U(D54G1D)y+&!]!&!#!_ The plan tries to balance preserving the city’s character with a desire for spend- ing by tourists on cruises. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-8 Venice Puts Curbs on Big Ships The measure requires judges to order prosecutors to search their files and to disclose in a timely manner all evidence that could help the defense. PAGE A18 NEW YORK A18-23 A New Rule for Prosecutors Rules designed to protect wild salmon have ignited anger from the industry as well as environmentalists. PAGE A7 Norway Pressures Fish Farms Robert M. Gates PAGE A25 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25 SUBURBAN ANGER AT TRUMP ECHOES DOWN THE BALLOT RICHMOND, Va. — The Ameri- can suburbs appear to be in revolt against President Trump after a muscular coalition of college-edu- cated voters and racial and ethnic minorities dealt the Republican Party a thumping rejection on Tuesday and propelled a diverse class of Democrats into office. From the tax-obsessed suburbs of New York City to high-tech neighborhoods outside Seattle to the sprawling, polyglot develop- ments of Fairfax and Prince William County, Va., voters shunned Republicans up and down the ballot in off-year elec- tions. Leaders in both parties said the elections were an unmistak- able alarm bell for Republicans ahead of the 2018 campaign, when the party’s grip on the House of Representatives may hinge on the socially moderate, multiethnic communities near major cities. “Voters are taking their anger out at the president, and the only way they can do that is by going after Republicans on the ballot,” said Representative Charlie Dent, Republican of Pennsylvania. The Democrats’ gains signaled deep alienation from the Republi- can Party among the sort of up- scale moderates who were once central to their coalition. Democrats not only swept Vir- By ALEXANDER BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN SWEEPS BY DEMOCRATS G.O.P. Alarmed as a Key Voting Bloc Signals Its Deep Alienation Continued on Page A15 Election Losses Intensify Push To Act on Taxes WASHINGTON — Senate Re- publicans, under pressure to pass a sweeping tax rewrite before year’s end, are expected to unveil legislation on Thursday that would eliminate the ability of peo- ple to deduct state and local taxes but would stop short of fully re- pealing the estate tax, according to lobbyists and other people fa- miliar with the bill. The Senate plan is taking shape as Republicans digest the drub- bing they suffered on Tuesday night in affluent suburbs across the country, many of them repre- sented by Republicans in the House. Those areas are stocked with well-off voters who would be disproportionately hit by the elim- ination of state and local tax de- ductions. But in the Senate, those high- tax areas are often represented by Democrats, which puts less pres- sure on Republican leaders to keep the state and local deduction, in any form, in their version of the bill. Each of the bills reflects deli- cate political and fiscal calcula- tions as Republican leaders seek to deliver on President Trump’s campaign promises to cut taxes on the middle class and on busi- nesses — but also find the money to pay for them. Eliminating the state and local tax deduction would increase tax receipts and therefore lessen the overall cost of the legislation, which by congres- sional budget rules cannot exceed $1.5 trillion over the next decade if it is to pass without Democratic support. After the elections, Republicans understand they have to pass a tax bill in order to show a signifi- cant accomplishment. Big losses in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday exposed their vulnerabil- ities going into next year’s midterm elections. But in the Senate, the emerging bill suggests party leaders are less concerned with the potential fallout of eliminating breaks that benefit upper-middle-class tax- payers in high-tax states such as New York and California. Republican officials say many more changes will be included in the Senate plan, which is planned for release on Thursday, the same day that the House Ways and Means Committee is expected to pass its version of the bill ahead of a full House vote next week. This article is by Jim Tankersley, Alan Rappeport and Thomas Kap- lan. Senate’s Vision of Cuts Targets Deductions Continued on Page A15 DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Xi Jinping and his wife received President Trump and his wife, Melania, in Beijing. North Korea was on the agenda later. Page A8. First the Opera. Then Business. At Heart of AT&T Merger, Another Fight Brews: Trump vs. CNN It seemed like a match made in media heaven. AT&T is a telecom- munications giant whose reach stretches to millions of people all over the country, and Time Warner, the owner of CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., has content ga- lore. Together, the two companies would create a colossus strad- dling the worlds of internet ac- cess, news and entertainment. Until last week, AT&T’s pend- ing $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner seemed destined to close by the end of the year. On Wednesday, however, tensions be- tween the Justice Department and executives at the two compa- nies spilled out into the open. Now it seems possible that the Justice Department and AT&T will end up battling each other in court. The continuing negotia- tions have also demonstrated how the Trump administration may regulate big-ticket mergers and acquisitions, representing the first major test for the govern- ment’s antitrust strategy. A central component of the dis- pute, according to people from both companies and the Justice Department, is CNN — the net- work that Mr. Trump has fre- quently attacked as a purveyor of “fake news.” Late last week, AT&T called the This article is by Michael J. de la Merced, Emily Steel, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Cecilia Kang. Continued on Page A17 SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Tex. — Families have buried their dead, one by one, in the cemetery on the edge of town since the 1850s, when a settler named Dr. John Sutherland put down stakes on an old Spanish land grant. Since then the graveyard has endured for generations as a rest- ing place for pioneers and cow- boys, matriarchs and masons, overdose victims and those who passed away silently in their sleep. But the cemetery’s caretakers never before faced the colossal di- lemma they do now: How to bury so many people in such a short span of time. So Lynda Ragen, the owner of Vinyard Funeral Home, is talking to a Dallas company about bor- rowing additional hearses. Joe Garza, a local resident, is donating concrete liners for burial vaults. Audrey Louis, the