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U(DF463D)X+\!#!&!#!] For $6,189 a game, the Nets’ Brooklyn Experience pampers fans with an exclu- sive dining room, courtside seats and a ride to and from the game. PAGE B12 SPORTSTHURSDAY B12-16 Game Night, Platinum Edition Nintendo is expanding its video game franchise to the iPhone and iPad, the first time it has put out a version for another company’s device. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-11 Mario Goes Mobile WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark in- terest rate Wednesday for just the second time since the financial crisis of 2008, saying the Ameri- can economy is expanding at a healthy pace and setting itself up as a counterweight to President- elect Donald J. Trump’s push for considerably faster growth. The Fed cited the steady growth of employment and other eco- nomic measures, and signaled that it expects to raise rates more quickly next year to prevent the economy from growing too quickly. “My colleagues and I are recog- nizing the considerable progress the economy has made,” Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, said at a news conference after the announcement. “We expect the economy will continue to perform well.” The widely expected decision moves the Fed’s benchmark rate to a range of 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent, still very low by historical standards. Low rates support eco- nomic growth by encouraging borrowing and risk-taking. The American economy has ex- panded by about 2 percent a year over the last six years, and the un- employment rate has fallen to 4.6 percent. The Fed’s assessment that the economy is growing at a healthy pace — not too hot, not too cold — is starkly at odds with Mr. Fed Raises Benchmark Rate and Signals More Increases for 2017 By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM Continued on Page B3 One attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is already investi- gating Donald J. Trump over pos- sible violations of New York State law at his charity foundation. Another, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, has joined Mr. Schneiderman in an investigation into whether Exxon Mobil — whose chief executive, Rex W. Tillerson, is Mr. Trump’s choice for secretary of state — lied to invest- ors and the public about the threat of climate change. Ms. Healey also has a new fund- raising pitch: “I won’t hesitate to take Donald Trump to court if he carries out his unconstitutional campaign promises,” she recently wrote to supporters. A third, Representative Xavier Becerra, who was chosen this month to become California’s at- torney general, has dared the Trump administration to “come at us” over issues including immi- gration, climate change and health care. As Democrats steel themselves for the day next month when the White House door will slam on their backs, some of the country’s more liberal state attorneys gen- eral have vowed to use their power to check and balance Mr. Trump’s Washington. To Combat Trump, Democrats Look to G.O.P. Tactic: Lawsuits By VIVIAN YEE Eric T. Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general. SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A22 They keep coming, both the bombs and the images from Aleppo, so many of them, the munitions raining indiscrimi- nately on trapped families, aid workers and chil- dren. The Russian and Syrian gov- ernment forces wouldn’t let them leave. But the photo- graphs and videos have made it out. The faces of the besieged, staring into the camera, at us, and at death, pleading for help, baffled by our indifference to the slaughter, describing the atroci- ties outside their bedrooms or just on the other side of the door. We see their faces from an angle we ordinarily see a friend’s face, up close, staring straight into our eyes. They are bearing witness, in real time, refusing to disappear without a trace. And in this era of connectedness, they are refusing to let us off the hook. These images, spread via social media, unmediated, confirm that the people making them are still alive — in that moment, anyway. We have never before received such a deluge of images from any front, never gotten such an inti- mate, minute-by-minute, look at what the United Nations high Aleppo’s Faces Beckon to Us, To Little Avail Images of Syrians, especially those of children, top left and above right, have not resonated as other historic pictures have. