and an accompanying chart in-

correctly said Mr. Hurd’s real-

izable pay for the three years

was $535 million, an increase

of $345 million, or 181%, in-

cluding a $39.9 million reduc-

tion from stock-market activity.

The Natural Resources De-

fense Council was incorrectly

called the National Resources

Defense Council in a U.S. News

article Friday about Alaska’s

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The late Richard Rainwater

lived in Fort Worth, Texas. An

obituary of T. Boone Pickens

Jr. on Thursday incorrectly

referred to Mr. Rainwater as a

Dallas billionaire. Also, a Pick-

ens-led investment group

earned $760 million when its

Gulf Corp. shares appreciated

during Chevron’s takeover of

Gulf. The obituary incorrectly

referred to appreciation of

shares of Mesa Petroleum

Corp.

A photograph with a

World News article Friday

about Israel and Hezbollah

showed Israeli soldiers un-

loading a self-propelled how-

itzer. The caption incorrectly

said they were unloading a

tank.

The Council of Fashion De-

signers of America and events

and talent manager IMG orga-

nized separate New York fash-

ion week calendars. A Life &

Arts article Thursday about

runway shows failed to men-

tion that CFDA organizes its

own calendar, incorrectly im-

plying there is only one fash-

ion week calendar.

Camilla Fayed opened the

London restaurant Farmacy in

2016, the same year she sold

her majority share of the

clothing company Issa. An ar-

ticle about Ms. Fayed in Sep-

tember’s WSJ. Magazine in-

correctly said Issa closed in

2015. Also, Farmacy’s resi-
      dency at Chefs Club Counter
      in New York runs from Sept.
      13 through Feb. 29, 2020. A
      photo caption with the article
      didn’t make clear that the
      residency lasted longer than
      this month.

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U.S. WATCH

NEW YORK

Court Revives Trump

Business Lawsuit

A federal appeals court in New

York revived a lawsuit that alleges

President Trump is unconstitution-

ally profiting from his presidency.

In a 2-1 decision, the Second

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

said on Friday plaintiffs repre-

senting hotels and restaurants

that compete with Mr. Trump’s

businesses had legal standing to

bring their claims.

The case is among several

pending lawsuits alleging viola-

tions of constitutional clauses

that prohibit Mr. Trump from re-

ceiving emoluments—things of

value—from foreign govern-

ments, or those of U.S. states.

The Justice Department—

which represents Mr. Trump be-

cause he is acting as president—

declined to comment.

—Jacob Gershman

CALIFORNIA

Sen. Harris Questions

DOJ Emissions Probe

California Sen. Kamala Harris

on Friday asked the Justice De-

partment’s inspector general to

investigate why the department

opened an antitrust probe of

four auto makers who reached a

deal with California on vehicle-

emissions standards.

Ms. Harris, a Democratic presi-

dential candidate, said in a letter

to DOJ Inspector General Michael

Horowitz that there were “serious

questions about whether federal

law enforcement is being used to

coerce the four auto makers to

abandon their efforts to make

cleaner, less-polluting vehicles.”

A Ford spokeswoman referred

to an earlier company statement

that it would cooperate in any in-

quiry. The other auto makers didn’t

respond to requests to comment.

—Brent Kendall

ECONOMY

Car Sales Fuel Retail

Spending in August

Spending on vehicles drove

strong retail sales in August,

suggesting American shoppers

continue to support the econ-

omy at a time of heightened

global uncertainty.

Retail sales, a measure of

purchases at stores, restaurants

and online, climbed a seasonally

adjusted 0.4% in August from a

month earlier, the Commerce De-

partment said Friday. The robust

report beat economists’ expecta-

tions and came on the heels of

stronger spending in July than

initially estimated, a rise of 0.8%.

The data provide reassurance

that household spending remains

an economic bulwark against

signs of a global slowdown,

though perhaps not enough to

prevent some softening in U.S.

growth in the third quarter.