district attor- ney, is rushing to provide money for funeral expenses from a com- pensation fund for crime victims. And Bertha Cardenas-Lomas, the head of the town’s cemetery board, has been sorting out the on- slaught of funerals so that not ev- eryone is buried at once. She has also been busy mowing the grass at the grave sites. “This feels like a terrifying, crushing nightmare except that I’m somehow awake,” said Ms. Cardenas-Lomas, 57. In the span of a year, Ms. Carde- nas-Lomas said, the cemetery normally handles fewer than 15 burials, far fewer than the graves that need to be dug in the coming days after a gunman killed 26 at the First Baptist Church in one of the worst mass shootings in the history of the United States. With the church still cordoned off by investigators, the town’s fo- cus is now shifting to the ceme- tery, one of the few other institu- tional fixtures binding people to- gether here. A couple who had just begun to enjoy retirement, Richard Rodri- guez, 64, a railroad foreman, and Therese Rodriguez, 66, who worked as a receptionist, will be buried on Saturday, the first in a series of funerals that will test the nerves of this threadbare town of about 400 people. “It would be different if they were killed in a car crash or from sickness,” said Regina Rodriguez, Texas Cemetery Strains in Massacre’s Aftermath By SIMON ROMERO The small, simple Sutherland Springs Cemetery, where many of those killed at the First Baptist Church will be buried, is looked after by town residents. It usually has fewer than 15 burials a year. TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES Town Braces for More Burials Than in a Typical Year Continued on Page A10 Endowments Rise as Schools Bury Earnings In 2006, the endowments of In- diana University and Texas Chris- tian University invested millions of dollars in a partnership, hoping to mint riches from oil, gas and coal. The partnership was formed by the Houston-based Quintana Cap- ital Group, whose principals in- clude Donald L. Evans, an influen- tial Texan and longtime supporter of former President George W. Bush. Little more than a year ear- lier, Mr. Evans had left his cabinet position as commerce secretary. Though the group had an im- pressive Texas pedigree, presi- dential cachet and ambitions for operations in the United States, the new partnership was estab- lished in the Cayman Islands. The founders promised their univer- sity and nonprofit investors that the partnership would try to avoid federal taxes by exploiting a loop- hole called “blocker corpora- tions,” which are typically estab- lished in tax havens around the world. A trove of millions of leaked doc- uments from a Bermuda-based law firm, Appleby, reflects some of the tax wizardry used by Ameri- can colleges and universities. Schools have increasingly turned to secretive offshore investments, the files show, which let them swell their endowments with blocker corporations, and avoid scrutiny of ventures involving fos- sil fuels or other issues that could set off campus controversy. Buoyed by lucrative tax breaks, college endowments have amassed more than $500 billion By STEPHANIE SAUL PARADISE PAPERS Colleges’ Offshore Secrets Continued on Page A14 Disregarding Climate Change While Preparing for Disaster When Hurricane Irma swept through the Florida Keys in Sep- tember, it brought a vivid preview of the damage that climate change could inflict on the region in the decades ahead. The storm washed out two sec- tions of the highway connecting the Keys, leaving residents stranded for days. With ocean lev- els rising around these low-lying islands, however, that interrup- tion could end up seeming minor: By 2030, almost half the county’s roads could be affected by flood- ing. “We know that the water isn’t going away,” said Rhonda Haag, the sustainability director for Monroe County, which is prepar- ing to elevate vulnerable road- ways in the Keys. But the task is so costly, up to $7 million per mile of road, that the county may ulti- mately require outside help. In Washington, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is leading recovery efforts that could cost taxpayers more than $50 billion after devastating storms hit Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. At the same time, the agency is wrestling with an even harder problem: how to help com- munities prepare for future flood- ing disasters that could be far more severe than anything seen this year. Complicating that task is the fact that the Trump administra- tion has largely been hostile to dis- cussions of global warming. In Au- gust, a week before Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, President Trump rescinded an Obama-era executive order that urged federal agencies to take into account climate change and sea- level rise when rebuilding infra- By BRAD PLUMER Continued on Page A12 CARLOS GONZALEZ/STAR TRIBUNE, VIA A.P. ELECTING DIVERSITY Candidates like Andrea Jenkins, a trans- gender woman in Minneapo- lis, reflected a shift. Page A9. Both the home and new book of Jaron Lanier, so-called father of virtual reality, are filled with strange stuff. PAGE D1 THURSDAY STYLES D1-10 A Silicon Valley Soothsayer The Met’s 2018 fashion blockbuster will look at the influence of Catholicism on the designer imagination. PAGE D1 Blessed Are the Dressmakers Officials say about 3,000 Puerto Rico residents still in shelters will be flown to New York and Florida. PAGE A13 NATIONAL A9-17 A Puerto Rican Airlift The Republican tax proposal would eliminate a deduction that helps mil- lions cope with health costs. PAGE A16 Ending the Medical Tax Break Like a twisted version of the producers of an unscripted TV show, Kremlin- linked trolls used fake personas to provoke very real drama. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-10 Russia’s Reality TV Twists An auto glass plant in Ohio could un- ionize, a possible blow to the Chinese owner’s paternalistic model. PAGE B1 An Unusual Union Vote Benjamin Genocchio, head of the Ar- mory Show, is the latest figure felled by sexual harassment accusations. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Art Fair Director Is Ousted Jerry Jones is said to be threatening a lawsuit to block the commissioner’s contract extension. PAGE B11 SPORTSTHURSDAY B11-14 Cowboys Owner vs. N.F.L. High schools face a new challenge in how to define sexes, with guidelines differing from state to state. PAGE B11 Defining Transgender Athletes Late Edition VOL. CLXVII . . . No. 57,776 © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2017 Today, sunshine and clouds, high 53. Tonight, partly cloudy, turning cold- er, low 37. Tomorrow, partly sunny, windy, sharply colder, high 38. Weather map appears on Page A22. $2.50