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT, MAHMOUD RASLAN/ALEPPO MEDIA CENTER; KEVIN CARTER; NILUFER DEMIR/DOGAN NEWS AGENCY, VIA AFP — GETTY IMAGES; NICK UT/ASSOCIATED PRESS Continued on Page A11 MICHAEL KIMMELMAN CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK On a warm Tuesday night in the Bronx, a couple of dozen young people took refuge from their stuffy apartments in a courtyard between two redbrick towers in the Melrose Houses. They laughed, drank and smoked freshly rolled blunts as a speaker pumped out rap music. A few minutes before midnight, a gunshot cracked the air outside 305 East 153rd Street, echoing among the towers of the public housing project. People took cover under the green wooden benches in front of the building. Adrian Maldonado, who dealt drugs on a nearby corner, sprinted away from the battered front door, the police said. He made it across the street before collapsing next to a school play- ground. A bullet had ripped into his back and through his chest. He lay face up, arms out, blood bub- bling to his lips. Mr. Maldonado, 24, was de- clared dead a half-hour later, at 12:22 a.m. on July 20, at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Cen- ter. Around the Melrose Houses, a story spread like gospel: A 25- year-old woman who had been carrying on an affair with Mr. Mal- donado lured him to the building with a phone call and shot him be- Bronx Killing Leaves Only the Police in the Dark This article is by James C. McKin- ley Jr., Ashley Southall and Al Baker. A memorial to Adrian Maldonado, who was fatally shot at a Bronx housing complex in July. EDWIN J. TORRES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A26 MURDER IN THE 4-0 A Dealer’s Last Sale SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo, al- ready reeling from its September disclosure that 500 million user accounts had been hacked in 2014, disclosed Wednesday that a dif- ferent attack in 2013 compromised more than a billion accounts. The two attacks are the largest known security breaches of one company’s computer network. The newly disclosed 2013 attack involved sensitive user informa- tion, including names, telephone numbers, dates of birth, en- crypted passwords and unen- crypted security questions that could be used to reset a password. Yahoo said it is forcing all of the af- fected users to change their pass- words and it is invalidating unen- crypted security questions — steps that it declined to take in September. It is unclear how many Yahoo users were affected by both at- tacks. The internet company has more than a billion active users, but it is not clear how many inac- tive accounts were hacked. Yahoo said it discovered the larger hacking after analyzing data files, provided by law en- forcement, that an unnamed third party had claimed contained Ya- hoo information. Security has taken a back seat at Yahoo in recent years, com- pared to Silicon Valley competi- tors like Google and Facebook. Ya- hoo’s security team clashed with top executives, including the chief executive, Marissa Mayer, over the cost and customer inconven- ience of proposed security meas- ures. And critics say the company was slow to adopt aggressive se- curity measures, even after a breach of over 450,000 accounts in 2012 and series of spam attacks — a mass mailing of unwanted mes- sages — the following year. “What’s most troubling is that this occurred so long ago, in Au- gust 2013, and no one saw any indi- Yahoo Reveals Largest Breach Ever Reported Attack in 2013 Affects One Billion Accounts By VINDU GOEL and NICOLE PERLROTH Continued on Page B2 WASHINGTON — South Flor- ida has long been a laboratory for some of the nation’s roughest poli- tics, with techniques like phantom candidates created by political ri- vals to siphon off votes from their opponents, or so-called boleteras hired to illegally fill out stacks of absentee ballots on behalf of eld- erly or disabled voters. But there was never anything quite like the 2016 election cam- paign, when a handful of Demo- cratic House candidates became targets of a Russian influence op- eration that made thousands of pages of documents stolen by hackers from the Democratic Con- gressional Campaign Committee in Washington available to Florida reporters and bloggers. “It was like I was standing out there naked,” said Annette Tad- deo, a Democrat who lost her pri- mary race after secret campaign documents were made public. “I just can’t describe it any other way. Our entire internal strategy plan was made public, and sud- denly all this material was out there and could be used against me.” The impact of the information released by the hackers on candi- dates like Ms. Taddeo in Florida and others in nearly a dozen House races around the country was