—Harriet Torry

The U.S. is pursuing the probes of Olympics organizations less

than a year before the start of the 2020 Games in Tokyo.

ISSEI KATO/REUTERS

protect consumers from mal-

ware or other threats. Its apps

account for a small fraction of

those available on the store,

and it collects money from

only 16% of the 2 million apps

available.

 Facebook received ques-

tions about its executives’ dis-

cussions around the acquisi-

tions of WhatsApp, Instagram,

and the data-security app

Onavo, as well as decisions re-

lated to which third-party apps

access its social-media platform.

The companies are likely to

resist carte blanche access,

which could set in motion nego-

tiations with the House commit-

tee over the scope of materials

provided, said William Kovacic,

former chair of the Federal

Trade Commission.

“If you want everything, ev-

erything will take a long

time,” said Mr. Kovacic, who is

now a George Washington Uni-

versity professor. The next

step will be “intense negotia-

tions between the companies

and the committee about what

will be produced,” he said.

The House committee isn’t

subpoenaing the records,

though it has the authority to

do so—a fact that gives law-

makers a stick they can use in

negotiations over access.

Committee Chairman Jerr-

old Nadler said the requests

will aid an investigation, be-

gun on June 3, into “growing

evidence that a handful of cor-

porations have come to cap-

ture an outsized share of on-

line commerce and

communications.”

“This information is key in

helping determine whether an-

ticompetitive behavior is occur-

ring,” said Rep. Doug Collins

(R., Ga.), the panel’s top Repub-

lican. The letters were also

signed by Reps. David Cicilline

(D., R.I.) and Jim Sensenbrenner

(R., Wis.), the two senior mem-

bers of the panel’s subcommit-

tee on antitrust issues.

The companies didn’t com-

ment Friday. All four firms have

previously said they provide

significant benefits to consum-

ers and face significant compe-

tition. They have expressed

willingness to work with au-

thorities.

The congressional probe

adds to scrutiny of the tech gi-

ants, which already face a broad

antitrust review by the Justice

Department that could lead to

formal investigations. The de-

partment has asked Google for

information about previous an-

titrust probes by other agen-

cies.

The Federal Trade Commis-

sion, the other top U.S. antitrust

enforcer, has opened an investi-

gation of Facebook, with an

early focus on its key acquisi-

tions, and is questioning third-

party sellers who use Amazon’s

marketplace. FTC Chair Joseph

Simons declined to comment

Friday on the House letters.

State attorneys general from

both parties recently launched

probes of Google, with an early

focus on its advertising busi-

ness, and Facebook.

case against the firms:
 The request to Alphabet
targets 24 products and ser-
vices, from advertising tech-
nology to YouTube and the
Waze navigation app, seeking
executives’ communications
regarding acquisitions and
how other businesses interact
with Google’s own services.
 The lawmakers asked
Amazon to provide executive
communications related to
product searches on Ama-
zon.com and the pricing of
Amazon Prime as well as fees
charged to sellers.
 Apple was asked for ex-
ecutives’ emails about search
rankings in its App Store,
whether Apple has discussed
copying some third-party apps
and the company’s policy on
requiring that apps use Ap-
ple’s payment systems for pur-
chases, an issue raised by Spo-
tify Technology SA in an
antitrust complaint in Europe.
The Wall Street Journal has
reported that Apple routinely
lists apps ahead of competi-
tors though the company’s
apps skirt its own rules for
rankings.
Apple, which takes a 30%
cut from most apps it sells,
has said the App Store encour-
ages competition and that its
cut is justified by the work its
staff does reviewing apps to

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Lawmakers

Seek CEO

Emails

with the investigation said. In-

vestigators are also focused on

former executives of USA Gym-

nastics, USA Taekwondo and

other governing bodies for

their handling of abuse cases

and for potentially unethical

conduct, two of the people said.

