Today, plenty of sunshine, low hu- midity levels, high 83. Tonight, clear, seasonable, low 68. Tomorrow, sunny, warm, more humid, high 87. Weather map appears on Page A16. VOL. CLXV . . . No. 57,299 © 2016 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016 Late Edition $2.50 U(D54G1D)y+%!"!@!=!. Olympic officials have appointed a disciplinary commission in the wake of a damning report detailing state-spon- sored doping at past Games. PAGE B8 SPORTSWEDNESDAY B8-12 Weighing Penalties for Russians After the fatal police shooting of a black man and the ambush killings of three officers, some residents fear that racial fissures that have defined the Louisiana city may widen. PAGE A14 NATIONAL A14-17 A More Divided Baton Rouge Frank Bruni PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 CLEVELAND — It was the big- gest speech of Melania Trump’s life, and her husband, Donald, wanted it to be perfect. The Trump campaign turned to two high-powered speechwriters, who had helped write signature political oratory like George W. Bush’s speech to the nation on Sept. 11, 2001, to introduce Ms. Trump, a Slovenian-born former model, to the nation on the open- ing night of the Republican Na- tional Convention. It did not go as planned, and it has eclipsed much of the action at the party gathering in Cleveland, where delegates on Tuesday night formally nominated Mr. Trump for president. The speechwriters, Matthew Scully and John McConnell, sent Ms. Trump a draft last month, ea- ger for her approval. Weeks went by. They heard nothing. Inside Trump Tower, it turned out, Ms. Trump had decided she was uncomfortable with the text, and began tearing it apart, leaving a small fraction of the original. Her quiet plan to wrest the speech away and make it her own set in motion the most embarrass- ing moment of the convention: word-for-word repetition of phrases and borrowed themes from Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic convention eight years ago. The ridicule from both Demo- crats and Republicans was instant and relentless, disrupting what was meant to be a high point of the convention. It was, by all accounts, an en- tirely preventable blunder, com- mitted in front of an audience of 23 million television viewers, that ex- posed the weaknesses of an orga- nization that has long spurned the safeguards of a modern presiden- tial campaign, such as the free software that detects plagiarism. “It just shouldn’t have hap- pened,” said Matt Latimer, a White House speechwriter for President George W. Bush. “This was an easy home run speech: a successful, attractive immigrant talking about her husband.” Nobody seemed more startled than Mr. and Ms. Trump, who ar- rived in New York on Tuesday morning after a flight from Cleve- land to find themselves at the cen- ter of a bizarre uproar over au- thenticity, plagiarism and a knotty question: Why did the wife of the Republican nominee borrow pas- sages from the wife of the current Democratic president? Ms. Trump spent most of Tues- day out of sight, while her hus- band vented his frustration and How Melania Trump Sent Speech Veering Off Course G.O.P. Nominates Businessman as Wife’s Oration Overshadows Convention By MAGGIE HABERMAN and MICHAEL BARBARO CHEERS Ivanka, center, Eric and Tiffany Trump as their father was nominated Tuesday. Page A11. DAMON WINTER/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A12 Roger Ailes’s tenure as the head of Fox News appears to be over. Mr. Ailes and 21st Century Fox, Fox News’s parent company, are in the advanced stages of discus- sions that would lead to his depar- ture as chairman, Susan Estrich, one of Mr. Ailes’s lawyers, said in an interview on Tuesday. The development follows a sex- ual harassment suit filed on July 6 against Mr. Ailes by a former an- chor, Gretchen Carlson. The suit prompted 21st Century Fox to con- duct an internal review and it set off an intense round of speculation in the news media and the televi- sion industry about Mr. Ailes’s fu- ture at Fox News. On Tuesday, the sides were ne- gotiating terms that could include Mr. Ailes’s staying on in a consult- ing role for Fox News. Ms. Estrich said nothing had been finalized about what sort of continuing role he could have at the network. “Roger is at work,” 21st Century Fox said in a statement. “The re- view is ongoing. And the only agreement that is in place is his existing employment agreement.” Mr. Ailes’s exit would be a hum- bling and startlingly sudden fall from power for a man who started Fox News from scratch 20 years ago and built it into a top-rated ca- ble news network and a critical profit center for 21st Century Fox. Along the way, Mr. Ailes, a former Republican operative, established Fox News as the leading media platform for conservative politics. He also minted prime-time stars like Bill O’Reilly, Megyn Kelly and Greta Van Susteren. Ailes in Talks To Step Down At Fox News Downfall of Executive Who Changed TV By JOHN KOBLIN and JIM RUTENBERG Continued on Page B6 Several miles from Princeton, drivers are playing chicken as they detour across a single-lane bridge. In Summit, the prolonged shutdown of a century-old cross- ing has forced nearby businesses to lay off workers. And in Hobo- ken, the delay of the long-awaited rehabilitation of a critical connec- tion to the Lincoln Tunnel threatens to disrupt back-to- school traffic. Across New Jersey, residents accustomed to complaining about all of the road work undertaken during the summer months now have something different to moan about: Hundreds of those im- provement projects have ground to a halt, victims of a political stalemate among state lawmak- ers. In many places, the orange cones and mesh netting are still in place, but the backhoes and road