largely lost in the focus on the hacking attacks against the Dem- ocratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. But this untold story underscores the effect the Rus- sian operation had on the Ameri- can electoral system. “This is not a traditional tit-for- tat on a partisan political cam- paign, where one side hits the RUSSIANS HACKED DEMOCRATS VYING FOR HOUSE SEATS NOT JUST CLINTON TEAM Nearly a Dozen Races in Crucial States Were Targets of Attack By ERIC LIPTON and SCOTT SHANE Continued on Page A20 France is unsettled by the arrests of four men, suspected of planning terror- ist activities, who showed no sign of having been radicalized. PAGE A4 Terror’s Unassuming Profile President Rodrigo Duterte of the Phil- ippines, who is now cracking down on drugs, boasted about having personally killed criminal suspects when he was mayor of Davao City. PAGE A9 INTERNATIONAL A4-11 A President Says He Killed “Patriots Day,” a film about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, looks to hold resonance, no matter the viewers’ politics. The Carpetbagger. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-10 A Unifying Tear-Jerker Work has resumed at the troubled site of the huge American Dream Mead- owlands complex in New Jersey, now set to open in fall 2018. PAGE A25 NEW YORK A24-27 A Megamall Back on Track Gail Collins PAGE A29 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A28-29 Nostalgic for the art of home entertain- ing, one woman tries some of the new online services that bring strangers together at a common table. PAGE D1 STYLES D1-12 The App That Came to Dinner After a bitter election put a Democrat in the governor’s mansion, Republican lawmakers have called a special session to consider measures to curb the power of the office. PAGE A12 NATIONAL A12-22 Power Play in North Carolina VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,447 © 2016 The New York Times Company THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016 $2.50 Today, windy, much colder, mostly sunny, high 29. Tonight, mostly clear, very cold, low 18. Tomorrow, sunny to partly cloudy, cold, high 32. Weather map appears on Page A24. Washington Edition
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For $6,189 a game, the Nets’ BrooklynExperience pampers fans with an exclu-sive dining room, courtside seats and aride to and from the game. PAGE B12
SPORTSTHURSDAY B12-16
Game Night, Platinum EditionNintendo is expanding its video gamefranchise to the iPhone and iPad, thefirst time it has put out a version foranother company’s device. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-11
Mario Goes Mobile
WASHINGTON — The FederalReserve raised its benchmark in-terest rate Wednesday for just thesecond time since the financialcrisis of 2008, saying the Ameri-can economy is expanding at ahealthy pace and setting itself upas a counterweight to President-
elect Donald J. Trump’s push forconsiderably faster growth.
The Fed cited the steady growthof employment and other eco-nomic measures, and signaledthat it expects to raise rates morequickly next year to prevent theeconomy from growing tooquickly.
“My colleagues and I are recog-nizing the considerable progress
the economy has made,” Janet L.Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman,said at a news conference after theannouncement. “We expect theeconomy will continue to performwell.”
The widely expected decisionmoves the Fed’s benchmark rateto a range of 0.5 percent to 0.75percent, still very low by historicalstandards. Low rates support eco-
nomic growth by encouragingborrowing and risk-taking.
The American economy has ex-panded by about 2 percent a yearover the last six years, and the un-employment rate has fallen to 4.6percent. The Fed’s assessmentthat the economy is growing at ahealthy pace — not too hot, not toocold — is starkly at odds with Mr.
Fed Raises Benchmark Rate and Signals More Increases for 2017By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
Continued on Page B3
One attorney general, Eric T.Schneiderman, is already investi-gating Donald J. Trump over pos-sible violations of New York Statelaw at his charity foundation.
Another, Maura Healey ofMassachusetts, has joined Mr.Schneiderman in an investigationinto whether Exxon Mobil —whose chief executive, Rex W.Tillerson, is Mr. Trump’s choice forsecretary of state — lied to invest-ors and the public about the threatof climate change.
Ms. Healey also has a new fund-raising pitch: “I won’t hesitate totake Donald Trump to court if hecarries out his unconstitutionalcampaign promises,” she recentlywrote to supporters.