“Every instance related to

potential or actual abuse of

athletes warrants thorough in-

vestigation,” said USOPC

spokesman Mark Jones. “We

have cooperated with all gov-

ernment inquiries and will con-

tinue to do so.”

A spokesman for the Justice

Department declined to com-

ment, as did a spokeswoman

for the U.S. attorney’s office in

Washington.

Separately, prosecutors in

the Justice Department’s pub-

lic-integrity unit are investigat-

ing how several offices of the

Federal Bureau of Investigation

handled reports of Nassar’s

abuse in 2015 and 2016, two

people familiar with the inves-

tigation said. That investigation

has focused on former USA

Gymnastics President Steve

Penny and his dealings with FBI

agents, the people said.

Mr. Penny is also under

scrutiny in the investigation

into the U.S. Olympic system,

people familiar with the matter

of around 44 per 100,000.

Firearms are the most

common method of suicide

used by men. In 2017, 56% of

male suicides killed them-

selves with a firearm, while

among women, poison, fire-

arms and suffocation ac-

counted for 90% of suicides

in nearly equal measure, ac-

cording to the CDC data.

Whether someone acts on

the urge to commit suicide

may hinge on having access to

a preferred method in a mo-

ment of crisis. In one study,

the Israel Defense Forces

found that restricting access

to weapons, among other in-

terventions, reduced the sol-

diers’ suicide rate by 57%.

Because of the percent-

age of suicides involving

firearms (more suicides

than homicides involve

guns), the American Foun-

dation for Suicide Preven-

tion and the National

Shooting Sports Foundation

are working together to en-

courage the safe storage of

firearms.

“People don’t make that

connection,” Dr. Harkavy-

THE NUMBERS|By Jo Craven McGinty

To Lower Suicides, Methods Matter

In the U.S.,
the rate of
suicide has
steadily in-
creased for
more than a
decade. The reasons for that
are uncertain, but one thing
is clear: The urge to take
your own life is fleeting.
According to researchers
at Harvard University, nine
out of 10 people who at-
tempt suicide and survive
won’t go on to die by suicide
at a later date. Because of
that, blocking access to
methods of suicide can be a
powerful deterrent.
In 2017, the most recent
year available, 47,173 people
died from suicide, up from
29,350 in 2000, according to
the American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention and the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. It is the
10th-leading cause of death,
according to the CDC.
“Almost every demo-
graphic group is moving in
the wrong direction,” said
Christine Moutier, chief med-
ical officer of the American
Foundation for Suicide Pre-
vention, which recognizes
National Suicide Prevention
Week through Saturday. “We
probably won’t be able to
prevent every suicide, al-
though that is our aspira-
tional goal, but we can do a

lot better.”

There is no single motiva-

tion for suicide, according to

experts, but risk factors in-

clude mental-health issues,

physical-health problems and

early trauma, such as abuse,

neglect or head injury.

“There are a multitude of

factors,” said Jill Harkavy-

Friedman, vice president of

research at the American

Foundation for Suicide Pre-

vention. “We don’t fully un-

derstand how someone tran-

sitions from being at risk to

acting on it.”

S

till, certain trends are

apparent. Those who

are at greatest risk are

white males and, in particu-

lar, middle-age white men. In

2017, white males accounted

for nearly 70% of all sui-

cides, according to data col-

lected by the CDC. White

women accounted for 19.4%.

Men of color represented

8.3%, and women of color

represented 2.6%.

The rate of suicide for the

oldest white men was higher

than for middle-age white

men, but in raw numbers,

more middle-aged men died.

In 2017, 8,927 white men

ages 45 to 59 killed them-

selves, a rate of around 35 per

100,000 men in that group,

while 3,322 men age 75 and

older died by suicide, a rate

Friedman said. “They have a

firearm for hunting or sport.

They don’t understand that

if you have a person in the

home who is struggling—and

it’s not necessarily a family

member—if a gun isn’t

locked and unloaded, some-

body may use it.”

