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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER,France — Standing on a sun-drenched bluff above the Nor-mandy beaches, where 10,000 sol-diers sacrificed themselves to asavage fusillade of gunfire andopened the way for Europe’s liber-ation in 1944, President Trump de-clared on Thursday, “We are gath-ered here on freedom’s altar.”

Seventy-five years after the D-Day invasion, the president, whohas called into question America’salliances around the world — in-cluding with countries that foughtwith the United States in Nor-mandy — pledged fidelity tofriendships “forged in the heat of

battle, tested in the trials of war,and proven in the blessings ofpeace.”

It was Mr. Trump’s only refer-ence to the importance of the At-lantic alliance, in a speech thatdwelled on the service of D-Day’sAmerican veterans. Dozens ofthem were seated behind himoverlooking the white gravemarkers of fallen comrades, andOmaha Beach beyond.

Speaking gravely, with few ofthe ad-libs that usually pepper hisspeeches, Mr. Trump recountedstories of heroism and suffering,often in graphic terms. The veter-ans not only had vanquished Nazityranny, he said, but built theAmerican century.

“To the men who sit behind meand to the boys who rest in thefield before me,” Mr. Trump said,“your example will never, evergrow old, your legend will nevertire, your spirit — brave, unyield-ing and true — will never die.”

There was a lingering incongru-ity to Mr. Trump’s words: a presi-dent who has denigrated the Eu-ropean Union and accused NATO

Trump Pays Tribute to D-Day at ‘Freedom’s Altar’By MARK LANDLER

and MAGGIE HABERMAN

President Trump and President Emmanuel Macron of France with their wives at the Normandy American Cemetery on Thursday.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Honoring Veterans andSaying Little AboutTies Under Threat

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OWATONNA, Minn. — “I knewit wasn’t O.K.,” Kloey, 16, said. “Iknew that for sure.”

Late one Saturday night in Feb-ruary in this Minnesota town,Kloey posted a selfie on Snapchatwith two of her friends. Kloeystuck out her tongue, Candacepursed her lips and Grace wore awide-eyed grin. While singingalong to a rap song in Kloey’s car,Grace, who is white, used a hateful

racial slur for what she said wasthe very first time. Kloey, alsowhite, posted the photo onSnapchat to commemorate the oc-casion, spelling out the slur in thecaption.

The post spread quickly amongOwatonna High School’s smallpopulation of black students, whohad felt for years that racism hadbeen allowed to quietly fester intheir school. Not again, they saidto each other in anger.

Teenagers flirt on social media.They pour out their souls. And all

too often, in an era of viral videos,they show off their intolerancewhen it comes to race. High schoolstudents have been capturedflashing the Nazi salute and sing-ing Ku Klux Klan-themed Christ-mas songs. Teachers havedressed up as a border wall forHalloween and asked their blackstudents to participate in mockslave auctions. The fallout fromsuch episodes often looks thesame: online apologies and out-rage, and then everyone involvedmoves on.

But after Kloey’s Snapchatpost, something different hap-pened in this town of 25,000 resi-dents, where nearly 90 percent ofthe population is white.

With the prodding of black stu-dents, white Owatonna residentsdid what they had mostly had theluxury of avoiding: talk aboutrace.

It hasn’t been easy. Jeffrey S. El-stad, the Owatonna superintend-ent, said that what happened was

A Selfie, a Slur and a Fissure in One School’s Silence About RaceBy JOHN ELIGON

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A cadet was killed and nearly two dozen were hurt when a vehicle overturned Thursday. Page A22.Fatal Crash Near West Point

The violent police raid at theStonewall Inn in New York City in1969 is widely regarded as a semi-nal event in the gay rights move-ment. But police officials had longrefused to admit that officers’ be-havior and the raid itself were notjustified, leaving a rift betweenlaw enforcement and gay-rightssupporters that seemed to deependistrust over the years.

On Thursday, as people aroundthe world began commemoratingthe 50th anniversary of the clash,New York’s police commissionertook a step toward makingamends, issuing an unusual offi-cial apology on behalf of the PoliceDepartment for the actions of offi-cers during the Stonewall upris-ing.

“The actions taken by theN.Y.P.D. were wrong — plain andsimple,” the commissioner, JamesP. O’Neill, said during an event atPolice Headquarters.

It was an admission that gayrights leaders said was momen-tous and unexpected, if overdue.

“To have the N.Y.P.D. commis-sioner make these very explicitremarks apologizing, it’s reallymoving,” said Corey Johnson, theCity Council speaker, who is gayand who had a day earlier calledfor a police apology.

Still, some cautioned the PoliceDepartment that its future actionsneeded to back up its words.

“The history of police violenceand criminalization of L.G.B.T.Q.people sadly continues to thisday,” said Richard Saenz, an attor-ney at Lambda Legal, a nationalcivil rights organization.

After 50 Years,Police Apology

For StonewallBy MICHAEL GOLD

and DEREK M. NORMAN

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WASHINGTON — Mexico andthe United States are discussingsignificant changes in asylumrules and border enforcementthat could forestall PresidentTrump from imposing tariffs on allMexican imports, senior officialsfrom both countries said Thurs-day.

The changes under considera-tion would give the United Statesa greater ability to reject requestsfor entry from migrant familiesfleeing violence in Central Amer-ica, according to those officials.Under the new arrangement, mi-grants would be required to seekasylum in the first foreign countrythey enter after leaving theirhomes.