A third, Representative XavierBecerra, who was chosen thismonth to become California’s at-torney general, has dared theTrump administration to “come atus” over issues including immi-
gration, climate change andhealth care.
As Democrats steel themselvesfor the day next month when theWhite House door will slam ontheir backs, some of the country’smore liberal state attorneys gen-eral have vowed to use theirpower to check and balance Mr.Trump’s Washington.
To Combat Trump, DemocratsLook to G.O.P. Tactic: Lawsuits
By VIVIAN YEE
Eric T. Schneiderman, NewYork’s attorney general.
SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A22
They keep coming, both thebombs and the images fromAleppo, so many of them, themunitions raining indiscrimi-nately on trapped families, aid
workers and chil-dren. The Russianand Syrian gov-ernment forceswouldn’t let themleave.
But the photo-graphs and videos have made itout. The faces of the besieged,staring into the camera, at us,and at death, pleading for help,baffled by our indifference to theslaughter, describing the atroci-ties outside their bedrooms orjust on the other side of the door.We see their faces from an anglewe ordinarily see a friend’s face,up close, staring straight into oureyes.
They are bearing witness, inreal time, refusing to disappearwithout a trace. And in this era ofconnectedness, they are refusingto let us off the hook. Theseimages, spread via social media,unmediated, confirm that thepeople making them are stillalive — in that moment, anyway.
We have never before receivedsuch a deluge of images from anyfront, never gotten such an inti-mate, minute-by-minute, look atwhat the United Nations high
Aleppo’s FacesBeckon to Us,To Little Avail
Images of Syrians, especially those of children, top left and above right, have not resonated as other historic pictures have.CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT, MAHMOUD RASLAN/ALEPPO MEDIA CENTER; KEVIN CARTER; NILUFER DEMIR/DOGAN NEWS AGENCY, VIA AFP — GETTY IMAGES; NICK UT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Continued on Page A11
MICHAELKIMMELMAN
CRITIC’SNOTEBOOK
On a warm Tuesday night in theBronx, a couple of dozen youngpeople took refuge from theirstuffy apartments in a courtyardbetween two redbrick towers inthe Melrose Houses. Theylaughed, drank and smokedfreshly rolled blunts as a speakerpumped out rap music.
A few minutes before midnight,a gunshot cracked the air outside
305 East 153rd Street, echoingamong the towers of the publichousing project. People took coverunder the green wooden benchesin front of the building.
Adrian Maldonado, who dealtdrugs on a nearby corner,sprinted away from the batteredfront door, the police said. Hemade it across the street beforecollapsing next to a school play-
ground. A bullet had ripped intohis back and through his chest. Helay face up, arms out, blood bub-bling to his lips.
Mr. Maldonado, 24, was de-clared dead a half-hour later, at12:22 a.m. on July 20, at LincolnMedical and Mental Health Cen-ter. Around the Melrose Houses, astory spread like gospel: A 25-year-old woman who had beencarrying on an affair with Mr. Mal-donado lured him to the buildingwith a phone call and shot him be-
Bronx Killing Leaves Only the Police in the Dark
This article is by James C. McKin-ley Jr., Ashley Southall and AlBaker.
A memorial to Adrian Maldonado, who was fatally shot at a Bronx housing complex in July.EDWIN J. TORRES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A26
MURDER IN THE 4-0
A Dealer’s Last Sale
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo, al-ready reeling from its Septemberdisclosure that 500 million useraccounts had been hacked in 2014,disclosed Wednesday that a dif-ferent attack in 2013 compromisedmore than a billion accounts.
The two attacks are the largestknown security breaches of onecompany’s computer network.
The newly disclosed 2013 attackinvolved sensitive user informa-tion, including names, telephonenumbers, dates of birth, en-crypted passwords and unen-crypted security questions thatcould be used to reset a password.Yahoo said it is forcing all of the af-fected users to change their pass-words and it is invalidating unen-crypted security questions —steps that it declined to take inSeptember.