T

he simple act of block-

ing access to a suicide

method is believed to

be effective because of the

way the brain functions.

“In a moment of crisis,

the brain changes,” said

Alexis O’Brien, a spokes-

woman for the American

Foundation for Suicide Pre-

vention. “It becomes more

rigid. You don’t think as flu-

idly as you would in other

circumstances.”

In the case of suicide, in-

dividuals tend to become fix-

ated on a method, she said,

and if something comes be-

tween them and the means

they have settled on, they

often don’t choose an alter-

native. “That’s why bridge

barriers are so successful,”

Ms. O’Brien said. “They

don’t drive down the road to

the next bridge. They just

don’t die.”

The National Suicide Pre-

vention Lifeline can be

reached 24 hours a day,

seven days a week, at

1-800-273-8255.

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said. Until his resignation in

2017, Mr. Penny wielded enor-

mous power over national-team

gymnasts, in some cases serv-

ing as their agent in endorse-

ment deals and organizing

heavily sponsored post-Olympic

tours, people familiar with his

work said. People familiar with

the matter said these arrange-

ments were of interest to fed-

eral investigators, as are simi-

lar arrangements at other

national governing bodies,

through which governing-body

executives could profit from

their positions.

A lawyer for Mr. Penny,

Edith Matthai, said the only in-

vestigation her client is aware

of is the inquiry into the FBI’s

handling of the case. “He has

not personally received any

money whatsoever from any

source related to any endorse-

ment or other promotional ac-

tivity by an athlete or a mem-

ber of an athlete’s family,” Ms.

Matthai said, adding that any

implication he had done so was

“flat out false and defamatory.”

The FBI’s national press of-

fice referred requests for com-

ment to the Justice Department

and the Inspector General’s of-

fice, which didn’t respond.

Mr. Penny was forced out in

March 2017 amid mounting

outrage over his handling of

sexual-abuse cases, including a

five-week delay—first reported

by The Wall Street Journal—in

reporting gymnasts’ concerns

about Nassar to the FBI. The

gymnasts’ allegations then lan-

guished for nearly a year in

several FBI field offices.

Nassar is serving a life sen-

tence in federal prison.

USA Gymnastics filed for

bankruptcy in December.

“USA Gymnastics is striving

to become an athlete-centric

organization that keeps athlete

safety and well-being at the

forefront of everything it does,”

a spokeswoman for the group

said in an email, adding that it

was cooperating with the gov-

ernment investigation.

Justice Department investi-

gators are also investigating

USA Taekwondo, people famil-

iar with the matter said. In a

class-action lawsuit, dozens of

women alleged “forced labor

and services, sex trafficking,

and other travesties” by the

USOPC, USA Taekwondo and

SafeSport. The three bodies

have denied the allegations.

SafeSport was dismissed from

the case earlier this year. Law-

yers and a representative for

USA Taekwondo didn’t respond

to a request for comment.

—Louise Radnofsky

contributed to this article.

U.S. Center for SafeSport, a
nonprofit set up in 2017 to han-
dle reports of abuse in Olympic
sports. Prosecutors from those
offices, along with investigators
from the Internal Revenue Ser-
vice, have spoken with poten-
tial witnesses regarding alleged
abuse and misconduct in Olym-
pic sports organizations, in-
cluding USA Gymnastics and
USA Taekwondo.
A person familiar with as-
pects of the investigation said
that inquiry appeared to be ex-
amining “failures in the Olym-
pic system, writ large, to re-
spond to signs of widespread
child abuse.”
Investigators are broadly
considering whether power dy-
namics at work in the billion-
dollar U.S. Olympic system—
with aspiring athletes, many
underage, at the mercy of
coaches, governing bodies and
the USOPC—amount to exploi-
tation, other people familiar

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Olympics

Entities

Scrutinized

The congressional

probe adds to the

scrutiny already on

the tech giants.