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To find out why the Instant Pot hasbecome the must-have kitchen gadget,Melissa Clark tests it on all kinds ofdishes. A Good Appetite. PAGE D1

Instant Gratification

Chumley’s, the West Village hideawaythat first opened its doors during Prohi-bition, has shed its down-at-the-heelscharms for upscale cuisine. A review byPete Wells. PAGE D7

FOOD D1-8

A Speakeasy Reboots

ORLANDO, Fla. — U.S.A. Foot-ball, the national governing bodyfor amateur football, intends to in-troduce a drastically alteredyouth football game in response todeclining participation and in-creasing public belief that thegame is not safe for children toplay.

The organization has created anew format that brings the gamecloser to flag football and tries toavoid much of the violence in thecurrent version. Among the rulechanges: Each team will have sixto nine players on the field, in-stead of 11; the field will be farsmaller; kickoffs and punts will beeliminated; and players will starteach play in a crouching positioninstead of in a three-point stance.

“The issue is participation hasdropped, and there’s concernamong parents about when is theright age to start playing tackle, ifat all,” said Mark Murphy, thepresident of the Green Bay Pack-

ers and a board member at U.S.A.Football.

“There are, legitimately, con-cerns among parents about allow-ing their kids to play tackle foot-ball at a young age,” Mr. Murphycontinued, “so they can look atthis and say they’ll be more com-fortable that it is a safer alterna-tive.”

Worries about the future ofyouth football are mounting as ev-idence of long-term cognitive dan-gers of playing the game grows.

For years, the sport’s top offi-cials have played down the sci-ence and insisted that tackle foot-ball could be played safely. Neu-rologists have found a degenera-tive brain disease, chronictraumatic encephalopathy, in analarming number of former foot-ball players, and last year theN.F.L.’s top health and safety offi-cer acknowledged for the firsttime the link between the diseaseand brain trauma sustained on thefield.

As Families Opt Out Over Safety, Youth Football Revamps RulesBy KEN BELSON

The Solon Saturns, a Cleveland-area youth team. U.S.A. Foot-ball is testing a safety-oriented concept it calls modified tackle.

U.S.A. FOOTBALL

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NAIROBI, Kenya — It startedout in Washington.

Then it went to Jakarta. Thenacross Africa.

One version even showed up onFacebook.

Within hours, a State Depart-ment dissent cable, asserting thatPresident Trump’s executive or-der to temporarily bar citizensfrom seven Muslim-majoritycountries would not make the na-tion safer, traveled like a chain let-ter — or a viral video.

The cable wended its waythrough dozens of American em-bassies around the world, quicklyemerging as one of the broadestprotests by American officialsagainst their president’s policies.And it is not over yet.

By 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the letterhad attracted around 1,000 signa-

tures, State Department officialssaid, far more than any dissent ca-ble in recent years. It was beingdelivered to management, and de-partment officials said more diplo-mats wanted to add their names toit.

The State Department has 7,600Foreign Service officers and 11,000civil servants.

The letter had been evolvingsince this weekend, when the firstdraft emerged. It was edited as itmoved along, with some diplo-mats adding words and othersstriking out passages.

For example, one diplomat sug-gested this sentence should sim-ply end on “lasting shame”: “Thedecision to restrict the freedom ofJapanese-Americans in theUnited States and foreign nation-

Dissent on Travel Ban Spreads From One Embassy to Another

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

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WASHINGTON — A secretiveChinese company with deep tiesto the country’s Communist Partyhas become one of the biggest for-eign investors in the United Statesover the past year, snapping upAmerican firms in a string ofmultibillion-dollar deals. But it isone of its smaller deals that is ap-parently stalling the White Housecareer of a top adviser to Presi-dent Trump.

Anthony Scaramucci, a flam-boyant former campaign fund-raiser for Mr. Trump whom thepresident has appointed as theWhite House liaison to the busi-ness community, has been inlimbo for more than a week sincehe agreed to sell his investmentfirm to a subsidiary of the Chineseconglomerate, HNA Group.

Mr. Scaramucci is on the job buthas yet to be sworn in, partly be-cause of concerns about the Jan. 17deal, according to two administra-tion officials who spoke on thecondition of anonymity becausethey are not authorized to publiclydiscuss personnel matters.

It is the second known transac-tion between a politically con-nected Chinese company and anincoming White House official.And it is evidence of the unusual

A Trump Aide, a Chinese FirmAnd a Fear of Tangled Interests

This article is by SharonLaFraniere, Michael Forsythe andAlexandra Stevenson.

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WASHINGTON — A year ago,Judge Neil M. Gorsuch was mid-way down a ski slope when hiscellphone rang. Justice AntoninScalia, he was told, had died.

“I immediately lost what breathI had left,” Judge Gorsuch said in aspeech two months later. “And Iam not embarrassed to admit thatI couldn’t see the rest of the waydown the mountain for the tears.”

President Trump, in nominat-ing Judge Gorsuch to the Su-preme Court, has chosen a judgewho not only admires the justicehe would replace but also in manyways resembles him. He sharesJustice Scalia’s legal philosophy,talent for vivid writing and love ofthe outdoors.

Mr. Trump’s selection of JudgeGorsuch was nonetheless a bit of asurprise, coming from someonewho had campaigned as a Wash-ington outsider. Judge Gorsuchhas deep roots in the city and theestablishment Mr. Trump oftencriticized.