It is unclear how many Yahoousers were affected by both at-tacks. The internet company hasmore than a billion active users,but it is not clear how many inac-tive accounts were hacked.
Yahoo said it discovered thelarger hacking after analyzingdata files, provided by law en-forcement, that an unnamed thirdparty had claimed contained Ya-hoo information.
Security has taken a back seatat Yahoo in recent years, com-pared to Silicon Valley competi-tors like Google and Facebook. Ya-hoo’s security team clashed withtop executives, including the chiefexecutive, Marissa Mayer, overthe cost and customer inconven-ience of proposed security meas-ures.
And critics say the companywas slow to adopt aggressive se-curity measures, even after abreach of over 450,000 accounts in2012 and series of spam attacks —a mass mailing of unwanted mes-sages — the following year.
“What’s most troubling is thatthis occurred so long ago, in Au-gust 2013, and no one saw any indi-
Yahoo RevealsLargest BreachEver Reported
Attack in 2013 Affects One Billion Accounts
By VINDU GOELand NICOLE PERLROTH
Continued on Page B2
WASHINGTON — South Flor-ida has long been a laboratory forsome of the nation’s roughest poli-tics, with techniques like phantomcandidates created by political ri-vals to siphon off votes from theiropponents, or so-called boleterashired to illegally fill out stacks ofabsentee ballots on behalf of eld-erly or disabled voters.
But there was never anythingquite like the 2016 election cam-paign, when a handful of Demo-cratic House candidates becametargets of a Russian influence op-eration that made thousands ofpages of documents stolen byhackers from the Democratic Con-gressional Campaign Committeein Washington available to Floridareporters and bloggers.
“It was like I was standing outthere naked,” said Annette Tad-deo, a Democrat who lost her pri-mary race after secret campaigndocuments were made public. “Ijust can’t describe it any otherway. Our entire internal strategyplan was made public, and sud-denly all this material was outthere and could be used againstme.”
The impact of the informationreleased by the hackers on candi-dates like Ms. Taddeo in Floridaand others in nearly a dozenHouse races around the countrywas largely lost in the focus on thehacking attacks against the Dem-ocratic National Committee andHillary Clinton’s presidentialcampaign. But this untold storyunderscores the effect the Rus-sian operation had on the Ameri-can electoral system.
“This is not a traditional tit-for-tat on a partisan political cam-paign, where one side hits the
RUSSIANS HACKEDDEMOCRATS VYINGFOR HOUSE SEATS
NOT JUST CLINTON TEAM
Nearly a Dozen Races inCrucial States Were
Targets of Attack
By ERIC LIPTONand SCOTT SHANE
Continued on Page A20
France is unsettled by the arrests offour men, suspected of planning terror-ist activities, who showed no sign ofhaving been radicalized. PAGE A4
Terror’s Unassuming Profile
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Phil-ippines, who is now cracking down ondrugs, boasted about having personallykilled criminal suspects when he wasmayor of Davao City. PAGE A9
INTERNATIONAL A4-11
A President Says He Killed“Patriots Day,” a film about the 2013Boston Marathon bombing, looks tohold resonance, no matter the viewers’politics. The Carpetbagger. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-10
A Unifying Tear-Jerker
Work has resumed at the troubled siteof the huge American Dream Mead-owlands complex in New Jersey, nowset to open in fall 2018. PAGE A25
NEW YORK A24-27
A Megamall Back on Track
Gail Collins PAGE A29
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A28-29
Nostalgic for the art of home entertain-ing, one woman tries some of the newonline services that bring strangerstogether at a common table. PAGE D1
STYLES D1-12
The App That Came to Dinner
After a bitter election put a Democrat inthe governor’s mansion, Republicanlawmakers have called a special sessionto consider measures to curb the powerof the office. PAGE A12
NATIONAL A12-22
Power Play in North Carolina
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