Guatemalans looking for refugewould have to apply for asylum inMexico rather than the UnitedStates. And those fleeing El Sal-vador and Honduras would haveto seek asylum in Guatemalarather than continuing on to Mex-ico or the United States.

If a deal is reached, Mexicowould also allow an expansion ofan American program in whichthose seeking asylum in theUnited States are required to waitin Mexico while their legal casesproceed. About 8,000 migrantsare waiting in Mexico, but underthe agreement, that number couldgrow.

A Mexican official, who spokeon the condition of anonymity be-cause the talks are continuing andprivate, cautioned that there hadbeen no agreement reached on theasylum discussions. And Mr.Trump, who has repeatedly de-manded that Mexico end the re-cent surge of immigration into theUnited States, has not yet ap-proved the direction of the talks.Sarah Huckabee Sanders, theWhite House press secretary, saidin an email that “our position hasnot changed, and we are still mov-ing forward with tariffs at thistime.”

Mexican negotiators have alsopledged to send 6,000 troops toMexico’s border with Guatemala,the entry point for a recent surgeof migrants who have then madetheir way through Mexico to theUnited States border. The Wash-ington Post first reported the dis-cussions on Thursday.

Officials from both countrieshave been talking for several days

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U.S. Seeks More Powerto Reject Requests

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Scot Peterson, who faces charges overthe Parkland massacre, said, “I’m nevergoing to get over this.” PAGE A18

Deputy Says He Wasn’t Scared

WASHINGTON — The world’slargest automakers warned Presi-dent Trump on Thursday that oneof his most sweeping deregula-tory efforts — his plan to weakentailpipe pollution standards —threatens to cut their profits andproduce “untenable” instability ina crucial manufacturing sector.

In a letter signed by 17 compa-nies including Ford, General Mo-tors, Toyota and Volvo, the au-tomakers asked Mr. Trump to goback to the negotiating table onthe planned rollback. It repre-sents the most forceful statementto date by the auto industryagainst Mr. Trump’s effort toweaken the pollution rules, whichwere one of President BarackObama’s signature policies tofight climate change.

The carmakers are addressinga crisis that is partly of their ownmaking. They had sought somechanges to the pollution stand-ards early in the Trump presiden-cy, but have since grown alarmedat the expanding scope of the ad-ministration’s plan.

Mr. Trump’s new rule, which isexpected to be made public thissummer, would all but eliminatethe Obama-era auto pollution reg-ulations, essentially freezing mile-age standards at about 37 milesper gallon for cars, down from atarget of 54.5 miles per gallon by2025. The policy makes it a nearcertainty that California and 13other states will sue the adminis-tration while continuing to en-force their own, stricter rules — ineffect, splitting the United Statesauto market in two.

For automakers, a bifurcatedmarket is their nightmare sce-nario. In the letter to Mr. Trump,they warned of “an extended peri-od of litigation and instability”should his plans be implemented.

The letter was delivered to theWhite House on Thursday morn-ing, the same time as a similar let-ter to Gov. Gavin Newsom of Cali-

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Hong Kong’s top court ruled that a gaycouple was entitled to spousal benefits,a decision seen as a milestone. PAGE A6

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Court Ruling Favors Gay CoupleAn array of added expenses hitting theapparel industry may be passed on toconsumers. PAGE B1

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Protest leaders advocated civil disobe-dience after a military crackdown left108 demonstrators dead. PAGE A5

Push for Democracy in Sudan

Silicon Valley was seen as one of the fewrelatively untainted sources of big-money donations for Democratic candi-dates. Now, that’s changing. PAGE A15

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Bashing Tech and Taking Cash

The Chinese company reached a deal tohelp Moscow build a high-speed wire-less network, known as 5G. PAGE B3

Huawei Is Welcomed in Russia

For American students, studying over-seas, a coveted résumé builder, is nowmore structured, often more brief andundertaken with a goal in mind.

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EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25Born Malcolm Rebennack Jr., Dr. Johnwas part of a pantheon of New Orleanskeyboard wizards. He was 77.

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ATLANTA — After two days ofintense criticism, Joseph R. BidenJr. reversed himself Thursdaynight on one of the issues most im-portant to Democratic voters, say-ing he no longer supports a meas-ure that bans federal funding formost abortions.

As recently as Wednesday, Mr.Biden’s campaign had said he sup-ported the measure, known as theHyde Amendment. His decision tochange positions illustrates the in-tense pressure he faces as the pre-sumed front-runner for the Demo-cratic nomination for president.

His turnaround was abrupt,particularly because Mr. Bidenhas grappled for decades with hisviews on abortion rights. While hehas said he supports Roe v. Wade,the Supreme Court ruling thatmade abortion legal nationwide,he has opposed members of hisown party on a number of abor-tion measures, ascribing his reluc-tance to his Roman Catholic faith.

In a speech at a gala hosted by

the Democratic National Commit-tee in Atlanta on Thursday night,Mr. Biden credited the change, inpart, to recent efforts by Republi-cans to roll back abortion accessin states including Georgia andacross the country — especially inthe South — calling them “ex-treme laws.”

“If I believe health care is aright, as I do, I can no longer sup-port an amendment that makesthat right dependent on some-one’s ZIP code,” Mr. Biden said.

After Uproar, Biden DenouncesFederal Limit on Abortion Funds

By KATIE GLUECK

Joseph R. Biden Jr.AUDRA MELTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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