His mother was a high-level of-ficial in the Reagan administra-tion. He spent part of his child-hood in Washington and practicedlaw here for a decade, at a promi-nent law firm and in the JusticeDepartment. And, like all of thecurrent justices, he is a product ofthe Ivy League, having attendedcollege at Columbia and lawschool at Harvard.

Judge Gorsuch, 49 — who wasappointed to the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Cir-cuit, in Denver, by President

A NomineeWho EchoesScalia’s Style

By ADAM LIPTAK

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WASHINGTON — For theWhite House, President Trump’sfirst nomination to the SupremeCourt is partly about getting thechance to make a second.

In tapping Judge Neil M. Gor-such for an open seat, Mr. Trumpchose a candidate with the poten-tial to reassure Justice AnthonyM. Kennedy, the swing vote whoholds the balance of power on thecourt, that it would be safe toretire.

The idea is to show JusticeKennedy, 80, that should he stepdown at some point, Mr. Trumpwould select as his replacementa nominee similar to Judge Gor-such, and not one so inflamma-tory or outside the mainstreamas to be unacceptable to JusticeKennedy. Although certainlymore conservative than thejustice, Judge Gorsuch onceclerked for him and has his en-during respect.

ReassuringA Swing Vote:It’s Safe to Go

NEWS ANALYSIS

By PETER BAKER

Justice Anthony M. KennedyLARRY DOWNING/REUTERS

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BOYCOTT Senate Democratsskipped a scheduled vote on twocabinet nominees. PAGE A16

HEALTH LAW As Congress movesto repeal the law, people wonder ifit’s worth signing up. PAGE A17

People across Alaska are more con-nected to the broader world throughjobs and technology, but the rural vil-lages themselves have no such cer-tainty. PAGE A10

NATIONAL A10-20

The Land of 50 Below Zero

Forms found in Iraq by a Harvardresearcher offer a look at the IslamicState’s growing use of drones, mostlyoff the shelf but still deadly. PAGE A4

Found Secrets of ISIS Drones

It happened each year: Children inIndia were slipping into comas anddying. Then an investigation of thebewildering deaths led to an unlikelyculprit: lychee fruit. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A3-9

Solving a Medical Mystery

Bishop John O. Barres, installed as theleader of the Diocese of Rockville Cen-tre, pledged a focus on personal spir-ituality for Long Island’s 1.5 millionRoman Catholics. PAGE A21

NEW YORK A21-24

New Bishop Has Pastoral Style

Millions of workers are carrying theweight of China’s e-commerce boom,sometimes for more than 12 hours a day,for about 15 cents a package. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

China’s Struggling Couriers

The league expunged mentions of Pres-ident Trump after quarterback TomBrady was asked about him. PAGE B8

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B8-12

N.F.L. Sanitizes a Transcript

Frank Bruni PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

plotted for weeks to fight Mr.Trump’s eventual nominee, lead-ing Democrats signaled theywould work to turn the SupremeCourt dispute into a referendumon the president, and what theycontend is his disregard for legalnorms and the Constitution. Con-servatives and business groupscheered Judge Gorsuch, callinghis record distinguished and hisqualifications unparalleled.

The announcement came at aparticularly tumultuous momentin an extraordinarily chaotic be-ginning to Mr. Trump’s presiden-cy. Just a day earlier, he dismissedthe acting attorney general for re-fusing to defend his hard-line im-migration order that started a fu-ror across the United States overwhat critics condemned as a visaban against Muslims.

“Now, more than ever, we needa Supreme Court justice who is in-dependent, eschews ideology,who will preserve our democracy,protect fundamental rights andwill stand up to a president whohas already shown a willingnessto bend the Constitution,” SenatorChuck Schumer of New York, theDemocratic leader, said in a state-ment.

“The burden is on Judge NeilGorsuch to prove himself to bewithin the legal mainstream and,in this new era, willing to vig-orously defend the Constitution

WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump on Tuesday nominatedJudge Neil M. Gorsuch to the Su-preme Court, elevating a conser-vative in the mold of Justice An-tonin Scalia to succeed the late ju-rist and touching off a brutal, par-tisan showdown at the start of hispresidency over the ideologicalbent of the nation’s highest court.

Mr. Trump announced his selec-tion during a much-anticipatedevening ceremony that unfoldedin prime time at the White House.He described Judge Gorsuch, afederal appeals court judge basedin Denver, as “a man who ourcountry really needs, and needsbadly, to ensure the rule of law andthe rule of justice.”

“Judge Gorsuch has outstand-ing legal skills, a brilliant mind,tremendous discipline and hasearned bipartisan support,” Mr.Trump said, standing beside thejudge and his wife, Louise, asWhite House officials and Repub-lican lawmakers looked on. “It isan extraordinary résumé — asgood as it gets.”

But Democrats — embitteredby Republican refusals for nearlya year to consider PresidentBarack Obama’s choice to succeedJustice Scalia, and inflamed byMr. Trump’s aggressive moves atthe start of his tenure — promiseda showdown over Judge Gor-such’s confirmation.

Joined by liberal groups that

TRUMP’S COURT PICK SETS UP POLITICAL CLASH

President Trump introduced Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, with his wife, Louise, on Tuesday in the East Room of the White House.STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Democrats Digging In — GorsuchWould Restore a 5-to-4 Split

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and MARK LANDLER

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