graders sit idle, as do more than 1,000 construction workers across the state. The long days and abundant sunshine of the season make it prime time for fixing the roads and bridges that keep things mov- ing in New Jersey, which, like many states, is saddled with aging Anger as Work Stops on Roads In New Jersey By PATRICK McGEEHAN and EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS Continued on Page A20 MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU/GETTY IMAGES Bangladeshi officers on guard after an attack this month in Dhaka. The country is tracking recruiters for the Islamic State. Page A7. Bangladesh Roots Out Terror Suspects ISTANBUL — Turkey’s presi- dent, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says that a mild-mannered Muslim cleric living in self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania was pulling the strings of a coup attempt last week that almost succeeded in taking over the state, and killing Mr. Erdogan himself. Now, Mr. Erdogan says that many thousands of Turkish citi- zens — soldiers, policemen, bu- reaucrats, teachers, judges, lawyers and many more profes- sions — are all part of the cleric’s movement and must be punished. Tens of thousands of people have already been arrested or sus- pended from their jobs in the four days since the coup failed, after a night of violence that plunged the country into chaos. Mr. Erdogan and the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, have been ad- versaries in recent years, and Tur- key has said before that Mr. Gulen must be extradited by the United States. Now, though, Mr. Erdogan appears determined to get him back, a matter that threatens to aggravate relations between the two NATO allies. But who is Mr. Gulen? And is it possible he is behind such a vast conspiracy? James F. Jeffrey, a former American ambassador to Turkey now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, called the or- With Coup Crushed, Turkish Leaders Pursue a Rival in the U.S. By TIM ARANGO and BEN HUBBARD Continued on Page A8 CLEVELAND — Mike Hill, a black Republican state represent- ative in Florida, grew steadily more disheartened as he watched television clips of his party’s over- whelmingly white national con- vention lecturing African-Ameri- cans about the police and race re- lations. There was Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, nearly shouting Monday night that the police only wanted to help people, regardless of race. A sea of white convention delegates, cheering wildly as two black speakers ridiculed the Black Lives Matter movement and un- conditionally praised law enforce- ment officers. And a series of speakers pushing Donald J. Trump’s law-and-order message and arguing, as he has, that the United States had lost its way. “When a lot of white Republi- cans get together and bring up race, even telling black people how they should see police and the world, it evokes the worst kind of emotion,” said Mr. Hill, who sup- ports Mr. Trump but decided to Convention Speeches Unsettle Blacks in G.O.P. This article is by Patrick Healy, Yamiche Alcindor and Jeremy W. Peters. Continued on Page A10 VETTING Hillary Clinton has told several potential running mates that she needs a No. 2 with national security experience. PAGE A13 VERBAL FIREWORKS The wide-ranging national conversation is being conducted this week in Cleveland’s Public Square. This Land. PAGE A9 ELECTION 2016 The world is on pace to set another high-temperature benchmark, with 2016 becoming the third year in a row of record heat, NASA said. Warming was especially strong in the Arctic. PAGE A14 Another Year of Record Heat In “War Paint,” Patti LuPone, below, and Christine Ebersole portray the beauty market rivals Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. A review. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Lipstick Shades of Rivalry Community-supported agriculture was meant to directly connect consumers and farmers. But the term is often used broadly and imprecisely now. PAGE D1 FOOD D1-8 Local Farm Support, Sort Of CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump’s coronation as the Re- publican nominee for president Tuesday night was a signal ac- complishment not only for the candidate, but also for the man who commands the most important control room in American politics: the Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. Mr. Trump’s convention has been a triumph for Mr. Ailes’s brand of smash-mouth and “poli- tically incorrect” politics — with speakers, themes, rhetoric and, ultimately, a nominee who is far more at home on the set of Fox News than in the establishment halls of Congress, the Republican National Committee or The Weekly Standard. It is, in a way, the most Fox News-y convention in the network’s history. But just as party delegates were nominating Mr. Trump at their convention here, Mr. Ailes’s career at the network was un- raveling, with news that he was negotiating the details of his departure with his bosses at 21st Century Fox. A copy of what was purported to be a proposed set of Continued on Page B6 A TV Power Hits the End Of His Path JIM RUTENBERG MEDIATOR New accusations from the attorneys general in three states make up a new threat to the embattled carmaker’s finances, reputation and management, after its emissions scandal. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-7 Lawsuits Implicate VW Chief An Afghan teenager who attacked train passengers in Germany was radicalized quickly, officials said, and seemed agi- tated by a friend’s death. PAGE A6 INTERNATIONAL A3-8 An Attacker’s Transformation Garry Marshall created generational TV shows like “Happy Days” and movies like “Pretty Woman.” He was 81. OBITUARIES A21 A Wellspring of Comedy